7. She is a most (有影响的) figure in local politics.

6. You’d better not (辞职) before you find a better job.

5. The report (强调) that students’ math skills need to be improved.

4. His father has a high (职位) in the govem- ment.

3. The police are sent there to keep (秩序) .

2. He emphasised the (重要性) of careful driv- ing.

1. Our education system should provide (平等) opportunities for all children.

选五阅读理解根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填人空白处 的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

—Excuse me,have you been waiting long?

—About ten minutes.

—1

—Not while I've been standing here. I'm waiting for the No. 7 bus myself.

—Good. Hot today,isn’t it?

—Yes,it is. 2

—Me too. This is unusual for March. I don't remember it ever being so hot and dry in March before.

一 You’re from Florida then.

一 Not really. 3

—My mother and I have just moved here from Indiana.

—Pretty cold in Indiana,isn’t it?

一 Yes. That's why we moved. But we didn't know that it would be so hot here. We should have gone to Cali-fomia. 4

—No. It's always a little late. Do you have the time?

My watch has stopped working.

—5

—Don’t worry. It never comes exactly on the half hour like it should.

   A. I wish that it would rain and cool off.

   B. Do you think that we’ve missed the bus?

   C. No,it's always quite cool here in summer.

   D. It's twenty to one by my watch,but it is a little fast.

   E. Did you notice whether the No. 7 bus has gone by?

   F. I was bom in New York,but Fve lived here for ten years now.

   G. I have been waiting here for half an hour and still haven’t seen the bus.

IV.阅读理解

     The Real Inventor of Printing The Chinese were the real inventor of printing. Centuries ago they carved messages on stone and then sprin-kled (撒) sooty (乌黑的) dust over the stone carving. When they put a small piece of paper over the stone and rubbed the paper,the sooty lines were reproduced on it. Some of these first printed papers have been preserved and the oldest ones known to exist are more than one thousand years old.

    Printing with carved stone blocks was the only kind of printing known for centuries. Then,about eight hundred years ago,a Chinese printer,Bi Sheng,had a clever idea. Instead of carving a whole message on a single big block of wood or stone,he formed separate Chinese words or characters out of bits of clay. By fitting the clay pieces together in rows in a box,he could print just as before. But when he finished,he could keep all the separate pieces of clay and use them again.

   Bi Sheng's movable type was a great step forward,but his method was not generally adopted. The movable type did not come into use in Europe until it was invented there centuries later. The Europeans had been totally ignorant of the printing traditions of the Chinese.

1. Bi Sheng used clay to form.

   A. large tablets for writing

   B. small statues

   C. individual words or characters

   D. messages

2. These pieces of clay were .

   A. easily lost   B. less used

   C. reusable   D. thrown away after use

3. The oldest pieces of printed papers in existence date back .

   A. 800 years

   B. more than 1,000 years

   C. more than 2 ,000 years

   D. 500 years

4. Europeans adopted printing after they .

   A. realised stone carving was not good enough

   B. had learned about it from the Chinese

   C. had copied Chinese printing

   D. had invented it themselves

10. He was then given an important in the govemmentof a state.

   A. situation   B. stage

   C. position   D. point