_______ the news, so far, has been good, there may be bad days ahead.?

  A. When          B. While                    C. If              D. As

Christmas in the west is ____________ as the Spring Festival in China.

  A. so important a festival                B. as important a festival

  C. so an important festival               D. as an important festival

第二节  根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并将答案写在本题下面的横线上。选项中有两项多余选项。

—Did you watch TV last night?

—（61）            

—The football game between Miami Dolphins and Chicago Bears was really wonderful, wasn’t it?

—（62）          I wanted to, but my wife preferred to watch the old film.

—What a pity! It was quite exciting. （63）             

—How did it finish?

—It finished in a draw.（64）           

—It was quite good, but I missed the beginning of it because I had to eat first.

—（65）              

—No. After half an hour she stopped watching and started to read a book. 

A.Both teams played very well.

B.I would like to watch a basketball match.

C.Did you wife enjoy it?

D.Yes, I did

E.How funny it was!

F.What was the film like?

G.Oh, I didn’t watch the football match.

 Of all the girls, Jane spent_________time and made_________mistakes.

A. less; fewer  B. much; many  C. the least; the fewest  D. more; most

 I’d like to have visited the Palace Museum last week, but something unexpected _______ to my father.

A. had happened           B. happened                  C. has happened            D. happens

Section B

Directions: Read the following four passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in  the passage you have just read.

(A)

       Matsushita, the world’s largest provider of consumer electronics, has decided to move in on Hollywood. Last weekend, Matsushita company leaders met with movies VIPs from MCA, Inc., the entertainment community that produced the movies as “Jaws” and “E.T. the Extra-terrestrial”. If the negotiations are successful, Matsushita will pay somewhere between $6 billion and $7.5 billion for MCA, by far the largest U.S. buying by a Japanese company.

       The deal is larger than last year’s $5 billion buying of Columbia Pictures by Matsushita’s competitor, Sony Corporation. The movement by the Japanese companies shows Tokyo’s growing interest in the entertainment world. It is surprising for both sides of the Pacific Ocean. Why does a disciplined, no-nonsense nation like Japan want to get into show business? The answer is quite simple: To make money. Japanese corporation leaders feel the global potential of the entertainment business and recognize that there is an increasing market for movies and television in the rapidly industrializing world.

1.    The movement of buying American entertainment companies by the Japanese shows       that____     _.

      A. American movies are better than Japanese

      B. Japan has growing interest in the entertainment world

      C. Japanese market is larger than American market

      D. Japanese people are richer

2.    A disciplined nation like Japan wants to get into show business because _____

      A. they want to make money

      B. they want to learn from American people

      C. they want to entertain their people

      D. they want to win in the competition

3.    Matsushita would pay ______ for MCA.

      A.$5 billion

      B.$6 billion

      C.$7.5 billion

      D. Somewhere between $6 billion to $7.5 billion

 _________kinds of animals in the world died out___________proved true.

     A. All ; has       B. When some ; have    C. While all ; have    D. That some ; has

 Now, children, it’s time you _______.

A. washed and dressed           B. are washed and dressed

C. will wash and dress            D. were washed and dressed

 Once a decision has been made, all of us should ____it.

A. direct to  B. lead to   C. stick to    D. refer to

Buses are celebrating their 100th anniversary. About 80 percent of all public-transport passengers worldwide are carried by buses.

The bus is a very efficient mode of transport, being cheap, flexible, comfortable and, in many cases, tailored to the needs of users both in terms of capacity and speed. Buses operate in mixed traffic, and are easy to put in service.

From an economic, environmental and social point of view, the bus remains the best solution to the problem of achieving balanced and environmentally-friendly urban development. Indeed, the bus is the only mode of public transport in many of the world’s cities, and plays a key supporting role in cities with rail transport.

Over the past decades, increased use of roads by private cars has contributed to terrible traffic problems, affecting the speed of buses as well, and hence their service quality, reliability, energy consumption, and economy. In such circumstances, the efficiency and performance of buses depends heavily on special lanes. Various forms are possible----from a mere painted mark on the road to more expensive variants such as elevated lanes, movable barriers, and “bus locks”.

A related trend is to look beyond vehicle technology alone and to consider the wider system, of which buses are a part, such as the infrastructure(基础设施)and other operational aspects of city. This is commonly known and promoted as the “bus-system approach”. Other key innovations(革新) include clean engines, alternative fuels, and guidance devices. In terms of the designs of buses, much of what has happened to light rail can be transferred to them, including the shapes of the vehicles themselves.

The energy consumption of a bus per passenger is one-sixth that of a car, and buses are only responsible for about 5% of the CO2 emissions generated by vehicles at present.

1. From this passage we learn that_____________.

       A. buses are the most environmentally-friendly of all motorized vehicles

       B. buses were first used more than a century ago

       C. most passengers prefer trains to buses

       D. a bus has a much larger capacity than any other vehicle

2. What has affected the service quality of buses?

       A. Unsuitable infrastructure.                       B. Private cars.

       C. The increasing population of cities.

       D. Very rapid urban development.

3. Which of the following is an approach to improving bus service?

       A. Improving the speed of buses.

       B. Reducing the number of private cars.

       C. Setting up special lanes for buses.

       D. Increasing the number of buses.

4. From the passage we can infer that in the future_____________.

       A. there will be more buses than today

       B. bus engines will need no power

       C. buses will be replaced by other means of transport

       D. the appearance of buses will change