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In 1990 a report was published about what the earth might be like 20 years from then on. The report was a result of a three-year    1    .

According to the report, the picture of the earth in the year 2010 is not a    2    one. The world will be more    3    because the population will continue to grow. The population could be    4    6,300 million, almost 2,500 million more than in 1985. More people would move into cities, especially cities in    5    countries. Cities like Cairo and Jakarta probably would    6    have a population of 15 million by then.

Food production will    7    , but not enough to feed all the people. Farmers will grow 90% more food than they did in 1985,    8    most of the increase would be in countries that    9    produce enough food for their people. Little increase is    10    in South Asia, Africa or the Middle East. Poor farming ways are    11    large areas of crop land, changing farms into deserts. More farmland is    12    as cities become larger and more houses are built.    13    will get worse as industrial countries burn more coal and oil. Many of the world's    14    could disappear as more and more trees are cut down. Energy will continue to be a serious problem. The experts say their picture of the earth for the year 2010    15    . They only continued the situation that    16    today. By changing the situation, by    17    the problems, the picture can be changed. There is    18    time for the nations of the world to work    19    a plan of action. But they warned that    20    too long to make decisions would greatly reduce the chances of success.

1. A. learning              B. project         C. notice            D. study

2. A. pleased               B. pleasant          C. safe            D. blue

3. A. dangerous            B. beautiful        C. crowded         D. terrible

4. A. no more than    B. as many as       C. so much as       D. as large as

5. A. developing        B. developed       C. big             D. mountainous

6. A. none                    B. each                  C. all              D. neither

7. A. insist            B. reduce          C. increase          D. continue

8. A. so                        B. but             C. or              D. however

9. A. already                 B. hardly          C. partly           D. never

10. A. wanted               B. lacked          C. found           D. expected

11. A. destroying       B. protecting       C. disturbing       D. interrupting

12. A. saved           B. lost                   C. discovered       D. used

13. A. Air pollution     B. Water pollution  C. Some diseases  D. All farmland

14. A. animals         B. plants          C. forests          D. people

15. A. must be true      B. will come true  C. can't be true     D. may be wrong

16. A. happens          B. develops         C. exists           D. appears

17. A. settling           B. working out    C. answering        D. dealing

18. A. no              B. still             C. less             D. plenty of

19. A. about            B. in              C. out             D. for

20. A. working         B. suggesting       C. spending         D. waiting

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  In the winter vocation of 2008, I was fixed with a job. I worked as a(n) 21  at Mr Breen’s  fruit shop. The fruit shop did good business. Most of the trade came from the housewives who lived in the neighborhood, 22_ he also had regular customers who arrived outside the shop in cars. Mr Breen 23  them all by names and they sometimes even had their order already made up, always 24  me to carry it out to their car. They were clearly longstanding customers, and I 25 they must have stayed faithful to him because he had  promised to sell good quality fruits. He had a way with them---- I had to 26  that. He called every woman “madam” for a start, 27  those who clearly were not, but when he said it, it did not sound like flattery(恭维). It just sounded 28  in an old-fashioned way. He was a great chatter  29 . If he did not know them, he would greet them with a few  30  about the weather,  31  he did, he would ask about their families or make  32 , always cutting his cloth 33  his customers. Whatever their bills came to, he  34  gave them back the few odd pence(零钱), and I was sure they thought he was very generous. But I thought he was the opposite. He never threw anything away. He was always looking for  35 for nothing.

21. A. operator     B. assistant       C. waiter      D. secretary

22. A. so           B. when         C. therefore    D. but

23. A. sold         B. knew         C. gave        D. sent

24. A. making      B. letting        C. getting      D. keeping

25. A. wished       B. insisted       C. declared    D. supposed

26. A. admit        B. expect        C. announce   D. promise

27. A. yet          B. only          C. just        D. even

28. A. serious       B. strange       C. polite       D. familiar

29. A. as well       B. as usual       C. either      D. also

30. A. sayings       B. questions     C. words      D. speeches

31. A. and then      B. and so       C. even if      D. but if

32. A. preparations   B. jokes        C. repairs      D. friends

33. A. according to   B. due to        C. instead of   D. up to

34. A. never         B. ever         C. seldom     D. always

35. A. something     B. anything     C. somebody   D. anybody