Once upon a time in a land far away, there was a wonderful old man who loved everything：animals, spiders, insects．．．
One day while walking through the woods, the nice old man found a cocoon（繭）of a butterfly．He took it home．A few days later, a small opening appeared; he sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole．Then it seemed to stop making any progress．It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could go no farther．Then the man decided to help the butterfly, so he took a pair of scissors and cut off the remaining bit of the cocoon．
The butterfly then appeared easily．
But it had a swollen body and small, fragile wings．The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which would be smaller in time．Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling （慢慢爬行）around with a swollen body and fragile wings．
It never was able to fly．
What the man in his kindness and hurry did not understand was that the limited cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening were Nature’s way of forcing fluid （液體）from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon．
Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life．If we were allowed to go through our life without any obstacles and difficulties, it would disable us．We would not be as strong as what we could have been．And we could never fly．
小題1:The butterfly could never fly because ________．

A．it was too fat and strong．

B．it loved crawling around．

C．it got out of the cocoon easily．

D．it didn’t get through the cocoon ．

小題2:The text is most likely to be found in a book about__________．

A．popular science	B．humorous stories．
C．successful people	D．philosophy events ．

小題3:What is the implied meaning of the passage?

A．Life without any obstacles and difficulties is perfect．

B．Obstacles and difficulties contribute to success．

C．Never help a butterfly to get out of the cocoon．

D．A butterfly can never fly without going through the cocoon．

完形填空（共20小題，每小題1分，滿分20分）
閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，然后從36 - 55各題所給的四個選項（Ａ、Ｂ、Ｃ和Ｄ）中，選出最佳選項，并填寫到答題紙表格。
One Saturday afternoon, my daughter Alice asked me, “Are all people the same even if they are different in color?”
I thought for a minute, and then I said, “I’ll explain,   41  you can just wait until we make a quick   42  at the grocery store. I have something   43  to show you. ”
At the grocery store, we    44   some apples --- red, green and yellow ones. Back home, I told Alice, “It’s time to   45  your question.” I put one apple of each   46   on the table. Then I looked at Alice, who had a   47  look on her face.  
“People are like apples. They come in all   48 colors, shapes and sizes. On the    49 , some of the apples may not  50  look as the others. ” As I was talking, Alice was    51  each one carefully.  
Then, I took each of the apples and peeled（削皮）them,  52  them back on the table, but   53  a different place.  
“Okay, Alice, tell me which is which.”
She said, “I   54  tell. They all look the same now. ” “Take a bite of   55 . See if that helps you   56  which one is which. ”
She took   57 , and then a huge smile came across her face. “People are   58  like apples! They are all different, but once you _ 59  the outside, they’re pretty much the same on the inside. ”
She totally   60  it. I didn’t need to say or do anything else.  

小題1:	A．a(chǎn)lthough B．so C．because D．if

小題2:	A．stop B．start C．turn D．stay

小題3:	A．expressive B．encouraging C．informative D．interesting

小題4:	A．bought B．counted C．saw D．collected

小題5:	A．check B．mention C．a(chǎn)nswer D．improve

小題6:	A．size B．type C．shape D．class

小題7:	A．worried B．satisfied C．proud D．curious

小題8:	A．ordinary B．normal C．different D．regular

小題9:	A．outside B．whole C．table D．inside

小題10:

A．still B．even C．only D．ever

小題11:

A．examining B．measuring C．drawing D．packing

小題12:

A．keeping B．placing C．pulling D．giving

小題13:

A．on B．toward C．for D．in

小題14:

A．mustn’t B．can’t C．shouldn’t D．needn’t

小題15:

A．each one B．each other C．the other D．one another

小題16:

A．a(chǎn)dmit B．consider C．decide D．believe

小題17:

A．big bites B．deep breaths C．a(chǎn) firm hold D．close look

小題18:

A．just B．a(chǎn)lways C．merely D．seldom

小題19:

A．put away B．get down C．hand out D．take off

小題20:

A．made B．took C．got D．did

Many English learners have difficulty deciding what kind of English accent they want to have. A US accent, perhaps modeled on the way a Hollywood star speaks? Or maybe you want to imitate（模仿） the British accent of a BBC news reader?
Young British people find the US accent attractive while young US people like a British accent. Especially when the person speaking is of the opposite sex! Let’s listen to what they have to say.
Stephen Yang, 17, from London, UK
A US accent is cute, especially when a girl speaks it. Whether it’s Jessia Alba speaking or the girl- next-door, the way US girls speak has a sweet tingle that is really sassy(時髦). A girl from Texas recently moved into our neighborhood. Her Texan twang（鼻音） had all the boys here on their knees within seconds of meeting her.
To me, accents reflect the attitudes, characteristics and lifestyles of the people.
Jennifer Sun, 16, from New Jersey, US
From watching English actors like Daniel Radcliffe, my friends and I have developed a soft spot for British men. Some are attracted to the qualities of English males, while others admire their sense of style.
Everyone, however, agrees that the most appealing aspect of an English man is his accent. For example, many American girls watch Harry Potter movies over and over again just to listen to the actors speak.
The English accent seems almost like art.
小題1:In Stephen Yang’s opinion, accents just show__________.

A．the beauty of the language	B．how the language is spoken
C．the cultural differences of the speakers	D．the fashion of the day

小題2:The underlined word “cute “probably means__________.

A．strange

B．exciting

C．a(chǎn)ttractive

D．fashionable

小題3:Many American girls watch Harry Porter again and again in order to __________.

A．learn the acting skills of the these stars

B．learn the magic performed by Harry Potter

C．imitate the actors’ accents

D．know more about British English

小題4:What is probably the best title for this passage?

A．British English and American English

B．British Accent or American Accent

C．American English Accent is Most Accepted

D．The difference between British Accent and American Accent.

In a great many cities, hundreds of people ride bikes to work every day. In New York, some bike riders have even formed a group called Bike for a Better City. They declare that if more people rode bikes to work, there would be fewer automobiles in the downtown part of the city and so less dirty air form car engines.
For several years, this group had been trying to get the city government to help bike riders. For example, they want the city to draw special lanes(車道) for bikes on some of the main streets, because when bike riders must use the same lanes as cars there are accidents. Bike for a Better City feels that if there were special lanes, more people would use bikes.
But no bike lanes have been drawn. Not everyone thinks it is a good idea—they say it will slow traffic. Some store owners on the main streets don’t like the idea—they say that if there is less traffic, they will have less business.
The city government has not yet decided what to do. It wants to keep everyone happy. On weekends, Central Park—the largest place open ground in New York— is closed to cars, and the roads may be used by bikes only.
小題1:In New York, a group of bike riders__________.

A．a(chǎn)re keeping practicing for health

B．have no cars of their own

C．a(chǎn)re complaining there are not enough buses

D．a(chǎn)re trying to settle the problem of air pollution

小題2: The bike riders suggest that __________.

A．bikes should be used instead of cars	B．bike lanes should be drawn
C．fewer buses or cars should be used	D．the number of special lanes should be decreased

小題3:The advantage of the special lanes is that__________.

A．they will make cars and buses run slowly

B．they will make it easier for bike riders to go to parks

C．they will make the city more beautiful

D．they will prevent accidents

Sometimes, the simplest ideas are the best．For example, to absorb heat from the sun to heat water, you need large, flat, black surfaces．One way to do that is to build those surfaces specially, on the roofs of buildings．But why go to all that trouble when cities are full of     black surfaces already, in the form of asphalt （柏油） roads?
Ten years ago, this thought came into the mind of Arian de Bondt, a Dutch engineer．He finally persuaded his boss to follow it up．The result is that their building is now heated in winter and cooled in summer by a system that relies on the surface of the road outside．
The heat-collector is a system of connected water pipes．Most of them run from one side of the street to the other, just under the asphalt road．Some, however, dive deep into the ground．
When the street surface gets hot in summer, water pumped through the pipes picks up this heat and takes it underground through one of the diving pipes．At a depth of 100 meters lies a natural aquifer （蓄水層） into which several heat exchangers （交換器） have been built．The hot water from the street runs through these exchangers, warming the ground-water, before returning to the surface through another pipe．The aquifer is thus used as a heat store．
In winter, the working system is changed slightly．Water is pumped through the heat exchangers to pick up the heat stored during summer．This water goes into the building and is used to warm the place up．After performing that task, it is pumped under the asphalt and its remaining heat keeps the road free of snow and ice．
小題1:Which of the following is true according to the first two paragraphs?

A．Arian de Bondt got his idea from his boss．

B．Large, flat, black surfaces need to be built in cities．

C．The Dutch engineer's system has been widely used．

D．Heat can also be collected from asphalt roads．

小題2:For what purpose are the diving pipes used?

A．To absorb heat from the sun．	B．To store heat for future use．
C．To turn solar energy into heat energy．	D．To carry heat down below the surface．

小題3:From the last paragraph we can learn that ________．

A．some pipes have to be re-arranged in winter

B．the system can do more than warming up the building

C．the exchangers will pick up heat from the street surface

D．less heat may be collected in winter than in summer

小題4:What is most likely to be discussed in the paragraph that follows?

A．What we shall do if the system goes wrong．

B．What we shall do if there are no asphalt roads．

C．How the system cools the building in summer．

D．How the system collects heat in spring and autumn．

What can help you make a fortune in the future? Graduating from a top university might not be enough. A new study from the University of Essex in Britain has shown that the more friends you have in school, the more money you’ll earn later.
The idea that popularity could have a serious impact on one’s earning potential shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise. The researchers noted that if you want to get ahead in life, social skills and networking are easily as powerful as talent and hard work.
“If a person has lots of friends, it means that he or she has the ability to get along with others in all kinds of different situations,” said Xu Yanchun, 17, from Nantou High School in Shenzhen, who totally agreed with the recent finding. “Also, friends always help each other. They not only create wider social circles for you but lift your mood when you occasionally feel depressed,” said Xu. She believed that all this helps you “earn a higher salary”.
Maybe that’s why some people think the younger generations are in the age of Friendalholism(交友狂癥). A woman even complained that the networking website Facebook’s 5,000-friend limit was too low for her large reserve of social contacts.
But what does a friend mean? Should friends be regarded as a form of currency?
“Call me uncool, but I think of a friend as an actual person with whom I have an actual history and whom I enjoy actually seeing. It seems, however, that this is no longer the definition of ‘friend’,” said Meghan Daum, who works with the Los Angeles Times in the US.
小題1:The new study from the University of Essex in Britain shows that _______.

A．if you have more friends you will not live happily

B．the more friends you have in school, the more money you’ll earn in your late life

C．the less friends you have, the poor lives you will live

D．friends can make more money for you

小題2:According to Xu Yanchun, when you have lots of friends, it means________.

A．you have the ability to earn more money

B．you will not feel lonely

C．you are quite content with your life

D．you have the ability to get along with others in various situations

小題3:What’s the main idea of the passage?

A．The passage mainly tells us something about the friendship.

B．Friendship plays a more important part in our daily life than anything else.

C．Friends are currency.

D．Friends give you success.

小題4:We can learn from the passage that _______.

A．if you have more friends, you can make a fortune in the future

B．graduating from college means that you can make a fortune in the future

C．friends mean a form of currency

D．friends can make you wider social circle and make you feel better when you feel depressed

NASA’s twin Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, have been exploring the Red Planet since 2004. But a little more than a year ago, NASA lost contact with Spirit. The space agency has tried several ways to make contact with the rover, but Spirit has not sent back any signals.
Spirit landed on Mars on January 4, 2004. Three weeks later, Opportunity arrived. Soon after, the rovers went to the opposite side of Mars. Spirit’s original mission was only designed to last for three months, but Spirit has worked for more than five years doing additional missions. Both rovers have made important discoveries about ancient Mars. They have taken thousands of images and found evidence in the rocks of a water, warmer past in Mars’ history.
Spirit is solar-powered. It got stuck in a sand trap in April 2009, trapped deep into the soil and with its wheels turning around and around but not able to move forwards or backwards. Spirit had to agree that there is nothing that can be done to change the situation—it’s never going to move again. However, even if it is a not moving station, it can still study the planet’s atmosphere and deep interior.
NASA has been concentrating on trying to position its solar panels to get as much energy from the sun as possible, or to get the rover leaning in a manner that will allow the most amount of sunlight falling on its solar panels, in order to keep it alive during the coming winter months. Engineers have planned to rock the vehicle back and forth to acquire a more favorable position. However, no matter how many efforts have been made, Spirit still could not get out of the soft soil and could not lean itself toward the sun as the Martian winter approached. Without enough energy reaching its solar panels and with so little energy in its batteries, it went into hibernation, just like a polar bear, and has not communicated with Earth since March 22, 2010.
Whatever the future holds for Spirit, its mission has been an outstanding success. When it landed on the Red Planet in January 2004, no one was really sure how long it would continue working in the cold and dusty environment. As a matter of fact, three months was its original goal.
After so many fruitless efforts, NASA scientists are losing hope of ever reconnecting with Spirit, but they will give it one more try. Ground controllers are contacting Spirit over a range of frequencies and at different times during the day in case its internal clock stopped working and it lost track of time. They also are commanding the rover to turn on its backup radio transmitter in case the main one is dead.
If this final effort to connect isn’t successful, NASA will shift the focus to its twin robot, Opportunity, which is in a different part of Mars. Opportunity is still on the move and continues to travel freely to this day. It has traveled 16.6 miles so far, and is currently rolling towards another crater it has yet to explore.
NASA has spent more than $900 million on the project but shows no sign of giving up on these determined and hard-working robots. The rovers are, though, experiencing gradual wear and tear, the expected damage to something caused by using it repeatedly over a period of time. Even before Spirit got trapped, one of its wheels had failed. And NASA says it’s just a matter of time before both robots break down completely.
小題1:According to the passage, what can we know about Spirit?

A．It had explored Mars several times.

B．Its original mission was to work for five years.

C．It landed on Mars three weeks later than Opportunity.

D． It discovered that Mars was once a warm and wetter place.

小題2:According to the passage, which of the following is NOT what NASA did?

A．Try to lean Spirit to make it get as much sunlight as possible.

B．Rock Spirit back and forth to make it acquire a more favorable position.

C．Make efforts to help Spirit get out of the soft soil where it is stuck.

D．Contact and order Spirit to turn on its backup radio transmitter.

小題3:The reason why Spirit failed to communicate with the Earth is that ________.

A．it didn’t have enough energy	B．it had finished its task
C．something was wrong with its wheels	D．it met an unidentified creature

小題4:By saying “NASA will shift the focus” in Paragraph 7, the author means that ______.

A．NASA will move the center of Spirit out of the sand

B．NASA will depend on Opportunity to do the exploration

C．NASA will do nothing but wait for some opportunity

D．NASA will make opportunity help Spirit

小題5:The last paragraph mainly informs us that _______.

A．NASA has planned to spend more money on Spirit

B．Spirit will be brought back to Earth

C．Spirit will stop operating totally in the future

D．Spirit will cause damage to Mars

小題6: What’s the text mainly about?

A．NASA makes the last effort to contact Spirit.

B．Spirit has made many important discoveries on Mars.

C．How Spirit got stuck and couldn’t move on Mars.

D．Why NASA tried many ways to contact Spirit.

In our life, we have rarely expressed our gratitude to the one who’d lived those years with us.In fact, we don’t have to wait for anniversaries to thank the ones close to us—the ones so easily overlooked. If I have learned anything about giving thanks, it is this: give it now！While your feeling of appreciation is alive and sincere, act on it. Saying thanks is such an easy way to add to the world’s happiness.
Saying thanks not only brightens someone else’s world, but it also brightens yours. If you’re feeling left out, unloved or unappreciated, try reaching out to others. It may be just the medicine you need.
Of course, there are times when you can’t express gratitude immediately. In that case don’t let embarrassment sink you into silence—speak up the first time you have the chance.
Once a young minister, Mark Brian, was sent to a remote parish of Kwakiutl Indians in British Columbia. He had been told that the Indians did not have a word for thank you. But Brian soon found that these people had exceptional generosity. Instead of saying thanks, it is their custom to return every favor with a favor of their own, and every kindness with an equal or superior kindness. They do their thanks.
I wonder if we had no words in our vocabulary for thank you, would we do a better job of communicating our gratitude? Would we be more responsive, more sensitive and more caring?
Thankfulness sets in motion a chain of reaction that transforms people all around us—including ourselves, for no one ever misunderstands the melody of a grateful heart.
小題1:In the first paragraph the writer mainly encourages us       .

A．to express our sincere thanks timely to those around us

B．never to overlook our close friends in daily life

C．to wait for a proper occasion to show our gratitude

D．to increase the world’s happiness by saying thanks

小題2:When we say something for what others do for us, it ______.

A．is good for both us and people who help us

B．benefits the people who do something for us

C．wastes our and our friends’ time at the same time

D．does harm to both us and people who help us

小題3:According to the writer,        could be the best way to prevent ourselves from being left out.

A．seeing a doctor to find the right medicine we need

B．expressing our gratitude in an easy way

C．speaking up the moment we have the chance

D．showing others actively we are willing to help them

小題4:Mark Brain’s story is mentioned in the passage in order to show the fact that       .

A．the Indians didn’t have any words for appreciation

B．the Indians were particularly generous to others

C．some people may express their gratitude through different approaches

D．Mark Brain set the Indians an example to show saying thanks is very important

However important we may regard school life to be, there is always the fact that children spend more time at home than in the classroom. Therefore, the teacher should realize that parents have a great influence on their children. Parents can become strong allies (助手) of the school or they can get in the way of the school education.
Experts have realized the need to keep parents informed of the newer methods used in schools. Many headmasters have conducted workshops explaining such matters as the reading readiness, program writing and mathematics to parents.
Moreover, the classroom teacher, with the permission of the supervisors(管理者), can also play an important part in giving more knowledge to reporting pupils progress, teachers can help parents a lot in educating their children and parents can give much help to teachers.
Suppose that a father has been drilling Junior arithmetic lessons night after night. In a friendly talk between the teacher and the father, the teacher can help the parent to make Junior interested in it. He might be persuaded to let Junior join in discussing the family budget, buying the food, using a ruler or measuring cup at home, setting the clock, calculating the distance of a trip and engaging in scores of other activities that have a mathematical basis.
If the father follows the advice, it is reasonable to say that he will soon realize that his son is making satisfactory progress in mathematics, and at the same time, enjoying the work.
Too often, however, teachers’ talks with parents are devoted to small accounts of children’s misdemeanors(不良行為). They talk about the laziness and poor work habits of the children.
What is needed is a more creative way in which the teacher, as an adviser, plants ideas in parents’ minds to make sure that the child spends the many hours out of the classroom learning something useful.
In this way the school and the home join forces in educating children.
小題1:The main idea of the passage is that ____.

A．home training is more important than school training

B．parents should help their children to do their homework

C．there’re many ways in which the mathematics program can be carried out at home

D．teachers can and should help parents to use better ways to teach their children

小題2:From this passage we can know that the writer ____.

A．is satisfied with the relationship between school and home

B．feels that parent-teacher talks can be made much more constructive

C．believes that schools can’t teach pupils well

D．calls on parents to teach their children mathematics at home

小題3:What way that the writer doesn’t talk about can improve the present situation?

A．Classes for parents.	B．New type of report card.
C．Parent-teacher talk.	D．Dinner or party.

小題4:The writer implies that ____.

A．interesting activities can improve one’s achievement

B．too many children are lazy and have poor work habits

C．teachers should often make home visits to parents

D．headmasters do more than teachers in this area

小題5:We can infer from the passage that the writer does not favor ____.

A．father’s helping his son with his study

B．written reports to the parents from the teachers

C．talking about children’s shortcomings

D．having the parents help their children with their lessons

To what degree can a computer achieve intelligence(智力)? The answer to this question may lie in a newly-developed US computer program called Smarter Child and the Internet.
If you ran into Smarter Child online, you would be surprised at this kid’s huge memory. It can recite many facts. For example, Smarter Child knows every baseball player in every team this season.
He knows every word in the dictionary and the weather in every major city areas across the US. However, if you ask Smarter Child other questions, you get stranger answers. A question about Smarter Child’s age returns, “One year, 11 days, 16 hours, 7 minutes, and 47 seconds!” Asking where he lives gets, “In a clean room in a high-tech building in California.”
Smarter Child uses the vast information on the World Wide Web as his memory bank. To answer questions about spelling, for instance, Smarter Child goes to American Heritage Dictionary online. For the weather, he visits www. intellicast. com.
Some scientists believe that by joining the many systems of the Internet, an artificial being with the combined knowledge of, say, Albert Einstein, Richard Nixon and Britney Spears could be born. However if Smarter Child wants to think and learn on his own like the boy-computer David in the movie A. I., Artificial Intelligence, he must overcome two problems.
The first is that computers find it difficult to read web pages because the files are labeled in different ways. That’s why programmers need to tell Smarter Child where to look for the weather. It would be a much more difficult task to let him find it himself.
Another problem is that while Smarter Child can process(處理) information more exactly and faster than any human, he lacks common sense—a basic grounding of knowledge that is obvious to any young child.
小題1:From the text we can infer that www. Intellicast. com is a website               .

A．which is specially designed to help Smarter Child

B．where we people can find Smarter Child

C．where weather forecasts are made

D．which is about artificial intelligence

小題2: It is probably most difficult for Smarter Child to               .

A．tell us how to spell a difficult word

B．tell us how the American government is run

C．provide us with a famous poem by Shakespeare

D．learn how to tell right behaviors from wrong ones.

小題3: Which of the following is TRUE according to the text?
A. Smart Child has his own memory bank big enough for all kinds of information.
B. A. I. Artificial Intelligence is probably the name of a film about a boy-computer.
C. Smart Child can recognize different files and find information needed on his own.
D. We have similar product now which has the knowledge of Einstein, Nixon and Spears.
小題4:Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

A．A New Web Child	B．Smarter Child
C．The Future of Internet	D．Intelligence Development