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The days of elderly women doing nothing but cooking huge meals on holidays aregone. Enter the Red Hat Society——a group holding the belief that old ladies shouldhave fun.

"My grandmothers didn't do anything but keep house and serve everybody. They were programmed to do that," said Emily Cornette, head of a chapter of the 7-year-old Red Hat Society.

While men have long spent their time fishing and playing golf, women have some times seemed to become unnoticed as they age. But the generation now turning 50 is the baby boomers (生育高峰期出生的人), and the same people who refused their parents' way of being young are now trying a new way of growing old.

If you take into consideration feminism (女权主义), a bit of spare money, and betterhealth for most elderly, the Red Hat Society looks almost inevitable (必然的). In this so-ciety, women over 50 wear red hats and purple (紫色的) clothes, while the women under50 wear pink hats and light purple clothing.

"The organization took the idea from a poem by Jenny Joseph that hegins：‘When Iam an old woman, I shall wear purple. With a red hat which doesn't go, '" said EllenCooper, who founded the Red Hat Society in 1998. When the ladies started to wear the redhats, they attracted lots of attention.

"The point of this is that we need a rest from always doing something for someoneelse," Cooper said. "Women {eel so ashamed and sorry when they do something for them-selves. " This is why chapters are discouraged from raising money or doing anything use-ful. "We're a ladies' play group. It couldn't be simpler," added Cooper's assistant JoeHeywood.

第26题单选 The underlined word "chapter" in Paragraph 2 means __________.

A.a branch of an organization

B.a written agreement of a club

C.a part of a collection of poems

D.a period in a society's history

参考答案：A

第27题单选 From the text, we know that the "baby boomers" are a group of people who __________.

A.have gradualIy become more noticeable

B.are worried about getting old too quickly

C.are enioying a good life with plenty of money to spend

D.tried living a different life from their parents when they were young

参考答案：D

第28题单选 It could he inferred from the text that members of the Red Hat Society are__________.

A.interested in raising money {or social work

B.programmers who can plan well for their future

C.believers in equality between men and women

D.good at cooking big meals and taking care of others

参考答案：C

第29题单选 Who set up the Red Hat Society?

A.Emily Cornette.

B.Ellen Cooper.

C.Jenny Joseph.

D.Joe Heywood.

参考答案：B

第30题单选 Women join the Red Hat Society because __________.

A.they want to stay young

B.they would like to appear more attractive

C.they would like to have fun and live for themselves

D.they want to be more like their parents

参考答案：C

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Susan Sontag (1933——2004) was one of the most noticeable figures in the world of lit-erature. For more than 40 years she made it morally necessary to know everything——to read every book worth reading, to see every movie worth seeing. When she was still in her early 30s, publishing essays in such important magazines as Partisan Review, she appeared as the symbol of American cultural life, trying hard to follow every new development in liter- ature, film and art. With great effort and serious judgment, Sontag walked at the latest edges of world culture.

Seriousness was one of Sontag's lifelong watchwords (格言), but at a time when the barriers between the well-educated and the poorly-educated were obvious, she argued for a true openness to the pleasures of pop culture. In "Notes on Camp", the 1964 essay that first made her name, she explained what was then a little-known set of difficult under-standings, through which she could not have been more famous."Notes on Camp", she wrote, represents "a victory of 'form’over 'content’, ‘beauty’over ‘morals’”.

By conviction (信念) she was a sensualist (感觉论者), but by nature she was a mor- alist (伦理学者), and in the works she published in the 1970s and 1980s, it was the latterside of her that came forward. In Illness as Metaphor——published in 1978, after she suf-fered cance—she argued against the idea that cancer was somehow a special problem of re-pressed personalities (被压抑的个性), a concept that effectively blamed the victims for the disease. In fact, re-examining old positions was her lifelong habit.

In America, her story of a 19th century Polish actress who set up a perfect society in California, won the National Book Award in 2000. But it was with a tireless, all-purpose cultural view that she made her lasting fame."Sometimes," she once said,"I feel that,in the end, all I am really defending ... is the idea of seriousness, of true seriousness. "

And in the end, she made us take it seriously too.

第31题单选 The underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 means Sontag __________.

A.was a symbol of American cultural life

B.developed world literature, film and art

C.published many essays about world culture

D.kept pace with the newest development of world culture

参考答案：D

第32题单选 She first won her name through __________.

A.her story of a Polish actress

B.her book Illness as Metaphor

C.publishing essays in magazines like Partisan Review

D.her explanation of a set of difficult understandings

参考答案：D

第33题单选 According to the passage, Susan Sontag __________.

A.was a sensualist as well as a moralist

B.looked down upon the pop culture

C.thought content was more important than form

D.blamed the victims of cancer for being repressed

参考答案：A

第34题单选 As for Susan Sontag's lifelong habit, she__________.

A.misunderstood the idea of seriousness

B.re-examined old positions

C.argued for an openness to pop culture

D.preferred morals to beauty

参考答案：B

第35题单选 Susan Sontag's lasting fame was made upon __________.

A.a tireless, all-purpose cultural view

B.her lifelong watchword: seriousness

C.publishing books on morals

D.enjoying books worth reading and movies worth seeing

参考答案：A

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