58.After the quarrel， things became very( )between Tom and his boss， and as result he had to give up his job.

173.My cousin worked all winter vacation， saving money to( )his hobby of collecting stamps.

A. 　search

B. 　 hunt

C. 　 seek

D. 　 pursue

3. Passage 4 Do you know who Benjamin Banneker was and what he did? Benjamin Banneker was a self-educated scientist at a time when most African Americans were slaves. Born a free black man in the British Colony of Maryland in 1731， he received some formal education， but he mostly borrowed books and taught himself science and mathematics. At 22， he borrowed a pocket watch， and without any training， figured out how to carve a working wooden clock that chimed each hour. Because of this clock， he became well known and people would visit him just to see his creation. Banneker ran his family farm from many years， but when he was in his late 50s， a neighbor‘s son lent him a telescope. He became interested in astronomy， the study of the planets and stars， and again taught himself a new science. He made calculations of tides， sunrises and sunsets， and even predicted an eclipse. For several years he published an almanac of these calculations. Today， he is best known for publishing six almanacs， called ―Benjamin Banneker‘s Almanac‖ between 1792 and 1797. In the 1790s， Banneker also helped survey and lay out the land for Washington， D. C.， which became the nation‘s capital. For a look at Banneker‘s amazing life， visit the Benjamin Banneker Historical Park & Museum in Ellicott City， Maryland. He became famous at the age of 22 because of.

A. 　a watch

B. 　 a telescope

C. 　 a book

D. 　 a clock

69.When you go to a new country， you need to( )to the new manners and customs.

A. 　recognize

B. 　 foster

C. 　 conceive

D. 　 adapt

135.John was asked to( )the man who stole his wallet.

A. 　recognize

B. 　 claim

C. 　 confirm

D. 　 identify

46.Unemployment has come down slightly， but this does not( )the fact that it is still a major problem.

A. 　cite

B. 　 confirm

C. 　 alter

D. 　 replace

4. Passage 13 The favorite food in the United States is hamburger. The favorite place to buy a hamburger is a fast food restaurant. At a fast food restaurant， people order their food， wait a few minutes， and carry it to their tables themselves. People also take their food out of the restaurant and eat it in their cars or in their homes. At some fast food restaurants， people can order their food， pay for it and pick it up without leaving their cars. There are many kinds of fast food restaurants in the United States. The greatest in number sell hamburgers， French fries and so on. They are popular food among Americans. Besides， Italian food， chicken， seafood and ice-cream are very popular， too. The idea of a fast food restaurant is so popular that nearly every kind of food can be found in one. Fast food restaurants are popular because they reflect American life style. Customers can wear any type of dress when they go to a fast food place. Second， they are fast. People who are busy do not want to spend time preparing their own food or waiting while someone prepares it. In fast food restaurants the food is usually ready before the customer even orders it. Finally most food in a fast food restaurant is not expensive. Therefore people are able to buy and eat at a fast food restaurant often， while they may not be able to go to a more expensive restaurant very often. Is the food in fast food restaurants always ready before the customers order it?

A. 　Yes， it is.

B. 　 No， it is seldom ready.

C. 　 Yes， it is cooked to order.

D. 　 No， not always， but usually.

170.If you don‘t take away all your things from the desk， there won‘t be enough( )for my stationery.

A. 　area

B. 　 place

C. 　 room

D. 　 surface

37.Tom( )communicating with others. But now he is quite sociable.

A. 　is used to have problems

B. 　 used to have problems

C. 　 is used to having problems

D. 　 used to having problems

1. Passage 2 Man has always wanted to fly. Some of the greatest men in history had thought about the problem. One of them， for example， was the great Italian artist， Leonardo Da Vinci. In the 16th century he made designs for machines that would fly， but they were never built. Throughout history， other less famous men had wanted to fly. An example was a man in England 800 years ago. He made a pair of wings from chicken feathers. Then he fixed them to his body and jumped into air from a tall building. He did not fly very far. Instead， he fell to the ground and broke every bone of his body and rested in peace. The first real step took place in France， in 1783. Two brothers， the Montgolfiers， made a very large ―hot air balloon‖. They knew that hot air rises. Why not fill a balloon with it? The balloon was made of cloth and paper. In September of that year， the King and Queen of France came to see the balloon. They watched it carry the very first air passengers into the sky. The passengers were a sheep and a chicken. We do not know how they felt about the trip. But we do know that the trip lasted eight minutes and that the animals landed safely. Two months later， two men did the same thing. They rose above Paris in a balloon of the same kind. Their trip lasted twenty-five minutes and they traveled about. Leonardo Da Vinci( ).

A. 　said that man would fly in the sky one day

B. 　built a kind of machine which never flew

C. 　made designs for flying machines

D. 　drew many beautiful pictures of birds

5. Passage 20 Clifford Stoll ran a computer system in Berkelely， California. As a system administrator， he kept a close eye on the records. One day， Stoll found something strange in the payment record. There was a 75 cents mistake. One of the thousands of users had used the system for 75 worth of time and not paid for it. It might sound like very little money to worry about. But that 75 cents was the first clue Stoll had to a much bigger problem — that a hacker(黑客)had broken into Stoll‘s computer system. Who was it? Stoll spent the next year trying to find out. During that time the hacker used the system in Berkelely as a starting point to break into military computer systems all over the United States. Stoll had to keep track of the hacker‘s activities on the computer without the hacker‘s knowing someone was watching him. Stoll even made up huge files of false information so the hacker would have lots to read. When the hacker spent long time reading， the telephone company was able to trace the lines. After a year， the hacker was traced back to his computer — in Germany. He was later caught by the German police. Why did Stoll make up huge files of false information?

A. 　He wanted to give the hacker a lesson.

B. 　It would help the telephone company trace the line.

C. 　It would give the police more time to find out the hacker.

D. 　He could watch the hacker‘s activities more closely.