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) 53. A. a little B. a bit C. very much D. a lot ( ) 54. A. to bee B. bee C. being D. not bee ( ) 55. A. lazy B. outgoing C. serious D. good 四、 綜合閱讀(共兩節(jié),計(jì) 32 分) 第一節(jié) 閱讀理解(共 12 小題;每小題 2 分,滿分 24 分) 閱讀下面三篇短文,根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容,從所給 的 A、 B、 C、 D 四個(gè)選項(xiàng) 中 選出最佳選項(xiàng)。 (1) The New York Times。 Best Seller of the Week This Week Title Writer Price Story Weeks on List 1 The Fotten Garden By Kate Morton $ From England to Australia and back, two women try to solve a family problem. 18 2 The Help By Helen Scott $ A young white man helps two black boys. 58 3 Spoken from the Heart By Laura Bush $ Wife of US President Gee W. Bush tells the stories of being the first lady. 24 4 Best Friends Forever By Carol Brown $ Childhood friends meet again years later when one needs help 6 5 Run for Your Life By James Clark $ A New York policeman alone must stop a bad man killing people. 10 ( ) 56. The information about the Best Sellers of the Week is provided (提供 ) by _________. A. China Daily B. 21st Century C. TIME D. The New York Times ( ) 57. The book which has stayed on the list for the longest time is _________. A. The Fotten Garden B. The Help C. Spoken from the Heart D. Best Friends Forever ( ) 58. Nancy wants to by the top three books on the list this week. She has to pay ________. A. $ B. $ C. $ D. $ ( ) 59. David likes to read the detective (偵探 ) stories. He can choose the book written by ______. A. Helen Scott B. Kate Morton C. James Clark D. Carol Brown (2) There was an old man known as th e Foolish Old Man. His house was in the big mountains. Two big mountains stood in front of his house. One was Wang Wu。 the other was Tai Hang. Every day, when he went to the farm, he had to spend a lot of time to get out of the mountains. One evening, the old man asked his two sons, “I’m going to get the two mountains out of the way. What do you think about it?” “OK, let’s do it today!” now parents and their sons and daughters were digging the big mountains. Seeing this, a man known as the Wise Man laughed at their efforts, “You are old and weak. How can you remove the big mountains?” “I can dig every day. When I die, there will be my sons, who will have their sons and grandsons. Those grandsons will have their sons and grandsons, and so on. But the big mountains will be smaller and smaller. So I can certainly move them away.” Finally, a god was moved by Yu Gong. He sent two gods to take the mountains away. ( ) 60. This story is about ________. A. a young girl B. an old man C. a god D. an old woman ( ) 61. They wanted to move the mountains because ________. A. they had to spend a lot of time going to their farm every day. B. they wanted to make more farmland. C. there was a lot of gold under the mountains. D. they wanted to build many houses. ( ) 62. ________ told them not to dig the mountains. A. Nobody B. Yu Gong C. The Wise Man D. Two gods ( ) 63. The story tells us ________. A. the Wise Man is cleverer than the Foolish Man. B. you can never see what’s possible unless you try to make it happen. C. nothing is too easy if you put your hear into it. D. It’s impossible to move the big mountains. (3) The Singapore Merlion (魚尾獅 ) is weling all visitors to Singapore. It is located (位于 ) at Merlion Park, in front of the Fullerten Hotel, facing the beautiful Marina Bay (濱海灣 ). The Singapore Merlion is meters high and weighs as heavy as 70 tons (噸 ), with the head of a lion and the body of a fish. The Merlion’s history can go back to Singapore’s ancient times. At that time Singapore was known as Temasek. Later a prince (王子 ) discovered a lion there and then he named t