______ 68. Kevin’s favourite instrument is the guitar and his favourite style of music is jazz.

A. He loves to listen to drums. He says he’s not a player, just a listener. He says he likes rock.

B. He is a violinist, so of course it’s natural that he should favour the violin. He prefers country music.

C. His favourite is the guitar. However, he hasn’t played for years, so he keeps hoping to start again. His favourite style of music is classical music.

D. He says jazz is his favourite music. He goes to listen to jazz every Friday evening. He also likes opera, heavy metal, classical but jazz is the best. He plays the piano, but his favourite instrument is the guitar.

E. He played drums when he was at primary school, and he plays drums with his friends at weekends. They have a band. His favourite style of music is classical music.

______ 67. James loves the sound of the drum and he likes rock.

______ 66. Robert plays the violin; his favourite style of music is country music.

______ 65. Greg loves drums and his favourite is classical music.

63. 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

62. Which of the following probably impresses(给…印象)the visitors most?

   A. The sun doesn’t go down for months in some area.

   B. The weather there is always fine.

   C. The land is covered with snow all the year round.

   D. No state is so large as Alaska.

D

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 lot of money on taxis because I will not take public transport after 10 pm. I used to use it, but now I’m afraid.

The idea of family seems to be more or less non-existent(不存在的) in England. My family is well united and that’s typically French. In Middlesex I had a neighbour 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.

61. Visitors come to Alaska to ______.

   A. look for gold

   B. enjoy the beauty of its nature

   C. live in cold weather

   D. discover natural resources

60. It was not an easy job getting to Alaska mainly because ______.

  A. it was in the north of America

  B. it was a large area covered with ice and snow

  C. it was a great distance from the main part of the U. S.

  D. it was the largest state of all in the U. S.

59. The buying of Alaska was regarded as something foolish done because ______.

  A. The U.S was at war with Russian and Alaska was of no importance

  B. there were no trees but snow in Alaska

  C. Alaska was poor in natural resources(资源)

  D. people thought Alaska a waste land