Although measures have been introduced to discourage the use of mobile telephone inside the opera house, ___effectiveness remains limited.A. they B. their C. them D. theirs

A dealing with ;

B to deal with ;

C dealt with

A. live

B. have lived

C. are living

D. will have been living

It is pretty hopeless as a venue for opera, it took years to build, its architect was forced to resign and it was never properly finished inside. None of this matters. The Sydney Opera House, by the reclusive Danish architect Jorn Utzon, is the mother and father of all modern landmark buildings. It has come to define not only a city, but an entire nation and continent.

Beyond that, it is a global expression of cultural modernity. Everyone in the world with media access knows what the Sydney Opera House looks like. First designed in 1956 and finally declared completed in 1973, the opera house was the single best known modern building in the world until the arrival of Frank Gehry's equally extraordinary Bilbao Guggenheim in 1997. But it will outlive the Guggenheim as an international architectural icon--because it did all the difficult work tint.

In the pantheon(万神殿) of classic modern buildings, Utzon's creation has the status of myth. The myth states that the unknown architect, then in his thirties, submitted rough sketches to the competition judges, that he ignored most of the rules, that his as only selected after being plucked at the last moment from the rejected pile by one of the judges, and that the design was unbuildable.

But Sydney is remarkable for another reason: it is a complete one-off. It does not fit into any stylistic or chronological category. None of Utzon's other buildings--churches, government departments, house. looks anything like it, and architects today who try to copy his concept always end up looking very second-rate indeed. It is "modern", certainly, but it is an expressive modernism that was quite at odds with the rectilinear(直线的) "international style" of its time. It has more in common with the work of the American genius Frank Uloyd Wright, for whom Utzon worked briefly. Of course its location is an enormous help, sitting as it does on a promontory with water on three sides and the famous Sydney Harbor Bridge as a picture-postcard backdrop. But Utzon masterly exploited the site as nobody else could.

Utzon left Australia in high indignation in 1966, never to return, before he could finish designing the interiors.

As with Sir Christopher Wren at St Paul's Cathedral, Utzon was humiliated and removed from overseeing the final stages of his masterwork. But for all his manifold difficulties, which other contemporary architect can claim an equivalent achievement? The Sydney Opera House showed us that anything is possible, and it demonstrated that sheer, seductive beauty for its own sake is nothing to be ashamed of.

It can be inferred from the passage that ______.

A．the Danish architect Join Utzon totally failed in his design of Sydney Opera House and was forced to resign

B．the Danish architect Jorn Utzon has been made known as the founder of all the modern landmark buildings, in spite of his part failure in his design of Sydney Opera House

C．Sydney Opera House is hopelessly ugly and has never been finished inside

D．Sydney Opera House is the single best known modern building in the world up to now

The usual address for a Web site is the(75)page address, although you can enter the address of any page and have that page sent to you．

A．home

B．main

C．host

D．house

I suppose by the time I come back in ten years? time all these old house have been put down.()

A.secure

B.security

C.safe

D.save

Although stage plays have been set to music since the era(年代) of the ancient Greeks when the dramas of Sophocles and Aeschylus were accompanied by lyres(里拉琴) and flutes, the usually accepted date for the beginning of opera as we know it is 1600. As part of the celebration of the marriage of King Henry IV of France to the Italian aristocrat(贵族) Maria de Medici, the Florentine composer Jacopo Peri produced his famous Euridice, generally considered to be the first opera. Following his example, a group of Italian musicians called the Camerata began to revive(复兴) the style. of musical story that had been used in Greek tragedy.

1. This passage is a summary of ____.

A、opera in Italy

B、the Camerata

C、the development of opera

D、 Euridice.

2. According to the author, Jacopo Peri wrote ____.

A、Greek tragedy

B、the first opera

C、the opera Maria de Medici

D、the opera The Camerata

3. We can infer that the Camerata ____.

A、was a group of Greek musicians

B、developed a new musical drama based upon Greek drama

C、was not known in Italy

D、was the name given to the court of King Henry IV

4. The author suggests that Euridice was produced ____.

A、in France

B、originally by Sophocles and Aeschylus

C、without much success

D、for the wedding of King Henry IV

5. According to this passage, modern opera began in the ____.

A、time of the ancient Greeks

B、fifteenth century

C、sixteenth century

D、seventeenth century

The design of the Sydney Opera House has been taken as a myth because ______.

A．it was the workpiece of the famous architect

B．it met most of the rules for architectural design at that time

C．the design project suggested by Utzon was unbuildable

D．it was designed by an unknown architect and was thought unbuildable at that time

Accordiiig to the passage, which of the following is NOT true? ( )

A. Some Americans would not accept the value of conservation and environment protection, because this value would probably make them unemployed.

B. Many Americans have been used to wasting, so it will be difficult for them to accept the new value of conservation.

C. Some old values are still having a strong influence on American people, although they are harmful in this new age.

D. Most Americans have fully realized the need to protect the environment, so they have taken measures to recycle junked goods.

The usual address for a Web site is the ______ page address，although you can enter the address of any page and have that page sent to you.

A．home

B．main

C．host

D．house