【正文】 h 4 tells us that when visiting a foreign country,．it is very unmon for one to encounter embarrassing situationsB．it is hard for one to adapt to the material aspects of life thereC．people often expect tO meet differences in customsD．people expect the same kind of food and weather39．This passage is mainly about____．A．cultural invasion B．the understanding of customsC．business talks D．differences in handshakesPassage TwoMr．Leonard，the principal of the Bedford Academy High School in BedfordStuyvesant，Brooklyn，is a man of many solutions，many of them creative，many of them，apparently, also effective．In New York City, only about 50 percent of students manage to graduate in four years．At Bedford Academy 63 percent of the students qualify for free lunch，a majority of which are being raised by a single mother and another significant number are being raised by someone other than a parent．Yet close to 95 percent of students graduate，and actually every one of those goes on to college．Mr．Leonard does not achieve those results by admitting only hightesting students into his school．Of the students arriving with lower test scores，Mr．Leonard says that he is not looking for the students with the highest grades，or even the best behavior．He? S looking for the ones who understand his basic mission of discipline and respect，and are willing to devote themselves to his regular training course．The Bedford Academy High School is famous for its autonomy．For Mr．Leonard，autonomy means insisting that all entering students spend their Saturday mornings in preparatory classes the summer before they enroll．Autonomy also means an automatic weeklong suspension for any student who “disrespects a female，”said Mr．Leonard．It means requiring struggling students，in the weeks before the Regents exams，to attend studying sessions on Saturday from 9 a．m．until 9 p．m．It means the most senior, experienced teachers，including Mr．Leonard，teach not the school?s academic jewels，but the most struggling students．And autonomy also means the school? S teachers administer almost no homework．Instead they emphasize afterschool tutoring where the teachers Can keep a better eye on whether the student is actually grasping the material． 40．In Mr．Leonard?s school，most of the students who don?t have to pay for lunch____． A．a(chǎn)re adopted children B．a(chǎn)re parentlessC．a(chǎn)re homeless D．have a single parent 41．What can be a good indication of the Bedford School? s success? A．63 percent of its students go on to ．A high percentage of students enjoy free ．All the graduates from the school go on to ．The number of its graduates is twice that of New York High School 42．What does Mr.．Leonard expect from those lowtesting students? A．The highest scores． B．The best ．Respectfulness and discipline． D．Willingness to learn by ．The school insists that students should____．A．leave the school if they fail to respect a woman B．a(chǎn)ttend the preparatory classes in the summer before enrolling C．do their homework to review what they have learned D．e to the school on SundaysPassage ThreePeople joke that no one in Los Angeles reads；everyone watches TV, rents videos，or goes to the movies．The most popular reading material is ic books，movie magazines，and TV guide s．City libraries have only 10 percent of the traffic that car washes have．But how do you explain this? An annual book festival in west Los Angeles is flourishing year after year．People wait half an hour for a parking space to bee available．This outdoor festival，sponsored by a newspaper，occurs every April for one year? s attendance was estimated at 70，000 on Saturday and 75，000 on Sunday．The festival consisted of 280 exhibitors．There were about 90 talks given by authors，with an audience questionandanswer period following each talk．Autograph(親筆簽名)seekers sought out more than 150 food court sold all kinds of popular food and diverse foreign foods，from American hamburgers to Hawaiian shave ice drinks．Except for a $7 parking fee，the festival was free．Even so，some people avoided the food court prices by staying away and having their own sandwiches and came from all over California．One couple drove down from San Francisco．“This is our sixth year here now．We love it，”said the husband．“It?s just fantastic to be in the great outdoors，to be among so many books and authors，and to get some very good deals，too．”The idea for the festival occurred years ago，but nobody knew if it would succeed．Although book festivals were already popular in other US cities，would Los Angeles residents wele one? “The citizens of the city are very unpredictable，”said one of the festival founders．44．The underlined sentence in the first paragraph implies that____．A．city libraries have a very limited number of readers B．only a small proportion of the readers go to libraries by car C．city libraries provide fewer places for Car washes D．city libraries have fewer parking places 45．The outdoor book festival attracts____．A．a(chǎn)utograph seekers and authors only B．people with different interests C．people who love Los Angeles D．people who like cooking 46．At the very beginning，people were____ about the idea for the book festival in Los ．confident B．pessimisticC．uncertain D．indifferent 47．The success of Los Angeles book festival shows that____．A．book reading is still popular in Los AngelesB．Los Angeles people prefer library to book festival C．people attend the book festivals for fun not for readingD．libraries should have food courts to attract more readersPassage FourHave you ever been afraid to talk back when you were treated unfairly? Have you ever bought something just because the salesman talked you into it? Are you afraid to ask someone for a date? 4Many people are afraid to assert themselves(堅(jiān)持己見)．Dr．Robert Alberti，author of Stand Up, Speak Out，and Talk Back, thinks it?s because of their lack of confidence．“Our structure of organization tends to make people distrust themselves．”says Alberti．“There?s always a ?superior? arounda paren