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　　Welcome to the Grand Hotel. To make your stay as enjoyable as possible, we hope you will use our facilities（设备）to the full. Dining-room.

　　Breakfast is served in the dining-room from 8 to 9 a.m. The room staff（工作人员）will bring breakfast to your room at any time after 7 a.m. In this case, please fill out a card and hang it outside your door when you go to bed.

　　Lunch: 12 to 2∶30 p.m.

　　Dinner: 7∶30 to 9 p.m. Room Service

　　This operates 24 hours. Phone the Reception Desk（接待处）, and your message will be passed to the room staff. Telephones

　　To make a phone call, dial（拨号）0 for the Reception Desk to be connected. Shop

　　The hotel shop is open from 9 a.m. to 5∶30 p.m. Laundry（洗衣房）

　　We have a laundry in the building, and will wash, iron and return your clothes within 24 hours. Ask the room staff to collect them. Bar（酒吧）

　　The hotel bar is open from 12 to 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. Banking

　　The Reception staff will cash checks and change money in many foreign currencies（货币）.

（1）The above service notice can be seen ________.

[　　]

A. in a restaurant

B. in a hotel dining-room

C. in a bedroom of a large international hotel

D. At the entrance of a small family hotel

（2）You have arrived and stayed at the hotel at 11 p.m. and want a snack（快餐）What should you do?

[　　]

A. Go to the hotel shop.

B. Go to the hotel bar.

C. Hang a message outside your door.

D. Phone the hotel shop assistants.

（3）Which of the following is true?

[　　]

A. You can't have your breakfast in your room.

B. You can make a phone call in your bedroom.

C. Lunch is served from 12 to 2 p.m.

D. You can have dinner at midnight.

（4）Imagine you are one of the room staff on night duty. What do you think your last job is before you go off duty at 6 a.m.?

[　　]

A. Lay the tables in the dining-room.

B. Check the bedroom doors.

C. Start preparing the breakfast.

D. Wake the guests who have asked for breakfast in their bedrooms.

（5）Which is not mentioned in this service notice?

[　　]

A. Washing clothes.

B. Booking tickets.

C. Drinking.

D. Changing money.

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　　Excused from recycling（回收利用）because you live in a high rise with a rubbish chute（垃圾道）? You won't be for long. Miami's Mark Shantzis has made it simple for those living in tall buildings to use the chute and recycle too.

　　In Shantzis' Hi-Rise Recycling System, a chute leads to a pie-shaped container with six boxes that can turn around when operated. The system, which fits in the same space as the chute and container now in use, enables glass, plastic, paper, metal, and other rubbish to go into separate boxes.

　　The system is controlled from a board fixed next to the chute door. The board has a button for each class of recycling materials（as well as for unrecyclables）. At the press of a button, a microcomputer locks all other floors' chute doors and sets the recycling container turning until the right box comes under the chute. The computer also counts the loads and gives a signal by phone when the box is full. And a particular piece of equipment breaks up the unrecyclables.

　　Sorting（分类）recyclables before they are collected saves the use of expensive materials recover equipment which otherwise has to do the sorting. Such equipment often makes recycled materials very expensive, so expensive that tons of recyclables remain wasted. Shantzis believes his system could help recycled materials become more cost-effective.

（1）The purpose in writing this text is ________.

[　　]

A. to encourage people to recycle their rubbish

B. to introduce a recycling system for high rises

C. to describe the use of computer technology in recycling

D. to explain the need for rubbish collection in high rises

（2）When he says “You won't be for long” the writer means that ________.

[　　]

A. you'll soon be living in a cleaner building

B. rubbish chutes will become out of date before long

C. you won't wait long for your turn to recycle rubbish

D. it won't be long before you'll have to recycle your rubbish

（3）Before dropping rubbish into the chute you have to ________.

[　　]

A. lock the other floor's chute doors

B. check if the container is full

C. press the correct button

D. break up the rubbish

（4）The biggest advantage of this new system is that ________.

[　　]

A. it reduces the cost of recycling

B. it saves time and space

C. it saves money for people living in high rises

D. it makes better use of the existing recovery equipment

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　　Fish have ears. Really. They're quite small and have no opening to the outside world carrying sound through the body. For the past seven years, Simon Thorrold, a university professor, has been examining fish ears, small round ear bones called otoliths.

　　As fish grow, so do their otoliths. Each day, their otoliths gain a ring of calcium carbonate（碳酸钙）. By looking through a microscope（显微镜）and counting these rings, Thorrold can determine the exact age of a young fish. As a fish gets older, its otoliths no longer get dally rings. Instead, they get yearly rings, which can also be counted, giving information about the fish's age, just like the growth rings of a tree.

　　Ring counting is nothing new to fish scientists. But Thorrold has turned to a new direction. They're examining the chemical elements（元素）of each otolith ring.

　　The daily ring gives us the time, but chemistry tells us about the environment in which the fish swam on any given day. These elements tell us about the chemistry of the water that the fish was in. It also says something about water temperature, which determines how much of these elements will gather within each otolith ring.

　　Thorrold can tell, for example, if a fish spent time in the open ocean before entering the less salty water of coastal areas. He can basically tell where fish are spending their time at any given stage of history.

　　In the case of the Atlantic croaker, a popular saltwater food fish, Thorrold and his assistant have successfully followed the travelling of young fish from mid-ocean to the coast, a journey of many hundreds of miles.

　　This is important to managers in the fish industry, who know nearly nothing about the whereabouts of the young fish for most food fish in the ocean. Eager to learn about his technology, fish scientists are now lending Thorrold their ears.

（1）What can we learn about fish ears from the text?

[　　]

A. They are small soft rings.

B. They are not seen from the outside

C. They are openings only on food fish.

D. They are not used to receive sound.

（2）Why does the writer compare the fish to trees?

[　　]

A. Trees gain a growth ring each day.

B. Trees also have otoliths.

C. Their growth rings are very small.

D. They both have growth rings.

（3）Why is it important to study the chemistry of otolith rings?

[　　]

A. The elements of the otoliths can tell the history of the sea.

B. Chemical contents of otoliths can tell how fast fish can swim.

C. We can know more about fish and their living environment.

D. Scientists can know exactly how old a fish is.

（4）How would you understand “fish scientists are now lending their ears”?

[　　]

A. They are very interested in Thorrold's research findings.

B. They want to know where they can find fish.

C. They lend their fish for chemical studies.

D. They wonder if Thorrold can find growth rings from their ears.

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　　Betty and Harold have been married for years. But one thing still puzzles（困扰）old Harold. How is it that he can leave Betty and her friend Joan sitting on the sofa, talking, go out to a ballgame, come back three and a half hours later, and they're still sitting on the sofa? Talking?

　　What in the world, Harold wonders, do they have to talk about?

　　Betty shrugs, Talk? We're friends.

　　Researching this result called friendship, psychologist Lillian Rubin spent two years interviewing more than two hundred women and men. No matter what their age, their job, their sex, the results were completely clear: women have more friendships than men, and the difference in the content and the quality of those friendship is “marked and unmistakable.”

　　More than two-thirds of the single men Rubin interviewed would not name a best friend. Those who could were likely to name a woman. Yet three-quarters of the single women had no problem naming a best friend, and almost always it was a woman. More married men than women named their wife / husband as a best friend, most trusted person, or the one they would turn to in time of emotional distress（感情危机）“Most women,” says Rubin, “identified（认定）at least one, usually more, trusted friends to whom they could turn in a trouble moment, and they spoke openly about the importance of these relationships in their lives.”

　　“In general,” writes Rubin in her new book, “women's friendships with each other rest on shared emotions and support, but men's relationships are marked by shared activities.” For the most part, Rubin says, interactions（交往）between men are emotionally controlled--a good fit with the social requirements of “mainly behavior.”

　　“Even when a man is said to be best friend,” Rubin writes, “the two share little about their innermost feelings. Whereas a woman's closest female friend might be the first to tell her to leave a failing marriage, it wasn't unusual to hear a man say he didn't know his friend's marriage was in serious trouble until he appeared one night asking if he could sleep on a sofa.”

（1）What old Harold cannot understand or explain is the fact that ________.

[　　]

A. he is treated as an outsider than a husband

B. women have so much to share

C. women show little interest in ballgames

D. he finds his wife difficult to talk to

（2）Rubin's study shows that for emotional support a married woman is more likely to turn to ________.

[　　]

（3）According to the text, which type of behavior is NOT expected of a may by society?

[　　]

A. Ending his marriage without good reason.

B. Spending too much time with his friends.

C. Complaining about his marriage trouble

D. Going out to ballgames too often.

（4）Which of the following statements is best supported by the last paragraph?

[　　]

A. Men keep their innermost feelings to themselves

B. Women are more serious than men about marriage.

C. Men often take sudden action to end their marriage

D. Women depend on others in making decisions.

（5）The research done by psychologist Rubin centers around ________.

[　　]

A. happy and successful marriages

B. friendship of men and women

C. emotional problems in marriage

D. interactions between men and women

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　　If you want to stay young, sit down and have a good think. This is the research finding of a team of Japanese doctors, who say that most of our brains are not getting enough exercise--and as a result, we are growing old unnecessarily soon.

　　Professor Taiju Matsuzawa wanted to find out why quite healthy farmers in northern Japan appeared to be losing their ability to think and reason（推理）at a rather early age, and how the speed of getting old could be slowed down.

　　With a team of researchers at Tokyo National University, he set about measuring brain volumes（容量）of a thousand people of different ages with different jobs.

　　Computer technology helped the researchers to get most exact measurements of the volume of the front and side parts of the brain, which have something to do with intellect（智力）and feelings, and decide the human character, As we all know, the back part of the brain, which control tasks like eating and breathing does not contract（萎缩）with age.

　　Contraction of front and side parts--as cells（细胞）die off--was seen in some people in their thirties, but it was still not found in some sixty and seventy-year-olds.

　　Matsuzawa concluded from his tests that there is a simple Way to prevent the contraction--using the head.

　　The findings show that contraction of the brain begins sooner in people in the country than in the towns. Those with least possibility, says Matsuzawa, are lawyers, followed by university professors and doctors, White collar workers doing the same Work day after day in government offices are, however, as possible to have contracting brains as the farm worker, bus drivers and shop assistants.

（1）The team of doctors wanted to find out ________.

[　　]

A. at what point people grow mentally old

B. how to make people live longer

C. the size of certain people's brains

D. which people are the most clever

（2）Their research findings are based on ________.

[　　]

A. an examination of farmers in northern Japan

B. tests given on a thousand old people

C. examining the brain volumes of different people

D. using computer technology

（3）The doctors' tests show that ________.

[　　]

A. our brains contract as we grow older

B. one part of the brain does not contract

C. sixty-year-olds have better brains than thirty-year-olds

D. some people's brain have contracted earlier than other people's

（4）According to the article, ________ are growing old earlier than people who live in the cities.

[　　]

（5）The most possible conclusion of the passage is that ________.

[　　]

A. most of us should take more exercise

B. it's better to live in the town

C. the brain contracts if it is not used

D. the more one uses his brain, the sooner he becomes old

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　　If you can find a tree which has been cut down, you will see many rings, or circles, on the base of the trunk（树干基部）. By learning to read these rings you can find out the tree's life.

　　The number of rings tells you how old the tree is. Each year, new wood is formed on the outside of the tree. This new wood is light in colour when the tree is growing in spring and summer, and dark in winter when the tree is not growing much. So, if you count the rings in dark-or-light-coloured wood, you can often find out how old the tree is.

　　You can also tell which years have been good years and which years have been bad years. When the light-coloured rings are very wide, it means that the tree has been growing quickly that year. If the light rings are narrow, it has been growing slowly. If the rings on a tree trunk were greatly magnified（放大）, you would be able to see why the rings are light-coloured when the tree is growing quickly, and dark-coloured when the tree is growing slowly. The tree trunk is made up microscopic tubes（毛细管）, like long pipes, carrying water from the soil, through the trunk, and up to the leaves. They are wide and thin-walled when the tree is growing quickly and they are carrying a lot of water. They are narrow and stuck together when the tree is not growing so quickly.

　　When a tree is old, the tubes in the centre of the tree don't carry water. The walls of the tubes have become thick with materials which have stuck along them over the years, forming a kind of wood called “heartwood”. This kind of wood is darker in colour than the young, growing wood on the outside of the tree.

　　You don't very often see whole tree trucks which have been cut across. But once you learn to read a cross section（横断面）of the wood, you can see much more in wood which had been used to make boxes, houses, and other things.

　　In most wood, instead of seeing the trunk cut across, you are seeing it cut along its length. Because you don't see the whole tree, you can't tell how old it was.

（1）The writer says you can tell the age of a tree by ________.

[　　]

A. the number of rings in its trunk

B. the size of the base of its trunk

C. the colour of its rings

D. the rings on the outside of the tree

（2）When the wood of a tree is mostly light in colour this means that the tree ______.

[　　]

A. grew slowly

B. grew quickly

C. only grew in winter

D. only grew in summer

（2）Heart wood is wood which is ________.

[　　]

A. old and darker in colour

B. fast-growing

C. younger and lighter in colour

D. slow-growing

（3）If all the rings in the cross section of a tree trunk are wide and about the same width, then we can tell that the tree ________.

[　　]

A. grew quickly all its life

B. grew slowly all its life

C. grew quickly when it was young and more slowly later.

D. grew slowly when it was young and more quickly later

（4）In a certain country, it is usually dry and rains heavily every third year. Which drawing given below shows a tree trunk from this country?

[　　]

A. grew quickly all its life

B. grew slowly all its life

C. grew quickly when it was young and more slowly later

D. grew slowly when it was young and more quickly later

（5）In a certain country, it is usually dry and rains heavily every third year. Which drawing given below shows a tree trunk from this country?

[　　]

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　　If you are planning to study in the United States, you need to consider several factors. Everyone has different opinions about where the best place to live in. Also, the best places to live are not always home to the best schools. Finally, many schools specialize in different areas of study. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for example, is a great school for computer science and technology-related fields of study. However, if you want to study oceanography, your interests may be better served by attending school in a place that is on a coastline or near the ocean.

　　Now I am sure that you know which schools are considered the best in the country. So I will tell you about which states I believe are the best to live in.

　　California is a nice state. Northern California specifically has very good weather. Los Angeles in southern California is another story though. Life in of excitement and fast, and sometimes dangerous. As for me, I enjoyed the time I spent in Massachusetts, Virginia and Maryland and these states have a lot of history and culture. The weather is not as perfect as California, but it is still quite nice. My favorite area of America is the Midwest. Middle America, I think, is home to the true American sense of values. In addition, there are many good universities there.

　　Also, you need to think about you likes and dislikes and then research the various states. You like sunshine and hate snow? Then you probably won't like the Midwest or even the Northeast. Open space, nature and peace and quiet? Then you probably should stay away from America's larger cities. Are you interested in government? Then Washington D.C. is the only place for you. Whatever you decided, put some thought into it. The place you live could be the difference between a great study abroad experience and a state of great suffering on earth.

（1）From the first paragraph we can conclude that in the USA _______.

[　　]

A. all colleges and universities lie in big cities

B. all colleges and universities lie in beautiful places

C. famous colleges and universities lie in nice places

D. famous colleges and universities may not lie in nice places

（2）What should be considered first if you want to study in the USA?

[　　]

A. The climate.

B. The scenery.

C. The study condition.

D. The living condition.

（3）From the third paragraph we can find that ________.

[　　]

A. California is the best place to live in

B. California is the worst place to live in

C. California is a state with different climates

D. California is a small state in the USA

（4）If you study in Middle America, you can probably ________.

[　　]

A. find the best universities

B. feel the real character of the nation

C. meet the most famous professors there

D. face more difficulty

（5）From the last paragraph of this passage we can get to know that ________.

[　　]

A. Washington is the largest city in the USA

B. Washington is the political centre of the USA

C. you can't find sunshine in the Midwest

D. you can't find any universities out of big cities in the USA

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　　Fred Michel is one of 7.2 million Americans who moonlight, or hold more than one job.

　　Once a week, after his day job as medical director of a mental health center ,the 40-year-old psychiatrist（精神病大夫）heads to a part-time job at a treatment center for young people. Twice a month, he travels three hour to another teenage treatment center.

　　Last year, 5.4 percent of the American workforce held second jobs, according to the US Labor Department, and that looks set to increase this year.

　　Many workers like the safety that moonlighting provides, says Carl Hausamn, the writer of “Moonlighting: 148 Great Ways to Make Money to the Side.”

　　The information from the US Labor Department shows that 40 percent of US moonlighters in 1997 took a second job to meet household expenses or pay off debts. Others save money or buy some special things.

　　People also take second jobs with an eye to the future, wanting to try out a new field or gain experience.

　　Michel started moonlighting when medical systems were unstable（不稳定的）. He wanted to make sure he wasn't tied to one system that ended up failing.

　　Just as the purposes for moonlighting vary, the moonlighters cross all age and racial groups. And they work in a variety of industries--no longer just service, office and sale jobs.

　　“Technology just affects your ability to make money.” Hausman says. “That makes a frequent change in moonlighting.”

　　As its name means, moonlighting still occurs mostly at night. And that results in some pressures. Chief among them is time.

　　Full-time employers could misunderstand, too. Some companies do not allow after-hour work because they fear it will affect their employees' 9-to-5 performance.

　　The primary employer is saying, “Wait, I'm paying you for the sharp, fresh, energetic you,” says Tom Gimbel, president and founder of LaSalle Staffing in Chicago. “If you're burning yourself at both ends, it's going to show.”

　　Still, the good done to the moonlighters can be great. Besides extra income, moonlighters enjoy variety, freedom and chance to do something new. They also may find their part-time jobs strengthen what they do full time.

　　“Besides, it's fun,” Michel says. Not only do his part-time jobs offer a chance to network, stretch his professional skills and make more money, but they also give him the variety he wouldn't find just in a full-time job.

　　“It a way of pulling from the spice cabinet,” he says, “and offering a little variety throughout the day.”

（1）What is the article mainly about?

[　　]

A. The ways of moonlighting.

B. The reasons for moonlighting.

C. The problems with moonlighting.

D. The kinds of people who moonlight.

（2）The reason why Fred Michel began to moonlight is that ________.

[　　]

A. he found it exciting to do a part-time job

B. he needed to make ends meet with more money

C. he feared he would lose his present job one day

D. he felt more and more pressure from his employer

（3）Some companies don't allow their workers to moonlight because they are afraid ________.

[　　]

A. their workers can not do extra-hour work for them

B. their workers will be too tired to try their best at work

C. their workers will one day turn to some other different jobs

D. their workers will not get to work and be off work on time

（4）The underlined sentence “It's a way of pulling from the spice cabinet” in the last paragraph means ________.

[　　]

A. moonlighting gets you away from the job you don't enjoy

B. moonlighting offers you freedom to make extra money

C. moonlighting strengthens your professional skills

D. moonlighting brings you chances to do something different

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　　For a long time Chester Carlson carried around his little black box--the invention over which he had worked and struggled for years. He showed it to the directors of twenty-one large American corporations, such as “General Electric, International Business Machines（IBM）. Lockheed and RCA.”

　　Nobody wanted it.

　　Nobody wanted to invest a penny in it.

　　It must be painful for those directors to think of Chester Carlson now. For the little black box is the heart of the multi-billion-dollar Xerox Corporation. Carlson is the inventor of “xerography”（from two Greek words meaning “dry writing”）, the dry-printing process used in thousands and thousands of offices, businesses, industries, shops, and government agencies around the world.

　　Thanks to Carlson, it now takes minutes to copy a document which, twenty years ago, would have kept a secretary busy for a whole day. And for a few pennies anyone can have a copy of anything from cooking recipes to Greek poetry. More than thirty billion such copies are made each year.

　　When Chester Carlson went to work in a patent office in 1930, the copying methods were slow, dirty, and expensive. In his job, Carlson had to make many copies of patents for inventions. One night, after working late and painfully, he decided that somebody had better find an easier way to do it. He went to work in the kitchen of his apartment with measuring cups and cooking pots. By 1937, having developed a simple form of xerography, he applied for（申请）his first patent on the Process.

　　Then began Carlson's famous unsuccessful search for investors. Only in 1944 did the Battelle Memorial Institute of Columbus, Ohio, agree to spend $ 3,000 for research on Carlson's invention. According to the agreement, Carlson was to receive25 percent of all profits; his share would rise to 40 percent if he could repay Battelle the $ 3,000 within five years. This part of the agreement later brought millions of dollars to Carlson who, by borrowing from his family, had managed to repay his debt in time.

　　Even with Battelle's help, it took another year to find a company willing to buy Carlson's process. In 1945, Dr. John H. Dessauer, director of research of the Haloid Company（maker of copying machines）, decided to adopt and market the process, which was then named “Xerox.” Three years later, the Haloid Company had changed its own name to become the Xerox Corporation. It is now the thirty-ninth largest corporation in the United States, with sales of over four billion dollars a year.

（1）Chester Carlson was ________.

[　　]

A. a director of an American corporation

B. an inventor of a copying machine

C. a company salesman

D. an office clerk in a company

（2）What was Carlson's job in the patent office?

[　　]

A. To make copies of patents for inventions.

B. To turn a printing machine.

C. To handle all office work.

D. To help the head of the office.

（3）Which of the following is NOT true?

[　　]

A. Carlson was tired of his office work.

B. Carlson was up to his need in the work in the patent office.

C. Carlson was fond of his office work.

D. Carlson decided that somebody should find an easier way to do the copying work.

（4）After a long and painful search for investors. Carlson finally ________.

[　　]

A. received $ 3,000 for further research on his invention

B. sold his machine for $ 3,000

C. received $ 3,000 from an institute for his patent

D. agreed to promote sales of the drying-printing process

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　　Early in 1994, Britain established a millennium committee for planning and arranging celebrations. Of the 185 projects devised by the committee, “the Millennium Dome--British Exhibition Hall 2000”is the most spectacular. The Dome, the largest building of its kind in the world, has been constructed in Greenwich, a city bisected by the prime meridian. Ten million tourists attended the 2000 celebrations.

　　New Zealand was among the first countries to ring in the new millennium. From 5 o'clock in the afternoon on December 31, 1999 to 4:04 in the morning of January 1,2000, New Zealand held mass carnivals in Wellington and on Pitt Island, a Chatham island that lies 800 kilometers east of Wellington. According to London Royal Geography Society, the first rays of dawn shone on top of a Pitt Island mountain. A family's home sits atop the mountain, and so the government paid the family NZ $200, 000 to make use of the surrounding property for millennium festivities.

　　Supposedly, France celebrated the millennium for 18 months. Two 60-meter-tall towers were built upon the summit near Notre Dame, and a 33-ton copper bell named“The World Peace Millennium Commemorative Bell”was casted. The French launched a“Green Meridian Program”by planting several thousand trees along the meridian in Paris.

　　In Berlin, Germany, 1,000 opera stars sang on New Year's Eve. Starting last September, Germany's postal services have been running a program called“2000 Space Postal Matters”. Two thousand representative letters and postcards were selected to be sent into space via rocket. The rocket was launched from a Brazilian launching pad on New Year's Eve. After the rocket landed, the letters were mailed. Both writers and receivers got certificates, proving that their letters and postcards had been sent through space.

　　In the United States a ceremony entitled “Joining Hands to Celebrate the Future” was held on October I at Disney World. A Year 2000 sign sat atop the Epcot Center to mark the occasion. In New York, the millennium celebration lasted from 7:00 p.m. of December 31, 1999 until 7:00 p.m. of the New Year's Day. About 1 million people attended.

　　Australia's Sydney held a 24-hour“Millennium Sydney” celebration along with invited guests from all over the world. Five tons of fireworks fired.

　　In China's Shenzhen and Hong Kong, 2000 couples participated in a collective wedding ceremony on the first day of the new century. Participants included well-known overseas Chinese. Television stations from 50 countries save live broadcasts of the ceremony and ensuing celebrations. （from china Today, January, 2000）

（1）Which of the following statements is NOT true?

[　　]

A. Britain began to plan the celebration of the millennium earliest.

B. The family who live atop a Pitt Island mountain are very lucky.

C. Four thousand people got certificates for their letters and postcards in Berlin.

D. A collective wedding ceremony was held in Shenzhen; another one was held in Hong Kong on the first day of the new millennium.

（2）On which city the topic of celebration of the millennium is about nature?

[　　]

（3）What did people enjoy in Berlin on New Year's Eve?

[　　]

A. The new millennium bell.

B. Operas.

C. Tons of fireworks.

D. Mass celebrations.

（4）Of which ceremony the topic is about the union of all the people?

[　　]

A. The mass carnivals in Wellington.

B. The launching in Brasilia.

C. The ceremony in Disney World.

D. The wedding ceremony in Shenzhen.