She knew how to make an entrance. Her dark hair cut in a severe pageboy, Ayn Rand would sweep into a room with a long black cape, a dollar-sign pin on her lapel and an ever present cigarette in an ivory holder. Melodramatic, yes, but Rand didn’t have time to be subtle. She had millions of people to convert to objectivism, her philosophy of radical individualism, limited government and avoidance of altruism and religion. Her adoring followers--some called them a cult--revered her as the high priestess of laissez-faire capitalism until her death in 1982 at age 77.
The bad economy has been good news for Rand’s legacy. Her fierce denunciations of government regulation have sent sales of her two best-known novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, soaring. Yet her me-first brand of capitalism has been exccoriated (严厉批评) for fomenting (引发) the recent financial crisis. And her most famous former acolyte-onetime Fed chairman Alan Greenspan--has been blamed for inflating the housing bubble by refusing to intervene in the market.
In the midst of the newly rekindled debate, two excellent biographies have just been published: Ayn Rand and the World She Made, by Anne C. Heller (Doubleday; 592 pages), is a comprehensive study, in novelistic detail, of Rand’s personal life, and Goddess of the Market : Ayn Rand and the American Right, by Jenniter Burns (Oxford; 369 pages), leans more heavily on Rand’s theories and politics.
From her earliest years, Rand was a woman on a mission. Born in 1905 to a bourgeois Jewish family in St. Petersburg, Rand was 12 when the Bolshevik Revolution took place. Her family, suddenly poor, was forced to flee, and Rand’s hatred of communism and any sort of collectivism would guide her life. Arriving in the US in 1926 with a new name, Ayn (rhymes with fine) made her way to Hollywood, where she had modest success as a screenwriter and married an aspiring actor, Frank O’Connor. Her politicization came when she and her husband worked on Republican Wendell Willkie’s losing presidential campaign in 1940. According to Burns, "Before Willkie she had been pro-capitalist yet pessimistic, writing ’The capitalist world is low, unprincipled, and corrupt. ’ Now she celebrated capitalism as the ’noblest, cleanest and most idealistic system of all’. "
The Fountainhead, an epic novel chronicling the struggles of an architect named Howard Roark against conventional values, was her breakout work. In her race to get the sprawling 700-page book to press, she began taking the amphetamine Benzedrine (一种兴奋剂的名称) to fuel her efforts. "Rand used it to power her last months of work on the novel, including several 24-hour sessions correcting page proofs," writes Burns. The book brought Rand financial security and fame.

A:Because it made her books sell well B:Because there was excoriation towards her books C:Because she was a modest successful writer D:Because her viewpoint triggered the recent financial crisis

Passage Three
A man and his wife had a small bar near a station. The bar often stayed open until after midnight, because people came to drink there while they were waiting for trains.
At two o’clock one morning, one man was still sitting at a table in the small bar. He was asleep. The barman’s wife wanted to go to bed. She looked into the bar several times, and each time the man was still there. Then at last she went to her husband and said to him, "You’ve waken that man six times now, George, but he isn’t drinking anything. Why haven’t you sent him away It is very late."
"Oh, no, I don’t want to send him away, "answered her husband with a smile: "You see, whenever I wake him up, he asks for his bill, and when I bring it to him. He pays it. Then he goes to sleep again."

A:until two o'clock in the morning B:because she wasn't sleepy at all C:because she was busy with her children D:because her husband hadn't finished working

Passage Four
During the Progressive Movement, women began to play an increasingly active role in American politics. Women had long been interested in reform movements, but the number of women active in political affairs had been very limited. Now the educated, middle class woman began to grow tired of the passive role that men had assigned to her. Her own interests as a mother were brought into play by her concern over the education and welfare of her children, the city in which they lived, and such municipal facilities as play grounds, schools and parks. Her interests as a consumer were alerted by political struggles over tariffs, taxes, monopolies, and dishonesty in government. But more important than her interests were her sympathies, for she was shocked by the almost daily revelation about the terrible working conditions in the mills and mines of the country and the crowded conditions in which poor people lived in cities. Women began to develop their own heroines of charitable activity, like Jane Adams, the founder of the famous social settlement at Hull House in Chicago; and also to feel more strongly about their own political rights. Believing that they were far better equipped than men to introduce into politics the note of honesty and human concern that America seemed to need so badly, women in increasing numbers began to demand the right to vote. By 1914 they had that right in eleven states, and their efforts were crowned with final success in the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which was ratified in 1920.

A:get elected to political offices B:improve the working conditions and living condition C:support Jane Adams and her organization D:revise the Constitution

I/O接口位于______。

A:总线和设备之间 B:CPU和I/O设备之间 C:主机和总线之间 D:CPU和主存储器之间

C 　　Ma Lili’s parents are going to give a birthday party for her. She’s going to be fourteen years old. Ma Lili has a lot of friends. They are going to come to the party. They are girls from Ma Lili’s school. There are twentyfive of them. 　　Ma Lili’s mother is making birthday cakes for the party. They are very nice cakes. Ma Lili says to her mother:“Mum, you’re very nice. Thank you for your nice cakes.” Her father is going shopping. He buys a lot of apples, bananas, oranges and pears. 　　It’s four o’clock in the afternoon. Now everything is ready. The party begins in thirty minutes. Who is going to give Ma Lili a birthday party（ ）

A:Ma Lili B:Her friends. C:Her teacher. D:Her parents.

C 　　Ma Lili’s parents are going to give a birthday party for her. She’s going to be fourteen years old. Ma Lili has a lot of friends. They are going to come to the party. They are girls from Ma Lili’s school. There are twentyfive of them. 　　Ma Lili’s mother is making birthday cakes for the party. They are very nice cakes. Ma Lili says to her mother:“Mum, you’re very nice. Thank you for your nice cakes.” Her father is going shopping. He buys a lot of apples, bananas, oranges and pears. 　　It’s four o’clock in the afternoon. Now everything is ready. The party begins in thirty minutes. What time does the party begin（ ）

A:At four B:At half past four. C:After five o’clock D:At about six o’clock.

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A:At four． B:At half past four． C:After five o’clock． D:At about six o’clock．

C Ma Lili’s parents are going to give a biahday party for her．She’s going to be fourteen years old．Ma Lili has a lot of friends．They are going to come to the party．They are girls from Ma Lili’s school．There are twenty．five of them． Ma Lili’s mother is making birthday cake8 for the party．They are very nice cakes．Ma Lili says to her mother：“Mum，yotlgl,e very nice．Thank you for your nice cakes．”Her father is going shopping．He buys a lot of apples，bananas，oranges and pears． It’s four o’eloek in the afternoon．Now everything is ready．The party begins in thirty minutes． Who is going to give Ma Lili a birthday party( )

A:Ma Lili． B:Her friends． C:Her teacher． D:Her parents．