. With mobile phones, it’s easier to communicate with people because you can __________them    almost any time .

       A. touch                             B. get                   C. reach                D. hear

第二节 （共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项多余选项。

—Good morning. This is Chengdu Shuangqiao Car Rental.

—Good morning, Miss.      1     .

— Oh, yes. A lot of people do this these days.

—Yes, we are just on holiday here for a few days and they said it would be a good idea to hire a car to get around the city.

—Well, it certainly is.     2    

— What can you suggest?

— We have a variety of choice, such as Xiali, which is the cheapest, 200 yuan a day, Citroen, Jatta, Elysee,     3    

—How much if I hire a Santana for three days?

— Oh, that will be 1,200 yuan.

—Oh,     4     . What about a Jetta?

— It will be 300 yuan a day.

—     5     , would there be any problem?

— No problem at all. Now let me take down your name and telephone number.

A but Santana sedans are the big favorite these days.

B. A friend of mine suggested I call you to hire a car.

C. You’d better buy a car in our city.

D. it sounds a bit too expensive.

E. The price is much too reasonable.

F. Then I'd better hire a Jetta tomorrow morning

G. What kind of car do you want to hire?

. It is reported that two hotels，_____ are being built in my hometown，will open next year.

 A．they both  B．which both   C．both of them  D. of which both

China is known _________ greatly in terms of its cultural values over the past few years.

       A．to change  B．having changed       C．changing   D．to have changed

Divorce is bad for environment

US researchers raised a new theory on Monday: divorce is bad for the environment.

The global trend toward higher divorce rates has created more households with fewer People，

scientists at Michigan State University reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of

Sciences．

More households means more houses，fuel and water are Heeded for them，the researchers  wrote．“Globally，the number of households is increasing much faster than the number ofpeople，”said co-author “Jack” Liu in a telephone interview. “Even in regions with declining populationn, we see substantial increase in the number of households. Divorce is the main reason for reducingthe number of people in a household,” he said.

The average divorced person’s household is about 40 to 50 percent smaller than the average married person’s household, Liu said. But whether there are three or six people in a house ,the amount of fuel needed to heat them is about the same. In the United States, divorced households used 74 billion kilowatt—hours of electricity and 2.850 trillion liters of water in 2005, half of which could have been saved if households had stayed the same size as when they were married.

In the United States and 11 other countries between 1998 and 2002, if divorced households had combined to have the same average household size as married households, there could have been 7.4 million fewer households.

The number of divorced households in those countries ranged from 40,000 in Costa Rica to

 almost 16 million in the United States around 2000. The number of rooms per person in divorced households was 33 percent to 95 percent greater than in married households.

“If you really want to get divorced, maybe you can remarry with somebody else, or live together with somebody else you like”, Liu said.

1. In America when the number of households is_________, the number of people in a house is__________.

A. increasing, decreasing                B. decreasing, increasing

C. increasing, increasing                    D. decreasing, decreasing

2. What does the word “substantial” in the third paragraph mean?

A. Great         B. Little            C. Sudden                 D. Timely

3. How much electricity would have been saved without so many people getting divorced in America in 2005?

A. 7.4 million kilowatt-hours                  B. 16 million kilowatt-hours

C. 37 billion kilowatt-hours              D. about 30 billion kilowatt-hours

4. The last paragraph is the writer’s_________for people.

A. advice            B. encouragement          C. demand           D. order

Mr. Oven has three children, one of whom is a child of six, ___ twins of twelve.

A. another          B. other               C. the others            D. others

       —When will the problem be settled?

       —Be patient! The person _______ will see to it as soon as possible.

       A. in need                                         B. in demand

       C. in response                                 D. in charge

 --- Bob! How is your project? I heard you started it last Friday, right?

   --- Oh! I ______ for it. But I haven’t decided when to do it.

  A. have prepared    B. had prepared    C. have been preparing  D. was preparing

We Chinese are drinking ____ milk per person today as we did in 1995.

A．more than twice                                         B．twice as much

C．twice as many as                                       D．twice as much as

 –How about going to Beijing for our holidays?

   –That’s splendid. ___________.

A. It’s really hot.           B. It’s none of my business.

C. I’m with you on that.              D. I’m looking forward to it.