There is nothing wrong with using a credit card for purchases. It’s more _______ than carrying loads of cash.

  A. convenient            B. valuable                  C. sensitive                D. innocent

I have told you the truth.          I keep repeating it?

A. Must            B. Can              C. May            D. Will

There is still so much work to do that a holiday for me this week is ______.

   A. out of the question                             B. beyond question

   C. without question                                D. out of question

_______ interested in the position are asked to see the manager tomorrow.

A. Whoever     B. Who            C. Anyone       D. Those

There were smiling children all the way. Charily they knew at what time the train passed their homes and they made it their business to stand along the railway, wave to complete strangers and cheer them up as they rushed towards Penang. Often whole families stood outside their homes and waved and smiled as if those on the trains were their favorite relatives. This is the simple village people of Malaysia. I was moved.

I had always traveled to Malaysia by plane or car, so this was the first time I was on a train. I did not particularly relish the long train journey and had brought along a dozen magazines to read and reread. I looked about the train. There was not one familiar face. I sighed and sat down to read my Economics.

It was not long before the train was across the Causeway and in Malaysia. Johore Baru was just another city like Singapore, so I was tired of looking at the crowds of people as they hurried past. As we went beyond the city, I watched the straight rows of rubber trees and miles and miles of green. Then the first village came into sight. Immediately I came alive; I decided to wave hack.

From then on my journey became interesting. I threw my magazines into the waste basket and decided to join in Malaysian life. Then everything came alive. The mountains seemed to speak to me. Even the trees were smiling. I stared at everything as if I was looking at it for the first time.

The day passed fast and I even forgot to have my lunch until I felt hungry. I looked at my watch and was surprised that it was 3:00 pm. Soon the train pulled up at Butterworth. I looked at the people all around me. They all looked beautiful. When my uncle arrived with a smile, I threw my arms around him to give him a warm hug (拥抱). I had never done this before. He seemed surprised and then his weather-beaten face warmed up with a huge smile. We walked arm in arm to his car.

I looked forward to the return journey.

The author expected the train trip to be ________.

     A. adventurous              B. pleasant                    C. exciting                    D. dull

What did the author remember most fondly of her train trip?

     A. The friendly country people.                         B. The mountains along the way.

C. The crowds of people in the streets.                D. The simple lunch served on the train.

Which of the following words can best take the place of the word “relish” in the second paragraph?

A. choose                     B. enjoy                C. prepare for        D. carry on

Where was the writer going?

   A. Johore Baru.              B. The Causeway.   C. Butterworth.        D. Singapore.

What can we learn from the story?

   A. Comfort in traveling by train.               B. Pleasure of living in the country.

   C. Reading gives people delight.                   D. Smiles brighten people up.

The weather turned out to be very good, ____ was more than we could expect.

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

Catching________ sight of a policeman coming here, the thief hurried out of________ sight.

A./  ;   /      B. the  ;   /    C./  ;  the     D. the  ;  the

---I prefer shutting myself in and listening to music all day on Sundays.

   ---That’s _______ I don’t agree. You should have a more active life.

A. how                        B. when                   C. where                      D. what

Modern inventions have speeded up people’s loves amazingly. Motor-cars cover a hundred miles in little more than an hour, aircraft cross the world inside a day, while computers operate at lightning speed. Indeed, this love of speed seems never-ending. Every year motor-cars are produced which go even faster and each new computer boasts (吹嘘) of saving precious seconds in handling tasks.

All this saves time, but at a price. When we lose or gain half a day in speeding across the world in an airplane, our bodies tell us so.  We get the uncomfortable feeling known as jet-lag; our bodies feel that they have been left behind on another time zone. Again, spending too long at computers results in painful wrists and fingers. Mobile phones also have their dangers, according to some scientists; too much use may transmit harmful radiation into our brains, a consequence we do not like to think about.

However, what do we do with the time we have saved? Certainly not relax, or so it seems. We are so accustomed to constant activity that we find it difficult to sit and do nothing or even just one thing at a time. Perhaps the days are long gone when we might listen quietly to a story on the radio, letting imagination take us into another world.

There was a time when some people’s lives were devoted simply to the cultivation of the land or the care of cattle. No multi-tasking there; their lives went on at a much gentler pace, and in a familiar pattern. There is much that we might envy about a way of life like this. Yet before we do so, we must think of the hard tasks our ancestor faced: they farmed with bare hands, often lived close to hunger, and had to fashion tools from wood and stone. Modern machinery has freed people from that primitive existence.

The new products become more and more time-saving because         .

A. our love of speed seems never-ending            B. time is limited.

C. the prices are increasingly high.                 D. the manufactures boast a lot.

What does “the days” in Paragraph 3 refer to?

A. Imaginary life                              B. Simple life in the past.

C. Times of inventions                          D. Time for constant activity.

What does the passage mainly discuss?

A. The present and past times.                   B. Machinery and human beings.

C. Modern technology and its influence.           D. Imaginations and inventions.        

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As the high school student, I like to talk with foreigners to practice my oral English but learn more about other cultures. There were two foreign teachers in our school in this term. They often go to the English corner so that we can have a chance to practice the language. I seize every chance talk with them. However, I sometime find they are not so interesting in what I say, and it’s hard for I to choose a suitable topic. I would like some advices about how to communicate proper with foreigners, and what topics to pick.