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15．In many cases they have built their reputations over hundreds of years，and they have become names that millions of Chinese love，respect and most of all buy．
At least once a year，Meng Wei visits several shops in Beijing that specialize in traditional goods，longing to buy something for his family in Xi'an．
"It's a routine I go through before I head home for big holidays such as the Spring Festival，"Meng says．
His shopping list includes Daoxiangcun pastries and Niulanshan Erguotou．"My mother has a sweet tooth and she always has a preference for Daoxiangcun，and my uncles love the kick of Erguotou，"Meng says．
A trust in quality and a desire for things of the past are among the reasons why many people buy these time-honored brands．
However，with such brands one characteristic stands out above all else：Their popularity has endured for years，decades and in many cases centuries．That popularity was evident in the attention the public gave to them in a survey（调查） of time-honored brands in Beijing last year，which drew more than 4million respondents．
Yili，a century-old pastry brand，came out on top as the favorite．There are some old brands，too，that have been bywords for older generations，faded from view but then made spectacular comebacks．
One of these is Beibingyang （Arctic Ocean） a soft drink that was the first commercial beverage many Beijingers tasted．It disappeared from the market for 15years but resurfaced in 2010．It again proved to be a hit，many people saying it took them back to the 1960s and 1970s，and was a natural reference point as older people started recounting childhood stories to their children．
"Such brands are the product of market competition and real quality，"says Yin Jie，an official with a committee of experts charged with revitalizing Chinese time-honored brands．These brands are 230years old on average，and some were highly popular back when the country enjoyed great prosperity（繁荣） hundreds of years ago，Yin says．"To this day what China contributes to these brands is certain rare natural ingredients（成分），and that keeps them going．"

24．What does the underlined word"they"in Paragraph 1refer to？B
A．Big holidays．
B．Time-honored brands．
C．The respondents．
D．The older generations．
25．What does Meng Wei usually do in the Spring Festivals？B
A．He runs several shops selling traditional goods．
B．He shops traditional brands for his family．
C．He misses the things of the past very much．
D．He buys various sweeties and drinks．
26．What can be learned about the time-honored brands？C
A．They are not trusted in quality and competition．
B．Many disappeared and never made comebacks．
C．They enjoy a long time of popularity．
D．They are the childhood stories of the aged．
27．What does Yin Jie think important in keeping time-honored brands going？C
A．China's prosperity．
B．Historic influence．
C．Certain rare natural ingredients．
D．Bywords for older generations．

14．Dozens of Chicago teenagers on Monday told a small group of elected officials about their need for summer jobs to save for college，pay for food and，in some cases，avoid homelessness．
This summer，Illinois is facing the loss of 18，000jobs for teenagers．The loss comes as teen unemployment in the state has reached a record-high rate of 27.5percent．
Experts say that the slow recovery and the high unemployment rate have forced older workers to take positions for younger workers．
Jim Zeckhauser，the manager of a Chicago social service agency for troubled teens，said he used to be able to place dozens of teens in jobs before the financial crisis．This year，he has been able to place only about seven of the 34teenagers he guides in summer jobs．"It's a struggle to find firms，"he said．
Brent Weiss，owner of Uncle Dan's，an outdoor-gear retailer with locations in Chicago，Evanston and Highland Park，said he is more selective about the workers that he hires，acknowledging that he is more likely to hire college students than teens，and like many other small business he is doing more with fewer workers．
Chicago-area small business say they are taking a wait-and-see approach to expanding their businesses and hiring more workers．They blame increasing gasoline prices and a lack of consumer confidence．
Nationwide，teens ago 16to 19have seen the biggest drop in employment during the past decade．In 2010，the employment rate for that age group was 26percent，the lowest since World war II，according to a report by the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University In 2000，employment rate for the same group was 45percent．
If the trend continues，only one in four teenagers will hold a job this summer，according to the report．Many of the unemployed will likely be black males living in low-income communities．

29．According to the passage，why do some Chicago teenagers want to take a job？D
A．To know more about the society．
B．to get some career experience．
C．To buy some new clothes．
D．To support their education．
30．Teen workers face competition fromB．
A．adult workers and foreign students
B．older workers and college students
C．younger workers and college students
D．foreign workers and high students
31．According to the passage，which of the following is not the cause of the low teen employment rate？C
A．High gasoline price．
B．The financial crisis．
C．A lack of teenager confidence．
D．The slow economic recovery．
32．It can be inferred that workers in Chicago-area small businesses．A
A．are busier
B．are paid higher
C．have more free time
D．received higher education．

13．-Tony often plays the record very loud at midnight in his apartment．
-_________．（　　）

	A．	Better not		B．	Just your luck
	C．	That's too much		D．	It can't be helped

12．The government claims that the economy is improving，but this survey suggests _________．（　　）

11．There is a sense _________ we are all to blame for the accident．（　　）

10．For young people，friends are often determined by their being close．Whoever is around is your friend．As humans get older，they become more selective （讲究的） in choosing whom they spend time with，as well as how they spend their time．According to a new study，the same goes for monkeys．The findings，in the journal Cell Biology，suggest human selectivity may be a very strong part of our evolutionary history （进化史）．
"An important finding suggests that humans become more socially selective when they know that their remaining life time is limited，such as in old age，"Professor Laura Almeling explained．"We don't think that monkeys are aware of their own limited future time．Therefore，if they show similar changes in old age，their selectivity cannot be attributed to their knowledge about a limited future time，"she continued．
Researchers showed a variety of new animal toys，only one of which included a food treat，to a group of African monkeys．Young monkeys quickly grew out of their interest in the toys，preferring only the object that included food once they grew up．
Researchers also measured how monkeys'social activities change as they age，by watching and measuring their responses to pictures and sounds of friends．
Although older monkeys still took part in and remained interested in group activities，they put less time and energy into social relationships．"With increasing age，the monkeys became more selective in their social activities，"Almeling said．"They had fewer‘friends'and put less time into social activities．Interestingly，however，they were still interested in what was going on in their social world．Older females continued to respond particularly strongly to hearing a scream for help from their best friend，"Almeling explained．"Older males still liked to look at pictures of the newborns，"she said．

32．What has the new study found？C
A．Humans have many things in common with monkeys．
B．Monkeys become closer to each other as they get older．
C．Monkeys get more selective as they get older．
D．Humans choose friends more seriously when they are older．
33．What happens to monkeys as they get older？A
A．They choose friends and social activities more carefully．
B．Their knowledge about their future time grows．
C．They become aware that they have little time left．
D．They show more interest in food．
34．What can the underlined words be replaced by？C
A．Be devoted to B．Be helpful to C．Be caused by D．Be aware of
35．Female monkeysB their friends'screams for help when they are old．
A．put less time and energy into
B．still have a strong response to
C．change social reactions to
D．don't show interest in．

9．He returned back to his motherland where he was born after many years．去掉back．

8．Because the terrible weather，we had to put off our football match．Because后面加 of．

7．5 of the Best Museums in China1．The Palace Museum，Beijing
The Palace Museum in Beijing is the most visited museum in the world，with tens of millions of people visiting every year．In 2016，a record 16 million people explored the vast museum．
2．The World Expo Museum，Shanghai
The World Expo Museum in Shanghai opened to the public on May 1this year．Located on the former site of the 2010 Shanghai World Expo，the museum is the world's only official museum featuring world expos，and the first of its kind to show the development history of the event．
3．Suzhou Police Museum
The Suzhou Police Museum is also the Anti-drug Museum in Suzhou．The former prison was built in the late Qing Dynasty （1644-1911），and housed important criminals and those sentenced to death．On top of the asterisk-shaped （星状的） building is a guardroom where police officers could watch all rooms below．
4．Kaohsiung Exhibition Center （KEC），Taiwan
It is a landmark building in Kaohsiung，South Taiwan，featuring a wave-shaped structure．Opened in 2014，te KEC is the first multifunctional waterfront place in Taiwan for exhibitions，international conferences，association meetings，concerts as well as outdoor events．
5．National Maritime （海事的） Museum，Tianjin
Te National Maritime Museum in Tianjin is set to open in autumn this year，showing China's maritime civilization，the history of the maritime Silk Road and items and documents about Chinese seas．The complex has been designed in the shape of flying fish．

21．Which museum has the largest number of visitors？A
A．The Palace Museum．
B．The World Expo Museum．
C．Suzhou Police Museum．
D．National Maritime Museum．
22．C was used as a prison．
A．The World Expo Museum
B．Kaohsiung Exhibition Center
C．Suzhou Police Museum
D．National Maritime Museum
23．Which museum does not feature its specially shaped building？C
A．National Maritime Museum
B．Suzhou Police Museum
C．The World Expo Museum
D．Kaohsiung Exhibition Center
24．Which statement about the museums is right？D
A．Each country will open a World Expo Museum after the event．
B．Different activities hae taken place at Suzhou Police Museum．
C．KEC is special for its asterisk-shaped building and seaside location．
D．The National Maritime Museum has not been opened to public．

6．Pappadavada，a popular restaurant in Kochi，India，is urging customers and the community to put their leftover food in a fridge located outside of the restaurant for the hungry to take．
People who are in need of a meal are encouraged to take from the fridge at any time，for any reason．Minu Pauline，who runs Pappadavada，has nicknamed the fridge，which was placed there on March 23and is shaded by a neighboring tree，"tree of goodness"．
The fridge is open 24hours a day，seven days a week and stays unlocked．Pauline asks that people write the date they left the food，so those who take know how long it's been there．But most food doesn't stay in the fridge for long．In spite of a huge response from the community and plenty of donations，the fridge needs to be brought more in to replace in time．Pauling herself adds around 75% to 80% of food from Pappadavada a day in the fridge．
The idea to put a fridge on the street came to Pauline late on night when she saw a lady searching in a dustbin for food．She was especially saddened because that particular night，her restaurant had made a ton of food that they could have easily given the woman，instead of her searching for it．She felt like she contributed to waste，and avoiding waste is what Pauline pays her attention to．
"The only thing I want to say no is that people are actually buying food and putting it in the fridge．But I'd rather people put their food they bought but aren't going to eat in the fridge instead of the dustbin，"she said．

24．What does the underlined part in Paragraph 2 refer to？B
A．A tree planted on March 23．
B．The fridge outside for the hungry to take from．
C．The popular restaurant in Kochi，India．
D．A neighboring tree near Pappadavada．
25．What does the manager of the restaurant advise in the last paragraph？C
A．People shouldn't throw foods into dustbin．
B．Everyone should always avoid waste．
C．People shouldn't buy food for that．
D．Everyone should help those in need．
26．What is special about Minu Pauline？B
A．She runs her restaurant in a different way．
B．She saves food and helps others in a wise way．
C．She sets a higher standard to deal with waste．
D．She makes the community more friendly to each other．

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