2、New York’s high-class restaurant scene is in the depression, according to the newest Zagat survey  __31___ (release) Tuesday, with price increase coming at a time  __32__  diners say they           _  33__ (eat) out less often and spending less in the face of dreadful economic conditions.

“Restaurants are clearly feeling the pinch (拮据) from the economic crisis”, said Tim Zagat, founder of the survey now in  　　　_　34　  30th year which bases the food, decoration and service ratings for some 2,000 restaurants on feedback from restaurant patrons (食客).

 The influence was not _ _35 __ (limit) to diners, either, the survey found. Restaurant openings declined for the first time since 2003,down to 119 from last year’s 163, and 187 just three years _? _36___.

Nearly 40 percent of the survey’s 38,000-plus respondents said they were coping _ _37_ _ the shaky economy by eating out less often and by going to __ 38_ _ (expensive) restaurants.

As a matter of fact, high-end diners were hit even harder, with a nearly 10 percent price increase. The findings were one _ _ 39___ (explain) for a number of new burger, pizza and barbecue places that popped up this year, the survey noted. Even well-known chefs such as Alain Ducasse and Jean-Georges Vongerichten opened small restaurants _ _40_ _ noodle shops.

1、In the company in which I work, each of us is afraid of at least one person. The lower your    21    is, the more people you are afraid of.   22    all the people are afraid of the twelve men at the top who helped    23    and build the company and now own and direct it.
    All these twelve men are elderly now and drained (耗尽) by time and success of energy and ambition. Many have spent their whole lives here. They seem friendly and    24    when I come across them in the halls and always modest when they ride with others in the public lifts. They    25    work hard. They hold meetings, make promotions, and allow their names to be used on announcements that are prepared and issued by somebody else. Nobody is sure who really runs the company, but the company does run.

In the    26    course of a business day I am afraid of Jack Green because my department is part of his department and Jack Green is my boss; Green is afraid of me because most of the work in my department is done for the Sales Department, which is more important than his department.
    Green distrusts me sometimes. He makes    27    clear to me every now and then that he wishes to see everything    28    out of my department before it's shown to other departments. I know he doesn't really mean this. He is too busy with his own work to pay that much attention to all of mine, and I'll bypass (避开) him on most of our assignments rather than    29    his time and delay their    30    to people who have an immediate need for them.

27、Eliza remembers everything exactly as if it ______ yesterday.    

A. was happening   B. happens     C. has happened     D. happened      

26、Fred is second to none in math in our class, but       , he hardly passed the final math exam.

       A．as a matter of fact                                                               B．as usual

       C．right away                                          D．believe it or not

25、The sentence “All the students haven’t passed the exam.” Means       .

       A．None of the students have passed the exam.

       B．Not all the students have passed the exam.

       C．None of the students have failed in the exam.

       D．Most of the students haven’t passed t he exam.

24、         children whose parents  had died in the earthquake     sent to live with families in other cities.

       A．A great number of; was                        B．A great number of; were

       C．The great number of; was                    D．The great number of; were

23、When the children were told that they could go to the USA for month’s tour, they could hardly         to tell their friends about it.

       A．remember            B．wait                    C．afford                 D．determine

22、He is very stubborn; don’t         to his opinion. Just stick to your own.

       A．give in                 B．give up                C．give away            D．give out

21、           of the students went to cheer for their football teams this Friday.

       A．One-four of         B．A quarter             C．One-fourth of      D．One-fourth