BEIJING （Associated Press美联社）—China  has a growing middle class, a tradition（传统） of expecting education and 21 million new babies every year．Selling educational toys should be easy．

While China may be the worlds biggest toy maker, many of the best are exported．Department stores here do not have enough high quality toys．It is said that the demand for educational toys is low．

A US company, BabyCare, is trying to change that with a new way to sell toys in China．

    BabyCare works basically together with doctors in Beijing hospitals． People who join the company’s "mother club" can get lectures and newsletters on baby and child development at no extra cost, if they agree to spend 18 dollars a month on the company’s educational toys and child care books．

    "We want to build a seven-year relationship with those people," said Matthew J．Estes, BabyCare’s president．"It starts during pregnancy （孕期）, when the anxiety and needs are highest．" BabyCare works on a one to one basis．Doctors, nurses, and teachers paid by BabyCare advise parents, explain toys that are designed for children at each stage （阶段） of development to age six．

    BabyCare opened its first store in China last June in a shopping center in central Beijing and another near Beijing Zoo．It plans to have 80 stores in China within six years．

It is a new model for China and develops a market in young children’s education and health that no other companies are in．

1.What do the first two paragraphs mainly tell us?

A．Educational toys and foreign toy markets．

B．Problems with China’s toy market and education．

C．Reasons for pushing sales of educational toys in China．

D．Baby population and various kinds of toys made in China．

2.．Which of the following is a fact according to the passage?

A．Club members buy BabyCare products for free child care advice．

B．Doctors in Beijing help in making BabyCare products．

C．Parents are encouraged to pay $ 18 for club activities．

D．BabyCare trains Chinese doctors at no extra cost．

3.BabyCare is developing its business in China by．

A．opening stores in Beijing hospitals

B．offering 18-month courses on child care

C．setting up children’s education centers

D．forming close relationships with parents

4.Which of the following would be the most suitable title for the passage?

A．Mother’s Club in China．      B．BabyCare and Doctors．

C．American Company Model．        D．Educational Toys in China．

 

There is a Malay saying: “It is easier to teach a stupid person than a ______ one”.

A．useless

B．selfish

C．stubborn

D．mean

 

All the wisdom of the ages and all the stories that have delighted mankind for centuries are easily and cheaply available to all of us within the covers of books. The most unfortunate people in the world are those who have never discovered how satisfying it is to read good books.

Reading is the pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness make you a good reader. Reading is fun, not because the writer is telling you something, but because it makes your mind work. Your own imagination works along with the author's or even goes beyond his. Your experience, compared with his, brings you to the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his.

Every book stands by itself, like a one--family house, but books in a library are like houses in a city. Although they are separate, together they all add up to something. They are connected with each other and with other cities. Books influence each other; they link the past, the present and the future and have their own generations, like families. Wherever you start reading, you connect yourself with one of the families or ideas, and in the long run, you not only find out about the world and the people in it but also you find out about yourself, too.

Reading can only be fun if you expect it to be. If you concentrate on books somebody tells you "you ought" to read, you probably won't have fun. But if you put down a book you don’t like and try another till you find one that means something to you, and then relax yourself with it, you will almost certainly have a good time  and if you become, as a result of reading, better, wiser, kinder, or more gentle, you won't have suffered during the process.

72. In the writer's opinion, in fact reading is a process of ________.

A. listening to the author                                   B. accepting the author's ideas

C. communicating with the author and yourself             D. judging the author's work

73. The writer thinks that the most unfortunate people are those _______.

A. who don't have any books                                  B. who can't enjoy reading books

C. who don’t like books                                     D. who read too many books

74. To find pleasure in reading, you should read the books _______.

A. written by famous writers                                             B. written in humor style

C. which you like to read                                     D. which are recommended by your friends

75. The author's purpose in writing the passage is to _______.

A. show the importance of reading                               B. tell us how to make reading more effective

C. tell us how to read                              D. show the pleasure of reading

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He is considered to be a gifted manager, ____ with a quick mind and good humor.

  A. one         B. each            C. that        D. who

 

完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

Mr. Glen is a millionaire. Five years ago, after returning from abroad to his motherland, he    36 his small company. Speaking of success, Glen often tells us a story about his extra expensive “school” fee. He always 37  his success to it.

At that time, Glen, who already got a Ph.D. degree, 38   to return to the homeland, starting a company. Before leaving, he bought a Rolex watch with the 39 made through years of work after school and the scholarships. At the airport he had to accept the 40       customs check. The watch on his wrist was also demanded to be taken down for 41. Glen knew that carrying the specific goods out had to pay the tax, and he worried about paying 42    for his watch. So when he was checked, he told a lie that his watch was a  43 fake（假货）. When he was   44   of his “smarts”, immediately, in the presence of Glen, the officers hit the watch,   45  cost nearly 100,000, into pieces  46  hearing Glen’s words. Glen was 47  . Before he understood why, he was taken to the office to be examined 48  . For many times of entry-exit   49  he knew that only those people in the “blacklist” would “enjoy” this special treatment. The officers looked over everything carefully in the box, and  50  him no matter what time of entry and exit he must accept the check and if  51  reusing and carrying fake  goods, he would be 52  according to law! Suddenly, his face turned red, and he had nothing in mind after boarding the plane for long.

 After returning to the homeland, he often told the story to his family, and his employees, too. He said that this made a deep   53  on him, because the additional high “school” fee that he had ever paid made him realize the value of  54 , which he would remember as the 55 of his success forever.

1.A. set up                          B. took up                  C. went up                          D. picked up

2.A. honors                      B. mentions            C. brings                              D. owes

3.A. decided                       B. refused               C. objected                       D. asked

4.A. books                        B. things                  C. savings                  D. pounds

5.A. ordinary                    B. routine                C. regular                         D. common

6.A. look                              B. check              C. test                              D. experiment

7.A. one                            B. it                           C. them                             D. these

8.A. precious                      B. useful                  C. worthless                    D. valuable

9.A. afraid                        B. proud                    C. ashamed                      D. hard

10.A. that                          B. what                     C. as                        D. which

11.A. on                              B. at                          C. who                  D. in

12.A. disappointed       B. delighted            C. amazed                        D. satisfied

13.A. strictly                       B. quietly          C. quickly                D. curiously

14.A. conditions                      B. experiences       C. experiments               D. chances

15.A. stopped               B. hoped                  C. warned                         D. urged

16.A. came out                 B. found out         C. sent out              D. set out

17.A. hit                               B. blamed            C. praised                 D. accuse

18.A. expression       B. idea              C. thought                D. impression

19.A. honesty                     B. lies             C. goods                D. bravery

20.A. secret                         B. lesson           C. choice                  D. assessment