In 1939 two brothers, Mac and Dick McDonald, started a drive–in restaurant in Sna Bemadino, California. They carefully chose a busy corner for their location. They had run their own businesses for years, first a theater, then a barbecue restaurant, then another drive-in. But in their new operation, they offered a new, shortened menu: French fries, hamburgers, and sodas. To this minimal selection they added one new concept: quick service, no waiters or waitresses, and no tips.

　　Their hamburgers sold for fifteen cents. Cheese was another four cents. Their French fries and hamburgers had a remarkable uniformity(一致性), for the brothers had developed a strict routine（常规） for the preparation of their food, and they insisted on their cook’s sticking to the routine. Their new drive-in became incredibly popular, particularly for lunch. People drove up by the hundreds during the busy noontime. The self-service restaurant was so popular that the brothers had allowed ten copies of their restaurant to be opened; they were content with this small success until they met Ray Kroc.

　　Kroc was a salesman who met the McDonald brothers in 1954, when he was selling milk shake mixing machines. He quickly saw the unmatched appeal of the brother’s fast food restaurant and bought the right to franchise( 经销)other copies of their restaurants. The agreement signed included the right to copy the men, the equipment, and even their red and white buildings with the golden arches.

　　Twenty years after the day Ray Kroc watched people rush up to order fifteen–cent hamburgers, McDonalds had over $ 1 billion in total sales a year. Today McDonalds is a world famous name. Its first twenty-two years is one of the most incredible success stories in modern American business history.

60. Mac and Dick McDonald had experience in managing all of the following business except ________.

　A. a theater   B. a drive–in   C. an ice-cream shop　　 D. a barbecue restaurant

61. What is this passage mainly about?________

　A. Ray Kroc’s business abilities.

　B. The development of fast-food service.

　C. The life of Mac and Dick McDonald.

　D. How McDonalds became a billion-dollar business.

62. How did the McDonald brothers keep the uniformity of the hamburgers? ________

　A. They asked help from Ray Kroc.

　B. They allowed other copies of their restaurant.

　C. They had strict rules for the preparation of the food.

　D. They added a new concept to the selection of the food.

63. We can conclude from this passage that ________.

　A. Ray Kroc had great sense of business.

　B. forty years ago there were a lot of fast-food restaurants

　C. Mac and Dick McDonald never became wealthy because they sold their idea to Ray Kroc

　D. the location the McDonalds chose was the only source of the great popularity of their drive-in

　　In 1939 two brothers, Mac and Dick McDonald, started a drive–in restaurant in Sna Bemadino, California. They carefully chose a busy corner for their location. They had run their own businesses for years, first a theater, then a barbecue restaurant, then another drive-in. But in their new operation, they offered a new, shortened menu: French fries, hamburgers, and sodas. To this minimal selection they added one new concept: quick service, no waiters or waitresses, and no tips.

　　Their hamburgers sold for fifteen cents. Cheese was another four cents. Their French fries and hamburgers had a remarkable uniformity(一致性), for the brothers had developed a strict routine（常规） for the preparation of their food, and they insisted on their cook’s sticking to the routine. Their new drive-in became incredibly popular, particularly for lunch. People drove up by the hundreds during the busy noontime. The self-service restaurant was so popular that the brothers had allowed ten copies of their restaurant to be opened; they were content with this small success until they met Ray Kroc.

　　Kroc was a salesman who met the McDonald brothers in 1954, when he was selling milk shake mixing machines. He quickly saw the unmatched appeal of the brother’s fast food restaurant and bought the right to franchise( 经销)other copies of their restaurants. The agreement signed included the right to copy the men, the equipment, and even their red and white buildings with the golden arches.

　　Twenty years after the day Ray Kroc watched people rush up to order fifteen–cent hamburgers, McDonalds had over $ 1 billion in total sales a year. Today McDonalds is a world famous name. Its first twenty-two years is one of the most incredible success stories in modern American business history.

60. Mac and Dick McDonald had experience in managing all of the following business except ________.

　A. a theater   B. a drive–in   C. an ice-cream shop　　 D. a barbecue restaurant

61. What is this passage mainly about?________

　A. Ray Kroc’s business abilities.

　B. The development of fast-food service.

　C. The life of Mac and Dick McDonald.

　D. How McDonalds became a billion-dollar business.

62. How did the McDonald brothers keep the uniformity of the hamburgers? ________

　A. They asked help from Ray Kroc.

　B. They allowed other copies of their restaurant.

　C. They had strict rules for the preparation of the food.

　D. They added a new concept to the selection of the food.

63. We can conclude from this passage that ________.

　A. Ray Kroc had great sense of business.

　B. forty years ago there were a lot of fast-food restaurants

　C. Mac and Dick McDonald never became wealthy because they sold their idea to Ray Kroc

　D. the location the McDonalds chose was the only source of the great popularity of their drive-in

The famous scientist grow up________ he was born and in 1930 he came to Shanghai.

A．when            B．in which           C．where　　        D．wherever

　　In 1961, scientist set up gigantic, sensitive instruments to collect radio waves from the far reaches of space, hoping to discover in them some mathematical pattern indicating that the waves were sent out by other intelligent beings. The first attempt failed, but someday the experiment may succeed.

　　What reason is there to think that we may actually detect intelligent life in outer space？To begin with, modern theories of the development of stars suggest that almost every star has some sort of family of planets. So any star like our own sun （and there are billions of such stars in the universe） is likely to have a planet situated at such a distance that it would receive about the same amount of radiation as the earth.

　　Furthermore, such a planet would probably have the same general composition as our planet; so, allowing a billion years or two or three, there would be a very good chance for life to develop, if current theories of the origin of life are correct.

　　But intelligent life？Life that has reached the stage of being able to send radio waves out into space in a deliberate pattern？Our own planet may have been in existence for five billion years and may have had life on it for two billion, but it is only in the last fifty years that intelligent life capable of sending radio waves into space has lived on earth. From this it might seem that even if there were no technical problems involved, the chance of receiving signals from any particular earth-type planet would be extremely small.

　　This does not mean that intelligent life at our level does not exist somewhere. There are such an unimaginable number of stars that, even at such miserable possibility, it seems certain that there are millions of intelligent life forms scattered through space. The only trouble is, none may be within easy distance of us. Perhaps none ever will be; perhaps the distances that separate us from our fellow “creatures” of this universe will forever remain too great to be conquered. And yet it is conceivable that someday we may come across one of them or, frighteningly, one of them may come across us. What would they be like, these outside-the-earth creatures？

1.What point is the author making by stating that almost every star has some sort of family of planets？

　　A. Sooner or later intelligent beings will be found on one of the stars.

　　B. There must be one or two of the planets on which there are no intelligent beings.

　　C. There are sufficient planets for there to be one that enjoys the same conditions as the earth does.

　　D. One or two billion years later intelligent beings will generate on those planets.

2.What is the main topic of the passage？

　　A. Some probable intelligent life forms on other planets.

　　B. Various stages undergone by the intelligent life on other planets.

　　C. Grounds for probable existence of intelligent life on other planets.

　　D. The possibility of intelligent life existing on our planet.

3.Which of the following can be inferred from the passage？

A. An encounter is probable between people from the earth and intelligent beings from another planet.

B. Though the first attempt failed, scientists did discover the radio waves sent out by other intelligent beings.

C. Other intelligent beings were able to send our radio waves into space well before the last fifty years.

D. It is certain that there are millions of intelligent beings scattered in space but only too far away.

4.According to the author, what is the difference between “we may come across one of them” and “one of them may come across us”？

A. The earth would be dangerously disadvantaged if it is sought after by possibly much more developed creatures.

B. It would prove that there are too many outside-the-earth creatures if “one of them comes across us”.

C. The history of the development of the earth would be proved to be shorter than that of “them” if “they” come across us.

D. it would prove that the distance in between is not so great as we think if “we come across one of them” someday.