Some　old　people　don't　like　pop　songs　because　they　can't＿＿so　much  noise．　　

A)resist?     B)sustain?      C)tolerate?      D)undergo

--- Do you want to go out tonight?

  　--- ______; it’s up to you.

  　A. Yes, I want to              B. That’s all right 

  　C. I’m easy                   D. No problem

It happened to be very cold ___ the morning of our sports meet.

    A. at    B. on    C.in      D.with

One of the political issues that is heard a lot about in the States lately is campaign（競選）finance reform（改革）. The people who are  36  for reform usually want the  37  to pay for campaigns and/or limit the amount of money that candidates（候選人）and their  38  can spend.

One reason that reform is called for is that it costs so much to  39  for political office. Candidates have to spend a great deal of time and effort  40  money. The incumbents (those already in office) have less time to do chief jobs since they must  41  so many money raising events.

Another  42  is the fear that candidates will be owned or  43  by the “special interest groups” that give money to their campaigns. Sometimes this certainly seems to be the  44 .

On the  45  side are those who say that it doesn’t mean it’s really  46  just because you call something “reform”. They argue that the right to freedom of speech is  47  if the government can limit anyone’s ability to get his or her message out to the people.

If one person or a group of people want to tell the  48  what they think about an issue or candidate, they have to buy  49  on TV, radio, and in newspapers and magazines. They might want to put up advertisements along highways and on websites. All this costs a lot of  50 .

Those against laws that control or limit spending say that you don’t really have freedom of  51  or freedom of the press if you can’t get your message out. They say the government should never be able to control  52  discussions. They believe that this is most important when the voters are about to make  53 .

What do you think about this  54 ? Listen to what the candidates for national office have to say. Which candidates  55  the most sense to you?

36．A．waiting                   B．calling                    C．standing                  D．preparing

37．A．government            B．president                 C．candidates               D．citizens

38．A．leaders                   B．bosses                     C．supporters               D．states

39．A．pay                        B．compete                  C．wait                       D．work

40．A．raising                    B．earning                   C．giving                    D．getting

41．A．notice                     B．report                     C．guard                            D．a(chǎn)ttend

42．A．event                      B．cost                        C．reason                    D．office

43．A．encouraged             B．forced                    C．controlled               D．ordered

44．A．joke                       B．purpose                  C．case                        D．example

45．A．other                      B．same                      C．a(chǎn)nother                   D．different

46．A．worse                     B．better                            C．easier                     D．harder

47．A．meaningless            B．unimportant            C．unnecessary             D．impossible

48．A．reporters                 B．truth                       C．story                      D．public

49．A．time                       B．copies                     C．rights                            D．a(chǎn)dvertising

50．A．energy                    B．effort                            C．time                       D．money

51．A．a(chǎn)rgument                B．opinion                   C．speech                    D．election

52．A．common                 B．political                  C．general                   D．special

53．A．profit                            B．trouble                   C．plans                      D．decisions

54．A．quarrel                   B．problem                  C．issue                       D．a(chǎn)ffair

55．A．find                       B．make                      C．create                     D．produce

According to a UN report, a third of the world population have no ______ to clean drinking water and health care．

A．means             B．a(chǎn)pproach                 C．channel            D．a(chǎn)ccess

I tried hard to get some information about the new technology out of his mouth, but he remained        ．

A．quiet       B．still C．silent D．calm  

 It is generally believed that teaching is ___________it is a science.

A.  an art much as   B. much an art as    C. as an art much as    D. as much an art as

The number of people invited __________ fifty, but a number of them __________ absent for different reasons.

A.  were ; was      B. was ; was      C. was ; were      D. were ; were

Someone called me up in the middle of the night, but they hung up_________I could answer the phone.

A. as           B. since         C. before        D. until

When a pencil is partly in a glass of water, it looks as if it _______.

A.  breaks    B. has broken     C. were broken      D. had been broken