Nothing taught by others can have the same effect on you as ______ learned by yourself．

     A．it                          B．the one                   C．that                        D．those

Parents’ opinions on studying abroad differ greatly _____their children’s ____their aims．

       A．in; from             B．from; in        C．from; about         D．in; on

______ many times, he couldn’t understand it.

A. Being told  B. Having told              C. Having been told       D. To be told

Do you like to eat out? Do you like to eat quickly? Do you like inexpensive food? Some people go to fast-food restaurants for these reasons. In the past, people usually went to diners（小餐館）for these reasons. In fact, many people in the States still go to diners today for the same reasons.

A man named Walter Scott had the first “diner” in 1872. It wasn’t a real diner. It was only a food cart. People on the street walked up to the cart to buy food. These carts served late-night workers who wanted a cup of coffee and a late-night meal. The meal was a sandwich or boiled eggs. In 1887, Samuel Jones built the first diner big enough to allow the customers to come inside. However, they did not sit down. Later, people built diners with counters and stools, and people sat down while they ate.

Before long, many diners stayed open around the clock. In other words, people were able to eat in diner at any time. Diners changed in other ways, too. The original menu of sandwiches and coffee became bigger. It included soup, favorite dishes, and a breakfast menu. In addition, diners soon became permanent buildings. They were no longer carts on wheels.

Diners today look similar to  the diners of the early 1900s. They are usually buildings with large windows. Inside, the diners have shining counters with stools, booths, and tables and chairs. People can eat all three meals in a modern diner.

   Today, many people eat in fast-food restaurants such as McDonald’s and Burger King. However, the diner remains an American tradition, and thousands of people still enjoy eating there. It was popular a century ago, and it is still popular today.

1.A man named Walter Scott had the first “diner” in 1872. Why is the word “diner” in quotation marks(引號)？

A.Because it is spelled differently from “ dinner”

B.Because the first diner was not what it is now

C.Because diner was a new word

D.Because it is a special kind of restaurant

2.What meals did the first diners serve?

A. only breakfast    B. Only lunch   C. Only night-meals  D. All of the above

3.According to paragraph 3, diners changed in __________

A. Two ways      B. three ways     C. four ways       D. five ways

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

A．Diners existed before a fast-food restaurant

B．The menu included more food than sandwiches and coffee

C．Burger King is a fast-food restaurant

D．Sandwiches became bigger

5.The main idea of the passage is that ______________.

A. The diner is a traditional , popular place to eat in the United States

B.Samuel Johns built the first diner big enough to allow the customers to come inside

C.American diners serve many types of food 24 hours a day to their customers

D.Diners are different from fast-food restaurants in many ways

第三部分 閱讀理解（共20小題；每小題2分，滿分40分）

請閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該選項的標號涂黑。

In ancient times the most important examinations were spoken, not written. In the schools of ancient Greece and Rome, testing usually was made up of saying poetry aloud and giving speeches.

In the European universities of the Middle Ages, students who were working for advanced degrees had to discuss questions in their field of study with people who had made a special study of the subject. This custom exists today as part of the process of testing candidates(應試者) for the doctor’s degree.

Generally, however, modern examinations are written. The written examination, where all students are tested on the same questions, was probably not known until the nineteenth century. Perhaps it came into existence with the great increase in population and the development of modern industry. A room full of candidates for a state examination timed exactly by electric clocks and carefully watched over by managers, looks like a group of workers at an automobile factory. Certainly, during examinations teachers and students are expected to act like machines.

One type of test is sometimes called an “objective” test. It is intended to deal with facts, not personal opinions. To make up an objective test, the teacher writes a series of questions, each of which has only one correct answer. Along with each question the teacher writes the correct answer and also three statements that look like answers to students who have not learned the material properly.

56. The main idea of Paragraph Three is that ___________ .

  A. workers now take examinations       B. the population has grown

  C. there are only written exams today     D. examinations are now written and timed

57. The kind of exams where students must select answers are ___________ .

  A. objective        B. personal        C. spoken       D. written

58. Modern industry must have developed ____________ .

  A. around the 19th century            B . before the Middle Ages

  C. in Greece or Rome                D. machines to take tests

59. It may be concluded that testing __________ .

  A. should test only opinions           B. should always be written

C. is given only in factories           D. has changed since the Middle Ages

Astronomers (天文學家) say they are on the point of finding planets like Earth orbiting other stars, which is a key step in determining if we are alone in the universe.

A top NASA official and other leading scientists say that within four or five years they should discover the first Earth-like planet where life could develop, or may have already. A planet close to the size of Earth could even be found sometime this year.

At the annual American Astronomical Society conference this week, each discovery involving  so-called “exoplanets” —those outside our solar system — pointed to the same conclusion：Quiet planets like Earth where life could develop probably are plentiful.

NASA’s Dew Kepler telescope and a lot of new research from the suddenly hot and competitive exoplanet field caused noticeable buzz at the meeting．Scientists are talking about being at “an incredible special place in history” and closer to answering the question. “Are we alone? For the first time, there’s an optimism that sometime in our lifetimes we’re going to get to the bottom of that,” said Simon Worden，an astronomer who heads NASA’s Ames Research Center. “If I were a betting man, which I am, I would bet we’re not alone.”

“These are big questions that reflect upon the meaning of the human race in the universe,” the director of the Vatican Observatory, the Rev. Jose Funes, said Wednesday in an interview at this week’s conference.

Worden told The Associated Press: “I would certainly expect in the next four or five years we’d have an Earth-sized planet in the habitable (可居住的) zone.”

1.What is very important in determining if we are alone in the universe?

A. Finding an Earth-like planet.        B. Orbiting other stars.

C. Developing new telescopes.      D. Finding more exoplanets.

2.What’s an exoplanet?

A. It’s a planet like Earth.         B. It’s a planet outside our solar system.

C. It’s a planet orbiting the sun.   D. It’s a planet where life have developed.

3.The underlined phrase “get to the bottom of” probably means “__________”.

A. understand fully    B. make full use of

C. search for         D. do more research on   

4.From the passage we can learn that __________.  

A. an Earth-like planet has been found

B. it’s been proved we are not alone in the universe

C. Jose Funes has found the meaning of the human race in the universe

D. the discovery of an Earth-like planet could happen in the near future

第三節(jié)：書面表達（滿分25分）

根據以下提示，請給《中國日報》寫篇英文簡訊，要點如下：

徐忠，男，37歲，教授�，F在清華大學工作。

1993年畢業(yè)于湖南大學，畢業(yè)后留校執(zhí)教。

他刻苦鉆研，科研成果顯著。1998年去日本一所大學深造，獲得物理學博士學位。

很多國家的大公司以高薪聘請他，他拒絕了。

他于2004年毅然回國報效祖國。目前已為祖國做出了很大貢獻。

要求：詞數100個左右

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

–Where are you working now?

-In a big company. But I ___in a small workshop for 5 years in the countryside.

A. has worked       B. had worked   C. was working    D. worked

The number of students admitted annually to this school       from more thart 2．000 in the year 2.000 to some 3，000 last yeat．

A．increases       B．has increased        C．is increasing        D．increased

The work has           the status of a classic among the composer’s admirers.

A. required     B. acquired     C. inquired     D. inspired