Since life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better．Soon enough the time will come when you are too tired to move farther than the terrace of the best hotel．Go now．
No need, you may say, to tell that．But what I do need to tell you is that you will meet with a surprising amount of opposition the moment you try to set out．Rubbish, you will reply．More people go abroad nowadays than ever before; never has travel, particularly among the young, been more strongly visits, of international exchanges．Perhaps not; but none of this, my dear young friends, is travel．Travel is not going on a round coach trip for $67 in all, or spending ten days at a hotel by the sea．Travel is when you want to see how much money and resources you have and then set out, alone or with chosen friends, to make an unhurried journey to a distant goal without a set date for your return．
Real travel, then, is independence in action, and is not liked by most parents．They don’t mind your going in a school party to Athens, because they know just where you are and when you’ll be back, and they can therefore permit you the imagination of freedom without for one second letting you beyond their control．But what they cannot bear is that you should travel all on your own, without giving them your address and return date．In fact, their fears are quite reasonable because that shows how much they love you．So in order to enjoy real travel and at the same time put your parents’ mind at ease．It would be really important for you to bear the following advice in mind．
(1)
Which statement is true according to the passage?
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A．
People travel more than before．
B．
Young people are encouraged to travel abroad．
C．
People should not go on a round coach trip for $67．
D．
Educational visits should not be encouraged as they are not real travel．
(2)
What does real travel mean according to the writer?
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A．
It means telling your parents nothing about the travel．
B．
It means not knowing where you want to go．
C．
It means traveling to a distant goal in an unhurried manner．
D．
It means traveling without any plan．
(3)
Your parents allow you to travel in a school party because ________．
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A．
they want you to be truly free
B．
you are still under their control
C．
they don’t have time to travel with you
D．
they know it’s good for you
(4)
According to the writer, when you do real traveling, you should ________．
While everyone knows that NBA center Yao Ming will become a father this summer, the big buzz(流言)in China is about whether the baby will be an American．
The Shanghai native's personal life is closely followed by his many fans at home, from his 2007 Shanghai wedding to fellow basketball player Ye Li to last month's reports the couple is expecting a baby girl in July．
The 2.25-meter star, sidelined this season with a broken left foot, recently returned to the USA with Ye, encouraging speculation that the baby will be born there．
Yao's baby would automatically be an American citizen if born in the US．
However, Chinese law does not recognize double citizenship．
A few say it would be a betrayal of China and that the Chinese team could be denied a future basketball star．
But most support Yao and don't care which country claims the baby．
“Yao Ming is individual, not a political tool,”said one comment on popular basketball Website Hoop China．
“He has the right to choose where his child is born and what kind of medical care and education will be available to her．His child's citizenship has nothing to do with loyalty．”
Yao and his camp have been tight-lipped on the pregnancy(怀孕)and have not issued any public statements on the matter．
It is not clear if Yao and his wife are indeed planning to have the baby in the US or how they will handle any citizenship issues．
Yao's spokesman Zhang Mingji refused to make notes on the baby, saying it was a private matter．
Many Chinese famous persons-including actress Gong Li and director Chen Kaige-have in recent years been criticized for becoming naturalized citizens of other countries．
Chinese are subject to strict visa requirements and some of the famous persons argued it was easier to travel internationally with passports from countries like Singapore or the US．
(1)
What makes the Chinese puzzled and interested in is ________．
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A．
when Yao will have a baby
B．
when Yaao will recover from his injury
C．
what nationality Baby Yao will have
D．
who looks after Yao since he is injured
(2)
The underlined word“betrayal”in paragraph 6 can be replaced by ________．
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A．
love
B．
distance
C．
hate
D．
disloyalty
(3)
For most fans of Yao they ________．
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A．
are against his choice of claiming his baby for America
B．
think it's Yao's freedom to choose his baby's nationality
C．
are for Yao's decision of becoming an American at once
D．
are not interested in his decision
(4)
From the passage we know Yao ________．
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A．
has decided to give birth to the baby in America
B．
has recovered and will return to the sports in a week
C．
has decided to spend more time in film
D．
hasn't expressed his clear idea to the public at all
(5)
Some famous people are being scolded(责骂)because they ________．
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A．
care little about the environmental problems now
B．
have become other foreign country's citizen
C．
refuse to donate to the poor in China
D．
decide to only make money in foreign countries
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GUANGZHOU-Guangzhou is using a variety of high-tech measures to ensure air quality is up to scratch(达到标准)for the upcoming Asian Games．
As of September 1, owners of large-sized vehicles, such as limousines, are ordered to use the highest national standard of gasoline, which pollutes less．
The city's environmental protection bureau(环保局)has set up 29 checkpoints to monitor automobile emissions along with four mobile units．Since August 1, the bureau has also carried out checks on vehicles' emission control systems to make sure they are working correctly．
About 30 percent of the total 9,300 government cars and the city's police officers' cars will be off the road from October 12 to December 22, in order to decrease pollution emissions, said Li Zhuo, director of the motor pollution control office, Guangzhou environmental protection bureau．
Meanwhile, all construction sites in the city, except those with special authorization, will be asked to stop building from the end of September to the end of December, said Zhang Guangning, secretary of Guangzhou Party committee．
In November, the city usually registers its worst air quality due to the colder weather, which makes it more difficult to monitor pollution．
Jian Jianyang, director of the pollution control division at the environmental protection bureau, said factories that pollute excessively will have to limit their production during the Games and will not be allowed to return to normal production levels until December 20．
Guangzhou began to look into improving its air quality after it won its bid to host the 16th Asian Games in July 2004．
“It's not just an emergency package to limit the air pollution,” said Jian．“It's a long –term measure and we see the Games as an opportunity to achieve it quicker．”
(1)
The following are measures to reduce pollution EXCEPT ________．
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A．
about 30 percent of the government cars and the city's police officers' car will be off the road from October 12 to December 22
B．
all construction sites in the city will be asked to shop building from the end of September to the end of December
C．
Factories that pollute excessively will have to limit their production during the Games
D．
As of September 1, owners of large-sized vehicles, such as limousines, are ordered to use the highest national standard of gasoline．
(2)
In which season is the air quality worst in Guangzhou?
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A．
Spring．
B．
Summer．
C．
Fall．
D．
Winter．
(3)
Which of the following statements about the measures to reduce pollution is TRUE?
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A．
The measures are to improve the air quality．
B．
The measures are only to meet the Asian Games on the way．
C．
The task to reduce pollution is an emergency one．
D．
Guangzhou won't take the measures without the Asian Games．
(4)
Which of the following can replace the underlined word “monitor” in the third paragraph?
