In a great many cities, hundreds of people ride bicycles to work everyday. In New City, some bike riders have even formed a group called Bike for a Better City. They declare that if more people rode bicycles to work, there would be fewer automobiles(汽车) in the downtown part of the city and so less dirty air from car engines. For several years this group has been trying to get the city government to help bicycle riders. For example. They want the city to draw special lanes(通道) for bicycles only on some of the main streets, because when bicycle riders must use the same lanes as cars, there are accidents. Bike for a Better city feels that if there were special lanes more people would use bikes.

But no bicycles lanes have been drawn. Not everyone thinks they are a good idea-----they say it will slow traffic. Some store owners on the main streets don't like the idea------they say that if there is less traffic, they will have less business.

The city government has not yet decided what to do. It wants to keep everyone happy. On weekends, Central Park----the largest place of open ground in New York----is closed to cars, and the roads may be used by bicycles only. But Bike for a Better City says that this is not enough and keeps fighting to get bicycle lanes downtown.

73. The bike riders suggest that _____________.

A. bicycles should be used instead of cars    B. bicycle lanes should be drawn

C. fewer buses or cars should be used   D. the number of special lanes should be increased

74. The advantage(好处) of the special lanes is that _______.

A. they will make cars and buses run slowly   B. they will make it easier for bike riders to go to parks

C .they will make the city more beautiful     D. the lanes will prevent accidents

75. The government has not decided whether special lanes should be drawn ______.

A. so that everyone is disappointed      B. because there are different opinions

C. because most people travel by train   D. because Bike for a Better City is not strong enough

— How was your job interview?

— Oh, couldn’t feel ______. I hardly found proper answers to most of the questions they asked.

         A. better                              B. easier                              C. worse                              D. happier

You say your home is in the south. Can you be a little more ____?

A．specific     B．special   C．particular          D．especial

They were surrounded by the enemy, but they _____ at last from the village.

   A. tried escaping                   B. managed to escape

   C. managed escaping                D. tried to escape

I don’t think he can pay off all the debt when he gets paid, ______?

       A. do I                  B. don’t I                     C. can he               D. can’t he

After graduation, he looked forward to    to the west.

A. send                  B. be sent                          C. sending                   D. being sent.

Amanda Clement grew up in Hudson，South Dakota．Baseball was always her fa—

vorite sport．Once in a while her brother Hank and his friends would let her play first

base in their games．More often，however，they asked her to umpire(裁判)for them，

because they knew her calls would be fair and there would be no arguing．

    One day in 1904，Amanda and her mother traveled to Hawarden，Iowa，to watch

Hank play for the home team against Hawarden．When they arrived at the ball field，

two local teams were waiting to play a preliminary(预备)game．The umpire hadn’t ar—

rived，so Hank argued that the teams should let his sister serve as umpire．The players

finally agreed．

    Amanda，then sixteen and standing five feet，ten inches tall，made perfect calls．

She was so good that players for the main game asked her 10 umpire for them and even

offered to pay her．Thus，at sixteen，Amanda Clement became the first paid female

baseball umpire on record．She is honored in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown，

New York．

61．Hank and his friends often asked Amanda to umpire for them because      

    　A．they wanted to make her happy

    　B．she called them brothers

   　 C．no one else wanted to do it for them

   　 D．she knew the rules well and was fair

62．Amanda went to Hawarden in order to      

A．serve as umpire

C．make money

B．watch her brother play

D．help the local teams

63．Amanda most probably learned how to umpire a baseball game       .

    　A．in her P．E．classes at school    B．in an umpire training school

   　 C．by watching and playing the games D．from her mother，a baseball umpire

64．Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?

   　 A．Amanda Clement．First Female Umpire

   　 B．A Family of Baseball Fans

   　 C．Baseball Games in Hawarden，Iowa

   　 D．The Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown

阅读下列材料, 从所给的五个选项(A、B、C、D、E)中，选出符合各小题要求的最佳选项， 其中有一项是多余选项。

53. ___________ Rik has graduated from ahigh school and he wants to find a job with high pay in the town. He has just passed his driving test. He loves vehicles a lot.

54. ___________ Mrs. Sphinx is a middle aged woman. She is out of work now. It is hard for her to find a suitable job for the lack of special train when young. However, she has a large family with four children to support.

55. ___________ Christina, young and attractive, is good at English. She wants to go abroad to run a hotel after graduation. But she is lack of experience. So she needs practice.

56. ___________ Jacky is a newly-graduated college student. He majors in computer. He also plays guitar fairly well. So he entertains himself with it when he is free.

– He looks as if he _____the answer.

   --- He has.

A. has known   B. knows     C. had known   D. knew

.Everybody in our country, men and women, old and young_____sports and games.

A. are fond of   B. enjoys    C. got in for    D. take part in