We don’t care if a hunting dog smells ______ but we really don’t want him to smell _____.

  A. well; well       B. badly; badly         C. bad; well        D. bad; badly

.Was it in 2000_________he was still in middle school_________this boy became an

   expert at computer?

  A. when; that                     B. that; where

  C. when; where                    D. that; that

       —Do you mind if I keep pets in the building?

—______.

       A. I’m afraid you can’t                B. Of course not, it’s not allowed here

       C. Great! I love pets                    D. No, you can’t

The reading skills of young male students may improve more when huts are tutored (輔導(dǎo)) by women, a Canadian study shows, contradicting some school policies to hire male teachers to improve boys' literacy.

Herb Katz, an education professor at the University of Alberta, took 175 boys in the third and fourth grades, identified as struggling readers, and paired them with a research assistant who worked on their reading skills for 30 minutes a week over 10 weeks.

On average, the boys paired with female tutors felt better about their reading skills after the 10 weeks than those who were guided by a male research assistant, the study found.

Katz said the study, published in the US journal Sex Roles, may cause educational policy - makers in countries such as Australia and Britain to rethink policies that call for more male teachers to be hired to provide role models for boys whose reading skills fall behind their peers (同齡人). "It tells us that the way governments respond with policy is perhaps a little too quick and a little too simple," Katz said." Boys and girls enter kindergarten with similar reading skills, Katz said, but by the end of the third grade, boys have lower reading scores than girls. The reasons behind that difference are not entirely clear. "I don't know that reading skills fade so much as teachers may not recognize what boys are doing," he said. "We don't really know a lot about boys, even in those early years."

The boys involved in the study attended 12 schools in the City of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Most were from downtown neighborhoods. About a third were native Canadians and 55 percent came from ethnic minority groups.

60. What's the purpose of this passage?

A. To encourage boys to do more reading.              B. To persuade schools to hire female teachers.

C. To advise good ways for reading skills.               D. To provide some information about a study.

61. The underlined word "contradicting" in the first paragraph probably means"_________".

A. finding out       B. going against        C. standing by         D. bringing about

62. Which of the following is TRUE about the boys taking part in the study?

A. They have difficulty in reading.           B. They take no interest in reading.

C. They come from different Canadian cities.   D. They have no female teachers at school.

63. It can be known from the passage that _________.

A. women must be better al teaching than men

B. girls do more reading than boys

C. male teachers are preferred to help reading- troubled boys in Australia

D. governments will change their policy on hiring teachers

第二節(jié) 短文改錯（共10小題；每小題1.5分，滿分15分）

此題要求改正所給短文中的錯誤。對標(biāo)有題號的每一行作出判斷：如無錯誤，在該行右邊橫線上畫一個(√)；如有錯誤（每行只有一個錯誤），則按下列情況改正：

此行多一個詞：把多余的詞用斜線（\）劃掉，在該行右邊橫線上寫出該詞，并也用斜線劃掉。

此行缺一個詞：在缺詞處如一個漏字符號（∧），在該行右邊橫線上寫出該加的詞。

此行錯一個詞：在錯的詞下劃一橫線，在該行右邊橫線上寫出改正后的詞。

注意：原行沒有錯的不要改。

Charlie Lee, aged fifteen, and his sister Roseanne,      

earn their pocket money by washing his father’s car,           76. ________

watering the plants, cleaning the balcony, and do             77. ________

odd (臨時的) jobs around a house. Their parents prefer giving   78. ________

them money for doing jobs to buying them present.            79. ________

Charlie and Roseanne usually receives about $25 for           80. ________

each job. They often bargain their father over the pay            81. ________

and the job to be done. Mrs. Lee said, “We were                 82. ________

teaching them that the money doesn’t come out of              83. ________

nowhere. It means more to them if they feel that they’ve        84. ________

earned it but they better understand the value of things.          85. ________

She will have to ______ herself to the new condition.

A. change              B. fit                         C. suit           D. adjust    

The doctor ____me ______more exercise.

A. advised; to take  B. advised; taking

C. tried to persuade; taking    D. tried to persuade; take

I failed in the examination last week and I regret _____________ hard.

A. not to study     B. not studying      C. have not studied      D. did not study

 --- Isn’t that Jessica’s brother over there?

   --- No, it _______ be him. I’m sure he doesn’t wear glasses.

   A. can’t             B. must not          C won’t           D may not

 Tom looked at Jenny, with tears ________ his eyes, and shouted out the words ________ in his heart for years.

       A. filling; having been hidden                           B. filled; hidden

       C. filling; hidden                                              D. filled; hiding