閱讀下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后從36－55各題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)（A，B，C，D）中選出最佳選項(xiàng)。

Born in America, I spoke English, not Chinese, the language of my ancestors. When I was three, my parents flashed cards with Chinese 36 at my face, but I pushed them 37 .My mom believed I would learn 38 I was ready .But the 39 never came.

　　On a Chinese New Year’s Eve, my uncle spoke to me in Chinese, but all I could do was 40 at him, confused, scratching my head. “Still can’t speak Chinese?” He 41 me, “You can’t even buy a fish in Chinatown.”

　　“Hey, this is America, not China. I’ll get some 42 with or without Chinese.” I replied and turned to my mom for 43.

　　“Remember to ask for fresh fish, Xin Xian Yu,” she said, handing over a $20 bill .I 44 the words, running downstairs into the streets of Chinatown.

　　I found the fish 45 surrounded in a sea of customers. “I’d like to buy some fresh fish,” I shouted to the fishman .But he 46 my English words and turned to serve the next customer .The laugh of the people behind increased 47 their impatience. With every 48, the breath of the dragons on my back grew stronger—my blood boiling— 49 me to cry out. “Xian Sheng Yu, please” “Very Xian Sheng,” I repeated .The crowd erupted into laughter. My face turned 50 and I ran back home 51  , except for the $20 bill I held tightly in my pocket .

　　Should I laugh or cry? They’re Chinese. I’m Chinese. I should feel right at 52 . Instead , I was the joke , a disgrace (丟臉)to the language.

　　Sometimes, I laugh at my fish 53  , but , in the end the joke is on 54 . Every laugh is a culture 55 ; every laugh is my heritage (傳統(tǒng))fading away.

The choice to adopt and hold gratefulness is the one that is different from those who suffer misfortune and those who enjoy a full life.

My mother died when I was 24. It was a very difficult time in my life - everything seemed to fall apart. I lost my job, and then my utilities were turned off. I had to take cold showers for six months. A neighbor who knew about my situation came to my house and made me an offer. I took care of her children as a job, and I no longer went hungry. I was surprised that someone would trust me－a young woman－with her children. And it was with the very confidence that before long I began taking care of other people's children, too. I have since moved 300 miles from Boise, Idaho. For more than 23 years I have made every effort to reach out to all the kind-hearted people who helped me when I was down and out. Without their trust, I don't know what I would have done. I am very involved in my community and volunteer at the local food bank, and I help out whenever I can. I'd like to owe what I am to whoever has offered me generosity.

If you are grateful for what you already have, the world will work together to give you more to be grateful for. Otherwise, the world will give you more to complain about.

Moreover, the true master learns to be grateful, in advance, for the things that are desired, because, being grateful in advance for some attainment or accomplishment does two very important things: one－it tricks your subconscious(潛意識)into believing that the goal is certain and two…it convinces other people, with whom you must interact to achieve your desires, that you know what you are about, that you are a winner, not a whiner(哀訴者).

65. The underlined "utilities" refers to such things as ______ in the passage.

      A. gas and electricity     supplies   B. water and gas supplies

      C. shower equipment and water supply D. heating and TV signals

66. The writer was grateful mainly for ______.

      A. his neighbor's donation                      B. his community  

      C. having got the job                    D. others' trust

67. The writer's personal story in the second paragraph tells us that ______.

      A. to be grateful will get you nowhere but away from home

      B. we need to be grateful to be helpful and useful

      C. a grateful person is most likely to be successful

      D. the fragrance (芳香) stays in the hand that gives the rose

68. The best title for the passage would be ________.

      A. A Thank-You Note to Trusting Neighbor B. You Are a Winner, Not a Whiner

      C. Gratefulness Brings a Great Fullness to Life D. Be Grateful to Life in Advance

第三節(jié)：完形填空（共20小題；每小題1.5分,滿分30分）

閱讀下面短文,從短文后所給各題的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)（A、B、C和D）中,選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng),并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。

The Creightons were very proud of their son, Frank. After his graduation from university, Frank was drafted into the army and soon after that, he received his call to go to the  41   .

At first the parents heard from him every week and were  42  for his well-being but then a telegram came,saying,"We regret to inform you that your son has been   43   for three weeks

and may have been killed in   44   ."The parents were shocked and grieved (傷心的). They felt very   45   without Frank. About three weeks later,   46   , the phone rang. A voice on the other  47   said, "Mother,it's Frank. They  48  me,and I'm going to be all right. I'm in the United States and I'm coming home soon. "

Mrs. Creighton was overjoyed,  49   tears running down her cheeks,"Oh,that's just wonderful, Frank!"

There was  50  for a moment, and then Frank said,"Mother, I want to ask you something important to me. While I've been in the  51   , I've made some real  52  friends. There is one fellow I would like to bring home to meet you and Dad. And I would like to know if it would be all right if he could stay with us. He has  53   else to go."

His mother assured him it would be all right.

Then Frank said,"You see, he was  54  in battle. His face is all disfigured. He lost his  55  , and his right hand is missing. So you see,he feels  56  about how others will  57   him."

Frank's mother stopped to think a minute. Then she said, "Sure Frank, you bring him home—for a  58  ,that's it. About him staying with us permanently(永久地), well, we'll have to think about that." Frank said, "Okay, Mother," and hung up.

A week went by without any  59  from Frank,and then a telegram arrived,"We regret to inform you that your son has  60  his life. We would like you to come and identify the body."

"Why had he done this?" When they walked into the room to identify the body of their son, they found a young man with a disfigured face, one leg missing, and his right hand gone.

41. A. camp             B. front            C. airport         D. scene

42. A. pitiful     B. painful         C. hopeful       D. thankful

43. A. wounded         B. gone           C. missing       D. dead

44. A. action     B. crash           C. bomb          D. crime

45. A. crazy             B. scared          C. lonely          D. panic

46. A. otherwise         B. however      C. besides         D. therefore

47. A. hand      B. side            C. end            D. part

48. A. found             B. attacked        C. discovered            D. caught

49. A. in          B. by              C. for             D. with

50. A. a noise            B. laughter        C. a whisper             D. silence

51. A. war       B. army           C. country       D. battle

52. A. dear        B. close            C. new           D. old

53. A. everywhere  B. anywhere           C. nowhere              D. somewhere

54. A. injured            B. hurt            C. killed           D. destroyed

55. A. hand      B. foot            C. arm            D. leg

56. A. uneasy            B. upset           C. eager          D. curious

57. A. accept     B. judge          C. understand            D. recognize

58. A. stop        B. stay            C. call             D. visit

59. A. word      B. sound          C. information          D. sign

60. A. sacrificed          B. taken          C. killed           D. lost

 I insisted that a doctor _______ immediately.

   A. has been sent for B. sends for C. be sent for D. will be sent for

______, the car stopped all at once.

A．Seeing a boy lying on the road

B．On seeing a boy sitting on the road

C．The driver had seen a boy standing on the road

D．The minute the driver saw a boy seated on the road

Preparing for the Next Job Market

The latest spike in the unemployment rate is being felt across the board ?in 98 percent of metropolitan areas, in high-wage and low-wage jobs, among young and old, women and men, but especially men．

This landscape means that young Americans who are trying to plan their futures right now have some hard choices．Do they go to college and take on debt without hope of getting a job? And what about high school students? Do they have any chance of securing a job without a college degree? Perhaps the education system needs to react to this rapidly moving economic crisis．

In our current economic collapse, the connection between education and employment could not be more different than it was during the Depression．Education must now hold center stage, not because of an enemy abroad but because of the global economy．The jobs of the future will demand levels of education, particularly skills in mathematics, technology and science, which exceed those now taught in high school．

A healthy society should strive for full employment．In our times, that goal cannot be realized, or even approximated by creating jobs for the unskilled．The long-term prospect for economic recovery depends on the extent to which we improve our educational system．And this is where America is now at its weakest．

Our high schools produce graduates who do not write well enough, have limited reasoning skills and are unable to use the tools of mathematics．Their command of science is far inferior to that of their counterparts in other nations．And all too many young people drop out．We may still have the best university system, but it benefits only a minority．

We will need more engineers, scientists and service providers, particularly in the health professions, with a quality of education that cannot be obtained in the current system．Radical change, not reform, is called for．

What should be done? First, high school should be cut short and end when students are 16．Second, a new generation of two-year college programs tied to a wide range of specific skills that the economy needs should be created．Third, access to four-year colleges should be expanded, giving more Americans the chance to acquire the deep learning that makes breakthroughs in technology possible．Fourth, we need to recruit more public school teachers and train them better, particularly in physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics, so that our children can be prepared to compete．

68．Nowadays, students graduating from high school____．

       A．write well enough

       B．have limitless reasoning skills

       C．can't use the tools of mathematics

       D．command science as much as their counterparts in other nations

69．What should we do to improve the quality of education?

       A．Students shouldn't study in high school until 16．

       B．We should create a new generation of two-year college programs tied to a wide range of specific skills the economy needs．

       C．We should limit access to four-year colleges．

       D．We ought to recruit more private school teachers and train them better．

70．What does the word "collapse" in the third paragraph mean?

       A．success              B．failure         C．development  D．booming

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

       A．Young Americans planning their futures have difficult choices．

       B．Education must hold center stage due to the global economy．

       C．The best university system benefits a majority．

       D．A health society should struggle for full employment．

How Much to Tip

You’re out to dinner．The food is delicious and the service is fine．You decide to leave a big fat tip．Why? The answer may not be as simple as you think．

Tipping, psychologists have found, is not just about service．Instead, studies have shown that tipping can be affected by psychological reactions to a series of different factors from the waiter’s choice of words, to how they carry themselves while taking orders, to the bill’s total．Even how much waiters remind customers of themselves can determine how much change they pocket by the end of the night．

“Studies before have shown that mimicry （模仿） brings into positive feelings for the mimicker,” wrote Rick van Baaren, a social psychology professor．“These studies show that people who are being mimicked become more generous toward the person who mimics them．”

So Rick van Baaren divided 59 waiters into two groups．He requested that half serve with a phrase such as, “Coming up!” Those in the other half were instructed to repeat the orders and preferences back to the customers．Rick van Baaren then compared their take-home．The results were clear — it pays to mimic your customer．The copycat（模仿者） waiters earned almost double the amount of tips to the other group．

Leonard Green and Joel Myerson, psychologists at Washington University in St．Louis, found the generosity of a tipper may be limited by his bill．After research on the 1,000 tips left for waiters, cabdrivers, hair stylists, they found tip percentages in these three areas dropped as customers’ bills went up．In fact, tip percentages appear to plateau （達(dá)到穩(wěn)定水平） when bills topped $100 and a bill for $200 made the worker gain no bigger percentage tip than a bill for $100．

“That’s also a point of tipping,” Green says．“You have to give a little extra to the cab driver for being there to pick you up and something to the waiter for being there to serve you．If they weren’t there, you’d never get any service．So part of the idea of a tip is for just being there．”

72．Apart from service, how many other factors affecting the customers’ tipping are mentioned in the passage?

       A．1．   B．2．   C．3．   D．4．

73．These studies show that _________．

       A．tipping can be affected by physical reactions to many different waiter’s factors

       B．people who are being mimicked usually tip less to the person who mimics them

       C．the mimic waiters can get almost twice as much money as the other group

       D．mimicry makes the mimicker feel bad

74．According to the passage, which of the following will be likely to show the right change of the tip percentages?

         A                   B                  C                  D

75．We know from the passage that the writer seems to __________．

       A．object to Mr Green’s idea about tipping

       B．think part of Mr Green’s explanation is reasonable

       C．give his generous tip to waiters very often

       D．support the opinions of Mr Green and Rick van Baaren about tipping

The driver was at _________ loss when _________ word came that he was forbidden to drive for speeding．

       A．a(chǎn); the           B．/；/        C．the; the  D．a(chǎn)；/

 In front of the farmhouse ______.

A．lay a poor man             B．laid a poor man

C．a(chǎn) poor man lay             D．did a poor man lie

 Dr. Frank failed many times but he finally ______ to find a successful way to solve the problem.

　　A. broke off B. broke up C. broke downD. broke through