Brian arrived at the San Francisco airport two hours before the flight to Paris. He was wearing three shirts, a jacket, two pairs of socks, a pair of shorts, and two pairs of jeans. He was carrying one small backpack, which was very full, but he didn’t have any other luggage. Brian needed to meet a man named Tony before he checked in for his flight. He found Tony near the Air France counter. Tony gave him a round-trip ticket and a small package.

 “Give this package to Jean-Paul at the airport in Paris. He will have a sign with your name on it. I think you can find him easily ,” Tony said, ”You don’t have any luggage, right?”

 “Only this backpack,” Brian answered. ”You said I could bring one carry-on bag. ”

 “That’s right. One carry-on bag is fine. Have a good trip. ”

 “Thanks.”

Is Brian a criminal(罪犯)? Not at all. He is an air-courier. And he paid only $110 for the round-trip ticket to Paris. Air couriers get cheap airline tickets because they take important packages and papers to foreign countries. Businesses sometimes need to get packages and papers to people in foreign countries by the next day. Often, the only way they can do this is to use an air-courier company. It is not cheap for a business to send a package with an air courier, but it is quick.

Every year about 80,000 people worldwide travel as air couriers. The number of tickets for courier travel is growing by about 10 percent a year. However, air-courier travel isn’t for everyone. But if you have very little money, can be flexible(灵活的) about your travel plans, and don’t mind wearing the same clothes for a week, it can be a great way to take a vacation!

1. Why was Brian wearing so many clothes for his travel?

A. Because they were the uniforms for air couriers.

B. Because that made him easier to be recognized.

C. Because his backpack had no room his clothes.

D. Because he did not have any luggage with him

2. An air courier is a person who_________

A . manages a business company in foreign countries

B. organizes international flights for tourists

C. travels around the world with cheap tickets

D delivers papers and packages to foreign countries.

3. Business choose the air-courier service because_____.

A. it costs less   B. it is flexible   C. it saves time   D. it grows fast

4. The author of the text mainly______.

A. describes the activities of a law-breaker    B. suggests an ideal way to travel

C. argues against the air-courier travel     D. tells us about a developing business

During the summer holidays there will be a revised(修改过的)schedule(时刻表)of services for the students . Changes for dining-room and library service hours and for bus schedules will be posted on the wall outside of the dining hall . Weekly film and concert schedules which are being arranged will be posted each Wednesday outside of the student club .

In the summer holidays , buses going to the town center will leave the main hall every hour on the half hour during the day . The dining room will serve three meals a day from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. during the week and two meals from noon to 7:00 p.m. on weekends the library will continue its usual hours during the week but have shorter hours on Saturday and Sundays . The weekend hours are from noon to 5:00 p.m.

All students who want to use the library borrowing services must have a new summer card . This announcement will also appear in the next week’s student newspaper .

1 The main purpose of this announcement is to       .

A. tell students of important schedule changes .

B. tell students of new bus and library services .

C. show the excellent services for students .

D. ask students to renew their library cards .

2 At which of the following times will the bus leave the main hall ?

A. 8:00 , 9:00 , 10:00, 11:00         B. 8:30 , 9:30 , 10:30 , 11:30

C. 8:30 , 9:00 , 9:30 , 10:00                D. 8:00 , 9:30 , 11:00 , 12:30

3 Times for films and concerts are not listed in this announcement

 because       .

A. they are not to be announced           B. they are hard to arrange

C. the full list is not ready                   D. the full list is too long

4 In the summer holidays , the library will have       .

A. no special hours                             B. special hours on weekdays

C. special hours on weekends        D. special hours both on weekdays and weekends

第二节:根据所学课文,用合适词语填空,使句子意思通顺,语法正确。

71 I can still remember the moment ________ the space stewardess called us all to the capsule and we climbed in through a small opening.

72 A woman, who had moved away from Broad Street, liked the water from the pump so much that she had it __________ (deliver) to her house every day.

73 So between 1510 and 1514 he worked on it, gradually _________(improve) his theory until he felt it was complete.

74 The Christian Church rejected his theory, _______ (say) it was against God’s idea and people who supported it would be attacked.

75 Finally the English government tried in the early _________ (twenty) century to form the United Kingdom by getting Ireland connected in the same peaceful way.

76 ______ their credit the four countries do work together in some areas (e.g., the currency and international relations), but they still have very different institutions.

77 To her great surprise, Zhang Pingyu found the Queen’s jewels guarded by special royal soldiers _____, on special occasions, still wore the four-hundred-year-old uniform of the time of Queen Elizabeth I.

78 The capsule began swinging gently sideways as we _______ (lie) relaxed and dreaming.

79 However, I lost sight of Wang Ping when we reached ______ looked like a large market because of too many carriages flying by in all directions.

80 During the ________ (explain) I looked at the pair of small objects called “thoughtpads” on a table. They just looked like metal ribbons.

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