Whenever you enter the reading room, you can find all the students _____ at their desks, with their attention _____ on the books, except Tom.

A.sitting, fixing      B.to sit, fixed       C.seating, fixing     D.seated, fixed

 My patience is ________.

A. running over    B. running out of      C. running out     D. using up

第三部分 閱讀理解（共20小題，每小題2分，滿分40分）

When my daughter, Sophie, was admitted to a college we were very happy, but a little worried about becoming empty nesters. I knew I had to do something to help myself adapt, starting with the summer before she left.

Sophie had a pack of colorful T-shirts. I knew she wouldn’t wear them any more, so I decided to make a quilt out of them for her bed at college. It focused my energy, and also let me relive some memories. I tried to work on the quilt when Sophie wasn’t at home----which turned out to be often. She was very busy with her friends. Even when she was around, her door was shut more than usual. I felt a bit hurt. After all, we didn’t have much time together before she went to college, I was already missing her, and she hadn’t ever left yet.

When we arrived at the college, a wave of emotion flooded me. I tried to hold it back, but Sophie saw it in my face. She took a big red book from her bag. “ I made this for you, Mom,” she said. Then I knew why she had been staying behind a closed door that summer. It was an album of photographs documenting the life of our family over the last 17 years.

I broke into tears. Some of it was sadness at having to let her go, but some of it was joy. I knew that our connection was more powerful than ever, and that we’d always be connected by the strongest of threads, the love that went into every stitch of her quilt and every photo of my album.

In Sophie’s dormitory I unfolded the quilt on her bed. For a moment she was speechless. Then she threw her arms around me . “Mom, I love you,” she said. One of her new friends was calling her outside. Sophie turned, and I let her go.

56.What do we learn about Sophie from the passage?

A. She did not understand how her mother felt about her leaving.

B. She had few friends, and kept to herself at home that summer.

C. She made a photo album to show her love.

D. She liked her colorful T-shirts very much.

57.Why did the author feel hurt, according to the second paragraph?

A. Because Sophie was not interested in what she was doing.

B.Because Sophie had little time for her.

C.Because Sophie was going to leave home for a long time.

D.Because Sophie did not help her to make the quilt.

58.How did the author feel when they arrived at the college?

A. She felt worried.

B.She felt nervous.

C.She was sorry to be leaving her daughter.

D.She missed her daughter very much.

59.Why did the author finally let her daughter go?

A. She realized that her daughter had to go to college by herself.

B.She realized that the love between them would never be cut off.

C.Sophie’s present had made her forget her sorrow.

D.Sophie’s new friends were calling her outside the dormitory.

信息匹配（共5小題；每小題2分，滿分10分）

Directions: Read the texts from a magazine article in which five people talked about their listening habits. For questions 64 to 68, match one of the speakers to one of the following statements (A to F ) given below. Note: there is one extra statement.

Mary Taylor:

  My father looked at me disapprovingly when I talked to him about ideas that he didn’t agree with. He would often interrupt me in the middle of a sentence to tell me I was wrong. As a result of the childhood experience, I had difficulty concentrating when anyone in authority talked to me. I would concentrate on how I was coming across to the other person, not on what the person was saying.

Chris More:

   My father used to frown (皺眉) when concentrating on something. I thought he was angry or upset with me until I later found out that he was only thinking about what he was doing. I certainly experienced some anxiety until I found this out. When I started conducting seminars(會議), I discovered that I frowned a lot while concentrating on what the talker was saying , and the attendees thought I was being critical of them.

Janet Smith:

  I constantly tuned others out (不理睬)while they were talking and I couldn’t seem to break the habit . It upset me because I was having trouble at work listening to directions and paying attention during meetings. As it happened, my mother had been a nonstop talker who ignored my needs. To keep my own sanity(清醒), I had learned to shut her out of my consciousness. I became so good at tuning her out that I generalized this behavior ------ tuning other people out as well.

Lylian Mason:

  I often feel victim in my interactions with my boss. I think he is the persecutor and I’m the victim. For example, late Thursday afternoon, my boss gave me a twenty-page project with graphs and numerical tables to type and finish by Monday at 10 a.m. I didn’t listen to the time he stated when he handed me the project. Instead, I was busy figuring out how I was going to get it down and finish the other work I had on my desk.

Jack Candison:

  When I am with a group of people who are interested in the subject I am covering and are receptive to me, they are open to more material and ideas. The more important the subject is to them, the more listening involvement they get into. In other words, the more relevant my material is to their personal or professional goals, the more they listen to what I have to say and the less they tune me out.

64. __________ Mary Taylor

65. __________Chris More

66. __________Janet Smith

67. __________Lylian Mason

68. __________Jack Candison

A.It’s hard for me to change my bad habit of not listening to others.

B.The heavy workload worried me so much.

C.I gave people the impression that I’m being picky (挑剔的)

D.My boss listens to me carefully.

E.My father used to ignore me.

F.People are likely to listen more attentively while the subject is of interest to them.

The rescuing soldiers in the helicopters ______ to land on that area, but failed again.

A. attempted               B. tended                C. managed         D. pretended

——The poor baby is crying sadly；is____________ your neighber’s?

——No, my neighbor Jane is still unmarried．

A．it                   B．he                   C．she                         D．one

．If you send the best wishes to your wife on her birthday, _______will give her a great surprise．

       A．which I think   B．I think which   C．I think that       D．what I think

---Will you come over to Beijing for the May Day holiday?

   ---I’d like to, but my family       the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai during the holiday.

       A．a(chǎn)re visiting      B．a(chǎn)re to visit       C．will be visiting D．will visit

第二部分  閱讀理解（共兩節(jié)，滿分 40分）

第一節(jié) （共15小題；每小題2分，滿分30分）

閱讀下列四篇短文，從每小題后所給的A、B、C、D四個選項中，選出最佳選項。并在答題卡上將該選項涂黑。

Fun-loving Paul Johnson earned the title of the Scarborough Evening News Teacher of the Year 2008. Mr Johnson, of Hinderwell School, was presented with the award after four of his pupils nominated(recommended) him for the prestigious title

Evening News editor Ed Asquith presented Mr Johnson with his certificate — and a cheque for ??100. His class is also set to enjoy a free trip to the Sea Life Centre which includes being picked up by a complimentary Shoreline Suncruisers open-top bus.

The 30-year-old, who lives in Hunmanby, said: “I am just so shocked. I have been nominated for this award for a few years and I never thought I would win it. It is fantastic. It is completely out of the blue.”

Mr Johnson has worked as a Year 5 teacher at the school for seven years. He also works as an advanced teacher, which involves visiting other schools in the county once a week to offer cross-curricular teaching.

He was chosen as the winner because of his dynamic but educationally engaging approach to teaching, and based on the real way he has demonstrated that every child matters. Each term he picks a theme for his class and the curriculum is based around it. This term they are studying medieval times — and his classroom has a castle in one corner. He also treated his class to a three-day trip to London earlier this year.

His nominators were Lucy and Emily Desborough, Rachel Laverick and Rebecca Miller. Classmate Callum Macdonald, 10, said: “He is the best teacher in the world and he deserves this. He is brilliant with us and he is just so funny. He tells lots of jokes which always make us laugh.” Beth Lawty, nine, added: “Our classroom is the best ever. We have really enjoyed being in his class and I will miss him next year.”

46. Paul Johnson visits other schools in the county to ______.

A. show his teaching experience     B. learn from other teachers

C. improve his teaching skills       D. offer a different course

47. Why is there a castle in one corner of Paul Johnson’s classroom?

A. It is used to train the students’ imagination.

B. It is a prize from the Scarborough Evening News

C. The students can play in it after class.

D. It is probably a symbol of medieval times.

48. The underlined part “out of the blue” probably means ______.

A. of surprise   B. frustrating   C. of great fame   D. within easy reach  

第Ⅱ卷（非選擇題，共35分）

第四部分 寫作（共兩節(jié)，滿分35分）

第一節(jié) 短文改錯（滿分10分）

此題要求改正所有短文中的錯誤。對標(biāo)有題號的每一行做出判斷：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），則按下列情況改正：

此行多一個詞：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。

此行缺一個詞：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。

此行錯一個詞：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。

Time flies as an arrow. I'm already in the second half                       76.______

of Senior Grade 3 before I realized it. It is only a little more            77.______

than one month before I graduate middle school. At                   78.______

the present, I'm busy reviewing my lessons in order to                   79.______

taking the college entrance examination. I hope to go to                80.______

Beijing University, that is one of the best universities not             81.______

only in China but also in the world. I'll try my best to turn              82.______

my dream to reality. Most of my classmates are also                   83.______

studying very hard to realize our wishes. I do believe everyone          84.______

will be able to enter a very good university and college.                 85.______