Saturday seems a long way off from Monday morning. Saturday itself, _____41_____ , leads into Saturday night, the most exciting night of the _____42_____ as far as I am concerned. But when Monday morning dawns, I _____43_____ believe Saturday will ever come round again. I try to wish the hours and days away. Monday…Tuesday…by Wednesday I’m living on hope. _____44_____ I can believe. Friday, the _____45_____ of Saturday. And then Saturday comes in all its glory. 【題組】45 (A)before (B)eve (C)next (D)tomorrow
23 Henry ______ public transportation, but this morning he is going to take the bus.
(A) rarely used (B) is rarely using (C) is rarely used (D) rarely uses
The aboriginal people of Australia have always made the land important in their arts. When settlers from Europe came to Australia in the 18th and 19 th centuries, they claimed that the land was owned by no one, but, as the art works of the indigenous show, the land has always given the aboriginal people a sense of mutual belonging: they belong to the land and the land belongs to them. Traditional “dreamtime” art reflects the creation myths and migration legends of ancestral beings across difficult terrain. Paintings done on bark often show a bird’s eye view of a familiar landscape, a river, or a campsite. Stencil paintings on rocks mark important places on tribal journeys. And the colors for paintings originally came from clay ochre mined from the earth and wood ash. Even though watercolors and oil paints may now be used, works by contemporary aboriginal artists still show the close relation of the indigenous people to the land they have lived on for millennia. 【題組】50 This paragraph implies that the view the European settlers had of Australia was
(A) fortunate. (B) accurate. (C) mistaken. (D) proper.
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Lawrence R. Herkimer (October 14, 1925 – July 1, 2015) was an American innovator in the field
of cheerleading. He created the widely used Herkie cheerleading jump, which was named after him, and received a
patent for the pom-pom, which has become a staple of cheerleading. Herkimer was known as the grandfather of
modern cheerleading and often called Mr. Cheerleader.
Herkimer had been a scholarship student and head cheerleader at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. As a
cheerleader, he developed what became known as the Herkie by accident while intending to perform a split jump. The
move features one arm extended straight up in the air and the other on one’s hip, with one leg extended straight out, and
the other bent back. At Southern Methodist, he formed a national organization for cheerleaders and created a
cheerleading-oriented magazine called Megaphone.
After graduating from Southern Methodist in 1948, Herkimer started his first cheerleading camp at Sam Houston
State Teachers College with 52 girls and one boy with $600 borrowed from a friend of his father-in-law’s. By the
following year, enrollment had grown to 350 participants. Shortly thereafter, he was making more money from his
summer programs than he was teaching the remainder of the year at Southern Methodist, so he gave up teaching and
took up the cheerleading business full time. His camps had as many as 1,500 instructors teaching tens of thousands of
students nationwide each summer, and his Cheerleader Supply Company was successfully retailing skirts and sweaters
for cheerleading squads. As part of an effort to provide a visually appealing device for cheerleaders, given the advent of color television,
Herkimer created the pom-pon with a hidden handle and was granted patent $3,560,313 by the United States Patent and
Trademark Office in 1971. He chose the name “Pom pon” after hearing that the word “pompom” had vulgar meanings
in other languages.
While cheerleading at scholastic sports events dates back to the 19th century, Herkimer boasted that he took it
“from the raccoon coat and pennant to greater heights,” especially after World War II, when more women began
enrolling in the nation’s colleges. “I feel we have a recession-proof business,” he said in 1990. “If times get bad, a
father would sell the boat before he would tell his daughter she can’t have pompons and her cheerleading sweater.” By
the time he sold his various cheerleading enterprises in 1986 for an estimated $20 million, he was considered the
undisputed pacesetter of the cheerleading business.
【題組】39 What did Herkimer try to describe by using the phrase “from the raccoon coat to pennant to greater heights”?
(A)His pompom patent. (B) His cheerleading jumps. (C)His cheerleading profits. (D)His contribution to cheerleading.
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