第二節(jié)： 語法填空（共10小題，每小題1.5分，滿分15分）

    Many people keep small fish as pets.   36   keep them in a tank of water, which is made of glass. People can look through it. They can see inside the tank   37 watch the fish.

   The fish need room. They need oxygen to   38   (breath). There must be enough water   39  all fish. So the size of the tank is very important.

   In the tank people put small plants  40  are good for fish. They give oxygen to the water. Plants help in other ways, too. They can hide among the plants and lay eggs there.

   The fish must be kept in water all the time. Some can jump high.  41  the tank should be covered with enough water. This keeps the fish from   42    (jump) out.

   The fish need food and should   43   (feed) every day. But   44   you give them too much food, it is very bad, for the extra food will fall to the bottom and make  45  water dirty. So the fish should get just enough food and finish it in ten minutes. Nothing should be left . 

Koalas are pictured everywhere in Australia-on cleaning products, on “boxes of chocolate, on sports team shirts. Yet the animals live only in pockets along the east coast.

They once inhabited the entire coastline. The koala population dropped after farmers cut down many of the forests where koalas lived, and hunters killed the animals for their fur.

By the early 1900s, “koalas were basically shot out of south Australia,” says ecologist Bill Ellis, who studies the relationships among living things and their environments.

I recently joined Ellis and his team in a forest on St Bees Is land, 19 miles off the northeastern coast of Australia, with eight other volunteers. The island is a natural laboratory, yielding findings that may help protect koalas elsewhere on the continent.

The volunteers searched the island for koalas in the blue gum trees. When we found a koala, we gathered information about the trees in the area.

Blue gum is a species of the eucalyptus tree in which the funny leaf eaters spend most of their time. Eucalyptus trees are native to Australia, and their leaves are the main food source for koalas. Although koalas can walk on the ground, they are better suited for life in the canopy, the high cover of branches and leaves in a forest.

What has Ellis’s research told him so far? The population of St Bees seems to be healthy. Yet Ellis wonders whether the koalas might be heading for hard times. The island is overrun with wild goats, and Ellis thinks the goats are eating the small blue gum trees.

Without those trees, the koalas will run out of food in the future. Ellis hopes more research will help him understand how to protect the blue gum trees-and the koalas that depend on them. “I think that’s what everyone is trying to do-to make a difference.” Ellis says.

59. It can be inferred from the first paragraph that     .

       A. koalas’ pictures can be found everywhere in the world

       B. koalas in Australia like to eat chocolate

       C. only in the east coast of Australia can you find koalas

       D. you can buy the pictures of koalas only in the east coast of Australia

60. Which of the following is TRUE about koalas?

       A. They usually hide in a cave.     B. They feed on the leaves of blue gum trees.

       C. They prefer to walk on the ground.  D. They don’t adapt to the high cover of branches.

61. What will Ellis most probably start to do next?

       A. To keep the population of St Bees healthy.

       B. To kill all the goats on the island.

       C. To find some new foods for goats.

       D. To protect blue gum trees for koalas.

62. The purpose of writing this passage is to      .

       A. expect people to concern about the life of koalas

       B. record trip to Australia for watching koalas

       C. present some basic knowledge of koalas’ life

       D. introduce the ecosystem of wildlife in Australia

選詞填空：（5*1分=5分）

give out;   put forward;   side by side;   be aware of;   carry out

1. She __________ an extremely good suggestion at the meeting yesterday.

2. He has ____________ his promise to quit drinking wine.

3. The sad news was ____________ that the North Korean football team had been defeated.

4. It is necessary for all of us to ___________ the potential traffic dangers.

5. The two bottles stood ___________ on the table.

This classroom is __________ that one.

   A. three times bigger as      B. three times as big

   C. three times the size of     D. as three times big as

You’d better change another book, because ______ page of the book is torn, and ______ cover

   looks very old. _{K_S_5_U}

A. a; the                    B. the; a              C. the; the          D. a; a

If I had worked harder at school, I         in a comfortable office now．

       A．would sit  B．would have sat C．would be sitting       D．were sitting

Jack always sleeps late on Sundays. I’m sure he    when we get to his home.

A．is still sleeping          B．is to be sleeping

C．will still be sleeping      D．will have been sleeping

 —The rescue team are considering ______they can do more for the people suffering from the snow storm.

—So they are.

A. what                        B. whatever                  C. if                             D. how 

We find that bright children are seldom held back by mixed-ability teaching. On the contrary, both their knowledge and experience are enriched. We feel that there are many disadvantages in streaming(按能力分班) pupils. It does not consider the fact that children develop at different rates. It can have had effect on both the bright and the not-so-bright children. After all, it can be quite discouraging to be the bottom of the top grade.

Besides, it is rather unreal to grade people just according to their intellectual(智力) ability. This is only one aspect of their total personality. We care much about the development of all the pupils’ abilities to the full, not just their study ability. We also value personal qualities and social skills, and we find that mixed-ability teaching does good to these aspects of learning.

In our classrooms, we work in various ways. The pupils often work in groups; this gives them the chance to learn to work together, to share, and to develop leadership skills. They also learn how to deal with personal problems as well as learning how to think, to make decisions, to analyze(分析) an devaluate(評價) and to communicate effectively. The pupils learn from each other as well as from the teachers.

Sometimes the pupils work in pairs; sometimes they work on individual(個人) tasks, and they can do this at their own speed. They also have some formal class teaching when this is proper. We encourage our pupils to use the library, and we teach them the skills they need in order to do this well. An advanced pupil can do advanced work and it does not matter what age the child is. We expect our pupils to do their best, not their least, and we give them every encouragement to achieve this goal.

By “held back” in the first paragraph, the writer means “________”.

A. made to remain in the same class            B. forced to study in the lower class

C. drawn away form their studies        D. prevented from advancing

The writer’s purpose of writing this passage is to ________.

A. argue for teaching bright and not-so-bright pupils in the same class

B. advise pair work and group work for classroom activity

C. offer advice on the proper use of the library

D. tell us the importance of proper formal classroom teaching

What would be the best title for the text?

A. Pair work.      B. Group work.    C. Mixed-ability teaching    D. Individual tasks.

       A new study by a Penn State College of Medicine research team found that honey is a better and safer treatment for children than cough medicines.   

       Ian Paul, the study’s lead researcher, was motivated to test honey because treating coughs in children has recently become a sticky subject. Coughing is the body’s way of clearing irritated (受刺激的) airways to help you breathe. But too much coughing can irritate your lungs and throat even more. It can also make it tough to get the sleep your body needs to heal. Hoping to ease the suffering of their children, parents often give them cough medicines.  

       But there have never been any good studies showing that they work. Cough and cold medicines may also cause serious side effects. Hundreds of kids die in the hospital each year after receiving too much cough medicine by mistake. Last October, the US Food and Drug Administration suggested that parents should not give cough medicines to children under 6.

       In order to search for a different solution, Paul designed a study that involved 105 kids who were sick with coughs and other cold conditions. At bedtime, the kids took buckwheat (蕎麥) honey, honey-flavored (蜂蜜味的) DM (one of the most common ingredients in cough medicines), or no treatment. Parents and kids in the no-

-treatment group knew they weren’t getting anything, but the other two groups weren’t told which treatment they were getting.

       The surveys showed that kids who swallowed about 2 teaspoons of buckwheat honey before bedtime coughed less and slept better than kids in the other groups. “When parents want something for their kids to take,” Paul says, “honey seems like the best option”.

       But what gives honey its healing power? Substances called antioxidants (抗氧化劑) may be part of the answer. All honey contains antioxidants that protect our cells from damage. Studies show that antioxidant levels in the body rise after someone swallows honey.

Which of the following can be the best title for this passage?

A. No cough medicines to children    

B. Sweet solution to kids’ coughing

C. Best treatment for your cold   

D. Cough medicines don’t work  

We can learn from Paragraph 2 that coughing ______.

A. sometimes does good to people 

B. can cure lung and throat diseases

C. is more harmful to children  

D. helps improve children’s diet   

During Paul’s experiment, the kids who received treatment ______.

A. seemed much worse than before 

B. knew they weren’t getting anything 

C. coughed less and slept better

D. had no idea what they swallowed