15. — Tod hadn’t passed the exam and was afraid of being scolded.

— _____.

A. So it was with Jim

B. So was Jim, his classmate

C. It’s the same with Jim

D. Neither had Jim, his classmate

John, look at the time. ___________ you play the piano at such a late hour?

             A．Must        B．Can        C．May         D．Need

Most mornings, the line begins to form at dawn: scores of silent women with babies on their backs, buckets balanced on their heads, and in each hand a bright-blue plastic jug. On good days, they will wait less than an hour before a water tanker goes across the dirt path that serves as a road in Kesum Purbahari, a slum on the southern edge of New Delhi. On bad days, when there is no electricity for the pumps, the tankers don’t come at all. “That water kills people,” a young mother named Shoba said one recent Saturday morning, pointing to a row of pails filled with thick, caramel (焦糖)-colored liquid. “Whoever drinks it will die.” The water was from a pipe shared by thousands of people in the poor neibourhood. Women often use it to wash clothes and bathe their children, but no­body is desperate enough to drink it.

There is no standard for how much water a person needs each day, but ex­perts usually put the minimum at fifty li­tres. The government of India promises (but rarely provides) forty. Most people drink two or three litres—less than it takes to wash a toilet. The rest is typically used for cooking and bathing. Americans consume between four hundred and six hundred litres of water each day, more than any other people on earth. Most Europeans use less than half that. The women of Kesum Purbahari each hoped to drag away a hundred litres that day—two or three buckets’ worth. Shoba has a husband and five children, and that much water doesn’t go far in a family of seven, particularly when the temperature reaches a hundred and ten degrees before noon. She often makes up the difference with bottled water, which costs more than water delivered any other way. Sometimes she just buys milk; it’s cheaper. Like the poorest people every­where, the people of New Delhi’s slums spend a far greater percentage of their incomes on water than anyone lucky enough to live in a house connected to a system of pipes.

46. The underlined word “slum” most likely means ______.

   A. a village      

B. a small town

C. an area of a town with badly-built, over-crowded buildings

   D. the part of a town that lacks water badly

47. Sometimes the water tanker doesn’t come because ______.

   A. the weather is bad

   B. there is no electricity

   C. there is no water

   D. people don’t want the dirty water

48. A person needs at least ________ litres of water a day.

   A. a hundred          B. four hundred         C. forty          D. fifty

49. Which of the following statements is wrong?

   A. a hundred litres of water a day is enough for Shoba’s family

   B. Americans uses the largest amount of water each day

   C. in Kesum Purbahari milk is cheaper than bottled water

   D. Shoba has a family of seven people

50. The passage mainly tells us ______.

   A. how women in Kesum Purbahari gets their water

   B. how much water a day a person deeds

   C. that India lacks water badly

   D. how India government manages to solve the problem of water

----How is she getting along with her workmates?

-----Quite well. She is very_____ to other people’s feelings.

A.     Active  B.simple  C.sensible  D.sensitive

Some students remember much knowledge but can’t recognize ways to use it in new____.

A.     conditions  B. cases  C. backgrounds  D .situations

---- Here. Your new computer is ready.

----Thank you.

---- _______to call this number if you have any problems or questions.

A.     You are free  B.It is free  C. Feel free  D.Don’t forget

----Were all the toys for the children carried to their kindergarten?

----No,____ only some of them.

A.     It  was  B. they ere  C. there were  D. there was

----Wake up, Tom. Time to rise.

-----I_____ asleep while I was reading.

A. should have fallen   B. must have fallen   C. could fall   D. must fall

Mr. Lin’s comments were very difficult to follow because they were ______related to the topic under discussion.

A.     specifically  B. precisely  C.loosely  D.typically

Among various programs, TV talk shows have covered every inch of space on daytime television. And anyone who watches them regularly knows that each one is different in style. But no two shows are more opposite in content, while at the same time standing out above the rest, than the Jerry Springer and Oprah Winfrey shows.

Jerry Springer could easily be considered the king of "rubbish talk". The topics on his show are as surprising as can be. For example, the show takes the ever-common talk show titles of love, sex, cheating, and hate, to a different level. Clearly, the Jerry Springer show is about the dark side of society, yet people are willing to eat up the troubles of other people's lives.

Like Jerry Springer, Oprah Winfrey takes the TV talk show to its top. But Oprah goes in the opposite direction. The show is mainly about the improvement of society and different quality of life. Contents are from teaching your children lessons, managing your work week, to getting to know your neighbors.

Compared to Oprah, the Jerry Springer show looks like poisonous waste being poured into society. Jerry ends every show with a "final word". He makes a small speech about the entire idea of the show. Hopefully, this is the part where most people will learn something very valuable.

Clean as it is, the Oprah show is not for everyone. The show's main audience are middle-class Americans. Most of the people have the time, money and ability to deal with life's tough problems. Jerry Springer, on the other hand, has more of a connection with the young adults of society. These are 18-to 21year-olds whose main troubles in life include love, relationship, sex, money and drug. They are the ones who see some value and lessons to be learned through the show's exploitation.

46. Compared with other TV talk shows, both the Jerry Springer and the Oprah Winfrey shows are ______.

A. more interesting          B. unusually poplar       C. more detailed           D. more formal

47. Though the social problems Jerry Springer talks about appear unpleasant, people who watch the shows ______.

  A. show disbelief in them                                     B. are ready to face up to them

  C. remain cold to them                                         D. are willing to get away from them

48. Which of the following is likely to be a topic of the Oprah Winfrey show?

  A. A new type of robot.                                        B. National hatred.

  C. Family income planning.                                  D. Street accident.

49. We can learn from the passage that the two talk shows ____.

  A. have become the only ones of its kind                B. exploit the weaknesses in human nature

C. appear at different times of the day                    D. attract different people

50. What is the advantage of the Jerry Springer show?

  A. The show exposes the dark sides of society.

  B. The show pours poisonous waste into society.

  C. Jerry sums up the whole idea of the show.

  D. Jerry talks abou the improvement of society.