Mr. White asked a lot of questions about the buses． But Sam couldn't answer them． Here is a timetable．Can you answer Mr. White's questions after you read it?

Timetable

1．There are        stops between the Ferry and the Market．

A．five                  B．six                       C．seven                D．eight

2．The bus gets to the Old Street        ．

A．every half an hour                                B．every twenty minutes

C．every ten minutes                                D．every five minutes

3．Bus Four leaves the hotel at       ．

A．seven fifty-five    B．eight o'clock       C．five past eight     D．seven o'clock

4．I work in the hospital． It takes me twenty-five minutes' walk from the stop to get there．I must reach the hospital at ten to eight．I'd better take       ．

A．the first bus              B．the second bus     C．the third bus        D．the fourth bus

5．I want to Xinhua Bookstore, which bus can I take?

A．the first bus．               B．the second bus．    C．the third bus．       D．We don't now．

On April 20th,2013, a big and powerful earthquake attacked Ya’an, Sichuan Province. A great many buildings and houses collapsed, a lot of people were killed and even more people lost their homes in the earthquake .
The number of the death from the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Ya’an in southwestern China's Sichuan Province has risen to 188, according to latest calculations by local Civil Affairs Bureau(as of 18:00 pm, April 22, ). At least 11,826 were reportedly injured in the quake while 25 are still missing.
Experts are anticipating(预期的)much less casualties(人员伤亡)in the quake than that from the 8.0 magnitude quake hit Wenchuan on May 12, 2008, also in Sichuan Province, which killed more than 80,000 and injured over 300,000.
Energy released from Wenchuan earthquake would be 30 times of that from Ya’an quake, according to Zhang Xiaonan, an expert with China's Geophysical Union. Dai Junwu with Harbin-based seismological bureau (地震局)expects the number of the death at less than 1,000, and economic losses from the quake could reach up to 100 billion yuan.
Rescue（营救）efforts were carried “timely and orderly”, said Chinese Premier Li Keqiang who flew to the quicken-stricken area on Sunday, the second day of the quake. He was quoted as saying that “the current priority is to save lives”.
【小题1】When did Ya’an earthquake happen?  

Ms X leaves home at 6:00 in the morning. She spends an hour and a half in the traffic and arrived at her workplace already tired at 8:00. At lunch time, she stands in a line and in the end finds there are no sandwiches left! On the way home she is in the traffic again and arrives home tired at 7:00. There is just time to cook something simple, watch an hour of TV and then have an early night.

Ms Y gets up at 7:00 and goes for a run or does some exercise. After breakfast, she sits down to work at 8:30 in the office at the top of her house. Halfway through the morning, she has a short break, make a cup of tea and drinks it in the garden. She takes a half-hour lunch break, and has a salad in the kitchen, while she listens to the radio. She finishes work at 4:30 and goes for a walk in the park. Then she cooks something for the family before they arrive home.

The first example is the old way of working ---- all travel and tiredness. The 2^nd kind of working day is already with us. Many workers now work at home either 2days a week or full-time. This is possible because of modern machines like fax and PCs. Most offices these days are paperless places. Company workers send email documents to each other instead of heavy reports. They can design an advertisement and email it to their co-worker at home or workplace.

At present it is expensive for some companies to provide offices for all workers. The offices are used less than a quarter of the time, ______. In fact it is cheaper to buy PCs and office machines for their home workers.

46. How is life different for Ms X and Ms Y?

A.Ms Y has less time for exercise than Ms X.

B.Ms X works harder than Ms Y.

C.Ms X spends more time traveling than Ms Y.

D.Ms Y does not enjoy her lunch break as much as Ms X.

47.What does the passage say about teleworking?

A. It has not been popular so far. B. It needs some special equipment.

C. People must work at home. 　　　　　 D. It is mainly for designing ads.

48. The passage tells us that ______.

A. offices should be made better use of　 　　　　　　　　　　

B. the company saves money if people work at home

C. people no longer like working in offices 　　　　　　　　　

D. PCs and office machines are getting cheaper

49. Which sentence suits the blank in the last paragraph best?

A. but the companies have to light them and heat them

B. so the companies have to let their workers stay longer

C. and many people work there　 　　　　　　　　　　　　

D. and have little equipment

50. What does the writer want to tell us through this passage?

A. The world is unfair. B. Knowledge is important.

C. Emails will be more and more popular. D. The working style is developing.

Most shops in Britain open at 9:30 am and close at 5 :00 pm. Small shops usually close for an hour at 1unch time. 1 one or two days a week--usually Thursday and/or Friday--some large food shops stay open 2  8 :00 pm for late night shopping.

Nearly all shops 3 on Sundays. Newspaper shops are open in the morning, and 4 sweets and cigarettes as well. But not all the things can be sold on Sundays.

Usually it is not difficult for foreign visitors to find  5   to buy things. Most shops sell the things that you want. One problem is 6 . In Britain you can only buy these at post offices. Many large food shops are self--\service (自选). When you 7 _one of these shops, you take a basket and you put the things you wish to buy into it.

8  anyone tries to take things from a shop without paying they are sure to 9 ,because most shops have detectives (侦探).

 When you are waiting to be served in a shop, it is important not to try to be served before people who arrive before you. Many foreign people are surprised 10 the British way of queuing( 排队).

1. A. On          B. In           C. With          D. For

2. A. at           B. before        C. until          D. after

3. A. closed       B. are closed      C. are closing     D. closes

4. A. show        B. open          C. buy           D. sell

5. A. where       B. how           C. when          D. what

6. A. knife        B. paper         C. stamp          D. stamps

7. A. go out       B. go into        C. come out        D. come out of

8. A. When       B. If             C. Though         D. As

9. A. catch       B. see            C. find            D. be caught

10. A. to          B. of              C. at             D. for