— Can I speak to Shannon, please?

    — __________ She is getting changed.

      A. Who are you?              B. Hold on, please!

      C. Speaking.                 D. Are you John?

Many young people in America go to camps when they are out of school during the summer. They are offered a chance to explore different things: nature, sports, music, technology ——even business and economy.

One such program for high school students in the Pacific Northwest is called Washington Business Week. The program began in 1975. Officials say forty-five thousand people have attended Washington Business Week. Other states now have similar camps.

Washington Business Week describes itself as a way to learn more about how to plan for the future in an ever-changing economy. Students form an executive(行政的) management (管理) team. They lead an imaginary company to financial success.

The camp is held at three colleges in Washington State. The high school students live in the college housing. The cost of the camp is almost three hundred dollars, but families can receive financial assistance(援助).

Some business camps are free. These are for students from poor areas. The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship（企业家）(NFTE) is an organization based in New York City that supports such camps. It has programs around the United States and its Web site lists international partners in China, Tanzania and a few other countries. NFTE says it has served more than one hundred thousand young people since 1987.

Among other business camps is Camp C.E.O.. C.E.O is an chief executive officer. And this camp is for girls only. Camp C.E.O. is supported by the Girl Scouts of America and takes place for one week each summer.

The camp took place last month in Tennessee. The girls worked with successful businesswomen

from different industries. The girls learned how to build a business and develop an idea into a product. And, we imagine, they also had some fun.

1. In Washington Business Week, students successfully run a company_______.

2.Which of the following is True about NFTE?

3.What can we conclude from the passage ?

4.Which of the following is the best title of the passage?

A. Summer camps for students             B. Summer camps for future C.E.O.

C. Summer camps being popular           D. Summer camps in the world

Amazed zoo visitors watch as an orangutan(猩猩) named Bonnie swings along cables way above their heads. She’s not making a great ape escape; she’s taking a “highway” to higher learning.

Bonnie is traveling on the Orangutan Transit System, called the O-Line, at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. The O-Line stretches from the Great Ape House, where Bonnie lives, to an exhibit called Think Tank. There she and other orangutans participate in a study trying to answer the questions: Do animals think?  If so,  how?

    Think Tank scientists look for clues that an animal is thinking. A baby orangutan following its mother is probably not thinking. But an orangutan using a stick to reach honey in a beehive probably is thinking. It’s figuring out how to obtain a sweet treat.

    To learn more about what the orangutans are thinking, Think Tank scientists are teaching orangutans a language of symbols. The apes don’t actually speak. They point to the symbols to show their thoughts.

    Each symbol stands for a word. Different categories of the symbols have their own shapes. Food symbols, for example, are rectangles(矩形); object symbols are circles; and verbs are diamonds.

    Computers help the orangutans learn the symbolic language. After the apes are shown an apple, for example, their task is to touch the apple symbol on a computer screen. They can do so. All six orangutans have learned a few symbols, but only Azy and Indah have learned eight symbols and can use the computer.

    Azy and Indah choose to live at Think Tank. The others commute(往返) from the Great Ape House on the O-Line. All attend Think Tank sessions, though none are made to do so. “They’re eager to learn”, one of the scientists says. “They never turn me down!”

What is the main idea of the passage?

Scientists are doing research on whether animals can think and how they think.

Biologists have found that orangutans are more intelligent than other animals.

Orangutans at the National Zoo can be taught to communicate with humans easily.

Animals are being taught by scientists to speak to one another at the National Zoo.

     The Orangutan Transit System refers to _____.

a way that can teach animals to learn things and communicate quickly

a place for various animals in the National Zoo to participate in the study

a walkway for the orangutans to travel to different sections of the zoo

a line for the orangutans to travel between the Great Ape House and the Think Tank

     According to the passage, scientists use a system of symbols to help _____.

find out which orangutan can learn the symbolic language fast

attract all the orangutans to live together at Think Tank

communicate with the orangutans and understand them better

understand whether animals can learn a language and express themselves by using it

     It can be inferred from the passage that _____.

a baby orangutan has his own intention though following his mother

many animals in the wild can learn symbolic languages to express their thoughts

the cleverer the animals are, the more knowledge they would like to learn

orangutans can form mental images in their minds when they see objects

Students will need to use all of their skills in order to understand the reading selections in Reader’s Choice.

The book    36   many types of selections on a wide   37    of topics. These selections provide practice on    38    different reading skills to get the   39   of the writer. They also give students   40   in four basic reading skills: skimming, scanning, reading for   41   comprehension, and critical reading.  

Skimming involves reading quickly through a text to get an overall idea of its contents. This kind of rapid reading is   42  when you are trying to decide  43   careful reading is desirable or when there is not    44    to read something carefully.

Like skimming, scanning is also quick reading.    45   , in this case the search is more    46    .To scan is to read quickly in order to    47    specific information. When you read to find a    48   date, or number you are scanning.  

Reading for thorough comprehension is   49    reading in order to understand the total   50   of the passage.   51   this level of comprehension the reader is    52    to summarize the author’s ideas but has not yet made a critical evaluation of those ideas.  

Critical reading demands that a reader   53   judgments about what he or she reads. This kind of reedit    54    posting and answering questions such as “Does my own experience support that of the author?”, “Do I    55    the author’s point of view?” And “Am I convinced by the author’s arguments and evidence?

36.A.contains                B.uses                   C.put                    D.writes

37.A.sense                    B.variety               C.kind                   D.subject

38.A.making                 B.understanding     C.speaking             D.employing

39.A.message                B.secret                 C.content               D.nature

40.A.power                  B.point                  C.practice              D.opinion

41.A.better                   B.basic                  C.general               D.thorough

42.A.suitable                B.interesting          C.wrong                D.true

43.A.that                      B.if                       C.when                 D.why

44.A.interest                 B.habit                  C.time                   D.desire

45.A.Moreover             B.Anyway             C.However            D.Therefore

46.A.funny                   B.concentrated       C.perfect               D.important

47.A.deal with                     B.get in                 C.go over                     D.find out

48.A.common               B.different             C.fine                   D.particular

49.A.carefully               B.slowly                C.quickly                     D.perfectly

50.A.design                  B.explanation         C.meaning             D.feeling

51.A.To                B.On                     C.At                            D.In

52.A.impossible            B.able                   C.difficult             D.simple

53.A.makes                  B.finds                 C.puts                   D.offers

54.A.lacks                   B.requires              C.demands            D.affords

55.A.tell                       B.express               C.share                  D.argue