On a Friday 36 ,a poor young artist stood at the gate of the subway station,playing his violin.The music was 　37 , and many people 38 and put some money into the 39 of the young man.

The next night,the young artist took out a large piece of 40 and laid it on the ground.Then he began 41 .The music sounded more pleasant.Some people gathered and they found the 42 on that paper. “Last night, a gentleman put a(n) 43 thing into my hat.Please come to get it back.”When the people saw that ,they felt very curious and began to 44 what it could be. After about half an hour, a man 45 there and in a hurry and said, “It can’t be true!You...you...”

The young violinist asked, “Did you 46 something?”

“Lottery (彩票）.”the man answered 47 .

The violinist took out a lottery ticket. “Is it?”he asked.

The man was too 48 to say a word...George Sang 49 a lottery ticket a few days ago. The awards(奖）opened yesterday and he won $500,000. So lucky and excited did he feel that he 50 50dollars and put it in the hat when hearing the music. However,the lottery ticket was also thrown into the hat without being noticed.The violinist found the lottery ticket.Thinking that the owner would 51 to look for it,he came back to where he was given the lottery ticket.

Someone asked the violinist 52 he returned the lottery ticket to the man. He said, “ 53 I don’t have much 54 ,I live happily;but if I lose 55 ,I won’t be happy forever.”

36.A.morning　 　　　 B.afternoon　　 C.noon　　　 D.night

37.A.quiet　　　 　　　 B.beautiful　　 C.familiar　 D.exciting

38.A.slowed down B.speeded up　 C.passed by　 D.went away

39.A.wallet　　 B.bag　　　　　 C.hat　　　 D.box

40.A.paper　　　 B.glass　　　　 C.plastic　　 D.cloth

41.A.working　　 B.waiting　　　 C.singing　 D.playing

42.A.poems　　　 B.articles　　　 C.words　 D.texts

43.A.important　 B.fantastic　　 C.dangerous D.interesting

44.A.argue　　　 B.care　　　　　 C.expect　　 D.guess

45.A.came　　　 B.rushed　　　 C.walked　　 D.left

46.A.get　　　　 B.find　　　　 C.forget　　 D.lose

47.A.quickly　　　 B.anxiously　　 C.seriously D.carefully

48.A.confused　　 B.anxious　　 C.excited　 D.surprised

49.A.bought　　　 B.made　　　　 C.found　　 D.sold

50.A.handed out　 B.took out　　 C.hunted for　 D.picked up

51.A.forget　　　 B.remember　　 C.return　　 D.pick

52.A.where　　　 B.why　　　　 C.when　　 D.how

53.A.If　　　　　 B.While　　　 C.Because　　 D.Although

54.A.money　　　 B.food　　　　 C.time　　 D.luck

55.A.friendship　　 B.hope　　　　 C.love　　 D.honesty

Besides rockets, students _______ robots, model cars and other machines they had made at the Beijing Aviation Museum.

　A. showed off 　 B. speeded up 　　　　　 C. brought in 　　　　 D. gave out

The income gap between China's rural and urban residents(居民) has continued to widen during the past few years in spite of rapidly rising rural incomes, Agricultural Minister Sun Zhengcai said here on Wednesday.

The income ratio(比率) between urban and rural residents was 3.28:1 in 2006, against 3.23:1 in 2003, said Sun in his report on the promotion of building a new countryside in 2007. Sun also said the net income of rural residents in different regions also varied widely. The income gap is only one of several problems in rural areas, according to Sun's report. While listing the achievements in rural areas in recent years, Sun believed that rural development still followed behind urban development.

"We have bigger pressure to ensure the supply of major agricultural products such as grain," he said. "China's urbanization(都市化) has been speeded up and more rural residents have gone to urban areas," he said.

"In this case, more agricultural producers become farm produce consumers, which created more pressure for supply," he said.

Another problem facing China's agricultural development is inadequate application of science and technology.

"Only 30 percent of scient ific and technological achievements have been applied to agricultural production, which is 40 percentage points lower than developed countries," he said.

Despite increased government spending in rural areas, the infrastructure(基础下部组织) is still poor and easily hit by disasters.

According to Sun, the government spent 431.8 billion yuan ($59.15 billion) on agriculture, rural areas and farmers this year, an increase of 80.1 billion yuan over the previous year.

China set aside 11.38 billion yuan to promote a new rural cooperative medical care system and 27.98 billion yuan to support the new compulsory education mechanism in rural area to ensure that all citizens shared the fruits of China's reform and opening-up, Sun said.

68．Which of the following is TRUE according to the text?

A．Because of the rapidly rising rural incomes, the income gap between China's rural and urban residents will disappear this year.

B．The net income of rural residents in different regions is the same.

C．The government has taken measures to develop the economy in the rural areas.

D．Beca use of the rapidly rising rural incomes, the supply of major agricultural products is enough.

69．Can you infer the meaning of the underlined words in paragraph 5?

A．be made full use of B．be made little use of

C．be not made full use of D．be made good use of

70． How much is spent on agriculture, rural areas and farmers the previous year?

A．431.8 billion yuan B．511.9 billion yuan

C．351.7 billion yuan　　 D．80.1 billion yuan

71． Which is NOT the problem in rural areas?

A．The income gap　　　

B．The inadequate application of science and technology

C．The supply of major agricultural products

D．China's urbanization

　　For those who make journeys across the world, the speed of travel today has turned the countries into a series of villages．Distances between them appear no greater to a modern traveler than those which once faced men as they walked from village to village. Jet planes fly people from one end of the earth to the other, allowing them a freedom of movement undreamt of a hundred years ago.
　　Yet some people wonder if the revolution in travel has gone too far. A price has been paid, they say, for the conquest (征服) of time and distance. Travel is something to be enjoyed, not endured (忍受).  The boat offers leisure and time enough to appreciate the ever-changing sights and sounds of a journey. A journey by train also has a special charm about it. Lakes and forests and wild, open plains sweeping past your carriage window create a grand view in which time and distance mean nothing. On board a plane, however, there is just the blank blue of the sky filling the narrow window of the airplane. The soft lighting, in-flight films and gentle music make up the only world you know, and the hours progress slowly.
　　 Then there is the time spent being “processed” at a modern airport. People are conveyed like robots along walkways; baggage is weighed, tickets produced, examined and produced yet again before the passengers move to another waiting area. Journeys by rail and sea take longer, yes, but the hours devoted to being “processed” at departure and arrival in airports are luckily absent. No wonder, then, that the modern high-speed trains are winning back passengers from the airlines.
　　Man, however, is now a world traveler and cannot turn his back on the airplane. The working lives of too many people depend upon it; whole new industries have been built around its design and operation. The holiday maker, too, with limited time to spend, patiently endures the busy airports and limited space of the flight to gain those extra hours and even days, relaxing in the sun. speed controls people’s lives; time saved, in work or play, is the important thing—or so we are told. Perhaps those first horsemen, riding free across the wild, open plains, were enjoying a better world than the one we know today. They could travel at will, and the clock was not their master.
【小题1】What does the writer try to express in Paragraph 1?

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阅读下列短文，从每题所给四个选项(A，B，C和D)中，选出最佳选项．

　　Only a hundred years ago, people seldom traveled far out of their birth place. Books were very expensive and there were few national newspapers and no radio or television. In fact, most people spent their time talking and listening. Only a very small quantity of reading and writing went on and many people were unable to read or write. For this reason, native dialects(方言)grew up and people spoke the way their parents and grandparents spoke. A woman from Cornwall who traveled just as far as London would find herself in a place where people spoke what was almost a different language.

　　Sometimes it is hard to take in just how much things have changed. You are used to owning books and having them around, to reading magazines and newspapers and to a choice of national television and radio programs. You, and everyone around you, are used to traveling not just in the British Islands but all over the world. Modern science has changed our life and distances have been made shorter. It might have taken that Cornwall woman three days to travel to London. Now it takes less than two hours by air, less than four hours by train and less than six hours by road.

　　The result of this is that the language we use is becoming more national and the dialects are dying out. Writing, printing and broadcasting have speeded up this change as one dialect has come to be used by more and more people. This is the dialect called standard (标准的) English which was first used outside London in the south and east Midlands.

1．From the information given in the passage we know that a century ago ________.

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A．people wouldn't like to leave their birth place

B．there were neither books nor newspapers

C．not many people could read and write

D．people learned to read and write from their parents and grandparents

2．If a woman who lived in Comwall a hundred years ago went to London, she would find ________.

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A．London was far from her birth place

B．London was a strange city

C．London people used a very difficult language

D．she could hardly understand what London people spoke

3．Things have changed so much that people are not used to ________ any more.

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A．watching TV and listening to the radio

B．reading books and magazines

C．traveling just within the British Islands

D．traveling the world over