I spent my last Christmas Day working the whole day!
Due to the nature of my job, I had to go back to my __41___ and spent my whole Christmas Day there. Of course, It __42___ no good! Surely you will get ___43__ when almost all of your friends are either resting at home, watching TV, listening to music, __44___ watching movies in the cinema, and you are the only one that is not __45___. The feeling is really bad. And I really did not feel like __46___ and going to work in the morning. But I __47___ went to work. I am a responsible guy. Since the arrangement was like that, I __48___.
Of course, there is something __49___ about working on Christmas Day and most public __50___. First of all, since I had no plan to go out, or do any __51___ activities on that day, I most likely would __52___ the day at home playing computer games, so why not go to work and ___53__ some extra money? It makes sense to me. Besides, it is a holiday for __54___ the whole world. It __55___ most of my company’s offices in other __56___ would probably not be working, __57___ those in China, Japan and Thailand as Christmas is not a holiday for people there. Less users, less problems, meaning? Less __58___ for us to do. And the best part is, the office is ours! I can __59___ my laptop to the office, watch movies, play games, and at the same time, get my extra __60___! Well, what do you think of working on holidays?

小題1:	A．home B．study C．office D．town
小題2:	A．made B．felt C．kept D．did
小題3:	A．sad B．strange C．stupid D．interesting
小題4:	A．or B．a(chǎn)nd C．so D．but
小題5:	A．watched B．employed C．missed D．included
小題6:	A．keeping off B．falling behind C．getting up D．running away
小題7:	A．a(chǎn)lso B．a(chǎn)lways C．even D．still
小題8:	A．experienced B．a(chǎn)ccepted C．disliked D．changed
小題9:	A．important B．good C．different D．funny
小題10:	A．places B．tours C．jobs D．holidays
小題11:	A．other B．dangerous C．useless D．simple
小題12:	A．start B．value C．spend D．a(chǎn)fford
小題13:	A．pay B．steal C．save D．make
小題14:	A．a(chǎn)lmost B．hardly C．only D．exactly
小題15:	A．explains B．means C．reads D．tells
小題16:	A．villages B．countries C．cities D．buildings
小題17:	A．a(chǎn)fter B．with C．except D．a(chǎn)s
小題18:	A．work B．talk C．homework D．cleaning
小題19:	A．throw B．post C．bring D．pull
小題20:	A．fun B．room C．service D．pay

A young woman was driving through the lonely countryside. It was dark and raining. Suddenly she saw an old woman by the side of the road, holding her hand out as if she wanted a lift.
“I can’t leave her out in this weather,” the woman said to herself, so she stopped the car and opened the door.
“Do you want a lift?” she asked. The old woman nodded and climbed into the car. After a while, she said to the old woman, “Have you been waiting for a long time?” The old woman shook her head. “Strange,” thought the young woman. She tried again. “Bad weather for the time of year,” she said. The old woman nodded. No matter what the young woman said, the hitchhiker(搭車者) gave no answer except for a nod of the head or a shrug(聳肩).
Then the young woman noticed the hitchhiker’s hands, which were large and hairy. Suddenly she realized that the hitchhiker was actually a man! She stopped the car. “ I can’t see out of the rear screen,” she said, “Would you mind clearing it for me?”
The hitchhiker nodded and opened the door. As soon as the hitchhiker was out of the car, the terrified young woman raced off.
When she got to the next village she pulled up. She noticed that the hitchhiker had left his handbag behind. She picked it up and opened it. She gave a gasp. Inside the bag was a gun.
小題1:The woman stopped the car because _______.

A．the old woman asked her to	B．she recognized the old woman
C．she knew what the woman wanted	D．she wanted to helped the old woman

小題2:What made the woman feel strange about the old woman?

A．That she kept nodding her head	B．That she was unable to speak
C．That she gave no answer to her questions	D．That she had large and hairy hands

小題3:The young woman asked the hitchhiker to clear the rear screen because _______.

A．this is the way she thought of to get rid of him	B．the hitchhiker frightened her
C．the hitchhiker was very helpful	D．she couldn’t see out of the rear screen

小題4:The hitchhiker left the bag with a gun in it behind because_______.

A．he wanted to give her a warning

B．he had not expected the woman would leave him behind in the rain

C．it was his present for her

D．he wanted to kill her with the gun

Brazil is the greatest football nation in the world. There are 170 million Brazilians. How many of them are football fans? 100 million! All of them think they know all about football. This makes life very difficult for the Brazilian team managers. When things go bad for the Brazilian team, the newspapers would demand that the team manager should leave his job. “If we win, they me in heaven,” a manager once said. “If we lose, they put me in hell(地獄).”
You can’t escape football in Brazil. There are football matches on every street and beach. On television, the results of football matches come before the main news programs. There are six television channels(頻道) in Rio de Janeiro. On Sundays each channel shows a different football match.
Brazil is not the richest country in the world, but the government spends lots of money on football. It cost more than one billion pounds to prepare for the 1978 World Cup. That’s 10 pounds for every Brazilian man, woman, and child. And many Brazilians don’t earn as much as 10 pounds a week. Is it worth it?
“Brazil must have a great football team,” says one journalist. “If it costs one billion pounds, that’s all right. If the government doesn’t give us a good team, then it will become unpopular. Football is more than a game in Brazil.”
Football is more than a game in Brazil. This is certainly true in its largest city, Sao Paulo. The most popular team is Corinthians. Corinthians’ fans are the most loyal and emotional in Brazil. When Corinthians win, production(產(chǎn)量) in the Sao Paulo car factories increases by fifteen per cent. When they loses, it drops. At one time Corinthians won the national championship for the first time, for four days fans danced and sang in the streets,
Why are people so loyal to one football team? What makes a football fan? One man says, “Without Corinthians my life would be sad. Corinthians bring some joy and excitement into my life. We all need that, don’t we?”
小題1:In Paragraph 1, what the manager said means_______.
A, he is respected by newspapers        B,. he will probably be killed by fans
C. he is judged on his team’s results     D. it’s difficult for him to get good scores
小題2:All the following statements about the Brazilians and football are true EXCEPT _______.

A．a(chǎn)ll the Brazilians know all about football

B．football has an influence on politics in Brazil

C．the Brazilians spend a lot of money on football

D．Corinthians’ fans are always supporting their team

小題3:Some people danced and sang in the streets for four days in Sap Paulo because_______.

A．production in the Sao Paulo car factories increased
B．Corinthians won a national football championship
C．Corinthians won the World Cup	D．the newspapers put a team manager in heaven

小題4: People are loyal to their football team mainly because _______.

A．it brings joy and excitement to their life	B．they could always count on it
C．it can increase the car production	D．they could see hope in it

One evening, Mr. Green was driving his car along a lonely country road. He had __36__$10,000 from the bank in town. Suddenly a man in rags（衣衫襤褸） stopped him and asked for __37___. Mr. Green told him to get on and continued his way. __38___ he talked to the man, he _39___ that he had just broken out of prison. Mr. Green was very afraid at the __40__ of the money. Suddenly he saw a police-car and had a __41__ idea. He __42__ on speed and drove as quikly as possible. Then he found the police-car running _43___ him. After a mile the police-car passed him and ordered him to _44____. A policeman came up. Mr. Green hoped to tell him about the trouble but the man put a gun to Mr. Green’s __45___.
The policeman said he wanted Mr. Green’s name and _46__ amd Mr. Green obeyed. The policeman wrote it down in his notebook and put it in his __47___. “You _48___ appear at the police station,” he said, Then he talked to Mr. Green about _49____ driving.
Mr. Green started up his car again. He had given _50___ all hope of his $10,000, but as he reached a more lonely part, the robber said he wanted to __51___, Mr. Green stopped and the man said , “_52____, You’ve been _53___ to me. This is what I can do in __54___.” And he handed Mr. Green the policeman’s __55__, which was stolen while the policeman was talking to Mr. Green.

小題1:	A．taken B．held C．brought D．drawn

小題2:	A．money B．help C．a(chǎn) lift D．a(chǎn) ride

小題3:	A．As B．Since C．Then D．Because

小題4:	A．recognized B．learned C．supposed D．expected

小題5:	A．sight B．idea C．touch D．thought

小題6:	A．fast B．bright C．strange D．practical

小題7:	A．put B．got C．took D．had

小題8:	A．behind B．with C．a(chǎn)fter D．a(chǎn)head of

小題9:	A．go B．stop C．stand D．park

小題10:

A．head B．shoulder C．back D．neck

小題11:

A．number B．home C．place D．a(chǎn)ddress

小題12:

A．car B．pocket C．hand D．trousers

小題13:

A．shall B．will C．would D．need

小題14:

A．careful B．fast C．careless D．dangerous

小題15:

A．out B．a(chǎn)way C．up D．in

小題16:

A．run away B．break away C．set out D．get out

小題17:

A．I’m sorry B．You’re welcome C．That’s all right D．Thank you

小題18:

A．kind B．polite C．known D．necessary

小題19:

A．a(chǎn)ll B．fact C．return D．the end

小題20:

A．gun B．pen C．money D．notebook

The painter Georgia O’keeffe was born in Wisconsin in 1887 and grew up on her family’s farm. At seventeen she decided she wanted to be an artist and left the farm for schools in Chicago and New York, but she never lost her bond with the land. Like most painters, O’Keeffe painted the things that were most important to her, and nearly all her works are simplified portrayals of nature.
O’Keeffe became famous when her paintings were discovered and exhibited in New York by the photographer Levered Stieglitz, whom she married in 1924. During a visit to New York in 1929, O’Keeffe was so moved by the bleak（荒涼的） landscape and broad skies of the Western desert that she began to paint its images. Cows’ skulls and other bleached（變白的） bones found in the desert figured prominently（突出的） in her paintings. When her husband died in 1946, she moved to New Mexico permanently and used the horizon lines of the desert, colorful flowers, rocks, barren(貧瘠的) hills, and the sky as subjects for her paintings. Although O’Keeffe painted her best known works in the 1920’s, 1930’s and 1940’s, she continued to produce tributes（貢品、頌詞） to the Western desert until her death in 1986.
O’Keeffe is widely considered to have been a pioneering American modernist painter. While most early modern American artists were strongly influenced by European art, O’Keeffe’s position was more independent. She established her own vision and preferred to view her painting as a private endeavor. Almost from the beginning, her work was more indentifiably American than that of her contemporaries in its simplified and idealized treatment of color, light, space, and natural forms.
小題1: Which of the following best tells what this passage is about ?

A．O’Keeffe was a distinctive modern American painter.

B．O’Keeffe was the best painter of her generation.

C．O’Keeffe liked to paint only what was familiar to her.

D．O’Keeffe used colors and shapes that are too reduced and simple.

小題2:Which of the following is NOT mentioned as an influence on O’Keeffe’s paintings ?

A．Her rural upbringing	B．Her life in the West
C．The works of European artists	D．The appearance of the natural landscape

小題3:Which of the following is most similar to O’Keeffe’s relationship with nature?

A．A photoghrapher’s relationship with a model.

B．A writer’s relationship with a publisher.

C．A student’s relationship with a teacher

D．A carpenter’s relationship with a hammer.

小題4:Why is O’Keeffe considered an artistic pioneer ?

A．Her work became influential in Europe.

B．She painted the American Southwest.

C．Her paintings had a definite American style.

D．She painted things that were familiar to her.

About once a month I have to go to Bedford for my work. One day I went into a   21  there to have something to   22  . The waiter took my coat and put it in a small room.
About an hour later I was   23  to go. The waiter   24  me my coat. Something fell out of the pocket onto the floor. It was a small white box. I took a   25  look at the   26  . “Oh, you’ve brought   27  coat,” I said to the waiter. “It looks very much like mine,  28  it is quite new, and this isn’t my box, either.”
“Oh, then I   29  someone has taken your coat and left his,” said the waiter. “This kind of thing   30  sometimes.”
I opened the box. There was a beautiful gold   31  in it. The waiter and I   32  to go to the police station.
“Has anyone lost a ring?” I asked at the station.
“Yes,” said a policeman. “A young man who came in this morning lost a ring, he lost it in London.”
He   33  the young man. A few minutes later, the man arrived.
“Yes, this is my ring,” he said. “How can I   34  you, sir? You see, I paid a lot of money for this ring and   35  I lost it on the train!”
After I told him the   36  of the coat, he said, “You haven’t been on the train. I haven’t been in the hotel, so how did my ring   37  in the coat?”
“Did anyone sit or stand next to you on the train?” asked the policeman.
“Yes,” said the young man. “But I don’t remember his face.”
“You may remember this   38  ,” said the policeman. “Was it like this one?”
“Yes, it was,” said the young man. “But my friend here isn’t the thief.”
The policeman laughed. “No,” he said. “The thief on the train stole your ring, and   39  our friend here, he went into the hotel to get some food. Only he didn’t take the   40  coat away with him.”

小題1:	A．hotel B．restaurant C．company D．shop

小題2:	A．do B．buy C．eat D．make

小題3:	A．a(chǎn)sked B．glad C．invited D．ready

小題4:	A．showed B．returned C．brought D．dressed

小題5:	A．special B．close C．usual D．near

小題6:	A．waiter B．box C．coat D．pocket

小題7:	A．no one else’s B．a(chǎn)nother’s C．other’s D．someone else’s

小題8:	A．but B．a(chǎn)nd C．instead D．for

小題9:	A．know B．wonder C．suppose D．find

小題10:

A．a(chǎn)ppears B．happens C．meets D．changes

小題11:

A．ring B．coin C．pen D．sign

小題12:

A．realized B．thought C．wanted D．decided

小題13:

A．searched B．remembered C．telephoned D．a(chǎn)sked

小題14:

A．return B．thank C．pay D．help

小題15:

A．then B．so C．yet D．however

小題16:

A．thing B．price C．story D．problem

小題17:

A．come B．put C．set D．get

小題18:

A．person B．ring C．box D．coat

小題19:

A．a(chǎn)fter B．before C．like D．a(chǎn)s

小題20:

A．right B．good C．same D．other

A Charlotte, NC, lawyer bought a box of very rare and expensive cigars, and then insured them against fire among other things．Having smoked his entire great cigars within a month, the lawyer filed claim （索賠） against the insurance company．
In his claim, the lawyer stated the cigars were lost "in a series of small fires"．Of course the insurance company refused to pay, giving the obvious reason that the man had consumed the cigars in the normal way．
The lawyer brought the case to the court and out of everybody’s expectation, he actually won! At the end of the trial the judge agreed with the insurance company that the claim was crazy．But the judge said that the lawyer held a policy （保險(xiǎn)單） from the company in which it had promised that the cigars were insured and that it would insure them against fire．Because the company didn’t say what is considered to be unacceptable fire, it had to pay the claim．
Rather than put up with long and costly appeal process, the insurance company accepted the punishment and paid $ 15 ,000 to the lawyer for his loss of the rare cigars lost in the "fires．"
After the lawyer cashed the check, the insurance company had him arrested and accused him of arson （縱火罪）．With his own insurance claim from the previous case being used against him, the lawyer was charged with burning his insured possessions on purpose and was sentenced to 24 months in prison and a $ 24,000 fine．
小題1:The lawyer had smoked all the cigars ___．

A．by design

B．by mistake

C．by accident

D．by contract

小題2:The proper order of the lawyer’s activities is ___．
a．having the company paying his claim
b．having himself put in prison and fined
c．having smoked all the cigars
d．bringing the company to the court
e．insuring the box of cigars

A．ecabd

B．a(chǎn)cebd

C．ecdab

D．cedba

小題3:The underlined word "it" in the third paragraph refers to ___．

A．the box of cigars	B．the insurance company
C．the policy	D．the claim

小題4:Which of the following sayings is the best suitable for the lawyer?

A．Whoever sits against heaven, it falls in his face．

B．A bad beginning makes a bad ending．

C．Accidents will happen．

D．Even the wise make mistakes sometimes．

When Ben Franklin was only a boy, he always wanted to know about things. He was always asking his father and brothers “What?” and “How?” and “Why?”
They couldn’t always tell him what he wanted to know.
When they couldn’t tell him, Ben tried to find out for himself.
Many times Ben did find out things that no one knew before. The other boys would say, “That Ben Franklin! He’s always finding out something new!”
Ben lived close to the water. He liked to go there to see the boats. He saw how the wind blew them across the water.
One day Ben said to himself, “Why can’t the wind help me float across the water? And I’m going to try.” Ben got his big kite. He took hold of the kite string and ran with it. The wind took the kite up into the air. Then Ben jumped into the water.
The wind blew the kite high into the air. Ben began to float across the water. Soon he was on the other side, and he had not worked at all.
One boy shouted, “Look at Ben floating across the water! His kite takes him to the other side without any work!”
“Yes,” said another. “He’s always finding new ways to do things.”
小題1:When he was only a child, Ben             .

A．liked to fly a kite by himself	B．a(chǎn)lways asked easy questions
C．a(chǎn)lways liked to play with water	D．a(chǎn)lways liked to find out how things worked

小題2: His father and brothers            .

A．couldn’t answer all his questions	B．could answer all his questions
C．tried hard to find out something new for him
D．were too busy to answer his questions

小題3:How did Ben Franklin float across the water?

A．The other boy took him across it.	B．The water carried him across it.
C．The flying kite took him across it.	D．A boat took him across it.

小題4:He found out many things that            .

A．children didn’t know	B．his father and brothers knew
C．people didn’t know	D．most people knew

When I was a small child, during the war, we were very poor and we lived in a faraway village. One day, on the road, I found the __36__ pieces of a mirror. There was a German motorcycle accident.
I tried to find all the pieces and put them __37__, but it was not possible, so I kept only the __38__ piece and I made it round. I began to __39__ with it as a toy and became greatly attracted by the __40__ that I could reflect（反射）light to dark places where the sun would never shine in __41___holes and some other dark places. It became a __42__ for me to get light into the darkest places I could find.
I __43__ the little mirror, and, as I ___44__ up, I would take it out when I had nothing to do and __45__ the game. As I became a __46__, I grew to understand that this was not __47__a child’s game but a metaphor（象征）for what I might do with my life. I came to __48___ that I am not the light or the source（來源）of light, but light—truth, understanding, knowledge—is __49___, and it will shine in many dark places only if I reflect it.
I am just a single piece of a mirror whose ___50__ design and shape I do not know. __51___, with what I have I can reflect light into the dark places of this __52__， into the black places in the___53__ of men—and change some things __54___ some people. Perhaps others may see and do the same. This is what I am about. This is the __55___ of my life. （269 words）

小題1:	A．broken B．dropped C．pointed D．sharpened

小題2:	A．back B．down C．together D．up

小題3:	A．best B．longest C．smallest D．largest

小題4:	A．talk B．play C．flash D．share

小題5:	A．idea B．fact C．decision D．reason

小題6:	A．deep B．big C．pretty D．empty

小題7:	A．job B．task C．game D．trouble

小題8:	A．kept B．hid C．forgot D．lost

小題9:	A．came B．stood C．grew D．went

小題10:

A．watch B．continue C．remember D．change

小題11:

A．man B．boy C．father D．grandfather

小題12:

A．a(chǎn)lways B．completely C．really D．just

小題13:

A．a(chǎn)nnounce B．doubt C．understand D．expect

小題14:

A．a(chǎn)bsent B．home C．far D．there

小題15:

A．whole B．most C．half D．other

小題16:

A．So B．However C．Besides D．Certainly

小題17:

A．country B．village C．world D．city

小題18:

A．hands B．brains C．eyes D．hearts

小題19:

A．on B．in C．with D．like

小題20:

A．way B．standard C．quality D．meaning

How would you like an easy way to earn 2,500 dollars? All you have to do is to sit around and wait for your meals．There’s catch, however．You have to stay in a chicken cage with a stranger for a whole week．There are no books or television or radio for amusement．You can’t leave until the week is up．And a camera will be recording your every move．
Two people actually took the job．The idea came from Rob Thompson, a video artist．He wanted to make a film about the way animals are treated．His goal was to raise people’s awareness of the living conditions of animals that are raised for food．He decided to pay $ 5000 out of his own savings to two people who were willing to lie like chicken for a week．
To Rob’s surprise, quite a few people answered his advertisement．He had interviews and selected Eric, a 24-year-old restaurant worker, and Pam, a 27-year-old chemist．The plan was for them to spend seven days together in a chicken cage that was six feet long and three feet wide．A camera would record their experience, which would take place in an art museum．
The week was long and difficult．They slept on a hard wooden floor．They couldn’t stand up without banging（重?fù)簦﹖heir heads．They ate vegetarian mash（土豆泥）and drank water from a garden hosepipe（水龍頭軟管）．Their only privacy was a toilet surrounded by a curtain．There were no sinks, mirrors, or toothbrushes in the cage．Their only inspiration was the two framed checks that hung on the wall outside the cage．Visitors who came here were warned, “Do not food the humans．”
Finally it was over, Pam and Eric emerged from their cage．They had survived the week, and they each had a $2,500 check in their hands．When Rob Thompson opened the cage, Eric came out, changed into clean clothes, and ate a chocolate bar right away．“It’s great to be able to stand up,” he said．Pam just changed her clothes and left．After a week of visitors and reporters watching her, she didn’t want to talk to anyone．
小題1:What kind of person is Rob Thompson?

A．He is curious about people’s personal life．

B．He is kind-hearted to animals．

C．He hates people around．

D．He likes to help poor people．

小題2:What made it most difficult for the two to stay in the cage?

A．They didn’t know each other．

B．They couldn’t lie down to sleep in the cage．

C．They didn’t have meat to eat．

D．They had to do almost everything under others’ eyes．

小題3:Rob offered the money because he wanted________．

A．to see if there were any people who would like to live in a cage

B．to show the public how bitter animals’ life could be

C．to make more money by publishing the recorded video tapes

D．to improve housing conditions of working people like Eric

小題4:Which of the following would be the best title for this passage?

A．Easy Way to Earn $ 2 500．	B．Do Not Feed the Humans．
C．Living Like a Chicken．	D．Getting Along Well Anyway．