It is easy to find your way about in New York. It is laid out so regularly. Instead of streets winding and twisting (迂回) as they do in London, they are all regular and well planned. The streets running north and south are called “avenues” and are numbered, e.g. 1^st Avenue, 2^nd Avenue, etc. The streets going east and west are called “streets” and are also numbered, e.g. 51^st Street, 63^rd Street. It is all much more logical (合理的) than London’s street names. But I couldn’t help thinking how much more interesting than these dull cold numbers are London’s illogical but colorful names of streets, e.g. “Bishopgate” (which is not a gate and hasn’t a Bishop in it); “Haymarket” or “Corn market” (where you won’t see any hey or corn) or “Poultry” (without a living chicken anywhere in sight) or “Thread needle Street” (where you won’t find little girls learning to sew).

1.In the second sentence of the passage, “laid out” means ______.

A．built             B．be put            C．designed          D．cut down

2.The streets running from north to south are called _______.

A．avenues in London                      B．streets in America

C．avenues in New York                     D．streets in London

3.According to the writer’s opinion, ______.

A．avenues and streets are the same

B．streets in America are better than avenues in England

C．streets in New York are better than those in London

D．the writer didn’t agree with the London streets planners

4.The names of streets both in London and New York ______.

A．are quite good                         B．are interesting

C．are not practical                        D．differ greatly in form

5.The writer tells his readers that he prefers (更喜欢) _____.

A．London streets                         B．New York streets

C．both                                 D．neither

WASHINGTON — It is announced Friday that White House visitor records will be opened up on a regular basis for the first time in modern history, providing the public an unusually detailed look at who gets the opportunity to help shape American policy at the highest levels.

“Americans have a right to know whose voices are being heard in the policymaking process,” the president said in a written statement issued by the White House while he vacationed with his family at Camp David.

By the end of the year, the White House will begin posting online every month the names of the people who visited in the last 90 to 120 days. Each person’s full name will be listed, along with the date and time they entered and left and the name of the person they visited. About 70,000 to 100,000 people visit the White House each month, and the records will include tourists as well as people conducting business.

The White House pointed out several exceptions to the policy: “purely personal guests” of the Obama family; those cases in which the disclosure(透露) of visitors’ names “would threaten national safety interests”; and those who come for “particularly sensitive meetings,” like candidates for a Supreme Court nomination(提名). Officials said only a “small number” will fit in the latter category（类别）, and their names would eventually be disclosed after they are no longer secret, like after a nomination is publicly announced. Moreover, they said, the number of undisclosed visitors will be disclosed, to make clear how few they are.

1.Why will the White House visitor records be open to the public?

A．To attract more visitors to the White House.

B．To allow people to know more about the life of the Obama family.

C．To let the public know who are influencing the policies.

D．To ask the public help correct the policies made by the government.

2.From the passage we can learn that ________.

A．All the visitors’ names will be posted online soon after their visits

B．Not all visitors are allowed to visit the White House

C．Some visitors’ names can be found online until they’re not secret

D．The records of the visitors will be kept for at least 4 months

3.According to the passage, whose name might be kept secret for some time?

A．A tourist.          B．A businessman.     C．A foreign student.   D．A foreign minister.

4. What’s the main idea of the passage?

A．The White House will open the records of the visitors to the public.

B．In America more and more people are becoming policy makers.

C．The Americans have a right to know who are making policies.

D．President Obama has announced a new policy while on holiday.

1.Which of the following best describes Roth’s feeling in Book 1?

2.In Book 5, King Herbert and Queen Gertrude are_______.

3.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

It helps us understand the world better if we know a little geography and have some maps at hand. But with maps in Chinese only, misunderstanding is possible in studying world events. Chinese names are long, hard to pronounce and without meaning to a foreigner. For the opening of the country maps are important and helpful and needed badly.

I wish maps various languages, such as those used in the United Nations, would come out and be sold in all bookstores open to Chinese.

1.The writer is mainly talking about ____.

A．geography                            B．maps

C．Chinese names                         D．the opening of the country

2.Knowing a little geography and having some maps in Chinese only, a foreigner ____.

A．can study world events easily

B．can study world events without misunderstanding

C．can’t study world events without misunderstanding

D．will fell joy in studying world events

3.What are the difficulties for a foreigner to use a map in Chinese?

A．A foreigner has nowhere to buy a map

B．All the bookstores only open to Chinese.

C．The names of Chinese people are long, hard to pronounce and without meaning.

D．The names of places on a map in Chinese are long, hard to pronounce and without meaning.

4.In the United Nations people use maps in ____.

A．foreign languages only                   B．Chinese only

C．various languages                       D．English only

5.According to the passage maps in foreign language are badly needed ____.

A．in a country open to other parts of the world

B．if a country is going to join the United Nations

C．when we are learning geography

D．if there are no maps in bookstores open to Chinese

Removing the sleeve(封套), you will find a book that is entirely white, except for the names of its author and subject in elegant black type on the cover. It is the perfect design for the biography of a man who insisted that even the insides of his products be perfectly constructed, and that his factory wails flash in the whitest white.

The cover was the only part of the book Steve Jobs wanted to control, writes Isaacson in his introduction. Though Mr. Jobs pushed the biographer of Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin to write in his own way, generously allowing the writer more than 40 interviews, this book offers quite a different view of Mr. Jobs, who won much praise from his fans after his death on October 5th at the age of 56.

As a biographer of Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin, Mr. Isaacson knows how to celebrate long-dead genius, but he claimed that "Steve Jobs" would not be entirely praiseful words. The picture he paints, particularly in the first half of this book, is not nice. Mr. Jobs emerges as a controlling and often cold-blooded character. A child of the 1960s counter-culture (反主流文化), he hated, materialism and lived in simply furnished houses ( in part because he was too particular about furniture). But when Apple went public in 1980, he refused to give any share to Daniel Kottke, a Iongtime supporter and soul mate from college. "He has to abandon the people he is close to," observes Andy Hertzfeld, an early Apple engineer.

Mr. Jobs was undoubtedly possessing an extraordinary ability to attract others and inspire a kind of faith that could not be questioned. But also he could be cold and cruel. If he disapproved of an employee's work, he often shamed him. "This is who I am," he once said after being challenged,"and you can't expect me to be someone I'm not. " This disgusting personality wasn't always helpful,but it served a purpose, writes Mr. Isaacson, many would "end their chain of horror stories by saying that he got them to do things they never dreamed possible. "

Mr. Isaacson treats "Steve Jobs" as the biography of record, which means that it is a strange book to read so soon after its subject's death.   

1.The biography for Jobs is believed to have the perfect design because __

A．it follows Jobs' style

B．its cover is entirely white

C．black and white are his favorite .

D．it is designed by a famous biographer

2.The picture of Jobs that Isaacson paints in his book is __

①cruel    ②humorous   ③particular  ④generous

A．①③             B．②③             C．①④             D．③④

3.It can be safely concluded that        

A．Jobs is highly spoken of in the book

B．Isaacson doesn't think Jobs a good man

C．Jobs didn't care about the design of the book

D．all descriptions of Jobs are not nice in the book

4.This passage can be classified as          

A．a personal diary    B．a book review      C．a news report      D．a TV interview