It is only during the last few years that man has generally realized that in the world of nature a balance exists between all forms of life. No living thing can exist by itself: it is a part of a system (體系) in which all forms of life are joined together. If we change one part of the natural order, this will in its turn almost certainly bring about changes in some other part.
The cutting down of forests reduces the supply of oxygen. The killing of weeds and insects by chemicals leads to the wide spread poisoning of animals and birds. The throwing of waste products into the ocean harm to life in the sea, while waste gases change the chemical balance of the atmosphere.
And so we could go on, adding more examples, until in despair (絕望) we might feel like giving up the struggle to control and keep within limits these harmful human activities. Man is very clever at changing the world around him to satisfy his immediate needs, but not so clever at looking far ahead, or at thinking about what the future results of his action might be.
【小題1】The first paragraph mainly tells us that __________.

A．everything in nature can’t exist without the help of human beings

B．no living thing can exist naturally

C．a(chǎn)ll living things in nature depend on each other

D．man has well known the importance of the balance for a long time

【小題2】The examples given in the second paragraph are used to prove that __________.

A．it is very important to protect forests

B．there are some living things which can exist all by themselves without change

C．a(chǎn)ll forms of life belong to a system in which all the part can be changed for one another

D．we cannot change one form of life or matter without disturbing (擾亂) the balance of nature

【小題3】In the second paragraph the underlined word “atmosphere” means __________.

A．the production of chemical factories	B．the gas in the outer space
C．the mixture of gases that surrounds the earth	D．the health of the human body

【小題4】The third paragraph suggests that __________.

A．man shouldn’t think only about his immediate needs without enough thought on the future results

B．man is very clever in planning his distant future

C．man often feels that he has to give up in despair

D．man is always anxious to control and keep his actives within limits

My husband and children think they are very lucky that they are living and that it’s Christmas again. They can’t see that we live on a dirty street in a dirty house among people who aren’t much good. But Johnny and children can’t see this. What a pity it is that our neighbours have to make happiness out of all this dirt. I decided that my children must get out of this. The money that we’ve saved isn’t nearly enough.
The McGaritys have money but they are so proud. They look down upon the poor. The McGarity girl just yesterday stood out there in the street eating from a bag of candy(糖果)while a ring of hungry children watched her. I saw those children looking at her and crying in their hearts; and when she couldn’t eat any more she threw the rest down the sewer(下水道). Why, is it only because they have money ? There is more to happiness than money in the world, isn’t there?
Miss Jackson who teaches at the Settlement House isn’t rich, but she knows things. She understands people. Her eyes look straight into yours when she talks with you. She can read your mind. I’d like to see the children be like Miss Jackson when they grow up.
【小題1】This passage mainly suggests that the writer _______.

A．is easy to get along with	B．is unhappy with the life they are living
C．is good at observing and understanding	D．is never pleased with her neigbours

【小題2】What do you think of McGarity girl?

A．She is proud and hungry.	B．She is selfish and cruel.
C．She is lonely and friendless.	D．She is unhappy and misunderstood.

【小題3】In this text, the writer tries to tell us that _______.

A．money is the key to everything

B．the more money you have, the less happy you’ll be

C．there is something more important than money

D．when talking to people we should look into their eyes

【小題4】 Pick out the one that does NOT describe the writer’s view on money.

A．Why, is it only because they have money?	B．There is more to happiness than money.
C．Miss Jackson isn’t rich, but she knows things.	D．The money we saved isn’t nearly enough.

Tim Welford, aged 33, and Dom Mee, aged 30, both from England, were keen on (="like..." very much) rowing boats. They made a plan to row across the Pacific Ocean from Japan to San Francisco. The name of their rowboat was “Crackers”. It was about seven meters long.
They set out from Japan on May 17,2001. They had rowed nearly 5,500 miles when their boat was hit by a fishing ship on September 17,2001. Luckily they both escaped unharmed, but their boat was badly damaged and they had to abandon( =" stop)their" journey.
　　In a radio interview, Dom expressed his disappointment and explained how the accident took place.
　　“A fishing ship came towards us with nobody on the bridge and ran us down. It all happened so quickly. I managed to dive into the water. Tim felt it would be safer to stay on board. He was trapped inside as the boat was driven under the water. Finally some people appeared on the ship and saw me in the water. I shouted at them to stop the ship and to get Tim out. When the ship stopped, I eventually saw Tim, and I was very, very happy that we were still alive. We were very disappointed that we couldn’t reach San Francisco. But we are alive. That above everything is the most important. ”
41.【小題1】 How long had Tim and Dom been at sea when their boat was hit by a fishing boat?

A．For one month	B．For two months.
C．For three months.	D．For four months.

42. 【小題2】According to Dom, the main reason for the accident was that________.

A．Tim and Dom were too careless

B．the speed of the fishing ship was too fast

C．nobody on the fishing ship saw them

D．their rowboat was not strong enough

43. 【小題3】Dom said that the most important thing in this accident was that________.

A．their rowboat was not damaged

B．both of them existed after a dangerous time

C．they enjoyed this journey

D．they failed to reach San Francisco

44. 【小題4】Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE?

A．Some people on the fishing ship saved them.

B．Tim and Dom were going to San Francisco in the rowboat because they had no money to buy airplane tickets.

C．Dom dived into the water when the accident happened because he thought it would be dangerous to stay on board.

D．Dom told people about their dangerous experience when he was interviewed on the radio.

One day my teacher said, “ Life is a game of chess, and the other player is time．” From that moment, I knew I had to enjoy my life．Do not waste time, because, you know, time will not come back．You cannot buy it．It is one of those things in life that you must really, really value．
When you see an opportunity, take it．You might not get it back．Never let an opportunity pass．And if it is too hard, remember that in the middle of every difficulty lies an opportunity．
Remember, you cannot choose how you' re going to die, or when.You can only decide how you' re going to live．Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow．Don' t just think of the present, but also think of your future. Your future is yet another chapter in your life and another way to live it．
Every single living thing has a purpose in life．"The purpose of life is a life of purpose," said Robert Byre．
Learn to use time wisely, take opportunities, and enjoy life．We can discover the meaning of life in three different ways: （1） by doing a deed; （2） by experiencing a value; （3） by suffering．Life．
56．【小題1】The underlined part suggests that___________．

A．If life is a game of chess, time is also a game of chess

B．If life is a game of chess, both you and time are the players

C．If life is one player in a game of chess, time is the other player

D．If time is a game of chess, both life and you are the players

57．【小題2】According to the author, what can you decide?

A．How you die．	B．When you die．
C．How you live．	D．When you succeed．

58．【小題3】This article is most probably from__________．

A．a(chǎn)n explanation of time in the universe

B．a(chǎn)n essay about time and life

C．a(chǎn)n argument that time is the most important thing in life

D．a(chǎn) description of an important class

A young father was visiting an old neighbor．They were standing in the old man's garden，talking about children. The young man said，“How strict should parents be with their children？”
The old man pointed to a string（繩子）between a big strong tree and a thin young one． “Please untie（解開）that string，” he said．The young man untied it，and the young tree bent over to one side．“Now tie it again， please，” said the old man，“but first pull the string tight so that the young tree is straight again．”
The young man did so．Then the old man said，“There，it is the same with children．You must be strict with them，but sometimes you must untie the string to know how they are getting on．If they are not yet able to stand alone，you must tie the string tight again．But when you find that they are ready to stand alone，you can take the string away．”
【小題1】The story is about ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿．

A．how to take care of young trees

B．how strict parents should be with their children

C．how the young father should get on with his old neighbor

D．how to tie and untie the string

【小題2】The young man untied the string ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿．

A．in order to throw it away

B．so that both of the trees would grow straight

C．only to find that the thinner one bent over to one side

D．in order to let the old man teach him

【小題3】When can the string be taken away？＿＿＿＿＿＿＿．

A．When the old man has left

B．After you have untied it

C．When the young man has untied it next time

D．When the young tree grows strong enough

【小題4】At last the old man told the young man ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿．

A．that he should be strict with his children if they could not yet stand alone

B．that he should always be strict with his children

C．that he should be hard on them

D．that he should tie his children until they are ready to stand alone

Whenever the sun dropped and the blue sky came up, my father and I used to climb the mountain near my house. Walking together, my father and I used to have a lot of conversations through which I learned lessons from his experiences. He always told me, “You should have goals like climbing the mountain.” Without the mountain-climbing that we both enjoyed ，we couldn’t have enough time to spend together because my father was very busy. I really got a lot from mountain-climbing. It gave me time to talk with my father and to be in deep thought as well as develop my patience (耐力).
Once we climbed a very high mountain. It was so challenging for me because I was only ten years old. During the first few hours of climbing . I enjoyed the flowers and trees, and the birds’ singing, but as time passed, I got a pain in both of my legs. I wanted to quit climbing. In fact, I hated it at that mountain, but my father said to me, “You can always see a beautiful sky at the top of the mountain, but you can’t see it before you reach the top. Only there at the top, can you see all of the nice things, just like in life.”
At that time, I was too young to understand his words. But later after that, I got new hope and confidence. I found myself standing at the top of the sky, which was as clear as crystal (水晶).
【小題1】The passage tells us that mountain-climbing was _____for Father and Son.

A．hard

B．enjoyable

C．boring

D．comfortable

【小題2】The word “quit” in the passage means “______”.

A．carry on

B．put off

C．give up

D．pick up

【小題3】We can infer from the last paragraph that ______.

A．the writer was very successful in his life.

B．the writer reached the top of the mountain.

C．though the writer was young, he could understand his father.

D．the writer used to stop half-way when he climbed the mountain.

【小題4】The best title for the passage is “______”.

A．Reaching the Top of the Mountain

B．Standing at the Top of the Mountain

C．What a beautiful Mountain

D．How to Get to the Top of the Mountain

“A child in the street is a child that has been exposed（暴露）to a lot of bad things. And this child has no love at all. This child has no respect（尊重）for himself or herself. He sees everybody as an enemy, and he can’t trust anyone.”
Who is Moses Zulu talking about? Are there even people who live like that? Sadly, in truth, there are. They happen to be the Zambian children that Moses Zulu helps to improve their lives. Zulu does his best to give many children the hope to live even though they might have AIDS. Without his continuous work through his organization called Children’s Town, many Zambian children would have been forced to survive（生存）in an African city by getting a job as a street vendor（街頭小販）, or hurting other people.
In 1990, Moses Zulu founded Children’s Town in Zambia, where one million children have no parents, largely because of AIDS. Children’s Town teaches children the basic life skills needed for their future. Each child goes through a five-year training program where they’re taught responsibility（責任）, values, and self-care. Zulu’s Children’s Town provides hope for less fortunate children.
As we all know, a hero is any person who is respected for their qualities and achievements. There are not many people who are willing to help others in need. Zulu’s contribution to today’s modern society teaches us to lend a helping hand to others who are not as lucky as we are. He teaches us to make a difference in the world by helping others.
And from now on, if ever you throw away your banana just because it looks bad, well, remember that a group of people suffering from AIDS, homelessness, or other causes, would fight each other just to get their hands on a single bad banana.
68. 【小題1】 Which of the following CANNOT describe Moses Zulu according to the passage?

A．Devoted	B．Easy-going
C．Determined	D．Kind-hearted

69. 【小題2】In Children’s Town, children will learn ______.

A．how to fight against AIDS

B．how to get a job as a street vendor

C．how to survive by themselves

D．how to avoid fighting in the street

70. 【小題3】In the opinion of the author, he considers Moses Zulu ______.

A．a(chǎn) teacher

B．a(chǎn) doctor

C．a(chǎn) hero

D．a(chǎn) fighter

71. 【小題4】 In the last paragraph, the author advises us to ______.

A．plant more bananas	B．make use of bad food
C．invent medicine for AIDS	D．help poor people

Levi Strauss was born in Bavaria (巴伐利亞) in Europe in 1829. He emigrated（移居）to the United States of America when he was seventeen years old. His brothers sold cloth, and he worked for them even though he could not speak English very well. At this time many people were moving to California because gold was discovered there. Strauss went to look for gold, too.
Strauss took a lot of cloth with him to San Francisco. He thought that he could make tents out of the cloth and sell them to people working in the gold fields. But when he got there, he saw that people had a greater need for clothes than tents. Clothes did not last very long in the gold fields. At first Strauss made pants out of canvas（帆布）. They were very strong ---- much stronger than other pants. Soon everyone was wearing them , so he decided only to make pants. He opened a small store and made a lot of money from selling pants.
After a while, Strauss found a material even stronger than canvas. It came from a town in France called Nimes. The French called the material serge de Nimes, which means “cloth from Nimes”. The Americans called it denim. Strauss also bought some cloth from Genoa, a town in Italy. To Americans this name sounds like “jeans”, so they called his pants jeans. The cloth that Strauss used was always blue, so people also called his pants blue jeans and blue denims. Other people called them Levi’s. Levi Strauss jeans are some of the best-selling jeans in the world today. They last a long time and are very comfortable.
56. 【小題1】When Levi Strauss went to San Francisco for the first time, he wanted to ______.

A．find a strong material to make pants

B．work for his brothers

C．make money by selling tents

D．open a store to make pants

57. 【小題2】In the beginning Strauss made pants from ______.

A．serge de Nimes	B．silk
C．denim	D．canvas

58. 【小題3】The name “jeans” was first used by ______.

A．Bavarians	B．Americans
C．Italians	D．Frenchmen

59. 【小題4】The story is about ______.

A．where cloth came from

B．the man who first made jeans

C．how to make lots of money

D．life on the gold fields

I am a writer. I spend a great deal of my time thinking about the power of language — the way it can evoke（喚起） an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth. Language is the tool of my trade. And I use them all — all the Englishes I grew up with.
Born into a Chinese family that had recently arrived in California, I've been giving more thought to the kind of English my mother speaks. Like others, I have described it to people as "broken" English. But I feel embarrassed to say that. It has always bothered me that I can think of no way to describe it other than "broken", as if it were damaged and needed to be fixed, as if it lacked certain wholeness. I've heard other terms used, "limited English," for example. But they seem just as bad, as if everything is limited, including people's perceptions(認識) of the limited English speaker.
I know this for a fact, because when I was growing up, my mother's "limited" English limited my perception of her. I was ashamed of her English. I believed that her English reflected the quality of what she had to say. That is, because she expressed them imperfectly her thoughts were imperfect. And I had plenty of evidence to support me: the fact that people in department stores, at banks, and at restaurants did not take her seriously, did not give her good service, pretended not to understand her, or even acted as if they did not hear her.
I started writing fiction in 1985. And for reasons I won't get into today, I began to write stories using all the Englishes I grew up with: the English she used with me, which for a lack of a better term might be described as "broken", and what I imagine to be her translation of her Chinese, her internal (內(nèi)在的) language, and for that I sought to preserve the essence, but neither an English nor a Chinese structure: I wanted to catch what language ability tests can never show; her intention, her feelings, the rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts.
46. 【小題1】By saying "Language is the tool of my trade", the author means that ______.

A．she uses English in foreign trade	B．she is fascinated by languages
C．she works as a translator	D．she is a writer by profession

47. 【小題2】The author used to think of her mother's English as ______.

A．impolite

B．a(chǎn)musing

C．imperfect

D．practical

48. 【小題3】Which of the following is TRUE according to Paragraph 3?

A．Americans do not understand broken English.

B．The author's mother was not respected sometimes.

C．The author' mother had positive influence on her.

D．Broken English always reflects imperfect thoughts.

49. 【小題4】The author gradually realizes her mother's English is _____.

A．well structured	B．in the old style
C．easy to translate	D．rich in meaning

50. 【小題5】What is the passage mainly about?

A．The changes of the author's attitude to her mother's English.

B．The limitation of the author's perception of her mother.

C．The author's misunderstanding of "limited" English.

D．The author's experiences of using broken English.

“It was cool，because I got a chance to be in a studio and see how a record is made，”says 14-year-old Javon Martin，who joined the music clubhouse 3 years ago.“It has impacted my life in a big way. People are actually starting to see me as an artist.”Ten-year-old Akheylah Hunter didn’t play an instrument when she became a club member last year. Now，she plays piano and sings with the band. What she likes best，she says，is performing.“We performed in different places，”she says.“We go on trips and it is fun.”
Since the Music Clubhouse opened three years ago，it’s served almost 500 kids.Aggeler says performing in front of different audiences helps the young musicians build self-esteem.Coming to the club to prepare for those performances helps them learn how to deal with their personal problems and concerns.
“I can see what it does for them and it just develops confidence，”he explains.“It’s also an escape from the big problems we have in the neighborhood. So whether they feel embarrassed about a zit on their face，or they feel embarrassed because they’re not as tall as somebody，they can rap about it and let it out a little bit.”
To expand the club and help more kids learn music，Aggeler sought the support of the community. The Berklee College of Music and local music stores have provided free equipment. The club has also gotten support from the Music and Youth Initiative，a nonprofit that develops after school music education programs in underserved communities in Massachusetts. All these have made it possible to provide kids who may not have the means to get private music lessons the opportunity to still learn music and get all the benefits that music education brings.”
【小題1】Why does the writer mention the two children in the first paragraph？

A．To tell readers that all children like music.

B．To provide examples of how children like the club.

C．To convince readers that music can solve many problems.

D．To show readers how to discover children’s potentials.

【小題2】Which of the following was NOT mentioned as a benefit of joining the club？

A．Helping the youngsters to build self-confidence.

B．Helping its members escape from problems.

C．Learning to deal with personal problems.

D．Learning to get help from nonprofit groups.

【小題3】What is Mr.Aggeler’s possible post？

A．An organizer of the club.	B．A conductor of the band.
C．An expert in child problems.	D．A parent of one of the children.

【小題4】What does the writer intend the passage to be？

A．An advertisement for a club.

B．A promotion of some non-profit groups.

C．An introduction of a music club for children.

D．A try to call for attention on children’s needs.

【小題5】Which of the following might NOT be included in activities of the club？

A．Putting on performances.	B．Making records.
C．Traveling to different places.	D．Giving private music lessons.