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The Blitz radically changed the face of London for the first time since（）nearly 3 centuries earlier.
A . the Black Death
B . the Great Fire
C . the Civil War
D . the Great Plague
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The Tower of London, a historical sight, located in the centre of London, was built by（）.
A . King Arthur
B . Robin Hood
C . Oliver Cromwell
D . Williamthe Conqueror
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gives a vivid and satirical picture of Vanity Fair which is the symbol of London at the time of Restoration.
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The movie Night at the Museum II is funny, and is made up of a _____ of accidents.
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The view of London from the Dome of St. Paul’s is beautiful.
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The creation of an efficient and transport system is critical to the long-term future of London.
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Which of the following indice measures the performance of stocks traded on London Stock Exchange?
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Which was the function of Tower of London ?
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The British Museum in London is a museum of human history,culture and natural science.
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1.Part 1 I’m Looking for the Museum.Listen to the conversation and circle the letter of the correct answer.What’s the man looking for?
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The Elizabethan theaters were built outside of the City of London for fear of ______.
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The reconstruction of _____ species from fossil bones was often undertaken by museum workers.
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The chief claim to distinction of Shoreditch lies in the fact that the first theaters of London were built there in the seventeenth century.
The Shoreditch Theater was the first real theater to be built in England and was erected within the precincts of Holywell Priory, where the players were outside the jurisdiction of the Lord Mayor, for stage plays were forbidden. Companies of players, however, were springing up all over the country, generally under the protection of some nobleman. Amongst these were the Earl of Leicester's Servants, with James Burbage as their manager. Burbage borrowed - 600 from his father-in-law and built the Shoreditch Theater, a round wooden structure, which was afterwards carefully pulled down by his son Richard and re-erected in Southward as the Globe. Richard was the original creator of most of Shakespeare' s great characters, including Hamlet and appeared to have been one of the greatest actors on the English stage. The site of the Shoreditch Theater has recently been determined by a careful survey and is found to have been partly on the site of a furniture factory at the comer of Curtain Road.
The Curtain was a rival theater and was so named from the fact that it had a curtain which shut off the stage from the auditorium. This theater had associations with Burbage and Green players from the town of Stratford-on-Avon, and later with the son of a Stratford butcher, who was a boy at school when the theater was built. His name was William Shakespeare. He came to London as a young man and was employed at the Curtain in minor parts, but his chief work was adapting plays, from which he proceeded to write them.
Not far away was another theater, the Fortune, aptly-named, for it was owned by Alleyn who made his money from it.
The Shoreditch Theater was built in the shape of ______.
A．an oblong
B．a square
C．a circle
D．a triangle
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听力原文：M: I'm going to the museum this afternoon. There's a new exhibit of the unearthed bronze sword of the Hall Dynasty. Will you go together with me？
W: I'd love to, but I have to take a biochemistry exam tomorrow. It's a make-up, you know.
Q: What does the woman mean？
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A．She will go to the museum with the man.
B．She likes the bronze sword very much.
C．She hopes the man can pass the exam the next day.
D．She can't go with the man for having an exam the next day.
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Candidates for the training course in London s University of Westminster need the following qualifications EXCEPT
A.having wide cultural interests
B.having a good knowledge of current affairs
C.being familiar with the languages they translate
D.being eloquent lecturers
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It can be concluded from the passage that the Philadelphia Museum of Art ______.
A．only collects paintings by American artists
B．has sold many paintings to foreign collectors
C．has a larger collection of paintings than other museums
D．only exhibits a portion of its collection of paintings
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What is the main focus of Mondays meeting in London according to diplomats？
A．It was to convince Russia and China of the need to ratchet up pressure on Iran.
B．It was for the IAEA to refer Iran to the U.N. Security Council.
C．It was for the U.N. Security Council to impose sanctions on Iran.
D．It was how to adopt a diplomatic settlement with Iran.
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The Olympic Games of 2012 will_____ in London.
A．A.take place
B．B.happen
C．C.occur
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The London Underground is a rapid transit system in the United Kingdom, _____ a large part of Greater London.
A．serve
B．serves
C．serving
D．to serve
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London could soon replace New York as the center of PR because__（）
A．British companies are more ambitious than U.S. companies
B．British companies place more importance on PR than U.S. companies
C．British companies are heavily involved in planning activities
D．four of the world’s top public relations agencies are British-owned
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In the history of arts patronage(资助，赞助), entrepreneurs-turned-connoisseurs(艺术品鉴赏家，行家) are a young development. The world's greatest museums the Louvre, Hermitage, Prado began as lavish civilization-is-power statements by monarchs and emperors; private individuals did not emerge as significant museum patrons before the 19th century. Until a generation ago. those wanting to leave their mark in bricks usually did so in a room of their own in a state museum: the Duveen Galleries at Tate Britain, the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Gallery at New York's Museum of Modern Art. But in the past 15 years, that has changed: worldwide, collectors seek immortality in glass and steel, through a museum of their own, designed by an architect of their choosing.
These are not latter-day Henry Tates or Pavel Tretyakovs, democratic visionaries who paid for buildings and donated core collections to kick-start evolving national, state-run institutions. Museum builders of the 1990s and 2000s, by contrast, are products of late capitalism, dedicated to more personal projects, with an individualistic flavor. They represent the legacy of Thatcher-Reagan words of choice, private philanthropy (慈善机构), me-generation celebrity.
Together, these and scores more bring diversity and flatten old geographical hierarchies. In Istanbul, collector Sakip Sabanci's museum, founded in 2002, is the first ever to show western modernism in Turkey. Thanks to Dominique de Menil, the greatest collection of paintings by Cy Twombly, who lives in Italy, is on permanent show in Houston, Texas, in a gallery designed in 1995 by Renzo Piano. In 1996 the late collector and dealer Heinz Berggmen launched his Museum Berggruen in Berlin, giving Germany its only Picasso collection.
Is all for the best in the best of all possible worlds？ Certainly, more private museums mean more art on display for more people to see. Today's collectors are reluctant to bequeath (遗赠) to established museums, where space shortages mean works may go straight into storerooms and stay there. By contrast, a dedicated museum maintains the integrity of a collection, keeping together outstanding groups of works, assembled with personal flair, in buildings designed to enhance them. Renzo Piano's light, see-through 1997 construction for Ernst Beyeler's cherry-picked modernist paintings in Basel is the shining European example. For contemporary work, private collectors have particular advantages: free of state bureaucracy, they can respond quickly to the fast pace, and show work in ways that are too radical for traditional museums.
How did the Louvre, Hermitage, and Prado museums originate according to the passage？
A．Donations of the richest collectors.
B．Patronage of private individuals.
C．Collections of connoisseurs.
D．Encouragements and approval by rulers.
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The London Eye is on the noth bank of the River Thames（）
是
否
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The scene of the story _____________ in London.
A．lays
B．lies
C．lying
D．laid
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Part 1 I’m Looking for the Museum. Listen to the conversation and circle the letter of the correct answer. Where are the speakers now？
A．On First Avenue
B．On Holly BoulevarD
C．At the museum．
