Have you ever heard the story of the four-minute mile? Many years ago, people believed that it was impossible for a human being to run a mile in less than four minutes until Roger Banister proved it wrong in1954.
What happens if you put an animal in a pond? Any animal, big or small, will swim its way through. What happens when someone, who does not know how to swim, falls in deep waters? They drown. If an animal who has not learned swimming could escape by swimming, why not you? Because you believe you will drown while the animal does not.
Have you ever wondered why the letters are organized in a particular order on hour keyboard? You might have thought it is to increase the typing speed. Most people never question it. But the fact is that this system was developed to reduce the typing speed at a time when typewriter parts would jam if the operator typed too fast.
These three cases show the power of our beliefs. There is no other more powerful directing force in human behavior than belief. Your beliefs have the power to create and to destroy. A belief delivers a direct command to your nervous system.
I used a snake in my workshops for children to show them how unrealistic some of their beliefs are. Students of a school in India, said snakes were slippery, slimy (黏糊糊的) and poisonous. After doing an exercise for changing beliefs, they handled my snake and found it to be dry and clean. They also remembered that only three types of poisonous snakes exist in India.
Did this story end the way you thought? Review your beliefs now and find out which ones you need to change.
51. In the author’s opinion, if a person in deep water doesn’t know how to swim he will drown because _________.
A. he is afraid of water               B. he doesn’t want to live in the world
C. he hasn’t learned to swim before     D. he believes he will drown
52. The author thinks that the letters are organized in a particular order on your keyboard in order to _________.
A. reduce one’s typing speed          B. satisfy the operator
C. save more space                 D. increase one’s typing speed
53. The author’s experiment shows that __________.
A. snakes in India aren’t poisonous       B. snakes can be caught easily
C. snakes are slimy and poisonous      D. snakes are dry and clean
54. According to the passage, we know that ________.
A. students from India have unrealistic beliefs on how to live a better life
B. an animal who has not learned to swim will drown if you put it in a pond.
C. Roger Banister was the first person who ran a mile in less than four minutes.
D. most people don’t like the order the letters are arranged on your keyboard
55. The main idea of this passage should be that _______.
A. beliefs make us seem stupid
B. beliefs are very powerful
C. changing your beliefs now if necessary
D. people should always believe in themselves

第一節(jié)：完型填空（共10小題，每小題1分，共10分）
閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，然后從21 - 30各題所給的四個選項中，選出最佳選項。
Small moments sometimes last a very long time. And a few words---though they mean ___21___ at the time to the people who say them --- can have great power.
I recently heard a story from Malcolm Dalkoff, who has been a professional ___22___ for the last twenty-four years, mostly in advertising.
As a boy, Dalkoff was terribly shy and ___23___. He had few friends and no self-confidence. Then one day, his high school English teacher, Ruth Brauch, asked the class to write their own chapter that would ___24___ the last chapter of the novel since they had been reading To Kill a Mockingbird. Dalkoff wrote his chapter and turned it in. Today he cannot recall anything special about the chapter he wrote, or what ___25___ Mrs. Brauch gave him. ___26___, what he does remember is the four words in the paper: “This is good writing.” Thanks to the four words, his life has been ___27___ greatly.
“ Until I read those words, I had no idea of who I was or what I was or what I was going to be,” he said, “ After reading her ___28___, I went home and wrote a short story, ___29___ I had always dreamed of doing but never believed I could do.”
Over the rest of that year in school, he wrote many short stories, and always brought them to Mrs. Brauch for instruction. “She was ___30___, helpful and honest. She was just what I needed,” Dalkoff said.
21.     A. much                     B. little                      C. well                       D. ill
22.     A. report            B. designer                C. writer                    D. teacher
23.     A. weak                     B. independent            C. troublesome            D. helpless
24.     A. follow                   B. change                   C. connect                  D. explain
25.     A. help                       B. encouragement        C. grade                     D. words
26.     A. Therefore               B. However                C. Meanwhile             D. Besides
27.     A. improved               B. developed               C. changed                 D. enriched
28.     A. chapter                  B. novel                     C. note                       D. explanation
29.     A. everything              B. something              C. nothing                  D. anything
30.     A. encouraging           B. careful                   C. strict                      D. effective

第二節(jié)：完形填空（共20小題；每小題1.5分，滿分30分）
閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，然后從36～55各題所給的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。
When asked what was the meaning of life, Dr. Papaderos brought out a very small round
mirror. And his  36  went like this:
“When I was a small child, during the war, we were very  37  and we lived in a remote
village. One day, on the road, I found the broken pieces of a  38 . A German motorcycle had
been broken in that place.
“I  39  to find all the pieces and put them  40 , but it was not possible, so I kept only the largest piece and made it  41 . I began to play with it as a toy and became  42  by the fact that I could reflect light into dark  43  where the sun would never shine—in deep holes and dark closets. It became a game for me to get light into the most  44  places I could find.
“I  45  the little mirror, and as I grew up, I would take it out in free moments and  46 
the challenge of the game. As I became a man, I grew to  47  that this was not just a child’s game but a metaphor (隱喻) for what I might do with my  48 . I came to understand that I am not the light or the  49  of light. But light — truth, understanding, knowledge — is
there,  50  it will shine in many dark places  51  I reflect it.
“I am a fragment (碎片) of a mirror whose whole design and shape I do not know. Nevertheless, with what I have I can  52  light into the dark places of this world — into the  53  places in the hearts of men—and  54  some things in some people. Perhaps others may
see and do likewise. This is what I am about. This is the  55  of my life.”
36. A. view        B. idea       C. theory    D. answer
37. A. rich      B. good   C. poor   D. special
38. A. mirror      B. metal     C. wheel           D. bicycle
39. A. managed     B. tried   C. went D. remembered
40. A. off          B. together        C. up         D. back
41. A. smooth B. small  C. round  D. bright
42. A. fascinated       B. confused       C. puzzled         D. moved
43. A. hearts      B. closets    C. holes      D. places
44. A. inacceptable B. inaccessible       C. remote       D. distant
45. A. hid          B. played with          C. made     D. kept
46. A. continue         B. start       C. complete       D. stop
47. A. expect  B. admit  C. understand  D. recognize
48. A. life          B. work      C. action    D. words
49. A. resource          B. course    C. cause     D. source
50. A. but       B. besides       C. and     D. yet
51. A. as if     B. only if       C. even if       D. if only
52. A. represent         B. improve        C. explain          D. reflect
53. A. inside   B. black  C. secret  D. dirty
54. A. get          B. protect          C. find       D. change
55. A. meaning         B. importance    C. nature    D. explanation

If you have ever been discouraged because of failure，please read on. For often, achieving
what you set out to do is not the important thing.
Two brothers decided to dig a deep hole behind their house. As they were working, a couple of older boys stopped by to watch.
"What are you doing?" asked one of the visitors.
"We plan to dig a hole all the way through the earth!" one of the brothers volunteered excitedly.
The older boys began to laugh, telling the younger ones that digging a hole all the way through the earth was impossible. After a long silence, one of the diggers picked up a jar full of spiders,  worms and insects. He removed the lid and showed the wonderful contents to the visitors. Then he said quietly and confidently，Even if we don’t dig all he way through the earth, look at what we found along he way!”
Their goal was far too great, but it did cause them to dig. And that is what a goal is for to cause us to move in he direction we have chosen; In other words, to set us to digging! But not every goal will be fully achieved. Not every job will end successfully. Not every love will last. Not every attempt will be completed. Not every dream will be realized.
But when you fall short of your aim, perhaps you can say，“Yes, but look at what I found along he way! Look at the wonderful things which have come into my life because I tired to do something!"
It is in the digging that life is lived. And I believe it is joy in he journey, in he end，that truly matters.
49. Readers may probably get____ from the passage.
A. discouragement   B. encouragement   C. comfort    D. delight
50. The underlined phrase “fall short of" possibly means ____.
A. fail to achieve     B. manage to achieve  C. fall because of   D. get rid of
51. What is he most important brothers in their digging?
A. To find wonderful things.  B. To have people looking on.
C. To achieve their goal      D. To keep on digging.
52. The brothers' attitude to life is____.
A. worried about future                    B. doubtful whether to achieve anything
C. hopeful about the future                 D. careful in doing everything

When a 13-year-old Virginal girl started sneezing, her parents thought it was merely a cold. But when the sneezes continued for hours, they called in a doctor. Nearly two months later the girl was still sneezing, thousands of times a day, and her case had attracted worldwide attention.
Hundreds of suggestions, ranging from “put a clothes pin on her nose” to “have her stand on her head” poured in. But nothing did any good. Finally, she was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital where Dr. Leo Kanner, one of the world’s top authorities on sneezing, solved the baffling (難以理解的) problem with great speed.
He used neither drugs nor surgery for, curiously enough, the clue for the treatment was found in an ancient superstition(迷信) about the amazing bodily reaction we call the sneeze. It was all in her mind, he said, a view which Aristotle, some 3,000 years earlier, would have agreed with heartily.
Dr. Kanner simply gave a modern psychological interpretation to the ancient belief that too much sneezing was an indication that the spirit was troubled; and he began to treat the girl accordingly.
“Less than two days in a hospital room, a plan for better scholastic and vocational（職業(yè)的） adjustment, and reassurance about her unreasonable fear of tuberculosis（肺結(jié)核） quickly changed her from a sneezer to an ex-sneezer,” he reported.
Sneezing has always been a subject of wonder, awe and puzzlement. Dr Kanner has collected thousands of superstitions concerning it. The most universal one is the custom of begging for the blessing of God when a person sneezes— a practice Dr. Kanner traces back to the ancient belief that a sneeze was an indication that the sneezer was possessed of an evil spirit. Strangely, people over the world still continue the custom with the traditional, “God bless you” or something else.
When scientists look at the sneeze, they see a remarkable mechanism（身體機制） which, without any conscious help from you, takes on a job that has to be done. When you need to sneeze you sneeze, this being nature’s clever way of getting rid of an annoying object from the nose. The object may be just some dust in the nose which nature is trying to remove.
51. The girl sneezed continuously because she __________.
A. was ill                                B. was mentally ill
C. had heavy mental burden                 D. had attracted world-wide attention
52. When the girl began to sneeze continuously, ___________.
A. a lot of people offered their advice
B. she was taken to John Hopkins Hospital
C. she was given a treatment found in ancient superstition
D. many doctors treated her in different ways
53. Dr. Kanner cured the girl by ___________.
A. using Aristole’s method                   B. giving her psychological treatment
C. practicing superstition                    D. treating her tuberculosis
54. When a person sneezes, we say “God bless you” because____________.
A. it’s a tradition                           B. the person is possessed of an evil spirit
C. the person is ill                          D. God will bless those who sneeze
55. According to scientists, people sneeze because _____________.
A. they are ill                              B. to sneeze is human nature
C. they do not need any conscious help         D. there are unwanted things in their noses

第二部分完形填空（共10小題；每小題2分，滿分20分）
閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，然后從21－30各題所給的A, B, C 和 D 項中，選出最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑.
Several months ago, I got into a terrible car accident. That moment __21___ my view about life.
All my life I had been waiting until I could __22___ my driver’s license(執(zhí)照) and my first car. When I __23___ got my license and my dad brought the car to the house, I was __24___. Every time I got into my car, I felt invincible(不可戰(zhàn)勝的), as if nothing could stop me. But one day I was shown that I could be __25___, just like every other person.
One __26___, though it was very dark outside, I was in the car with some of my close friends. While driving down a main street, I felt I was __27__ control of the car. It was flying.
After the accident, I don’t remember much, but I do remember the __28__ I was in, not only physical but also the thought that others’ lives were in my hands for a few seconds and I might have __29___ them.
I learned a lot from that __30____. Not only did I learn that I need to have more appreciation(欣賞,理解) for things, I also learned that material things should never be the most important in our life.
21.        A. caught                    B.changed                    C. replaced                                 D. destroyed
22.        A. borrow                   B. buy                         C. get                                        D. see
23.        A. finally                   B. sadly                       C. unluckily                               D. suddenly
24         A. angry                     B. worried                    C. surprised                                D. excited
25.        A. warned                   B. beaten                      C. lost                                        D. disturbed
26.        A. morning                 B. afternoon                 C. night                                     D. noon
27.        A. shaking                  B. taking                      C. trying                                    D. losing
28.        A. pain                       B. joy                          C. disappointment                       D.happiness
29.        A. raised                     B. killed                       C. poisoned                                D. forgotten
30.        A. exprience                B. story                        C. vacation                                 D. rescue

第三部分閱讀 (共兩節(jié)，滿分40分)
第一節(jié)閱讀理解（共15小題；每小題2分，滿分30分）
閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的A、B、C 和 D 項中，選出最佳選項。
No matter how well you understand a foreign language, misunderstanding still exists between native speakers and you. Here is such an example.
Three young Frenchmen were traveling in Britain. Though they had taken a few English lessons before their holiday, they were often in trouble because of their misunderstanding of English. One day they talked about their misfortunes(不幸) together.
The first Frenchman said, “I once heard someone shout ‘Look out’, I put my head out of a window and a bucketful(一桶) of water fell on me.”
The second Frenchman said, “I was once in a ship and heard the captain shouted, ‘All hands on decks(甲板).’ I put my hands on the deck and someone walked on them.”
The third Frenchman said, “I once called early on an English friend and the maid(女傭) who came to the door said, ‘He’s not up yet.’ When I went again for him, she said, ‘ He’s not down yet’. I said, ‘ If he’s not up and he’s not down, where is he?’ She said, ‘He’s still upstairs now. When I told you he was not up I meant he had not got up yet, so he has not come downstairs by now.’”
31. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A. Misunderstanding of English      B. Three Young Frenchmen
C. Misfortunes of Three Frenchmen   D. A Few English Lessons
32. When someone is calling “l(fā)ook out” to you, he probably wants you to ___________.
A. put your head out of the window  B. receive a bucket of water    
C. be careful                      D. go away
33. The sentence “All hands on decks” may mean _______________.
A. you should put your hands on the desk   B. everyone should get ready
C. someone walks over one’s hands      D. someone is making fun of a foreigner
34. The third Frenchman made a mistake _____________.
A .in visiting a friend at an improper time     B. in recognizing the maid
C. in recognizing his friend                D. in telling from “up” and “down”
35. This article is written to tell us  _____________.
A. that English is difficult to learn.
B. why we are misunderstood by others
C. however well we know a foreign language, we may still have some misunderstanding of it.
D. to learn English better

第一節(jié)完形填空(共10小題；每小題2分，滿分20分)
閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，然后從21~30各題所給的A、B、C和D項中，選出最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。
There is a popular saying, “All of us have a Guardian Angel, guiding us”.
Some of the greatest success stories of history have followed a word of   21   or an act of confidence by a loved one or a   22   friend. Had it not been for a confident wife, Sophia, we might not have listed Nathaniel Hawthorne among the great   23  of literature. When Nathaniel, a   24   man, went home to tell his wife that he was a failure and had been fired from his job in the customs, she surprised him with a cry of joy. 
"Now," she said   25  , "you can write your book!" 
"Yes," replied the man, with little confidence, "and what shall we   26   while I am writing it?"
To his   27  , she opened a drawer and pulled out a sum of money. 
"Where on earth did you get that?" he asked. 
"I have always known you were a man of genius," she told him. "I knew that someday you would write a great novel. So every week, out of the money you gave me for housekeeping, I
28   a little bit. So here is enough to   29   us for one whole year." 
From her trust and   30   came one of the greatest novels of American literature, The Scarlet Letter. 
21. A. enjoyment   B. encouragement    C. kindness     D. delight
22. A. trusting     B. merciful          C. cautious    D. intelligent
23. A. books      B. novels           C. names      D. nicknames
24. A. successful   B. courageous     C. sorrowful   D. heartbroken
25. A. sadly      B. willingly         C. proudly     D. deliberately
26. A. stick to     B. try out           C. take up      D. live on
27. A. amazement  B. satisfaction       C. expectation  D. disappointment
28. A. spent       B. saved            C. consumed   D. contributed
29. A. lead        B. hold             C. last        D. leave
30. A. confidence   B. experience       C. competence  D. guidance

第三部分 閱讀理解（共15小題，每小題2分，滿分30分）
閱讀下面短文，從每題所給的四個選項A、B、C、D中，選出最佳選項。
Social customs and ways of behaving changes. Things which were considered impolite many years ago are now acceptable. Just a few years ago, it was considered impolite behavior for a man to smoke on the street. No man who thought of himself as being a gentleman would make a fool of himself by smoking when a lady was in a room. Customs also change from country to country. Does a man walk on the left or on the right in your company? Or does it matter? Should you have one hand in your lap(衣兜) or on the table? The Americans and the British not only speak the same language but also share a large number of social customs. For example, in both countries people shake hands when they meet each other for the first time. Also most Englishmen will open a door for a woman or offer their seat to a woman and so will most Americans. Promptness is important both in England and America. That is, if a dinner is for seven o’clock, the dinner guest either arrives close to that time or calls up to explain his delay（拖延）. The important thing to remember about social customs is not to do anything that might make people feel uncomfortable especially if they are your guests. There is an old story about a man who gave a very formal party. When the food was served, one of the guests started to cut his peas with a knife. The other guests were surprised or shocked, but the host calmly picked up his knife and began eating in the same way. It would have been bad manners to make his guests feel foolish and uncomfortable.
56. If a man smoked in the room where a lady stayed, he would be considered as_____.
A. a gentleman      B , a boss      C. a fool      D. a worker
57. Which of the following is true?
A. A respected man usually behaves properly
B. social customs in some countries never change
C. English people open the door for women while Americans don’t
D. To eat peas with a knife is good manners
58. The underlined word “promptness” means _____.
A. to show respect for a lady     B. to apologize when you are late
C. to invite sb to dinner         D. to do things without delay
59. The writer tells us a story just to ______.
A. amuse the readers       B. tell us how to avoid making others uncomfortable
C. tell us how to eat peas   D. show that social customs and ways change
60. Which might be the title of the passage ?
A. American and British culture       B. Table manners
C. Change old customs              D. Social customs    

Great changes have been made in family life because of science and industry. In the past, when more Americans lived on farms, the typical family had many children. In a farm family, parents and their children often lived with grandparents. Often, too, uncles and aunts lived nearby. But when industry becomes more important than agriculture in American life, families become smaller because industry requires workers who are ready and able to move off the land and to move again whenever necessary. And large families cannot be moved from place to place as easily as smaller families can. So , at present people tend to have smaller families.
In the future, because of industrialization, a typical family will be required to move even more often than now, so families will be even smaller. The typical families may remain childless and are only made up of a man and a woman. A small number of families may take raising children as their chief work. At the same time they may also raise other people’s children, leaving those families free to move job to job.
61. The main topic discussed in the passage is _______.
A. the development of science and industry in America
B. the influence(影響) of science and industry on America families.
C. the harmful effect of industrialization
D. the social problems resulting from the highly developed science and industries in America
62. _____ are described in the passage.
A. Families of the past
B. Families of the present and of the future
C. Families of the past and of the future
D. Families of the past, the present and the future
63.According to the writer, one of the reasons that families are getting smaller in American is that _____.
A. children tend to leave their parents and grandparents when they grow up
B. people stop caring for having children
C. the need for workers who are able to move any time has been increasing
D. both old and young people like to live by themselves
64._____ will be in charge of raising children in the future.
A. most families   B. all families   C. social workers  D. a small number of families
65. From the passage, we can conclude that _____.
A. science and industry have caused thousands of families to separate
B. children do not like to live with their parents or grandparents
C. large families can hardly exist in modern society
D. Americans are very careful in choosing their jobs