Tokyo: The world’s oldest man, retired Japanese silkworm breeder Yukichi Chuganji, died in his home at the age of 114, on Monday. Family members found him dead on his mattress. Born on March 23, 1889, Chuganji worked as a silkworm breeder and bank employee after leaving school. He also served as a community welfare(福利) officer. He had been in god health, talking daily with his family members.

Washington: Every American dislikes people who talk on cell phones while driving, even those who do that kind of act. In the State of New Jersey, 84 percent of 968 cell phone owners said in recent telephone survey that they would support a state ban(禁令) on the use of cell phones while driving. However, 42 percent of cell phone owners also said they used the devices “very often” or “sometimes” while driving. Although most agree that the banning is good, only 38 percent believed such a ban would be easy to enforce(实施).

New York: A woman in the US who was being attacked by a dog said she was saved from further harm when her 13-year-old daughter distracted the dog by screaming “You want a piece of me?” and kicked it repeatedly in the head. Jane Howell said she and her daughter, Elizabeth, were taking a walk around the neighborhood on Saturday evening when they came across he big dog, unchained.

 

39. The main idea of the second news is _____.

   A. most Americans don’t like cell phone

   B. a ban on the use of cell phones has been made

   C. few people use cell phones while driving

   D. using cell phones while driving will be banned because most Americans don’t like it

40. The woman in the US ____.

   A. was not harmed by the dog

   B. raised the dog, which attacked her later

   C. was protected from being seriously hurt by her daughter

   D. had escaped when her daughter was kicking the dog

41. From the news we can infer ____.

   A. Chuganji was living alone when he died

   B. the woman’s 13-year-old daughter was very brave

   C. cell phones are not god devices

   D. it’s easy to enforce the ban n the use of cell phones while driving

If you happen to find “On the Road” at a gas station or “Who Moved My Cheese?” in your grocery store, it might not be and accident. You could be the unwitting beneficiary of a “bookcrosser”--- a person who on purpose leaves books in public places hoping they’ll be found by strangers.

The idea o leaving a book for someone else to find and enjoy is not new--- some people have been leaving just-finished books in airports and on buses since the dawn of the hurry-up-and-wait. Creating a system for book-leavers to find out what happened to those books adds a new way to the practice. Bokcrossing.com, the website that encourages books to be “released into the wild”, has more than 18,000 members since its start last year, and averages 112 new participants daily.

Its members have scattered(分发) more than 42,000 novels, self-help books, memoirs, technical manuals and biographies in 45 countries, leaving them in public restrooms, movie theatres, coffee studios or anywhere that they can imagine. The result: a worldwide living library.

Peri Doslu, a California yoga instructor, has dropped three-- one on top of a telephone booth, one on a rock wall at remote Mono Lake in the eastern Sierra Nevada, and another in one of the studios where she teaches.

“I’m always looking for paces to pass on books,” said Doslu. “To think my book’s going to go off and have this future, and I might even get to know a little bit about it down the road.”

 

42. If you are an unwitting beneficiary of a bookcrosser, that means_____.

   A. you get a book on how to avoid accidents

   B. you know where to get a book for free

   C. you get a book somewhere for free without knowing in advance

   D. you get a card with which you can borrow books at a gas station or somewhere else

43. Bookcrossers are the people who ____.

   A. have lots of books            

   B. have lots of money

   C. release books in public places on purpose

   D. like reading books very much

44. A bookcrosser may not leave books in _____.

   A. toilets     B. a studio         C. the fields       D. his bed

45. Which of the following about Doslu is true?

   A. She dropped her first book on top of a telephone booth.

   B. She had no idea who took her books away

   C. She always left books to her students

   D. She is a bookcrosser traveling around the world

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