He wrote a lot of novels, none of _________ was translated into a foreign language.

      A．them          B．what          C．that            D．which

.The book didn't______ children probably because the author employed too many scientific terms in it.

       A. apply to     B. appeal to    C. intend to    D. lead to

--- Did you scold him for his carelessness?

    --- Yes, but        it.

       A．I’d rather not do             B．I’d rather not have done

       C．I shouldn’t do         D．I’d better not do

    No matter how long your life is, you will, at best, be able to read only a few books of all that

Have been written, and he few you do read should include the best. It is to be expected that the selections will change over time. Yet there is a surprising uniformity（一致）in the lists which represent the best choices of any period.

What are the signs by which we may recognize a great book? The four I will mention may not be all there are, but they are the ones I’ve found most useful in explaining my choices over the years.

Great books are probably the most widely read. They are not bet sellers for a year or two. But they are long lasting ones. Gone With the Wind has had relatively few readers compared to the plays of Shakespeare or Don Quixote. It would be reasonable to estimate that Homer Iliad（《伊利亞特》）has been read by at least 25,000,000 people in the last 3000 years.

Great books are popular, not pedantic（書生氣的）.They are not written by specialists about specialties for specialists. Whether they are philosophy or science, or history or poetry, they treat of human, not academic problems. They are written for men, not professors. To read a textbook for advanced students, you have to read an elementary textbook first. But the great books can be considered elementary in the sense that they treat the elements of any subject matter. They are not related to one another as a series of textbooks, graded in difficulty or in the technicality of the problems with which they deal.

Great books are always contemporary, the most readable and instructive.

Great books deal with the persistently unsolved problems of human life. There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Great minds acknowledge mysteries honestly. Wisdom ins strengthened, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations.

67．Which is NOT the standard in the following when evaluating a great book?

       A．Although not a best seller, it must be the most widely read.

       B．It can be read without much relevant knowledge.

       C．Great books are never out of date.

       D．Great books will not disappoint you.

68．According to the author, Gone With the Wind is        .

       A．sure to enjoy a large number of readers in the long run

       B．disliked by readers who like Shakespeare

       C．not a great book because of the few readers

       D．read more often than Don Quixote

69．After reading the passage, we can infer that        .

       A．different periods have different lists of great books because there are many books for people to choose from

       B．if you don’t read an elementary textbook, you may have difficulty in understanding in   understanding an advanced one

       C．Homer Iliad must be a best seller when it came out

       D．great books often deal with unsolved problems of human life for the writers have confidence in settling them

70．The best title for this passage is         .

       A．Great Books in Your Life       B．Great Books in Your Specialty

       C．How to Find a Great Book      D．What Is a Great Book

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。

    Do you know who invented the slide – fastener, or rather, the zipper (拉鏈)? No one thought of anything like the zipper until Whitcomb Judson came along. Judson’s slide-fastener was an out-of-blue invention. No one knows what gave him the idea．No one even knows much about him, except that he was a mechanical engineer living in Chicago and that he patented other inventions to do with a street railway system and motorcars.

Judson invented the first zipper in 1891. This ingenious little device looks very simple, and the principle behind it is simple, too; yet it took a lot of years, together with another inventor to make the zipper really practical.

The zipper had to be produced cheaply, because no one would pay a lot of money for it．Judson invented a machine to mass-produce his slide-fastener．But the machine was terribly complicated and kept on breaking down. So in 1905 Judson invented a new fastener, the C-curity, which was easier to manufacture. Clothing manufacturers, however, were not the least bit interested in trying out the fasteners, so the only way Judson could get them on to the market was by letting pedlars（小販）sell them from door to door．Moreover, the C-curity fastener was clumsy and had a bad habit of bursting open at inconvenient times.

Then a young Swedish engineer called Sundback came to work for Judson’s struggling company. He thought hard and decided that the interlocking parts needed to be much smaller to give the fastener greater flexibility and to stop it bursting open．After several attempts, Sundback invented a really practical fastener in 1913. It is in all important ways the same as the one we use today.

Clothing manufacturers still refused to use the fastener. But in 1918 an inventor showed the American army a flying suit he had invented．It happened to use the slide-fastener．The army put the suit through such tough tests that it disintegrated(分裂)---all except the fastener! A Navy officer happened to see the tests, and Judson’s unknown little company got an order for ten thousand fasteners．Later, Judson’s invention was used in the manufacture of rubber galoshes（橡膠套鞋） by a big company. They called the galoshes `Zippers??. This is how the slide-fastener got it s popular name.

56．What does the sentence “Whitcomb Judson’s slide-fastener was an out-of-blue invention” in the first paragraph mean?

       A．That it was blue in color. B．That it was totally unexpected.

       C．That it was excellent in quality.      D．That it was not practical.

57．How many years did it take for a really practical zipper to be invented?

     A．22      B．18             C．19             D．13

58．What do we know about Whitcomb Judson according to the passage?

     A．It took Judson a lot of years to invent the first zippers.

     B．Judson, together with Sundback invented a really practical fastener in 1913.

     C．Judson invented a lot of things, not only including zippers but also a street railway system and motorcars.

     D．People know little about Whitcomb Judson except a few facts.

59．What is the writer’s purpose of writing the passage?

       A．To tell us how the zipper works.

       B．To give a brief introduction about the inventors of the zipper.

       C．To give us information about the invention of the zipper.

       D．To argue who the real inventor of the zipper was.

Although many Chinese students say that their knowledge of English grammar is good, most would admit that their spoken English is poor. Whenever I speak to a Chinese student they always say, “My spoken English is poor.” However, their spoken English does not have to remain “poor”! I would like to suggest that there may be some reasons for their problems with spoken English.

First, they fail to find suitable words to express themselves due to a limited vocabulary. Obviously the better answer is to expand their vocabulary. However, you can speak with a limited vocabulary, if your attitude is positive. Others will follow you as long as you use the words that you know.

Second, they are afraid of making mistakes. Sometimes they make mistakes when they are speaking because they are shy and nervous. Yet students should remember that their goal should be FLUENCY NOT ACCURACY（準確性）. Your aim in writing is to be accurate following the rules for grammar and using the right words and spelling them correctly. However, in speaking your aim is fluency. You want to get your message across ,to talk to someone in English ,as quickly and as well as you can ,even though sometimes you may use a wrong word or tense ,but it doesn’t matter because the person you are speaking to will understand you and make allowances for any mistakes he hears.

The third reason is that not enough attention is paid to listening. You have one mouth but two ears! All that hearing was necessary for you to start speaking.

Forth, most Chinese students are reactive rather than proactive language learners. Instead of actively seeking out opportunities to improve their spoken English they passively wait for speaking opportunities to come to them and wonder why their English always remains poor. If you have this proactive outlook, then you will see English opportunities wherever you go.

If you do not use your English beyond the classroom you will forget what English you know. Remember: USE IT OR LOSE IT! You can learn how to speak English better by speaking English more.

63．What is most probably the writer’s purpose in writing the passage?

A．To improve your reading.    B．To improve your listening.

C．To improve your spoken English.  D．To improve your vocabulary.

64．It can be inferred from the third paragraph that     .

A．don’t be fluency . Just be accuracy

B．don’t be nervous ,don’t be shy . Just write!

C．don’t be afraid of making mistakes . Just speak!

D．don’t be shy ,don’t be fluency. Just listen and write!

65．The last paragraph is possibly close to the meaning of “      ”.

A．more hurry, less speed    B．better late than never

C．silence is gold  D．practice makes perfect

66．The text is most probably taken from a     .

A．teacher’s diary B．report on study  C．sports newspaper D．movie magazine

The world's oceans have warmed 50 percent faster over the last 40 years than previously thought due to climate change, Australian and US climate researchers reported on Wednesday. Higher ocean temperatures expand the volume of water, contributing to a rise in sea levels that is submerging small island nations and threatening to great damage in low-lying, densely-populated delta regions around the globe.

The study, published in the British journal Nature, adds to a growing scientific chorus of warnings about the pace and consequences of rising oceans. It also serves as a corrective to a massive report issued last year by the Nobel-winning UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change（IPCC）, according to the authors.

Rising sea levels are driven by two things: the thermal（熱）expansion of sea water, and additional water from melting sources of ice. Both processes are caused by global warming. The ice sheet that sits at the top of Greenland, for example, contains enough water to raise world ocean levels by seven metres（23 feet）, which would bury sea-level cities from Dhaka to Shanghai.

Trying to figure out how much each of these factors contributes to rising sea levels is critically important to understanding climate change, and forecasting future temperature rises, scientists say. But up to now, there has been a confusing gap between the projections of computer-based climate models, and the observations of scientists gathering data from the oceans.

The new study, led by Catia Domingues of the Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research, is the first to reconcile（與…一致）the models with observed data. Using new techniques to assess ocean temperatures to a depth of 700 metres（2,300 feet）from 1961 to 2003, it shows that thermal warming contributed to a 0.53 millimetre-per-year rise in sea levels rather than the 0.32 mm rise reported by the IPCC.

64. What happens when the ocean's temperature rises?

A. It causes sea levels to rise.

B. It causes sea levels to remain constant.

C. It causes sea levels to decrease.

D. It causes sea level to change.

65. Which of the followings would be buried by the rising sea?

A. Small island nations.

B. All coastal cities around the world.

C. People who enjoy holiday on the beach.

D. Low-lying regions.

66. The new study in this passage _____________.

A. shows that thermal warming contributed to a 0.32 millimeter-per-year rise in sea levels.

B. did not reveal anything that scientists hadn't already known.

C. used new techniques to assess ocean temperatures.

D. shows that models contradict the observed data.

67. What was the main finding of the study?

A. Nothing enough is being done about global warming.

B. That ocean waters have warmed faster than scientists had previously thought.

C. That the warming of the world's oceans is not a threat.

D. A massive report issued last year by IPCC was wrong.

The first bullet "train designed and manufactured in China with a speed of 300 kilometers per hour roiled off the production line on Saturday morning. The train was the latest model in the country' s China Railway High-speed (CRH) Series. This marks that China has joined a leading world club after Japan, France and Germany to become the fourth country capable of turning out such high speed trains. Previously, China' s fastest selfdeveloped trains ran at a service speed of up to 250 km per hour.

Those trains, which presented to public on April 18, served the Beijing-Harbin, Beijing-Shanghai and Beijing-Guangzhou routes. The new streamlined train was made of aluminum alloy(鋁合金). The train body was the lightest of its kind in the world; Such a design was for the sake of energy economization. The train' s power was 12.7 kilowatts, lower than other high-speed trains, which was normally about 15 kilowatts.

The new train, which features a bar in the dining car and double-faced LCD TV screens in the first-class cars, was equipped with shock absorbers between carriages. As the train is running at a high speed, the shock absorbers are used to reduce shocking force and rocking of the train body. A train with eight carriages could seat about 600 passengers. They were expected to run on the 115-km Beijing-Tianjin route starting from August before the Beijing Olympic Games. It would reduce the journey time from the current 80 minutes to around 30 minutes.

77. From the 1st paragraph we learn that_______.

      A. The latest model of CRH Series ran at a service speed of up to 250 km per hour

      B. China became the fourth country in the world able to produce bullet trains

      C. The first self-developed bullet train roiled off the production line at a speed of 300 km per hour

      D. China has joined a leading world club consisting of Japan ; France and Germany

78. The new bullet train_______.

      A. has been put into use in China  B. has double-faced LCD TV sets in first carriage

      C. is slower than high-speed trains       D. is made of the lightest material in the world

79. "It" in the last paragraph refers to_______.

      A. a train with eight carriages          B. the speed of 115 km per hour

      C. the Ministry of Railways     D. the use of the new train

80. What is mainly talked about in this passage.'?

      A. The bullet trains designed and made in China have been put into operation.

      B. The bullet trains serve many of the main routes between big cities in China.

      C. The new bullet trains are equipped with some advanced facilities.

      D. The new bullet trains are expected to run for the Beijing Olympic Games.