— Are you going to travel during this summer vacation?
— No, I’ll have to do some part-time job for my study. __________, there’s a disease spreading.

What do Chinese college graduates have in common with ants? The recent 16  Ant Tribes about the life of some young people  17  flock （群集） to Beijing after  18  university，describes the graduates，like ants，as smart but 19  as individuals，drawing strength from living together in communities.
The book，which is based  20  two years of interviews with about 600 low-income college graduates in Beijing， 21  in mid-September，about a month ahead of an announcement by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security that 74% of the 6.11 million new graduates from universities and colleges had been  22  by Sept．1.
The book’s chief editor，Lian Sir，tells that piece of statistic says23 about the real situation for many of these graduates．“I am always   24  how many of these employed college graduates are leading a happy life,” Lian said．“I hope this book could offer a window on these graduates，whose stories are __25  known.”
The setting of the book is several so-called “settlement villages for college students” in the outskirts （市郊） of Beijing，where a large  26  of college graduates 27 ．Most of these graduates work for 28 or medium-sized businesses， 29  less than 2,000 Yuan a month．They live together because it’s 30:  The rent in these communities is only around 350 Yuan a month．Many of them travel several hours a day for short-term jobs or job interviews.
Tangjialing，a small  31  20 kilometers from Tian’anmen Square，has around 3,000  32  villagers，but has become a  33  for more than 50,000 migrants （移民），most of whom  34  from universities or colleges all over the country．Lian describes the students’  35  as five or six-storey buildings built by local farmers with 12 rooms on each floor and two or three people crammed （挤） together in each room of about 10 square meters．Up to 70 or 80 people share the same toilet and kitchen.

If there is something that appears most frequently on Chinese dining tables, it is doufu—bean curd. Bean curd looks like soft cakes and it's made from dried soybeans. Bean curd used to be considered a favourite of the poor because of its low cost. Beans have high yields(产量) every year with their short growing period and suitability for various(各种各样) soil both dry and wet.

Historical records show bean curd was invented by Liu An, Prince of Huainan and uncle of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty(206BC—220AD). He had a dream of finding the pill for longevity(长寿). He travelled all over the country and found soybeans, which looked much the same as gold in terms of colour. He collected soybeans, put them in the water and crushed them into pulp(浆). It got solidified and became known as doufu. Although it's not able to keep longevity, it's really good for one's health with high protein and low fat.

With a long history, bean curd is rooted deep in Chinese culture. People eat more meat and fish than bean curd. But they are encouraged to have bean curd every once in a while for it's really good for health. Most Chinese people still keep bean curd as one of their favourite dishes.

1．Why was bean curd considered to be liked by the poor?

 A. It's easy to make.       B. It's easy to cook.

 C. It's cheap.            D. It's good for health.

2．Where can beans grow well?

 A. Only in wet soil.     B. In dry soil.

 C. In soft soil.         D. In any soil.

3．What appears more often on the dining table in poor areas?

 A. Meat.        B. Fish.        C. Eggs.      D. Bean curd.

4．Why did Liu An travel all over the country?

 A．He had a dream.

 B．He wanted to find something that could make people live longer.

 C．He wanted to invent bean curd.

 D．He wanted to find gold.

5．How long has bean curd been invented?

 A. It's about 1,700 years.

 B. It's less than 2,000 years.

 C. It's 500 years.

 D. It's more than 2,000 years.

The use students ________of the chance to travel and see new things really _______.

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
During my second year of college, I was looking around for a place to live. One Sunday after church, the pastor(牧师) told me to stay in his daughter’s room because his daughter was studying abroad for one year.[来源:学*科*网Z*X*X*K]
To be  36 , I really didn’t want to stay with “the pastor’s family”. He told me how much the  37 would be---a very low figure that  38 one home-cooked meal a day. I thought about the  39 and decided to move in.
At the end of the term I had planned to find  40  living place, since the daughter was to  41  home. To my delight, they  42 that I share a room with their son. I seemed to have been adopted into their  43  ----their people became my people. I   44  accepted the offer.
As I emptied the daughter’s bedroom, I thought it might be  45  to have a little sister to look after. But when I later met my new sister, I  46 that she was more independent than I first  47 .
We finally fell in love,  48  , and have looked after each other for many years. There have been times that life turned out more  49  than either of us could have known. But we have always been able to go  50 largely because we knew that we are deeply  51 .
It isn’t about marriage… It’s about  52  . It’s about mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers and special friends who are as  53  as family. It’s about anybody who can say, “I’ll be  54  ----you can count on me. I’ll try to look after you and sometimes I will need you to look after me.
Is there somebody you can depend on?  And are others counting on you? We travel the path of life best when there is  55  to look after, and when someone is looking after us.
36. A. honest                     B. surprised                C. friendly          D. pleased
37. A. price                       B. rent                      C. money            D. pay
38. A. had                        B. included                C. made              D. contained
39. A. idea                        B. plan                      C. service           D. offer
40. A. same                      B. different               C. another          D. extra
41. A. return                     B. go                        C. get                       D. leave
42. A. ordered                  B. agreed                  C. arranged         D. suggested
43. A. house                     B. family                  C. group            D. friend
44. A. happily                   B. sorrowfully           C. evidently        D. efficiently
45. A. bad                        B. exciting                 C. nice               D. strange
46. A. realized            B. thought             C. knew          D. doubted
47. A. saw                 B. told                      C. imagined               D. believed
48. A. separated                B. parted                C. left                       D. married
49. A. smooth            B. challenging          C. exciting            D. different
50. A. backward            B. eastward               C. forward                D. westward
51. A. hated               B. cared                C. felt                       D. liked
52. A. friendship           B. relation              C. love               D. family
53. A. close                B. good              C. far                 D. long
54. A. away                B. out                  C. in                  D. around
55. A. nobody           B. somebody        C. anybody         D. everybody