_____ is expected, according to the online survey, is that prices of the houses won’t rise any more．

   A． What            B． It            C． As            D． Which

---What made you so angry?

 A. Mary’s leaving, instead of   B. Mary’s left, instead of

 C. Mary’s leaving, without     D. Mary”s leaving, instead

Dear Abby,

I am a very conservative woman. I don’t drink, dance, wear makeups or pants. I enjoy the company of friends despite（盡管）our differences and thought they enjoyed mine.

On our most recent outing, however, they laughed at my religious jewelry, commented on my “l(fā)ack of fashion,” and made me feel guilty for not wanting to stay out late.

Despite this, they are great friends and would help me at the drop of a hat. I don’t bring up their being overweight, or that I think some of the clothes they wear are ugly. I don’t criticize them for sleeping around. I wish they would accept me for who I am.

I am considering not going out with them the next time they ask, but I don’t really want it to come to that. Any suggestions?

—Just an Old-Fashioned Girl

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Dear Old-Fashioned Girl,

Just this: It’s time for you to start cultivating relationships with people whose values are more like your own. The friends you have described may be lovely, but their comments were out of line and folks are known by the company they keep. If you spend a lot of time with the women you have described, people will begin to make assumptions(臆斷) about you.

                                                       —Abby

The underlined word “conservative” is closest in meaning to ________.

   A. beautiful    

B. old-fashioned       

C. overweight  

D. ordinary-looking

When did Old-fashioned Girl feel guilty?

   A. When her friends stayed out late.

   B. When she stayed out late with her friends. 

C. When she refused her friends’ request to stay out late.

   D. When her friends refused her to stay out late with them.

Which of the following could Old-fashioned Girl most possibly agree to?

   A. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

   B. Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

   C. The friend is the one who knows all about you, and still likes you. 

   D. True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. 

According to Abby, it’s a good idea for Old-fashioned Girl to ________.

   A. talk with her friends                

B. understand her friends

   C. forgive her friends                  

D. break up with her friends

補全對話 （共5小題；每小題2分，滿分10分）

根據對話內容，從對話后的選項中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項，選項中有兩項多余選項。

M：Excuse me. Can you give me some information about active holidays?

W: ___1_____ Would you please tell exactly what you mean?

M: OK. When I go on holidays, I’d like to take exercise. _2_____ What I mean is that I’m the sort of man who enjoys swimming, skiing and those sorts of things.

W: __3____ Um…. active holidays, let me see. What about diving, sir? We can offer you two weeks off the coast: one week diving and one week fishing with the local fishermen. But you only need to pay $800 for it. __4____

M: Fishing? Is there any chance of getting in a bit of sailing?

W: 5____ They are mostly organized by the sailing school. But rowing, yes. Are you interested in rowing, sir?

M: Well, I did a lot of rowing when I was at university.

I hate sitting around and doing nothing.

No problem.

Active holidays, sir?

It’s a very good bargain.

It’s a bit difficult.

I’m sorry we don’t do many sailing holidays, sir.

Oh, sir, sounds very interesting.

____________, the idea of having to work under a woman defeated him.

A. Wanting the job very much         B. Although wanting the job very much

C. Though he wanted the job very much   D. He wanted the job badly

Americans: Restless? Illiterate(沒文化的) ?

    Americans are queer people: they can’t rest. They have more time, more leisure, shorter work hours, more holidays, and more vacations than any other people in the world. But they can’t rest. They rush up and down across their continent as tourists; they move about in great herds to conferences; they search the wilderness; they flood the mountains; they keep the hotels full. But they can’t rest. The scenery rushes past them. They learn it. Battles and monuments are announced to them on a tour bus. They hear them, but they don’t get them. They never stop moving; they rush up and down as Shriners, Masons, Old Graduates, Bankers—they are a new thing each day, always rushing to a reunion or something. So they go on rushing about till eventually the undertaker (殯葬工) gather them to the grave.

    Americans are queer people: they can’t read. They have more schools, and better schools and spend more money on schools and colleges than all Europe. But they can’t read. They print more books in a year than the French print in ten. But they can’t read. They cover their country with one hundred thousand tons of Sunday newspapers every week. But they don’t read them. They’re too busy. They use them for fires and to make more paper with. They buy eagerly thousands of new novels at two dollars each. But they read only page one. Their streets are full of huge signs. They won’t look at them. Their streetcars are filled with advertising; they turn their eyes away. Transparent colors, cart wheels, and mechanical flares whirl and flicker in the crowded streets at night. No one sees them. Tons of letters pour into the mail boxes, through the houses, and down the garbage cans. No one reads them.

The underlined word “queer ” means ___________.

A. difficult    B. strange  C. forgetful    D. friendly

According to the text, when do the Americans stop rushing about ?

A. When they are to allowed to.     B. Where they feel tired and sleepy

C. When they are seriously ill in bed   D. When they stop breathing eventually

The Americans know the places of battles and monuments ___________.

A. when they are on the tour bus    B. by driving there in person

C. from books and magazines D. from their friends and co-workers

Why does the writer write this passage?

A. To tell people the Americans are illiterate

B. To prove the Americans to be a queer nation

C. To give the readers information about USA

D. To make fun of the American way of life

書面表達（15%）

最近，溫中電臺英語欄目(Radio on Campus) 發(fā)起了有關“壓力及其解壓方式”的討論。你對此問題進行了思考，并向該欄目投稿。你主要談了以下幾方面的看法：

現(xiàn)代生活壓力大，主要壓力來自升學、求職……；

適當?shù)膲毫�可以帶來好處，但過多的壓力帶來負面影響，如……；

常見的不良解壓方式有抽煙……；

你認為最好的解壓方式是……，為什么？

注意：1. 合理分段；    2. 開頭已給出，不計詞數(shù)； 3. 字數(shù)為120詞。

Due to the fast rhythm of modern life, more and more people are living under great stress. ___________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________

“If I ________ taking drugs, I would be a successful businessman now,” said the dying drug addict.

A. didn’t start         B. haven’t started        C. hadn’t started   D. shouldn’t start

That hotel is always full because it offers a friendly ______ and personal service.

A surface          B. atmosphere     C. system        D. appearance

Dear Abby,

This is my first letter to you, although I have been reading your column for many years. I need an outside opinion.

I am a grandmother in my 70s and have just returned from visiting my daughter, her husband and their three dearly loved children--all under the age of 5--and I'm upset with some of their parenting ways.

For example: They lock the doors to their children's bedrooms at night because the children might get out of their beds and wander around the house, and we may not hear them."

 If one child should get punishment, all three are punished, and if one child says a naughty

word, all three are given hot sauce (辣醬汁) in the mouth. I know these parents love their children very much, but are these ways of disciplining them wise? Please understand, it is not my aim to interfere (干涉).

--- Gram

Dear Gram,

Children's bedroom doors should not be locked. Should a flash fire break out, it would be a nightmare (噩夢).Punishing all the children when only one has earned the punishment is a good way to make them grow up to hate each other. Children who use "naughty" words should not be punished with hot sauce in the mouth-they should be taught the proper and acceptable word to use instead of the "naughty" word. 

Gram's daughter _____________.

A. is very strict with her children            B. does not love her three children

C. always punishes her children at night      D. often gives her children hot sauce

Gram writes the letter in order to ____________.

A. disclose her daughter's ways as a mother     

B. criticize her daughter's ways as a mother

C. express her anger about her daughter s ways as a mom

D. get others' opinion about her daughter's ways as a mom

Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A. Gram seems to care for her grand children very much.

B. Gram is against some of her daughter's ways as a mom.

C. Abby is for only one of Gram's daughter's ways as a mom.

D. Abby agrees with Gram about her daughter's ways as a mom.