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第二卷（非選擇題，共兩大題，35分）

第四部分: 任務(wù)型閱讀 (共10小題；每小題l分, 滿分l0分)

請認(rèn)真閱讀下列短文, 并根據(jù)所讀內(nèi)容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一個(gè)最恰當(dāng)?shù)膯卧~。注意: 每個(gè)空格只填1個(gè)單詞。請將答案寫在答題紙上相應(yīng)題號(hào)的橫線上。

Many people think a telephone is a necessity (必需品). But I think it is a pest (有害的事物) and a time waste. Very often you find it impossible to escape from it. If you have a telephone in your own house, you will admit that it tends to ring when you least want it to ring; when you are asleep, or in the middle of a meal or a conversation or when you are just going out, or when you are in your bath. Are you strong-minded enough to ignore it? You are not. You think there may be some important news or message for you. I can assure you that if a message is really important it will reach you sooner or later. Have you ever rushed from the bathroom or the bed, only to be told that you are a wrong number?

But you will say, you need not have your name printed in the telephone directory, and you can have a telephone which is only usable for outgoing calls. Besides, you will say, isn’t it important to have a telephone in case of sudden emergency—illness, accident, or fire? Of course, you are right, but here in a country with a large population like England one is seldom far from a telephone in case of emergency.

I think perhaps I had better try to prove that what I like is good. I admit that in different cases—if I were a wealthy and powerful business person, for instance, or badly ill and had to lie in bed, I might find a telephone a necessity. But then if I were a taxi driver I should find a car as necessity. Let me put it another way: there are two things for which the English seem to show particular talent: one is mechanical (機(jī)器的) invention, the other literature. My own business happens to be with the use of words but I see I must now stop using them, for I have just been handed a piece of paper to say that somebody is waiting to speak to me on the telephone. I think I had better answer it. After all, one never knows, it may be something important.

Title: The Telephone
Different (71) ________ about it	Many people	It is (72) ________ when one wants to make a call, especially in time of (73) ________.
	The author	It may (74) ________ time and even be         (75) ________.
		Not everyone, (76) ________ a business person or a sick person who has to stay in bed, needs it.
		I don’t need it because my job is writing.
(77) ________ with it	It always seems to (78) ________ when one is doing something else or doesn’t want it to ring.
	Almost (79) ________ can ignore it even if they want to.
	One (80) ________ to answer it only to find that he is misdialed.

Answer 1

71. opinions    72. necessary                       73. emergency       74. waste        75. harmful           

76. except       77. Problems/Trouble(s) 78. ring                79. nobody     80. hurries/ rushes