【正文】 hat C. why D. when64. The sentence that expresses OFFER is _____.A. I39。ll get some drinks. What39。ll you have? B. Does she need to book a ticket now?C. May I know your name? D. Can you return the book next week?65. Which of the following italicized phrases indicates a subjectpredicate relation (主謂關(guān)系)?A. Mr. Smith39。s passport has been issued.B. The visitor39。s arrival was reported in the news.C. John39。s travel details have not been finalized.D. The new bookstore sells children39。s stories.66. Our office has recently _____ to a new puter system.A. altered B. converted C. transformed D. modified67. The crowd went _____ as soon as the singer stepped onto the stage.A. wild B. emotional C. uncontrolled D. unrestricted68. Our school library is _____ closed for repairs.A. Shortly B. quickly C. temporarily D. rapidly69. John is up to his eves in work at the moment. The underlined part means _____.A. very excited B. very busy C. very tired D. very efficient70. Victoria bumped into her brother quite by chance in the supermarket. The underlined word means _____.A. risk B. opportunity C. possibility D. luck71. Look at those pretty girls39。 skirts is _____, because it is not clear whether the girls or the skirts are pretty.A. ambiguous B. hidden C. indirect D. indistinct72. House repairs, holidays, school fees and other _____ have reduced his bank balance to almost nothing.A. amount B. payment C. expenses D. figures73. It was really _____ of you to remember my birthday.A. grateful B. thoughtful C. considerable D. generous74. You can go to a travel agency and ask for a holiday _____.A. introduction B. advertisement C. book D. brochure75. The city government is building more roads to _____.A. acmodate B. receive C. accept D. hold76. They39。ve lifted a twoyearlong economic _____ on the country.A. enclosure B. restriction C. blockade D. prohibition77. Everyone is surprised that she has fallen out with her boy friend. The underlined part means _____.A. left B. quarreled C. attacked D. defeated78. His plan is carefully prepared and full of details, so it is a very _____ one.A. elaborate B. refined C. ambitious D. plex79. The girl39。s voice was so low that we could ______ hear her.A. seldom B. almost C. only D. barely80. She must have been pretty _____ to fall for such an old trick.A. interested B. gullible C. enthusiastic D. shrewdPART V READING COMPREHENSION [25 MIN]TEXT AWe have a crisis on our hands. You mean global warming? The world economy? No, the decline of reading. People are just not doing it anymore, especially the young. Who39。s responsible? Actually, it39。s more like, What is responsible? The Internet, of course, and everything that es with it – Facebook, Twitter (微博). You can write your own list.There39。s been a warning about the imminent death of literate civilization for a long time. In the 20th century, first it was the movies, then radio, then television that seemed to spell doom for the written world. None did. Reading survived。 in fact it not only survived, it has flourished. The world is more literate than ever before – there are more and more readers, and more and more books.The fact that we often get our reading material online today is not something we should worry over. The electronic and digital revolution of the last two decades has arguably shown the way forward for reading and for writing. Take the arrival of ebook readers as an example. Devices like Kindle make reading more convenient and are a lot more environmentally friendly than the traditional paper book.As technology makes new ways of writing possible, new ways of reading are possible. Interconnectivity allows for the possibility of a reading experience that was barely imaginable before. Where traditional books had to make do with photographs and illustrations, an ebook can provide readers with an unlimited number of links: to texts, pictures, and videos. In the future, the way people write novels, history, and philosophy will resemble nothing seen in the past.On the other hand, there is the danger of trivialization. One Twitter group is offering its followers singlesentencelong digests of the great novels. War and Peace in a sentence? You must be joking. We should fear the fragmentation of reading. There is the danger that the highspeed connectivity of the Internet will reduce our attention span that we will be incapable of reading anything of length or which requires deep concentration.In such a fastchanging world, in which reality seems to be remade each day, we need the ability to focus and understand what is happening to us. This has always been the function of literature and we should be careful not to let it disappear. Our society needs to be able to imagine the possibility