Our correspondent Carl from South Africa will give us a brief introduction of their presidential election.A:reporter B:representative C:writer D:interpreter

Some of our clients have complained that the time it takes to get a__________ from a service representative is enough to make them not want to use our services again.

A. response
B. responding
C. responded
D. respond

Very few of our birds stay with us the year round.Some come to us in the winter from the cold?north.Others come from the south to spend the summer with us.How do they know the way?Suppose?you were told to find your way to a place hundreds of miles away,do you think you could do it?
Yet birds travel over mountains,forests,lakes and even across the oceans,and do not stray from?the path.They find their way back in the spring to the same orchard（果园）and the very trees where?they nested the summer before.
It is wonderful how quickly birds travel such long distances from their summer homes to their?winter ones.Some birds have been known to fly hundreds of miles in a day.But others travel much?more slowly.
Why do birds undertake these long journeys twice a year?Perhaps cold weather and lack of?food drive them from us in the autumn,but we cannot tell why they leave the sunny south to come?back to us in the spring.We know only that many of them like to make their nests and rear their?young in the north.
We are sorry to see them go,but we know that when winter is over they will come back to us.

In which season do we have most birds to stay with us?

A.In spring.
B.In summer.
C.In winter.
D.We don't know.

Very few of our birds stay with us the year round.Some come to us in the winter from the cold?north.Others come from the south to spend the summer with us.How do they know the way?Suppose?you were told to find your way to a place hundreds of miles away,do you think you could do it?
Yet birds travel over mountains,forests,lakes and even across the oceans,and do not stray from?the path.They find their way back in the spring to the same orchard（果园）and the very trees where?they nested the summer before.
It is wonderful how quickly birds travel such long distances from their summer homes to their?winter ones.Some birds have been known to fly hundreds of miles in a day.But others travel much?more slowly.
Why do birds undertake these long journeys twice a year?Perhaps cold weather and lack of?food drive them from us in the autumn,but we cannot tell why they leave the sunny south to come?back to us in the spring.We know only that many of them like to make their nests and rear their?young in the north.
We are sorry to see them go,but we know that when winter is over they will come back to us.

The underlined part"stray from the path"means__________.

A.lose its way
B.stay on the path
C.keep away from the path
D.fly along the path

Questions 53-55 refer to the following letter.
Dear Valued customer
Thank you for taking the time to fill out our questionnaire during your stay with us. We do appreciate hearing from our customers, as their comments are vital( ) us to continue improving our accommodations.

A.with
B.for
C.at
D.as

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G8 Summit

Leaders of the Group of Eight Major Industrialized Nations(G8)will meet in Scotland in
July this year. Representatives from China,India,Mexico,South Africa and Brazil have
also been invited.Here's what the G8 leaders want from the meeting.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair wants the G8 to cancel debt to the world's poorest
countries.He wants them to double aid to Africa to 50 billion pounds by 2010.He has also
proposed reducing subsidies to Western farmers and removing restrictions on African exports.
This has not got the approval of all members because it will hurt their agricultural interests.On
climate change , Blair wants concerted（共同的）action by reducing carbon emissions（排放）.
US President George W.Bush agrees to give help to Africa.But he says he doesn't
like the idea of increasing aid to countries as it will increase corruption.Bush said he would
not sign an agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions at the summit,according to media.
The US is the only G8 member not to have signed the Kyoto Protocol（京都议定书）.
Although the US is the world's biggest polluter,Bush so far refuses to believe there is
sufficient scientific data to establish beyond a doubt that there is a problem.
French President Jacques Chirac supports Blair on Africa and climate change.He is
determined to get the US to sign the climate change deal.
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder remains doubtful of Blair's Africa proposals.
Schroder's officials have dismissed the notion that money will solve Africa's problems as"old
thinking."Berlin says that African states should only receive extra money if they can prove
they've solved the corruption problem.
Russian President Vladimir Putin was doubtful about the value of more aid to Africa.
But he has seen a way to make this work to his advantage.Putin intends to use the aid to
Africa as a springboard（跳板）next year to propose aid to the former Soviet republics of
Georgia,Uzbekistan,Tajikistan and Moldova.
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's priorities are a seat on the UN Security
Council,for which he will be lobbying（游说）at the summit. And he's concerned about the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea's nuclear weapons programme.

The G8 countries include China,India,Mexico,South Africa and Brazil.
A:Right
B:Wrong
C:Not mentioned

Very few of our birds stay with us the year round.Some come to us in the winter from the cold?north.Others come from the south to spend the summer with us.How do they know the way?Suppose?you were told to find your way to a place hundreds of miles away,do you think you could do it?
Yet birds travel over mountains,forests,lakes and even across the oceans,and do not stray from?the path.They find their way back in the spring to the same orchard（果园）and the very trees where?they nested the summer before.
It is wonderful how quickly birds travel such long distances from their summer homes to their?winter ones.Some birds have been known to fly hundreds of miles in a day.But others travel much?more slowly.
Why do birds undertake these long journeys twice a year?Perhaps cold weather and lack of?food drive them from us in the autumn,but we cannot tell why they leave the sunny south to come?back to us in the spring.We know only that many of them like to make their nests and rear their?young in the north.
We are sorry to see them go,but we know that when winter is over they will come back to us.

How far do birds usually travel from their summer homes to their winter ones?

A.About hundreds of miles.
B.About thousands of miles.
C.The distance that takes a bird to fly the whole morning.
D.The passage does not tell us.

As the author sees it，one of the most important gains from the study of great literature is( )

A.enrichment of our understanding of the past
B.broadening of our approaches to social problems
C.that it gives us a bowing acquaintance with great figures of the past
D.that it provides us with vicarious experiences which provide a much broader experience than we can get from experiences of simply our own lives alone