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3、April sales figures show a disappointing month for Wal-Mart. The world's largest retailer reported a big drop in sales last month―its worst decline in nearly 30 years. As VOA's Mil Arcega reports, Wal-Mart is not alone.

A three and a half percent drop in sales does not seem like much. But for a company that sells more than $300 billion worth of goods every year, analysts say it is significant. 

Alan Murray, the managing editor of the Wall Street Journal, says the drop represents Wal-Mart's biggest decline since 1979. “There are a number of things going on. Part of it is early Easter, so some of those sales got moved into March. Part of it is bad weather.”

But it may also signal a trend.  Across the board, retailers from Target to JC Penny and the Gap, reported weaker sales in April.  Analysts say the decline suggests high gasoline prices and the slowing U.S. housing market are finally catching up with consumers.  Murray says there may be other factors at play.

“Wal-Mart is not doing what it used to do very well. It made an attempt last year to sell clothes to high scale retailers. That didn't work. It had to back off.  It's remodeling（重新塑造） its stores.  That's not working very well,” says Murray.

To bring customers back, some say Wal-Mart needs to go back to its marketing basics. Retail analyst Dana Telsey says that means low priced goods in a friendly retail environment. “I think Wal-Mart is working to enhance（提高）its image. It could always be better. Going back to its roots is a way, that hopefully, customers will become familiar with it again.”

Wal-Mart is one of the biggest economic indicators in the retail industry. As the world's largest profit making enterprise, Wal-Mart's yearly revenues(總收入) represents about 2.5 percent of total economic activity in the U.S. 

60. What would be the best title for this passage?

A. The world’s largest retailer.         

B. The Wal Mart’s biggest drop in sales.

C. The Wal Mart’s biggest revenue in sales.

D. The world’s largest profit making enterprise.

61. According to the passage, the followings are all reasons for Wal Mart’s sales declined in April except _______.

A. cheaper goods

B. unfriendly shopping environment

C. early Easter and unpleasant weather

D. high gasoline prices and the slowing housing market

62. According to the passage, what was the popular image of Wal Mart?

A. It sold clothes to high scale retailers.

B. It often sold discounted goods.

C. It was one of the biggest retailer industries.

D. It sold low priced goods in a friendly atmosphere.

63. By “Wal Mart is one of the biggest economic indicators in the retail industry”, the writer suggests ________.

A. Wal Mart should remodel its stores

B. Wal Mart should hunt for money

C. Wal Mart works well in the U.S. economy

D. Wal Mart affects economic activity in the U.S. to some extent.

2、The human body has developed its millions of nerves to be highly aware of what goes on both inside and outside of it. This helps us to adjust to the outside world. Without our nerves and our brain, which is a system of nerves, we couldn’t know what’s happening. But we pay for our sensitivity. We can feel pain when the slightest thing is wrong with any part of our body. The history of torture(折磨) is based on the human body being open to pain.

But there is a way to handle pain. Look at the Indian fakir(苦行僧) who sits on a bed of nails. Fakirs can put a needle right through an arm, and feel no pain. This ability that some humans have developed to handle pain should give us ideas about how the mind can deal with pain.

The big thing in withstanding pain is our attitude toward it. If the dentist says, “This will hurt a little,” it helps us to accept the pain. By staying relaxed, and by treating the pain as an interesting sensation (感覺), we can handle the pain without falling apart. After all, although pain is an unpleasant sensation, it is still a sensation, and sensations are the stuff of life.

 56. What does the writer mean by saying “we pay for our sensitivity” in the first paragraph?

A. We have to take care of our sense of pain.

B. We suffer from our sense of feeling.

C. We should try hard to resist pain.

D. We are hurt when we feel pain.

57. When the author mentions the Indian fakir, he shows that _________.

A. fakirs possess magic power             B. Indians are not afraid of pain

C. people can learn to cope with pain    D. some people are born without a sense of pain

58. What is essential for people to stand pain according to the writer?

A. Their relaxation.                 B. Their interest

C. Their nerves.                    D. Their attitude.

59. The author believes that _______.

A. feeling pain is part of our life          

B. pain should be avoided at all costs

C. feeling pain can be an interesting thing   

D. magic power is essential for reducing pain

1、When I was a boy of 12, something happened to me that taught me a good lesson. We lived on the  36  of a forest, and every evening, birds would come and   37  in the trees and sing. There wasn’t a musical   38  made by man that could produce a more beautiful   39   than the song of the birds. So I   40   that I would catch a young bird and keep it in a cage and in that way I would have my own private   41   .

I finally succeeded in catching one and put it in a cage. At first, being   42   , the bird fluttered (撲騰) about the cage, but finally it   43   down in its new home. I felt very   44 

with myself and looked for?ward to some beautiful   45   from my little pet.

The next day, my new pet’s mother flew to the   46  with food in her mouth. The baby bird   47  everything she brought to it. I was pleased to see this. Certainly the mother knew better than I how to   48   her baby.

The following morning when I went to see my pet, I found it lying in the cage,   49  . What had happened! I had taken extremely care of my pet, or so I thought.

Arthur Wayne, an expert on birds, was visiting my father at the time, hearing me   50  

over the death of my bird, explained what had happened. “A mother bird,   51   her young in a cage, will sometimes bring it   52   berries (草莓). She thinks it better for her young to die than to live without   53   .”

  54   since then have I caught any living creature and put it in a cage. All living creatures have the  55  to live freely.

37、The professor walked onto the platform and seated himself in a chair,       for answering questions.

       A．had prepared        B．being prepared               C．preparing             D．prepared

36、―Do you mind my turning off the light?

―       . I’m reading the end of the story

       A．No. not at all                                       B．of course not

       C．I’d rather you didn’t                            D．sure, go ahead

35、Something must be done to prevent factories       poisonous gases so as to keep the city       .

       A．sending out; from polluting

       B．send out, polluting

       C．from sending out; from polluting

       D．sending out; from being polluted

34、One of the men held the view       the book said was right.

       A．that what             B．what that             C．that                     D．whether

33、_____, the disease diphtheria will produce a powder poison that will kill the patient.

A. If it untreated                         B. If is untreated

C. If being untreated                   D. If untreated

32、It was difficult to keep a positive attitude when I had a list filled with things to do, _____ none sounded like fun.

    A. for which    B. to which    C. of which    D. from which

31、---- Though Liu Xiang was unable to compete in the Beijing Olympics, he is still our hero.

---- ____. Nobody will love him any less.

A. I don’t agree with you     B. I can’t agree more

C. I can’t agree any less      D. I don’t agree more