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第 一 卷 一、閱讀理解(共兩節(jié),滿分 40 分) 第一節(jié)(共 15 小題;每小題 2 分,滿分 30 分) 閱讀下列短文,從每題所給的四個選項( A、 B、 C 和 D)中,選出最佳選項,并且在答題卡上將該項涂黑。 A Tom was one of the brightest boys in the year,with supportive when he was 15 he suddenly stopped left school at 16 with only two scores for secondary school of the reasons that made it cool for him not to care was the power of his peer( 同齡人 ) group. The lack of right male role models in many of their lives— at home and particularly in the school environment— means that their peers are the only people they have to judge themselves against. They don39。t see men succeeding in society so it doesn39。t occur to them that they could make something of male teachers as a role model,the effect of peer actions and street culture is want to be part of a ,schools can provide the environment for change,and provide the right role models for need to be trained to stop that but not in front of a child39。s have to do it one to one, because that is when you see the real child. It39。s pointless sending a child home if he or she has done see it as a wele day off to watch television or play puter ,schools should have a special unit where a child who has done wrong goes for the day and gets advice about his problems— somewhere he can work away from his peers and go home after the other children. did Tom give up studying? disliked his teachers. parents no longer supported him. 39。s cool for boys of his age not to care about studies. were too many subjects in his secondary school. seems to have a bad effect on students like Tom? groups. special unit. student judges. home environment. should schools do to help the problem schoolboys? for their change patiently. leaders of their peer groups. the development of street culture. them lessons in a separate area. teacher39。s work is most effective with a schoolboy when he . with the boy alone the boy a lesson the boy home as punishment together with another teacher B Silence is unnatural to begins life with a cry and ends it in between he does all he can to make a noise in the world,and he fears silence more than anything his conversation is an attempt to prevent a fearful he is introduced to another person,and a number of pauses occur in the conversation,he regards himself as a failure,a worthless person,and is full of envy of the emptiestheaded chatterbox(喋喋 不休的人 ) . He knows that niy nine percent of human conversation means no more than the buzzing of a fly,but he is anxious to join in the buzz and to prove that he is a man and not a waxwork figure( 蠟 塑人像) . The aim of conversation is not,for the most part,to municate ideas。it is to keep up the buzzing are,it must be admitted,different qualities of buzz。there is even a buzz that is as annoying as the continuous noise made by a at a dinner party one would rather be a mosquito than a quiet buzzing, fortunately,is pleasant to the ear,and some of it is pleasant even to the would be a foolish man if he waited until he had a wise thought to take part in the buzzing with his neighbors. Those who hate to pick up the weather as a conversational opening seem to me not to know the reason why human beings wish to few human beings join in a conversation in the hope of learning anything of them are content if they are merely allowed to