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Tickets for the World Expo (世博会) 2010 will go on sale for groups on March 27, and for the public on July 1, 2009.
The basic ticket price will be 160 yuan. Foreigners will be able to buy tickets from overseas outlets authorized (授权)by the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination (BSWEC).
From March 27 to June 30, group bookings can be made for organizations, institutions and enterprises. The public can buy tickets from July 1.
Peak day admission tickets will cost 200 yuan and will cover 17 days including Chinese Labor Day holiday (May 1-3), National Day holiday (October 1-7), and the last week before closing (October 25-31).
Tickets will be discounted(打折)from 10 to 30 yuan for those who buy before the Expo opens on May 1, 2010.
People going to the Expo after 5pm (apart from the peak days) can get tickets for 90 yuan but only during Expo.
Three-day passes will cost 400 yuan and seven-day passes 900 yuan.
At least 62 million tickets will be available. Discounts will also be offered to the disabled, senior citizens, students with valid IDs and Chinese servicemen and women. Children under 1.2 meters will not have to pay.
The basic price is “affordable” for the majority of people. It was common practice to set ticket prices within the 1 to 3 percent range of the host country"s per-capita disposable income (人均可支配收入).
The Expo organizer will encourage people to reserve tickets in advance or buy group tickets in an attempt to control visitor flow. The organizer is expecting 70 million visitors, 5 percent of whom will be from overseas.
The organizer will appoint domestic and overseas agencies(代理) to sell tickets and there will be 3,200 sales outlets in China. People will be able to purchase tickets at branches of China Mobile, China Telecom, Bank of Communications and China Post. Online and hotline channels will also be opened.
The first domestic and overseas ticket sales agencies will sign contracts with the organizer on March 2.
During Expo, visitors will be able to buy tickets on site or at kiosks(电话亭). The Expo Bureau will appoint travel agents to organize group tours.
49. If you want to visit Expo at 9 a.m. on May 2, 2010, you will have to pay ______ for the ticket.
A. 200 yuan          B. 90 yuan        C. 160 yuan      D. 190 yuan
50. According to the passage, all these people can receive discounts EXCEPT __________.
A. senior citizens                       B. the disabled 
C. Chinese servicemen and women             D. students without valid IDs
51. To control visitor flow, the Expo organizer will__________.
A. sign contracts with the sales agencies
B. appoint travel agents to organize group tours
C. appoint domestic and overseas agencies to sell tickets
D. encourage people to book tickets ahead of time or buy group tickets
52. The main idea of this passage is__________
A. where people can buy Shanghai Expo tickets
B. that Shanghai World Expo will be held on 2010
C. that Shanghai World Expo tickets will set to go on sale
D. how people can buy tickets to visit Shanghai World Expo
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New York (Reuters) --- Television can act like a painkiller when it comes to children and is more effective than a mother’s comforting, according to a small Italian study.
The University of Siena study, published in Archives of Disease in Childhood, was based on 69 children aged 7 to 12 who were divided into three groups to have blood taken.
One group was given no distraction while the blood was being taken. Meantime mothers of children in the second group attempted to distract the youngsters by talking to them, soothing(安慰), and/or caressing them.
In the third group, the children were allowed to watch television cartoons while the procedure was being carried out.
After the samples were taken, the children and their mothers rated their pain scores.
The children recording the highest pain scores were in the group getting no distraction. These scores were about three times as high as those recorded by children allowed to watch the cartoons.
Children comforted by their mothers recorded middling scores.
On average, the mothers rated pain scores higher than the children but they also recorded the lowest pain scores for children who had been allowed to watch television.
“The higher pain level reported by children during mothers’ efforts at distraction shows the difficulty mothers have in interacting positively at a difficult moment in their children’s life,” the researchers said in their report.
They added that watching television also seemed to increase children’s pain tolerance(容忍力).
64. If children are concentrated while having their blood taken, they will _______.
A. feel no pain                   B. record the lowest pain scores
C. record the highest pain scores     D. feel less pain
65. According to the Italian study, children who are suffering from pain had better _______.
A. get comfort from their mothers    B. watch cartoons on TV
C. read picture books              D. get no distraction
66. The underlined word “distract” in the third paragraph probably means “_______.”
A. reduce one’s pain              B. get one’s attention away
C. help one get concentrated        D. give comfort to
67. From the passage, we can infer that _______.
A. mothers can soothe their children greatly at hard moments
B. mothers’ love and comfort is the best medicine for children
C. children can have their pain tolerance increased by mother’s efforts
D. mothers’ comfort does not reduce much of their children’s pain
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1.The text is most likely to be found in   .
A.a scientific research report         B.a travel magazine
C.a weekly newspaper                  D.a geography textbook
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A.Accountants.                        B.Students.
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C.Clay Finlay can identify international market opportunities and especially select companies    with strong growth chances.
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The results of the US/NATO bombing Yugoslavia are to be judged by history. I shall not be the one to do this. But being in the center of actual events that are creating that history, I cannot stay away from what is going on in my country.
  First of all, the main aim of the bombing was to prevent a human suffering in Kosovo. Today, after many days of frequent bombing, that aim is more distant than before. The bombing only brought tens of thousands of people running away from their homes, not to mention the large number of the death and injury, buildings and factories. Suppose that the US/NATO really had a wish to prevent the human suffering, they should realize by now how wrong they were when they thought the bombing would solve the problem.
  So, what’s left? Back off or ground troops? But who is going to join the ground troops? It would take at least 200,000 armed soldiers, not the 20,000 that the US/NATO have prepared in Macedonia. It should also be clear that the Serbs(塞族人) will not give up on Kosovo.
  I live under continuous bombing for more than a week now, and it doesn’t frighten me anymore. I don’t turn to the shelter at the sound of warning. It’s the thought of ground troops that frightens me. Vietnam would seem like a picnic compared to a bloodshed(流血事件) in Kosovo if the ground troops appear. Is that what the US/NATO wants?
72. Which of the following statements is true?
  A. The US/NATO really intends to stop the human suffering.
  B. The result of the war will be judged by people in Kosovo.
  C. The bombing made tens of thousands of people homeless.
  D. The continuous bombing will make the Serbs give up on Kosovo.
73. The writer is _____.
  A. an American reporter      B. a Chinese reporter
  C. a Macedonian        D. a Yugoslavian
74. What worries the writer most?
  A. The continuous bombing.      B. The coming of the ground troops.
  C. The sound of bomb warning.    D. The idea of ground troops.
75. What is the writer’s attitude towards the bombing in Kosovo?
  A. It is the US/NATO’s duty to defend Kosovo.
  B. It is wrong to solve the problem by bombing Kosovo.
  C. The aim of bombing Kosovo is to stop a human suffering.
  D. The bombing can solve the problem of Kosovo.
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May : Happenings from the Past
May 5 , 1884
Isaac Murphy , son of a slave and perhaps the greatest horse rider in American history, rides Buchanan to win his first Kentucky Derby. He becomes the first rider ever to win the race three times.
May 9 , 1754
Benjamin Franklin’s Pennsylvania Gazette produces perhaps the first American political cartoon , showing a snake cut in pieces , with the words “Join or Die” printed under the picture.
May 11 , 1934
The first great dust storm of the Great Plains Dust Bowl, the result of years of drought (干旱) , blows topsoil all the way to New York City and Washington , D. C.
May 19, 1994
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, former first lady and one of the most famous people of the 1960s, died of cancer in New York City at the age of 64.
May 24, 1844
Samuel F. B. Morse taps (轻敲) out the first message, “What hath God wrought,” over the experimental long-distance telegraph line which runs from Washington, D. C, to Baltimore, Md.
小题1:We know from the text that Buchanan is _______________.
A.Isaac’s father
B.a winning horse
C.a slave taking care of horses
D.the first racing horse in Kentucky
小题2:What is the title of the first American political cartoon?
A.Join or Die
B.Pennsylvania Gazette
C.What Hath God Wrought
D.Kentucky Derby
小题3:In which year did the former first lady Jacqueline die?
A.1934B.1960 C.1964D.1994
小题4:Which of the following places has to do with (与...有关)the first telegram in history?
A. Washington, D. C.
B. New York City
C. Kentucky
D. Pennsylvania
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Berlin — Germany will allow entry 20,000 foreign high-tech workers, under a plan announced on May 31st. Chancellor(总理) Gerhard Schroreder sees this as a way to keep the country from falling behind in information technology.
The plan for this so-called ‘green cards’, not like the US work permit system, came in answer to industry demands that there were not enough qualified workers to fill positions.
Workers who came to Germany under the new rules, effective from August will be given a five-year work permit after proving they have completed studies in a related field or can promise to at least 100,000 marks (US$48 000).
Family members are also allowed, though they too will receive work permits. “They are strong competition in the rest of the world for these people,” Schroreder said mentioning not only the United States but also British and France. Germany would be making a mistake if it didn’t take part in this competition.
He said employers have already offered 11,000 jobs through a “green card hotline” and some 4,700 applications emailed information requests.
The Chancellor also said the number of workers and the time limits of their stay may be extended, possibly under current German law. Allowing the workers to stay longer means they could finally become citizens. Since the beginning of this year, foreigners who have lived in the country for eight years can ask for being naturalized.
53. From the first paragraph we can get to know that Germany______.
A. is a less-developed country                            B. used to be a developed country
C. is short of high-tech workers                  D. once lost interest in information technology
54. If a high-tech worker wants to work in Germany, he or she can enter Germany______.
A. in June      B. after July    C. before August    D. at any time
55. It is mentioned in the passage that competition in high tech______.
A. is only in America,Britain and France
B. has nothing to do with small countries
C. is weak in Asian countries
D. will affect the future of a country
56. To be naturalized as a German, according to this passage, seems______.
A. difficult    B. easy    C. impossible    D. popular
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