三、完形填空（共15小題；每小題1分，滿分15分）

If you travel in some areas in India, you will be ___31_____enough to be waited on by special guide monkeys. Dressed in waistcoat, the monkeys are always ready to be at your service. Hungry, you only have to point to your own stomach and they will lead you to the __ 32 . ____33___, you put both your hands behind your head and monkeys will take you to the hotel. If you want to drink, monkeys will send you to a bar. But do not feel ___34__ when they put out their hairy hands__35____ the service is done. They’re just asking for a little money as a tip. After that, they wave their hands as if they were saying ___36___ to you .

 Believe it or not, the monkeys are from the school for monkeys in India, ___37___ they were ____38____for one year to get their diplomas（學(xué)位）. They’re not __39___ monkey students in the world. Some are now being trained as ___40______ in an American medical college. These monkeys ___41___ to look after patients and help them with housework.

 A three- year- old monkey named Helen had learned to turn ___42___ the light, use a recorder and open doors and windows _43___ he is told to .In the tropical Malaysia where coconut trees are high up to the sky, monkeys would climb to the top and ___44____off the coconut for people. ___45__ the job is done, they would rush to their master, hoping to get some wild fruits as rewards.

31. A. calm               B. familiar       C. angry              D. lucky

32. A. shop               B. restaurant       C. hotel            D. store

33. A. Tired                    B. Thirsty        C. Angry           D. Sorry

34. A. afraid            B. surprised       C. lonely           D. concerned

35. A. before            B. while         C. after             D. till

36. A. sorry             B. hello          C. good-bye        D. thanks

37. A. when             B. which         C. where           D. since

38. A. taught            B. practised        C. trained         D. persuaded

39. A. the only           B. the same       C. different         D. living

40. A. nurses            B. workers        C. cleaners         D. waiters

41. A. are able           B. are unable      C. are about        D. have to

42. A. up and down       B. in and out      C. over            D. on and off

43. A. when             B. before         C. unless          D. till

44. A. take                 B. make         C. pick            D. catch

45. A. Although          B. Since         C. Once           D. Because

Who would you rather have_______to your birthday party?

A.  to go                 B. gone         C. going                D. go

Mr. Brozina is a single father and an elementary school librarian who reads aloud for a living. When his daughter, Kristen, hit fourth grade, he proposed The Streak: to see if they could read together for 100 straight bedtimes without missing once.

When The Streak reached 100, they celebrated with a pancake breakfast, and Kristen whispered, "I think we should try for 1,000 nights."

      Mr. Brozina was delighted, but what he was thinking was, a thousand nights?! "I thought, we'll never do it," he recalled. "And then we got to 1,000, and we said, 'How can we stop?' "

For 3,218 nights (and some mornings, if Mr. Brozina was coming home too late to read). The Streak went on. It progressed from picture books to middle-school classics to Harry Potter, Agatha Christie, Dickens and Shakespeare, continuing on, until Kristen's first day of college.

In those nine-plus years, they survived many close calls. When Kristen was still in elementary school, her father went to Washington. "The phone rang at 10:45 at the hotel and it was Kristen," Mr. Brozina recalled. "She said, 'Dad, we forgot The Streak!' Fortunately, I always traveled with several books and we read right then and there."

This spring, Kristen graduated from Rowan' University. She has performed as you'd expect for a product of The Streak, an English major with a 3.94 average. She also won two national writing contests, was an editor of the humor arid literary publications and won the annual English department award.

56. According to the passage, Mr. Brozina and his daughter read together for          .

A. 100 bedtimes                             B. 1000 nights                         

C. over nine years                            D. nearly 3000 nights and some mornings

57. In the passage, the underlined phrase in Paragraph 1 probably means _____.

A. the period of time for reading together    B. me children's book                   

C. the special night                      D. the school work

58. How has Kristen benefited from reading with her father?

A. She has grown closer to her father.         B. She has become a school librarian herself. 

C. She has performed well at university.            D. She has won many reading awards.

59. This passage is about a father who _____.

A. is very strict in his work                        B. enjoys reading when travelling        

 C. makes his daughter love reading            D. has a hard time bringing up his daughter

When Li Jinyu went back from Brazil after years of hard training, he seemed to see a new starting point in front of him. Li, a key player of Jian Li Bao Football Team, has a round and lovely face. When talking to people, he often says, “I’ve got a lot of dreams, and the biggest one is to help to develop our national football.”

Li began to play football 17 years ago. In 1985 a football coach was looking for little players in a school. Li tried to win the coach’s favor. His father, a football fan, asked the coach to give his son another chance to have a test. This time, the coach agreed to take Li as a player. Every day, his father would take him to the training school, and carry him back when the training was over, whether it was raining or shining. With the help of his coach, Li quickly grew into a good young player. He is said to have the sharpest mind on the playground among all Chinese football players.

The only child of the family as he is, Li loves his parents as much as they love him. During the spare time of the training course or after a game, he has often called home to ask after his parents.

Li also enjoys good relations with his fans. He has received many letters from across the country, but he said he felt sorry because he could not answer every letter. “However, I have taken good care of every letter from my fans. This is perhaps the best way to show my thanks,” he said.

Now at the age of 24, Li likes to go shopping after days of hard training on the playground. He is also interested in bowling and tennis. Dreaming of becoming a first-class player, he is now working very hard on the road to success.

60. When did Li begin to play football?

A. At the ege of 13.         B. At the age of 7.    C. Before starting school.           D. After leaving school.

61. We can learn from the passage that Li’s father          .

has been encouraging him to play football

taught him to play football in 1985

used to be a football player

was his first coach

62. It seemed that Li          after years of hard training in Brazil.

had got sharp mind on the playground

had made much greater progress

was considered as the best player

began to play football

63. Li has worked hard at football so as to         .

show his thanks to his parents

keep good relations with his fans

develop our national football

play abroad

四． 閱讀理解：

                         A

Professor Reason recently persuaded 35 people to keep a diary of all their absent-minded actions for two weeks. When he came to analyze(分析) their embarrassing errors , he was surprised to find that nearly all of them fell into a few groups .

   One of the women, for instance, on leaving her house for work one morning threw her pet dog her ear-rings and tried to fix a dog biscuit on her ear. “ The explanation for this is that the brain is like a computer, ” explains the professor, “ People programme themselves to do certain activities regularly. It was the woman’s custom every morning to throw her dog two biscuits and then put on her ear-rings. But somehow the action got reversed(顛倒) in the programme .” About one in twenty of the incidents the volunteers reported were these “ programme assembly failures.”

  Twenty per cent of all errors were “ test failures ”—primarily due to not verifying the progress of what the body was doing . A man about to get his car out of the garage passed through the back yard where his garden jacket and boots were kept , put them on —much to his surprise . A woman victim reported : “ I got into the bath with my socks on .”

   The commonest problem was information “ storage failures”. People forgot the names of people whose faces they knew, went into a room and forgot why they were there, mislaid something, or smoked a cigarette without realizing it.

   The research so far suggests that while the “ central processor” of the brain is liberated from second-to-second control of a well-practiced routine, it must repeatedly switch back its attention at important decision points to check that the action goes on as intended. Otherwise the activity may be “ captured ” by another frequently and recently used programme, resulting in embarrassing errors.

1. The purpose of Professor Reason’s research is     .

    A. to show the difference between men and women in their reasoning

    B. to classify and explain some errors in human actions

    C. to find the causes which lead to computer failures

    D. to compare computer functions with brain workings .

 2. Which of the following might be grouped under “ programme assembly failures ”?

    A. A woman went into a shop and forgot what to buy.

    B. A man returning home after work left his key in the lock.

    C. A lady fell as she was concentrating on each step her feet were taking.

    D. An old man, with his shoes on, was trying to put on his socks.

 3. The word “ verifying ” in paragraph 3 can be replaced by      .

     A. improving    B. changing   C. checking  D. stopping

 4. According to the passage, the information “ storage failures ” refer to     .

    A. the destruction of information collecting system

    B. the elimination of one’s total memory

    C. the temporary loss of part of one’s memory

    D. the separation of one’s action from consciousness

12.He got well –prepared for the job interview, for he couldn’t risk _____ the good opportunity.

A. to lose   B. losing   C. to be lost  D. being lost

  (   ) 27. Take _______ half, they’re exactly the same.

        A. either      B. any       C. both            D. Neither

  (   ) 7. _________ do you think fits him, the position of the sales manager or the general executive here?

       A. Whom  B. Who     C. What      D. Which

17. They don’t think advertisements are useful for our daily life,           .

     A. aren’t they      B. are they      C. don’t they      D. do they

PART FOUR WRITING

SECTION A

Directions: Read the following passage. Complete the diagram/Fill in the numbered blanks by using the information for the passage. Write NO MORE THAN 3 WORDS for each answer.

The Elysee Palace(愛麗舍宮) in France enjoys equal popularity in the world with the Buckingham Palace in the United Kingdom, the Kremlin in Russia as well as the White House in the U.S.A. It is the residence of the president of the French Republic and the symbol of the supreme authority in France.

    The Elysee Palace, with an area of 11,000 square meters, is at the eastern end of the Champs Elysee in the city of Paris and backed by a large and quiet garden of more than twenty thousand square meters. The main building of it, quite handsome and graceful, is a 2-story classical stone architecture of European style, flanked(兩側(cè)有) by two side buildings facing each other and with an extensive rectangular courtyard in the middle. There are altogether 369 halls and rooms of different sizes.

    The Elysee Palace, built in 1718, has a long history of nearly 300 years to date. This house was at first a private residence of a count named d’Evreau, so it was called Hotel d’Evreau. It had later gone through many changes and its owners had been changed for many times, but all people living in it were distinguished personages and high officials. The house was renamed Bonaparte Mansion when it was owned by Louis XV and Louis XVI successively(接連著，繼續(xù)地)when they acted as emperors. Napoleon I signed his act of abdication(放棄)here when he had suffered crushing defeat in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Napoleon III moved in the Mansion in 1848 when he was elected president, and the house became a Royal Palace when he proclaimed himself as emperor. The Third French Republic issued a law in 1873, designating(指定)officially the Elysee Palace as the residence of president of the French Republic. Over a hundred years since then, almost all the presidents of the French Republic worked and lived there. Starting from 1989, the Elysee Palace is open to the public every year in September on the French Castles Day.

Title: The Elysee Palace in France