Festival Activities Program
TIME AND PLACE
October 24 ~ 30
Oct.24 ~ 30: 9:00 a.m ~ 4:00p.m
Oct.25 ~ 29: 12:00 p.m ~ 9:00p.m
at Kerry Center Hotel
Classroom area
(1) English Taster Lesson    (2) Food health-keeping method presentation
Computer area
(3) E-photography and Techno-Music    (4) Education Software Demonstration
Internet Training area
SINA and Capital On-line will provide Internet Training for the public. The focus(焦点) will  be on browsing the Internet; how to find useful information on the web; and how to design an elementary web page.
Foyer Activity area
(5) The students from Beijing TV University for the aged will provide a calligraphy (handwriting) demonstration.
(6) Children activities
69. A 70-year-old teacher wants to see how to use writing brush well, he should go to        .
A. Classroom area                         B. Computer area
C. Internet Training area                    D. Foyer Activity area
70. The programs will last for         .
A. a week              B. a month      C. five days          D. two days
71. The word “browsing” in the passage probably means         .
A. seeing everywhere         B. going here and there
C. staring everywhere         D. reading here and there in books, etc.

Festival activities program

TIME AND PLACE

October 24~30:  9:00 a.m. ~4:00p.m

Oct.25~29:  12:00 p.m~9:00 p.m.

At Kerry Centre Hotel

Classroom area

1) English Taster Lesson

2) Food health-keeping method presentation Computer area

3) E-Photography and Techno Music

4) Education Software Demonstration

Internet Training area

SINA and Capital on- Line will provide Internet training for the public. The focus(焦点) will be on browsing the Internet; how to find useful information on the web and how to design an elementary Web page

Foyer activity area

5) The students from Beijing TV University for the Aged will provide calligraphy (handwriting demonstration)

6) Children activities Lectures

21st Century, the educational weekly of China Daily, will invite experts from English- speaking countries to hold lectures from 18:30 to 20:30 on Oct. 27 to 29 and in the daytime on Oct. 30.

60. A 70 -year- old teacher wants to see how to use writing brush well. He should go to ________.

A. Classroom area                     B. Computer area

C. Internet Training area                 D. Foyer Activity area

61. A person who is interested in internet can go to ____________.

A. Computer area at 9 .m. Oct. 30

B. Internet Training area at 11 a. m. Oct. 24

C. Classroom area at 8:00 p. M. Oct. 26

D. Lectures at 9:00 p. m. Oct. 29

62. The students of English Department have a chance to learn English at __________.

A. 9:00~9:45 a .m. Oct. 27             B. 15:00~15:45 Oct. 30

C. 17:15~18:00 Oct. 28                D. 12:00~12:45 Oct. 25

63. The underlined word "browsing" in the passage probably means ____________.

A. seeing everywhere

B. going here and there

C. staring everywhere

D. reading here and there in book, etc  

III. 阅读 (共两节，满分40分)

第一节：阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

As goods and services improved, people were persuaded to spend their money on changing from old to new, and found the change worth the expense. When an airline equipped itself with jets, for example, its costs (and therefore air fare) would go up, but the new planes meant such an improvement that the higher cost was justified. A new car (or wireless, washing machine, electric kettle) made life so much more comfortable than the old one that the high cost of replacement was fully repaid. Manufacturers still cry their goods as persuasively as ever, but are the improvements really worth paying for? In many fields, things have now reached such a high standard of performance that further progress is very limited and very, very expensive. Airlines, for example, go to enormous expense in buying the latest prestige jets, in which vast research costs have been spent on relatively small improvements. If we abandon these vast costs we might lose the chance of cutting minutes away from flying times; but wouldn’t it be better to see airfares drop dramatically, as capital costs become relatively insignificant? Again, in the context of a 70 m. p. h. Limit, with lines of cars traveling so close as to control each other’s speeds, improvements in performance are actually irrelevant; improvements in handling are unnecessary, as most production cars grip（抓牢） the road perfectly, and comfort has now reached a very high level. Small improvements here are unlikely to be worth the thousands that anybody replacing an ordinary family car every two years may have spent on them. Let us instead have cars — or wireless, electric kettles, washing machines, television sets — which are made to last, and not to be replaced. Significant progress is obviously a good thing, but the insignificant progression from model-change to model-change is not.

1. The author is obviously challenging the social norm (社会规范) that ________________.

A. it is important to improve goods and services

B. development of technology makes our life more comfortable

C. it is reasonable that prices are going up all the time

D. slightly improved new products are worth buying

2. According to this passage, airfares may rise because ______________.

A. the airplane has been improved

B. people tend to travel by new airplanes

C. the change is found to be reasonable

D. the service on the airplane is better than before

3. According to the author, passengers would be happier if they ____________.

A. could fly in the latest model of good planes

B. could get tickets at much lower prices

C. see the airlines make vital changes in their services

D. could spend less time flying in the air

4. When manufactures have improved the performance of their products to a certain level, then it would be _______________.

A. justified for them to cut the price

B. unnecessary for them to make any new changes

C. difficult and costly to further better them

D. insignificant for them to cut down the research costs

5. In the case of cars, the author advises that we _____________.

A. cancel the speed limit                       B. further improve their performance

C. change models every two years          D. improve their durability (耐久性)

Festival Activities Program

TIME AND PLACE

October 24 ~ 30

Oct.24 ~ 30: 9:00 a.m ~ 4:00p.m

Oct.25 ~ 29: 12:00 p.m ~ 9:00p.m

at Kerry Center Hotel

Classroom area

(1) English Taster Lesson    (2) Food health-keeping method presentation

Computer area

(3) E-photography and Techno-Music    (4) Education Software Demonstration

Internet Training area

SINA and Capital On-line will provide Internet Training for the public. The focus(焦点) will  be on browsing the Internet; how to find useful information on the web; and how to design an elementary web page.

Foyer Activity area

(5) The students from Beijing TV University for the aged will provide a calligraphy (handwriting) demonstration.

(6) Children activities

69. A 70-year-old teacher wants to see how to use writing brush well, he should go to        .

A. Classroom area                         B. Computer area

   C. Internet Training area                    D. Foyer Activity area

70. The programs will last for         .

   A. a week              B. a month      C. five days          D. two days

71. The word “browsing” in the passage probably means         .

   A. seeing everywhere         B. going here and there

   C. staring everywhere         D. reading here and there in books, etc.

第五节：课文填空（共1篇，10空格；满分10分）

根据课文内容和首字母提示，填入恰当的词，使文章完整。

Not long ago there was a girl called Daisy. One day she woke up and found a flying carpet by her bed, which took Daisy to Tibet of China to see antelopes. The antelope told her that they lived a sad life, because they were killed for the fur that was taken from under their s _______(61). Every year thousands of antelopes are killed and now they are becoming e______________(62) species.

Daisy was very sad and then she asked the carpet to bring her to some place where the animals were well protected. Next minute she was in Zimbabwe. Daisy first saw an excited elephant. It asked Daisy to take its picture. In Zimbabwe, Daisy knew the people began to realize the i __________(63) of animals, especially the g________(64), and they decided to help. They allowed t       (65) to hunt only a certain number of animals if they were willing to pay the farmers. 

The carpet rose again and almost at once they were in a t________(66) rain forest. A monkey watched her as it r_______(67) itself. The monkey said the millipede contained a p_________(68)drug which could affect m ______(69). And the monkey told Daisy to take care of the rain forest. Daisy was a _______(70). Later, the carpet flew Daisy home and Daisy found it was only a dream, but she learned a lot from her experience.