I took a trip after lunch and on my way home I stopped at a park in this beautiful little town. I really wanted to enjoy the    _ wind of one of the last days of summer. I know I still have a lot of time left according to the ___. But I’ve seen too many summers suddenly____

  When I had a rest at a __ , a man came, who was about my __ . Maybe we could have common topics. “Good _ _ , my friend!” he said as he _  _ down on the opposite side of the table. “You don’t live __ , do you?” “No, I’m just _  _ . I live about an hour and a half from here.” “What do you do for a living?” he asked. “I’m a _  _  .” “Well, I should have known,” he said.

Now he had my _  _ . How could he possibly know what I did for a living just by __ at me? “You were dreaming and wondering just like an author. I could see in your eyes. Most people see how _  _ the town is, but you see many other things most people don’t take the time to see.” I just wondered about his _  _ . “What do you do for a living?” “_  _  I’m a journalist (記者) for our local paper. But I call myself a reflection because I _  _ what I see in my job. My words can _  _  the world around me. I can write about what I know faithfully and I know these people for I have been _  _ here so long. So you can imagine how _  _ the news is here. They are in turn a reflection of me.”

If you had to _  _ what a good person would be like, could you fit the description? I hope you’re a good reflection.

1.A. cool        B. hot        C. strong         D. cold

2.A. schedule    B. weather    C. calendar       D. experience

3.A. start       B. change     C. worsen         D. disappear

4.A. chair       B. table      C. restaurant     D. station

5.A. height      B. weight     C. accent         D. age

6.A. night       B. afternoon  C. evening        D. morning

7.A. sat         B. settled    C.  calmed        D. lay

8.A. distantly   B. nearby     C. comfortably    D. alone

9.A. passing by  B. giving up  C. thinking over  D. walking off

10.A. designer    B. thinker    C. painter        D. writer

11.A. interest    B. secrete    C. trust          D. patience

12.A. shouting    B. working    C. smiling        D. looking

13.A. busy        B. scenic     C. wide           D. peaceful

14.A. career      B. situation  C. history        D. advantage

15.A. Originally  B. Actually   C. Really         D. Recently

16.A. report      B. consider   C. remember       D. study

17.A. record      B. decorate   C. monitor        D. reflect

18.A. watching    B. waiting    C. living         D. traveling

19.A. funny       B. important  C. truthful       D. numerous

20.A. copy        B. describe   C. draw           D. guess

 

Shundagarh is a village on India's east-facing coast.It is a village of simple mud and grass houses built on the beach just above the waterline.The Khadra Hills rise immediately behind the village,to a height of one hundred and fifty meters.A simple,good-hearted old man,whose name was Jalpur,farmed two small fields on the very edge of these hills.From his fields he could see the fishing boats that travelled up and down the coast.He could see the children playing on the sands;their mothers washing clothes on the flat stones where the Shiva River flowed into the sea;and their fathers landing the latest catch or repairing nets and telling stories that had no end.

All Jalpur owned in the world were the clothes he wore day in and day out,the miserable hut(小屋) that he slept in at night,a few tools and cooking pots—and his fields.The corn that he grew was all that made life possible.If the weather was kind and the harvest was good,Jalpur could live happily enough—not well,but happily.When the sun was fierce,and there was little or no rain,then he came close to the line between life and death.

Last year the weather had been so kind,and the harvest promised to be so good,that Jalpur had been wondering whether he could sell all that he had and live with his son farther up the coast.He had been thinking about doing this for some years.It was his dearest wish to spend his last days with his son and his wife.But he would go only if he could give;he would not go if it meant taking food out of the mouths of his grandchildren.He would rather die hungry than do this.

On the day when Jalpur decided that he would harvest his corn,sell it,and move up the coast,he looked out to sea and saw a huge wave,several kilometers out,advancing on the coast and on the village of Shundagarh.Within ten minutes everyone in Shundagarh would be drowned.Jalpur would have shouted,but the people were too far away to hear.He would have run down the hill,but he was too old to run.He was prepared to do anything to save the people of Shundagarh,so he did the only thing that he could do: he set fire to his corn.In a matter of seconds the flames were rising high and smoke was rising higher.Within a minute the people of Shundagarh were racing up the hill to see what had happened.There,in the middle of his blackened cornfield,they found Jalpur;and there they buried him.

On his grave,they wrote the words: Here lies Jalpur,a man who gave,living: a man who died,giving.

Which of the following could Jalpur NOT see from his Fields?

A.Mothers washing clothes.

B.Fathers taking their corn to market.

C.Fishing boats traveling on the sea.

D.Children playing on the sands.

Why didn't Jalpur live well?

A.He didn't work hard.

B.He had too many children to feed.

C.He only depended on good weather and harvest for survival.

D.The villagers kept taking his corn.

Jalpur's dearest wish was to _________.

A.move away from his son

B.take a vacation up the coast

C.make a great deal of money in order to live an easy life

D.spend his last days with his son and his wife

What did Jalpur do when he saw the huge wave?

A.He set his corn on fire so the people of Shundagarh would leave the beach.

B.He screamed loudly to get the villagers' attention.

C.He ran down the hill to tell the people.

D.He stood still,not knowing what to do.

完型填空（共20小題；每小題1.5分，滿分30分）

閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，然后從36—55各題所給的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。

We always celebrated Dad’s birthday on Thanksgiving Day, even after he entered a nursing home . As years went on , these events took on a  36  meaning for me : A traditional birthday party for Dad , and thanking for all that he had been doing to me in my life . When we knew it might be his 37  birthday, the whole family decided to  38  together for a huge birthday celebration at the nursing home . 

Dad was a good story-teller and here was the  39  he had had .During a quiet moment , I announced it was now Dad’s  40   to listen to stories for a change . I wanted everyone to tell Dad what we loved about him . The room became  41   . Then one after another , people told stories from their hearts , while Dad  42  with tears in eyes . People  43  kinds of stories — stories about when they were little , stories about when Dad was young , and stories that shared family treasures .

The stories  44   . Everyone seemed to have more than one story . Even the little grandchildren couldn’t  45  to tell Dad why they loved him . For a man who had been kind to so many people in his life , here was our  46  to celebrate him . A few months later , at Dad’s memorial service , we more fully realized what we had  47   Dad that night . Those are the stories people  48 tell at a funeral (葬禮)after a loved one is no longer  49  to hear the words . They tell stories , full of  50  . But we had given those memories to Dad in his  51  , and we had told them through laughter , accompanied by hugs and joys . He had them to  52  and roll over in his mind during his last days and months .

Words do   53  , and they are enough . We just need to say them or to speak them  54  to the ones we love . That’s the way to  55  love and our chance to celebrate a person in his or her life .

36. A. special       B. valuable        C. double            D. complex 

37. A. another      B. last            C. important          D. fiftieth

38. A. unite        B. arrange         C. move             D. gather

39. A. career       B. pride           C. happiness          D. audience

40. A. choice       B. wish           C. turn              D. right

41. A. lively        B. still           C. cosy(舒適的)       D. noisy

42. A. thought      B. nodded         C. listened            D. accepted

43. A. understood   B. invented        C. recalled            D. discussed

44. A. flowed       B. passed         C. unfolded           D. differed

45. A. stop         B. stand          C. afford             D. wait

46. A. responsibility  B. situation       C. chance            D. desire

47. A. returned      B. left            C. given             D. owed

48. A. sincerely     B. gently          C. normally          D. regularly

49. A. available     B. happy          C. eager             D. alive

50. A. tears        B. feelings         C. joy               D. peace

51. A. mind        B. life            C. world             D. work

52. A. hold         B. share          C. consider           D. continue

53. A. suit          B. fail           C. survive            D. matter

54. A. willingly     B. publicly        C. actually           D. truly

55. A. get back      B. call up         C. give back         D. keep up  

I’m lying on my back in my grandfather’s orchard（果園）,looking up at the branches above me. It is one of the last days of summer. Already the days are shorter and the nights are cooler. Some kinds of apples are already ripe（成熟的）. Others will be ready to pick soon. I think of my grandmother’s apple pie(蘋果餡餅), and how I used to make it with her. She died last year, before the apple harvest, and I have not had her pie since. I really miss her. I hear bees busily humming about, visiting the late summer flowers. The gentle hum of their wings nearly sends me to sleep.
The sky is as blue as my grandfather’s eyes. Above me, big white clouds race across the sky like pieces of cotton blowing in the wind. School starts in another week, and time seems to have slowed down.
“Sophie!” calls my grandfather. “Is that you?” I stand up, take his hand, and tell him all about my day as we walk through the orchard. We talk about apples, and bees, and Grandma. He tells me that he misses her too.
He puts his rough, brown farmer’s hand around my shoulder and pulls me close. “You know, Sophie,” he says, “ I spent the morning in the attic（閣樓）, and you’ll never guess what I found. It’s the recipe（烹飪法）for Grandma’s apple pie. I used to help her make it sometimes. I can’t do it all alone, but you used to help her too. Maybe between the two of us, we can work it out. Want to try?”
“ But it won’t be the same without Grandma,” I tell him.
“ That’s true,” he says, “ but nothing is the same without Grandma. Still, I don’t think that she would want us never to have another apple pie. What do you say?” I nod yes, and we walk towards home… towards an afternoon in the farmhouse kitchen, making Grandma’s famous apple pie.
【小題1】 We learn from the passage that Sophie       .

A．likes to watch clouds in the attic	B．comes to the orchard after school
C．enjoys Grandma’s apple pie very much	D．picks many apples in the orchard

【小題2】Both Sophie and her grandfather used to        .

A．help Grandma make apple pies	B．spend summer afternoons in the orchard
C．enjoy fresh fruit in the farmhouse kitchen	D．walk alone among the apple trees

【小題3】The underlined part in the last paragraph shows          .

A．how much Sophie’s grandmother loved Sophie

B．how much Sophie’s grandfather likes apple pies

C．how much Sophie loves her grandfather’s orchard

D．how much Sophie’s grandfather misses Grandma

【小題4】 Which of the following might be the best title for the passage?.

A．My grandfather’s orchard	B．My grandmother’s apple pie
C．A morning in the attic	D．The last days of summer

The water lever has risen ________10 cm and up to 100cm in the last days.?

A.to                      B.of                      C.in                      D.by