[单项选择]Watch out! Here comes London Mayor Boris Johnson riding a bicycle from his new bike hire plan. "What we’ve put in is a new form of public transport. These bikes are going to belong to everybody. "
More than 12000 people have signed up for the plan. They each receive a key at a cost of three pounds, with costs at one pound for a 24-hour membership, five pounds for seven days, and 45 pounds for an annual membership.
John Payne, a London teacher who cycles a lot, is among the first to use the system. "It’s very comfortable. For people who don’t cycle much I think it’ll be very useful. But for people who cycle regularly, they are possibly a bit slow. But they’re perfect for London streets, very strong. I think they’ll be very widely used. "
And Johnson says it’s of good value. "I think it’s extremely good value. The first half hour is free. If you cycle smart and you cycle around London--most journeys in London take less than half an hour, you can cycle the whole day free. "
A. be expanded to serve the 2012 Olympic Games
B. be provided free for the 2012 Olympic athletes
C. benefit from the 2012 Olympic Games
D. be free of charge for the 2012 Olympic visitors

[单项选择]Watch out! Here comes London Mayor Boris Johnson riding a bicycle from his new bike hire plan. "What we’ve put in is a new form of public transport. These bikes are going to belong to everybody. "
More than 12000 people have signed up for the plan. They each receive a key at a cost of three pounds, with costs at one pound for a 24-hour membership, five pounds for seven days, and 45 pounds for an annual membership.
John Payne, a London teacher who cycles a lot, is among the first to use the system. "It’s very comfortable. For people who don’t cycle much I think it’ll be very useful. But for people who cycle regularly, they are possibly a bit slow. But they’re perfect for London streets, very strong. I think they’ll be very widely used. "
And Johnson says it’s of good value. "I think it’s extremely good value. The first half hour is free. If you cycle smart and you cycle around London--most journeys in London take less than half an hour, you can cycle the whole day free. "
A. go to work
B. attend a competition
C. promote his bike hire plan
D. show his love for cycling

[单项选择]Boris tried to work out the puzzle many times, but at last he became（）and gave up.
A. disturbed
B. dissatisfied
C. discouraged
D. disabled

[简答题]Here the bus comes.

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greatest investment was being made in manufacturing. Then, in descending order, they came wholesale trade, petroleum, real estate, and insurance. On the basis of this information, the

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W: Surely, Mary comes in here every day at 3 o’clock.
M: I thought she would come at 3:30. She always has too much to do.

At what time does Mary always come（）
A. At half past three.
B. At four o’clock.
C. At two o’clock.
D. At three o’clock.

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convinced that there are highly profitable enterprises in Europe that are ripe for the taking over.

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conglomerate has had decided to purchase a European firm. "The best acquisitions in the United States have already been picked, " the president told the board of directors. "However, I’m

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the conglomerate in the types of industries and companies that are currently attractive to the international buyers. "If we know what outside firms are buying, " the head of the re search firm

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toys to electronics and financial services. This conglomerate wants Wadson to help them identify

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growth potential. In this way, although we will not confine our list of recommendations to U. S

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company at anywhere in the world. One of the things the research firm did was to identify the amount of foreign direct investment in the United States by overseas companies. The re search group also compiled a list of major acquisitions by non-U. S. firms. It gathered these data to show

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an acquisition target. The conglomerate is not willing to spend up to $ 2.5 billion to buy a major

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The Wadson Company is a management research firm which headquartered in New Jersey. The company was recently hired by a large conglomerate with a wide range of products, ranging from

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I’d particularly like to focus my attention on France and Germany. " The board gave to the president its full support, and the research firm will begin focusing on potential European tar gets within the next 30 years.

[单项选择]The dark smoke that comes out of stacks or from a burning dump contains tiny bits of solid or liquid matter. The smoke also contains many gases, most of which cannot be seen. Altogether, they make up the serious problems of air pollution. In so many places it keeps us from seeing the sun, irritates our eyes, causes us to cough, and makes us ill.
Air pollution can spread from city to city. It even spreads from one country to another. Some northern European countries have had "black snow" from pollutants that have traveled through the air from other countries and have fallen with the snow. So air pollution is really a global problem.
Air pollution can kill babies, older people , and those who have respiratory (呼吸道的) diseases. In London, in 1952, four thousand people died in one week as a result of a serious air-pollution episode. In 1948, in the small town of Donora, Pennsylvania, twenty people died in a four-day period of bad air pollution.
At levels often found in cities
A. civilization may be doomed if pollution is not controlled
B. pollution is more serious in Europe than it is in America
C. most people do not know that pollution is a serious problem
D. black snow is not so serious compared with white snow