Interior Design A. correct B. proper C. right D. suitable
Although interior design has existed since the beginning of architecture, its development into a specialized field is really quite recent. Interior designers have become important partly because of the many functions that might be (51) in a single large building.
B. The importance of interior design becomes (52) when we realize how much time we (53) surrounded by four walls. Whenever we need to be indoors, we want our surroundings to be (54) attractive and comfortable as possible. We also expect (55) place to be appropriate to its use.
C. You would be (56) if the inside of your bedroom were suddenly changed to look (57) the inside of a restaurant. And you wouldn’t feel (58) in a business office that has the appearance of a school.
D. It soon becomes clear that the interior designer’s most important basic (59) is the function of the particular (60) , for example, a theatre with poor sight lines, poor sound shaping qualities, and (61) few entries and exists will not work for (62) purposes, no matter how beautifully it might be (63) . Nevertheless, for any kind of space, the designer has to make many of the same kind of (64) . He or she must coordinate the shapes, lighting and decoration of everything from ceilling to floor, (65) addition, the designer must usually select furniture or design built-in furniture, according to the functions that need to be served.
Female Bullfighting It was a unique, eye-catching sight: an attractive woman in a shiny bullfighter’s suit, sword in hand, facing the sharp horns of a black, 500-kilogram beast. Most people thought the days of female bullfighting were over in Spain. (46) . The first woman fighter, Cristina Sanchez, quit in 1999 because of male discrimination (歧视). But Vega is determined to break into what could be Spain’s most resistant male field. (47) . Spanish women have conquered almost all male professions. (48) "The bull does not ask for your identity card," she said in an interview a few years ago. She insisted that she be judged for her skills rather than her femaleness. Vega became a matador (斗牛士) in 1997 in the southwestern city of Caceres. (49) She entered a bullfighting school in Malaga at age nine and performed her first major bullfight at age 14. She has faced as much opposition as Sanchez did. And the "difficulties have made her grow into a very strong bullfighter," her brother Jorge says. The 1.68-metre tall and somewhat shy Vega says her love of bullfighting does not make her any less of a woman. (50) .A She intends to become even better than Sanchez was.B Her father was an aspiring (有雄心壮志的) bullfighter.C But many bullfighting professionals continue to insist that women do not have what it takes to perform the country’s "national show".D "I’m a woman from head to toe and proud of it," she once said.E She looks like a male bullfighter.F But recently, 29-year-old Mari Paz Vega became the second woman in Spanish history to fight against those heavy animals.