C
Among the more colorful characters of Leadville’s golden age were H.A.W. Tabor and his second wife, Elizabeth McCourt, better known as "Baby Doe". Their history is fast becoming one of the legends of the Old West. Horace Austin Warner Tabor was a school teacher in Vermont. With his first wife and two children he left Vermont by covered wagon in 1855 to homestead in Kansas. Perhaps he did not find farming to his liking, or perhaps he was attracted by rumors of fortunes to be made in Colorado mines. At any rate, a few years later he moved west to the small Colorado mining camp known as California Gulch, which he later renamed Leadville when he became its leading citizen. "A large amount of lead is sure to be found here." he said.  
　　As it turned out, it was silver, not lead, that was to make Leadville’s fortune and wealth. Tabor knew little about mining himself, so he opened a general store, which sold everything from boots to salt, flour, and tobacco. It was his custom to "grubstake" prospective（預期的） miners, in other words, to supply them with food and supplies, or"grub", while they looked for ore（礦石）, in return for which he would get a share in the mine if one was discovered. He did this for a number of years, but no one that he aided ever found anything of value.
　　Finally one day in the year 1878, so the story goes, two miners came in and asked for "grub". Tabor had decided to quit supplying it because he had lost too much money that way. These were persistent（堅持的）, however, and Tabor was too busy to argue with them. "Oh help yourself. One more time won’t make any difference," He said and went on selling shoes and hats to other customers. The two miners took $17 worth of supplies, in return for which they gave Tabor a one-third interest in their findings. They picked a barren place on the mountainside and began to dig. After nine days they struck a rich vein of silver. Tabor bought the shares of the other two men, and so the mine belonged to him alone. This mine, known as the "Pittsburgh Mine," made $1,300, 000 for Tabor in return for his $17 investment.
　　Later Tabor bought the Matchless Mine on another barren hillside just outside the town for $117,000.This turned out to be even more abundant than the Pittsburgh, producing $35 000 worth of silver per day at one time. Leadville grew. Tabor became its first mayor, and later became the governor of the state.  
49. The word "grubstake" in paragraph 2 means __________ .
　A. to supply miners with food and supplies
　B. to open a general store
　C. to do one’s contribution to the development of the mine
　D. to supply miners with food and supplies and in return get a share in the mine, if one was discovered
50.Tabor made his first fortune_________.
　A. by supplying two prospective miners and getting in return a one-third interest in the findings
　B. because he was persuaded by the two miners to quit supplying
　C. by buying the shares of the other
　D. as a land speculator（投機商）
51. The underlying（潛在的）reason for Tabor’s successful life career is __________.
　  A. purely accidental
B. based on the analysis of miner’s being very poor and their possibility of discovering
profitable mining site
C. through the help from his second wife
　　D. he planned well and accomplished targets step by step
52. If this passage is the first part of an article, who might be introduced in the following  part?
A. Tabor’s life.     　　                        B. Tabor’s second wife, Elizabeth McCourt.
　　C. Other colorful characters.　　         D. Tabor’s other careers.　　

第二節(jié)完型填空（共20小題；每小題1.5分，滿分30分）
請閱讀下面短文，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，并在答題卡上將選項的標號涂黑。
There once was a little boy who often lost his temper and ended up quarreling with his friends. In order to help the son, his Father gave him a bag of  36  and told him that every time he lost his temper and got mad at  37  , he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.
The first day the little boy had  38  thirty nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks,   39  he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually became  40  .Three months later, the little boy discovered it was easier to  41  his temper than to hammer those nails into the fence.   42  the day came when the little boy did not lose his temper  43 .
He told his father about it and the father  44  that the little boy now pull out one nail  45  each day when he was able to control his temper. The day passed and the little boy was  46  able to tell his father that all the nails were  47  .
The father  48  his little boy by the hand and led him to the fence. He said, “You have done well, my son, but look at the  49  in the fence. The fence will never be the  50  . When you say things in anger, they  51  a scar just like this one on the person to whom you lose your temper. You   52  put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won’t   53  how many times you say I’m sorry,   54  the wound is still there. A wound caused by words is as bad as a   55  one. the hurt and pain caused by the tongue are deeper than those caused by the hand.”
36．A．books       B．tools  C．nails  D．suggestions
37．A．somebody B．a(chǎn)nybody   C．everybody D．nobody
38．A．discovered       B．driven      C．pushed      D．pulled
39．A．till    B．unless       C．a(chǎn)s      D．a(chǎn)lthough
40．A．smaller     B．larger       C．easier       D．shorter
41．A．catch B．hold  C．break D．lose
42．A．And then  B．As with    C．Up to       D．From then on
43．A．a(chǎn)fter all    B．a(chǎn)t all C．in all D．a(chǎn)t once
44．A．desired     B．requested  C．intended   D．suggested
45．A．for    B．with  C．of     D．a(chǎn)t
46．A． eagerly    B．fortunately       C．finally      D．hardly
47．A．lost   B．returned    C．gone  D．spared
48．A．seized       B．showed     C．touched    D．took
49．A．nails  B．cuts   C．holes D．surface
50．A．one   B．best   C．same D．fence
51．A．run   B．leave C．lead   D．remain
52．A．can   B．will   C．should      D．need
53．A．change     B．matter      C．survive     D．disappear
54．A．but    B．or     C．so     D．for
55．A．physical    B．violent      C．terrible     D．Serious

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。
A
Part one: First Major Novels
If Dickens had remained the author of Pickwick, Oliver Twist, and The Old Curiosity Shop, he might have gained lasting fame only as an author of cheerful comedy. But Dombey and Son, published in 1846 and continued till 1848, is a realistic novel of human life in a society which had taken more or less its modern form. The novel is a study of the influence of the values of a business society n the members of the Dombey family.
Part two:       
In 1851 Dickens was struck by the death of his father and one of his daughters within 2 weeks.
Partly in response to these losses, he created a series of works which have come to be called his
“dark” novels and which rank among the greatest success of the art of fiction.
Par three: Later Works
In 1859 Dickens published A Tale of Two Cities, a historical novel of the French Revolution, which is read today most often as a school text. It is fine picture of the historical period and a moving tale of a surprisingly modern hero. Besides publishing this novel in the lately founded All the Year Round, Dickens also published 17 articles, which appeared as a book later.
Dickens’s next novel, Great Expectations(1860~1861), tells the story of a young man’s moral（道德的）development in the course of his life-from childhood in the provinces to gentleman’s role in London. Not based on his own life like David Copperfield, Great Expectations belongs to type of fiction called, in German, Bildungsroman (the novel of a man’s education or formation by experience.)
56．Which of the following Dickens’ novel shows a clear change of style?
A．David Copperfield      B．Pickwick
C．Dombey and Son            D．Oliver Twist
57．The best title for Part two might be        .
A．Unexpected deaths   B．Dark novels    
C．Great losses             D．The art of fiction
58．According to the passage, A Tale of Two Cities      .
A．is about the Industry Revolution     B．can be found in most of the textbooks
C．is better than his “dark” novels          D．is probably published in a new magazine
59．In Great Expectation, Dickens writes about         .
A．the growth of a man       B．how to become a gentleman
C．his own life experience    D．a(chǎn) man’s school education

C
After watching my mother deal with our family of five, I can’t understand why answer to the
question, “What do you do?” is always, “Oh, I’m just a housewife.” JUST a housewife?” Anyone who spends most of her time in meal preparation and cleanup, keeping the house clean, attending PTA meetings, leading a scout troop, playing taxi driver to us kids when it’s time for school, musical lessons or the dentist, doing volunteer work for her community is not just a housewife. She’s the real Wonder Woman.
Why is it that so many mothers like mine think of themselves as second．class or something similar? Where has this notion come from? Have we males made them feel this way? Has our society  made“going to work” outside the home seem more important than what a housewife must face each day?  I would be every curious to see what would happen if a housewife went on strike．Dishes would  pie up．Food in the house would run out．There would be no learn clothes when needed．Walking and bus riding would increase．
I doubt if the man of the house would be able to take over．Oh，he would probably start out with the attitude that he can do just as good a job，but how long would that last? Not 1ong, once he had to come home each night after work to more housework. There would be no coming home to a prepared meal; The kids would all be screaming for something to eat, clean clothes and more bus fare money. Once he quieted the kids, he’d have to clean the house, go shopping, make sure that kids got a bath, after clearing out all the dog hairs from the bathtub. Once the kids were down for the night, he might be able to craw（爬）into an unmade bed and try to read the morning newspaper.
64．What does the writer’s mother NOT do according to the first paragraph?
A．Cooking.            B．Tidying the house.  
C．Driving a taxi.         D．Some unpaid work.
65．The underlined word “notion” in the second paragraph can be replaced by the word        .
A．mother     B．citizen      C．similarity  D．thought
66．We can learn from the second paragraph        .
A．mothers are actually great women  B．our society looks down upon housewives
C．housewives should go on a strike    D．doing housework is not important at all
67．The possible main idea of the third paragraph is        .
A．men should share housework with their wives
B．a(chǎn)ttitude is not the only thing needed to do a job well
C．kids are the most challenging part of the housework
D．men are unlikely to handle the work of a housewife

D
“How did you do it, Dad? How have you managed not to take a drink for almost 20 years?” It
took a man almost 20 years to have the courage to ask my father this very personal question. When Dad first quit drinking, the whole family was on pins and needles every time he got into a situation that, in the past, would have started him drinking again. For a few years we were afraid to bring it up for fear the drinking would begin again.
“I had this little poem that I would recite to myself at least four to five times a day,” was Dad’s reply to my 18-year-old unasked question. “The words were an instant relief and constant reminder to me that things were never so tough that I could not handle them,” Dad said. And then he shared the poem with me. The poem’s simple, yet the words are meaningful.
About a month after this talk with my father, I received a gift in the mail from a friend of mine. It was a book of daily words of wisdom listed for each day of the year. It has been my experience that when you get something with days of the year on it, you naturally turn to the page that lists your own birthday.
I hurriedly opened the book to November 10 to see what words of wisdom this book had in store for me. Tears of disbelief and appreciation rolled down my face. There, on my birthday, was the exact same poem that had helped my father for all these years! It went like this: God, give me the Serenity（平靜） to accept the things I cannot change; the Courage to change the things I can; and the Wisdom to know the difference.
68．The underlined expression “on pins and needles” in the first paragraph means      .
A．upset B．pleased     C．nervous    D．surprised
69．Dad would review the poem several times a day        .
A．to share the poem with the families       B．to practice reciting the poem
C．to prevent himself from drinking again  D．to remind himself that poems are useful
70．When the author saw the same poem in the book, he felt          .
A．regretful   B．thankful    C．hopeful     D．painful
71．The author bust into tears because       .
A．his friends gave him a special gift  B．the poem was full of wisdom
C．his father had read the same book   D．his father quit drinking for his son

A beautiful woman took a plane on business. She found her seat and sat down next to a young man. The man was just thinking of making a few dollars on the plane. When he saw the woman, he got an idea.
“Hey! Would you like to play a game?” he asked the woman. “No, thank you. I just want to take a nap (打盹),” the woman answered. “It’s really easy. All you have to do is to answer the questions that I ask you. If you don’t know the answer, you give me five dollars. If I don’t know the answer to your question, then I’ll give you five dollars.” “No,” the woman still refused. “OK. If I don’t know the answer to your question, I’ll give you five hundred dollars. How about that?” the man said. Then the woman became interested and decided to join in the game.
“OK. How many moons does Jupiter (木星) have?” asked the young man. The woman reached into her purse and took out a five-dollar bill. “What goes up the mountain with three legs and comes back with four?” the woman asked. Then the young man took out his computer and searched the Internet for an answer. Minutes later, the young man handed five hundred dollars to the woman.
After a few hours, the young man really wanted to know the answer to the question. So he asked the woman, “What is the answer to your question?” The woman reached into her purse and handed the young man a five-dollar bill.
小題1:Why did the man ask the woman to play a game?

A．He wanted to show his kindness.

B．He wanted to have a pleasant journey.

C．He wanted to earn some money from it.

D．He wanted to make friends with the woman.

小題2:How much did the woman get at the end of the story?

A．$ 500.

B．$ 5.

C．$ 10.

D．$ 490.

小題3:What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A．The woman told the man the answer to her question.

B．The woman gave the man’s money back to him.

C．The woman asked the man another question.

D．The woman didn’t know the answer, either.

小題4:We can learn from the story that the woman is ______.

A．clever

B．friendly

C．polite

D．honest

閱讀下面短文，根據(jù)所讀內(nèi)容在文后第53至第57小題的空格里填上適當?shù)膯卧~或短語，并將答案轉(zhuǎn)寫到答題卡上。
注意：每空不超過3個單詞。
Each year there is an increasing number of cars as millions of new cars are produced in America. Americans will not live without cars! However, some have realized the serious problem of air pollution by cars. It is necessary to find ways to solve the problem of air pollution.
One way to clean the air is to build a new kind of clean car. That’s what several of the large car factories are trying to do. But to build a clean car is easier said than done. Progress in this field has been slow.
Another way is to take the place of the car engine by something else. Engineers are now working on it. Many makers believe that it will take years to develop a practical model for us.
To prevent the world being polluted by cars, Americans have to make some changes in the way of their life. They have to cut down on the number of their cars and are encouraged to travel and go to work by bike. But this change does not come easily ---- many workers may find themselves without jobs if a car factory closes down. And the problem of their pollution would become less important than that of unemployment.
Americans may live a happy but sad life for a long time because of the car problem..
Cars and Pollution in American

Problem	Methods	Disadvantages	57.____________
53.______________	Building a new kind of clean car.	Progress in this field is slow.	Americans may live a happy but sad life.
		It takes years to develop a 55._______
	54.________ on the number of cars	Many workers may 56.__________
	Traveling and going to work by bike.

閱讀下面短文，根據(jù)第58至第60小題的具體要求，簡要回答問題，并將答案轉(zhuǎn)寫到答題卡上。
For Americans, a mosquito bite is an itchy(使人發(fā)癢的) bother, but for many in Africa, a tiny bite can be deadly. One million people die each year of malaria, a disease spread by infected mosquitoes. Most of these people live in Africa, and are under age 5.
Malaria can be prevented and treated. However, many African nations don’t have the funds to fight it. Nothing but Nets (NBN) hopes to change that. The United Nations Foundation created the campaign in 2006. The mission: Squash(壓制) malaria by covering sleeping areas with nets. Hanging bed nets treated with insecticide(殺蟲劑) is the simplest way to stop mosquitoes from biting at night. The chemical lasts four to five years. For $10, anyone can send a net to Africa and help save a life.
So far, NBN has raised $19 million and delivered 700,000 nets to seven countries. Families are taught how to use the nets. Kids also get vaccines(疫苗) and vitamins. “Women line up for miles to get these interventions(干預措施) for their kids,” says NBN director Elizabeth McKee Gore. “They understand the importance.” So do kids in this country. “They get so excited thinking of ways to raise money,” says NBN spokesperson and basketball star Ruth Riley.
NBN’s biggest fund-raiser is Katherine Commale, 7. She’s been spreading thebuzz(嗡嗡聲) about bed nets for the past two years. To show how they work, she and her brother made a picture. “We teach that bed nets can save lives,” she told TFK.
Katherine has raised $42,000 for NBN. “She just wants those who need a net to have one,” says her mom, Lynda. “It’s pretty simple to her.” To find out how you can help, visit nothingbutnets.net.
58.  Why can a tiny mosquito bite be deadly in Africa? (within 10 words)
___________________________________________
59. List the ways to prevent malaria. (not more than 8 words)
___________________________________________
60. Paraphrase(用英語重述) the underlined sentence. (not more than 12 words)
___________________________________________

完形填空（共20 小題，每小題1.5分，滿分30分）
閱讀下列短文，掌握其大意，然后從各題所給的四個選項中，選出最佳選項。
The story goes that some time ago, a man had a very lovely little daughter. One day the man  26  his 3-year-old daughter for  27  a roll of gold wrapping paper. Money was tight and he became  28  when the child tried to decorate a  29  to put under the Christmas tree.  30 , the little girl brought the gift to her 31 the next morning and said, “This is for you, Daddy.”
The man was  32  by his earlier  33 , but his anger flared again when he found out the box was  34 . He yelled at her, “Don’t you know, when you give someone a present, there is  35  to be something inside?” The little girl looked 36  at him with tears in her eyes and cried, “Oh, Daddy, it’s not empty at all. I  37  kisses into the box. They are all for you, Daddy.”
The father was crushed. He  38  his arms around his little girl, and he begged for her  39 .
Only a short time later, an  40  took the life of the child. It is also told that her father  41  that gold box by his bed for many years and whenever he was discouraged, he would take out a(n)  42  kiss and remember the love of the child who had put it there.
In a very real sense, each of us, as human beings, has been given a gold container  43  unconditional love and kisses from our children, family members, friends, and God. There is simply no other  44 , which anyone could hold, more 45  than this.

26. A. asked	B. praised	C. begged	D. punished
27. A. wasting	B. stealing	C. selling	D. holding
28. A. glad	B. angry	C. sad	D. upset
29. A. room	B. hall	C. box	D. ball
30. A. Nevertheless	B. But	C. Therefore	D. And
31. A. father	B. mother	C. teacher	D. sister
32. A. puzzled	B. surprised	C. scared	D. embarrassed
33. A. overwork	B. overreaction	C. overcoat	D. overpass
34. A. empty	B. heavy	C. full	D. wet
35. A. happened	B. seemed	C. supposed	D. used
36. A. down	B. back	C. up	D. forward
37. A. blew	B. sent	C. set	D. passed
38. A. put	B. turned	C. handed	D. gave
39. A. kindness	B. forgiveness	C. sadness	D. carelessness
40. A. overview	B. incident	C. accident	D. action
41. A. remembered	B. owned	C. had	D. kept
42. A. imaginary	B. kind	C. gentle	D. warm
43. A. filled with	B. pleased with	C. crowded with	D. equipped with
44. A. world	B. feeling	C. possession	D. love
45. A. expensive	B. precious	C. comfortable	D. interesting

（共5小題，每小題2分，滿分10分）
Read the following text and choose the most suitable heading from A-F for each paragraph. There is one extra heading which you do not need.

A．Goods for auction (拍賣) sales

B．Definition of bidding

C．Way to sell more goods by auction

D．Auction sales in history

　　E.　Brief introduction to auctions
　　F.　Making a larger profit as an auctioneer
61. ______
Auctions are public sales of goods, conducted by an officially approved auctioneer. He asks the crowd assembled in the auction-room to make offers, or “bids”, for the various items on sale. He encourages buyers to bid higher figures, and finally names the highest bidder as the buyer of the goods. This is called “knocking down” the goods, for the bidding ends when the auctioneer strikes a small hammer on a table at which he stands.
62. ______
The ancient Roman probably invented sales by auction, and the English word comes from the Latin auction, meaning “increasing”. The Romans usually sold in this way the goods taken in war. In England in the eighteenth centuries, goods were often sold “by the candle”: a short candle was lit by the auctioneer, and bids could be made while it stayed alight.
63. ______
Practically all goods whose qualities vary are sold by auction. Among these are coffee, skins, wool, tea, furs, silk and wines. Auction sales are also usual for land and property, furniture, pictures, rare books, old china and similar works of art.
64. ______
An auction is usually advertised beforehand with full particulars of the articles to be sold and where and when they can be viewed by potential buyers. If the advertisement cannot give full details, catalogues are printed, and each group of goods to be sold together, called a “l(fā)ot”, is usually given a number. The auctioneer need not begin with Lot 1 and continue in the order of numbers: he may wait until he notices the fact that certain buyers are in the room and then produce the lots they are likely to be interested in.
65. ______
The auctioneer’s services are paid for in the form of a percentage of the price the goods are sold for. The auctioneer therefore has a direct interest in pushing up the bidding as high as possible. He will not waste time by starting the bidding too low. He will also play on the opponents among his buyers and succeed in getting a high price by encouraging two business competitors to bid against each other.