第二節(jié)：信息匹配（共5小題，每小題1.5分，滿分7.5分）
下面是有關(guān)植物和園藝方面的詳細信息，請閱讀下面相關(guān)信息，并按照要求匹配信息。
36. (Part One) Once your plants are growing you will need to keep them happy. How do you do this and what sorts of tools will you need? Plants need water and food, but when and in what sort of quantities? This module explains the cultivation techniques necessary to keep your plants in fine fettle. There are simple basic steps you can take to ensure you cut the right stem, at the right time, in the right place.
37. (Part two) Plants lose water through their leaves all the time. It is essential to ensure there is enough to replenish the roots, otherwise they will die. In warm weather water is lost from the soil by evaporation, so watering will need to be done more often.
38. (Part Three) To keep them growing healthily, plants absorb through their roots about 30 different nutrients and minerals dissolved in water.
39. (Part Four) Pruning is basically cutting off carefully selected parts of a plant to restrict its size, persuade it to grow in a particular shape, encouraging more fruit, flowers or stems, or to remove dead or diseased material. But pruning is neither difficult nor complicated; in fact a lot of it is applying common sense! You just have to follow a few guidelines and check in a book what kind of pruning the particular plant needs. The removal of dead, diseased, broken, crossing and crowded branches is often sufficient for many plants.
40. (Part Five) A spade is your basic digging implement; use it to make holes and to dig sandy or loamy soil. Fork is perfect for digging soil that’s stodgy, such as clay, or full of stones; moving and spreading organic matter; and breaking down clods of soil…
請閱讀以下相關(guān)主題，然后匹配和其相關(guān)的章節(jié)：
It tells us how to take care of our garden to make the plants and flowers fairly good.
It tells us that in order to grow well, plants also need all kinds of nutrition, and so how to feed the plants is also important.
That part tells gardeners how to do pruning that can remove the unneeded parts of many plants.
It tells the importance of watering in gardening, especially in hot summer seasons.
That part introduces the tools and different functions of various tools you may use in gardening.
This section presents where you can buy good seeds and it also offers the regular price for you.
有關(guān)章節(jié)                           主題內(nèi)容  
36. Part One                       

A．how to take care of garden 37. Part two

B．how to feed the plants 38. Part Three

C．how to prune 39. Part Four

D．the importance of watering

40. Part Five                      E. introduces different functions of tools
F. where you can buy good seeds

第二節(jié)（共5小題；每小題2分，滿分10分）
根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，從短文后的選項中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項。選項中有兩項為多余選項。
Students will need to use all of their skills in order to understand the reading selections in Reader’s Choice.
71    These selections provide practice on employing different reading skills to get the message of the writer. They also give students practice in four basic reading skills: skimming, scanning, reading for thorough comprehension, and critical reading.
Skimming involves reading quickly through a text to get an overall idea of its contents. This kind of rapid reading is suitable when you are trying to decide if careful reading is desirable or    72  
Like skimming, scanning is also quick reading. However, in this case the search is more    concentrated.    73    When you read to find a particular date, or number you are scanning.
Reading for thorough comprehension is carefully reading in order to understand the total   meaning of the passage. At this level of comprehension the reader is able to summarize the author’s ideas    74   .
Critical reading demands that a reader makes judgments about what he or she reads. This kind of reedit requires posting and answering questions such as “    75   ”, “Do I share the author’s point of view?” and “Am I convinced by the author’s arguments and evidence?

A．Does my own experience support that of the author?

B．Reader’s Choice is one of the most popular magazines in the world.

C．but has not yet made a critical evaluation of those ideas.

D．The book contains many types of selections on a wide variety of topics.

E To scan is to read quickly in order to find out specific information.
F. Do I know about the author?
G. when there is no time to read something carefully.

About ten years ago when I was an undergraduate in college. I was working as a practice student at my University's Museum of Natural History. One day while working at the cash register in the gift shop, I saw an elderly couple come in with a little girl in a wheelchair.
As I looked closer at this girl, I saw that she was kind of set on her chair. I then realized she had no arms or legs, just a head, neck and main body. She was wearing a little white dress with red dots.
As the couple wheeled her up to me, I was looking down at the register. I turned my head toward the girl and gave her a wink(眨眼). As I took the money from her grandparents, I looked back at the girl, who was giving me the cutest(可愛的), largest smile I have ever seen.
All of a sudden her handicap (殘疾)was gone and all I saw was this beautiful girl, whose smile just melted me and  gave me a completely new sense of what life is all about. She took me from a poor, unhappy college student and brought me into her world--- a world of smiles, love and warmth.
That was ten years ago. I'm a successful business person now and whenever I feel down and think about the troubles of the world, I think about that little girl and the remarkable lesson about life that she taught me.
小題1:What do we know about the author?

A．He graduated from Natural History University.

B．He majored in Natural History at university .

C．He ran a gift shop in the university

D．He is a successful businessman

小題2:When the author looked again, he saw that the little girl____.

A．was wearing a beautiful red dress

B．wasn’t able to move in the wheelchair

C．was badly injured

D．was only able to smile

小題3: In the author’s opinion, the little girl was not disabled at all because ______.

A．she told everyone how to live a good life

B．she offered him suppport in his business

C．she could take good care of herself

D．she had a strong spirit

小題4:What would be the best title for his passage?

A．World of smiles	B．Love of a girl
C．A badly disabled girl	D．Secret of a businessman

Martha was busy with her job. She believed she had to work harder because she loved her father who was sick with cancer. She had to provide for his expensive medicines. Her brothers and sisters meanwhile stayed with their father most of the time. They bathed him, sang for him, spoon-fed(用匙喂) him or simply kept him company.
One day Martha was hurt. She overheard(無意中聽到) her father telling her mother, "All our children love me except Martha."
"How can this be?" Martha thought. "Am I not the one killing myself in my work to have money to pay for his medicines? My brothers and sisters do not even provide their share in the expenses."
One night, as Martha was as usual late in going home, she saw her father was lying awake. She walked close to his bedsides. Her father held her hands and said, "I miss you. I don't have much time. Stay with me." And she stayed with her father holding his hand the whole night.
The next morning Martha said to everybody, "I have taken a leave of absence. I would like to be with father. I will bathe him and sing for him from now on." Her father had a beautiful smile. He knew Martha loved him, too.
As children, we need the presence of our loved ones. Adults need no less. I have observed my mother’s orchids(蘭花). When she is away for a long time, they are unhealthy and many of them wither(干枯). But when she is around , they bloom with beautiful flowers. My mother does nothing special . She just spends her time looking after them.
小題1:Before Martha heard her parents’ talk ,she thought her father _____.

A．was satisfied with her love for him

B．disliked her brothers and sisters

C．was proud of her

D．would recover from the disease

小題2:After staying with her father for one night, Martha _____.

A．decided to give up her job

B．understood what her father really needed

C．realized her father loved her most

D．loved her father more than before

小題3:By telling Matha’s story, what does the author try to express?

A．Nothing is more important than the company of loved ones.

B．Money and a successful career don’t always bring happiness

C．Adults need the presence of their loved ones more than children do.

D．Plants like orchids do have feelings.

When my first wartime Christmas came, I was in basic training in New Jersey and not sure if I would make it home for the holidays. Only on the afternoon of December 23 was the list of men who would have the three-day holiday posted. I was one of the lucky soldiers. It was Christmas Eve when I arrived home, and a little snow had fallen. Mother opened the front door. I could see beyond her, into the corner of the living room where the tree had always stood. There were lights, all colors, and ornaments (飾品) shining against the green of a pine.
"Where did it come from?" I asked.
"I asked the Gates boy to cut it," my mother said. "I wouldn't have had one just for myself, but when in great need... such a rush! He just brought it in this afternoon."
The pine reached to the proper height, almost to the ceiling, and the Tree Top Crystal（水晶） Star was in its place. A few green branches reached out a little awkwardly（難看） at the side, I thought, and there was a bit of bare trunk showing in the middle. But the tree filled the room with warm light and the whole house with the pleasant smell of Christmas.
"It's not like the one you used to find," my mother went on. "Yours were always in good shape. I suppose the Gates boy didn't know where to look for a better one. But I couldn't be fussy(挑剔的)."
"Don't worry," I told her. "It's perfect."
It wasn't, of course, but at the moment I realized something for the first time: All Christmas trees are perfect.
小題1:What did his mother's Christmas tree look like?

小題2:From the passage we can infer (推斷) that______.

A．a(chǎn)ll the soldiers had the three-day holiday

B．the writer could not go home for Christmas

C．the writer spent his first Christmas during the war

D．not all the soldiers went home for Christmas during the war

小題3:From the passage, we can conclude that ______ .

A．his mother didn't like Christmas trees

B．the writer didn't like the tree cut by someone else

C．the writer used to cut very beautiful Christmas trees

D．his mother didn't want to have a Christmas tree during wartime

小題4:The best title for this passage would be ______.

A．The Perfect Christmas Tree

B．How to Choose a Christmas Tree

C．How Soldiers Spent Their Christmas

D．A Christmas with an Ugly Christmas Tree

小題5:What does the writer mean by saying “All Christmas trees are perfect”?

A．Nothing is as perfect as Christmas.

B．Once at home, everything is so nice.

C．During the war, trees are hard to find.

D．All Christmas trees are the most beautiful.

Wendy ,Carol, Jenny, Tom 和Mark 想觀看演出或參加培訓.閱讀下列材料, 從所給的6個選項中,選出符合各自要求的最佳選項。其中一項是多余的。(5分)
小題1:Wendy, a student who is interested comedy and acting,will be free on Oct.12th .She wants to relax herself by enjoying some performances, but she has no more than $4.
小題2:Carol is expected to be free on October 15th. She plans to enjoy some
performances while having a cup of coffee.
小題3:Jenny, a student who majors in art, is interested in Italian art as well as Chinese art. She will be free after school at 4:30.
小題4:Tom will go to study in the USA for a master’s degree. He wants to have a full-time special training for several months to improve his oral English.
小題5:Mark , a worker of an export company, needs to improve his writing and oral English. He can only go to the training class after work every day.

A．ENGLISHLANGUAGE CENTER Classes for beginners for 3 months. Focus on grammar as well as writing and oral English. 3:00 p.m to 9:30 p.m Small classes with a maximum of 8 students Course fee: $300 (10% discount for the first to enroll)

B．HALIFAX PLAYHOUSE Ring’s Cross Street, Halifax. Oct.10th--- Oct 17th on Golden Pond by Emest Thompson. This is a magical comedy about real people. A well-acted play for everyone. Don’t miss it. Time: 7:30 p.m Price: $3 Tel:36599988

C．LONDON COLLEGE OF ENGLISH Classes for foreign students of all levels. 3 months, 6 months,9 months and 1 years course. Focus on spoken language. Open through all year from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Small class with a maximum of 12 students. Course fee for English for one year: ;$1,200 Discount at shorter period of study. Tel:22342381

D．EXHIBITIONS OF OIL PAINTINGS

Gallery of the Central Academy of Fine Art
A combination of Eastern and Western Art 8:00 a.m.
Price: $2 for adults, $1 for students
Tel: 33569875
E.WESTERN ART SHOW
China National Art Museum
European modern art, Chinese art and African ancient art
Open from 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m from Oct. 6th to 20th
Price : $3 for adults, $1.5 for middle school students.
Tel:25545569
F.GRAND THEATRE
Oxford Street, Leeds
Restaurant and Cafe.
Sep.1st—19th
Admission:Tues.--Thurs. $2-6; Fri.& Sat.$4-8
Sue Townsend’s musical play.
Time: Evenings 7:45. Oct 10th—17th, at 2:30 p.m.
No Monday performance.
All kinds of drinks offered
Tel :52011611

Ⅲ閱讀  (共15小題，每小題2分，滿分30分)
第一節(jié)：閱讀理解：閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的A、B、C和D項中，選出最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。
Scientists have learned a lot about the kinds of food people need. They say that there are several kinds of food that people should eat every day. They are: (1) green and yellow vegetables of all kinds; (2) citrus （柑橘）fruits and tomatoes; (3) potatoes and other fruits and vegetables ; (4) meat of all kinds, fish and eggs; (5) milk and foods made from milk; (6) bread or cereal (谷物), rice is also in this kind of foods; (7) butter or something like butter. 
People in different countries and different places of the world eat different kinds of things. Foods are cooked and eaten in many different kinds of ways.  People in different countries eat at different times of the day. In some places people eat once or twice a day; in other countries people eat three or four times a day. Scientists say that none of the differences is really important. It doesn’t matter whether foods are eaten raw or cooked, canned or frozen. It doesn’t matter if a person eats dinner at 4 o’clock in the afternoon or at eleven o’clock at night. The important thing is what you eat every day.
There are two problems, then, in feeding the large number of people on earth. The first thing is to find some ways to feed the world’s population so that no one is hungry. The second is to make sure that people everywhere have the right kind of food to make them grow to be strong and healthy.
61. According to the scientists, which of the following groups of food is the healthiest for your lunch?
A. chicken, apples, cereal , cabbages.
B. potatoes, carrots, rice, bread.
C. oranges, bananas, fish, tomatoes
D. beef, pork, fish , milk
62. It is important for people to eat __________.
A. three times a day
B. dinner at twelve o’clock
C. cooked food all the day
D. something from each of the seven kinds of food every day.
63. People in different count ries and different places of the world________________.
A. have the right kinds of food to eat
B. cook their food in the same way
C. have their meals at the same time
D. eat food in different ways.
64. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. People in some places don’t have enough to eat.
B. There are too many people in the world.
C. One of the problems is that no one is hungry.
D. The scientists are trying to make people grow to be strong and healthy.
65. If there is paragraph 4, what do you think is going to be talked about?
A. When people eat their lunch.
B. What to do with the two problems.
C. How to cook food in different ways.
D. Why people eat different kinds of food. 

There was once a captain who loved money so much that he cheated his sailors at the end of every voyage and took their wages.
On the last day of one voyage, the ship was in a small port. It was winter time, and the sea was very cold, so the captain said to his sailors, “ If one of you stays in the water during the whole night, I will give him my ship. But if he comes out before the sun appears, I shall get his wages.(工資)”
The sailors had heard about the captain’ cheating, so they didn’t trust him. But then one of them, who thought that he was cleverer than the captain, said that he would do it. He got into the water and, though it was very cold, stayed in it. When it was nearly morning, some fishermen lit a fire on the shore abut half a mile away.
“ You are cheating,” the captain said to the sailor. “ The fire’s warming you.”
“ But it’s half a mile away.” Said the sailor.
“ A fire is fire,” answered the captain.
“ Perhaps you think that you are clever because you have won my wages, but you can’t cook a chicken,” said the sailor.
“ I can’t,” answered the captain.
“ If you cook this chicken,” said the sailor, “ I shall work for you without wages for seven years, but if you can’t, you will give me your ship.”
The captain agreed, took the chicken and said, “ Where’s the fire?”
“There it is,” answered the sailors, “ On the shore.”
“ ‘A fire’s fire’, you said,” answered the sailor. “ If it is enough to warm me in the water, it is enough to cook your chicken.”
66. The captain got the sailors’ wages ________________.
A. to buy a chicken for himself
B. and kept the money for future use
C. by cheating them
D. and said he would return the money soon.
67. Which of the following statement is true?
A. All the sailors refused to get into the water because it was too cold.
B. The captain knew that the fire the fishermen made was enough to warm the sailor in the water.
C. The captain succeeded in cheating the sailor.
D. It was the sailor who was clever.
68. The captain insisted that the fire was warming the sailor because he ___________.
A. didn’t want to lose the bet
B. didn’t believe the sailor’s success
C. wanted to keep his promise
D. wanted to show his cleverness
69. Which of the following statement is NOT true?
A. The sailor didn’t trust the captain.
B. In order to help the sailor in the water, the fishermen made a fire.
C. The Captain failed to cheat the sailor this time.
D. The sailor didn’t get out of the water before the sun appeared.
70. What is the best title?
A. How A Captain Cheated His Sailor
B. How A Sailor Got A ship
C. A Brave Sailor
D. A Fire is Fire

完形填空（共20小題；每小題1.5分，滿分30分）
閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，然后從37-56各題所給的四個選項中，選出最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑
As a child, there was nothing I liked better than Sunday afternoon at my grandfather’s farm. __31__ by miles of winding stone walls, the house provided __32__hours of fun for a city boy.
I can still remember one __33__ when I was eight years old. I wanted __34__ anything to be allowed to climb the walls surrounding the property. The walls were old; some stones were __35__, others loose. Still, my desire to climb across those walls __36__so strong that finally, one spring weekend, I took all my __37__ and entered the living room, where the __38__had gathered after Sunday dinner.
I, I wanna climb the stone walls,” I said hesitantly. __39__ a chorus went up from the women in the room. “Heavens, no!” they cried. “You will hurt yourself”. I wasn’t too __40__; the respond was just as I had expected. But __41__I could have left the room, I was __42__ by my grandfather’s loud voice:” Now __43__just a minute.” I heard him say.” Let the little boy climb the stone walls. __44__, he has to learn to do things for himself.”
For the next two hours I climbed those old walls and had the time of my __45__. Later I told my grandfather about my __46__. I will never forget what he said:” Fred,” he said, smiling, “ you made this day a (an) __47__one just by being yourself. Always remember, there is only one person in this whole world like you, and I like you exactly as you are.”
Many years have passed since then, and today I __48__ the television program. Mister Rogers’s Neighborhood, seen by millions of children. There have been __49__ over the years, but one thing __50__ the same: my suggestion to children at the end of almost every visit. “ There is only one person in this whole world like you, ,” the kids can hear me say,” and people can like you exactly as you are.”
31. A. Covered                            B. Surrounded                    C. Extended               D. Spread
32. A. meaningless                    B. short                                C. endless                  D. imaginable
33. A. morning                            B. afternoon                       C. evening                  D. Sunday
34. A. more than                        B. as well as                       C. rather than           D. other than
35. A. remaining                         B. left                                   C. tight                       D. missing
36. A. built                                    B. went                                C. grew                       D. turned
37. A. trouble                              B. mind                                C. courage                 D. heart
38. A. adults                                B. relatives                         C. men                        D. women
39. A. Quickly                               B. Hurriedly                        C. Frequently            D. Instantly
40. A. excited                              B. sad                                   C. disappointed        D. pleased
41. A. after                                   B. before                             C. as                            D. when
42. A. encouraged                      B. surprised                        C. allowed                  D. stopped
43. A. keep up                             B. hold on                            C. hold up                   D. keep on
44. A. Anyhow                    B. However                         C. Therefore              D. Nevertheless
45. A. childhood                          B. play                                  C. life                         D. Sunday
46. A. action                                B. adventure                      C. pleasure                D. happiness
47. A. special                               B. interesting                     C. common                D. beautiful
48. A. own                                    B. like                                   C. hold                        D. host
49. A. jobs                                    B. events                             C. adventures           D. changes
50. A. remains                             B. develops                        C. becomes               D. seems

The modern age is an age of electricity. People are so used to electric lights, radio, televisions, and telephones that it is hard to imagine what life would be like without them. When there is a power failure, people grope about in flickering candlelight, cars hesitate in the streets because there are no traffic lights to guide them, and food spoils in silent refrigerators.
Yet, people began to understand how electricity works only a little more than two centuries ago. Nature has apparently been experimenting in this field for million of years. Scientists are discovering more and more that the living world may hold many interesting secrets of electricity that could benefit humanity.
All living cells send out tiny pulses of electricity. As the heart beats, it sends out pulses of record; they form an electrocardiogram, which a doctor can study to determine how well the heart is working. The brain, too, sends our brain waves of electricity, which can be recorded in an electroencephalogram. The electric currents generated by most living cells are extremely small，often so small that sensitive instruments are needed to record them. But in some animals, certain muscle cells have become so specialized as electrical generators that they do not work as muscle cells at all. When large numbers of these cells are linked together, the effects can be astonishing.
The electric eel is an amazing storage battery. It can send a jolt of as much as eight hundred volts of electricity through the water in which it lives. ( An electric house current is only one hundred and twenty volts, but two hundred and twenty volts in China.) As many as four-fifths of all the cells in the electric eel's body are specialized for generating electricity, and the strength of the shock it can deliver corresponds roughly to length of its body
56. Electricity was invented ______.
A. when man had no candles                  
B. about 200 years ago
C. to be operating computers.                          
D. by Thomse Edison
57. The following things can send out pulses of electricity except______.
A. electric eels and human hearts.
B. Electrical generators and animal muscle.
C. Stones and dry wood.
D. human brain and living cells.
58. The electric current send out by an eel can be
A. as much as 800 volts.                   B. about one hundred and twenty volts.
C. as high as the house current in China.      D. stored in the water where it lives.
59. From this shot passage we can infer _____.
A. the shorter an eel is, the stronger electricity it produces.
B. we can always feel the electricity produced by living cells.
C. human beings get their knowledge about electricity from nature.
D. people learn about electricity from eels.