单项选择题

　　1、 I was most surprised to hear Susan's marriage."

　　A.very

　　B.really

　　C.more

　　D.least

　　2、 Our new house is on the first floor.

　　A.bottom

　　B.third

　　C.ground

　　D.top

　　3、The government is debating the education laws.

　　A.discussing

　　B.defeating

　　C.delaying

　　D.declining

　　4、A Ride in a Cable-car

　　A ride in a cable-car is one of the exciting and enjoyable experiences a child can have. In Switzerland, which is the home of the cable-car, it is used mostly to take tourists up the slope of a mountain, to a restaurant from which one can have a bird-eye view of the surrounding country,or to a top of a ski-run, from which, in winter, skiers glide down the snow covered the slope on skis. In Singapore, however, the cable-car takes one from the summit of a hill on the main island to a low hill on Sentosa, a resort island just off the southern coast.

　　The cable-car is really a carriage which hangs from a strong steel cable suspended in the air.It moves along the cable with other cars on pulleys, the wheels of which are turned by electric motors. The cars are painted in eye-catching colours and spaced at regular intervals. Each car can seat up six persons. After the passengers have entered a car, they are locked in from outside by an attendant, they have no control over the movement of the car.

　　Before long, the passengers get a breath-taking view through the glass windows of the modern city, the bustling harbour, and the several islands off the coast. The car is suspended so high in the air that slips on the sea look like small boats, and boats like toys. On a clear day, both the sky above and the sea below look beautifully blue.

　　In contrast to the fast-moving traffic on the ground, the cars in the air move in a leisurely manner, allowing passengers more than enough time to take in the scenery during the brief trip to the island of Sentosa. After a few hours on Sentosa, it will be time again to take a cable-car back to Mount Faber. The return journey is no less exciting than the outward trip.

　　The cable-car in Singapore __________.

　　A.takes visitors up to a mountain restaurant

　　B.takes skiers to the top of a ski-run

　　C.takes visitors to Sentosa

　　D.takes visitors to a high mountain

　　5、 You should cultivate the habit of reading carefully.

　　A.invent

　　B.begin

　　C.develop

　　D.initiate

　　6、What were the consequences of the decision she had made?

　　A.reasons

　　B.results

　　C.causes

　　D.bases

　　7、He is assigned to oversee the production of the assembly lines.

　　A.supervise

　　B.watch

　　C.suspect

　　D.predict

　　8、Brotherly Love

　　Adidas and Puma have been two of the biggest names in sports shoe manufacturing for over half a century.

　　Since l928 they have supplied shoes for Olympic athletes.World Cup-winning football heroes.Muhammad Ali.hip hop stars and rock musicians famous all over the world.But the story of these two companies begins in one house in the town of Herzogenaurach, Germany.

　　Adolph and Rudolph Dassler were the sons of a shoemaker.They loved sport but complained that they could never find comfortable shoes to play in.Rudolph always said, You cannot play sports wearing shoes that you’d walk around town with. So they started making their own.In l920 Adolph made the first pair of athletic shoes with spikes(钉), produced on the Dasslers’ kitchen table.

　　On lst July l924 they formed a shoe company, Dassler Brothers Ltd and they worked together for many years.The company became successful and it provided the shoes for Germany’s athletes at the l928 and l932 Olympic Games.

　　But in l948 the brothers argued.No one knows exactly what happened, but family members have suggested that the argument was about money or women.The result was that Adolph left the company.His nickname was Adi.and using this and the first three letters of the family name, Dassler, he founded Adidas.

　　Rudolph relocated across the River Aurach and founded his own company too.At first he wanted to call it Ruda, but eventually he called it Puma, after the wild cat.The famous Puma logo of the jumping cat has hardly changed since.

　　After the big split of l948 Adolph and Rudolph never spoke to each other again and their companies have now been in competition for over sixty years.Both companies were for many years the market leaders, though Adidas has always been more successful than Puma.A hip hop group, Run DMC, has even written a song called “My Adidas” and in 2005 Adidas bought Reebok, another big sports shoe company.

　　The terrible family argument should really be forgotten, but ever since it happened, over sixty years ago.the town has been split into two.Even now, some Adidas employees and Puma employees don’t talk to each other.

　　Adidas and Puma started to make sports shoes at the end of the l9th century.

　　A.Right

　　B.Wrong

　　C.Not mentioned

　　9、Every week the magazine presents the profile of a well-known sports personal.

　　A.success

　　B.description

　　C.evidence

　　D.plan

　　10、阅读材料，回答题。

　　The Jobless Rate in U. S.

　　There are only a couple of ways to explain how the capacity of U.S. workers to claim their accustomed share of the nation's income has so stunningly collapsed. Outsourcing is certainly a big part of the picture.

　　As Stephen Roach, a famous economist, has noted, private-sector hiring in the current recovery is roughly ?million jobs shy of what would have been the norm in previous recoveries and U.S.corporations, high-tech as well as low-tech, are busily hiring employees from lower-wage nation instead of from our own.

　　The jobless rate among U.S. software engineers, for instance, has doubled over the past three years.In Bangalore, India, where American companies are on a huge hiring spree for the kind of talent they used to scoop up in Silicon Valley, the starting annual salary for top electrical engineering graduates, says Business Week, is $ 10,000 compared with $ 80,000 here in the States.Tell that to a software writer in Palo Alto and she's not likely to up her boss for a raise.That software writer certainly doesn't belong to a union, either.

　　Indeed, the current recovery is not only the first to take place in all economy in which global wage rates are a factor, but the first since before the New Deal to take place in an economy in which the rate of private-sector unionization is in single digits just 3.5 percent of the workforce.

　　The current administration is not responsible for the broad contours of this miserably misshapen recovery, but its every action merely increases the imbalance of power between America's employers and employees.But the Democrats'prescriptions for more broadly shared prosperity need some tweaking, too.With the globalization of high-end professions, no Democrat can assert quite so confidently the line that Bill Clinton used so often : What you earn is a result of what you learn.This year's crop of presidential candidates is taking more seriously the importance of labor standards in trade accords, and the right of workers to organize.But they've got a way to go to make the issue of stagnating incomes into the kind of battle crying it should be in the campaign against Bush.If they're not up to it, I say we outsource them all and bring in some pools from Bangalore.

　　Which of the following might have contributed to the current miserably misshapen recovery in the U.S.?

　　A.The New Deal.

　　B.The globalization of eco.nomy.

　　C.The economic policies adopted by the Bush administration.

　　D.U.S.workers are no longer capable of sharing the increase of nation's income.

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