第二節(jié)（共5小題；每小題  2分，滿分  10 分）
根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，從短文后的選項中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項。選項中有兩項為多余選項。
Cyber Café computer centers are found in many cities around the world. Now, a few American high schools are opening these centers. For example, a high school in the state of Maryland began operating a Cyber Café last March. All students at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in Bethesda can use  the Cyber Café.    ___71___
The officials say 13% of the students at the school are from poor families. Many students have arrived in the United States from other countries only recently. Students in the school’s program for learning English speak 23 other languages.
The idea for a Cyber Café at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School began nine years ago. __72__ Parents interested in technology proposed a Cyber Café.
They wanted this center even though schools in the area had suffered budget cuts(預算消減). The community(社區(qū))wanted to help. __73__
Over two years, the community collected money for a Cyber Café and other new computers. ___74___ The Café now has many computers a printer and a scanner. School official Ann Hengerer says students use the Internet to complete research. They also write homework and required papers on the computers. ___75___ That is especially helpful for the many students who have family members in other nations.

A．It received more than 170,000 dollars.

B．In addition, they can send and receive e-mails.

C．Some officials in the area opposed（反對）the idea.

D．It wanted all students to have the best chances to learn.

E.At that time, officials were planning to rebuild the school building.
F.One student at the school says students can start their homework even before they leave school.
G.But school officials say it especially helps students who have no computer or cannot use the internet at home.

完形填空（共20小題；每小題1.5分，滿分30分）
閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，從每題所給的A、B、C、D四個選項中，選出最佳選項。
Only one woman is responsible for my success：my mom. Don' t  36 me—I'm like anyone else，and have issues with my mother. However，I'm  37  enough to realize that what she taught me when I was young positioned me for my later  38   .
My mom taught me that life，like dinner，doesn't require a recipe.  39 she cooked the most complicated meals，she  40 cooked from a recipe. It was like a kind of free-form jazz， and she taught me to improvise (即興發(fā)揮)， and to add ingredients according to  41 .It's no wonder that my media business has grown so amazingly; I'm not  42 anyone else's recipe.
When I was in the ninth grade，my mom decided she wanted something  43 being a mother and a wife. She wanted to start her own  44  .But in order to accomplish this，she had no  45  but to get a loan. It all happened in  46 motion. The bank manager   47 my father call him，but my mom said stubbornly，"Why? It's my loan." "Well，I can't give you a loan unless he co-signs，" replied the manager. But my mom didn't  48 hope，and responded sincerely，"I see. Then can you do me a favor，if he does? I' d   49 it if you'd put together the paperwork quickly. I need a shop in order to support my family."
Moved by her  50 ，the manager agreed to do as she asked. So  51 was I that I included that day into my DNA.
Through her influence，I've become someone who   52  what she wants until she gets it. If something or someone is in my way，I   53  how to overcome the difficulties. It's really that  54 . It's not about getting angry. It's about getting what you want，being very， competitive，but also extremely  55 . I learned this in the ninth grade from my mom， and it burned itself into my brain.
36. A. suspect                B. misunderstand        C. scold          D. interrupt
37. A. curious                B. innocent         C. intelligent               D. straight forward
38. A. circumstances                        B. dilemmas（窘境） C. achievements    D. difficulties
39. A. Unless          B. If                          C. Since                 D. While
40. A. rarely                  B. increasingly       C. cautiously       D. flexibly
41. A. feature                 B. process           C. motivation       D. taste
42. A. undertaking          B. reflecting         C. recommending    D. following
43. A. instead of             B. rather than        C. more than                D. regardless of
44.A. business         B. marriage         C. research         D. interview
45.A. substitute        B. alternative         C. procedure       D. possibility
46.A. brief                    B. slow                   C. admirable        D. urgent
47.A. ordered          B. indicated         C. insisted           D. stressed
48.A. switch           B. abandon          C. adjust            D. escape
49.A. reward          B. relieve            C. celebrate        D. appreciate
50.A. determination      B. requirement        C. significance       D. encouragement
51.A. patient                B. sensitive           C. trustworthy       D. impressed
52.A. benefits         B. explores           C. compromises    D. pursues
53.A. turn out         B. stick out           C. figure out       D. watch out
54.A. simple                 B. upset             C. unconscious       D. uncertain
55.A. embarrassing       B. likeable           C. casual             D. confusing

When I was four years old，I broke my elbow. After many weeks in a cast (石膏) I returned to the hospital to finally have it removed. My mother found it strange that I was so enthusiastic about returning to the place where I had experienced so much pain. Yet she soon discovered my fas­cination with the healing process and how doctors helped to enhance it.
I was in fear as the doctor removed my cast and asked me to move my arm，and immediately became scared as the pain came shooting back through my elbow. After another series of X-rays and examinations my arm was put into a new cast I had begun to doubt the reliability of the doctor，and my mother thought I would be unwilling to return a second time.
When the day came to have my cast removed again，I was nervous. Yet I was optimistic enough to trust the doctor as he once again removed my cast and asked me to move my arm. And this time it was better! Nothing hurt!
On the way back home I released (松開) my mother's hand and ran ahead，and out of her sight. She was immedi­ately worried that I would come upon someone dangerous. At the age of four I was already known for liking to talk with strangers that I felt were potential friends. When she caught sight of me again， I was looking up into the face of an old broken-legged man，saying，“Don't worry，sir! The doctor will fix your leg. Look how he fixed my arm！” 
Since then I have continued to be fascinated with the human body and medicine. I also still love to help people，and never miss an opportunity to encourage someone. But most of all，I still believe that optimism and trust are the building blocks of happiness and success. Many things can change，but I am proud to say that these parts of me have always stayed the same.
56.The author was nervous when he returned to the hospi­tal the second time because      .
A. the hospital seemed like a more frightening place   B. the doctor there was unskilled
C. he was afraid of the pain         D. he was sure his elbow wouldn't recover
57.What did the mother fear when the author ran out of her sight on the way back home?
A. That he would break his elbow again.
B. That he would run down others and break their legs
C. That he would lose his way.
D. That he would come upon a dangerous stranger and get hurt.
58.What can we learn about the author from the passage?
A. He is optimistic and enthusiastic.     B. He was hard-working as a young boy.
C. He doesn't like making friends with strangers.
D. He could become anything but a doctor.
59.Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A. An Unforgettable Hospital Experience        B. Lessons of a Broken Bone
C. What Makes for Happiness and Success?      D. Broken Bones Take Long to Heal

Section B （18分）
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are 4 words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with a word or phrase that best fits the context.
It was one of the happiest times of my life. I was 29 and had just received my bachelor’s degree, graduating with   36   despite working two jobs and being a wife and mother. My parents and five-year-old son were among the   37   when I walked onto the stage at Ashland University to get my diploma. I was so excited and proud to be starting a teaching career and contributing more to my family’s happiness.
But when I got home that evening, there was a note from my husband,   38  , “I have come to get my clothes and won’t be back.” We’d been having trouble,   39   that note still came as a shock. He had emptied our bank account. We were horribly in debt. I had quit my previous jobs in the hope of finding a teaching position.   40 , I was eight months pregnant.
The reality was so merciless that I was embarrassed,   41  , and angry and felt I had failed. But I had my son, and I was about to   42   a new life into the world. So   43  my deep sadness, I had to go on. The next morning, I woke up, put my feet on the floor, took a deep breath, prepared breakfast, and basically did everything I always did. I used my routine to keep myself moving.
And in the seven years since, I’ve continued moving forward. I got a job as a kindergarten teacher, earned a master’s degree in education, and watched my babies grow to 12 and   44  . I certainly have never   45   to put them through this, but in retrospect (回首往事), I’m glad   it happened to me when it did. It helped me grow   46 , confident, and strong — things I’m now hopefully instilling in (灌輸) my children. Sometimes life throws you a curve ball, hands you a lemon, or knocks you for a loop (gives you a shock). But knowing how to   47   failure can be the first step to success. This is my latest belief and strategy on how to win in the end.  
36. A. worries B. anxieties     C. troubles      D. honors
37. A. professors    B. students      C. audience     D. neighbours
38. A. saying  B. meaning     C. expressing  D. writing
39. A. but       B. and     C. thus    D. so
40. A. Therefore     B. Yet     C. Besides      D. Even
41. A. excited B. disturbed    C. interested   D. scared
42. A. take      B. bring  C. give    D. get
43. A. regardless of       B. except for   C. in spite of   D. instead of
44. A. seven    B. eight   C. nine    D. ten
45. A. stopped B. chosen       C. turned D. waited
46. A. indifferent   B. careful       C. helpful       D. independent
47. A. put up with  B. keep up with      C. deal with    D. do with

PART FOUR WRITING
Section A (10分)
Directions: Read the following passage. Complete the diagram by using the information for the passage.  Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.
Losing weight is difficult, and keeping it off may be even harder. So Harvard researchers set out to determine exactly how much physical activity women need in midlife to avoid gaining weight as they age.
The researchers found that an hour of moderate activity a day — including such recreational activities as brisk walking, leisurely bicycling, ballroom dancing and playing with children — prevented women of normal weight from gaining more than five pounds over any three-year period. Half that amount of vigorous activity, like running, jogging or fast biking, will do the trick as well, they said.
Women who got the same amount of exercise but were heavier to start with were not able to avoid gaining weight, however. Neither were women of normal weight who got less than seven hours a week of moderate activity, according to the study, published in the March 24 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association.
The average weight gain over the course of the 15-year study, which followed 34,079 healthy women with an average age of 54 at the beginning, was just over five pounds. The researchers did not take diet into account.
“It’s so hard to lose weight and maintain the loss, so whatever weight you are, you should try to stay that weight — that is a success,” said the paper’s lead author, Dr. I-Min Lee, an associate professor of epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health.
But any amount of exercise is beneficial, she emphasized. “People shouldn’t just throw up their hands and say, ‘Sixty minutes? I can’t do that,’ and give up. Health is more than weight.”
Title: A research on how to     71   

72	To determine how much physical activity women need in midlife to avoid gaining weight as they age
73	Research objects	74	Types of exercise	Weight gain
	Women 75	An hour of moderate activity a day	● Brisk walking ● Leisurely bicycling ●     76    ● Playing with children	77   five pounds over a three-year period
		Half an hour of vigorous activity a day	● Running ● Jogging ●     78
		Less than 79   a week of moderate activity		Not being avoided
	Heavier women	The same as the above
Suggestions	● Staying your weight ●     80

Section B (10分)
Directions: Read the following passage. Answer the questions according to the information given in the passage and required words limit. Write your answers on your answer sheet.
Now let us look at how we read. When we read a printed text, our eyes move across a page in short, jerky movement. We recognize words usually when our eyes are still when they fixate. Each time they fixate, we see a group of words. This is known as the recognition span or the visual span(視幅). The length of time of which the eyes stop ---the duration of the fixation ----varies considerably from person to person. It also varies within any one person according to his purpose in reading and his familiarity with the text. Furthermore, it can be affected by such factors as lighting and tiredness.
Unfortunately, in the past, many reading improvement courses have concentrated too much on how our eyes move across the printed page. As a result of this misleading emphasis on the purely visual aspects of reading, numerous exercises have been devised to train the eyes to see more words at one fixation. For instance, in some exercises, words are flashed on to a screen for, say, a tenth or a twentieth of a second. One of the exercises has required students to fix their eyes on some central point, taking in the words on either side. Such word patterns are often constructed in the shape of rather steep pyramids so the reader takes in more and more words at each successive fixation. All these exercises are very clever, but it’s one thing to improve a person’s ability to see words and quite another thing to improve his ability to read a text efficiently. Reading requires the ability to understand the relationship between words. Consequently, for these reasons, many experts have now begun to question the usefulness of eye training, especially since any approach which trains a person to read isolated words and phrases would seem unlikely to help him in reading a continuous text.
81. Show at least three facts which can affect the time of the recognition span. （no more than 14 words）(2分)
___________________________
82.what does reading require according to the writer?（no more than 8 words）(2分)
________________________
83. What is the attitude of the author towards reading improvement courses mentioned in the passage? ( one word )  (3分)
_______________________
84. What will probably the writer talk about next? （no more than 12 words）(3分)
_____________________

第二節(jié) 完形填空（共20小題；每小題1.5分，滿分30分）
閱讀下面短文，從短文后所給各題的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。
Billy was still a child when his parents left their hometown in search of a better life in the North. I had the pleasure of meeting him in his early years in a public school in New York. I had to
21   a class of English language learners for a   22  in world history and geography.
What this boy needed was to know how he could succeed. I could have   23  him the textbook and idly (無所事事地) sat down, and he would have read the entire book within a week and   24   for another. And so, as he sat before me   25  to learn, I knew that he would be a
26  .
Towards the end of the   27  that year, he came to me with tears in his eyes to tell me he would have to move to another district, where there were few   28   for English language learners. In addition, the district   29  that he take the state test in June,   30  he had only completed three-quarters of the first year of a two-year course! It was then that I told him what I had   31  the very first day I met him.
“You will be   32  wherever you go. They could   33   you like Napoleon to some faraway island, and you would   34  find your way to greatness.” He looked at me and   35  . Needless to say, he passed the test with high marks. He graduated with   36 , and was the only student that year   37  to Harvard University on a full scholarship (獎學金).
This boy was like a Picasso. He was born to   38 . But even a Picasso needs a   39  . The public school system (系統(tǒng)) gives every child a chance to   40  , only if every teacher realizes that to educate a child is to open a world of possibilities — that to educate a child is to change the world.
21. A. find                    B. organize            C. prepare             D. monitor
22. A. homework          B. test                  C. speech              D. competition
23. A. handed                  B. left                  C. borrowed          D. awarded
24. A. paid                   B. waited              C. asked                      D. struggled
25. A. curious               B. patient                     C. ready                D. eager
26. A. star                    B. historian           C. teacher             D. geographer
27. A. meeting                     B. activity             C. course              D. class
28. A. services              B. libraries            C. foreigners         D. friends
29. A. reminded           B. insisted             C. expected           D. Remarked
30. A. now that             B. as if                  C. in case                     D. even though
31. A. felt                            B. experienced              C. wanted              D. hoped
32. A. careful                B. brave                C. popular            D. successful
33. A. lead                   B. treat                 C. drive                 D. follow
34. A. even                   B. yet                    C. ever                  D. still
35. A. cried                  B. smiled              C. sighed              D. trembled
36. A. courage                     B. honors              C. praise                D. warmth
37. A. admitted             B. intended            C. offered                 D. charged
38. A. poverty              B. wealth              C. hardship           D. greatness
39. A. chance                      B. help                  C. support             D. comfort
40. A. choose                B. play                 C. achieve             D. Think

第二部分 閱讀理解（共兩節(jié)，滿分50分）
第一節(jié) 閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。（共20小題；每小題2分，滿分40分）
A
I arrived in the classroom, ready to share my knowledge and experience with 76 students who would be my English literature class. Having taught in the US for 17 years, I have no doubt about my ability to hold their attention and to impress on them my admiration for the literature of my mother tongue.
I was shocked when the monitor shouted, “stand up!” The entire class rose as I entered the room and I was somewhat puzzled about how to get them to sit down again, but once the embarrassment (尷尬) was over, I quickly regained my calmness and admiration. I went back to my office with the rosy glow which came from a strong sense of achievement.
My students kept diaries. However, as I read them, the rosy glow was gradually replaced by a strong sense of sadness. The first diary said, “Our literature teacher didn’t teach us anything today. Perhaps her next lecture will be better.” Greatly surprised, I read diary after diary, each expressing a similar theme. “Didn’t I teach them anything? I described the entire Western philosophy (哲學) and laid the historical background for all the works we will study in class.” I complained. “How should they say I didn’t teach them anything?”
It was a long term, and it gradually became clear that my ideas about education were not the same as those of my students. I thought a teacher’s job was to raise interesting questions and provide enough background so that students could draw their own conclusions. My students thought a teacher’s job was to provide exact information as directly and clearly as possible. What a difference!
However, I also learned a lot, and the experience with my Chinese students has made me a better American teacher, knowing how to teach in a different culture.
41. We can know that on the first day the writer ______.
A. felt she didn’t teach them much
B. was very confident in her students
C. felt very confident in herself at first
D. was disappointed at her students’ performance
42. At the beginning of the lesson, the writer got puzzled because of ______.
A. cultural differences                        B. students’ admiration
C. students’ embarrassment                  D. the same experience
43. The writer learnt from their diaries that the students wanted to ______.
A. raise interesting questions               B. know about background
C. draw their own conclusions             D. know more exact facts
44. Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A. The writer got used to the life in China.
B. The writer doubted about her ability of teaching.
C. The writer had taught in many western countries.
D. The writer became better at teaching foreign students.

第二節(jié) 根據(jù)對話內(nèi)容，從對話后的選項中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。選項中有兩項多余選項。（共5小題；每小題2分，滿分10分）
M: Now some doctors are strongly encouraging arm exercises.
W: Arm exercises?   61 
M: Actually that’s not the main reason. They say that arm exercises can make you physically healthy.
W:   62 
M: Yes, but the article I read suggests some ways to make up for that.
W: Really? How?
M:   63 
W: And in return I’m sure that there’s a good chance of losing weight.
M: Sounds right to me.
W:  64 
M: They mentioned quite a few exercises, but one of the more popular ones is cycling.
W:   65 

A．OK. I’ll get up early.

B．Good. I must try that.

C．And arm exercises can make you strong.

D．So what exercises do the experts suggest?

E. Is that because arms are too fat or too soft?
F. By adding leg exercises, so that the arms don’t do all the work.
G. But I was told that arm exercises could raise your blood pressure.

D
I grew up in a small town. I was only ten years old when my dad gave me the responsibility of feeding the chickens and cleaning up the stable (馬廄). He believed it was important for me to have those jobs to learn responsibility. Then, when I was 22, I found a job in Natchbill at a country music club called the Natchbill Palace. I washed dishes and cooked from 4:00 pm to 9:00 pm and then went on stage and sang until 2:00 in the morning. It wasn’t long before I became known as a singing cook. I had been rejected so many times by record companies that it was hard not to be discouraged.
One night, a woman executive (董事) from a company named Warner Brothers Records came to hear me sing. When the show was over, we sat down and talked and after she left, I said to myself it was one more rejection. A few weeks later, my manager received a phone call — Warner Brothers wanted to sign me to a record deal. Soon after, I had my first record in June 1986. It sold over 2 million copies. My best efforts had gone into every job I’ve ever held. It was the sense of responsibility that made me feel like a man.
68. Why was the writer once known as a singing cook?
A. He was a cook at a country music club.
B. He sang for guests while he worked as a cook.
C. He often sang while cooking.
D. He liked singing better than cooking.
69. Who first recognized the writer’s talents and helped make him successful?
A. His brother.      B. His manager.    C. His father.           D. A businesswoman.
70. It can be inferred from the passage that the ______.
A. writer’s success is partly due to his father     B. writer’s family was very poor
C. writer succeeded easily                   D. writer’s first record was a total failure