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     On a PC (个人电脑), having to fill out a form and type in a credit card number to buy something
is only mildly annoying. On a cellphone, it could make you want to skip the purchase entirely.
     This is why investors, startups (初创企业) and major corporations are pouring money into
services that make it easier to use cellphones to buy goods and transfer money. The aim is to turn
phones into virtual credit cards or checkbooks, enabling the kind of clickandbuy commerce and online
banking that people have come to expect on their PCs. But shrinking down (缩小) those services
presents serious challenges.
     The services must work on many different phones and through many cellphone service providers,
which usually control the billing relationships with customers. That adds complexity to the already tricky
business of safely and securely transferring funds among financial institutions and merchants.
     Mobile payment systems have been tried before, with only modest success. Driving a new flurry
(一阵兴奋) of deal making, industry analysts and executives say, is the success of the iPhone,
BlackBerry and other sophisticated (尖端的) devices. These phones make complex interactions easier.
     Now the race is on to develop new payment systems-and to get several percentage points in fees
from each transaction. They're seeing that returns could be so huge. Obopay, a startup that lets people
transmit money to one another via text message, raised $ 35 million from Nokia's investment. Also, a
mobile payments startup called Boku announced that it had received $ 13 million in venture capital
financing.
     When people can use their phone numbers to make a purchase, they are 10 times as likely to follow
through on a transaction as when they have to type in credit card and billing information, said David
Marcus, chief executive of a startup called Zong.
     Mobile payment companies also need to get cooperation from merchants, which must add a payment
option to their mobile sites or applications.
     But the potential opportunity to get fees from the growing number of mobile transactions is too
__juicy__to__pass__up,__despite the risks, said an analyst with IDC Financial Insights, a market
research company.
1. From the passage, we should face ________ great difficulties while purchasing 
    through cellphones instead of PCs.
A. one                
B. two
C. three                
D. four
2. According to the passage, using phones to make a purchase is ________.
A. expensive            
B. convenient
C. troublesome          
D. impossible
3. What does the underlined phrase "too juicy to pass up" in the last paragraph probably mean?
A. Too profitable to ignore.                            
B. Too difficult to seize.
C. Too heavy to lift.                                    
D. Too unsafe to handle.
4. What would be the best title for the passage? 
A. The Benefit of Purchasing via Cellphone
B. The Great Risks on Payments via Cellphone
C. How to Deal with Payments via Cellphone
D. Investors Bet on Payments via Cellphone
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On New Year’s Eve

At midnight on New Year’s Eve, people in Rome, Italy, throw out all the things they no longer want. The streets are filled with old chairs, beds, clothes and dishes. In Madrid, Spain, the new year comes in more quietly. People flock to the main square. Each holds a bag of grapes. As the clock strikes twelve, the people eat the grapes— one for each stroke.

In Tokyo people eat noodles on New Year’s Eve. This food is said to bring long life. Early the next morning, some Japanese families climb Mount Fuji. There they watch the first sunrise of the new year.

41. This story is about New Year’s Eve in ____.

A. Italy and Spain     B. China and Japan    C. Japan             D. both A and C

42. In Rome, Italy, the streets are filled with old things on New Year’s Eve because __     .

A. people throw out all the things they no longer want

B. the city has never been clean

C. people want to change back what they want

D. they want to see the sun come up

43. People in both Spain and Japan bring in the new year by____.

A. throwing things away                      B. eating a special food

C. climbing a mountain                       D. watching the first sunrise

44. In Tokyo, people eat noodles on New Year’s Eve _____.

A. because they like eating noodles very much

B. so that the daytime could be longer

C. in order that they could live longer

D. though they don’t eat them

 
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     On Tuesday,,a new study published in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation:Heart
Failure revealed that women who ate five or more dishes of baked fish had a thirty percent lower risk of
heart failure in comparison to women who ate less than one dish a month.
     Researchers examined the diets of 84,493 women,,whose ages ranged from 50 to 79.The women who had eaten lots of baked fish like salmon (鲑鱼),,were more healthy than those who mostly ate tuna (金枪鱼)or white fish.Eating baked fish also appeared to provide a protection against high blood pressure.The
study also found that those women who ate more baked fish were likely to have a lower weight,,exercise more and eat more fruits and vegetables in comparison to those who ate fried fish.
     Researchers noted that past research had discovered the fatty acids (脂肪酸)in fish probably
decreased the risk of high blood pressure by improving blood pressure along with heart and blood
functioning.This study showed the link between eating fish and heart failure risk but it was not designed to
show cause and effect.
     This study also showed that just by eating one dish of fried fish a week led to a 49% greater risk of
heart failure,,and eating fried fish led to lower fiber (纤维)intake and higher calorie (卡路里)intake.
     The American Heart Association suggested eating a minimum of two dishes of fish especailly fatty fish
each week.
1. Compared to the women who ate fried fish those who ate more baked fish could ________.
A. be more relaxed  
B. be more healthy
C. eat more every day  
D. raise blood pressure
2. Which kind of fish is BEST for you according to the author?
A. Baked tuna.  
B. Baked salmon.
C. Boiled salmon.  
D. Fried white fish.
3. According to this passage,,which one is TRUE?
A. The fatty acids in fish can make one's heart bigger.
B. Eating fish probably helps you take in more calories.
C. The fatty acids in fish can improve blood functioning.
D. The fatty acids in fish can raise blood pressure.
4. If a person eats one dish of fried fish a week,,he or she ________.
A. will take in more fatty acids
B. is less likely to get heart failure
C. will like eating more vegetables
D. has a greater risk of heart failure
5. We can infer from this passage that ________.
A. eating 8 dishes of baked fatty fish a month is good for your health
B. eating more fish can make you live longer
C. the reason why eating fish prevents heart failure has been found
D. the association will make a further research on why eating fish lowers the risk of heart failure
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On May 29, 1973, Thomas Bradley, a black man, was elected mayor of Los Angeles. Los Angeles is the third largest city in the United States, with a population of three million. About sixteen percent of the city’s population are black.

   News of this election appeared on the front pages of newspapers everywhere in the United States. Here is how one major newspaper reported the event.

LOS ANGELES ELECTS BRADLEY MAYOR UNSEATING YORTY

BLACK WINS 56% OF VOTES

   Bradley called his victory over Yorty “ the fulfillment of a dream ”. During his childhood and youth, people had kept telling him , “You can’t do this, you can’t go there, because you are a Negro. ” Nevertheless he had won a decisive victory over a man who had been won 43.7 percent.

   Los Angeles voters have had many opportunities to judge. Thomas Bradley had to form an opinion of him, The son of a poor farmer Texas, he joined the Los Angeles police force in 1940. During his twenty-one years on the police force he earned a law degree by attending school at night. He was elected to the city council years ago.

  At the time of the Los Angeles election, three other American cities already had black mayors, but none of these cities had as large a population as Los Angeles. Besides, the percentage of blacks in those other cities was much larger. Cleveland, Ohio, had thirty-six percent black when Carl Stokes was elected mayor of Cleveland in 1967. In the same year Richard Hatcher was elected mayor of Cary. In Newark, New Jersey, sixty percent of the population were black when Kenneth Gibson was elected in 1970. Thus election of a black mayor in those cities was not very surprising .

In Los Angeles, thousands of white citizens voted for Thomas Bradley because they believed he would be a better mayor than the white candidate. Bradley had spent forty-eight of his fifty-five years in Los Angeles. Four years ago, Bradley lost mayoral election to Yorty. This time Bradley won.

56. People kept telling Bradley not to “go there” in his childhood because ____________

A. he was too young                     B. he was a black boy

C. he came from a poor farmer’s family      D. he himself hated the whites

57. In the author’s opinion, It was surprising that _______________

A. the whites would vote for a black mayor

B. the black mayor lost his mayor election to Yorty four years ago

C. the black mayor came from a poor farmer’s family

D. there would be so many black mayors

58. From the passage, we can learn that people _______________

A. voted for Bradley because of his black color

B. cared much about his color when they voted

C. voted for him to give a chance to fulfill his dream

D. voted for him because they trusted him

 59. Bradley hit the front page headline, for ________________

A. he was the first black mayor in history

B. he once served in the Los Angeles police force

C. he was the first black mayor of one of the largest cities in the USA

D. a poor farmer’s son could also win an important election

 60. From Bradley’s victory in the election we can see that ____________ 

A. blacks had equal rights as whites in the USA

B. black people’s situation began to be improving much more than before

C. one can be successful through hard work in the USA no matter what color he is

D. it is certain that someday the USA will have a black president  

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     On May 23,1989，Stefania Follini came out from a cave at Carlsbad，New Mexico.She hadn't
seen the sun for eighteen and a half weeks.Stefania was in a research program，and the scientists in
the program were studying body rhythms(节奏). In this experiment Stefania had spent 130 days in a
cave,30 feet in depth.
     During her time in the cave，Stefania had been completely alone except for two white mice.Her
living place had been very comfortable，but there had been nothing to tell her the time.She'd had no
clocks or watches，no television or radio.There had been no natural light and the temperature had
always been kept at 21℃.
     The results were very interesting.Stefania had been in the cave for over four months，but she
thought she had been there for only two.Her body clock had changed.She hadn't kept to a 24hour day，
she had stayed awake for 20～25 hours and then had slept for 10 hours.She had eaten fewer meals and
had lost 171 bs in weight as a result！She had also become rather depressed(抑郁).
     How had she spent her time in the cave？As part of the experiment she'd done some physical and
mental tests.She'd recorded her daily activities and the results of the tests on a computer.This computer
had been specially programmed for the project.Whenever she was free，she'd played cards，read
books and listened to music.She'd also learned French from tapes.
      The experiment showed that our body clocks are affected by light and temperature.For example，
the pattern of day and night makes us wake up and go to sleep.However，people are affected in
different ways.Some people wake up naturally at 5：00 am，but others don't start to wake up till
9：00 or 10：00 am.This affects the whole daily rhythm.As a result，the early risers are at their best
in the late morning.The late risers, on the other hand，are tired during the day and only come to life in
the afternoon or evening!

1. Stefania stayed in the cave for a long time because________.

A. she was asked to do research on mice
B. she wanted to experience loneliness
C. she was the subject of a study
D. she needed to record her life

2. What is a cause for the change of Stefania's body clock?

A. Eating fewer meals.
B. Having more hours of sleep.
C. Lacking physical exercise.
D. Getting no natural light.

3. Where does the text probably come from ?

A. A novel.  
B. A news story.
C. A pet magazine.  
D. A travel guide.