_______ difficult the task may be, we must finish it on time, because we can’t meet such a precious opportunity _______ we have expected.

A. Whatever; that                          B. However; as     

C. However; that                          D. Whatever; which

. When they got there, they found the children suffering from the disease were         food and water supplies badly.

A. in want of        B. by means of     C. at the risk of   D. in the hope of

第三部分 閱讀技能 (共三節(jié)，滿分35分)

 閱讀理解 （共12小題；每小題2分，滿分24分）

閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的A、B、C、D四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。

I am an e-mail user. When I first started to use the e-mail system, I used to read all my e-mail. I didn’t have much mail. I gave my friends my e-mail address. Soon I had more mail than I wanted. Some of the mail was junk mail. I was worried. I didn’t want my mail to control me.

I’ve tried some methods to help me get control of my mail. First, I check my mail at the same time every day. Also I try to allow myself only 15-20 minutes every day to process my e-mail. This doesn’t always work, but I try. Sometimes I save the messages. Sometimes I just read them, maybe answer a few, and then delete（刪除）them.

Sometimes I’m not at all interested in a message, so I don’t even open it. I delete it right away. This is very much the way I go through the mail that the postal service delivers to my home.

These methods are very simple. I have some friends who are very clever with computers. From time to time, they teach me new tricks for managing my e-mail. I’m still amazed at what e-mail can do for me! I’m still worried, however, about having too much to read.  

1. The writer used to read all his e-mail because _______. 

   A. he didn’t have much mail                      B. he had nothing else to do

   C. he didn’t know how to read mail            D. he was forced to do that

2. Which of the following does NOT belong to the ways of the writer’s dealing with his mail?

   A. Saving the messages.                    B. Just reading some.  

C. Deleting some.                       D. Passing some on to friends.

3. What does the underlined word “they” in the last paragraph refer to?

   A. messages             B. friends                         C. computers             D. methods

4. What’s the purpose of the writer to write this passage?

   A. To share happiness in using mail with us.

   B. To share some worries in using mail with us.

   C. To share some methods of using computer with us.

   D. To persuade us out of using mail.

第二節(jié)：完形填空 (共20小題；每小題1.5分,滿30分)

閱讀下面短文,從短文后所給各題的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)(A、B、C、D)中, 選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。

       Nearly two decades has passed, I still remember my favourite professor, James Sehwartz. Whenever he smiles ,it’s as if you’d just been told the funniest joke on earth .Almost all his students are his friends, and almost all his students know his life story.

       When James was a teenager, his father   31   him to a fur factory where he worked. This was during the Great Depression. The   32  was to get James a job.

       He entered the factory, and immediately felt as if the   33   had closed in around him. The room was dark and hot, the windows covered with dust, and the  34  were packed tightly together, running like trains. The fur hairs were flying,   35  a thickened air ,and the workers,   36   the pieces of fur together, were bent over their needles  37  the boss marched up and down the rows ,searching for them to go faster .James could hardly   38  . He stood next to his father, frozen with fear, hoping the boss wouldn’t  39  at him , too.

       During lunch break, his father took James to the boss and pushed him in front of him,   40 if there was any work for his son. But   41   there was barely enough   42   for the adult labours ,for no one would give it up once he takes a job.

       Thus, for James, it was a   43  . He hated the place. He made a   44   that he kept to the end of his like: he would never do any work that brought   45   to someone else ,and he would never allow himself to   46   money off the seat of others.

       “What will you do?” his mother, Eva, would ask him.

       “I don’t know,” he   47   say. He ruled out law, because he didn’t like   48   , and he ruled out medicine , because he couldn’t take the   49  of blood.

       “What will you do?”

50  , my best professor I ever had became he thought it was the job not to hurt anybody.

31．A．sent   B．took  C．carried      D．a(chǎn)dmitted

32．A．situation   B．condition  C．idea   D．a(chǎn)ttitude

33．A．lights       B．floors       C．chances     D．walls

34．A．goods       B．workers    C．machines  D．vehicles

35．A．creating    B．sending     C．taking       D．disturbing

36．A．collecting B．pulling     C．drawing    D．sewing

37．A．a(chǎn)s     B．a(chǎn)fter  C．if      D．though

38．A．breathe     B．see    C． walk       D．hear

39．A．a(chǎn)ttack       B．scold C．defeat       D．scream

40．A．doubting   B．questioning      C．a(chǎn)sking      D．demanding

41．A．a(chǎn)lso   B．still   C．yet    D．even

42．A．time  B．work C．office       D．occupation

43．A．comforting      B．regretting  C．blessing    D．forgiving

44．A．request     B．promise    C．plan  D．a(chǎn)rrangement

45．A．harm B．injury       C．damage     D．inconvenience

46．A．pay   B．save  C．make D．let

47．A．should      B．would       C．could D． might

48．A．police       B．lawyers     C．judges      D．government

49．A．sight B．feel   C．sense D．scenery

50．A．Generally B．Luckily         C．Eventually D．Basically

.After boarding the plane, I found my seat _____ by a police officer, wondering whether I got the wrong flight.

A. occupied    B. conquered  C. possessed   D. owned

He arrived home very late last night, _________in the early hours this morning.

       A．or else      B．or rather   C．rather than       D．more than

  To our great ________ , grandmother's illness proved not to be as serious as we had feared.

    A. anxiety           B. regret             C. relief             D. credit

There are hundreds of people desperate to _______ an orphan whose parents were killed in the Haiti earthquake.

       A. receive                            B. educate                    C. adopt                       D. abuse

I am afraid we cannot include the item you suggest, as it does not __________ the rest of the programme.

       A. come up with           B. look down upon        C. fit in with                 D. put up with

 —Now, where is my purse?

—______! We’ll be late for the picnic.

A. Take your time       B. Don’t worry    C. Come on               D. Take it easy