—Coffee ____ milk?     —Only coffee, please.

A. and                   B. and                   C. or                     D. or

Your sister has grown up. She is no longer __ she   five years ago when I first saw her.

A. what                 B. who                  C. whom               D. which

The International Maths Summer Camp was held in Wuhan,____ the top students in maths from all over the world.

A. bringing back                                B. bringing together

C. which brought around                    D. gathering around

Tom hurried back only _____ his friend ____ in a hospital.

  A. to find; dying     B. find; dead  C. finding; dying D. to find; die

-- _____?    

--- He is kind but sometimes a little silly.

    A. What is your brother            B. What does your brother like

    C. What does your brother look like  D. What is your brother like

. If law and order _____, neither the citizen nor his family is safe.

  A. are not preserved        B. is not preserved

  C. were not preserved    D. have not been preserved

When he came in, I happened ___ on the bed ____.

  A. lying; and read B. to lie; reading  C. to be lying; reading  D. to have lain; reading

__  Mr. Jones called while you were out. He was in _____ very bad temper.

  A. / ; a   B. A; /   C. The; the   D. A; a

. At that time she ___ sit here like that for hours.

  A. will   B. would   C. had to   D. shall

The invention of the electric telegraph gave birth to the communications industry. Although Samuel B. Morse succeeded in making the invention useful in 1837, it was not until 1843 that the first important telegraph line was constructed. By 1860 more than 50,000 miles of lines connected people east of the Rockies. The following year, San Francisco was added to the network.

  The national telegraph network strengthened the ties between East and West and contributed to the rapid expansion of the railroads by providing an efficient means to monitor schedules and routes. Furthermore, the extension of the telegraph, combined with the invention of the steam-driven rotary printing press by Richard

  M. Hoe in 1846, revolutionized the world of journalism. Where the business of news gathering had been dependent upon the mail and on hand-operated presses, the telegraph expanded the amount of information a newspaper could supply and allowed for more timely reporting. The creating of the Associated Press as a central wire service in 1846 marked the arrival of a new era (紀(jì)元) in journalism.

71. The main topic of the passage is        .

A. the history of journalism                                 B. the origin of the national telegraph

C. how the telegraph network contributed to the expansion of railroads

D. the contributions and development of the telegraph network

72. The word "gathering" in line 11 refers to        .

A. people                    B. information                   

C. objects                                     D. substances

73. The author's main purpose in this passage is to         .

A. compare the invention of the telegraph with the invention of the steam-driven rotary press

B. propose new ways to develop the communications industry

C. show how the electric telegraph affected the communications industry

D. criticize Samuel B. Morse

74. This passage would most likely be found in a        .

A. U.S. history book   B. book on trains  

C. science textbook D. computer magazine

75. It can be inferred from the passage that          .

A. Samuel Morse did not make a significant contribution to the communications industry

B. Morse's invention did not immediately achieve its full potential (潛力)

C. the extension of the telegraph was more important than its invention

D. journalists have the Associated Press to thank for the birth of the communications industry