37. What does the word “slim” mean?
(A) Small.
(B) Good.
(C) Careful.
(D) Serious.

33. According to the passage, what does the word “tunes” mean? (A) Wine. (B) Food. (C) Music. (D) Fireworks.

34. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage among the activities on the HARBOR QUEEN? (A) Swimming. (B) Dining and dancing. (C) Watching fireworks. (D) Attending a wedding.

35. According to the passage, which of the following statement is NOT true? (A) People pay less if they go with a group of 20 than if they go individually. (B) The cruise is 8 hours, including dinner, drinks and dancing. (C) People can hold birthday parties on the HARBOR QUEEN. (D) The biggest night of the nights refers to the 2003 New Year’s Eve.

36. This passage is mainly about _______________. (A) how to educate socially-anxious people (B) how talk shows treat socially-anxious people (C) the symptoms that socially-anxious people have (D) a new type of medicine to treat socially-anxious people

38. According to the passage, socially-anxious people _______________. (A) are well-understood by the public (B) like going to the talk shows (C) enjoy themselves very much in social gatherings (D) feel that they are being negatively watched by the public

39. According to the passage, we may infer that _______________. (A) parents should send socially-anxious children to the hospital (B) doctors should give new medicine to treat socially-anxious people (C) talk shows should discuss more about the problem of social anxiety (D) socially-anxious people should be encouraged to stay home more

40. According to the passage, after the second paragraph, the author probably continues to write about _______________. (A) what the public think of socially-anxious people (B) why socially-anxious people cannot obtain help easily (C) how everyone realizes the problems of socially-anxious people in daily life (D) what kind of medicine could cure socially-anxious people

41. Which of the following is the most appropriate topic sentence for the paragraph below? (A) A nickname is a name used informally instead of one’s given name. (B) Almost everyone has a nickname and a given name. (C) A nickname to a person is like the image to a company. (D) A nickname is more important than a given name to a person. _______________ It is often simply a shortened version of a person’s given name, for example, “Joe” for Josephine or “Bill” for William. Sometimes, a nickname is given because of someone’s appearance or other characteristics. A very thin person may be called “Stick” and a very fat one, “Roly-poly.” It is common to use nicknames among family members and close friends.

42. Which of the following is the most appropriate topic sentence for the paragraph below? (A) The Chinese writing system is the only existing system that consists of only picture words. (B) The Chinese writing system developed from ancient picture writing. (C) In learning the Chinese writing system, we have to draw pictures for words. (D) The Chinese writing system is difficult to learn, especially picture writing. _______________ At the very beginning, the picture words resembled closely the objects they were referring to. Examples are the words eye, mouth, human, mountain, sun, and moon. Over time, the words have changed in form; the picture signs became characters. The Chinese character for moon, for instance, first took the shape of a crescent moon before developing to its present form, and the word sun today no longer shows heat radiating from a sun.

43. Which of the following can best fit into the blank in the paragraph below? (A) who have laid off large numbers of workers and kept production below normal capacity (B) who make up the sector with the biggest recovery (C) whose orders from overseas markets showed the worst decline last year (D) whose recovery led to general economic recovery Manufacturers, _______________, have been the weakest link in the economy’s ability to recover fully from the effects of the 2001 recession. For all of 2002, orders to U.S. factories dropped by 0.8 percent. Still, that was an improvement over the sharp 7.4 percent decline for 2001. Shipments – a measure of demand – fell 1.1 percent last year, compared with a deeper 5.5 percent drop for all of 2001.