[单项选择]A．The city had many problems.
B．The city needed a new image to attract visitors.
C．The number of visitors was falling.
D．The people in New York liked to eat big apples.

[单项选择]A City of Many Faces
Amsterdam is a city of many faces. It is the capital of the Netherlands. even though it is not the seat of Parliament or the government. Amsterdam is more than just a capital, however. It is the essence of the Netherlands: not just because it is the largest city in the country, but more particularly because it is the mainspring of our country’s economic, social and cultural life.
Already more than seven hundred years old, our compact city has more of which it can be proud: world-class orchestras and dance groups, more than forty renowned museums, almost a thousand restaurants serving cuisine from countries around the globe, gabled mansions and magnificent churches from the 17^th century Golden Age.
But, as Amsterdammers. we are most proud of our tradition of hospitality. We really want every one to feel at home. You will find this friendliness and helpfulness everywhere: at tile XXX Tourist Office, in our hotels and restaurants, at o
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Doesn’t say

[填空题]How many years had the creator Walt Disney had for the dream of Disneyland He had the dream for ______

[单项选择]How many albums had Jason Aldean released according to the news（　）
A. Four.
B. Two
C. One.

[单项选择]How many years had he lived in Beijing
A. 20 years.
B. 15 years.
C. 10 years.

[填空题]

How many times had the traveller flown by plane

[单项选择]Over the past decade, many companies had perfected the art of creating automatic behaviors—habits—among consumers. These habits have helped companies earn billions of dollars when customers eat snacks or wipe counters almost without thinking, often in response to a carefully designed set of daily cues.
"There are fundamental public health problems, like dirty hands instead of a soap habit, that remain killers only because we can’t figure out how to change people’s habits," said Dr. Curtis, the director of the Hygiene Center at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. "We wanted to learn from private industry how to create new behaviors that happen automatically."
The companies that Dr. Curtis turned to—Procter ＆ Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive and Unilever-had invested hundreds of millions of dollars finding the subtle cues in consumers’ lives that corporations could use to introduce new routines.
If you look hard enough, you’ll find that many of the products we use e
A. should be further cultivated
B. should be changed gradually
C. are deeply rooted in history
D. are basically private concerns

[填空题]More than twice as many people had their blood cholesterol levels checked in 1990 as in 1983.

[单项选择]How many visitors had been to the Crystal Palace altogether