---Can I pay the bill by check?

---Sorry, sir. But it is the management rules of our hotel that payment   be made in cash.

A．shall    B．need C．will D．can

This problem may lead to more serious ones if          unsolved.

A．making   B．left C．remained D．keeping

When I came in that evening, the door of the Cockney’s sitting room was open and          , stamping of fleet, and television music.

A．through it came laughter            

B．laugher came through it

C．came laughter through it

D．it through came laughter

Antarctica’s future is important for us all. Now, however, man’s never_____ending         for minerals threatens the ecosystem there.

A．like B．idea C．desire   D．dream

This pair of shoes doesn’t look good, but that pair is        better, I think.

A．rather   B．less C．even D．hardly

A girl grumbled(发牢骚)to her father about her hard life. She wanted to   1  because she didn’t know what she had to do. She felt   2  for fighting and fighting. One   3  had been solved but another came.

Her father, a cook,  took her into the kitchen. He   4  water into three pans. After boiling, in the first pan   5  some carrots, the second some eggs and the last was put with coffee. He waited without any   6 from his mouth.

The girl closed her mouth and waited,   7   by what her father did. After about twenty minutes, her father   8  the stove and took out the carrots and the eggs. After that the coffee was poured into the cup.

Turning back to her daughter, he asked, “what do you   9  ?”

“Carrots, eggs, and coffee,” she answered.

Her father suggested her   10  the carrots. She did and felt the carrots were   11 . Then he asked her to take the eggs and break them. After   12  them, she got the eggs, cooked and hard.   13 , he asked her to smell the coffee. She asked   14  , “What’s the meaning, father?” He explained that   15  had felt the same unfortunate, the boiling water but   16  action. The strong and hard carrots became soft and weak after in the   17 water. The fragile(易碎的)eggs became hard after cooked. Coffee cores(核心)were very unique,   18  they could change water.

    “  19  are you? ”asked her father, “When the calamity（苦难）knocks your door, how is

your  20  ? Are you carrots, eggs, or coffee?”

1.       A．catch up       B．wear out       C．give up        D．run out

2.       A．tired          B．thrilled       C．confident      D．promising

3.       A．matter         B．business       C．question       D．problem

4.       A．made           B．poured         C．changed        D．irrigated

5.       A．was added      B．were put       C．remained       D．increased

6.       A．breath         B．praises        C．words          D．complaints

7.       A．judged         B．frightened     C．disappointed   D．confused

8.       A．turned off     B．turned up      C．turned down    D．turned away

9.       A．mean           B．see            C．suggest        D．explain

10.    A．touching       B．eating         C．observing      D．keeping

11.    A．bad            B．hard           C．soft           D．gentle

12.    A．hitting        B．peeling        C．beating        D．destroying

13.    A．Besides        B．Thus           C．Still          D．Lastly

14.    A．impatiently    B．shyly          C．regretfully    D．bravely

15.    A．nothing        B．anything       C．each thing     D．something

16.    A．different      B．certain        C．more           D．unequal

17.    A．cold           B．boiled         C．boiling        D．changeable

18.    A．or             B．if             C．though         D．but

19.     A．How            B．Who            C．When           D．Where

20.     A．influence      B．replacement    C．refusal        D．reaction

Are British people Europeans? This may seem a strange question to Africans and Asians, who tend to think of all white people as Europeans. But the British, when they are in Britain, do not regard themselves as Europeans. The Europeans, to them, are those rather excitable foreigners from the other side of the English Channel, who have never learnt how to speak English. Europe is known as “the Continent”, a place full of interest for British tourists, but also the source of almost all the wars in which Britain has ever been involved. Thus although geographically speaking Britain is a part of Europe, the fact that it is a separate island has made its people feel very, very insular（孤立的）. They feel, and in many ways are, different from the rest of Europe, and they sometimes annoy continental nations by failing to support them, or even to understand them, in time of need.

    Where did British people come from? This is an extraordinary interesting question, since they are a mixture of many different races, and all these races invaded（侵略）Britain at different times from Europe. Nobody knows very much about Britain before the Romans came during the first century B. C., but there had been at least three invasions before that. The first of these was by a dark-haired Mediterranean race called the Iberians. The other two were by Celtic tribes: first the Gaels, whose descendants are the modern Scots and Irish, come of whom still speak the Gaelic language; and second the Britons, who gave their name to the whole island of Britain. These were the people whom the Romans conquered. The Romans gave the Britons a good deal of their civilization, but they never settled in Britain in very large numbers, so the British race survived until the overthrow of the Roman Empire by the “barbarians”, i. e. the numerous Germanic tribes which overran the whole of Western Europe.

1．The purpose of the passage is to ______.

    A．talk about Europeans

    B．discuss the origin of British people

    C．argue for the superiority of British people

    D．compare the Europeans with Africans and Asians

2．It can be known from the passage that ______.

    A．most people think white people are Europeans

    B．there are many Africans and Asians living in Europe

    C．white men are Europeans in the eyes of Africans and Asians

    D．the British people think of themselves as Europeans

3．Why do the British people feel very insular?

    A．They are different from those people in the continent.

    B．They sometimes fail to support the continental countries in time of need.

    C．They are separated geographically from the continent.

    D．They are considered very difficult to understand.

4．It can be inferred from the passage that ______.

    A．Europeans are those who are unable to speak English

    B．those who invaded Britain came from the other side of the English Channel

    C．Britain is a place full of interest for those excitable foreigners

    D．Britain is the source of almost all the wars in Europe

Explaining China’s peaceful growth to the American politicians and public will top President Hu Jintao’s agenda when he visits the United States from September 5 to 8.

“This will be conductive to the development of Sino－US relations and China’s relationships with the rest of the world.” He Yafei, director of the Department of North American Affairs, said at a news briefing yesterday.

It will be Hu’s first State visit to the US after he became president in 2003. He will meet US President George W. Bush and legislators in Washington DC and business people in Seattle, and deliver a speech at Yale University in New Haven. Also on the list of areas of concern for Hu and Bush may be trade, Taiwan, energy and nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula.

China’s favorable balance of trade with the US derives from different economic structures in the two countries. The two economies supplement and benefit each other instead of competing, and the US should loosen its grip over its exports, especially high-tech products, to China, he said.

After his US trip, President Hu will travel to Canada and Mexico from September 8 to 13, and back to New York on September 14 to attend the World Summit and other activities in celebration of the 60^th anniversary of the United Nations.

Hu will wrap up his tour on September 16 at the UN in a show China’s support for the world body and multilateralism.

At yesterday’s news briefing, YC he also disclosed that the fourth round of Six－Party Talks on Korean Peninsula Nuclear issue will be resumed in the week of September 12.

1．The underlined word “wrap up ” can be taken place by ______.

    A．complete       B．go on          C．start          D．do…… secretly

2．President Hu Jintao may came home after ______.

    A．September 8th B．September 14th C．September 16th   D．September 13th

3．Which of the following is Not true?

    A．The visit to the US starts on September 5

    B．Hu and Bush may talk about Taiwan’s trade and energy.

    C．The economy of the two countries should supplement and benefit each other.

    D．Korean peninsula nuclear issue is another important problem the two presidents may talk about

4．The best title of this passage is ______.

    A．Itinerary for President Hu Jintao’s US visit

    B．Meeting in the US

    C．The Relationship between China and the US

    D．The Problem between China and the US

OK, so you’ve decided on a career in the media, and you are sick to death with people telling you how competitive the industries are. You know you are going to have to get in any which way you can, and that this will probably mean making tea and photocopying, and you are prepared.

But that may mean that you will find it a little disappointing when you emerge from an environment where your ideas or you have been publishing your own magazines, and enter a place where perhaps no one will ask you your name, or say hello to you in the morning, and where you are being perhaps not paid to do a job.

There are a number of training schemes offered across the media, which are a great route in . Simon Winder was given his start in publishing by the MacMillan’s training scheme. “I was sent out to Africa and Asia for a couple of years, selling educational books. It was a terrible job in many ways but interesting training,” says Winder. Because he had learnt first-hand about the business of publishing, his training prepared him for a career in the industry. On his return to England, Winder made the move to a senior position at Penguin seven years ago.

If you can’t get on to a training scheme, or get a paid job straight away, then offering your services for free will open up many opportunities to you. It is all about proving that you can do the job. “Identify companies and people whose programmes you like, and then simply write to them,” Connock advises those wanting to break into television, “Offer to work for free if you possibly can, and the chances are you will impress with your hard work and ideas, and end up staying on in paid employment. That’s how practically every employee of Ten Alps ended up with the company.”

Wherever you start out, if you work hard at what you do, your efforts will be rewarded. “Don’t focus on where you want to end up,” advises Ross, “You’ll know where that is when you’re there; just stay focused on the job in hand, and do that as well as you can.”

1．The main idea of this passage is probably ______.

    A．how to develop a career in the media

    B．the difficulties you will face in finding a job in the media

    C．the tiring work you have to do at first in the media

    D．what low pay you’ll get in the media

2．What did the writer intend to tell us in the second paragraph?

    A．No one is willing to speak to you.

    B．You are the least important person in the unit.

    C．You will feel being ignored at the beginning.

    D．You have to work without pay.

3．The ways you can enter the media include ______.

    A．learning the first hand experience about the business

    B．taking park in training schemes or working for it for free

    C．studying the companies and people you like

    D．showing your ability while you are working

4．As a whole, what attitude should you have while trying to enter the media industry?

    A．Watch out for your future career.

    B．Pay attention to the relationship between your workmates.

    C．Work heart and soul to do your present work well.

    D．Find chances to show off your ability.

Short people, studies have shown, are more likely to have a stroke（中风）, suffer from high blood pressures and heart disease and be bullied in school.

Now, researchers report that short people－at least in the past－were also more likely to die at a younger age than their taller peers.

Their study, published in the Journal of Epidemiology（流行病学）and Community Health, found that short bones have something to do with short life for more than 1,000 years. The conclusion was based on 490 sets of adult skeletal（骨架的）remains from an archaeological（考古的）site in northeastern England, dating from the 9^th century to about 1850.

About 55% of men and 73% of women died before the age of 45, and 39% of men and 56% of women died before age 30. The risk of death before age 30 declined as bone length increased.

“This study provides evidence from an archaeological sample that long bone length is connected with age at death－those with smaller bones tend to die younger,” according to Dr. D.J. Gunnell of the University of Bristol in the UK and colleagues.

While it is not clear why short stature（身材）might be linked to earlier death, the researchers point out that height is an indicator of childhood nutrition, which may have long-lasting effect on health.

“Mechanism（身体结构）for height-motality（死亡）associations in the past may differ from those today, for example, short stature may have increased the risk of death in childbirth and this may explain the higher risk of premature（未成熟的）mortality in women,” Gunnel and colleagues write.

“However, short bones, it would appear, have always been a marker of a short life,” the authors conclude.

1．The title of the passage should be ______.

    A．Short people and their taller peers               

B．Short stature and short life

    C．Men and women                   

D．Long life and short life

2．“An indicator” in Paragraph 6 means ______.

    A．a study        B．a risk         C．a marker       D．an age

3．Which of the following statements is Not true according to the passage?

    A．Most people were more likely to die at the age of 30 in the past.

    B．Women were more likely to die at a young age.

    C．Women with smaller bones were more likely to die younger.

    D．People with smaller bones were more likely to die younger.

4．The topic in this passage is probably connected with ______.

    A．space medicine                   B．social medicine

    C．sports medicine                 D．industrial medicine