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Weather is the subject matter of Westerners whenever they met. Housewives, businessmen, factory workers as well as farmers all talk about the weather. It’s everyday news, whether or not conditions change. Many newspapers carry a regular front page news story in addition to the full reports on as inside-page provided by the weather service. Here are several different types of weather reports taken from the western papers:

   No. 1 Regional Forecast

   No. 2 Three-day Forecast

   No. 3 Weather Stories

45. In a street corner of London, two strangers may begin their talk with “_____”.

  A. Hi, how are you?               B. What are you doing here? Waiting for someone?

  C. A nice day, isn’t it?              D. Didn’t you listen to the weather report last night?

46. The noon temperature of _____ is nearly 70’s at the weekend.

  A. Western Great Lakes          B. Duluth, Minn

  C. Westchester, Rockland        D. New Jersey

47. It seems that _____ has plenty of rain at the present season.

  A. Western Great Lakes  B. Wisconsin  C. Westchester Rockland  D. New Jersey

48. Which of the following is most probable according to No.3?

  A. The traffic was terribly affected.

  B. The Five Great Lakes were covered by heavy snow.

  C. The temperatures might drop to 50℃.

  D. Many schools were damaged in the snowstorm.

第II卷（非選擇題,總分35分）

第四部分   寫作（共兩節(jié)，滿分35分）

 短文改錯(cuò)（共10小題；每小題1分，滿分10分）

假定英語課上老師要求同桌之間交換修改作文，請你修改你同桌的以下作文。文中共有10處語言錯(cuò)誤，每句中最多有兩處。錯(cuò)誤涉及一個(gè)單詞的增加、刪除或修改。

增加：在缺詞處加一個(gè)漏字符號(hào)（∧），并在其下面寫出該加的詞。

刪除：把多余的詞用斜線（\）劃掉。

修改：在錯(cuò)的詞下劃一橫線，并在其下面寫出修改后的詞。

注意：

1．每處錯(cuò)誤及其修改均僅限一詞；

2．只允許修改10處，多者（從第11處起）不計(jì)分。

Bill enjoyed shoot very much, but he was never good at it．One day his friend was named

Jack visited his house and saw a new target Bill had put several days ago in his garden．Jack

went nearer but saw a hole in the middle of the target．When jack asked who had shot at it,

Bill said he had．“How far away are you? Two feet?” But Bill said he was 50 yards away．

Then Bill’s wife explained Jack the hole．He said, “Bill went to a shop and bought a piece of

wood．He put it in the garden and shot at it from 50 yard away, only to shoot a hole．Then he

drew a target round a hole．”      

------ What do you think of the concert?

 ------ I really enjoy it．I didn’t expect it was ______ wonderful．

     A．more        B．very       C．most           D．a(chǎn)s

Hank ____ his capable secretary by leaving most of the work to her and doing little himself.

A. has advantage of                                     B. has an advantage of

C. takes advantage of                             D. takes advantages

       —Go and have great fun! I will cope with _____ you leave to me properly.   

       —Thanks a lot.

       A. why                  B. when                C. what                        D. which

After a whole day’s hard work, they went back home, ____________.

A. hungry and tiredly                  B. hungry and tired

C. hungrily and tiredly                 D. hungrily and tired

Do you know __________ that made it possible for them to continue their project?

       A．what it was       B．what was it 

      C．it was what         D．it what was

第二部分：完形填空

It was a normal Monday morning at an assembly, and the old headmaster was addressing the students on important things in life and about   21   ourselves to what is important to us. This is how the story went:

   An old man lived in a certain part of London, and he would wake up every morning and go to the   22  . He would get the train right to Central London, and then sit at the street corner and   23  . He would do this every single day of his life. He sat at the same street corner and begged for almost 20 years.

   His house was filthy (骯臟的), and a stench came out of the house and it smelled   24  . The neighbors could not   25   the smell anymore, so they summoned the police officers to   26   the place. The officers   27   down the door and cleaned the house. There were small bags of   28   all over the house that he had   29   over the years.

   The police counted the money, and they soon realized that the old man was a   30  . They waited outside his house in anticipation (預(yù)料) to   31   the good news with him. When he arrived home that evening, he was met by one of the officers who told him that there was no   32   for him to beg any more as he was a rich man now, a millionaire.

He said   33   at all; he went into his house and locked the door. The next morning he woke up as usual, went to the street and continued to beg.

  34  , this old man had no great plans, dreams or anything   35   for his life. We learn nothing from this story other than staying   36   the things we enjoy doing, commitment.

   We should remain true to our course, which may mean devoting yourselves to things that people around you would   37   disapprove. Let nothing distract us from being happy, let nothing else determine our fate, but   38 .

What makes us happy is what   39  in the end…not what we acquire (獲得).

This particular story is one such lesson that I will never forget. Every time I don’t concentrate on course, I get   40   of this story.

21. A. attracting    B. agreeing       C. believing         D. devoting

22. A. street           B. factory          C. subway           D. airport

23. A. beg             B. wait          C. attempt           D. evaluate

24. A. pleasantly   B. horribly        C. endlessly         D. seriously

25. A. explain          B. forget    C. judge       D. tolerate

26. A. clear        B. remove   C. control          D. inspect

27. A. put            B. took            C. knocked     D. cut

28. A. rubbish          B. money           C. waste       D. food

29. A. managed        B. stole           C. arranged   D. collected

30. A. millionaire B. gentleman C. boss          D gift

31. A. satisfy           B. share        C. believe          D. report

32. A. need        B. doubt            C. chance     D. result

33. A. something   B. anything         C. everything        D. nothing

34. A. Clearly          B. Actually          C. Surprisingly      D. Suddenly

35. A. fortunate        B. possible           C. significant        D. worth

36. A. acted out        B. called on         C. turned to   D. focused on

37. A. normally        B. crazily            C. finally          D. completely

38. A. others    B. us               C. ourselves     D. some

39. A. considers    B. achieves    C. matters         D. faces

40. A. permitted    B. reminded   C. warned         D. informed

第一部分：單項(xiàng)選擇

—Make sure you have turned off the air conditioners before going out.

—_______________.

A. Heard it         B. Made it         C. Forgot it         D. Got it

The thought of going back home was _____kept him happy while he was working abroad.

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