Ah. Margaret, come ____, the fruit shop is quite near. Just ____ the corner.

听力原文：M: Hi. I have a reservation for tonight.

W: And your name？

M: It's Nelson. Charles Nelson.

W: Okay. Mr. Nelson. That's a room for five, and...

M: Excuse me？ Do you mean a room for five dollars？ I didn't know the special was so good.

W: No, no, no. According to our records, a room for five guests was booked under your name.

M: No. No. Hold on. There must be some mistake.

W: Okay. Let's check again. Okay, Mr. Charles

C.Nelson for tonight....

M: Ah. There's the problem. My name is Charles Nelson, not Charles C. Nelson. You must have two guests under the name.

W: Okay. Let me check again. Oh. Okay. Here we are. Charles Nelson. A room for one for the 19th....

M: Wait, wait! It was for tonight. Not tomorrow night.

W: Hum. I don't think we have any rooms for tonight. There's a convention going on in town, and uh, let's see. Yeah, no rooms.

M: Ah come on! You must have something. Anything.

W: Well. Let me check my computer here. Ah! There has been a cancellation for this evening. A honeymoon suite is now available.

M: Great. I'll take it.

W: But I'll have to charge you two hundred fifty dollars for the night.

M: Ah. I should get a discount for the inconvenience.

W: Well. The best I can give you is a ten percent discount plus a ticket for a free breakfast.

M: Hey. Isn't the breakfast free anyway？

W: Well, only on weekends.

M: Okay. That'll be fine.

(20)

A．The hotel clerk confused him with another guest.

B．Rooms were overbooked for that evening.

C．There were no more rooms available for five people.

D．The price for the room was higher than he expected.

请帮忙给出正确答案和分析，谢谢！

A、400

B、300

C、270

Passage Four(36~40) One of Britain’s bravest women told yesterday how she helped to catch suspected (可疑的) police killer David Bieber—and was thanked with flowers by the police. It was also said that she could be in line for a share of up to the ￡30,000 reward money。

Vicki Brown, 30, played a very important role in ending the nationwide manhunt. Vicki, who has worked at the Royal Hotel for four years, told of her terrible experience when she had to steal into Bieber’s bedroom and to watch him secretly. Then she waited alone for three hours while armed police prepared to storm the building。

She said: “I was very nervous. But when I opened the hotel door and saw 20 armed policemen lined up in the car park I was so glad they were there. ”

The alarm had been raised because Vicki became suspicious (怀疑) of the guest who checked in at 3 pm the day before New Year’s Eve with little luggage and wearing sunglasses and a hat pulled down over his face. She said: “He didn’t seem to want to talk too much and make any eye contact (接触). ” Vicki, the only employee on duty, called her boss Margaret, 64, and husband Stan McKale, 65, who phoned the police at 11 pm。

Officers from Northumbria Police called Vicki at the hotel in Dunston, Gateshead, at about 11:30 pm to make sure that this was the wanted man. Then they kept in touch by phoning Vicki every 15 minutes。

“It was about ten past two in the morning when the phone went again and a policeman said ’Would you go and make yourself known to the armed officers outside？’ My heart missed a beat. ”

Vicki quietly showed eight armed officers through passages and staircases to the top floor room and handed over the key。

“I realized that my bedroom window overlooks that part of the hotel, so I went to watch. I could not see into the man’s room, but I could see the passage. The police kept shouting at the man to come out with his hands showing. Then suddenly he must have come out because they shouted for him to lie down while he was handcuffed (带上手铐). ”

第36题：The underlined phrase “be in line for” (paragraph 1) means 。

A. get B. be paid C. ask for D. own

Son: Mom, may I play my computer game for an hour or two？ Mom: ______

A．Your teacher tells me that you should study harder.

B．I've said before that the game takes too long.

C．Well, ah. . . You're absolutely right to ask.

D．Sorry. Dad's using the computer now.

U.S. fourth- and eighth-graders improved their math scores in a closely watched international test, but continued to lag well behind peers from top-performing Asian countries.

The U.S. and other governments on Tuesday 11 the results of the test, Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, the world’s largest assessment of international achievement. Some 425,000 students in almost 60 countries took the exam, administered every four years, starting in 1995.

The test results come as businesses have warned that poor performance in math is eroding U.S. 12 , and as lawmakers in Washington prepare for a key battle over education policy.

U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings and some experts said the 13 suggest a victory for tougher teaching standards, increased rigor in math instruction, and the frequent standardized testing 14 by President Bush’s No Child Left Behind law. Critics of the law found little evidence to support that conclusion.

In math, U.S. fourth-graders ranked No. 11 on the international test, 15 surpassed by eight countries, led by China, Singapore and Japan, researchers said.

U.S. fourth-graders on average scored 529 in 2007, up from 518 in both 2003 and 1995. The results are reported on a zero to 1,000-point scale, with 500 16 the international average. Top-performing China scored 607. U.S. eighth-graders ranked No. 9 in math with a score of 508, behind many of the 17 Asian countries atop the fourth-grade chart.

“In math, the U.S. is making 18 progress,” says Michael O. Martin, one of the directors of the study at Boston College, which 19_ the test. But Mr. Martin said he worried about the huge gap between the U.S. and Asian countries, which aren’t 20 on their laurels.

A) management I) representingB) truly J) takesC) steady K) promotedD) resting L) sameE) released M) administersF) rapid N) words

G) roughly O) competitivenessH) results

A.the; the

B.the; a

C.a; the

D.a; a

A. Michael Ondaatje.

B. Margaret Atwood.

C. Margaret Laurence.

D. Ted Allan.

A.the taller

B.taller

C.the tallest

D.tallest