Everyone knows the smart black-and-white dog that sits on top of a red doghouse with his best friend ---- a bird called Woodstock.

Created by the American cartoonist Charles Schulz in 1950, the clever dog is loved by generations of kids and adults. He speaks more than 20 languages and appears daily in 26,000 newspapers around the world.

When Snoopy first appeared, he was no different from other pet dogs. But two years later, he had begun to speak in thought bubbles with simple words and sounds. By 1957 he could walk on two legs and was going to school with his master, Charlie Brown, who fails at just about everything. Later he learned to use the typewriter.

Snoopy has done lots of jobs. He has been a bow-tie wearing lawyer, a tennis player, an Olympic figure skater, a world famous grocery checkout clerk, a pilot and even the first astronaut on the moon.

However, Snoopy has always dreamed of being a famous writer. The beginning of his story is always, “It was a dark and stormy night…” Unfortunately for him no one has ever wanted to publish the story.

In love, Snoopy is as much of a failure as Charlie Brown is at baseball. He easily falls in love but always has his heart broken. He eats to forget, but it never works.

Snoopy is an insightful(有洞察力的), feel-good and sometimes sad dog. If you think a little about his words, you might find them full of life lessons. Among his most famous lines are “To live is to dance, to dance is to live.” And “Yesterday I was a dog. Today I’m a dog. Tomorrow I’ll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There’s so little hope for advancement.”

60. From the passage, we can learn that ________.

  A. Snoopy is always a sad dog

B. Snoopy can't speak in the beginning

  C. Snoopy often dreams of true love       

D. Snoopy is a real smart pet dog

61. Snoopy has done all the following jobs EXCEPT ________.

  A. a lawyer               B. a player                    C. a clerk                            D. a writer

62. It can be inferred that Snoopy ________.

  A. has many bird friends and relatives             B. is a well-known writer and clerk

  C. has been unfortunate since it was born        D. is very popular in the whole world

63. The underlined word “advancement” in the last paragraph probably means ________.

  A. success                 B. progress                   C. growth                     D. popularity

The Norwegian government is doing its best to keep the oil industry under control. A new law limits exploration to an area south of the southern end of the long coastline, production limits have been laid down, and oil companies have not been allowed to employ more than a limited number of foreign workers. But the oil industry has a way of getting over such problems, and few people believe that the government will be able to hold things back for long.

   Ever since the war, the government has been carrying out a program of development in the area north of the Arctic Circle. During the past few years this program has had a great deal of success. Tromso has been built up into a local capital with a university, a large hospital and a healthy industry. But the oil industry has already started to draw people south, and within a few years the whole northern policy could be in ruins.

   The effects of the oil industry would not be limited to the north, however. With nearly 100 percent employment, everyone can see a situation developing in which the service industries and the tourist industry will lose most of their workers to the oil industry. Some smaller industries might even disappear altogether when it becomes cheaper to buy goods from abroad.

72. The Norwegian Government would prefer the oil industry to _____.

  A. provide more jobs for foreign workers   B. slow down the rate of its development

  C. sell the oil it is producing abroad        D. develop more quickly than at present

73. The Norwegian Government has tried to ____.

  A. encourage the oil companies to discover new oil sources

  B. prevent oil companies employing people from Northern Norway

  C. help the oil companies solve many of their problems

  D. keep the oil industry to something near its present size

74. According to the text, the oil industry might lead in Northern Norway to ____.

  A. the development of industry              B. a growth in population

  C. the failure of the development program      D. the development of new towns

75. In the south, one effect of the development of the oil industry might be _____.

  A. a large reduction in unemployment 

  B. a growth in the tourist industry

  C. a reduction in the number of existing industries 

  D. the development of a number of service industry.

The shop has been standing so ______ that a thief finds nothing to steal.     

A. quietly                   B. lonely                     C. empty                    D. open

— Shall I give you a ride since you live so far away?

— Thank you. _______.

A. It couldn’t be better             B. Of course you can

C. If you like                     D. If you are convenient

-- Why bother? There is too much rubbish here. You’ll never pick it all up.

       --- Maybe not. But at least this part of the park          cleaner.

       A. was                B. will be          C. had been    D. is

.— My daughter has passed the exam.

   — Congratulations! She’s really intelligent.

   — __________________

   A. No, no, she is nothing. B. Oh, thank you!

   C. Sometimes she is intelligent. D. You are right.

 Some people find the film Avatar difficult______.

   A. to understand     B. to be understood  C. understood                 D. being understood

35. ________, women in the West are married in long white dresses while in China they wear red clothes.

A. Naturally                 B. Eventually                C. Traditionally            D. Strangely

IV. Reading comprehension 閱讀理解 2’ * 10 = 20’

We know that many animals do not stay in one place. Birds, fish and other animals move from one place to another at a certain time. They move for different reasons most of them move to find food more easily, but others move to get away from places that are too crowded. When cold weather comes, many birds move to warmer places to find food. Some fishes give birth in warm water and move to cold water to feed. The most famous migration（遷移）is probably the migration of the fish, which is called “salmon”. This fish is born in fresh water but it travels many miles to salt water. There it spends its life. When it is old, it returns to its birthplace in fresh water. Then it gives birth and dies there. In northern Europe, there is a kind of mice. They leave their mountain homes when they become too crowded. They move down to the low land. Sometimes they move all the way to the seaside, and many of them are killed when they fall into the sea.

   Recently, scientists have studied the migration of a kind of lobsters（龍蝦）. Every year, when the season of bad weather arrives, the lobsters get into a long line and start to walk across the floor of the ocean. Nobody knows why they do this, and nobody knows where they go. So, sometimes we know why humans and animals move from one place to another, but at other times we don’t. Maybe living things just like to travel.    

56. Most animals move from one place to another at a certain time to __________ .

A. give birth              B. enjoy warmer weather  

C. find food more easily     D. find beautiful places

57. The fish called “salmon” spends a long life in __________ .

A. salt water         B. rivers          C. fresh water       D. its birthplace

58. The mice in northern Europe move when __________ .

  A. they give birth                   B. the weather is bad

  C. the place gets too crowded         D. they haven’t enough food

59. The lobsters move __________ .

 A. to the fresh water              B. to the sea floor

 C. at a certain time               D. to find more food

60. What is the main idea of the passage?

 A. Animals move in order to find food more easily.

 B. The migration of the fish called “salmon” is the most famous migration.

 C. Living things move from one place to another because they like to travel.

D. Sometimes we know why and how living things move from one place to another, but sometimes we don’t.

情景對話（每題1分，滿分5分）

Mrs. Hunter: Jack,___61_____

Jack: Next year, we hope, mother, but we can’t be sure about it. Finding a house is a difficulty.

Mrs. Hunter : Have you made any inquiries(咨詢) yet, Jack?

Jack: Yes. __62___ . There are plenty of furnished flats, and furnished houses too, but the rents for these are very high. I couldn’t possibly afford them on my present salary.

Mrs. Hunter: What would it cost to buy a plot of land and build a house?___63___

Jack: No. I haven’t even thought of it . That’ll cost at least four thousand pounds. It’s no use our thinking about building a house.

Mrs. Hunter: And even if you had a house, there’d be the furniture and all sorts of other things.

Jack:___64_____ Anne and I have been saving up. We’ve saved a few hundred pounds between us

and could buy furniture--- enough to start with. But the house is the problem.

Mrs. Hunter : __65____ Jack?

Jack : Oh, quite a small one. A living room and a kitchen. We’d like a dining room of course. Two bedrooms and a bathroom.

A.Have you any idea?

B.have you and Anne decided when you are going to get married ?

C.Yes, I know.

D.It’s almost impossible to find a suitable house to rent , unfurnished.

E.No, I’m trying to make more money to pay for the rents.

F.What size of house would you want ?

G.Excuse me, may I ask a question ?