The new high-speed railway line between Urumqi,capital of the Xinjiang Uygur self-governing region,and Lanzhou,capital of Gansu province,has cut train travel time by half to less than 12 hours.

The dramatic improvement will benefit many families planning reunions for Spring Festival.

“For the first time,I feel home is not that far away after all,”said Liang Shaofu as he boarded a high-speed train in Urumqi with six members of his family.

The 35-year-old left Lanzhou to set up a dry fruit business in Xinjiang eight years ago,and he has now settled in Urumqi.

The 1,776-km line,which passes through Qinghai province and is the country’s first high-speed railway to be built in a high-altitude region,came into service on Dec 26.

“We normally drive home for Spring Festival to avoid the difficulties of buying seven train tickets for the whole family during the peak season,”Liang said.“Driving can be very tiring and dangerous sometimes,so one year we even decided not to go back to Lanzhou simply to avoid the trip.”

More than 600,000 passengers traveled on the line during its first month,and the Urumqi Railway Bureau said the introduction of high-speed services will ease transport pressure during the Spring Festival peak season.

The existing usual railway line could no longer support Xinjiang’s development.All passenger trains will gradually shift to the new link,leaving the old one to be used for goods.As a result,Xinjiang’s annual goods ability could reach 200 million metric tons from the current 70 million.

The line passes through areas that experience high winds,and it also crosses parts of the deserted Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the bone-dry sands of the Gobi Desert.

The project could help China to promote its high-speed railway technology abroad,said Ma Xi zhang,director of the Lanzhou-Xinjiang railway project’s_management department in Xinjiang.

1.How long did it take to go from Urumqi to Lanzhou by the usual train before?

A.about 12 hours. B.About 6 hours.

C.About 18 hours. D.About 24 hours.

2.What’s the main advantage of the new high-speed railway?

A.It takes more time to go to Urumqi to Lanzhou.

B.It will be more convenient for people all over the country to Xinjiang.

C.All the people in Lanzhou can return home on festivals.

D.It helps to improve Xinjiang’s development.

3.From the passage we can learn________.

A.Xinjiang’s annual goods ability can increase nearly four times

B.the new railway technology may help more railway lines to be built abroad

C.the high-speed railway lines can’t be built across the bone-dry sands

D.the old railway lines can only carry goods now

4.Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A.The new high-speed railway line is good for all people to go home.

B.The new high-speed railway line benefits businessmen to carry goods.

C.Taking the new train is safer than driving home from Urumqi to Lanzhou.

D.Businessmen seldom went home for Spring Festival before.

阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A.B.C和D)中,选出可以填入的空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

It happens every day,everywhere I go.At the supermarket and the post office,people keep telling me to enjoy my kids while they are________ I spend my days taking care of them and answering________ questions about everything from why we have two eyes but one nose to ________there are toilets in the heaven.They ________ me from eating a full meal or getting a full ________ sleep.

Yet,the other day,when I took my kids to a children’s museum,I began to ________what people were trying to tell me.It was the ________ time we had gone there without diaper(纸尿片)bag,baby bottle or stroller(小推车).As 1 watched my sons paint there,I was suddenly ________ by a wave of ________ My babies weren’t babies any more.

Now I’m paying more attention to the________ that won’t happen when my kids are________ I'm enjoying the minute when Christ looked up the sky and cried________ “Wow! The moon!”In a few ________,it will take a rare Shrek card or something else to get him that excited.I’m________the moment when Nicholas put down his fork at dinner and asked,“Mommy,how are you doing?’’About ten years from now,he ________ not care about me.When they’re in primary school,they won’t want to hold my________ any more.In junior high school,they won’t hug me and say,“I love you,too.”In high school,they won’t even want to be ________ together with me.

Pre ________ they’11 both be gone.And I’11________ through the supermarket and the post office alone,warning young ________ to enjoy their kids while they are little.Hope they’11 listen.

1.A.well B.humorous C.funny D.1ittle

2.A.endless B.boring C.strange D.special

3.A.how B.whether C.why D.when

4.A.make B.turn C.take D.keep

5.A.day’s B.time’s C.night’s D.bed’s

6.A.realize B.admit C.remind D.admire

7.A.very B.real C.first D.best

8.A.hit B.thrown C.stuck D.moved

9.A.happiness B.sadness C.1uck D.failure

10.A.accident B.event C.scene D.moment

11.A.younger B.older C.worse D.better

12.A.excitedly B.disappointedly C.1ovely D.shyly

13.A.days B.weeks C.months D.years

14.A.measuring B.pleasing C.treasuring D.surprising

15.A.might B.should C.must D.need

16.A.hair B.hands C.bag D.basket

17.A.seen B.talked C.carried D.treated

18.A.quickly B.slowly C.soon D.more

19.A.come B.go C.wander D.pass

20.A.fathers B.mothers C.people D.1adies

If a business wants to sell its products internationally, it had better do some market research first. This is a lesson that some large American corporations have learned the hard way.

What’s in the name?

Sometimes the problem is the name. When General Motors introduced its Chevy Nova into Latin America, it overlooked the fact that Nova in Spanish means “It doesn’t go”. Sure enough , the Chevy Nova never went anywhere in Latin America.

Translation problems

Sometimes it is the slogan that doesn’t work. No company knows this better than Pepsi-Cola, with its “Come alive with Pepsi!” campaign. The campaign was so successful in the United States , Pepsi translated its slogan literally for its international campaign. As it turned out , the translations weren’t quite right. Pepsi was begging Germans to “Come out of the grave(坟墓)” and telling the Chinese that “Pepsi brings your ancestors(老祖宗) back from the grave.”

A picture’s worth a thousand words

Other times, the problem involves packaging. A picture of a smiling baby has helped sell countless jars of Gerber baby food. When Gerber started selling baby food in Africa, they used the same packaging as in the US, with the smiling baby on the label. Later they learned that in African countries , the picture on the jar shows what the jar has in it, for many people there can’t read.

Twist of fate

Even the culture and religious factors and pure coincidence can be involved . Thorn McAn shoes have a Thorn McAn “signature” inside. To people in Bangladesh, which is a Muslim country , this signature looked like Arabic script for the word Allah. In that country , feet are considered unclean, and Muslims felt the company was offending God’s name by having people walk on it.

1.From the text we learned that _________.

A. Chevy Nova was brought in Latin America

B. General Motors did the best market research of all companies

C. Pepsi still sold well in China owing to the translation problems

D. the “Come alive with Pepsi” campaign worked well in the US

2.What was “Gerber’s problem”?

A. A translation problem

B. Cultural factor

C. Religious factor

D. The picture on the jar

3.For what reason were Thorn McAn shoes turned down in Bangladesh?

A. They are not designed attractively

B. Their advertisements are not persuasive

C. A signature looking like the word Allah was in the shoes

D. Problem for Thorn McAn was the company’s name

4.What does the text mainly tell us?

A. Lessons from some large corporations.

B. How to make use of advertisements

C. The importance of market research

D. The importance of packaging

I come to the United States ten year ago. I would always say that I was trying to study, but there were always things like work and my kids that would not allow me to start.

Now I realized that those were only excuses. What stopped me was that I was afraid to start studying again. I always believed I would learn by myself.

One day, however, my son told me that he was sad because his friends would come over and I didn’t understand them because I didn’t speak English. He was also sad because I could never help him with his homework. That same day, I told myself, “Rocio, you have to start believing in yourself and you will see you can make it.”

The next day, I went downtown to look for a big banner (横幅) in front of the school which said that they offered classes for adults. I came in to see if I could join, but the classes were closed already. That night I took the kids to the movies, and on the way back, I told them we would take a new route. I ended up getting lost. That’s the way I found Chaffey College. The following Monday, I went to ask for information. They told me that summer school was starting that week.

That’s how I started studying English last summer. It is difficult, but I have had great rewards. My daughter had to write a story for school. It was about the female they most admired and why . She wrote that I was the person she most admired because I had started going to College. I will never forget this.

1.According to the passage, the author probably is a .

A. teacher B. doctor C. father D. mother

2.What made the author make up her mind to study English?

A. What her son said.

B. What her daughter said.

C. Thinking about herself.

D. Thinking about her daughter.

3.How did they find Chaffey College?

A. On the way to the movies.

B. They took a new route and got lost.

C. Ask a stranger for information.

D. According to the banner.

4.Which of the following is NOT true?

A. The author came to the United States from another country.

B. The author had two children at least including one daughter.

C. What really changed the author’s life was she believed in herself.

D. The author wrote that she was the person her son most admired.

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