When it comes to friends, I desire those who will share my happiness, who possess wings of their own and who will fly with me. I seek friends whose qualities illuminate（照亮）me and train me up for love. It is for these people that I reserve the glowing hours, too good not to share.
When I was in the eighth grade, I had a friend. We were shy and “too serious” about our studies when it was becoming fashionable with our classmates to learn acceptable social behaviors. We said little at school, but she would come to my house and we would sit down with pencils and paper, and one of us would say:“Let’s start with a train whistle today.” We would sit quietly together and write separate poems or stories that grew out of a train whistle. Then we would read them aloud. At the end of that school year, we, too, were changing into social creatures and the stories and poems stopped.
When I lived for a time in London, I had a friend, He was in despair(失望)and I was in despair. But our friendship was based on the idea in each of us that we would be sorry later if we did not explore this great city because we had felt bad at the time. We met every Sunday for five weeks and found many excellent things. We walked until our despairs disappeared and then we parted. We gave London to each other.
For almost four years I have had remarkable friend whose imagination illuminates mine. We write long letters in which we often discover our strangest selves. Each of us appears, sometimes in a funny way, in the other’s dreams. She and I agree that, at certain times, we seem to be parts of the same mind. In my most interesting moments, I often think: “Yes, I must tell….”We have never met.
It is such comforting companions I wish to keep. One bright hour with their kind is worth more to me than the lifetime services of a psychologist（心理學家），who will only fill up the healing（愈合的）silence necessary to those darkest moments in which I would rather be my own best friend.
小題1:In the eighth grade, what the author did before developing proper social behavior was to ______.

A．become serious about her study

B．go to her friend’s house regularly

C．learn from her classmates at school

D．share poems and stories with her friend

小題2:In Paragraph 3, “We gave London to each other” probably means ______.

A．our exploration of London was a memorable gift to both of us

B．we were unwilling to tear ourselves away from London

C．our unpleasant feeling about London disappeared

D．we parted with each other in London

小題3:According to Paragraph 4, the author and her friend _______.

A．call each other regularly

B．have similar personalities

C．enjoy writing to each other

D．dream of meeting each other

小題4:In the darkest moments, the author would prefer to ______.

A．seek professional help	B．be left alone
C．stay with her best friend
D．break the silence

小題5:What is the best title for the passage?

A．Unforgettable Experiences

B．Remarkable Imagination

C．Lifelong Friendship

D．Noble Companions

A long road leads through the woods to Don Robinson’s unfinished house. Wearing dirty sneakers and a shirt with holes, Don Robinson is an 81-year-old Missouri businessman. Although he’s rich, he didn’t use his money to buy himself a grand home. Instead, he used it to buy wild land.
Robinson has decided to donate 843 acres of his own personal wilderness to the Department of Natural Resources after his death, which can then be used to create a new state park. His generous donation is the same size as New York City’s Central Park. It is said that it’s the largest land donation to happen in the last 25 years.
How did he come up with this idea? For Robinson, the idea of donation came from his respect for the land and the environment. He doesn’t have children to pass it onto. He hoped that someone would make full use of it, or the land would probably turn into wasteland. A green park filled with trees can at least help deal with global warming, in addition to producing fresh air.
Robinson has lived here in a small wooden house since 1964．One room holds his bed, a few chairs and a desk. He said he didn’t care how much his donation was worth. Tom Pounders who used to work for Robinson said, "He doesn’t think material objects are important.” He also recalled that Robinson once repaired a broken tennis shoe with a spare tire.
Robinson has just one request for the new park that will be established after his death. He’d like it to be named the Don Robinson State Park. "There’s a lot of Robinsons, but only one me. It would be nice if people remembered to use my full name when walking through the park," he said.
小題1:In paragraph 2, the underlined word “wilderness” refers to _______.

A．wild animals

B．wild land

C．wild plants

D．wild wounds

小題2:Don Robinson has decided to donate _____ to the Department of Natural Resources after his death.

A．a(chǎn) green park	B．a(chǎn) big wooden house
C．843 acres of land	D．a(chǎn)ll his money

小題3:According to the passage, which of the following statements about is TRUE?

A．Don Robinson paid much attention to how much his donation was worth.

B．New York City’s Central Park was built with Don Robinson’s help.

C．Don Robinson had many children and lived with them.

D．The idea of donation came from Robinson’s respect for the land and the environment.

小題4:Which of the following words can be used to describe Don Robinson?

A．rich, generous and simple	B．rich, mean and lonely
C．simple, lonely and cruel	D．rich, simple and mean

對話填空 （滿分10分）
請認真閱讀下列對話，并根據(jù)各題所給的首字母的提示，在答題卡右欄中標有題目的橫線上，寫出一個英語單詞的完整、正確的形式，使對話通順。

--- Excuse me, Madam, but I’m writing a report on what people prefer to do on holiday. Do you mind if I ask you a few questions? --- No, not at all. Please go （76） a_______. --- How often do you go on holiday? --- I usually have two weeks’ holiday a year. --- And what do you prefer to do when you are on holiday? --- Well, I don’t usually visit my family. We live quite （77） c_____ and I can see them any time. But I do like to visit museums, （78） e_____ if there is a special exhibition on. I don’t like to stay at home, though my parents do. （79） I________, I prefer to get away from the city and just （80） e________ the peace of the country. You know, just sit under a tree, listen to the birds in the morning, or maybe go walking over the hills. --- Have you ever （81） t_________ abroad? --- No, I haven’t .It’s too （82） e__________ for me. But my husband loves to visit the coast, so if the （83） w_________ is good we often go swimming in the sea, or maybe just lie on the （84） b________ and bathe in the sun. --- OK. Well, thank you very much for your time. --- You are （85） w_________.

（76）_________ （77）_________ （78）_________ （79）_________ （80）_________ （81）_________ （82）_________ （83）_________ （84）_________ （85）________

Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
Oliver Twist, one of the most famous works of Charles Dickens, is a novel reflecting the tragic fact of the life in Britain in the 19th century.
The author who himself was born in a poor family wrote this novel in his twenties with a view to reveal the ugly masks of those cruel criminals and to 36 the horror and violence hidden underneath the narrow and dirty streets in London.
The hero of this novel was Oliver Twist, an orphan, who was thrown into a world full of  37
and crime. He suffered enormous pain, 38 hunger, thirst, beating and abuse. While reading the tragic experiences of little Oliver, I was shocked by his sufferings. I 39 the poor boy, but at the same time I detested the evil Fagin and the brutal Bill. To my relief, as was written in all the best stories, the goodness eventually conquered  40  and Oliver lived a happy life in the end. One of the plots that attracted me 41  is that after the theft, little Oliver was allowed to recover in the kind care of Mrs Maylie and Rose and 42  a new life.
How can such a little boy who had already suffered oppressive pain 43  pure in body and mind? The reason is the nature of goodness. I think it is the most important information 44 in the novel by Dickens --- he believed that goodness could conquer  45  difficulty.
Goodness is to human what water is to fish. He who is without goodness is an utterly  46  person. On the contrary, as the famous saying goes, “ The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.” He who is with goodness undoubtedly is a happy and useful person. People receiving his help are grateful to him and he also gets gratified from what he has done, and thus he can do  47  to both the people he has helped and himself.
36. A. open       B. exploit         C. expose          D. cover
37. A. honor                B. poverty        C. glory           D. imagination
38. A. such like             B. for example    C. such as        D. for instance
39. A. looked down upon                      B. made an apology for
C. played a joke on                         D. felt sorry for
40. A. relationship     B. kindness         C. carelessness   D. devil
41. A. mainly     B. most          C. mostly         D. best
42. A. began              B. launched        C. set               D. changed
43. A. bear                         B. remain           C. hold          D. maintain
44. A. contained           B. implied            C. imported      D. added
45. A. every              B. some            C. little           D. much
46. A. gracious           B. worthless      C. modest       D. earnest
47. A. harm             B. damage       C. good             D. justice

Complete the following passage by filling in each blank with one word that best fits the context.
He always rose early to enjoy at least two hours of staying alone in the house before the  48  of the family came down. In winter he spent most of the time reading. In summer he liked to get out of doors to work in the garden or to take the dog  49  a walk in the neighboring woods and fields. 50  the weather was like, there was plenty for him to do. He wrote book reviews regularly for two of the national weeklies. He worked hard 51  his special subject, Indian history, and was thus one of the world experts on it; he collected modern abstract paintings and so had a circle of friends among artists; there was hardly anything he did not know about traditional jazz and he often entertained  52 Britain and American jazz musicians. He was a good  53  and knew a lot about French and German food. His family admired him and in a sense he was spoiled by them. At first glance you would have  54  him for a retired army officer--- his hair was cut short, he was very particular about his clothes, 55 were always clean and neat . He hardly watched TV, but enjoyed a good film and an occasional evening at the theater.

  Directions: Read the following passage. Answer the questions according to the information given in the passage and the required words limit. Write your answers on your answer sheet.
Like fine food, good writing is something we approach with pleasure and enjoy from the first taste to the last. And good writers，good cooks，do not suddenly appear full-blown. Quite the contrary, just as the cook has to undergo an intensive and hard-working training, mastering the skills of his trade, the writer must sit at his desk and devote long hours to achieving a style in his writing, whatever its purpose－schoolwork, matters of business,or purely social communication. You may be sure that the more painstaking the effort，the more effective the writing and the more rewarding.
There are still some remote places in the world where you might find a public scribe(抄寫員) to do his / her business or social writing for a fee. There are a few managers who are lucky enough to have the service of that rare kind of secretary who can take care of all sorts of letter writing with no more than a quick note . But for most of us, if there is any writing to be done, we have to do it ourselves.
We have to write school papers, business papers or home papers. We are constantly called on to put words to paper. It would be difficult to count the number of such words，messages，letters，and reports put into the mails or delivered by hand，but the daily figure must be enormous. What is more，everyone who writes expects，or at least hopes, that his writing will be read.  We want to arouse and hold the interest of the readers. We want whatever we write to be read， from first word to last, not just thrown into some "letters－to－be－read" file （檔案）or into a wastepaper basket. This is the reason we make our efforts toward learning and practicing the skills of interesting, effective writing.
71. What is good writing compared to in this passage and why? ( No more than 10 words.)
_________________________________________________________.
72. Find in the passage a word closest in meaning to the underlined word “painstaking”.
_________________________________________________________.
73. According to the passage, why don’t some managers have to do any letter writing? ( No more than 15 words.)
__________________________________________________________.
74. According to the author, if your letter is thrown into some “ letter-to-be-read” file, what will be likely to happen?   (No more than 6 words.)
__________________________________________________________.
75. What is the author’s purpose in writing this passage?  (No more than 15 words.)
_________________________________________________________.

   Directions: Read the following passage. Complete the diagram by using the information from the passage.
Write ONE WORD for each answer.
A technical secondary school in Nanjing, east China’s Jiangsu province, planned to order Korean-style school uniforms for students, but parents opposed the move, believing that the new uniforms looked too good and would encourage early romances among the students, the Jinling Evening Paper reported Monday.
Parents
“My daughter was so excited about the Korean-style uniform, saying it’s her dream to wear mini-skirt to school every day,” a mom surnamed Cheng complained. “My daughter also called her classmates to talk about how handsome the boys looked in the uniform!”
Cheng looked on the Internet and found that most Korean schoolboy uniforms are similar to western suits. “They are so handsome! My daughter is a fan of Korean fashion, that’s why she is crazy about the uniform!” Cheng said. “If the students wear such beautiful uniforms, how can they study well? I prefer the sports wear which makes me think of health and positive thinking.”
School
“The plan to change the current school uniform from sports wear has been cancelled,” an employee of the school told the Jinling Evening Paper.
“The students dislike the current uniform, so the school took advice from the students last November, knowing that most of students prefer Korean-or Japanese-style school uniforms. We know cities like Shanghai and Guangzhou have changed their sports wear school uniforms to more fashionable uniforms,” an employee surnamed Lin said.
“However, we had to stop the plan because many parents are strongly against it. Some parents think it’s just a way for the school to make money, and others think the new uniforms will take students’ attention away from their studies,” Lin said.
When asked about the possibility of problems with early romance between students because of the more fashionable uniforms, Lin said he hadn’t considered it. He, however, agreed that the Korean-style uniform makes the students more charming.
Students
The students are very disappointed about the school’s final decision. They think the sports wear uniforms make them look androgynous (難分性別).
They said the Korean-style uniform has many advantages such as raising interest in class; lifting confidence; improving solidarity and creating good temperaments.
As for concerns about romance, the students believe that love is love and bears no relationship to the uniform.
Education department
“We don’t have a unified (統(tǒng)一的) standard for school uniforms. The schools can choose their own styles. Either sports wear or uniforms are ok,” an official from the Nanjing Bureau of Education said.
Title Do pretty school uniforms lead to early romance?
Event        A technical secondary school planned to order Korean-style school uniforms for students.
Different (76)_____ to it Parents are strongly (77)______ the move.  ◆With such beautiful designs, the new uniforms might
(78)__________ early romances between boys and girls.
◆In the new uniforms, students will fail to focus their
(79)_________ on their studies.
◆It is just a way for the school to make money.
Students are
in (80)______ of the move.     ◆The sports wear uniforms make them look androgynous.
◆Korean-style uniform can make them more (81)_________and more interested in class as well as improving solidarity and creating good temperaments.
Two responses         From the school      ◆The students dislike the current uniform.
◆More (82)__________ school uniforms are allowed in
some big cities in China.
◆The school spokesman Lin said they hadn’t taken the 
possibility of early romance into (83)_________, though
he agreed the Korean-style uniform would make the
students more charming.
From the education department     There is no unified standard for school uniforms, so the schools can choose their own styles.
Result      
The school had to (84)________ the plan and the students felt (85)_________.

Tracy Wong is a well-known Chinese-American writer. But her writing __1__ was something she picked up by herself. After her first__2__, teaching disabled children, she became a part-time writer for IBM. __3__, writing stories was simply a __4__ interest. Tracy sent three of her stories to a publisher (出版商). __5__, they immediately suggested that she put them together to make a single one long __6__ and paid Tracy a $ 15,000 advance. “A pretty money,” said the publisher, “for __7__ writer.”
__8__ Tracy’s characters (人物) are interesting, her stories sometimes __9__ readers uneasy: those about the supernatural. “My mother believed I could __10__ the afterlife world,” she told a close friend. “She used to have me speak with my grandmother, who died many years ago.”
“Can I? I don’t think I can,” Tracy said with a laugh. “But I do have __11__ when things come to me __12__. “Once, she was wondering how to complete a __13__ set in ancient (古代的) China. __14__ the doorbell rang. It was a FedEx delivery man, with a copy of a book on Chinese __15__. It came without her having __16__ it.
Though she has published 45 books, Tracy has remained __17__ by her fame. She lives in the same __18__ she lived 27 years ago -- although in a more comfortable home. There’s more room for __19__ in her life -- and it wasn’t just __ 20__.
1. A. skill   B. experience     C. practice D. method
2. A. duty     B. effort    C. job      D. task
3. A. Instead   B. Normally  C. Certainly     D. Then
4. A. general    B. deep      C. personal    D. lively
5. A. Interested   B. Anxiously   C. Seriously  D. Encouraged
6. A. film       B. story  C. program   D. article
7. A. a foreign   B. a popular   C. an unusual   D. an unknown
8. A. Now that    B. Even though  C. Just because  D. Except that
9. A. find   B. turn      C. leave    D. hold
10. A. make up    B. connect with    C. control    D. explain
11. A. events     B. chances    C. feelings    D. moments
12. A. for no reason  B. from a distance 
C. by accident D. as gifts
13. A. description   B. pointing     C. scene   D. talk
14. A. Surprisingly   B. Suddenly
C. Expectedly    D. Fortunately
15. A. cooking    B. history   C. play    D. medicine
16. A. known     B. sent     C. realized   D. ordered       
17. A. unchanged  B. excited   C. determined  D. unmoved     
18. A. life   B. city       C. house     D. way
19. A. success    B. work      C. joy  D. variety
20. A. writing  B. reporting    C. luck   D. fun

It was the district sports meet. My foot still hadn’t healed(痊愈)from a(n) ___1___ injury. I had ___2___ whether or not I should attend the meet. But there I was, ___3___ for the 3,000-meter run.
“Ready … set …” The gun popped and we were off. The other girls rushed ___4___ me. I felt ___5___ as I fell farther and farther behind.
“Hooray!” shouted the crowd. It was the loudest ___6___ I had ever heard at a meet. The first-place runner was two laps (圈) ahead of me when she crossed the finish line. “Maybe I should ___7___,” I thought as I moved on. ___8___, I decided to keep going. During the last two laps, I ran ___9___ and decided not to ___10___ in track next year. It wouldn’t be worth it, ___11___ my foot did heal.
When I finished, I heard a cheer— ___12___ than the one I’d heard earlier. I turned around and ___13___, the boys were preparing for their race. “They must be cheering for the boys.” I was leaving ___14___ several girls came up to me. “Wow, you’ve got courage!” one of them told me.
“Courage? I just ___15___ a race!” I thought. “I would have given up on the first lap,” said another girl. “We were cheering for you. Did you hear us?”
Suddenly I regained ___16___. I decided to ___17___ track next year. I realized strength and courage aren’t always ___18___ in medals and victories, but in the ___19___ we overcome(戰(zhàn)勝). The strongest people are not always the people who win, ___20___ the people who don’t give up when they lose.
1. A. slighter  B. worse     C. earlier    D. heavier
2. A. expected      B. supposed    C. imagined   D. doubted
3. A. late    B. eager   C. ready     D. thirsty
4. A. from behind   B. ahead of  C. next to   D. close to
5. A. ashamed B. astonished  C. excited D. frightened
6. A. cheer     B. shout  C. cry    D. noise
7. A. slow down     B. drop out    C. go on  D. speed up
8. A. Therefore   B. Otherwise   C. Besides   D. However
9. A. with delight    B. with fear  C. in pain    D. in advance
10. A. play     B. arrive   C. race  D. attend
11. A. even if   B. only if  C. unless   D. until
12. A. weaker     B. longer      C. lower  D. louder
13. A. well enough     B. sure enough   
C. surprisingly enough   D. strangely enough
14. A. while       B. when    C. as     D. since
15. A. finished   B. won    C. passed      D. lost
16. A. cheer   B. hope   C. interest   D. experience
17. A. hold on   B. turn to   C. begin with    D. stick with
18. A. measured   B. praised   C. tested  D. increased
19. A. sadness     B. struggles    C. diseases   D. tiredness
20. A. or     B. nor    C. and     D. but

A little boy invited his mother to attend his school’s first teacher-parent meeting. To the little boy’s __1__, she said she would go. This __2__ be the first time that his classmates and teacher __3__ his mother and he felt __4__ of her appearance. Although she was a beautiful woman, there was a severe scar (疤痕) that __5__ nearly the entire right side of her face. The boy never wanted to __6__ why or how she got the scar.
At the meeting, the people were __7__ by the kindness and natural beauty of his mother __ 8__ the scar, but the little boy was still embarrassed (尷尬) and __9 __ himself from everyone. He did, however, get within __10__of a conversation between his mother and his teacher.
The teacher asked __11__, “How did you get the scar on your face?”
The mother replied, “__12__ my son was a baby, he was in a room that caught fire. Everyone was __13__ afraid to go in because the fire was __14__，so I went in. As I was running toward his bed, I saw a long piece of wood coming down and I placed myself over him trying to protect him. I was knocked __15__ but fortunately, a fireman came in and saved both of us.” She __16__ the burned side of her face. “This scar will be __17__, but to this day, I have never __18__ what I did.”
At this point, the little boy came out running toward his mother with tears in his eyes. He held her in his arms and felt a great __19__ of the sacrifice (犧牲) that his mother had made for him. He held her hand __20__ for the rest of the day.
1. A. enjoyment   B. disappointment  C. surprise    D. excitement
2. A. would     B. could            C. should      D. must
3. A. noticed   B. greeted           C. accepted  D. met
4. A. sick      B. ashamed         C. afraid    D. tired
5. A. included    B. passed         C. covered       D. shaded
6. A. talk about   B. think about C. care about    D. hear about
7. A. impressed  B. surprised    C. excited    D. comforted
8. A. in sight of   B. by means of    C. by way of D. in spite of
9. A. hid   B. protected  C. separated   D. escaped
10. A. understanding    B. reminding   C. hearing   D. learning
11. A. carefully  B. seriously    C. nervously   D. anxiously
12. A. As    B. When     C. Since     D. While
13. A. so     B. much C. quite   D. too
14. A. out of control B. under control C. in control  D. over control
15. A. helpless   B. hopeless    C. senseless  D. useless
16. A. pointed    B. showed    C. wiped   D. touched
17. A. ugly       B. lasting     C. serious     D. frightening
18. A. forgot  B. recognized  C. considered    D. regretted
19. A. honor    B. sense     C. happiness   D. pride
20. A. quietly   B. slightly     C. tightly    D. suddenly