When a close friend dies, it often forces you to consider your own death. The more you have in common with the friend, the more his death will make you wonder about your own. Sometimes you will naturally say to yourself, "It could just as easily have been me." Such a death has a way of reminding us how fragile life is, and it may cause you to reassess（重新評(píng)價(jià)） the direction of your own life.

    Jack's story is a good example. A successful businessman making a lot of money, Jack didn't spend as much time with his family as he wanted. His job required him to work long hours. But three years ago one of his best friends, a man who worked in the same office, had a heart attack. He died while celebrating his daughter's eighteenth birthday in a restaurant. He was only fifty years old.

    Not long after his friend's death, Jack started to have a chest pain. Finally he had a good physical check-up. He received a clean bill of health. But the chest pain continued. He kept thinking of the death of his friend. Jack thought about how much his friend missed in life and he saw how hard it was for his friend's family to manage after he passed away.

    Jack realized that he didn't want to end up his life that way. He talked his feelings over with his wife and children, and decided to change his way of life. The family moved to a small town where he started a simple life. Now he is running a small art gallery（畫廊）. He is relaxed, and says he has never been so happy in his life, and he has got no more chest pain.

1. Your close friend's death is __________________ to you.

   A. a warning           B. common            C. a direction of life     D. an example

2. The underlined sentence in the third paragraph means "________________".

   A. The doctor didn't write a word on his bill

   B. The doctor didn't want Jack to pay for the bill

   C. The doctor didn't find anything wrong with him

   D. The doctor didn't want to treat his pain

3． His friend's death made Jack ________________.

   A. lose much interest in life

   B. realize that he missed the friend very much

   C. doubt his way of life

    D. ill for some time

4. While living in the small town Jack ________________.

A. earns less money    B. gets more time 

    C. has a happier life    D. does all these mentioned above

第Ⅱ卷  非選擇題

第五部分  寫作（共兩節(jié)，滿分30分）

第一節(jié)：短文填詞（共10小題；每小題1分，滿分10分）

閱讀下面短文，根據(jù)以下提示：1）漢語(yǔ)提示，2）首字母提示，3）語(yǔ)境提示，在每個(gè)空格內(nèi)填入一個(gè)適當(dāng)?shù)挠⒄Z(yǔ)單詞，并將該詞完整地寫在右邊相對(duì)應(yīng)的橫線上。所填單詞要求意義準(zhǔn)確，拼寫正確

On May 9th, 1906, an American Anne Jevis’s mother died.

Anne was in deep sorrow. In order to memorize her

 mother, she      forward a suggestion to              1            

fix a day as Mother’s Day. On May 7th, 1914,

 a law was passed, m      the  second Sunday          2                 

of  May “Mother’s Day”. Today        (百萬(wàn)) of       3              

  people        (慶祝) Mother’s Day in some way .      4            

They buy more than 150,000,000  Mother’s Day

Greeting cards.There are d        kinds of cards,          5            

most of        show pictures of flowers, hearts          6            

or other things to          a person’s love              7             

 for his or her mother. Jevis’s mother was fond o         8            

the  white carnation(康乃馨), so carnations are specially

c        for Mother’s Day. And it is one of the           9              

busiest days of the year for the whole flower         (產(chǎn)業(yè))10            

 as there are too many flowers to be sent at the same time.     

. The clever boy made a hole in the wall, _______ he could see ______ was going on inside the house.

A. which; what              B. through which; what     

C. through that; what       D. what; that

As I was reading a recent story in Slate on 20-somethings complaining about how the economy was ruining their life plans, I couldn’t help but think the 20-somethings sounded like a bunch of spoiled children who grew up expecting everything to be easy for them. As a 20-something myself, I certainly share their disappointment: my husband and I probably won’t be able to buy a house until we’re in our 40s, and we too are burdened by student loans(貸款). But why should it be any different? Being young persons in America, shouldn’t they take up all of the challenges and opportunities that this country offers?

Consider some of these views shared in the Slate story: Jennifer, 29, owner of a two-bedroom apartment with her husband, worries that she won’t be able to have children for at least a decade because they can’t afford to buy a house yet.

I read that, and I thought, what planet is she living on where you need to own a house in order to have kids? Has she ever visited a developing country, or even downtown areas in this one? Home ownership is a luxury(奢華), not a fertility requirement.

A 26-year-old in the story despairs(絕望) that he can’t afford to get a Ph.D. in literature. Well, that sounds a bit like expressing disappointment that no one will pay you to write poetry on the beach in Thailand for five years.

Yes, it’s sad that these young people feel so lost. But I think the problem is their extremely high expectations, not economic reality. Beth Kobliner, author of Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties, says that she thinks people’s expectations are slowly adjusting, but today’s 20-somethings grew up at a time when everyone’s wealth appeared to be expanding. Their parents probably saw their home values rise along with their investments. “So you have people who have grown up in an environment where people had great expectations of what living well means,” says Kobliner.

This recession(衰退) will certainly play a role in forcing those expectations into more realistic group. In the meantime, it seems a lot better for our mental health to focus on being grateful－for our one-bedroom apartments, for living in modern cities, or perhaps just for being able to eat three meals a day－than on longing for some kind of luxury life.

1. What makes the author think the 20-somethings sound like a bunch of spoiled children?

A. They expect everything to be easy for them.

B. They complain that the economy is spoiling their life plans.

C. They are reluctant to face all of the challenges.

D. They are burdened by student loans.

2. The underlined word “fertility” in Paragraph 3 probably means ________.

A. baby production        B. pleasant                    C. baby comfort            D. essential

3. What’s the author’s attitude towards the 20-somthings with high expectation in Paragraph 5?

A. Intolerant.              B. Negative.               C. Unbelieving.                 D. Understanding.

4. What is the best title for this passage?

A. How Young People Afford to Continue Their Study

B. Why Young People Can’t Afford to Buy a House

C. When Young People’s High Hopes Create Despair

D. What the 20-somethings’ High Expectations Are    

第二節(jié)：書面表達(dá)：（滿分25分）

從學(xué)校畢業(yè)，或上大學(xué)，或步入社會(huì)。畢業(yè)意味著前進(jìn)、意味著選擇。請(qǐng)以Graduation and Moving on為題，寫一篇120詞左右的短文，介紹你校畢業(yè)前的一些活動(dòng)以及你的畢業(yè)感受。

提示：首句已給出，但不計(jì)入總詞數(shù)。

Graduation is a time when we move on, from school to university, or out into the real

world．________________________________________________________________________

. When we arrived in the middle of the night, there was no food ______ as all the shops were shut. 

A. left   B. available  C. remaining   D. convenient

 She intended to be a doctor, but a serious eye infection forced her to ____ the idea.

       A. accept        B. abandon              C. adapt            D. absorb

—What’s the girl like ?

    —She was a brave girl . She fought bravely and her enemy had to _______  her at last .

 A．give up  B．give up to  C．give in D．give in to

_____ friend of my sister’s will come to see her tomorrow. I’m wondering what ___ man he is going to be like.

A. A…the    B. A…. a  C. The… a   D. The….the

11. —You realize that you were driving at 100 miles per hour , don’t you ?

    —No, officer , I          have been . This car can’t do more than 70

       A. needn’t            B. shouldn’t                  C. couldn’t                   D. might not