摘要： A. borrowing B. buying C. reading D. writing SECTION C (12%) Directions: Complete the following passage by filling in each blank with one word that fits the context. Last month we finally got a chance to have a trip to E’mei Mountain, 48 we had longed to do for ages. It was there 49 I was amazed by the most beautiful scenery I had ever seen! The weather didn’t seem to welcome us when we got to West China’s Chengdu city --- it was quite wet and cold. On the coach heading to the mountain, I couldn’t help feeling disappointed. “What a bad day! I said to myself when looking out of the window, “We may not be able to see a lot in the mountain. And 50 a pity it will be if we miss the sunrise next morning! The guide denied the possibility of a sunny day. “Actually, seldom 51 we have bright sunshine here, especially in winter. he said. Very early the next morning, amazingly, we got completely satisfied in a totally unexpected way. On the way up the mountain, we found everything was becoming white --- it was snowing! We screamed. Arriving at the top of the mountain, we found 52 in a white world that only existed in fairy tales. 53 could help describe what we saw. We were jumping, screaming, taking photos, trying to fill our eyes 54 everything we could see, because we knew that this was the 55 time to see such beauty of the nature, and probably, the only time in our lives. PART THREE READING COMPREHENSION 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. A I am a writer. I spend a great deal of my time thinking about the power of language-the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth. Language is the tool of my trade. And I use them all-all the Englishes I grew up with. Born into a Chinese family that had recently arrived in California, I’ve been giving more thought to the kind of English my mother speaks. Like others, I have described it to people as “broken English. But feel embarrassed to say that. It has always bothered me that I can think of no way to describe it other than “broken , as if it were damaged and needed to be fixed, as if it lacked a certain wholeness. I’ve heard other terms used, “limited English, for example. But they seem just as bad, as if everything is limited, including people’s perceptionsof the limited English speaker. I know this for a fact, because when I was growing up, my mother’s “limited English limited my perception of her. I was ashamed of her English. I believed that her English reflected the quality of what she had to say. That is ,because she expressed them imperfectly her thoughts were imperfect. And I had plenty of evidence to support me: the fact that people in department stores, at banks, and at restaurants did not take her seriously, did not give her good service, pretended not to understand her, or even acted as if they did not hear her. I started writing fiction in 1985. And for reasons I won’t get into today, I began to write stories using all the Englishes I grew up with: the English she used with me, which for lack of a better term might be described as “broken , and what I imagine to be her translation of her Chinese, her internal language, and for that I sought to preserve the essence, but neither an English nor a Chinese structure: I wanted to catch what language ability tests can never show; her intention, her feelings, the rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts.

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