Now people in most rural areas can watch TV programs broadcast（).

A．Shorter work hours was least chosen for being most important．

B．Chances for advancement might have been favoured by young people

C．High income failed to come on top for being most important．

D．Job security came second according to the poll results．

People Use Technology More, Sleep Less

People in Britain now spend more time watching TV, gaming, and using their mobile phones and computers than sleeping. A study __31__ that British people use technology for 20 minutes longer than they spend sleeping. The average UK adult uses technology for eight hours and 41 minutes a day. They __32__ for an average of eight hours and 21 minutes. One of the biggest __33__ for this is wi-fi. People can get online almost __34__ . Many people make telephone calls or surf the web while watching TV. TV is still the most

__35__ activity.

The study looked at technology and __36__ age groups. It found that six-year-olds understand how to use technology at the same __37__ as 45-year-olds. Another__38__ was that people understand digital technology most when they are 14 or 15. A doctor said technology is __39__ the way people communicate with each other. He said we are moving __40__ from face-to-face conversations because of technology.

A.changing

B.reasons

C.popular

D.found

E.anywhere

F.down

G.finding

H.level

I.different

J.away

K.outdoor

L.sleep

ll the teachers are women, mostly married. (80) The atmosphere is usually very friendly, and the teachers have now accepted the idea that the important thing is to make the children happy and interested. The old authoritarian (要绝对服从的) methods of education were discredited (不被认可) rather a long time ago-so much so that many people now think that they have gone too far in the direction of trying to make children happy and interested rather than giving them actual instruction.

The social education of young children tries to make them accept the idea that human beings in a Society need to work together for their common good. So the emphasis is on cooperation rather than competition throughout most of this process. This may seem curious, in view of the fact that American society is highly competitive; however, the need for making people sociable in this sense has come to be regarded as one of the functions of education. Most Americans do grow up with competitive ideas, and obviously quite a few as criminals, but it is not fair to say that the educational system fails. It probably does succeed in making most people sociable and ready to help one another both in material ways and through kindness and friendliness.

According to the passage, the U.S. elementary education is supposed to make children ______.

A．sensible and sensitive

B．competitive and interested

C．curious and friendly

D．happy and cooperative

king dogs It is still true that a dog isthe most useful and faithful anumal in the world .But the reason why people keep a dog have changed.

In the old day, people used to train dogs to protet themselve against atakas by other beasts And later. they came to realize that the doeg was not only useful for protection but willing to obey his master .For example, when people used dogs for hunting, the dogs would not eat what was caught without permisson Bot now people in tbe city need not protect themselves against atacks of an animal.

Why do they keep dogs. then？ Some people keep dogs to protet themselves from robbery, but the most important reason for companionship For a child, a dog his best frend when he has no friends to play with. For young couples, a dog is their child when they have no children For old couples. a dog is also thei child when their real children have grown up So the many reason why people keep dogs has changed from protection to friendship，

1.It is true that a dog is the most important animal in the world.

A T

B F

having their own ___21___. Many students work after school to buy a car. In most places young people learn to drive in high school. They have to take a ___22___ test to get a licence. Learning to drive and getting a driver's ___23___ may be one of the most exciting things in their lives. For many, that piece of paper is an important symbol that they are now grown-ups.

Americans seem People almost never go to see a doctor when they are ___24___. But they will take their cars to a “hospital”at the smallest sign of a problem. At weekends, people spend most of the time in washing and waxing their cars. For some families it is not enough to have ___25___ car. They often have two or even three. Husbands need a car to go to work. Housewives need a car to go shopping or to take the children to school or other activities.

21.

A.driving

B.sick

C.cars

D.one

E.licence

22.

A.driving

B.sick

C.cars

D.one

E.licence

23.

A.driving

B.sick

C.cars

D.one

E.licence

24.

A.driving

B.sick

C.cars

D.one

E.licence

25.

A.driving

B.sick

C.cars

D.one

E.licence

ontinuous media, usually with some user(115). In practice, the two media are normally audio and video, this is,(116)plus moving(117).It should be' obvious by now that transmitting multimedia material in uncompressed form. is completely out of(118). The only hope is that massive compression is possible. Fortunately, a large body of research over the past few decades has led to many compression techniques and algorithms that make multimedia transmission(119).

A．display

B．games

C．help

D．interaction

E．pictures

The great whales are among the most fascinating creatures which __1__have ever lived on the earth, and one of them, the blue whale, is the largest. People in ancient times thought whales as fearsome __2__monsters of the ocean depths. So to hunt a whale, when one occasionally swam toward shore, he was high adventure. People __3__found the adventure was rewarding, too, for the oil and meat from one whale alone could heat and feed a village for a whole winter.

Whales resemble huge fish. They were referred by the ancients as __4__

“great fish,” and any whale beaching along the coasts of England was designated “the King’s fish” because it automatically belonged to the Crown.

Ever since those early times, human have felt whales a sense of __5__wonder mixed with an intense desire to capture, slaughter, and exploit. Now the slaughter has reached alarming proportions. __6__

Even though some species are protected by the regulations of the International Whaling Commission and theoretically all whale hunting is regulated, but the earth’s stock of whales is still being __7__depleted. In fact, some scientists worry that 100 years since now __8__there may be no whales left. If this happens, mankind will be blame for removing from the earth forever a remarkable and __9__awe-inspiring creature that always fed man’s imagination and __10__

made the world a more exciting place.

py places of our own，far from the confines of our families. We saw this moving away as a chance to strike out on our own，to grow，to spread out wings and experience freedom. At the same time，we regarded this independence as temporary-the thing to do until we found the perfect mate and married. Over the years，many millions of people have made this passage from one family to another，with just a brief，often nervous interval of independence in between. But recently，more and more people have begun to challenge the concept that living together is better than living alone. Being single is now accepted as an alternative lifestyle-one that is natural，rewarding，and complete. In fact，being single has become almost fashionable.

ng the last ten years. The good health care that these people enjoyed in the United States during their vulnerable childhood years is primarily responsible for this trend. Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the explanation above？

A．Seventy-five percent of the people in the United States who are 85 or older are the children of people who themselves lived less than 65 years.

B．The people in the United States who are now 85 represent an age group that was smaller in numbers at birth than the immediately preceding and succeeding age groups.

C．Thirty-five percent of the people in the United States who are 85 or older require some form. of twenty-four-hour nursing care.

D．Many of the people in the United States who are 85 or older immigrated to the United States when they were 20 years old or older.

E．Because of decreased federal funding for medical care for pregnant mothers and for children, the life expectancy of United States citizens is likely to decrease.

last week, it appeared that 100 million Americans would have access to flu shots this fall. Then British authorities, concerned about quality-control problems at a production plant in Liverpool, barred all further shipments by the Chiron Corp. Overnight, the U.S. vaccine supply dwindled by nearly half and federal health officials found themselves making an unusual plea. Instead of beseeching us all to get vaccinated, they' re now urging most healthy people between the ages of 2 and 64 not to. "This reemphasizes the fragility of our vaccine supply," says Dr. Martin Myers of the National Network for Immunization Information, "and the lack of redundancy in our system."

Why is such a basic health service so easily knocked out？ Mainly because private companies have had little incentive to pursue it. To create a single dose of flu vaccine, a manufacturer has to grow live virus in a 2-week-old fertilized chicken egg, then crack the egg, harvest the virus and extract the proteins used to provoke an immune response. Profit margins are narrow, demand is fickle and, because each year's flu virus is different, any leftover vaccine goes to waste. As a result, the United States now has only two major suppliers (Chiron and Aventis Pasteur)--and when one of them runs into trouble, there isn' t much the other can do about it. "A vaccine maker can't just call up and order 40 million more fertilized eggs," says Manon Cox, of Connecticut-based Protein Sciences Corp. "There's a whole industry that's scheduled to produce a certain number of eggs at a certain time. "

Sleeker technologies are now in the works, and experts are hoping that this year's fiasco will speed the pace of innovation. The main challenge is to shift production from eggs into cell cultures--a medium already used to make most other vaccines. Flu vaccines are harder than most to produce this way, but several biotech companies are now pursuing this strategy, and one culture-based product (Solvay Pharmaceuticals' Invivac) has been cleared for marketing in Europe.

For Americans, the immediate challenge is to make the most of a limited supply. The government estimates that 95 million people still qualify for shots under the voluntary restrictions announced last week. That' s nearly twice the number of doses that clinics will have on hand, but only 60 million Americans seek out shots in a normal year. In fact, many experts are hoping the shortage will serve as an awareness campaign--encouraging the people who really need a flu shot to get one.

Shortages of flue vaccine show that ______.

A．America relies too much on foreign suppliers

B．the demand of flue vaccines is high this year

C．quality problem is a serious problem in flu vaccine production

D．the supply of flu vaccines is rather weak and America has no back-up measures to make it up