1．Which of the following is the best title of this passage ? A．A 56-year-old Man Spends 13 Days ——青夏教育精英家教网—

Consumers at the Whale Inside Dark Restaurant are led by a waiter with night vision Goggles(夜视镜). Inside Dark Restaurant in Beijing, a table of 30 diners was getting quarrelsome. “I’m touching your head!”said one, like a talkative child. “Who just said that?”another replied. Such voices floated across the 90-plus-seat restaurant, but no one could see who was talking, except the waiters, who were equipped with military-grade night-vision goggles.

In the new conceptual dining, restaurants are turning off the lights to focus attention on the food. The trend seems to have started in Zurich and has since spread all over the world, with diners sitting in unlit rooms and, lately, being served by waiters in night-vision goggles. The idea is that by depriving(剥夺) one sense (sight), other senses are heightened.

Darkness has other benefits. ''Chinese people tend to be shy,'' said Chen Long, who owns Whale Inside Dark, which opened in January. ''People have found it easy to break the ice here.''

The first dark restaurant, which opened in Zurich in 1999, had a simple intention. The goal ''was creating jobs for the blind and handicapped people,'' said the manager. The concept has been popular in Paris, London, Sydney and elsewhere, offering new variations on sight deprivation, by which people can experience a lot in a completely dark condition.

In Beijing, the Whale Inside Dark Restaurant is not only about heightening the sense of taste, but lowering social inhibitions(压抑). It is popular with Internet daters, who met on matchmaking Web sites that are spreading throughout China. Diner for two is about 225 yuan, or $29 at 7.76 yuan to the dollar.

Eating in the dark is not without its troubles. Instead of family-style dining, food is served on single-serving plates. When each dish arrives, the server guides your hand to the plate and offers helpful tips like, ''This course is eaten with a spoon.''

The style seems to be working . ''People feel a lot more comfortable when they can't be seen by others,'' said Mr. Chen, who is opening a second branch in Shang-hai, ''Couples get to know each other without seeing other's faces.''

56．What’s the best title of the passage?

A．The fun in the dark restaurant

B．Dining in the dark

C．The troubles in the dark restaurant

D．The advantages in the dark restaurant

57．The advantages of the dark restaurant include the following except .

A．lowering social inhibitions

B．heightening the sense of taste

C．breaking the ice easily for some shy persons

D．becoming an Internet daters’ centre

58．What does the underlined word “unlit”mean in the second paragraph?

A．dark B．crowded C．quiet D．colorful

59．It is implied but not stated that .

A．only Internet daters like to eat in the dark restaurant

B．people can understand the blind people’s world better after visiting the dark restaurant

C．only the waiters with military grade night vision goggles can see what happens there

D．consumers are easy to get angry in the dark restaurant

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

A．Consumers go to the dark restaurant in order to focus their attention on the food.

B．Eating in the dark is fun and has some advantages as well.

C．The waiters working in the dark restaurant have got used to the dark environment.

D．In the dark restaurant, you can still have the dinner as in your family.

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Three months ago, Mariza Castro left Honduras. Today, she is in the United States and she has a job. Castro works behind the counter at McDoald’s. Speed is an important part of her work life. Fast food counter workers are expected to serve customers in less than a minute. At McDonald’s they say, “Work fast or you don’t last.”

Are McDonald’s workers lucky to have their jobs? Or are they being exploited? The answer depends on who you talk to.

McDoald’s does many good things. For example, no other company hires more young people than McDonald’s. More than half of its workers are under 20 years old. McDonald’s also has a good record of hiring minority workers. Thirteen percent of its workers are black. This is better than any other US company.

But the burger house has its critics as well. The pay bothered Edward Rodriguez. He worked for nearly a year at a Los Angeles McDonald’s. During that time he got only one 10 cent raise. “I used to joke that working for McDonald’s is the closest thing to slave labour in the US today,” he days. Today, most McDonald’s pay about $ 5.00 an hour. They hire new workers constantly. The restaurant has no other choice because 70 percent of its workers quit or are fired every year.

But McDonald’s also gets its share of praise. Its best workers move up quickly. Just talk to 17 year old Ameer Abdur Razaaq of Harlem, New York City. “They call me ‘Young Crew Chief’ around my block,” he says. “When else can I go at my age and be in charge of this many people?” He sees the job as the first step in his career.

However, most McDoald’s crew members never make it to manager because the job pressure is so intense, and the rewards so few. As one worker put it, “They expect a lot and they don’t pay you much.”

56．The underlined word “exploited” in Paragraph 2 probably means “ ”.

A．unfairly treated B．highly respected

C．carefully cared D．greatly developed

57．Edward Rodriguez said working at McDonald’s is like slave labour because he thought .

A．he was not as free as slaves

B．he worked too long hours like slaves

C．he was not paid enough for what he was doing

D．he was working so hard without getting anything

58．Which of the following statements is NOT in favor of McDonald’s?

A．It hires new workers constantly.

B．It offers more young people opportunities.

C．It promotes the best employees, young as they are.

D．It respects colored people more than other companies.

59．What’s the best title of the passage?

A．Lucky to Have a Job at McDonald’s.

B．Work Fast or You Don’t Last.

C．Young People’s Paradise―McDonald’s.

D．McDonald’s―Heaven or Hell?

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I must have been about fourteen then, and I put away the incident from my mind with the

easy carelessness of youth. But the words, Carl Walter spoke that day, came back to me years

later, and ever since have been of great value to me.

Carl Walter was my piano teacher. During one of my lessons he asked how much practicing I was doing. I said three or four hours a day.

"Do you practice in long stretches, an hour at a time?"

"I try to."

"Well, don't," he exclaimed. "When you grow up, time won't come in long stretches. Practice in minutes, whenever you can find them five or ten before school, after lunch, between household tasks. Spread the practice through the day, and piano-playing will become a part of your life."

When I was teaching at Columbia, I wanted to write, but class periods, theme-reading, and committee meetings filled my days and evenings. For two years I got practically nothing down on paper, and my excuse was that I had no time. Then I remembered what Carl Walter had said. During the next week I conducted an experiment. Whenever I had five minutes unoccupied, I sat down and wrote a hundred words or so. To my astonishment, at the end of the week I had a rather large manuscript ready for revision, later on I wrote novels by the same piecemeal method. Though my teaching schedule had become heavier than ever, in every day there were idle moments which could be caught and put to use. I even took up piano--playing again, finding that the small intervals of the day provided sufficient time for both writing and piano practice.

There is an important trick in this time--using formula: you must get into your work quickly. If you have but five minutes for writing, you can't afford to waste four chewing your pencil. You must make your mental preparations beforehand, and concentrate on your task almost instantly when the time comes. Fortunately, rapid concentration is easier than most of us realize.

I admit I have never learnt how to let go easily at the end of the five or ten minutes. But life can be counted on to supply interruptions. Carl Walter has had a tremendous influence on my life. To him I owe the discovery that even very short periods of time add up to all useful hours I need, if I plunge（投入）in without delay.

56．The meaning of “stretch” in the underlined part is the same as that in sentence “ ”.

A．The forests in the north of the province stretch for hundreds of miles.

B．Bob worked as a government official for a stretch of over twenty years.

C．My family wasn’t wealthy by any stretch of the imagination.

D．During his senior year his earnings far enough to buy an old car.

57．Which of the following statements is true?

　　A．The writer didn’t completely take the teacher’s words to heart at first.

　　B．Carl Walter has had a great influence on the writer's life since he became a student.

　　C．The writer owes great thanks to his teacher for teaching him to work in long stretches.

　　D．Rapid concentration is actually more difficult than most people imagine.

58．We can infer that the writer .

A．has new books published each year however busy his teaching is

B．is always tired of interruptions in life because his teaching schedule is always heavy

C．has formed a bad habit of chewing a pencil while writing his novels

D．can find sufficient time for mental preparations beforehand, so he's devoted to work instantly

59．What is the best title of this passage?

A．Concentrate on Your Work B．A Little at a Time

C．How I Became a Writer D．Good Advice Is Most Valuable