完形填空(共20小題；每小題1.5分，滿分30分)
閱讀下面短文，從短文后所給各題的四個選項(A、B、C和D)中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。   
Jame’s New Bicycle
James shook his money box again. Nothing! He carefully   21  the coins that lay on the bed . $24. 52 was all that he had. The bicycle he wanted was at least $90!   22  on earth was he going to get the   23  of the money?
He knew that his friends all had bicycles. It was   24   to hang around with people when you were the only one without wheels. He thought about what he could do. There was no   25  asking his parents, for he knew they had no money to   26 .
There was only one way to get money, and that was to   27  it. He would have to find a job.   28  who would hire him and what could he do? He decided to ask Mr. Clay for advice ,who usually had   29  on most things.
“Well, you can start right here, ”said Mr. Clay. “My windows need cleaning and my car needs washing. ”
That was the   30 of  James’ s odd-job（零工） business. For three months he worked every day after finishing his homework. He was amazed by the   31   of jobs that people found for him to do.  He took dogs and babies for walks, cleared out cupboards, and mended books. He lost count of the   32   of cars he washed and windows he cleaned, but the  33   increased and he knew that he would soon have   34  for the bicycle he longed for.
The day   35  came when James counted his money and found $94.32. He   36   no time and went down to the shop to pick up the bicycle he wanted. He rode   37   home, looking forward to showing his new bicycle to his friends. It had been hard   38   for the money, but James knew that he valued his bicycle far more   39  he had bought it with his own money. He had   40   what he thought was impossible, and that was worth even than the bicycle.

小題1:	A．cleaned B．covered C．counted D．checked

小題2:	A．How B．Why C．Who D．What

小題3:	A．amount B．part C．sum D．rest

小題4:	A．brave B．hard C．smart D．unfair

小題5:	A．point B．reason C．result D．right

小題6:	A．split B．spend C．spare D．save

小題7:	A．borrow B．earn C．raise D．collect

小題8:	A．Or B．So C．For D．But

小題9:	A．decisions B．experience C．opinions D．knowledge

小題10:

A．beginning B．introduction C．requirement D．opening

小題11:

A．similarity B．quality C．suitability D．variety

小題12:

A．brand B．number C．size D．type

小題13:

A．effort B．pressure C．money D．trouble

小題14:

A．all B．enough C．much D．some

小題15:

A．finally B．instantly C．normally D．regularly

小題16:

A．gave B．left C．took D．wasted

小題17:

A．patiently B．proudly C．silently D．tiredly

小題18:

A．applying B．asking C．looking D．working

小題19:

A．since B．if C．than D．though

小題20:

A．deserved B．benefited C．achieved D．learned

完形填空（共20小題；每小題1.5分，滿分30分）
閱讀下面短文，從短文后各題所給的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出可以填入空白處的最最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。
A young man was ready to graduate from college. For months he had  16 a sports car in a  17   showroom, and knowing his father  18 afford it, he told him that was  19 he wanted.  20 Graduation Day approached, he waited for the news    21 that his father had bought the car. On the morning of his graduation, his father called him into his   22  study. He handed him a beautiful box.   23  , but somewhat disappointed, the young man opened it  24  found a lovely Bible, with the young man’s name on it.  25 , he shouted to his father and said, “ With all your  26 you give me a Bible?” He then stormed out of the house, leaving the  27  ,
Many years passed. The young man was successful in both business and his family, but  28  his father was old, he intended to go back see him. He  29  him since that graduation day.  30 he could make the arrangements, he received a telegram telling his father had passed away, and he needed to take  31 possessions from his father. When he arrived at his father’s house, sudden sadness and  32 filled his heart. He saw the still new Bible, just as he had left it years ago. With tears, he opened the Bible and a car key dropped from the back of the Bible. It had a tag（標簽）with the dealer’s name,  33  dealer who had the sports car he had desired. On the tag was the date of his graduation, and the  34 “PAID IN FULL.”
How many time do we miss blessing because they are not packaged as we  35 ?  Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.     

小題1:	A．owned B．driven C．admired D．seen

小題2:	A．model’s B．manager’s C．businessman’s D．dealer’s

小題3:	A．must B．could C．should D．would

小題4:	A．which B．all what C．all D．why

小題5:	A．As B．with C．For D．Along

小題6:	A．quietly B．patiently C．politely D．anxiously

小題7:	A．previous B．personal C．private D．professional

小題8:	A．Curious B．Serious C．Amused D．Concerned

小題9: A  however    B. and              C. or              D. then

小題10:

A．Luckily B．Happily C．Carefully D．Angrily

小題11:

A．money B．cost C．income D．charge

小題12:

A．car B．college C．Bible D．box

小題13:

A．to realize B．realized C．realizing D．having realized

小題14:

A．hadn’t seen B．didn’t see C．hasn’t seen D．wasn’t seen

小題15:

A．When B．Before C．Until D．After

小題16:

A．up B．in C．on D．over

小題17:

A．regret B．happiness C．excitement D．promise

小題18:

A．a same B．the same C．same D．the same as

小題19:

A．sentences B．words C．talks D．phrases

小題20:

A．expected B．respected C．regretted D．repeated

Once an Englishman named Jack Brown went to Russia for a holiday. He stayed there for several months and then came home again. Some of his friends visited him a few days after he got back. “I had a very dangerous trip while I was in Russia.” Jack said to them. “I wanted to see a friend of mine in the country and the bad weather made me very late. So I was still travelling through a forest in sleigh<雪橇>when the sun went down. It was a long way from my friend’s house when about 20 wolves began to follow my sleigh. It was very dark in the forest. There was thick snow on the ground. It was cold, and there were no houses for miles and miles. First I heard the wolves, and the noise was terrible! The horses heard them, too. They were frightened and began running faster. Then I saw long, grey forms among the trees, and soon the wolves were near us. They were running very fast, and they didn’t seem to get tired like the horses.” “What did you do?” one of his friends asked. “When the wolves got very near,” Jack answered, “I put up my gun and shot the first wolf. The sleigh was moving about, but I hit the animal and killed it. Then all the other wolves stopped and ate it, so our sleigh got away from them for a few minutes.” “Then they finished their meal, and I heard them coming again. The moon was shining brightly on the snow, and after a few minutes I saw them among the trees once more. They came nearer again, and then I shot another of them, and the others stopped once more to eat it.” “The same thing happened again and again, and my horses became more and more tired and ran slower and slower until, after about two hours, only one wolf was still alive and following us.”
“Wasn’t it too fat to run?” one of his friends asked.
小題1:Jack told his friends what happened to him when he was______________.

A．in England one winter evening	B．in Russia one winter evening
C．in America one winter morning	D．in Russia one winter morning.

小題2: In the sentence “They finished their meal.” “meal” here means ___________.

A．the food Jack had brought with him	B．the meal prepared by Jack’s friends.
C．the wolf which had been killed by Jack	D．the dead animals on the way

小題3: According to what Jack said, the last wolf ______________.

A．had eaten up all the other wolves
B．ran much faster than the other wolves
C．was the strongest of all	D．was very fat and didn’t run fast.

小題4:From what Jack’s friend said we know that _____________________.

A．all the wolves had been shot by Jack.

B．the last wolf was too fat to run

C．Jack was telling the truth

D．the friends did not believe what Jack had said.

Life is filled with challenges. As we get older we 26 realize that those challenges are the very things that  27  us and make us who we are, it is the same with the challenges that come with  28 .                                                   
When we are faced with a challenge, we usually have two  29 : we can try to  30  it off, or we can decide that the thing presenting the challenge isn’t worth the  31  and call it quits. Although there are  32  times when calling it quits is the right thing to do, in most  33  all that is needed is commitment and  34 .
When we are devoted to  35 , it means that no matter how  36  or how uncomfortable something is, we will always choose to  37  it instead of running away from it. Communication is making a  38  for discussion and talking about how you feel instead of just saying what the other person did wrong.  39  you can say to a friend, “I got my feelings hurt.”  40  “You hurt my feelings,” you are going to be able to solve the problem much faster.
In dealing with many challenges that friendship will bring to you, try to see them for  41  they are: small hurdles（障礙） you need to jump or  42  on your way through life. Nothing is so big that it is impossible to get over, and hurt only  43  to make us stronger. It’s all part of growing up, it happens to everyone, and some day you will  44 on all of this and say, “ 45  as it was, it made me who I am today. And that is a good thing.”

小題1:	A．seem to B．come to C．hope to D．try to

小題2:	A．design B．promote C．direct D．shape

小題3:	A．success B．pressure C．friendship D．difficulty

小題4:	A．opportunities B．expectations C．choices D．aspects

小題5:	A．beat B．show C．take D．fall

小題6:	A．comment B．loss C．trouble D．expense

小題7:	A．hardly B．certainly C．consequently D．exactly

小題8:	A．issues B．cases C．events D．affairs

小題9:	A．communication B．confidence C．courage D．consideration

小題10:

A．everything B．anything C．something D．nothing

小題11:

A．doubtful B．shameful C．harmful D．painful

小題12:

A．keep B．control C．face D．catch

小題13:

A．chance B．plan C．topic D．room

小題14:

A．If B．As C．While D．Unless

小題15:

A．other than B．rather than C．or rather D．or else

小題16:

A．what B．who C．where D．which

小題17:

A．pass by B．come across C．get through D．run over

小題18:

A．serves B．means C．aims D．attempts

小題19:

A．look into B．look for C．look out D．look back

小題20:

A．Interesting B．Surprising C．Complicated D．Hard

Singing had always been an important part of Gloria Estefan’s life. “Since I was three years old, I sang. I sang everything,” Gloria said. “Cubans,” she added, “are a musical people”.
Gloria was born in Cuba in 1957. Her family left the country just before Fidel Castro came to power. In Miami, where the family settled, many people did not accept Cuban immigrants. In first grade, she spoke little English, but she worked hard to learn the language. Six months after she entered school, she won an award for reading in English!
When Gloria was ten, her father returned from the Vietnam War. Soon, the family realized he wasn’t well. They soon found out that he was badly ill. Her mother went back to teaching at school to support the family. Gloria cared for her father and her younger sister.
She still made the honor roll, and she still had her music, but Gloria was lonely. However, when the band leader Emilio Estefan came to speak at her high school, Gloria sang for him. He asked her to join his band. It was the beginning of the Miami Sound Machine.
Within a few months, the Miami Sound Machine was the top band in Miami. In 1978 Gloria and Emilio married.
At first, the Miami Sound Machine was known only in Miami. Then the band signed with CBS Records. Estefan and his band became stars.
Since then, the Miami Sound Machine has sold millions of records. Gloria has done more than just singing when Hurricane Andrew hit central Florida in 1992. She used only two weeks to organize an all-star concert that raised $2 million for the people who suffered in the hurricane. “We needed a party after that disaster,” she said.
Gloria said, “You have to stay true to the music you really love to do. There will always be people who will tell you, ‘that won’t work.’ You’ve got to be firm in spite of difficulties. Stick to it—that’s the main thing.”
小題1:Gloria’s father was ill        .

A．when they settled down in Miami.

B．before they left their home country

C．after he returned from Vietnam War

D．as soon as she finished high school

小題2:According to the passage, probably Gloria did the following except        .

A．organizing an all-star concert for Hurricane victims

B．winning an award for reading in English

C．teaching at school to support the family

D．taking care of her father and sister

小題3:The underlined word “disaster” in this passage refers to        .

A．the concert

B．the celebration

C．the victims

D．the hurricane

小題4:This passage mainly tells about Gloria Estefan’s        .

A．life story

B．happy marriage

C．music style

D．Cuban background

One afternoon I toured an art museum while waiting for my husband to finish a business meeting. I was looking forward to a quiet   21  of the splendid artwork.
A young   22  viewing the paintings ahead of me   23  nonstop between themselves. I watched them a moment and decided the lady was doing all the talking. I admired the man’s   24  for putting up with her   25  stream of words.   26  by their noise, I moved on.
I met them several times as I moved   27  the various rooms of art. Each time I heard her continuous flow of words, I moved away   28 .
I was standing at the counter of the museum gift shop making a   29  when the couple approached the   30 . Before they left, the man   31  into his pocket and pulled out a white object. He   32  it into a long stick and then   33  his way into the coatroom to get his wife’s jacket.
“He’s a   34  man,” the clerk at the counter said. “Most of us would give up if we were blinded at such a young age. During his recovery, he made a promise his life wouldn’t change. So, as before, he and his wife come in   35  there is a new art show.”
“But what does he get out of the art?” I asked. “He can’t see.”
“Can’t see! You’re   36 . He sees a lot. More than you and I do,” the clerk said. “His wife   37  each painting so he can see it in his head.”
I learned something about patience,   38  and love that day. I saw the patience of a young wife describing paintings to a person without   39  and the courage of a husband who would not   40  blindness to change his life. And I saw the love shared by two people as I watched this couple walk away, their arms intertwined.

小題1:	A．view B．touch C．wander D．stare

小題2:	A．lady B．couple C．man D．clerk

小題3:	A．yelled B．argued C．screamed D．chatted

小題4:	A．attempt B．independence C．patience D．wisdom

小題5:	A．constant B．vivid C．casual D．vague

小題6:	A．Adopted B．Adapted C．Disturbed D．Conducted

小題7:	A．from B．to C．towards D．through

小題8:	A．anxiously B．quickly C．urgently D．sensibly

小題9:	A．comment B．purchase C．decision D．profit

小題10:

A．exit B．entrance C．front D．queue

小題11:

A．plugged B．reached C．held D．bent

小題12:

A．lengthened B．made C．brought D．broadened

小題13:

A．led B．found C．tapped D．forced

小題14:

A．generous B．rough C．smart D．brave

小題15:

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

小題16:

A．unique B．silly C．equal D．wrong

小題17:

A．decorates B．draws C．shows D．describes

小題18:

A．kindness B．pride C．courage D．enthusiasm

小題19:

A．sight B．support C．expectation D．confidence

小題20:

A．get B．allow C．hope D．cause

  The Pillow
At the age of sixteen, I joined a volunteer group with my dad. I went on my first volunteer project in West Virginia. On the night we arrived, we discovered that “our family” was living in a trailer (拖車) that was in poor condition. A crew had been working on it for two weeks, but every time they finished one problem, another surfaced.
We decided the only reasonable solution was to build a new house—something unusual but necessary under these circumstances. The family was overjoyed with their new house that was twenty by thirty feet with three bedrooms, a bath and a kitchen.
On Tuesday of that week, while we ate lunch together, I asked the family’s three boys, Josh, Eric and Ryan, “What do you want for your new room?” Expecting toys and other gadgets that children usually ask for, we were astonished when Josh responded, “I just want a bed.”
The boys had never slept in a bed! They were accustomed to plastic mats. That night we had a meeting and decided that beds would be the perfect gift. On Thursday night, a few adults in our group drove to the nearest city and bought beds and new bedding.
When we saw the delivery truck coming, we told the family about the surprise. We could hardly contain ourselves. It was like watching excited children on Christmas morning.
That afternoon, as we fitted the frames of the beds together, Eric ran into the house to watch us. Too dirty to enter his room, he observed with wide-eyed enthusiasm from the doorway.
As my father slipped a pillowcase onto one of the pillows, Eric asked, “What is that?”
“A pillow,” he replied.
“What do you do with it?” Eric continued to ask.
“When you go to sleep, you put your head on it,” I answered softly. Tears came to my eyes as my father handed Eric the pillow.
“Oh…that’s soft,” he said, hugging it tightly.
Now, when my sister or I start to ask for something that seems urgent, my dad gently asks, “Do you have a pillow?”
We know exactly what he means.
小題1:The writer’s first volunteer project was ______.

A．working on a poor trailer	B．helping a poor family
C．donating beds and bedding	D．dealing with a housing problem

小題2:On hearing Josh’s answer, the writer was shocked because ______. 

A．the family lived in a trailer	B．he expected to get some toys
C．he didn’t know what a bed was	D．the boys had no bed to sleep in

小題3:From the passage, we can learn that Eric had never seen ______ before.

A．a trailer

B．a truck

C．a pillow

D．a house

小題4:By saying “Do you have a pillow?”, the writer’s father means that ______.  

A．what they want to get may be unnecessary

B．they should not waste money on small things

C．they should do more volunteer work for the poor

D．what he will buy is not what they want but a pillow

完形填空（共15小題；每小題2分，滿分30分）
閱讀下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后從16－30各題所給的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出能填入相應空白處的最佳選項。
One of the most important events in the Olympic Games is the Marathon race. It _ 16_ one of the great events in Greek history.
In 490 B.C .about 10,000 Greeks fought _ 17_ the Persian army at a place _18__ Marathon. It is said that the Persians were ten times as many as the Greeks .However , __19_ the brave attack of the Greeks , the Persians were badly beaten and _20__ away from the plain of Marathon . When the Persians had run away, a soldier, who was the most famous _ 21 _in Athens, was ordered to carry the good news to the city _22_ full speed.
Although he had fought through the battle and received many wounds, the soldier at once started off towards the _23_ city. It was twenty-six miles _24__ the plain of Marathon to the marketplace of Athens, where the elders of Athens had gathered waiting for news. He ran and ran __25_ hills and across plains. As he went on, his lips became dry and he breathed hard. But he thought of the _26__ of the people of Athens __27_ hearing the news, and he ran harder than ever.
The elders of Athens heard a great shout and saw a soldier staggering (蹣跚）towards them . "Rejoice! Rejoice! We won!" gasped the soldier, and fell down __28__ .
In __29_ of this noble soldier, the Marathon race _30__ the athletes run this same distance became an event in the Olympic Games.

小題1:	A．came from B．came about C．came out D．came round
小題2:	A．in B．against C．for D．with
小題3:	A．call B．calling C．to be called D．called
小題4:	A．in B．with C．by D．because
小題5:	A．taken B．made C．driving D．driven
小題6:	A．player B．runner C．soldier D．officer
小題7:	A．in B．by C．on D．at
小題8:	A．far B．distant C．away D．off
小題9:	A．to B．from C．in D．at
小題10:	A．above B．across C．through D．over
小題11:	A．sadness B．joy C．anger D．surprise
小題12:	A．on B．in C．from D．with
小題13:	A．dead B．death C．died D．dying
小題14:	A．remember B．front C．honour D．the hope
小題15:	A．by which B．from which C．through which D．in which

 

  Not many years ago， a wealthy and rather strange old man named Johnson lived alone in a village in the south of England. He had made a lot of money in trading with foreign countries. When he was seventy-five， he gave ￡ 12，000 to the village school to buy land and equipment for a children’s playground.
As a result of his kindness， many people came to visit him. Among them was a newspaperman. During their talk， Johnson remarked that he was seventy-five and expected to live to be a hundred. The newspaperman asked him how he managed to be healthy at seventy—five. Johnson had a sense of humor.  He liked whisky and drank some each day. “I have an injection （注射） in my neck each evening.” he told the newspaperman， thinking of his evening glass of whisky.
The newspaperman did not understand what Johnson meant. In his newspaper he reported that Johnson was seventy-five and had a daily injection in his neck. Within a week Johnson received thousands of letters from all over Britain， asking him for the secret of his daily injection.
小題1: Johnson became a rich man through _________.

A．doing business.

B．making whisky.

C．cheating.

D．buying and selling land.

小題2: The gift of money to the school suggests that Johnson __________.

A．had no children.

B．was a strange man.

C．was very fond of children.

D．wanted people to know how rich he was.

小題3:Many people wrote to Johnson to find out  __________.

A．what kind of whisky he had.

B．how to live longer.

C．how to become wealthy.

D．in which part of the neck to have an injection.

小題4: The newspaperman ____________.

A．should have reported what Johnson had told him.

B．shouldn’t have asked Johnson what injection he had.

C．was eager to live a long life.

D．should have found out what Johnson really meant.

小題5:When Johnson said he had an injection in his neck each evening， he really meant that ______.

A．he liked drinking a glass of whisky in the evening.

B．he needed an injection in the neck.

C．a daily injection in the evening would make him sleep well.

D．there was something wrong with his neck.

John Milton was born in 1606. his father expected him to enter the church of England, but Milton wanted to be a poet. At twenty-nine Milton set off for a travel on the continent. He traveled in France, Switzerland and Italy, winning the friendship of many artists and scientists, including Galileo, the famous Italian scientist who suffered for his discovery in prison. In 1639, he was planning to go on this journey when the news reached him of the break between the king and Parliament(國會). Milton returned to England immediately, and put himself into the struggle against the king, for which he had long been prepared. During the Civil war, Milton worked as the spokesman of the revolution. By the beginning of 1652, Milton had become completely blind, yet he didn’t stop fighting. After the Restoration(復辟), his books were burnt, and he himself avoided being killed because of his blindness.
John Milton was not only a brave revolutionary but also a great poet. His famous poem Paradise Lost(失樂園) was an immediate success. But, for its publication (being published), Milton received only 18 pounds. He died in 1671.
小題1:Milton set off for a travel on the continent here “continent” means ________.

A．Asia

B．Europe

C．America

D．Africa

小題2:It was ______ who was put in prison in Italy.

A．Milton

B．the king

C．Galileo

D．Milton’s father

小題3:Milton would have been killed if ________________.

A．he had been the spokesman of the revolution

B．his books hadn’t been burnt

C．he hadn’t written the poem Paradise Lost

D．he hadn’t been completely blind

小題4:Which of the following sentences is TRUE?

A．John Milton was an ordinary poet, who wasn’t interested in politics.

B．John Milton spent many years traveling around the world.

C．John Milton wrote the poem Paradise Lost, which was liked by the King.

D．John Milton was a fearless revolutionary and a famous poet.