—Did you get a ticket then?

—Yes, otherwise I ______ the concert last night．

A. didn’t attend                                         B. wouldn’t attend  

C. hadn’t attended                                   D. wouldn’t have attended

_________ impressed the visitors was _______ the trees were so tall in Vancouver.

A. that; that       B. what; what         C. what; which      D. what; that

8. The old building possibly        the Ming Period.

A. are dated bake to   B. dated from   C. dates back to  D. are dated from

The time is not far away _____ modern communications will become widespread in  China’s vast countryside.

A as     B when      C until       D before

第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2分，计分40分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项中（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

America is growing older. Fifty-eight years ago, only 4 out of every 100 people in the United States were 65 years old or older. Today, 10 out of every 100 Americans are over 65 years old. The aging （老龄化） of the population will affect American society in many ways—education, medicine, and business. Quietly, the graying of America has given us a very different society— one in which people have different ideas of what kind of behavior is suitable at various ages.

A person’s age no longer tells you anything about his / her social position, marriage or health. There’s no longer a particular year in which one goes to school or goes to work or gets married or starts a family. The social clock that keeps us on time and tells us when to go to school, get a job, or stop working isn’t as strong as it used to be. It doesn’t surprise us to hear of a 29-year-old university president or a 35-year-old grandmother, or a 70-year-old man who has become a father for the first time. Public ideas are changing.

Many people say, “I am much younger than my mother or my father when she or he was at my age.” No one says “Act your age” any more. We’ve stopped looking with surprise at older people who act in youthful ways.

56. It can be learnt from the text that the aging of the population in America has _______.

A. made people feel younger  B. changed people’s social position

C. changed people’s understanding of age

D. slowed down the country’s development

57. The underlined word “one” refers to ________.

A. a very different society     B. America     C. a place          D. population

58. “Act your age” means people should ________.

A. be active when they are old      B. do the right things at the right age

C. show respect for their parents

D. take more physical exercise suitable to their age

59. If a 25-year-old man becomes the manager of a big firm, the writer of the text would most probably consider it ________.

A. normal              B. wonderful         C. unbelievable      D. strange

America is a mobile society. Friendships between Americans can be close and real, yet disappear soon if situations change. Neither side feels hurt by this. Both may exchange Christmas greetings for a year or two, perhaps a few letters for a while — then no more. If the same two people meet again by chance, even years later, they pick up the friendship. This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand, because friendships between us flower more slowly but then may become lifelong feelings, extending (延伸) sometimes deeply into both families.

    Americans are ready to receive us foreigners at their homes, share their holidays, and their home life. They will enjoy welcoming us and be pleased if we accept their hospitality (好客) easily.

    Another difficult point for us Chinese to understand Americans is that although they include us warmly in their personal everyday lives, they don’t show their politeness to us if it requires a great deal of time. This is usually the opposite of the practice in our country where we may be generous with our time. Sometimes, we, as hosts, will appear at airports even in the middle of the night to meet a friend. We may take days off to act as guides to our foreign friends. The Americans, however, express their welcome usually at homes, but truly can not manage the time to do a great deal with a visitor outside their daily routine. They will probably expect us to get ourselves from the airport to our own hotel by bus. And they expect that we will phone them from there. Once we arrive at their homes, the welcome will be full, warm and real. We will find ourselves treated hospitably.

    For the Americans, it is often considered more friendly to invite a friend to their homes than to go to restaurants, except for purely business matters. So accept their hospitality at home!

66. The writer of this passage must be ______.

A. an American      B. a Chinese    C. a professor     D. a student

67. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Friendships between Americans usually extend deeply into their families.

B. Friendships between Americans usually last for all their lives.

C. Americans always show their warmth even if they are very busy.

D. Americans will continue their friendships again even after a long break.

68. From the last two paragraphs we can learn that when we arrive in America to visit an American friend, we will probably be ______.

A. warmly welcomed at the airport            B. offered a ride to his home

C. treated hospitably at his home              D. treated to dinner in a restaurant

69. The underlined words  “generous with our time” in Paragraph 3 probably mean ______.

A. strict with time                        B. serious with time

C. careful with time                      D. willing to spend time

70. A suitable title for this passage would probably be “______”.

A. Friendships between Chinese             B. Friendships between Americans

C. Americans’ hospitality                  D. Americans’ and Chinese’s views of friendships

附加阅读题

阅读短文，根据所读内容在表格的空白处填上适当的单词或短语，每空不超过三个单词。

Effects of tourism

Nearly everybody likes traveling. Nowadays, tourism is becoming an indispensable industry in China. Moreover, our government has taken good measures to improve this new industry in recent years. For instance, many appealing scenic and historic spots have been explored. And therefore, thousands upon thousands of tourists around the world flood into China every year.

   However, a coin has two sides. Advantages of tourism industry are always accompanied by disadvantages. Those who are in favour of tourism industry argue that our country can benefit a lot from it. On the one hand, we can introduce our splendid national culture to the world. On the other, we can increase our financial income. Additionally, tourism can help to promote the understanding and friendship among the peoples of the world.

  The main reason why some people oppose tourism is that the masses cannot benefit from it, because too many tourists will lead to the higher prices of goods. Furthermore, it is also a danger to the environment, because too many tourists will bring more waste, which is difficult to deal with for the moment.

  Anyway, as a rising industry, tourism has played its unique role in the development of China.  China is a great country which is endowed with natural beauty and possesses historic relics. So for one thing, we should display our best to the world; and for another, we should take action to avoid any negative effects.

                     Effects of tourism

 The tourists often complained of being _____ by the local peddlers when they buy some souvenirs.

    A. ripped off     B. ripped out   C. ripped up   D. ripped way

A small piece of fish each day may keep the heart doctor away．That's the finding of a scientific study of Dutch men in which deaths from heart disease were more than 50 percent lower among those who consumed at least an ounce（盎司）of salt water fish per day than those who never ate fish.

The Dutch research is one of three human studies that hold the belief that eating fish can provide health benefits, particularly to the heart. Heart disease is the number-one killer in the United States, with more than 550,000 deaths occurring from heart attacks each year．But researchers previously have noticed that the incidence （发生率） of heart disease is lower in cultures that consume more fish than Americans do．There are fewer heart disease deaths, for example, among the Eskimos of Greenland, who consume about 14 ounces of fish a day, and among the Japanese, whose daily fish consumption averages more than 3 ounces.