【正文】 own simply for my own 46 , not for Mr. Fleagle, my position teacher. 47 , I would write something else. When I finished it the night was half gone and there was no 48 left to write a proper ?position for Mr. Fleagle. There was no choice next morning but to 49 my work. Two days pas?sed before Mr. Fleagle returned the 50 papers. He said, Now, class, I want to read you a position, The Art of Eating Spaghetti’. My words! He was reading my words out 51 to the whole class. 52 laughed, then the whole class was laughing with openhearted enjoyment. I did my best not to show 53 , but what I was feeling was pure happiness, 54 my words had the power to make people 55 . 36 A. memory 37 A. when 38 B. served 39 D. those 40 A. none 41 B. good at 42 D. arguments 43 D. socially 44 C. Suddenly 45 46 D. joy 47 C. As for him 48 A. time 49 C. hand in 50 B. graded 51 A. loud 52 C. Somebody 53 D. pleasure 54 B. for 55 D. laugh 五、閱讀理解（每題 1分，共 20分） （一） Most great inventors in the capitalist society meet with much opposition to their inventions from the people who place their own interests before those of the people. Big monopolies try to buy inventions and turn them to their own profits. When they fail, they resort to other tricks. Inventors have to overe thousands of difficulties put in their path before they can see their dreams realized. When Gee Stephenson was experimenting with the stream engine, there was much opposition from the Parliament, the newspaper, and landlords. They claimed that the noise and the smoke would kill cows, horses and sheep, that the engine would burst or that hot coals from it would set fire to their houses. So it was a very difficult matter for Gee Stephenson to persuade the people that trains could go on smooth rails, could pull 2 carriages and wagons full of people and goods, and that there was no great danger of accidents. However, he was able to do it, and the first train driven by Stephenson himself showed that the newly invented steam engine was a plete success. 56. The word those in the first sentence refers to C. interests do big monopolies buy inventions? C. They want to make more money. of the following is not the very reason for the opposition to Stephenson’s experiment? C. It would waste coal. 59. The word dream in the first paragraph refers to _____ B. inventors’ plans for invention 60. What is the main idea of this paragraph? D. Oppositions to Stephenson the inventor. （二） As a young girl, Elizabeth Barrett (Browning英國作家勃朗寧 ) ruptured a blood vessel on the lungs which did not heal. The physician consigned her to a milder climate for the winter and she went Devonshire for restoration. Among the members of her family who acpanied her to those healing shores was her eldest a whole year they lived side by side in affectionate panionship, she all the while being greatly benefited by mild sea breezes of Torquay. One summer morning her brother went board a small sailboat with two friends for a trip of several hours around the coast. Just as the vessel came in sight of the window where Miss Barrett sat watching, the boat struck a sunken reef。 Wobum High had won. No one would have known, said Wobum’s instruc?tor, Bob Doran. For Rota, it wasn’t a difficult decision: The prize wasn’t ours to take. Coin Stars College students are lazy, but they also want to help, says University of Pennsylvania graduate Dana Hork. So she made it easy, placing cups in rooms where students could leave their spare coins, and handing out cups to firstyear students to keep in their rooms. Her Change for Change effort has collected $40,000 for charities 慈善機(jī)構(gòu) ) , which were decided upon by students. Never Fotten A school in Massachusetts received a $ million check from Jacques LeBermuth. But it took offi?cials several days of digging to discover his connection to the school. Records showed the LeBermuth came from Belgium and studied in the school in the 1920s. When his family fell on hard times, he was offered free room and board. LeBermuth became a trader, owned shares of ATam