问题补充：
Look! There are thousands of people waiting to buy tickets home in the railway station. Each time when Spring Festival comes, buying tickets of train trip would be very hard. And things seem to be getting worse and worse, although we have greatly increased the mileage of railway network and speeded up trains. Why? It’s because too many people want to go back home to spend Spring Festival with their family. Many people become angry with the Ministry (部)of Railways.
They wonder why it is hopeless for them to get the tickets from the railway station(火车站)Instead, they sometimes can only buy them from ticket scalpers (票贩) at much higher price.
The Ministry of Railways estimated(估计)that about 188 million passengers would travel by train during the 40-day peak (高峰) period surrounding the Spring Festival holiday. The number of travelers will be 8％ higher than that of . This problem even drew the President Hu Jintao’s attention. He wrote a note to Liu Zhijun，Minister of the Ministry of Railways, asking him to take action to improve passenger convenience. Afterward, officials from the Ministry of Railways said they would try their best not to let any ticket-buyers spend Spring Festival at the railway station.
【小题1】 Many people can’t buy the tickets from the railway station, and they sometimes can only buy them from the scalpers.A．expensivelyB．happilyC．dangerouslyD．hardly【小题2】 How many people took the train trip during the peak period surrounding the Spring Festival holiday?A．About 203 million．B．About 188 million．C．About 180 million．D．About 174 million．【小题3】What does the passage mainly tell us?A．People go home much more easily during the Spring Festival．B．It is very hard to buy tickets in the railway station during the Spring Festival．C．President Hu Jintao cares about the railway building problem．D．The Ministry of Railways felt sorry about the problem．A
答案：
(答案→)A
解析：本文大意主要是说春运期间乘客买票困难，乘客量多及增加的问题。学生不必去仔细翻译每一个句子，只要把大意弄懂就可以完成下面的练习。
1. 从at much higher price.判断，应该是昂贵的，选A.
2.从第二段看，春运旅客为188百万，比高8％，188×（1－8%）可以计算出为173，D最接近，所以选D.
3.A“说春运买票容易”不合文章意思，C“胡锦涛关心春运”文章没有提到，D“铁道部对春运问题感到抱歉”文章中没提到，只说到将尽力解决这一问题，所以选B.
