【正文】 turn, laughing like schoolgirls. I think we were all beside ourselves. Parents fot their duty and their dignity。ve been ill for 28 years. Music has always been a great love of mine and, in my 20s, when my _21 was move manageable, I 22 ten years as a professional singer in restaurant, playing and singing folk songs. 23 that was years ago and times have changed. __24__ I live with my mother on a country farm. Two years ago, I decided that I would need to love some kind of extra work to _25_ my disability pension (殘疾撫恤金） ._26_ I needed to sleep in afternoons. I was limited in my _27_I decided that I would consider 28 to singing in restaurants. My family are all musicians, so I was _29 when I went into our local music store. I explained that I waned to sing again but using recorded karaoke music I knew that discs were very expensive and I really didn39。 a 3. Bats are surprisingly longlived creatures, some ______ a life span of around 20 years. A. having B. had C. have D. to have 4. One Friday, we were packing to leave for a weekend away __ my daughter beard cries for help A. after B. while C. since D. when 5. I always wanted to do the job which I39。 不填 D. the。t been a lot of fun as I39。 children fot their everyday fights and little jealousies. ―Perhaps it’s like this in the kingdom of heaven,‖ I thought confusedly. It was growing dark before we all walked sleepily back to house. I suppose we had some sort of supper. I suppose there must have been a surface tidyingup, for the house on Sunday looked clean and orderly enough. The strange thing was , we didn39。s against all my________. A. emotions B. principles C. regulations D. opinions 19. If they win the final tonight, the team are going to tour around the city ______by their enthusiastic supporters. A. being cheered B. be cheered C. To be cheered D. Were cheered 20.－ I don39。s all right D. Don39。s eyes that she didn’t understand a single word of his lecture. A. cold B. blank C. innocent D. fresh 10. A bank is the place ____they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain . A. when B. that C. where D. there 11.－ How39。s when she heard the whistle sounded by the driver of a train. Her Renault Clio parked across a railway line. Second later, she watched the train drag her car almost a kilometre down the railway tracks. Ceely39。s story in his book When Machines Fail US, finger at the limitations of technology. We put our faith in digital devices, he says, but our digital helpers are too often not up to the job. They are filled with small problems. And it’s not just GPS devices: Stevenson takes us on a tour of digital disasters involving everything from mobile phones to wireless key boards. The problem with his argument in the book is that it’s not clear why he only focuses digital technology, while there may be a number of other possible causes. A mapmaker might have left the crossing off a paper map. Maybe we should blame Ceely for not paying attention. Perhaps the railway authorities are at fault for poor signaling system. Or maybe someone has studied the relative dangers and worked out that there really is something specific wrong with the CPS equipment. But Stevenson doesn’t say. It’s a problem that runs through the book. In a section on cars, Stevenson gives an account of the advanced techniques that criminals use to defeat puterbased locking systems for cars. He offers two independent sets of figures on car theft。t D. couldn39。t make it to your party last night. —_ _. I know you39。ll try to fit you in A. tight B. short C. regular D. flexible 17.－Ｃ an I e and have a look at your new house? － .Yes,_______! A. with pleasure B. I like it C. I quite agree D. by all means 18. Anyway, I can39。replacing a faulty product immediately : throwing in a gift voucher(購物禮卷 )as an unexpected ―thank you‖ to regular customers 。t have a lot of _30 to get started, And 31 you find only three to four songs out of ten on a disc that you can _32_. When I told the owner of the shop about my 33 , he gave me a long use the gave me a long, thoughtful __34__. ―This means a lot to you, doesn39。d been trained . A. on B. for C. by D. of 6. The school isn39。 the C. a。s it going D. How about it 第二節(jié)：完形填空（共 20 小題；每小題 1 分，滿分 20 分） Although I love my life, it hasn39。t mention that day afterward. I felt a little embarrassed .Surely none of the others had been as excited as I. I locked the memory up in that deepest part of me where we keep ―the things that cannot be and yet they are.‖ The years went on, then one day I was hurrying about my kitchen in a city apartment, trying to get some work out of the way while my threeyearold