Mary set off on Sunday on a 4,500-mile journey to visit her husband,Daniel.Against their will,she and Daniel are forced to live in different continents.The reason:Mary is one of hundreds of British wives who are victims of a law which prevents their foreign husbands joining them in their country.This law makes it almost impossible for a British woman to marry a foreigner - unless she is prepared to live in her husband' s native country.But the law,which was intended to reduce the number of immigrants coming into the UK,does not apply to the British male who marries a foreign woman.He can bring her to live with him in this country."I cannot understand why there is this discrimination (歧视) against women“,she says."After all,I pay the same taxes as a man.In the eyes of the law,women are second-class citizens" Before she leaves finally to make her home in the USA,she is determined to campaign for the reform of the law."I feel very strongly that if it is the last thing I do before I have to live in America,it should for this cause."1.What country did Mary leave for on Sunday?A.The United States.B.The United Kingdom.C.The passage doesn't tell us.2.Why do Mary and her husband live in different places? Because（）.A.they are reluctant to live togetherB.the British law does not permit Daniel to join his wife in her countryC.Daniel' s country does not allow him to join his wife in her country3.What is the purpose of the law?A.It is intended to reduce the number of travelers.B.It is intended to reduce the number of foreigners.C.It is intended to reduce the number of immigrants.4.According to the passage,（）for English women to marry foreigners.A.it is legalB.it is illgalC.it is impossible5.According to the passage,most probably？A.Mary will settle sown in the USA in the futureB.Mary and Daniel will live separately in the futureC.Mary and Daniel will get divorced in the future

A.to

B.in

C.off

D.out

ln Tourist Information Office. I抦 afraid the office is closed at the moment. Our normal working hours from Monday to Saturday are from 9 o抍lock in the morning to 6 o抍lock in the evening. On Sunday we open at the later time of 10.30 and close at the earlier time of 3.30. From our office you can get information about hotels, restaurants and cinemas in the city. Why not take a bus tour？ There are bus tours of the city every day which start at 11 o抍lock. They start from Castle Square. Tours take about 2 hours and go around the historic city centre and along a part of the river. The cost of a ticket is 3 pounds. Tickets can be bought from the bus driver. You can get off the bus at five places of interest and continue your journey later.

(1). The office hour is from 10.30 to 3 on Sunday.

A、 Right

B、Wrong

(2). You can find information about where to eat from the office.

A、 Right

B、Wrong

(3). The bus tour starts at 2 o’clock every day.

A、 Right

B、Wrong

(4). You are not allowed to get off the bus before the tour ends.

A、 Right

B、Wrong

(5). This is a telephone message.

A、 Right

B、Wrong

A、a good trip

B、a pleasant journey home

C、good lucky

D、a happy journey travel

Passage Two

In 2000, with little but a bar and a church left to make it a destination, tiny St. James, Nebraska, was taken off state highway maps. Then the church closed, and the small farm village in the state’s northeast corner looked set to just disappear. Thanks to five devoted women, it didn’t.

In May 2001, after meeting with staff from the Center for Rural Affairs, the friends—Louis Guy, Vicky Koch, Jeanette Pinkelman, Mary Rose Pinkelman and Violet Pinkelman—opened a weekend market for vendors(小商贩) to sell handcrafts and local food.

“We felt like, what can we do to bring the community together？” says Mary Rose Pinkelman, “We decided to make a place to sell local goods.” They set up shop in the church school, which, though closed for nearly 40 years, had been well maintained. The first weekend, 16 vendors look over an old classroom. The result was an instant hit. Today, the market draws up to 70 vendors----who sell such items as homemade jellies, baked goods, hand-woven rugs, and farm-grown produce----and what Pinkelman calls an unexpected number of visitors. In the process, the market has made St. James a destination again, putting it back on the state road map.

40. According to Para. 1, what fate was St. James Nebraska suffering？

A The replacement of the church school

B The disappearance from highway maps

C The closedown of the bar

D The set-up of a market

A.either

B.any

C.neither

D.none

A.Otherwise

B.Furthermore

C.Nevertheless

D.Therefore

Mary didn’t want to tell her boyfriend about the party last Sunday because she met her ____________ there. (boyfriend)

They have ______________ on a journey round the world.

A.set off

B.set back

C.set up

D.set aside

A、broke out

B、broke down

C、started off

D、started out

The journey two divers(潜水员)made some time ago to the very deepest point on the earth make us realize how much of the world still remains to be studied. The two men went down seven miles to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean inside a small ball to find out if there are any ocean currents(水流)or signs of life.

It was necessary to set out early, so that the ball would come to the surface in daylight, and so be easily found by the mother ship which would be waiting for it. The divers began preparations(准备)early in the morning and soon afterwards, when all was ready, the steel ball disappeared under the surface of the water.

The divers felt as if they were going down steps as they passed through warm and cold layers(层)of water. In time, the temperature dropped to freezing point. They kept in touch with the mother ship by telephone telling how they felt. Then, at a depth(深度)of 3,000 feet, the telephone stopped working and they were quite cut off from the outside world. All went well until some four hours later at 30,000 feet, the men were frightened by a loud, cracking(爆裂)noise: even the smallest hole in the ball would have meant instant death. Luckily, though, it was only one of the outer(外部的)windows that had broken. Soon afterwards, the ball touched the soft ocean floor raising a big cloud of "dust" made up of small dead sea-creatures. Here, powerful lights lit up the dark water and the men were surprised to see fish swimming just above them quite untroubled by the great water pressure(压力). But they did not dare to leave the lights on for long , as the heat from them made the water boil. Quite unexpectedly, the telephone began working again and the faint(微弱的)but clear voices of the divers were heard on the mother ship seven miles away. After a stay of thirty minutes the men began their journey up, arriving three hours later, cold and wet through, but none the worse for their experience.

1. The purpose of the diver's journey to the deepest point on the earth was to find _____.

A. if there are water currents and life in the great depths

B. if people can stand the severe cold in the great depths

C. if there are steps in the great depths

D. if the telephone works well in the great depths

2. The divers set out early in the morning so that _____.

A. they could return to the surface during the day

B. they could see at the bottom of the ocean

C. they could avoid the cold at night

D. they could stay long at the bottom

3. Which of the following statements is true？

A. The ocean water temperature decreases steadily with the depth

B. There are steps on the way to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean

C. There are steps between the water layers of different temperature

D. The water layers of different temperatures made the divers feel as if they were going down steps

4. As the divers went down to the ocean floor, the telephone _____.

A. kept working all the time

B. stopped working at a depth of 3,000 feet and began working again after they reached the bottom

C. stopped working at a depth of 3,000 feet and began working at 30,000 feet

D. stopped working at a depth of 3,000 feet and began working again when they returned to the same depth

5. On the ocean floor, the divers found that _____.

A. there was no life but some small dead sea-creatures

B. fish were swimming as freely as they do near the surface

C. fish were not swimming freely in the dark water

D. fish were not swimming freely under the high water pressure

A. was falling

B. falls

C. fell

D. has fallen