With the development of modern society, E-mail as well as telephones     an important part in daily communication.

Suppose you work in a big firm and find English very important for your job because you often deal with foreign businessmen. Now you are looking for a place where you can improve your English, especially your spoken English.
Here are some advertisements about English language training from newspapers.
You may find the information you need.
★Global English Center
＊General English in all four skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
＊3-month(700yuan), 6-month(1200yuan) and one-year(2000yuan) courses.
＊Choice of morning or evening classes, 3 hours per day. Mon-Fri.
＊Experienced college English teachers.
＊Close to city center and bus stops.
Tel: 67605272    Add: 105 Zhongshan Road, 100082.
★Modern Language School
Special courses in English for business. traveling , banking , hotel management and office skills.
＊Small classes(12-16 students) on Sat.＆Sun. From 2:00-5:00pm.
＊Native English teachers from Canada and USA.
＊Language lab and computers supplied.
＊3-month course: 1,050yuan; 6-month course: 1,850yuan.
Write or phone: Modern Language School, 675Park Road.100056
Tel: 67353019
★ The 21^st Century English raining Center
＊We specialize in effective teaching at all levels.
＊We offer morning or afternoon classes, both of which last three months and a half at
a cost of 800yuan.
＊We also have a six-week TOEFL preparation class during winter and summer holidays.
＊Entrance exams: June 1 and Dec.1.
＊Only 15-minute walk from city center.
Call 67801642 for more information.
★ The International House of English
＊Three/Six-month English courses for students of all levels at very low cost: 60yuan for 13 hours per week; convenient class hours: 9:00-12:00am and 2:00-5:00pm.
＊A four-month evening program for developing speaking skills( same cost as day classes).
＊Well-trained Chinese and foreign teachers experienced in teaching English as a second/foreign language. Free sightseeing and social activities. Very close to Central Park.
For further information call 67432308.
【小题1】You work from 9:00am to 4:00pm every day. Which schools will you choose?

Modern furniture would be ____ in a Victorian house．

The London 2012 Olympic Games marks the third time that London ______ the right to host the modern Olympics.

第二节：完形填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）
BRITISH newspapers are among the oldest and most famous in the world. But recently big changes have   36   these traditional publications try to  37  the modern world. After 216 years, The Times has halved its   38   to become much smaller. In fact, the paper has  39  its size in half from a broadsheet to tabloid（小型报纸）.
In Britain the newspaper market is  40  between the larger broadsheets and the smaller tabloids. These terms  41  the size of the papers' pages but there is also a clear  42  in content. Broadsheets such as The Times, the Guardian and Daily Telegraph are  43  papers. They  44  a broad range of political, economic and international issues. Their stories are also  45  long and use quite formal language.
Tabloids have  46  more stories about less serious issues such as celebrities' love lives. Their stories are shorter and use more  47  language. Tabloids often have bigger pictures. Britain's  48  newspaper, the Sun, is a tabloid and has a naked page on page three every day.
By  49  to the size of a tabloid, The Times is following in the  50  of a less famous broadsheet paper, the Independent. It changed to tabloid last year and saw its sales increase  51 . Although both papers have   52   to the smaller size, the content of the papers has  53  the same. They are both still serious papers.
The two papers  54  that people find the smaller size easier to  55  when they travel to work on the bus or the train in the morning. The times says its new size is "compact", not tabloid.
36. A. found                   B. known                C. seen                   D. proved
37. A. match                    B. suit                     C. change                D. fit
38. A. length                       B. thickness             C. width                         D. size
39. A. printed                 B. cut                        C. added                       D. enlarged
40. A. divided                  B. separated                  C. arranged                D. marked
41. A. turn into                 B. think about               C. refer to                    D. connect with
42. A. meaning                  B. difference             C. mark                        D. sign
43. A. useful                        B. easy                    C. serious                  D. long
44. A. sell                       B. include                    C. take                      D. cover 
45. A. certainly             B. reasonably                      C. probably                D. necessarily
46. A. a few                        B. little                        C. far                           D. any
47. A. difficult                        B. simple                 C. easy                        D. good
48. A. best-selling                B. good-looking            C. slow-moving            D. ugly-looking
49. A. going                    B. getting                   C. coming                    D. changing
50. A. footsteps                       B. way                    C. direction                  D. method
51. A. slowly                    B. usually                    C. little                    D. greatly
52. A. halved                    B. made                   C. changed                 D. cut
53. A. become                   B. remained              C. left                   D. found
54. A. agree                     B. hope                    C. expect                 D. insist
55. A. handle                       B. look                         C. see                           D. buy