D

This was the first day of Katie Daglish’s new job as the new manager of the Glasgow Underground Lost Property Department. She was really nervous.

     There were already hundreds of items in the room, including umbrellas, coats, shopping bags, toys and bears. At 9:30 a.m., a worker came in with a box full of new lost property(财产).

     Katie heard a mobile phone ring and jumped. She looked over to the box. There were over 20 phones there. She found the phone that was ringing but it stopped just when she picked it up. Ten seconds later, it rang again.

     “ Hello.”

     “ Hello, who is this?” said a man. It wasn’t easy to hear him.

     “ This is Katie Daglish. I work for the Glasgow Underground Lost Property Department.”

     “ Do you have my bag?”

     “ What does it look like?”

     “ It has green and white stripes (条纹). It says‘Celtic’on both sides.”

     “ Let me see. Yes! Yes! I’ve got it.” zxxk

     “ Great! My sister will come to your office in the afternoon to get it. Thanks.”

     Katie gave the address to the man. She hoped it would always be this simple.

     At 2p.m., a lady came into her office. She described the green and white bag and said her cousin had lost it.

“ I thought it was your brother,” said Katie.

“ No, it’s my cousin.” Katie thought that there couldn’t be many bags like this and the man wasn’t easy to hear. He probably said cousin. Katie gave the lady the bag. One hour later, another lady came in.

“ Hello. You spoke to my brother this morning. You have his Celtic bag. He’s so happy because it has £10,000 in it. He was worried because there are hundreds of Celtic bags in Glasgow.”

“ Ten thousand pounds…” said Katie nervously. She quickly looked in the bag again. She found another Celtic bag with some clothes but nothing else.

Katie told the lady what had happened. She was very angry and called the police. Katie thought she would only have this job for one day.

A policeman came quickly. She told Katie, who didn’t come from Glasgow, that, because Celtic is a popular football team in Glasgow, many people have green and white bags. Katie was just about to describe the first lady to the policeman when the first lady stepped in. she had looked in the bag and found the money.

The second lady thanked the first lady and gave her £500. The policeman told Katie to be more careful and keep the names of people who took lost property.

The next day, the man came to thank Katie. He told her to find out more about Glasgow. He then gave her two tickets to the next Celtic football game.

61. Katie was nervous at first because______.

A. she had a new manager                  B. she was starting a job

C. it was her first day in Glasgow          D. there were many lost items in the office.

62. Katie gave the bag to the wrong woman for the reason that______.

A. the bags looked the same      

B. the women looked like twins

C. the first lady asked her for the second bag.

D. the man didn’t give a simple description of the bag.

63. Which of the following is right?

A. The second lady was to blame.         B. Katie was not a native of Glasgow.

C. Two ladies just played a joke on Katie.  D. Katie was at last fired due to her carelessness.

64. What’s the main idea the writer intends to tell us in this passage?

A. Celtic bags were a common item to lose in Glasgow.        

B. People in Glasgow were more likely to lose things.

C. Hundreds of items were lost in Glasgow every day.

D. Jobs at the Lost and Found were not always simple.

 

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C

  Weather is the subject matter of Westerners whenever they meet. Housewives, businessmen, factory workers as well as farmers all talk about the weather. It is everyday news,

whether or not conditions change. Many newspapers carry a regular front page news story in addition to the full reports on as inside-page provided by the weather service. Here are several different types of weather reports taken from the western papers:

   No.1 Regional forecast

New Jersey
Today: Considerably cloudy with showers likely. High: 75—79. Southwesterly
winds at 15 to 20 m.p.h.. Precipitation probability 70 percent. Tonight: warm and cloudy, rain likely. Low: 55—63. Southwesterly winds at 15 to 20 m.p.h.. Tomorrow:
Showers and thunderstorms likely. High: 75—79. Wins S to SW at 15 to 20 m.p.h..
 
 
 
 

 

                

 

 

   No. 2 Three-day Forecast

Westchester, Rockland
   Friday: Mostly fine to partly cloudy.
   Saturday: Cloudy with some showers.
   Sunday: Mostly fine.
   Temperatures: Daytime highs will average in the upper 60’s to 70’s while overnight
lows will average in the low to mid 50’s throughout the period.
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 No. 3 Weather Stories

  Bitter could, intensified () by high winds, gripped the Upper Midwest today, sheets of ice and snow left by the winter’s first major storm on highways throughout the area.
  At least six deaths were blamed on the storm.
  Hundreds of schools closed throughout the Upper Midwest yesterday and thousands of travelers waited out the weather at the roadside shelters.
  Temperatures dropped well below zero early today from the Northern plains through the Western Great Lakes under clearing skies. A 25-below-zero reading was forecast.
  Nearly a foot of snow fell on northern sections of Minnesota, Minsconsin and Michigan. And hardest hit were Duluth, Minn. and Superior, Wis., where 12 inches were
recorded. Winds went up to 50 miles an hour.
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

57. In a street of corner of London, two strangers may begin their talk with “______”

A.    Hi, how are you?        B. What are doing here? Waiting for someone?

C.  A nice day, isn’t?        D. Didn’t you listen to the weather report last night?

58. The noon temperature of _______ is nearly 70’s at the weekend.

  A. Western Great Lakes       B. Duluth, Minn

  C. Westchester, Rockland       D. New Jersey

59. It seems that ________ has plenty of rain at the present season.

  A. Western Great Lakes       B. Winsconsin

  C. Westchester, Rockland       D. New Jersey

60. Which of the following is most probable according to No.3?

A.    The traffic was terribly affected.  

B.    The Five Great Lakes were covered by heavy snow.

C.    The temperatures might drop to 50℃.

D.    Many schools were damaged in the snowstorm.

C

The central government has announced its goal of providing everyone in the country with basic healthcare by 2020. It’s an ambitious goal for a nation that will have a population of 1.5 billion by then.

Making healthcare affordable and easily available is the most important thing for many countries. But the task is much harder in China, the world's most populous nation. Gao Qiang, Vice Minister of Health, said, “I think the goal of offering every Chinese basic healthcare is extremely large. It will be an arduous task. We have to make sure every citizen, including the huge rural(农村的) population, will be covered.”

But the size of the population is only one of many difficulties. Gao Qiang said, “The most obvious problem right now is that many people have no easy access to medical care. We still have a considerable number of city and rural residents who have not joined any medical insurance system. Moreover, medical services are public welfare services. We need to stop those hospitals that make profit by selling medicine.”

China started to reform its healthcare system in the early 1990s. Today, it has extended medical insurance to 170 million city residents.

A rural cooperative medical insurance system was launched in 2003 to offer farmers basic healthcare. So far, more than eighty percent of the rural population have participated in the insurance scheme. And this year, unemployed city residents and children will also be covered by the system.

Healthcare officials say their key work now is to help employees in small firms join the medical insurance system.

54. The underlined word arduous in paragraph 2 most probably means _________.

     A. hard           B. good          C. easy           D. important

55. What does the task in the second paragraph refer to?

     A. Making healthcare affordable and easily available.

     B. Stopping those hospitals that make profit by selling medicine.

    C. Making unemployed city residents and children covered by the system.

     D. Launching a rural cooperative medical insurance system

56. Now their important work is to ________.

     A. provide everyone in the country with basic healthcare

     B. control the population

     C. help people in small companies join the medical insurance system

     D. offer farmers basic healthcare

 

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