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He has behaved in the most extraordinary way recently, I wonder what can _______his actions.          

A. answer for             B. wish for                C. ask for      D. account for

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第四部分 閱讀理解（共20小題，每小題2分，計40分）

  通讀下列短文，從各小題所給的A、B、C、D四個選項中選出最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。

I always feel sorry for world leaders busy dealing with fights between nations. When my three children were young, most days it was hard keeping my house from becoming a battlefield.

       It got worse as they grew older. Three years ago, Zack, then 16, couldn’t make it through a day without making his sisters, Alex 11 and Taryn 9, angry.

       My husband and I tried to be understanding the boy at such an age. We reasoned, punished, and left heartfelt notes on his bed about how he was hurting our family. His answer was “I say it because it’s true.”

       I even tried telling the girls to fight back. Bad idea. Now I had three children at war. Whatever I said to them, they paid no attention. When there was no way out, I told everything to my sister, Mary, in an e-mail. She replied, “Don’t e-mail me. E-mail him.”

       Our son was online every day, mailing and talking with his friends. Maybe he would actually hear me this way. I didn’t say anything different, but e-mail just took the tension away. There’d be no shouting or door banging. Zack wouldn’t feel under attack.

       Zack didn’t reply for days. When he finally did, his entire message was four small words. I smiled when I read them: “You’re right. I’m sorry.”

       The children still fought, of course, but Zack changed. Best of all, I now have a better way to talk with not one but three of them. I like it that they don’t tune me out as much as they used to. They like not having to listen to me shouting to them. Or as Alex says, “You’re so much nicer online.”

       All I know is that the house is quiet. But we’re talking.

71. What was the trouble before the online talk in the family?

       A. The writer failed to understand her daughters.

       B. The children couldn’t get along peacefully.

       C. The family found it difficult to keep the house clean.

       D. The parents were not willing to talk with their children.

72. The writer once tried to deal with her son’s problem by _______.

       A. talking with him about his pain

       B. telling him about the truth of the family

       C. telling her daughters to keep away from him

       D. encouraging her daughters to fight against him

73. The writer e-mailed her sister _______.

       A. to tell her about the family problem        B. hoping she’d e-mail the boy

       C. asking about child-raising                      D. to escape from the problem

74. The underlined phrase “tune me out” in the passage probably means _______.

       A. quarrel with me                                    B. get angry with me

       C. pay no attention to me                           D. keep me out of their rooms

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The reason for their failure, you know, was _______ they didn’t get fully prepared for it.

  A. why                                   B. whether                    C. that                          D. what

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第二節(jié) 完形填空（共20小題，每小題1.5分，滿分30分）

I did very badly at school. My headmaster thought I was  36   and when I was 14 he said, “You’re never going to be   37   but a failure.”

After five years of   38   jobs, I fell in love with a very nice middle-class girl. It was the best   39   that could have happened to me. I   40   I wanted to do something positive (積極地) with my life because I wanted to prove to   41   that what people said about me was   42 . Especially her mother, who had said to me, “Let’s   43   it, you’ve failed at everything you’ve ever done.”  So I tried hard with my   44   and went to college. My first novel (小說)  45   while I was at college.

After college I taught during the   46   in high schools and attended evening classes at London University, where I got a    47   in history. I became a lecturer at a college and was thinking of   48   that job to write full time   49   I was offered a part-time job at Leeds University. I began to feel proud of myself —   50   was a working--class boy who’d   51   school early, now teaching at the university.

My writing career (職業(yè)) took off when I discovered my own style. Now I’m rich and   52 , have been on TV, and met lots of film stars.   53   what does it mean? I   54   wish all the people that have put me down had  55  : “I believe in you. You’ll succeed.”

36. A. bright                 B. useless                     C. simple                      D. hopeful

37. A. anything             B. something                C. everything                      D. nothing

38. A. low                   B. poor                        C. good                       D. useful

39 A. support                      B. happiness                 C. surprise                   D. thing

40. A. admitted             B. decided                   C. planned                   D. told

41. A. me                    B. them                        C. her                          D. it

42. A. wrong               B. right                       C. stupid                    D. faulty

43. A. see            B. know                  C. understand              D. face

44. A. experiment     B. practice                C. writing                 D. composition

45. A. came on        B. came in                C. came out                D. came back

46. A. day           B. night                  C. month                 D. year

47. A. graduation      B. pass                   C. degree                 D. success

48. A. giving in              B. giving back              C. giving out              D. giving up

49. A. while          B. if                            C. when                   D. or

50. A. there          B. here                        C. it                     D. that

51. A. left            B. attended               C. changed                D. graduated

52. A. tired          B. calm                   C. nervous .               D. famous

53. A. And                  B. But                   C. However               D. Well

54. A. just           B. exactly                C. so                     D. very

55. A. praised          B. said                   C. answered                D. advised

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Newspapers are not nearly as popular today as they were in the past．There are not very many people who seriously read a newspaper every day. Most people read only the sports pages，the advice or the gossip columns，the comics, and perhaps the classified advertisements．Most people don’t take the time to read the real news. Newspapers attempt to catch the reader’s interest with pictures and exciting headlines. These techniques are used on the front page because it is the first thing you see when you pick up the paper．The first page attracts attention and encourages the reader to look through the rest of the paper. This is why editors always look for a good first page story and headline to make them stop and look．If the headline is horrible enough or frightening enough or wild enough，perhaps they will go on to read the front page．However，they may just read the headlines，but that is all，then they turn to the sports page，or comics，or advertisements. It seems that people do not want the news from a newspaper anymore. They say they get the news on the television now．

More people watch television news because it is easier and more interesting than reading a newspaper．What about you? Do you read news from a newspaper? Do you think it is easier to get the news from television? Or do you care about news at all? Would you mind if there were no news?

50．According to the passage，newspaper are                     ．

A．inure popular today                   B．less popular today

C．a(chǎn)s popular as before                     D．getting more and more popular

51．We can know from the passage that the newspaper editors think the important part of the newspaper is                 ．

A．the front page             B． the sports page

C．the headlines                 D． the classified advertisements

52．According to the author，which of the following newspapers will most probably attract the reader’s attention?

A．The ones with interesting pictures and exciting headlines on the front page．

B．The ones with sports news on the front page．

C．The ones with classified ads on the front page．

D．The ones with gossip columns on the front p

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第三節(jié)  書面表達（滿分15分）

學生會計劃開展“獻愛心活動”，請你以學生會的名義，寫一份倡議書(proposal)，其主要內(nèi)容如下：

倡議原因：2010年4月14日，青海玉樹發(fā)生地震，2000多人喪生或失蹤，建筑物被毀壞、災區(qū)人民無家可歸、缺吃少穿、缺醫(yī)少藥

倡議內(nèi)容：各班捐款、捐物；款物上交學生會辦公室

注意：1．要寫成倡議書，應包含所有提示內(nèi)容。

2．詞數(shù)：100左右，開頭部分已給出，不計人總詞數(shù)。

3．參考詞匯：物品necessities

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 Many old Chinese people have the concept of ________ some money for their future use.

A. picking up                B. setting aside              C. putting off         D. setting up

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 — I’m sorry. I’ve left your MP4 player in my bedroom.

     — ________. I won’t use it today.

   A. Go ahead      B. Don’t worry      C. That’s right     D. Don’t mention it

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 ____ no doubt  _____ China will become an advanced country in the future.

 A. It; whether           B. There is ; that    C. It is ; that         D. There is; whether

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. We desire that help ________ here without delay.

A. is sent          B. has been sent           C. be sent          D. was sent