.--- How is everything going on with you in Europe?

  --- Quite well, not so smoothly as I hoped, ____.

A. though        B. instead       C. either             D. too

  It is known to us that without__ passport, travelling abroad is out of ___question.

       A. a; the           B. 不填；不填    C. the; a          D. the; 不填

He  _____ his right hand and then he was asked to   ______  from his chair .

 A．raised ; rise  B．rose ; raise  C．raised ; raise  D．rose ; rise

2---- “ May I speak to your manager Mr. Williams at five o’clock tonight?” 　----“ I’m. sorry. Mr. Williams ____ to a party long before then.”

 A. will have gone     B. had gone     C. would have gone    D. has gone

13. By the end of last year we     more than 2000 teachers of English all over the province .

       A. trained      B. would have trained     C. had trained D. have trained

．In order to ______the financial storm, many families cut their daily expenses.

       A．prevent     B．survive     C．quit   D．miss

Eliza remembers everything exactly as if it ______ yesterday.

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

In Britain today, is it possible to tell a person’s class just by looking at him? Physical details alone tell us about health, diet and the type of work a person does. A hundred years ago the working class often looked unhealthy, small and they were either too thin or too fat. The upper classes were often tall, sporting types who were used to a good diet and looked healthy. Today living and working conditions have improved, and such descriptions are no longer true. People are taller now than a hundred years ago. Everyone in Britain today is able to have free medicine, a good diet, acceptable working conditions and enough rest and leisure.

The clothes people choose to wear, however, do provide information about their backgrounds. Expensive clothes look expensive and show their wearer is rich. Clothes can provide other clues as well. The upper classes appear to be less interested in fashion and wear good quality clothes in non-bright colours, made of natural material like wool, leather and cotton. Lower working-class people often choose clothes in bright colours, made of man-made materials. A sociological explanation for this would be that colour and interest are missing from their lives, and therefore any opportunity to produce this is taken.

Clothes are available at a price within most people’s reach. New clothes make the wearer feel good and show some degree of wealth to the outside world. Today it is the younger people who spend most money on clothes. Fashion is no longer for the upper classes and the rich. Young people from all social classes spend a lot of money on clothes. Some new fashions are started by working—class people who want to look different and feel important. They want people to look at them.

1. In the past, a person’s appearance could not tell other people about his ________.

  A. health           B. diet             C. occupation          D. habits

2. The clothes people choose to wear tell us about their ________.

  A. education          B. richness         C. backgrounds        D. hobby

3. A working—class person may start a new fashion because ________.

  A. she wants to draw the attention of other people

B. she wants to look different and healthy

C. she wants to show their wealth

D. she wants to show their taste

4. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

  A. Expensive clothes look expensive and show the wearer is rich.

B. Working—class people prefer clothes in bright colours because they lack colour in their lives.

C. Today, it is still the upper class people who spend most money on clothes.

D. Today, fashion is no longer for the upper classes and the rich.

     Today when a man steps onto the moon, or something new and important happens, the world learns about it immediately. What did the newspapers say about that first flight in 1903? Strangely enough, they said hardly anything about it at all. There were only a few reports about it in the papers. These reports said very little. Some of the things they said were not even correct. In 1904 the Rights built a second machine. They called it “Flyer No. Two”. They invited some reporters to a field near Dayton to watch them fly. Unfortunately there was some mechanical trouble with the plane and it did not fly at all that day. The newspapermen went away. They were disappointed and did not come back. The Rights went on with their work. In 1905 they built an even better machine, “Flyer No. Three”. They were able to stay up in the air for half an hour and more in this machine. They were ale to turn and climb in the air. Farmers, travelers on the roads around Dayton often saw them flying. But when these people told newspapermen about it, they refused to believe them.

     The Rights offered “Flyer No.Three” to the United States Government. The Government was not interested. They seemed to think the Rights wanted money in order to build an airplane. They did not understand the Rights had already done this, and flown it as well. Experts were still saying that mechanical flight was impossible. At the end of 1905, the two brothers took their plane to pieces. The parts were put into a huge wooden case. It seemed nobody was interested.

1. What does the beginning sentence of the passage suggest?

A. The speed of information spreading today makes it possible to learn the world quickly.

B. People of today are only concerned with space exploration.

C. Reporters of today cover important events in a different way.

D. People in the past didn’t care about the outside world.

2. What can we know about “Flyer No.Three”?

A. The Rights had such a successful flight that it aroused the government’s interest.

B. The Rights were able to fly it for half an hour and even turn and climb in the air.

C. There was something wrong with the craft and it did not fly at all that day.

D. The Rights took the plane to pieces and put it into a wooden case immediately after the flight.

3. When the Rights offered “Flyer No.Three” to the United States Government, the Government_______.

A. decided to build an airport for the brothers

B. showed great interest in the machine

C. didn’t believe in the possibility of the flight

D. asked the brothers to put the machine in a wooden case

4. Which of the following is not mentioned in the passage?

A. There were only a few reports about the first successful flight in the papers.

B. Some reporters were invited to watch the second flight experiment.

C. Many people witnessed the successful flight but the newspapermen refused to believe them/

D. Before 1903 no one had ever stepped on the moon.

 John Hope Franklin was _______ respected historian and social activist, who wrote about race and _______ struggles of black Americans.

  A. the, a              B. a, the             C. a, /               D. /, the