When we are unfamiliar with something, we may feel nervous and fearful. The help of others is a good 　35 to help us pull through.

　 I write for a big newspaper, and I wanted to 36 a story about parachute jumping（跳伞）. To make it a realistic as well as exciting story, I decided that I had to make a jump myself 　37 . Unluckily, I’m not good at any sport, let alone（更不用说）parachute jumping.

　 My friend Mr. Smith was willing to give me a 　38 . He took me to a ground school. The first day’s 　39 included several hours of instruction but not my first drop from an airplane. For this, I had to wait until the following morning.

　 The next morning, I was taken to the airfield. There, a heavy parachute was put on my back. Then I was asked to make my way to a small plane which had just stopped slowly on the runway. Once on board, the plane was soon 　40 . I began to feel nervous. As we reached one thousand meters, Harry, my teacher, hooked（钩）a 　41 from my parachute to a steel（钢制品）ring inside the plane. The line was to pull my parachute 42 after I jumped.

　 “Get ready, Henry,” Harry said. I moved carefully to the door. I wanted to cry, “NO, no, no!” But no word came.

　 “Jump!” Harry called loudly. “Jump!”

Away from the plane, and down, down I fell, arms stretched. It worked! All at once I was very happy. Then I felt a quick 　43 . My big parachute had opened! It was the best

44 I ever had. I looked down. There were rivers, trees, fields and houses. I heard the soft sound of the air. This was fun.

35. A. way 　　　　　　　　 B. chance　　　　　　　　　　　　　 C. idea　 　　　　　　　　　 D. value

36. A. tell　　　 　　　　 B. write　　　　 　　　 C. read　 　　　　　　　　 D. copy

37. A. secretly　　 　　 B. instead　　 　　　　　　 C. finally　 　　　　　　　 D. first

38. A. try　　 　　　　　 B. hand　　　　 　　　　 C. gift　　　 　　　　　 D. suggestion

39. A. jumping　　 　　 B. journey　 　　　　　　 C. training 　 　　　　　　 D. entertainment

40. A. slowing　 　　　　 B. climbing　 　　　　　 C. landing　 　　　　　　　 D. filling

41. A. bag　　　 　　　 B. steel　　　 　　　　　 C. line　　 　　　　　　　 D. seat

42. A. light　　 　　　　　 B. broken　 　　　　　　　　　　 C. fixed　　　 　　　　　 D. open

43. A. comfort　 　　　　 B. wind　　　 　　　　 C. pull　　　 　　　　　 D. push

44. A. failure　 　　　　 B. experience 　　　　　　 C. competition 　　　　　 D. danger

　　Get ready, China. The world is coming! Every day, lots of foreigners come here as business people or tourists. And even more people will come in 2008 for the Beijing Olympics. When they come to China, we should do something to help them enjoy themselves and like China and the Chinese people. But there are some things they may not like:

　　(1) Traffic problems Cars park on sidewalks（人行道）. Bus drivers drive so fast that they make people who are trying to cross the street afraid.

　　(2) Queue jumping At the post office, or even at McDonald's, people push to the front of a line instead of waiting.

　　(3) Bumping Too many people are crowded onto buses and trains. This makes people feel terrible, and it is not safe, either. On a bus in North America, people try to make themselves smaller and they'll say“Excuse me”or“Sorry”if they knock into someone. In China, people make themselves bigger with no“Sorry”or“Excuse me”.

　　(4) Littering I notice this everywhere. Some people throw rubbish onto the ground even when there is a rubbish bin（箱）right next to them.

　　Most Chinese people are just as unhappy with these kinds of things as I am. And, certainly, the government（政府）has known the problems and is trying to do something about them.

　　China is on her way!

(1) Someone throws an empty Cola bottle onto the ground. This is called ________.

[　　]

A．bumping	B．littering
C．queue jumping	D．a traffic problem

(2) The writer thinks we Chinese people should do the following except ________.

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A．park our cars at right places

B．wait our turn in public（公共）places

C．throw rubbish into rubbish bins

D．hurry onto buses before others

(3) We can conclude（得出结论）from the passage that ________.

[　　]

A．things will get better and better in China

B．fewer and fewer foreigners will visit our country

C．there will be more and more traffic problems in Beijing

D．fewer and fewer Chinese people will eat hamburgers

(4) When the writer says“Get ready, China”, he means that ________.

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A．China is going to be a fast-growing country

B．it is time for the Chinese to change their bad behaviors（行为）

C．most Chinese people are unhappy with these problems

D．the Chinese will do a good job in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games

(英译汉)　get ready for_________