In my opinion, an organization should be set up to study the______ a child’s personality and his living environment.

　 A. relation to　 B. connection with　 C. link of　 D. connection between

In my opinion, an organization should be set up to study the______ a child’s personality and his living environment.

　 A. relation to　 　　　 B. connection with　 C. link of　 　　 D. connection between

Pay Attention to the Organization of an Article.

Check Your Understanding.

Lightning Speed Exercise

Set Aside Time Each Day.

Check Your Progress through Pacing

Speed up When Necessary.

1.______

Most of us can find 15 minutes or half an hour each day for some specific regular activity. For example, one famous surgeon always made it a rule to spend at least 15 minutes on general reading before he went to sleep each day. Whether he went to bed at 10 p.m. or 2:30 a.m. made no difference.

2.______

Nearly all ‘speed reading’ courses have a ‘pacing’ element---some timing device which lets the students know how many words a minutes he is reading. You can do this simply by looking at your watch every 5 or 10 minutes and noting down the page number you have reached.

3.______

Obviously there is little point in increasing your reading speed if you do not understand what you are reading. If you find you have lost the thread of the story, or you can’t remember clearly the details of what was said, re-read the section or chapter.

4.______

Take four or five pages of an interesting book you happen to be reading at the time. Read them as fast as you possibly can. Do not bother about whether you understand or not. After a ‘lightning speed’ of reading, you will usually find that your ‘normal’ speed has increased.

5.______

Most paragraphs in an article have a ‘topic sentence’ which expresses the central ideas. The opening paragraph often suggests the general direction and content of the piece, while paragraphs that follow expand or support the first. The closing paragraph often summarizes the very essence(实质) of what has been said.

The International Coast Clean-up is an organization that is set up to help the environment in the world，especially the areas near the waters．Recently，more than a half-million volunteers are taking part in an international movement to comb the world’s shorelines for cigarette butts, bottle caps and any other rubbish they can find．

The International Coast Clean-up is in its 14^th volunteers ready to collect more than 10 million pieces of rubbish along 19,308 kilometers of shoreline in 70 countries．

Sponsored(赞助)by the Centre for Marine Conservation and several other non―profit(非盈利的) groups and corporate sponsors, the activity is a one-day attempt to improve conditions on important waterfronts.

Cigarette butts are by far the most common item, with exactly 1.6 million picked up and counted in the last year’s clean-up．They were followed in numbers by food wrappers，plastic pieces，bottle caps and broken pieces of glass．The global event is held on the third Saturday of September．

Last year，the biggest volunteer army was in the Philippines，where nearly 300,000 people took part in the clean-up．With more than 7,000 islands，the Philippines is among the countries which have the largest shorelines．

“Around every main body of water，we have a rubbish problem，”said Sheavly，director of the Center for rubbish problem．Bad weather with some hurricane affected some plans，but thousands of volunteers were ready to go，she said．

About 20,000 divers are joining to clean up offshore rubbish，with major underwater efforts in the United States，the Philippines，Germany，Italy，Australia，Venezuela and EI Salvador．

Globally, less than 20 percent of shore rubbish clearly comes from the water. The most appears to come from land sources.

Part of the effort is counting the rubbish．Volunteers carry cards to second their collections，which will be piled and used for studies of how to settle the problem year-round.

56．What is the International Coast Clean-up set up for? (Within 20 words)

57．How long does the activity usually last? (Within 10 words)

58．What does the underlined word “waterfronts”mean? (Within 10 words)

59．What’s the writer’s opinion about this international movement? (Within 1 5 words)

60．What’s the main idea of the passage? (Within 15 words)

While the WTO is still   3   , the multilateral (多边的) trading system that was originally set up under GATT is already  4   ．The system celebrated its golden jubilee (五十年纪念) in Geneva on 19 May, 1998, with many   5   and government leaders attending.

    The past 50 years   6   an exceptional(unusual) growth in the world trade．Merchandise (goods) exports grew   7   by 6% annually(every year)．Total trade in 1998 was 14 times   8   to 1950．GATT and the WTO have helped to   9   a strong and prosperous trading system   10   to unprecedented (never done or known before) growth.

    China was an   11   of GATT, but for historical and political reasons it was withdrawn(taken out) from GATT by the government   12   in 1950．But over the last several years, China   13   to resume (take again)its contracting party status (position)．China hopes to become a number of the   14   before the body starts a new round of negotiations(discuss) late this year．Premier Zhu Rongji paid   15   from April 6,1999．He is the   16   Chinese premier to visit U.S．President Clinton agreed to   17   on China’s entry into the WTO with   18   of negotiations in Beijing．China’s entry into the WTO is still a long way   19   , but we believe that China’s fate is still controlled in   20   .

1．A．judge

B．leader

C．manager

D．successor

2．A．form

B．establish

C．flow

D．make

3．A．big

B．young

C．old

D．clever

4．A．fifty years old

B．sixty years old

C．at the age of 40

D．70 years old

5．A．heads of states

B．top leaders of companies

C．best experts of countries

D．richest managers

6．A．has helped

B．have seen

C．has raised

D．have formed

7．A．in whole

B．on average

C．in all

D．in total

8．A．the number

B．the fact

C．the level

D．the average

9．A．do

B．treat

C．liberate

D．appear

10．A．contributing

B．establishing

C．growing

D．attending

11．A．timely member

B．old leader

C．honor leader

D．original member

12．A．in Beijing

B．in Wuhan

C．in Taibei

D．in Nangjing

13．A．has found

B．has been seeking

C．has been waiting

D．has expected

14．A．WTO

B．GATT

C．Olympic Games

D．UN

15．A．a five- day Japan visit

B．a nine - day U.S．visit

C．a six - day Russian visit

D．a seven- day France visit

16．A．second

B．third

C．first

D．fourth

17．A．have a word

B．have words

C．have a meeting

D．have talks

18．A．the first time

B．the last time

C．the second round

D．a new round

19．A．to take

B．to remain

C．to go

D．to leave

20．A．in Clinton’s hands

B．in the hands of her own

C．the WTO

D．in the GATT