Coco Cola, in which much sugar         ，is not part of a            diet.

A. contained; health                       B. is found; healthy

C. finding, well                                 D. containing; nutritious

—Smoking is bad for your health.

   — Yes, I know. But I simply can’t ____.

   A. give it up    B. give it in    C. give it out         D. give it away

Birthdays often bring surprises. But this year’s surprise on the birthday of the great British playwright William Shakespeare is __21__ one of the most surprising.

       On April 22, one day before his 441^st birthday anniversary, experts __22__ that one of the most recognizable __23__ of William Shakespeare is a fake (贗品).

       This __24__ that we no longer have a good __25__ of what Shakespeare looked like. “It’s very possible that many pictures of Shakespeare are unreliable because many of them are __26__ of this one,” said an expert from Britain’s National Portrait Gallery.

       The _27_ comes after four months of testing. Experts from the gallery say the image — commonly known as the “Flower portrait” — was actually __28__ in the 1800s, two centuries __29_  Shakespeare’s death.

       The art experts who work at the gallery say they used modern chemistry technology to __30__ the paint on the picture. These checks found traces (痕跡) of paint deep in the picture __31__ about 1814.

       Shakespeare __32__ in 1616, and the date that appears on the portrait is 1609.

       “We now think the portrait dates back to around 1818 to 1840. This was __33__ there was a new interest in Shakespeare’s__ 34__ ,” Tanya Cooper, the gallery’s 16^th century curator (館長(zhǎng)) said.

       The __35__ picture has often been used as a cover for __36__ of his plays. It is called the “Flower portrait” because one of its __37__, Desmond Flower, gave it to the Royal Shakespeare Company.

       “There have always been __38__ about the authenticity (真實(shí)性) of the painting,” said David Howells, curator for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

       “Now we know the truth, we can put the image in its proper place in the history of Shakespearean portraiture (畫(huà)像技法),” he said.

       Two other images of Shakespeare are also being studied as part of the investigation and the results will __39__later in May. But for now what Shakespeare really looked like will remain a __40__.

A. surely          B. never        C. hardly          D. only

A. wondered           B. doubted      C. found            D. considered

A. plays           B. masterpiecesC. portraits        D. photos

A. recommends   B. advises       C. decides           D. means

A. news           B. idea         C. design         D. expression

A. bargains      B. productions       C. copies           D. prints

A. justice         B. discovery   C. invention        D. deed

A. cloned         B. developed   C. painted           D. copied

A. after           B. before      C. since           D. until

A. try           B. remove      C. wash           D. check

A. looking back   B. dating from       C. getting along     D. starting with

A. died           B. was born    C. succeeded        D. was buried

A. why           B. when      C. how             D. what

A. stories          B. pictures      C. plays            D. photos

A. real           B. original      C. valuable          D. fake

A. requirements   B. collections  C. consequences     D. playwrights

A. owners         B. painters      C. writers               D. readers

A. causes          B. problems    C. questions        D. orders

A. go about      B. come out    C. turn up          D. break out

A. surprise         B. problem     C. secret           D. mystery    

The police always take advantage of dogs’ ____ sense of smell to search for something.

A. sensitive     B. sharp  C. practical     D. tremendous

As the famous saying _______, two heads are better than one.

A. mentions     B. goes     C. tells      D. instructs

Most people are in favor of the _______ against smoking in public places.

   A. collision                 B. negotiation    C. prohibition            D. discrimination

While building a tunnel through the mountain, _____.

       A. an underground lake was discovered      B. workers discovered an underground lake

       C. there was an underground lake discovered  D. a lake was discovered underground

---- The fish soup is delicious．I’d like some more．

       ---- Sorry．There is ________ left．

       A．none    B．neither         C．no one    D．a(chǎn) little

. In order to reduce the increasing prices of vegetables , the toll(過(guò)路費(fèi))            if a truck carrying them passes through a toll station .

A. cancels  B. is cancelled C. was cancelled D. had been cancelled

In 1993, New York State ordered stores to charge a deposit on beverage (=drink) containers. Within a year, consumers had returned millions of aluminum cans and glass and plastic bottles. Plenty of companies were eager to accept the aluminum and glass as raw material for new products, but because few could figure out what to do with the plastic, much of it would end up buried in landfills(垃圾填埋場(chǎng)). The problem was not limited to New York. Unfortunately, there were too few uses for second-hand plastic.

Today, one out of five plastic soda bottles is recycled in the United States. The reason for the change is that now there are dozens of companies across the country buying discarded plastic soda bottles and turning them into fence post, paint brushes, etc.

As the New York experience shows, recycling involves more than simply separating valuable materials from the rest of the rubbish. A discard remains a discard unti1 somebody figures out how to give it a second life — and until economic arrangements exist to give that second life va1ue.Without adequate markets to absorb materials collected for recycling, throwaways actually depress prices for used materials.

Shrinking landfill space and rising costs for burying and burning rubbish are forcing local governments to look more closely at recycling. In many areas, the East Coast especially, recycling is already the least expensive waste-management option. For every ton of waste recycled, a city avoids paying for its disposal, which, in parts of New York, amounts to savings of more than $100 per ton. Recycling also stimulates the local economy by creating jobs and reduces the pollution control and energy costs of industries that make recycled products by giving them a more refined raw material.

What regulation was issued by New York State concerning beverage containers?

A. A fee should be charged on used containers for recycling.

B. Throwaways should be collected by the state for recycling.

C.    Consumers had to pay for beverage containers and could get their money back on returning them.

D. Beverage companies should be responsible for collecting and reusing discarded plastic soda bottles.

The returned plastic bottles in New York used to        .

A. be turned into raw materia1s

B. be separated from other rubbish

C. have a second-life value

D. end up somewhere underground

The key problem in dealing with returned plastic beverage containers is            .

A. how to reduce their recycling costs

B. to sell them at a profitable price

C. how to turn them into useful things

D. to lower the prices for used materials

Recycling has become the first choice for the disposal of rubbish because         .

A. recycling causes litt1e pollution

B. other methods are more expensive

C. recycling has great appeal for the jobless

D. local governments find it easy to manage

It can be concluded from the passage that          .

A.    recycling is to be recommended both economically and environmentally

B. local governments in the U. S. can expect big profits from recycling

C. rubbish is a potential remedy for the shortage of raw materials

D. landfills will sti1l be widely used for waste disposal