【正文】 . seldom 44. A. take away B. take off C. take up D. take on 45. A. society B. citizen C. public D. munity 46. A. trick B. joke C. trouble D. show 47. A. pleasing B. excited C. stupid D. funny 48. A. When B. While C. As D. Because 49. A. bear B. contain C. manage D. control 50. A. keep off B. give up C. take care of D. get rid of 51. A. crowded B. piled C. fixed D. put 52. A. business B. industrial C. tourist D. agricultural 53. A. disappointed B. serious C. nervous D. happy 54. A. like B. recognize C. find D. appreciate 55. A. highly B. eagerly C. differently D. entirely 第三部分：閱讀理解（共 20 小題，每小題 2 分，滿分 40 分） 閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中選出最佳答案。 A Priscilla Ouchida39。s house turned out to be a horrible dream. When she and her engineer husband married a few years ago, they built a $100,000, threebedroom home in California. Tightly sealed to prevent air leak, the house was equipped with double paned（雙層玻璃的） windows and several other energysaving qualities. Problems began as soon as the couple moved in, however, Priscilla39。s eyes burned. Her throat was often dry. She suffered from headaches and could hardly sleep. It was as though she had suddenly developed a strange illness. Experts finally find the cause of her illness. The level of formaldehyde（甲醛） gas in her kitchen was twice the largest amount allowed by federal standards for chemical workers. The source of the gas? Her new kitchen cabi and walltowall carpeting. The Ouchidas suffered the effects of indoor air pollution, which is not given enough attention partly because of the nation39。s drive to save energy. The problem itself isn39。t new. The indoor environment was dirty long before energy saving came along, says Moschandreas, a pollution scientist at Geomet Technologies in Maryland. Energy saving has worsened the situation in some cases. The problem appears to be more troublesome in newly constructed homes rather than old ones. Back in the days when energy was cheap, home builders didn39。t worry much about unsealed cracks. Because of such leaks, the air in an average home was replaced by fresh outdoor air about once an hour. As a result, the pollutants caused by most households seldom built up to dangerous level. 56. It can be learned from the passage that the Ouchida39。s house________ . A. is well worth the money spent on its construction B. is almost faultless from the point of energy saving C. failed to meet energy saving standards D. was designed and constructed in a scientific way 57. What made the Ouchida39。s new house a horrible dream? A. Lack of fresh air. B. Poor quality of building materials. C. Gas leakage in the kitchen. D. The newly painted walls. 58. Why didn39。t people care about cracks in the past? A. Because indoor cleanness was not emphasized. B. Because energy used to be inexpensive. C. Because environmental protection was not taken into consideration. D. Because they had to build their houses in that way. 59. This passage is most probably taken from an article with the title _______. A. Energy Saving B. House Building C. Air Pollution Indoors D. Traps in Building Construction B WASHINGTONLaura Straub is a very worried woman. Her job is to find families for French teenagers who expect to live with American families in the summer. It39。s not easy, even desperate. We have many children left to place: 40 out of 75, said Straub, who works for a Parisbased foreignexchange programme called LEC. When exchange programmes started 50 years ago, family life was more acmodating（接納） . For one thing, more mothers stayed home. But now, increasing number of women work outside the home. Exchangestudent programmes have struggled in recent years to sign up host families for 30,000 teenagers who annually e from abroad to spend an academic（學(xué)術(shù)） year in the United States, as well as the thousands more who participate（參與） in the summer programmes. School systems in many parts of the US, unhappy about accepting nontaxpaying students, have also strictly limited the number of exchange students they accept. At the same time, the idea of hosting foreign students is being less exotic. In searching for host families, who usually receive no pay, exchange programmes are increasingly broadening their appeals （要求） to include everyone from young to retirees （退休者） . We are open to many different types of families, said Vickie Weiner, eastern regional director for ASSE, a 25yearold programme that sends about 30,000 teenagers on academicyear exchange programmes worldwide. For elderly people, exchange students keep us young they really do, said Jean Forster, who is hosting 16yearold Nina Porst from Denmark. 60. Vickie Weiner is the person who________ . A. works for a programme called LEC B. works for a programme called ASSE C. is 25 years old D. hosts foreign students 61. The under