It was the summer of 1965. Deluca, then 17, visited Peter Buck, a family friend. Buck asked Deluca about his plan for the future. “I’m going to college, but I need a way to pay for it,” Deluca recalls saying. “Buck said, ‘you should open a sandwich shop.’”

That afternoon, they agreed to be partners. And they set a goal: to open 32 stores in ten years. After doing some research, Buck wrote a check for $ 1,000. Deluca rented a storefront (店面) in Connecticut, and when they couldn’t cover their start-up costs, Buck kicked in another $1,000.

But business didn’t go smoothly as they expected. Deluca says, “After six months, we were doing poorly, but we didn’t know how badly, because we didn’t have any financial controls.” All he and Buck knew was that their sales were lower than their costs.

Deluca was managing the store and to the University of Bridgeport at the same time. Buck was working at his day job as a nuclear physicist in New York. They’d meet Monday evenings and brainstorm ideas for keeping the business running. “We convinced ourselves to open a second store. We figured we could tell the public, ‘We are so successful, we are opening a second store.’” And they did — in the spring of 1966. Still, it was a lot of learning by trial and error.

But the partners’ learn-as-you-go approach turned out to be their greatest strength. Every Friday, Deluca would drive around and hand-deliver the checks to pay their supplies. “It probably took me two and a half hours and it wasn’t necessary but as a result, the suppliers got to know me very well, and the personal relationships established really helped out,” Deluca says.

And having a goal was also important. “There are so many problems that can get you down. You just have to keep working toward your goal,” Deluca adds.

Deluca ended up founding Subways Sandwich, the multimillion-dollar restaurant chain.

1. Deluca opened the first sandwich shop in order to ________.

2.Which of the following is true of Buck?

3.What can we learn about their first shop?

4.They decided to open a second store because they _________.

5.What contributes most to their success according to the author?

If you look for a book as a present for a child, you will be spoiled for choice even in a year when there is no new Harry Potter. J.K. Rowling’s wizard is not alone: the past decade has been a harvest for good children’s books, which has set off a large quantity of films and in turn led to increased sales of classics such as The Lord of the Rings.

Yet despite that, reading is increasingly unpopular among children. According to statistics, in 1997 23% said they didn’t like reading at all. In 2003, 35% did. And around 6% of children leave primary school each year unable to read properly.

Maybe the decline is caused by the increasing availability（可利用性）of computer games. Maybe the books boom（繁荣）has affected only the top of the educational pile. Either way, Chancellor Gordon Brown plans to change things for the bottom of the class. In his pre-budget（预算） report, he announced the national project of Reading Recovery to help the children struggling most.

Reading Recovery is aimed at six-year-olds, who receive four months of individual daily half- hour classes with a specially trained teacher. An evaluation earlier this year reported that children on the scheme made 20 months’ progress in just one year, whereas similarly weak readers without special help made just five months’ progress, and so ended the year even further below the level expected for their age.

International research tends to find that when British children leave primary school they read well, but read less – often for fun than those elsewhere. Reading for fun matters because children who are keen on（热衷） reading can expect lifelong pleasure and loving books is an excellent indicator（指示物）of future educational success. According to the OECD, being a regular and enthusiastic reader is of great advantage.

1.Which of the following is true of Paragraph 1?

2.Statistics suggested that ___.

3.What do we know about Reading Recovery?

4.Reading for fun is important because book-loving children ____.

5.The aim of this text would probably be ____.

假定你是李华，亚洲冬季运动会将在你居住的地方举办，现在正在招募志愿者，你希望成为其中一员。请按要求用英文给组委会写一封申请信，内容应包括：

个人情况：年龄、性别、学历

个人条件：英语好、爱好体育、善于交往、乐于助人、熟悉本地情况

承诺：提供最佳服务

注意：

词数120-150左右，开头语已为你写好；可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

生词：申请–apply (v.), application (n.)；志愿者–volunteer

Dear Sir/Madam,

My name is Li Hua. I would like to work as a volunteer for the Winter Asian Games. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

-- I bought the dress at _____ normal price.

-- Well, it’s a _____ bargain.

A. the half; a  B. half the ; a  C. a half ;the  D. half; 不填

The government has taken measures to ____ the high prices of daily goods to keep the market stable.

A. take down  B. bring down  C. hand down  D. tear down

Last month, the Japanese government expressed their thanks for the aid they ___ from China.

A. receive  B. are receiving  C. have received  D. had received

In the last few years thousands of films ____ all over the world.

A.have produced         B. have been produced

C. are producing        D. are being produced

She has already tried her best. Please don’t be too ____ about her job.

A. special   B. responsible  C. unusual  D.particular

It ___ be the postman at the door. It’s only six o’clock.

A. mustn’t   B. can’t  C. won’t  D. needn’t

The two girls are so alike that strangers find ____ difficult to tell one from the other.

A. it   B. them  C. her  D. that