After　winning      war　in　Iraq，the country fell into     new worries of economy．

A. the;  the               B. a; the             C. the; ／                 D. a; ／

They asked me so many ______ questions that I got ______.

 A. confusing; confusing      B. confused; confusing

C. confused; confused        D. confusing; confused

It was ＿＿ an interesting television show.

A. such       B. so       C. that     D. no

Ⅲ 閱讀 (共兩節(jié)，滿分40分)

第一節(jié) 閱讀理解 (共15小題；每小題2分，滿分30分)

      閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的A、B、C和D項中，選出最佳選項，

并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。

Parents and kids today dress alike, listen to the same music, and are friends. Is this a good thing? Sometimes, when Mr. Ballmer and his 16-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, listen to rock music together and talk about interests both enjoy, such as pop culture, he remembers his more distant relationship with his parents when he was a teenager.

“I would never have said to my mom, ‘Hey, the new Weezer album is really great. How do you like it?’” says Ballmer. “There was just a complete gap in taste.”

Music was not the only gulf. From clothing and hairstyles to activities and expectations, earlier generations of parents and children often appeared to move in separate orbits.

Today, the generation gap has not disappeared, but it is getting narrow in many families. Conversations on subjects such as sex and drugs would not have taken place a generation ago. Now they are comfortable and common. And parent-child activities, from shopping to sports, involve a feeling of trust and friendship that can continue int0 adulthood.

No wonder greeting cards today carry the message, “To my mother, my best friend.”

But family experts warn that the new equality can also result in less respect for parents. “There’s still a lot of strictness and authority on the part of parents out there, but there is a change happening,” says Kerrie, a psychology professor at Lebanon Valley College. “In the middle of that change, there is a lot of confusion among parents.”

Family researchers offer a variety of reasons for these evolving roles and attitudes. They see the 1960s as a turning point. Great cultural changes led to more open communication and a more democratic process that encourages everyone to have a say.

“My parents were on the ‘before’ side of that change, but today’s parents, the 40-year-olds, were on the ‘a(chǎn)fter’ side,” explains Mr. Ballmer. “It’s not something easily accomplished by parents these days, because life is more difficult to understand or deal with, but sharing interests does make it more fun to be a parent now.”

41. The underlined word gulf in Para.3 most probably means ___   ______.

A. interest         B. Distance        C. Difference         D. separation

42. Which of the following shows that the generation gap is disappearing?

A. Parents help their children develop interests in more activities.

B. Parents put more trust in their children’s abilities.

C. Parents and children talk more about sex and drugs.

D. Parents share more interests with their children.

43. The change in today’s parent-child relationship is ____   _____.

A. more confusion among parents

B. new equality between parents and children

C.1ess respect for parents from children

D. more strictness and authority on the part of parents

44. By saying “today’s parents, the 40-year-olds, were on the ‘a(chǎn)fter’ side.” the author means that today’s parents ___   _____   ____   _  _  ___.

A. follow the trend of the change  

B. can set a limit to the change

C. fail to take the change seriously 

D. have little difficulty adjusting to the change

45. The purpose of the passage is to ____   ___   _____   ____.

A. describe the difficulties today’s parents have met with

B. discuss the development of the parent-child relationship

C. suggest the ways to handle the parent-child relationship

D. compare today’s parent-child relationship with that in the past

This picture was taken when my father was a child and even I myself couldn’t _____.

A. find him out    B. pick him out    C. put him out    D. take him out

It may help you to know that there is no such thing as a perfect speech．At some point in every speech, every speaker says something that is not understood exactly as he has planned．Fortunately, the moments are usually not obvious to the listeners. Why ? Because the listeners do not know what the speaker plans to say. They hear only what the speaker does say. If you lose your place for a moment, wrongly change the order of a couple of sentences, or forget to pause at a certain point, no one will be any the wiser．When such moments occur, don’t worry about them. Just continue as if nothing happened．

Even if you do make an obvious mistake during a speech, that don’t really matter. If you have ever listened to Martin Luther King’s famous speech – “ I have a dream”, you may notice that he stumble（結(jié)巴）his words twice during the speech．Most likely, however, you don’t remember．Why? Because you were fixing your attention on its message rather than on his way of speech-making. People care a lot about making mistakes in a speech because they regard speech-making as a kind of performance rather than as an act of communication. They feel the listeners are like judges in an ice-skating competition．But, in fact, the listeners are not looking for a perfect performer. They are looking for a well-thought-out speech that expresses the speaker’s ideas clearly and directly．Sometimes a mistake or two can actually increase a speaker’s attractiveness by making him more human．

As you work on your speech, don’t worry about being imperfect．Once you free your mind of this, you will find it much easier to give your speech freely．

60. The underlined part in the first paragraph means that no one will ___________．

     A．be smarter than you           

      B．notice your mistakes

     C．do better than you              

       D．know what you are talking about

61. You don’t remember obvious mistakes in a speech because ___________．

     A．your attention is on the content

     B．you don’t fully understand the speech

     C．you don’t know what the speaker plans to say

     D．you find the way of speech-making more important

62. It can be inferred from the passage that ___________．

     A．giving a speech is like giving a performance

     B．one to two mistakes in a speech may not be bad

     C．the listeners should pay more attention to how a speech is made

     D．the more mistakes a speaker makes, the more attractive he will be

63. What would be the best title of the passage? 

    A. How to Be a Perfect Speaker           

    B. How to Make a Perfect Speech

    C. Don’t Expect a Perfect Speech          

    D. Don’t Expect Mistakes in a Speech

第三節(jié)：短文填空（共5小題。每小題1分，滿分5分）    在短文的空白處填入合適的單詞，使短文意義完整，邏輯通順。答案寫在短文后面的指定位置。（每空只填一詞）  There are many theme parks in the world. Disneyland is one of them. You can not only step into a magical world but also can 85      your dreams there. As time goes by, Disneyland has become one of the most attractive parks worldwide. 86     , where there is a Disneyland, tourism is surely increasing. Dollywood is a most famous cultural theme park in the USA and the park’s  87      is its main attraction. People come here to enjoy the wondful country music played by famous music groups indoors or 88     .

England’s Camelot Park is a place where you can experience many ancient days and great deeds of English knights and ladies. Also you will learn how people worked on their farms in ancient  89     .

In short, wherever you go, you will find a theme park for you.

______ is even more important is that water began to appear on the earth’s surface.

   A. Whether       B. That                C. What               D. Which

 —I’ve told Nancy many times about the meeting, but she still forget it!

—I understand. Actually, anyone ______ be very forgetful at times.

A. must   B. should C. ought to     D. can  

．It was difficult to guess what her _____ to the news would be.

     A．impression     B．comment      C．reaction        D．opinion