I had an interesting experience playing table-tennis last year. I was playing against a    1    opponent (對手) . The score was 20 to 17 in her   2     . I won the next three points which made the score 20 to 20. I   3     my paddle on the table and thanked my opponent and began to walk away. She called me   4     and said we had to continue until one of us   5     .

“Look,” I said, “if we    6    , one of two events will take place. Either you or I will win. If you win, I will begin to   7     my skill. If I win, you will be unhappy. Isn’t it better to know that we both played   8     , that we enjoyed the competition , and that we played to an even (相等) score ?” This was a    9    ending for my opponent and for the persons watching this contest. It made    10    to me to leave with a tie game , an impasse (僵局): no winner , no    11    !

So, my friends, here is the problem    12    me. Our present technology makes it possible for nations to    13    other nations with time for retaliatory (報復) strikes . In such a nuclear time there    14    be no winners, only losers. Under these conditions, the only choice to   15 global destruction is global impasse. This would be a   16     “tie game” where no nation wins and no nation loses. An impasse reached through compromise (妥協(xié)). This is because compromise becomes the only means of    17    . We cannot destroy this beautiful planet by holding on to    18    understanding of victory. The    19    victory is in achieving a desirable impasse. No one wins,  20     no one loses either .

1．A．tiring                    B．poor                   C．fine                    D．brave

2．A．favor                   B．side                    C．lead                    D．place

3．A．threw                   B．placed                C．stuck                 D．dropped

4．A．up                       B．over                   C．on                      D．back

5．A．lost                      B．won                   C．gave up              D．tired out

6．A．perform               B．stop                   C．continue             D．leave

7．A．doubt                   B．hate                    C．practice              D．desert

8．A．hard                     B．fair                     C．poorly                D．well

9．A．close                    B．surprising           C．satisfying            D．reasonable

10．A．progress             B．room                  C．sense                 D．time

11．A．loser                  B．fighter                C．success              D．player

12．A．encouraging        B．frightening          C．shocking            D．troubling

13．A．destroy               B．a(chǎn)ttack                 C．invade                D．rule

14．A．may                    B．should                C．can                    D．must

15．A．escape                B．flee                    C．a(chǎn)ccept                D．a(chǎn)void

16．A．different             B．small                   C．huge                  D．familiar

17．A．surviving            B．living                  C．staying               D．pleasing

18．A．a(chǎn)n old                 B．a(chǎn)n unusual          C．the same             D．a(chǎn) complete

19．A．great                  B．only                   C．same                  D．equal

20．A．while                  B．but                     C．a(chǎn)s                      D．since

   300 American students are growing up in the middle of the windy English countryside. Their parents work for the US Government based abroad. They attend an American school in a small All-American community of government employees. There are shops selling American products, sports facilities and a bowling hall, but somehow the students must adapt themselves to living away from everything they knew as children. The situation is similar to that of the Chinese students who leave home to study in another country.

Scott Lovelady has lived on the US base in Britain for nearly nine years. “I feel deprived (失落) in Britain. Before coming here I couldn’t imagine a town without 30 fast-food places and giant shopping mall.” He said. However, others see advantages of studying in a foreign country. Many of the students leave the base at 18 and go back to America for university. “Living in a different culture helps you adapt more quickly in your first few weeks at a university when you don’t know anyone and everything is new,” said one of them. “Living in an entirely new place can make you a more interesting person as you have more to offer in conversations,” said Seth Romero, another high school student on the base. Students who mix with local people often settle into their new home better, according to Barbara Jordan, a teacher at the school. “ If you are open to new experiences, you could well have the best time of your life,” she said.

Angela Green, a student also from the base, offered some advice to Chinese students going to a foreign school for the first time: “ Your friends and family are only one telephone call away. If you feel sad at any time you must remember that you can go home at any time. Living in a different place is not a jail sentence, though it may seem so at times. You will enjoy yourself soon. You may even prefer it to home.”

1. The 300 American students live in Britain _________.

A. because their parents are working there for the government of Britain

B. in order to learn something from the hard life in the windy English countryside

C. in order to improve their ability of adapting to new environments.

D. because they must stay with their parents who work there

2. The advantages of studying in a foreign country are all the following except the fact that ________.

A. that you are only one telephone call away from your family

B. you will be able to adapt to a new environment more quickly than others

C. you may understand life better because of such an experience

D. you may become more attractive because you have more interesting things to offer while talking with others

3. All the people mentioned in the passage talked about the advantages of studying in a foreign country except ________..

   A. Seth Romero            B. Angela Green 

C. Scott Lovelady           D. Barbara Jordan

4. The writer wrote this article mainly to _______.

A. talk about what it is like studying in a foreign country

B. advise people to think it over before going to study abroad

C. inform the Chinese students what it is like studying abroad and to tell them not to be too worried

D. tell students from other countries not to be afraid to study in America

   You might not have guessed it would happen. The whole basketball world has been shocked by it. Who would have thought the US Dream Basketball team would be knocked out of the World Basketball Championship and finish sixth --- on home soil?

   “No doubt that we made history, although it wasn’t the type of history we wanted to make,” said US forward(前鋒) Ben Wallace.

   There were dozens of reasons for the failure of the US team: the team hardly practiced and was unfamiliar with the international rules and style of play; the dunk(扣籃) has become so important in the US game that there is less emphasis on learning the basics of playing basketball; the gap is narrowing between US basketball and the rest of the world.

   Another obvious, and disappointing fact is that the All-American Dream Team was not quite as dreamy as previous(先前的) US teams. While all other countries brought their best, there were no American superstars that everyone was hoping to see: Shaquille O’Neal or Kobe Bryant.

   The problem seems to be how to make the US players want to represent their country.

   How can one take a group of multimillionaire basketball players and tell them that beating the Algerian Basketball National Team is a good way to spend part of their August and September?

  George Karl, the coach of the US team said, “A loss by the US team sounds like a good way to do it.”

   Yugoslavia won the competition on September 8th.

1. When Ben Wallace said “No doubt that we made history, although it was not the type of history we wanted to make”, he meant ____________.

A. the American basketball team won the World Basketball Championship for the first time in history

B. the American basketball team lost the World Basketball Championship for the first time in history

C. the All-American Dream Team lost the World Basketball Championship for the first time in history

D. the dreaming All-American Team lost the World Basketball Championship for the first time in history

2. Which team won championship this time?

   A. the US team               B. the Yugoslavian Team 

C. the Algerian team           D. not mentioned

3. All the following things account for the failure of the US team except the one that __________.

A. the US players didn’t know the basics of playing basketball

B. the US players didn’t do team work well

C. this US Dream Team wasn’t as well organized as the former ones

D. the US players didn’t care much about whether they would win or not

4. The passage doesn’t say so directly, but we can conclude from it that __________.

A. the US basketball has fallen behind that in some parts of the world

B. practice is needed for good teamwork no matter how well each player plays

C. the millionaire players of the US team were interested in beating the Algerian team

D. the US team just won the sixth place this time

   When Jeanne Calment entered the world in 1875, telephones and automobiles still lay in the future. Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso were not yet born. The Eiffel Tower was 14 years from being built. As a teenager, she met Vincent Van Gogh, near her home in Arles, in the south of France. He was “very ugly, ungracious(舉止粗俗的), impolite, sick—I forgive him, they called him loco(精神失常的)”, she recalled. When she died last week at age 122, she was the world’s eldest person. (There are others who claimed to the title, but only Calment had the official documents to prove her age.)

   Each February 21, her birthday, she would share the secrets of long life. Some years it was “a sense of humour”, others it was “keeping busy”. “God must have forgotten me,” she once explained. The truth probably was that she had good genes: her mother reportedly lived to be 86 and her father 94.

   Her life had its sadness: she outlived her husband, her only daughter and her grandson. According to a friend, she was imperturbable. “If you can’t do anything about it,” she reportedly said, “don’t worry about it.”

   In her last years she was nearly blind and deaf, but her health remained good. She ate a few bars of chocolate each week and continued smoking until a few years ago, when she could no longer light her own cigarettes. She never lost her sense of humour. On her 110^th birthday, she commented, “I’ve only ever had one wrinkle, and I’m sitting on it. “Her longevity made her famous; her spirit made her eternal(永恒的).

1. Why does the author mention Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso and the Eiffel Tower?

  A. To show that Calment had seen famous people and things.

  B. To emphasize that Calment was born a long time ago.

  C. To indicate that Calment is just as famous.

  D. To admire the knowledge that Calment had.

2. The author believed that Calment’s longevity is mainly due to ______.

  A. a sense of humour            B. being kept busy

  C. belief in God                D. good genes

3. The underlined word “imperturbable” means ________.

  A. calm        B. humourous        C. friendly       D. healthy

4. Toward the end of the story, the author seems to be impressed by Callment ’s _________.

  A. spirit       B. religious belief      C. knowledge    D. longevity

  In 1901, H. G. Wells, an English writer, wrote a book describing a trip to the moon. When the explorers landed on the moon, they discovered that the moon was full of underground cities. They expressed their surprise to the “moon people” they met. In turn, the “moon people” expressed their surprise. “Why,” they asked, “are you traveling to outer space when you even don’t use your own space?”

  H. G. Wells could only imagine travel to the moon. In 1969, human beings really did land on the moon. People today know that there are no underground cities on the moon. However, the question that the “moon people” asked is still an interesting one. A growing number of scientists are seriously thinking about it.

   Underground systems are already in place. Many cities have underground car parks. In some cities, such as Tokyo, Seoul and Montreal, there are large underground shopping areas. The “Chunnel”, a tunnel connecting England and France, is another representative project of underground systems.

   But what about underground cities? Japan ’s Taisei Corporation is designing a network of underground systems, called “Alice Cities”. The designers imagine using surface space for public parks and using underground space for flats, offices, shopping and so on. A solar dome would cover the whole city.

   Supporters of underground development say that building down rather than building up is a good way to use the earth’s space. The surface, they say, can be used for farms, parks, gardens, and wilderness. H. G. Wells’moon people” would agree. Would you?

1. The explorers in H. G. Wells’ story were surprised to find that the “moon people” ________.

  A. knew so much about the earth          B. understood their language

  C. lived in so many underground cities     D. were ahead of them in space technology

2. What does the underlined word “it”in Paragraph 2 refer to?

  A. Discovering the moon’s inner space.      B. Using the earth’s inner space.

  C. Meeting the “moon people” again.      D. Traveling to outer space.

3. What sort of underground systems are already here with us?

  A. Offices, shopping areas, power stations.     B. Tunnels, car parks, shopping areas.

  C. Gardens, car parks, underground cities.      D. parks, shopping centres, tunnels.

4. What would be the best title for the passage?

  A. Alice Cities-cities of the future.     B. Space travel with H. G. Wells.

  C. Enjoy living underground.         D. Building down, not up.

此題要求改正所給短文中的錯誤，對標有題號的每一行作出判斷：

如無錯誤，在該行右邊橫線上畫一個勾（\/ ）；如有錯誤（每行只有一個錯誤），則按下列情況處理：

該行多一個詞：把多余的詞用斜線（\）劃掉，在該行右邊橫線上寫出該詞，并也用斜線劃掉。

該行缺一個詞：在缺詞處加一個漏字符號（^），在該行右邊橫線上寫出該加的詞。

該行錯一個詞：在錯的詞下劃一橫線，在該行右邊橫線上寫出改正后的詞。

注意：原行沒有錯的不要改。

My swimming experience has been extreme interesting            1. __________

There was a time when I swam like a rock. This went until    2. __________

one day when I was fishing with a friend at nearby pond.       3. __________

I slip into it. If my friend had not come to my rescue,          4. __________

I would have been drowned. Ever since then, I have come       5. __________

to know the importances of learning to swim. I didn’t          6. __________

attend any training class but leaned it all by my own.           7. __________

However, I have no difficulty swim at all now. Though my      8. __________

self-invented styles look awkward, at least it can keep           9. __________

me floating. Think of this, I am more than satisfied.            10. __________

It is said that there have been many changes in        history of      English language．

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

——Your daughter is too thin．

——She would gain weight      she is very particular about food．

A．a(chǎn)s long as    B．but                      C．unless                  D．even if

——I'm terribly sorry to have made your room untidy．

——      .

A．Sorry                  B．Don't mention it    C．Never mind          D．That's right

I will spare a ticket for the newly-made film to       desires to get it．

A．who             B．whoever              C．no matter who     D．whomever