When I was a little girl, every Sunday my family of six would put on our best clothes and go to Sunday School and then church. The __21__ in elementary school would all meet together to sing songs, and then later divide into groups based __22__ their ages.

One Easter Sunday, all the kids __23__ with big __24__ about what the Easter Bunny(復活節(jié)兔子) had brought. __25__ all of the kids shared their stories with __26__, one young boy, whom I should call Bobby, sat __27__. One of the teachers, noticing this, said to him, “And what did the Easter Bunny __28__ you?” He replied, “My mum __29__ the door by accident so the Easter Bunny couldn’t get __30__ because he hadn’t got a key.”

This sounded like a __31__ idea to all of us kids, so we kept on going with the stories. My mom knew the true story, __32__. Bobby’s mom was a single parent, and she suspected(懷疑) that they just couldn’t __33__ the Easter Bunny.

After Sunday School was over, everyone went off to __34__. But my mom announced that we were going home __35__. At home, she explained that to make Bobby feel __36__, we were going to pretend to be the Easter Bunny, make a basket of our candies for him and __37__ it at church. We all donated some to the basket, and _38__ back to church. There, mom hung the basket over the hanger(掛鉤) and attached a(n) __39__:

Dear Bobby,

I’m sorry I __40__ your house last night. Happy Easter!

                                                    Love,

                                                    The Easter Bunny

The poor young man is ready to accept _____ help he can get.

  A. whichever      B. however      C. whatever     D. whenever

It is impossible to live in society and independent of society; and therefore it is difficult to      

society of      inequality as well as corruption.

A．remove; from   B．rid; of      C．substitute; with D．simplify; by

She ______ to Africa to study the animals there, even though her family asked her not to.

     A. insisted on going                                B. insisted going        

C. insisted in going                                 D. insisted to go

--- I’m worried about the coming test and I’m afraid I can’t pass it.

 --- __________! I’m sure you’ll make it.

A. Go ahead      B. Good luck     C. No problem       D. Cheer up

It was commanded that the coal mine survivors ____ to the nearest hospital for treatment．

       A．must send       B．be sent          C．would be sent   D．should send

_____ we have finished the course, we shall start doing more revision work.

   A. For     B. Ever since   C. Now that    D. By now

完型填空 （共20小題；每小題1分，滿分20分）

A Fool’s Day falls on 1^st of April. People _31_forget the significance （意義） of the day.

In March 1980, I was 32 at Durham University with seven other Chinese students. I had 33  to go to another university after graduation and had 34          application (申請)  forms to several 35  . Every morning I arrived at the porter’s office (傳達室) and waited my fate. But no 36  came.

On April 1^st, as I was eating my 37 , Huang came in , with a toothbrush(牙刷)  38  in his hand.  39 fearing that he might forget the important news , he passed me the 40 . “Morning , Wu,” he said , “I saw Mr. G this morning. He told me that a letter had arrived in his office for you from Manchester University, and asked you to go and get it 41 possible.” I jumped with 42 .

I even didn’t 43 my breakfast and rushed to Mr. G’s office but he wasn’t   44  . I then went to the secretary’s room and  45 everything to her. She opened Mr. G’s room. I looked at everything. There didn’t seem to be a letter for me. “If he had asked you to pick it up from here,” said the secretary , “ he would have put it in  46 or simply left it to me.”

Greatly 47 , I walked out of the room and 48 the secretary lock it. 49 the secretary’s eyes 50  . “Sorry,” she said. “It’s April Fool’s Day!”

A sometimes        B. never            C. always       D. seldom

A. staying     B. working      C. visiting     D. studying

A. continued       B. planned      C. went         D. remembered

A. returned        B. taken            C. brought      D. sent

A. people      B. colleges     C. cities           D. offices

A. application B. report       C. reply            D. chance

A. dinner          B. lunch            C. supper       D. breakfast

A. still           B. even         C. yet          D. already

A. Because of  B .As if            C. After            D. While

A. message        B. sign         C. letter           D. notice

A. if             B. as soon as       C. when         D. as fast as

A. the news       B. the letter       C. joy          D. luck

A. take           B. finish           C. eat          D. have

A. anywhere       B. in           C. at           D. away

A. asked      B. tells            C. explained        D. answered

A. the office     B. his desk     C. the room     D. an obvious（明顯的） place

A. disappoint     B. disappointed     C. disappointing        D. disappointment

A. watched        B. noticed          C. saw              D. got

A. Quickly        B. Strangely            C. Finally          D. Suddenly

A. closed         B. opened           C. brightened       D. darkened

Who’s in control of your life? Who is pulling your string? For the majority of us, it’s other people—society, colleagues, friends, family or our religious community. We learned this way of operating when we were very young, of course. We were brainwashed. We discovered that feeling important and feeling accepted was a nice experience and so we learned to do everything we could to make other people like us. As Oscar Wilde puts it, “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry(模仿), their passions a quotation.”

So when people tell us how wonderful we are, it makes us feel good. We long for this good feeling like a drug. Therefore, we are so eager for the approval of others that we live unhappy and limited lives, failing to do the things we really want to. Just as drug addicts and alcoholics live worsened lives to keep getting their fix (一劑毒品). We worsen our own existence to get our own constant fix of approval.

But, just as with any drug, there is a price to pay. The price of the approval drug is freedom—the freedom to be ourselves. The truth is that we cannot control what other people think. People have their own agenda, and they come with their own baggage and, in the end, they're more interested in themselves than in you. Furthermore, if we try to live by the opinions of others, we will build our life on sinking sand. Everyone has a different way of thinking, and people change their opinions all the time. The person who tries to please everyone will only end up getting exhausted and probably pleasing no one in the process.

So how can we take back control? I think there’s only one way—make a conscious decision to stop caring what other people think. We should guide ourselves by means of a set of values---not values imposed（強加）from the outside by others, but innate values which come from within. If we are driven by these values and not by the changing opinions and value systems of others, we will live a more authentic, effective, purposeful and happy life.

What Oscar Wilde says implies that _____________.

A. we have thoughts similar to those of others

B. most people have a variety of thoughts

C. most people’s thoughts are controlled by others

D. other people’s thoughts are more important

What does the author try to argue in the third paragraph ?

A. We may lose ourselves to please others.

B. Changing opinions may cost us our freedom.

C. We need to pay for what we want to get.

D. The price of taking drugs is freedom.

In order to live a happy, effective and purposeful life, we should _________.

A. care about others’ opinions and change opinions all the time

B. guide ourselves by means of values from the outside

C. persuade others to accept our opinions

D. stick to our own values

It can be concluded from the passage that __________.

A. we shouldn’t care what others think     B. it’s better to do what we like

C. we shouldn't change our own opinions   D. it’s important to accept others’ opinions

I was so excited at the news that I could hardly ________ my feelings in words.

A. carry             B. convey          C. talk              D. communicate.