LOS ANGELES, the US
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff ruled Michael Jackson’s father can receive some medical records related to his superstar son’s death．The judge will review the records first before making them accessible to Joe Jackson’s lawyer，Brian Oxman．Beckloff said the man can only receive records on or after June 25一the day Michael Jackson died．
VANCOUVER，CANADA
World number one Zhou Yang overcame three South Korean players to win the women’s short track speed skating 1,500 meters final at the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games．The l8-year-old made perfect debut(首次亮相)as she set an Olympic record of a winning time of 2 minutes and l6,993 seconds among other seven skaters．
China has never won the women’s l,500 meters in the Olympics before，and this time Zhou’s performance gave China its third gold medal in Vancouver．
BElJING，CHINA
China’s first compulsory,(强制性的)safety regulation on primary school buses，which requires every seat to have a seat belt，will take effect on July l to help ensure safer transportation for the country’s 100 million students．
Each primary school bus must also be equipped with a “black box”，0r a recording monitor，to record speed，travel time and distance．Also，the bus must be staffed by teachers who will ensure student safety．In addition，the new rule states that the color of the school buses should be yellow，and each bus must have at least two emergency exits．
Texas，the US
A software engineer who crashed his plane into a Texas building housing a United States tax agency office，killing himself and at least one worker，apparently left behind an angry anti-government manifesto(宣言) detailing his financial difficulties and tax problems．The pilot took off from an airport in Georgetown．about 48 km from Austin．He flew low over the Austin skyline before plowing into the building．
1.We can learn from the first news that_________．
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A．all Michael Jackson’s medical records can be accessed |
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B．Mitchell Beckloff will not go over the record first |
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C．Joe Jackson’s lawyer will not get any records |
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D．medical records before June 25 won’t be received |
2.The new school bus safety rules include all the followings EXCEPT_____________.
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A．the color of the bus |
B．the equipment of the bus |
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C．the driver’s experience |
D．emergency exits |
3.It seems the software engineer crashed into the US tax office mainly because of___________.
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A．unhappy marriage |
B．financial and tax problems |
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C．heavy work pressure |
D．mental disease |
4.We can infer from the news that____________.
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A．Joe Jackson will be the first to receive the medical records |
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B．the tax agency office is somewhere inside the building in Texas |
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C．Zhou Yang once broke the Olympic records in the same event |
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D．the software engineer flew high over skyline before crashing into the building |
A new system that scans customers’ fingerprints and subtracts（减去）the grocery bill from their bank accounts has taken supermarkets in Germany to use the new system. “Almost a quarter of our customers pay with their fingers,” said an employee at the headquarters. Edeka has tried the system at 70 of its supermarkets. It says it will introduce it at 200 others because customers like it.
“At first we thought that only the young who really keep up with the latest technology would be interested, but we were wrong,” said Stefan Sewoester from IT Werke. “Almost two-thirds of the people who use the system are 40 and older,” he said.
IT Werke, a computer company, is one of the pioneers of fingerprint payment software in Germany. It has helped about 150 shops, canteens and bars to put in the fingerprint scanning machines. Each costs about 2,000 euros.
To sign up for the service, customers must have their fingerprints taken and leave their addresses and banking details with the shop. The shop then takes the cost of goods directly out of the customer’s bank account.
“It is especially a good thing for elderly people. Now they do not have to remember their pin to pay with their bank cards, or to scratch around for their glasses or cash.” Sewoester said.
The stores benefit from the system too. It saves more than time in the check-out line. It also cuts out the hidden costs of accepting electronic card payments.
1.According to the passage, the fingerprint system______.
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A．was invented by the Edeka supermarket chain |
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B．has caused payment revolution in Germany |
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C．is more popular with young people |
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D．is preferred by most American customers |
2.To apply to pay with fingers, customers are required to do all of the following EXCEPT______.
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A．have their fingerprints taken |
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B．leave their addresses |
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C．give the shop information about the bank accounts |
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D．have their phones connected with computers |
3.Why do elderly people benefit much from the fingerprint machine?
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A．They will spend less time on shopping.. |
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B．They are not forgetful. |
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C．They don’t like to pay in cash |
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D．They always fail to find their bank cards. |
When I come across a good article in reading newspapers, I often want to cut and keep it．But just as I am about to do so, I find the article on the 36 side is as much interesting．It may be a discussion of the way to 37 in good health, or 38 about how to behave and conduct oneself in society．If I cut the front article, the opposite one is likely to 39 damage, leaving out half of it or keeping the text 40 the title．Therefore, the scissors would 41 before they start, 42 halfway done when I find out the 43 result．
Sometimes two things are to be done at the same time, both worth your 44 ．You can only take up one of them, the other has to wait or be 45 up．
But you know the future is unpredictable—the changed situation may not allow you to do what is left 46 ．Thus you are 47 in a difficult position and feel sad．How 48 that nice chances and brilliant ideas should gather around all at once? It may happen that your life 49 greatly on your preference of one choice to the other．
In fact that is what 50 is like: we are often 51 with the two opposite sides of a thing which are both desirable like a newspaper cutting．It often occurs that your attention is drawn to one thing only 52 we get into another．The 53 may be more important than the latter and give rise to divided mind．I 54 remember a philosopher's remarks: "When one door shuts, another opens in life．" So a casual 55 may not be a bad one．
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_________surprises us most is that she doesn’t even know _________the difference between the two lies.
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It’s beyond words. Nowhere else in the world _______ such a wonderful house!
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