【正文】 tour表示人人都能享受類似 grand tour的一切，甚至超過(guò)，如第一段指出：現(xiàn)代旅游者享受的舒適設(shè)施，達(dá)到了大旅行中老爺、小姐們做夢(mèng)都沒有想到的水 平。 。 Passage Three (Pop Stars Earn Much) Pop stars today enjoy a style of living which was once the prerogative only of Royalty. Wherever they go, people turn out in their thousands to greet them. The crowds go wild trying to catch a brief glimpse of their smiling, colorfully dressed idols. The stars are transported in their chauffeur driven RollsRoyces, private helicopters or executive aeroplanes. They are surrounded by a permanent entourage of managers, press agents and bodyguards. Photographs of them appear regularly in the press and all their ings and goings are reported, for, like Royalty, pop stars are news. If they enjoy many of the privileges of Royalty, they certainly share many of the inconveniences as well. It is dangerous for them to make unscheduled appearances in public. They must be constantly shielded from the adoring crowds which idolize them. They are no longer private individuals, but public property. The financial rewards they receive for this sacrifice cannot be calculated, for their rates of pay are astronomical. And why not? Society has always rewarded its top entertainers lavishly. The great days of Hollywood have bee legendary: famous stars enjoyed fame, wealth and adulation on an unprecedented scale. By today‘s standards, the excesses of Hollywood do not seem quite so spectacular. A single gramophone record nowadays may earn much more in royalties than the films of the past ever did. The petition for the title ?Top of the Pops‘ is fierce, but the rewards are truly colossal. It is only right that the stars should be paid in this way. Don‘t the top men in industry earn enormous salaries for the services they perform to their panies and their countries? Pop stars earn vast sums in foreign currency – often more than large industrial concerns – and the taxman can only be grateful fro their massive annual contributions to the exchequer. So who would begrudge them their rewards? It‘s all very well for people in humdrum jobs to moan about the successes and rewards of others. People who make envious remarks should remember that the most famous stars represent only the tip of the iceberg. For every famous star, there are hundreds of others struggling to earn a living. A man working in a steady job and looking forward to a pension at the end of it has no right to expect very high rewards. He has chosen security and peace of mind, so there will always be a limit to what he can earn. But a man who attempts to bee a star is taking enormous risks. He knows at the outset that only a handful of petitors ever get to the very top. He knows that 中國(guó)最大的資料庫(kù)下載 6 years of concentrated effort may be rewarded with plete failure. But he knows, too, that the rewards for success are very high indeed: they are the repense for the huge risks involved and if he achieves them, he has certainly earned them. That‘s the essence of private enterprise. 1. The sentence Pop stars‘ style of living was once the prerogative only of Royalty means [A] their life was as luxurious as that of royalty. [B] They enjoy what once only belonged to the royalty. [C] They are rather rich. [D] Their way of living was the same as that of the royalty. 2. What is the author‘s attitude toward top stars‘ high ine? [A] Approval. [B] Disapproval. [C] Ironical. [D] Critical. 3. It can be inferred from the passage [A] there exists fierce petition in climbing to the top. [B] People are blind in idolizing stars. [C] Successful Pop stars give great entertainment. [D] The tax they have paid are great. 4. What can we learn from the passage? [A] Successful man should get highine repayment. [B] Pop stars made great contribution to a country. [C] Pop stars can enjoy the life of royalty. [D] Successful men represent the tip of the iceberg. 5. Which paragraph covers the main idea? [A] The first. [B] The second. [C] The third. [D] The fourth. Vocabulary 1. prerogative 權(quán)力，（尤指）特權(quán) 2. chauffeur 受雇開車人，（尤指富人、要人的）司機(jī) 3. entourage 隨行人員，伴隨者，近侍；建 筑物周圍 4. astronomical 龐大的，天文的 5. adulation 奉承 6. gramophone 灌音 7. colossal 巨大的 8. exchequer 國(guó)庫(kù)，財(cái)源 Exchequer Bond 國(guó)庫(kù)債券 9. begrudge 感到不快 /不滿，忌妒 10. humdrum 平淡的，單調(diào)的 11. moan 呻吟聲 moan about 發(fā)牢騷 難句譯注 1. the prerogative of Royalty 或 the royal prerogative 皇家的特權(quán)（再英國(guó)指國(guó)王名義上 享有不經(jīng)議會(huì)認(rèn)可而采取行動(dòng)的權(quán)力）。 3. The great days of Hollywood have bee legendry. 【參考譯文】好萊塢鼎盛時(shí)期成了神話。公司的高級(jí)人員享受高薪，歌星也應(yīng)享受。這些歌星坐著司機(jī)開動(dòng)的 RollsRoyces 汽車、私人直升飛機(jī)，高級(jí)長(zhǎng)官飛機(jī)到處走，永遠(yuǎn)圍著一批經(jīng)紀(jì)人、報(bào)界記者和保鏢隨從人員。 。好萊塢的鼎盛時(shí)期名揚(yáng)天下，著名歌星先手空前絕后的名、利、奉承。這些內(nèi)容都說(shuō)明作者贊成巨額報(bào)酬。 3. A 在攀登頂峰中存在著激烈的競(jìng)爭(zhēng)。每個(gè)成名的歌星身后就有成千上百個(gè)其他歌 者為生存而奮斗。 巨大。 生活。 。 。 they are the best trained in the technique of working under duress. 中國(guó)最大的資料庫(kù)下載 8 The results on which so much depends are often nothing more than a subjective assessment by some anonymous examiner. Examiners are only human. They get tired and hungry。 【參考譯文】（測(cè)）考試 作為憂慮的制造者，真是出類拔萃。 Cram pupils 以填鴨式教學(xué)生。 寫作方法與文章大意 這是一篇類似分類寫作的文章。三是考試促使學(xué)校進(jìn)行應(yīng)試技巧教育，否定了教會(huì)人獨(dú)立思考、擴(kuò)大視野。文章第一段就點(diǎn)明：考試是測(cè)試記憶的好方法，是測(cè)試在巨大壓力下快速工作的技巧的好方法，卻測(cè)不出一個(gè)人的真正能力和水平。第二段和第四段也涉及其后果。這也是一個(gè)方面。第二段點(diǎn)名，這種無(wú)用的考試決定人生的成敗。這一切都說(shuō)明作者對(duì)考試的批評(píng)態(tài)度。 。你的未來(lái)可能全取決于這決定性的一天。 4. B 培養(yǎng)學(xué)生進(jìn)行獨(dú)立思考。 ?！彼宰髡吆粲?，可定還有許多更簡(jiǎn)便，更有效的評(píng)估人真正能力的方法。所以他們不得不對(duì)學(xué)生進(jìn)行應(yīng)試技巧教育，降低教學(xué)水平。 police have now recovered 81 bodies from under the floor and 74 from a field nearby. Police are unsure whether Kataribabo died in the church fire. Still, there is the question: How could so many killings have been carried out without drawing attention? Villagers were aware of Kibwetere‘s sect, whose followers municated mainly through sign language and apparently were apprehensive about violating any of the cult‘s mandments. There were suspicions. Ugandan president Yoweri Mseveni told the BBC that intelligence reports about the dangerou