C

       The way people hold to the belief that a fun-filled, painfree life equals happiness actually reduces their chances of ever getting real happiness．If fun and pleasure are equal to happiness then pain must be equal to unhappiness．But in fact, the opposite is true: more often than not things that lead to happiness is connected with some pain．

       As a result, many people avoid the very attempts（嘗試）that are the source of true happiness They fear the pain brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, religious commitment（承擔(dān)的義務(wù)），self-improvement．

       Ask a bachelor（單身漢）why he refuses marriages even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying, if he’s honest he will tell you afraid of making a commitment．For commitment is in fact painful．The single life is filled with fun, adventure, excitement．Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most unusual features．

       Couples with baby children are lucky to get a whole night’s sleep or a three-day vacation．I don’t know any parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children．But couples who decide not to have children never know the joys of watching a child grow up or of playing with a grandchild．

       Understanding and accepting that true happiness has noting to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations．It liberates（解放）time; now we can devote more hours to activities that can increase our happiness．It liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless．And it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all those who are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all．

48．Raising children, in the author’s opinion, is________．

       A．a(chǎn) duty we should have to perform       B．a(chǎn) thankless job

       C．a(chǎn) source of pain that can’t be avoided    D．a(chǎn) rewarding task

49．To understand what true happiness is one must________．

       A．have as much fun as possible during ones lifetime

       B．make every effort to free oneself from pain

       C．put up with pain in all conditions

       D．be able to tell happiness from fun

50．What is the writer trying to tell us?

       A．One must know how to get happiness

       B．Happiness often goes hand in hand with pain

       C．It is important to make commitments

       D．Pain usually leads to happiness

 The news is made ________ to everyone throughout the world that our Chinese athletes have won 5 gold medals in the Winter Olympics．

   A．be known        B．to be known          C．to know         D．Known

Maggiano is an award-winning teacher in the Social Studies Department at West Springfield High School in Virginia. He has taught in public and private schools for 25 years .In a piece on his blog called “The Classroom Post,” he calls for more males to enter the profession(職業(yè)).

Men Teach, a non-profit organization that encourages men to enter teaching, reports that in 2008, 18.8% of all elementary and middle school teachers were men. At the high school level during the same year, men comprised（構(gòu)成） 44% of the work force.

Why are there so few men in teaching? Men Teach says low pay and lack of prestige（聲望）, as well as a perception in our culture that teaching is for women. As a result, there is no organized effort across the country to attract men into the teaching profession.

A study in 2008 by the National Education Association showed that the number of male teachers hit a record 40-year low. Males comprised 24.5 percent of public schoolteachers. States with high percentages: Kansas (33.6 percent), Oregon (31.6 percent), Alaska (30.9 percent) and Indiana (30.5percent).States with the lowest percentage : Arkansas (16.2 percent), Virginia (17.4 percent), Mississippi (17.5 percent), Louisiana (18 percent), South Carolina (18.5 percent) and Georgia (19.7 percent).

     There is no definitive(確定) research that male students--or female students, for that matter-- learn better from a particular sex.

But as Maggiano put it, “Kids today, both boys and girls, must have the same opportunity to learn from outstanding, devoted men that I did. However, I have heard little discussion about this problem coming from our national leaders.

45.What worries Maggiano is that_______.        

A. nobody will take his place when he retires

B. male teachers are not so excellent

C. men are not interested in teaching

D. there is not enough teachers in the schools

46. According to the text , we can infer that______.      

A. the number of male teachers hit a record 40-year low in 2008

B. it is not sure students will learn better from male teachers

C. male teachers get a higher pay

D. organized efforts have been made to call on men into the teaching profession

47. In which state are male teachers most badly needed?

A. Alaska   B. Virginia    C. Georgia   D. Arkansas

48. What does the last paragraph suggest?

A. The government doesn’t pay much attention to the shortage.

of male teachers in the school.

B. Students find it easy to learn from male teachers.

C. I’m glad to hear the discussion about the shortage of male teachers in the school.

D. The shortage of male teachers in the school has no effect on students.

短文改錯(共10小題，每小題1分，滿分10 分)

此題要求改正所給短文中的錯誤。對標(biāo)有題號的每行作出判斷：如無錯誤，在該行右邊

橫線上畫一個勾(√)；如有錯誤(每行只有一個錯誤)，則按下列情況改正：

該行多一個詞；把多余的詞用斜線(＼)劃掉，在該行右邊橫線上寫出該詞，并也用斜線劃掉。

該行缺一個詞：在缺詞處加一個漏字符號( ∧)，在該行右邊橫線上寫出該加的詞。

該行錯一個詞：在錯的詞下畫一橫線，在該行右邊橫線上寫出改正后的詞。

注意；原行沒有錯的不要改。

Did you enjoy yourself yesterday? I suppose you do.                       76.          

But I had a very terrible day yesterday. Everything                 77.          

went wrong. In the morning, your alarm clock didn't ring, so I      78.          

woke up late. I was in such hurry that I burnt my hand when         79.          

I was preparing breakfast. Then I ran out the house to catch        80.          

the 8:30 bus. That was the bus I normal took. I missed it. I was    81.          

worried so my teacher hated the students coming late to             82.          

school. As a result, I ran three mile to school. When reaching      83.          

to the classroom, I found all the classmates were in the            84.          

classroom and I felt ashamed. How a bad day it was!                   85.          

Try the new cleaner. Just a few minutes every day－that’s all it takes－_________ you could have shining floors and furniture.

A. but              B. and                  C. or                D. so

We were on the point of discussing financial investment_____ the telephone rang unexpectedly.

A. while                              B. when                              C. as                                    D. once

All the neighbors admire this family ______ the parents are treating their child like a friend.

A. why             B. where                    C. which            D. that

Can you tell me when our school sports meeting will____?

A. take place        B. be taken place       C. break out     D. happen

__________, follow the direction on the bottle carefully.

A. Takes medicine                B. To take medicine

C. When one takes medicine        D. When taking medicine

He expressed his hope ____ he would visit Chinaagain thenext year, and this was

The very hope____he expressed as soon as he arrived in the country.

        A.that;that      B.which;which         C.that;which       D.which;that