A strong earthquake has hit the town of Galta 200 kilometres north of Madras. The earthquake hit the town at 7:15 yesterday evening. The earthquake measured(量出) 7.2 on the Richter scale(里克特震级), the strongest for five years.
The earthquake happened as most people were having their evening meal at home. There were very few people outside in the streets. Buildings fell down and many fires started. The electricity and water were cut off.
As it was dark, the emergency services had a lot of problems. There was no electricity for lights, and there was no water to put out the fires. Early this morning, planes flew over the town to see the damage.
The emergency services are now trying to reach the town. The nearest airport is at Bandel, about 100 kilometers away. The railway station at Galta is closed, because four bridges fell down in the earth. The nearest train station is 32 kilometres away at Solan. We shall have more reports for you during the day. 
【小题1】What were the most people doing when the earthquake hit the town?

A gentleman stopped his car at the door of a flower shop. He planned to order flowers and asked the shopkeeper to deliver them to his mother, who was far away in his hometown.
The gentleman saw a little girl crying on the road before he entered the shop. The gentleman asked her: “Why are you crying?”
“I want to buy a rose for my mother, but I haven’t got enough money,” said the girl.
The gentleman took the girl’s hand and entered the flower shop. He first ordered the bouquet (花束) for his mother and bought a rose for the girl.
When he was walking out of the shop, the gentleman asked the girl if she would like a ride home.
“Will you really drive me home?” she asked.
“Of course,” the gentleman replied.
“Then drive me to my mother. But the place where my mother lives is very far.”
The gentleman drove along the mountain road and finally came to the cemetery (墓地).
The little girl put the flower onto a new grave (坟墓). In order to send a rose to her mother who had died a month before, she had gone on a very long journey.
The gentleman drove the girl to her home and then returned to the flower shop. He cancelled（取消）the bouquet and bought a big bunch (束) of fresh flowers instead. He drove directly to his mother’s home, a five-hour drive from here. He would send the flowers to his mother in person.
【小题1】The word “deliver” in Paragraph 1 means “______________”.

A mobile phone is in fact a small radio. A radio sends a person’s voice over a long way to another radio. A voice that is sent by radio is called a signal. A radio signal travels very quickly.

Only a few years ago, mobile phones were very large. They needed large batteries.

They had to be powerful to send their signal to far away places. This was because most cities had only one antenna tower for mobile phones.

Do you know what use a mobile phone has? Yes, you can use it to do a lot of things.

Call your friends and family from almost anywhere.

Call the police immediately if there is an accident in the street.

Send or receive an e-mail.

Get information from the Internet.

Send and receive messages：Sending short messages is a popular way to use your mobile phone. Many people use short forms of words, so the messages are quick to write and read. Can you guess what these messages mean? Try reading them out. What do you hear?

RUOK　　　 CUL8R　　　 That’s EZ 　　Will I C U B4 2moro?　　 That’s Gr8!

91. There are about _____ ways of using a mobile phone.

　 A. five　　　　　　 B. six　　　　　　 C. seven　　　　　 D. eight

92. Today’s mobile phones are _____ according to the writer.

　 A. cheap and popular B. small but powerful　 C. big enough　 　 D. easy to use

93. A mobile phone uses _____ to send people’s voice and short messages.

　 A. radio signals 　 　　 B. batteries　 　 　　 C. computers　 　 D. antenna towers

94. Which short message means “See you tomorrow!”?

A. RUOK 　　 　 B. CUL8R 　　　 　 C. That’s Gr8!　 D. CU 2moro

95. What’s the main idea of the passage?

　 A. The common knowledge of the mobile phone

　 B. How the mobile phone will develop

　 C. How the mobile phone works and what use it has

　 D. What short forms of words mean in written messages