---Let’s go to see the lions first?
---On, no! I think they are _______ ugly and scary.
A. too many        B. too much        C much too      D kind of

—The supermarket is crowded（拥挤的）. There are ___________ people there.

—Yeah, and the things there are always ______________ expensive（贵的）.

A．too much; much too                     B．much too; to many

C．too many; much too                     D．many too; too much

I seldom eat sweet cakes or sweets because there’s _______ sugar in them.

  Look! There are thousands of people waiting to buy tickets home in the railway station．Each time when Spring Festival comes，buying tickets of train trip would be very hard．And things seem to be getting worse and worse，although we have greatly increased the mileage(总里程) of railway network and speeded up trains．Why? It’s because too many people want to go back home to spend Spring Festival with their family．Many people become angry with the Ministry(部)of Railways．They wonder why it is hopeless for them to get the tickets from the railway station．Instead，they sometimes can only buy them from ticket scalpers at much higher price．

    The Ministry of Railways estimated(估计) that about 216 million passengers would travel by train during the 40-day peak period(高峰期) during the 2010 Spring Festival holiday．The number of travelers will be 8％higher than that of 2009．This problem even attracted the President Hu Jintao’s attention．He wrote a note to Liu Zhijun，Minister of the Ministry of Railways，asking him to make sure of a “smooth and safe” transportation．Afterwards，officials from the Ministry of Railways said they would try their best not to let any ticket-buyers spend Spring Festival at the railway station．

1. What does the underlined word “scalper” in the first paragraph mean?

        A．代售点            B．售票员           C．票贩               D．赌徒

2. Many people can’t buy the tickets from the railway station，and they sometimes can only buy them from the scalpers         ．

             A．expensively        B．wrongly           C．dangerously        D．hardly

3.How many people took the train trip during the peak period during the 2009 Spring Festival holiday?

         A．About 216 million．                           B．About 172 million．

C．About 200 million．                            D．About 233 million．

4.What does the passage mainly tell us?

         A．People go home much more easily during the Spring Festival．

         B．It is very hard to buy tickets in the railway station during the Spring Festival．

         C．President Hu Jintao cares about the railway building problem．

         D．The Ministry of Railways felt sorry about the problem．

The widespread number of food scandals ( 丑闻) in China is making many people pause before they put their chopsticks in their mouth. They are wondering if the food they are eating is clean, healthy and nutritious or does it contain something harmful that will cause disease?
Most of the food we eat today is processed food( 加工食品). That means the foods we buy in stores and supermarkets, especially packaged foods, are prepared in factories. Chemicals are added to the foods in these factories to make them look better, taste better and last longer on the shelf. The chemicals are supposed to be harmless and there are laws that regulate which chemicals can and cannot be used. Unfortunately, some producers do not obey the laws.
A producer of steamed buns (馒头) in Zhejiang Province was recently discovered to be breaking the law. He was adding yellow dye and other banned chemicals to the buns. He was also taking old buns and using them to make new buns. Most of the buns were sold to schools and eaten by students. . . like you’
Why did he do it? Why did he break the law and endanger people’s health? The answer is simple: he wanted to make more money. It was a moral failing, and this is at the heart of the food scandals in China. Too many people focus on making money and not on the effects their actions can have on others.
【小题1】 Chemicals are added to the foods in the factories because _____.