61.To make our companies( )in the market, we have to be more creative and productive.

49.He is( )to know the answer.

A. 　perhaps

B. 　 likely

C. 　 possibly

D. 　 certainly

1、Passage 5Today anyone will accept money in exchange for goods and services. People use money to
buy food, furniture, books, bicycles and hundreds of others they need or want. When they work,
they usually get paid in money.
Most of the money today is made of metal paper. But people used to use all kinds of things as
money. One of the first kinds of money was shells. Shells were not the only things used as money.
In China, cloth and knives were used. In the Philippine Islands, rice was used as money. In parts of
Africa, cattle were one of the earliest money. Other animals were used as money too.
The first metal coins were made in China. They were round and had a square hole in the
center. People strung them together and carried them from place to place. Different countries have
used different metals and designs for their money. The first coins in England were made of tin.
Sweden and Russia used copper to make their money. Later, other countries began to make coins
of gold and silver.
But even gold and silver were inconvenient if you had to buy something expensive. Again the Chinese thought of a way to improve money. They began to use paper money. The first paper
money looked more like a note from one person to another than paper money used today.
Money has had an interesting history from the days of shell money until today.
3. Why did ancient Chinese coins have a square hole in the center?

A. 　Because it would be easier to put them together and carry them around.

B. 　Because it would be lighter for people to carry from place to place.

C. 　Because people wanted to make it look nicer.

D. 　Because people wanted to save the expensive metal they were made from.

31.I firmly( )to this scheme because it‘s not practical at all.

A. 　refuse

B. 　 reject

C. 　 object

D. 　 decline

114.John had never been abroad before,( )he found the business trip very exciting.

A. 　because

B. 　 though

C. 　 so

D. 　 while

24.The fog was so dense that nothing but what was around you within one or two meters was( ).

A. 　vision

B. 　 visible

C. 　 visionary

D. 　 visual

164.My 4-year-old son can easily( )between the fried chicken by KFC and that by McDonald‘s.

A. 　distinguish

B. 　 disguise

C. 　 dispute

D. 　 disability

190.I like Mr. Miner‘s speech; it was clear and( )the point.

A. 　at

B. 　 on

C. 　 to

D. 　 off

4、8、

A. 　 is used to

B. 　 showing

C. 　 used to

D. 　 explaining

1、Passage 3Dieting to lose weight has become very popular in recent years. People have become more
health conscious and try to take better care of their bodies by eating more nutritiously and
exercising more regularly to lose any unnecessary fat that they may have.Not only are people being more careful about what they eat, they are also concerned with
how they eat and how their meals are prepared. People are taking more time for each meal. Many
avoid the so called ―plastic‖ fast-food hamburgers and choose to eat a salad or a sandwich of more
healthful ingredients(成分) in a quiet restaurant with a more leisurely atmosphere. At home, they
also try to take enough time to eat a relaxing dinner without phone or TV interruptions.
While dieting may be viewed as beneficial, it has also become a serious problem for
Americans, particularly for young women. Dieting for them has actually become a psychological
addiction(依赖). They eat so little that they can lose as much as fifty percent of their total body
weight, and although they look like skeletons, they still insist that they are fat.
The current waves of exercising, dieting and the problems produced have caused many
organizations to begin educating the public. Many schools, hospitals, health organizations,
newspapers and magazines, for example, are offering classes, printing booklet articles, etc. to
inform the public of the way to exercise and diet, of the dangers of dieting too rapidly, and of the
places people can go for medical help if they find themselves on the road to ―diet addiction‖.3. ―They look like skeletons‖ in the third paragraph most probably means ________.

A. 　they are very pretty

B. 　they are very ugly

C. 　they are too thin

D. 　they are starving

7.I‘d love a new car, but I just can‘t( )it.

A. 　offer

B. 　 afford

C. 　 spend

D. 　 cost