3.　　　　 It can be inferred from the passage that _____.

　A. Milton’s training in Latin was similar to　that of the other boys

　B. Milton hadn’t learned any foreign language except Latin before going to college

　C. Milton’s Italian friends helped him with Latin when talking

　D. Milton's classmates learned Latin harder but worse than Milton

2.　　　　 Which of the following is true of John Milton’s pronunciation of Latin?

　A. It has a strong Italian accent.

　B. It has an uncommon accent.

　C. It was natural and easy to understand.

　D. It was bad and difficult to understand.

1.　　　　 What does the passage mainly tell about?

　A. How John Milton wrote “Paradise Lost”.

　B. How John Milton studied Latin.

　C. How John Milton became famous.

　D. How John Milton became a poet.

4.　　　　 Which of the following statements is true about Marie?

A. Marie could do things she had not been able to do before.

　　　 B. Marie was able to read stories with the help of her son.

　　　 C. Marie decided to continue her studies in school

　　　 D. Marie paid for her own lessons.

(廿二)

When John Milton, writer of “Paradise Lost”, entered Cambridge University, in 1625, he was already skilled in Latin after seven years of studying it as his second language at St. Paul’s School, London. Like all English boys who prepared for college in grammar schools, he had learned not only to read Latin but also to speak and write it smoothly and correctly. His pronunciation of Latin was English, however, and seemed to have sounded strange to his friends when he later visited Italy.

　Schoolboys gained their skill in Latin in a bitter way. They kept in mind the rules to make learning by heart easier. They first made a word-for-word translation and then an idiomatic translation into English. As they increased their skill, they translated their English back into Latin without referring to the book and then compared their translation with the original. The schoolmaster was always at hand to encourage them. All schoolmasters believed Latin should be beaten in.

　After several years of study, the boys began to write compositions in imitation of the Latin writers they read. And as they began to read Latin poems, they began to write poems in Latin. Because Milton was already a poet at ten, his poems were much better than those painfully put together by the other boys. During the seven years Milton spent at university, he made regular use of his command of Latin. He wrote some excellent Latin poems, which he published among his works in 1645.

3.　　　　 How did Marie use to find the goods she wanted in the supermarket?

A. She knew where the goods were in the supermarket.

　　　 B. She asked others to take her to the right place.

　　　 C. She managed to find the goods by their looks.

　　　 D. She remembered the names of the goods.

2.　　　　 Why didn’t Marie go to the supermarket by bus at first?

A. Because she liked to walk to the supermarket.

　　　 B. Because she lived far away from the bus stop.

　　　 C. Because she couldn’t afford the bus ticket.

　　　 D. Because she couldn’t find the right bus.

1.　　　　 What did the author do last summer?

A. She worked in the supermarket.

　　　 B. She helped someone to learn to read.

　　　 C. She gave single mothers the help they needed.

　　　 D. She went to a training program to help a literacy volunteer.

3.　　　　 The speed of Wave 1 is 100 cm/s, frequency 10. The frequency of Wave 2 is 300, while its speed is twice that of Wave 1. Which of the following is right?

A. The wavelengths of the two are equal.

B. The wavelength of Wave 1 is 10 times longer than that of Wave 2.

C. The wavelength of Wave 2 is longer than that of Wave 1.

D. The wavelength of Wave 1 is longer than that of Wave 2.

(廿一)

Last summer I went through a training program and became a literacy volunteer(扫盲志愿者). The training I received, though excellent, did not tell me how it was to work with a real student, however. When I began to discover what other people’s lives were like because they could not read, I realized the true importance of reading.

My first student Marie was a 44-year-old single mother of three. In the first lesson, I found out she walked two miles to the nearest supermarket twice a week because she didn’t know which bus to take. When I told her I would get her a bus schedule, she told me it would not help because she could not read it. She said she also had difficulty once she got to the supermarket because she couldn’t always remember what she needed. Since she did not know words, she could not write out a shopping list. Also, she could only recognize items by sight, so if the product had a different label, she would not recognize it as the product she wanted.

As we worked together, learning how to read built Marie’s self-confidence, which encouraged her to continue in her studies. She began to make rapid progress and was even able to take the bus to the supermarket. After this successful trip, she reported how self-confident she felt. At the end of the program, she began helping her youngest son, Tony, a shy first grader, with his reading. She sat with him before he went to sleep and together they would read bedtime stories. When his eyes became wide with excitement as she read, pride was written all over her face, and she began to see how her own hard work in learning to read paid off. As she described this experience, I was proud of myself as well. I found that helping Marie to build her self-confidence was more rewarding than anything I had ever done before.

As a literacy volunteer, I learned a great deal about teaching and helping others. In fact, I may have learned more from the experience than Marie did.

2.　　　　 Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A. The water of a wave moves away across the sea.　　　　

B. The water of a wave remains almost at the same place.

C. The water of a wave goes with the passing of the wave.

D. The length of a wave means the distance from the top of a wave to the bottom.

1.　　　　 What causes waves?

A. Earthquakes and nothing else

B. Only wind

　　　 C. Wind causes most waves

　　　 D. Wind causes some waves