Text 2 Misers everywhere: that Mediterranean cruise could be within reach at last. There’ll be no free ride to the port, and no free food or entertainment on board. The cabin will measure 30 meters square and housekeeping will be extra. But the fiberglass suite is easy to clean, and costs as little as ￡29 a night. Earlier this year, serial entrepreneur Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the man who gave Europe its first budget airline, cashed in ￡14 million of his easyJet shares to fund what he calls a "little shopping spree." Boldly expanding his no-frills model into new markets, Stelios (he insists on first-name in formality) plans to open the first easyHotel in London this year with prices from ￡ 5 a night, an easy Bus fleet and easy Cruise, ready to sail next summer. Also on the list: easy Pizzas and easy Tele com, a mobile-phone service. Can he make it work The soaring success of easyJet and its rivals was Europe’s great business story of the late 1990s, and yet more carriers are emerging to serve the 10 nations that joined the European Union last week. While copycatting the idea may look like a no-brainer, though, some experts doubt Stelios’s expansion plans have much of a future. "The no-frills model is very fragile." says Chris Voss of London Business School. "Stelios is applying it rather indiscriminately." The entrepreneur’s record is mixed. He launched easyJet in 1995, when he was 28, and it now has 70 planes and revenues of ￡932 million last year, up nearly 70 percent from 2002. But his first attempt to clone the no-frills model, a Europe-wide chain of Internet cafes launched at the height of the bubble, has since struggled to make money. His first easy Cinema-tickets for just 50 pence is suffering because big distributors, fearful of undercutting their other business, refuse to allow cheap screenings of new blockbusters. The larger problem: reducing prices is not enough to make no-frills work. Stelios, for example, likes to sell direct to the customer, preferably online, and avoids corporate accounts on the theory that only individuals care enough about price to be loyal no-kills customers. He chooses only sectors in which the volume of business will clearly rise as prices fall. There’s no point, say, in offering a cut-rate burial service. Says Stelios: "The demand for funerals isn’t going to go up--regardless of the price."

A:His is very successful in running easy Jet. B:His Internet cafes failed at last. C:His easy Cinema-tickets ended up nowhere. D:His attempt to expand the no-frills model is immature.

Which of the following best explains "ended up" as is used in the passage

A:enjoyed B:finished C:got into D:went on

We ended the dinner up （　） fruit and coffee.

A:at B:by C:in D:with

Long before the white man came to America, the land belonged to the American Indian nations. The nation of the Cherokees lived in what is now the southeastern part of the United States.After the white man came, the Cherokees copied many of their ways. One Cherokee named Sequoyah saw how important reading and writing were to the white man. He decided to invent a way to write down the spoken Cherokee language. He began by making word pictures. For each word he drew a picture. But that proved impossible—there were just too many words. Then he took the 85 sounds that made up the language. Using his own imagination and an English spelling book, Sequoyah invented a sign for each sound. His alphabet proved amazingly easy to learn. Before long, many Cherokees knew how to read and write in their own language. By 1828, they were even printing their own newspaper.In 1830, the U.S. Congress passed a law. It allowed the government to remove Indians from their lands. The Cherokees refused to go. They had lived on their lands for centuries. It belonged to them. Why should they go to a strange land far beyond the Mississippi RiverThe army was sent to drive the Cherokees out. Soldiers surrounded their villages and marched them at gunpoint (在枪口的威胁下) into the western territory. The sick, the old and the small children went in carts, along with their belongings. The rest of the people marched on foot or rode on horseback. It was November, yet many of them still wore their summer clothes. Cold and hungry, the Cherokees were quickly exhausted by the hardships of the journey. Many dropped dead and were buried by the roadside. When the last group arrived in their new home in March 1839, more than 4,000 had died. It was indeed a march of death.

A:"worn out" B:"ended up" C:"run out" D:"finished up"

Though friends for many years, the two lawyers (ended up) as enemies.

A:turned out B:gave in C:got rid of D:put an end at

Though friends for many years, the two lawyers (ended up) as enemies.

A:turned out B:gave in C:got rid of D:put an end at

Though friends for many years, the two lawyers (ended up) as enemies.

A:turned out B:gave in C:got rid of D:put an end at