【正文】 but 24. Why are your group so happy? Our group ________ theirs in the oral English petition. A. has won B. have gained C. has beaten D. have defeated 25. As is known to us all, _______ life in _______ modern world is easier in some ways than _______ life our grandparents lived. A. the。 the B. a。 the C. / 。 the D. the。 the 26. Ugly papers sold on streets are another problem of pollution. Young readers should ________ them. A. throw away B. keep away C. break off D. get rid of 27. Tom looked at Jenny, tears ______ his eyes, and shouted out the words _______ in his heart for years. A. filling。 hidden C. filling。 hiding 28. Yao Ming has begun his new season in NBA. Yes, he couldn39。t think much of _______ you bought. A. the one B. it C. that D. which 31. I wonder why Mr. Green looks quiet in class. I39。 are B. have been。 are D. had been。 that B. that。 that D. / 。 Certainly dustmen prefer to be known as Reuse Collection and Disposal Officers（垃圾回收處理官員） . You may think that this is rather 36________ , and it is better to call a spade a spade. But dustmen can be as 37________ as people of any other occupation（職業(yè)） , though we must 38________ that their job is not a 39________ one in the world. We often take dustmen for granted. Perhaps because they usually e very early in the morning, before most people are 40________ . We are likely to fet their 41________ . Our dustbins are 42________ regularly, but we 43________ stop to think about the men who do this. However, it is one of the most important jobs in the world, and when there are no dustmen to 44________ the rubbish, the general 45________ soon bees aware that something is wrong. Recently, the dustmen of England went on strike for higher wages. During the first few days it was regarded as a 46________ . But when the first two weeks had passed, and the dustbins were overflowing in nearly every backyard in the country, the joke did not seem so 47________ any more. 48________ the strike continued, people could not 49________ the hills of rubbish around their dustbins, and they looked for other places in which to 50________ it. Even Leicester Square, in the heart of West End of London, was 51________ high with plastic bags full of smelly rubbish. This was a(n) 52________ attraction that the people of London were not at all 53________ to see. Even when the strike was over, it took several weeks for the country to get cleaned up pletely. Perhaps now the English people 54________ the work of their dustmen rather more 55________ and won39。 A Priscilla Ouchida39。s eyes burned. Her throat was often dry. She suffered from headaches and could hardly sleep. It was as though she had suddenly developed a strange illness. Experts finally find the cause of her illness. The level of formaldehyde（甲醛） gas in her kitchen was twice the largest amount allowed by federal standards for chemical workers. The source of the gas? Her new kitchen cabi and walltowall carpeting. The Ouchidas suffered the effects of indoor air pollution, which is not given enough attention partly because of the nation39。t new. The indoor environment was dirty long before energy saving came along, says Moschandreas, a pollution scientist at Geomet Technologies in Maryland. Energy saving has worsened the situation in some cases. The problem appears to be more troublesome in newly constructed homes rather than old ones. Back in the days when energy was cheap, home builders didn39。s house________ . A. is well worth the money spent on its construction B. is almost faultless from the point of energy saving C. failed to meet energy saving standards D. was designed and constructed in a scientific way 57. What made the Ouchida39。t people care about cracks in the past? A. Because indoor cleanness was not emphasized. B. Because energy used to be inexpensive. C. Because environmental protection was not taken into consideration. D. Because they had to build their houses in that way. 59. This passage is most probably taken from an article with the title _______. A. Energy Saving B. House Building C. Air Pollution Indoors D. Traps in Building Construction B WASHINGTONLaura Straub is a very worried woman. Her job is to find families for French teenagers who expect to live with American families in the summer. It39。s so exciting to skate in Paris. Everyone skates so fast and puts in their best efforts! he said. The Paris Roller is well known because of the huge attendance, the presence of marshals and the police protection. Paris is a great city for rollerskating because of its long wide streets and smooth surfaces. Rollerskating is also being more popular in China among young people and children. Skating fans39。m beginning to think whether my grandmother was right when she plains, as she frequently does, that children nowadays aren39。 Granny and h