________ you’ve got a chance, you might as well make full use of it.

 A. As soon as     B. After            C. Now that        D. Although

       Jack is late again. It is _______ of him to keep others waiting.

A. normal            B. ordinary                 C. common           D. typical

___ I came to the city , I was deeply impressed with its beautiful scenery .

  A. For the first time     B. At first          C. It was the first time        D. The first time

. He had to drive faster to ______ for the lost time, which is considered dangerous to the passengers.

   A. take up       B. put up                C. make up       D. turn up

第三部分:閱讀理解(共20小題,每小題2分,滿分40分)

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。

A lot of management training each year for Circle K Corporation, a national chain of convenience stores. Among the topics we address in our course is the retention（保護力） of quality employees-a real challenge to managers when you consider the pay scale（標準）in the service industry. During these discussions, I ask the participants（參加者）, “What has caused you to stay long enough to become a manager?” Some time back a new manager took the question and slowly, with her voice almost breaking, said, “It was a ＄19 baseball glove.”

Cynthia told the group that she originally took a Circle K clerk job as an interim（臨時的） position while she looked for something better. On her second or third day behind the counter, she received a phone call from her nine-year-old son, Jessie. He needed a baseball glove for Little League. She explained that as a single mother, money was very tight, and her first check would have to go for paying bills. Perhaps she could buy his baseball glove with her second or third check. When Cynthia arrived for work the next morning, Patricia, the store manager, asked her to come to the small room in the back of the store that served as an office. Cynthia wondered if she had done something wrong or left some part of her job incomplete from the day before. She was concerned and confused.

Patricia handed her a box. “I overheard you talking to your son yesterday,” she said, “and I know that it is hard to explain things to kids. This is a baseball glove for Jessie because he may not understand how important he is, even though you have to pay bills before you can buy gloves. You know we can’t pay good people like you as much as we would like to; but we do care, and I want you to know you are important to us.”

The thoughtfulness, empathy and love of this convenience store manager demonstrates vividly that people remember more how much an employer cares than how much the employer pays. An important lesson for the price of a Little League baseball glove.

1．Among many of the problems in the service industry, what is talked about in this passage, is_______.

       A．how to ensure his employees’ high pay

       B．how to attract more customers

       C．how to look carefully after the employees

       D．how to keep the good employees from leaving

2．Although a new manager, Cynthia would do her job well in keeping quality employees because she________.

       A．had mastered all the courses for the manager

       B．had already formed good relationship with the employees

       C．know the way how to deal with her employees

       D．had her own personal experience

3．This passage shows us that to run a business well it is necessary for managers to let their employees know________.

       A．how much they can get for their job.

       B．what good positions they can get later

       C．they are very necessary to the business  

       D．they are nice as well as useful

4．The story told in this passage tells us that employees care about___________.

       A．only how large a pay they can get

       B．love from the managing people rather than only money

       C．if their children could be properly taken care of

       D．what position they can be offered

Well before the 15th century, an Anglo-Saxon custom required that a prospective bridegroom break some highly valued personal belonging. Half of the broken token was held by the father of the bride and the other half by the groom. A wealthy man was expected to split a piece of gold or silver.

The earliest engagement rings were also used as wedding rings, serving to seal an act of sale which transformed ownership of a daughter from father to husband. Such rings were usually of solid gold to prove the groom’s worth.

For Roman Catholics, the engagement ring became a required statement of Nuptial intent（結(jié)婚意向）, as decreed by Pope Nicholas I in 860 A.D. The engagement ring was to be of valued metal, preferably gold, which for the husband-to-be represented a financial sacrifice.

Signifying enduring love, and chosen for its durability, the diamond was chosen for the engagement ring. The diamond’s fire is also associated with “l(fā)ove’s clear flame,” given by Medieval Italians because of their belief that the diamond was created from the flames of love.

The Venetians were the first to discover that the diamond is one of the hardest, most enduring substances in nature, and fine cutting and polishing releases the brilliance. Rarity and cost limited their rapid proliferation（急增） throughout Europe but their intrinsic（內(nèi)在的） appeal guaranteed them a future. By the 17th century, the diamond ring had become the most sought after statement of European engagement.　　

1. Who kept the two halves of the engagement rings before marriage?

   A. The bride’s father and the bridegroom’s mother.

   B. The bride’s mother and the bridegroom.

   C. The bride and the bridegroom.

   D. The bridegroom and the bride’s father,

2. What’s TRUE about the early Anglo-Saxon custom before the 15th century ?

   A. A will-be bridegroom should beat all his valuable belongings.

   B. Every will-be bride should split a piece of gold.

   C. The engagement rings were also used to prove the groom’s worth.

D. A rich bride should break one of her most valuable personal belongs.

3. Pope Nicholas made the engagement ring a required statement of nuptial intent ______.

A. in the 15th century           B. over 1,000 years ago

   C .in the 1860s                D. by the 17th century

4. What kind of engagement ring has been the most popular one in Europe ?

   A. Rings made of gold          B. Rings made of silver

C. Rings made of diamond       D. Rings made of an unknown substance in nature.

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第四部分：寫作（共兩節(jié)。滿分35分）

第一節(jié)　短文改錯（共10小題；每小題1分，滿分10分）

此題要求改正所給短文中的錯誤。對標有題號的每一行作出判斷：如無錯誤，在該行右邊橫筑上畫一個勾（√）；如有錯誤（每行只有一個錯誤），則按下列情況改正：

此行多一個詞：把多余的詞用斜線（＼）劃掉，在該行右邊橫線上寫出該詞，并也用斜線劃掉。

此行缺一個詞：在缺詞處加一個漏字符號（∧），在該行右邊橫線上寫出該加的詞。

此行錯一個詞：在錯的詞下劃一橫線，在該行右邊橫線上寫出改正后的詞。

注意：原行沒有錯的不要改。

Some Americans judge success on the length                     76． ___________

of his vacations . The man who gets a month’s                                  77．  ___________

vacation each year consider himself more successful                         78．  ___________

than the man gets two weeks . Many people want                             79． ___________

to be teachers because it is teachers who can                                     80.  ___________

get three-month vacation every year . Some college                           81． ___________

teachers who teach the three classes consider                                    82． ___________

themselves less successful than that who teach                                  83． ___________

only one or two , or none in all . In short , the less                             84． ___________

work Americans do , the less successful they                                     85． ___________

consider themselves .

. Of the seven days in a week, Saturday is said to be the most popular ____ for a wedding in some countries.

A. way        B. situation     C. event      D. choice

 — I’ve told Nancy many times about the meeting, but she still forgot it!

— I understand. Actually, anyone ______ be very forgetful at times.

A. must        B. should      C..ought to       D. can

．It is hard for me to imagine what I would be doing today if I ___________in love, at the   age of seven, with the Melinda Cox in my hometown.

       A. wouldn’t have fallen                             B. had not fallen          

       C. should fall                                            D. were to fall