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The most romantic time to arrive in Venice is at dusk on a winter’s day. Your water-taxi ride across the lagoon from the airport will catch the last velvety-grey streaks of daylight. You’ll arrive on the Grand Canal just as the upper windows of its palaces start to bloom with rose-coloured lamps or sparkle with chandeliers. In no other city does evening begin with such promise.

Strange, then, that Venice should be so emphatically not a night-time place. However mobbed it may have been in daylight, darkness falls with the abruptness of a hauled-down shutter. The crowds of Asian tourists and schoolkits milling around seem to vaporize. In a hundred closed cafes, the espresso machines give an expiring hiss, as if at last slipping off their shoes and wiggling their toes.

That is what makes Venice by night so magical, when the loudest sounds are those of footsteps and lapping water, and the modern world recedes so that in any Square or over any bridge, you wouldn’t be surprised to meet a hurrying figure in a cloak and buckled shoes; Casanova on his way to some assignation, perhaps.

St. Mark’s becomes an enchanted place, with pools of the day’s flood still underfoot and mist wreathing the cathedral. But "nightlife" seems nonexistent outside the weeks of carnival each February. In a city so stuffed with historical treasures, the lack of a living, modern culture is achingly apparent, especially after dark.

Venice’s only theatre of note, the Fenice, has only just reopened after almost a decade, following a fire. Clubs, discos, even cinemas are almost as hard to find as car parks. Nor is there the eating-out culture that governs the rest of Italy.

Venice is not usually regarded as a gourmet paradise. Even J G Links, author of the definitive, eccentric guidebook Venice for Pleasure, suggests it has few restaurants worth visiting outside the Cipriani hotel. As a rule, it’s best to avoid canalside establishments with their menus turisticos; look for places down alleys. Remember, this is rice, not pasta country, offering some of the best risotto you’re ever likely to eat.

When I first came here, aged 15, on a school trip, we were quartered in a girl’s convent school. Ever since, I’ve stayed at the Gritti Palace, on the Grand Canal, overlooking the Salute. Apart from its mixture of elegance and old-fashioned comfort, I have two reasons for loving this hotel. Alighting at its private landing stage completes the thrill of arriving in Venice by night. And it was here, 13 years ago, that Sue and I decided to get married and have our daughter.

Gondolas operate until well after dark. It can be doubly romantic, with the Grand Canal in pitch-darkness and silent but for the churn of water buses and scraps of operatic arias that some gondoliers still perform.

Latterly, Venice has been making more efforts to get a nightlife. There is a disco named Casanova near the railway station and a music bar, Piccolo Mondo, near the Accademia bridge. The city’s student population has created funkier areas around Campo Santa Margarita and in Cannaregio, the immigrant quarter to the north.

There is also street music after all the smart shops have closed and the only merchandise on offer is fake designer handbags, set out on the trestles used as walkways at times of flooD.Around one corner, you may come upon a countertenor in an anourak, singing Handel; around another, two men will be playing selections from Andrew Lloyd Webber on a vibraphone of water-filled glasses. You think that sounds totally naff I can tell you it sounded totally wonderful. Such is the alchemy of Venice by night.

Which of the following can best summarize the passage()

A.Venice provides visitors with delicious food of Italian style.

B.Songs and music are special features of Venice by night.

C.If you want to enjoy nightlife, Venice is a wonderful place.

D.Venice is not a good place for nightlife at present, yet the evening of Venice has its own glamour.

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参考答案:D

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阅读下面文章,回答小题。(10分)

①试图在竞争激烈的社会中站稳并成就一番大事,什么最重要?才华?勤奋?人际脉络?都不是。是诚信。

②诚信,首先是重承诺,然后要讲诚实,守信用。——不仅对别人必须如此,对自己,亦应该如此。但太多时候,我们将对自己的诚信忽略掉了,或者说,我们对自己,完全没有诚信可言。理由很简单:因为无人知道。——无人知道,便可以“不讲诚信”。

③比如早晨的时候,你计划晚上要去看望一位朋友。但是一天工作结束,你有些累,于是便决定不去。你决定不去,因为你没有跟你的朋友谈及此事。就是说,既然没有对朋友做出口头承诺,也就没有恪守承诺的理由。但是,请注意,心里的承诺,也是承诺。你没有失信于朋友,但是你已经失信于自己。

④比如周一的时候,你计划周末去郊区爬山。但到了周末,或因为事情太忙,或因为你的懒惰,你突然不想去了,并将爬山的计划再一次延迟。爬山乃小事,但因为这件事,你将自己欺骗一次。你对自己失去诚信,可是你非常大度地原谅了自己。原谅自己的原因,只因为那完全是你个人的事情。

⑤比如月初的时候,你计划在这个月读完一本书。但是你天天在忙,将读书的时间完全挤掉。或者,即使你不忙,你还有别的安排,比如喝酒、健身、打牌、会友,等等。到月底,那本书,仍然被翻在第一页。读书乃小事,但因为这件事,你对自己失去诚信。你对自己失去诚信,可是你并未发觉。

⑥比如年初的时候,你计划做成一件大事。这件事无人知道,这是你的秘密。可是,或因为工作和家庭的琐事,或因为事情的难度,你终没努力去做这件事情。不努力去做这件事情,不仅因为难度,更因为你内心的懒惰。你对自己失去诚信,你却并不以为然。只因为无人知道。

⑦我们常常会批评不讲诚信的人,但事实上,如果仔细回忆,你大约会发现,其实你就是一个不讲诚信的人。诚信是一种习惯,当你屡屡对自己失去诚信,那么,距离你对他人不讲诚信的那一天,也许就为时不远了。

⑧对自己讲诚信,不仅是对你的事业负责,更是对你的人品负责。

小题1:本文的中心论点是什么?(2分)

小题2:文章③~⑥段论证了文中的哪句话?③~⑥段对论证文章中心论点起了什么作用?(4分)

小题3:阅读下面链接材料,结合本文内容,谈谈你对杨震行为的看法。(4分)

【链接材料】

汉代官员杨震在赴任东莱太守途中,路经昌邑。当时的昌邑令王密,是他任职荆州刺史时举茂才提拔的。王密听说杨震经过此地,为报答当年杨震的提携之情,于是白天去谒见杨震,晚上则准备了白银十斤赠送给杨震。杨震对他说:“我们是老朋友,我很了解你的为人,你却不了解我,为什么呢?”王密说:“现在是深夜没有人知道。”杨震说:“天知,神知,我知,你知,怎么能说没有人知道呢?”王密听完后,惭愧地离开。

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