单项选择题

　　1、 Many of Carson McCuller's characters are isolated, disappointed people.

　　A.solitary

　　B.gloomy

　　C.feeble

　　D.frugal

　　2、A Ride in a Cable-car

　　A ride in a cable-car is one of the exciting and enjoyable experiences a child can have. In Switzerland, which is the home of the cable-car, it is used mostly to take tourists up the slope of a mountain, to a restaurant from which one can have a bird-eye view of the surrounding country,or to a top of a ski-run, from which, in winter, skiers glide down the snow covered the slope on skis. In Singapore, however, the cable-car takes one from the summit of a hill on the main island to a low hill on Sentosa, a resort island just off the southern coast.

　　The cable-car is really a carriage which hangs from a strong steel cable suspended in the air.It moves along the cable with other cars on pulleys, the wheels of which are turned by electric motors. The cars are painted in eye-catching colours and spaced at regular intervals. Each car can seat up six persons. After the passengers have entered a car, they are locked in from outside by an attendant, they have no control over the movement of the car.

　　Before long, the passengers get a breath-taking view through the glass windows of the modern city, the bustling harbour, and the several islands off the coast. The car is suspended so high in the air that slips on the sea look like small boats, and boats like toys. On a clear day, both the sky above and the sea below look beautifully blue.

　　In contrast to the fast-moving traffic on the ground, the cars in the air move in a leisurely manner, allowing passengers more than enough time to take in the scenery during the brief trip to the island of Sentosa. After a few hours on Sentosa, it will be time again to take a cable-car back to Mount Faber. The return journey is no less exciting than the outward trip.

　　The cable-car in Singapore __________.

　　A.takes visitors up to a mountain restaurant

　　B.takes skiers to the top of a ski-run

　　C.takes visitors to Sentosa

　　D.takes visitors to a high mountain

　　3、 Let's postulate that she is a lawyer,then what's her opinion about it.'?

　　A.challenged

　　B.assumed

　　C.deducted

　　D.decreed

　　4、

　　根据材料回答下列问题：

　　Travelling Is My Life

　　1 l am very fortunate. I am now a much-travelled woman, but until I was 20 I had never been anywhere more remote than Londan. And coming from a country village in the far south I was struck by the architectural beauty of the capital. I understood immediately why foreign tourists de-scend on it in their thousands.

　　2 The first time I traveled abroad was when I went over to France on a cross Channel ferry. It was a school trip to Paris for a week,and I thought it was wonderful. The sights, the sounds, the smells,the language--they were all wonderful. I had never experienced anything like it, and the week had a profound effect on me. It gave me the travel bug!

　　3 As a young girl l was always shy of strangers. I certainly had no plans to travel a lot. I left school and trained as a journalist on a local paper, and somehow slowly began to concentrate on travel. I had a procession of jobs before I got this one with the magazine. Although I still write at-ticles on other subjects, my main occupation now is writing travel and tourism.

　　4 I can appreciate now why tourists go halfway across the world to visit a place. I was brought up in the vicinity of a major British tourist attraction, but never went there myself and couldn't under-stand foreign visitors. You read about something halfway across the world and want to see it for yourself. I remember that was just why I went walking in the Himalayas and looked up at Evere.st,and why I went on a strange but wonderful cruise in the Antarctic. You can read about a place, but it is totally different to be there, to see ,feel, smell and hear everything yourself.

　　5 Perhaps not surprisingly I have been to a lot of popular tourist resorts in Europe, Africa, the Far East and the West Indies ,for example. But I like to try and find those unknown, inaccessible places--not only for myself, but also for people who want something different. Sometimes it's frightening. I remember visiting a village on the side of a steep hill in Bolivia where the inhabitants stood motionless as I walked in and didn't move until I walked out.

　　6 The career of the previous travel writer on the magazine I work for now came to an abrupt end wher~ he quite simply disappeared somewhere in South America. He was on a special journey and had told someone at his hotel that he had found a native to ferry him up a river to some remote vil-lages in the jungle. Nothing has been heard from him since then. One day I'd like to try and find out what happened to him.

　　Paragraph 2 __________.

　　A.The Tourist Mentality

　　B.Always Looking For the Unexpected

　　C.A Late Developer

　　D.The Road to Being A Travel Writer

　　E.A Sudden End to A Career

　　F.The First Taste of Travel

　　5、Because of the popularity of the region，it is advisable to book hotels in advance.

　　A.possible

　　B.profitable

　　C.easy

　　D.wise

　　6、根据材料，完成题。

　　Air Transportation

　　1. Airplanes are used to carry passengers, cargo and mail. Air transport companies operate scheduled airlines and non-scheduled services over local, regional, national, and international routes. The aircraft operated by these companies range from small single-engine planes to large multiengine jet transports.

　　2. The first air passenger services began in 1910, when dirigibles began operation between several German cities. The first scheduled airplane service to carry passengers began in the U. S in 1914. Several experimental airmail flights took place in India, Europe, and the United States before World War I, but air transport service did not become a true business until after the war.

　　3. During World War Two, intercontinental air transport became firmly established. After the war the new long-distance transports with advanced facilities were increasingly able to avoid storms and strong wind and make flights more economical and consistent. A new generation of "jumbo-jet" transports began operations in 1970, and the supersonic transport entered passenger service in 1976.

　　4. During the 1970s the number of domestic passengers on U. S airlines increased about 78%, and during the 1980s the figure was up about 58%. In 1990 there were 41.8 million international passengers, the figure was a 75% increase over 1980. The total cargo flown by U. S airlines almost doubled during the 1980s, from 5.7 billion to 10.6 billion ton-miles in 1990.

　　5. Major airports provide a wide range of facilities for the convenience of millions of travelers. These range from such basic services as ticket-sales counters and restaurants to luxury hotels, shopping centers and play areas for children. International airports must also have customs areas and currency exchange counters and so on.

　　Paragraph 2__________.

　　A.Airport services

　　B.Training of pilots

　　C.Beginning period

　　D.Rapid growth in the U.S.

　　E.Development

　　F.Competition

　　7、In Britain people use up four million tons of potatoes every year.

　　A.swallow

　　B.dispose

　　C.consume

　　D.exhaust

　　8、 Jack said sorry to the manager for the mistakes he had made.

　　A.excused

　　B.pardoned

　　C.forgave

　　D.apologized

　　9、根据材料，完成题。

　　Reduce Packaging

　　Pressure increased recently on British supermarkets and retailers to reduce packaging as part of an anti-waste campaign.46Britain generates 4.6 million tons of household waste every year by packaging.

　　Dozens of people have expressed anger at the excess of plastic wrapping. Campaigners have called on Britain to learn from other European countries.47When returned bottles are put in a vending machine (自动售货机) , the deposit is refunded. Environmentalists warn that Britain lags behind in this.

　　There were reports of growing unease among consumers over the amount of packaging they have to deal with.Trade standards officers also object to excessive packaging.48In response to a campaign by Britain's The Independent newspaper, leading supermarkets have pointed to various initiatives to win the public confidence.49

　　But campaigners said retailers and the government could learn much from anti-waste practices on the Continent. In Sweden, non-recyclable batteries have been taxed since 1991 to encourage a switch to alternatives.50In Germany, plastic bags are unheard of in supermarkets and deposits are paid for reusable plastic and glass beverage bottles.

　　请在第__(46)__处填上正确答案。

　　A.In Belgium, when you buy something in a plastic or glass container, you make a deposit.

　　B.This is because too much padding can give buyers a false impression of what they are buying.

　　C.This has resulted in a 74 percent reduction in sales.

　　D.Tesco said it was saving 112,000 tons of cardboard a year by switching to reusable plasticcrates (装货箱) for transporting its fresh produce.

　　E.The campaign was initiated by The Independent newspaper.

　　F.If a product is over-packaged, don't buy it.

　　10、根据材料，完成题。

　　The Day a Language Died

　　When Carlos Westez died at the age of 76, a language died, too. Westez, more commonly known as Red Thunder Cloud, was the last speaker of the Native American language. Catawba. Anyone who wants to hear the songs of the Catawba can contact the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., where, back in the 1940s, Red Thunder Cloud recorded a series of songs for future generations. 46 They are all that is left of the

　　Catawba language. The language that people used to speak is gone forever.

　　We are all aware of the damage that modern industry can do to the world's ecology( 生态 ). However,few people are aware of the impact widely spoken languages have on other languages and ways of life. English has spread all over the world. Chinese, Spanish, Russian, and Hindi have become powerful languages, as well.47 .When this happens, hundreds of languages that are spoken by only a few die out.

　　Scholars believe there are about 6,000 languages around the world, but more than half of them could die out within the next 100 years. There are many examples, Araki is a native language of the island of Vanuatu, located in the Pacific Ocean. It is spoken by only a few older adults, so like Catawba, Araki will soon disappear. Many languages of Ethiopia will have the same fate because each one has only a few speakers. 48 In the Americas, 100languages, each of which has fewer than 300 speakers, also are dying out.

　　Red Thunder Cloud was one of the first to recognize the threat of language death and to try to do something about it. He was not actually born into the Catawba tribe, and the language was not his mother tongue. 49 . The songs he sang for the Smithsonian Institution helped to make Native American music popular. Now he is gone, and the language is dead.

　　What does it mean when a language disappears? When a plant or insect or animal species dies, it is easy to understand what we've been lost and to appreciate what this means for the balance of the natural word.However, language is only a product of the mind. To be the last remaining speaker of a language, like Red Thunder Cloud, must be a lonely destiny, almost as strange and terrible as being the last surviving member of a dying species. 50

　　请在第__(46)__处填上正确答案。

　　A.Some people might want to try to learn some of these songs by heart.

　　B.Papua New Guinea is an extremely rich source of different languages, but more than 100 of them are in danger of extinction( 灭绝 ).

　　C.However, he was a frequent visitor to the Catawba reservation in South Carcinoma where he learned the language.

　　D.These language don't have many native speakers.

　　E.For the rest of us, when a language dies, we lose the possibility of a unique way of seeing and describing the world.

　　F.As these language become more powerful, their use as tools of business and culture increase.

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