The most important _____ of his speech was that we should all work whole-heartedly for the people.

   A. element    B. spot    C. sense    D. point

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Ban the Band(乐队)？

Every year,our school has a dance for all the students.It’s a little funny seeing friends in clean shoes and trousers or colorful    1,instead of the usual school uniform.

Most of us think the dance is great   2—even the teachers enjoy being there.  3,two weeks ago someone said that there would be no    4band this year—only CDs.

“I don’t    5it!”Amy cried out during the lunch break.

“Someone said the school couldn’t    6a band,and they think it’s too noisy anyway,”added Daniel.

“Well,I don’t think it’s    7enough without a band!”declared Angela,“and I’m going to see what can be done.”

Angela was as good as her    8.In the afternoon she went to see the school headmaster who agreed to give the   9some more thought.And he suggested that one   10for having a band was to increase the price of each ticket from $5 to $10.Angela had to   11out whether the students would like to do that.

“I need all of you to help me,”she  12to our group before school the next day.“Mr.Berry gave me a list of all the names,and suggested we ask each one their   13about the band and the extra cost.”

14the day we asked around as Angela suggested,and wrote down people’s feelings about the band and the cost.We were amazed how much    15there was for the band and everyone agreed to pay the extra $5.

“I’m surprised,”smiled Mr. Berry,when we gave him the    16.“I really thought that only a few people     17their band and that the cost would be too high.OK,Angela,your next    18is to find a good band and line them up for the dance.”

Angela was all smiles and    19the news to Amy and Daniel.“You’re    20,”smiled Daniel to Angela as he thought how close they came to having a less than perfect dance.

1.A.shapes          B.dresses               C.flowers               D.pictures

2.A.fun             B.work              C.effort                D.progress

3.A.Besides         B.Otherwise         C.However           D.Therefore

4.A.new             B.live              C.foreign               D.marching

5.A.mean            B.need              C.accept                D.believe

6.A.lead                B.serve             C.afford                D.form

7.A.good            B.clear             C.useful                D.easy

8.A.look            B.behavior          C.mind              D.word

9.A.schedule            B.situation         C.view              D.action

10.A.possibility        B.concern           C.decision          D.chance

11.A.call               B.find              C.carry             D.point

12.A.admitted           B.replied               C.apologized            D.announced

13.A.knowledge      B.instruction           C.opinion               D.information

14.A.On             B.For               C.By                D.During

15.A.trust          B.money             C.support               D.care

16.A.results            B.notices               C.questions         D.examples

17.A.welcomed       B.wanted                C.defended          D.invited

18.A.task               B.business          C.exercise          D.duty

19.A.showed         B.wrote             C.broke             D.read

20.A.amusing            B.interesting           C.exciting          D.amazing

Abby Subark is a mother of two from Boston. “For my kids, I’m nervous. I don’t know if they’ll be able to achieve their American dream.” She may be right. More than hard work or education, the best way to get rich in America is to be born rich.

It is the case that somebody who is in the upper third of income, poor scores, in the bottom on tests when they are in eighth grade, is more likely to go to college and finish college than a poor kid with the top scores. That’s what the working persons’  children are up against.

The Economic Policy Institute finds it would take a poor couple with 2 children 9 or 10 generations to achieve middle class status. That’s about 200 years. The hallmark (特征) of American opportunity has always been the ability to do better than your parents. But compared with similar developed countries, the United States ranks fifth out of six for so-called intergenerational mobility (变动).

If you look at the mechanisms (机制) for upward mobility that were so readily available 50 years ago, they are becoming out of reach, like plentiful factory jobs with good wages and affordable education and health care.

White families are twice as likely as blacks to be upwardly mobile. For most people in America today, where you end up depends on where you start.

If you started in the middle-income class, about 40 to 45 percent of what you are making right now is due to the fact that your parents were in the middle-income class. The rest is up to you.

But for the millions of people who find themselves below the poverty line and the millions more who are the working poor, their starting point for the American dream leaves them painfully far away from the middle class.

The main idea of the passage is _______.

A. How the middle class comes about in the U.S.

B. It’s hard to realize the American dream for the poor.

C. Wealth and social status depend on family background.

D. Upward mobility in America is never easy.

Which of the statements is NOT true according to the passage?

A. People used to have job opportunities and welfare for upward mobility.

B. A great many poor people can hardly realize their American dream.

C. You can make all your dreams come true in America if born rich.

D. Rich kids are more likely to go to college than poor kids.

The underlined sentence “where you end up depends on where you start” most probably means _______.

A. Your starting point cannot determine your destination.

B. Only a high goal can ensure success.

C. One’s birth has nothing to do with his fate.

D. One’s family lays solid foundation for his future achievements.

Why is Abby Subark nervous?

A. Her kids don’t want to compare with other rich kids in achievements.

B. Her kids don’t want to achieve success at all.

C. Her kids can achieve success through hard work and education.

D. Her kids can’t reach their goal without a rich family.

What can we infer after reading the passage?　

A. Poverty causes people much pain.

B. People below the poverty line can never be in the middle class.

C. Lower starting point makes it hard for people to realize their dream.

D. Poor people’s starting point is too low.

The tomato juice left a brown_____ on the front of my jacket.

A. track        B. trace        C. spot           D. point

When I asked my daughter which item she would keep; the phone, the car, the cooker, the computer, the TV, or her boyfriend, she said“the phone”. Personally, I could do without the phone entirely, which makes me unusual. Because the telephone is changing our lives more than any other piece of technology.

Point 1 The telephone creates the need to communicate, in the same way that more roads create more traffic. My daughter comes home from school at 4:00 pm and then spends an hour on the phone talking to the very people she has been at school with all day. If the phone did not exist, would she have anything to talk about?

Point 2 The mobile phone means that we are never alone. “The mobile saved my life,”says Crystal Johnstone. She had an accident in her Volvo on the A45 between Otley and Skipton. Trapped inside, she managed to make the call that brought the ambulance(救护车) to her rescue.

Point 3 The mobile removes our secret. It allows marketing manager of Haba Deutsch, Carl Nicolaisen, to ring his sales staff all round the world at and time of day to ask where they are , where they are going, and how their last meeting went.

Point 4 The telephone separates us. Antonella Bramante in Rome says, “We worked in separate offices but I could see him through the window. It was easy to get his number. We were so near——but we didn’t meet for the first two weeks!”

Point 5 The telephone allows us to reach out beyond our own lives. Today we can talk to several complete strangers simultaneously ( 同时地) on chat lines (at least my daughter does. I wouldn’t know what to talk about). We can talk across the world. We can even talk to astronauts (if you know any) while they’re space-walking. And, with the phone line hooked up to the computer, we can access(进入) the Internet, the biggest library on Earth.

1.How do you understand‘Point 1 —The telephone creates the need to communicate,6…’？

2.Which of the following best shows people’s attitude towards mobile phones?

3.Which points do you think support the idea that phones improve people’s life?

a.      Point 1. b. Point2. c. Point3. d. Point 4. e. Point 5.

4.It is possible to talk to several complete strangers simultaneously through .

5.The best heading for the passage is .