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　　A

　　Hi, I'm Michael J. Lindell, Inventor, Manufacturer, and President of My Pillow Corporation. Years ago, like you, I found myself extremely frustrated with my pillow going flat. Most pillows are designed to break down. I would wake up in the morning with a sore arm, my neck would hurt, my fingers would be numb, and I would toss and turn all night not knowing why. I tried many different pillows on the market and none of them worked. So, I started to research pillows and

　　study sleep disorders. I was determined to create the world's healthiest, most comfortable, and

　　strongest pillow. My Pillow uses our unique, patented medical fill that stays cool, corresponds to

　　your exact individual needs regardless of sleep position, and stays healthy for your full 10-year

　　guarantee. It is non-allergic, and you can wash and dry it as easily as your favorite jeans.

　　My Pillow is not available in stores. I have spent the last seven years selling My Pillow

　　face-to-face at fairs, expos and events.

　　Hundreds of experts and medical doctors carry and

　　recommend them for their patients. I have been featured on medical talk shows that air around

　　the world. I have sold hundreds of thousands of pillows and have received great gratitude from

　　satisfied customers regarding how My Pillow has changed their lives and provided a more

　　comfortable, restful sleep.

　　And, My Pillow comes in different sizes and is fit for your size and sleeping pattern. So you

　　can be assured that you will have the most comfortable pillow for you.

　　I truly believe it is the best pillow in the world and that if everyone had one and got better

　　sleep, the world would be a much nicer place.

　　文章大意：本文是一篇說明文。作者介紹了自己研發的枕頭My Pillow。這種枕頭使用獨特的獲得專利的藥品當作填充物，能夠保持涼爽，該枕頭有各種尺寸，適合各種睡姿，另外，也可以隨便拆洗烘干。My Pillow有著很好的銷路，同時也獲得了購買者的一致好評。

　　1．What makes My Pillow unique?

　　A．It is easily washed and dried.

　　B．It suits your sleeping position.

　　C．It contains special cooling medicine.

　　D．It helps you stay healthy for 10 years.

　　2．Where can people probably buy My Pillow?

　　A．At fairs.

　　B．In stores.

　　C．In markets.

　　D．On the Internet.

　　3．What is the author's purpose in writing this article?

　　A．To introduce a comfortable pillow.

　　B．To encourage people to buy My Pillow.

　　C．To give some advice on sleeping problems.

　　D．To tell us how to select a comfortable pillow.

　　B

　　I began writing poems fifteen years ago while I was in college. One day I was in the library, working on a term paper, when I came across a book of contemporary poetry. I don't remember the title of the book or any of the titles of the poems except one：“Frankenstein's Daughter.” The poem was wild, almost rude, and nothing like the rhyme-and-meter poetry I had read in high school. I had always thought that poetry was flowery writing about sunsets and walks on the beach, but that library book contained direct and sometimes shocking poetry about dogs, junked cars, rundown houses, and TVs. I checked the book out, curious to read more.

　　Soon afterward, I started filling a notebook with my own poems.

　　At first I was scared, partly because my poetry teacher, to whom this book is written for, was a serious and strict man who could see the errors in my poems. Also, I realized the seriousness of my devotion. I gave up geography to study poetry, which a good many friends said offered no future. I ignored them because I liked working with words, using them to reconstruct the past, which has always been a source of poetry for me.

　　When I first studied poetry, I was single-minded. I woke to poetry and went to bed with poetry. I memorized poems, read English poets because I was told they would help shape my poems, and read classical Chinese poetry because I was told that it would add clarity to my work. But I was most taken by the Spanish and Latin American poets, particularly Pablo Neruda. My favorites of his were the odes—long,

　　short-lined poems celebrating common things like tomatoes, socks and scissors. I felt joyful when I read these odes, and when I began to write my own poems, I tried to remain faithful to the common things of my childhood—dogs, alleys (小巷), my baseball mitt (手套) and the fruit

　　of the valley, especially the orange. I wanted to give these things life, to write so well that my poems would express their beauty.

　　I also admired our own country's poetry. I saw that our poets often wrote about places where they grew up or places that impressed them deeply. James Wright wrote about Ohio and West Virginia, Philip Levine about Detroit, Gary Snyder about the Sierra Nevadas and about Japan, where for years he studied Zen Buddhism (禪宗佛教). I decided to write about the San Joaquin Valley, where my hometown, Fresno, is located.

　　Some of my poems are absolute observations and images of nature—the orange yards, the Kings River, the Sequoias (紅杉). I fell in love with the valley, both its ugliness and its beauty, and quietly wrote poems about it to share with others.

　　文章大意：這是一篇記敘文。文章主要講述了作者寫詩的經歷。

　　4．What does the passage mainly talk about?

　　A．The author's experiences with poetry.

　　B．The author's method of writing poetry.

　　C．The author's appreciation of poetry.

　　D．The author's interest in studying poetry.

　　5．From the first paragraph, we can learn that ________.

　　A．“Frankenstein's Daughter” was a flowery poetry

　　B．the author was able to memorize most poems he read

　　C．the author began to get in contact with poetry of different styles

　　D．the author was curious to read more of rhyme-and-meter poetry

　　答案：C　細節理解題。根據文章第一段倒數第二句中的“that library book contained direct and sometimes shocking poetry about...”可知，作者開始接觸到不同類型的詩歌。C項與文章內容相符。故答案選C。

　　6．Which of the following would the author most probably write about in his poem?

　　A．Moving love stories in history.

　　B．Observations of classical poems.

　　C．True feelings of human friendship.

　　D．Appreciation of wild valley flowers.

　　7．Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

　　A．The author's friends all encouraged him to give up geography to poetry.

　　B．The author became devoted to poetry because of his teacher's strictness.

　　C．The author loved to find sources of poetry from nature and from the past.

　　D．Spanish and Latin American poems influenced the author as much as Chinese ones.

　　C

　　Eco City Farms are becoming more popular in cities and towns around the United States.

　　Eco City Farms in Edmonston, Maryland, is located near shopping centers, car repair shops and homes. The neighborhood is a working-class community. People do not have very much money, and they have limited access to fresh food in markets.

　　Over the past two years, the farm has attracted volunteers from the community like Marcy Clark. She schools her four children at home. On a recent day she brought them to Eco City Farms for a lesson. Her son Alston Clark thinks his experience is very valuable. “I like coming out here，” he says, “You know, you connect with the earth, where your food comes from. You appreciate the food a little bit more.”

　　Margaret Morgan started Eco City Farms. She thinks of it as a place where people can learn to live healthier lives. “Growing food in a community brings people together，” she continues,

　　“Every piece of what we do here is a demonstration to show people everything about how to have

　　an eco-friendly community.” she says. From the Eco City Farms people come to know that they

　　are not only growing food and raising chickens and bees, but improving the soil with compost (肥料) made from food waste.

　　Eco City Farms is an experimental operation. The farm gets its power not from the local

　　electricity networks, but from the sun with solar panels. In winter, the green houses use a

　　geothermal (地熱) system.

　　Vegetables can be grown all year. So once a week, all winter long, neighbors like Chris Moss and her three children bike to the farm to pick up a share of the harvest.

　　“I like eating the vegetables，” says five-year-old Owen Moss.

　　文章大意：本文是一篇報道。文章介紹了美國各地日益流行的生態城市農場(Eco City Farms)。它不但可以帶動生態社區，引領人們過上綠色健康的生活，更成為人們了解地球、了解食物的好去處。

　　8．What is mainly talked about in the passage?

　　A．Eco City Farms save a lot of energy.

　　B．Eco City Farms are gaining popularity.

　　C．Eco City Farms are influencing community life.

　　D．Eco City Farms helps the working-class live better.

　　9．According to the passage, Eco City Farms are close to the following places EXCEPT ________.

　　A．shopping centers

　　B．car repair shops

　　C．fast-food restaurants

　　D．working-class community

　　10．What is the author's attitude toward Eco City Farms?

　　A．Enthusiastic.

　　B．Disappointed.

　　C．Surprised.

　　D．Doubtful.

　　答案：A　觀點態度題。根據第三、四段所使用的語言“the farm has attracted volunteers... I like coming out here...”“brings people together... From the Eco City Farms people come to know...”可知，作者對生態城市農場持積極樂觀態度，對其很感興趣。C項文中并未提到，B、D兩項不符合文義。故答案選A。

　　11．In which column of a newspaper can you most probably read this article?

　　A．People.

　　B．Travel.

　　C．Environment.

　　D．Education.

　　D

　　BEIJING—China's Beijing and Shanghai cities and Guangdong Province on Sunday published plans to gradually allow migrant workers'(外來務工人員) children to enter senior high schools and sit college entrance exams locally.

　　They are the latest in a total of 13 provinces and municipalities(市) to formulate plans to ensure that rural children who have followed their parents to cities can enjoy the same rights as their urban peers in education.

　　Beijing will allow migrant workers' children to attend local vocational schools in 2024 and allow them to be matriculated by universities after graduating from the vocational programs in 2024, said a statement from the city's commission of education.

　　Shanghai took a step further, saying it will allow migrant children in the city to enter local senior high schools, vocational schools and sit college entrance exams (commonly known as gaokao) locally starting in 2024.

　　Guangdong has asked its cities to start recruiting(招收)migrant workers' children in local senior high schools in 2024. The province will allow these children to sit gaokao and compete with local residents on an equal feeting in college entrance starting in 2024, Luo said the restrictions would be relaxed gradually and “step by step” as the province must solve the conflict between its gigantic migrant population and a scarcity of education resources.

　　Migrant workers, whose children could be benefited by the new plans of the three regions, must have residential permits, stable jobs and incomes, and meet other local requirements, according to the plans.

　　China's hukou, or household registration system, used to confine children to attending schools in their home provinces. A 2003 regulation amended this by allowing migrant workers' children to receive the nine-year compulsory education in cities where their parents work.

　　Official figures show that China has more than 250 million farmers-turned-workers living in cities. An estimated 20 million children have migrated with their parents to the cities.

　　文章大意：在北京、上海和廣東的務工子女，能夠就地入學或高考了。

　　12．What's the best title of this passage?

　　A.China's educational reform on the way

　　B.Migrants' dreams come true

　　C.Reform plans published for migrant children's education

　　D.Migrants ask for equal rights in education

　　13．Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

　　A.Beijing，Shanghai and Guangdong took the lead in making plans for migrant children's education.

　　B.There are altogether 13 provinces

　　and

　　municipalities that have made plans for migrant children's education.

　　C.Beijing will allow migrant workers' children to enter

　　the local school in 2024.

　　D.Migrant workers' children began to receive senior high school education in cities where their parents work in 2003.

　　14．Which of the following words can the underlined word“confine” be replaced by?

　　A.limit

　　B．prevent

　　C．protect

　　D．resist

　　15．Which of the following statements can be inferred according to the passage?

　　A.Guangdong will allow migrant workers' children to sit gaokao locally in 2024.

　　B.China's hukou is now no longer important and should be cancelled.

　　C.The Chinese government should continue deepening the educational reform.

　　D.It is likely that not all migrant workers' children can enter senior high schools or sit gaokao in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong with the new plans polished.

　　E

　　Expensive perfumes (香水) come in tiny bottles, but many hide a whale-sized secret.

　　To perfect a particular smell, perfume-makers often use an ingredient that comes from

　　sperm whales, called ambergris.

　　But using ambergris, which helps a perfume last longer, is

　　strongly opposed by many people who think it is wrong to kill whales just so we can smell sweet.

　　Joerg Bohlmann is neither a perfumer nor a whale expert. He's a plant biologist at the University

　　of British Columbia in Canada. But his discovery of a new plant gene (基因) might push whales

　　out of the perfume business.

　　The gene comes from fir trees, found throughout North America and commonly used as

　　Christmas trees.

　　The trees produce a chemical that can be used in perfume in place of

　　ambergris—but with_a_catch.

　　“There's a problem that many people wouldn't consider. In the tree, the chemical is mixed

　　with many others. That makes separation a challenge，” Bohlmann says. “It's like trying to isolate

　　sugar from a biscuit.”

　　This is where science becomes useful. When Bohlmann learned that fir trees produce the

　　ambergris-like chemical, he decided to use his gene know-how to find the instructions for how to