Look! There arethousands of people waiting to buy tickets home in the railway station．Eachtime when Spring Festival comes，buying tickets oftrain trip would be very hard．And things seem to begetting worse and worse，although we havegreatly increased the mileage(总里程) of railway networkand speeded up trains．Why? It’s because toomany people want to go back home to spend Spring Festival with their family．Manypeople become angry with the Ministry(部)of Railways．Theywonder why it is hopeless for them to get the tickets from the railway station．Instead，theysometimes can only buy them from ticket scalpers at muchhigher price． The Ministryof Railways estimated(估计) that about 216million passengers would travel by train during the 40-day peak period(高峰期)during the 2010 Spring Festival holiday．The number oftravelers will be 8％higher than that of2009．This problem even attracted thePresident Hu Jintao’s attention．He wrote a note to LiuZhijun，Minister of the Ministry ofRailways，asking him to make sure of a “smoothand safe” transportation．Afterwards，officialsfrom the Ministry of Railways said they would try their best not to let anyticket-buyers spend Spring Festival at the railway station． 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 2. Many people can’t buythe tickets from the railway station，and they sometimes canonly buy them from the scalpers． A．expensively B．wrongly C．dangerously D．hardly 3.How many people tookthe train trip during the peak period during the 2009 Spring Festival holiday? A．About216 million． B．About172 million． C．About200 million． D．About233 million． 4.What does the passage mainly tellus? A．Peoplego home much more easily during the Spring Festival． B．Itis very hard to buy tickets in the railway station during the Spring Festival． C．PresidentHu Jintao cares about the railway building problem． D．TheMinistry of Railways felt sorry about the problem．
