. He ____ to help me with my math, but I refused his help, for I decided to do it on my own.  

A. prepared        B. ready        C. insisted            D. offered

We need to ____ our active vocabulary step by step.

A. grow           B. add          C. develop              D. raise

Work on Rome’s Palatine Hill has turned up a series of discoveries, including        might be the underground cave .

   A. what          B. which          C. that             D. while  

I did not accept any of the many offerings, because I found         satisfactory.

A. neither of them    B. none of them       C. either of them      D. all of them not 

第三部分  閱讀理解（共15小題；每小題2分，滿分30分）

閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項。

A

The iPad, a new e-tablet gadget will take online activities truly mobile. It will allow you to read the news in bed, play multiplayer game on any surface, check a recipe in a busy kitchen or view a large-scale Google map.

It will declare a new age of online media production, taking newspapers and magazines down the new stage. Online versions can now become truly interactive. The editor of Time magazine Richard Stengel said, “The iPad will transform the way journalism works. It will become a new way of storytelling”.

Perhaps most important to the masses, it is a traditional computer but so convenient to use. There are no cords(電線), and it’s totally mobile. You press a button and it comes on in seconds. To add a program, you just download it from the Internet. There is no file directory, so you won’t be confused with file locations.

Since almost everyone uses a computer in the office or at school, the need for the traditional desktop model at home is disappearing. Slate Magazine’s Farhad Manjoo calls the iPad the perfect alternative to the full home computer system.

However, opinions are summarized as a simple statement: If you are a tech-head you will hate it, if you are everyone else you will love it. It’s “l(fā)aughably absurd” on one blog and a “magical revolution” on another.

This first version of the iPad lacks many basic features. Tech-heads dislike the device not because of what it offers, but because of what it doesn’t offer. It doesn’t have flash or a camera. It can’t access many of the world’s mobile applications, and it has a very restricted APPLE store. Based on purely technological grounds, the iPad is said to lack more than it gives.

But if you are not part of the technologically well-versed, and you love the iPod and iPhone, “this device is for you,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO.

But no matter how you feel about the iPad, as a tech-head or an everyman, there’s no arguing with its appeal. Love it or hate it, the iPad sold over 600,000 units on its opening weekend, surpassing(超過) the iPhone’s record sales in 2007.

It’s uncertain how long it will take to hit the tech markets here in China, but when it does, expect the iPad fashion to continue. Apple predicts it will sell over 7.1 million units in the first year. Maybe not magical, and definitely not absurd, but if the iPad follows in the footsteps of the iPhone and iPod, you could be reading this newspaper on it in the near future.

56. Which of the following is NOT the reason why people think the iPad a “magical revolution”?

      A. The iPad will make online activities truly mobile.

      B. The iPad will predict a new age of online media production.

      C. The iPad is sure to take the place of the full home computer system.

      D. The iPad can make many world’s mobile applications accessible.

57. Which of the following statements is false according to the passage?

      A. Unlike those traditional computers, the iPad can save you much trouble.

      B. The iPad set up a new record sale when it first came onto the market.

      C. The iPad will probably hold a big share in the tech market in China.

      D. The iPad depends on cords to download a program from the Internet quickly.

58. What technological problem do experts think the iPad has?

      A. The iPad is lacking in what other computers can offer.

      B. People might misunderstand its magical features.

C. Reporters and journalists don’t have to efficiently with the help of the iPad.

      D. Compared with the iPhone and iPod, iPad might confuse the users more easily

59. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A. Why do People Love the iPad                B. The Popularity of the iPad

C. Loving and Hating the iPad                      D. A Magical Revolution

（2010·黑龍江哈九中高三上第二次月考）     24. ---Two cheese burgers, please?

---________?

---I beg your pardon?

---I asked if you would like to eat here or take out?

A. For here or to go                               B. How about two drinks

C. Do you have a reservation          D. May I ask you a favor

（2010·山東育才中學(xué)高三9月月考）      26.         I can’t understand is         he wants to change his mind.

A. That, what          B. That, why         

C. What, what     D. What, why

（2010·山東育才中學(xué)高三9月月考）27. There are two lakes,         covers nearly ten thousand space kilometers.

A. the larger                           B. the larger of which    

C. the larger one that             D. the larger of them

（2010·山東圣澤中英文學(xué)校高三上第一次階段測試）   24. The traffic problems we are looking forward to seeing _________ should have attracted the government’s attention.

A. solving           B. solve         C. solved           D. to solve

（2010·浙江瑞安中學(xué)高三10月月考）     32. We are at your service. Don’t       to turn to us if you have any further problems.

A. beg          B. hesitate      C. desire          D. seek