．The lawyer listened with full attention，____________to miss any point．

   A．not trying        B．trying not     C．to try not         D．not to try

       There were smiling children all the way. Clearly they knew at what time the train passed their homes and they made it their business to stand along the railway, were to complete strangers and cheer them up as they rushed towards Penage. Often whole families stood outside their homes and waved and smiled as if those on the trains were their favorite relatives. This is the simple village people of Malaysia.I was moved.

       I had always traveled to Malaysia by plane or car, so this was the first time I was on a train.I did not particularlf relish the long train joumey and had brought along a dozen magazines to read and reread. I looked about the train. There was not one familiar I sighed and sat down to read my Economics

       It was not long before the train was across the Causeway and in Malaysia. Johore Baru was just another city like Singapore, so I was tired of looking at the crowds of people as they hurried past. As we went beyond the city, I watched the straight rows of rubber trees and miles and miles of green. Then the first village came into sight. Immediately I came alive, I decided to wave back.

       From then on my joumey became imeresting.I threw my magazine into the waste basket and decided to join in Malaysian life.Then everything came alive.The mountains seemed to speak to me.Even the trees were smiling.I stared t everything as if I was looking at it for the first time.

       The day passed fast and I even forgot to have my lunch until I felt hungry. I looked at my wat ch and was surprised that it was 3:00 pm.Soon the train pulled up at Butterworth I looked at the people all around me.They all looked beautiful. When my uncle arrive with, I threw my around him to give him a warm hug.I had never done this before. He seemed surprised and then his weather-beaten face warmed up with a huge smile. We walked arm in arm to his car.

       I looked forward to the return journey.

1.The author expected the train trip to be__________.

A. adventurous              B. pleasnt              C. exciting             D. dull

2.What did the author remember most fondly of her train trip?

A. The friendly country people.

B. The mountains along the way.

C. The crowds of people in the streets.

D. The simple lunch served on the train.

3.Which of the following words can best take the place of the word“relish”in the second paragraph?

A. choose                            B. enjoy                       C. prepare for               D. carry on

4.Where was the writer going?

A. Johore Baru.            B. The Causeway.     C. Bunerworth.            D. Singapore.

5.What can we learn from the story?

A. Comfort in traveling by train.

B. Pleasure of living in the country.

C. Reading gives people delight.

D. Smiles brighten people up.

We——last night, but we went to the concert instead

    A must have studied       B might study

    C should have studied      D would study

Excuse me I________I was blocking your way.

A.didn’t realize     B.don’t realize    C.haven’t realized    D.wasn’t realizing

1．  Come

A.     cold     B. cock   C. comfort    D. improve

The book has been translated into thirty langungen tince it            on the markat in 1973.

A.had come                 B.has come

C.came                     D.comes

Every year a flood of farmers arrive in Shenzhen for the money-making jobs they       before leaving their hometowns.

A. promised    B. were promised   C. have promised   D. have been promised

I wasn’t blaming anyone; I           said errors like this could be avoided.

A. merely         B. mostly          C. rarely         D. nearly

 --Where did you put my dictionary after using it this morning?

   --I put it back ______ I took it.

A. at which     B. where         C. there           D. there where

The U.S. Department of Labor statistics (统计) show that there is an oversupply of college-trained workers and that this oversupply is increasing. Already there have been more than enough teachers, engineers, physicists, aerospace experts, and other specialists. Yet colleges and graduate schools continue every year to turn out highly trained people to compete for jobs that aren't there. The result is that graduates cannot enter the professions for which they were trained and must take temporary jobs which do not require a college degree.

On the other hand, there is a great need for skilled workers of all sorts: carpenters, electricians, mechanics, plumbers, TV repairmen.

These people have more work than they can deal with, and their annual incomes are often higher than those of college graduates. The old gap that white-collar workers make a better living than blue-collar workers no longer holds true. The law of supply and demand now favors the skilled workmen.

The reason for this situation is the traditional myth that college degree is a passport to a prosperous future. A large part of American society matches success in life equally with a college degree. Parents begin indoctrinating (灌输) their children with this myth before they are out of grade school. High school teachers play their part by acting as if high school education were a preparation for college rather than for life. Under this pressure the kids fall in line. Whether they want to go to college or not doesn't matter. Everybody should go to college, so of course they must go. And every year college enrollments (入学) go up and up, and more and more graduates are overeducated for the kinds of jobs available to them.

One result of this emphasis on a college education is that many people go to college who do not belong there. Of the sixty percent of high school graduates who enter college, half of them do not graduate with their class. Many of them drop out within the first year. Some struggle on for two or three years and then give up.

1. It's implied but not stated in the passage that      .

       A. many other countries are facing the same problem

       B. white-collar workers in the US used to make more money than blue-collar workers

       C. fewer students will prefer to go to college in the future

       D. the law of supply and demand has a strong effect on American higher education

2. Which of the following is NOT a reason why college enrollments go up every year?

       A. Many people believe that the only way to success is a college education.

       B. Many parents want their children to go to college.

       C. High school teachers urge their students to go to college.

       D. Every young man and woman wants to go to college.

3. By saying that“many people go to college who do not belong there,” the author means that      .

       A. many people who are not fit for college education go to college

       B. many people who do not have enough money go to college

       C. many people who go to college drop out within the first year

       D. many people who go to college have their hopes destroyed

4. We can infer from the passage that the author believes that       .

       A. every young man and woman should go to college

       B. college education is a bad thing

       C. people with a college education should receive higher pay

       D. fewer people should go to college while more should be trained for skilled jobs