Doctors ______ the fat woman not to eat so much junk food, but she just couldn’t give it up.

A. persuaded B. promised

C. commanded D. advised

Martin Luther King was happy to help because he knew it would help them ____ their dream of making black and white people equal.

A. burst B. finish

C. identify D. achieve

Busy as he is, he ______ a few hours for exercise every day.

A. sets off B. sets about

C. sets down D. sets aside

完型填空（共20小題；每小題1分，滿分20分）

For most, getting your first car opens up a new world of freedom and allows you to go wherever you want, whenever you want. Getting a car did this for me, and it also brought my best friend and me . But then it tore us apart.

My best friend lives three minutes from my . Since her is in late summer,seven months behind mine, I basically became her when I turned 16 in December.

And so I her up for school and took her home. We made ice-cream , went shopping and to the movies―all in my car. I would drive to her house just to sit on her bed, read magazines and have a good laugh. I went to her house so that she gave me a to her house.

A week after I got my license，she was with me I had my first accident. She was there and me and we kept it a , since I didn’t want people to . From then on, through thick and thin, it was just me, my car and my best friend.

High school is a time of , but I couldn’t for a long time we became so distant（疏遠(yuǎn)）after being so close. My friend waited three months after her birthday to get her dream car：a green 2004 Beetle. With its , the passenger seat of my car became . Our car trips became less frequent I didn’t even drive down her street.

It’s funny how a car can change a relationship so much. I had wanted her to get a car, but once she did, I it. I wanted her friendship back, even if it couldn’t be the same.

1.A. some B. any C. none D. all

2.A. closer B. farther C. luckier D. happier

3.A. neighbor B. school C. home D. family

4.A. holiday B. birthday C. course D. job

5.A. driver B. follower C. partner D. guide

6.A. picked B. woke C. called D. hurried

7.A. parties B. trips C. plans D. classes

8.A. happily B. often C. hardly D. seldom

9.A. key B. door C. address D. phone

10.A. while B. but C. after D. when

11.A. saved B. suggested C. advised D. comforted

12.A. favorite B. secret C. pride D. joke

13.A. help B. see C. know D. laugh

14.A. change B. disappointment C. friendship D. excitement

15.A. understand B. answer C. imagine D. believe

16.A. when B. where C. how D. what

17.A. arrival B. dream C. return D. beauty

18.A. broken B. crowded C. empty D. different

19.A. however B. until C. as D. before

20.A. regretted B. received C. enjoyed D. lost

The elephant was lying heavily on its side, fast asleep. A few dogs started barking at it. The elephant woke up in a terrible anger: it chased the dogs into the village where they ran for safety. That didn't stop the elephant. It destroyed a dozen houses and injured several people. The villagers were scared and angry. Then someone suggested calling Parbati, the elephant princess.

Parbati Barua’s father was a hunter of tigers and an elephant tamer（馴獸者）. He taught Parbati to ride an elephant before she could even walk. He also taught her the dangerous art of the elephant round-up -- how to catch wild elephants.

Parbati hasn’t always lived in the jungle. After a happy childhood hunting with her father, she was sent to boarding school in the city. But Parbati never got used to being there and many years later she went back to her old life. “Life in the city is too dull. Catching elephants is an adventure and the excitement lasts for days after the chase,” she says.

But Parbati doesn’t catch elephants just for fun. “My work,” she says, “is to rescue man from the elephants, and to keep the elephants safe from man.” And this is exactly what Parbati has been doing for many years. Increasingly, the Indian elephant is angry: for many years, illegal hunters have attacked it and its home in the jungle has been reduced to small pieces of land. It is now fighting back. Whenever wild elephants enter a tea garden or a village, Parbati is called to guide the animals back to the jungle before they can kill.

The work of an elephant tamer also involves love and devotion. A good elephant tamer will spend hours a day singing love songs to a newly captured elephant. “Eventually they grow to love their tamers and never forget them. They are also more loyal than humans,” she said, as she climbed up one of her elephants and sat on the giant, happy animal. An elephant princess indeed!

1.For Parbati, catching elephants is mainly to ______.

A. get long lasting excitement

B. make the angry elephants tame

C. send them back to the jungle

D. keep both man and elephants safe

2.Before Parbati studied in a boarding school, ______.

A. she spent her time hunting with her father

B. she learned how to sing love songs

C. she had already been called an elephant princess

D. she was taught how to hunt tigers

3.Indian elephants are getting increasingly angry and they revenge（報(bào)復(fù)）because ______.

A. they are caught and sent for heavy work

B. illegal hunters capture them and kill them

C. they are attacked and their land gets limited

D. dogs often bark at them and chase them

4.The passage starts with an elephant story in order to explain that in India ______.

A. people easily fall victim（受害者）to elephants attacks

B. dogs are as powerful as elephants

C. elephant tamers are in short supply

D. the man-elephant relationship is getting worse

How many men do housework? Recently a European Commission tried to find out people’s ideas and reactions to the women’s movement. As part of their survey (調(diào)查), they asked many men and women the question, “Who does the housework?” The men answered very differently from the women!

The housework they asked people about were: preparing meals, washing dishes, cleaning the house and babysitting. 48% of British husbands said they did these things. 37% of Danish men helped in the house. But only 15% of Italian men said they did the housework, many of them said they never helped at all!

But there was an interesting point of view from the wives. According to British wives, only 38% of their husbands helped in the house. And Italian wives said that their husbands hardly ever helped. The Italian and British men did not tell the truth! The Commission found that Danish men were the most trustful husbands; their answers were the same as their wives’ answers.

Do the men you know help in the house? Do you think the survey gives a true picture in your experience? Write and tell us what you think.

1.The survey was carried out in ______.

A. Britain B. Europe C. Denmark D. Italy

2.The subject for the survey is ______.

A. how many boys do the housework

B. who are more diligent（勤勞）, wives or husbands

C. how many women do the housework

D. who does the housework at home

3.From the passage we can see that ______.

A. there were more husbands who did the housework than wives

B. husbands did half of the housework all the time

C. there were more wives who did the housework than husbands

D. wives did all the housework at home

4.More ______ husbands help in the house than ______ husbands.

A. British; Danish B. Italian; Danish C. Danish; British D. Italian; British

Have you ever suddenly felt that someone you knew was in trouble —and was he? Have you ever dreamed something that came true later? Maybe you have ESP（特異功能）. ESP stands for Extrasensory Perception. It may be called a sixth sense. It seems to let people know about events before they happen, or events that are happening some distance away.

Here’s an example. A woman was ironing clothes. Suddenly she screamed, “My father is dead! I saw him sitting in the chair!” Just then, a telegram came. The woman’s father died of a heart attack. He died sitting in a chair.

There are thousands of stories like this one on record. Scientists are studying them to find out what’s behind these strange mental messages. Here’s another example —one of hundreds of dreams that have come true.

A man dreamed he was walking along a road when a horse and carriage came by. The driver said, “There’s room for one more.” The man felt the driver seemed dead, so he ran away. The next day, when the man was getting on a crowded bus, the bus driver said. “There’s room for one more.”

Then the man saw that the driver’s face was the same face he had seen in the dream. He wouldn’t get on the bus. As the bus drove off, it crashed and burst into flames. Everyone was killed!

Some people say stories like these are coincidences. Others, including some scientists, say that ESP is real. From studies of ESP, we may someday learn more about the human mind.

1.According to the passage, the author believes that the sixth sense is ______.

A. possible B. imaginative

C. not real D. impossible

2.By studying ESP, scientists may get to ______.

A. learn how people tell lies

B. know more about human dreams

C. know more about human mind

D. learn how strange things happen

3.In the last paragraph the underlined word “coincidences” probably means “______”.

A. things that may not happen

B. things that happen by accident

C. things that must happen

D. things that happen in a dream

4.This article is mainly about ______.

A. the human dream B. a crowded bus

C. the human mind D. the sixth sense

My son and I were trying to sell the house we had repaired, but in the barn（谷倉）there were bats and they would not leave. The barn was their home. They told us so in their own way they hung for the season. “Don’t worry about it, Dad.” Patrick said. “They keep down the mosquitoes（蚊子）.”

Unfortunately they also kept the buyers away. When we had asked a person to sell the house for us he had refused to show it because of the bats. “Bats are popular,” Patrick comforted me. “They are ecological.” “Isn’t there a machine you can buy that produces high-frequency sounds to keep bats away?” “ I don’t know,” said Patrick. “But I like bats, and whoever buys this house will probably like them too.’ “Probably?” I hated that word. “How many bats are there, anyway?” “I counted about 90 last night,” said Patrick. “They were dropping out from under the edge of the roof.” “You mean there are more------outside?” “They’re everywhere, Dad. But look at it this way. When the cold weather comes, they’ll be off to Mexico. Maybe in the spring we can keep them out. Don’t worry about it,” he said for the

the hundredth time. “It’s not a problem.”

The bat expert I called was even more active than Patrick. “I think you’ve got a large number there,” he said in wonder. “I’ve been trying to attract bats to our house for 25 years. A single bat ears up his weight in mosquitoes and black flies three times every night. You’ve a very lucky man.” I offered to share my luck with him. He could take them away. “Bats have a remarkable homing instinct（本能）,” he said. “They’d fly straight back even if I transported them 100 miles. Once they have settled, you can’t stop them from coming back.” I was silent.

Finally we managed to rent the house to a young family, who were also interested in buying it. “What about the bats?” I said to Patrick. “Oh, they love the bats,” he said. “No mosquitoes. No black flies. It’s one of the things that attracted them.” “Do you think they will really buy the house?” “Probably? Well, if they do, I suppose I’ll have to admit that I was wrong.” “You mean you’re going to eat your words?”

“Yes. I am.”

1.What was the problem the author had with his house?

A. Bats were living in the barn and wouldn’t go away.

B. The author and his son couldn’t sleep well because of the bats

C. The author and his son might be able to stay for the season.

D. The house was still badly in need of repair.

2.What did Patrick suggest the author should do to stop the bats living in the barn?

A. Buy a high-frequency machine.

B. Close the barn in the spring.

C. Reduce the number of mosquitoes.

D. Move them one hundred miles away.

3.What happened to the house in the end?

A. Some people agreed to rent the house.

B. The author failed to find anybody who wanted to live in the house

C. The bat expert made the decision to buy the house.

D. The bats left the house for Mexico in the spring.

4.Why did the author think he might have to “eat his words”?

A. He felt sorry for the bats.

B. He was happy about selling the house.

C. He realized they might be wrong about the bats’ actions

D. He might be mistaken about being unable to sell the house.

To protect you and your fellow passengers, the Transportation Security（安全） Administration (TSA) is required by law to check all checked baggage. As part of this process, some bags are opened and checked. Your bag was among those selected for check.

During the check, your bag and its contents may have been searched for items forbidden by law such

as fireworks, fuels, gunpowder, etc. At the completion of the check, the contents were returned to your bag, which was resealed（重新封口）with a "special" lock.

If the TSA screener was unable to open your bag for check because it was locked, the screener may have been forced to break the locks on your bag. TSA sincerely regrets having to do this, and has taken care to reseal your bag upon completion of check. However, TSA is not liable for damage to your locks resulting from this necessary security precaution (預(yù)防措施) .

For packing tips and other suggestions that may assist you during your next trip, visit: WWW.TSATravelTips.us.

We appreciate your understanding and cooperation. If you have questions, comments, or concerns, please feel free to contact the Transportation Security Administration Consumer Response Center:

Phone: toll-free at (866) 289-9673

Email: TellTSA@tas.dot.gov

1.The passage is trying to ______.

A. introduce one of the security acts

B. tell people about baggage check

C. warn against the damage of locking the baggage

D. persuade people to contact TSA

2.The passage is most probably written to those who ______.

A. had their baggage selected for checking

B. refused to check their baggage

C. kept some damaged items in their baggage

D. left their baggage unlocked

3.The underlined word “l(fā)iable” means “______”.

A. suitable by law B. permitted by law

C. responsible by law D. prepared by law

4.For packing tips and other suggestions, visit ______.

A.TellTSA@tas.dot.gov

B. TSA Consumer Response Center

C. toll-free at (866) 289-9673

D. WWW.TSATravelTips.us

閱讀下列各小題，根據(jù)漢語提示，用句末括號(hào)內(nèi)的英語單詞完成句子，并將答案寫在答題卡上相應(yīng)的題號(hào)后。

1.The physics teacher told us that ______________________ than sound. (travel)

物理老師告訴我們說光傳播速度比聲音快。

2.I couldn’t fall in sleep because this was the first time _____________________ such an exciting moment. (go)

我無法入睡，因?yàn)檫@是我第一次經(jīng)歷如此令人激動(dòng)的時(shí)刻。

3.Although she didn’t know the best way of getting to places, she insisted that she ___________ the trip properly. (organize)

雖然她對(duì)去某些地方的最佳路線并不清楚，她卻堅(jiān)持要自己把這次旅行安排得盡善盡美。

4.I will never give up ___________________. (matter)

無論我多累，我都不會(huì)放棄。

5.Is this the reason ____________ at yesterday’s meeting for his carelessness in his work? (explain)

這就是他昨天在會(huì)上為他工作中的粗心大意所解釋的理由嗎?

6. A new film ________________ at the cinema this week. Let’s go to see it. (put)

這周有部新電影上映。我們?nèi)タ纯窗桑?/p>

7.After leaving the poor village, he _______________ his new life in the big city. (wait)

離開了貧窮的小山村，他迫不及待的想要開始他在這個(gè)大城市的新生活。

8.It was _______________ the bridge construction project fell behind the schedule. (because)

由于糟糕的天氣，大橋的建設(shè)進(jìn)度落后了。

9.Your speech was heard by a group of five judges, _______________ that it was the best one this year. (agree)

評(píng)委會(huì)的五位評(píng)委聽了你的演講，他們中有三個(gè)認(rèn)為這是今年最好的演講。

10.Only after they had discussed the matter for several hours _________ a decision. (make)

直到他們討論了那個(gè)問題幾個(gè)小時(shí)之后，他們才作出了決定。