【題目】閱讀下面短文，在空白處填入一個適當的詞，或填入括號中所給單詞的正確形式。
A recent study suggested that taking a bottle of water into the exam hall could help students improve their grades.
According to the study those who brought drinks,(especial) water, with them when sitting their exams performed up to 10 percent better than those who did not.
Comparing their exam results with their normal schoolwork grades, scientists then found that all those who (bring) drinks with them got better grades between 2 and 10 percent.
It is unclear drinking water improves exam results. But scientists say having enough water in our bodies and not feeling thirsty could have a （help）effect on our brains. Drinking water may also cut on anxiety, has a bad effect on exam performances.
Whatever the explanation, it is obvious that students should try hard to keep enough water in their bodies during exams. So next time, you are going to have a big exam, try (bring) a bottle of water with you. Who knows — it help you pass the exam!

【1】If John, ten, wants to learn more about Christmas, he may choose the work by_________.

A. Elm Hill Books B. Tommy Nelson

C. Kliment, Felicia Drury D. McLellan, Diana

【2】Which of the following will save the most money for you?

A. I Love You, Sweatheart B. Eat Right for Your Metabolism

C. The Girls D. The Twelve Dogs of Christams Gift Set

【3】The book by Kliment and Felicia Drury is probably intended for those interested in ________.

A. pop songs B. acting arts

C. fiction D. health

【4】It can be inferred from the text that ________.

A. The Girls is thicker than The Twelve Dogs of Christams Gift Set

B. there are many beautiful songs in I Love You, Sweatheart

C. not only I Love You, Sweatheart but also The Girls is papercover

D. Eat Right for Your Metabolism tells us the importance of keeping fit.

【題目】根據短文內容, 從短文后的選項中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項。選項中有兩項為多余選項。
Our mood may change suddenly like a storm with lightning and thunderbolts that comes without notice.
The good news is that bad moods can leave as suddenly as they have come. Exceptions to this rule of course are cases where there are other problems such as depression or any other mental destruction.
How to improve your mood?
When you understand that you are not feeling happy but you are in depression or disappointment, then you can use these simple techniques that will be able to change the negative situation and improve your mood . Exercises, gymnastics and sports help a lot to achieve a better emotional balance. If you feel that you are in a bad mood, take a hot bath or sauna. .
Watch a movie, read a book or talk to a friend.
. When you leave work or home, go to places that make you happy and calm. This helps to improve your mood.
Make relations with happy, optimistic and pleasant people. . Positive and optimistic feelings that create positive thinking for the future will help you overcome your bad feelings and defeat your bad mood.
When the problem of bad moods, frustration and negative emotions beyond normal situations becomes chronic (長期的), it is important to turn to a specialist for help.
A．The relaxation of the muscles will help.
B．Change your environment.
C．Use physical activity to fight against feelings of depression.
D．This can help you improve your mood significantly.
E. First you have to learn to recognize when you are in a bad mood.
F. There are ways to improve your mood.
G. Changes in feelings and mood can happen for various reasons.

As you travel from area to area,a sea of contrasts is【2】makes it so fascinating.You can find an old fisherman on his bamboo boat【3】(answer) his mobile phone,and modernity and old traditions existing side by side.The only constant thing in China is “change”.

【4】first it might seem challenging.But you【5】(find)the people helpful,especially if you are traveling with children.Chinese love children,【6】more the happier.

But as far as children【7】(concern),this isn’t a light-hearted trip to Disneyworld.What if they get sick?Will the kids like the food?Is【8】(pollute)really that bad?Will they be bored?Just relax.You can depend on【9】that you’ll end up with plenty of priceless【10】(memory) of that country.

【題目】根據短文理解，選擇正確答案。
Researchers at the University of Kansas say that people can accurately judge 90 percent of a stranger's personality simply by looking at the person's shoes. “Shoes convey useful information about their wearers”, the authors wrote in the new study published in the Journal of Research in Personality．
Lead researcher Omri Gillath said the judgments were based on the style, cost, color and condition of someone's shoes. In the study, 63 University of Kansas researchers looked at pictures showing 208 different pairs of shoes worn by the study's participants. Volunteers in the study were photographed in their most commonly worn shoes, and then filled out a personality questionnaire.
Some of the results were expected: People with higher incomes most commonly wore expensive shoes, and flashier shoes were typically worn by outgoing people. However，some of the more specific results are strange enough. For example, “practical and functional 'shoes were generally worn by more “pleasant" people, while ankle boots were more linked with “aggressive” personalities. The strangest of all may be that those who wore “uncomfortable looking” shoes tend to have “calm” personalities. And if you have several pairs of new shoes or take extreme care of them, you may suffer from “attachment anxiety", spending lots of time worrying about what other people think of your appearance. There was even a political calculation in the mix with more liberal (主張變革的) types wearing “shabbier and less expensive” shoes.
The researchers noted that some people will choose shoe styles to mask their actual personalities, but researchers noted that volunteers were also likely to be unaware that their footwear choices were showing the deep side of their personalities.
（1）What does this text mainly tell us?
A.Shoes Call hide people's real personalities．
B.Shoes convey false information about the wearer．
C.People's personalities call be judged by their shoes．
D.People know little about their personalities．
（2）Which of the results is beyond people's expectation?
A.Wealthy people often wear expensive shoes．
B.Pleasant people like wearing uncomfortable shoes．
C.Aggressive people are likely to weal" ankle boots．
D.Flashier shoes are typically worn by outgoing people．
（3）People suffering from “attachment anxiety” tend to
A.wear strange shoes
B.worry about their appearance
C.have a calm character
D.become a political leader
（4）The author wrote the text in order to
A.inform us of a new study
B.introduce a research method
C.teach how to choose shoes
D.describe different personalities

【題目】任務型閱讀
Thinking about a future career cm bung a lei of stress. This cuts up the question into workable issues that you and your child can enjoy dealing with throughout their childhood years.Here's how:
In your child's lift, there are times when they are given the opportunity to see and/or discuss a certain career Schools have Career Day. an aunt or uncle talks about what they do for a living or your child's youth group goes on a trip to a hospital und talks to the staff there.
When your Child shows interest in a certain career. you should do some research. Then, you can offer your child some information on that job and related jobs. It is a wonderful the online resource.
Help your Child weigh the pros and cons for his or her different career interests. Encourage your child to narrow（縮�。﹖he cboice down to five at the most.
This is a good time to begin ordering in college and technical school lists. Use the lists and any other information you have found as an ice breaker for more converasations with your child.
Make this a clear message. Teach your child that part of be ing independent is knowing when and who to lead on,trust and respect.
A.Do you fed you have open communication with your child?
B.The Occupational Oudook Handbook gives you what schooling is needed.
C. The final decision lies with your child, but you do have the right to have input.
D. Choosing the right career is one of die mm important decisions your child will make in life.
E. Figure out the path your child would have to take to obtain the schooling, for his career choices.
F. Each of these nines is an opportunity for you to ask your child what he thought of those jobs or that field of work.
G. Parents need to learn to help their child conquer this great question by dropping seeds of conversation as time goes by Bud watch them grow into ideas.

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【題目】根據短文理解，選擇正確答案。
Do you want to live forever? By the year 2050,you might actually get your wish-if you are willing to leave your biological body and live in silicon circuits (半導體電路). But long before then, perhaps as early as 2020,some measures will begin offering a semblance of immortality (虛的永生).
Researchers are confident that the technology will soon be able to track every waking moment of your life? Whatever you see and hear, all that you say and write, can be recorded, analyzed and added to your personal chronicles (履歷). By the year 2030, it may be possible to catch your nervous systems through electrical activities, which would also keep your thoughts and emotions.
Researchers at the laboratories of British Telecommunications have given the name of this idea as Soul Catcher. Small electronic equipment will make preparation for Soul Catcher. It would use a wearable supercomputer, perhaps in a wristwatch, with wireless links to microseosors under your scalp (頭皮) and in the nerves that carry all five sensory signals. So wearing a video camera would no longer be required.
At first, the Soul Catcher's companion system-the Soul Reader-might have trouble copying your thoughts in complete details. Even in 2030, we may still be struggling to understand how the brain is working inside, so reading your thoughts and understanding your emotions might not be possible. But these signals could be kept for the day when they can be transferred to silicon circuits to revitalize minds everlasting entities (永生實體). Researchers can only wonder what it will be like to wake up one day and find yourself alive inside a machine.
For people who choose not to live in silicon, semblance of immortal it would not be as useless as they thought. People would know their lives would not be forgotten, but would be kept a record of the human race forever. And future generations would have a much fuller understanding of the past. History would not be controlled by just the rich and powerful, Hollywood stars, and a few thinkers in the upper society.
（1）The main idea of this passage is that_____ .
A.human beings long for living forever
B.there are many difficulties in making the Soul Catcher
C.people can live forever as technology develops
D.the invention of Soul Catcher has great importance
（2）According to this passage, a Soul Catcher will be______ .
A.a new machine on which research measures have already been made
B.a new invention in order to catch and keep human's thoughts
C.made by British scientists to offer something that looks like living forever
D.made of silicon circuits which can catch people's nervous activity
（3）We can infer from the passage that semblance of immortality is______.
A.to be a reality sooner or later
B.far from certain
C.just an idea that couldn't be realized at all
D.a fading hope
（4）The meaning of the underlined word revitalize, in the fourth paragraph is close to___.
A.make dead
B.make famous
C.make known
D.make active

【題目】閱讀理解
Unlike most other holidays, the history of April Fools' Day. Sometimes called All Fools' Day, is not as the totally clear. The only point in time that can be agreed on as the beginning of this tradition was 1582,in France. Before that year, the New Year was celebrated for eight days, beginning on March 25.The reform of the calendar celetxration reached the highest point on April l_With the riform of the calendar under Charles 1X,the Gregorian calendar (公歷, 陽歷）was introduced, and New Year's Day was moved to January 1.
However, because in those days communications were not as developed as they are today, many people did not receive the news for several years. Some people refused to accept the new calendar and continued to celebrate the New Year on April, These backward people were considered “foots” by other peopk. They were often sent on “fools” errands (徒勞無益的工作)or were made the taragets of jokes.
This developed, over time, into a tradition of playing a trick on someone on the first day of April. The tradition eventully spread to England and Scotland in the eightreenth century. It was later introduced to the American colonies of both the Britain and Francc.April Fools' Day thus developed into an international fun feast,so to speak,with different nationalities specializing in their own kind of humor at the expense of their friends and families.
（1）According to the new calendar, which day was New Year's Day moved to in France ?
A.March 25.
B.January 1.
C.April 1.
D.April3.
（2）Which of the following first had the tradition of celebrating the April Fools' Day?
A.France
B.England,
C.Scotland
D.America.
（3）What was people's attitude towards the new calendar?
A.They accepted it happily.
B.They refused it immediately.
C.Some recognized it.
D.Some laughed at it.
（4）What does the passage want to tell us?
A.What the French did on April Fools' Day.
B.How April Fools' Day come into being.
C.When was the new calendar introduced.
D.Why some people were fooled in France.

【題目】根據短文理解，選擇正確答案。
BERLIN---A German woman, fearful that a burglar was trying to break into her second -storey apartment, called police after she heard someone climbing up to her balcony shortly after midnight, police said Thursday. Police discovered the “burglar” was a man carrying flowers and a bottle of wine who turned out to be the woman's boyfriend. But then arrested him on an outstanding reason.
“He was trying to surprise her with the flowers and a bottle of wine but it all went wrong,” said Korbach police spokesman Volker Koenig. He said the man jumped down from the balcony and tried to escape but was quickly caught by police.
“He gave the police who were taking him to jail the bottle of wine as a gesture of thanks for the friendly treatment after the arrest. ” Koenig said．
LONDON---A smoker who died after battling emphysema (肺氣腫) has had his dying wish granted with the placement of a “SMOKING KILLED ME” sign on his hearse (靈車) and his grave.
Albert Whittamore blamed his youthful smoking habit for the lung disease. He said before he died in February that he wanted the sign to serve as a warning to young people about the dangers of tobacco smoking.
The sign was designed to look like the health warning on a packet of cigarettes. The printed notice at his grave will be left in place for a week. The hearse carrying his body through the town of Dover 100 miles (160 kilometers) southeast of London and several of the printed signs shown in the windows.
（1）The man climbing up to the girl's balcony _______
A.was actually a wanted thief
B.was put into prison in the end
C.thanked the police for setting him free
D.was treated badly by the police
（2）The best title for the first news item might be “_______.”
A.A burglar's love
B.A burglar boyfriend
C.Flowers and wine
D.Price for being romantic
（3）The public paid more attention to the smoker because _______.
A.he died after smoking for many years
B.he had the sign put on his hearse and his grave
C.he died of a lung disease without any treatment
D.he wanted the sign left on his grave for one day
（4）Which of the following is NOT true?
A.The sign will be printed on the packet of cigarettes.
B.The signs were also shown in the windows of the hearse.
C.The smoker wanted to tell people how bad it was to smoke.
D.The smoker regretted forming the habit of smoking.