[单项选择]The success of Los Angeles book festival shows that____．
A. book reading is still popular in Los Angeles
B. Los Angeles people prefer library to book festival
C. people attend the book festivals for fun not for reading
D. libraries should have food courts to attract more readers

[单项选择]The U. S. Department of Labor statistics shows that______.
A. many college graduates find it increasingly hard to get suitable jobs
B. there is an oversupply of workers and this oversupply is recently increasing
C. teachers, engineers, physicists and other specialists are extremely needed
D. colleges and graduate schools have become aware of the hard situation in the labor market

[单项选择]What makes a mayor successful in Los Angeles is the {{U}}strength{{/U}} of his public support.
A. concentration
B. intensity
C. conservation
D. stress

[单项选择]The author draws on Los Angeles to prove that the ALA ______.
A. is right to assign an "F" to that area
B. often bases its report on the past events
C. has a good reason to stress smog risks
D. has overstated smog problems

[单项选择]What makes a major success in Los Angeles is the {{U}}strength{{/U}} of his public support.
A. concentration
B. intensity
C. conservation
D. stress

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Text 2 After Los Angeles, Atlanta may be America’s most car-dependent city. Atlantans sentimentally give their cars names, compare speeding tickets and jealously guard any sidestreet where it is possible to park. The city’s roads are so well worn that the first act of the new mayor, Shirley Franklin, was to start repairing potholes. In 1998, 13 metro counties lost federal highway funds because their air-pollution levels violated the Clean Air Act. The American Highway Users Alliance ranked three Atlanta interchanges among the 18 worst bottlenecks in the country. Other cities in the same fix have reorganized their highways, imposed commuter and car taxes, or expanded their public-transport systems. Atlanta does not like any of these things. Public transport is a vexed subject, too. Atlanta’s metropolitan region is divided into numerous county and smaller city governments, which find it hard to work together. Railways now serve the city center and the airpo
A. The construction of a commuter rail link.
B. His success in re-election in November.
C. The initiation of shuttle bus transit.
D. The allocation of money to widen roads.

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Text 3 After Los Angeles, Atlanta may be America’s most car-dependent city. Atlantans sentimentally give their cars names, compare speeding tickets and jealously guard any sidestreet where it is possible to park. The city’s roads are so well worn that the first act of the new mayor, Shirley Franklin, was to start repairing potholes. In 1998, 13 metro counties lost federal highway funds because their air-pollution levels violated the Clean Air Act. The American Highway Users Alliance ranked three Atlanta interchanges among the 18 worst bottlenecks in the country. Other cities in the same fix have reorganized their highways, imposed commuter and car taxes, or expanded their public transport systems. Atlanta does not like any of these things. Public transport is a vexed subject, too. Atlanta’s metropolitan region is divided into numerous county and smaller city governments, which find it hard to work together. Railways now serve the city center and the airpo
A. The federal highway funds were lost under the Clean Air Act.
B. The county governments should be cooperative on traffic matters.
C. Atlantans must abandon buses and trains and build more highways.
D. Atlanta leaves a bad impression on visitors in terms of its traffic.

[单项选择]Why do Mexican (emigrants) in Los Angeles (tend) to have more children than the (impoverished) peasants living (in Mexico City)
A. emigrants
B. tend
C. impoverished
D. in Mexico City

[单项选择]The 1992 Los Angeles riots broke out because ______.
A. the jury acquitted the policemen who had beaten Rod ney King
B. people can make their own judgments
C. video coverage from helicopters had made people an gry
D. video coverage had provided powerful feedback