That he refused her invitation couldn’t ________________ his disliking her.

   A. make out    B. speak out    C. figure out    D. account for

-----Would you mind me smoking here?

   ------ ______. It’s non-smoking area here.

       A. Yes, please                  B. I’m afraid I’ve to say yes 

       C. No, please               D. No, you can’t

— They are quiet, aren’t they?

   — Yes. They are accustomed ______ at meals.

A. to talk        B. to not talk      C. to talking    D. to not talking

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請認(rèn)真閱讀下面短文, 從短文后各題所給的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。

My first full time job after high school was selling vacation packages via telephone for a well-known company.  One day, the dialer ____36____ me to a man who answered the phone and ____37_____ a bit out of breath.  I started with my normal pitch（推銷）, and _____38____ to hear the normal, "I don't want any," and be hung up on.  

Instead he spoke in a low, weak voice and told me how he wished he could take a ____39_____ like the one I was offering, but couldn't ____40_____ he was dying of emphysema (肺氣腫).  He ____41_____ how he was on oxygen, and it took almost all his ____42_____ just to get to the phone to answer the call.  I ____43_____, and my heart fell into my stomach.  He asked me if I smoked, which I did, and then begged me to stop.  He told me smoking is ____44_____ was killing him, and how horrible it was.  He told me to ____45_____ every day with my loved ones, and tell them all the time how much I love them. At this ____46_____, I was in tears, and couldn't control myself, and he could tell. 

After a few moments, I decided to write down his name and ____47_____, and just send him a card telling him that I ____48_____ his advice and that I would pray for him and his family.  Shortly after, I received a nice letter back from Frank, along with a picture of him and his wife.  We continued to write back and forth over the next few months or so, and became very ____49_____ of each other.  He was old enough to be my grandfather, and in many ways, I felt ____50_____ he was. 

It was about a year later I received a letter from his wife, and when I started to read it, my eyes were filled with tears.  She told me how Frank's ____51_____ with the disease had finally come to an end, and he ____52_____ shortly before Christmas.  She wanted to thank me for the letters I had written to Frank, and then explained how Frank touched many lives over the years.  At his ____53_____, to show just that, they read the 1st letter I had written to Frank to show how he ____54_____ a 19 year old he had ____55_____ even met. 

I will never forget how much that meant to me.

36. A. took                 B. connected             C. accompanied                 D. led

37. A. felt                            B. looked                    C. sounded                          D. proved

38. A. expecting       B. wondering            C. considering                    D. worrying

39. A. break               B. rest                         C. change                                     D. vacation

40. A. because                   B. though                            C. while                                D. before

41. A. described       B. exposed                 C. explained                        D. expressed

42. A. power             B. energy                   C. strength                         D. force

43. A. apologized     B. excused                 C. pardoned                        D. forgave

44. A. that                 B. what                       C. which                               D. how

45. A. take                 B. cost                        C. pay                                   D. spend 

46. A. point                B. case                        C. way                                  D. situation

47. A. number           B. hobby                     C. address                           D. whish

48. A. agreed            B. appreciated                   C. followed                          D. approved

49. A. interested      B. content                  C. fond                                 D. curious

50. A. if only              B. even if                    C. only if                               D. as if

51. A. battle              B. strike                      C. defense                           D. working

52. A. gave away     B. turned away         C. took away                      D. passed away

53. A. birthday                   B. funeral                            C. ceremony                       D. performance

54. A. changed                   B. improved               C. affected                          D. promoted

55. A. always            B. seldom                   C. ever                                 D. never

The quality of drinking water in Shanghai will meet European Union standard by 2010 and, a decade later, citizens in Shanghai will drink the best water in the world.

These were the goals set out by the Shanghai Water Authority. With the city’s population expected to increase only slightly and the economy to boom by 2020, Chen Yin, and official with the water authority, said Shanghai’s water consumption will not increase from its present amount.

Zhang Yue, director of the Urban Construction Division under the Ministry of Construction, said, “Shanghai is the first city in the country to publicize these ambitions. They will not be easy to achieve.”

He said water saving will help keep the sustainable development of China’s economy.

Saving one cubic meter of water means saving the city’s infrastructure（基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施）costs by 10,000 Yuan. Last year, Shanghai saved 300 million cubic meters of water either from readjustment of industrial structure or the employment of new technology.

 “The aim is to arouse public awareness of the seriousness of water shortages,” Chen said. “The abundant surface water and amount of rain of the city are so misleading that they result in improper use of water.”

Shanghai lacks drinkable water. The Huangpu River, which supplies 80 percent of the city’s drinkable water, is nearing exhaustion.

The city, therefore, has been exploring new sources from the Yangtze River and growing forests along it to conserve quality water.

Besides penning regulations, the authority is popularizing technology among the public to efficiently cut the amount of water used.

At present, the city has 600，000 family toilets, each using 13 liters of water per flush. These are to be renovated（整修）to use only 9 liters of water per flush.

The authority is renovating the first 200 toilets for households – at a cost of 40 Yuan each.

In three years, all the toilets will be renovated, which saves the city nearly 15 million Yuan every year in water conservation.

Another task the city is engaged in is the treatment of sewage（污水）to improve the water environment.

At present the city can only treat 44 percent of its daily 5.04 million tons of waste water. To meet the total demand, 27 more sewage treatment factories are to be established with an estimated investment of 18 billion Yuan.

41．People in Shanghai get their daily water mainly from _______now.

A．the underground                          B．the rain     

C．the Yangtze River                         D．the Huangpu River

42．According to the passage, some people have the wrong opinion of using water

because      .

A．the renovating of family toilets will save plenty of water

B．a(chǎn)bout half of waste water has been treated already

C．a(chǎn)dvanced technology makes people use water as much as possible

D．there is plenty surface water and large amount of rain at present

43．The authority is renovating the first 200 toilets for households to          .

A．make people’s living more convenient     

B．improve people’s living standards

C．ease employment pressure      

D．meet the total demand of water

44．Which group of measures are all mentioned in the passage to save water?

a．improve drinking water quality

b．change some industrial structure

c．introduce or use some new technology    

d．speed the economic development of Shanghai

e．renovate some family toilets    

f．build more sewage treatment factories

A．a(chǎn), b, c, d                       B．b, c, e, f                       

C．b, c, d, e              D．a(chǎn), b, e, f

45．We can infer from the passage that          .

A．the boom of economy will need a larger amount of water in the future

B．citizens today in Shanghai drink the best quality of water in the world

C．not everyone today in Shanghai is aware of water shortage

D．a(chǎn)ll the family toilets will be renovated to save water within 3 years

六. Cloze test.

   Some myths are stories used since ancient times , to explain the causes of natural phenomena. The Greek myth that explains why there are changes of ___1_____I about Demeter, the goddess of the harvest. She had a daughter, Persephone , whom she loved very much. Hades, god of the underworld , fell in love with Persephone, and he asked Zeus, the ___2_____ of the gods, to give Persephone to him as his _____3____. Zeus did not want either to disappoint Hades or to upset Demeter, so he said he would not agree to the marriage, but neither would he ___4______ it. Hades, therefore, decided to take the girl without ____5____. When Persephone was picking flowers in the garden, he seized her and took her to the underworld. When Demeter ____ 6 ___ what happened to Persephone, she became so ___7____ that she caused all plants to _____8___. People were in_____9____ of starving. But Demeter was determined not to let crops grow____10______ . her daughter , Persephone, was returned to her. ____11______,  still not  wanting  to disappoint Hades, decided upon a condition for Persephone’s ____12___.  She could go back to her mother if she had not ___13_____ anything while she was in the underworld Demeter ___14_____it, underworld. When Zeus_____15____ this , he decided that Persephone could spend part of the year with her ____16_____. But he added that since she had eaten the seeds , she had to spend part of the year in the underworld.; And so it __17____ that when Persephone is in the underworld, Demeter is sad and ___18_____ not let the crops grow. That is ___19_____ we have winter when plants do not grow. When Persephone returns, Demeter is ____20_______. It becomes spring , and plants begin to grow again.

1. A. periods             B. seasons       C. time         D. age

2. A. winner             B. ruler         C. advisor      D. fighter

3. A. wife             B. lover         C. partner        D. daughter

4. A. forbid              B. forgive       C. admit        D. accept

5. A. arrangement      B. warning      C. reason       D. permission

6. A. let out          B. worked out  C. thought out          D. found out

7. A. excited         B. tired        C. angry              D. serious

8. A. grow fast         B. start growing C. stop growing        D. grow slowly

9. A. danger           B. hope        C. turn              D. case

 10. A. since                B. until        C. after              D. when

11. A. Persephone       B. Zeus        C. Demeter           D. Hades

12. A. return         B. change      C. marriage          D. journey

13. A. stolen         B. found       C. eaten             D. heard

14. A. understood     B. refused      C. doubted        D. accepted

15. A. discovered       B. studied      C. forgot          D. prepared

16. A. daughter       B. mother      C. god              D. ruler

17. A. works                B. remains     C. happens            D. starts

18. A. should                B. can         C. dare              D. will

19. A. where           B. because     C. why            D. how

20. A. nice             B. friendly      C. fresh         D. happy

C

Some people believe that international sport creates goodwill between the nations and that if countries play games together, they will learn to live together. Others say that the opposite is true: international competitions encourage false national pride and lead to misunderstanding and hatred（憎恨）. There is probably some truth in both arguments, but in recent years the Olympic Games have done little to support the view that sport encourages international brotherhood. Not only was there the tragic incident including the murder of athletes, but the Games were also ruined by incidents caused mainly by smaller national contests.

    One country received its second-place medals with visible anger after the hockey(曲棍球) final. There had been noisy scenes at the end of the hockey match, the losers objecting to the final decisions. They were sure that one of their goals should not have been disallowed and that their opponents’ victory was unfair. Their manager was in great anger when he said, “This wasn’t hockey. Hockey and the International Hockey Federation are finished.” The president of the Federation said later that such behavior could result in the suspension（停賽） of the team for at least three years.

Incidents of this kind will continue as long as sport is played competitively rather than for the love of the game. The suggestion that athletes should compete as individuals, or in non-national teams, might be too much to hope for. But in the present organization of the Olympics there is far too much that

encourages  aggressive patriotism(愛國主義).

36. According to the author, recently the Olympic Games have ______.

    A. created goodwill between the nations   

    B. brought about only false national pride

    C. hardly showed any international friendship

    D. put an end to misunderstanding and hatred

37. The underlined word “disallowed”(in Paragraph 2) means “______”.

    A. permitted to pass     

    B. considered as reasonable

    C. won by the other side        

    D. refused to accept

38. What did the manager mean by saying, “Hockey and the International Hockey Federation are finished”?

    A. His team would no longer take part in international games.

    B. Hockey and the Federation are both ruined by the unfair decisions.

    C. There should be no more Hockey matches organized by the Federation.

    D. The Federation should break up.

39. The author gives the example in paragraph 2 to show ______.

    A. how false national pride led to undesirable incidents in international games

    B. that sportsmen are often against the final decisions

    C. that competitiveness in the games discourages international friendship

    D. that unfair decisions are common in the Olympic Games

40. What conclusion can be drawn from the passage?

    A. The organization of the Olympic Games must be improved.

    B. Athletes should compete as individuals in the Olympic  Games.

    C. A game should be played competitively rather than for the love of the game.

    D. More and more athletes will compete for their own honor.

Didn’t it ever ________to you that one day you wouldn’t be fired because of your carelessness?

    A. dream         B. occur        C. expect           D. happen

I am told to guess the meaning of an unknown word, but my question is _______ I still can’t

   understand its meaning.

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

33. E-mail, as well as telephones, ____   an important part in daily communication.

A. is playing    B. have played    C. are playing    D. play