Taking orders is an important step in food and beverage service.

It was difficult tobelieve that he was a Ground. He was __61___into an unimportant butwell-to-do family. He was the youngest of five sons. The Grounds were ahandsome lot: blue-eyed, fair-haired, clever ___62___ ambitious. Thefour older boys all made a success of their lives. They married beautiful girlsof good family and produced children __63___ fair and handsome andclever as themselves. The eldest became a clergyman；the second___64____ up as the headmaster ofa famous public school；the ___65___went intobusiness and became rich; the fourth ___66___ in his father's footstepsand became a lawyer. That is why everybody was amazed when the youngest Ground,Henry, turned ____67___ to be a lazy good-for-nothing.

Unlike hisbrothers, he had brown eyes and dark hair, but he was every bit ashandsome and charming，____68___madehim quite a lady-killer. And, although he never married ，___69___ is no doubt at all that Henry Ground loved women. Healso loved eating，drinking, laughing, talking and athousand other___70____ which don’t make money or improve the human life. One of his favorite pastimeswas doing nothing.

Commercial Banks

Commercial banks play an important role (29) national (30) 。

(31) the end of May 1995, China has 15 commercial banks, the International Business reported. Eight of these are (32) nationwide. They are: the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the Agricultural Bank of China, the Bank of China, the People's Construction Bank of China, the Communications Bank, the CITIC Industrial Bank, the China Everbright Bank and the Huaxia Bank.

There are six (33) shareholding banks. They are: the Merchant's Bank, the Guandong Development Bank, the Shenzhen Development Bank, the Fuzhou Industrial Bank, the Shanghai Pudong Development Bank and the Hainan Development Bank.

Apart (34) these, there is the (35) of the People's Construction Bank of China, the China Investment Bank and two housing deposit banks. They are fully (36) by the People's Bank of China.

To add (37) the 15, the Minsheng Banking Corp was set up in January 1996. It is now the (38) non-State bank.

Five foreign banks have so far been (39) to run branch offices in Beijing. Here is a (40) of them:

-- Bank of Tokyo Tel 5931640

-- Citibank of the United States Tel 5004425

-- Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Tel 5001121

-- Nanyang Commercial Bank Tel 5139026

-- Industrial Bank of Japan Tel 5954728

(29)

A．at

B．on

C．in

I've never ______ the theory that people am more important than animals.

A．subscribed to

B．hung on

C．engaged in

D．indulged in

Grammatical sentences are regarded as unimportant because ______.

A．words are uttered out of natural feelings only

B．it is better to use verbs only

C．it is felt that formal grammar rules might cause unnatural expression

D．talking freely and naturally with no regard to grammatical rules is a better form. of expression

听力原文： Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has arrived at The Hague late Thursday and immediately flew by a police helicopter to the prison of the U-N war crimes tribunal. He has been charged with crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo in 1999. Slobodan Milosevic' s arrival in The Hague is a historic moment. He is the first head of state ever to be indicted while still in office, and soon to face trial. Tribunal spokesman Jim Landale says it is also an important moment in the life of the tribunal. Mr. Landale says this court was set up to try the top commanders and architects of a policy that brought misery to the Balkans. And, he says, it looks as though that has succeeded.

How many heads of state have been indicted in The Hague while still in office?

A．Only one.

B．More than one.

C．None.

D．Unknown.

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