The eight airlines of the Oneworld alliance have joined forces to give world travelers a simple way to plan and book a round-the world journey. It’s called the Oneworld Explore Program.
Oneworld Explore is the perfect solution for an once-in-a-lifetime holiday or an extended business trip. It’s a great way for you to explore the four comers of the earth in the safe hands of the eight Oneworld airlines.
You can have hundreds of destinations to choose from, because the Oneworld network covers the globe. And, as you travel around the world, you’ll have the support of 260,000 people from all our airlines, who are devoted to the success of your journey, helping you make smooth transfers and offering support all aong the way.
The Oneworld goal is to make global travel easier and more rewarding for every one of our travelers. We try our best to make you feel at home, no matter how far from home your journey may take you.
We can offer travelers benefits on a scale beyond the reach of our individuval networks. You’ll find more people and more information to guide you at every stage of your trip, making transfers smoother and global travel less of a challenge.
83. Oneworld in the passage refers to____.
A. a travel agency
B. a union of airline
C. a series of tourist attractions
D. the title of a flight program
84.The Oneworld Explore Program is said to be most suitable for those who___.A. have been to the four comes of the earth
B. travel around the world on business
C. want to explore the eight airlines
D. need support all along the way
85. The advantage of the alliance lies in____.
A. its detailed travel information
B. its unique booking system
C. its longest business flights
D. its global service network
86 .The purpose of the advertisement is to____.
A. promote a special flight program
B. recommend long distant sights
C. introduce different airlines to group
D. describe an alliance flights
Passage Eight
Could the bad old days of economic decline be about to return? Since OPEC agreed to supply-cuts in March, the price of crude oil has jumped to almost $26 a barrel, up from less than $10 last December. This near-tripling of oil prices calls up scary memories of the 1973 oil shock, when prices quadrupled, and 1979-1980, when they also almost tripled. Both previous shocks resulted in double-digit inflation and global economic decline. So where are the headlines warning of gloom and doom this time?
The oil price was given another push up this week when Iraq suspended oil exports. Strengthening economic growth, at the same time as winter grips the northern hemisphere, could push the price higher still in the short term。
Yet there are good reasons to expect the economic consequences now to be less severe than in the 1970s. In most countries the cost of crude oil now accounts for a smaller share of the price of petrol than it did in the 1970s. In Europe, taxes account for up to four-fifths of the retail price, so even quite big changes in the price of crude have a more muted effect on pump prices than in the past。
Rich economies are also less dependent on oil than they were, and so less sensitive to swings in the oil price. Energy conservation, a shift to other fuels and a decline in the importance of heavy, energy-intensive industries have reduced oil consumption. Software, consultancy and mobile telephones use far less oil than steel or car production. For each dollar of GDP (inconstant prices) rich economies now use nearly 50% less oil than in 1973. The OECD estimates in its latest Economic Outlook that, if oil prices averaged $22 a barrel for a full year, compared with $13 in 1998, this would increase the oil import bill in rich economies by only 0.25-0.5% of GDP. That is less than one-quarter of the income loss in 1974 or 1980. On the other hand, oil-importing emerging economies—to which heavy industry has shifted—have become more energy-intensive, and so could be more seriously squeezed。
One more reason not to lose sleep over the rise in oil prices is that, unlike the rises in the 1970s, it has not occurred against the background of general commodity-price inflation and global excess demand. A sizable portion of the world is only just emerging from economic decline. The Economist's commodity price index is broadly unchanging from a year ago. In 1973 commodity prices jumped by 70%， and in 1979 by almost 30%。
87. The main reason for the latest rise of oil price is _____
A. global inflation.
B. reduction in supply.
C. fast growth in economy.
D. Iraq's suspension of exports.
88. It can be inferred from the text that the retail price of petrol will go up dramatically if ____
A. price of crude rises.
B. commodity prices rise.
C. consumption rises.
D. oil taxes rise.
89. The estimates in Economic Outlook show that in rich countries
A. heavy industry becomes more energy-intensive。
B. income loss mainly results from fluctuating crude oil prices.
C. manufacturing industry has been seriously squeezed.
D. oil price changes have no significant impact on GDP.
90. We can draw a conclusion from the text that_____
A. oil-price shocks are less shocking now.
B. inflation seems irrelevant to oil-price shocks.
C. energy conservation can keep down the oil prices.
D. the price rise of crude leads to the shrinking of heavy industry.
91. From the text we can see that the writer seems _____
A. optimistic.
B. sensitive.
C. gloomy.
D. scared.
Passage Nine
Google, the Internet search-engine company, has announced it will give more than twenty-five million dollars in money and investments to help the poor. The company says the effort involves using the power of information and technology to help people improve their lives.
Aleem Walji works for Google.org—the part of the company that gives money to good causes. He said the company’s first project will help identify where infectious diseases are developing. In Southeast Asia and Africa, for example, Google.org will work with partners to strengthen early-warning systems and take action against growing health threats.
Google.org’s second project will invest in ways to help small and medium-sized businesses grow. Walji says microfinance is generally small, short-term loans that create few jobs. Instead, he says Google.org wants to develop ways to bring investors and business owners together to create jobs and improve economic growth.
Google.org will also give money to help two climate-change programs announced earlier this year. One of these programs studies ways to make renewable energy less costly than coal-based energy. The other is examining the efforts being made to increase the use of electric cars.
The creators of Google have promised to give Google.org about one percent of company profits and one percent of its total stock value every year. Aleem Walji says this amount may increase in the future.
92. The purpose of Google’s investments is to ________.
A. help poor people
B. develop new technology
C. expand its own business
D. increase the power of information
93. According to Aleem Walji, the company’s first project is to ________.
A. set up a new system to warn people of infectious diseases
B. find out where infectious diseases develop
C. identify the causes of infectious diseases
D. cure patients of infectious diseases
94. What kind of businesses will benefit from Google.org’s second project?
A. large enterprises
B. cross-national companies
C. foreign-funded corporations
D. small and medium-sized businesses
95. From the fourth paragraph, we learn that Google’s money is also invested to help _______.
