Do you still remember your dreams from childhood? They’re like flowers that never fade, “23-year-old Liu Wei told a happy audience during a broadcast of the nationwide talent competition China’s Got Talent. Liu, an ___16____ pianist from Beijing, was named one of the show’s finalists.
Liu once had arms. At the age of 10 he accidentally grabbed a high-voltage wire and lost his arms. “My family and I were so ___17____ then,” Liu recalled. He credits a disable boy he met at the hospital who gives him the __18_____ to cheer him up.
He was forced to __19_____ playing soccer (his favorite sport) but bounced back and ___20____himself to learn swimming. After two years, Liu had won two gold medals and one silver at the National Swimming Championship for the disabled in 2002.
By the age of 19, Liu had taught himself __21_____ to play the piano with his feet, fulfilling a childhood ___22____ of composing and producing music, he said ___23____ a big smile. “__24_____ enough time, I could be just as same as anyone.”
“I can read music and have __25_____ the ‘toeing’ by myself,” he told. According to Liu, the big toe is the most __26_____ digit when “toeing,” but that he can only reach five keys at the same time. “It means I have to train my toes to move more ___27____,” he said.
One of the show’s hosts, Cao Kefan, told press. “He was __28_____ so hard his feet were constantly cramping,” Cao said.
“ We’ve all __29_____ our dreams when we were young, but no one has fought as hard as you,” commented Gao Xiaosong. Gao is one of the show’s judges and one of most ___30____ music producers in China.
“You tell us that to __31_____ our dream, we need to spare no pains,” said Yi Nengjing, a show judge and Taiwanese pop star.
“I’ve received a lot of letters of support, all ___32____ me to focus on my music,” Liu said. When asked what he would do when the show was ___33____, he revealed several music companies had asked to __34_____ him. But whatever happened, he added he is sure he would keep __35_____ his dream.
“Music is like water and air to me,” he said. “I can’t live with out it.”

According to a survey released by the Nielson Company on Thursday, China has become a global tourist attraction after the Beijing Olympics.

The survey said the Olympics not only built up China’s image but also served as an advertisement for China’s tourism.

The online survey was conducted on consumers in 16 countries and regions before Games’ opening ceremony and after the closing.

About 80 percent of the respondents had not been to China before the events and 50 percent of them expressed hopes of visiting China after the Games.

According to the survey, 70 percent of the respondents felt Beijing was more modern and scientific than what they had thought.

The most interested respondents were from Singapore, India, Mexico, South Africa and the Republic of Korea, as well as China’s Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Pan Wen, in charge of Chinese tourism research of the Nielson Company, said the World Tourism Organization predicted that China would become the largest tourist attraction in the world with 137 million foreign tourists every year.

“This figure would be realized earlier with the aid of the Beijing Olympics,” Pan said.

1.When was the online survey conducted?

A. During the Olympics   

 B. Before Games’ opening ceremony and after the closing

C. After the Olympics’ closing

D. We don't know

2.Which countries were the most interested respondents from?

  A. Singapore, India, Mexico    B. South Africa and the Republic of Korea

C. China’s Hong Kong and Taiwan          D. All of the above

3.Which country did the World Tourism Organization predict would become the largest tourist attraction in the world?

A. China      B. Japan      C. South Africa     D. Hong Kong

4.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. About 80 percent of the respondents expressed hopes of visiting China during the Games

B. The online survey was conducted on consumers in 16 countries

C. 137 million foreign tourists have come to China every year

D. The Beijing Olympics greatly speed up China’s tourism

During my visit to China, I stayed in several hotels. I would like to say something about fire regulations(条例) in these hotels.

When I was in Beijing in a hotel, I checked the nearest fire escape to my room, as I usually do, I found that the exit(出口) out of the buildings was on the ground floor, chained and locked! If there was a fire, people wouldn’t be able to escape. In some other places, I did not find any notice about the procedures.

In most hotels in my country, there is a notice on the back of the door of every guestroom. In Japan the porter（门卫）actually points out the escape route when bringing your bag to your room. I hope Chinese hotels will improve their safety procedures.

57. The foreigner suggests that ____________.

A. all the exits should not be always chained and locked

B. all the exits should be always chained and locked

C. fire regulations（规程，规章）should be paid enough attention to in some hotels in China

D. the fire regulations should not be strict

58. Nobody would get away if there were a fire in the building ____________.

A. if the porter doesn’t tell people the escape route

B. with the exit chained and locked

C. before people found the notice about safety procedures

D. when too many people try to escape at the same time

59. The nearest escape to the writer’s room in a hotel in Beijing was _____________.

A. nowhere to be found         B. not far from his room

C. next to his room            D. on the ground floor

60. In Japan a guest is told how to get away in time of fire when he ____________.

A. arrives at a hotel            B. is traveling in the country

C. reaches the country          D. says hello a porter

The flight to Beijing was canceled ________ the heavy snow．

1. A.
   as
2. B.
   for that
3. C.
   because
4. D.
   because of

Former Chinese athlete, Jin Jing, made her    16    (appear) in the National Stadium,     17     (carry) Paralympic torch during the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games on September 6.

But now she’s back in the Bird’s Nest, and this time she’s not competing, or carrying a flame,    18    working for the media. Jin said that she was a little regretful for not being able to participate    19    the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games.

Born in 1981, Jin    20    (raise) in a common wage-earning family in Hefei, Anhui Province. Jin had part of her right leg amputated in 1989 because    21    a malignant tumor on her ankle. She then became a member of she Shanghai Wheelchair Fencing Team on July 13, 2001, the same day Beijing was selected as    22    host city for the 2008 Summer Olympics.

After an incident in Paris,    23    she was part of the Torch Relay and a protestor tried to take away the torch from her while she protected the Olympic Torch with her body, she became    24    (know) as the “Smiling Angel in a Wheelchair”.

Now she is still smiling, but this time from the    25    side of the camera, as she watches Chinese athletes won another gold medal.