【正文】 ked to read. They were both 10 than I , but I followed with eagerness the path of knowledge they had 11 before me. Diana offered to 12 me German, and I in return gave 13 in drawing to Mary. In this way, days passed like 14 and weeks like days. About their brother, the 15 friendship which had grown 16 me and the two sisters did not include him. One reason was that he was 17 at home. He spent a great deal of time 18 some of his neighbors who were sick and poor. He was seen to 19 their houses every day and 20 bad weather seemed to keep him from such duties. 1. A. better B. worse C. less D. fewer 2. A. sight B. health C. memory D. courage 3. A. cry B. walked C. walk D. cried 4. A. watch B. join C. attend D. play 5. A. attacking B. attraction C. going D. ing 6. A. smell B. hearing C. ideas D. touching 7. A. parents B. teacher C. family D. home 8. A. activity B. place C. interest D. friendship 9. A. drew B. agreed C. studied D. quarreled 10. A. cleverer B. stronger C. prettier D. taller 11. A. discovered B. mastered C. traveled D. made 12. A. tell B. show C. ask D. teach . lessons B. advice C. trouble D. ways 14. A. years B. months C. hours D. minutes 15. A. close B. limited C. ordinary D. mon 16. A. inside B. in C. among D. between 17. A. always B. often C. sometimes D. seldom 18. A. visiting B. watching C. advising D. feeding 19. A. build B. repair C. enter D. destroy 20. A. only B. no C. even D. still 。 (50 分 ) (A) It is sometimes said that strange flying objects have been seen high up in the call these strange objects Unidentified Flying Objects(UFOs). These UFOs caused a lot of interest. Some of the reports about them are difficult to believe. Some have been explained in scientific ways. Others have never been explained. Here is an account of UFOs from a report. Dennis Burdens, who wrote an article, tells us that he once saw a UFO himself. He was having dinner one night with a friend near Tripoli, Libya, and after dinner the two men walked across a yard to his room to look at some papers. Burdens noticed that the moon looked strange that night. “It wasn’t the moon”, was the reply. They watched the light and saw that it was moving. It seemed to be an object rather like a big plate. In some ways it looked like smoke with a light on it, but it wasn’t smoke because it didn’t change its shape. It was moving in a regular way. That is to say, it didn’t go suddenly faster or more slowly, and it didn’t go higher or lower. So the two men decided that there must be men in it. After that, Burdens said that he felt eyes looking at him. He was being watched in the darkness. When it was nearer, they noticed that the bottom parts were brighter than the top. The bottom was yellow and the top red. Then the object suddenly turned away and left Libya, moving very fast. On a later day Burdens talked to other people about it, and he found some who had seen it. They all described it in the same way. Could they all be mistaken ? 1. UFOs are _________ . A. flying high up in the sky B. strange flying objects C. difficult to believe D. very interested 2. A UFO was seen one night _________ . A. when they were walking across a yard to Burdens’ room B. while they were looking at the light C. when Burdens noticed the moon appearing strange D. while they were having dinner 3. The UFO moved _________ . A. regularly B. in a changeable way C. slowly D. fast 4. The UFO looked like _________ . A. smoke B. a large plate C. light D. a jumping object 5. The UFO was seen _________ . A. by Burdens and his friend B. brighter in the darkness C. by several people D. to have a yellow bottom and a red top in the same way (B) Fish have ears. Really, they’re quite small and have no opening to the outside world carrying sound through the body. For the past seven years, Simon Thorrold, a university professor, has been examining fish ears, small round ear bones called otoliths(聽石 ,耳石 ). As fish grow, so do their otoliths. Each day, their otoliths gain a ring of calcium carbonate(碳酸鈣 ). By looking through a microscope(顯微鏡 )and counting these rings, Thorrold can determine the exact age of a young fish. As a fish gets older, its otoliths no longer get daily rings. Instead, they get yearly rings, which can also be counted, giving information about the fish’s age, just like the growth rings of a tree. Ring counting is nothing new to fish scientists. But Thorrold has turned to a new direction. They’re examining the chemical elements(元素 ) of each otolith ring. The daily ring gives us the time, but chemistry tells us about the environment in which the fish swam on any given day. These elements tell us about the chemistry of the water that the fish was in. It also says something about water temperature, which determines how much of these elements will gather within each otolith rings. Thorrold can tell, for example, if a fish spent time in the open ocean before en