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in My Fair Lady.She was married two times and had one son by each husband. In 1989, the UN Children’ s Fund named Audrey a goodwill ambassador. She travelled all over the world in support of UNICEF projects. The UN agency said she was a tireless worker. She often gave 15 interviews a day to gain money and support for UNICEF projects.Audrey Hepburn often said her loyalty to UNICEF was the result of her experiences as a child during World War Ⅱ. She said she knew what it was like to be starving and to be saved by international aid. She was a goodwill ambassador until her death in 1993 from colon cancer.26.In Paragraph 1, “her aid work” means ________.A. winning an Academy Award as Best ActressB. taking acting parts in stage showsC. making moviesD. acting as a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF27.The reason why Audrey lived and studied in the Netherlands was that ________.A. she wanted to be a ballerinaB. her parents were from BritainC. the education there was excellentD. it was safe there28.We can infer from the passage that ________.A. Audrey’ s parents lived in Germany during World War ⅡB. Audrey lived in America in the 1950sC. Audrey was made to give up dancingD. the character “Gigi” in the Broadway play was her most popular role29.________is NOT mentioned in the passage about Audrey Hepburn.A. Marriage B. IdentityC. Contribution D. Religion30.________is the right order for Audrey’ s life.①The first time she began to play in movies.②She returned to London from the Netherlands.③She won an Academy Award as Best Actress.④She travelled all over the world in support of UNICEF projects.⑤She played a part in My Fair Lady.A.②①③⑤④ B. ①②③⑤④C. ②①⑤③④ D. ①②⑤③④BThe world is not ing to an end on December 21, 2012, the US space agency insisted Monday in a rare campaign to dispel widespread rumors fueled by the Internet and a new Hollywood movie.The latest big screen offering from Sony Picture, 2012, arrives in theaters on Friday, with a 200milliondollar production about the end of the world supposedly based on myths (虛構的故事) backed by the Mayan calendar. It is claimed that the end of time will e as a Planet X — or Nibiru — heads toward or collides with the Earth.Some websites accuse NASA of hiding the truth on the planet’ s existence, but the US space agency denounced such stories as an “Internet hoax(惡作劇) ”. “There is no factual basis for these claims,” NASA said in a questionandanswer posting on its website. “If such a collision were real, astronomers would have been tracking it for at least the past decade, and it would be visible by now to the naked eye. Obviously, it does not exist. Credible scientists worldwide know of no threat associated with 2012,” it insisted. “After all, our planet has been getting along just well for more than four billion years,” added NASA.There is another planet, Eris, floating in space. But the small planet similar to Pluto will remain safely fixed in the outer solar system and it can e no closer than four billion miles to the Earth, according to NASA.Initial theories set the disaster for May 2003, but when nothing happened the date was moved forward to the winter in 2012 to coincide with the end of a cycle of the ancient Mayan calendar.NASA insisted the Mayan calendar in fact does not end on December 21, 2012, as another period begins immediately afterward.And even if the planets were to line up as some have forecast, the effect on our planet would be “negligible”, NASA said.“And while ets and asteroids (小行星) have always hit the Earth, big hits are very rare,” NASA noted. The last m