--Are you satisfied with his reply?

  --Not at all. It couldn’t have been ______ .

   A. any worse    B. so bad        C. much better   D. the worst

 With their son ______, the old couple lived a hard life.

A. disappointing  B. disappointed  C. to be disappointed  D. being disappointed

Being an experienced teacher, he is good at ______ the mind of his students.

       A. seeing B. reading      C. realizing     D. recognizing

五．改錯

Bob told me that he would like to be lawyer when he was at school. He had worked very hard at his lessons and tried to enter into a famous university, but something unhappily happened to his family, that made it necessary for him work for a living. As a young man, he had been a bus-driver, a dust-man or a salesman. But he spent his spare times studying and finally become a college teacher. “Young people,” he often said, “full of wishes and hopes after they step into society.”

 The general manager thought of______ problems before he made the final decision.

A. a good many    B. a great deal of   C. lots     D. a plenty

第三節(jié) 書面表達(dá) （滿分15分）

  電視機(jī)幾乎已經(jīng)進(jìn)入每個家庭，它在人們的生活中起著重要的作用，但也有一些負(fù)面影響。請你根據(jù)下列提示用英語寫一篇100詞左右的短文說明電視的用途。

    電視給我們提供了一個栩栩如生的世界，通過電視我們可以觀看奧林匹克足球賽，可以到紐約或倫敦觀光，可以端著茶杯聽音樂會，足不出戶便知天下事。在日常生活中電視起著重要的教育作用，它可提供多種教育節(jié)目。

    不過，看電視太多會損害眼睛，影響工作和休息，減少孩子們的學(xué)習(xí)時間。

參考詞匯：    栩栩如生的   vivid;     減少  cut down      觀光  go sightseeing

             教育education    影響influence

Nowadays television has become a necessity in almost every family and it is playing an important role in our daily life.

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The meeting _____ late in the afternoon and we all went home.

   A. broke out          B. broke up            C. broke through  D. broke down

. We are invited to a party ________ in our club next Friday.

A. to be held      B. held         C. being held      D. holding

 We travelled together as far as Chicago, _____ we said goodbye to each other.

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

第二節(jié)：完形填空（共20小題；每小題1.5分，滿分30分）

     A woman in her sixties lived alone in her little cottage（村舍）with a pear tree at her door. She spent all her time taking care of the tree. But the children nearby drove her  16  by making fun of her. They would climb her tree and then run away with pears,  17   “Aunty Misery” at her.  One evening, a passer-by（過路者） asked to  18  for the night. Seeing that he had an 19  face, she let him in and gave him a nice  20  . The next morning the stranger, actually a sorcerer (巫師), thanked her by granting (允準(zhǔn)) her  21  that anyone who climbed up her tree  22  not be able to come back down until she  23  it.                                                                                                                                                                                               When the children came back to steal her  24 , she had them stuck（粘）on the tree. They had to beg her long  25  she gave the tree permission to let  26  go. Aunty Misery was free from the  27  at last.                                                                                        One day another man   28  her door. This one did not look trustworthy（值得相信的）to her,   29   she asked who he was . “I am Death, I’ve come to take you   30   me.” said he.                                                   Thinking fast, Aunty Misery said, “Fine, but I’d like to  31  some pears from my dear tree to remember the  32  it brought to me in this life. But I am too  33  to climb high to get the best fruit. Will you be so   34   as to do it for me?” With a deep sigh (嘆氣), Mr. Death climbed up the tree 35 and was immediately stuck to it. No matter how much he warned or begged, Aunty Misery would not allow the tree to let Death go.              

16．A．hopeless       B．painful             C．dull              D．crazy 

17．A．calling        B．shouting            C．a(chǎn)nnouncing D．whispering

18．A．stay            B．live               C．hide             D．lie

19．A．interesting       B．honest              C．a(chǎn)nxious           D．a(chǎn)ngry

20．A．gift              B．kiss                C．treat            D．smile

21．A．suggestion     B．demand             C．permission          D．wish

22．A．could         B．should              C．might           D．must

23．A．permitted     B．promised          C．a(chǎn)nswered          D．declared

24．A．branch          B．food              C．tree              D．fruit

25．A．a(chǎn)fter                B．while          C．since                D．before

26．A．it                 B．them             C．him                 D．her

27．A．trick                B．question          C．trouble              D．difficulty

28．A．stepped into          B．left for          C．stopped at            D．walked around

29．A．so                  B．but              C．a(chǎn)lthough           D．because

30．A．with               B．off              C．upon               D．for

31．A．choose             B．pick             C．shake             D．hit

32．A．honor              B．pleasure               C．hope              D．excitement

33．A．light               B．short          C．old                D．thin

34．A．proud              B．kind            C．fine               D．smart

35．A．disappointedly    B．cheerfully          C．unwillingly        D．eagerly