【正文】 to第二節(jié) 完形填空(共20小題；每小題1分，滿分20分)請(qǐng)認(rèn)真閱讀下面短文，從短文后各題所給的A、B、C、D四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。For most people, graduation is an exciting day, but my graduation day was remember that weekend two years and friends had flown in from across the country to36the just like everyone else in my class, I had watched the37turn from bad to worse in my senior all of us graduates had degrees, but weeks ahead weren? knew my small university town couldn?t offer me any opportunities,40I packed up my car and drove to Southern California to find what I thought would take a41dragged into two, and then four, and 100 job applications later, I found myself in the exact same42as I was know that feeling when you wake up in43? That feeling became a constant in my felt like weeks, weeks like months, and those many months felt like the most annoying part was no matter how much I tried, I just couldn?t seem to make what did I do to keep my good sense? I decided about putting words on a page made everything seem a little clearer — a little about writing gave if you want something badly enough, sometimes a little hope is all you48!I put my49into a children?s the River was the story of an unlikely hero, a little fish, who50to give up his then one day, without any sort of writing degree or contacts in the writing world — just a lot of hard work and determination — I was offered a51contract(合同)for my first book!After that, things slowly began to fall was offered a second book , a few months later, I got an interview with the Walt Disney Company and was53shortly ?t give if things look54now, don?t give you work hard, things will always get times our dreams lie in wait just a little further upstream...all we need is the55to push beyond the 第三部分 閱讀理解(共15小題；每小題2分，滿分30分)請(qǐng)認(rèn)真閱讀下列短文，從短文后各題所給的A、B、C、D四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。AMillions of British people have ditched the traditional ?thank you? and replaced it with the less formal ?cheers?, according to a the average person will say ?thank you? nearly 5,000 times a year, one in three are more likely to throw in a ?cheers? or ?ta? where it?s needed, rather than risk sounding old in 20 now say ?nice one? instead, while younger generations are more likely to offer a ?cool? than a ?thank you?.?Merci?, ?fab? and even ?gracias? were also listed as mon phrases to use, as was ?much appreciated?.One in twenty who took part in the survey of 2,000 people by the Food Network UK for Thank You Day, which is marked on November 24, 2011, said a formal ?thank you? was now not often needed in everyday than one in ten adults said they regularly won?t say thank you if they are in a bad people declared that saying thank you was something drilled into them by their huge 70 percent of those questioned will say thank you to a person?s face without even meaning it, while a fifth avoid saying it when they know they should — on at least two occasions every seems our friends and family get the brunt(壓力)of our bad manners with half admitting they?re not good at thanking those closest to them — many justifying(為……辯解)the lack of thanks because their family ?already know I?m grateful?.When spoken words won?t do, it falls to a nice text to do the job for most third will still send a handwritten thankyou note — but 45 percent admit it?s been more than six months since they bothered to send quarter of British people say thank you with food, with 23 percent cooking a meal to show their appreciation to 15 percent bake a follows that 85 percent of people will be annoyed at not getting the gratitude(感激)they feel they should of the people who took part in the survey say that they say “thank you” they are in good out of they feel truly out of politeness underlined word “ditched” in Paragraph 1 means “________”. can be learned from the passage that ways of expressing gratitude are all fashionable should avoid saying “thank you” nowadays thankyou note is still appreciated by most people in a bad mood never say “thank you” of the following is TRUE according to the passage? people express their gratitude to others by buying food for fifty percent of people try not to say thank you when they people may feel natural when they fail to receive others? people think it unnecessary to say thanks to their family Two talented Sheffield High School pupils have just found out they?ve been shortlisted in the top five of their categories in the new national Ambition AXA ChanLam(Year 12)and Clare ReesZimmerman(Year 11)are both in the running to win a prize that will help them to achieve their new national Ambition AXA Awards have been created to recognize excellence in 11—18 year national awards programme covers five categories: The Arts, Sport, Science, Enterprise and is up for the Ambition AXA Award for Sport while Clare has earned her top five place in the Ambition Award for the Ambition AXA Award for Sport aims to find the young person who thinks they may one day win an Olympic is a Badminton International who has a long string of singles and double National titles behind her from U11 National Singles Champion(冠軍)right through the ages to the latest U17 UK Schools Games, as well as a run of titles won with the England Badminton team over the last few her achievements in badminton and through her promotion of the sport in school and at club level, Natalie has inspired many other students to take up the sport and badminton is now a major sport at Sheffield High , she still makes time to play for and coach school teams, encouraging and assisting others to have the opportunity to reach their own level of personal ?s ambition is to be selected for the Olympics in Ambition Award for the Arts is awarded to a young person who dreams of reaching the top in their is a remarkable musician who has already, at the age of fifteen, achieved th