D

“You’re going to the United States to live? How wonderful! You’re really lucky!”

Does this sound familiar? Perhaps your family and friends said similar things to you when you left home. But does it seem true all the time? Is your life in this new country always wonderful and exciting? A great many facts show that it’s not easy for newcomers to adjust to life in a new culture. They have to experience culture shock.

What causes culture shock? Maybe the weather is unpleasant.  Perhaps the customs are different. Perhaps the public service systems such as the telephone, post office, or transportation are difficult to figure out and you make mistakes. The simplest things seem difficult. The language may be difficult. The food may seem strange to you. If you don’t look similar to the natives, you may feel strange. You may feel as ff everyone is watching you. In fact, you are always watching yourself.

Everyone experiences culture shock in some form or another. But culture shock comes as a surprise to most people. A lot of the time, the people with the worst culture shock are the people who never had any difficulties in their own countries. They were active and successful in their community(社區(qū)). They had hobbies or pastimes which they enjoyed. When they come to a new country, they do not have the same positions or hobbies as they already had in their countries. They find themselves without a role, almost without an identity. They have to build a new self-image.

Culture shock produces a feeling of disorientation(暈頭轉(zhuǎn)向), which may be homesickness, imagined illness, or even paranoia(偏執(zhí)癥). When people feel the disorientation of culture shock, they sometimes feel like staying inside all the time. They want to protect themselves from the unfamiliar environment. They want to create an escape within their room to give themselves a sense of security. This escape does solve the problem of culture shock for the short term, but it does nothing to familiarize the person more with the culture. Familiarity and experience are the long-term ways to settle the problem of culture shock.

67. Who is the passage mainly for?

A. The family and friends of those who came to the US.

B. Those who have got rid of culture shock.

C. People who have just moved to a foreign country.

D. People who can easily adjust their life in the US.

68. The underlined part “you are always watching yourself’” (in Paragraph 3) means         .

A. you are always feeling homesick

B. you are always worried too much about yourself

C. you are always looking at yourself in the mirror

D. you are always nervous about meeting other people

69. Which of the following would be a case of culture shock for newcomers?

A. They have trouble using public telephones.

B. Their positions or hobbies stay the same.

C. They are active and successful in the new community.

D. They have got used to the life in the new country.

70. Which of the following may cause newcomers to lack a sense of security?

A. A new identity.                                      B. Local food.

C. A new serf-image.                                    D. Strange environment.

71. The best way for the newcomers to overcome culture shock is         .

A. to stay inside to protect themselves

B. to make a study of the new hobbies

C. to adapt themselves to the new environment

D. to ask people for help when having difficulties

10. When I go out in the evening I use the bike ________ the car if I can.

A) rather than        B) regardless of      C) in spite of          D) other than

34. We tried hard to prevent him from going there, but he just ________ listen.

   A. won’t          B. wouldn’t         C. might not         D. mustn’t

III、完形填空(共20分)

It’s a question anyone might ask in the future: Should your household robot be cool? Or practical?

For Sony Corporation, robots ought to be entertaining. The company’s 41 robot, SDR—4 X, can sing and dance.

But for automaker Honda Motor Co Ltd, such 42 should perform useful tasks for their 43 masters.

“It is in the end a machine, a 44 ,” said Masato Hirose, Honda’s chief engineer.

Sony’s chief researcher Toshi Doi said robots performing such tasks as 45for ill or disabled people would not necessarily need a human 46  .

“The attractiveness of the SDR—4 X is its 47”, he said.

“It has feelings. It has instincts(直覺).”

Drawing from its 48of 60,000 words, an SDR—4 X robot 49 last week that it can ask a 50 in a high voice: “Please 51still for a minute while I memorize your face.”

It also 52 off its ability to walk on uneven(不平的)floors, and come to its owner when it’s 53.

While Honda’s robot is 54 used mainly for entertainment, it is 55 that one day it will be a useful companion.

So its robot have been 56to be 120cm tall – more than twice the height of the SDR—4 X. Hirose said 120cm is the 57a robot that moves around a home should be.

“If you are going to have something that can move with 58 in a human surroundings(環(huán)境), then it is better to 59 the robot like a human,” he said.

Hirose said that he hopes the robot will be 60 enough so that he can buy one for himself and let it get him a beer.

41. A. earliest        B. latest          C. coolest                     D. smallest

42. A. matters        B. people        C. machines           D. inventions

43. A. human         B. own           C. creative             D. all

44. A. tool             B. robot         C. toy                   D. slave

45. A. looking        B. working     C. leaving              D. caring

46. A. form           B. character    C. job                   D. ability

47. A. appearance   B. purpose      C. personality        D. material

48. A. storage        B. use            C. making             creation

49. A. said             B. announced  C. showed             D. imaged

50. A. friend          B. partner              C. servant              D. guest

51. A. hold            B. lie             C. take                  D. make

52. A. left                     B. showed      C. put                   D. dropped

53.A. tired             B. called         C. controlled          D. made

54.A. also              B. still            C. again                D. even

55. A. sure             B. hoped        C. reported            D. described

56. A. expected      B. raised         C. proved                     D. designed

57 A. cheapest     B. dearest              C. smallest             D. biggest

58. A. ease             B. care           C. difficulty           D. foot

59. A. buy             B. use            C. invest                D. design

60. A. useful          B. smart         C. cheap                D. small

II、單項(xiàng)填空(共20分)

21. In the center of the room stood a table with a _____ lamp on it, so it is very

bright in the room.

A.lighted  B. lighting  C. lit  D. Light

原創(chuàng)（一）

It is not so much what happens to each of us that determines our quality of life, but rather our reaction to what happens. Though we may have no     36    in unexpected events that happen to us, we most certainly have choice in   37   we interpret what happens, and in what we choose to do about it. These choices make all the   38   in how we experience our world and very much determine our    39     of life.

Neither does what we own    40    a major role in quality of life. One person with all the money and possessions in the world may have a   41   life, while another in the lowest income classes may    42   love their life. It is what we do with what we own that   43   our level of satisfaction and joy in life. It's not what you    44    or what happens to you in life that    45    , but rather what you do with it.

Every    46    something is happening in our lives. And every moment we    47    or a judgment about what happens. By choosing to become more   48   of how we react to what happens, we can   49   towards what we really want in our lives.   50    following habitual, reactive patterns which   51   more of the same, we can recognize and  52   our old habits to move powerfully in the   53   of creating the life we really want. Yet to do this, we must first find the    54  to look at some of the disempowering, often unconscious   55   which get in the way and don't serve to increase our quality of life. But by continually reminding ourselves of our intention to be creators, we can transform our life.

36．A．need                B．courage           C．choice             D．necessity

37．A．what               B．whether           C．that                 D．how

38．A．difference        B．troubles           C．decisions          D．measures

39．A．type                B．quality             C．a(chǎn)mount            D．level

40．A．take                B．play                C．make               D．get

41．A．miserable         B．a(chǎn)ccessible         C．a(chǎn)cceptable        D．a(chǎn)daptable 

42．A．practically              B．privately          C．a(chǎn)bsolutely        D．a(chǎn)dequately

43．A．creates             B．investigates      C．a(chǎn)ffects             D．handles

44．A．lack                B．need                C．reserve            D．possess 

45．A．means             B．exists               C．works              D．matters

46．A．time                B．period             C．date                 D．moment

47．A．make a mistake                                   B．make a discovery

    C．make a decision                            D．make a fortune

48．A．conscious         B．sensitive          C．reasonable        D．a(chǎn)ctive

49．A．a(chǎn)lter                B．shift                C．differ                     D．distinguish

50．A．Other than              B．Rather than      C．As well as        D．According to

51．A．lead to             B．lie in               C．call for            D．a(chǎn)ppeal to/ equal to

52．A．transplant        B．transform         C．transport          D． transmit

53．A．edge                B．way                 C．direction          D．center

54．A．hope               B．interest            C．chance             D．courage

55．A．patterns           B．frames             C．landscape         D．examples

19. It’s quite an informal gathering ; you needn’t ______for it .  

A. dress down   B. dress up        C. dress       D. dress on

第三部分： 閱讀理解（共兩節(jié)，滿分 40 分）

（共15小題；每小題2分，滿分30分）

     閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)（A,B,C,D）中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)。

                               A

     Mike McClure walked into Sarasota Bay for a little fishing on a beautiful day last April. This afternoon, the water was shallow enough at low tide  that McClure could easily walk 100 yards offshore and cast(投）his line in any direction.

     Near sunset, still without a fish, he decided to turn back. Rather than turn to his earlier course, he chose a more direct path toward shore, thinking the bay wouldn't get deeper along the way. Instead, he was trapped. He tried to walk in different directions, but shallower water eluded(避開）him. Finally, he decided his safest choice was to head straight for land.

     "Within  about five steps, the water was coming in through the top of the waders(高筒防水膠靴）," says McClure.

He felt the deadweight of the flooding waders pulling him down and knew that if he didn't get out of them, he would drown. But he failed to kick his way out of the waders. Instead, they pulled him completely below the surface.

Back onshore, Eliza Cameron, 19, Loren Niurka Mora, 20, and Caitlin Petro, 20, had been watching McClure fish as they rested on the grass after a long week of classes. They saw McClure go under and then heard him cry, "Help！”

The three friends kicked off their shoes and ran into the bay. They were all good swimmers, but all hid a fear that he might pull them down too because they'd have to dive to save him.

When they reached him, he'd managed to kick himself out the waders, but his eyes had partly rolled back. Cameron and Mora each hooked an arm under his shoulders, while Petro supported his back and held his hand. Then the three friends tried their best to tug him towards shore. Finally, they all returned to shore safely.

56.Mike McClure didn't turn back by his earlier course because _____.

   A. He wanted to choose a short course

   B. His earlier course was dangerous

   C. He just wanted to take a risk

   D. He knew where the water was deep

57.What directly trapped Mike McClure in the bay?

   A. His wrong decision         B. The coming high tide

   C. His waders' being flooded    D. The depth of water

58.During the rescue, ____.

   A. The three women were afraid of being trapped in the water

   B.Cameron and Petro helped catch  Mike McClure's arms

   C. The three women removed Mike McClure's waders

   D. Mike McClure still wore his flooding waders