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Driving to a friend's house on a recent evening, I was attracted by the sight of the full moon rising just above my friend’s rooftops. I stopped to watch it for a few moments, thinking about what a pity it was that most city people? Myself included? Usually miss sights like this because we spend most of our lives indoors.

My friend had also seen it. He grew up living in a forest in Europe, and the moon meant a lot to him then. It had touched much of his life.

　I know the feeling. Last December I took my seven-year-old daughter to the mountainous jungle of northern India with some friends. We stayed in a forest rest-house with no electricity or running hot water. Our group had campfires outside every night, and indoors when it was too cold outside. The moon grew to its fullest during our trip. Between me and the high mountains lay three or four valleys. Not a light shone in them and not a sound could be heard. It was one of the quietest places I have ever known, a bottomless well of silence. And above me was the full moon, which struck me deeply.

Today our lives are filled with glass, metal, plastic and fibre-glass. We have televisions, cell phones, pagers, electricity, heaters and ovens and air-conditioners, cars, computers.

Struggling through traffic that evening at the end of a tiring day, most of it spent indoors, I thought: before long, I would like to live in a small cottage. There I will grow vegetables and read books and walk in the mountains And perhaps write, but not in anger. I may become an old man there, and wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled and measure out my life in coffee spoons. But I will be able to walk outside on a cold silent night and touch the moon.

71.The best title for the passage would be______.

A. Touched by the moon

B. The pleasures of modern life

C. A bottomless well of silence

D. Break away from modern life

72. The writer felt sorry for himself because________.

A. there was too many pollution

B. he failed to see the fullest moon

C. he didn’t adapt to modern inventions

D. there were too accidents on the road

73. What impressed the writer most in the mountainous jungle of northern India?

A. No modern equipment     B. Complete silence.

C. The nice moonlight        D. The high mountains

74. Modern things (Paragraph 4) are mentioned mainly to______.

A. show that the writer likes city life very much

B. tell us that people greatly benefit from modern life

C. explain that people have less chances to enjoy nature

D. show that we can also enjoy nature at home through them

75. The author wrote the passage to_______.

A. express the feeling of returning to nature

B. show the love for the moonlight

C. advise modern people to learn to live

D. want to communicate longing for modern life

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第二節(jié)    書面表達（滿分30分）

隨著電腦普及率的提高，老師、家長和學生對字跡的重視程度降低了。據(jù)一項調(diào)查顯示，有85.8％的中學生說自己的字跡不好看，而他們又不想改善字跡，其理由有很大差別。

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 One more week, ______ we'll finish all the task completely.

A. but              B. and             C. so         D. or

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 The two birds _________ each other in shape and color. In other words, they ________ each other in shape and color.

   A. differ; are different from             B. differ from; are different to

   C. resemble; are similar to              D. resemble; are similar with

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Our success depends ______ everyone works hard or not.

       A. upon whether           B. on that                            C. in which                   D. on why

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第二節(jié) 完型填空（共20小題；每小題1分，滿分20分）

閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，然后從36—55各題所給的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。

My parents passed away ten years ago and I miss them terribly. But I know they are with me every day in what they taught me and in the   36   they gave me. Every morning my father’s message to me was: Remember that  37  you walk out of this door, you carry responsibility, the good name of this family, the hopes and dreams of your mom and dad. My mother often urged me to   38   the high standards she set for me.

When I was in high school, I played in a rock band with friends in my class. We were devoted and practiced constantly. We moved past the guys – in – a – garage stage and   39   to be pretty good, doing getting – paid gigs (演奏會) most weekends, which made me   40  . At that time, though part of me was   41  up in that band, another part of me was the oldest son in the Clark family,   42  of my origin and a dedicated student busy applying to colleges. Without even telling my parents, I applied to Harvard. I didn’t think I had much chance of getting in,   43  I wanted to try. So I was riding around being Mr Cool Rock Musician half of the time, and the other half I was focused on family and   44   goals. I was running on parallel   45 .

When the group won a city wide Battle of the Bands, things heated up. My band mates had stars in their eyes – we might be able to make it big. However, I began to feel   46  . I realized I was on quite different tracks: I  47  was becoming two people,   48   identities back and forth depending on who I was with. I had to make an option. As I considered my   49  , my parents’ words were right there, helping me to see that my dreams weren’t about signing a record deal, letting my hair grow, and living in a tour bus. So I   50   out. My bandmasters were   51  . They thought I was crazy to withdraw   52   the peak of real success. But however successful that band got, I knew it wasn’t in line with my   53  , with my feeling of what I was   54   to do, with who I was – it simply wasn’t me.

In that instant and in many others throughout my life, my parent’s advice has helped me recenter and   55  . I could remember who I was – the hopes and dreams I carried.

36．A．property                 B．a(chǎn)dvice                    C．guide                      D．a(chǎn)id

37．A．when                      B．before                    C．while                      D．since

38．A．come up with          B．stand up to              C．live up to                D．keep pace with

39．A．got                         B．failed                            C．hoped                     D．a(chǎn)ttempted

40．A．lost                        B．disappointed            C．confused                 D．thrilled

41．A．wrapped                 B．centred                   C．spent                      D．offered

42．A．scared                    B．proud                     C．guilty                     D．a(chǎn)shamed

43．A．if                           B．unless                     C．until                       D．yet

44．A．economic                B．political                  C．a(chǎn)cademic                D．literary

45．A．tracks                     B．ways                      C．processes                D．directions

46．A．confident                B．optimistic               C．cheerful                  D．uncomfortable

47．A．exactly                   B．a(chǎn)ctually                  C．eventually               D．fortunately

48．A．switching                B．a(chǎn)cting                     C．discovering             D．seeking

49．A．conditions               B．choices                   C．competence             D．health

50．A．gave                       B．looked                    C．called                     D．dropped

51．A．disturbed                B．cool                       C．shocked                  D．tolerant

52．A．in                          B．to                           C．by                          D．a(chǎn)t

53．A．goals                      B．interests                  C．personality              D．consideration

54．A．meant                     B．demanded               C．forced                    D．a(chǎn)imed

55．A．recall                            B．refocus                   C．rebuild                   D．reunite

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       Language  learning begins with listening. Children are greatly different in the amount of listening they do before they start speaking, and late starters are often long listeners. Most children will "obey" spoken instructions some time before they can speak, though the word obey is hardly accurate as a description of the eager and delighted cooperation usually shown by the child. Before they can speak, many children will also ask questions by gesture and by making questioning noises.

Any attempt to trace the development from the noises babies make to their first spoken words leads to considerable difficulties. It is agreed that they enjoy making noises, and that during the first few months one or two noises sort themselves as particularly indicative of delight, pain, friendliness, and so on. But since these cannot be said to show the baby's intention to communicate, they can hardly be regarded as early forms of language. It is agreed, too, that from about three months they play with sounds for enjoyment, and that by six months they are able to add new words to their store. This self-imitation(模仿) leads on to deliberate（有意的）imitation of sounds made or words spoken to them by other people. The problem then arises as to the point at which one can say that these imitations can be considered as speech.

It is a problem we need to get out teeth into. The meaning of a word depends on what a particular person means by it in a particular situation and it is clear that what a child means by a word will change as he gains more experience of the world. Thus the use at seven months of “mama” as a greeting for his mother cannot be dismissed as a meaningless sound simply because he also uses it at other times for his father, his dog, or anything else he likes. Playful and meaningless imitation of what other people say continues after the child has begun to speak for himself, I doubt, however whether anything is gained when parents take advantage of this ability in an attempt to teach new sounds.

57．Before children start speaking           .

       A．they need equal amount of listening

       B．they need different amounts of listening

       C．they are all eager to cooperate with the adults by obeying spoken instructions

       D．they can’t understand and obey the adult’s oral instructions

58．Children who start speaking late        .

       A．may have problems with their listening

       B．probably do not hear enough language spoken around them

       C．usually pay close attention to what they hear

       D．often taken a long time in learning to listen properly

59．A baby’s first noises are           .

       A．a(chǎn)n expression of his moods and feelings

       B．a(chǎn)n early form of language

       C．a(chǎn) sign that he means to tell you something

       D．a(chǎn)n imitation of the speech of adults

60．The problem of deciding at what point a baby’s imitations can be considered as speech        .

       A．is important because words have different meanings for different people

       B．is not especially important because the changeover takes place gradually

       C．is one that should be properly understood because the  meaning of words changes with age

       D．is one that should be completely ignored(忽略) because children’s use of words is often meaningless

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____________apple fell from the tree and hit him on_____________head.

       A．An; his     B．An; the     C．The; his    D．The; the

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We’ve published large quantities of books This year _______we’ve published three

million copies．

    A．only    B．just    C．a(chǎn)lone    D．simply

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This place is an ideal site for a restaurant _______ it is just in the center of the downtown.

A. even if  　　 B. so that  　　  C. in that 　        D. in case