--- Why was Professor Zhang unhappy recently?

   --- Because the theory he insisted on _____ wrong.

   A proved    B proving    C being proved    D was proved

--- I’m not good at singing, you know.

   ---_________. It’s just for fun.

       A. All right     B. No problem       C. Come on    D. Cheer up

第三部分 閱讀理解 (共15小題；每小題2分，滿(mǎn)分30分)

請(qǐng)認(rèn)真閱讀下列短文，從短文后各題所給的A、B、C、D四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。

Why You Should Celebrate Your Mistakes

When you make a mistake, big or small, cherish (珍視) it like it’s the most precious thing in the world. Because in some ways, it is.

Most of us feel bad when we make mistakes, beat ourselves up about it, feel like failures, get mad at ourselves.

And that’s only natural: most of us have been taught from a young age that mistakes are bad, that we should try to avoid mistakes. We’ve been scolded when we make mistakes—at home, school and work. Maybe not always, but probably enough times to make feeling bad about mistakes an unconscious reaction.

Yet without mistakes, we could not learn or grow. If you think about it that way, mistakes should be cherished and celebrated for being one of the most amazing things in the world: they make learning possible; they make growth and improvement possible.

By trial and error—trying things, making mistakes, and learning from those mistakes—we have figured out how to make electric light, to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, to fly.

Mistakes make walking possible for the smallest toddler, make speech possible, make works of genius possible.

Think about how we learn: we don’t just consume information about something and instantly know it or know how to do it. You don’t just read about painting, or writing, or computer programming, or baking, or playing the piano, and know how to do them right away. Instead, you get information about something, from reading or from another person or from observing usually … then you construct a model in your mind … then you test it out by trying it in the real world … then you make mistakes … then you revise the model based on the results of your real-world experimentation … and repeat, making mistakes, learning from those mistakes, until you’ve pretty much learned how to do something. That’s how we learn as babies and toddlers, and how we learn as adults. Mistakes are how we learn to do something new—because if you succeed at something, it’s probably something you already knew how to do. You haven’t really grown much from that success—at most it’s the last step on your journey, not the whole journey. Most of the journey was made up of mistakes, if it’s a good journey.

So if you value learning, if you value growing and improving, then you should value mistakes. They are amazing things that make a world of brilliance possible.

56. Why do most of us feel bad about making mistakes?

A. Because mistakes make us suffer a lot.

B. Because it’s a natural part in our life.

C. Because we’ve been taught so from a young age.

D. Because mistakes have ruined many people’s careers.

57. According to the passage, what is the right attitude to mistakes?

A. We should try to avoid making mistakes.

B. We should owe great inventions mainly to mistakes.

C. We should treat mistakes as good chances to learn.

D. We should make feeling bad about mistakes an unconscious reaction.

58. The underlined word “toddler” in Paragraph Six probably means _______.

A. a small child learning to walk              B. a kindergarten child learning to draw

C. a primary pupil learning to read                     D. a school teenager learning to write

59. We can learn from the passage that _______.

A. most of us can really grow from success

B. growing and improving are based on mistakes

C. mistakes are the most precious things in the world 

D. we read about something and know how to do it right away

關(guān)于力的說(shuō)法中正確的是（   ）

A．力可以離開(kāi)施力物體或受力物體而獨(dú)立存在 B．對(duì)于力只需要說(shuō)明其大小，而無(wú)需說(shuō)明其方向

C．一個(gè)施力物體只能有一個(gè)受力物體         D．一個(gè)受力物體可以有幾個(gè)施力物體

–Have you thought of a topic for your article yet?

   –No, I _____ a lot about it, but I haven't decided.

       A. will think   B. have been thinking    C. had thought       D. was thinking

As a senior three student, Xiao Ming burns the candle at both ends .If he carries on working like that ,he’ll     sooner or later.

      A．keep out   B．hold out    C．bring out  D．wear out

—Do you think Apple’s new video iPod will bring new fans to TV shows?

       —It’s certainly a risk but       it’s a great one.

       A．I think      B．I should say     C．I dare say  D．I don’t think

-- Jim has his wife do all the housework! Isn’t he wise?

       -- Not really. He is_____.

A. more wise than lazy  B. wiser than lazy

       C. more lazy than wise   D. lazier than wise

No bread eaten by man is so sweet as            earned by his own labor.

       A．one   B．that   C．what  D．those

—The project wasn’t’ difficult for him, was it ?

    —        . He should have been given a more difficult one .

       A．No, it was       B．Yes , it was     C．Yes , it wasn’t        D．No , it wasn’t