A. compensate B. wish C. search D. stand

9. The students are from different families, but they have much in ______.

A. common B. total C. general D. particular

10.The hostess ____a kiss with her guests, which made the conservative Chinese a little nervous.

A. presented B. display C. exchanged D. treated

11. The lawyer ______ every opportunity to get evidence for the woman's evil deeds.

A. had advantages over B. take advantage of C. come into use D. put into practice

12. The trend of the clothes market needs to be _____ before you invent.

A. started with B. taken up C. put up D. looked at

13.After retirement, they planned to live in Florida temporarily so they were concerned about how much the ______ was for a double-room flat there.

A. rent B. prize C. value D. expensive

14.The conference will make a final decision about whether the law will be carried out or will be______.

A reduced B. repeated C. reversed D. returned

15.______houses came into being in some cities where land is precious .

A. Seasonal B. Local C. Comfortable D. Mobile

二、阅读理解

My wife and I got our first jobs in New York years ago in a fur factory, located in a street on Broadway.

I believe that most Americans would not want my job. I worked from nine to five , six days a week. The room I worked in was 14 by 20 feet. Ten people worked in that space. There were no windows. We were given twenty minutes for lunch. The pay was all on a piece-rate that worked out to be less than minimum wage. We got paid in cash and there was no overtime pay. Also, the factory offered no accommodations so we had to find place to live in. Finally I got a place at the subway station for free. Our life here was difficult in many different ways.

Most of all, the fur factory, didn't officially exist because it had no legal papers. In those days, immigration used to search this street unexpectedly. One day, immigration came here suddenly, asking for our papers. Men and women in the factory dived into piles of clothes, or tried to hide in the toilet. Later I was told that one of my friends working in a neighboring restaurant had even hidden in the freezer for 20 minutes.

Most of time, we were afraid of being caught by the officers in immigration, which made us worried over the years. If we were unluckily caught, we would be driven back to Ecuador [厄瓜多尔] for sure. Therefore, this possibility made us upset, which was not like the life in Ecuador. There we were part of Ecuador's middle class. She was a music teacher, working in a private school, and I work in a government office. Although we belonged to the middle class in our hometown, we still wanted to make more money in America. Getting from Ecuador to New York required a lot of money at that time and it was really a luxury for people of a middle class in our country. However, a lot of our friends in Ecuador often struggled to live and work in America because there were more opportunities to develop themselves in this developed country.

Since then, my wife and I decided to move again. And we went to Jersey City---of all the places I had dreamed