單詞拼寫（注意所填詞的正確形式）
【小題1】As long as your suggestion is r____________, we’ll take it.
【小題2】There were many job ___________（申請者）for the position, but in the end only two were hired.
【小題3】A few _____________(反對意見) have to be dealt with before we can start the project.
【小題4】G__________ speaking, a real friendship means not taking but giving.  
【小題5】The __________(大多數(shù))of students think that they should be given more time to do sports after class.
【小題6】I keep my reference books near my desk for _________   (方便)．
【小題7】Barack Obama was e___________ the first black president in American history.
【小題8】The two bags d_________ in color --- one is red, the other black.
【小題9】The packet of white p_________ the police found in his room turned out to be cocaine.
【小題10】The ___________(步驟) of cloning animals is quite difficult to undertake.

Can you understand the beginning of this essay（短文）?

“My smmr hols wr CWOT. B4, we usd 2go2 NY 2C my bro, his GF & 3 kds FTF.”

The Scottish teacher who received it in class had no idea what the girl who wrote it meant. The essay was written in a form of English used in cell phone text messages（短信）. Text messages (also called SMS) through cell phones became very popular in the late 1990s. At first, mobile phone companies thought that text messaging would be a good way to send messages to customers, but customers quickly began to use the text messaging service to send messages to each other. Teenagers in particular enjoyed using text messaging, and they began to create a new language for messages called “texting.”

A text message is limited to 160 characters, including letters, spaces, and numbers, so messages must be kept short. In addition, typing on the small keypad of a cell phone is difficult, so it's common to make words shorter. In texting, a single letter or number can represent（代表） a word, like “r” for “are,” “u” for “you,” and “2” for “to.” Several letters can also represent a phrase, like “l(fā)ol” for “l(fā)aughing out loud.” Another characteristic（特征） of  texting is the leaving out of letters in a word, like spelling “please” as “pls.”

Some parents and teachers worry that texting will make children bad spellers and bad writers. The student who wrote the essay at the top of this page said writing that way was more comfortable for her. (The essay said, “My summer holidays were a complete waste of time. Before, we used to go to New York to see my brother, his girlfriend, and their three kids face to face.”)

Not everyone agrees that texting is a bad thing. Some experts say languages always develop, and this is just another way in which English is changing. Other people believe texting will disappear soon. New technology for voice messages may soon make text messages a thing of the past.

1. What is the writer's opinion of text messaging?

A. The writer does not give his opinions.     

B. It is not bad for children.

C. It will make children bad writers. 

D. It is fun and easy to do.

2. Which characteristic of texting is NOT described in the passage? 

A. Using letters to represent words. 

B. Using phrases to represent essays.

C. Using letters to represent phrases. 

D. Using numbers to represent words.

3. Which of the following was most probably the title of the student's essay?

A. My Smmr Hols              B. CU in LA                 C. My GF           D. My Gr8 Tchr

4. Why do some people think that texting is bad?

A. It costs too much.                                             B. It's too difficult to type.

C. Teenagers won't learn to write correctly.  D. It's not comfortable.

5. Why aren't some people worried about the effect of texting?

A. Not many people use texting.        

B. Spelling in English is too difficult.

C. Teenagers quickly become bored with texting.      

D. Texting will disappear because of new technology.

I know what you’re thinking : pizza （比薩餅）? For breakfast? But the truth is that you can have last night’s leftovers in the a. m. if you want to. 

I know lots of women who skip（跳過） breakfast , and they have a ton of different excuses for doing it . Some say they don’t have time. others think they’re “saving” calories （卡路里）, still others just don’t like breakfast food .

But the bottom line is that eating in the morning is very important when you’re trying to lose weight.

“Eating just about anything from 300 to 400 calories would be better than nothing at all,” says Katherine Brooking , R , D , who developed the super-easy eating plan for this year’s “SELF CHALLENGE”. And even pizza can be healthy if it’s loaded with vegetables, and you stick to one small piece.  

Breakfast is one meal I never miss, and the same goes for most weight loss success stories. Research shows that eating breakfast keeps you from overeating later in the day. Researchers at the University of Southern California found that breakfast skippers have a bigger chance of gaining weight than those who regularly have a morning meal.

So eat something in the morning, anything. I know plenty of friends who end up having no breakfast altogether, and have just coffee or orange juice. I say, try heating up last night’s leftovers-it may sound crazy, but if it works for you, do it! I find if I tell myself, “You can always eat it tomorrow,” I put away the leftovers instead of eating more that night. Try it…you may save yourself some pre-bedtime calories. And watch your body gain the fat-burning effects.

1.The word “l(fā)eftovers” in Paragraph 1 probably means__________.

A. food remaining after a meal         B. things left undone 

C. meals made of vegetables           D. pizza topped with fruit 

2.What can we infer from the text? 

A. Working women usually have breakfast in a hurry. 

B. Many people have wrong ideas about breakfast.  

C. There are some easy ways of cooking a meal.  

D. Eating vegetables helps save energy.  

3.According to the last paragraph, it is important to____________.  

A. eat something for breakfast         B. be careful about what you eat 

C. heat up food before eating it        D. eat calorie-controlled food 

4.The text is written mainly for those_____________.  

A. who go to work early              B. who want to lose weight 

C. who stay up late                  D. who eat before sleep

單詞拼寫（共20小題, 每小題1分，滿分20分）
76. You can’t turn your dream into r__________ if you just sit there and watch TV all day.
77. A good command (運(yùn)用能力；掌握) of English e__________ you to communicate with foreign businessmen freely.
78. He missed the bus as a r__________ of getting up too late this morning.
79. It is time for us to take m__________ to stop air pollution in our city now.
80. Cycling is highly b__________ to health and the environment.
81. He seems to have __________ (忽視，忽略) one important fact.
82. I believe the house was __________ (故意地) set fire to, not accidentally.
83. She is so __________ (固執(zhí)的) that she never listens to other people’s advice.
84. Her tears __________ (流動(dòng)) freely down her cheeks the moment she heard the sad news.
85. They entered the country __________ (非法地).
86. On this __________, however, it had slowed down considerably.
87. “At the time the murder was __________, I was traveling on the 8 o’clock train to London,” said the man.
88. Six men have been __________ in a mine for seventeen hours.
89. They have been told that rescue operations are __________ smoothly.
90. A pilot noticed a __________ which seemed to be making for a Royal Air Force Station nearby.
91. We had to __________ for hours to get in and there must have been several hundred people present just before the show began.
92. He was obviously very nervous and for some minutes stood __________ before the microphone.
93. Oil rigs have to be repaired frequently and divers, who often have to work in darkness a hundred feet under water, have been frightened out of their __________ by giant fish bumping into them as they work.
94. He said that someone might be spying on the station and the pilot was ordered to keep __________ of the strange object.
95. “So do I,” answered the policeman in the same __________.

　　A German study suggests that people who were too optimistic about their future actually faced greater risk of disability or death within 10 years than those pessimists who expected their future to be worse.

　　The paper, published this March in Psychology and Aging, examined health and welfare surveys from roughly 40,000 Germans between ages 18 and 96. The surveys were conducted every year from 1993 to 2003.

　　Survey respondents (受訪者) were asked to estimate their present and future life satisfaction on a scale of 0 to 10, among other questions.

　　The researchers found that young adults (age 18 to 39) routinely overestimated their future life satisfaction, while middle-aged adults (age 40 to 64) more accurately predicted how they would feel in the future. Adults of 65 and older, however, were far more likely to underestimate their future life satisfaction. Not only did they feel more satisfied than they thought they would, the older pessimists seemed to suffer a lower ratio (比率) of disability and death for the study period.

　　“We observed that being too optimistic in predicting a better future than actually observed was associated with a greater risk of disability and a greater risk of death within the following decade,” wrote Frieder R. Lang, a professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

　　Lang and his colleagues believed that people who were pessimistic about their future may be more careful about their actions than people who expected a rosy future.

　　“Seeing a dark future may encourage positive evaluations of the actual self and may contribute to taking improved precautions (預(yù)防措施),” the authors wrote.

　　Surprisingly, compared with those in poor health or who had low incomes, respondents who enjoyed good health or income were associated with expecting a greater decline. Also, the researchers said that higher income was related to a greater risk of disability.

　　T  Pessimism gurantees chances of survival.he authors of the study noted that there were limitations to their conclusions. Illness, medical treatment and personal loss could also have driven health outcomes.

　　However, the researchers said a pattern was clear. “We found that from early to late adulthood, individuals adapt their expectations of future life satisfaction from optimistic, to accurate, to pessimistic,” the authors concluded.

　　67. According to the study, who made the most accurate prediction of their future life satisfaction?

　　A. Optimistic adults.

　　B. Middle-aged adults.

　　C. Adults in poor health.

　　D. Adults of lower income.

　　68. Pessimism may be positive in some way because it causes people ______.

　　A. to fully enjoy their present life

　　B. to estimate their contribution accurately

　　C. to take measures against potential risks

　　D. to value health more highly than wealth

　　69. How do people of higher income see their future?

　　A. They will earn less money.

　　B. They will become pessimistic.

　　C. They will suffer mental illness.

　　D. They will have less time to enjoy life.

　　70. What is the clear conclusion of the study?

　　A. Pessimism guarantees chances of survival.

　　B. Good financial condition leads to good health.

　　C. Medical treatment determines health outcomes.

　　D. Expectations of future life satisfaction decline with age.