________the two designs and you will find what problem there is with yours.

A．Comparing      B．Compare   C．To compare       D．Compared

How can they learn anything useful ______ they spend all their spare time playing online games?

  A. while           B. unless             C. although      D. when

第三節(jié)  閱讀理解（共25小題，第一節(jié)每小題2分，第二節(jié)每小題1分；滿分45分）

第一節(jié)  閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)A、B、C、D中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。

    In 1955, Susan Boyle went to Glasgow to audition（試演）for My King of People, a televised talent show popular in the UK. She was immediately rejected.

She was nervous during the audition, and felt she didn’t perform well, but her brother said that she was rejected because of plain looks. Boyle was not discouraged and continued to sing at church and at the karaoke nights in a local pub.

Boyle suffered a personal loss in 1997, when her father passed away. After his death, Boyle put her big dreams on hold to care for her sick mother Bridget Boyle. The mother and daughter often talked of Susan’s possible fame. Bridget Boyle encouraged her daughter to take part in singing competitions. “She was the one who said I should enter Britain’s Got Talent. We used to watch it together”, Susan later told reporters. “She thought I would win.”

In 1999, Boyle used all of her saving to pay for a professional demo（樣本唱片）tape, which she went to record companies. In 2002, Bolye began taking singing lessons from voice coach Fred O’ Neil.

In 2007, Boyle’s mother passed away at the age of 91. A neighbour reported that when Bridget Boyle died, her daughter “wouldn’t come out for three or four days or answer the door or phone.” She lived alone with her cat, Pebbles. For over a year, she refused to sing. But in August of 2008, O’Neil urged her to try out for Britain’s Got Talent. Convinced that the performance would be an honour to her mother, Boyle auditioned in Glasgow, Scotland. She sang I Dreamed A Dream in the first round of the show, which was aired on 11 April 2009.

The 47-year-old Scottish woman’s plain looks provided a sharp contrast to her powerfully beautiful voice. The performance astonished the audience and the judges. Online videos of her performance totaled over 40 million views within a week. Although she failed to win the final of Britain’s Got Talent, Susan Boyle became globally popular. Her first album I Dreamed A Dream has sold over five million copies.

1．Bridget Boyle’s attitude towards her daughter’s musical talent can be described as _________.

       A．critical     B．doubtful   C．indifferent       D．optimistic

2．From Para. 4 we learn that Boyle______.

       A．was slightly discouraged by her voice coach

       B．entered Britain’s Got Talent to prove her ability

       C．decided to give up her singing career.

       D．was deeply affected by her mother’s death.

3．Which of the following is TRUE about Susan Boyle?

       A．Her international fame grew rapidly in 2008.

       B．Her audition for My Kind of People failed.

       C．She has never stopped singing since 1995.

       D．She was the winner of Britain’s Got Talent

4．In writing this passage, the author mainly intends to______.

       A．tell us how Bolye’s dream came true

       B．let us know more about Boyle’s personal life.

       C．show how Boyle was influenced by her family.

       D．explain how to enter and win a talent show.

After the tiring journey, Gerald hoped to find a hotel to _____ the night in.

    A. sleep      B. spare       C. pass      D. remain

---Let's go to the lecture on International Trade this evening.

　　---That' s great. I'll _____ you at 6: 30.

    A. call up     B. call to     C. call for     D. call on

    The most exciting kind of education is also the most personal. Nothing can exceed (超越) the joy of discovering for yourself something that is important to you! It may be an idea or a bit of information you come across accidentally—or a sudden insight, fitting together pieces of information or working through a problem. Such personal encounters are the “payoff” in education. A teacher may direct you to learning and even encourage you in it—but no teacher can make the excitement or the joy happen. That's up to you.

A research paper, assigned in a course and perhaps checked at various stages by an instructor, leads you beyond classrooms, beyond the texts for classes and into a process where the joy of discovery and learning can come to you many times. Preparing the research paper is an active and individual process, and ideal learning process. It provides a structure within which you can make exciting discoveries, of knowledge and of self, that are basic to education. But the research paper also gives you a chance to individualize a school assignment, to suit a piece of work to your own interests and abilities, to show others what you can do. Writing a research paper is more than just a classroom exercise. It is an experience in searching out, understanding and synthesizing（綜合）, which forms the basis of many skills applicable（可利用的） to both academic and nonacademic tasks. It is, in the fullest sense, a discovering of an education. So, to produce a good research paper is both a useful and a thoroughly satisfying experience!

To some, the thought of having to write an assigned number of pages, often more than ever produced before, is upsetting. To others, the very idea of having to work independently is threatening. But there is no need to approach paper assignment with anxiety, and nobody should view the research paper as an obstacle to overcome. Instead, consider it a goal to accomplish, a goal within reach if you use the help this book can give you.

1．According to the writer, personal discoveries___________.

       A．will give one encouragement and direction

       B．a(chǎn)re helpful in finding the right information

       C．a(chǎn)re the most valuable part of one's personal education

       D．will help one to successfully complete school assignments

2．It can be inferred from the passage that writing a research paper gives one chances________.

       A．to fully develop one's personal abilities

       B．to use the skills learnt in the classroom

       C．to prove that one is a productive writer

       D．to demonstrate how well one can accomplish school assignment

3．The writer argues in the passage that___________ .

       A．one should explore new areas in research

       B．one should trust one's own ability to meet course requirements

       C．one should consider research paper writing a pleasure, not a burden

       D．one should use all one's knowledge and skills when doing research

4．What will probably follow this passage?

       A．How to write a research paper.

       B．The importance of research in education.

       C．How to make new discoveries for oneself.

       D．The skill of putting pieces of information together.

．—All, except you, went to Jane’s birthday party, Linda.

   —            . But if I hadn’t had to write a report, I would have been there.

       A．Me too     B．I’m sorry  C．Never mind      D．That’s all right

When the soldier _____ his shirt, he discovered that his arms were black and blue.

A. took on    B. took over    C. took in    D. took off

第三部分  閱讀理解（共20小題，每題2分，滿分40分）

The writing of Shakespeare are today little read by young people in Britain．His young readership is limited to those who choose to study literature at university．

Shakespeare’s work, together with most other classics, is seen as remote, and written in a 400-year- old version of English that is about as inviting as toothache．

Still, in British schools, it is necessary to study the poet, and when something is made compulsory, usually the result is boredom, resentment（憎恨） or both．

This was my experience of the classics at school．But when I reached my late teenage years, I had a change of heart．Like every other young person since the dawn of time, the world confused me．I wanted answers, so I turned to books to find them．

I went on to take a PhD in literature and have taught it in Britain and China．I have never regretted it．There is something in literature that people want, even if they don’t read books．You see this in the popularity of TV and movie adaptations of great works, the recent film version of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice being a case in point．These popular adaptations may help increase people’s interest in the classics．

Reading a simplified Romeo and Juliet may perhaps lead to a reading of Shakespeare’s actual plays．If that is the case, then I welcome the trend．But do not make the mistake of thinking that it is the same thing．Shakespeare is a poet．His greatness is in his language．Reading someone else’s rewriting of his works is like peeling a banana, throwing away the fruit, and eating the skin．Take on the original．It really is worth the effort．

1．Which of the following is true according to the passage?

     A．The language used in classics is no longer in use today．

     B．British students usually find compulsory reading dull．

       C．Only those studying literature read Shakespeare’s works．

       D．For British people, Shakespeare’s works are no longer classics．

2．According to the passage, the writer _____ ．

       A．has liked literary classics since an early age

       B．was forced to read the classics for a PhD

       C．turned to literature to seek answers in his teens

       D．thinks only people who read books like literature

3．The underlined phrase “a case in point” in Paragraph 5 is closest in meaning to “_____”．

       A．a(chǎn) great hit                    B．a(chǎn) good example

       C．a(chǎn) movie adaptation                D．a(chǎn) popular phenomenon

4．What does the writer intend to tell us in the last paragraph?

       A．The fruit of a banana is more useful than its skin．

       B．The rewriting trend does more harm than good．

       C．Readers should try to read the original versions．

       D．Readers need to learn the language in the classics．

The desire to make explorations is born with man. Wherever his imagination goes, man also has a strong wish to go. A large part of human history is connected with the exploration of the world in which we live. Again and again people have set out with surprising courage and patience to look into unknown regions and lands to see what had not yet been seen, to make known the unknown. With kites, balloons and aircraft they left the ground to pass through the lower atmosphere. Now the outer space receives their attention.

Why should man take the trouble of exploring space? It is hard to list the specific practical benefits that will result in. But one knows, from past experience in other areas, that man will surely see and discover new things in space that will increase our scientific knowledge, and this new knowledge will find its way into valuable practical uses. What we learn about man himself, from his experience in space, and from the effects of space and the space flight environment on him, will be extremely valuable. The new techniques developed to carry out the exploration of space, and to keep man alive in space, will certainly find practical uses in everyday life in some way. The areas that will benefit are manifold. They include communication, generation of power, transportation and travel, food production, materials, fuels and many others. But to say exactly what the practical results will be is almost impossible.

1. The main idea of the first paragraph is that __________.

A. man often goes wherever his dreams go

B. man desires to explore what is unknown

C. man is no longer interested in the study of the land and sea now

D. man's history is his exploration of the world

2. The word "manifold" in the second paragraph probably means ________ .

A. of value       B. of use       C. in a way      D. in many ways

3. The author seems to be in favor of ____.

A. the exploration of space

B. doubting the necessity of the space exploration

C. exploring more in space than in sea         

D. his experience in space

4. In the last sentence of paragraph 2 ,the phrase "practical results" refers to the results ______.

A. that can be made use of

B. that can be learned as knowledge

C. that are obtained from experience         

D. helping us make further exploration