16. Which of the following would be the most suitable title for the passage?

　 A. Mother's Club in China.　　　　 B. BabyCare and Doctors.

　 C. American Company Model.　　 D. Educational Toys On.

E

Experts have put forward detailed plans tot a tunnel (隧道) to join Taiwan with the Chinese mainland.

　　 The shortest proposed route would be 126 kilometers-more than twice the length of the English Channel Tunnel. And the longest proposed route would be 207 kilometers.

　　 A recent conference in Xiamen, Fujian Province brought together more than 70 experts. The event was co-sponsored (共同发展) by universities from Taiwan and the Chinese mainland.

　　 Fujian is the province where beth proposed routes would begin.

　　 There is no direct passenger access (通道) between the mainland and Taiwan by air or sea at the moment.

　　 Experts say that it is better to start research sooner rather than later, although there is a lack of government funding. There are no technical problems to build a Taiwan tunnel. But it will require an improved political relationship across the Straits.

　　 A professor of Tsinghua university said, "A special feature of huge projects is that the period of preparation is longer than the period of construction."

　　 For example, he said, the English Channel Tunnel took 14 years of planning and had been discussed for two centuries. And preparations for the huge Three Gorges dam on the Yangtze River began in the 1950s.

　　 The Xiamen conference focused (集中) on the longest southern route., which would use the Taiwan-controlled islands of Jinmen and Penghu as stepping stones.

　　 The first stage of the new project could be a bridge to cross the five kilometers between Xiamen and Jinmen. This would mean that travelling from Xiamen to Jinmen by car would only take five minutes.

　　 The longest tunnel now being planned anywhere in the world is the 54-kilometer Land tunnel to link Lyon in France with Turin in Italy. The tunnel will not be completed until 2015-2020.

15. BabyCare is developing its business in China by ________.

　 A. opening stores in Beijing hospitals　　　 B. offering 18-month courses on child-care

　 C. setting up children's education centers　　 D. forming close relationships with parents

14. Which of the following is a fact according to the passage?

　 A. Club members buy BabyCare products for free child-care advice.

　 B. Doctors in Beijing help in making BabyCare products.

　 C. Parents are. encouraged to pay $ t8 for club activities.

　 D. BabyCare trains Chinese doctors at no extra cost.

13. What do the first two paragraphs mainly tell us?

　 A. Educational toy's and foreign toy markets.

　 B. Problems with China's toy market and education.

　 C. Reasons for pushing sales of educational toys in China.

　 D. Baby population and various kinds of toys made in China.

12. If you and vour classmates have a free evening to ,pend on the 19th of January, which is a useful number to call?

　 A. 6606-4258　　 B. 6491-2902　 C. 6559-8285　　 D. 8259-5547

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D

　　 BEUING (Associated Press 美联社) -China has a growing middle class, a tradition (传统) of expecting education and 21 million new babies every year. Selling educatioinal toys should be easy.

　　 While China may be the world's biggest toy-maker, much of the best is exported (出品). Department stores here do not have enough high-quality toys. It is said that the demand for educational toys is low.

　　 A US company', BabyCare, is trying to change that with a new way to sell toys in China.

　　 BabyCare works basically together with doctors in Beijing hospitals.　 People who join the company's "mother' club" get lectures and newsletters on baby and child development at no extra cost, if they agree to spend 18 dollars a month on the company's educational toys and childcare books.

　　 "We want to build a seven-year relationship with those people," said Matthew J. Estes, BabyCare's president. "It starts during pregnancy (孕期), when the anxiety and needs are highest." BabyCare works on a one-to-one basis. Doctors, nurses, and teachers paid by BabyCare advise parents, explaining toy's that are designed for children at each stage (阶段) of development to age six.

　　 BabyCare opened its first store in China last June in a shopping center in central Beijing and another near Beijing Zoo. It plans to have 80 stores in China within six years.

　　 It is a new model for China and develops a market in young children's education and health that no other companies are in.

11. The phrase "get a preview of" used in the passage means ________.

　 A. watch in advance　　　 B. see clearly

　 C. get good position of　　 D. get a general idea of

10. Suppose you are too far away from Beijing or you can't spare time to go there in person, which of the following show can you enjoy all the same?

　 A. Russian dances.　　 B. Kite show　　 C. Folk music　　 D. Flower festival

9. The purpose of the author in writing the passage is ________.

　 A. to tell a joke to make readers laugh

　 B. to suggest we should not mind losing

　 C. to show enjoying a game is more than winning a game

　 D. to present his son's fine qualities of understanding others

C

WHAT'S ON

8. It can be inferred from the passage that ________.

　 A. both teams liked and respected Mickey

　 B. both teams were thankful to Mickey for his goal

　 C. Mickey didn't mind though his goal was wrong

　 D. Mickey was a kind- hearted boy and hoped everybody won

7. What did the author worry about when Mickey scored and hugged his son?

　 A. The result of the match would fail his son.

　 B. His son would shout at Mickey for his goal.

　 C. Mickey would again hug the opposing players.

　 D. His son would understand Mickey's wrong goal.