．—Why were you not at the concert last night？

— I _________a close game between Seattle Sonics and Miami Bucks.

       A．watched       B．had watched   C．was watching D．have been watching

.The decision       ,what is it to be done now is how to carry it out.

   A.been made        B.has been made       C.having been made  D.having been making

The Young Can't Wait

By Severn Cullies Suzuki

When you are little, it's not hard to believe you can change the world. I remember my enthusiasm when, at the age of 12, I addressed the delegates at the Rio Earth Summit. “I am only a child,” I told them. “Yet I know that if all the money spent on war was spent on ending poverty（貧困） and finding environmental answers, what a wonderful place this would be. In school you teach us not to fight with others, to work things out, to respect others, to clean up our mess, not to hurt other creatures, to share, not to be greedy. Then why do you go out and do the thing you tell us not to do? You grown-ups say you love us, but I challenge you, please, to make your actions reflect（反省） your words.”

I spoke for six minutes and received a standing ovation. Some of the delegates even cried. I thought that maybe I had reached some of them, that my speech might actually spur（刺激） action. Now, a decade（十年） from Rio, after I've sat through many more conferences, I'm not sure what has been accomplished. My confidence in the people in power and in the power of an individual's voice to reach them has been deeply shaken.

When I was little, the world was simple. But as a young adult, I'm learning that as we have to make choices—education, career, lifestyle—life gets more and more complicated. We are beginning to feel pressure to produce and be successful. We are taught that economic growth is progress, but we aren't taught how to pursue a happy, healthy or sustainable way of living. And we are learning that what we wanted for the future when we were 12 was idealistic and naive.

Today I'm no longer a child, but I'm worried about what kind of environment my children will grow up in. I know change is possible, because I am changing, still figuring out what I think. I am still deciding how to live my life. The challenges are great, but if we accept individual responsibility and make sustainable choices, we will rise to the challenges, and we will become part of the positive tide of change.

60．The purpose of what the writer said at the age of 12 was to _______.

A．end poverty and make school beautiful

B．find environmental answers and keep the words that they always told themselves

C．end poverty and solve the problems about environment

D．find a wonderful place and clean it up

61．What does the underlined word “ovation” in the second paragraph refer to _____.

A．a(chǎn) long period of laughing               B．a(chǎn) warm welcome

C．a(chǎn)n expression used for greeting      D．a(chǎn) long period of clapping and applause

62．It becomes clear that the writer is possibly _________ now.

A．in his teens      B．in his twenties  C．in his thirties    D．in his forties

第二卷（共45分）

五、寫作部分

第一節(jié) 單詞拼寫（共10小題；每小題1分，滿分10分）

1. It’s believed that Albert Einstein was a man of high    (智力).     1

2. Use your head and you can find many   (解決辦法) to the problem. 2

3. Jerry is an outgoing girl. She is always easily     (說服).             3

4. “ I’m afraid I will never manage it.” she said     (無望地).          4

5. Competition from the job market is   (激烈) than before.            5

6.These patients were     (觀察)over a period of several months.     6

7. The bed is really big. It    (占據(jù)) almost half of the room.        7

8. Speaking through an   (口譯), the Premier expressed himself well.  8

9. I heard the couple    (爭論) for quite a while about money matters.  9

10. As for me, I can’t say that I have any particular    (偏好).          10

 We need      water to irrigate the fields.

A. a great deal  B. a great many C . a large quantity D. plenty of

 Tom has been out of work for two years, so he has difficulty______.

A. earning living         B. earning his living      C. to earn livings       D. to earn his living

第二節(jié) 語法填空（共10小題；每小題1.5分，滿分15分）

閱讀下面短文，根據(jù)上下文填入適當(dāng)?shù)脑~語，或使用括號中的詞語的適當(dāng)形式填空，并將答案填寫在答案標(biāo)號為31—40的相應(yīng)位置。

One evening, I came across one of my son’s papers with a failing grade. I almost started to yell his name   31   I suddenly remembered he was in bed asleep. It was his   32  (nine) year of school and his academic career seemed to be in ruins, so I was angry. But I put the paper aside and turned to the   33   one, at the top of which were written “My dad”. It was a poem about me,   34   included the time I had to leave work to take him to the hospital because he   35  (break) his finger. So careless was I   36   I had forgotten all about that.

He talked about how I wrestled with him in the evenings and   37   good many other things. That paper was suddenly not nearly as important as it had been a few minutes   38  . I don’t know if he planted the poem next to the failing grade to   39  (soft) the blow, but it worked. Instead of a severe lecture, I talked to him about the poem as well as the failed homework, and it began to make sense to me that I could include praise along   40   constructive criticism.

The reason______ he was late for work was______ he didn’t get up early.

       A. for, because     B. which, because        C. why, that        D. for, that

There are many best –selling authors in Europe and one of them is a 15-year –old girl from Paris. She is Flavia Bujor. Flavia is selling more books than people three times her age.

She started writing her novel at the age of 12. At 14, she had her book published. Her best-seller is called The Prophecy of Stones (<<石頭的預(yù)言>>). The Prophecy of Stones is a story about a girl in hospital. In the story, the girl imagine another world and in that world three heroines work together to save their land with magical stones. So far, the book has sold 20,000 copies in France and Italy and 30,000 in Germany! Flavia Bujor says that “writing is my passion(最愛)”, but she still enjoys being 15. She takes piano lessons and likes hanging out with friends. The French girl plans to spend her money on her college education,

50.The Prophecy of Stones tells about things happening in _______________.

A. our real world   B. an imaginary world   C. the outer space  D. both A and B.

51.The underlined sentence in the last paragraph means ______________.

A. She likes to do things people of her age do 

B. She feels happy to be a 15- year –old best –selling author.

C. She does not wish to grow up.

D. She thinks15 is the best age for her as an author

52.What may be the best title for the article?

A. The Prophecy of Stones attracts most attention.

B. A 15-year –old girl becomes best-selling author.

C. Good school girl and best – selling author

D. Young author has more readers.

53.This passage probably appears _____________.

A.    in a story book               B. in a textbook

C.    in a newspaper               D. in a fashion magazine

 4.  The purpose of her study was to           .

       A. watch the wild chimps in cages      B. gain a doctor’s degree

       C. understand and respect the lives of chimps    D. live in the forest as men can