Fifteen people were killed and 38 others injured in a road accident early Wednesday morning in Enshi， Central China's Hubei Province．
The bus， travelling from Wanzhou in Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality to Shenzhen in South China's Guangdong Province， had 53 passengers on board， three more than permitted．
At around 1 am on Wednesday， the bus increased speed gradually on a curve（弯路）and plunged（往前冲） more than 30 metres into a valley below． Thirteen people， including one of the two drivers， died at once． Two others died on the way to hospital．
Although the cause of the accident is still unclear， the local police said the driver paid no attention to the official warning signs on the expressway(高速公路)．
It hit a section which had been closed as a result of snow．
Because of the cold weather and icy roads，the expressway had been closed by police since Tuesday morning． But the bus drivers took the dangerous route， paying no attention to the warnings．
The rescue team， which included more than 30 medical workers and 120 local villagers，joined together and rushed to the scene at the news of the accident． By 5 am， all of the injured had been sent to three local hospitals for emergency treatment． A hospital source said most of the patients were in a stable（稳定的）condition but a few were still in danger．
According to a 2009 national public opinion poll， traffic accidents ranked as people's third biggest security（安全） concern．
1. When the accident took place，＿＿＿＿．
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A．the bus was on the way to Shenzhen |
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B．most of the passengers were sound asleep |
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C．all the passengers were given immediate rescue |
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D．it was snowing hard |
2. The expressway was closed to ＿＿＿＿．
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A．protect the passengers from being frozen |
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B．make the police have a good rest |
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C．stop cars traveling around |
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D．avoid（避免） the happening of traffic accidents |
3. What the local villagers did showed that they were ＿＿＿＿．
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A．curious（好奇的） |
B．warm hearted |
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C．frightened |
D．simple minded |
Not many years ago, a wealthy and rather strange old man named Johnson lived alone in a village in the south of England. He had made a lot of money in trading with foreign countries. When he was seventy—five, he gave £ 12,000 to the village school to buy land and equipment (设备) for a children’s playground.
As a result of his kindness, many people came to visit him. Among them was a newspaperman. During their talk, Johnson remarked that he was seventy-five and expected to live to be a hundred. The newspaperman asked him how he managed to be healthy at seventy—five. Johnson had a sense of humour (幽默). He liked whisky (威士忌酒) and drank some each day. “I have an injection (注射) in my neck each evening.”he told the newspaperman, thinking of his evening glass of whisky.
The newspaperman did not understand what Johnson meant. In his newspaper he reported that Johnson was seventy—five and had a daily injection in his neck. Within a week Johnson received thousands of letters from all over Britain, asking him for the secret of his daily injection.
1.Johnson became a rich man through
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A．doing business. |
B．making whisky. |
C．cheating. |
D．buying and selling land. |
2.The gift of money to the school suggests that Johnson
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A．had no children. |
B．was a strange man. |
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C．was very fond of children. |
D．wanted people to know how rich he was. |
3.Many people wrote to Johnson to find out
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A．why he gave so much money to the school. |
B．how to live longer. |
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C．how to become wealthy. |
D．in which part of the neck to have an injection. |
4. The newspaperman
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A．should have reported what Johnson had told him. |
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B．shouldn’t have asked Johnson what injection he had. |
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C．was eager to live a long life. |
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D．should have found out what Johnson really meant. |
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With the 1._____________ (develop) of industry, air pollution is getting more 2._________ more serious. In Beijing, many people suffer different kinds of illnesses because
3.________ air pollution.
Air pollution is caused by the following 4.________[ reason]: about half 5.________ the problem is caused by vehicles. There are more and more cars, buses on the roads, and they give off poisonous gases. 25% of air pollution is caused by factories. Another factor is the smokers.
6._________[Smoke] not only does harm to their health but also to others. Besides these, about 10%of air pollution is caused by other reasons.
We should take some measures to fight 7.__________ pollution. New fuel[燃料] can
8.________[use] to replace[代替] gas. We can plant more trees. 9.________ everybody realizes the importance of environment and does something to stop pollution, 10.________ problem will be solved.
Jody was ten years old when he decided he needed a job. He thought it might be 36 to raise worms. He could sell them to farmers and people who fished. So in 37 , he bought many worms. But that winter the cold weather killed all the worms because he had not 38 them in a warm place.
The next spring Jody 39 again. He bought more worms, which he took good care of. When winter came, he took them inside 40 they would stay warm. Many people bought his worms.
One day when Jody was twelve, he got a letter. It was from state of New York. The letter said, “Everyone who 41 things has to pay taxes!” Jody made only one dollar selling worms. But he still 42 to pay part of that money to the state. He told many people in his town what had ___43 . Soon some people from a television station 44 with Jody. Many people saw it and they began to write letters to the state. The letters now said that the law was 45 . Finally the law was changed. Children like Jody can now sell things without paying money to the state.
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Xiao Wang suggested a way to solve the _________.
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