【正文】 nd all sorts of things at home. I believe she lay awake thinking up all things for us to do. My mother was a plete failure 32 a mother. Two of her children received higher education. She made us grow up into honest adults. I am trying to raise my three children this way. I am filled with 33 when my children call me “mean”. Why? Because now I thank God every day for giving me the meanest mother in the world. ( ) 24. A. another B. other C. others ( ) 25. A. alone B. bored C. angry ( ) 26. A. enjoyed B. preferred C. had ( ) 27. A. what B. when C. where ( ) 28. A. so that B. in order to C. instead of ( ) 29. A. already B. yet C. still ( ) 30. A. brothers B. parents C. friends ( ) 31. A. swim B. cook C. skate ( ) 32. A. as B. like C. since ( ) 33. A. sad B. angry C. pride Ⅳ .閱讀理解：（每小題 2分，共 20分） A LCF Clubs JazzMataz The music amp。 A school newspaper The Teens asked over one thousand teenagers how they spent their spare time. Here they report the r 8 of the survey. It’s not at all surprising to learn that most teens said they wanted m 9 free time. Most have less than an hour a day for afterschool activities. P 10 activity was popular among both girls and boys, averaging between three to six hours a week. Favorite sports among girls were tennis, basketball and swimming. Boys said they liked football, basketball and skating. Speaking of entertainment, music and TV were popular. About half of those surveyed said that music was their favorite activity. This i 11 both listening to and playing music. TV was also very popular. Three quarters said they preferred watching TV to reading a book or magazine. Unexpectedly, as many as three out of ten teenagers mentioned that collecting things was something they liked to do in their spare time. They had v 12 collections from cartoon books and baseball cards to stickers, toys and coins. V 13 friends was also popular. Eight out of ten teenagers said they met friends once a week. Nine out of ten said they contacted friends through the Inter. A 14 popular way of contacting friends was the telephone. Everyone we surveyed said they spoke to friends every day. Most said they spoke about twenty minutes a day. Surprisingly, teenagers s 15 went dancing, especially girls. Only one out of ten said they went to the dance regularly. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Ⅶ .任務型閱讀：（每小題 1分，共 5分） Being a Happy Kid to have success Have you ever had problems in your life and don’t know how to be happy? If so, you will find “Being a Happy Teenager” by Australian writer Andrew Matthews useful. In his book, Matthews tells us how to have a happy life and answers the questions of teenagers. There are many subjects such as parents and friends, and the book says we should stop being angry and five(原諒 ). The book tells us of useful skills such as how to put what you have learned into pictures of your mind to make your memory better. Many teenagers think that happiness es from a good exam result or praise(贊揚 ) from other people. But you can still be happy when there are no such “good” things. Success es from a good attitude. If you learn from problems, you will have success in the future. Some schoolboys have problems such as being too tall or too short. But Matthews tells us happiness es from thinking about things in a positive way. If you are tall, people notice you