. I’ve got three days’ holiday _______New Year’s Day.

A. included       B. includes       C. include         D. including

．— Have you ever visited the Opera House?

       —Yes．When I was in Sydney, I ______ it twice．

       A．have visited     B．visited     C．had visited       D．would visit

 What the remote areas need most _______ education to children and what the children need ________ good textbooks at the moment.

A. is; are           B. are; is           C. was; were       D. were; was

PART THREE  READING COMPREHENSION

Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage.

Jascha Richter once sang “don't need too much talking without saying anything” to reveal his lonely feeling in a crowd.

   Dad always told me never to ever reveal my true opinions towards other people if such opinions are negative. He said this is the “Chu Shi Zhe Xue”, the philosophy of dealing with social network.

   It seems that everybody here just follows this philosophy very, very well.

   Friends. I would say that if I were given true friendship I would definitely treasure it with my greatest care. If I really regard someone as my close friend, I would never leave her alone whenever she's in need, either financially or mentally. And I always believe, as long as I treat people with whole-hearted honesty, I would have some rewards—at least, just ONE true friend of the same gender（性別）.

    Sometimes I just miss my friends in China. Perhaps when we became friends, we were still young, too young to have been polluted by any dirt in the society. But here, it is simply different. It seems that all of us have learnt how to SURVIVE in a foreign land and such an experience actually makes us learn how to extract (榨取) the most benefits from the surroundings in order to survive.

   All are friends around me. I've looked through all the dark sides of their personalities and yet I have to pretend that I know nothing. THEY ARE GOOD. THEY ARE GOOD. AND WE ARE FRIENDS. And then I can make myself comfortable enough to talk to people I hate the most. And of course, they don't say any words truly from their hearts. Neither do I.

   But, sometimes I just feel unwilling to talk to these people. Sometimes, I just want to be alone, quietly, without being forced to listen to their gossip or other useless words.

  “Standing on a mountain high

Looking at the moon through a clear blue sky

I should go and see some friends

But they don't really comprehend”

    Jascha Richter expresses my feelings also.

1. What do we know about the writer’s father according to this passage?

A. He is really a good philosopher.                          

B. He possibly gets on well with others.

C. He told the writer to reveal her true opinions.       

D. The passage doesn’t tell us at all.

2. What does the writer mean by saying “All are friends around me” in Paragraph 7?

  A. People around her all like her.                 B. She has a lot of friends.

  C. There are no real friends.                D. No one is friendly to her.

3. What’s the most probable reason the writer mentions Jascha Richter’s song twice in the passage?

A.She likes Jascha Richter’s song.

B.Jascha Richter is one of her friends.

C The song were expresses her feelings.

D.She uses it to perfects her article.

4. Which of the following statements about the writer is TRUE?

  A. She is now living abroad but doesn’t enjoy the life there.

  B. She absolutely believes in her father’s philosophy.

  C. She shows a positive attitude towards her relationship with others.

  D. She thinks highly of her friends by repeating “They are good”.

5. The writer mostly expresses her ______ in this passage.

  A. happiness      B. homesickness       C. sadness           D. loneliness 

回答問題（共3小題；每小題2分，滿分6分）

閱讀下面短文，根據(jù)第57至第60小題的具體要求，盡可能簡(jiǎn)要回答問題，并將答案轉(zhuǎn)寫到答題卡上。

Before a new type of plane goes into service, every part of it is tested again and again. But there are two tests that are more important than all the others.

The first is called the “tank test”. A modern plane must fly very high in the sky. Air must be pumped into the plane so that the passengers can breathe. To test whether the plane is strong enough, it is put into a huge tank of water. If the plane can accept the pressure in the water tank, it proves that it is strong enough. If the plane is not strong enough, there will be an explosion（爆炸）in the water. Engineers can discover which part of the plane has broken. Then that part should be made stronger.

The most dangerous test happens when the new plane is going through flight tests in the air. In the test, the pilot must find out exactly what happens when the engines are all shut off at once. The plane begins to fall like a stone. It is the pilot’s job to find out how he can get control of the plane again.

These two tests are examples of how planes are made before they ever carry passengers.

58. How many kinds of tests of a new-type plane are introduced in the text? (回答詞數(shù)不超過2個(gè))

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59. Where is the “tank test” carried out? (回答詞數(shù)不超過7個(gè))

_______________________________________________________________________________

60. When does the most dangerous new plane test happen? (回答詞數(shù)不超過13個(gè))

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       Eddie’s father used to say he’d spent so many years by the ocean, breathing seawater. Now, away from that ocean, in the hospital bed, his body began to look like a beached fish. His condition went from fair to stable and from stable to serious. Friends went from saying, “He’ll be home in a day,” to “He’ll be home in a week ” In his father’s absence, Eddie helped out at the pier(碼頭), working evenings after his taxi job.

       When Eddie was a teenager, if he ever complained or seemed bored with the pier, his father would shout, “What ? This isn’t good enough for you?” And later, when he’d suggested Eddie take a job there after high school, Eddie almost laughed, and his father again said, “What? This isn’t good enough for you?” And before Eddie went to war, when he’d talked of marrying Marguerite and becoming an engineer, his father said, “What? This isn’t good enough for you?”

       And now, regardless of all that, here he was, at the pier, doing his father’s labor.

       Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. It is not until much later, as the heart weakens, that children understand their stories, and all their accomplishments sit on top of the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.

       Finally, one night, at his mother’s urging, Eddie visited the hospital. He entered the room slowly. His father, who for years had refused to speak to Eddie, now lacked the strength to even try.

       “Don’t sweat it, kid,” the other workers told him. “Your old man will pull through. He’s the toughest man we’ve ever seen.”

       When the news came that his father had died, Eddie felt the emptiest kind of anger, the kind that circles in its cage.

       In the weeks that followed, Eddie’s mother lived in a confused state. She spoke to her husband as if he were still there. She yelled at him to turn down the radio. She cooked enough food for two. One night, when Eddie offered to help with the dishes, she said. “Your father will put them away.” Eddie put a hand on her shoulder. “Ma,” he said, softly, “Dad’s gone.”

       “Gone where?”

1. In Paragraph 4, the writer indicates that       .

A．Children like moving away from them parents

B．Children often feel regretful because they leave their parents

C．Children wouldn’t have achieved so much without their parents’ support

D．Children can never understand how much their parents have devoted to them   

2. The underlined sentence probably means “       ”.

A．Don’t give it up             B．Don’t worry about it

C．Don’t let him down        D．Don’t touch it

3. Which of the following shows the right order of the story?

a．Eddie’s father died.

b．Eddie worked as a taxi driver.

c．Eddie married Marguerite.

d．Eddie was bored with his father’s job.

A．bacd  B．dcab  C．bcda  D．dcba

4. From the last part of the passage, we learn that       .

       A．Eddie’s mother liked to listen to the radio

       B．Eddie often helped his mother wash the dishes

       C．Eddie and his wife lived in his mother’s apartment

       D．Eddie’s mother missed her husband so much that she was at a loss

With the Tesla Roadster and other plug-in（插入式）electric vehicles hitting the road, demand is growing for accessible refueling points to recharge them. Carbon Day Automotive, a Chicago-based company, has now demonstrated a solar-powered recharging point, known as the Solar plug-In Station, which lest motorists easily charge their cars using electricity that has been produced without any environmental damage.

The Solar Plug-In Station has gone on show in Chicago as part of the city’s bid to host the 2016 Olympic Games. According to Carbon Day Automotive, the Solar Plug-In Station on show in Chicago is part of the vital infrastructure （基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施）required for electric vehicles in Chicago and was the focus of a recent visit by the International Olympic Committee.

These solar-powered electricity points will be used daily to fuel the city’s electric vehicles with power from the sun. by producing the electricity from pollution-free solar cell, the CO2 emissions are reduced to zero.

“Solar energy and electric vehicles are a partnership that is one more step to reducing our dependence on foreign oil,” says Richard Lowenthal, CEO of Coulomb Technologies. Coulomb Technologies recently developed the components （部件）required for individual recharging stations, marketed as ChargePoint Networked Charging Stations. Carbon Day Automotive is the Midwest distributor for the ChargePoint stations.

The Solar Plug-In Station consists of giant solar panels（電池板）that shade the tiny ChargePoint Networked Charging Station. The solar panel is conneceted to an underground battery pack, ready for everyday refueling.

“Without these stations it would be like driving around in traditional car without the availability of gas stations,” says Scott Emalfarb, CEO at Carbon Day. “The day of true plug-in electric vehicles will be here sooner than most people realize and the world needs to be ready to accommodate them.”

1.The Solar Plug-In Station is used as part of the bid to host the Olympics mainly because____.

A．it’s environmentally friendly 

B．it makes up for the lack of electricity

C．it’s a new idea and attracts people’s attention.

D．it brings convenience to electric vehicle users

2.We can learn from the passage that_______.

A．to recharge the electric vehicles takes a long time

B．the Solar Plug-In Station will come into use in 2010

C．the Solar Pug-In Station has gone on show internationally

D．Chicago is promoting the use of electric vehicles

3.According to the passage, how many of the following statements are TRUE?

a．Tesla Roadster is a kind of plug-in electric vehicle.

b．The Solar Plug-In Station uses solar power to charge all of the cars.

c．Chicago is a city which is rich in oil.

d．The Solar Plug-In Station consists of underground battery packs.

e．Scott Emalfarb is optimistic about the future of plug-in electric vehicles.

A．3.     B．2.      C．4.      D．5.

4.The passage implies that when the Solar Plug-In Station becomes popular,_______.

A．more visitors will come to Chicago

B．more space for electric vehicles will be needed

C．the citizens of Chicago will be able to go to work faster

D．the cost of electric vehicles will be lower than that of traditional cars

5.What would be the best title for the passage?

A．Chicago will soon be full of electric vehicles.

B．Chicago calls on people to buy electric vehicles.

C．Chicago fights for its bid to host the 2016 Olympics.

D．Chicago shoes its solar-powered recharging stations.

第三部分：閱讀理解（共20小題，每題2分，滿分40分）

閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。

French people pride themselves on their delicious foods, such as cheese, baguettes and croissants (two kinds of food). In fact, food is an important part of French culture. Families and friends spend hours over the dinner table each night. It is the opposite of the fast – food habit common in other parts of the West.

It’s the reason why the French are very angry that a McDonald’s is opening beneath Paris’s most famous museum: the Louvre (盧浮宮). The mew restaurant will be the 1,142 nd McDonald’s in France, and will open in the underground approach to the museum. But many French people can’t understand why this American chain is opening in the heart of French culture.

However, McDonald’s is paying no notice to the complaint. McDonald’s now has 31,000 chains worldwide. Tourists are hungry, and opening chains in tourist spots pays well.

There is another chain threatening France’s heritage. This time it is coffee rather than burgers. As more and more Starbucks open in Paris, traditional French cafes are forced to close.

The trouble with American companies opening chains throughout the world is the destructive effect they can have on a country’s culture. How can a small, independent coffee shop compete with the multi – billion dollar chain? You can go to a Starbucks in any city in the world, but you can only go to a Parisian café in France.

Responsibility is with the tourists. A McDonald’s wouldn’t open so near the Louvre if it weren’t not going to make money. Similarly, a Pizza Hut wouldn’t overlook (俯瞰) Egypt’s Great Pyramid if no one wants to sit in it. Maybe next time you visit the Great Wall, you should think twice before ordering a Cappuccino in the Starbucks.

1．Why are the French very angry when a McDonald’s is opening beneath the Louvre?

       A．Because they will spend many hours in McDonald’s.

       B．Because French food culture is very impressive.

       C．Because they also have the fast – food habit.

       D．Because they are proud of their own food.

2．The McDonald’s will be located in the underground approach to the museum because_________.

       A．the complaints of the French are useless

       B．opening a chain in tourist spot is rewarding

       C．McDonald’s tends to be in the heart of culture

       D．it will help to attract more tourists for the museum

3．What is the trouble with American companies opening chains all over the world?

       A．The traditional stores of a country are forced to fight back.

       B．The traditional stores of a country become dependant.

       C．They have negative effect on a country’s culture.

       D．The multi – billion dollar chain can’t be matched.

4．The author suggests that the tourists can_________.

       A．decide whether the multiple stores of America are successful or not

       B．order a Cappuccino in the Starbucks when they visit the Great Wall

       C．sit in a Pizza Hut when they visit Egypt’s Great Pyramid

       D．enter the McDonald’s when they visit the Louvre

Without good instructions of the teacher, you will be likely to________ a lot of bad habits   while you are practicing the piano.

     A. pull up          B. take up            C. pick up             D. bring up

Over 800 pages of the earliest surviving Christian Bible have been recovered and made _______ on the Internet.

A. flexible                B. brilliant                C. conventional         D. available