_____ foreigners come to China to visit the Great Wall every year.

Minutes before the decision by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was announced in Moscow, the hotel had already received 50 to 60 such phone calls from would be game-goers gambling on the result. Domestic callers have mainly come from the southern provinces of Guangdong and Fujian. Song said the hotel was not taking reservations, but only noting down names of callers, because seven years was too far in advance. The hotel also may be used by the IOC and would then need to set aside rooms for IOC members, he said.

Beijing will have more than 800 hotels with star ratings before the Olympic Games in 2008. The city currently has 20 five-star hotels, 34 four-star hotels and 338 other hotels with lower ratings. About 70 hotels will be designated to accommodate athletes and Olympic officials during the Games.

In the first paragraph, which of the following is the most possible reason for many people to book rooms in top hotels in Beijing？

A．The 2008 Olympic Games will be hold there.

B．More foreigners want to come to China.

C．People from the United States and Europe are eager to visit China.

D．Those hotels can offer good service.

(阅读理解题)How do you acquire confidence？ Speak English with friends first because with them you can speak freely without feeling shy.Then try your ability with your teachers and with foreigners if you have an opportunity to meet them.Don’t be afraid of mistakes.Nobody is above mistakes; and don’t be afraid to ask questions about things you don’t know.This is the way to acquire knowledge.Not until you begin to think in English rather than Chinese can you be said to know the language.This is not a superhuman achievement—only a question of practice.Thinking in English will help you to truly understand how the language is spoken.Read novels to build vocabulary, thus gaining confidence.Start with small volumes of 30 to 40 pages.Write down any new word you discover and look it up in your dictionary.Learn how to use the new word by making sentences with it.Bring the word to your teacher to have it explained more fully.Don’t be angry when you learn a new word today and forget it tomorrow.To forget is a natural process; to remember is unnatural and requires effort.Of 10 new words learnt in a day, only two or three will remain in the memory.The others you will forget and have to relearn.When learning them for the second time, they will come more easily, and this time you probably will remember nearly all of them.A small minority, however, may elude you again, and have to be learnt for a third time.Constant repetition is necessary.

(1).You can gain confidence by speaking English with the following people but ______？

A、 foreigners

B、 teachers

C、 family members

D、 friends

(2).When can you be said to know English？

A、 When you have confidence with English.

B、 When you have built vocabulary.

C、 When you can think in English.

D、 When you are not afraid to ask questions.

(3).We can build vocabulary in the following ways except ______.

A、 reading novels

B、 often speaking with foreigners

C、 constant repetition of new words

D、 looking up the new words in a dictionary, making sentences with them, etc.

(4).What are suggested to do if you always forget the new words？

A、 To relearn constantly.

B、 To practice more.

C、 To read novels.

D、 To be angry.

(5).What's the best title for the passage？

A、 Thinking in English

B、 Learning New Words

C、 Ways to Gain Confidence with English

D、 Communicating in English

Example:Television is rapidly becoming the literature of our periods (1). time/times/period

Many of the arguments having used for the study of literature (2). __/__

as a school subject are valid for^ study of television. (3).the ______

latest figures from the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service show that well over one million immigrants are now arriving in America every year. This is highest number of 1. _________

newcomers to the United States since the mass migration of Europeans in 2. _________

the turn of the century. The new immigrants no longer come main from 3. _________

Europe. According to the official government estimate, the greatest source of immigrants to America is now Asia, followed by Latin America. Forty-two percents of the new immigrants come from Asia 4. _________

while 39 percent come from Latin America. Only 13 percent of the recent immigration to America is now from Europe. Although the United States now accepts twice as many foreigners as all other nations combined, but Congress is. studying several proposals to limit 5. _________

immigration, include a new ceiling of about 450,000 immigrants a year. 6. _________

It is little clear that Congress will do about the problem of illegal 7. _________

immigrants. As estimated 500,000 to one million persons enter the United States illegally every year. Several congressmen have introduced legislation that would make it legal for employers to knowingly hire an 8. _________

illegal alien. A company would face a heavy fine if convicted of hiring a person with proper papers. Many business groups and civil rights leaders 9. _________

oppose this proposal because they fear it would lead. to wholesale discrimination in Hispanics and other recent immigrants. 10. _________

In the American family the husband and wife usually share important decision-making. When the children are   31  enough, they take part as well. Foreigners are often surprised by the permissiveness (宽容) of American parents. Children are often allowed to do pretty much  32  they wish without strict control by their parents. Children are encouraged to be  33  at an early age. Some people believe that American parents carry this freedom  34  far. Others think that a strong parental image would not  35  American values. Because Americans emphasize the importance of independence, young people are expected to 36  their families by the time they have  37  their late teens or early twenties. This pattern of independence often raises serious  38  for the aging parents of a small family. The average American is expected to live  39  the age of 10. The job-retirement age is usually 5. The children have left home, married, and  40  their own households. Often the major problem of many elderly couples is not economic, but they feel useless and lonely with neither an occupation nor a close family tie.

31. A. senior

B. junior

C. old

D. young

32. A.when

B. that

C. which

D. what

33. A.dependent

B. independent

C. sure

D. secure

34. A.too

B. almost

C. nearly

D. so

35. A.gain

B. welcome

C. suit

D. estimate

36. A.break up

B. break into

C. break though

D. break away from

37. A.reached

B. come

C. arrived

D. developed

38. A. events

B. problems

C. matters

D. developed

39. A.on

B. up

C. from

D. beyond

40. A.set forth

B. set aside

C. set up

D. set down

Within two weeks of arrival, all foreigners had to ___ with the local police.

A)inquire B) consult C) register D) resolve

A.A.locate

B.B.consider

C.C.choose

D.D.decide

A.A.inquire

B.B.consult

C.C.register

D.D.profession

A.later. (Fill the blank with a proper wor

B.)

C.to talk

D.talking

对外汉语教学翻译成“Teaching Chinese to Foreigners”()

A、foreigners

B、senior citizens

C、Asians

D、chairperson