2.Fidenzio Salvatori, with two other students, has got two thousand dollars from the government ______.

　A. to make an experiment

　B. to perform a research

　C. to start a marketplace　

　D. to operate a business

1.What is Fidenzio Salvatori’s purpose of having an outdoor marketplace for Toronto?

　　 A. To provide different forms of amusement.　　

　　 B. To keep the cultural variety of the city.

　　C. To inspire its immigrant community.

　　D. To satisfy its immigrant merchants.

4．What would be the best title for the text?

　A．A Cross-country Trip　

　B．A Special Border Pass

　C．An Unguarded Border　

　D．An Expensive Church Visit

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　Fidenzio Salvatori is determined that the city of Toronto will have an outdoor marketplace for merchants from its immigrant community, complete with dancing and other forms of amusement form their native countries. “Toronto is truly multicultural (多元文化的)，” he said in a newspaper interview. “It’s a city from many places, and multicultural marketplace will help Torontonians to understand and appreciate the rich variety of cultural groups in our city.”

Salvatori, aged 23, will soon complete his studies at the University of Toronto. He was eleven years old when he came to Canada from Italy with his parents. “Most of Toronto’s immigrants are from lands where the marketplace has always been part of daily life,” he said.

Salvatori has been interested in getting an open-air market for Toronto for the last three years. This year, with the help of two fellow students, he prepared a proposal on the subject and presented it to the city’s Executive committee, asking for their support. The proposal pointed out Toronto’s rich variety of national groups, “whose customs include market shopping.”

Under a Canadian government program for multiculturalism, the three students have received two thousand dollars with which they will do a study to find out whether Toronto’s immigrant businessmen would support an open-air market. They hope the merchants will support the plan strongly. “A study done earlier this year showed that 90 percent of shoppers would be in favor of it,” Salvatori said. “At first it would be an experiment. But we think it will prove to be good business for the merchants, as well as tourist attraction.”

3．The underlined word “detour” in paragraph 5 means 　　　　　　　.

　A．a drive through the town　

　B．a race across the fields

　C．a roundabout way of travelling　　

　D．a journey in the mountain area

2．Albert was fined because he 　　　　　　　.

　A．failed to obey traffic rules　

　B．broke the American security rules

　C．worked in St. Pamphile without a pass　

　D．damaged the gate of the customs office

1．We learn from the text that Richard Albert is 　　　　　　.

　A．an American living in Township 15

　B．a Canadian living in a Quebec village

　C．a Canadian working in a customs station

　D．an American working in a Canadian church

4．The cafe owners found the government’s decision 　　　　　.

　A．surprising and unacceptable　　

　B．understandable and acceptable

　C. reasonable but surprising　　

　D．surprising but acceptable

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　MONTREAL (Reuters) – Crossing the US-Canada border(边界)to go to church on a Sunday cost a US citizen ＄10,000 for breaking Washington’s strict new security(安全)rules.

　The expensive trip to church was a surprise for Richard Albert, who lives right on the Canadian border. Like the other half-dozen people of Township 15, crossing the border is a daily occurrence for Albert. The nearby Quebec village of St. Pamphile is where they shop, eat and go to church.

　There are many such situations in these areas along the largely unguarded 5,530-mile border between Canada and the US-which in some cases actually runs down the middle of streets or through buildings.

　As a result, Albert says he did not expect any problems three weeks ago when he returned home to the US after attending church in Canada, as usual. The US customs(海关)station in this area is closed on Sundays, so be just drove around the locked gate, as he had done every weekend since the gate appeared last May, following a tightening of border security. Two days later. Albert was told to go to the customs office, where an officer told him be had been caught on carnera crossing the border illegally(非法).

　Ottawa has given out special passes to some 300 US citizens in that area so they can enter the country when Canadian customs stations are closed, but the US stopped a similar program last May. That forces the people to a 200-mile detour along hilly roads to get home through another border checkpoint.

Albert has requested that the customs office change their decisions on the fine, but he has not attended a Sunday church since. “I feel like I’m living in a prison,” he said.

3．The underlined phrase in the last paragraph “on the way” means 　　　　　　.

　A.to be studied　

　B．to be put into practice

　C. to be changed　　

　D．to be improved

2．The government’s decision led to the fact that many cafe owners 　　　　　　.

　A．suffered heavy financial losses　　

　B．asked to open up Internet cafes

　C．continued to operate Internet cafes　　

　D．asked the government for payment

1．The government stopped issuing or renewing permits for Internet cafes 　　　.

　A．to prevent misuse of new safeguards in Internet cafes

　B．to make cafe owners earn less profit from their business

　C．to stop the use of the information superhighway on Internet

　D. to make sure of the proper use of the information superhighway