14、Years ago we didn’t know this, but recent science _____ that people who don’t

   sleep well soon get ill.

   A. showed         B. has shown        C. will show           D. is showing

13、Most animals have little connection with___ animals of ___ different kind unless they kill  

    them for food.

   A. the ; a          B. × ; the          C.   ×; a        D. the ; the

12、Could you please tell me where you bought the shoes you ________ yesterday?

   A. had on        B. put on         C. pulled on         D. tried on

11、If we work hard, we can overcome any difficulty, ____ difficulty it is.

  A. what          B. how           C. whatever          D. however  

10、

Paper produced every year is         the world's production of vehicles.

   A. the three times weight of            B. three times the weight of

 C. as three times heavy as               D. three times as heavier as

9、As the busiest woman in Norton, she made _________ her duty to look after all the other   

   people’s affairs in that town.

   A. it                   B. that                C. one                 D. this

8、Little joy can equal ________ of a surprising ending when you read stories.
    A.  any                  B. those               C. that              D.  some

二、選擇題

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6、    As kids, my friends and I spent a lot of time out in the woods. “The woods” was our part-time address, destination, purpose, and excuse. If I went to a friend’s house and found him not at home, his mother might say, “Oh, he’s out in the woods, ” with a tone(語氣) of airy acceptance. It’s similar to the tone people sometimes use nowadays to tell me that someone I’m looking for is on the golf course or at the gym, or even “away from his desk.” For us ten-year-olds, “being out in the woods” was just an excuse to do whatever we feel like for a while.

    We sometimes told ourselves that what we were doing in the woods was exploring(探索). Exploring was a more popular idea back then than it is today. History seemed to be mostly about explorers. Our explorations, though, seemed to have less system than the historic kind: something usually came up along the way. Say we stayed in the woods, throwing rocks, shooting frogs, picking blackberries, digging in what we were briefly persuaded was an Italian burial mound.

    Often we got “l(fā)ost” and had to climb a tree to find out where we were. If you read a story in which someone does that successfully, be skeptical: the topmost branches are usually too skinny to hold weight, and we could never climb high enough to see anything except other trees. There were four or five trees that we visited regularly----tall beeches, easy to climb and comfortable to sit in.

    It was in a tree, too, that our days of fooling around in the woods came to an end. By then some of us had reached seventh grade and had begun the rough ride of adolescence（青春期）. In March, the month when we usually took to the woods again after winter, two friends and I set out to go exploring. We climbed a tree, and all of a sudden it occurred to all three of us at the same time that we really were rather big to be up in a tree. Soon there would be the spring dances on Friday evenings in the high school cafeteria.

72. The author and his fiends were often out in the woods to _______.

   A. play gold and other sports           B. spend their free time

   C. avoid doing their schoolwork        D. keep away from their parents

73. What can we infer from Paragraph 2?

   A. The activities in the woods were well planned.

   B. Human history is not the result of exploration.

   C. Exploration should be a systematic activity.

   D. The author explored in the woods aimlessly.

74. The underlined word “skeptical” in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ______.

   A. calm          B. serious         C. doubtful       D. optimistic

75. How does the author feel about his childhood?

   A. Happy but short.                  B. Lonely but memorable.

   C. Boring and meaningless.            D. Long and unforgettable.

5、    A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in almost the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as formal texts. It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce what, in the actual situation of the time and the child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better.

    A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or making him sad thinking. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who had read fairy stories were more often sorry for cruelty than those who had not. As to fears, there are, I think, some cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises(出現(xiàn)) from the child having never heard the story. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.

    There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true, that giants, witches, two-headed dragons, magic carpets, etc. do not exist; and that, instead of being fond of the strange side in fairy tales, the child should be taught to learn the reality by studying history. I find such people, I must say so peculiar(奇怪的) that I do not know how to argue with them. If their case were sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girl-friend.

    No fairy story ever declared to be a description of the real world and no clever child has ever believed that it was.

67. The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when it is _______.

   A. made some changes by the parent                    B. treated as a joke

   C. repeated without any change                  D. set in the present

68. According to the passage, great fear can take place in a child when the story is _______.

   A. in a realistic setting                         B. repeated too often           

   C. heard for the first time                         D. told in a different way

69. The advantage claimed(提出) for repeating fairy stories to young children is that it _______.

   A. develops their power of memory

   B. makes them less fearful

   C. makes them believe there is nothing to be afraid of

   D. encourages them not to have strange beliefs

70. The author’s mention of sticks and telephones is meant to suggest that _______.

   A. fairy stories are still being made up

   B. there is some misunderstanding about fairy tales

   C. people try to modernize old fairy stories

   D. there is more concern for children's fears nowadays

71. One of the reasons why some people are not in favor of fairy tales is that _______.

   A. they are full of imagination

   B. they just make up the stories which are far from the truth

   C. they are not interesting

   D. they make teachers of history difficult to teach