－Governments at all levels have to take measures to improve the quality of basic education.

       －Exactly.       , students' homework must be greatly reduced.

       A. That's to say                    B. What's more             C. Believe it or not        D. In a word

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Hong Kong’s government has urged the Walt Disney Company to cut the maximum number of people allowed into its new park after visitors complained about long queues at a trial opening over the weekend .

     The park admitted about 30.000guests on Sunday for a rehearsal, but visitors found themselves waiting in line for up to three hours for some popular rides .Many waited for up to half an hour at fast food outlets .

     The park ,which was built to take maximum capacity of 30.000 visitors, officially opens next Monday .But Hong Kong Financial Secretary Henry Tang urged the company to consider lowering the upper limit .

     “If it takes in 30.000 people, the queues will be very long and buying lunch would take a very long time. ”Tang told reporters late on Monday, “Disney has told us that queues at its other parks are also very long during peak periods, but people may not be used to lining up for so long. So we are discussing with Disney on whether it could manage this more flexibly.” 

     Asked if the full capacity should be lower than 30.000, he said, “We are now examining this ,we should handle it flexibly ”.

     Disney was not immediately available for comment .

     Hong Kong’s government holds a 57 percent stake in the park and Disney owns the rest. The project was launched during a time when Hong Kong was in recession (衰退)and was widely regarded as a best cure to the city’s economic trouble .

The park is expected to draw massive crowds, particularly from Chinese mainland .But not all news associated with the park has been encouraging .

When visitors were lining up for tickets for a long time, they were          

A. excited       B. upset           C. nervous       D. dissatisfied

What’s the best title for the passage？

    A. HK Disney opens up  

B. HK urges Disney to cut visitors capacity at the new park.

C. HK encourages natives to visit Disney

D. Disney attracts visitors from Hong Kong and Chinese mainland

By mentioning what Tang said ,the author wants to show          

A. visitors showed great interest in Disney

B. Disney will take some measures to limit visitors

C. why HK governments suggests lowering the number of visitors

D. the HK government tried to co-operate with Disney

When HK Disney was launched,          

    A. people thought little of its future development

    B. people thought it a way to revive (復(fù)蘇、恢復(fù))HK’s economy

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閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。

Who decides how English is spoken around the world? Do teachers in the colleges and schools? What about those who write dictionaries or books? Do they decide what is good and what is bad English? Or do governments decide when a language will change? Probably you have thought about this question once or twice before. The answer is that none of these people decide how English will be spoken. Believe it or not, many of the biggest changes in how English is spoken have come from common people in the streets. And one of the most important places where English has changed is on the playground! These playground can be any place where young people meet, such as a sports field or a beach. For example, black kids invented many new words in American English as they played basketball or music. Often words used by black kids in the big cities become popular with other kids many years later. Another popular sport, baseball, has also given many words and expressions to American English. On the beaches of southern California, teenagers invented words to describe how they felt when they surfed. These words found their way into the high schools and then to other places. Similar changes in English happened among young people in Ireland and Australia. Children from one group would find ways to play with children of another group more easily. Often they made new words just to develop an identity different from their parents.

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58. Why do these kids invent new words?

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C. because they are asked to do so.

D. because they want to feel different from their parents

 

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D. A society which saves electricity.

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D. help establish businesses that will exploit waste materials

75  In this passage the author _______.

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Human beings use a little less than half the water available worldwide. Yet shortages and droughts(干旱) are causing starvation and poverty in some areas, and industrial and agricultural by-products are polluting water supplies. Since the world’s population is expected to double in the next 51 years, many experts think we are on the edge of a widespread water crisis.

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No matter what steps governments take to provide water more efficiently, they must change their ways to use water. Rather than control hundreds or even thousands of local, regional agencies that watch water use, countries should set up central authorities to manage water policy.

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C. Half of the world’s resources have been seriously polluted.

D. Human beings have not placed sufficient value on water resources.

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B. has been exaggerated by some experts in the field

C. poses a challenge to the technology of building reservoirs

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Most people look forward to retirement as a time when they can finally take up activities that they never had the time or energy to pursue before．But some recent studies on people in their golden years are disturbing: they suggest that retirees are more likely to suffer from depression and possibly higher rates of other diseases such as heart disease and high blood pressure．That’s why a new study of French workers is welcome news.

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The scientists followed the employees of the French national gas and electric company for 14 years．They found in the year immediately after retirement, the volunteers reported 40% fewer depressive symptoms than they had in the year before their retirement．The researchers also found an 81% drop in reports of both mental and physical fatigue over the same time period.

Clearly, said Westerlund, much of these decrease in physical and mental fatigue can be traced back to relief from the stresses of work．The decline in depressive symptoms suggests that retirement may be having a positive mental effect, too, which may have a lot to do with the generous pensions (養(yǎng)老金) that French workers enjoy．Most retirees in that country still benefit from about 80% of their yearly salaries.

“The economic or financial situation in retirement is very important,” Westerlund says．“We don’t know if the decrease in fatigue and depressive symptoms is because of the removal of something bad while in work or the addition of something good while in retirement．But no matter the reason, if life in retirement is not comfortable, then we won’t see the improvements we did.”

However, in European nations like France, governments are considering changes to pension plans, which may affect retirees’ health after they leave their jobs－with less of a financial safety net, workers may no longer seem so mentally and physically happy to be out of work．   

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1.According to some recent studies, retired people may have depression and higher rates of other diseases like __________.

 

 

2.Westerlund’s group found that in the year just after the retirement most retired French workers felt much less tired both __________.

 

3.What does the word “improvements” in paragraph 5 refer to?

 

4.Retirement may make people happier with __________.

 

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