【正文】 riginal idea was the hardest part,” Nicholas said. “But the 56 of it was just improving the idea and finding out what works.” They 57 Cassie and Andrew with the final product this week. “I was so glad that she could use it and that it was actually 58 ,” Nicholas said. Cassie was most 59 about the guitar. “I think it’s a really cool instrument,” she said. “I’m 60 they did it for me,” she added. 41. A. care B. part C. action D. interest 42. A. door B. office C. classroom D. playground 43. A. example B. experiment C. instruction D. invention 44. A. used B. bought C. repaired D. designed 45. A. question B. concert C. talent D. disability 46. A. fan B. student C. teacher D. prizewinner 47. A. on B. for C. with D. into 48. A. surely B. specifically C. suddenly D. secretly 49. A. fit B. surprise C. recognize D. challenge 50. A. even though B. because C. as though D. unless 51. A. wear B. play C. adjust D. touch 52. A. when B. if C. how D. why 53. A. star B. university C. poor D. honest 54. A. misses out B. picks up C. looks back D. es down 55. A. arm B. doctor C. instrument D. solution 56. A. rest B. fact C. meaning D. difficulty 57. A. treated B. examined C. presented D. filled 58. A. changing B. working C. existing D. appearing 59. A. excited B. strict C. worried D. confused 60. A. sorry B. satisfied C. confident D. grateful 第二節(jié) (共 10小題；每小題 ，滿分 15分 ) 閱讀下面材料，在空白處填入適當(dāng)?shù)膬?nèi)容（ 1 個單詞）或括號內(nèi)單詞的正確形式。每段對話后有一個小題 , 從題中所給的 A、 B、 C 三個選項中選出最佳選項 , 并標(biāo)在試卷的相應(yīng)位置。 A A cafe in Virginia, America, has e up with a method to convince customers to be more polite. A sign advertises different costs for a cup of coffee depending on how polite the customer is when ordering. The prices are listed with the typical phrases a customer might use when placing their order. They include: “Small coffee” at $5, “small coffee please” at $3 and “hello, one small coffee please” at $. A passerby took a photo of the sign and posted the image online. This isn’t the first time that a coffee shop has attempted to teach customers a lesson. The Petite Syrah cafe in Nice, on the French Riviera, charged customers €7 for “a coffee”, but a more affordable € for “a coffee please”. Fabrice Pepino, manager of Petite Syrah, explained the reason: “It started as a joke because at lunchtime people would e in very stressed and were sometimes rude to us when they ordered a coffee.” He added: “I know people say that French service can be rude but it’s also true that customers can be rude when they’re busy.” The American cafe will be hoping to follow in the footsteps of the Petite Syrah cafe as the original coffee shop proved a success in changing customers’ behaviors. Pepino said that he had noticed a huge difference in the behaviors of his customers after a few days of the sign being on show. 21. If a customer orders a coffee politely, the cafe will ________. A. present him/her a gift as a reward B. charge him/her less money C. offer him/her the coffee for free D. teach him/her a good lesson 22. It can be known from the passage that ________. A. the cafe in Virginia is the first coffee shop to do so B. people don’t believe the strategy because it is a joke C. the French cafe made the rule just for fun at first D. both French service and French customers are rude 23. What do you know about the strategy of the Petite Syrah cafe? A. It is useless. B. It is boring. C. It is unacceptable. D. It is effective. B A (震級 )earthquake attacked Kumamoto, Japan on April 15th, 2020, less than two days after a earthquake rocked the same area. The smaller quake on April 14th killed nine people and injured hundreds more, according to the . Geological Survey. With these two and the memories of the huge earthquake and tsunami(海嘯 )that destroyd northeast of Japan in 2020 not far from people’s minds, what is it about this part of the world that makes it so active in earthquakes? First of all, Japan is along the socalled Pacific Ring of Fire, which is the most active earthquake area in the world. This “ring” is actually an imaginary Ushaped zone that follows the edge(邊緣 )of the Pacific Ocean, where many of the world’s earthquakes occur. “The earthquake in Kumamoto seems to have been caused by the collision(碰撞 )between the Philippines Sea Plate(板塊 )and the Eurasia Plate,” said Paul Caruso, a geophysicist of the USGS. While Japan is no stranger to earthquakes, the earthquake is one of the largest ever recorded in this part of southern Japan, Caruso told Live Science. “The second largest was probably on March 20, 1939 there was a magnitude of in this area,” he said. “Not all earthquakes cause tsunamis,” Caruso said. In general, there are three key elements that can produce a dangerous earthquaketsunami bination, he added. First, the earthquake must be at least . Second, the quake’s epicenter(震中 )has to be under the ocean, Caruso said. And finally, the earthquake hasn’t to be too deep. “We have quakes around Fiji all the time, but those are sometimes 640 kilometers underground, so they aren’t going to cause a tsunami,” he said. The one in Kumamoto was about 10 km underground but the epicenter was on land, Caruso said. “There are lots of large aftershocks,” Caruso told Live Science. “And of course, after a large earthquake, buildings are often weakened as a result. Additional damage can be expected. ” People living in the area should expect more shaking in the ing days, according to Caruso. “We can say for certain that there are go