(07·全國Ⅱ)

We arrived in Spain for the first time a few weeks ago. I decided to  21  a car because we had sold the one we had in England before  22  home. Yesterday the sales office rang us to say the car was  23 . I had tried out a model like it before, but as I was not yet  24  driving in this city, my wife did not want me to collect it  25  so we went together to  26  it. We paid for the car and  27  the papers. They told us that there was  28  petrol（汽油）to take us to a garage, where we could fill up. The  29  garage to the office was about 100 yards away and we got there  30 . But when I turned into main road I suddenly saw a lot of cars racing  31  me. I got out of  32  as fast as I could by backing into the garage  33  and the man behind  34  me.

“It’s such a problem to  35  to drive on the right side, isn’t it?” my wife said. “Yes, if only I had had a few lessons for  36 .” I replied. “You had better go  37  on the way home,” my wife said. “You’d be sorry if you had  38  on the first day, wouldn’t you?” While we were talking, the man behind got out of his car and said in good English,” Would you mind telling me  39  you are thinking of leaving?  40  are you going to sit in your car all day?”

21.A. borrow                       B. drive                        C. buy                          D. choose

22.A. leaving                        B. making                     C. returning                  D. getting

23.A. right                           B. ready                       C. fixed                        D. sold

24.A. sure of                       B. satisfied with            C. interested in              D. used to

25.A. on my own                 B. right away                C. in a hurry                 D. on the way

26.A. receive                       B. bring                        C. order                       D. fetch

27.A. accepted                     B. wrote                       C. signed                      D. copied

28.A. little                            B. enough                     C. much                       D. no

29.A. best                            B. nearest                     C. quickest                   D. cleanest

30.A. lately                          B. directly                     C. safely                       D. slowly

31.A. after                           B. with                         C. around                     D. towards

32.A. their way                    B. the garage                 C. their sight                 D. the car

33.A. at last                         B. once more                C. as usual                    D. as well

34.A. caught                        B. cheered                    C. shouted at                D. chatted with

35.A. prepare                       B. continue                   C. choose                     D. remember

36.A. discussion                   B. adventure                 C. experiment               D. practice

37.A. carefully                     B. smoothly                  C. quickly                     D. differently

38.A. an error                      B. a problem                 C. as accident               D. a headache

39.A. when                          B. why                         C. how                         D. what

40.A. For                            B. Or                           C. But                          D. So

    

 (07·全國ⅡD篇)

It is difficult for doctors to help a person with a damaged brain. Without enough blood, the brain lives for only three to five minutes. More often the doctors can’t fix the damage. Sometimes they are afraid to try something to help because it is dangerous to work on the brain. The doctors might make the person worse if he operates on the brain.

Dr. Robert White, a famous professor and doctor, thinks he knows a way to help. He thinks doctors should make the brain very cold. If it is very cold, the brain can live without blood for 30 minutes. This gives the doctor a longer time to do something for the brain.

Dr. White tried his idea on 13 monkeys. First he taught them to do different jobs, then he operated on them. He made the monkeys’ blood back to the monkeys’ brains. When the brain’s temperature was 10℃, Dr. White stopped the blood to the brain. After 30 minutes he turned the blood back on. He warmed the blood again. After their operations the monkeys were like they had been before. They were healthy and busy. Each one could still do the jobs the doctor had taught them.

53.The biggest difficulty in operating on the damaged brain is that ____.
A. the time is too short for doctors                     

B. the patients are often too nervous
C. the damage is extremely hard to fix                 

D. the blood-cooling machine might break down

54.The brain operation was made possible mainly by ____.
A. taking the blood out of the brain                      B. trying the operation on monkeys first
C. having the blood go through a machine             D. lowering the brain’s temperature

55.With Dr. White’s new idea, the operation on the damaged brain ____.
A. can last as long as 30 minutes                         B. can keep the brain’s blood warm
C. can keep the patient’s brain healthy                  D. can help monkeys do different jobs

56.What is the right order of the steps in the operations?
a. send the cooled back to the brain                      b. stop the blood to the brain
c. have the blood cooled down                            d. operate on the brain
A. a, b, c, d                    B. c, a, b, d                  C. c, b, d, a                  D. b, c, d, a

 (07·全國ⅡA篇)

Growing up in Philadelphia, Lieberman started cooking with his stay-at-home dad when he was seven. His food-loving family had two kitchens, and he quickly learned what was the best way to bake his cakes. Lieberman improved his kitchen skills greatly during a year abroad before college, learning from a cook in Italy and studying local specialties（地方特色菜）in Germany, Spain and France. At Yale, he was known for throwing dinner parties, single-handedly frying and baking while mixing drinks for dozens of friends. Just for fun, he and some friends decided to tape a show named Campus Cuisine about his cooking. Lieberman was a real college student showing his classmates how to do things like make drinks out of dining-hall fruit. That helped the show become very popular among the students. They would stop Lieberman after classes to ask for his advice on cooking. Tapes of the show were passed around, with which his name went beyond the school and finally to the Food Network.

Food Network producer Flay hopes the young cook will find a place on the network television. He says Lieberman’s charisma is key. “Food TV isn’t about food anymore,” says Flay. “It’s about your personality（個(gè)性）and finding a way to keep people’s eyeballs on your show.”

But Lieberman isn’t putting all his eggs in one basket. After taping the first season of the new show, Lieberman was back in his own small kitchen preparing sandwiches. An airline company（航空公司）was looking for someone to come up with a tasteful, inexpensive and easy-to-make menu to serve on its flights, Lieberman got the job.

41.We can learn from the text that Lieberman’s family ____.
A. have relatives in Europe                                  B. love cooking at home
C. often hold parties                                           D. own a restaurant

42.The Food Network got to know Lieberman ____.
A. at one of his parties                                        B. from his teachers     
C. through his taped show                    D. on a television program

43.What does the word “charisma” underlined in the text refer to?
A. A natural ability to attract others.                      B. A way to show one’s achievement.
C. Lieberman’s after-class interest.                      D. Lieberman’s fine cooking skill.

44.Why did the airline company give Lieberman the job?
A. He could prepare meals in a small kitchen.       

B. He was famous for his shows on Food TV.
C. He was good at using eggs to make sandwiches.
D. He could cook cheap, delicious and simple meals.

45.What can we learn about Lieberman from the text?
A. He is clever but lonely.                                    B. he is friendly and active.
C. He enjoys traveling around.                             D. He often changes his menus.

  

 (07·全國ⅡE篇)

Most people want to know how things are made. They honestly admit, however, that they hardly know a thing when it comes to understanding how a piece of music is made. Where a composer（作曲家）begins, how he manages to keep going – in fact, how and when he learns his trade – all are covered in complete darkness. The composer, in short, is a man of mystery（神秘）.

One of the first things the common man wants to know about is the part inspiration（靈感）plays in a composer’s work. He finds it difficult to believe that composers are not much interested in that question. Writing music is as natural for the composer as eating or sleeping for all. Music is something that the composer happens to have been born for.

The composer, therefore, does not say to himself: “Do I feel inspired?” He says to himself: “Do I feel like working today?” And if he feels like working, he does. It is more or less like saying to himself: “Do I feel sleepy?” if you feel sleepy, you go to sleep. If you don’t feel sleepy, you stay up. If the composer doesn’t feel like working, he doesn’t work. It’s as simple as that.

57.What would be the best title for the text?
A. Composer: a man of mystery                          B. Practice makes good music
C. Relation between sleeping and music                D. Music: product of nature

58.The words “covered in complete darkness” underlined in Paragraph 1 most probably mean ____.
A. difficult to be made     B. without any light       C. black in color            D. not known

59.Most people seem to think that a composer ____.
A. finds it difficult to write music                       

B. considers it important to have a good rest
C. should like to talk about inspiration                  

D. never asks himself very simple quesiotns

60.The author will most probably agree that composers ____.
A. are born with a gift for music                          B. are people full of mystery
C. work late at night for their music                     D. know a lot about eating and sleeping

 (07·全國ⅡB篇)

Some people have the feeling that nothing can be done about their poor reading ability（能力）. They feel hopeless about it. Can you learn to read better, or must you agree that nothing can be done about it?

To be sure, people are different. You cannot to do everything as well as certain other people do. It al the students in a class tried out for basketball, some would be very good players; others would be very poor; and many would be in between. But even the very poor players can become much better players if they are guided in the right way, and with plenty of practice. It is the same with reading. Some seem to enjoy reading and to read well without any special help. Others find reading a slow and tiring job. In between, there are all degrees of reading ability.

Many experiments have shown that just about every poor reader can improve his reading ability. In these experiments, the poor readers were given tests of reading ability. After some of the causes of their poor reading were discovered, they were given special instruction and practice in reading. After a few months, another test of the same kind was given. In nearly all cases, these people had raised their reading scores.

46.With the example of basketball players, the author shows ____.
A. why certain people are poor readers                

B. that there are differences in people’s abilities
C. why some people are good basketball players   

D. that good basketball players can be good readers

47.To improve their reading ability, people should ____.
A. work long and hard                                        B. take different forms of tests
C. have special help and practice                          D. try different reading materials

48.The experiments mentioned in the text show that ____.
A. good readers seem to enjoy reading                 

B. almost all poor readers can make progress
C. causes of poor reading are difficult to find out 

D. tests help people improve their reading ability