One evening, sitting at the window sewing, my mother called me, “Come here,” she said. “  41  . ” She held my head   42   her stomach, and after a puzzled moment I felt a   43   foot drumming on my cheek. “You see?” she said, “It’s alive. You can   44   it, can’t you?” I accepted it, as I accepted everything, without trouble. It was as good as a place for the baby to be as any other and I never   45   about why it got in nor how it would finally get out.

A baby would come? I   46    noticed. That there were soon to be   47    of us would not make any difference to me. I had my place, star-like in my small universe.   48  , certainly not a baby, could threaten (威胁) that.

  49  ,I was wrong. I soon found that things had    50   a great deal. I had never been the 51  . Now I was no longer the youngest. I was simply the one in the   52  . My sister had certain 53   because she was the oldest, and my brother was the baby, the son, the much   54   boy. More than that, he had all sorts of things that    55   came to me.

As he grew, it became    56   that my brother had been the center of everything. People    57   when they saw him. He made them happy   58   by being there. And he had the sort of childish beauty that always turns heads and draws a second   59  . He was so charming that he was immediately loveable. Later he also turned out to be   60  , although perhaps not quite as clever as I was.

41． A. Look                    B. See                    C. Listen                   D. Stop

42． A. against    B. into           C. with                 D. over

43． A. strong      B. hard          C. soft           D. small

44． A. believe            B. feel           C. notice       D. touch

45． A. worried           B. argued      C. regretted        D. doubted

46． A. hardly      B. certainly    C. possibly          D. willingly

47． A. two    B. three         C. four          D. five

48． A. Anything         B. Something       C. Nothing            D. Everything

49． A. Although  B. Therefore C. However          D. Moreover

50． A. improved        B. changed          C. increased        D damaged

51． A. oldest      B. youngest         C. cleverest         D. dearest

52． A. family       B. house       C. middle             D. trouble

53． A. manners         B. knowledge           C. opinions            D rights

54． A. admired          B. blamed            C. hated               D. loved

55． A. almost      B. never C. nearly       D. always

56． A. strange    B. obvious     C. serious            D. special

57． A. smiled      B. screamed        C. cried         D. whispered

58． A. still           B. almost     C. also          D. just

59． A. look                B. smile       C. care          D. comfort

60． A. ordinary          B. perfect      C. clever             D. similar

PART THREE   READING COMPREHENSION (30%)
Directions: Read the following three passages．Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements．For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D．Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage
They say a cat has nine lives, and I think that possible since I am now living my third life and I’m not even a cat. My father died when I was 15, and we had a hard struggle to make a living. And my mother, who was seriously ill in her last years, died while still in her 60s. My sister married soon after, and I followed her example within the year.
This was when I began to enjoy my first life. I was very happy, in excellent health. I had a good job in San Jose and a beautiful home up the peninsula (半岛) in San Carlos. Life was a pleasant dream. Then the dream ended. I became afflicted (使苦恼) with a slowly progressive disease of the motor nerves, affecting first my right arm and leg, and then my other side. Thus began my second life...
In spite of my disease I still drove to and from work each day, with the aid of special equipment installed in my car. And I managed to keep my health and optimism (乐观), to a degree, because of 14 steps. Crazy? Not at all. Our home was an affair with 14 steps leading up from the garage to the kitchen door. Those steps were a standard measure of life. They were my yardstick, my challenge to continue living. I felt that if the day arrived when I was unable to lift one foot up one step and then drag the other painfully after it ---repeating the process 14 times, I would be through---I could then admit defeat and lie down and die.
Then on a dark night in August, 1971, I began my third life. It was raining when I started home that night; strong winds and slashing rain beat down on the car as I drove slowly down one of the less-traveled roads. Suddenly the steering wheel jerked (猝然一动). In the same instant I heard the bang of a blowout. It was impossible for me to change that tire! Utterly impossible!
I started the engine and thumped slowly along until I came to the dirt road, where I turned in and where I found lighted windows welcomed me to a house and pulled into the driveway and honked the horn.
The door opened and a little girl stood there. When she knew what happened to me, she went into the house and a moment later came out, followed by a man who called a cheerful greeting. I sat there comfortable and dry, and felt a bit sorry for the man and the little girl working so hard in the storm.
About an hour later, the man’s voice was heard, “This is a bad night for car trouble, but you’re all set now.” “Thanks,” I said. “How much do I owe you?” He shook his head, “Nothing. Cynthia told me you were a cripple. Glad to be of help. I know you’d do the same for me. There’s no charge, friend.” I held out a five-dollar bill, “No! I like to pay my way.” He made no effort to take it and the little girl stepped closer to the window and said quietly, “Grandpa can’t see it.”
56. “A cat has nine lives” here means ___________.
A. a cat can live nine times longer than any other animal  B .a cat can die ninth
C .a lucky man can not die easily                     D the writer will live nine times
57. What do you think of the man who helped change the tire?
A. Old, warm-hearted but pitiable             
B. Blind, but warm-hearted and happy
C. A blind old man that has nothing to do every day.
D. A poor old man that is always ready to help others.
58. How will the story be ended?
A. The writer paid the little girl but the old man did not accept.
B. The writer drove away with tears running down his cheek.
C. The writer stayed there, without knowing what to do and how to do it.
D. In the next few frozen seconds the writer felt the shame and astonishment he had never felt
before.
59. How do you understand the underlined sentence “I followed my sister’s example?”
A.  He listened to his sister carefully.
B  Mother told him that he must get the agreement from his sister for whatever he would do.
C  His sister got married. He, too.
D  His sister was a great woman.. He must learn from her.
60. The best title for this passage perhaps will be _____.
A.The Old Man and His Daughter              B. Heart Leaping Up
C.Never Lose Heart                        D. Good Will Be Rewarded Good

PART THREE   READING COMPREHENSION (30%)

Directions: Read the following three passages．Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements．For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D．Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage

They say a cat has nine lives, and I think that possible since I am now living my third life and I’m not even a cat. My father died when I was 15, and we had a hard struggle to make a living. And my mother, who was seriously ill in her last years, died while still in her 60s. My sister married soon after, and I followed her example within the year.

This was when I began to enjoy my first life. I was very happy, in excellent health. I had a good job in San Jose and a beautiful home up the peninsula (半岛) in San Carlos. Life was a pleasant dream. Then the dream ended. I became afflicted (使苦恼) with a slowly progressive disease of the motor nerves, affecting first my right arm and leg, and then my other side. Thus began my second life...

In spite of my disease I still drove to and from work each day, with the aid of special equipment installed in my car. And I managed to keep my health and optimism (乐观), to a degree, because of 14 steps. Crazy? Not at all. Our home was an affair with 14 steps leading up from the garage to the kitchen door. Those steps were a standard measure of life. They were my yardstick, my challenge to continue living. I felt that if the day arrived when I was unable to lift one foot up one step and then drag the other painfully after it ---repeating the process 14 times, I would be through---I could then admit defeat and lie down and die.

Then on a dark night in August, 1971, I began my third life. It was raining when I started home that night; strong winds and slashing rain beat down on the car as I drove slowly down one of the less-traveled roads. Suddenly the steering wheel jerked (猝然一动). In the same instant I heard the bang of a blowout. It was impossible for me to change that tire! Utterly impossible!

I started the engine and thumped slowly along until I came to the dirt road, where I turned in and where I found lighted windows welcomed me to a house and pulled into the driveway and honked the horn.

The door opened and a little girl stood there. When she knew what happened to me, she went into the house and a moment later came out, followed by a man who called a cheerful greeting. I sat there comfortable and dry, and felt a bit sorry for the man and the little girl working so hard in the storm.

About an hour later, the man’s voice was heard, “This is a bad night for car trouble, but you’re all set now.” “Thanks,” I said. “How much do I owe you?” He shook his head, “Nothing. Cynthia told me you were a cripple. Glad to be of help. I know you’d do the same for me. There’s no charge, friend.” I held out a five-dollar bill, “No! I like to pay my way.” He made no effort to take it and the little girl stepped closer to the window and said quietly, “Grandpa can’t see it.”

56. “A cat has nine lives” here means ___________.

A. a cat can live nine times longer than any other animal  B .a cat can die ninth

C .a lucky man can not die easily                     D the writer will live nine times

57. What do you think of the man who helped change the tire?

A. Old, warm-hearted but pitiable             

B. Blind, but warm-hearted and happy

C. A blind old man that has nothing to do every day.

D. A poor old man that is always ready to help others.

58. How will the story be ended?

A. The writer paid the little girl but the old man did not accept.

B. The writer drove away with tears running down his cheek.

C. The writer stayed there, without knowing what to do and how to do it.

D. In the next few frozen seconds the writer felt the shame and astonishment he had never felt

before.

59. How do you understand the underlined sentence “I followed my sister’s example?”

A.  He listened to his sister carefully.

B  Mother told him that he must get the agreement from his sister for whatever he would do.

C  His sister got married. He, too.

D  His sister was a great woman.. He must learn from her.

60. The best title for this passage perhaps will be _____.

A.The Old Man and His Daughter              B. Heart Leaping Up

    C.Never Lose Heart                        D. Good Will Be Rewarded Good