【正文】 最近一批國際友好學校的學生將來你校參觀。 6. What can we learn about Mr. Brown? A. He is in his office. B. He is at a meeting. C. He is out for a meal. 7. What will the man probably do next? A. Call back. B. Come again. C. Leave a message. 聽第 7段材料，回答第 9題。聽完每段對話后，你都有 10秒鐘的時間來回答有關小題和閱讀下一小題。 A Papa’s jaw dropped when Mama told him that Sister had cheated on her final exams— not to succeed but to fail. “It’s unbelievable!” he said. “Sister has always been so proud of her good grades!” “Yes, she has,” said Mama. “But it’s not unbelievable. It just shows how badly she wanted off the swimming team.” “She never said anything about that to me.” said Papa. “Of course she didn’t,” said Mama. “She was afraid you ’d blow your top. You already had her getting a swimming scholarship to college and winning gold medals at the Olympics. Can you imagine how much pressure she must have felt?” “Oh, my gosh!” Papa said, “I’ve been so stupid! I just thought she’d want to be a champion swimmer because she’s so good at it.” “It’s like anything else, dear,” said Mama , “No matter how good at it you are, if it stops being fun, you won’t want to do it anymore.” “She must be really mad at me,” he mumbled (嘟噥 ). “Maybe I should say sorry to her.” Sister’s footsteps could be heard on the stairs. She came into the kitchen and looked hopefully up at her parents. “Honey,” said Mama with a smile, “your papa and I have decided tha t there’s no reason for you to be on the swimming team if you don’t want to.” Sister’s face lit up like a Christmas tree. S he ran to Papa and jumped into his arms, giving him a big hug. “I’m going to play cards with Lizzy!” she said. “See you later!” From the kitchen window, Mama and Papa watched their daughter run down the sunny road toward Lizzy’s house. “It’s good to see her happy again,” said Mama. “Well, it’ s not too late, anyway.” Papa said. 51. Mama insisted that the child should do ________. A. what she felt easy to B. what she was able to C. what she felt right to D. what she was willing to 52. The underlined expression “ blow your top” probably means “ ________” in the text. A. get very angry B. bee very excited C. change your opinion D. fall down with fear 53. Which of the following words best describes Papa? A. Foolish. B. Patient. C. Considerate. D. Stubborn. 54. What might be the best title for the text? A. Easier Said Than Done B. Better Late Than Never C. Never Too Old To Learn D. No Pleasure Without Pain B Ask someone what they have done to help the environment recently and they will almost certainly mention recycling. Recycling in the home is very important of course. However, being forced to recycle often means we already have more material than we need. We are dealing with the results of that overconsumption in the greenest way possible, but it would be far better if we did not need to bring so much material home in the first place. The total amount of packaging increased by 12% between 1999 and 2020. It now makes up a third of a typical household’s waste in the UK. In many supermarkets nowadays food items are packaged twice with plastic and cardboard. Too much packaging is doing serious damage to the environment. The UK, for example, is running out of areas for burying this unnecessary waste. If such packaging is burnt, it gives off greenhouse gases which go on to cause the greenhouse effect. Recycling helps, but the process itself uses energy. The solution is not to produce such items in the first place. Food waste is a serious problem, too. Too many supermarkets encourage customers to buy more than they need. However, a few of them are ing round to the idea that this cannot continue, encouraging customers to reuse their plastic bags, for example. But this is not just about supermarkets. It is about all of us. We have learned to associate packaging with quality. We have learned to think that something unpackaged is of poor quality. This is especially true of food. But it also applies to a wide range of consumer products, which often have far more packaging than necessary. There are signs of hope. As more of us recycle, we are beginning to realize just how much unnecessary material are collecting. We need to face the wastefulness of our consumer culture, but we have a mountain to climb. 55. What does the underlined phrase “over consumption” refer to? A. Using too much packaging. B. Having more material than is needed. C. Making more products than necessary. D. Recycling too many wastes. 56. The author uses figures in Paragraph 2 to show _________. A. the tendency of cutting household waste B. the increase of packaging recycling C. the rapid growth of super markets D. the fact of packaging overuse 57. According to the text, recycling_________. A. is the solution to gas shortage B. means burning packaging for energy C. helps control the greenhouse effect D. leads to a waste of land 58. What can we learn from the last paragraph? A. Fighting wastefulness is difficult. B. Needless material is mostly recycled. C. People like collecting recyclable waste. D. The author is proud of their consumer culture. C My father was 44 and knew he wasn’t going to make it to 45. He wrote me a letter and hoped that something in it would help me for the rest of my life. Since the day I was 12 and first read his letter, some of his words have lived in my heart. One part always stands out. “Right now, you are pretending to be a timekiller. But I know that one day, you will do something great that will set you among the very best.” Knowing that my dad believed in me gave me pe rmission to believe in myself. “You will do something great.” He didn’t know what that wo