10、She did it ________ it took me.

       A. one third the time      B. the one-third time     C. one-third a time  D. a one-third time

9、As ________ mountains beyond our village are becoming greener and greener, they have become ________ home to a large amount of wild life.

    A. the; a                       B. the; /                        C. /; a                          D. the; the

8、前几年，教育部提出了“大学扩招”这个政策，鼓励大学增加招生人数。你对这个政策有什么看法？请从正反两方面谈，并表明你的态度。字数：120字左右。

提示：正面：提供更多求学机会；减少竞争；更多的双向选择; 对国家的发展有利等等。

          反面：有些高中生开始放松学习；大学的硬件设备无法满足需求；教学质量下降；就业竞争更加激烈；等等。

      扩大：expand (v. )  expansion (n. )         招生：enroll (v. )   enrollment (n. )

二、选择题

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6、    The man who brings my milk used to knock for his money for the week’s milk while I was having breakfast on Saturday morning. Just lately he has been arriving before I get up. Staff shortages mean that four men are sharing five rounds, so he has to start earlier.

Delivering milk to people’s homes is scarcely good business, especially when the customer may have a choice of two or three firms serving a single road. In spite of my local difficulties, however, labor troubles are not as sharp as a few years ago. There are enough men prepared to make an early morning for the sake of an open-air job with a fair measure of freedom. If they did stop calling, women would find it hard work to collect all the milk they need from self-service stores . Dairies are aware that stopping deliveries resulted in falling sales.

Marketing ideas have included introducing extra lines, in addition to dairy products, which the milkman can carry to increase turnover. Already they have taken over many rounds given up by bakeries. One dairyman said, “It wont’ be long before the milkman delivers more bread that milk. ” Some milkmen deliver potatoes, and it seems as if diversification will be limited only by the size of the vans.

So the milkman is likely to remain a familiar figure. Even the returnable bottle continues to be used. As long as it has a reasonable life―30 to 40 trips are usual― the cost of collection and cleaning is worthwhile.

72. We are told that the milkman now starts out on his delivery rounds earlier than before because of ___________.

     A. the desire to earn more money                      

     B. more early-rising customers

     C. an increased demand for milk                       

     D. an increased workload

73. Why do some people choose to be milkmen?

     A. Because they can exercise in early morning.  

     B. Because they like working outdoors.

     C. Because they want to serve several firms.            

     D. Because they like getting up early.

74. What does it mean by the underlined sentence in Para. 3 ?  

     A. Bakeries are asking milkmen to deliver bread.

     B. Milkmen have taken over some bakery rounds.

     C. Bread is more popular than milk now.

     D. People buy more bread from milkmen than from bakers.

75. Dairy firms continue to supply returnable milk bottles because they are __________.

     A. most economical in the long term                  

     B. the most durable form of container

     C. easy to clean and collect                              

     D. convenient for customers to return

5、   In the past, young people in Japan were expected to take on responsibilities to support their parents and grandparents. Now they expect to be supported well into young adulthood. The “New breed”, born since the 1960s, have never known anything but richness. Youth are seen as resistant to entering society as mature adults, to becoming social citizens. Once the great objective of reconstruction after the Second World War was accomplished, a new generation lost the motivating power that had untied the nation together.

Japan’s birth rate has been falling rapidly, partly because of the recession(衰退), and the job and financial（金融的）insecurity that it has caused. In 1999, the figure was 1. 38 children per woman, the lowest ever recorded. At the same time, youth crime, although still especially low by western standards, rose to its highest level since record-keeping began 32 years ago. Likewise, the percentage of students dropping out before graduating, at 2. 5% also very low by western standards, has been rising.

Entrepreneurial ( 企业家的) role models are few and far between. Bill Gates is often mentioned, but a foreign model can only have so much influence. The problem is that Japanese culture discourages people from revealing details of personal life, including such ordeal（考验）as starting a company. In the past, successful companies such as Honda or Hitachi provided role models of a sort. But today they have been faded by the downturn, and few others have risen to take their place.

Young people also quite often feel isolated from their fathers, who worked too hard at their jobs to establish much of a relationship with their children. “The one thing they’re sure of is that they don’t want to be like their fathers. And the girls don’t want to be with boys who are like their fathers, so the boys are sure not to be,” says Professor Morishma.  

68. According to the passage, former young people were expected to ___________.

     A. to enter the society before adulthood                    

     B. to hold together

     C. to work hard and support their family                   

     D. to study hard and find a good job

69. The word “it” (Line 2, Para. 2) most probably refers to _________.

     A. economic recession                                      B. job unsafety

     C. birth rate                                                     D. financial unsafety

70. The author takes the two examples of the youth crime and students’ dropping out before graduating to show __________.

     A. the youth are overburdened                                 

     B. the educational system in Japan is not satisfying

     C. public security and order in Japan is bad

     D. the ethnical (道德的) level of youth in Japan is falling

71. Today, entrepreneurial models are rarely found in Japan _________.

     A. because of the discouragement of Japanese culture            

     B. because of the worshipping of western models

     C. because of the lack of experience of starting a company

     D. because the “new breed” don’t want to work hard

4、Time spent in a bookshop can be most enjoyable, whether you are a book-lover or merely you are there to buy as a present. You may even have entered the shop just to find a shelter from a sudden shower. Whatever the reason, you can soon become totally unaware of your surroundings. The desire to pick up a book with an attractive “dust-jacket” is irresistible, although this method of selection ought not to be followed, as you might end up with a rather dull book. You soon become engrossed in some book or other, and usually it is only much later that you realize you have spent far too much time there and must dash off to keep some forgotten appointment―without buying a book, of course. This opportunity to escape the realities of everyday life is, I think, the main attraction of a bookshop. There are not many places where it is possible to do this. A music shop is very much like a bookshop. You can wander around such places to your heart’s content. If it is a good shop, no assistant will approach you with inevitable greetings: “Can I help you, sir?” You needn’t buy anything you don’t want. In a bookshop an assistant should remain in the background until you have finished browsing. Then, and only then, are his services necessary. Of course you may want to find out where a particular section is, but when he has led you there, the assistant should retire carefully and look as if he is not interested in selling a single book. You have to be careful not to be attracted by the variety of books in a bookshop. It is very easy to enter the shop looking for a book on ancient coins and to come out carrying a copy of the latest best-selling novel and perhaps a book about brass-rubbing-something that had only vaguely interested you up until then. This sort of thing can be very dangerous. Apart from running up a huge account, you can waste a great deal of time wandering from section to section.

64. What does “ dust-jacket” in the first paragraph probably mean?

     A. The title of a book.                                      B. A kind of clothes.

     C. Book cover full of dust.                               D. Protecting paper cover of a book.

65. In the author’s opinion, what is the main attraction of a bookshop?

     A. You can spend much time in the bookshop.

     B. It has many books with attractive dust-jackets.

     C. It enables you to forget the realities of everyday life.

     D. You don’t have to go for unpleasant appointments.

66. According to the passage, what will happen in a good bookshop?

     A. Nobody will take notice of you.

     B. You will feel as if you were in a music shop.

     C. You will find yourself undisturbed and satisfied with your own browsing.

     D. The assistant will greet and treat you in a very friendly way.

67. Picking up books that vaguely interest you can be dangerous because ___________.

     A. you may forget about the book you plan to buy

     B. it costs you too much money and time

     C. it makes you break your appointment

     D. you have to give up the best-selling book

3、Nathan’s second-hand bike was good enough to get him anywhere he wanted to go. Of course, it couldn’t match Tim’s in a normal speed race, but all the fancy gears (齿轮) in the world wouldn’t get you up Black Mountain. It was so steep in places that you had to get off your bike and push.

On this particular afternoon, the odds were all on Nathan’s side. First, he was stronger. Tim had always been thin, but recently he’d started to grow so fast that his arms and legs were like pieces of spaghetti. As well as being considerably fitter than his friend, Nathan knew the shortcuts up Black Mountain.

So when Nathan accepted the challenge, he was sure he’d win. He nearly always did, in competitions with Tim. That was what was strange. Tim was so competitive, and yet he wasn’t any good at physical things.

By the time the two boys were three quarters of the way to the top, Nathan was clearly ahead. While the road zigzagged back and forth up the mountainside, in certain places, there were also vertical tracks, where water rushing down the slope in winter had bitten erosion courses into the soil. These had in turn been so overgrown by bushes and long grass in the spring that they looked like tunnels through the bush. The trick was to know where you could cut off a whole bend in the road by leaving the road and pushing your bike up one of these half-hidden pathways. If you chose the wrong one you’d struggle up for ten minutes and then suddenly reach a dead end. Then there was no choice but to go back.

60. What did Tim challenge Nathan to do?

     A. test who had the fastest bike                 

     B. decide who was the most competitive

     C. find the secret tracks on the mountain           

     D. race to the top of Black Mountain

61. It was sometimes quicker to use the tracks rather than the road because the ___________.

     A. tracks were partly hidden.                           

     B. tracks were easier to ride bikes on.

     C. road had many bends in it.                           

     D. road was overgrown after the winter.

62. Which of the following advantages did Nathan have over Tim?

   A. Nathan had a better bike and knew the shortcuts up the mountain.

   B. Nathan was fitter and knew the quickest ways up the mountain.

   C. Nathan was stronger and more competitive than Tim.

   D. Nathan was stronger and had a better bike.

63. The quotation “ the odds were all on Nathan’s side” means that __________.

   A. Tim would not try very hard in the race

   B. Tim had not yet grown as big as Nathan

   C. Nathan had a greater chance of winning the challenge

   D. Nathan had more friends who thought he would win