The books by Mo Yan are so popular that they are in great _______.        

A. quantity                           B. progress                           C. production                      D. demand

Every year _______ students attend the college entrance examination, and ______ them can be admitted into their ideal universities.

There ______ quantities of apples in the basket and there was ______ milk in the bucket.

1. A.
   were; a number of
2. B.
   was; quantities of
3. C.
   were; a quantity of
4. D.
   was; a good many

Alan Izhar-Bodner, an Israeli inventor, has developed a swimming suit for divers to breathe underwater without carrying heavy oxygen tanks. His suit makes use of the air that is dissolved（溶解）in water, just like fish do.
The system uses the Henry Law which states that the amount of gas that can be dissolved in a liquid is proportional (成比例的)to the pressure on the liquid. Raise the pressure ---more gas can be dissolved in the liquid. Decrease the pressure --- less gas dissolved in the liquid releases the gas. This is exactly what happens when you open a can of soda; carbon dioxide gas is dissolved in the liquid and is under pressure in the can. Open the can, releasing the pressure, and the gas fizzes(嘶撕作响)out.
Bodner's System obviously uses a special machine to lower pressure in part of a small amount of seawater taken into the system; dissolved gas is taken out. The patent（专利）reads: A self-contained open-circuit（循环）breathing instrument for use within a body of water naturally containing dissolved air. The instrument is adapted to provide breathable(可吸入的)air. The instrument contains an inlet for taking out a quantity of water from the body of water. It further contains a separator for separating the dissolved air from the quantity of water, thus gaining the breathable air. The instrument further contains an outlet for expelling (驱逐)the separated water back into the body of water, and another outlet for removing the breathable air and supplying it for breathing. The air is supplied so as to enable it to be expelled back into the body of water after it has been breathed .   
Human beings have been thinking about how to breathe underwater since they started swimming. This long-held desire plays an important part in one of the first great science fiction novels, Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
【小题1】It can be inferred from the passage that____________ .

To Design Perfect School Uniforms 设计完美的校服

Believe it or not, there are good reasons for wearing a school uniform. It makes you   1__  proud of your school. It builds a common spirit of unity (整体) among students and   2   them of the values and history of their school. But for most students, school uniforms are not something to be proud of   3  .

“Why   4   the school uniform just one day a week? Always wearing the same clothes makes me feel boring,” a senior student from a high school complained (抱怨). “I don’t like the big English letters of the name of our school on the back,” said a junior student “They could be   __5  .” The main student complaints about school uniforms are: simple colors, boring designs and bad   6  . And a teacher at a middle school in Guangzhou said that   7   a teacher and a mother, she eagerly   8   the quality of school uniforms will be improved soon.

What has caused all these problems? Chen Hong, a uniform designer in Shenzhen, pointed out that problems   9   because the whole society doesn’t see the   10   of the school uniform.

“Most designers are  11   to stick to the same old fashion,  12 _ there are no professionals (专业人员)   13   work for students,” Chen said.

His company   14   most of the awards in the first national competition for school uniforms last month in Nanning, Guangxi.

“Besides, high quality calls for a high price,” said Chen. “But in some schools, the annual (一年一度) expense for each student’s uniform is only 50 to 60 yuan. How can we produce high quality clothes with so   15   money?”

Even with these problems, efforts have been made   16   the situation, according to Zhai Shiliang,   17   of the School Uniform Administration and Service Center in Beijing. A school clothes competition was held in April in Beijing. Thirty-seven uniforms,   18   in schools next spring, were selected from 570. “We will offer the samples (样品) for schools to choose,” Zhai said.

“The perfect uniform should remind the students of the school’s honor and cause them to be proud of it   19   they are,” Chen said. Zhai added, “During the 2008 Olympic Games, the whole world will see the new appearance of our   20   century young generation with new school uniforms.”

1. A. take                    B. feel                C. to take             D. to feel

2. A. remains               B. remember          C. reminds           D. recalls

3. A. at all                   B. in all               C. for all              D. after all

4. A. not to wear           B. to wear            C. not wear         D. wear

5. A. large                   B. larger              C. small               D. smaller

6. A. quantity              B. amount            C. quality             D. unit

7. A. as                           B. like                C. for                  D. with

8. A. wishes                       B. needs               C. wants              D. hopes

9. A. come through      B. come up         C. come in           D. come on

10. A. importance        B. important             C. design             D. possibility

11. A. like                   B. possibly           C. unlikely           D. likely

12. A. if                      B. although         C. because            D. because of

13. A. what                B. which              C. that                D. ×

14. A. won                  B. has won           C. wins                    D. had won

15. A. few                   B. little                    C. much               D. many

16. A. improve            B. develop           C. change             D. to change

17. A. a head               B. the head           C. Head               D. head

18. A. being seen                B. to be seen        C. to see              D. will be seen

19. A. whenever and wherever                  B. when and where 

   C. what and who                                D. whatever and whoever

20.A. 19th                  B. 20th                       C. 21st                D. 22nd