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The United States: Fliers may want to have their tickets in hand before catching their planes, but the airline companies are doing everything they can to bring forward cost-saving ticketless flight—no paper needed, just a ticket number and a photo ID (帶照片的身份證).

    Anyone who buys a Northwest E-ticket through the airline's computer service by June 16 will get an award (獎(jiǎng)勵(lì)). Next time you fly, you can buy another ticket for a friend for $ 99, good anywhere in the US or Canada through Feb. 12, 2000, along with the lowest ticket prices. Some airlines offer extra frequent-flier miles for the ticket less crowd. And there are rising punishments for paper lovers. American, Northwest, United, and last week, US Airways have raised the cost for lost ticket replacement (替換) to $ 70 from either $ 60 or $ 50. The airlines insist that the increase in price is not meant to push travelers toward E-tickets but only covers the increasing cost of replacing and tracking a missing ticket.

1．Why is the new ticketless flight introduced?

    A. it is cheaper for air travelers.

    B. It helps reduce the cost for airlines.

    C. It can use computer fliers to plan air traveling.

    D. It helps prevent fliers from losing their tickets.

2．To encourage people to take ticketless flights, the airlines ________.

    A. sell their tickets for $ 99 from June to February the following year

    B. let travelers go to both the US and Canada with the same tickets

    C. allow each other traveler to have an extra $ 99 ticket for a friend of theirs

    D. offer ticketless travelers free miles to fly in the US

3．Who are the paper lovers mentioned in the text?

    A. People who like to have paper airplane tickets.

    B. People who love paper products of various kinds.

    C. People who travel with paper on a plane.

    D. People who have lost their tickets and buy a second one.

4．The airline companies say that they have raised the lost-ticket replacement price in order to ________.

    A. attract travelers to take ticketless flights

    B. punish those who insist on using paper tickets

    C. do better than other airline companies

    D. pay for the work to deal with lost tickets

 

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The humorous story may be told to great length, and may wander around as much as it pleases, and arrive nowhere in particular; but the comic(滑稽的) story and the witty(詼諧的)story must be brief and end with a point. The humorous story continues gently along, the other two brusts.

The humorous story is strictly a work of art-high and delicate(精美的) art-and only an artist can tell it; but no art is necessary in telling the comic and witty stories; anybody can do it. The art of telling a humorous story-I mean by word of mouth, no print-was created in America, and has remained at home.

The humorous story is told seriously; the teller does his best to hide the fact that he himself even suspects(懷疑)that there is anything funny about it; but the teller of the comic story tells you before hand that it is one of the funniest things he has ever heard, then tells it with eager delight, and is the first person to laugh when he gets through. And sometimes, if he has had good success, he is so glad and happy that he will repeat the point of it and glance around from face to face, collecting applause(喝彩), and then repeat it again.

1．Which story takes the longest to tell?

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A．The humorous story.

B．The witty story.

C．The comic story

D．All three take the same amount of time.

2．Which story has no particular point?

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A．The humorous story.

B．The witty story.

C．The comic story

D．All three.

3．Which of the following statements is true?

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A．The humorous story was created abroad.

B．The humorous story is basically American.

C．The humorous story is also loved in other countries.

D．The humorous story is the least popular in the U.S.

4．The teller of a humorous story ________.

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A．laughs at his own joke

B．repeats it several times

C．is very serious when he tells it

D．is concerned about the reaction of his listeners

5．The teller of a comic story ________.

[　　]

A．tells it only once

B．tells the listener in advance that his story is funny

C．doesn't care whether his listeners enjoy it or not

D．is very serious when telling it

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THE WORLD'S NEW FACES

    It will come as no surprise that the earth is going to be a much more crowded place in the next century. From global population of about 5.4 billion today, the United Nations Fund for Population Activities says we'll see a rise to 8.2 billion people in 2025. The U. N. expects total population to stabilize (穩(wěn)定) at 11.6 billion sometime later in the 2000s. More than ninety percent of the population growth will occur in developing countries. Eighteen of the world's twenty largest cities will be in these lands as the number of urban dwellers (居民) swells (膨脹) from roughly two billion to 5.1 billion. The United States and Europe, which accounted for twenty-two percent of the world's population, will be home to less than nine percent of its people in 2025. By contrast (對(duì)照), Africa's share of the total will climb from nine percent in 1950 to nearly twenty percent by 2015. Ethiopia should double in size to almost 100 million people. In about the same time period, India will overtake China as the world's most-populous country.

　　 For the United States, the big news won't be an abundance (豐富，充裕) of new faces; experts predict (預(yù)言) the country will grow from its present 250 million population and stabilize at about 350 million sometime before the middle of the next century. The important changes will be in American ethnic (種族的) make-up. Twenty years from now, the United States' white, non-Hispanic (西班牙的) majority will peak (到達(dá)最高點(diǎn)) at 195 million, and then may decline in numbers. Asian-Americans will become an increasingly important minority, while African-Americans whose population growth rate is slowing dramatically will become the second largest minority behind Hispanics, a half-million of whom are now thought to be emigrating to the United States legally and otherwise, each year.

1.This article is primarily about ________

A. population growth in developing countries

B. population growth in developed countries

C. the reason why the world's population is changing

D. how the population is changing in different parts of the world

2. Which statement can be inferred from the first paragraph of this article?

A. China is the most populous country in the world today.

B. India is the most populous country in the world today.

C. Ethiopia will be the most populous country in the future.

D. In the future, China's population will grow faster than India's.

3. According to the article, how is the population of the United States going to change?

A. African-Americans will become the largest minority.

B. There will be more people from different ethnic background.

C. The number of white non-Hispanics will increase rapidly.

D. Asian-Americans will become the second largest minority.

4. The underlined word "overtake" in the second paragraph means_______

A. take the place of　　　　　　　　 B. pass by

C. catch up　　　　　　　　　　    D. take

5. Which of the following statements is true?

A. The population of the American whites will peak all the time.

B. The population of the American whites will decline all the time.

C. The population of the American whites will peak and then decline.

D. The population of the American whites will decline and then peak.

 

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The Pentagon

五角大樓

    美國(guó)號(hào)稱世界頭號(hào)軍事大國(guó)，其武力干涉幾乎滲透到全球，有人開玩笑說(shuō)：“只要五角大樓打個(gè)噴嚏，整個(gè)地球都會(huì)震動(dòng)。”五角大樓是什么? 讓我們揭開它神秘的面紗，好好地認(rèn)識(shí)一下這座建筑的運(yùn)作職能吧。

    The Pentagon，or the headquarters of the US Department of Defense，is one of the largest office buildings in the world，taking up a total land of 583 acres．The five-sided structure itself occupies an area of 29 acres．Each of its five outside wails is 921 feet long．It has three times the floor space as the Empire State Building or half again as much space as either of the New York's World Trade Center towers．

    Working inside this huge building are over 25 000 employees，one half of them being civilians and the other half members of the U．S． armed forces．During the last year of the Second World War there were 37 000 people，both military and civilian，working inside the Pentagon．In the Korean and Vietnam War periods，31 000．The employees are scattered among hundreds of offices that occupy a floor space of 3705793 square feet．

While inside the building they tell time by 4 200 clocks，drink from 685 water fountains，utilize 280 rest rooms，consume 30 000 cups of coffee，6 000 tins of milk and 5 000 bottles of soft drinks of various kinds every day，with a total staff of 600 persons preparing and serving food and drinks to the Pentagon employees，daily．

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    Pentagon n．五邊形；五角大樓　　  civilian n．平民

    military n．軍人　　　　　　　　  scatter v．分散

    utilize v．利用；應(yīng)用　　　　　　 consume v．消耗

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The building is called “the Pentagon ”because________．

A．it is the largest building in the world

B．it lies in the U．S．A．

C．it has five sides

  D．it is a secret place

 

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“The pen is more powerful than the sword.”There have been many writers who used their pens to fight things that were wrong. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe was one of them.

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A. every English-speaking person has read Uncle Tom’s Cabin

B.Uncle Tom’s Cabin was not very interesting

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B. Over fifty years old.

C. In her forties.

D. Around twenty years old.

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D.She had once been a slave.

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A. She wrote so well that Americans loved her very much.

B.She disclosed the terrible wrongs that had been done to the slaves in the Southern States.

C.The Southern Americans hated the book while the Northern Americans like it.

D.The book had been read by many Americans.

5.What can we learn from the passage?

A. We needn’t use weapons (武器) to fight things that are wrong.

B.A writer is more helpful in a war than a soldier.

C.We must understand the importance of literature (文學(xué)) and art.

D.No war can be won without such a book as Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

 

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     The main cause of a heart attack is not exercise or stress - it's air pollution, according to a study
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     Jon Ayres, professor of environmental and respiratory(呼吸的) medicine at the University of
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effect on those with existing respiratory conditions." So how can you avoid the damage? We asked the
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BUY SOME HOUSEPLANTS
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A. Exercise      
B. Stress   
C. Traffic      
D. Air pollution
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A. Side streets
B. Main streets
C. Pavements
D. Parks
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B. Objects such as synthetic carpets, TV screens can not cause diseases
C. The risk of cancer is higher indoors than outside
D. The application of air fresheners and houseplants can keep the circulation of the air and absorb the pollutants
4. What is the passage mainly about?
A. Tips to avoid the damage of air pollution
B. Air pollution is the main cause of a heart attack
C. Air pollution is linked to strokes, heart attacks and cancer
D. Pollution levels can be two to five times higher indoors than outside

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