Although it may be the most convenient place for Londoners to buy books, Chafing Cross Road is not the cheapest. For the really cheap second-hand volumes, the collector must travel off the beat- en track, to Farringdon Road, for example, in the East Central district of London. Here there is nothing so grandiose (宏大的)as bookshops. Instead, the book sellers come along each morning and tip out their sacks of books on to small barrows (活动推车)which line the roadside. In places like this one can still, occasionally, pick up for few pence an old volume that may be worth many pounds.
The text tells us Londoners like ________.
A. to buy books of all kinds
B. to do reading of all kinds
C. to buy proper books
D. to read newspapers and magazines
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【B13】
A. In the end
B. There fore
C. After all
D. However
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He has been called the "missing link", half-man, half-beast. He is supposed to live in the highest mountain in the world—Mount Everest.
He is known as the Abominable Snowman. The 【B1】 of the Snowman has been around for 【B2】 .Climbers in the 1920s reported finding marks like those of human feet high up on the side of Mount Everest. The native people said they 【B3】 this creature and called it the "Yeti", and they said that they had 【B4】 caught Yetis on two occasions 【B5】 none has ever been produced as evidence (证据).
Over the years, the story of the Yetis has 【B6】 In 1951, Eric Shipton took photographs of a set of tracks in the snow of Everest. Shipton believed that they were not 【B7】 the tracks of a monkey or a bear and 【B8】 that the Abominable Snowman might really 【B9】 .
Further efforts have been made to find out about Yetis. But the only things people have ever found were 【B10】 footprints. Most believe the footprints are nothing more than 【B11】 animal tracks, which had been made 【B12】 as they melted(融化)and refroze in the snow 【B13】 , in 1964, a Russian scientist said that the Abominable Snowman was 【B14】 and was a remaining link with the prehistoric humans. But, 【B15】 , no evidence had ever 【B16】 been produced. These days, only a few people continue to take the story of the Abominable Snowman 【B17】 .
But if they ever 【B18】 catching one, they may face a real 【B19】 Would they put it in a 【B20】 or give it a room in a hotel?
【B1】
A. event
B. story
C. adventure
D. description
No nation leaped into the 20th century like Japan. For two hundred years, Japan remained and isolated from the rest of the world. It doubted of western ways. In 1854, Commodore Perry of the U. S. Navy sailed into Tokyo Bay. When he showed the people inventions like the telegraph and railroad train, Japan realized what it was missing. Japan has quickly caught up with western technology. It may have even gone past it.
Japan has a population of over 116,000,000. The people are thickly settled on the four main islands. Since only one sixth of the land is arable, Japan relies on imported food. To pay for the imports, Japan exports manufactured goods.
Japan builds and sells cars, motorcycles, television sets, radios and cameras. Textiles and chemicals also made. In Yokohama Harbor, ships are constructed for use by other nations.
The "head start" western nations had may be the reason for Japan's success today. Western countries are still using machines and technology that they developed many years ago. Japan is using newer, improved methods. For example, robots are relieving factory-workers of long, tiring jobs.
Modem technology has brought modern problems. Air and water quality reached dangerous levels in some parts of Japan in the late 1960's. Since then, the Japanese government has applied strong pollution controls.
The main idea of the passage is that Japan ________.
A. surprises the world.
B. Suffers from serious air and water pollution
C. Leads in exporting goods
D. Leads in technology in the world today
听力原文:M:The radio costs $40, but I only have $30.
W:I have $16. Would you like to borrow it?
How much do they have between them?
A. $46.
B. $86.
C. $56.