“The ye ar of the Chinese Language” was pretty successful in Russia in 2010, and it has become more popular among Russian universities（大学）。 It began in late March. Some Universities held “Chinese Day” activities. Now it has become one of the important activities between the two countries. In the Chinese teaching program“ Hello, China”， Russian TV channel Culture introduces China, “China is the homeland of silk. Chinese people invented china, printing. They built the Great Wal l,” “Thanks to this program, I learnt the history of many Chinese words and so on”， said Kurnikov, a German student in Moscow State Language University. This program included 100 terms to express the traditional Chinese culture more clearly.
“ Hello, China” was only a small part of the Chinese Language Year program, during which 87 events has taken place across Russia, including speech contests（比赛）， singing competition and so on. The Russian people supported and accepted this activity. They showed great interest in learning Chinese language. Most people joined learning Chinese. Now Russia has 12 Confucius Institutes（孔子学院） and one Confucius radio station. Nearly 100 Russia universities offered courses in Chinese with more than 10,000 students studying the language. In Moscow alone, 13 schools offered Chinese courses to over 2,000 students. In Far East and Siberia, the Chinese has become even more popular in schools.
Yet more Chinese teaching programs can hardly meet the growing need in learning Chinese, people there want to know more about China. A wide range（安排） of exchange activities which has covered various fields including culture, education exhibitions, contests on the Chinese language, movie weeks and other cultural festivals will coming soon.
31. What’s the purpose of the passage?
A. To introduce the program “ Hello, China”。
B. To advertise for Confucius Institutes in Russia.
C. To encourage us to learn Chinese better.
D. To introduce Chinese learning in Russia.
32. Russian universities did a lot for the Chinese language, for example________ .
A. provide courses in Chinese in the most of the universities
B. spoke Chinese in every field
C. hold the “Chinese Day” activities every day
D. introduce the traditional Chinese culture to every foreign student
33. What can you infer（推断） after reading the passage?
A. Chinese will become the most popular language in the world.
B. More activities about Chinese will be held in Russia.
C. China and Russia will be good friends forever.
D. Russian students like Chinese better than any other language.
D
I was in a strange city I didn’t know at all, and what’s more, I could not speak a word of the language. On my second day I got on the first bus that passed, rode on it for several stops, then got off and walked on. The first two hours passed pleasantly enough, then I decided to turn back to my hotel for lunch. After walking about for some time, I decided I had better ask the way. The trouble was that the only word I knew of the language was the name of the street in which I lived, and even that I pronounced badly. I stopped to ask a newspaper-seller. He handed me a paper. I shook my head and repeated the name of the street and he put the paper into my hands. I had to give him some money and went on my way. The next person I asked was a policeman. He listened to me carefully, nodded and gently took me by the arm. There was a strange look in his eyes as he pointed left and right and left again. I nodded politely and began walking in the direction he pointed.
About an hour passed and I noticed that the houses were getting fewer and fewer and green fields were appearing on either side of me. I had come all the way into the countryside. The only thing left for me to do was find the nearest railway station.
34. The writer preferred to walk back to his hotel because________.
A. he had no money to buy a ticket
B. he wanted to lose himself in the city
C. he tried to know the city in this way
D. it was late and there were no buses passing by
35. From the story we know that the policeman________.
A. was kind but didn’t understand the writer
B. told the writer where to take a train
C. knew what the writer really meant
D. was kind-hearted and helped the writer return to his hotel
36. What can we learn from the last paragraph?
A. The writer got close to the hotel where he stayed.
B. The writer got to the hotel with the policeman’s help.
C. The writer found he was much farther away from the hotel.
D. The writer found the hotel in the direction the policeman pointed.
37. In your opinion, what was the writer’s real trouble?
A. He didn’t kno w the city at all. B. He couldn’t speak the language.
C. He went too far in the wrong bus. D. He followed the policeman’s direction