. -What do you think of the book??　

-Oh, excellent. It is worth _____ second time.

A. to read a 　            B. to read the              C. reading a 　            D. being read the

.The headmaster hurried to the concert hall only _________ the speaker_____

A. to find; left 　               B. to find; gone                 C. finding; left 　               D. finding; gone

 Her life from the age of six to fourteen was hard. It was _____ time ___ many things happened to her.

A. a, which          B. /, in which        C. a, when         D. /, when

. Only when Tom fully recovered ______ back to work.

A. did he go                 B. he went                    C. had he gone                     D. he had gone

第二節(jié)：完形填空(共20小題；每小題1.5分，滿分30分)

閱讀下面短文，從短文后所給各題的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)(A、B、C和D)中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)。

It was on a winter past midnight of 1971 when I was driving our big V8 station wagon back to our hometown. Next to me, my husband was  36  asleep and snoring (打鼾) loudly.

It was true that he worked sixty or more hours per week, and then in the evenings he worked as my dance  37 . We had to travel away from home for the dance classes on four, or   _38  five nights per week, and then he 39  have to be up and about again by six of the following dawn to get to his  40  job.

We had agreed that I should drive home on those late nights so he could at least get some _41  sleep. But I worked hard, too, and I would also be up at six of the following morning to get our half-dozen kids  42  for school. As well, I would then have to  43  the dance lessons for that evening.

On that long cold night I was fighting to stay  44 , but sticking to "the master's rule" of not playing my  45 . He needed his sleep, he said. I  46  down the window, yet the bitter-cold wind did little to revive (振奮) me. I was already driving about ten miles  47  the speed limit,  48 , we were still forty-five minutes away from home.

I studied the road up ahead and  49  in the near view mirror. There was not a car 50 a black night ahead and behind me. There were no Officers of the Law to be seen, and so I 51 the speed by another ten miles per hour. I had no great need for a speeding ticket, but I wanted to get home as quickly as I could.

"Get into the other lane!" sounded a loud and  52  voice.

I swiftly changed lanes, and as I did, a car without headlights pulled from the side of the road. I screamed at the top of my lungs, "I  53  that car by mere inches! The fool! Where did he come from?" The car that would have caused our death was now just a blur of an image (模糊的圖像) in my rear view mirror. Instantly I knew where he had come from. He had rushed onto the road from that little roadside bar I  54  each week, and probably so drank and 'legless', he would never find out how  55  he came to killing himself and us.

36. A. slow            B. fast                C quick                  D. well

37. A. trainer           B. coacher           C partner              D. student

38. A. still             B. already               C. yet                 D. even

39. A. would           B. could                    C. should             D. might

40. A. normal          B. usual               C regular              D. common

41. A. extra            B. enough            C. another             D. other

42. A. timely          B. ready                C late                  D. early

43. A. teach            B. prepare for          C. prepare              D. have

44. A. alive             B. asleep              C. active                D. awake

45. A. radio            B. DVD                C. TV                 D. piano

46. A. pulled            B. took              C. wound                D. pushed

47. A below              B. above               C. over                D. beneath

48. A. furthermore      B. therefore             C. however            D. besides

49. A. noticed           B. watched            C. glanced             D. observed

50. A. in sight        B. in ease            C. in result              D. in fact

51. A. decreased          B. declined            C. increased            D. reduced

52. A. urgent           B. calm                C. angry              D. anxious

53. A. caught            B. missed              C. avoided               D. escaped

54. A. passed               B. served               C. provided            D. found

55. A. high            B. straight           C. hard               D. close

.第三部分：補(bǔ)全對話（共5小題；每小題1分，滿分5分）

根據(jù)對話內(nèi)容，從對話后的選項(xiàng)中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)。選項(xiàng)中有兩項(xiàng)為多余選項(xiàng)。

A：Hello, Simon. Have you seen Billy this afternoon ?

       B：No, Maria. Why ?

A：Oh, dear. I can’t find him anywhere. I don’t know what to do. He should have been back an hour ago.   61   

B：Don’t worry, Maria. He could have, but he probably didn’t. Did anything happen this morning?   62 

       A：His birthday party.

       B：Is it possible that you said something to upset him ?

       A：I must have. I told him we hadn’t received Mr. White’s reply to our invitation.

       B：  63  

       A：No, he left home right after that.    64  

B：Maria, I’m sure there is nothing to worry about. He is probably on his way to see Mr. Smith, or else he is with Mr. White.

       A：Oh, wait! There he is ! And Mr. Smith is with him.   65   He must have been to Mr. Smith’s.

       A．I suppose I should have called you earlier.        

B．Anything else?

       C．I wonder if he could have had an accident. 

D．I’m afraid he might have an accident.

       E．Where could he have been?                 

F．You are right, Simon.

       G．What were you talking about before he left?

It is well-known to us all that knowledge is __ treasure, but practice is ___ key to it.

   A. a, ∕    B. a, the     C .the, the    D. ∕ , the

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。

Now in his senior year in Bowdoin College, a small, elite liberal-arts（文科）college in Masine, Chen Yongfang has become such a devotee of the liberal-arts approach that he’s made it his mission to spread the word throughout China. He has coauthored a book called A True Liberal Arts Education, which essentially explains the little-known concept to Chinese students and their parents. Though there have been many books about how to get into Ivy League universities, “there was not a single book in China about the smaller liberal-arts colleges,” he says.

The book, which Chen wrote with friends Ye Lin and Wan Li, who also attend small U. S. colleges, touts（兜售）such benefits as intimate classes (the student-to-faculty ratio at Bowdoin is 9:1) and professors who focus on teaching rather than research. Chen, 23, explains that he was won over by Bowdoin’s commitment to nurturing skills for life, rather than simply for the workplace. “Liberal arts is abut fostering your identity,” he says. “They want to cultivate your mind.” He admits that liberal arts may be a hard sell in a country with an increasingly competitive job market. The book states bluntly that in the short term, a liberal-arts education won’t improve job prospects. “In China, employers are looking for someone who can come in and start working immediately when they graduate, not someone who still needs to be trained in practical skills,” Chen says.

The book, which received wide media coverage in China and now has a waiting list for its second print run, is certainly timely: it plays into a growing debate in China about what national universities should be teaching. The country needs a workforce with the skills and creativity to help move away from low-cost manufacturing and, in economic terms, move up the value chain. And some educators believe liberal-arts training is vital to help China deal with its increasingly complex new realities. Yet the well-known intellectual historian Xu Jilin believes that China’s rapid expansion of higher education has had a detrimental effect on curriculum as the country’s universities race to compete globally. “Education these days in like factory-farming chickens,” he says. “Universities all wan to get into international rakings—and most of these depend on research. They’re not interested in providing a unique education for our kids.”

1．According to Chen Yongfang, the benefits of attending liberal-arts colleges are the following EXCEPT        .

       A．closer relationship with tutors

       B．teachers more devoted to teaching

       C．practical skills for getting a job in China

       D．development in mind and life-long ability

2．It can be inferred from the passage that        .

       A．the teaching quality in big research universities not as good as small colleges

       B．it is more difficult for liberal-arts graduates to find a job because employers don’t believe that they can perform well

       C．literal-arts education is of little help to China’s economic development

       D．research universities received more Chinese applicants than smaller liberal-arts colleges

3．The word “detrimental” in Para.3 probably means “_________.”

       A．instant      B．rewarding C．damaging  D．obvious

4．According to Xu Jilin,___________.

       A．the expansion of higher education has improved the competitive strength of China’s universities

       B．Chinese universities are providing the same courses as foreign universities

       C．many universities are not paying enough attention to teaching

       D．research should gain more attention in order to improve China’s universities’ rankings

5．This passage is most probably adapted from_________.

       A．a(chǎn)n article introducing liberal arts

       B．a(chǎn)n article introducing the book A True Liberal Arts Education

       C．a(chǎn)n article criticizing China’s higher education

       D．a(chǎn)n advertisement for Bowdoin College

——Hi, Mike．Any idea where Mary is?

   ——She ____ in the classroom．I saw her there just now．

     A．shall be      B．should have been C．must be         D．might have been

 — Did you miss your football match yesterday?

— No, I didn’t. Hardly had I turned up at the sports field _______ the match began.

A. when         B. than       C. before       D. since