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The staff ________ chatting cheerfully during the coffee break when the boss came in．


  1. A.
    was
  2. B.
    were
  3. C.
    have been
  4. D.
    has been
B
这句句子的意思是“当老板走进来时，员工们正热烈地讨论着。”从时态上来看，前半句应用过去进行时，而不是现在完成时，所以选项C和D均不对。而staff是集体名词，谓语动词用复数。
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I love charity(慈善) shops and so do lots of other people in Britain because you find quite a few of them on every high street. The charity shop is a British institution, selling everything from clothes to electric goods, all at very good prices. You can get things you won’t find in the shops anymore. The thing I like best about them is that your money is going to a good cause and not into the pockets of profit-driven companies, and you are not damaging the planet, but finding a new home for unwanted goods.

The first charity shop was opened in 1947 by Oxfam. The famous charity’s appeal to aid postwar Greece had been so successful it had been flooded with donations(捐赠物). They decided to set up a shop to sell some of these donations to raise money for that appeal. Now there are over 7,000 charity shops in the UK. My favourite charity shop in my hometown is the Red Cross shop, where I always find children’s books, all 10 or 20 pence each.

Most of the people working in the charity shops are volunteers, although there is often a manager who gets paid. Over 90% of the goods in the charity shops are donated by the public. Every morning you see bags of unwanted items outside the front of shops, although they don’t encourage this, rather ask people to bring things in when the shop is open.

The shops have very low running costs: all profits go to charity work. Charity shops raise more than ￡110 million a year, funding（资助）medical research, overseas aid, supporting sick and poor children, homeless and disabled people, and much more. What better place to spend your money? You get something special for a very good price and a good moral sense. You provide funds to a good cause and tread lightly on the environment.

The author loves the charity shop mainly because of _______.

   A. its convenient location              B. its great variety of goods

   C. its spirit of goodwill               D. its nice shopping environment

The first charity shop in the UK was set up to ____.

   A. sell cheap products                  B. deal with unwanted things

   C. raise money for patients               D. help a foreign country

Which of the following is TRUE about charity shops?

   A. The operating costs are very low.      B. The staff are usually well paid.

   C. 90% of the donations are second-hand.   D. They are open twenty-four hours a day.

Which of the following may be the best title for the passage?

   A. What to Buy a Charity Shops.        B. Charity Shop: Its Origin & Development.

   C. Charity Shop: Where You Buy to Donate.  D. The Public’s Concern about Charity Shops.

阅读下列应用文及相关信息, 并按照要求匹配信息。选项中有一项是多余的。把选项的编号填写在答题纸对应位置上。
以下是咨询和服务部门的信息：

A．Career Services (Room 113)
The staff of the Career Services center advise students on career choices and applications of for higher education. They also help students and graduates apply their academic and life experiences to achieving career fulfillment, provide them with the services and resources necessary to make better informed career decisions and help them develop the skills necessary to progress their career plans.
Opening Hours: Monday through Friday: 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Phone: (412) 396-6644 Fax: (412) 396-6644
B．The Accommodation Office ( Room 114)
The Accommodation Office is the place to find every thing concerning accommodation during your studying at this university. It offers a free advisory service and a wide range of handbooks and checklists covering the full range of housing available. In addition to this, the office also offers other services, such as the allocation of places in local residences and the provision of information regarding privately owned accommodation.
Opening Hours: Monday through Friday: 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Phone : (412) 396-6754 Fax: (412) 396-6752
C．Medical Center (Room 115)
The staff of the Medical Center aim to provide convenient and comprehensive medical care to students and staff of the university. The center is well equipped and the staff here are trained to deal with a broad range of medical problems. Both female and male doctors as well as nursing staff are available for consultation. Also, all kinds of medicines are sold here and are cheaper for students than other drugstores.
Opening Hours: 24 hours from Monday to Sunday
Phone : (412) 396-6649 Fax: (412) 396-6648
D．The Sports Office (Room 207)
Sport and recreation play an important role in the lives of students. The university has lots of indoor and outdoor sports facilities and all students are encouraged to participate in some form of sport and recreation. This office can provide information about sporting and activities to keep you fit.
Opening Hours: Monday through Friday: 7:00am - 10:00pm
Phone : (412) 396-6877  Fax: (412) 396-6876
E. Food Service (Room 127)
Tasty, nutritious meals and a wide variety of snacks are available from the cafeterias on campus. Maybe you are not familiar with different cafeterias here and find it difficult to get a good meal. Don’t worry! The Food Service can provide you with specific information on the food available here and offers meal plans based on your individual needs.
Opening Hours: Monday through Friday: 2:30pm - 5:30pm
Phone: (412) 396-6899  Fax: (412) 396-6890
F. Library (Room 215)
There are various books and reference materials in every subject here including literature, art and math. Besides books, there are also photo-copying, video, audio-visual and computing facilities. Our collection is big and our main task is to help you solve problems on making use of the library.
Opening Hours: Monday through Friday: 8:30am - 5:30pm
Phone: (412) 396-6312  Fax: (412) 396-6706
以下是大学生的信息，请匹配大学生与他们要选择的服务部门：
1. Richard is a foreign student majoring in medicine. He can adjust himself to the weather but he is having a lot of difficulties in getting used to the diet at the college cafeterias.
2. John is fond of sports. He plays football every day.  Unfortunately, he injured his leg while he was playing this morning. He urgently needs some medical help.
3. Lucy is new student from Washington, and she often arrives at the college late since she lives far away from the university, so she desperately needs to find a new place to live in.
4. Alice is going to leave university next year. She is preparing her papers and has to do a lot of research. She would like to find books on literature and learn how to use the audio-visual facilities.
5. Rosemary studies in the department of computer science. She is really interested in this field, so she plans to be engaged in this booming industry after her graduation, but before she makes a final decision, she wants to consult experienced teachers.

From my first day, I was attending press conferences and other media events all over town. I got to attend events at places I had never thought I’d get to: the White House, the Senate and House of Representative buildings at the Capitol (国会大厦), the Department of Health and Human Services, just to name a few. And I was sent to cover these events as if I were a reporter, not just an intern (实习生) .

 In fact, I never really felt like an intern. I was given the opportunity to do the work that everyone else at the paper was doing. I covered stories on my own and wrote the articles myself. I was included in discussions for story ideas. I helped to edit the articles that went into the paper. I was able to take part in every aspect of the newspaper that I wanted to experience.

 The best part of working at the Nation’s Health was the staff. They were supportive in letting me go out and do things on my own, while I always knew that they would be more than happy to answer any questions or help me with any problems I might have. Best of all, they treated me as their equal, not just an intern whom they could get to do all the work they didn’t want to do.

After interning at the Nation’s Health for nearly seven months and having more than 30 articles published, I had to move on. My experience there gave me insight into how the media work, which helps me when I’m trying to choose stories. In addition, it showed me that work really can be fun.

1.What is the passage mainly about?

A. How good reporting begins with journalism interns.

B. The author’s opportunity to work at the Nation’s Health.

C. The author’s experience working as an intern

D. The author’s first day as a professional reporter.

2.What impressed the author most when working at the Nation’s Health?

A. The employees treated her as one of them equally.

B. The opportunity to work alone.

C. Covering stories and writing articles

D. Coming up with story ideas for the newspaper.

3.We can infer that the author had thought an intern would be made to ____.

A. go to as many places as possible

B. do the boring things that others didn’t want to do

C. treat people equally, no matter who they were.

D. get help from a professional reporter

4.What did the author think of her experience of working at the Notion’s Health?

A. Meaningful    B. Disappointing     C. Tiring    D.  Surprising

 

The staff(员工) of the school ______to the expert’s lecture．for they feel interested in it．

A．are listening

B．is listening

C．1istens

D．has listened

 

The government-run command post in Tunis is staffed around the clock by military personnel, meteorologists and civilians. On the wall are maps, crisscrossed with brightly colors arrows that painstakingly track the fearsome path of the enemy.

　　What kind of invader gives rise to such high-level monitoring? Not man, not beast, but the lowly desert locust(蝗虫). In recent months, billions of the 3-inch-long winged warriors have descended on Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia, blackening the sky and eating up crops and vegetation. The insect invasion, the worst in 30 years, is already creating great destruction in the Middle East and is now treating southern Europe. The current crisis began in late 1985 near the Red Sea. Unusually rainy weather moistened the sands of the Sudan, making them ideal seedbed for the locust, which lays its eggs in the earth. The insect onslaught threatens to create yet another African famine. Each locust can eat its weight (not quite a tenth of an ounce) in vegetation every 24 hours. A good-size swarm of 50 billion insects eats up 100,000 tons of grass, trees and crops in a single night.

　　All ﹩150 million may be needed this year. The U.S. has provided two spraying planes and about 50,000 gal. of pesticide. The European Community has donated ﹩3.8 million in aid and the Soviet Union, Canada, Japan and China have provided chemical-spraying aircraft to help wipe out the pests. But relief efforts are hampered by the relative mildness of approved pesticides, which quickly lose their deadly punch and require frequent replications. The most effective locust killer dieldrin has been linked to cancer and is banned by many Western countries and some of the affected African nations. More than 5 million acres have been dusted with locust-killing chemicals; another 5 million will be treated by the end of June.

　　On May 30, representatives of Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Mauritania will meet in Algiers to discuss tactics to wipe out the ravenous swarms. The move is an important step, but whatever plan is devised, the locust plague promised to get worse before the insects can be brought under control.[来源:Zxxk.Com]

1.The main idea of the first sentence in the passage is that ______.

　 A. the command post is stationed with people all the time.

　 B. the command post is crowded with people all the time.

　 C. there are clocks around the command post.

　 D. the clock in the command post is taken care of by the staff.

2. The favorable breeding ground for the locust is ______.

　 A. rich soil.                               B. wet land

　 C. paces covered crops and vegetation        D. the Red Sea

3. People are alert at the threat of the locust because ______.

　 A. the insects are likely to create another African famine.

　 B. the insects may blacken the sky.

　 C. the number of the insects increases drastically.

　 D. the insects are gathering and moving in great speed.

4.Which of the following is true?

　 A. Once the pesticides are used, locust will die immediately.

　 B. Relief efforts are proved most fruitful due to the effectiveness of certain pesticides.

　 C. Dieldrin, the most effective locust killer, has been widely accepted in many countries.

　 D. Over 10 million acres of affected area will have been treated with locust-killing chemicals by the end of June.

5. The purpose for affected nations to meet in Algiers on May 30 is ______.

　 A. to devise anti-locust plans.

　 B. to wipe out the swarms in two years.

　 C. to call out for additional financial aid from other nations.

D. to bring the insects under control before the plague gets worse.

 

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