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Queuse are long. Life is short. So why waste time waiting when you can pay someone to do it for you In Washington D.C. -- a city that struggles with more than its share of bureaucratic practices -- a small industry is emerging that will queue for you to get everything from a driver’s license to a seat in a congressional hearing.
Michael Dorsey, one of the pioneering" service expediters", began going to traffic courts for other people back in 1988. Today his fees start at $ 20 and can go into the thousands to plead individual cases at the Bureau of Traffic Adjudication( his former employer). Mr. Dorsey knows what properly written parking ticket looks like, and often gets fines invalidated on its failures in formality. His clients include congressmen and diplomats, as well as firms for which tickets are an occupational hazard, such as taxi operators and television broadcasters.
Service expediters are not universally loved. Non-tax income, like fines
A. The fines for offenders range from $ 20 to $1000 or more.
B. Television broadcasters are liable to receive parking tickets.
C. Fines are sometimes cancelled when tickets are well written.
D. Michael Dorsey’s working experience helped with his new business.

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Queuse are long. Life is short. So why waste time waiting when you can pay someone to do it for you In Washington D.C. -- a city that struggles with more than its share of bureaucratic practices -- a small industry is emerging that will queue for you to get everything from a driver’s license to a seat in a congressional hearing.
Michael Dorsey, one of the pioneering" service expediters", began going to traffic courts for other people back in 1988. Today his fees start at $ 20 and can go into the thousands to plead individual cases at the Bureau of Traffic Adjudication( his former employer). Mr. Dorsey knows what properly written parking ticket looks like, and often gets fines invalidated on its failures in formality. His clients include congressmen and diplomats, as well as firms for which tickets are an occupational hazard, such as taxi operators and television broadcasters.
Service expediters are not universally loved. Non-tax income, like fines
A. Helping to establish small industries.
B. Making false tickets and driver’s licenses.
C. Assisting in organising congressional hearings.
D. Offering to go through official procedures for clients.

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[单项选择]第三篇Why So Many Children In many of the developing countries in Africa and Asia, the population is growing fast. The reason for this is simple: Women in these countries have a high birth rate — from 3.0 to 7.0 children per woman. The majority of these women are poor, without the food or resources to care for their families. Why do they have many so children Why don’t they limit the size of their families The answer may be that they often have no choice. There are several reasons for this. One reason is economic. In a traditional agricultural economy, large families are helpful. Having more children means having more workers in the fields and someone to take care of the parents in old age. In an industrial economy, the situation is different. Many children do not help a family; instead, they are an expense. Thus, industrialization has generally brought down the birth rate. This was the case in Italy, which was industrialized quite recently and rapidly. In the early part of the twenti
A. may limit income.
B. isn’t necessary.
C. can be an advantage.
D. is expensive.

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[填空题]The author believes that other life forms are so far away from our planet that we could never meet them.

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[单项选择]（）in my life impressed me so deeply as my first visit to the Palace Museum.
A. Anything
B. Nothing
C. Everything
D. Something

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[单项选择]Why are you so late I ______ for you all the time.
A. have been waiting
B. am waiting
C. have waited
D. will wait

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[单项选择]I was spending my holidays at the time, so I have no idea how it（　）
A. was happening
B. happened
C. happens
D. has happened

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[单项选择]I （）at the company for a long time, so I know many people there
A. will be
B. am
C. been
D. have been

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[单项选择]Why do so many Americans distrust what they read in their newspapers The American Society of Newspaper Editors is trying to answer this painful question. The organization is deep into a long self-analysis known as the journalism credibility project. Sad to say, this project has turned out to be mostly low-level findings about factual errors and spelling and grammar mistakes, combined with lots of head-scratching puzzlement about what in the world those readers really want. But the sources of distrust go way deeper. Most journalists learn to see the world through a set of standard templates (patterns) into which they plug each day’’ s events. In other words, there is a conventional story line in the newsroom culture that provides a backbone and a ready-made narrative structure for otherwise confusing news. There exists a social and cultural disconnect between journalists and their readers, which helps explain why the "standard templates" of the newsroom seem alien to m
A. Needs of the readers all over the word.
B. Causes of the public disappointment about newspapers.
C. Origins of the declining newspaper industry.
D. Aims of a journalism credibility project.

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