I ______ tell you with certainty that he won’t be able to finish it before the deadline.

   A. will        B. must        C. can        D. may

完形填空 （共20小題，每小題1.5分，滿分30分）

I believe that small acts of kindness have the biggest influence on our lives. While on a vacation in Mexico with my family, I learned this valuable   36    . Our room was on the 8^th floor of our hotel, so we would    37  the elevator every day.     38   other people use it ,too.

   One afternoon I rode it alone. The bellboy greeted me and   39   the button for my floor.I smiled and took the elevator in     40   . The elevator stopped at the next floor, and an elderly maid   41   in with a large bundle of clean towels. I could tell she was   42   to carry the large load and was probably   43    from having worked all morning. I felt it was not my place to interfere（干涉）, so I     44   to do something to help. The bellboy, also sensing her    45  ,  took the heavy bundle from her arms.

The maid looked at the boy with    46   and then smiled gratefully to his   47   . They then began to speak in Spanish to each other.    48   I couldn’t understand what they were saying , I could tell by their    49   that the boy’s act of kindness had made her day. He could have ridden in silence like me. It wasn’t his    50   to help her ,but he did    51        

 After I came out of the elevator ,guilt overcame me as I     52   what I should have done in that situation. Why didn’t I take the towels? The boy wasn’t    53   of how his actions would affect all the people   54  his thoughtful deed.  He probably doesn’t even   55  helping the woman in the elevator. To me , his small act of kindness made my day as well.

Ed Viesturs grew up in Rockford, Illinois, where the tallest thing on the ground was the water tower. But on Thursday, Viesturs became the only American to climb to the top of the world’s 14 highest mountains.

His last hike was up Mount Annapurna, in Asia’s snowcapped Himalayas. At 26,545 feet, its top is the 10th highest in the world. It is the mountain that inspired him to start climbing.

“It seems to be the most difficult, the most dangerous,” said Viesturs. “There’s no simple way to climb it. There are threatening avalanches (雪崩) and ice falls that protect the mountain.”

In high school, Viesturs read French climber Maurice Herzog’s story of climbing the icy Annapurna. Herzog’s story was of frostbite (凍傷) and difficulty and near-death experiences. Viesturs was hooked right away.

Viesturs got his start on Washington’s Mount Rainier in 1977, guiding hikes in the summer. Fifteen years ago, he set out to walk up to the world’s highest tops. Finally, he’s done.

The pioneering climber talks about mountains as if they were living creatures that should be treated with respect. “You have to use all of your senses, all of your abilities to see if the mountain will let you climb it,” said Viesturs. “If we have the patience and the respect, and if we’re here at the right time, under the right conditions, they allow us to go up, and allow us to come down.”

What’s next for a man who can’t stop climbing? “I’m going to hold my wife and kids and enjoy the summer,” says Viesturs. But for a man who has climbed the world’s 14 tallest mountains, he will probably soon start another adventure.

The author used Viestures’ words in Paragraph 6 to support an opinion that       .

A. mountain climbing is a dangerous sport

B. mountains should be regarded as living creatures

C. mountain climbing needs more skills than physical energy

D. those who like mountain climbing won’t stop climbing

The underlined word “hooked” in Paragraph 4 can be replaced by ________.

A. frightened       B. discouraged      C. interested        D. upset

What’s the next probable plan of Viestures?

A. Stopping climbing and staying with his family.

B. Climbing to the top of the world’s 14 tallest mountains again.

C. Writing down the experiences about his adventure.

D. Climbing another one of the highest mountains.

EVENTS

    Long March exhibit

    The Shanghai History Museum is putting on an exhibition to mark the 60th anniversary of the Long March. On show are more than 220 photos and 40 items that explain with pictures how the communist Red Army drew back from its besieged(被圍困的) bases in Jiangxi Province and fought its way to northern Shanxi Province in the mid-1930s. Explanations are all in Chinese. The show will end on November 20.

    Time: 10:00 am-4:00 pm

    Address: 1286 Hongqiao Road

    Admission: 8 yuan for Chinese /15 yuan for foreigners

    Thai elephants

    Eight elephants from Thailand are entertaining visitors at Changfeng Park by riding bikes, playing basketball, balancing on a beam, dancing and blowing a mouthorgan. People are encouraged to have a tug-of-war(拔河比賽)with the animals or lie on the ground and have the elephants walk over them. The elephants give three shows a day at 9:30 am, 3:30 pm and 8:00 pm and there is an additional show at l:30

pm at weekends. The show will end on November 15.

    Address: 189 Daduhe Road

    Admission: 30-40 yuan

    Dancing dolphins

    Dolphins jumping from the water to touch a ball, swaying their bodies to music, kissing people and doing math by tapping their tails have made the dolphin arum in Peace Park an attraction for children. Seals and sea lions also perform.

    Hours: 10:30 am, 4:00 pm, and 7:30 pm

    Admission: 20 yuan for adults and 10 yuan for children.

If you go to visit the Long March exhibit with an

    Australian, how much will you pay altogether for the admission?

    A. 16 yuan.             B. 23 yuan.        C. 30 yuan.             D. 20 yuan.

At the exhibition, you will see ______.

    A. many articles written by famous writers 

    B. many things left by the Red Army

    C. books on the Long March             

    D. many photos and pictures about the Long March

Which of the following is NOT done by the Thai elephants? 

    A. Riding bicycles.                         B. Blowing a mouth-organ.

    C. Doing math.                          D. Having a tug-of-war with people.

The dolphin atrium in Peace Park is a hall where you can see ______.

    A. not only dolphins but also seals and sea lions perform

    B. only dolphins perform

    C. only seals and sea lions perform    

D. only seals perform

Dancing dolphin performance will began in _____.

A.11:00am           B.14:00             C. 18:00            D.19:30

The doctor said that you are o_________, so you’d better have a healthy diet and try your best to lose

your weight.            

We must l______ the expense to what we can afford.    

. Hearing that songs always r_____ me of my childhood.  

I will c_____ my teacher about the problem.         

I am _________ ( 盼望著 )seeing you again.    

She set up the charitable funds _________(紀(jì)念) her father.  

The naughty boy loves _________(惡作劇) others.  

You should ______(刪減) what you wrote in your paper to 3,000 words.  

She was deeply _______.(負(fù)債)       

My father knows clearly that smoking is bad for his health, but he just cannot______（戒除，遠(yuǎn)離）it.

— Miss Jones once _____ music at Bardon School for ten years and now is an actress.                                

   .— No wonder I often hear her sing in the garden.                            

A. had taught                    B. is teaching

C. taught                       D. has been teaching

The population of our country at present is ______ that 30 years ago.

A. as twice large as        B. twice as large as        C. twice as many as         D. as twice much as

  Everyone knows that you can study the English language for years and still not understand a native speaker of English.

  Well, here’s a secret for you: a lot of British people can’t understand each other either! Apart from the different regional accents across the country, language can also differ (不同) among age groups. The words and pronunciations used by young Britons can be very different to those used by adults. This is called “yoof” culture.

  The word “yoof” is a slang (俚語(yǔ)) spelling of “youth”. Some people consider “yoof” to be a negative (消極的) term, since its pronunciation is easier than “youth”. Other people see the term as positive, because it describes how young people are creating their own language, concepts (觀念) and identity.

  When parents find it difficult to understand their children, the children can say more things without the censorship (審查) of their parents. In this way, young people are starting to find freedom, independence and self-expression.

   They are creating a “yoof culture”. It is impossible to come up with a complete list of words used by yoof. By the time the list was completed, it would be out of date. New words come and go like fashions.

                                                By A.J. Dalton

The point of the article is _____.

  A. to list words used by yoof

  B. to introduce UK yoof culture

  C. to give advice on how to communicate with native English speakers

  D. to explain why it is hard for British people to understand each other

According to the article, children are creating a “yoof culture” _______.

  A. to stay cool among their peers

  B. to draw more attention from their parents

  C. to avoid interference of their parents in their lives

  D. to keep up with the fast pace of modern society

According to the article, which of the following is TRUE?

  A. The variety of regional accents in the UK is an obstacle to communication.

  B. Some people consider the term “yoof” positive because it is easier to pronounce than “youth”.

  C.A few vocabularies used by yoof are going to be collected in dictionaries.

  D. Yoof culture is getting popular all around the English speaking countries.

By saying “Sorted!”, yoof probably means ______.

  A. “I’m very tired.”           B. “I understand.”

  C. “You got it wrong!”      D. “I don’t care!”

It’s 2035. You have a job, a family and you’re about 40 years old. Welcome to your future life.      Getting ready for work, you pause in front of the mirror, “Turn red,” you say. Your shirt changes from sky blue to deep red. Tiny preprogrammed electronic（智能電子元件） is rearranged in your shirt to change its color. Looking into the mirror, you find it hard to believe that you are 40. You look much younger. With amazing advances in medicine, people in your generation may live to be 150 years old. You’re not even middle-aged.

   As you go into the kitchen and prepare to pour your breakfast cereal into a bowl, you hear: “To lose weight, you shouldn’t eat that,” from your shoes. They read the tiny electronic code（電 子源碼）on the cereal box to find out the nutrition details. You decide to listen to your shoes. “Kitchen, what can I have for breakfast?” A list of possible food appears on the counter as kitchen checks its food supplies.

  “Ready for your trip to space?” you ask your son and daughter. In 2005 only specially trained astronauts went into space—and very few of them. Today anyone can go to space for day trip or longer vacation. Your best friend even works in space. Handing your children three strawberries each, you add, “The doctor said you need these for space travel.” Thanks to medical advice, vaccination shots（防疫針） are a thing of the past. Ordinary foods contain specific vaccines. With the berries in their mouths, the kids head for the front door.

   It’s time for you to go to work. Your car checks your fingerprints and unlocks the doors. “My office. Autopilot,” you command. Your car drives itself down the road and moves smoothly into traffic on the highway. You sit back and unroll your e-newspaper. The latest news downloads and fills the viewer. Looking through the pages, you watch the news as video films rather than read it.

 What changes the color of your shirt?

A. The mirror.     B. The shirt itself.      C. The counter.        D. The medicine.

 How do the shoes know that you shouldn’t eat the breakfast cereal?

A. By pouring the breakfast into a bowl.   

B. By listening to the doctor’s advice.

C. By testing the food supplies in the kitchen.  

D. By checking the nutrition details of the food.

 The strawberries the children eat serve as ______.

A. breakfast     B. lunch                C. vaccines          D. nutrition

 How is the text organized?

A. In order of time                   B. In order of frequency.

C. In order of preference（偏愛(ài)）.      D. In order of importance

You are a student_________ I am a student.

    A. but              B. or                   C. and              D. so