【題目】Read the advertisements carefully. Then answer the questions that follow.

【1】You may find the advertisements above .

A. in a store window B. in a school magazine

C. in a newspaper D. on a company notice-board

【2】The position of a(n) is a part-time job.

A. florist B. artist

C. preschool teacher D. dental nurse

【3】Which of the following is the most important for the childcare job?

A. Child food cooking skills.

B. Childcare experience and outgoing.

C. The ability to start work in 2 weeks.

D. The ability to work well with other people.

【4】The office cleaners will be required to work about hours a week.

A. 5 B. 10 C. 15 D. 20

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The fuel that p a machine provides the energy that the machine needs in order to work.

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我認(rèn)為他住在那里，但我不敢肯定。

I think he lives there but I couldn't say __________ __________.

【題目】I was going to die in Antarctica, I was certain．An image of my frost-covered body, pale and lifeless, filled my mind as I glanced around．In all directions the empty wilderness of Antarctica stretched away from me, the only feature on the landscape was the division between snow and sky．I gazed sadly at my team．They were rapidly disappearing over the horizon．

I was leading an expedition （探險） attempting to reach the south pole．The team was made up of ordinary women from all around the world, from Jamaica, India, Singapore and Cyprus, many of whom had never seen snow, or spent a night in a tent before we set off．Our aim was to be the most international all-female team to reach the South Pole．

As I watched, the rest of the team marched on, unaware that I was not with them．By the time I realized that my sledge was firmly trapped, the team were already a long way ahead of me．I called out to Era, my teammate, " Era! Stop !"

Getting no response I called again, but my shouts were carried away in the opposite direction by the wind．Seconds passed．Nothing．I was gradually being left alone, completely defenseless against the low temperatures of Antarctica．

My strength increased when I thought of a cold lonely death．I pulled again my sledge, which moved a little. I removed the ice with my ski-pole and boot, desperately trying to break the sledge free．The sledge shot forward, knocking me off balance．I struggled to my feet and set off after the team．

I caught up just as Reena, my teammate from India, looked behind her and noticed there was one person missing．She swung around on her skis in shock and spotted me in the near distance．

As we continued, my panic slowly faded．For the rest of the day, each of the team was glancing over their shoulder every few minutes．They were not going to risk losing me again．

【1】From the first paragraph we can safely infer that the author ．

A．disliked her team B．got seriously ill

C．was in panic D．lost her way

【2】What is special about the expedition team?

A．They were all female．

B. They were all professional．

C．They made the longest expedition．

D．They had been strictly trained．

【3】What made the author get her sledge out of the ice was ．

A. the shouts from her teammates

B. her strong desire to live

C. the sudden change in wind direction

D. the natural beauty ahead

【4】At last, each of the team members kept looking back ．

A．to avoid being attacked from behind

B．to make sure that none fell behind

C．to check the distance they had covered

D．to keep a record of the route they took

【5】Which may be the best title of the passage?

A．How to survive in Antarctic．

B．A mysterious trip to the South Pole．

C．A female expedition team．

D．Being left behind in the snow．

【題目】A new study has found some secrets of people’s understanding of large numbers.

Researchers studied a group of people who were born deaf and never learned any spoken language or a formal sign language, but they have developed a gesture system to communicate with people around them. The gestures let them express approximate amounts, but not exact numbers.

“Up to three, they’re fine,” says Elizabet Spaepen, a researcher at the University of Chicago and an author of the study. “But past three, they start to fall apart.” In one test, Spaepen would knock her fist against a study participant’s fist a certain number of times and then ask them to respond with the same number of knocks. “If I were to knock four times on their fist, they might knock on my fist five times,” she says.

The finding offers a clue to just how much language affects our understanding of numbers. That has been a big question since 2004, when other researchers published data on two tribes in the Amazon whose members also lack words for big numbers. “What they have are words that mean one and two,” Spaepen says, “and then they have a word to mean many.”

Members of the Amazonian tribes also had trouble matching numbers larger than three or four. But some scholars felt that these earlier studies failed to prove that language was the reason. They pointed out that the tribes lived in groups that didn’t use money and had no need for exact numbers.

The new research appears to answer that criticism. “It proves that the kinds of problems in understanding numbers that we found in the Amazonian tribes are not due to just the cultural or environmental circumstances,” says Peter Gordon of Columbia University, one of the researchers involved in the earlier studies.

【1】The participants of the new study ______.

A. cannot communicate with one another

B. use a formal sign language to express numbers

C. have some physical disability

D. come from a distant tribe

【2】 According to the passage, the new study _______.

A. ignored the cultural influence on the participants

B. is doubted by many people

C. has found it is harder to learn numbers than learning a sign language

D. has shown that our understanding of numbers is influenced by our mastering of language.

【3】 The tribes involved in earlier studies _________.

A. often dealt with big numbers.

B. didn’t use money in their daily life

C. didn’t have their own language

D. often made trouble for the researchers

【4】 What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A. Peter Gordon is a researcher of the University of Chicago.

B. Peter Gordon thinks less of the new study than his earlier studies.

C. Peter Gordon believes people’s understanding of numbers has nothing to do with cultural circumstances.

D. Peter Gordon is in favor of the finding of the new study.

【5】In which part of a newspaper would you most probably find this passage?

A. Science B. Health

C. Politics D. Lifestyle

【題目】如果你不帶雨衣出去，你就要冒淋濕的危險，因為可能下雨。

If you go out __________ a raincoat you risk __________（get） wet, because it may rain.

【題目】When Mary Moore began her high school in 1951, her mother told her, "Be sure and take a typing course so when this show business thing doesn't work out, you'll have something to rely on." Mary responded in typical teenage fashion. From that moment on, "The very last thing I ever thought about doing was taking a typing course," she recalls.

The show business thing worked out, of course. In her career, Mary won many awards. Only recently, when she began to write Growing Up Again, did she regret ignoring her mom," I don't know how to use a computer," she admits.

Unlike her 1995 autobiography, After All, her second book is less about life as an award-winning actress and more about living with diabetes (糖尿病). All the money from the book is intended for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), an organization she serves as international chairman. "I felt there was a need for a book like this," she says." I didn't want to lecture, but I wanted other diabetics to know that things get better when we're self-controlled and do our part in managing the disease."

But she hasn't always practiced what she teaches. In her book, she describes that awful day, almost 40 years ago, when she received two pieces of life-changing news. First, she had lost the baby she was carrying, and second, tests showed that she had diabetes. In a childlike act, she left the hospital and treated herself to a box of doughnuts (甜甜圈). Years would pass before she realized she had to grow up again and take control of her diabetes, not let it control her. Only then did she kick her three-pack-a-day cigarette habit, overcome her addiction to alcohol, and begin to follow a balanced diet.

Although her disease has affected her eyesight and forced her to the sidelines of the dance floor, she refuses to fall into self-pity. "Everybody on earth can ask, 'why me?' about something or other," she insists. "It doesn't do any good. No one is immune (免疫的) to heartache, pain, and disappointments. Sometimes we can make things better by helping others. I've come to realize the importance of that as I've grown up this second time. I want to speak out and be as helpful as I can be."

【1】Why did Mary feel regretful?

A. She didn't achieve her ambition.

B. She didn't follow her mother's advice.

C. She didn't complete her high school.

D. She didn't take care of her mother.

【2】We can know that before 1995 Mary

A. had two books published

B. received many career awards

C. knew how to use a computer

D. supported the JDRF by writing

【3】Mary's second book Growing Up Again is mainly about her .

A. living with diabetes

B. successful show business

C. service for an organization

D. remembrance of her mother

【4】When Mary received the life-changing news, she .

A. lost control of herself B. began a balanced diet

C. tried to get a treatment D. behaved in an adult way

【5】What can we know from the last paragraph?

A. Mary feels pity for herself.

B. Mary has recovered from her disease.

C. Mary wants to help others as much as possible.

D. Mary determines to go back to the dance floor.

【題目】單詞拼寫（共10小題；每小題1分，滿分10分）

【1】The child was r_______ from the fire, but died soon after for terrible burns.

【2】She i________ the key into the lock and opened the door.

【3】Lasers can be used to p_______ operations nowadays.

【4】He is a responsible person and can be t_________ to carry out the plan.

【5】He gave me the f______ of my life when I saw him hanging out of the window

【6】We would like a room ___________ （俯瞰）the park if possible.

【7】Another source of income is from _________ （自愿的）contributions of the people.

【8】He reported the _______(丟失) of his jewellery to the police.

【9】She is still ________（猶豫） about sending her son abroad.

【10】Edward can’t be here today, but he has sent his ________. （歉意）

【題目】Don't talk in the meetingroom，________？

A．do you B．will you

C．can you D．must you

【題目】________wants to stay in a hotel has to pay their own way.

A．Anyone B．The one C．Whoever D．Who