[简答题]Passage 1 During the earlier part of this century, most cities and small towns had many “guest houses”. There were large private homes with rooms that could be rented to visiting travelers. Guest houses were warm and friendly places where you often could have a home — cooked meal, a clean room and bath. Today , unfortunately, few guest houses remain. They have been replace by motels(汽车旅客旅馆), which offer the traveler modern conveniences such as television in the rooms and frequently the use of a swimming pool. Some guest houses can still be found, however, particular in small towns. When you can find them, these places offer travelers a good expensive place to stay at.
A. A．there were many guest houses in most cities but not any in most small towns
B．there were not only many guest houses but also many motels in most cities and small towns
C．there were many guest houses not only in most cities but also in most small towns
D．there were many motels in most cities and most small towns

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Passage Four
During the summer session there will be a revised schedule of services for the university community. Specific changes for intercampus bus services, the cafeteria, and summer hours for the infirmary (医务室) and recreational and athletic facilities will be posted on the bulletin board outside of the cafeteria. Weekly movie and concert schedules which are in the process of being arranged will be posted each Wednesday outside of the cafeteria.
Intercampus buses will leave the main hall every hour on the half hour and make all of the regular stops on their route around the campus. The cafeteria will serve breakfast, lunch, and early dinner from 7 a. m. to 7 p. m. during the week and from noon to 7 p. m. on weekends. The library will maintain regular hours during the week, but shorter hours on Saturdays and Sundays. The weekend hours are from noon to 7 p. m..
All students who want to use the library borrowing services and the recreational, athletic, a
A. To tell campus personnel of the new library services.
B. To announce the new movies on campus this summer.
C. To notify university people of important schedule changes.
D. To remind students to validate (使生效) their identification cards.

[简答题]Passage 3 　　During the early American colonial years, corn was more plentiful than wheat, so corn bread was more common than wheat bread. Friendly Indians showed colonists how to grow corn and how to prepare it for food and pioneer women then improved the Indian cooking techniques. When people traveled, they went to foot or horseback, sleeping and eating in the forests. They carried corn bread for sustenance; the corn bread came to be called journey cake. Later when roads and taverns were built and stagecoaches carried passengers, journey cake became johnnycake, a name many easterners still use for corn bread. The kinds of bread made with cornmeal were-and still are-almost without limit. Every region has its specialities. 　　From the start, southerners showed a preference for white cornmeal, northerners for yellow. And pioneers on the frontier, when then ran out of yeast, made salt-rising bread. They stirred together water, a little water-ground cornmeal, potatoes, and salt. they set
A. A．The colonists preferred corn bread.
B．Corn bread did not spoil as rapidly as wheat bread did.
C． Corn was more abundant.
D． The colonists did not know how to make wheat bread.

[单项选择]Passage Two During this period a number of important structural measures have been taken with partic-ular significance for the banking sector. The first was the unification of the Renminbi (RMB) exchange rates and foreign exchange markets in January 1994. Second, the passage of central banking and commercial banking laws in 1995 has provided legal basis for the banking system in China. Third, the acceptance of the obligations of Article VIII of the Articles of Agreement of the International Monetary Fund in December 1996, namely commitment to RMB current-ac-count convertibility, has officially removed the remaining restrictions on international payments for trade and service transactions.foreign exchange can be bought or sold without any restrictions in foreign exchange markets.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Doesn’t say

[简答题]Passage Two
Earthquakes
The tremors dislodged part of a hillside, which gave way, brushing trains, stations and bodies the water below.

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