．What surprised me most was not what she said but ______she said it.

A．in the way that       B．in the way     C．the way which       D．the way

. --You look very tired.        at all last night?

--No, not really. I’m tired out now.

A. Have you been sleeping           B. Were you sleeping

C . Did you sleep                     D. Had you slept

. After two hours of walking, they came to the camp site, ______ .

      A. hungry and tiredly                       B. hungrily and tiredly 

C. hungrily and tired                         D. hungry and tired

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(xiàng)中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。

A person has to be sixteen to drive, seventeen to see certain movies, and eighteen to vote. People can get terrific discounts on all sorts of stuff－provided they’re over sixty-five. Everywhere we look there are age limits that define what people can and can’t do. But creativity has no boundaries, no limitations. Anyone can invent. And they do. Inventors are popping up at the youngest ages.

Sitting in the car waiting for her mom to return from shopping, Becky decided she might as well try to finish her math homework. But it was growing dark and getting hard to see the paper.

“I didn’t have a flashlight, and I didn’t want to open the car door because then the whole car would light up.” recalled Becky. “So I thought it would be neat to have my paper light up somehow, and that’s when the idea came to me.”

It isn’t every day that a ten-year-old invents a product eagerly sought by several businesses, but that’s exactly what Becky Schroeder did when she created a tool that enabled people to write in the dark. Her invention? The Glo-sheet.

That night Becky went home, trying to imagine different ways of making her paper glow in the dark. She remembered all sorts of glow-in-the-dark toys－like balls and Frisbees－and wondered how they were made. She was determined to find a solution. So they very next day, Beck’s dad took her on an outing to the hardware store. They returned with a pail (桶) of phosphorescent paint. She took the paint and stacks of paper into the darkest room in the house－the bathroom. There, she experimented.

“I’d turn on the light, turn it off, turn it on,” said Becky. “My parents remember me running out the room saying ‘It works, it works! I’m writing in the dark!’ ”

She used an acrylic board and coated it with a specific amount of phosphorescent paint. She took a complicated idea and made it work rather simply. When the coated clipboard is exposed to light, it glows. The glowing board then illuminates or lights up the paper that has been placed on top. Two years after her initial inspiration, in 1974, Becky became the youngest female ever to receive a U.S. patent.

She didn’t actively market her Glo-sheet. She didn’t need to. The New York Times wrote an article about an incredible invention－patented by a twelve-year-old, and the inquiries and orders streamed in.

1. From Paragraph 1 , we can draw a conclusion that _________.

A. it is illegal for one to drive under sixteen

B. people enjoy privileges when over sixty-five

C. one is never too old or too young to invent

D. people hate the limitations that define our behavior

2. What caused Becky to invent Glo-sheet?

A. She was trying to do homework when it got dark.

B. She was having trouble with math problems.

C. She was trying to earn some money.

D. She was working on a school project.

3. What is the meaning of the underlined words “phosphorescent paint” in paragraph 5?

A. paint that acts as a glue                          B. paint that covers a mark

C. paint that becomes hard                         D. paint that glows in the dark

4. What does it mean that Beck “didn’t actively market her Glo-sheet” according to paragraph 8?

A. She kept the original one for her own use.

B. Other people came to her for the Glo-sheet.

C. Becky’s father tried to sell the Glo-sheet.

D. She gave away patent to the government.

5. With which statement would Becky most likely agree?

A. Experience is needed to be a good inventor.

B. Only by inventing things can you know what people need.

C. Always try to sell patent rights to large companies.

D. You never know what you can do unless you try.

. Jack was born in a small village and _______ in the poor family.

       A. was brought up        B. was grown up         C. brought up      D. was taken up

第二節(jié) 語(yǔ)法填空（共10小題；每小題1.5分，滿分15分）

閱讀下面短文，根據(jù)上下文填入適當(dāng)?shù)脑~語(yǔ)，或使用括號(hào)中的詞語(yǔ)的適當(dāng)形式填空，并將答案填寫在答案標(biāo)號(hào)為31—40的相應(yīng)位置。

Were you the first or the last child in your family? Or were you a middle or an only child?

Some people think  31  matters where you were born in your family. But there are different ideas about what birth order means. Some people say that oldest children,  32  are smart and strong-willed, are very likely  33   (succeed).  The reason  34  this is simple. Parents have a lot of time for their first child and give him or her a lot of attention. An only child will succeed for     35   same reason.

What happens to the  36  children in the family? Middle children don’t get so much attention, so they don’t feel that important. If a family has many children, the middle one sometimes gets lost in the crowd. The youngest child,  37 , often gets special treatment. Often this child grows up to be funny. But a recent study saw things quite  38  (difference). The study found that first children believe in family rules. They didn’t take many chances in  39  lives. They usually  40  (follow) orders.  Rules didn’t mean as much to later children in the family. They took chances and they often did better in life.

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

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

 15.         we decided to spend the night at the foot of the mountain.

      A. With the moon appeared   B. The moon appeared   C. The moon being appeared   D. As the moon appeared

Street art can be found on buildings, sidewalks, street signs and even trash cans from Tokyo to Paris to New York City. This special kind of art can take the form of paintings, sculptures, cloth or even stickers (張貼物). Street art has become part of a global visual culture. Now, even art museums and galleries are collecting the works of street artists.

It is not easy to provide an exact history of the street art movement. This kind of art has developed in many kinds of ways in places all over the world. Also, because it is illegal to paint public and private property without permission, street artists usually work secretly. This secretive nature of street art and its countless forms make it hard to define exactly. And people have different opinions about the movement. Some think street art is a crime and destroys property. But others see this art as a rich form of non-traditional cultural expression.

Many experts say the movement began in New York City in the 1960s. Young adults would use paint in special cans to spray their “tag” on walls and train cars around the city. This tag was a name they created to identify themselves and their artwork. This colorful style of writing is also called graffiti (涂鴉). It is visually exciting and energetic. Some graffiti paintings were signs marking the territories of city gangs or illegal crime groups.

Graffiti also became a separate movement expressing the street culture of young people living in big cities. Graffiti art represented social and political rebellion (叛逆). This was art that rejected the accepted rules of culture and power. These artists could travel around areas of the city making creative paintings for everyone to see. Sometimes this street art created a conflict between artists and city officials. Graffiti artists created their images and city officials quickly painted over them.

During the 1980s, two New York painters — Keith Haring and Jean Michel began showing their work in art galleries and museums. This is when street art started to become part of the more general popular culture.

What can we infer from the first paragraph?

A. Street art has become popular and is accepted as a kind of culture.

B. Street art is very special compared with other forms of popular art.

C. Many people are beginning to learn street art.

D. Street art is better developed in big cities than in rural areas.

Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A. “TAG” was a word created by people to distinguish street artists and the other artists.

B. There are three reasons explaining why it is hard to define the history of street art.

C. The movement of street art began in the 1980s in New York City.

D. All the people don’t think that the street art is a rich form of cultural expression.

The city officials used to get rid of graffiti probably because _____________.

A. they caused arguments between people           B. they were ugly in someone’s eyes

C. they were not painted under proper guidance   D. they didn’t express traditional culture

單詞拼寫（共 10 小題；每小題 l 分, 滿分 10 分）

You must ask for p_________ before taking any photo inside the museum.

John’s brother e_________ his living by writing stories for the local newspaper two years ago.

If you want to go on a diet, you’d better c________ a doctor.

Youth should show r______ for the old.

If you m____ red and yellow, you get orange.

As a famous singer, he is always s________ by his fans.

She is u_________ her mother; she is slim and her mother is fat.

Time is l______. We need to be in a hurry.

---- May I have your o____, sir?

---- Yes, please. A cup of coffee.

He doesn’t like to be v______. Instead, he prefers to solve the problem peacefully.