[单选题]To travel from England to Scotland you__a passport.
A.mustn't have
B.haven't got
C.don't need
D.needn't

[单选题]Scotland provides superb opportunities to enjoy wild and grand scenery which is even more impressive than the postcards suggest．It also offers towns and cities with a rich cultural life,a good mix of accommodation and places to eat and drink．Friendly and welcoming,it is an interesting and colorful all-season destination,where landscapes and the environment,sport and leisure pursuits,heritage and history,culture and cuisine are all part of a rewarding experience. The best reason for choosing to go on holiday to Scotland is:one of the last places inside the crowded and frenetic European Union where it is possible to be alone isolated countryside．This is not to say that Scotland,like everywhere else,does not have its tourist traps,its crowded roads or its popular beauty spots．But it is relatively easy to escape from them. It would be a mistake to think that Scotland is merely an extension of England. Indeed,no attitude is capable of causing greater offence to the Scots．They successfully resisted English attempts at domination for seven hundred years,and many differences between the two countries persist. Scotland's history,embodied in its castles,battlefields,and ancient links with France,Flanders and Scandinavia,is special. Scotland
A.was dominated by England for seven hundred years
B.dominated England for seven hundred years
C.kept out English invaders for seven hundred years
D.became part of England for seven hundred years

[单选题]The older New England villages havechanged relatively little ______ a gas station or two in recent decades.
A.except for
B.except
C.in addition to
D.besides

[单选题]The older New England villages have changed relatively little ___________ a gas station or two in recent decades.
A.except for
B.except
C.in addition
D.besides

[单选题]Text 3 England's problematic vocational education system has been subjected to wave after wave of reform.Yet improving the quality of technical education has eluded governments of all colours.University technical colleges（UTCs）are only the latest example of a shiny innovation that ran on to the rocks.Seven UTCs have now announced they are closing their doors.UTCs were intendecl to provide quality vocational education,combining technical and academic learning,for young people from the age of 14.Despite the millions the government has invested in them,ihey have on the whole been plagued by poor GCSE results and an inability to attract sufficient numbers of young people.Several attempts to establish quality vocational eclucation from 14 have failed.The issues affecting UTCs provide an opportunity to revisit whether this merits continuing support.We should take it.Barely a year passes without a lament about the low status of vocational qualifications.These often fail to recognise the chicken and egg that holds vocational learning back.Its status will only improve when ii is not seen as the preserve of those who have been failed by the school system.But while its status is low,these are the only young people likely to try something unproven and untested.This dynamic means new institutions often replicate the problems of the old seconclary moderns.Young people who attend UTCs are more likely to be from poor backgrounds,have made poor progress in primary school,and have attended secondary schools rated poorly by Ofsted.They are children who have been failed by the school system.In this day and age,there is no such thing as a career that does not require functional literacy and numeracy.Yet drawing low-achieving children out of mixed-ability schooling at age 14 makes them less likely to get the decent GCSEs in maths and English that are so critical in the eyes of employers.Setting up alternative vocational institutions for 14-year-olds thus risks closing down future vocational options,rather than expanding them.Vocational education is often posited as an alternative for those who are not"academically minded",orten a code for those who have disengaged from school.Yet this is far more likely to be a symptom of poor teaching ancl a lack of adequate support rather than a young person's inability to engage with a broad pre-16 curriculum that includes both academic and applied learning.Selection by academic ability at age 11 is wrong.But so i.s backdoor selection by academic ability at 14.The rlght to experience an engaging curriculum and finish school with adequate levels of literacy and numeracy is best achieved by options at 16 not 14.This wili not solve everything;but it is a better basis for ensuring 16-year-olds have the skills they need to flourish in any job. We can learn that those who are not"academically minded"____
A.indicate poor teaching in the school system
B.lack the ability to engage with academic learning
C.blame inadequate support for their failure
D.fail to meet national educational standards

[单选题]Which of the following is NOT said in the passage
A.Wolfe‘s students praised Wolfe’s power of observation.
B.The author made an experiment on Wolfe‘s ability.
C.Wolfe‘s students asked the author to have a test of their ability.
D.Wolfe did not feel angry when he was tested.

[单选题]I once went to a town in the north of England on business. It was about 7:30 in the evening when I reached the hotel.The manageress,a strict old lady of?about 60,showed me to my room.When I asked her what time dinner was,she said there was only?one sitting at 6:30,and I had_____21_____it. "Never mind,"I said."I′m not very hungry.I′11 just have a drink in the bar(酒吧)and a?sandwich." "Bar!"she____22______her voice."This is a respectable hotel,young man.If you want beer,you?must go somewhere else."She spoke____23______a glass of beer was a dangerous drug. I went to a bar and had some beer and sandwiches and then went to the cinema.At about 11:30 I_____24_____.Everything was in darkness.I knocked at the door,but nothing happened.The_____25_____sound?was the′church clock opposite,which suddenly struck the half-hour with such force that it made me?jump._____26_____a window opened upstairs.The old lady_____27_____and asked me what was going on.I?explained who I was and she let me_____28_____after ten minutes′wait.She was in her nightdress.She?told me seriously that guests were_____29_____to be back in the hotel by 11 o′clock. I went to bed but could not sleep.Every quarter of an hour the church clock struck and at midnight the whole hotel shook with the noise.Just before dawn,I finally_____30_____ When I arrived at breakfast,everyone else had nearly_____31_____and there was not enough coffee?to go round. "Did you_____32_____well,young man?"the old lady asked. "_____33_____,I don′t think I could go through another night in that room,"I replied."I hardly?slept at all." "That"s because you were_____34_____all night drinking!"she said angrily,putting____35______to the?conversation. 第（35）题答案
A.an end
B.a saying
C.a joke
D.a pause