B. 70% of the customers are white-collar employees. C. More firms are open for service during holiday seasons. D. Some firms rent out all their cars during holiday seasons.
58. Shanghai's car rental industry is growing so fast mainly due to ____.
A. better cars supplied by producers B. fast service offered by car rental firms
C. the increasing number of white-collar employees D. people's growing interest in travelling during holidays
B
Holiday makers who are bored with baking beaches and overheated hotel rooms head for a big igloo. Swedish businessman Nile Bergqvist is delighted with his new hotel, the world's first igloo hotel. Built in a small town in Lapland, it has been attracting lots of visitors, but soon the fun will be over.
In two weeks' time Bergqvist's ice creation(作品) will be nothing more than a pool of water. \forward to replacing it.\
Bergqvist built his first igloo in 1991 for an art exhibition. It was so successful that he designed the present one, which measures roughly 200 square meters. Six workmen spent more than eight weeks piling 1,000 tons of snow onto a wooden base; when the snow froze, the base was removed. \only wooden thing we have left in the igloo is the front door, he says.
After their stay, all visitors receive a survival certificate recording their success. With no windows, nowhere to hang clothes and temperatures below 0℃, it may seem more like a survival test than a relaxing(轻松的) hotel break. \The popularity of the igloo is beyond doubt: it is now attracting tourists from all over the world. At least 800 people have stayed at the igloo this
season even though there are only 10 rooms. \explains Bergqvist. \can fit at least four at one time.\
59. Bergqvist designed and built the world's first igloo hotel because ____.
A. he believed people would enjoy trying something new
B. he wanted to make a name for the small town C. an art exhibition was about to open D. more hotel rooms were needed
60. When the writer says \
A. hotel guests will be frightened at the thought of the hard test B. Bergqvist's hotel will soon become a pool of water C. holidaymakers will soon get tired of the big igloo D. a bigger igloo will replace the present one
61. According to the text, the first thing to do in building an igloo is ____.
A. to gather a pool of water B. to prepare a wooden base C. to cover the ground with ice D. to pile a large amount of snow
62. When guests leave the igloo hotel they will receive a paper stating that ____.
A. they have visited Lapland B. they have had an ice-snow holiday C. they have had great fun sleeping on ice D. they have had a taste of adventure
63. Which of the four pictures below is the closest to the igloo hotel as described in the text?(少选项)
C
Many cities around the world today are heavily polluted. Careless
methods of production and lack of consumer demand for environment(环境) friendly products have cont: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New
Rributed to the pollution problem. One result is that millions of tons of glass, paper, plastic, and metal containers are produced, and these are difficult to get rid of.
However, today, more and more consumers are choosing \demanding that the products they buy should be safe for the environment. Before they buy a product, they ask questions like these \damage the environment? \be used once?\
A recent study showed that two out of five adults now consider the environmental safety of a product before they buy it. This means that
companies must now change the way they make and sell their products to make sure that they are \
Only a few years ago, it was impossible to find green products in
supermarkets, but now there are hundreds. Some supermarket products carry labels(标签) to show that the product is green. Some companies have made the manufacturing(生产) of clean and safe products their main selling point and emphasize it in their advertising. The concern for a safer and cleaner environment is making companies rethink how they do business. No longer will the public accept the old attitude of \gradually business is cleaning up its act.
64. It becomes clear from the text that the driving force(动力) behind green products is ____.
A. public caring for environment B. companies' desire for bigger sales C. new ways of doing business D. rapid growth of supermarkets
65. What would be the best title for the text?
A. Business and People. B. Business Goes Green. C. Shopping Habits are Changing. D. Supermarkets and Green Products.
66. The underlined word \
A. a selling point B. the company name
C. a great demand for health
D. the manufacturing of green products
D
If you ask people to name the one person who had the greatest effect on the English language, you will get answers like \Johnson,\
compared to a man who didn't even speak English-William the Conqueror. Before 1066, in the land we now call Great Britain lived peoples belonging to two major language groups. In the west-central region lived the Welsh, who spoke a Celtic language, and in the north lived the Scots, whose language, though not the same as Welsh, was also Celtic. In the rest of the country lived the Saxons, actually a mixture of Anglos, Saxons, and other Germanic and Nordic peoples, who spokwho spoke a e what we now call Anglo-Saxon(or Old English), a Germanic language. If this state of affairs had based, English today would be close to German.
But this state of affairs did not last. In 1066 the Normans led by William defeated the Saxons and began their rule over England. For about a century, French became the official language of English while Old English became the language of peasants. As a result, English words of politics and the law come from French rather than German. In some cases, modern English even shows a distinction(区别) between upper-class French and lower-class Anglo-Saxon in its words. We even have different words for some foods, meat in particular, depending on whether it is still out in the fields or at home ready to be cooked, which shows the fact that the Saxon peasants were doing the farming, while the upper-class Normans were doing most of the eating.
When Americans visit Europe for the first time, they usually find Germany more \
advertisements seems much more different from English than French does. Few realize that the English language is actually Germanic in its beginning and that the French influences are all the result of one an Frman's ambition. 67. The two major languages spoken in what is now called Great Britain before 1066 were ____.
A. Welsh and Scottish
B. Nordic and Germanic D. Anglo-Saxon and Germanic
C. Celtic and Old English
68. Which of the following groups of words are, by inference, rooted in French?
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