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　　(時間：120分鐘　滿分：135分　得分：________)

　　Ⅰ語言知識及應用(共兩節，滿分45分)

　　第一節　完形填空(共15小題；每小題2分，滿分30分)

　　閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，然后從1－15各題所給的A、B、C和D項中，選出最佳選項。

　　The aim of writing a letter of application is to help you to “sell” yourself.It should state __1__ the job you want, and should tell what your abilities are and what you have __2__.It should be simple, human, personal and brief without __3__ out any necessary fact.

　　In writing a letter of application, bear in mind that the things a possible employer is most __4__ to want to know about are your qualifications, your achievements and your aims.The opening paragraph is perhaps the most important part.If the first few sentences fail to __5__ the reader's attention, the rest of the letter may not be __6__ at all.Try to key your opening remarks to the needs or interests of the employer not to your own need or desire.For example, instead of beginning with “I saw your __7__ in today's paper.” you might say “I have made a careful study of your advertising during the past six months” or “I have made a survey in my neighborhood to find out how many housewives __8__ your product and why they like it.”

　　Try to __9__ generalities.Be clear about the kind of job for which you are now __10__.College graduates looking for their first positions often ask “What can I __11__ in a letter? Employers want experience, which, naturally, no __12__ has.” The answer is that everything you have ever done is __13__.

　　It is important to write a good strong closing for your letter.__14__ a specific request for an interview or give the possible employer something definite to do or expect.An excellent __15__ is to enclose (內附) a stamped, self-addressed (寫上自己地址的) envelope with your letter.That makes it easier for a possible employer to get in touch with you.

　　1．A.clearly

　　B．carefully

　　C．obviously

　　D．easily

　　2．A.found

　　B．done

　　C．known

　　D．heard

　　3．A.sending

　　B．taking

　　C．leaving

　　D．picking

　　4．A.probable

　　B．possible

　　C．likely

　　D．able

　　5．A.pay

　　B．win

　　C．show

　　D．fix

　　6．A.kept

　　B．continued

　　C．written

　　D．read

　　7．A.advertisement

　　B．report

　　C．article

　　D．introduction

　　8．A.change

　　B．make

　　C．sell

　　D．use

　　9．A.avoid

　　B．remember

　　C．protect

　　D．gain

　　10．A.losing

　　B．applying

　　C．preparing

　　D．fitting

　　11．A.offer

　　B．supply

　　C．mean

　　D．provide

　　12．A.worker

　　B．beginner

　　C．owner

　　D．manager

　　13．A.success

　　B．development

　　C．practice

　　D．experience

　　14．A.Make

　　B．Ask

　　C．State

　　D．Get

　　15．A.result

　　B．decision

　　C．promise

　　D．idea

　　第二節　語法填空(共10小題；每小題1.5分，滿分15分)

　　閱讀下面短文，按照句子結構的語法性和上下文連貫的要求，在空格處填入一個適當的詞或使用括號中詞語的正確形式填空。

　　A good teacher is many things to many people.In my own experience, the people I respect most are the teachers (16)________ demanded the most discipline from their students.

　　I miss one teacher in particular that I had in high school.I think she was a good teacher because she was a very strict person.I remember very (17)________ (clear) a sign over her classroom door.It was (18)________ simple sign that said, “Laboratory—in this room the first five letters of the word was emphasized, not the last seven.” In other words, I guess, labor (19)________ her was more important than oratory, which means (20)________ (make) speeches.

　　She prepared her work very carefully and demanded us to do the same.We got lots of homework from her.(21)________ she had broken her arm, and everybody in the class thought that maybe the homework (22)________ (reduce), but it continued just the same.She checked our work by stamping her name at the bottom of the papers to show that she had read (23)________．

　　I think sometimes teachers who demand most are liked (24)________．But (25)________ time goes by, this discipline really seems to benefit the students.

　　Ⅱ閱讀(共兩節，滿分50分)

　　第一節　閱讀理解(共20小題；每小題2分，滿分40分)

　　閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的A、B、C和D項中，選出最佳選項。

　　A

　　In Shanghai's Grand Theater, a fashionable, mainly young audience applauds enthusiastically as Guo Yong takes center stage.He holds a large bushy tree branch with leaves.Blowing on one of the leaves, he produces a sound like the singing of birds as he plays a traditional Buyi folk song.Some other musicians are also playing the traditional instruments from various ethnic groups in China.

　　It's the first time such music has ever been performed in the Grand Theater.But all this is the efforts of Zhu Zheqin, a Cantonese-born singer, who has made it her mission to help preserve China's traditional ethnic music.

　　Several years ago, after being appointed a United Nations Development Program ambassador, Zhu traveled through some of China's remotest regions in an attempt to document the traditional music of various minority groups.In the course other four-month trip, she recorded more than a thousand songs.But she noticed that many of the best musicians were old, and some of the music was at risk of dying out.

　　“I was shocked by the beauty of what I heard—it was so good，” she says.“But it needed support.I hope to let people see the beauty of these things in the contemporary times.”

　　So Zhu decided to introduce some of the musicians to a wider audience.By doing this, she hopes to rekindle (再次點燃) the interest of the younger generation.“Young people don't like this music much; they prefer pop music and love songs.They think these songs are something their grandma sings.This kind of repackaging gives young people a new door into their heritage.”

　　Zhu believes China needs to look again at its own roots.“China today is basically all Western art; in our conservatories (音樂學院) Western classical music is the top，” she says.“For China to really contribute to the world, we need to go on our own path.So what can represent China today？” The answer, she suggests, is to move from “made in China” to “created in China”．

　　26．From the first paragraph, we learn that ________.

　　A．the audience are all young people

　　B．Guo Yong is playing the Buyi folk music

　　C．Guo Yong is the only minority performer on the stage

　　D．tree branches make good musical instruments

　　27．Which of the following is TRUE of Zhu Zheqin?

　　A.She teaches music in a conservatories.

　　B.She is helping preserve Chinese ethnic music.

　　C.She works as an official in the United Nations.

　　D.She's created all the music for the Grand Theater.

　　28．Zhu Zheqin traveled to some of China's remotest regions to ________.

　　A.record the traditional ethnic music

　　B.help the local musicians play the music

　　C.show the UN Chinese musical traditions

　　D.enjoy the music of various ethnic groups

　　29．What is Zhu Zheqin's idea about Chinese traditional music?

　　A．It is completely out of date.

　　B．Only old musicians play it well.

　　C．It needs changes to attract young people.

　　D．It is quickly dying out.

　　30．What does Zhu Zheqin mean in the last paragraph?

　　A.The traditional music should be repackaged.

　　B.Chinese conservatories shouldn't teach Western music.

　　C.China has contributed a lot to the Western art.

　　D.Only the things created in China can be symbols of China.

　　B

　　Teens don't understand the big fuss (小題大做)．As the first generation to grow up in a wired world, they hardly know a time when computers weren't around, and they eagerly catch the chance to spend hours online, chatting with friends, so what?

　　But researchers nationwide are increasingly worried that teens are becoming isolated, less skillful at person-to-person relationships, and perhaps numb to the cheatings that are so much a part of the e-mail world.“And a teen's sense of self and values may be changed in a world where personal connections can be limitless，” said Shetty Turkle.

　　Another researcher, Robert Kraut, said he's worried about the “opportunity costs” of so much online time for youths.He found that teens who used computers, even just a few hours a week, showed increased signs of loneliness and social isolation.“Chatting online may be better than watching television, but it's worse than hanging out with real friends，” he said.

　　Today's teens, however, don't see anything strange in the fact that the computer takes up a central place in their social lives.“School is busy and full of pressure.There's almost no time to just hang out，” said Parker Rice, 17.“Talking online is just to catch up time.”

　　Teens say they feel good about what they say online or taking the time to think about a reply.Some teens admit that asking someone for a date, or breaking up, can be easier in message form, though they don't want to do so.But they insist there's no harm.

　　31．The researchers argue that ________.

　　A．teens may develop a different sense of values

　　B．nothing is wrong with teens' chatting online

　　C．teens can manage their social connections

　　D．spending hours online does much good to teens

　　32．Teens think that talking online can help them ________.

　　A．use computers properly

　　B．improve their school work

　　C．develop an interest in social skills

　　D．reduce their mental pressures

　　33．The text mainly deals with ________.

　　A．teens' pleasant online experience

　　B．teens' computer skills and school work

　　C．the effects of the computer world on teens

　　D．different opinions on teens' chatting online

　　34．Which of the following is TRUE?

　　A．Teens are more skillful at person-to-person relationships.

　　B．Teens showed decreasing signs of loneliness and social isolation.

　　C．Chatting online is worse than hanging out with real friends.

　　D．Asking someone for a date, or breaking up, can be more difficult in message form.

　　35．The purpose of the text is to ________.

　　A．describe computer research results

　　B．draw attention to teens' computer habits

　　C．suggest ways to deal with problem teens

　　D．discuss problems teens have at school

　　C

　　As kids, my friends and I spent a lot of time out in the woods.“The woods” was our part-time address, destination, purpose, and excuse.If I went to a friend's house and found him not at home, his mother might say, “Oh, he's out in the woods，” with a tone (語氣) of airy acceptance.It's similar to the tone people sometimes use nowadays to tell me that someone I'm looking for is on the golf course or at the gym, or even “away from his desk”．For us ten-year-olds, “being out in the woods” was just an excuse to do whatever we feel like for a while.

　　We sometimes told ourselves that what we were doing in the woods was exploring (探索)．Exploring was a more popular idea back then than it is today.History seemed to be mostly about explorers.Our explorations, though, seemed to have less system than the historic kind: something usually came up along the way.Say we stayed in the woods, throwing rocks, shooting frogs, picking blackberries, digging in what we were briefly persuaded was an Indian burial mound.

　　Often we got “lost” and had to climb a tree to find out where we were.If you read a story in which someone does that successfully, be skeptical;_the topmost branches are usually too skinny to hold weight, and we could never climb high enough to see anything except other trees.There were four or five trees that we visited regularly—tall beeches, easy to climb and comfortable to sit in.

　　It was in a tree, too, that our days of fooling around in the woods came to an end.By then some of us has reached seventh grade and had begun the rough ride of adolescence (青春期)．In March, the month when we usually took to the woods again after winter, two friends and I set out to go exploring.We climbed a tree, and all of a sudden it occurred to all three of us at the same time that we really were rather big to be up in a tree.Soon there would be the spring dances on Friday evenings in the high school cafeteria.

　　36．The author and his friends were often out in the woods to ________.

　　A．spend their free time

　　B．play golf and other sports

　　C．avoid doing their schoolwork

　　D．keep away from their parents

　　37．What can we infer from Paragraph 2?

　　A．The activities in the woods were well planned.

　　B．Human history is not the result of exploration.

　　C．Exploration should be a systematic activity.

　　D．The author explored in the woods aimlessly.

　　38．The underlined word “skeptical” in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to ________.

　　A．calm

　　B．doubtful

　　C．serious

　　D．optimistic

　　39．The reason why we visited the four or five trees regularly is the following except that ________.

　　A．they were tall beeches

　　B．they were easy to climb

　　C．they were not high to climb

　　D．they were comfortable to sit in

　　40．How does the author feel about his childhood?

　　A．Happy but short.

　　B．Lonely but memorable.

　　C．Boring and meaningless.

　　D．Long and unforgettable.

　　D

　　Many animals recognize their food because they see it.So do humans.When you see an apple or a piece of chocolate you know that these are things you can eat.You can also use other senses when you choose your food.You may like it because it smells good or because it tastes good.You may dislike some types of food because they do not look, smell or taste very nice.Different animals use different senses to find and choose their food.A few animals depend on only one of their senses, while most animals use more than one sense.

　　Although there are many different types of food, some animals spend their lives eating only one type.The giant panda eats only one particular type of bamboo.Other animals eat only one type of food even when given the choice.A kind of white butterfly will stay on the leaves of a cabbage, even though there are plenty of other vegetables in the garden.However, most animals have a more varied diet.The bear eats fruits and fish.The fox eats small animals, birds and fruits.The diet of these animals will be different depending on the season.

　　Humans have a very varied diet.We often eat food because we like it and not because it is good for us.In countries such as France and Britain, people eat foods with too much sugar.This makes them overweight, which is bad for their health.Eating too much red meat and animal products, such as butter, can also be bad for the health.Choosing the right food, therefore, has become an area of study in modern life.

　　41．We can infer from the text that humans and animals ________.

　　A．depend on one sense in choosing food

　　B．are not satisfied with their food

　　C．choose food in similar ways

　　D．eat entirely different food

　　42．Which of the following eats only one type of food?

　　A．The white butterfly.

　　B．The small bird.

　　C．The bear.

　　D．The fox.