Three months ago, Mariza Castro left Honduras. Today, she is in the United States and she has a job. Castro works behind the counter at McDoald’s. Speed is an important part of her work life. Fast food counter workers are expected to serve customers in less than a minute. At McDonald’s they say, “Work fast or you don’t last.”

       Are McDonald’s workers lucky to have their jobs? Or are they being exploited? The answer depends on who you talk to.

       McDoald’s does many good things. For example, no other company hires more young people than McDonald’s. More than half of its workers are under 20 years old. McDonald’s also has a good record of hiring minority workers. Thirteen percent of its workers are black. This is better than any other US company.

       But the burger house has its critics as well. The pay bothered Edward Rodriguez. He worked for nearly a year at a Los Angeles McDonald’s. During that time he got only one 10 cent raise. “I used to joke that working for McDonald’s is the closest thing to slave labour in the US today,” he days. Today, most McDonald’s pay about $ 5.00 an hour. They hire new workers constantly. The restaurant has no other choice because 70 percent of its workers quit or are fired every year.

       But McDonald’s also gets its share of praise. Its best workers move up quickly. Just talk to 17 year old Ameer Abdur Razaaq of Harlem, New York City. “They call me ‘Young Crew Chief’ around my block,” he says. “When else can I go at my age and be in charge of this many people?” He sees the job as the first step in his career.

       However, most McDoald’s crew members never make it to manager because the job pressure is so intense, and the rewards so few. As one worker put it, “They expect a lot and they don’t pay you much.”

56．The underlined word “exploited” in Paragraph 2 probably means “          ”.

       A．unfairly treated                                    B．highly respected

       C．carefully cared                                     D．greatly developed

57．Edward Rodriguez said working at McDonald’s is like slave labour because he thought      .

       A．he was not as free as slaves

       B．he worked too long hours like slaves

       C．he was not paid enough for what he was doing

       D．he was working so hard without getting anything

58．Which of the following statements is NOT in favor of McDonald’s?

      A．It hires new workers constantly.

       B．It offers more young people opportunities.

       C．It promotes the best employees, young as they are.

       D．It respects colored people more than other companies.

59．What’s the best title of the passage?

       A．Lucky to Have a Job at McDonald’s.

       B．Work Fast or You Don’t Last.

       C．Young People’s Paradise―McDonald’s.

       D．McDonald’s―Heaven or Hell?

       Mrs Amatuli was my teacher in the fourth grade.

       One day at lunch time, Mrs Amatuli asked me if she could  36  my sandwiches. She explained that I could use the money to buy a   37  lunch from the cafeteria. I was   38. I never bought my lunch at the cafeteria. It was  39   expensive for my family, and I always carried my lunch and brought the bag back home to   40  again the next day.

       You can understand my   41  when I had the opportunity to buy a hot lunch. Kids always   42  about the cafeteria food but I was very  43  of them.

       When we  44  lunch that day, Mrs Amatuli took me aside and said she wanted to   45 why she had bought my sandwiches. I really didn't care why,   46  it gave me a few minutes of her precious  47   so I was very quiet as she explained.

You  48  , she was a Catholic(天主教徒) and she told me that Catholics didn’t eat red meat on Fridays-they ate  49  on Fridays.

Oh, I couldn't   50  to get home and tell my Mama that from then on I wanted fish on Fridays.  51  my Mama understood why, she gladly fixed fish for me on Friday.

From then on, every Friday I could get in  52  with the rest of the kids for a hot lunch. I didn’t care how many of the kids complained about the cafeteria food-it  53  great to me!

I realize now that Mrs Amatuli   54   have fixed herself a fish sandwich on Fridays. She bought my sandwiches because she saw a little girl who was pleased over the simple   55  of having a hot lunch.

To those      in martial arts, the period from 1972 to 1975 is often said     the Bruce Lee era.

       A．involving; being    B．to involve; to be   C．involved; to be     D．involve; being

―You just think of yourself! You kept us waiting for you for over two hours.

―I’m sorry that  you           think so.

       A．would                 B．should                 C．could                  D．might

        our hair cut before the Spring Festival is a traditional custom in China.

       A．To have had         B．Having had          C．Having                D．Have

When on holidays, the railways put on      train to make people’s travel more convenient.

       A．special                B．regular                C．particular             D．unusual

Computers have transformed how we learn,        kids everywhere a window into all of the world’s knowledge.

       A．to give                B．giving                  C．given                  D．being given

Do you doubt       we will defeat Class Two in this basketball match?

       A．if                        B．whether               C．that                     D．which

People around the world         Christmas trees ever since 1510.

       A．decorated                                            B．have decorated    

       C．have been decorated                             D．have been decorating

Never before       in greater need of technical experts than it is today.

       A．has Shenyang been                              B．Shenyang has been

       C．was Shenyang                                     D．Shenyang was