—Michael was late for Mr. Smith’s oral class this morning.

— _________? As far as I know, he never came late to class.

A. How come               B. So what                   C. Why not                   D. What for

第三節(jié)： 請用方框內(nèi)所給短語的適當形式填空。(共10小題；每小題1分，滿分10分。15選10)

lose heart; turn to; in ruins; give in; at an end; dig out; ever since; in order to ; come up;make up one’s mind; in search of; belong to; admit..into; take the place of ,debate about

71.I have ________________ to keep away from the Internet bar with the help of my friends.

72.With his impolite words, my patience was ____________, so I left the room immediately.

73.My brother fell off his horse a week ago and has been in bed________.

74.I’ll __________ the main cause of the accident as soon as possible.

75.It’s reported that the twins are __________ one of the most famous universities in the world.

76.Some new buildings ________ the broken ones in earthquake areas, after a year of hard work.

77.The police were examining the woods ________ any useful information connected with the two missing boys.

78.The government officials showed no signs of ___________ to the murderer’s demands.

79.He insisted that the house ___________his daughter, and no one had right to take it away.

80.You are the only person that I can trust. Whenever I have a problem, I have no one but you to ___________for help.

Ⅱ 語言知識及應用 (共兩節(jié)。滿分35分)

第一節(jié) 完形填空 (共10小題；每小題2分，滿分20分)

閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，然后從21—30各題所給的A、B、C和D項中，選出最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。

Being probably the most complex female character in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Ophelia deserves special attention because she is treated as a substitute for Stowe’s intended audience. Ophelia    __21_ what Mrs. Stowe, the author, considered a widespread Northern problem: the white person who opposes slavery but feels __22_ prejudice and hatred in the presence of a black slave. Ophelia hates slavery, but she considers it almost _23__ for blacks, against whom she harbors a deep-seated prejudice. And she doesn’t want them to touch her. Stowe stresses that much of Ophelia’s prejudice _24__ from unfamiliarity and ignorance rather than from actual _25__ Because Ophelia has seldom spent time along with __26_, she finds them uncomfortably alien (不相容) to her.

But Ophelia seems to be one of the only characters in the novel whose character _27__ as the story progresses. Once St. Clare puts Topsy in her care, Ophelia is forced to be in _28__ with a slave. At first she begins to teach Topsy __29_ out of duty. But Stowe suggests that duty alone will not root out slavery and that those against slavery must act out of love. Eva’s death leads to  Ophelia’s change, and she comes to love Topsy as an actual human being and not just a slave. She   _30__ her racial prejudice and offers herself as a model to Stowe’s Northern readers.

21. A. reflects B. supposes     C. suspects      D. provides

22. A. various B. arbitrary     C. racial  D. awful

23. A. impossible   B. necessary    C. unfair D. important

24. A. suffers           B. differs C. releases      D. results

25. A. practice      B. performance      C. experience  D. application

26. A. slaves   B. readers       C. Stowe D. characters

27. A. increases      B. disappears  C. refreshes    D. develops

28. A. trouble B. danger       C. contact       D. comparison

29. A. hardly  B. merely       C. specially     D. properly

30. A. hides    B. overcomes  C. reserves      D. prohibits

If you ______ earlier, you ________ him.

   A. came; would meet                   B. had come; would have met

   C. had come; would meet                D. would come; met

第二節(jié) 語法填空（共10小題; 每小題1.5分，滿分15分）

       閱讀下面短文，按照句子結(jié)構(gòu)的語法性和上下文連貫的要求，在空格處填入一個適當?shù)脑~或使用括號中詞語的正確形式填空，并將答案填寫在答題卡標號為31～40的相應位置上。

One day, a poor boy who was trying to pay his way through school by selling goods door to door found that he only had one dime (一角硬幣)  31     (leave). He was hungry 32     he decided to beg for a meal at the next house.

However, he lost his nerve when a   33   （love） young woman opened the door. She thought he looked hungry so she brought him a large glass of milk. He drank 34 slowly, and then asked, “How much do I owe you?”

“You don’t owe me 35 ,” she replied. “Mother  36 (teach) me never to accept pay for a kindness.”

Years later the young woman became critically ill and was sent to a big city, 37 Dr. Howard Kelly was called in for the consultation. When he heard the name of the town she came from, he hurried 38 her room and recognized her at once. He determined to do his best to save her life.

 After a long struggle, the battle was won. When the bill was sent to her room, she was afraid to open it 39 it would take the rest of her life to pay it 40 . Finally she looked, and the note on the side of the bill caught her attention. She read these words...

 “Paid in full with a glass of milk.”

第二節(jié) 信息匹配（共5小題；每小題2分，滿分10分）

請閱讀下列應用文和相關信息，并按照要求匹配信息。請在答題卡上將對應題號的相應選項字母涂黑。

首先請閱讀下列商品信息：

A．WEBKINZ—Lion

Price: $6.99

Discover a virtual world with Webkinz pets. Webkinz animals come with a special Internet code so your child can interact with it online. The code lets you enter Webkinz World and bring your pet to life. Pet owners can name it, make it a home and even play games. Lion measures 10. Not recommended for children under 3.

B．Mattel Barbie As The Island Princess

Price:$ 19.99

In the upcoming DVD release, Barbie as The Island Princess, Barbie plays a special role as Princess Rosella. This beautiful doll comes to life as she sings two of her favorite songs from the movie and her dress transforms as “peacock feathers” fan out at the back of the dress when manually lifted. She also comes with Sagi, her loyal animal friend, and a pretty hairbrush to get her ready for the ball!

C．Hasbro Playskool Busy Ball Popper

Price: $18.88

Get ready for some popping’, dropping’ air-powered fun. Drop the five colourful balls onto the track. Watch them pop out of the top, roll down, then pop out all over again. Sometimes the ball spill over for even more interactive, put-and-take play. Silly sound effects and eight upbeat tunes accompany the animated action. This toy provides one “air-amazing” experience for your little one.

D．Learning Resources Inflatable Solar System Set

Price: $30.48

Explore your universe with this inflatable classroom set. Teach size and distance relationships of the planets, the moon and the sun. Learn rotation, revolution and orbit through class activities or demonstrations using this realistic looking set. Includes 36-inch sun, plus planets and moon in proportionate size from 8 inches to 22 inches. Also includes a foot pump, Teacher’s Activity Guide and hooks for easy hanging. Deflates easily for storage.

E. GROW-A-FROG

Price: $18.95

Watching a creature grow from birth to maturity is a special science lesson that most urban children seldom experience. The Grow A Frog kit comes with a see-through 3.5-by-4.5-inch plastic aquarium, a small bag of tadpole food and another of nutria-rocks, a piece of fake seaweed, and a detailed handbook with directions. Send in the mail-ready card and within a few weeks your child will receive a special tadpole grown in a Florida lab. It will bring fun for the whole family.

F. Leapfrog Leapster Learning Game System.

Price: $99.95

The Leapster Handheld Learning System teaches your child by playing with it! With one interactive system, children will educate themselves through action-packed learning games for reading, math, critical and creative thinking, story comprehension, vocabulary, and much more! Backlit screen for easy viewing. Headphone jack for quiet play.

下面是一些顧客的信息，請為他們選擇相應的商品。

56．Thomas and his wife are both very busy with their jobs. They are worried about their son’s study

who is in Grade 1 now. They want to send him a present that can help him with his study while playing.

57．G. McCarthy wants to buy a present for her friend’s 12-month-old daughter. She’s learning to walk now and something colorful and funny may encourage her to walk more.

58．Martin has a six-year-old daughter and she is looking for a gift for her. Her daughter loves all the Barbie movies.

59．Rebecca wants to choose a Christmas present for her frog-loving 7-year-old boy. It will be great to find something that is fun and educational for the whole family and also provide a new pet for him.

60．D. Gulkis has a ten-year-old son. He wants to buy him a birthday present that will make nice decorations and will excite a child interested in astronomy.

（5）閱讀理解

Can you believe your eyes? A recent experiment suggests that the answer to that question may depend on your age.

Martin Doherty, a psychologist at the University of Stirling in Scotland, led the team of scientists. In this experiment, Doherty and his team tested the perception(觀察力) of some people, using pictures of some orange circles. The researchers showed the same pictures to two groups of people. The first group included 151 children aged 4 to 10, and the second group included 24 adults aged 18 to 25.

The first group of pictures showed two circles alone on a white background. One of the circles was larger than the other, and these people were asked to identify the larger one. Four-year-olds identified the correct circle 79 percent of the time. Adults identified the correct circle 95 percent of the time.

Next, both groups were shown a picture where the orange circles, again of different sizes, were surrounded by gray circles. Here’s where the trick lies in. In some of the pictures, the smaller orange circle was surrounded by even smaller gray circles — making the orange circle appear larger than the other orange circle, which was the real larger one. And the larger orange circle was surrounded by even bigger gray circles — so it appeared to be smaller than the real smaller orange circle.

When young children aged 4 to 6 looked at these tricky pictures, they weren’t fooled — they were still able to find the bigger circle with roughly the same accuracy as before. Older children and adults, on the other hand, did not do as well. Older children often identified the smaller circle as the larger one, and adults got it wrong most of the time.

As children get older, Doherty said, their brains may develop the ability to identify visual context. In other words, they will begin to process the whole picture at once: the tricky gray circles, as well as the orange circle in the middle. As a result, they’re more likely to fall for this kind of visual trick.

1．Doherty and his team of scientists did an experiment to evaluate        .

A．children’s and adults’ eye-sight

B．people’s ability to see accurately

C．children’s and adults’ brains

D．the influence of people’s age

2．When asked to find the larger circle,        .

A．children at 6 got it wrong 79 % of the time with no gray ones around

B．only adults over 18 got it right 95% of the time with gray ones around

C．children at 4 got it right about 79 % of the time with gray ones around

D．a(chǎn)dults got it right most of the time with gray ones around

3．According to the passage, we can know that        .

A．a(chǎn) smaller orange circle appears bigger on a white background

B．a(chǎn)n orange circle appears bigger than a gray one of the same size

C．a(chǎn) circle surrounded by other circles looks bigger than its real size

D．a(chǎn) circle surrounded by bigger ones looks smaller than its real size

4．Visual context may work when children get older than        .

A．4                           B．6                            C．10                          D．18

5．Why are younger children not fooled?

A．Because they are smarter than older children and adults.

B．Because older people are influenced by their experience.

C．Because people’s eyes become weaker as they grow older.

D．Because their brain can hardly notice related things together.

. Our residential district is a newly-built one, so there isn’t much around here _____ entertainment.

   A. in the matter of               B in the event of

   C. on behalf of                   D. on account of

To regain their_______ after an exhausting game, the players lay in the grass.

A. energy                  B. force              C. power            D. health

. Miss. Richardson knows much about the novel. I suppose that she must have read it, _______?

   A. don’t I      B. mustn’t she      C. hasn’t she      D. didn’t she