19．Which is the best title for the third piece of news?

A．Ready to Fight. 　　 B．No Good End.　　 C．Wait and See.　　　　 D．Peace Comes First.

18．Which of the following statements is Not true according to the second piece of news?

A．The whole torch relay will be held three metres underwater.

B．The underwater journey of the torch will play an important part in Olympic history.

C．A test has been made before this activity.

D．Some chemicals will help the flame burn by the producing oxygen.

17．Why does the network aim to serve tourists especially from Europe and the USA?

A．Because they are from developed countries.

B．Because the payments of hotels and services should be made through credit cards.

C．Because people in these countries travel much more than other countries.

D．Because they have more computers than others.

16．The word “instant ” probably has the meaning of 　　　　　　.

A．which can be made up slowly for use　　　　

B．which can be made up quickly for use

C．expensive　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

D．cheap

E

Here are four pieces of news from China Daily:

SHANGHAI – The Huachen Group, which has put 83 million yuan in the development of the ecommerce market since its official registration late last year, recently held a meeting in Shanghai to show the use of its newly opened tourism business payment network. The network aims so serve tourists from all over the world,but especially from Europe and the United State where credit cards are popularly used. After opening the www. Chinaecent. com website, netizens can get information about hotels and tourism services on tourism page. Hotels and services can be reserved and payments made through credit cards. The network opened in February in Beijing.

SYDNEY – The Sydney Olympic flame will travel underwater on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef during the torch relay(火炬接力)following a successful test.

Scuba diver Wendy Craig, a marine biologist, will carry the torch on a three-to-four-minute underwater journey at Agincourt Reef on June 27, creating Olympic history, organizers said yesterday.

Burning at 2,000 degrees, the torch is expected to remain alight(点燃着的)three metres under-water because of a special kind of technology which creates a “fierce flame” too powerful to be drowned out by water. Charles Tegner, managing director of torch creator, said the flame would burn like a flare from oxygenproducing chemicals.

BEIJING – The election of a new leader in Taiwan can not change the fact that Taiwan is a part of Chinese territory. “Taiwan Independence” in whatever form will never be allowed, according to a statesman of China’s central government.

“We should listen to what the new leader in Taiwan says and watch what he does. We will observe where he will lead cross-Straits relations. We are willing to exchange views on cross-Straits relations and peaceful reunification with all parties, organizations and persongages in Taiwan who favor(赞同)the one China principle.” says the statesman, which was released(发布)by the Taiwan Affairs Office of the CPC Central Committee.

HAIKOU – Customs officers in Haikou, capital of South China’s Hainan Province, recently stopped a boat loaded with 781 cases of foreign-brand cigarettes being smuggled(走私)into China. The cigarettes are estimated to be worth more than 1.8 million yuan, said a customs officer, they discovered the smuggling boat as they were going around the northern sea area of Yangpu Port.

The smuggled cigarettes cases, packed into two containers, were disguised to avoid(回避)being examined. The boat was registered(登记)in the coastal city of Xiamen in East China’s Fujian Province. All eight suspects(疑犯)aboard the boat were kept by the police in Haikou.

15．Judging by the result of the study many women were not interested in instant coffee because

　　 　　　　.

A．they didn’t trust advertisements　　　　 B．instant coffee was not suited to their taste

C．they wanted to show that they were intelligent

D．they had a sense of shame about using instant coffee

14．In the study, the women were supposed to give the opinions about 　　　　　　.

A.which was better, instant coffee or regular coffee　

B．women’s attitude towards shopping

C．the necessity of making such a shopping list

D．the personality of a woman who would prepare such a list

13．The result of the investigation showed that 　　　　　　　　.

A．women who used regular coffee were good planners

B．most of the women investigated were good at reasons

C．many women believed that wives who used instant coffee were lazy

D．housewives who used instant coffee were lazy

12．The passage implies that　　　 .

　　　　 A．there are too many mistakes in businesses to be corrected nowadays.

　　　　 B．customers can find what they have lost through the help of newspapers

　　　　 C．newspapers will be the only means that can help people solve problems of all kinds

　　　　 D．the influence(影响)of newspapers can sometimes solve problems when individual efforts have failed

D

　　　　 The producers of instant coffee found their product strongly resisted(抵制)in the market places despite their product’s obvious advantages. Furthermore, the advertising expenditure(费用)for instant coffee was far greater than that for regular coffee. Efforts were made to find the cause of the consumers’(消费者)seemingly unreasonable resistance to the product. The reason given by most people was dislike for the taste. The producers doubt that there might be deeper reasons, however. This was confirmed (证实，确信) by one of motivation research’s classic studies, one often cited (引用) in the trade. Mason Haire of the University of California constructed two shopping lists that were identical except for one item. There were six items common to both lists: hamburger, carrots, bread, baking powder, canned peaches, and potatoes, with the brands or amounts specified. The seventh item, in fifth place on both lists, read “11b. Maxwell House coffee” on one list and “Nescafe instant coffee” on the other. One list was given to each one in a group of fifty women, and the other list to those in another group of the same size. The women were asked to study their lists and then to describe, as far as they could, the kind of woman ( personality and character ) who would draw up that shopping list. Nearly half of those who had received the list including instant coffee described a housewife who was lazy and a poor planner. On the other hand, only one woman in the other group described the housewife, who had included regular coffee on her list as lazy; only six of that group suggested that she was a poor planner. Eight women felt that the instant-coffee user was probably not a good wife! No one in the other group drew such a conclusion about the housewife who intended to buy regular coffee.

11．The passage points out that in the machine age people’s complaints usually　　　　 .

　　　　 A．bring about mistakes　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B．cause more serious trouble

　　　　 C．prove useless　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D．prove effective

10．How long was if after Mrs B called the store again that she wrote to the local newspaper?

　　　　 A．About a week.　　　　 B．Three weeks.　　　　 C．Two weeks.　　　　　　 D．Four months.