It was at midnight ______ he got to his friend’s house．

       A．when B．since　    C．that　      D．while

Rather than go through the extreme hot weather and see the World Expo, I prefer ______ at an air-conditioned room and watch TV.

   A. staying    B. to stay    C. stayed    D. had stayed

（   ）The old professor told us that every part of the materials should be made use of _________the station.

A. building     B. to build    C. build    D.   being build

(  )35. Doctors have said that as many as 50% of the patients don’t take medicine as 　　　　.

being directed  B. to be directed  C. directed  D. directing

Advertising means to draw people’s attention to something. It is a central feature of our lives. Sales depend upon it. So does our knowledge of what is available. Read the following advertisements and see how much you understand them.

About what they advertise, we can safely say that           .

A. advertisements（I）and（III）advertise two products

B. advertisements（III）and（IV）advertise services

C. advertisements（II）and（III）advertise beliefs

D. advertisements（I）and（IV）provide jobs

How many advertisements are trying to be price competitive?

A. 1.      B. 2.      C. 3.      D. 4.

Which of the following statements about the advertisements above is NOT true?

A. A newspaper uses one of them in its own newspaper.

B. All of them advertise for the largest number of customers.

C. All of them list the prices.

D. All of them have included contact in formation.

From these examples of advertisements, we can conclude that .

A. some advertisements are provided by newspapers free of charge

B. newspaper is the most common means of advertising

C. advertising is an expensive business

D. advertisements should appeal to customers

If you want someone to do some cleaning for you, you can call       .

A. 232567                B. 73204683

C. 444237058              D. 0732605041

As the US wakes up to China’s rising status (地位) as an economic and strategic competitor, US parents are urging their children to learn Chinese, reports Julian Borger.

    The US is being swept by a rush to learn Mandarin (普通話) -- from wealthy New York mothers hiring Chinese nannies (保姆) for their small children to a defence department education project in Oregon.

    The forces driving Mandarin’s momentum (勢(shì)頭) are parental ambition for children facing a future in which China is almost certain to be a major player, and the government is worried about that America may get left behind in that new world.

    The bottleneck is the supply of teachers. Mandarin instructors are difficult to import and difficult to train. There are visa problems in bringing over teachers from China but the biggest barrier is cultural. Teaching in Asia is generally done by rote and the change to western, interactive styles of instruction can be a large leap（跳越）.

    On the other hand, it requires enormous firmness for westerners to learn a language like Chinese, with its thousands of written characters. According to the Asia Society in New York, all of America’s teacher-training institutions turn out only a couple of dozen homegrown Mandarin teachers.

One way to ease the shortage is to find native Mandarin speakers and use fast-track methods to train them. However, the majority of Chinese-Americans grew up speaking Cantonese, the dialect（方言）spoken in Hong Kong, where their parents came from. Many are themselves signing on as Mandarin students at the private language schools springing up on the west coast.

             Title :           in the USA

Niagara Fall is a great tourist _______ , drawing millions of visitors every year.

A. attention     B. attraction     C. appointment     D. arrangement

        the green valley, we thought we had reached the         land.

       A．Seeing, promised            B．Seeing, promising   

       C．Seen, promising             D．Seen, promised

_________matters most in learning English is enough practice.

A. What   B. Why   C. Where    D. Which 

These football players were not specially ___ until they joined our club．

       A．educated        B．exercised       C．practiced       D．trained．