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With the release of the Piano, a powerfully emotional story set in nineteenth-century New Zealand about a woman’s sexual awakening, the New Zealand—born Jane Campion has established herself as one of the most talented female filmmakers to come upon the scene in recent years. The film not only received praiseful reviews from critics and moviegoers but won the Cannes Film Festivals top prize the Palme D’Or, making Campion the first woman over to be so honored. Campion's success is notable also because she is a relative newcomer to the film world: the forty-year-old director has made just three features (including The Piano), a television movie, and a handful of shorts dating from her student days.Although Campion’s films appear at first glance to have little in common—her first feature, Sweetie, is a very honest (some would say cruelly unfeeling) portrait of a dysfunctional family and her second, An Angel at My Table, is a sympathetic biography of the new Zealand novelist Janet Frame-each reflects her feeling for strong-willed, often misunderstood women who refuse, or are unable to give themselves up to their respective societies' definitions of womanhood. According to David Sterritt writing in the Christian Science Monitor, The Piano "gain much of its effectiveness from Campions directing style, which combines the dreamlike atmosphere of her early film Sweetie with the sensitivity to feelings that made her last movie An Angel at My Table, so extraordinary." Also contributing to the film’s success was Campion's ability to induce fine performances from her character. "She directs actors differently from anyone I’ve ever known," Sam Neil told Paul Freeman in an interview for the Chicago Tribute"I always felt that there was a big safety net under the and that I was permitted to take as many risks as I wanted to." Genevieve Lemon, who had played the title role in Sweetie and took the supporting role of Nessie in The Piano, agreed Campion is already at work on her next project an adaptation of Henry Jaures's novel The Portrait of a Lady.1.The passage is primarily concerned with （）.2.According to the passage, Campion's three movies share which of the following characteristics?3.It can be concluded that Campion is regarded as one of the most talented filmmakers in recent years because（） .4.It can be inferred from the passage that Campion's directing style of the third movie（） .5.The author implies that Campion is different from other filmmakers in that（）

Why do some new products succeed, bringing millions of dollars to innovating companies, while others fail, often with great losses? The answer is not simple, and certainly we cannot say that "good" products succeed while "bad" products fail. Many products that function well and seen to meet consumer needs have fallen by the wayside.Sometimes, virtually identical products exist in the market at the same time with one emerging as profitable while the other fails. Mc Neal Laboratories Tylenol has become successful as an aspirin substitute, yet Bristol-Meyers entered the lest market at about the same time with Neotrend, also a substitute for aspirin, which quickly failed.The nature of the product is a factor in its success of failure, but the important point is the consumer's perception of the products need-satisfying capability. Any new product conception should be aimed at meeting a customer need, and the introductory promotion should seek to communicate that need-satisfying quality and motivate the customer to try the product. Often, attitude change is involved, and, in the extreme, changes in life-style may be sought.Here the company walks a tightrope, a new product is more likely to be successful if it represents a truly novel way of solving a customer problem but this very newness, if carried too far, may ask the customer to team new behavior patterns. The customer will make the change if the perceived benefit is sufficient but inertia is strong and customers will often not go to the effort that is required. During the late sixties and early seventies Bristol-Meyers met with new product failures that exemplify both of these problems. In 1967 and 1968 the company entered the market with a $5 million advertising campaign for Fact toothpaste, and an $11 million campaign to prorate Resolve, Both products failed quickly, not because they didn’t work or because there was no consumer need but apparently because consumers just could see no reason to shift from an already satisfactory product to a different one that promised no new benefit.1.The first sentence of the first paragraph is a question to which the answer is（） .2.What are Tylenol and Neotrend?3.The success or failure of a product seems to be determined by a number of factors, one of which the author emphasizes is the customer's perception of the product's （）.4.What does the author mean when he says "the company walks a tightrope" (Sentence 1, paragraph 3)?5.Bristol-Meyers failed in promoting Fact toothpaste and Resolve because（） .

By far the most important United States export product in the 18 and 19 centuries was cotton favored by the European textile over flax or wool because it was easy to process and soft to touch. Mechanization of spinning and weaving allowed significant centralization and expansion in the textile industry during this period and at the same time the demand for cotton increased dramatically. American producers were able to meet this demand largely because of the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitey in 1793. Cotton could be grown throughout the South, but separating the fiber-or lint--from the seed was a laborious process. Sea island cotton was relatively easy to process by hand, because its fibers were long and seeds were concentrated at the base of the flower but is demanded long growing season, available only along the nations caster seacoast. Short-staple cotton required a much shorter growing season, but the shortness of the fibers and their mixture with seeds meant that a worker could hand-process only about one pound per day. Whitney's gin was a hand-powered machine with revolving drums and metal teeth to pull cotton fibers away from seeds. Using the gin, a worker could produce up to 50 pounds of lint a day. The later development of larger gins powered by horses, water, or stream, multiplied productivity further.The interaction of improved processing and high demand led to a rapid spread of the cultivation of cotton and to a surge in production It became the main American export dwarfing all others. In 1802 cotton composed 14 percent of total American exports by value. Cotton had a 36 percent share by 1810 and over 50 percent share in 1830. In 1860, 61 percent of the value of American exports was represented by cotton.In contrast, wheat and wheat flour composed only 6 percent of the value of American exports in that year. Clearly, cotton was king in the trade of the young republic. The growing market for cotton and other American agricultural products led to an unprecedented expansion of agricultural settlement, mostly in the eastern half of the United States—west of the Appalachian Mountains and east of the Mississippi River.1.The main point of the passage is that the 18 and 19 centuries were a time when （）2. All of the following are mentioned in the passage as reasons for the increased demand for cotton EXCEPT（）3. According to the passage, one advantage of Sea island cotton was its （）. 4.Which of the following can be inferred from the passage about cotton-production in the United States after the introduction of Whitney's cotton gin? 5.According to the passage, the Mississippi River was（） .

Fungi, of which there are over 100,000 species, including yeasts and other single-celled organisms as well as the common molds and mushrooms, were formerly classified as members of the plant kingdom. However, in reality they are very different from plants and today they are placed in a separate group altogether. The principal reason for this is that none of them possesses chlorophyll, and since they cannot synthesize their own carbohydrates. They obtain their supplies either from the breakdown of dead organic matter or from other living organisms. Furthermore the walls of fungal cells are not made of cellulose, as those of plants are, but of another complex sugar-like polymer called chitin the material from which the hard outer skeletons of shrimps, spiders, and insects are made. The difference between the chemical composition of the cell walls of fungi and those of plants is of enormous importance because it enables the tips of the growing hyphae, the threadlike cells of the fungus, to secrete enzymes that break down the walls of plant cells without having any effect on those of the fungus itself. It is these cellulose-destroying enzymes that enable fungi to attack anything made from wood, wood pulp, cotton, flax, or other plant material.The destructive power of fungi is impressive. They are major cause of structure damage to building timbers, a cause of disease in animals and humans, and one of the greatest causes of agricultural losses. Entire crops can be wiped out by fungal attacks both before and after harvesting. Some fungi can grow at+50℃, while others can grow at-50℃, so even food in cold storage may not be completely safe from them. On the other hand, fungi bring about the decomposition of dead organic matter, this enriching the soil and returning carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, They also enter into a number of mutually beneficial relationships with plants and other organisms In addition, lung are the source of marry of the most potent antibiotics used in clinical medicine, including penicillin.1.What does paragraph one mainly discuss?2.Which of the following is mentioned as a major change in how scientists approach the study of fungi?3. The skeletons of shrimps, spiders and insects are mentioned in paragraph one because they（） .4. Fungi have all the following characteristics EXCEPT（） .5.The passage mentions "penicillin"(last line) as an example of （）.

The fitness movement that began in the late 1960s and early 1970s centered around aerobic exercise. Millions of individuals became engaged in a variety of aerobic activities and literally thousands of health spas developed around the country to capitalize on this emerging interest in fitness, particularly aerobic dancing for females. A number of fitness spas existed prior to this aerobic fitness movement even a national chain with spas in most major cities. However, their focus was not on aerobic, but rather on weight-training programs designed to develop muscular mass, strength, and endurance in there primarily male enthusing. These fitness spas did not seem to benefit financially from the aerobic fitness movement to better health, since medical opinion suggested that weight-training programs offered few, if any, health benefits. In recent years, however, weight training has again become increasingly popular for males and for females, Many current program focus not only on developing muscular strength and endurance but on aerobic fitness as well.Historically, most physical-fitness tests have usually included measures of muscular strength and endurance, not for health-related reasons, but primarily because such fitness components have been related to performance in athletics. However, in recent years, evidence has shown that training programs designed primarily to improve muscular strength and endurance might also offer some health benefits as well. The American College of Sports Medicine now recommends that weight training be part of a total fitness Program for healthy Americans. Increased participation in such training is one of the specific physical activities and fitness objectives of Healthy People 2000: National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives.1.The word "spas"(Sentence 2, Paragraph 1) most probably refers to （）. 2.Early fitness spas were intended mainly for（） . 3.What was the attitude of doctors towards weight training in health improvement? 4. People were given physical fitness tests in order to find out . 5. Recent studies have suggested that weight training （）.

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