Recently, I bought a new apartment(公寓), _______ was high.

   A. which price    B. the price of which      C. its price     D. the price of whose

By this time of next Friday, I _____ to New York by the Korean Airline.

  A. will fly                 B. will be flying            C. am flying                 D. will have flied

— I put him down for a well-educated man.

—______ ?

— I mean that he's a well-educated man.

A. I beg your pardon                                 B. Speak louder, will you

C. What’s that                                    D. Will you repeat word for word

On the day of a big event, many people came to Big Bend Mountain to watch. John Henry and the salesman stood side by side. Even early in the day, the sun was burning hot.

The competition began. John Henry kissed his hammer and started working. At first, the steam-powered drill worked two times faster than he did. Then, he started working with a hammer in each hand. He worked faster and faster. In the mountain, the heat and dust were so thick that most men would have had trouble breathing. The crowd shouted as clouds of dust came from inside the mountain.

The salesman was afraid when he heard what sounded like the mountain breaking. However, it was only the sound of John Henry at work. Polly Ann and her son cheered when the machine was pulled from the tunnel of the mountain. It had broken down. Polly Ann urged John Henry to come out. But he kept working, faster and faster. He dug deep into the darkness, hitting the steel so hard that his body began to fail him. He became weak, and his heart burst.

John Henry fell to the ground. There was a terrible silence. Polly Ann did not move because she knew what had happened. John Henry’s blood spilled over the ground. But he still held one of the hammers. “I beat them,” he said. His wife cried out, “Don’t go, John Henry.”“Bring me a cool drink of water,”he said. Then he took his last breath.

His friends carried his body from the mountain. They buried him near the house where he was born. Crowds went there after they heard about John Henry’s death.

Soon, the steam drill and other machines replaced the steel-drivers. Many laborers left their families to look for work. They took the only jobs they could find. As they worked, some sang about John Henry.

55.What does the big event mentioned in Paragraph 1 refer to?

A.John Henry’s work on a machine.

B.A competition between John Henry and a salesman.

C.John Henry’s work with his hammer and the steel.

D.A competition between John Henry and a drill.

56.The underlined word “tunnel ”in Paragraph 3 probably means “           ”.

A.flat ground                B.big rock             C.underground passage         D.hard metal

57. What happened to John Henry when he fell to the ground?

A.He was tired and had to have a rest.

B.He had heart trouble and was dying.

C.He was thirsty and wanted to drink some water.

D.He was injured slightly and was bleeding.

58.What do we know about John Henry?

A.He won the competition finally.        B.He was buried under the mountain.

C.He loved his work very much.          D.He said nothing before his death.

59.What can we infer from the passage?

A.Humans can never beat machines.            B.John Henry was regarded as a hero.

C.Laborers hated machines very much.        D.It was easy for laborers to find work.

第二節(jié)：完型填空（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36—55各題所給的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項。

I am a mother of three and have recently completed my college degree. My teacher’s last 36  of the term was called “ Smile”. I am a very friendly person and always 37  at everyone. So I thought this would be very 38 .

Soon after we were given the project, my 39  went out to McDonald’s. We were waiting to be 40 , when all of a sudden everyone around us began to 41 , and even my husband did. There standing behind me were two homeless men 42 .

As I looked down at the short gentleman with 43  eyes, he said, “ Good day.” The second man stood behind his friend. I 44  the second man was mentally challenged（智障）and the blue-eyed gentleman was his helper.

The young 45  at the counter asked him what they wanted.

He said, “ Coffee is all ,Miss.” Because that was all they could 46 .

I smiled and asked the young lady to give me two more breakfast meals on a 47 tray（托盤）. I then said to the men, “ I did not do this for you. God is here 48  through me to give you hope.”

When I joined my husband, he smiled at me, saying, “That is 49  God gave you to me, Honey, to give me hope.”

I returned to 50 with this story in hand. I 51 “my project” and the teacher read it. Then she looked up at me and said, “ Can I 52  this with the class?”

I slowly 53 and she began to read and that was when I knew that we, as human beings, share this to help people and to be 54.

In my own way I had 55 the people at McDonald’s, my husband, sons, teacher, and every person that shared the classroom on the last night I spent as a college student.

36.  A. question    B. project       C. class   D. expression

37.  A. smile B. laugh              C. look        D. stare

38.  A. difficult                       B. funny      C. important D. easy

39.  A. teacher                              B. classmates      C. family    D. children

40.  A. ordered              B. served      C. paid         D. called

41.  A. run away                    B. crowd in  C. shout out       D. move away

42.  A. in surprise                  B. in silence        C. in rags         D. in fear

43.  A. tearful                 B. blue         C. closed          D. black

44.  A. realized                     B. accepted          C. permitted            D. admitted

45.  A. helper                       B. gentleman        C. lady             D. friend

46.  A. drink           B. want        C. take         D. afford

47.  A. big                  B. separate    C. flat            D. round

48.  A. working                     B. going        C. getting           D. carrying 

49.  A. how B. when  C. where D. why

50.  A. college      B. home  C. church       D. McDonald’s

51.  A. put up     B. handed out        C. handed in D. put away

52.  A. publish     B. share   C. copy   D. keep

53.  A. turned       B. left     C. shook  D. nodded

54.  A. forgiven    B. thanked      C. helped D. remembered

55.  A. touched     B. knew  C. forgot D. recognized

                      It was Thanksgiving morning and in the crowded kitchen of my small home I was busy preparing the traditional Thanksgiving turkey when the doorbell rang. I opened the front door and saw two small children in rags huddling together inside the storm door on the top step.

“Any old papers, lady?” asked one of them.

I was busy. I wanted to say “no” until I looked down at their feet. They were wearing thin little sandals, wet with heavy snow.

“Come in and I’ll make you a cup of hot cocoa.”

They walked over and sat down at the table. Their wet sandals left marks upon the floor. I served them cocoa and bread with jam to fight against the cold outside. Then I went back to the kitchen and started again on my household budget.

The silence in the front room struck me. I looked in. The girl held the empty cup in her hands, looking at it. The boy asked in a flat voice, “Lady, are you rich?”

I looked at my shabby slipcovers. The girl put her cup back in its saucer carefully and said, “Your cups match your saucers.” Her voice was hungry with a need that no amount of food could supply. They left after that, holding their bundles of papers against the wind. They hadn’t said “Thank you.” They didn’t need to. They had reminded me that I had so much for which to be grateful. Plain blue china cups and saucers were only worth five pence. But they matched.

I tasted the potatoes and stirred the meat soup. Potatoes and brown meat soup, a roof over our heads, my man with a good steady job—these matched, too.

I moved the chairs back from the fire and cleaned the living room. The muddy prints of small sandals were still wet upon my floor. Let them be for a while, I thought, just in case I should begin to forget how rich I am.

46. Two children came to the writer’s front door because _________________.

A. it was Thanksgiving Day

B. they were beggars

C. they wanted old papers

D. they wanted a cup of cocoa

47. Why did the writer let the children in?

A. She showed great pity on them

B. She had old papers to sell

C. She wanted to invite them to her Thanksgiving feast

D. She wanted them to see how rich she was

48. The girl thought the writer was rich perhaps because ________________.

A. she saw that the lady’s room was comfortable

B. she saw the cups matched the saucers

C. the writer’s slipcovers were very new

D. the writer was preparing a big meal while she was too hungry.

49. From the passage, we can infer that whether you are rich depends on ____________.

A. how much money you have had        B. how you feel about your life

C. how you have helped others            D. what job your husband is doing

50. The writer left the muddy prints of small sandals on the floor for a while to ____________.

A. show her husband that someone had come

B. remind her that she had helped two children

C. remind her that she was very rich in the neighborhood

D. remind her how life should be

 Don’t try to _________ any excuse, Alan. Tell me why you didn’t come to school today.

   A. show up         B. make up             C. give up                D. step up