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News One：29October，2015
The government of China plans to end its one-child per family policy（政策） and instead let families have two children．The plan was announced Thursday after high-level meetings in Beijing．China，which has the largest population，made the one-child policy in 1980．The government allowed only a small number of couples to have two children for so many years．For example，some couples in the countryside could have two children．
News Two：05October，2015
The first of the 2015Nobel Prizes has been announced．Sweden's Nobel Prize committee （委员会） says the Nobel Prize for medicine will go to scientists from Ireland，Japan and China．
William Campbell from Ireland and Satoshi Omura from Japan share the prize for their discovery of the medicine avermectin．The Nobel committee praised their work on what it calls a"novel therapy．"The treatment fights disease caused by parasites（寄生虫）．
The prize for medicine is also going to Chinese researcher Tu Youyou．She discovered artemisinin．Artemisinin is a drug that has greatly made the number of people who die from malaria（疟疾） smaller．
News Three：09December，2015
Oil prices have fallen to their lowest levels since 2009．
Brent crude oil，one of several kinds of oil on the world market，dropped below 40abarrel（桶）onTuesday．However，themaingroupofoilproducingcountrieshasbeenunabletoreducetheoilproduction．
36．HowlongdidChina'sone-childpolicylast？B
A.38years．
B.36years．
C.25years．
D.65years．
37．WhogottheNobelPrizeformedicine？D
A．TuYouyoufromChina．
B．WilliamCampbellfromIreland．
C．WilliamCampbellfromIrelandandSatoshiOmurafromJapan．
D．WilliamCampbellfromIreland，SatoshiOmurafromJapanandTuYouyoufromChina．
38．WhatisthepriceofBrentcrudeoilonTuesday？A.40a barrel．C
B．Over 40abarrel．
C．Lessthan40a barrel．
D．Less than￥40a barrel．
39．What can we know from News Three？D
A．There is only one kind oil on the world market．
B．Main oil producing countries will produce less oil．
C．Oil prices on Tuesday are the lowest in history．
D．Main oil producing countries will still produce as much oil as before．
40．Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage？A
A．The oil prices are the lowest in 2009．
B．The artemisinin has saved lots of lives．
C．There are the most people in China in the world．
D．Only a small number of Chinese couples can have two children in China in the past few years．
