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 faraway places.This was because most cities had only one antenna tower for mobile phones.

　 Today’s mobile phones are small and easy to use.Now most cities have a lot of antenna towers，not just one.This means that each mobile phone doesn’t have to send its signal far away，so they don’t need to be so powerful.Mobile phones today use small batteries.A large city，where lots of mobile phones are used，can have hundreds of towers.

　 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 messages.

　 Sending short written 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!

1.The writer talks about 　　　　 uses of a mobile phone.

　 A.three 　　　　 B.five 　　　　 C.seven 　　　　 D.nine

2.Why did the mobile phones need large powerful batteries some years ago?

　 A.Because most cities had only one antenna tower.

　 B.Because the mobile phones were too large.

　 C.Because the mobile phones could be used for a long time.

　 D.Because the mobile phones had to send their signal to faraway places.

3.What does the writer think of today’s mobile phones?

　 A.They are small but very powerful.

　 B.They are very popular and cheap.

　 C.They are very easy for us to use.

　 D.They are big enough to send a signal.

4.What does “Will I C U B4 2moro？” probably mean?

　 A.Will I see you before two past four in the morning?

　 B.Will I see you by 4∶02 in the morning?

　 C.Will I see you before tomorrow?

　 D.Will I see you by four tomorrow?

5.What does the writer write the article (文章) for?

　 A.To give us some common knowledge of the mobile phone.

　 B.To introduce how the mobile phone works and what use it has.

　 C.To tell us what short forms of words mean in written messages.

　 D.To show us in what way the mobile phone is expected to develop.

Some 　　　 on the front page of today's China Daily　are very special.?

A.　topics　　　 B.　titles　　　 C.　headlines　　　 D.　news

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　　More surprising, perhaps, than the current difficulties of traditional marriage is the fact that marriage itself is alive and thriving(旺盛的). As Skolnich notes, Americans are a marrying people: relative to Europeans, more of us marry and we marry at a younger age. Moreover, after a decline(衰退) in the early 1970s, the rate of marriage in the United States is now increasing. Even the divorce(离婚) rate needs to be taken in this pro-marriage context: some 80 percent of divorced individuals remarry. Thus, marriage remains by far the preferred way of life for the vast majority of the people in our society.

　　What has changed more than marriage is the nuclear family. Twenty-five years ago, the typical American family consisted of the husband, the wife, and two or three children. Now, there are many marriages in which couples have decided not to have any children, and there are many marriages where at least some of the children axe from the wife's previous marriage, of the husband's, or both. Sometimes these children spend all of their time with one parent from the former marriage; sometimes they are shared between the two former spouses(配偶).

　　Thus, one can find every type of tamely arrangement. There are marriages without children; marriages with children from only the present marriages; marriages with “full-time” children from both the present and former marriages; marriages with “full-time” children from the present marriage and “part-time” children from former marriages. There are stepfathers, stepmothers, half-brothers arid half-sisters. It is not all that unusual for a child to have four parents and eight grandparents! These are enormous changes from the traditional nuclear family. But even so, even in the midst of all this, there remains one constant: most Americans spend most of their adult lives married.

1．By calling Americans a marrying people the writer means that ________.

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A．Americans are more traditional than Europeans

B．Americans expect more out of marriage than Europeans

C．there are more married couples in the USA than in Europe

D．more of Americans, as compared with Europeans, prefer marriage and they accept it at a younger age

2．Divorced Americans ________.

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A．prefer the way they live

B．will most likely remarry

C．have lost interest in marriage

D．are the majority of people in the society

3．Which of the following can be presented as the picture of today's American families?

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A．Which types of family arrangements have become socially acceptable?

B．A typical American family consists of only a husband and a wife.

C．Americans prefer to have more kids than before.

D．There are no nuclear families any more.

4．Though great changes have taken place in the structure of American families, ________.

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A．the majority of Americans still have faith in marriage

B．the functions of marriage remain unchanged

C．most Americans prefer a second marriage

D．most Americans prefer to be single

　　There are many types of reports. A report is simply an account of something that has happened. The commonest are news reports. We get them in newspapers, over radio and on television. Sometimes cinemas also show us newsreels.

　　The main purpose of a newspaper is to provide news. If you examine a newspaper closely, you will find that there are all types of news: accidents, floods, fires, wars, fashions（服装）,sports, books, etc. The news covers everything that happens to people and their surroundings. Sometimes there are news items which are very musing.

　　A news report is usually very short, except when it is about something very important, but it contains（包含）a lot of information. It is also written in short paragraphs. The first paragraph is in fact a summary（总结）of the news item. It gives all the necessary information, what, when, where, how and why. The other paragraphs give full details of the subject. There may also be interviews with people. The words actually spoken by them are within inverted commas（引号）.

　　Often there are photographs to go with the news to make it more

(1) The easiest way to get today's news is ________.

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(2) Newspapers sell well mainly because ________.

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A．they cost very little

B．they are easy to get

C．they have got pictures to go with the news

D．they provide all sorts of news in them

(3) If you want to get enough information about yesterday's traffic accident within a very short time, you'd better ________.

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A．read the first paragraph of the news report in today's newspaper

B．start from the second paragraph of the news report in today's newspaper

C．look through the whole news report in today's newspaper

D．talk with people who have seen the accident.

(4) This passage mainly talks about ________.

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A．different types of reports

B．news reports

C．happenings to people and their surroundings

D．the length of a news report