FIND OUT THE MISTAKE IN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE

40. Find out the mistake in the following sentence:

The more science and technology advance, the small the world seems to be.

A B C D

Question 3: READING (40 points)

Part a: Fill in the blank with a suitable word to complete the passage. (20 points)

China is the most populous country of the world. Its (41) ………. is approximately 1.3 billion

people, which is almost 22% of the (42)…… population. The population density is high in the southeast:

43 percent of the land contains most of its population. A quarter of the population (43) …China is in the

middle and lower parts of the Yangtze River, and the population density (44)…….. 663 people per

square kilometer. Shanghai is China's largest city, (45) ….. population density reaches 2,118 people per

square kilometer.

China's population growth rate has (46)………. in the past years, although its population is still

increasing. In the 1970s, the government started to implement birth (47)………programs to the people:

late marriage, late childbearing, a one-child family, and a four-year period between two (48) …… in the

countryside where each couple may have more than one child, According to the report of Major Figures

of Population of China, the annual growth rate of China's population (49)……from 25.83% (in 1070)

down to 11.21% (in 1994) and to 8.77% (in 1999) in the past 20 years. This should be (50) ………..a

great success.

Answer:

41 ………. 42………. 43……… 44……….. 45…………..

46……….. 47………. 48……… 49……….. 50…………..

Part b: Choose the item among A, B, C or D that best answers the question of the passage:(10

points)

Throughout the United States, the number of places where people are allowed to smoke has gradually

become smaller and smaller. First, it was banned on trains, buses, and planes, then in public places such

as theatres and airports. Now you can't smoke in any workplace. Nonsmokers are definitely winning the

battle. "Why should we breathe their smoke?", they say.

If they are lucky, smokers can still find some bars and restaurants where they can light up a cigarette,

but it may soon be banned there, too. Anti-smoking groups even think that smoking ought to be banned

in people's homes.

Under new plans you won't be able to smoke where there are more than ten visitors in a week, or where

there are children. In 1996, nicotine was classed as drug, like cocaine or heroin. In the country that gave

tobacco to the world, smoking might one day illegal.