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    1. Which of the following magazines will probably provide you with articles about music and paintings?

A．Apollo.

B．The Week.

C．New Internationalist.

D．The Guardian Weekly.

    2. It is possible that most of the readers of the four magazines are

A．men

B．women

C．children

D．grown-ups

    3. Which of the following would you most probably read if you want to get information from the world’s most popular newspapers?

A．Apollo & The Week.

B．Apollo & New Internationalist.

C．The Guardian Weekly & The Week.

D．The Guardian Weekly & New Internationalist.

    4. The purpose of writing these four texts is to

A．tell the readers the latest news

B．get more readers to subscribe (订阅)

C．show the importance of the four magazines

D．introduce the four magazines to new readers

    Pulling heavy suitcases all day in the summer is hard work, especially when you're a thin 14-year-old．That was me in 1940—the youngest and smallest baggage boy at New York City’s Pennsylvania Railway Station.

    After just a few days on the job, I began noticing that the other fellows were overcharging passengers. I’d like to join them, thinking, “Everyone else is doing it.”

    When I got home that night, I told my dad what I wanted to do. “You give an honest day’s work,” he said, looking at me straight in the eye. “They’re paying you If they want to do that, you let them do that.”

    I followed my dad’s advice for the rest of that summer and have lived by his words ever since.

    Of all the jobs I’ve had, it was my experience at Pennsylvania Railway Station that has stuck with me. Now I teach my players to have respect for other people and their possessions. Being a member of a team is a totally shared experience. If one person steals, it destroys trust and hurts everyone. I can put up with many things, but not with people who steal. If one of my players were caught stealing, he’d be gone.

    Whether you’re on a sports team, in an office or a member of a family, if you can’t trust one another, there’s going to be trouble.

    1. What can be inferred about the baggage boys?

A．They could earn much, but they had to work hard.

B．Many of them earned money in a dishonest way.

C．They were all from poor families.

D．They were all thin, young boys.

    2. What does the father’s advice imply?

A．It is wrong to give more pay to the passengers.

B．Don’t believe them if they are paying you more.

C．Don’t follow others to overcharge the passengers.

D．It is difficult to work hard and live as an honest boy.

    3. The writer can’t put up with stealing because he thinks that

A．it is a totally shared experience

B．it is considered as the most dangerous

C．it does great harm to human relationship

D．it may lead to the loss of his sports team

    4. It can be concluded from the text that

A．his father’s advice helped him to decide which job to take up

B．working in the sports team was his most important experience

C．he learnt much from his shared experience with his team members

D．his experience as a baggage boy had a great influence on his later life

   Shopping is not as simple as you may think! There are all sorts of tricks at play each time we reach out for that particular brand (品牌) of product on the shelf.

    Coloring, for example, varies according to what the producers are trying to sell. Health foods are packaged (包装) in greens, yellows or browns because we think of these as healthy colors. Ice cream packets are often blue and expensive goods, like chocolates, are gold or silver.

    When some kind of pain killer was brought out recently, researchers found that the colors turned the customers off because they made the product look weak and ineffective, Eventually, it came on the market in a dark blue and white package—blue because we think of it as safe, and white as calm.

    The size of a product can attract a shopper. But quite often a bottle doesn’t contain as much as it appears to.

    It is believed that the better-known companies spend, on average, 70 per cent of the total cost of the product itself on packaging !

    The most successful producers know that it’s not enough to have a good product. The founder of Pears soap, who for25 years has used pretty little girls to promote (推销) their goods, came to the conclusion: “Any fool can make soap, but it takes a genius (天才) to sell it. ”

    1. Which of the following may trick a shopper into buying a product according to the text?

A．The cost of its package.

B．The price of the product.

C．The color of its package.

D．The brand name of the product.

    2.The underlined part “the colors turned the customers off ” (in Para．3) means  that the colors

A．attracted the customers strongly

B．had weak effects on the customers

C．tricked the customers into shopping

D．caused the customers to lose interest

    3. Which of the following is the key to the success in product sales?

A．The way to promote goods.

B．The discovery of a genius.

C．The team to produce a good product.

D．The brand name used by successful producers.

    4. Which of the following would be the best title for this text?

A．Choice of Good Products

B．Disadvantages of Products

C．Effect of Packaging on Shopping

D．Brand Names and Shopping Tricks

    If the world were a village of 1 000 people it would include：

    · 584 Asians

    · 124 Africans

    · 95 Eastern and Western Europeans

    · 84 Latin Americans

    · 55 former Soviets (including Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, and other national groups)

    · 52 North Americans

    ·6 Australians and New Zealanders

    The people of the village would speak:

    · 165 Mandarin

    ·86 English

    ·83 Hindu/Urdu

    · 64 Spanish

    ·58 Russian

    · 37 Arabic

    The above list covers the mother tongues of only half the village.

    One-third of the people in the village are children, and only 60 are over the age of 65.Just under half of the married women in the village have access to modern equipments.

    This year 28 babies will be born. Ten people will die, 3 of them for lack of food, 1 from cancer. Two of the deaths will be of babies born within the year. With the 28 births and10 deaths, the population of the village next year will be1 018.

    In this village of 1 000 persons, 200 people receive 75 percent of the income; another 200 receive only 2 percent of the income.

    About one-third have access to clean, safe drinking water.

    Of the 670 adults in the village, half can not read nor write.

    The village has a total yearly budget (预算), public and private, of over $ 3 million— $ 3 000 per person if it is distributed evenly. Of the total $ 3 million:

    $ 181 000 goes to weapons and warfare

    $ 159 000 to education

    $ 132 000 to health care

    These weapons are under the control of just 100 of the people. The other 900 are watching them with deep anxiety, wondering whether they can learn to get along together.

    1.Which of the following is true about Mandarin according to the text?

A．Nearly one-third of Asian people speak Mandarin in the village.

B．About 8.25 per cent of the people speak Mandarin in the village.

C．About 16.5 per cent of the people speak Mandarin in the village.

D．Nearly all the Mandarin-speaking people are from Asia in the village.

    2.Which of the following problems is NOT mentioned in the text?

A．Poverty.

B．Education.

C．Environment.

D．Marriage.

    3.The underlined part “have access to” (in Para.4) means

A．use

B．buy

C．produce

D．try

    4.The last sentence in the text implies that most of the people long for _____.

A．a peaceful world

B．good education

C．better health care

D．a life without anxiety

    I fell in love with England because it was quaint (古雅)—all those little houses, looking terribly old-fashioned but nice, like dolls' houses. I loved the countryside and the pubs, and I loved London. I’ve slightly changed my mind after seventeen years because I think it’s an ugly town now.

    Things have changed．For everybody, England meant gentlemen, fair play, and good manners. The fair play is going, unfortunately, and so are the gentlemanly attitudes and good manners—people shut doors heavily in your face and politeness is disappearing.

    I regret that there are so few comfortable meeting places. You’re forced to live indoors. In Paris I go out much more, to restaurants and nightclubs. To meet friends here it usually has to be in a pub, and it can be difficult to go there alone as a woman. The cafes are not terribly nice.

    As a woman, I feel unsafe here. I spend a bomb on taxis because I will not take public transport after 10 p. m. I used to use it, but now I'm afraid.

    The idea of family seems to be more or less non-existent in England．My family is well united and that’s typically French. In Middlesex I had a neighbor who is 82 now. His family only lived two miles away, but I took him to France for Christmas once because he was always alone.

    1.The writer doesn’t like London because she

A．is not used to the life there now

B．has lived there for seventeen years

C．prefers to live in an old-fashioned house

D．has to be polite to everyone she meets there

    2.Where do people usually meet their friends in England?

A．In a care.

B．In a restaurant.

C．In a nightclub．

D．In a pub.

    3.The underlined part “it” (in Para．4) refers to

A．a taxi

B．the money

C．a bomb

D．public transport

    4.The writer took her neighbor to France for Christmas because he

A．felt lonely in England

B．had never been to France

C．was from a typical French family

D．didn’t like the British idea of family

It is matter of common observation that although money incomes keep going up over the years, we never seem to become much better off! Prices are rising continuously. This condition is named one of inflation (通货膨胀 ) ; the money supply is becoming inflated so that each unit of it becomes less valuable. We have grown used in recent years to higher and higher rates of inflation. What could be bought ten years ago for one dollar now costs well over two dollars? Present indications (迹象) are that this rate of inflation is tending to rise rather than to fall. If in the real world our money incomes go up at the same rate as prices, one might think that inflation does not matter. But it does. When money is losing value it lacks one of the qualities of a good money stability of value. It is no longer acceptable as a store of value; and it becomes unsuitable standard of deferred (延期的 ) payments. Nobody wants to hold a wasting asset(财产), so people try to get rid of money as quickly as possible. Inflation therefore stimulates(刺激) consumer spending, and prevents saving.

1. Over the years, our incomes have been increasing, and we________.

A．seem to be well off at a quicker rate

B．are actually no better, if not worse, in our financial condition

C．can afford to buy more of the things that we want

D．have managed to keep prices down

2. Inflation is a situation in which________.

A．we can watch our money increase in its value

B．employment no longer becomes a problem

C．people can always find better paying jobs

D．money keeps losing its value

3. If incomes and prices rise together, people might think that________.

A．there will be no more market fluctuations

B．money will hold its value

C．inflation will remain to be a problem

D．inflation causes no problem

4. In a period of inflation, people are likely to________.

A．invest heavily on the stock market

B．save money

C．hold on to money as a dependable asset

D．spend money and not bother to save

A.U.S. tourist who is suffering from the fatal disease AIDS was flown from China early yesterday.

    The 38-year-old Brent Anderson had been in Yunnan No. 1 People’s Hospital in Kunming for 28 days since June 18, 1987.

    A.U.S. air force plane flew him to Clark Air Base, north of Manila in the Philippines, and will take him home this weekend．Anderson is the third AIDS patient so far discovered on mainland of China．The first was an Argentinean tourist who died in June1985. The second was a Chinese American who was looking for a cure in Fujian Province and died early this year.

1. A U.S. AIDS patient________.

A．got to China the day before yesterday

B．left China by air early yesterday

C．received medical treatment early yesterday

D．died of the fatal, disease AIDS and was sent home

2. Brent Anderson left Yunnan________.

A．on June 18, 1987

B．on July 16, 1987

C．after he had toured the place for nearly a month

D．as soon as he suffered from the fatal disease AIDS

3. Up to the summer of 1987 how many Chinese AIDS patients had been discovered on mainland of China?

A．Two.

B．Three.

C．A few.

D．None.

    How many coins have you got in your pocket right now? Three? Two? or One?

    With a phone card you can make up to 200 calls without any charge at all.

1．What do you do with it?

    Go to a telephone box marked “Phone card” Put in your card, make your call and when you’ve finished, a screen tells you how much is left on your card.

    It costs no extra for the cards, and the calls cost 10p per unit, the same as any other payphone call.

    You can buy them in units of 10、20、40、100 or 200.

2. Now appearing in a shop near you

    Near each Card phone place you’ll find a shop where you can buy one. They’re at bus, train and city tube (地铁) stations.

    At many universities, hospitals and clubs, restaurants and gas stations on the highway and shopping centres.

    At airports and seaports.

3. No more broken payphones

    Most broken payphones are like that because they’ve been vandalized (破坏的). There are no coins in Card phone to excite thieves’ interest in it. So you’re not probably to find a vandalized one.

    Get a phone card yourself and try it out. Or get a bigger wallet.

1. The passage is most probably________

A．a warning

B．a notice

C．an advertisement

D．an announcement

2. There are three sections (部分) in the passage. which one do you think is about why phone cards are good?

A．Section 1

B．Section 2

C．Section 3

D．None

3. Choose the right order of the steps under “How you use phone card”.

a. Put in your phone card.

b. Look at the screen to find out how many calls you can still make.

c. Go to the telephone box marked “Phone card.”

d. Make your call.

A．a, b, c, d

B．c, a, d, b

C．a, d, c, b

D．c, d, a, b

4. According to the information you get from the passage, how much does a card with 40 units cost?

A．4 pounds

B．40 pounds

C．400 pounds

D．100 pounds

    If you ask some people, “How did you learn English so well?” You may get a surprising answer, “In my sleep!”

    These are people who have taken part in one of the recent experiments to test “Learn- While-Sleep’ methods, which are now being tried in several countries, and with several subjects, of which English is only one.

    Specialists say that this sleep- study method speeds language learning greatly. They say that the average person can learn two or three times as much during sleep as in the same period during the day and this doesn’t affect his rest in any way. A word of warning, however, sleep-teaching will only strengthen in your mind what you have studied already while you are awake.

    In the experiment, lessons were broadcast over the radio. Each lesson lasted twelve hours, from 8 p. m to 8. a. m.. The first three hours of English grammar and vocabulary were given with the student awake. At 11 p.m. a lullaby was broadcast to a sharp noise was sent over the radio to wake the sleeping student up for a few minutes to review the lesson. The soft songs sent him back to rest again while the radio went on. At 5. a. m. his sleep ended and he had to go through the lesson again for three hours before breakfast.

1. Compared with other methods of learning, the Learn- While- Sleep method is________.

A．slower

B．quicker

C．very simple

D．very tiring

2. By this method, one________.

A．starts to learn a new lesson in sleep

B．learns how to sleep better

C．is made to remember his lessons in sleep

D．can get more knowledge over the radio.

3. In the experiment the first part of the lesson was given________.

A．around midnight

B．after lullabies were broadcast

C．while the student was awake

D．all through the twelve hours

4. Before each lesson finishes, the student has to________.

A．get up and take breakfast.

B．be wakened by a loud noise

C．listen to the lesson again in sleep

D．review the lesson by himself

5. The Sleep- Study method is being tried in many countries to teach________.

A．English

B．grammar and vocabulary

C．a number of subjects

D．languages

　　During the fourth China Beijing High-tech（技术的）Industries Week, exhibitions, feature presentations, technological exchanges and trade talks, and other events are organized.

　　Exhibitions

　　●China International Exhibition Center

　　* Section for China’s key science and technology achievements of the Ninth Five-Year Plan （1996 -2000）

　　* Environmental protection and energy section

　　* Section for exhibitors from other provinces and municipalities（自治县）and regions of China

　　●China World Trade Center

　　* Exchange and Trade Fair（博览会）for Science and Technology Books and Sports Information Media

　　* The Trade Fair for Modern Intelligent Houses and Beijing Urban（城市的 ）Real Estate（不动产）

　　●China Millennium（一千年）Monument

　　* Forum（论坛）and Exhibition of Foreign Sci-tech Universities

　　●China Agricultural Culture Center

　　* High-tech Construction Products Exhibition Feature Presentation

　　●Science and Education

　　* Scientists Forum on the New Century

　　●High-tech Industry

　　* Forum on Environmental Protection

　　* 2001 Forum on Bio-technology on Traditional（传统的）Chinese Medicine and Natural Medicine

　　Technical Exchanges and Trade Talks

　　●Trade talks on financial（金融的）

　　capital（资金）transformation

　　●Sino-Italian Forum and Trade Fair for the Development of IT and Communications Technology

　　1．If you want to know more about the high-tech achievements of different parts of China, you should go to ________.

　　A．China World Trade Center

　　B．China Millennium Monument

　　C．China International Exhibition Center

　　D．China Agricultural Cultural Center

　　2．These sessions mark the achievements of mankind in the fields of ________.

　　A．electronic communications, energy and education

　　B．sports technology, film-industry and environmental protection

　　C．network technology, high-tech industries and traffic

　　D．medicine, weather broadcast and finance

　　3．The advertisement is mainly about ________.

　　A．the major activities of the high-tech week

　　B．the time-table of high-tech week

　　C．the names of the meeting places

　　D．the topic of trade talks