．_____ alone in the large house, the little boy had to learn to survive by himself.

   A. To leave     B. Leaving          C. Left             D. Being left

––– I promise my daughter ____ get a nice present on her birthday.

     ––– I think it will be a big surprise to her.

A. must     B. shall     C. might     D. need

完型填空（共20小題；每小題1.5分，滿分30分）

閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，然后從各題所給的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項。

Robby was 11 years old when his mother (a single mom) dropped him off for his first piano lesson. I prefer students begin at an earlier age, which I explained to Robby.   21   Robby said that it had always been his mother’s   22   to hear him play the piano. So I took him as a student.

Hard as Robby tried, he lacked the   23   of music. However, he persisted and at the end of each weekly   24   he’d always say, “My mom’s going to hear me play someday.” But it seemed   25  . I only knew his mother from a distance as she dropped Robby off or waited in her aged car to   26   him up. She always   27   and smiled but never visited my class. Then one day Robby   28   coming to our lessons. He telephoned me and said his mother was   29  .

A few weeks after that, I was   30   my students for the upcoming recital when Robby came and asked me   31  he could be in the recital. “Miss Hondorf… I’ll just go to play!” he insisted.

The night for the recital came. The high school gym was   32  with parents, friends and relatives. The recital   33   well. Then Robby came up on stage. I was   34   when he announced that he had chosen Mozart’s Concerto No. 21 in C Major. I was not prepared for what I had heard   35   his fingers were light on the keys. They even   36   on the keys… He played so well that everyone was on their   37  in wild applause (鼓掌). In tears I ran up on stage. “Oh Robby! How   38   you do it?”

“Well Miss Hondorf… I   39  on practicing at home. Remember I told you my mom was sick? Well,   40   she had cancer and passed away this morning. She was born deaf so tonight was the first time she ever heard me play…”

．A．Although   B．Because  C．But  D．Thus

．A．idea   B．dream    C．desire   D．imagination

．A．feeling    B．knowledge    C．education    D．sense

．A．trial  B．attempt  C．performance  D．lesson

．A．helpless   B．hopeless C．senseless    D．worthless

A．put B．take C．make D．pick

A．waved   B．listened C．stared   D．watched

A．escaped B．avoided  C．stopped  D．refused

A．deaf    B．lonely   C．away D．sick

A．preparing   B．arranging    C．persuading   D．taking

A．that    B．whether  C．when D．how

A．filled  B．covered  C．crowded  D．connected

A．went on B．turned on    C．carried on   D．kept on

A．delighted   B．proud    C．confused D．surprised

A．until   B．while    C．before   D．since

A．danced  B．tapped   C．hit  D．flew

A．heads   B．feet C．ears D．eyes

A．should  B．would    C．could    D．might

．A．went   B．kept C．continued    D．stuck

．A．unfortunately  B．suddenly C．strangely    D．actually

--- Bob feels really sorry, Jean.

    ---         I wouldn’t accept his excuses unless he takes back what he said.

    A．What for?    B．So what? C．No doubt.    D．No wonder.

The country’s population      small, and most of its population       in the mountainous areas.

    A．are; lives   B．are; live    C．is; live D．is; lives

He was in great trouble, but he acted _______ nothing had happened.

A. even if      B. as if        C. unless       D. until

I grew up poor---living in the housing projects (住房) with six brothers, three sisters, a varying assortment (各式各樣東西的混合) of foster kids (養(yǎng)子), my father, and a wonderful mother, Scarlette Hunley. We had little money and few worldly goods, but plenty of love and attention. I was  36  and energetic. I understood that no matter how poor a person was, he could still  37  a dream.

My dream was  38 . By the time I was sixteen, I could crush a baseball, and hit anything that moved on the baseball field. I was also  39 : My high school coach Jarvis, who not only believed in me, but taught me how to believe in myself. He  40  me the difference between having a dream and showing conviction (信念). One particular incident with Coach Jarvis changed my life forever.

It was the summer between my junior and senior years, and a friend  41  me for a summer job. This meant a chance for money in my pocket—cash for dates with girls, certainly, money for a new bike and new clothes, and the  42  of savings for a house for my mother. The prospect of a summer job was attractive and interesting, and I wanted to jump at the opportunity. Then I realized I would have to  43  summer baseball to handle the work schedule, and that meant I would have to tell Coach Jarvis I wouldn’t be playing.

When I told Coach Jarvis, he was  44  as I expected him to be. “You have your whole life to work，” he said. “Your  45  days are limited. You can’t afford to waste them.”

I stood before him with my head hanging, trying to think of the words that would explain to him why my dream of buying my mom a house and having money in my pocket was worth facing his  46  to me.

“How much are you going to make at this job, son?” He demanded.

“3.5 dollars an hour.” I replied.

“Well,” he asked, “Is $3.5 an hour the price of a dream?”

That question, the plainness of it, laid bare for me the difference between wanting something right now and having a goal. I delicated myself to sports that summer and with the year I was hired by the Pittsburgh Pirates to play baseball, and was  47  a $20,000 contract. I signed with the Denver Broncos in 1998 for $1.7 million, and bought my mother the house of my dreams.

.A. happy          B. polite               C. shy              D. honest

A. live           B. afford               C. make             D. need

A.athletics           B. music                C. business         D. money

A. right          B. popular          C. lucky                D. confident

A. persuaded      B. taught               C. brought          D. asked

A. sent           B. advised          C. gave             D. recommended

A. aim            B. idea             C. start                D. purpose

A. give in         B. give up          C. give away            D. give off

A. disappointed       B. mad              C. frightened           D. shameful

A. living         B. playing          C. working          D. learning

A.sadness         B. regret               C. hopelessness     D. disappointment

A.paid            B. got              C. offered          D. presented

If we observe carefully, we van find that most of the flowers in nature are red, orange and yellow. If we have seen a black flower, it’s a chance in million. People have made a census(普查)to colours of more than four thousand kinds of flowers and discovered that only eight of them are black. Why?

As we know, sunlight is formed by seven different kinds of coloured light. The wave length of each light changes, so the quantity of heat in each light changes, too. Flowers, especially their petals(花瓣), are very delicate(纖弱) and prone(易于) to the harm caused by high temperature. Black flowers can take in all the light waves, which cause the flowers to dry up in a high temperature. So black flowers can rarely survive sunlight. But red flowers, orange flowers and yellow flowers can protect themselves from sunlight by reflecting the red light, orange light and yellow light, each of which has a large quantity of heat.

That is why red, orange and yellow flowers are very common in nature while black flowers are so rare.

We can hardly find black flowers because  _____.

A. they are so weak that it’s difficult for them to grow up

B. there are no black flowers in the world.

C. the petals of black flowers are very delicate         

D. they can take in the light of all wave lengths, which make the flowers dry up

Sunlight is formed by _____.

A. many different kinds of coloured light    

B. three different kinds of coloured light—red, orange and yellow

C. seven different kinds of coloured light    

D. four thousand kinds of coloured light

The red, orange or yellow light contains _____.

A. less heat than the other lights         B. more heat than the other lights

C. a great deal of heat                 D. a little heat                               

“It is a chance in a million” means_____________

   A. it is common      B. it is extremely rare     C. it’s lucky     D. it’s impossible

The old lady was so pleased with all _______ we had done for her _______ she wrote us a thank-you letter.

A. what; that          B. that; that          C. which; that          D. that; what 

We were all surprised when he made it clear that he ______ office soon.

A. leaves           B. left             C. would leave      D. had left