Text 4 The Net success of "Lazy Sunday" represents a defining moment for the film and television business. Advances in digital video and broadband have vastly lowered the cost of production and distribution. Filmmakers are now following the path blazed by bloggers and musicians, cheaply creating and uploading their work to the Web. If it appeals to any of the Net’s niches, millions of users will pass along their films through e-mail, downloads or links. It’s the dawn of the democratization of the TV and film business--even unknown personalities are being propelled by the enthusiasm of their fans into pop-culture prominence, sometimes without even traditional intermediaries like talent agents or film festivals. "This is like bypass surgery,’ says Dan Harmon, a filmmaker whose monthly L. A. -based film club and Web site, Channel 101, lets members submit short videos, such as the recent 70s’ music mockumentary "Yacht Rock," and vote on which they like best. "Finally we have a new golden age where the artist has a direct connection to the audience;" The directors behind "Lazy Sunday" embody the phenomenon. When the shaggy-haired Samberg, 27, graduated from NYU Film School in 2001, he faced the conventional challenge or, crashing the gates Of Hollywood. With his two childhood friends Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone, he came up with an unconventional solution: they started recording music parodies and comic videos, and posting them to their Web site, TheLonelyisland. com. The material got the attention of producers at the old ABC sitcom "Spin City", where Samberg and Taccone worked as low-level assistants; the producers sent a compilation to a talent agency. The friends got an agent, made a couple of pilot TV sketch shows for Comedy Central and Fox, featuring themselves hamming it up in nearly all the roles, and wrote jokes for the MTV Movie Awards. Even when the networks passed on their pilots, Samberg and his friends simply posted the episodes online and their fan base--at 40,000 unique visitors a month earlier this year--grew larger. Last August, Samberg joined the "SNL" cast, and Schaffer and Taccone became writers. Now they share an office in Rockefeller Center and "are a little too cute for everyone," Samberg says, "We are friends living our dream." Short, funny videos like "Lazy Sunday" happen to translate online, but not everything works as well. Bite-size films are more practical than longer ones; comedy plays better than drama. But almost everything is worth trying, since the tools to create and post video are now so cheap, and ad hoc audiences can form around any sensibility, however eccentric. Which of the following contributed most to the Net success of "Lazy Sunday"
A. Producers at the old ABC sitcom "Spin City".
B. Conventions of Hollywood.
Comic nature of the video.
D. Eccentricity of audiences online.
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Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word (s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on Answer Sheet 1. Greg Focker, played by Ben Stiller, represents a generation of American kids (1) in the 1980s on the philosophy that any achievement, however slight, (2) a ribbon. (3) replaced punishment; criticism became a dirty word. In Texas, teachers were advised to (4) using red ink, the colour of (5) . In California, a task force was set up to (6) the concept of self worth into the education system. Swathing youngsters in a (7) shield of self-esteem, went the philosophy, would protect them from the nasty things in life, such as bad school grades, underage sex, drug abuse, dead-end jobs and criminality. (8) that the ninth-place ribbons are in danger of strangling the (9) children they were supposed to help. America’s (10) with self-esteem--like all developments in psychology, it gradually (11) its way to Britain--has turned children who were (12) with (13) into adults who (14) at even the mildest brickbats. Many believe that the feel-good culture has risen at the (15) of traditional education, an opinion espoused in a new book, Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can’t Read, Write, or Add, by the conservative commentator Charles Sykes. Not only that, but the foundations (16) which the self-esteem industry is built are being (17) as decidedly shaky. Roy Baumeister, professor of psychology at Florida State University and once a self-esteem enthusiast, is now (18) a revision of the populist orthodoxy. "After all these years, I’m sorry to say, my recommendation is this: forget, about self-esteem and (19) more on self-control and self-dlscipline," he wrote recently. "Recent work suggests this would be good for the individual and good for society--and might even be able to (20) some of those promises that self-esteem once made but could not keep."
A. forbid
B. ban
C. avoid
D. evade
Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word (s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on Answer Sheet 1. Greg Focker, played by Ben Stiller, represents a generation of American kids (1) in the 1980s on the philosophy that any achievement, however slight, (2) a ribbon. (3) replaced punishment; criticism became a dirty word. In Texas, teachers were advised to (4) using red ink, the colour of (5) . In California, a task force was set up to (6) the concept of self worth into the education system. Swathing youngsters in a (7) shield of self-esteem, went the philosophy, would protect them from the nasty things in life, such as bad school grades, underage sex, drug abuse, dead-end jobs and criminality. (8) that the ninth-place ribbons are in danger of strangling the (9) children they were supposed to help. America’s (10) with self-esteem--like all developments in psychology, it gradually (11) its way to Britain--has turned children who were (12) with (13) into adults who (14) at even the mildest brickbats. Many believe that the feel-good culture has risen at the (15) of traditional education, an opinion espoused in a new book, Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can’t Read, Write, or Add, by the conservative commentator Charles Sykes. Not only that, but the foundations (16) which the self-esteem industry is built are being (17) as decidedly shaky. Roy Baumeister, professor of psychology at Florida State University and once a self-esteem enthusiast, is now (18) a revision of the populist orthodoxy. "After all these years, I’m sorry to say, my recommendation is this: forget, about self-esteem and (19) more on self-control and self-dlscipline," he wrote recently. "Recent work suggests this would be good for the individual and good for society--and might even be able to (20) some of those promises that self-esteem once made but could not keep."
A. deciding
B. forcing
C. pioneering
D. imposing
Text 3 This line of inquiry did not begin until earlier this month--more than three months after the accident--because there were "too many emotions, too many egos," said retired Adm. Harold Gehman, chairman of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board. Testifying before the Senate Commerce Committee, Gehman said this part of his inquiry Was in its earliest stages, starting just 10 days ago. But Gehman said he already has concluded it is "inconceivable" that NASA would have been unable or unwilling to attempt a rescue for astronaut, s in orbit if senior shuttle managers and administrators had known there was fatal damage to Columbia’s left wing. Gehman told reporters after the hearing that answers to these important questions could have enormous impact, since they could place in a different context NASA’s decisions against more aggressively checking possible wing damage in the days before Columbia’s fatal return. Investigators believe breakaway insulating foam damaged part of Columbia’s wing Shortly after liftoff, allowing superheated air to penetrate the wing during its fiery re-entry on Feb. 1 and melt it from the inside. Among those decisions was the choice by NASA’s senior shuttle managers and administrators to reject offers of satellite images of possible damage to Columbia’s left wing before the accident. The subject dominated the early part of Wednesday’s hearing. Gehman complained that managers and administrators "missed signals" when they rejected those offers for images, a pointedly harsh assessment of the space agency’s inaction during the 16 day shuttle mission. "We will attempt to pin this issue down in our report, but there were a number of bureaucratic and administrative missed signals here," Gehman told senators. "We’re not quite so happy with the process." The investigative board already had recommended that NASA push for better coordination between the space agency and military offices in charge of satellites and telescopes. The U. S. National Imagery and Mapping Agency in March agreed to regularly capture detailed satellite images of space shuttles in orbit. Still, Gehman said it was unclear whether even images from America’s most sophisticated spy satellites might have detected on Columbia’s wing any damage, which Gehman said could have been as small as two inches square. The precise capabilities of such satellites was a sensitive topic during the Senate hearing. Gehman believed that had its administrators known the damage to Columbia, NASA would ______.
A. have managed the rescue of the astronauts orbiting the earth
B. still have been unable to conceive of any way to save the astronauts
C. have attempted to help the astronauts out of danger unwillingly
D. have succeeded in repairing the damaged left wing of the shuttle
使用“答题”菜单或从VC6中打开考生文件夹proj2下的工程proj2。此工程包含一个程序文件main.cpp,其中有类Quadritic、类Root以及主函数main的定义。一个Quadritic对象表示一个ax2+bx+c的一元二次多项式。一个Root对象用于表示方程ax2+bx+c=0的一组根,它的数据成员num_of_roots有3种可能的值0、1和2,分别表示根的3种情况:无实根、有两个相同的实根和有两个不同的实根。请在程序中的画线处填写适当的代码,然后删除横线,以实现上述类定义。此程序的正确输出结果应为(注:输出中的X^2表示x2): 3X^2+4X+5=0.0 无实根 4.5X^2+6X+2=0.0 有两个相同的实根: -0.666667和-0.666667 1.5X^2+2X-3=0.0 有两个不同的实根: 0.896805和-2.23014 //源程序 #include<iostream> #include<iomanip> #include<cmath> using namespace std; class Root //一元二次方程的根 public: const double x1; //第一个根 const double x2; //第二个根 const int num_of_roots; //不同根的数量:0、1或2 Root():x1(0.0),x2(0.0),num_of_roots(0) //创建一个“无实根”的Root对象 Root(double root) //************found************ :______ //创建一个“有两个相同的实根”的Root对象 Root(double root1,double root2) :x1(root1),x2(root2),num_of_roots(2) //创建一个有两个不同的实根的Root对象 void show() const //显示根的信息 cout<<"\t\t": switch(num_of_roots) case 0: //************found************ case 1: cout<<"有两个相同的实根:"<<x1<<"和"<<x2;break; default: cout<<"有两个不同的实根:"<<x1<<"和"<<x2;break; ; class Quadratic //二次多项式 public: const double a,b,c; //分别表示二次项、一次项和常数项3个系数 Quadratic(double a,double b,double c) //构造函数 //************found************ :______ Quadratic(Quadratic&x) //复制构造函数 :a(x.a),b(x.b),c(x.c) Quadratic add(Quadratic x)const //求两个多项式的和 return Quadratic(a+x.a,b+x.b,c+x.c); Quadratic sub(Quadratic x)const //求两个多项式的差 //************found************ double value(double x)const //求二次多项式的值 return a *x*x+b*x+c: Root root() const //求一元二次方程的根 double delta=b*b-4*a*e; //计算判别式 if(delta<0.0)return Root(); if(delta==0.0)return Root(-b/(2 *a)); double sq=sqrt(delta); return Root((-b+sq)/(2*a),(-b-sq)/(2*a)); void show() const //显示多项式 cout<<endl<<a<<"X^2"<<showpos<<b<<"X"<<c<<noshowpos; void showFunction() //显示一元二次方程 show(); cout<<"=0.0": ; int main() Quadratic q1(3.0,4.0, 5.0), q2 (4.5,6.O,2.O),q3(q2.sub(ql)); q1.showFunction(); q1.root().show(); q2.showFunction(); q2.root().show(); q3.showFunction(); q3.root().show(); cout<<endl; return 0: