The story is uninteresting. I don’t like it ___________.

Which of the following is WRONG?

A. a little                      B. a bit                  C. at all                    D. in the least

________ London many times, but he knows little about the city.

A. Having been to            B. Though he has been to

C. He has been to             D. He has gone to

I often have conversations with John over _____telephone, while I keep in touch

 with Tom by _____letter.

A ./; the                  B. the; /              C. /; a                  D. the; a

. --- How about the book on the most famous musicians of the age?

 --- Oh, Mozart’s story _________ well.

第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

On the evening of June 21, 1992, a tall man with brown hair and blue eyes entered the beautiful hall of the Bell Tower Hotel in Xi’an with his bicycle. The hotel workers received him and telephoned the manager, for they had never seen a bicycle in the hotel ball before though they lived in “the kingdom of bicycles”.

Robert Friedlander, an American, arrived in Xi’an on his bicycle trip across Asia which started last December in New Delhi, India.

When he was 11, he read the book Marco Polo and made up his mind to visit the Silk Road. Now, after 44 years, he was on the Silk Road in Xi’an and his early dream were coming true. Robert Friedlander’s next destinations(目的地) were Lanzhou, Dunhuang, Urumqi, etc. He will complete his trip in Pakistan.

1. The best headline (标题) for this newspaper article would be ___________.

A. The Kingdom of Bicycles            B. A Beautiful Hotel in Xi’an

C. Marco Polo and the Silk Road         D. An American Achieving His Aims 

2. The hotel workers told the manager about Friedlander coming to the hotel because ___________.

A. he asked to see the manager          

B. he entered the hall with a bike

C. the manager had to know about all foreign guests

D. the manager knew about his trip and was expecting him

3. Friedlander is visiting the three countries in the following order, _________.

A. China, India, and Pakistan            B. India, China, and Pakistan

C. Pakistan, China, and India            D. China, Pakistan and India

4. What made Friedlander want to come to China?

A. The stories about Marco Polo.         B. The famous sights in Xi’an.

C. His interest in Chinese silk.           D. His childhood dreams about bicycles.

The sun shone in through the dining room window, lighting up the hardwood floor. We had been talking there for nearly two hours. The phone of the “Nightline” rang yet again and Morrie asked his helper, Connie, to get it. She had been taking down the callers’ names in Morrie’s small black appointment book. It was clear I was not the only one interested in visiting my old professor—the “Nightline” appearance had made him something of a big figure—but I was impressed with, perhaps even a bit envious of, all the friends that Morrie seemed to have.

      “You know, Mitch, now that I'm dying, I’ve become much more interesting to people. I’m on the last great journey here—and people want me to tell them what to pack.”

    The phone rang again. “Morrie, can you talk?” Connie asked.

    “I’m visiting with my old friend now,” he announced, “Let them call back.”

    I cannot tell you why he received me so warmly. I was hardly the promising student who had left him sixteen years earlier. Had it not been for “Nightline”, Morrie might have died without ever seeing me again.

     What happened to me? The eighties happened. The nineties happened. Death and sickness and getting fat and going bald happened. I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it. Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I’d simply been on a long vacation.

      “Have you found someone to share your heart with?” he asked. “Are you at peace with yourself?” “Are you trying to be as human as you can be?”

      I felt ashamed, wanting to show I had been trying hard to work out such questions. What happened to me? I once promised myself I would never work for money, that I would join the Peace Corps, and that 1 would live in beautiful, inspirational places.

      Instead, I had been in Detroit for ten years, at the same workplace, using the same bank, visiting the same barber. I was thirty-seven, more mature than in college, tied to computers and modems and cell phones. I was no longer young, nor did I walk around in gray sweatshirts with unlit cigarettes in my mouth. I did not have long discussions over egg salad sandwiches about the meaning of life.

      My days were full, yet I remained, much of the time, unsatisfied. What happened to me?

1. When did the author graduate from Morrie’s college?

      A. In the eighties.   B. In the nineties.   C. When he was 16.       D. When he was 21.

2. What do we know about the “Nightline”?

    A. Morrie started it by himself.               B. It helped Morrie earn a fame.

C. The author helped Morrie start it.           D. It was only operated at night.

3. What can we infer from the passage?

       A. Both the author and Morrie liked travelling.

       B. Morrie liked helping people pack things for their journeys.

       C. The author envied Morrie’s friends the help they got from him.

       D. The author earned a lot of money at the cost of his dreams.

4. What’s the author’s feeling when he writes this passage?

       A. Regretful.        B. Enthusiastic.        C. Sympathetic.         D. Humorous.

 The old woman __________ her son and daughters _______ and see her from time to time.

       A. desired; come    B. hoped; to come              C. desired; coming        D. suggested; to come

 The head office of the computer company is in Zhejiang, but it has ______ all over the country.

  A. organizations     B. branches          C. companies      D. businesses

  Do you know the cold?

Everybody knows what happens when you catch a cold. First you sniffle(抽鼻涕) or get a more throat. Then you sneeze. After coughing and blowing your way through the next few days it’s over---until next time

Do you know what causes a cold, how it is spread or how to help prevent it? And which of the many medicines is best for your cold?

There is no known cure for the common cold. Once you catch a cold, your body usually produces antibodies(抗体) to the virus which caused the cold. These antibodies help the body develop resistance（抵抗力) to the virus if you catch it again. Unfortunately, over 200 different viruses cause the common cold. These viruses may change over time, so your resistance to them reduces. The large number of viruses and the fact that they change help explain why there is no cure for the common cold and why you will suffer colds in the future.

The colds increase in winter(usually between Septenber and March) but Not because of the cold! Cold weather has not been shown to increase the number of colds. People spend more time indoors in winter. They are therefore more likely to come into physical contact with each other and spread the disease. All these ideas remain to be proven. No one has been able to discover what really causes these colds

Common colds are spread by sneezes or by direct contact with a cold sufferer, usually when two people’ hands touch or an object is passed from one person to another. Sneezing spreads colds when someone sneezes near other people, or sneezes on objects which others later touch. A cold virus can survive up to three hours on hard surfaces.

The simplest and most effective way to lower the risk of catching a cold is to wash your hands frequently. Another important step in cold prevention is for cold sufferers to get rid of used tissues immediately after use.

1.From the passage, we can know____________.

A. a cold virus can survive up to four hours      

B. most of people know how to cure a cold

C. there are more colds in November than in May  

D. all of us catch more than one cold a year

2.According to the passage, people tend to catch a cold___________.

A. because they don’t take exercise in winter   

B.if they stay outdoors in freezinf cold winter

C. if they stay indoors more often in winter  

D.because the viruses of colds usually exist in winter

3.We can know colds sre spread through____________.

A. air and touching     B. coughs and objects   C.two people    D. a person and his hands                            

 --- Ring me at six tomorrow morning, will you?

--- Why that early? I ______ .

A. will be sleeping       B. have slept      C. have been sleeping     D. will sleep