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What's the weather like in your hometown? （）
A . It‘s a nice place.
B . I like the food there.
C . He asks me whether I like the weather.
D . It‘s cold in winter and hot ins ummer.
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RYTLX DD 5TH/4 HAVING CONTACTED HARBOUR OFFICE AND LOCAL SALVAGE COMPANY WE WUD LIKE TO ADVISE TT，THEY ARE GLAD TO ASSIST YOU TO POSITION THE ANCHOR AND GET IT OUT OF WATER. This fax says that（）.
A . they are glad to salvage the anchor
B . the HARBOUR OFFICE has been advised that the anchor has been gotten out of water
C . the LOCAL SALVAGE COMPANY can hardly salvage the anchor
D . both HARBOUR OFFICE and LOCAL SALVAGE COMPANY will be contacted to salvage the anchor
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4.They had little difficulty in hooking the fish, but pulling it out of the water proved to be a big problem.( )
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It felt like worms and toads and slimy things crawling out of my chest, but it also felt good, as if this awful side of me had surfaced, at last. Here the author uses a ________ to describe her feeling vividly.
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It is a good idea to write out your first speech like an essay and read it word for word to your listeners.
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It sounds like a good plan，but there are some ( ) difficulties in carrying it out.
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What's the main reason the man doesn't like watching plays？
A．Because they are expensive.
B．Because they're not well written.
C．Because the theatre is too far away.
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What's the weather like in New York these days？
A．Windy.
B．Very hot.
C．A bit cold.
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听力原文：M: I can't figure out what's wrong with my calculator. When I hit the clear button sometimes the display freezes.
W: You should leave it to the electronics repair store. They have all the tools necessary to fix that kind of problem.
Q: What can we learn from the conversation？
(13)
A．To buy some tools needed to repair the calculator.
B．To ask the repair store to repair the calculator.
C．To hit the display until it mobilized.
D．To figure out what is wrong with the calculator.
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What's the weather usually like at this time of year？
A．warm
B．cold and dry
C．cold and wet
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It's 1997, and it's raining. And you'll have to walk to work again. Any given subway train breaks down one morning out of five. The buses are gone, and on a day like today, bicycles slosh and slide.
Lucky you have a job in demolition. It's slow and dirty work, but steady. The fading structures of a decaying city are the great mineral mines and hardware shops of the nation. Break them down and reuse the parts. Coal is too difficult to dig up and transport to give us energy in the amounts we need, nuclear fission is judged to be too dangerous, the hoped-for breakthrough toward nuclear fusion never took place, and solar batteries are too expensive to maintain in sufficient quantity.
Anyone older than ten can remember automobiles. At first, the price of gasoline climbed—way up. Finally, only the well-to-do drove, and that was too clear an indication that they were filthy rich; so any automobile on a city street was overturned and burned. The cars vanished, becoming part of the metal resource.
There are advantages in 1997, if you want to look for them. The air is cleaner, and there seem to be fewer cold. The crime rate has dropped. With the police car too expensive, policemen are back on their beats. More important, the streets are full. Legs are king, and people walk everywhere far into the night. There is mutual protection in crowds.
If the weather isn't too cold, people sit out front. If it is hot, the open air is the only air conditioning they get. At least the street lights still burn. Indoors, few people can afford to keep light burning after supper.
As for the winter—well, it is inconvenient to be cold, with most of what furnace fuel is allowed hoarded for the dawn. But sweaters are popular indoor wear. Showers are not an everyday luxury. Lukewarm sponge baths must do, and if the air is not always very fragrant in the human vicinity, the automobile fumes are gone.
It is worse in the suburbs, which were born with the auto, lived with the auto, and are dying with the auto. Suburbanites form. associations that assign turns to the procurement and distribution of food. Pushcarts creak from house to house along the posh suburban roads, and every bad snowstorm is a disaster. It isn't easy to hoard enough food to last till the roads are open. There is not much refrigeration except for the snow-banks, and then the dogs must be fought off.
What energy is left must be conserved for agriculture. The great car factories make trucks and farm machinery almost exclusively. The American population isn't going up much anymore, but the food supply must be kept high even though the prices and difficulty of distribution force each American to eat less. Food is needed for export to pay for some trickles of oil and for other resources.
The rest of the world is not as lucky as we are. They're starving out there because earth's population has continued to rise. The population on earth is 5.5 billion—up by 1.5 billion since 1977—and, outside the United States and Europe, not more than one in five has enough to eat at any given time. There is a high infant mortality rate.
It's more than just starvation, though. There are those who manage to survive on barely enough to keep the body working, and that proves to be not enough for the brain. It is estimated that nearly two billion people in the world are permanently brain-damaged by undernutrition, and the number is growing.
At least the big armies are gone. Only the United States and the Soviet Union can maintain a few tanks, planes, and ships—which they dare not move for fear of biting into limited fuel reserves.
Machines must be replaced by human muscle and beasts of burden. People are working longer hours, and—with lighting restricted, television only three hours a night, new books few and printed in small editions—what is there to do with leisure？ Work, sleep, and eating are the great trinity
A．a scientific study of life in 1997
B．an imaginary account of life in 1997
C．a history of life in 1997
D．a difficult time of life in 1997
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Questions 22～25 are based on a conversation at the airport.<br/>What's the airport like?<br/>[A] A hotel. <br/>[B] A market.<br/>[C] A madhouse. <br/>[D] A hospital.
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What's the weather like in Scotland？
A．Rainy in the east and cloudy in the south.
B．Rain in the south and cloudy in the east.
C．Rainy in the north and cloudy in the west.
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－ How do you like the film？ 一It's very good. 1 like it. A. Right B. Wrong
- How do you like the film？
一It's very good. 1 like it.
A. Right
B. Wrong
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______ I like the color of the hat, I don't like its shape.
A．If
B．Unless
C．While
D．Even
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It sounds like good pln, but therere some _____ difficulties in crrying it out.prcticedB．prIt sounds like good pln, but therere some _____ difficulties in crrying it out.prcticed B．prcticl C．prctice D．prcticing
A．practiced
B．practical
C．practice
D．practicing
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求学霸！
1.The math problem is too difficult.Could you help me （work ）it out?
2.Would you like （go）to yhe concert with us tonight ?
3.I"m sorry. I"m （go）to the movies.
4.Sunday is the （one ） day of the week.
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What's the weather like today？
A．Dry and windy.
B．Fine and dry.
C．Cloudy and dry.
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听力原文：M: What's all that noise？ It sounds as if it's coming from next door. The Nelsons aren't back yet, are they？
W: I don't think so. It must be the window-cleaner working upstairs.
Q: Where does the woman think the noise is coming from？
(2)
A．From upstairs.
B．From next door.
C．From the Nelsons' house.
D．From the back door.
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What's the direct reason for the author think it unnecessary to wear uniforms in an organization？
A．Wearing uniforms may eliminate people's creativity during their work.
B．Sense of identity can be achieved by the individual himself.
C．Organizations may have more intrinsic worth than wearing a uniform. would suggest.
D．Freedom of choice is a right that cannot be removed by anybody.
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How many years will it be before the world runs out of oil？ The question is far from an academic exercise. This year oil hit a near record high of $40 a barrel, and Royal Dutch/Shell Group downgraded its reserves by 4.5 billion barrels.
While consumers pay for perceived shortages at the pump, scientists and economists struggle to reach consensus over "proven oil reserves," or how much oil you can realistically mine before recovery costs outstrip profits. Economist Leonardo Maugeri fired up the debate that accused the "oil doomsters" of crying wolf.
Oil pessimists estimate that maximum oil production around the globe will peak in 2008 as demand rises from developing economies such as China. "If you squeezed all the oil in Iraq into a single bottle, you could fill four glasses, with the world consuming one glass of oil each year," says a physicist. "We've consumed nine bottles since oil was discovered, and we have another 9 or 10 in the refrigerator. How many more are there？ Some say five or six, but we say three."
Others believe, like Maugeri, that the number of glasses is virtually limitless. John Felmy, chief economist at the American Petroleum Institute, argues that peak oil-production estimates are so far off that. "Ever since oil was first harvested in the 1800s, people have said we'd run out of the stuff," Felmy says. In the 1880s a Standard Oil executive sold off shares in the company out of fear that its reserves were close to drying up. Some scientists said in the 1970s that we'd hit peak oil in 2003. It didn't happen.
If there is an end to the debate, advanced oil-recovery technologies will most likely find it. A new seismic survey technique, for instance, sends sound waves of varying frequencies thousands of meters belowground. Microphones arrayed aboveground record the reflected signals, and computer software models a 3-D portrait of possible oil hot spots. The surveys have now added a fourth dimension, creating a time-lapse simulation of fluid movements.
Companies are also finding sophisticated ways to mine more oil from existing wells. Flexible, coiled-tube drills that carve out horizontal side paths are a marked improvement over conventional, rigid drills that move only straight down. Using such technology, companies hope to soon harvest 50 to 60 percent of oil from existing wells, up from today's 35 percent.
Biotechnology, too is keeping the black gold flowing. University of Albert scientists are searching for microorganisms that could dilute viscous, hard-to-recover oil and make it flow more freely.
"Technology can help push peak oil production further and further out," says an expert. But only time will tell when oil production will peak.
According to the passage, which of the following statements is true？
A．How long the oil age will last is simply an academic question.
B．The oil price this year set a new record.
C．Shell Group reduced its reserves to 4.5 billion barrels this year.
D．Economists disagree with one another on how much oil you can realistically mine.
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听力原文：W: Excuse me, sir. I'm going to send this parcel m London. What's the postage for it？
M: Let me see. It's one pound and fifty.
Who is the woman most probably speaking to？
A．A railway porter.
B．A bus conductor.
C．A taxi driver.
D．A postal clerk.
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One night when Mr. Robinson was asleep，he was woken up by some strange noise outside his house.“Thieves，”he thought. Jumping out of bed，he took his gun and hurried to the bedroom window. The room was not shining and the night was rather dark. But he could see a white shape. It looked like a man in the garden. He pointed his gun at it，fired and went back to bed. Early in the morning，he went down to the garden. His shirt was hanging from a tree. He had washed it the day before and hung it on the tree do dry. It had a hole right through the middle. Mr. Robinson was really frightened out of his life when he saw it and began to tremble(颤抖)。 His neighbour arrived at that moment.“How are you today，Mr，Robinson？”he asked in an anxious voice. “You don’t look well.”
“I’m all right，thank you，”said Mr. Robinson. “But I’m lucky to be alive. You see that shirt there？”
“Yes？”said the neighbour.
“If I’d been wearing that shirt last night，”said Mr. Robinson，“I’d be a dead man now.”
1、When Mr. Robinson jumped out of his bed and went to the window，he saw ________ in the garden.
A、a thief
B、something like a man
C、a white shirt on a tree
D、nothing
2、Who had hung the shirt on the tree the day before________
A、A thief.
B、Mr. Robinson himself.
C、Mr. Robinson’s neighbour
D、Mr. Robinson’s wife.
3、After firing the gun，Mr. Robinson________
A、went back to bed
B、went to the garden to see what it was
C、felt no longer afraid
D、looked for the shirt he had washed the day before
4、The next morning Mr. Robinson’s neighbour came and saw him looking________
A、surprised
B、unhappy
C、sick
D、angry.
5、The title“A Narrow Escape”suggests that one has________
A、succeeded in escaping to escape
B、failed.
C、run away
D、only just avoided death
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--What's the noise？ It sounds as if comes from upstairs.--（）It must be the window-cleaner
A．A.I’d rather not
B．B.I'm not sure
C．C.I don't think so
