题目内容
Cost is an important c______ for me when I buy new clothes.
consideration
King’s College Summer School
King’s College Summer School is an annual(每年的) training program for high school students at all levels who want to improve their English. Courses are given by the teachers of King’s College and other colleges in New York. Trips to museums and culture centers are also organized. This year’s summer school will be from July 25 to August 15.
More information is as follows:
| Application (申请) date ·Students in New York should send their applications before July 18, 2008. ·Students of other cities should send their applications before July 16, 2008. ·Foreign students should send their applications before July 10, 2008. | Courses ·English Language Spoken English: 22 hours Reading and Writing: 10 hours ·American History: 16 hours ·American Culture: 16 hours |
| Steps ·A letter of self-introduction ·A letter of recommendation(推荐) ﹡ The letters should be written in English with all the necessary information. | Cost ·Daily lessons: $200 ·Sports and activities: $100 ·Travels: $200 ·Hotel service: $400 ﹡You may choose to live with your friends or relatives in the same city. |
| Please write to: Thompson, Sanders 1026 King’ s Street New York, NY 10016, USA E-mail: KC-Summer-School@ yahoo, com | |
| A．a travel guide | B．a newspaper | C．a textbook | D．a telephone book |
| A．Only top students can take part in the program. |
| B．Visits to museums and culture centers are part of the program. |
| C．King’ s College Summer School is run every other year. |
| D．Only the teachers of King’ s College give courses. |
| A．$500 | B．$400 | C．$200 | D．$900 |
| A．The program will last two months. |
| B．You can get in touch with the school by e-mail or by telephone |
| C．As a Chinese student, you can send your application on July 14, 2008. |
| D．You can write to Thompson only in English. |
Americans like to travel on their yearly holiday. Today, more and more travelers in the United States are spending nights at small house or inns(客栈)instead of hotels. They get a room for the night and the breakfast the next morning.
Rooms for the night in private(私人的)homes with breakfast have been popular with travelers in Europe for many years. In the past five to ten years, these bed-and-breakfast places have become popular in the United States. Many of these America’s bed-and-breakfast inns have only a few rooms; others are much larger. Some inns do not provide telephones or televisions in the rooms, others do.
Staying at a bed-and-breakfast inn is much different from staying at a hotel. Usually the cost is much less. Staying at an inn is almost like visiting someone’s home. The owners are glad to tell about the areas and the interesting places to visit. Many vacationers say that they enjoy the chance to meet local families.
1.Americans take a holiday trip _________.
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A．all the year round |
B．for years |
C．every year |
D．every other year |
2.According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?
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A．Some Americans like to stay at bed-and-breakfast homes instead of at hotels. |
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B．The bed-and-breakfast inns are private homes open to vacationers. |
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C．The bed-and-breakfast inn owners provide a morning meal for their visitors and a room for the night. |
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D．The bed-and-breakfast inns have been popular in America for a long time. |
3.Staying at the bed-and-breakfast inns, _________.
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A．the travelers needn’t pay anything |
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B．the travelers don’t have to pay for the telephone or television |
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C．the travelers can meet and talk with the local people |
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D．the owners will show the travelers around the area |
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
C
China’s economic growth “hard to predict”
The worsening global economic situation makes it difficult for China to predict its growth for next year, a senior official said on Friday.
“How fast China’s economy will grow next year is uncertain,” Liu He, deputy director of the Office of the Central Leading Group on Finance and Economy Work, told China Daily.
“To a large extent, the rate will be decided by the external(外部) situation,” Liu said during a discussion with Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and other economists in Beijing.
“This year, GDP is estimated to grow at 9.4 or 9.5 percent, down from 10.6 percent last year,” he said. “However, the impact of the current financial turbulence on our economy is much less than on the rest of the world.”
Nicholas Stern, a former UK government advisor, also told China Daily it will take at least one or two years for the world to recover from the recession, which is now spreading from the US and the UK to the rest of the world.
“We don’t know how long the recession will last, but it is unlikely to be short,” he said.
Liu said China can use the downturn(衰退) as an opportunity to restructure its economy, which has relied heavily on government investment, foreign trade and low-cost technology over the past years.
“When the economy is experiencing fast growth, companies are unwilling to upgrade their technologies,” Liu said.
“The slowdown gives such firms the opportunity to enhance(提高) their competitive edge through better technologies.”
(From China Daily 2009-01-11)
1.How many people are mentioned in this passage?
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A．Only 2. |
B．No more than 3. |
C．Not more than 4. |
D．At least 5. |
2.It can be inferred from Liu’s words that the impact of the current financial turbulence on China’s economy is ______.
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A．more |
B．less |
C．the most |
D．the least |
3.The underlines word “extent” probably means ______.
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A．sense |
B．degree |
C．size |
D．depth |
4. According to the passage, the reason why Liu said this downturn is an opportunity for China to restructure its economy is that ______.
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A．China’s economy will not depend on government investment in the future |
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B．Foreign trade will grow in the future |
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C．The downturn will force China’s companies to upgrade their technologies |
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D．Low-cost technologies will not exist in China |