---What do you think of last Friday’s charity pop concert, Tim?

---It was a great success as a whole. Actually we ____ with half of the money collected.

A. will be satisfied                                                  B. were satisfied           

C. would be satisfied                                               D. would have been satisfied

      Did ____ on time make her teacher angry？

      A. not to come              B. her not to come               C. her not coming         D. not her coming

 -----Is it ______ that the volcano nearby will erupt these days?

   -----No, I don’t think so.

   A. probably                    B. likely                C. possibly            D. perhaps

第二部分 閱讀理解(共20小題。每小題2分，滿分40分)

 “ Fire! Fire!” What terrible words to hear when one wakes up in a strange house in the middle of the night! It was a large, old, wooden house and my room was on the top floor. I jumped out of bed, opened the door and stepped outside the house. There was full of thick smoke.

   I began to run, but as I was still only half-awake, instead of going towards the stairs I went in the opposite direction. The smoke grew thicker and I could see fire all around. The floor became hot under my bare feet. I found an open    door and ran into a room to get to the window. But before I could reach it, one of my feet caught in something soft and I fell down. The thing I had fallen over felt like a bundle of clothes, and I picked it up to protect my face from the smoke and heat. Just then the floor gave way under me and I crashed to the floor below with pieces of burning wood all around me.

   I saw a doorway in fire, then I put the bundle over my face and ran. My feet burned me terrible, but I got through. As I reached the cold air outside, my bundle of clothes gave a thin cry, I nearly dropped it in my surprise. Then I was in a crowd gathered in the street. A woman in a night-dress and a borrowed man’s coat screamed as she saw me and came running madly.

   She was the Mayor’s wife, and I had saved her baby.

1. The author saved the baby _____.

A. because he was very brave.

B. because he liked the baby very much.

C. but he just happened to save it.

D. because it was the Mayor’s baby.

2. He ran in the wrong direction because he _______.

A. was a stranger there                       B. could see nothing

C. was not completely awake                  D. Both A and C

3. He put the bundle over his face and ran in order to ______.

A. save the baby   B. call for help   C. protect his face    D. run quickly

4. From which group of words can we learn the fire took place out of people’s surprise?

A. old and wooden house, a bundle      B. crashed to, fell down

C. terrible, half-awake                        D. bare feet, a borrowed man’s coat

I won’t have you________cheating in the exam.

       A. get along with   B. get away with    C. get out of          D. get rid of

If Bob’s wife won’t agree to sign the documents,_________.

   A.neither he will    B.neither won’t he        C.neither will he           D.he won’t neither

You think you’re poor, but look at people in really poor countries—it’s all ____．

A．relative             B．simple      C．similar          D．related

Several times my daughter had telephoned to say, “Mother, you must come to see the daffodils(黃水仙)before they are over”. I wanted to go, but it was a two-hour drive from Laguna to Lake Arrowhead. “I will come next Tuesday,” I promised, a little reluctantly, on her third call.

Next Tuesday dawned cold and rainy. Still, I had promised, and so I drove there. When I finally walked into Carolyn’s house and hugged and greeted my grandchildren, I said, “ Forget the daffodils, Carolyn! The road is invisible in the clouds and fog, and there is nothing in the world except you and these children that I want to see!”

My daughter smiled calmly and said, “We drive in this all the time, Mother. You will never forgive yourself if you miss this experience.”

After about twenty minutes, we turned onto a small gravel road and I saw a small church. On the far side of the church, I saw a hand-lettered sign that read, “Daffodil Garden.”

We got out of the car and each took a child’s hand, and I followed Carolyn down the path. Then, we turned a corner of the path, and I looked up and gasped. Before me lay the most glorious sight. There were five acres of flowers. “But who has done this?” I asked Carolyn. “It’s just one woman,” Carolyn answered. “That’s her home.” Carolyn pointed to a well-kept A- frame house that looked small and modest in the midst of all that glory. We walked up to the house. On the patio(露臺), we saw a poster. “Answers to the Questions I Know You Are Asking” was the headline.

The first answer was a simple one. “50,000 bulbs(球莖),” it read. The second answer was, “One at a time, by one woman.” The third answer was, “Began in 1958.”

I thought of this woman whom I had never met, who, more than forty years before, had begun—one bulb at a time—to bring the beauty and joy to the mountain top.

1. The author didn’t go to see the daffodils at first because__________.

   A. she was not interested in them     B. they were growing on a mountain top

   C. the weather was not good enough  D. it was a long drive to her daughter’s house

2. Which of the following best describes the author’s feeling seeing the daffodils?

   A. Amazed.      B. Disappointed.   C. Confused.      D. Moved.

3. What do we know about the woman living in the A-frame house?

   A. She must be out of mind.        

   B. She acted as a gardener here.

   C. It took her great determination to grow the daffodils.

   D. She was poor and made her living by selling daffodils.

4. What would be the best title of the passage?

   A. A Wonderful Daffodil Garden       B. A Remarkable Woman

   C. One Bulb at a Time                  D. I Love Daffodils

   Astronauts’ meals have come a long way from the free-dried powders and semi-liquid pastes of decades ago，now US scientists want to grow vegetables in mini-greenhouses on the moon．

   Scientists say they are looking forward to a time when residents of future lunar or even Martian outsteps will be able to dine on fresh vegetables．Paragon Space Development Corporation has unveiled what it called the first step toward growing flowers——and eventually food—on the moon.

   This is a sealed greenhouse that looks like a bell jar encased in a 46-cm triangular aluminium frame(三角鋁框架)．It is designed to safely land a laboratory plant on the lunar surface，and protect it while it grows．

   The miniature greenhouse is to be launched into space by Odyssey Moon Ltd, a participant in the Google Lunar X Prize. This competition offers $20 million to any entrant(參加者) who can launch，land and operate a rover（漫游）on the lunar surface.

   Paragon officials say future testing of the“Lunar Oasis”will be driven by Odyssey’s flight schedule，which will not happen until 2012 at the earliest．

   When it does lift off the greehouse will contain the seeds of Brassica, a hardy plant related to Brussels sprouts and cabbage．Because Brassica goes from seed to flower in just 14 days，it can complete its life cycle in a single lunar night

   “Colonizing the Moon or Mars seems so far away，but it is important that we do this research now，” Paragon president Jane Poynter said．

    “It takes a long time to get a lot of research，and to get integrated，reliable efficient systems before colonists move in．”she said．

1. The article is written mainly to _________.

    A. predict the astronauts’meals in the future

    B. introduce an experiment“Lunar Oasis’’

    C. tell us the future development of astronomy

    D. focus on the human’s great progress

2. The article implies that __________.

    A. astronauts ean grow flowers in space at present

    B. Paragon and NASA will carry out the test separately

    C. Lunar Oasis is a series of experiments carried out in space

    D. the earliest testing of the Lunar Oasis may be in 2012

3. The underlined word “colonists”in the last paragraph probably has the meaning of _______.

    A. plants    B. wild beasts    C. human beings   D. scientists

4. The seeds of Brassica will be contained in the greenhouse mainly because _______.

    A. their life cycle is much shorter

    B. they are more nutritious than other food

    C. they are related to Brussels sporouts and cabbage

    D. they are very delicious

----Jimmy, shall I give you a ride as you live so far away?

   ----Thank you very much. __________.

   A. It couldn’t be better  B. Of course you can   C. If you like   D. It’s up to you