Is there a bookshop around ______ I can buy an English and Chinese dictionary?

A. which    B. where  C.that   D.what

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意；然后从各题所给的A、B、C和D选项中，选出最佳选项。

The Voice of America began during World WarⅡ. When Germany was broadcasting a radio program to get international   1  , American officials believed they should   2   the German broadcast with words that they thought were the facts of world events. The first VOA news report began with words in German. “The news may be good or bad, but we shall tell you the truth.” Within a week, other VOA   3   were broadcasting in Italian, French and English.

After World WarⅡended in 1945, some Americans felt VOA’s   4   had to be changed, considering the Soviet Union became the enemy of America．They wanted to   5    Soviet listeners. Then VOA began broadcasting in Russian.

In the early years VOA began adding something new to its broadcast that was   6___  “ Music USA”. Another new idea came along in 1959．VOA knew that many listeners did not know enough English to completely understand its   7   English broadcast. So VOA   8___   a simpler kind of English, which uses about 1,500 words and is spoken slowly of course, it is special English.

In the opinion of most VOA listeners, the most important program is the news report. News from around the world   9   into the VOA news rooms in Washington 24 hours a day. It comes from VOA reporters in major cities and also from other broadcasts like BBC．VOA writers and editors use these materials to   10   news reports, which are being broadcast in 43 languages.

1. A．business          B．culture      C．support          D．information

2.  A．reply            B．answer       C．join             D．interrupt

3. A．stations          B．news             C．announcers       D．officials

4. A．home          B．position      C．purpose        D．results

5. A．reach         B．satisfy          C．attack           D．support

6. A．known         B．reported       C．called             D．printed

7. A．normal        B．fast             C．good             D．exact

8. A．invented     B．discovered  C．taught           D．stopped

9. A．flies         B．sends        C．delivers        D．pasts

10. A．broadcast        B．announce         C．translate       D．prepare

We plan to reach the North Pole in mid-July, and by then we _______ for six weeks.

       A. are walking                                          B. have been walking    

       C. will be walking                              D. will have been walking

―________ for Beijing?

       ―Yes. And I’ll come back in three months.

              A. Have you left                                B. Are you leaving

C. Do you leave                                 D. Did you leave

— Look! How long ________ like this?

   —Three weeks! It’s usual here that rain _______ without stopping these days of the year.

       A. has it rained; pours                         B. has it been raining; pours

      C. is it raining; is pouring                   D. does it rain; pours

She ______ behind the door in order not to be found. Two minutes later she was safe again.

       A. hold her breath                              B. catch her breath

C. held her breath                               D. lost her breath

Early ________ the morning of May 1st, we started off ______ the mountainous village.

       A. in; for                                           B. in; to

C. on; /                                             D. on; for

Xi’an is ______ most beautiful tourist city and I believe I’ll come for _______ second time.

A. the; a                                         B. a; a

C. the; the                                      D. a; the

I was 15 when I walked into McCarley’s Bookstore in Ashland. As I was looking at ___1___ on the shelves, the man behind the counter, ___2___, asked if I’d like ___3___. I needed to start ___4___ for college, so I said yes. I ___5___ after school and during summers for the lowest wages and the job helped pay for my freshman year of college. I would work many other jobs; I made coffee in the Students Union during college, I was a hotel maid and even made maps for the U. S. Forest Service. But selling books was one of the most ___6___. One day a woman asked me for books on cancer. She seemed fearful. I showed her almost ___7___ we had at that time ___8___ and found other books we could order. She left the store less ___9___. I’ve always remembered the ___10___ I felt in having helped her.

Years later, as a ___11___ in Los Angeles, I heard about an immigrant child who was born with his fingers connected, webline. His family could not ___12___ a corrective operation, and the boy lived in ___13___, hiding his hand in his pocket.

I ___14___ my boss to let me do the story. After my story was broadcast, a doctor and a nurse called, offering to perform the ___15___ for free.

I visited the boy in the recovery room soon after the operation. The first thing he did was to hold up his ___16___ hand and say, “Thank you.” I felt a sense of ___17___.

In the past, while I was ___18___, I always sense I was working for the customers, not the store. Today it’s the same. NBC News pays my salary, ___19___ I feel as if I work for the ___20___, helping them make sense of the world.

1. A. maps       B. titles         C. articles                  D. reports

2. A. the reader     B. the college student   C. the shop owner      D. the customer

3. A. a book         B. a job        C. some tea                D. any help

4. A. planning          B. saving      C. preparing          D. studying

5. A. read           B. studied          C. cooked            D. worked

6. A. boring           B. surprising        C. satisfying          D. disappointing

7. A. anything         B. something        C. nothing         D. everything

8. A. in need         B. in all          C. in order          D. in store

9. A. worried        B. satisfied        C. excited          D. puzzled

10. A. pride        B. failure           C. regret          D. surprise

11. A. doctor        B. store owner     C. bookseller        D. TV reporter

12. A. pay         B. cost         C. afford         D. spend

13. A. shame              B. honour         C. horror            D. danger

14. A. advised       B. forced        C. persuaded      D. permitted

15. A. action        B. program    C. treatment         D. operation

16. A. repaired       B. connected             C. injured           D. improved

17. A. pleasure        B. sadness        C. interest            D. disappointment

18. A. at the TV station               B. in the Students Union

C. at the U. S. Forest Service          D. at McCarley’s Bookstore

19. A. so           B. and           C. but            D. because

20. A. readers       B. viewers     C. customers    D. passengers

　For almost forty years the Empire State Building in New York City was the world's tallest skyscraper（摩天大楼）. The building reaches a height of 1, 250 feet. It has 102 floors. The use of steel frames made its height possible. Steel walls can rise height without needing to be thick. Steel frame construction is strong. All plates are fixed firmly together by metal bolts（螺栓）called rivets （铆钉）. When set in place, rivets are usuall red- hot. One end is already rounded. A riveter uses a special hammer to shape the other end. Then the rivet cools. It holds the plates firmly. High winds can move this strong building. A wind of a hundred miles an hour has caused it to move almost one and a half inches.

　The writer says that the Empire State Building ________.

　　A. hasn’t been finished

　　B. is in New York City

　　C. is the tallest skyscraper in the world now

　　D. had fewer floors than the New World Trade Center

　　　In steel -frame building, the bottom walls________ .

　　A. must be very thick

　　B. must be rounded

　　C. are usually red - hot

　　D. do not need to be thick

　　　Rivets are described as being ________.

　　A. picked up by tools when red -hot

　　B. hit by tools when red - hot

　　C. usually caught in a hole

　　D. usually put in place when red - hot