In addition books enrich our vocabulary, introduce us to new concepts and offer a wider choice of words to us. Watching certain TV programs and documentary films can also widen one’s vocabulary, but hardly as effectively as books do, since reading operates with both more sophisticated visual and audio(if reading aloud) receptor. Moreover, our imagination reproduces mental picture of what we are reading about, so a new word automatically links to a certain image and a particular emotion that it relates to.
And also, books are a fantastic source of inspiration. Unlike fine art, architecture or travelling, books help us create our own mental illustration for what we read on paper. In a way, books make us all artists and creators of our own mental cartoons, movies or illustration collections. Every image we create ourselves is automatically given a certain emotion, whether a simple or a more complicated one. Every mental image that a written word projects is full of life and energy with emotions. This is what makes books powerful and memorable. Books are an endless source of inspiration and motivation to become a better person.
I’m certain that creating a system of symbols and eventually an alphabet, words, and books was the greatest series of inventions of humankind. Good books do not have an experience date and will be priceless for any generation. They will continue sparking new ideas, inspiring new deeds and enriching the lives of every generation to come. I am positive that books will eventually regain their popularity with today’s youth, since books are those roots to which people will go back, in search of the motivation, inspiration and aspiration, to find the true meaning and value of life.
61. The passage conveys to us the idea that _____.
A. books are as important to us as the media
B. good books can influence us significantly
C. what to read should be a crucial problem
D. it’s good to make reading our daily routine
62. It can be inferred from the passage that ____.
A. people watch movies simply for pleasure
B. a good story gives all of you one feeling
C. the process of reading is that of thinking
D. every book should have its unique style
63. It is implied in the passage that ____.
A. television programs provide the viewers with a limited vocabulary
B. visual and audio receptors aren’t used together when we watch TV C. the context of a story makes it easy for us to understand new words
D. feelings are one of the factors that help us to understand new words
64. According to the passage, ____.
A. people do not read as many books as they used to
B. books contribute a lot to our becoming real artists
C. any books has its own value and will never die out
D. broad knowledge makes books widely influential
D
Living to Tell the Tale is the first book in a planned trilogy(三部曲) that will make up the memoirs(回憶錄)of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the famous Colombian writer who initially won public praise in the mid-1960s for his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. At that time, Garcia Marquez, a journalist and writer had never sold more than 700 copies of a book. While driving his family through Mexico, he had a real brainstorm. He remembered his grandmother’s storytelling technique---to recall fantastic, improbable events as if they had actually happened---literally. He turned the car around and drove back home to begin One Hundred Years of Solitude in a new way. To my mind it is one of the 20th century’s best works of fiction, and won Garcia Marquez the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Living to Tell the Tale relates the early years of the author’s life, although some of the book’s most important incidents happened earlier than Garcia Marquez’s birth. The impact of these experiences, the people and their stories were to have a powerful effect on him, as a man and as a writer. This is the tale of his parents’ love , marriage and the birth of their children. It tells of his early years which were spent in Aracataca, in the home of his grandparents. His grandfather, Colonel Nicolas Ricardo Marquez Mejia, was a soldier of the Thousand Days’ War. He was supposedly a storyteller of great reputation. He told his young grandson that there was no greater burden than to have killed a man. Later Garcia Marquez would put these words into the mouths of his characters. His grandmother, Tranquilina Iguaran Cotes, also had a major influence on Garcia’s life. No matter how fantastic her statements were, she always delivered them as if they were the absolute truth. This was the style which was to affect Garcia Marquez’s fiction, sometimes called “magical realism”. The woman filled the house with stories of ghosts and future signs, all of which were ignored by her husband. He had little interest in “women’s beliefs”.
In 1940, when he was 13, Garcia was awarded a scholarship to a secondary school for gifted students. It was during his school years, 1940s and 50s, that he was first drawn to poetry, a national obsession in Colombia. He and his friends, fellow students, would read aloud and discuss poetry late into the night. Too poor to buy his own books, Gabriel would read novels borrowed from friends.
While still a boy, he decided he wanted to be a writer. The people who surrounded him in his childhood later became instrumental when developing the characters and the storylines for his novels. Love In the Time of Cholera was inspired by the romance between his mother and father. And his grandfather, who had twelve children (some say 16), became Colonel Aureliano Buendia in One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Garcia Marquez began Living to Tell the Tale, however, not with his real birth in 1928, but with his “birth as a writer”, at age 22. he and his mother took a trip from Baranquilla, where he was working as a reporter, to his childhood home in Aracataca. They were going to sell the old house. Vivid memories were stirred up here, memories which electrified his imagination. This trip was to change the course of his writing life.
Living to Tell the Tale is not a conventional literary memoir. It is a magical combination of memoir and national history written in the author’s remarkable voice. It is his personal mythology. In spite of poverty, Garcia Marquez acknowledged his early years were filled with joy, a sense of well-being and encouragement from many people.
65. The storytelling technique of Marquez’s grandmother is mentioned to show that ______.
A. Marquez’s novel were mostly inspired by her stories
B. she had a major influence on Marquez’s writing style
C. she encouraged Marquez to create more fantastic stories
D. Marquez was taught to write by her when he was still a boy
66. What did Marquez’s grandfather think of his grandmother’s stories?
A. He enjoyed them.
B. He argued against them.
C. They were none of his concern.
D. They were in tune with his storytelling.
67. What do we know about Colonel Aureliano Buendia?
A. He was one of Marquez’s schoolmates.
B. He once served in the army with Marquez’s grandfather.
C. He appeared in a romantic novel inspired by Marquez’s parents.
D. He was a character of a novel based on Marquez’s grandfather.
68. What can be learnt about Living to Tell the Tale?
A. It’s a fiction based on the stories of Marquez’s childhood life.
B. It describes a boy who dreamed of becoming a writer.
C. It was inspired by a trip to Marquez’s hometown.
D. It was written by Marquez at the age of 22.
69. The passage is most probably taken from a _______.
A. survey B. biography
C. moving story D. report
70. What’s the author’s tone in writing the passage?
A. Critical B. Casual
C. Admiring D. Humorous
第Ⅱ卷（共35分）
第四部分: 填空 (共 10 小題; 每小題 1 分, 滿分 10 分) 請用括號內所給動詞的適當形式填空。
注意: 請將答案寫在答題卡上相應題號的橫線上。
71. The natives in America are believed by some scholars across the world ______(immigrate) from Eastern Asia tens of thousands of years ago.
72. Beijing was under an orange smog alert on Feb. 24, which marks the first time that the second-highest warning level of a new system introduced last year ______( raise).
73. ----she misunderstood your meaning and missed the chance. .
----Yes, I intended _______( tell ) her the meaning of the gesture, but I had an unexpected telephone.
74. The tourist attraction was terrible , and not at all what we ______(lead) to expect in the previous advertisement.
75. Students in our school are preparing for the annual sports meeting to be held next week; I would rather it ______( not rain).
76. The team, ______(attempt) to climb the world’s second tallest mountain twice, finally decided to give up.
77. Difficult as the sales decline is _______ ( control ), we’re optimistic about an immediate improvement under the new regulating policy.
78. The Shanghai Disneyland ______( open) soon, the authorities are struggling to devise some feasible measures to guarantee its operation.
79. There will be no possibility of the government’s economic plan______ ( revise ) again before it is put into practice.
80. ----Anything more to speak before the meeting is over? ----No more, but there is something more I stick to ______ (make) the concerned consumers comfortable with the our scheme.
第五部分: 任務型閱讀 (共 10 小題; 每小題 1 分, 滿分 10 分)
請閱讀下面短文,並根據所讀內容在文章後表格中的空格里填入一個最恰當的單詞。 注意: 請將答案寫在答題卡上相應題號的橫線上。 每個空格只填一個單詞。
Courage is the ability to control fear when facing danger, difficulty or pain in various situations in our life. In fact everyone needs courage to do something well. Courage may make you confident of your success so it is considered by many to be one of the most important human virtues.
Learning how to gain courage doesn’t mean not being afraid. It means learning to do things despite your fear. Fear comes from the body’s natural response to the brain’s fight or flight response. Fearfulness is a learned behavior, based in our brain chemistry, but strengthened by the world around us that has trained us to be fearful. Learning to work through fear and step beyond it is about retraining your mind.
Avoiding fears actually makes you feel more fearful. Theirs is a certain mindset in Western culture that views emotions as weakness and seeks to suppress them. But suppressing negative emotions only heightens the fear of the negative emotions itself, strengthening them the more they are avoided.
Exposing yourself to things that you fear (while being sure to be smart about it) can help the brain become less sensitive to the fear and make it easier for you to face.
The longer your brain has to come up with excuses for not having courage, the more time you will have to panic about assumed negative outcomes. If you are in a situation where you have to pick up a spider or jump out of an airplane, do it immediately if you’re going to do it at all.
Reinforce your success by giving your self a reward when you do deal with your fear. This could be a physical treat, like a nice bottle of wine, or a mental treat, like taking a break from human interaction.
第六部分: 書面表達 (滿分 15 分)
91. 請閱讀下面短文,並按照要求用英語寫一篇 150 詞左右的文章。
During a recent Senior Three English lesson, the teacher caught Xiao Li, a female student, busily typing messages on her cell-phone. To the teacher’s surprise, Xiao Li wasn’t just texting her friends the latest gossip. She was actually blogging about what was being taught in the classroom, sharing her opinion about the information and material with her classmates and other students.
The case aroused a heated discussion among teachers and students city-wide. Miss Li, and English teacher from another nearby school said, “ I am amazed at how creative the students can be when writing about personal feelings and experiences.” But other teachers are worried that blog-addiction may interfere with their students’ study.
A supporter and classmate of Xiao Li said, “ We love her blog! We all read it each dy and can’t wait to see what she writes about next. Her interesting stories and great suggestions on study really help to motivate us. And it adds a little fun to our stressful life.” Another student blogger admitted that he often works late into the night, writing his blog and responding to comments posted there. “ Sometimes I don’t even have time to finish my homework. I can’t help myself. I really have a lot to say.”
[寫作內容]
1. 用約 30 個單詞寫出上文概要;
2. 用約 120 個單詞就“中學生博客”的問題進行討論，,內容包括: (1) 中學生博客的利和弊； (2) 你對中學生博客的態度 （3）關於此問題的建議。 [寫作要求]
1. 在作文中可以使用自己的親身經歷或虛構的故事，也可以參照閱讀材料的內容，但不能直接引用原文的句子；
2. 闡述觀點或提供論據時,不能直接引用原文語句; 3. 作文中不能出現真實姓名和班級名稱; 4. 不必寫標題。 [評分標準]
概括準確，語言規範，內容合適，篇章連貫。
Keys
Choices: 21-35 CACDD CDBAD CDBCA
Cloze: 36-40 CBCDC 41-45 DABDC 46-50 ABDBA 51-55 DABCA Reading: 56-57 BD 58-60 BDB 61-64 BCDA 65-70 BCDCBC
Filling blanks: 71. to have immigrated 72. has been raised 73. to have told 74. had been led
75. didn’t rain 76. having attempted 77. to control 78. to be opened 79. being revised 80. to make
Task reading: 81. brave/courageous 82. confidence 83. naturally 84. environment 85. greater/stronger 86. accustomed/used 87. hesitate 88. avoiding/ stopping 89. act 90. handling/ approaching/addressing
Writing:
What happened in the class showed that blogging has become increasingly popular among middle school students. Some teachers and students view it as a great way to share ideas and motivate students, while others fear it will interfere with students’ study.
There are arguments about student-blogging, so some are for it and some are against it. On the negative side, if students blog too frequently it may interfere with their study. And some people are afraid that some inappropriate topics may be discussed on the Internet. On the other hand, blogging allows students the chance to write about the things that are most important to them. Because they are interested in those topics, they will be more motivated to write, which helps practice their writing skills. It will also give he blog-readers the chance to practice their reading skills, too. Furthermore, blog-based discussions will help to develop students’ ability to think independently and communicate with others.
For the above reasons I am generally a big supporter of student-blogging. Of course, there have to be some limits such as parents monitoring their children to make sure they don’t spend too much time on it and the subjects discussed are suitable.
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