Clarissa looked out of the taxi window at the wet road. It was still raining. She was looking forward to getting home after a busy and tiring week in Italy.
The taxi stopped outside the terminal and Clarissa got out. While she was finding some money in her purse, the driver took out her luggage. She picked up her suitcase and entered the terminal building. The British airways check—in desk was near the entrance. After checking in her luggage, she went to buy some magazines. Then she went through passport control and the security check.
After waiting in line with other passengers, Clarissa walked down the corridor and onto the plane. Her seat was next to the window. While the plane was taking off, she closed her eyes, but when the plane was in the air, she began to relax. She pressed the button at the side of the seat, lay back and opened her eyes again.
Pin! The sound of the bell woke Clarissa from her dreams. “Ladies and gentlemen, we are now approaching Heathrow. Will you fasten your seatbelts and extinguish all your cigarettes.”
When the plane landed and came to a standstill, Clarissa saw that outside the sun was shining and the sky was clear. It was going to be a perfect day.
小題1: When in Italy Clarissa was ______.

A．airsick

B．sick

C．seasick

D．homesick

小題2: Choose the right order when Clarissa went back home.
a. She waited in line for a while.   b. She passed through the airport control.
c. She took a taxi to catch her plane.
d. She bought some magazines to read in the plane.
e. She went through the check - in desk. 
f. she went through the security-check door.  g. She went aboard the plane.

A．c,e,d,b,f,a,g

B．c,f,d,e,a,b,g

C．d,e,f,b,g,e,a

D．a,c,d,e,b,f,g

小題3:When the plane took off or before the plane was in the air, Clarissa was probably __  .
A. glad         Ｂ. anxious         C. nervous         D. relaxed
小題4: We know from the text ______.

A．before the plane took off, smoking was not allowed.

B．just before landing, people were asked not to smoke.

C．when the plane took off and landed, smoking was not allowed.

D．smoking was not allowed all the way to Heathrow.

完形填空（共20小題；每小題1.5分，共30分）
閱讀下面短文，從短文后所給的A、B、C、D四個選項中選出可以填入空白出的最佳選項。
?Long time ago, if a child had some problems in his life, he might go home and write in his   21 . Now, a child with the same problems might go onto the Internet and write about them in a blog（博客. In many ways, a diary and a blog are very   22 .So, what makes blogging different from writing in a   23 diary?
The biggest difference is that blogging is much more   24 than a diary. Usually, a teenager treats her diary like a book full of   25   that she does not want to   26 .
It’s interesting that someone who writes in a blog  27 a diary will probably write nearly the same information.
I have a little sister, and sometimes I go online to read her blog. She   28 about things like waking up early for swimming practice and not studying enough for her chemistry test.  29 I was her age, I wrote about the same things, but   30 in my diary. Then, after I had finished writing, I would hide my diary in a secret place because I was   31 that my sister might read it!
The biggest  32 with blogging is that anyone can read what you write. If I were angry with a friend during high school and wrote something   33 about her in my diary, she would never know.  34 , if my sister ever wrote something bad about a friend, that friend   35 read her blog and get angry.
There are also   36 to blogging, of course. If I were feeling sad one day and wrote in my diary, “Nobody cares about me,”  37 would know about it. However if my sister wrote the same sentence in her blog, her best friends would   38 respond（回應）and tell her how much they like her. Blogs help people   39 in contact with their friends and to hear what the people   40 them are doing.

小題1:	A．notebook B．diary C．blog D．book

小題2:	A．familiar B．same C．similar D．different

小題3:	A．old B．real C．daily D．traditional

小題4:	A．convenient B．secret C．public D．cheap

小題5:	A．secrets B．mysteries C．questions D．puzzles

小題6:	A．publish B．share C．solve D．answer

小題7:	A．instead B．as well as C．in favor of D．instead of

小題8:	A．wonders B．learns C．writes D．worries

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小題9:	A．Although B．When C．Because D．Since

小題10:

A．only B．never C．also D．still

小題11:

A．surprised B．glad C．interested D．worried

小題12:

A．difficulty B．reason C．problem D．mistake

小題13:

A．good B．mean C．funny D．interesting

小題14:

A．However B．Also C．Then D．Besides

小題15:

A．will B．should C．must D．might

小題16:

A．problems B．goods C．advantages D．mistakes

小題17:

A．everyone B．no one C．someone D．anyone

小題18:

A．happily B．hardly C．seldom D．quickly

小題19:

A．stay B．put C．lose D．find

小題20:

A．besides B．over C．around D．in front of

O. Henry was a pen name used by an American writer of short stories. His real name was William Sydney Porter. He was born in North Carolina in 1862. As a young boy he lived an exciting life. He did not go to school for very long, but he managed to teach himself everything he needed to know. When he was about 20 years old, O. Henry went to Texas, where he tried different jobs. He first worked on a newspaper, and then had a job in a bank. When some money went missing from the bank, O. Henry was believed to have stolen it. Because of that, he was sent to prison. During the three years in prison, he learned to write short stories. After he got out of prison, he went to New York and continued writing. He wrote mostly about New York and the life of the poor there. People liked his stories, because simple as the tales were, they would finish with a sudden change at the end, to the readers’ surprise.
小題1:   In which order did O. Henry do the following things?
a. Lived in New York.
b. Worked in a bank.
c. Traveled to Texas.
d. Was put in prison.
e. Had a newspaper job.
f. Learned to write stories.

A．e, c, f, b, d, a	B．c, b, e, d, a, f
C．e, b, d, c, a, f	D．c, e, b, d, f, a

小題2:People enjoyed reading O. Henry’s stories because _____.

A．they had surprise endings	B．they were easy to understand
C．they showed his love for the poor	D．they were about New York City

小題3:What do we know about O. Henry before he began writing?

A．He was well-educated.

B．He was very good at learning.

C．He was devoted to the poor.

D．He was not serious about his work.

小題4:   Where did O. Henry get most material for his short stories?

A．His life inside the prison.	B．The newspaper articles he wrote.
C．The city and people of New York.	D．His exciting early life as a boy.

完形填空 （共20小題，滿分33分）
閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，然后從16-35各題所給的四個選項中，選擇最佳答案。
Evelyn Glennie was the first lady of solo percussion in Scotland. In an interview, she recalled how she became a percussion soloist(打擊樂器獨奏演員) though she was a disabled woman.
“Early on I decided not to allow the   16  of others to stop me from becoming a musician. I grew up on a farm in northeast Scotland and began   17  piano lessons when I was eight. The older I got, the more my passion(酷愛) for music grew. But I also began to gradually lose my   18  . Doctors told me that the nerve (神經) damage was the   19  and by age twelve, I was completely deaf. But my love for music never   20   me.”
“My   21  was to become a percussion soloist, even though there were none at that time. To perform, I   22  to ‘hear’ music differently from others. I play using my feet and can   23  the pitch of a note(音調高低) by the vibrations(振動). I feel through my body and through my  24 . My entire sound world exists by making full ___25___ of every sense that I have.”
“I was   26  to be considered as a musician, but not as a deaf musician, and I applied to the famous Royal Academy of Music in London. No other deaf student had   27  this before and some teachers were ___28___ to admit me. However, based on my performance, I was   29  admitted and went on to   30  with great honour.”
“After that, I became a full-time solo percussionist. I   31 a lot of musical pieces since   32__  had been written specially for solo percussionists.”
“I have been a soloist for over ten years.   33  the doctor thought I was totally deaf, it didn’t   34  that my passion couldn’t be realized. I would encourage people not to allow themselves to be   35  by others’ attitude. Follow your passion; follow your heart. They will lead you to the place you want to go.”

小題1:	A．conditions B．opinions C．actions D．suggestions

小題2:	A．enjoying B．choosing C．taking D．giving

小題3:	A．sight B．hearing C．touch D．taste

小題4:	A．evidence B．result C．excuse D．cause

小題5:	A．left B．excited C．supported D．disappointed

小題6:	A．achievement B．decision C．promise D．goal

小題7:	A．turned B．learned C．used D．ought

小題8:	A．tell B．see C．hear D．smell

小題9:	A．carefulness B．idea C．imagination D．experience

小題10:

A．use B．effort C．feeling D．idea

小題11:

A．dissatisfied B．shocked C．determined D．unhappy

小題12:

A．done B．accepted C．advised D．admitted

小題13:

A．learning B．excited C．willing D．unwilling

小題14:

A．usually B．finally C．possibly D．hopefully

小題15:

A．study B．research C．graduate D．progress

小題16:

A．wrote B．translated C．heard D．read

小題17:

A．enough B．some C．many D．few

小題18:

A．However B．Although C．When D．Since

小題19:

A．mean B．seem C．conclude D．say

小題20:

A．failed B．beaten C．taught D．affected

Jane Austen, a famous English writer, was born at Steventon, Hampshire, on December 16,1775, and died on July 18, 1817. She began writing early in life, although the prejudices (偏見) of her times forced her to have her books published anonymously (匿名 ).
But Jane Austen is perhaps the best known and best loved of Bath’s many famous local people and visitors. She paid two long visits here during the last five years of the eighteenth century and from 1801 to 1806, Bath was her home. Her deep knowledge of the city is fully seen in two of her novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, which are largely set in Bath. The city is still very much as Jane Austen knew it, basically keeping its streets and public buildings in the original shape, just like what she described in her novels. Now the pleasure of learning Jane Austen’s Bath can be enhanced (增強)by visiting the Jane Austen Centre in Gay Street. Here, in a Georgian town house in the heart of the city, you can find out more about Bath in Jane Austen’s time and the importance of Bath in her life and work.
The Centre has been set up with the help and guidance of members of the Jane Austen Society. After your visit to the Centre, you can look round the attractive shop, which offers a huge collection of Jane Austen related books, cards and many specially designed gifts. Jane Austen quizs (小測驗)  are offered to keep the children busy.
You can also have walking tours of Jane Austen’s Bath, which is a great way to find out more about Jane Austen and discover the wonderful Georgian city of Bath. The tour lasts about one and a half hours. The experienced guides will take you to the places where Jane lived, walked and shopped.
小題1: Jane Austen paid two long visits to Bath________.

A．in her early twenties	B．in her early teens
C．in her late twenties	D．in her late teens

小題2:What can we learn about Bath from the passage?

A．Bath has greatly changed since Jane Austen’s death.

B．The city has changed as much as Jane Austen knew it.

C．Bath remains almost the same as in Jane Austen’s time.

D．No changes have taken place in Bath since Jane Austen’s time.

小題3: The author writes this passage in order to________.

A．attract readers to visit the city of Bath

B．ask readers to buy Austen’s books

C．tell readers about Jane Austen’s experience

D．give a brief introduction to the Jane Austen Society

小題4:It takes you about one and a half hours________.

A．to get to the Jane Austen Centre in Gay Street

B．to buy Jane Austen related books, cards and gifts

C．to find a guide to take you to the Centre

D．to look around the city of Bath on foot

              A middle-aged stranger visited us late on a dark rainy night when my father was working the night shift (a job for a period during the night). The stranger asked if he could wait under the eaves of our roof for the rain to stop. Then he disappeared, and we started hearing footsteps and creaking boards in the attic(the space or room at the top of a building, under the roof, often used for storing things). Was the stranger inside our house? My whole body couldn’t help but stiffen. In my mind’s eye, I could imagine the stranger pushing through the attic door and approaching us.
We immediately called Jerry, our neighbor, for help. He searched everywhere, but the visitor was nowhere to be found. As Jerry looked in the garage, he found the stranger lying underneath the car. Jerry exclaimed with fright, “You are not allowed to enter the house. Get off the property right now.”
We were determined to leave the house immediately. As we drove away, we saw the man blocking our way on the road and staring at us. We had to swerve to miss him. After that, I never saw the stranger again.
小題1:The text is mainly about                .

A．the neighbor Jerry	B．a strange dream
C．a strange visitor	D．footsteps in the attic

小題2:Based on the text, which of the following statements is true?

A．The family h it the stranger with their car.

B．The stranger pushed through the family’s door.

C．Jerry was hurrying back from the night shift.

D．The author’s father wasn’t at home that night.

小題3:Why did the family leave their house on a late, dark night?

A．It was raining hard and the eaves of their roof were broken.

B．There was a ghost wandering around the house.

C．They did not feel safe in their house.

D．The stranger was still somewhere inside the house.

小題4:The text was written in order of            .

A．time

B．space

C．importance

D．age of the family

完形填空（共20 小題；每小題1分；滿分20分）
閱讀下面短文, 掌握其大意, 然后從 21～40 各題所給的四個選項 (A、B、C和D) 中, 選出最佳選項, 并在答題紙上將該選項標號涂黑。
Once upon a time, there was a herd offorest deer. In this herd was a wise and respected    21 , tricky in the ways of deer. He taught the tricks and strategies of   22  to the young fawns.
One day, his younger sister brought her son to him, to be taught   23  is so important for deer. She said, "Oh brother teacher, this is my son. Please   24  him the tricks and strategies of deer." The teacher said to the fawn, " 25 , you can come at this time tomorrow for your first lesson."
  26 , the young deer came to the lessons as he was   27  to. But soon, he became more interested in playing with the other young bucks  28 does（雌鹿）. He didn't  29 how dangerous it   30   be for a deer who learned nothing but deer games. So he started cutting classes. Soon he was playing hooky all the time.
  31 , one day the fawn who played hooky   32  in a snare and was trapped. Since he was missing, his mother   33 . She went to her brother the teacher, and asked him, "My  brother, how is my son? Have you taught your   34  the tricks and strategies of deer?"
The teacher replied, "My  sister, your son was   35  and unteachable. Out of respect for you, I tried my best to teach him. But he did not want to learn the tricks and strategies of deer. He played hooky! How could I   36  teach him? You are obedientand faithful, but he is not. It is useless to try to teach him."
Later they heard the   37  news. The naughty fawn who played hooky had been   38 and killed by a   39 . He skinned him and took the meat home to his family.
The moral is:   40  can be learned from a teacher by one who misses the class.

小題1:	A．leader B．student C．pupil D．teacher

小題2:  

A．survival

B．approval

C．arrival

D．travel

小題3:  

A．that

B．what

C．how

D．it

小題4:  

A．learn

B．study

C．teach

D．bring

小題5:  

A．How simple

B．Very well

C．Quite easy

D．What a pity

小題6:  

A．At first

B．For the first

C．The first time

D．Firstly

小題7:  

A．preserved

B．thought

C．supposed

D．suspected

小題8:. 

A．nor

B．or

C．but

D．and

小題9:  

A．realize

B．orgnize

C．admit

D．clarify

小題10:  

A．should

B．could

C．would

D．must

小題11:  

A．Generally

B．Luckily

C．However

D．Unfortunately

小題12:  

A．banned

B．caught

C．stepped

D．broke

小題13:  

A．fainted

B．delighted

C．shocked

D．worried

小題14:  

A．uncle

B．aunt

C．nephew

D．niece

小題15:  

A．dishonest

B．disobedient

C．inconvenient

D．unbelievable

小題16:

A．possibly B．likely C．necessarily D．logically

小題17:  

A．rare

B．good

C．sad

D．popular

小題18:  

A．bought

B．kidnapped

C．transported

D．trapped

小題19:  

A．hunter

B．researcher

C．advocator

D．settler

小題20:  

A．Anything

B．Nothing

C．Something

D．Everything

An Australian man who has been donating his extremely rare kind of blood for 56 years has saved the lives of more than two million babies.
James Harrison has an antibody in his plasma that stops babies dying from Rhesus disease, a form of severe anaemia. He has enabled countless mothers to give birth to healthy babies, including his own daughter, Tracey, who had a healthy son thanks to her father's blood.
Mr. Harrison has been giving blood every few weeks since he was 18 years old and has now racked up a total of 984 donations. When he started donating, his blood was deemed so special that his life was insured for one million Australian dollars.
He was also nicknamed the “man with the golden arm” or the “man in two million”. He said: “I've never thought about stopping. Never.” He made a pledge to be a donor aged 14 after undergoing major chest surgery in which he needed 13 litres of blood. “I was in hospital for three months,” he said. “The blood I received saved my life so I made a pledge to give blood when I was 18.”
Just after he started donating he was found to have the rare and life-saving antibody in his blood. At the time, thousands of babies in Australia were dying each year of Rhesus disease. Other newborns suffered permanent brain damage because of the condition. The disease creates an incompatibility between the mother's blood and her unborn baby's blood. It stems from one having Rh-positive blood and the other Rh-negative.
His blood has since led to the development of a vaccine called Anti-D. After his blood type was discovered, Mr. Harrison volunteered to undergo a series of tests to help develop the Anti-D vaccine. “They insured me for a million dollars so I knew my wife Barbara would be taken care of,” he said. “I wasn't scared. I was glad to help. I had to sign every form going and basically sign my life away.”
Mr. Harrison is Rh-negative and was given injections of Rh-positive blood. It was found his plasma could treat the condition and since then it has been given to hundreds of thousands of women. It has also been given to babies after they are born to stop them developing the disease.
It is estimated he has helped save 2.2 million babies so far. Mr. Harrison is still donating every few weeks now.
小題1:How old is James Harrison？

A．56

B．70

C．74

D．78

小題2:What does the underlined phrase “two million” refer to?

A．babies

B．mothers

C．dollars

D．all of the above

小題3:   Why did James decide to donate his blood? Because _____.

A．his daughter asked him to help her son

B．he has a golden arm worth a million dollars

C．a vaccine called Anti-D is to be developed

D．someone else’s blood saved his life

小題4:The sentence “The disease creates an incompatibility between the mother's blood and her unborn baby's blood” (underlined in Paragraph 5) suggests that _____.

A．babies suffer permanent brain damage before born

B．the mother and the baby have different types of blood

C．Rhesus disease contributes to permanent brain damage

D．all the patients have a rare antibody in their blood

小題5:   What can we infer from the sixth paragraph?

A．Some of the tests to develop the vaccine are dangerous.

B．His wife Barbara needed to be taken care of badly then.

C．Mr. Harrison was glad to help develop a new vaccine.

D．His blood type was accidentally discovered after tests.

完形填空（共20小題；每小題1分，滿分20分）
閱讀下面短文，從短文后各題所給四個選項（A、B、C、D）中選出最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。
Sam’s uncle had an old bird which sat in its cage all day. One day his uncle said, “It is too expensive to   36  that bird. We will get rid of it.” But Sam wanted to   37   the bird.
Sam’s grandfather told him that the bird was once a famous   38   bird. Now   39 people knew it. His grandfather took the bird out, and then quickly took his arms away.  The bird opened its huge   40  and flew into the sky. After a few minutes, it   41  with a small rabbit, cut it open and started to   42  it.
The next morning, Sam asked his uncle out. Sam did   43   his grandfather had done, but the bird   44   to the ground and stood still. Sam’s uncle   45  . Later his grandfather told him that the bird only hunted in late afternoon when light was less   46  . Sam asked his uncle to come out before   47  . This time the bird caught a mouse. His uncle was quiet with   48  , but laughed again, “We can’t eat mice, so this bird is   49  .” And he sold the bird without telling Sam.
Before Sam found the bird was   50  , two angry men arrived in a car. They   51   his uncle and said, the bird couldn’t hunt and they wanted their money back. Sam’s uncle looked   52  and said, “I have spent it. But… don’t worry!” He   53   at Sam, “Sam will show you 54   to make the bird hunt! It’s a great bird, isn’t it, Sam?” Sam opened the door of the car and took out the   55  . It flew away and disappeared forever.

小題1:	A．feed B．buy C．wash D．sell

小題2:	A．know B．find C．keep D．buy

小題3:	A．singing B．sleeping C．eating D．hunting

小題4:	A．some B．no C．many D．few

小題5:	A．mouth B．wings C．tail D．eyes

小題6:	A．dealt B．returned C．met D．parted

小題7:	A．watch B．search C．eat D．help

小題8:	A．as B．for C．since D．after

小題9:	A．fell B．rose C．walked D．ran

小題10:

A．shouted B．cried C．laughed D．nodded

小題11:

A．attractive B．pleasant C．poor D．strong

小題12:

A．bed B．supper C．lunch D．breakfast

小題13:

A．patience B．surprise C．joy D．sadness

小題14:

A．harmful B．strange C．cheap D．useless

小題15:

A．leaving B．gone C．dying D．cooked

小題16:

A．shouted at B．smiled at C．looked after D．took after

小題17:

A．impressed B．worried C．satisfied D．bored

小題18:

A．waved B．pointed C．aimed D．jumped

小題19:

A．what B．why C．where D．how

小題20:

A．money B．coat C．bird D．everything

Peggy Hilt wanted to be a good mother. But day after day, she got out of bed feeling like a failure. No matter what she tried, she couldn’t connect with Nina, the 2-year -old girl she’d adopted from Russia as an infant （幼兒). The preschooler （學齡前兒童）pulled away whenever Hilt tried to hug or kiss her. Nina was physically aggressive with her 4-year-old sister, who had been adopted from Ukraine, and had violent tantrums（發(fā)脾氣). Whenever Hilt wasn’t watching, she destroyed the family’s furniture and possessions. “Every day with Nina had become a struggle,” she recalls now.
As the girl grew older, things got worse. Hilt fell into a deep depression. She started drinking heavily, something she’d never done before. Ashamed, she hid her problem from everyone, including her husband.
On the morning of July 1, 2005, Hilt was packing for a family vocation, all the while swallowing one beer after another and growing increasingly angry and impatient with Nina’s deeds. “Everything she did just got to me,” Hilt said. When Hilt caught her reaching into her diaper（尿布）and smearing feces（糞便）on the walls and furniture, “a year and a half of frustration came to a head,” Hilt says. “I snapped（崩潰). I felt this uncontrollable rage.”
Then Hilt did something unthinkable. She grabbed Nina around the neck, shook her and then dropped her to the floor, where she kicked her repeatedly before dragging her up to her room, punching her as they went. “I had never hit a child before,” she says. “I felt horrible and promised myself that this would never happen again.” But it was too late for that. Nina woke up with a fever, and then started throwing up. The next day she stopped breathing. By the time the ambulance got the child to the hospital, she was dead.
Hilt is now serving a 19-year sentence for second-degree murder in a Virginia prison. She and her husband divorced, and he is raising their other daughter. She realizes the horror of her crime and says she isn’t looking for sympathy. “There is no punishment severe enough for what I did,” she told NEWSWEEK in an interview at the prison.
小題1: This story mainly tells us __________.

A．a cruel mother who killed her daughter

B．a social problem of adoption

C．a family problem in Western countries

D．an unlucky child’s fortune

小題2:How did Hilt let out her depression at the beginning?

A．By hitting her adopted girl.

B．By showing her more love.

C．By drinking heavily.

D．By hugging and kissing her.

小題3: What does the underlined sentence in Para.4 mean?

A．It was too late to hit the girl in order to make her good.

B．It was too late to save the girl’s life.

C．It was too late to regret hitting the girl.

D．It was too late to regret adopting the girl.

小題4:“NEWSWEEK” in the last sentence of this text refers to a __________.

A．magazine

B．journalist

C．book

D．policeman

小題5: Why do some adoptions go so wrong？

A．It’s the kid’s fault.	B．It’s the mother’s fault.
C．It’s the fault of the society.	D．The writer doesn’t mention the reason.