Online shopping is growing fast in China, and more and more Chinese are buying books online. At the same time, traditional bookstores are facing new challenges. A bookstore in Beijing is going out of business（生意）. All of its books are on sale. Bookstore owner Wang Jian says hot sales of books on the Internet pushed him to change the way he did business.

China has the highest online book buying rate（率）in the world. More than years ago, dangdang.com became the first online bookseller, and now becomes very important in the Chinese online book market.

Facing this challenge, the Xinhua Bookstore also built its online store a few years ago. Zhang Jian, CEO of the Xinhuabookstore.com, says now they are enlarging their online services.

A “price war（战争）”is taking shape between traditional bookstores and online bookstores. Faced with the low-cost advantage of online bookstores, traditional ones can do nothing but lower their prices. At the same time, online bookstores are also starting price wars between each other.

Now some traditional bookstores are trying their best to attract buyers in their own way. They exhibit books better and provide(提供) a very relaxed reading environment in the bookstore. Even though, traditional bookstores can hardly compete with some of the advantages of online bookstores, for example 24-hour service.

1.What is the passage about?

2.What made Wang Jian change the way he did business?

3.To attract buyers, traditional bookstores and online bookstores both choose to        .

4.We can know from the passage that       .

先阅读短文，掌握其大意。然后从方框中所给的词中选出恰当的10个，并用其适当形式填空，每个此限用一次。（每小题1分）

After almost 24 hour of traveling, I was in Beijing. I was 1.       with some of my classmates. We were all tired and dirty. Even at the airport, it was 2.       that we were in a foreign country which was very different 3.       our own. For us, the language sounded very4.      . Although nervous, I felt excited.

It’s amazing5.      there are so many places of interest (名胜) in Beijing. We visited the Forbidden City, Tian’anmen Square and the Great Wall.

One day, Li Bo, a Chinese friend of 6.      , took us to visit a village. On the way, it rained 7.       . we were wet when we arrived, but we were happy to see the mountains in the8.       . They were really beautiful. The China Study Tour made me 9.       a lot about the country, the people I met and even myself. It was the most valuable (宝贵的) part of my college life. I often encourage my friends to 10.        a study tour. There’s no other way to learn so much in only four weeks!

When Mr. Smith retired(退休), he bought a small  21  in a village near the sea. He   22  it and hoped to live a quiet life in this house.

         But to his great surprise, many tourists came to see his house in summer holidays, for it was the most   23   building in the village. From morning to night there were  24   outside the house. They kept looking into the rooms through the windows and  25  of them even went into Mr. Smith’s garden. This was too much for Mr. Smith. He decided to ask the visitors to  26  . So he put a notice on the window. The notice said, “If you want  27  your curiosity(好奇心)，come in and look round. Price: twenty dollars.” Mr. Smith was sure that the visitors would   28  coming, but he was wrong. More and more visitors came and Mr. Smith had to  29  every day showing them around his house.“I came here to relax not to work   30  a guide（导游）,”he said angrily. In the end, he sold the house and moved away.

1.A. garden              B. shop                       C. house                     D. school

2.A. liked                   B. hated                     C. sold                         D. built

3.A. big                      B. interesting            C. small                      D. clean

4.A. children             B. students                C. parents                  D. tourists

5.A. no                       B. none                       C. many                      D. much

6.A. come                 B. leave                      C. stay                        D. play

7.A. to satisfy B. satisfy                    C. to satisfying         D. satisfying

8.A. go on                 B. stop                        C. like               D. not

9.A. take          B. cost                        C. spend                     D. pay

10.A. as                 B.of                   C. in                            D. For

情景交际

从方框中选出填在句中空白处的最佳选项，其中有2项为多余选项

A: Excuse me, sir.   1  

B: Sure. What can I do for you, young man?

A: ___2___Our class want to go on a trip. I’d like to look for some sightseeing information. I want to know if you have a 6-day tour.

B: We certainly do. We have many such tours. ___3__.

A: Well, we are going to visit the Great Wall, the Summer Palace and World Park and so on.

B: They are all places of great interest in Beijing. ____4__.

A: Well, today is June 24. And we still have three more days before finishing the final exam. ___5____.

B: Oh, I see.