When she finished her story, none of us said anything about it, which made her feel rather ________.

A. embarrassing      B. embarrassed        C. embarrass       D. embarrassment

       The house _____ Mozart composed “The Magic Flute” is a museum now.

      A. which                                                  B. when

C. where                                                  D. that

     All of my childhood and early, adult life, my mom weighed over 220 pounds (one pound = 0.454 kilograms). I could feel the pain that my mom experienced with her fatness.

    I was never uncomfortable about my mother, but I think she was uncomfortable about herself, and that feeling was painful for all of us. And she began to lose weight.

     After more than twenty years of battling obesity（肥胖）, my mother completed a forceful eighteen-month diet that left her ninety pounds lighter than before. A new woman was born! At age twenty-eight, I got a new mom! For the first time, I met the woman my mother truly was, the beautiful little lady under the fatness. It wasn’t so much her new body that was the surprise, but rather her new spirit.

    To celebrate her new size and to devote herself to dancing again, my mother joined a “Mrs. Forty-Plus” competition, where she would have to model, give a speech and provide a dance performance. She told our family that she did not care if she won — she simply had always wanted to perform on stage.

    She told each one of us, “I’m not doing it to win; I’m doing it to dance!”

    The competition was exciting! I prayed that my mom would win, but while watching her on stage I was simply overjoyed just by her effort. To me, she had already won. She posed to perfection, her speech brought tears to everyone’s eyes, and her performance was wonderful.

    That night, at age fifty-three, my mother was crowned (為......加冕) “Mrs. Forty-Plus”. She was the first person in our family to ever win such a title.

64. The first two paragraphs mainly show that the author’s mom was __________.

   A. experienced      B. painful          C. comfortable        D. fat

65. After the author’s mom completed a forceful eighteen-month diet, she was about __________.

   A. 85 kilograms    B. 41 kilograms      C. 130 pounds         D. 90 pounds

66. In order to join in the “Mrs. Forty-Plus” Competition, the author’s mom has to do the following EXCEPT __________.

   A. providing a dance performance            B. telling a funny story about herself

   C. giving a speech to a large number of people  D. wearing special clothes to show to people

67. The underlined part in Paragraph 6 means that __________.

    A. the author’s mom succeeded in modeling and speaking

    B. the author’s mom’s performance was very wonderful

    C. the author’s mom was not successful in modeling

    D. the author’s mom succeeded in making a speech

第二節(jié)    書面表達(dá)（滿分25分）

假如你是楊方，你要競(jìng)選班長(zhǎng)（class president），請(qǐng)根據(jù)以下內(nèi)容寫一篇競(jìng)選演講詞。

1．你認(rèn)為自己具備什么條件可以勝任班長(zhǎng)工作？

2．如果當(dāng)選你會(huì)為班級(jí)同學(xué)做些什么？

注意：詞數(shù)120個(gè)左右，開頭已給出，不計(jì)入總詞數(shù)。

Hello, everybody!

My name is Yang Fang. I’m glad to have this opportunity to tell you why you should vote for me as class president.

After the argument, he spoke with the department manager and the problem       .

       A．solving     B．had been solved       C．was solved       D．solved

The minister stressed that under no circumstances ____ the disabled to be looked down upon．

       A．is     B．a(chǎn)re  C．has   D．have

To her surprise, the life she had been looking forward to              to be unpleasant.

A. prove         B. being proved         C. proving         D. proved

 Hearing that most of the members voted against her, she _______ a smile．

     A. wore          B. managed      C. performed          D. controlled

第三部分：閱讀理解（共兩節(jié)，滿分40分）

第一節(jié)：選擇題（共15小題，每小題2分，共30分）

閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。

    I must have been about fourteen then, and I put away the incident from my mind with the

easy carelessness of  youth. But the words, Carl Walter spoke that day, came back to me years

later, and ever since have been of great value to me.

Carl Walter was my piano teacher. During one of my lessons he asked how much practicing I was doing. I said three or four hours a day.

"Do you practice in long stretches, an hour at a time?"

"I try to."

"Well, don't," he exclaimed. "When you grow up, time won't come in long stretches.    Practice in minutes, whenever you can find them five or ten before school, after lunch, between household tasks. Spread the practice through the day, and piano-playing will become a part of your life."

When I was teaching at Columbia, I wanted to write, but class periods, theme-reading, and committee meetings filled my days and evenings. For two years I got practically nothing down on paper, and my excuse was that I had no time. Then I remembered what Carl Walter had said. During the next week I conducted an experiment. Whenever I had five minutes unoccupied, I sat down and wrote a hundred words or so. To my astonishment, at the end of the week I had a rather large manuscript ready for revision, later on I wrote novels by the same piecemeal method. Though my teaching schedule had become heavier than ever, in every day there were idle moments which could be caught and put to use. I even took up piano--playing again, finding that the small intervals of the day provided sufficient time for both writing and piano practice.

There is an important trick in this time--using formula: you must get into your work quickly. If you have but five minutes for writing, you can't afford to waste four chewing your pencil. You must make your mental preparations beforehand, and concentrate on your task almost instantly when the time comes. Fortunately, rapid concentration is easier than most of us realize.

I admit I have never learnt how to let go easily at the end of the five or ten minutes. But life can be counted on to supply interruptions. Carl Walter has had a tremendous influence on my life. To him I owe the discovery that even very short periods of time add up to all useful hours I need, if I plunge（投入）in without delay.

56．The meaning of “stretch” in the underlined part is the same as that in sentence “        ”.

      A．The forests in the north of the province stretch for hundreds of miles.

       B．Bob worked as a government official for a stretch of over twenty years.

       C．My family wasn’t wealthy by any stretch of the imagination.

       D．During his senior year his earnings far enough to buy an old car.

57．Which of the following statements is true?

　　A．The writer didn’t completely take the teacher’s words to heart at first.

　　B．Carl Walter has had a great influence on the writer's life since he became a student.

　　C．The writer owes great thanks to his teacher for teaching him to work in long stretches.

　　D．Rapid concentration is actually more difficult than most people imagine.

58．We can infer that the writer             . 

       A．has new books published each year however busy his teaching is

      B．is always tired of interruptions in life because his teaching schedule is always heavy

      C．has formed a bad habit of chewing a pencil while writing his novels

       D．can find sufficient time for mental preparations beforehand, so he's devoted to work   instantly

59．What is the best title of this passage?

       A．Concentrate on Your Work           B．A Little at a Time

       C．How I Became a Writer               D．Good Advice Is Most Valuable

    It is a hot summer day，and you feel thirsty A friend gives you a glass of cold lemonade．How do you feel when you see the glass? Will you describe your feeling as happiness or as pleasure? I believe you will say it is a feeling of pleasure．There is a connection between these two kinds of feelings，and sometimes one causes the other，but they are not the same．Pleasure is more dependent on the five senses while happiness is independent of them．

    When you are happy，little unpleasant events usually do not disturb you．When you are unhappy，you feel as if everything is against you．You may compensate for it by eating chocolate and sweets because this gives you pleasure；yet you stay unhappy．A person may smoke cigarettes

because it gives him pleasure，yet，this does not make him happier，especially if he knows the fact that it is not good for his health

    The physical world is always in a changing state．At each moment a new thing is being created，changed，transformed and then destroyed. This is the normal state of things and no one call change it．If we stay still in a certain state，we are sure to experience unhappiness sooner or later．On the other hand，if we adjust to the environment，nothing can influence our moods．Then outer events have nothing to do with our inner joy of mind.

    The room of the mind was filled with worry or fear．If you are free of thinking about them, the room has been emptied，and then you will see what is happening and experience it When your

mind stays quiet，you will see that happiness comes from the inside．

67．What does the underlined phrase“compensate for”in Paragraph 2 most probably mean?

      A．to make a suitable payment for        B．to let out your anger for

    C．to provide with a balancing effect for    D．to solve the problems for

68．According to the passage, in which of the following situations can you feel happy? 

A．A friend gives you a glass of cold lemonade when you feel thirsty．

      B．You eat chocolate and sweets when you feel as if everything is against you．

      C．Smoke cigarettes even though you know the fact that it is not good for your health．

      D．You are free from worry or fear when your mind stays quiet．

69．We can learn from the passage___________．

      A．happiness is more dependent on the five sepses

      B．pleasure sometimes arouses happiness

      C．you feel happy when nothing around you changes in a certain state

      D．you feel unhappy because you have to adjust to the environment

70．Which can be the best title for the passage?

      A．Pleasure Leads To Happiness              B．Happiness Changes Us

      C．Happiness Is Within Us                        D．Stay A Quiet Mind