When his book Little Princes began, Conor Grennan was planning a year-long trip around the globe, a journey that began with a three-month volunteer service at the Little Princess Children’s Home, an orphanage (孤兒院）in Nepal.
Arriving there, Conor was immediately welcomed by all the children even though he had no previous experience in working with children. He quickly grew to love the job. But it wasn’t long before Conor came to learn that the children were not orphans at all—they were actually children who had been separated from their parents by a child trafficker (販子).
This realization turned Conor’s global journey into a strong desire to try to find a way to reunite these children with their families. As a part of his efforts, Conor did a great amount of work when he was back in America. He started up a nonprofit organization called Next Generation Nepal (NGN), raising funds in order to buy a house in Nepal for another children’s home. Then, back in Nepal, he began a life-changing trip into remote villages.
It is really amazing to read about Conor communicating with the children and to read his descriptions of each of them. He made me truly care about the kids. I wanted them to be able to reunite with their families, too! Unfortunately, this was simply not possible for some of the children. But there were some lucky ones. Jagrit, for example, had thought for years that both his parents were dead. So, Conor was surprised when he visited Jagrifs village and was introduced to the boy’s father!
Conor successfully found many of the families of the children and also found his future wife while in Nepal.
小題1:What do we know about Little Princess Children’s Home?

A．Many children ended there due to illegal trade.

B．The children in it are all orphans.

C．It is a worldwide profitable organization.

D．It has many branches all over Nepal.

小題2:In order to help the children, Conor ______.
a. decided to remain single
b. set up the organization NGN
c. visited some remote villages
d. fought against child traffickers
e. gave up his plan to travel worldwide

A．a(chǎn), b, d

B．b, c, d

C．b，c，e

D．c，d，e

小題3:It can be learned from the text that Conor Grennan______.

A．is a friend of the author	B．likes teaching very much
C．has already settled in Nepal	D．is the author of Little Princes

Henry found work in a bookstore after he finished middle school. He wouldn’t do anything but wanted to get rich. Mr. King thought he was too lazy and was going to send him away. Henry was afraid and had to work hard.
It was a cold morning. It was snowing and there was thin ice on the streets. Few people went to buy the books and the young man had nothing to do. He hated to read, so he watched the traffic. Suddenly he saw a bag fall off a truck and it landed by the other side of the street.
“It must be full of expensive things,” Henry said to himself. “I have to get it, or others will take it away. ”
He went out of the shop and ran across the street. A driver saw him and began to whistle (鳴笛), but he didn’t hear it and went on running. The man drove aside, hit a big tree and was hurt in the accident. Two weeks later Henry was taken to court (法庭). A judge asked if he heard the whistle when he was running across the street. He said that something was wrong with his ears and he could hear nothing.
“But you’ve heard me this time.” said the judge.
“Oh, I’m sorry. Now I can hear with one ear.”
“Cover the ear with your hand and listen to me with your deaf (聾的)one. Well, can you hear me? ”
“No, I can’t, Sir.”
小題1:What was Mr. King?

A．a(chǎn) driver	B．a(chǎn) doctor
C．a(chǎn) policeman	D．a(chǎn) shopkeeper

小題2:Why did Mr. King want to send Henry away?

A．Because Henry was too lazy.

B．Because Henry hoped to be rich.

C．Because Henry finished middle school.

D．Because Henry sold few books.

小題3:What did a driver do when he saw Henry run across the street?

A．He drove aside and hit a big tree.

B．He began to whistle to him.

C．He went out of the bookstore.

D．He shouted at him.

小題4:Why did Henry say that he was deaf?

A．He wanted to have a joke with the judge.

B．He wanted to get the judge’s help

C．He wanted to find another piece of work

D．He didn’t want to pay for the accident.

完形填空（共20小題；每小題1.5分，滿分30分）
閱讀下面短文, 掌握其大意，然后從各題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)(A、B、C和D)中,選出最佳選項(xiàng)。
Long time ago, there was a farmer who lived with his daughter. A young man fell in love with the farmer’s beautiful daughter and wished to  1  her. One day, he went to the farmer to  2  his permission. The farmer looked at him and said, “ Guy, stand out in that  3  . I’m going to release (釋放)  4  bulls, one at a time. If you can  5  the tail of any one of the three bulls, you can marry my daughter.”
  6 , the young man got out and stood in the field,  7   the first bull. The barn（牛棚） door   8    and out came the biggest bull that he had ever seen. He   9    that one of the next bulls had to be a better   10   than this one, so he ran over to the side and let the bull   11   .
A few   12    later, the barn door opened again. Unbelievable! The young man had never seen any bull so   13   and fierce as this one in his life. It stood there, pawing（扒） the   14  and eyeing the young man. “ What the next   15   was like ? It had to be a better choice than this one,” he thought. He let the bull pass through again.
The door opened a third time. A   16    came across the young man’s face. This was the weakest bull that he had ever seen. “ This one was my bull,” he   17    to himself. As the bull came running by, he positioned himself just right and   18    at just the exact moment. He threw his hands to catch ...... But to his   19   , the bull had no tail.
Life is full of opportunities.    20  catch the first one.

小題1:	A．call B．recognize C．respect D．marry

小題2:	A．remember B．copy C．a(chǎn)sk D．a(chǎn)nswer

小題3:	A．field B．forest C．river D．building

小題4:	A．two B．three C．four D．five

小題5:	A．see B．cut C．catch D．discover

小題6:	A．Immediately B．Quietly C．Finally D．Proudly

小題7:	A．talking about B．thinking of C．looking for D．waiting for

小題8:	A．moved B．opened C．broke D．closed

小題9:	A．decided B．noticed C．suggested D．learned

小題10:

A．rule B．help C．choice D．reason

小題11:

A．get up B．go back C．fall down D．pass through

小題12:

A．seconds B．days C．hours D．months

小題13:

A．famous B．big C．short D．beautiful

小題14:

A．house B．wall C．ground D．door

小題15:

A．fish B．horse C．bird D．bull

小題16:

A．pity B．shame C．smile D．tear

小題17:

A．explained B．said C．sang D．flew

小題18:

A．jumped B．escaped C．stopped D．shouted

小題19:

A．a(chǎn)nger B．surprise C．joy D．excitement

小題20:

A．Never B．Often C．Seldom D．Always

When I was 11, I had an enemy, a girl who liked to point out my shortcomings(缺點(diǎn)). Week by week her list grew: I was very thin, I wasn’t a good student, I talked too much, I was too proud, and so on. I tried to hear all this as long as I could. In the end, I became so angry that I ran to my father with tears in my eyes.
He listened to me quietly, then he asked. “Are the things she says true or not? Janet, didn’t you ever wonder what you’re really like? Well, you now have that girl’s opinion. Go and make a list of everything she said and mark the points that are true. Pay no attention to the other things she said.” I did as he told me. To my great surprise, I discovered that about half the things were true. Some of them I couldn’t change (like being very thin), but a good number I could—and suddenly I wanted to change. For the first time I go to fairly clear picture of myself.
I brought the list back to Dad. He refused to take it.” That’s just for you,” he said.
“You know better than anyone else the truth about yourself. But you have to learn to listen, not just close your ears in anger and feeling hurt. When something said about you is true, you’ll find it will be of help to you. Our world is full of people who think they know your duty. Don’t shut your ears. Listen to them all, but hear the truth and do what you know is the right thing to do.”
Daddy’s advice has returned to me at many important moments. In my life, I’ve never had a better piece of advice. 
小題1:What did the father do after he had heard his daughter’s complaint? 

A．He told her not to pay any attention to whatever”enemy”had said.

B．He criticized (批評(píng)) her and told her to overcome her shortcomings.

C．He told her to write down all that her” enemy” had said about her and pay attention only to the things that were true.

D．He refused to take the list and have a look at it.

小題2: What does “Week by week her list grew” mean?

A．Week by week, my shortcomings grew more serious.

B．She had made a list of my shortcomings and she kept on adding new ones to it so that it was growing longer and longer.

C．I was having more and more shortcomings as time went on.

D．Week by week she discovered more shortcomings of mine and pointed them out to me.

小題3: Why did her father listen to her quietly?

A．Because he wasn’t quite sure which girl was telling the truth.

B．Because he had been so angry with his daughter’s shortcomings that he wantedto show this by keeping silent for a while.

C．Because he knew that his daughter would not listen to him at that moment.

D．Because he believed that what her daughter’s “enemy” said was mostly true.

小題4: Which do you think would be the best title for this passage?

A．The Best Advice I’ve Ever Had

B．Not an Enemy,but the Best Friend

C．My Father

D．My Childhood

It’s Saturday morning. Tony’s sitting at the kitchen table,  36  with a piece of bread. He’s not even   37 . Is he ill? No, but he does have a   38  .He has nothing to do becau se the Internet is down. When he   39  up this morning, Tony was feeling   40  . He jumped out of bed full of plans for the   41  ahead. It would be a weekend like any other---a great weekend. But that was before he turned on his   42  and found he was   43  to go online. Having no Internet changes everything.
Every weekend, Tony  44  goes online to email friends, reads the   45  to keep up with what’s happening in the world and   46  a few online chess games with his cousin Helen to finish the weekend off. The perfect weekend---online!
Just as Tony is wondering how he can possibly have a normal weekend   47  the Internet, his mum walks into the   48 . “Cheer up, Tony. Don’t   49  the Internet any more, OK?” Tony makes no   50  but sighs (嘆氣).“Go and play chess with Helen!” Tony’s mum­  51  .
“Oh, yes! Helen   52  just around the corner. We can meet and play chess face   53  face for a change. Maybe this weekend won’t be so bad,” Tony   54  , as he walks to the phone. There is    55   without the Internet after all.

小題1:	A．cutting B．playing C．eating D．thinking

小題2:	A．hungry B．a(chǎn)ngry C．tired D．sleepy

小題3:	A．fear B．problem C．business D．thing

小題4:	A．rose B．rang C．looked D．woke

小題5:	A．great B．disappointed C．unhappy D．worried

小題6:	A．holiday B．year C．weekend D．morning

小題7:	A．TV B．computer C．radio D．web

小題8:	A．willing B．surprised C．a(chǎn)ble D．unable

小題9:	A．usually B．nearly C．especially D．a(chǎn)lready

小題10:

A．letters B．news C．reports D．contents

小題11:

A．guesses B．takes C．plays D．makes

小題12:

A．on B．without C．by D．with

小題13:

A．living-room B．hall C．kitchen D．study

小題14:

A．talk about B．care about C．think about D．look about

小題15:

A．a(chǎn)nswer B．progress C．movement D．choice

小題16:

A．reports B．replies C．tells D．suggests

小題17:

A．travels B．treats C．lives D．escapes

小題18:

A．for B．by C．from D．to

小題19:

A．cries B．smiles C．reads D．watches

小題20:

A．change B．task C．weekend D．life

The professor’s house, big and untidy, stood alone at one end of a huge garden. The place was totally uncared for, quite __36__ and overgrown with all sorts of useless things. I __37__ my way through bushes and tall weeds to the front door and rang the bell.
I was glad that I found him. In twenty minutes he put me right on all the __38__ that had puzzled me. I was on the __39__ of leaving when I looked out of his study window and said, “You’re very fond of gardening, I see”
“No, I’m not,” he said. “__40__, I love this garden, though. It’s __41__ I always wanted it to be. I never touch it __42__ all.”
“It could be made lovely. It seems a pity to let all this ground go to __43__. But perhaps you don’t _ 44__ that way?” said I.
“I don’t. I lived here when I was a child, and I had   45  of gardening then. It was my father’s hobby, you see. Unfortunately, he wasn’t   46  _ enough to do it himself. My brother and I did all of it between us year after year. There was one right way and many wrong ways. Each blade (葉片) of grass was an enemy to be _ _47__ out by hand, not just cut off. I’ve spent a good part of life at work here.”
“I see. You took a dislike to it, and now you’re getting even！”
“I dislike it. Then, of course, I didn’t understand the effect it had. It used to __48__ me. It appeared in my __49__ ——— a mistake here, something not quite straight here, the enemy showing its head in a place I was __50__ to have cleaned. The work was too much. It seemed endless. The size of the place was itself a fight to a boy.”
“And now it’s yours, you’re just letting it go to ...”
“__51__?” he said. “No, I don’t agree with that. This garden and I are now the best friends. I like  _52__ it grow in its own way. I make no __53__ on it. I never disturb it, and it never disturbs me. It has _ 54__ at last, and so have I.”
“But the path is over grown. It’s __55__ for you, isn’t it?”
“That’s part of my pleasure，” he laughed. “You can go out the back way. The weeds are shorter there because they don’t get the sun.”                             

小題1:	A．wild B．crazy C．large D．nice

小題2:	A．lost B．felt C．made D．took

小題3:	A．gardening B．problems C．plants D．solution

小題4:	A．time B．request C．permission D．point

小題5:	A．Even so B．So C．As though D．Even if

小題6:	A．where B．a(chǎn)s C．why D．whether

小題7:	A．a(chǎn)fter B．of C．a(chǎn)t D．in

小題8:	A．desert B．trouble C．garden D．waste

小題9:	A．recognize B．observe C．know D．see

小題10:

A．much B．enough C．something D．nothing

小題11:

A．interested B．excited C．fit D．demanding

小題12:

A．fought B．ruled C．rooted D．cut

小題13:

A．worry B．shock C．a(chǎn)stonish D．disappoint

小題14:

A．life B．dreams C．house D．hands

小題15:

A．thought B．expected C．ordered D．supposed

小題16:

A．Ruin B．Develop C．Grow D．Sell

小題17:

A．watching B．a(chǎn)ttending C．watering D．noticing

小題18:

A．comments B．difference C．sense D．demands

小題19:

A．time B．freedom C．sunlight D．space

小題20:

A．important B．useless C．inconvenient D．previous

My husband and son took a New York-to-Milwaukee flight that was supposed to leave Friday at 11:29 am. The flight boarded after 4 pm and didn’t leave the gate until 4:40, and half an hour later the pilot announced it would be another hour until takeoff. At that point a Jewish family, worried about violating the Sabbath （安息日）, asked to get off. Going back to the gate cost the plane its place in line for takeoff, and the flight was eventually cancelled. Was the airline right to grant that request?
M. W, Norwalk, CONN.
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Situations like that can bring out the worst in people. But despite the increasing resentment（怨恨） of a plane full of people, the pilot tried to do the right thing. He went out of his way to satisfy one family’s urgent need. He should not have done so.
Passengers bought tickets in the belief that the airline’s primary goal was to get them to their destination as close to the schedule as possible. Once they got on the plane and the doors are locked, it’s not correct to announce that the rules have changed and that a personal (as opposed to medical) emergency —no matter how urgent — might take precedence（優(yōu)先）.
That would be just as true if turning back to the gate had merely cost a few minutes rather than doomed the flight entirely, since on a plane, even a slight delay can spread outward, from the people in the cabin to those meeting them to the passengers waiting to board the plane for the next leg of its journey and so on. It would also be true if the personal emergency were not religious — if someone suddenly realized she’d made a professional mistake that might cost her millions, and she had to race back to the office to fix it.
If a religious practice does nothing to harm others, then airlines should make a reasonable effort to accommodate it. Though that family has every right to observe the Sabbath, it has no right to enlist an airplane full of captive bystanders to help them do so. By boarding a flight on a Friday afternoon, the family knowingly risked running into trouble. The risk was theirs alone to bear.
小題1:M. W. wrote the letter to ask whether ______.

A．Any religious passenger has the right to ask the pilot to take off

B．The airline has the right to cancel the flight without any reason

C．A flight should meet any passenger’s need despite others’ benefit

D．A plane which has left the gate should give up taking off

小題2:What do we know from the reply letter?

A．The pilot did the right thing in spite of the fierce resentment.

B．The plane should turn back if anyone aboard is seriously ill.

C．Anybody who has boarded has no chance to get off the plane.

D．Any flight shouldn’t change its schedule no matter what has happened.

小題3:What does the underlined part in Paragraph 4 mean?

A．Turning back to the gate usually takes a plane quite a long time.

B．Nobody should take precedence to require the plane to turn back to the gate.

C．Even if it had taken a few minutes it was not right to turn back to the gate.

D．It was OK if turning back to the gate hadn’t caused the flight to be cancelled.

小題4:The author of the reply letter thinks that _________.

A．It’s right for the plane to turn back to the gate to save a passenger’s treasure

B．The Jewish family should give up observing the Sabbath after boarding

C．The biggest problem of turning back is to bring trouble to the pilot

D．The Jewish family had better avoid boarding on Friday afternoon

One cold, rainy night in 1979, staying on the deck of the nuclear attack submarine(核攻擊潛艇) USS Birmingham entering Hampton Roads Harbor, a soldier who was called Jeff Harris was suddenly hit by a huge wave that took away his ship’s ball cap.
Months later, while walking along Chesapeake Boulevard beach in Hampton, Will Miller, a Vietnam veteran(退伍軍人) and Navy(海軍) commander, happened to find Harris’ cap which was half-buried in the sand then. Knowing how important a ship’s cap was to its owner, Miller saved the hat, hoping one day to find its owner. The cap was packed away for years but recently appeared again at Miller’s home in Florida.
“It suddenly fell out of a box onto my computer keyboard, right in front of me,” said Miller. “I guessed it was telling me, ‘It’s time to get me home.’”
An extensive Internet search led Miller to a USS Birmingham website and finally to Harris. The two sent e-mails back and forth, and one night Miller’s phone rang.
“This is Jeff Harris,” the voice on the phone said. “You have my hat!”
The two sailors talked for almost half an hour, telling sea stories to each other and thinking of the common relationship between seamen.”
“Most non-seagoing people wouldn’t understand how much a sailor likes his hat,” Miller said. “Your hat protects you from sun, wind, salt and cold, and when you lose it, especially one with your ship’s name on it, it’s a big thing. I’m delighted to get it back to Jeff.”
小題1:What is the main idea of the story?

A．A sailor looked for his hat for years.

B．Hats are important for sailors.

C．A sailor reunited with his hat years after losing it.

D．Friendship was based on a hat.

小題2:Jeff Harris’s hat dropped off into the sea because of ______.

A．a(chǎn) sudden wave	B．his carelessness
C．a(chǎn) strong wind	D．something wrong with his hat

小題3:Will Miller kept the hat for years because ______.

A．he wanted to leave it to his child

B．it was valuable as a gift

C．he wanted to return it to its owner

D．he wanted to sell it one day

小題4:From the passage we can know Jeff Harris and Miller ______.

A．had been friends before the story happened

B．didn’t know the importance of the hat

C．often told sea stories to each other

D．once worked at sea

The air hostess (空姐) was in a small kitchen at the back of the plane, preparing the plates for lunch, when a little old lady came and spoke to her, “Could you please tell me,” she asked, “where is the ladies’ lavatory (廁所) in the plane?”
“Yes, madam,” said the air hostess and smiled. “It is right at the other end of the plane---at the front.”
The little lady went too far. She walked all the way to the front of the plane, opened the door in front of her, and saw the captain of the plane and the other officers. They were all busy with their work and did not see her. She went out again, shut the door and returned to the air hostess.
“Oh, didn’t you find it, madam?” the girl asked her. “Yes, I did,” said the little lady. “But there are four men in the ladies’ lavatory watching television.”
小題1:The story happened       .

A．in the evening	B．in the afternoon
C．in the morning	D．a(chǎn)t midnight

小題2:What were the four men doing when the little old lady opened the door?

A．They were busy working in the control room.

B．They were working while watching television.

C．They were watching television in the ladies’ lavatory.

D．They were enjoying themselves by watching television.

小題3:Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．The air hostess was humorous (幽默的).

B．The old lady didn’t find the ladies’ lavatory.

C．The old lady was fooled by the air hostess.

D．There was no ladies’ lavatory in the plane.

There were two lovers. The man was 41  cowardly(膽小的) that he always let the girlfriend try first everything   42  they would do. His girlfriend was not so  43  with that.
Once they went out to sea. After returning , their boat was  44  by the storm. Luckily, the girlfriend held a  45  to save their lives. The girlfriend asked her boyfriend, "Do you  46 ?" The boyfriend  took out a fruit knife and said, "Yes, but if any shark comes I can  47  it with this." His girlfriend only shook her head with a cold smile.
Soon a great number of people on a  48  found them. Suddenly a group of sharks appeared. His girlfriend  49  , “Let's swim hard together and we'll be all right.”
But her boyfriend suddenly pushed the girl into the sea, held the wood and shouted to the ship by himself, "Let me try  50  this time!"
51  ,his girlfriend looked at her boyfriend. The sharks were drawing near, but they were not interested in the girl and swam  52 to the boy. When he was torn and bitten fiercely by the sharks, the boyfriend 53  shouted to his girlfriend, “ I love you!”
The girl was saved. All the people on the deck（甲板） were standing in silence. The captain sat beside the girl and said, "Miss, he is the  54 man I have  55  seen. Let's pray（祈禱） for him."
"No! He is a  56  , "said the girl coldly.
"How could you say like this? I have just been watching you 57  the telescope(望遠(yuǎn)鏡). I saw clearly he  58  his wrist（手腕） with the knife after pushing you away. The sharks are very sensitive to the 59 .  If he hadn't done this to  60  time. I'm afraid you would never appear on this ship…"

小題1:	A．so B．such C．very D．a(chǎn)s

小題2:	A．that B．when C．what D．which

小題3:	A．frightened B．hopeful C．satisfied D．upset

小題4:	A．destroyed B．hurt C．lifted D．pushed

小題5:	A．stick B．flag C．captain D．wood

小題6:	A．shake B．dare C．hear D．fear

小題7:	A．go through B．deal with C．fight for D．care about

小題8:	A．plane B．boat C．ship D．beach

小題9:	A．burst out B．cried out C．gave up D．came up

小題10:

A．first B．second C．best D．most

小題11:

A．Afraid B．Nervous C．Shocked D．Calm

小題12:

A．hard B．fast C．quickly D．straight

小題13:

A．excitedly B．crazily C．a(chǎn)ctively D．selfishly

小題14:

A．bravest B．kindest C．cleverest D．worst

小題15:

A．seldom B．once C．ever D．never

小題16:

A．sailor B．prayer C．survivor D．coward

小題17:

A．with B．through C．by D．in

小題18:

A．cut B．damaged C．injured D．ruined

小題19:

A．blood B．water C．knife D．voice

小題20:

A．kill B．waste C．buy D．occupy(占據(jù))