Mr. Grey traveled a lot on business. He sold machines of different kinds to farmers. It was not really a very   36   job, but Mr. Grey had always been interested in   37  , and he was quite   38   with his life.

One of Mr. Grey’s problems was often__39___ to stay when he reached some small places in the country. He did not expect great ___40__ and wonderful food, but he found it annoying when he was given a __41___ room and when there was no hot water or good food after a long and ___42__ day.

Late one __43__ evening, Mr. Grey arrived at a small railway station. The journey by __44__ that day had not been ___45__ interesting, and Mr. Grey was cold and tired and hungry. He was __46___ a simple but satisfying meal by a bright burning __47___ , and then a hot bath and a comfortable ___48__.

While he was walking to the taxi stand, he said to a local man who was _  49__ walking there, “ As this is my first __50___ to this part of the country and I was in too much of a __51___ to find out about hotels before I left home, I would very much like to know how many you have here?”    

The local man answered, “ We have two.”

“And which of the two would you __52___ me to go to ?” Mr. Grey asked then.

The local man scratched his __53___ for a few moments and then answered, “ Well, it’s like this: ___54__ you go to, you’ll be ___55__ you didn’t go to the other.”

A．curious        B．serious          C．exciting         D．horrible

A．shopping     B．farming         C．studying         D．teaching

A．satisfied       B．terrified         C．thankful        D．careful

A．where        B．which           C．what            D．how

A．position       B．respect          C．comfort         D．money

A．cold          B．small           C．common         D．local

A．happy         B．interesting     C．tiring           D．ordinary

A．winter        B．summer        C．Sunday          D．holiday

A．air           B．train           C．plane          D．boat

A．in all        B．at all           C．all over      D．all the same

A．booking     B．ordering       C．longing for     D．finding out

A．fire        B．light           C．wood          D．stove

A．hotel             B．room          C．seat             D．bed

A．already      B．also            C．yet          D．quite

A．arrive       B．look            C．visit            D．moment

A．while       B．hurry         C．habit         D．wonder

A．want        B．suggest         C．allow           D．advise

A．paper       B．head          C．hand          D．notebook

A．whenever    B．wherever      C．whichever one  D．neither one

A．proud       B．sure           C．sorry         D．glad

Mr. Grey traveled a lot on business. He sold machines of different kinds to farmers. It was not really a very   36  job, but Mr. Grey had always been interested in   37 , and he was quite   38  with his life.

One of Mr. Grey’s problems was often__39___ to stay when he reached some small places in the country. He did not expect great ___40__ and wonderful food, but he found it annoying when he was given a __41___ room and when there was no hot water or good food after a long and ___42__ day.

Late one __43__ evening, Mr. Grey arrived at a small railway station. The journey by __44__ that day had not been ___45__ interesting, and Mr. Grey was cold and tired and hungry. He was __46___ a simple but satisfying meal by a bright burning __47___ , and then a hot bath and a comfortable ___48__.

While he was walking to the taxi stand, he said to a local man who was _  49__ walking there, “ As this is my first __50___ to this part of the country and I was in too much of a __51___ to find out about hotels before I left home, I would very much like to know how many you have here?”    

The local man answered, “ We have two.”

“And which of the two would you __52___ me to go to ?” Mr. Grey asked then.

The local man scratched his __53___ for a few moments and then answered, “ Well, it’s like this: ___54__ you go to, you’ll be ___55__ you didn’t go to the other.”

In the late 1960's, many people in North America turned their attention to environmental problems, and new steel-and-glass skyscrapers were widely criticized. Ecologists pointed out that a cluster of tall buildings in a city often overburdens public transportation and parking lot capacities.

Skyscrapers （摩天大楼）are also lavish consumers, and wasters, of electric power. In one recent year, the addition of 17 million square feet of skyscraper office space in New York City raised the peak daily demand for electricity by 120, 000 kilowatts -- enough to supply the entire city of Albany, New York, for a day.

Glass-walled skyscrapers can be especially wasteful. The heat loss (or gain) through a wall of half-inch plate glass is more than ten times that through a typical masonry（砖石） wall filled with insulation board（隔热板）. To lessen the strain on heating and air-conditioning equipment, builders of skyscrapers have begun to use double-glazed panels of glass, and reflective glasses coated with silver or gold mirror films （反射膜）that reduce glare as well as heat gain. However, mirror-walled skyscrapers raise the temperature of the surrounding air and affect neighboring buildings.

Skyscrapers put a severe strain on a city's sanitation facilities（卫生设施）, too. If fully occupied, the two World Trade Center towers in New York City would alone generate 2.25 million gallons of raw sewage（污水） each year -- as much as a city the size of Stanford, Connecticut, which has a population of more than 109, 000.

Skyscrapers also interfere(干扰) with television reception, block bird flyways, and obstruct air traffic. In Boston in the late 1960’s , some people even feared that shadows from skyscrapers would kill the grass on Boston Common.

Still, people continue to build skyscrapers for all the reasons that they have always build them—personal ambition ,civic pride, and the desire of owners to have the largest possible amount of rentable space.

63.What is one disadvantage of mirror-walled skyscrapers ?

A. the surrounding air is heated

B. the birds’ flyway is blocked

C. construction cost is increased

D. extra air-conditioning and heating equipment is needed

64. In the late 1960’s some residents of Boston were concerned with which aspect

of skyscrapers?

A. the noise and dirt from their construction

B. the harmful effects on the city’s grass

C. the effect on air traffic in Boston

D. the interference with television reception

65. According to the passage, what is NOT the reason why skyscrapers continue to be built?

A. to have more space for rent.

B. to exhibit the skills in building construction

C. to achieve someone’s ambition

D. to act as a symbol and pride of the place

66. The main purpose of the passage is to _________.

A. describe skyscrapers and their effect on the environment.

B. prove skyscrapers are better than other modern structures.

C. advocate the use of double –glazed panels of glass.

D. illustrate many architectural materials and designs of skyscrapers