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Passage One
Years ago our cities were full of cars, buses and trucks. Now the streets are completely congested (拥挤的) and it is very difficult to drive a car along them. Drivers must stop at hundreds of traffic lights. What are our cities going to be like in ten or twenty years Will enormous (巨大的) motorways be built across them With big motorways cutting across them, full of noisy, dirty cars and lorries, our cities are going to be awful places. How can we solve the problem
There are some good ideas to reduce the use of private cars. In 1989, for example, the authorities in Rome began an interesting experiment: passengers on the city buses did not have to pay for their tickets.
In Stockholm there was another experiment: people paid very little for a season ticket to travel on any bus, trolley bus, train or tram in all the city.
In many cities now some streets are closed to vehicles, and pedestrians are safe there.
In London there is a
A. London.
B. Rome.
C. Stockholm.
D. None of the abov

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Passage One
Years ago our cities were full of cars, buses and trucks. Now the streets are completely congested (拥挤的) and it is very difficult to drive a car along them. Drivers must stop at hundreds of traffic lights. What are our cities going to be like in ten or twenty years Will enormous (巨大的) motorways be built across them With big motorways cutting across them, full of noisy, dirty cars and lorries, our cities are going to be awful places. How can we solve the problem
There are some good ideas to reduce the use of private cars. In 1989, for example, the authorities in Rome began an interesting experiment: passengers on the city buses did not have to pay for their tickets.
In Stockholm there was another experiment: people paid very little for a season ticket to travel on any bus, trolley bus, train or tram in all the city.
In many cities now some streets are closed to vehicles, and pedestrians are safe there.
In London there is a
A. the number of traffic lights
B. the shortage of buses
C. the lack of motorways
D. the traffic congestion

[单项选择]Four score and seven years ago our fathers __ on this continent a new nation.
A. brought out
B. brought forth
C. brought about
D. brought up

[单项选择]Ten years ago the population of our village was（　）that of theirs.
A. as twice large as
B. twice as large as
C. twice as much as
D. as twice much as

[简答题]What could be bought ten years ago for one dollar now costs well over two dollars．Present indications are that this rate of inflation is tending to rise rather than to fall．

[单项选择]Hundreds of years ago, our ancestors came to this land and settled down.


A. forebears
B. grandparents
C. descendants
D. uncles

[单项选择]Thousands of years ago people were forced to leave their homeland because ______.
A. the earth was in an ice age
B. they found their homeland getting colder
C. huge sheets of ice were spreading over the land
D. they had to stay near the animals they hunted for food

[单项选择]Hundreds of years ago cloves were used to remedy headaches.
A. disrupt
B. diagnose
C. evaporate
D. cure

[填空题]This university was founded one hundred years ago.
It has been ____________________.

[多项选择]A few years ago, computers were used only in business, in medicine, and for scientific research, ______ these days they are common in almost all schools.
A. thought
B. whereas
C. so
D. therefore

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Passage One
Fifty years ago, most people lived in rural areas. But the world has changed. In the near future, more than half of all people will live in cities for the first time in history.
City life is not always a bad thing, but many experts worry about this process of urbanization (城市化 ). A new report says that process is having a huge effect on human health and the quality of the environment. Of the three billion people who live in cities now, the report says, about one billion live in unplanned settlements. These are areas of poverty, slums that generally lack basic services like clean water, or even permanent housing. More than 60 million people are added to cities and surrounding areas each year, mostly in slums in developing countries. The international community has been too slow to recognize the growth of urban poverty. Policy makers need to increase investments in education, health care and other areas.
The report talks about some success
A. economy
B. the growth of poverty in cities
C. education
D. health care