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(总里程) 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．Instead，they sometimes can only buy them from ticket scalpers at much higher price．
The Ministry of Railways estimated(估计) that about 216 million passengers would travel by train during the 40-day peak period(高峰期) during the Spring Festival holiday．The number of travelers will be 8％higher than that of ．This problem even attracted the President Hu Jintao’s attention．He wrote a note to Liu Zhijun，Minister of the Ministry of Railways，asking him to make sure of a “smooth and safe” transportation．Afterwards，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】 What does the underlined word “scalper” in the first paragraph mean?A．代售点B．售票员C．票贩D．赌徒【小题2】 Many people can’t buy the tickets from the railway station，and they sometimes can only buy them from the scalpers．A．expensivelyB．wronglyC．dangerouslyD．hardly【小题3】How many people took the train trip during the peak period during the Spring Festival holiday?A．About 216 million．B．About 172 million． C．About 200 million．D．About 233 million．【小题4】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．C
答案：
(答案→)C
解析：
【小题1】根据句意可知这些只能从scalper手里高价买票。可知这些人是票贩子，故选C。
【小题1】根据短语at much higher price．以更高的价格可知选A,昂贵的。
【小题1】根据The Ministry…… that of ．216*1.08=233.28这段话可知 选D，大约233 million．
【小题1】通过阅读短文可知文中叙述的是春运期间买票难的问题，故选B。
