The hotel porter ________ anybody who wasn’t wearing a collar and tie. 

A. turned against B. turned off     C. turned away  D. turned up 

 I’ll ________the matter as soon as possible. Just have a little patience. 

A. look into    B. look after      C. look through D. look about 

 The Internet has brought _______ big changes in the way we work. 

A. about      B. out                    C. back         D. up 

 His mother had thought it would be good for his character to _______ from home and earn some money on his own. 

A. run away       B. take away        C. keep away     D. get away 

Between 1990 and 1992, there were more than 1,000 closedowns in that industry, all of which _____job losses.

A. were bound to          B. adapted to         C. led to                       D. devoted to

The language used in advertisements differs from        used in ordinary readings.

A. which                        B. what                        C. that                D. it

If Barack Obama's wife and kids thought they'd be getting his undivided attention during their long-awaited summer holiday, perhaps they should think again.

The US President kicked off his vacation by revealing that, in addition to endless games of tennis and golf, he plans to spend the week ploughing through five books, weighing in at an astonishing 2,300 pages. His summer reading list, unveiled(透露) by the White House, contains two heavyweight works of non–fiction and three novels.

On top of the president’s table is Hot, Flat and Crowded, by New York Times columnist, Thomas Friedman. Subtitled "why we need a green revolution", it makes a leftish（左傾的） call to arms regarding the future of the planet.

Mr Obama's second choice is historian David McCullough's biography of John Adams, the often under-rated second US president, who was the subject of an award-winning HBO docu-drama（紀(jì)實(shí)�。﹍ast year.

The novels include two crime thrillers: Richard Price's Lush Life, and The Way Home, a novel by George Pelecanos set in Washington, DC – which, much like Obama's best-selling autobiography（自傳）, explores the relationship between a father and his son.

Completing the set is the novel Plainsong, by a little-known writer called Kent Haruf. Set in a small town on the Colorado plains, its existence on the reading list may reassure voters that Middle America has not been ignored by their commander-in-chief.

Publishers are keeping an eye on whether the famous "Obama bounce" – which has helped sales at the first family's favourite clothes stores, such as J Crew – will continue to apply to their troubled industry. The President's endorsement（認(rèn)可） is said to have lifted sales of Joseph O'Neill's novel Netherland about cricket in Holland and New York last year.

Given that President Obama has already spent a portion of his week so far playing golf, beating Michelle at tennis, and visiting friends, questions will inevitably(不可避免地) be asked about his ability to put any dent（挫傷） at all in the ambitious reading list.

To finish all five books, he would have to manage more than 300 pages every day – quite an "ask" when a small portion of his time must also be spent running the country.

57. What’s the function of the first paragraph?

58. Which of the following statements is NOT true?   

59. Which of the following was NOT a book the President planned to read?

60. Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?       

—Hello, I’d like to see Doctor Smith at 3 o’clock tomorrow afternoon.

—Sorry, but he ________ a patient at that time.

. The museum he paid a visit _____ at the end of the street.

     A. stand     B. stands       C. to stand   D. to stands.

For more than a hundred years black people had to fight ______ the rights to vote, choose where to live, study and work.

   A. to give    B. to be given   C. giving    D. being given