Driving to a friend's house on a recent evening, I was attracted by the sight of the full moon rising just above my friend’s rooftops. I stopped to watch it for a few moments, thinking about what a pity it was that most city people? Myself included? Usually miss sights like this because we spend most of our lives indoors.
My friend had also seen it. He grew up living in a forest in Europe, and the moon meant a lot to him then. It had touched much of his life.
I know the feeling. Last December I took my seven-year-old daughter to the mountainous jungle of northern India with some friends. We stayed in a forest rest-house with no electricity or running hot water. Our group had campfires(篝火) outside every night, and indoors when it was too cold outside. The moon grew to its fullest during our trip. Between me and the high mountains lay three or four valleys. Not a light shone in them and not a sound could be heard. It was one of the quietest places I have ever known, a bottomless well of silence. And above me was the full moon, which struck me deeply.　　  
Today our lives are filled with glass, metal, plastic and fibre-glass. We have televisions, cell phones, pagers, electricity, heaters and ovens and air-conditioners, cars, computers.
Struggling through traffic that evening at the end of a tiring day, most of it spent indoors, I thought: before long, I would like to live in a small cottage. There I will grow vegetables and read books and walk in the mountains. I may become an old man there, and wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled and measure out my life in coffee spoons. But I will be able to walk outside on a cold silent night and touch the moon.
小題1:The best title for the passage would be______.
A．Touched by the moon
B．The pleasures of modern life
C．A bottomless well of silence
D．Break away from modern life
小題2: The writer felt sorry for himself because________.
A．there was too much pollution
B．he seldom enjoyed the fullest moon outsides
C．he didn’t adapt to modern inventions
D．there were too many accidents on the road
小題3:What impressed the writer most in the mountainous jungle of northern India?
A．No modern equipmentB．Complete silence.
C．The nice moonlightD．The high mountains
小題4: Modern things (Paragraph 4) are mentioned mainly to______.
A．show that the writer likes city life very much
B．tell us that people greatly benefit from modern life
C．explain that people have fewer chances to enjoy nature
D．show that we can also enjoy nature at home through them
小題5: The author wrote the passage to_______.  
A．express the feeling of returning to nature
B．show the love for the moonlight
C．a(chǎn)dvise modern people to learn to live
D．want to share the idea of longing for modern life

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The first factor is that people are drinking more wine than ever before．This demand formore wine has increased wine sales in America at the rate of 15 percent a year．
The second factor is that the supply of wine has stayed relatively the same, which meansthat the same number of bottles is produced each year．Wine producers are trying to open upnew land to grow more grapes．But in at least three wine producing areas of the world-France,Germany, and California --- new vineyards（葡萄園）will not be useable in the near future．Wines are produced in other countries, such as Italy, Spain, and Portugal, as well as Argentine,Australia, Austria, and Chile．And these wines will be seen more often on the American market．But none of these countries will be able to fill the good wines．
The third factor is that costs of wine production are soaring．The workers who make wineare asking for more money, and the machinery needed to press the grapes is becoming moreexpensive．
When the demand for something is greater than the supply, prices go up．When productioncosts, meaning the price of labor and machinery rise, the producer adds this increase to theprice of the wine．For these reasons, that bottle of wine now costs 2．25 instead of 1．69．
小題1:What is the main idea of this passage?
A．Every year people drink more wine．
B．Countries won't be able to fill the demand for good wines．
C．The prices of things go up when the demand for them is greater than the supply．
D．The supply of wine will always be less than demand．
小題2:This passage is written to      ．
A．describe where wine is produced
B．persuade people drink more beer
C．explain why the price of wine is rising
D．describe why wine is a favorite drink to many Americans
小題3:Theunderlined word "soaring" means"___ .
A．a(chǎn)dding quickly B．reducing fast
C．demanding badlyD．increasing fast

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