【正文】 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)請認(rèn)真閱讀下列短文，從短文后各題所給的A、B、C、D四個選項中，選出最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。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 the highest marks ever seen at SHS for grade 8 violin and ?s music teacher Val Linnemann says of Clare, “To me, one of the most outstanding things about Clare is her total willingness to listen and ask intelligent is patient and goodnatured and willing to help with other players.” If she were to receive an Ambition Award, Clare has plans to use this money to enhance(增加)opportunities for others through they get enough votes, they?ll make the top three in the country and be one step further towards the top vote for them, click on this Ambition AXA Awards are meant for who is the best in one of the five categories who are likely to be future stars in certain fields pupils who have won great success in certain fields who have ambitions in all the five categories can conclude from the passage that Natalie and Clare are both girls with , patience and , curiosity and enthusiasm , sympathy and , kindness and achievements main purpose of the