MOSCOW, Sept. 4 (Xinhuanet) --- At least 335 people including 155 children, were killed in the three-day hostage crisis (人质危机) in a southern Russian school, Russia’s Deputy Prosecutor General Sergei Fridinsky said on Saturday.

    “We are still identifying the bodies. We have recovered 322 bodies, and 155 of them are children,” Fridinsky was quoted by the Itar-Tass news agency as saying.

    The prosecutor said the death toll would probably grow as the clean-up operation is continuing at the site, but it will not rise considerably.

    Emergency workers pulled the bodies out of the school on Saturday, after Russian special forces rescued more than 400 children and adults hostages in a special operation that has suppressed (平定)the hostage -taking standoff by Friday night.

    Valery Andreyev, regional chief of the Federal Security Service (FSS), said Friday that over 30 armed militants took part in the hostage-taking crisis and Russian troops captured three of them alive on Friday, according to the Interfax news agency.

    He said people of Russian origin and foreign nationals were among the killed hostage-takers. Earlier official information showed that ten Arab militants were killed in Friday’s raid (突袭).

    Andreyev said a large amount of explosives (爆炸物)and mines planted by hostage-takers in the school have been found.

    Rusian Presidnet Vladimir Putin made a surprise visit early Saturday to the southern Russian town of Beslan where commandos (突击队) stormed the school to end the hostage crisis. He accused the attackers of trying to spark an racial conflict that would engulf (卷入)Russia’s troubled Caucasus Mountains region.

It can be inferred that the Russian hostage crisis began on ________.

  A. Wednesday        B. Monday    

         C. Friday               D. Saturday

The passage suggests that the terrorists _________.

   A. hadn’t got any preparation before the attack

   B. had informed the government to attack the school

   C. had made a sudden attack to the school without any preparation

   D. had prepared for the attack in advance

The underlined word “spark” in the last paragraph refers to _______.

   A. speak out           B. lead to 

         C. start                    D. make

The last sentence of the passage indirectly states _______.

   A. the purpose of the attackers’ taking over the hostage

   B. the fighting between attackers and special forces was very fierce

   C. Russian President was very sad about the hostage

   D. there were many attackers in Caucasus Mountains region

It’s the same in China --- many people, ________ some are not overweight at all, are

always going on a diet or taking weight-loss pills, ________ are often dangerous.

A. whose; which B. of which; who    C. of whom; which   D.of whom; that

She has _____ a great deal of money, hoping that she can travel around the world after she retires.

A. put on   B. put up   C. put off  D. put away

If something ________, it becomes less and less and eventually disappears completely.

A. dies off                B. breaks off       C. dies out                 D. breaks out

Ever since my childhood, I have dreamed of ______ a heavy snow in my hometown in winter.

   A. there be          B. there being        C. there will be          D. being

Astronauts’ meals have come a long way from the free-dried powders and semi—liquid pastes of decades ago，now US scientists want to grow vegetables in mini—greenhouses on the moon．

   Scientists say they are looking forward to a time when residents of future lunar or even Martian outsteps will be able to dine on fresh vegetables．Paragon Space Development Corporation has unveiled what it called the first step toward growing flowers——and eventually food on the moon．

   This is a sealed greenhouse that looks like a bell jar encased in a 46-cm triangular aluminiumframe．It is designed to safely land a laboratory plant on the lunar surface，and protect it while it grows．

   The miniature greenhouse is to be launched into space by Odyssey Moon Ltd, a participant in the Google Lunar X Prize. This competition offers $21 million to any entrant who can launch, land and operate a rover on the lunar surface.

   Paragon officials say future testing of the “Lunar Oasis” will be driven by Odyssey’s flight Schedule, which will not happen until 2012 at the earliest．

   When it does lift off the greenhouse will contain the seeds of Brassica, a hardy plant related to Brussels sprouts and cabbage. Because Brassica goes from seed to flower in just 14 days, it can complete its life cycle in a single lunar night.

   “Colonizing the Moon or Mars seems so far away，but it is important that we do this research now. ”Paragon president Jane Poynter said．

   “It takes a long time to get a lot of research, and to get integrated, reliable efficient systems before colonists move in. ”she said．

The article is written mainly to__________．

    A. predict the astronauts’ meals in the future

    B. introduce an experiment “Lunar Oasis’’

    C. tell us the future development of astronomy

    D. focus on the human’s great progress

The article implies that__________．

    A. astronauts can grow flowers in space at present

    B. Paragon and NASA will carry out the test separately

    C. Lunar Oasis is a series of experiments carried out in space

    D. the earliest testing of the Lunar Oasis may be in 2012

The underlined word “colonists” in the last paragraph probably has the meaning of______．

    A. plants    B. wild beasts    C. human beings      D. scientists

The seeds of Brassica will be contained in the greenhouse mainly because _________.

    A. their life cycle is much shorter

    B. they are more nutritious than other food

    C. they are related to Brussels sprouts and cabbage

    D. they are very delicious

—Jimmy，shall I give you a ride as you live so far away?

   —Thank you very much．_________.   

  A．It couldn’t be better  B．Of course you can  C．If yon like   D．It’s up to you

She was moving out of her old apartment _______ she suddenly realized that the key to the new apartment wasn’t on her.

    A. until            B. once         C. when         D. as if

I’m considering _______ a washing machine, which is considered ________ a great help to my wife.

  A. buying ; to be    B. buying ; being    C. to buy ; being   D. to buy ; to be

Li Fang is always ready to help others when they are in trouble and he never          their request.

A. turns up     B. turns over   C. turns in     D. turns down