【正文】 ption49. A. In addition B. Above all C. Generally D. However50. A. current B. immediate C. present D. quickPART IV GRAMMAR amp。t win the match.C. Linda has worked for the firm for twenty years.D. He set out for Beijing yesterday.54. When you have finished with the book, don39。t you D. won39。s getting late. I39。ll get some drinks. What39。s passport has been issued.B. The visitor39。s travel details have not been finalized.D. The new bookstore sells children39。 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。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 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。 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 of someone utterly in tune with modern technology but able to make sense of a dynamic, confusing world.In the 15th century, Johannes Guttenberg39。ll admit spring cleaning is a difficult notion for modern families to grasp. Today39。t wait. The temperature has risen just enough to melt snow but not enough for Little League practice to start. Some flowers are peeking out of the thawing ground, but there is no lawn to seed, nor garden to tend. Newly wakened from our winter39。s first light, which has to do with melatonin, the sleepytime hormone (激素) our bodies produce when it39。s light es, the melatonin diminishes, and suddenly we are awakened to the dusty, virusfilled house we39。s arrival. I speak to them about life39。t been properly cleaned since the first snowfall.I39。s finally grasped the concept. Maybe he39。s going to Florida for a break in a couple of weeks and he39。t wait”?A. Because there will be more activities when it gets warmer.B. Because the air is fresher and the breeze is lighter.C. Because the whole family is full of energy at spring time.D. Because the snow is melting and the ground is thawing.89. Which of the following interpretations of the biologists39。s overall reaction to her adult son39。s prosperous and increasingly conservative Japan, the traditional omiai kekkon, or arranged marriage, is thriving.But there is a difference. In the original omiai, the young Japanese couldn39。ai kekkon, or love