"Mark Twain" was the name used by Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910) when he wrote books. His father was a lawyer, but a poor one, who lived at Florida, Missouri. The family was so poor that Samuel did not receive much teaching. He had to learn all that he could from the people whom he met. His father died when he was very young, and then there was even less money than before.

　　Many of the men in this part of America worked in the ships on the great River Mississippi, and he did this himself at one time (1857).

　　Where did he find the name "Mark Twain"? It came from the great river itself. It was part of one of the cries used by men who worked in the ships. When a man called "By the mark twain!"  he meant that the river was "two marks deep" there, that is to say, six feet deep ( "Twain" is an old form of the work "Two".) Samuel Clemens often heard these words when he was young, and he used them as a penname all his life.

　　During his work on the Mississippi he met travelers of all kinds, and this helped him a great deal when he started to write. But the number of travelers became smaller when war started in America in 1861. Many of the great ships on the river stopped work. Samuel left then and went to Nevada with his brother, who was at that time Governor of Nevada. There, near the town of Carson, Samuel became a gold miner, but he never made much money at the time. He soon saw that life in the gold mines was not for him. He also tried writing for the newspapers in Nevada, and this seemed more hopeful. He found that he could write.

　　He went to Europe in 1867 and visited France and Italy. In 1870 he married Olivia Langdon, and two years later he was spending nearly all his time writing. Among his books is his own story (1908).

　　He is now always known as Mark Twain, and many people do not even know that his family name was Clemens. He traveled in America and in England, and went to Oxford in 1907. He was one of  the great American writers of the time, and could make his readers laugh – a thing which few writers can do. He died in 1910.

"Mark Twain" was _________.

      A. a famous American writer  B. name of a book

      C. a great river in America  D. a large ship

As a child, Samuel did not get much education because _________.

A.his father died too early

B.the family was very poor

  C. he disliked school very much

D. he could learn what he liked from the people he met

What gave him a great deal when he started writing? _______

A. His poor childhood     B. The Mississippi river 

C. All kinds of travelers he met  D. His brother

We can infer from the passage that ________.

A. Samuel loved writing from his early age

B. Samuel did not love writing at the beginning

C. his writings to the newspaper were successful

D. his brother encouraged him to write more

According to the writer of the passage, a good writer could _________.

A. write a lot for his readers

B. make a lot of money for his family

C. cause his readers to laugh

D. travel everywhere he wanted

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第四部分：書面部分（共兩節(jié)，滿分35分）

一．對(duì)話填空（滿分10分）

Tom: I’m (76) w_______ if it is going to be fine this afternoon.

Lily: So (77) w_______?

T: The sports meet! It’s (78) f________ at 2:00, but the fog! You can only see a short (79) d_______.

L: But don’t you see the wind is (80) b________ to lift it up? I bet it will be fine this afternoon.

T: Don’t be so sure.

L: You’ve heard the (81) f_________ this morning, (82) h_________ you?

T: No, that’s why I am worried.

L: Why not try the 24-hour telephone weather forecast (83) s_______?

T: Yeah! How (84) c_______ I didn’t think of that? I’ll do it right (85) a________.

__________ abroad  for two years ,he will come back within two weeks

A Having studied   B Studied   C To study    D Studying

. She has a lot of hobbies, ____ playing chess _____ canoeing.

             A. ranges from … to…     B having ranged from…to…

             C. ranged from…to…      D. ranging from…to…

—Why is the famous althlete absent from the game?

  —He has been________to take part in competitions for a year because of taking drags.

  A.arrested                 B.forbidden           C.declined             D.scolded

 The International Day against Drugs, aimed at warning people to keep away from drugs, ______ on June 26^th every year.

  A. taking place            B. takes place       C. took place      D. taken place

第二節(jié)　完形填空(共20小題；每小題1. 5分，滿分30分)

閱讀下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后從21～40各小題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)(A、B、C和D)中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)。

Each age has its pleasure and its pains. The happiest person is the one who    21    what each age gives him without    22    any time in useless regrets.

Childhood is a time when there are    23    duties. Life is always giving    24    things to a child. He finds    25    in playing in the rain or snow. His first    26    to the seaside makes him wild. But a child has his    27   . He is not so    28    to do as he wishes to. He is always told not to do this or that, or is even    29    for what he has done wrong. His life is therefore not perfectly happy.

When the young man starts to make his own living, he becomes free    30    the discipline(紀(jì)律) of schools and parents, but at the same time he is forced to accept duties. He can no longer    31    others to pay for his food, clothing and housing, but has to work if he wants to live    32   . If he spends most of his time playing about in the    33    he used as a child, he will go    34   . And if he breaks the    35    of society, he may go to prison. However, if he works hard, keeps out of    36   , and has good health, he can have the greatest happiness of seeing himself make rapid    37    in his job and of building up his position in society.

Old age has always been considered as the    38    time of life. But the old can feel the happiness of having come through the    39    of life safely and having reached a time when they can lie back and rest,    40    the young to continue the fight.

21. A. shares             B. enjoys             C. chooses              D. refuses

22. A. saving         B. offering                  C. hoping                    D. wasting

23. A. little               B. a few                  C. few                     D. a little

24. A. delicious         B. new                    C. similar                    D. meaningless

25. A. discipline        B. duty                   C. pleasure              D. pain

26. A. knowledge     B. thought                  C. visit                    D. play

27. A. characters       B. pains                  C. mistakes              D. habits

28. A. willing        B. glad                    C. careful                    D. free

29. A. regretted         B. punished             C. praised                D. apologized

30. A. in                   B. with                   C. against                    D. from

31. A. hope               B. expect              C. promise               D. forbid

32. A. freely             B. safely                 C. gladly              D. comfortably

33. A. rain                B. sea                          C. way                   D. work

34. A. bad                B. wrong                 C. good                    D. hungry

35. A. peace              B. rule                    C. law                       D. plan

36. A. power             B. trouble             C. order                   D. control

37. A. chance         B. progress          C. condition               D. score

38. A. better             B. worse                 C. worst                   D. best

39. A. battle              B. hunger              C. peace                         D. joy

40. A. keeping              B. leaving              C. remaining             D. permitting

They were walking along the shore _______ a huge wave appeared out of nowhere, sweeping them out to sea.

A. as                     B. while         C. when         D. though

_____ in bed, we listened to the heavy rain _______ the window.

A. Lie; hitting     B. Lay; knocking     C. Lying; beating     D. Lain; striking

 Mount Wutai,_____we visited last month,attracts hundreds of thsousands of vistors every year.

      A. where   B.which    C.what   D.as