Dear sir ,
I have travel every day from Souk Road to the airport. Two buses travel along the routes: the(路线): the number 49 and the number 16. But by the time the number 16 bus reaches Souk Road, it is always full, so I can’t get on it, I have to wait for the number 49 because sometimes there are empty seats on it.
The timetable says that there are buses from Souk Road to the airport every ten minutes. If this is true, why do I have to wait half an hour for a bus nearly every day?
The rules say that if there are empty seats on a bus, the bus must stop at every stop where people are waiting Why do the half-empty buses go straight(一直)past me when I am standing at bus stop?
The rules say that no bus may carry more than 40 seated passengers and 20 standing passengers. Yesterday I was the first to get off the bus when it reached the airport. I counted the other passengers as they got off. There were 129 people.
It is clear that our bus companies break the rules and think little of their passengers. Can nothing be done to make your service(服务) better?
Yours
Tired passenger
【小题1】This passage is __________.

A．a message

B．a talk

C．a story

D．a letter

【小题2】The writer has to take Bus No. 49 because______.

A．it arrives on time	B．it is not always full
C．it travels faster	D．it has fewer seats on it

【小题3】How long does the writer usually have to wait for a bus?

A．Ten minutes

B．One hour

C．Half an hour

D．Nearly a day

【小题4】The rules say that each bus may carry ________ passengers at most.

A．twenty

B．forty

C．sixty

D．one hundred and twenty-nine

【小题5】From the passage we can see that__________.

A．the bus service was poor

B．no passengers took their buses

C．no buses except the No. 49 bus passed Souk Road

D．the writer was always the first to get on bus

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BBC World Have Your Say: “ Life in China” Every day, BBC News on TV,radio and online brings you stories from across the world. But what we want to hear are the stories that matter to you. Have got a story about life in China today? If you do, please put your stories here.

I like travaling and I have traveled a lot around China. During the trip, I often find that a number of Chinese don’t have good pulic manners(举止). They always loudly on the phone and smoke everywhere. The worst is that they often break the rules in public. For example, when I travled in HongKong in January this year, I saw a kid eating noodles on the underground , which is against the rules. However, the kid’s mother didn’t think he did wrong. Can you believe it? Let’s improve our public manners. (Mike, Shenzhen)

I am a 14-year-old boy from a poor village in Fuyang , Anhui Province. Like many other left-behind children(留守儿童)in China, l live with my grandparents now. my father went to work inn Shanghai several years ago. Last year, my mother went there to care for him because his health is not as good as before. They tell me to listen to my grandparents and call me about twice a month to ask about my study. I really miss my parents ans I hope I can afford to go to school in Shanghai. I think every child needs parents’ love and care. (Wu Peigen, Anhui Province)

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The thing that the kid did on the underground	2.
The time when Mike traveled in HongKong	3.
Wu Peigen’s age	4.
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Dear Sir,
I have to travel every day from Souk Road to the airport. Two buses travel along the line: the number 49 and number 16. But by the time the number 16 bus gets to Souk Road, it is always full, so I can’t get on it. I have to wait for the number 49, because sometimes there are empty seats on it.
The timetable says that there are buses from Souk Road to the airport every ten minutes. If this is so, why do I have to wait half an hour for a bus every day?
The regulations（规章）say that if there are empty seats on a bus, the bus must stop at every stop where people are waiting. Why do the half-empty buses go straight past me when I am standing at the bus stop?
The regulations say that no bus may carry more than 40 seated passengers（乘客）and 20 standing passengers. Yesterday I was the first to get off the bus when it reached the airport. I counted（数）the other passengers as they got off. There were 129 of them.
It is clear that our bus companies break the regulations and think little of their passengers. Can nothing be done to make your service（服务）better?
A. a message        B. a talk       C. a story      D. a letter
【小题1】The writer has to take Bus No. 49 because _________.

A．it arrives on time	B．it is not always full
C．it travels faster	D．it has fewer seats on it

【小题2】How long does the writer usually have to wait for a bus?

A．Ten minutes.

B．One hour.

C．Half an hour.

D．Nearly a day.

【小题3】The regulations say that each bus may carry ______ passengers at most.
A. 20           B. 40       C. 60       129
【小题4】From the passage we can see that __________.

A．the bus service was bad

B．no passengers took their buses

C．no bus passed Souk Road

D．the writer was always the first to get on the bus

How often one hears children wishing they were grown-ups, and old people wishing they were young again. Each age has its pleasures and its pains, and the happiest person is the one who enjoys what each age gives him without wasting his time in useless regrets.

Childhood is a time when there are few responsibilities to make life difficult. If a child has good parents, he is fed, looked after and loved, whatever he may do. It is impossible that he will ever again in his life be given so much without having to do anything in return. What’s more, life is always giving new things to the child--- things that have lost their interest for older people because they are too well-known. But a child has his pains: he is not so free to do what he wishes to do; he is repeatedly being told not do something or being punished for what he has wrongly done.

When a young man starts to earn his own living, he can no longer expect others to pay for his food, his clothes, and his room, but has to work if he wants to live comfortably. If he spends most of his time playing about in the way he used to as a child, he will go hungry. And if he breaks the laws of society as he used to break the laws of his parents, he may go to prison. If, however, he worked hard, keeps out of trouble and has good health, he can have the greatest happiness of building up for himself his own position in society.

1.What is the happiest person according to the passage?

A．A child who can do whatever he likes.

B．An old person who lives in a comfortable life.

C．A grown-up who no longer expects other to pay for him.

D．A person who never wastes his time in his whole life.

2.What pains does a child have?

A．He has few responsibilities to make life difficult.

B．He doesn’t have to do anything in return.

C．He is not so free to do what he wishes to do.

D．He has to work if he wants to live comfortably.

3.Which of the following is true, according to the second paragraph?

A．Life for a child is fairly easy.

B．A child is always loved whatever he does.

C．If much is given to a child, he must do something in return.

D．Only children are interested in life.

4.What is the main idea of the passage?

A．Life is not enjoyable since each age had some pains.

B．Young men can have the greatest happiness if they work hard.

C．Childhood is the most enjoyable time in one’s life.

D．One is the happiest if he can make good use of each age in his life.

5.What will the fourth paragraph most probably discuss following this passage?

A．Examples of successful young men.

B．How to build up one’s position in society.

C．Joys and pains of old people.

D．What to do when one has problems in life.

 

Every day cars kill or hurt many people on roads. Sometimes the drivers drive too fast or do not, drive c  1  enough. Some of them break the traffic rules and cause accidents.

According to some researches, it is usually the pedestrians（行人）who cause the accidents. A lot of road users are very careless. They walk or run a  2 the roads in front of the cars. They walk in the roads but not on the walkways. They get i  3  or out of cars in the middle of the road. Some do not take the trouble to wait for the green lights and s   4 cross the roads against the red lights.

Many people think accidents often h   5 in busy roads in large cities, but this is not always t  6 For example, Tokyo is one of the world’s l  7  cities and probably one of the busiest cities; however ,there are a few a  8 to pedestrians. The reason is that the police there are very strict and the pedestrians are very careful. Pedestrians never cross against a red light and they always f  9 traffic rules.

Do you know alcohol（酒精）is a  10  main cause of traffic accidents? It delays people’s response. Those who have drunk alcohol are slow in making decisions. They n  11 a few more seconds to react（反应）.Alcohol drinking is e  12 dangerous for motor car drivers. It is not only drivers who may have accidents after drinking. drunken pedestrians may put their lives in danger as well.