【正文】 ay for a speaker to decide on the (3)___ of his speech. y points to achieve success in public —(4)___ of the subject matter. —good preparation of the speech.and end it with a summary. —be aware of your —vary the speed of (6)___ —use the microphone skillfully to (7)___ yourself in speech. —be brief in speech。 it crept into the sleeves of his coat. When he came to the pu blic house at Chapel Bridge he went in and ordered a hot punch. The proprietor served him obsequiously but did not venture to talk. There were five or six workingmen in the shop discussing the value of a gentleman?s e state in County Kildare. They drank at intervals from their huge pint tumblers, and smoked, spitting often on the floor and sometimes dragging the sawdust over their heavy boots. Mr Duffy sat on his stool and gazed at them, without seeing o r hearing them. After a while they went out and he called for another punch. He sat a long time over it. The shop was very quiet. The proprietor sprawled on the counter reading the newspaper and yawning. Now and again a tram was heard swish ing along the lonely road outside. As he sat there, living over his life with her and evoking alternately the two images on which he now conceived her, he realized that she was dead, that s he had ceased to exist, that she had bee a memory. He began to feel ill at ea se. He asked himself what else could he have done. He could not have lived with her openly. He had done what seemed to him best. How was he to blame? Now that s he was gone he understood how lonely her life must have been, sitting night afte r night alone in that room. His life would be lonely too until he, too, died, ce ased to exist, became a memoryif anyone remembered him. 27. Mr Duffy?s immediate reaction to the report of the woman?s death wa s that of ___. A. disgust B. guilt C. grief D. passion 28. It can be inferred from the passage that the reporter wrote about the woman?s death in a ___ A. detailed B. provocative C. discreet 29. We can infer from the last paragraph that Mr Duffy was in a(n) ___ mood. A. angry B. fretful C. irritable A. M C. The woman wanted to end the relationship. D. They became estranged probably after a quarrel. 閱讀理解 B SECTION B SKIMMING AND SCANNING ( 10 min) In this section there are seven passages followed by ten multiple choice q uestions. Skim or scan them as required and then mark your answers on the Colour ed Answer Sheet. TEXT E 31. In the passage Bill Gates mainly discusses __ C. the importance of education Hundreds of students send me each year asking for advice about educa tion. They want to know what to study, or whether it?s OK to drop out of colleg e since that?s what I did. My basic advice is simple and heartfelt.“ Get the best education you can. Take advantage of high school It?s true that I dropped out of college to start Microsoft, but I was at H a rvard for three years before dropping outand I?d love to have the time to go b a ck. As I?ve said before, nobody should drop out of college unless they believe they face the opportunity of a lifetime. And even then they should reconsider. The puter industry has lots of people who didn?t finish college, but I 39。 and except they have l ife of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is to fall in love with a picture.” 21. A. critical B. anxious conscious A. they feel they are socially looked do C. they are inherently nervous and anxious people 23. The author thinks that the efforts made by the anxious to cultivate w hat they believe is good A. worthwhile B. meaningless C. praiseworthy D. irrational TEXT C Fred Cooke of Salford turned 90 two days ago and the world has been beating a path to his door. If you haven?t noticed, the backstreet boy educated at Bla c kpool grammar styles himself more grandly as Alastair Cooke, broadcaster extraor dinaire. An honorable KBE, he would be Sir Alastair if he had not taken American citizenship more than half a century ago. If it sounds snobbish to draw attention to his humble origins, it should be reflected that the real snob is Cooke himself, who has spent a lifetime disguis ing them. But the fact that he opted to renounce his British passport in 1941 — just when his country needed all the wartime help it could getis hardly a ma tter for congratulation. Cooke has made a fortune out of his love affair with America, entrancing l isteners with a weekly monologue that has won Radio 4 many devoted adherents. Pa rt of the pull is the developed drawl. This is the man who gave the world “mida tlantic”, the language of the disc jockey and public relations man. He sounds American to us and English to them, while in reality he has for decades belonged to neither. Cooke?s world is an America that exists largely in the imagination. He took ages to acknowledge the disaster that was Vietnam and e ven longer to wake up to Watergate. His politics have drifted to the right with age, and most of his opinions have been acquired on the golf course with fellow celebrities. He chased after stars on arrival in America, Fixing up an interview with Ch arlie Chaplin and briefly being his friend. He told Cooke he could turn him i nto a fine light edian。 always try to make your message (8)___ ample: the best remembered inaugural speeches of the US presidents speech. 改錯(cuò) Part Ⅱ Proofreading and Error Correction (15 min) The following passage contains TEN errors. Each line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way. underline the wrong word an