单选题 EVENTS{{B}}Bicycle tour and race{{/B}} A bike tour and race will be held on July 26 and 27 ( Sat. & Sun. ). At 4:30 a.m. the riders will leave Tiananmen Square and ride the first 35 kilometers as a training {{U}}leg{{/U}}. Then the next 55-ki-lometre leg, from Yanjiao to Jixian, will be the first competitive (竞争性的) part of the tour. The riders and their bikes will then be taken from Jixian to Changli. The second racing leg of the tour will be from Changli to the seaside at Nandaihe, covering a distance of 20 kilometers. Saturday night includes the stay at Nandaihe and supper. Sunday morning is free at the seaside. At noon ail the people and their bikes will be taken back to Beijing. Cost: 200 yuan Telephone: 4675027 {{B}}Brazilian footballers{{/B}} The Brazilian Football Club will play Beijing Guoan Team at the Workers Stadium on July 26. The club has several national team players. Also coming is 1994 US World Cup star Romario who has promised to play for at least 45 minutes. Ticket prices: 60 yuan, 100 yuan, 150 yuan Time/Date: 4:30 p. m. , July 26 ( Sat. ) Telephone: 5012372 {{B}}Rock climbing{{/B}} The Third National Rock Climbing Competition will be held on July 26～27 at the Huairou Mountain climbing Training Base. More than 10 teams from Beijing, Wuhan, Daiian, Jilin and other places will take part in it. A Japanese team will give an exhibition of climbing. Free for spectators (观众). Take a long-distance bus from Dongzhimen to Huairou. Time/Dates:9～12 a. m. , July 26 and 27 Telephone: 7143177, 7144850, Wang Zhenghua

单选题What are they talking about?

单选题With the support of our readers, China Today has become successful in helping the world learn about China, and has built a bridge of friendship between the people of China and the rest of the world. Every day we receive many letters from our readers expressing their admiration (赞赏，钦佩) for China and their suggestions for improving the quality of the magazine. Some letters are published in "Postbag" while others are kept for reference (参考). Many readers have suggested contests (竞赛) to develop closer contact between readers and editors. We held a History and Tourism Contest in 1995 and a China Trivia Contest in 1996. We received warm responses to both. This year, China Today is holding a Reading Contest. Questions, chosen from articles published this year, will appear every three issues. Entrants must mail their answers before January 31, 1999. Fifty entries with correct answers to all questions will be selected as prize winners. All winners will be named in the April 1999 issue.

单选题The more people surveyed, ______ meaningful are the results.

单选题What time was it?

单选题—Beg your pardon, please. I didn't quite catch what you said. —Oh, I just______to myself. A. talked B. am talking C. was talking D. had teen talked

单选题 阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。 {{B}}Bringing Art into Hospitals{{/B}} The medical world is gradually realizing that the quality of the{{U}} (36) {{/U}}in hospitals may play an important{{U}} (37) {{/U}}to help patients to get better. As{{U}} (38) {{/U}}of nationwide effort in Britain to bring{{U}} (39) {{/U}}out{{U}} (40) {{/U}}the museums and into{{U}} (41) {{/U}}places, some of the country's best artists have{{U}} (42) {{/U}}in to change older hospital and to soften the{{U}} (43) {{/U}}edges of modern buildings. Of the 2500 national health service hospitals in Britain, almost 100 now have very valuable collections of present art in passages, waiting areas and treatment rooms. These recent movements first{{U}} (44) {{/U}}by one artist, Peter Senior, who set up his studio at a Manchester hospital on northeastern England during the early 1970s. He felt the artist had lost his place in modern society, and{{U}} (45) {{/U}}he should be enjoyed by a wider audience. A common hospital waiting room might have{{U}} (46) {{/U}}5 000 visitors each week, what a better place to hold regular exhibitions of art! Senior held the first exhibition of his own paintings in the out-patients waiting area of the Manchester Royal Hospital in 1975. Believed to lie Britain's first hospital artist, Senior was so much{{U}} (47) {{/U}}that he was soon joined{{U}} (48) {{/U}}a team of six young art school graduates. The effect is{{U}} (49) {{/U}}, now in file{{U}} (50) {{/U}}and waiting rooms the visitors{{U}} (51) {{/U}}a full view of fresh colors, playful images and restful countyards. The quality of the environment may{{U}} (52) {{/U}}the used for expensive drugs when a patient is{{U}} (53) {{/U}}from all illness. A study has shown that{{U}} (54) {{/U}}who halt a view onto garden needed half the number of strong pain killers compared{{U}} (55) {{/U}}patients who had no view at all or only a brick wall to look at.

单选题Howmanytiesdoesthemanhaveatleast?

单选题-- Tom, I'm afraid you should improve your English. You need some time to practice. --______.

单选题What is the woman waiting for?

单选题--The window is dirty. --I know. It ______ for weeks.

单选题Sometimes we are asked______the likely result of the event will be.

单选题—What is the book about?—It concerns______your money.

单选题I remember you were ______ in the south, weren't you?[A] brought up[B] brought in[C] taken up[D] taken away

单选题Whatdoesthewomanmean?

单选题The students are ______ to hand in the exercises before class.

单选题阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选([A]、[B]、[C]、[D])中选出最佳选项。{{B}}A{{/B}} Percy, and Florence Arrowsmith, who celebrated their 80th wedding anniversary Wednesday, say the secrets of the world's longest marriage are don't sleep on an argument, always share a kiss and hold hands before going to bed. Percy Arrowsmith, 105, and his 100-year-old wife were married on June 1,1925. They met at their church in Hereford in western England. Queen Elizabeth 11 sent her congratulations to the Arrowsmiths, who celebrated their anniversary at home with coffee and snacks and with family and friends. "What a splendid achievement. I send you my warm congratulations and best wishes for your 80th wedding an- niversary,'' the Queen said. The Arrowsmiths, who have three children, six grandchildren and nine great grandchildren, claim the key to their long marriage is not to go to sleep on an argument. They say they always kiss each other and hold hands each night before going to bed. "He can't settle down if I'm not holding his hand," Florence Arrowsmith said, "I think we're very blessed. We still love one another, that's the most important part." Asked for their secret, Florence said you must never be afraid to say "sorry". The couple's daughter Jane Woolley said her parents were both very perky. "She says she can't dance any longer but it feels good to have been married for 80 years," Woolley said. "She says she can still have a drink." Guinness World Records said the pair held records for the longest marriage for a living couple and the oldest total age of a married couple.