Hong Kong, major commercial center for Asia, and with a population which has grown at an alarming rate to over 5 million, is a city highly dependent on mass (大量的, 大规模的) transit of all sorts, both local and long distance. An ordinary Hong Kong worker or businessman, going about his daily activities, simply must use transportation at one time or another.
Because Hong Kong is in two parts, Kowloon, on the mainland side, and Hong Kong, the island, with Hong Kong's harbor in between Hong Kong's mass transit systems, in addition to going over land they must also cross water.
Going from home to work, or going shopping from one side of the harbor to the other, the Hong Kong resident has three choices. One way is to take a bus which will cross the harbor through an under water traffic tunnel moving slowly through bumper- to-bumper (一辆接一辆) traffic．Another way is by ferry boat , a pleasant ride which crosses the harbor in from seven to fifteen minutes.
But by far the fastest way of crossing the harbor is the newly built underground electric railway, the Hong Kong Metro(地铁). If one gets on the train in the Central District,the commercial area of Hong Kong on the island side, he can speed across the harbor in an astonishing three minutes. On the other side of the harbor the railway continues, snaking back and forth through the outlying districts of Kowloon, allowing one to get off a short distance from his destination.
The story of the Metro is an encouraging one for supporters of mass transit. Although building the system was certainly a challenging task, the Japanese firm hired to construct it did so in record time. Construction got underway in 1979 and it was completed in 1980.
For the average commuter (一般持月票往返两地的乘客) the system has only one disadvantage; it is more expensive than by bus or ferry. One can ride the bus across the harbor for half as much or he can ride the ferry across for less than one-fifth as much.
60．Hong Kong public transportation extends ________.
A．over hills and valleys B．across land and water
C．through mountains D．throughout the Kowloon area
61．Crossing the harbor by train is ________.
A．by far the most economical methods
B．the most pleasant method
C．the least pleasant method
D．the fastest method
62．The business area on the island side of Hong Kong is referred to as ________.
A．Kowloon B．the Central District
C．the Hong Kong Metro D．downtown Hong Kong
63．The underground railway ________.
A．winds through Kowloon B．ends when it reaches Kowloon
C．snakes across the harbor D．circles Kowloon
"USA? Britain? Which country is better to study in?" We often hear such discussions. As China opens its doors, studying abroad has become a dream for many Chinese students. They want to learn about the world.
It's true that studying abroad can help students develop themselves. Language skills will improve and it may be easier to find jobs.
But there are problems that should be considered(考虑). Language is the first. Students must spend a lot of time learning another language and getting used to a different culture.
Students must also learn to live without parents' care and deal with all kinds of things they haven't had to do before, like looking after themselves. There are reports about Chinese students abroad sinking into an ocean of difficulties and giving up easily. When they have to take care of themselves, it is hard for students to study well.
Finally, studying abroad brings a heavy burden(负担) to the family. For most Chinese parents, the cost of studying abroad is very high. But is it worth it?
We know that there are many famous people who succeed in great things through their hard work in China. Liu Xiang is a good example. Once an American teacher invited him there but he refused. He kept training hard with his Chinese teacher. He surprised the world when he won a gold medal(金牌) at the Athens Olympics. So when you wonder which country is better to study in, consider whether studying abroad is the right choice(选择).From the passage, we learn that many Chinese students dream about studying abroad to __________.
| A．taste a new life | B．make a lot of money |
| C．learn about the world | D．learn to look after themselves |
The writer thinks __________ should be considered first before students study abroad.
| A．places | B．time | C．money | D．language |
The writer mentions Liu Xiang in the passage in order to tell us that __________.
| A．Chinese teachers are better than American ones |
| B．studying abroad is not the right choice |
| C．people can also be successful in China if they work hard |
| D．Liu Xiang was a gold medal winner |
Which of the following is NOT true?
| A．Studying abroad will cost students' families a lot of money. |
| B．Studying abroad will make it easy for students to learn well. |
| C．Studying abroad will help students to improve language skills. |
| D．Studying abroad will bring students a lot of difficulties in their life. |
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(责任) 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 to 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 that 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 works hard, keeps out of trouble and has good health, he can have the great happiness of building up for himself his own position in society.According to Paragraph 2, the writer thinks that .
| 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 |
The main idea of the passage is that .
| A．life is not enjoyable since each age has 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 |
The paragraph following this passage will most probably discuss .
| 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 |
Carl studied in our middle school three years ago. Last August his father found a job in another city and his family moved there. He began to study in the new school and we often write to each other. He often tells me something about the city where he lives now and his studies in the school. So I can know what happens to him.
Last Friday Carl came to our city again. He hoped to accompany(陪伴) his old grandpa during the summer holiday. He was taller and stronger than before. We swam in the river outside the city together and had a picnic on the island. It surprised me that he had learnt to cook when we were traveling in the wild forest. He told me his parents were both busy and sometimes he stayed at home and he had to look after himself.
“How do you like your school?” I asked.
“Wonderful,” said the young man.” It has a tall building and there ‘re two chemistry labs, two biology labs and three physics ones. And its library is big and there’re plenty of books in it.”
“I can see you are satisfied with it.”
“Yes,” he answered. “But our geography teacher often says it himself in class.”
“So does our new history teacher.” I said. “But he doesn’t notice it. He often talks on and on in a flow of the eloquence（滔滔不绝）, but none of us listens to him.” I can know what happens to Carl because________.
| A．he lives near to me. | B．he often calls me |
| C．I often visit him | D．he often writes to me. |
Carl came back to our city to________.
| A．take his summer holiday. | B．look after his grandpa |
| C．have a picnic on the island. | D．travel in the wild forest. |
________, so he learned to cook.
| A．Carl liked all kinds of delicious foods. |
| B．Carl had to do some cooking when he was alone. |
| C．Carl found a job in a restaurant. |
| D．Carl often had a picnic with his friends |
Carl is satisfied with his school because__________.
| A．his teachers work hard. | B．it has lots of books |
| C．it has several labs. | D．it’s wonderful. |
A small town in Tasmania, an island off the south coast of mainland Australia, is making itself an environmental role model by becoming the country's first plastic bag-free town.
Since April 28, Coles Bay's population of 175 and its tourist shoppers have been using reusable paper or cloth bags to carry their shopping.
Ben Keamey, a local businessman who supports the bag ban, said it would cut the amount of waste and prevent damage to native wildlife that try to eat the plastic.
"Most businesses here come from the tourism and that's all based on the environment, so people were pretty supportive," he said.
Every year Australians use more than six billion plastic bags. More than half of these come from the supermarket. Since it takes years for the bags to biodegrade（生物递减分解）, tens of millions end up polluting the environment. They kill about 100,000 sea-birds and animals, which mistake bags for food, every year.
Only in the past few months have major Australian supermarkets begun cutting on their use of plastic bags. Environmental groups are pushing for a plastic bag fee like that in Ireland. There, since plastic bags cost 10 pence (about 1 yuan) each, their use has been cut by 90 per cent.
Pollution caused by plastic bags is a big headache for countries all over the world. As early as 1999, Beijing said that only plastic bags of certain thickness could be used. This was to encourage them to be used again and again, since an average of six million plastic bags are used there every there every single day.Which might be the best title for this passage?
| A．Deadly Plastic Bags | B．The End of Plastic Bags |
| C．How to Reuse Plastic Bags | D．The Present Situation of Plastic Bags |
Plastic bags will not be used by the native people of Coles Bay because they ______.
| A．cause the environmental pollution | B．are not easy to be reused |
| C．are not as good as cloth bags | D．are not strong enough |
Which of the following statements is NOT true?
| A．Plastic bags kill many animals in Australia each year. |
| B．Most Australian supermarkets have begun cutting on their use of plastic bags. |
| C．People at Coles Bay think poor environment may affect their tourism. |
| D．You have to pay for the plastic bags if you go shopping in Ireland. |
The example of Coles Bay is to show that ______.
| A．people take serious actions to deal with the plastic bag problem |
| B．people begin to realise the harm of using plastic bags |
| C．Australia is the first country in solving the plastic bag problem |
| D．Australians are aware of the importance of protecting the small town |
Which of the following measures on plastic bags is NOT mentioned in the passage?
| A．To forbid to use them by law. |
| B．to charge fee for plastic bags. |
| C．To make them thick enough to be reuseable. |
| D．To make them environmentally friendly. |
People often hear each others' voices without ever seeing the faces they belong to. "Nowadays we are talking away on the phone without meeting people," says Seung-Jae Moon. And from business conference calls to chat lines, people often imagine they would recognize the speaker if they saw him or her. Seung-Jae Moon, a linguist of Korea found that, under certain conditions, they're actually right.
Moon decided to see just how close those mental pictures match up with reality and if there was any relation to how people speak rather than what they are saying. He recorded 16 Koreans, half men and half women, reading the same passage, and took a full-body photo and head shot of each speaker. Then he played the tapes for 361 Koreans and 173 Americans who did not speak Korean and asked his subjects to match up voice and picture. The Korean participants viewing full-body photos were quite perceptive. A majority linked 6 of the 8 women to the correct voice and did so for 5 of the 8 men. With the Korean group shown only faces, accuracy plummeted, but more than 20 percent of the subjects selected the same incorrect picture. The Americans showed no accuracy in matching the foreign voices to photos, but they too were consistent in their errors. That disconnection reveals conflicting ideas of physical and vocal beauty. Moon asked people to pick a favorite face and voice. Seventy percent of the Koreans picked one voice, but there was no agreement on a face. Americans didn' t agree on either count. And over 65 percent of both Koreans and Americans did not match their favorite face with their favorite voice.
Moon hopes to use software to break voices into components like pitch and hoarseness to narrow down which elements trigger certain mental pictures. "If we can map which characteristics of the voice triggers what kind of linage, and it doesn't matter whether that image is the right or wrong one of the actual speaker, then we can create an image through voice,' he says. That capacity could help to create computer-synthesized voices tailored to conjure up specific associations — audio books for children that inspire motherly visages, or warning alerts that bring to mind a stern police officer.People often think that they would ______ the speaker when they saw the speaker.
| A．understand | B．recognize | C．like | D．surprise |
Moon decided to do the experiment to ______.
| A．see how close mental pictures match up with reality |
| B．how people speak |
| C．see if there was any relation to how people speak rather than what they are saying |
| D．both A and C |
He asked ______ Korean women to speak and recorded their voices.
| A．12 | B．16 | C．8 | D．10 |
______ were more perceptive in recognizing full-body photos.
| A．The Koreans | B．The American women |
| C．The Korean women | D．The Americans |
______ percent of Koreans and Americans matched their favorite face with their favorite voice.
| A．Less than 65 | B．Less than 35 | C．Over 65 | D．About 20 |