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    From 4^th June 1996, Asian spreads its wings from Beijing to Pusan, Korea's second largest city. Asian is one of Asia's fastest growing airlines, with an ever expanding network, which is why more and more passengers around the world are warming to our service. Service that's based on 5,000 years of traditional Korean hospitality（好客）.No wonder we're bringing so many people from so many places closer together.

*Asian also flies non-stop between Seoul and Beijing/Shanghai

（1）The word“wing”in the first line means ________ .

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（2）More and more passengers are warming to our service because ________ .

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A. our planes are larger than before

B. the fares are cheaper than others

C. we have an expanding network and fast-growing airlines

D. our service is based on 5,000 years of traditional Korean hospitality

（3）According to the schedule you cannot fly from Beijing to Pusan on ________ .

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（4）Passengers can reach _________ from Seoul with a non-stop flight.

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（5）We can infer ________ .

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A. more and more people are taking Asian's planes

B. Beijing and Shanghai are busy cities

C. Asian is opening more lines

D. China and Korea will have a closer tie if the airline is safe

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　　Millions of people pass through the gates of Disney's entertainment parks in California, Florida and Japan each year. What makes these places an almost universal attraction? What makes foreign kings and queens and other important people want to visit these Disney parks? Well, one reason is the way they're treated once they get there. The people at Disney go out of their way to serve their“guests”, as they prefer to call them, and to see that they enjoy themselves.

　　All new employees, from vice presidents to part-time workers, begin their employment by attending Disney University and taking “Traditions I”. Here, they learn about the company's history, how it is managed and why it is successful. They are shown how each department relates to the whole. All employees are shown how their part is important in making the part a success.

　　After passing“Traditions I”, the employees go on to more specialized training for their specific (具体的) jobs. No detail is missed. A simple job like taking tickets requires four eight-hour days of training. When one ticket taker was asked why it took so much training for such a simple ordinary job, he replied, “What happens if someone wants to know where the restrooms are, when the parade starts or what bus to take back to the campgrounds?... We need to know the answers or where to get them quickly. Our constant aim is to help our guests enjoy party.”

　　Even Disney's managers get involved in the daily management of the park. Every year, the managers leave their desks and business suits and put on special service clothes. For a full week, the bosses sell hot dogs or ice cream, take tickets or drive the monorail(单轨车), and take up any of the 100 jobs that make the entertainment park come alive. The managers agree that this week helps them to see the company's goals more clearly.

　　All these efforts to serve the public well have made Walt Disney Productions famous. Disney is considered by many as the best mass service provided in America or the world. As one long-time business observer once said, “How Disney treats people, communicates with them, rewards them, is in my view the very reason for his fifty years of success ... I have watched, very carefully and with great respect and admiration, the theory and practice of selling satisfaction and serving millions of people on a daily basis, successfully. It is what Disney does best.”

(1)The first day they come to Disney parks, all new employees ________.

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A．begin by receiving on-the-job training

B．must learn several jobs

C．begin as ticket takers

D．have already attended Disney University

(2)The main objective of the Disney employees is to ________.

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A．learn all parts of the business

B．see that their guests enjoy themselves

C．be able to answer all kinds of questions

D．keep their important guests happy

(3)Each year, managers wear special service clothes and work in the park to ________.

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A．set a good example for employees

B．remind themselves of their beginning at Disney

C．gain a better view of the company's objectives

D．replace employees on holiday

(4)Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

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A．Tourists learn the history of Disney in its entertainment parks.

B．Disney attracts people almost from all over the world.

C．Parades are regularly held in Disney's entertainment parks.

D．Disney's managers are able to do almost all kinds of work in the Disney parks.

(5)This passage is mainly about ________.

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A．how Disney employees are trained

B．the history and traditions of the Disney enterprises

C．why Disney enterprises make a lot of money

D．the importance Disney places on serving people well

　　Is it possible that the people of the world today could agree upon a single international language that everyone would be able to speak and understand?

　　In the United Nations there are five official languages-English, Chinese,

Russian, French and Spanish. How about making one of them into an international language? English has been worked on for this purpose. A basic word list of 850 English words named Basic English was made. These are the only verbs in the entire list,“come, go, give, keep, let, do, put, make, say, be, seem, may, will, have, send.”Writing in Basic English may require you to use a greater number of words-as in having to say“It came to my ears”instead of I heard-but you can still say anything you want to with just 850 different words and a few sufixes（后缀）and prefixes（前缀）．This is a much smaller number of words to have to remember than the ordinary number offered to the students of a foreign language.

　　But people have always had a need to do more than simply“Tell it as it is”. Language is for reporting not only one's work. For this, a language needs idioms, needs all kinds of grammar and style（文体）that show its history and development just as a person needs eyebrows（眉毛）. Is there some special reason why our lips should be a different color from the rest of our face? Perhaps not, but this is how people-real people-are. For communication between people, languages of all kinds will remain to reflect（反映）the growth and soul of the societies that speak them.

(1) The phrase“tell it as it is”in the third paragraph means __________.

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A．people can use Basic English to say what they want to

B．people think Basic English can express what they see or hear

C．people say what they want to according to the fact

D．people tell something they like to

(2) If we write a composition in Basic English, it will be________.

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A．longer than usual

B．shorter than usual

C．hard for us to express what we want to

D．able to express ourselves in different style as we like to

(3) Which of the following Statements is NOT true?

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A．Basic English is easier for students to learn.

B．Languages are like mirrors which can reflect the growth of the mankind.

C．Grammar and idioms are still necessary for us when we are learning a language.

D．Basic English will take the place not only of Queen's English, but also of the other languages in the world.

(4) This passage begins with a question．According to the writer's opinion, the answer to the question may be _________.

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A．it will be possible in the future

B．it seems to be possible if people agree to use Basic English

C．it seems impossible that people can use a simple language to express them-selves in various lives

D．it is impossible except that five official UN languages are used at the same time

(5) Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

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A．The words used in Basic English are strictly limited to 850, and nothing more.

B．Basic English is not a natural development of the English language.

C．Basic English can be used to express our thought easily.

D．Basic English seems not so easy to learn.

　　A language never stands still. It is always changing and developing. These changes are rapid in primitive societies, but slow in advanced ones, because the invention of printing and the spread of education have fixed a traditional usage. The only important change that English has undergone since the first of the 16th century is a large increase in its vocabulary. It is interesting to trace the different way in which new words are invented. Let us take just two English words and see how they were made sandwich and television.

　　Sandwich, which is now no longer an entirely English word, but also international, comes from the Earl of Sandwich (died in 1792), who invented the particular form of quick meal so that he could go on gambling all through the night without stopping for dinner. Many names of things are in fact taken from the name of the first inventors, for example, the electrical terms Watt and Volt.

　　Television is one of many new scientific words which are invented from old Greek and Latin words.“Tele”is Greek, meaning“far”, while“vision”comes from the Latin verb, meaning“to see”.

(1) “Stand”in the first sentence means__________.

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(2) What do you think Volt was? He was __________.

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(3) The invention of sandwich has something to do with ___________.

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(4) English has undergone an important change in its vocabulary for almost centuries.

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(5) The language cannot develop rapidly in advanced societies because ________.

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A．the societies have stopped changing

B．the printing has been invented

C．the education has spread

D．both B and C

　　Every year thousands of tourists visit Pompeii, Italy. They see the sights that Pompeii is famous for--its stadium（运动场）and theatres, its shops and restaurants. The tourists do not, however, see Pompeii's people. They do not see them because Pompeii has no people. No one has lived in Pompeii for almost 2,000 years.

　　Once, Pompeii was a busy city of 22,000 people. It lay at the foot of Mount Vesuvius, a grass-covered volcano（火山）. Mount Vesuvius had not erupted（喷发）for centuries, so the people of Pompeii felt safe. But they were not.

　　In August of A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted. The entire top of the mountain exploded, and a huge black cloud rose into the air. Soon stones and hot ash began to fall on Pompeii. It was buried under 20 feet of stones and ash. Almost all of its people were dead.

　　For centuries, Pompeii lay buried under stones and ash. Then, in the year 1861, an Italian scientist named Ginseppe began to uncover Pompeii. Slowly, carefully, Ginseppe and his men dug. The city looked almost the same as it had looked in A. D. 79. There were streets and fountains, houses and shops. There was a stadium with 20,000 seats. Perhaps the most important of all, there were everyday objects, which tell us a great deal about the people who lived in Pompeii. Many glasses and jars had some dark blue color in the bottom, so we know that the people of Pompeii liked wine. They liked bread, too; metal bread pans were in every bakery. In one bakery there were 52 round, flat loaves of bread--a type of bread that is still sold in Italy today. Tiny boxes filled with a dark, shiny powder tell us that women liked to wear eye-makeup.

　　Ginseppe has died, but his work continues. One-fourth has not been uncovered yet. Scientists are still digging, still making discoveries that draw the tourists to Pompeii.

(1) Why do large numbers of people come to Pompeii each year?

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A．To visit the volcano.

B．To shop and eat there.

C．To watch sports and plays.

D．To see how Pompeii lived.

(2) Why had so many Pompeians remained by volcanic Mount Vesuvius?

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A．The city nearly offered all kinds of pleasurable things.

B．The area produced the finest wine in Italy.

C．Few people expected the volcano to erupt again.

D．The mountain was beautiful and covered with grass.

(3) Why did the city uncovered look almost the same as it had looked in A. D. 79?

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A．Because Ginseppe and his men dug it slowly and carefully.

B．Because the city was buried alive and remained untouched.

C．Because scientists successfully rebuilt the city with everyday objects.

D．Because nobody had lived in the city ever since the volcano erupted.

(4) What do we know about the Pompeians who lived 2,000 years ago?

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A．They lived more or less the same as Italians now do.

B．They liked women wearing all kinds of make- up.

C．They enjoyed a lazy life with drinking and eating.

D．They went back to Pompeii after the eruption in A. D. 79.

　　Without plants, people could not live. We eat plants. We breathe the oxygen that plants produce. And we need plants for another reason：we need them for their beauty. Imagine a world with no plants. Imagine no flowers with their sweet smells, their beautiful colors and their lovely shapes. Imagine, when the wind blows, not being able to hear the leaves in the trees or watch the branches swing（摇摆）from side to side.

　　Everywhere people need the beauty of plants, That is why we have parks full of trees and flowers, That is why people always try to design house with room for some grass and a garden. Do you talk to your plants? Do you give them love and attention?

　　Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird, writers of a book called THE SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS, tell of an experiment in which two seeds were planted in different places. While the plants were growing, one plant was given love and hopeful ideas. The other plant was given only hopeless ideas. After six months, the loved plant was bigger. Under the earth it had more and longer roots; above the earth, it had a thicker stem（茎）and more leaves.

(1) In the experiment, the two plants were ____________.

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A．talked to in different ways

B．of different types

C．both given love and attention

D．grown in the same place

(2) At the end of six months ______.

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A．the plants were of the same size

B．one plant had longer roots than the other

C．one plant had longer roots; the other plant had a thicker stem

D．one plant had a thicker stem; the other plant had more leaves

(3) Tompkins and Bird believed that plants ________.

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A．can talk to each other

B．care for each other

C．should be grown in different places

D．love to be loved

(4) The experiment has proved that _________.

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A．without plants people could not live

B．we should talk to plants and give them love

C．we should grow as many plants as possible

D．plants need plenty of water, sunshine and fertilizer （肥料）

　　I was riding along the road when I heard someone shouting behind me. It was a young shepherd（牧羊人）. He was running across a field, and pointing at something.

　　I looked and saw two wolves running across the field. One was full grown, the other was a cub. The cub had on his back a lamb（羔羊）which had just been killed, and he had the leg in his mouth. The old wolf was running behind.

　　As soon as I saw the wolves, I joined the shepherd and we started in pursuit（追赶）, setting up a shout.

　　When they heard, some peasants started out also in pursuit, with their dogs.

　　As soon as the old wolf caught sight of the dogs and the men, be ran to the young one, snatched the lamb from him, threw it over his back, and both wolves increased their pace and were soon lost from view.

　　Then the shepherd began to tell me how it happened. The big wolf had sprung（跳）out from the valley, seized the lamb, killed it and carried it off. The old wolf allowed the young wolf to carry the lamb, but kept running a short distance behind.

　　But as soon as there was danger, the old wolf stopped giving the lesson, and seized the lamb for himself.

(1) A cub is _______.

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(2) The old wolf allowed the young wolf to carry the lamb because ______.

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A．it was lazy

B．it was being run after

C．it was wounded

D．it was training its cub

(3) The old wolf seized the lamb for himself because _______.

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A．the cub would not carry it any longer

B．the cub was too tired

C．there was danger

D．the cub would not learn

(4) In order to train the cub, the big wolf _________.

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A．showed the cub how to kill a lamb

B．let the cub kill a lamb

C．asked the cub to come to meet him

D．let the cub do what he could

　　Perhaps you have read about “Robinson Crusoe”. Many children like to hear and read about this man who lived alone for years on an island far out in the ocean. His ship was driven on the rocks in a storm and all the other men on board were drowned （淹死）. He alone reached the island. It is a long story and tells of many brave and clever things he did as he lived with his family of animals. When he first swam to the island, he did not know what he would find in this strange place. Here is part of his story. “What should I do? I was very wet and had no change of clothes. I was hungry and thirsty and did not know where to turn to find anything to eat or drink. Were there any wild animals on the island? Would they attack me?”

　　“Night was coming on and I had to look for a place to sleep in. I stood there thinking and thinking. I did not know what to do.”

　　“After a while I made up my mind to do as the birds do. I would sleep in a tree. I looked around and found a tree with strong, heavy branches in which I felt sure I could rest in comfort without danger of falling.”

　　“I had no gun, but I had my knife with me, and with it I cut a thick stick. I wanted to be able to drive off any animal. Then I climbed the tree. As I was very tired, I fell asleep and did not wake up till the sun was high in the sky.”

(1) Robinson reached the island ________.

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(2) It is likely that Robinson Crusoe reached the island________.

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(3) Crusoe made up his mind to sleep in a tree________.

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A．before he was going to the island

B．as soon as he reached the island

C．after he had been on the island a little while

D．when he saw some animals attacking him

(4) Which statement is true?

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A．When the ship was driven on the rocks, only Crusoe was not drowned.

B．Crusoe was saved by someone living on the island.

C．Crusoe could live on the island in comfort at first.

D．Crusoe lived alone on the island for only several months.

　　Hong Kong is a city inclined toward red; in Thailand the color is yellow; India leans toward reds and oranges. These are not political colors, but colors that suggest religious beliefs.

　　To an Asian colors are full of beliefs, religious and otherwise. To the Chinese, red means luck, but to Thais yellow brings good fortune. The combination of blue, black, and white is ,to the Chinese, suggestive of a funeral（葬礼）.

　　Many Western businessmen believe that most Asians have become Westernized in their outlook. This is true in part. But Westernization and education do not usually completely replace the culture and beliefs of an Asian's forefathers. They tend instead to make a more sophisticated（复杂的）combination of his culture and religion. The approach required to sell an Asian any commodity（商品）must follow the basic formula（推测）of following national prides, admitting equality, and understanding the Asian's beliefs.

　　Color is a touchy（须小心对待的）thing. Advertisers are advised to take into consideration the religious and super stitious（迷信的） beliefs connected with colors before using them. The color combinations of green and purple are accepted throughout Asia as these colors seem to have been worn by religious leaders in earlier times.

　　However, using one or both of these colors is no guar antee（保证）of sales, as an outstanding producer of waterrecreation products learned in Malaysia. Its home office received heated request from its distributors（批发商）to shop shipments on all products colored green. The distributors re-ported that numerous customers associated the color green with the jungle and illness.

(1) Which of the following is the best title for this passage?

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A．Colors Communicate.

B．Green and Purple：A sign of Religious Leadership.

C．An Expensive Lesson in Malaysia.

D．The Westernization of Asia.

(2) What color is considered lucky in Thailand?

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(3) What does the underlined words “home office” in the last paragraph refer to?

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A．The office at the manager's home.

B．The major distribution office in Malaysia.

C．The new type of mobile office.

D．The office in its own country.

(4) What conclusion can we draw from the last paragraph?

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A．Most Asians have become Westernized.

B．Asian businessmen have given up their own beliefs.

C．Western businessmen must respect the Asians' beliefs.

D．All Asians think green means illness.

　　Do you know the kind words and light music have anything to do with plants?

　　Many people talk to their plants. Many people play music to their plants. And many people try very hard to protect their plants from loud noises, strong lights, and unpleasant smell.

　　That's not all. Some people are very careful about what they say or do in front of plants. They won't talk about unpleasant things. They won't beat a fly near their plants.

　　Why? Those people are afraid that they may hurt their plants' feelings.

　　Can you hurt a plant's feelings? Do plants have feelings? Clever Backster thinks so. Many pupils think so. Even a few scientists think that plants can be happy, worried, angry, loving or frightened. Others don' t believe that a plant's feelings can be hurt.

　　Who is right?

　　Then along came the experiments of Backster. From his experiments, Backster decided that plants have feelings. He said that, like people, plants need love and kindness. They can feel worried and happy.

　　Two years later, in 1968, Backster wrote about his experiments in a magazine. And much of the world took notice. Plant lovers of the world were pleased.

(1) The writer thinks that the kind words and light music ______ plants.

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A．have nothing to do with

B．have something to do with

C．are bad for

D．destroyed

(2) Some people think loud noises and unpleasant smells ________.

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A．can protect plants

B．have something to do with plants

C．can make plants grow better

D．can hurt plants

(3) Some people think it better to plants to _______.

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A．play light music

B．talk about unpleasant things

C．shout loudly

D．to beat a fly

(4) _______ plants have feelings.

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A．Only Backster believes

B．Nobody believes

C．Backster and some other people believe

D．Most scientists believe

(5) Backster wrote about his experiments in a __________.

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