【正文】 er, or Netscape’s Email Directories for more information. Email is one of the services offered by your Inter Service Providera service that you’re applying for every month. 71. The passage is about _____. A. the multimedia excitement B. C. different websites D. mail server. 72. We can infer from the passage that____. A. many people use the Inter only for the purpose of sending and receiving B. if you want to send and receive s, all you have to do is to log onto the Inter. C. is the only application of the inter D. you can send s to friends and coworkers but you can’t make munication between strangers 73. Which of the following is not true according to the material A. if you want to send your message, first you have to log in. B. on the way your message may be passed by several servers. C. The first advantage of is fast D. The writing rules for s are more formal. 74. If you don’t know someone’s address, _____. A. look up in a dictionary B. refer to your textbook C. ask your puter teacher D. check on Netscape’s Email Directories 75. What can you infer from the fourth paragraph? A. Only friends and coworkers send s B. You can’t log onto the Inter except at home C. It’s difficult to contact the author on the Inter. D. It’s convenient to municate between strangers online. 五、短文改錯 (共 10 小題；每小題 1 分，滿分 10 分 ) 此題要求改正所給短文中的錯誤。 9. Where may the man e from? A. France. B. China. C. America. 10. What was the weather like in California last winter? A. It was as cold as in Paris. B. It snowed as much as in Paris. C. It snowed less than in Paris. 11. Which season is the most beautiful in California? A. Autumn. B. Spring. C. Summer. 聽第 8 段材料，回答第 12 至 14 題。 1. What time is it now? A. 6: 15. B. 6:05. C. 5: 50. 2. Which language does Mr. Black speak well? A. French. B. Arabic. C. Japanese. 3. Where was the man last night? A. He was at the theatre. B. He was at one of his guests39。并標在試卷的相應位置。 聽第 6 段材料，回答第 6 至 8 題。 21. What are you going to _____yourself with now you’ve retired? A. arrange B. settle C. prepare D. occupy 22. The ______ he made for the car is so high. So I refused. A. value B. charge C. offer D. expense 23. The two countries _____ war need ________peace. A. in, making B. under, to make C. at, to make D. at, making 24. _______he grew older, he lost interest in everything except to raise flowers. A. When B. While C. As D. For 25. What you have done will _____ his misunderstanding us. A. add up B. make up C. e to D. add to 26. If it _____ for the rain, we _____the mountain yesterday. A. were not, would have lived B. were not, could climb C. hadn’t been, could have climbed D. hadn’t seen, could climb 27. The murderer felt his heart beat fast, but tried to ____his nervousness before the judge. A . remove B. cover C. kill D. save 28. _____ with fear, the boy stood still to avoid _______. A. Filling, punishment B. Filled, being punished C. Filling, being punished D. Filled, punishing 29. ______ with such a difficult case, he would never give in. A. To face B. Facing C. Faced D. Having faced 30. Mary knows my secret, but she pretends _______. A. not B. not to C. not to have D. hasn’t 31. When we arrived, Mary pretended ______. A. slept B. was sleeping C. to sleep D. to be sleeping 32. _______is no hope that he can catch up with us. A. It B. Which C. There D. As 33. There is no such case______ you can defeat him. A. as B. that C. which D. where 34. What does he suggest______ his spare time, camping or playing? A. to spend B. spending C. having spent D. to be spending 35. We all expected him to be a doctor, but he has_______ teacher. A. turned B. bee C. changed D. made 三、完形填空（共 20 小題；每小題 1。 The village was always very quiet. People lived there 76. were busy working in their fields during the day, and 77. went to bed early at night, tiring after a long day39。每段對話僅讀一遍。 M: Jane, I hear that you are leaving school now. What do you want to do? Have you made up your mind yet? W: No, not yet. But i think I39。 23. 選 C。 27. 選 B。 31. 選 D。 35. 選 A。 39. 選 D。 “報紙不僅為我們提供了新聞，而且也為我們提供了其他一些常見的信息。 pay sb. some money for “支付 ”； spend 與 on搭配； cost的主語是某物。根據(jù)下文可知，對于報紙的制造商來說，廣告是很重要的。 popular 意思為 “受歡迎的 ”； proper 意思為 “合適的 ”； regular 意思為 “規(guī)則的 ”。閱讀比賽是每三期公布一次問題，讀者必須在 1999 年 1 月 31 日之前將答案郵出，答對問題的 50 名讀者名單將在 1999 年 4 月份公布。 63. 選 D。 67. 選 C。 71. 選 B。 68. 選 D。 64. 選 B。 60. 選 A。根據(jù)文章第二段提到的 “the magazine”，可知， China Today是一雜志的名稱。 “make+ it + adj. +for sb. to do sth.”這個句式的意思為 “使某事成為可能 ”， it為形式主語，指代不定式。 be worth some money 意思為 “值多少錢 ”；表示 “價值多少錢 ”時，不用 worthy。 “報紙上有天氣預報，廣播、電視以及電影的指南，書評，故事，當然，還有廣告。 40. 選 A。 三、 36. 選 B。 32. 選 C。 28. 選 B。 24. 選 C。 W: What have you got here? M: Requests for advertising space from the different departments. W: There must be a couple of dozen of them. M: Yes, every department in the store must be having a sale this week. W: How much space do we have? M: We’ve only got enough to meet half of these requests. W: Then we’re going to have to make some decisions. M: Yes, we certainly are. I suppose we should go through all these requests. W: Well, this one on top is from the children’s department, but their sale doesn’t begin until next week. M: You can put it aside then. What’s the next one? W: From furniture, and their sal