题目内容
Seldom ______ breakfast when I was a middle school student.
A. had I B. I had C. did I have D. I did have
C
Thousands of people living in the Chinese capital will celebrate the start of the Chinese New year by heading for the ski resorts (滑雪场). Never mind that Beijing’s dry weather seldom produces snow. It is cold enough in winter for snow-making machines to make a covering for the hills north to the capital. And the rapid growth of a pleasure-seeking middle class has formed the basis for this new craze(热潮).
Since Beijing’s first ski resort was opened ten years ago, the sport has enjoyed astonishing increase. There are now more than a dozen resorts. Clothes markets in the city have added bright colored ski suits to their winter collections. Mr. Wei, a manager of a newly-opened ski resort in Beijing, sees the growth of an industry that could soon lead Chinese to head for the ski resorts of Europe. In recent years, ski resorts offering natural snow have opened in China. But many are in faraway areas of the country and can’t really match the equipment and services of some ski resorts in Europe.
Beijing’s skiing craze is partly a result of the recent increase in private (私有的) cars. This has led to the growth of a leisure industry in the capital’s suburbs (郊区), which until the late-1990s were unreachable to ordinary people. According to Mr. Wei, about 40% of the visitors to his resort come in their own cars. The rest are bused in by schools, businesses or government offices.
The problem is making money. Starting ski resorts requires quite a lot of money; hiring land from the local government, preparing the hills, buying snow machines, making sure there are enough water and electricity to run them, and buying ski equipment for hiring out to customers.
The ski resort where Mr. Wei works cost nearly $4 million to set up. And as so often in China when someone comes up with a good idea, many others rush in and price wars break out. Beijing now offers some of the cheapest ski training classes in the world, though with most people rather new to the sport, expecting a few more doing the same job.
【小题1】What does this text mainly talk about?
A.Convenience for skiers brought about by private cars. |
B.Skiing as a new way of enjoying one's spare time. |
C.Things to be considered when starting a ski resort. |
D.A sudden increase of ski training classes in Beijing. |
A.To visit more ski areas. |
B.To ski on natural snow. |
C.For a large collection of ski suits. |
D.For better services and equipment. |
A.transport to ski resorts |
B.production of family cars |
C.business of providing spare time enjoyments |
D.part-time work for people living in the suburbs |
A.Difficulty in hiring land. |
B.Lack of business experience. |
C.Price wars with other ski resorts |
D.Shortage of water and electricity. |
Tokyo is one of those places that you can love and hate at the same time. In Tokyo there are always too many people in the places where I want to go. Of course there are too many cars. The Japanese drive very fast, but in Tokyo they often spend a long time in traffic jams. Tokyo is not different from London, Paris and New York in that, it is different when one wants to walk.
At certain times of the day there are a lot of people on foot in London's Oxford Street. But the streets near the Ginze in Tokyo always have a lot of people on foot, and sometimes it is really difficult to walk. People are very polite; there are just too many of them.
The worst time to be in the street is at 11:30 at night. That is when the night-clubs are closing and every-body wants to go home. There are 35,000 night-clubs in Tokyo, and you do not often see one that is empty(空的).
During the day, most people travel to and from work by train. Tokyo people buy six million train tickets every day. At most stations, trains arrive every two or three minutes, but at certain hours there do not seem to be enough trains. Although they are usually crowded, Japanese trains are very good. They always leave and arrive on time.
In Tokyo, I stood outside the station for five minutes. Three fire-engines raced past on the way to one of the many fires that Tokyo has every day. Tokyo has so many surprises that none of them can really surprise me now.
1. Tokyo is different from London in that ______________.
A.it has a larger population |
B.there are more traffic jams |
C.night clubs are sometimes empty |
D.it is more difficult to go somewhere on foot |
2.Fires break out___________ in Tokyo according to the writer.
A.not very often |
B.only several times a day |
C.quite often |
D.very seldom |
3.Which of the following is NOT true about Tokyo?
A.The streets become more crowded at 11:30 at night. |
B.There are more trains than cars. |
C.Fire-engines are very busy in the city. |
D.Tokyo people are friendly. |