三、閱讀（共兩節(jié), 滿分40分）

第一節(jié) 閱讀理解（共15小題；每小題2分, 滿分30分）

閱讀下列短文, 從每題所給的A、B、C和D選項中, 選出最佳選項, 并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。

       When John Milton , writer of “Paradise Lost” ,entered Cambridge University, in 1625, he was already skilled in Latin after seven years of studying it as his second language at St. Paul’s School, London. Like all English boys who prepared for college in grammar schools ,he had learned not only to read Latin but also to speak and write it smoothly and correctly .His pronunciation of Latin was English ,however ,and seemed to have sounded strange to his friends when he later visited Italy.

       Schoolboys gained their skill in Latin in a bitter way. They kept in mind the rules to make learning by heart easier. They first made a word-for-word translation and then an idiomatic translation into English .As they increased their skill ,they translated their English back into Latin without referring to the book and then compared their translation with the original .The schoolmaster was always at hand to encourage them. All schoolmasters believed Latin should be beaten in.

       After several years of study ,the boys began to write compositions in imitation of the Latin writers they read. And as they began to read Latin poems ,they began to write poems in Latin .Because Milton was already a poet at ten ,his poems were much better than those painfully put together by the other boys. During the seven years Milton spent at university ,he made regular use of his command of Latin. He wrote some excellent Latin poems ,which he published among his works in 1645.

56．What does the passage mainly tell about?

       A．How John Milton wrote “Paradise Lost”.B．How John Milton studied Latin.

       C．How John Milton became famous.  D．How John Milton became a poet.

57．Which of the following is true of John Milton’s pronunciation of Latin?

A. It has a strong Italian accent.         B. It has an uncommon accent.　　

C. It was natural and easy to understand.　D. It was bad and difficult to understand.

58．It can be inferred from the passage that        .

       A．Milton’s training in Latin was similar to that of the other boys

       B．Milton hadn’t learned any foreign language except Latin before going to college

       C．Milton’s Italian friends helped him with Latin when talking

       D．Milton’s classmates learned Latin harder but worse than Milton.

59．Which of the following is suggested in the passage?

       A．The schoolmaster mainly helped those who were bad at Latin.

       B．The schoolmaster usually stood beside the schoolboys with a stick in his hand.

       C．The schoolboys could repeat Latin grammar rules from memory.

       D．Some of the schoolboys were quick at writing compositions in Latin.

60．What is the meaning of the underlined part “Latin should be beaten in” (Para.2)?

       A．Schoolboys should be punished if they were lazy to learn Latin.

       B．Schoolboys should be encouraged if they had difficulty in learning Latin.

       C．Schoolboys were expected to master Latin in a short time.

       D．Schoolboys had to study Latin in a hard way.

Practising Chinese kung fu can not only  _____   one’s strength, but also develop one’s character.

     A. bring up   B. take up    C. build up    D. pull up

 He wants me to lend him some money, but I have ______ at hand

   A. nothing       B. no one          C. no           D. none

—How come you still work here? I hear your company has bought a new office building.

       —But the newly-bought building_______ .

       A．has decorated   B．is decorated      C．is being decorated    D．will be decorated

Jack asked his brother       Betty.

A. did he know     B. if he knows      C. does he know    D. whether he knew

In order to protect valuable energy, snails(蝸牛) basically play a game of follow-the-leader, a new study finds. Snails create trails of mucus(黏液) to help them move smoothly across the ground, mainly in search of food or a partner, but making all that mucus uses up a lot of energy.

“Snails use a lot of energy, probably a third, creating mucus,” said Mark Davies of the University of Sunderland, lead author of the study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society. “This process is very tiring indeed— much more so than walking, swimming or flying.”

Davies and his workmates studied marine snails off the coast of Britain and discovered that to save some of this important energy, the snails sometimes follow the existing mucus trails laid down by other snails to get around and so only have to create a small part of the mucus needed to make a new trail.

“The fact that they can make savings has an effect on as much as they have to save more energy to do other things like reproducing,” Davies said.

The energy saving may also help snails which live in environments where food is not enough, making the energy harder to replace.

Biologists had long guessed that snails behaved this way, but this is the first study to directly observe it. Davies said that it is likely that all snails use this means of cutting energy as they work hard through life.

45. What’s the function of mucus that snails create?

   A. To find their food                   B. To find their way back

   C. To save their energy                 D. To help them move smoothly

46. According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. The snail’s life is very hard.           

B. The snails don’t need much to reproduce.

C. This is the first time to do the guess.     

D. The snails will replace more energy in places lacking food.

47. From the passage we know that ______.

A. snails’ trails are sometimes reused     

B. snails’ food is difficult to find

C. snails can live a long life              

D. only marine snails have the ability

48. What does the passage mainly talk about?

A. How snails move and work.     

B. Snails save energy by reusing mucus trails.

C. A new study finds the mysteries of snails.

D. Snails make full use of their energy.

第五部分：寫作（共兩節(jié)，滿分40分）

第一節(jié)：短文改錯（共10小題；每小題1.5分，滿分15分）

此題要求改正所給短文的錯誤。對標(biāo)有題號的每一行做出判斷：如無錯誤，在該行右邊橫線上畫一個勾（√）；如有錯誤（每行只有一個錯誤），則按下列情況改正：該行多一詞：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。該行缺一個詞：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。該行錯一個詞：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。

Dear editor,

In the past my hometown was used to be a beautiful place.     85.______

Thick trees and green grass could be seen in everywhere. In      86.______

order to build house and grow more crops, people cut down      87.______

more and more trees. With time went on, the whole forest was 88.______

almost destroyed. Gradually the green hills have changed into   89.______

wasteland. As a result, sandstorms struck us now and then, from 90.______

which we suffer a lot. However, I do hope all the people should       91.______

realize the terribly result of not caring about our environment. 92.______

What’s more, they should take good care of the forests and plant 93.______

trees instead cutting them down to improve our living conditions.94._____

_________I know the exam isn’t difficult, I shall not worry about it.

       A．As long as       B．As far as   C．In case      D．Even if

 It was a time_______ the killer whales helped the whalers catch the baleen whales.

A. when        B. that             C. then            D. which 

________ behavior allows you to lose weight, make it a part of your life so the weight stays off.

   A. However      B. Whatever   C. Which D. While