--- The accident might not have happened , had we been more careful .

   --- But we _______.

 A. didn’t   B. hadn’t   C. weren’t   D. don’t

As a teacher , we should try to _____ it ____ to our students how helpful a correct learning method is .

 A. get ; about   B. get ; away   C. get ;across   D. get ; off

Both of them showed a ________ to finish the fighting, so the problems will probably be ______.

 A willingness; solved   B willing; solving   C will; solved   D willingness, solving

— The weather isn’t good enough for an outing , is it？

— No. We can’t have _________at this time of the year.

      A．a(chǎn) nicer day   B．a(chǎn) worse day    C．a(chǎn) worst day   D．so fine a day

第三部分：閱讀理解（共15小題，每題2分，滿分30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，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。

Joanne was stuck in traffic jam in central Birmingham at 5:30.and at 6:30 she was expected to be chairing a meeting of the tennis club.At last.the traffic was moving.She swung quickly racing to her house.As she opened the door,she nearly tripped over Sheba.

“Hey,Sheba.”she said,“I’ve got no time for you now,but I’ll take you out as soon as I get back from tennis club.”Then she noticed Sheba seemed to be coughing or choking Obviously,she could hardly breathe.Immediately,Joanne realized she would have to take her to the vet（獸醫(yī)）.When she got there,that vet was just about to close for the day Seeing the state of Sheba,Dr.Sterne brought her quickly into his office.

“Listen,doctor,I’m really in a rush to get to a meeting can I leave her with you,and go and get changed?I’ll be back in ten minutes to pick her up,and then I’ll take her on to the meeting with me.Is that OK?”

“Sure.”said the doctor.

Joanne made the quick trip back to her house in a couple of minutes.As she was once more entering the hallway,the phone by the door began to ring.

“This is Dr.Sterne,”said an anxious vioce,“I want you to get out of that house immediately,”said the doctor’s voice.“I’m coming round fight away,and the police will be there any time now.Wait outside!”

At that moment,a police car screeched to a stop outside the house.Two policemen got out and

rain into the house.Joanne was by now completely confused and very frightened.Then the doctor arrived.

   “Where’s Sheba?Is she OK?”shouted Joanne.

   “She’s fine,Joanne.I took out the thing which was choking her,and she’s OK now.”

   Just then,the two policemen reappeared from the house,half-carrying a white-faced man,who could hardly walk.There was blood all over him.

   “My God,”said Joanne,“how did he get in there?And how did you know he was there?”

   “I think he must be a burglar.”said the doctor.“I knew he was there because when I finally removed what was stuck in Sheba’throat:it turned out to be there human fingers”

56.What was Joanne supposed to do at 6:30?

   A.To walk her dog           B.To see her doctor

C.To attend a club meeting    D.To play tennis with her friends

57.Joanne wanted to get back to her home again                  

   A.to dress up for the meeting        B.to phone the police station

C.to catch the badly hurt burglar      D.to wait for her dog to be cured

58.From the passage,we can infer that                 

   A.Sheba fought against the burglar         

B.the police found the burglar had broken in

C.Joanne had planned to take her dog to the meeting

D.the doctor performed a difficult operation on the dog

59.In the passage,the writer intends to tell us that the dog is              

   A.clever          B.friendly          C.frightening           D.devoted

Tears are nature's way of making us feel more comfortable. When our eyes is made uncomfortable by some small pieces of pollution, or when we are cutting onions, or when we are exhausted and “red –eyes” from over work and late hours, tears form in our eyes to clean and re-flesh them.

Tears are also a sign of strong emotion. We cry when we are sad and we cry when we are happy.

And tears seem to be uniquely（唯獨）human. We know that animals also experience emotion—fear, pleasure, loneliness — but they do not shed （流） tears. From this, we can conclude that tears are closely related to the emotional and biological make up of the human species.

Biologically speaking, tears are actually drops of saline fluid, which is a little bit salty, produced by a gland（腺）in the body. Because salt is an important component, tears may actually constitute the most conclusive evidence that the human animal is the end product of a long evolutionary process that began in the sea.

And it is clear that, in addition to（除了） the emotional benefits（好處）, the shedding of tears has a specific biological function as well. Through tears, we can eliminate from our body certain chemicals which build up in response to stress and create a chemical imbalance in the body. Crying actually makes us feel better by correcting that imbalance and making us feel good again. And thus the emotional and the biological functions of tears merge（合并）into one and make us even more "human" than we would otherwise be.

68．According to the passage, human beings may have originated（起源于）in________.

A．the sea              B．the salt         C．chemicals       D．a(chǎn)nimals

69．Which of the following is NOT a function of tears?

A．Biological       B．Emotional    C．Political   D．Chemical

70．According to the article, which of the following is unique to humans?

A．The feeling of loneliness.          B．The state of feeling good.

C．The ability to shed tears           D．The feeling of fear

71．The underlined word “eliminate” probably means_______.

A．a(chǎn)dd             B．produce        C．replace         D．remove