【正文】 s. A. sunk B. reduced C. forced D. declined A. assign B. tackle C. realize D. solve A. frustrated B. prevented C. discouraged D. acplished A. chance B. heart C. sight D. experience 56. Being colour A. difference B. distinction C. parison D. division 57. You must insist that students give a truthful answer ___ with the reality of 58. In order to raise money, Aunt Nicola had to ___with some of her most treasured possessions. A. divide B. separate C. part D. abandon. 59. The car was in good working ___when I bought it a few months ago A. disapproval B. distaste C. dissatisfaction D. dismay 61. In order to repair barns, build fence, grow crops, and care for animals a 62. His expenditure on holidays and luxuries is rather high in___to his ine. A. 64. As the manager was away on a business trip, I was asked to ___the weekly staff meeting. A. origin B. generation C. descent D. cause 閱讀 A Part Ⅵ READING COMPREHENSION ［ 30 MIN.］ SECTION A READING COMPREHENSION ［ 25 MIN.］ In this section there are four passages followed by questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer. Mark your answers on your answer sheet. 中國最大的管理資料下載中心 (收集 \整理 . 部分版權(quán)歸原作者所有 ) 第 6 頁 共 29 頁 TEXT A The train clattered over points and passed through a station.slow down, presumably in obedience to a signal. For some minutes it crawled along, then stopped。 presently it began to move forward again. Another uptrain passed them, though with less vehemence than the first one. The train gathered speed again. At that moment another train, also on a downline, swerved inwards towards them, for a moment with almost alarming effect. For a time the two trains ran parallel, now, one gaining a little, now the other. Mrs. McGillicuddy looked from her window through the window of the parallelcarriages. Most of the blinds were down, but occasionally the occupants of the carriages were visible. The other train was not very full and there were many empty carriages. At the moment when the two trains gave the illusion of being stationary, ablind in one of the carriages flew up with a snap. Mrs. McGillicuddy looked intothe lighted firstclass Then she drew her breath in with a gasp and halfrose to her feet. Standing with his back to the window and to her was a man. His hands were round the throat of a woman who faced him, and he was slowly, remorselessly, strangling her. Her eyes were starting from their sockets, her face was purple. As Mrs. McGillicuddy watched, fascinated, the end came。 the body went limp and crumpled in the man’s hands. At the same moment, Mrs. McGillicuddy’s train slowed down again and the other began to gain speed. It passed forward and a moment or two later it had vanished from sight. Almost automatically Mrs. McGillicuddy’s hand went up to the municationcord, then paused, irresolute. After all, what use would it be ringing the cord of the train in which she was travelling? The horror of what she had seen at such close quarters, and the unusual circumstances, made her feel paralysed. Some immediate action was necessary,—but what? The door of her partment was drawn back and a ticket collector said, “Ticket, p 66. When Mrs. McGuillicuddy’s train passed through a station, it___. A. observant B. interested C. nosy D. nervous B. there was no po C. she was too shocked to move TEXT B prefer to live in the country away from the dirt and noise of a large city. I have managed to convince myself that if it weren’t for my job I would immediately head out for the open spaces and go back to nature in some sleepy village buried in the county. But how 中國最大的管理資料下載中心 (收集 \整理 . 部分版權(quán)歸原作者所有 ) 第 7 頁 共 29 頁 realistic is the dream? Cities can be frightening places. The majority of the population live in massive tower blocks, noisy, dirty and impersonal. The sense of belonging to a munity tends to disappear when you live fifteen floors up. All you can see from your window is sky, or other blocks of fiats. Children bee aggressive and nervous cooped up at home all day, with nowhere to play。 their mothers feel isolated from the rest of the world. Strangely enough, whereas in the past the inhabitants of one street all knew each other, nowadays people on the same floor in tower blocks don’t even say hello to each other. Country life, on the other hand, differs from this kind of isolated existence in that a sense of munity generally binds the inhabitants of small villages together. People have the advantage of knowing that there is always someone to turn to when they need help. But country life has disadvantages too. While it is true that you may be among friends in a village, it is also true that you are cut off from the exciting and important events that take place in cities. There’s little possibility of going to a new show or the latest movie. Shopping bees a major problem, and for anything slightly out of the ordinary you have to goon an expedition to the nearest large town. The citydweller who leaves for thecountry is often oppressed by a sense of unbearable stillness and quiet. What, then, is the answer? The country has the advantage of peace and quiet, but suffers from the disadvantage of being cut off: the city breeds a feeling of isolation, and constant noise batters the senses. But one of its main advantages is that you are at the centre of things, and that life doesn’t e to an end at halfpast nine at night. Some people have found (or rather bought) a promise between the two: they have expressed their preference for the “quiet life” by leaving the suburbs and moving to villages within muting distance of larg