You will find the map of great ____ especially when you get lost in a strange place.

    A. price    B. cost C. value    D. count

      __on a chair, he read an interesting storybook.

A. Sitting          B. To sit            C. Sat            D. Having sat

Pop music is the name for different forms of popular, commercial(商業(yè)) music. It had its beginning in the USA and spread throughout the whole world during the 1950s and 1960s. It is widely liked by the young people. The best known early form of pop music was “rock’ n’ roll”; another was “blues”. A more recent development is “folk-rock”. Pop music has taken the place of native music in many parts of the world; it has caused the number of people for jazz to become much smaller than it was in the 1950s and earlier, and it has now begun to rule musical stage productions. It’s a big industry. Much pop music is without artistic value, but the work of some pop singers, e.g. the Beatles, Bob Dylan, the groups like Floyd and Crosby, Stills and Nash, is on a higher musical level. And there is still a great interest in it today. Pop music concerts and festivals are held all over the world.

All of the following forms belong to pop music EXCEPT __________________.

A. blues                    B. rock’ n ’roll           C. jazz               D. folk-rock

According to the article, the number of people for jazz in the 1950s and earlier was ___________ it is today.

   A. much greater than   B. much smaller than    C. as great as     D. as small as

Which of the following is TRUE?

   A. No pop music is on a high musical level.

   B. Much pop music is very artistic.

   C. Pop music is highly artistic.

   D. Not all pop music is without artistic value.

“It is a big industry” means that _______________.

   A. it makes a lot of musical instruments (樂器)

B. it is a big musical and commercial business

C. the pop singers are very hard-working

D. pop music is on a very high musical level

Letterboxes are much more _______ in the UK than in the US, where most people have a mailbox instead.

A. common         B. ordinary         C. normal           D. usual

Many years ago, when I was fresh out of school and working in Denver, I was driving to my parents’ home in Missouri for Christmas. I stopped at a gas station(加油站) about 50 miles from Oklahoma City, where I was planning to stop and visit a friend. While I was standing in line at the cash register(收款臺), I said hello to an older couple who were also paying for gas.

I took off, but had gone only a few miles when black smoke poured from the back of my car. I stopped and wondered what I should do. A car pulled up behind me. It was the couple I had spoken to at the gas station. They said they would take me to my friend’s. We chatted on the way into the city, and when I got out of the car, the husband gave me his business card.

I wrote him and his wife a thank-you note for helping me. Soon afterward, I  received a Christmas present from them. Their note that came with it said that helping me had made their holidays meaningful.

Years later, I drove to a meeting in a nearby town in the morning. In late afternoon I returned to my car and found that I’d left the lights on all day, and the battery(電池) was dead. Then I noticed that the Friendly Ford dealership—a shop selling cars—was right next door. I walked over and found two salesmen in the showroom.

“Just how friendly is Friendly Ford?”I asked and explained my trouble. They quickly drove a pickup truck to my car and started it. They would accept no payment, so when I got home, I wrote them a note to say thanks. I received a letter back from one of the salesmen. No one had ever taken the time to write him and say thank you, and it meant a lot, he said.

The underlined words“took off”in Paragraph  2 mean         .

  A. turned off          B. moved off      C. put up          D. set up

What happened when the author found smoke coming out of his car?

  A. He had it pulled back to the gas station.

  B. The couple sent him a business card.

  C. The couple offered to help him.

  D. He called his friend for help.

The battery of the author’s car was dead because         .

  A. something went wrong with the lights

  B. his meeting lasted a whole day

  C. he forgot to turn off the lights

  D. he drove too long a distance

By telling his own experiences, the author tries to show         .

  A. how to write a thank-you letter

  B. how to deal with car problems

  C. the kind-heartedness of older people

  D. the importance of expressing thanks

----- Can I go back home now? ----- You______ to leave until you ______ your work.

A. won’t allow; finish                  B. won’t be allowed; will finish

C. won’t be allowed; have finished       D. won’t allow; will finish

If you’d like me to do the job for you, I want to ____________ in cash.

   A. get paid     B. paid     C. be paying    D. pay

----Your job_________ open for your return.    ---- Thanks.

A. will be kept    B. will keep    C. had kept        D. had been kept

Last year, the advertising rate _____ by 20 percent．

       A．raised       B．a(chǎn)roused     C．a(chǎn)rose D．rose

He suggested that we ____ the plan later, which suggested that he ____ against it.

       A. discussed; was        B. would discuss; should 

       C. discuss; was                 D. should discuss; should be