【文章內容簡介】 C. understanding D. to understand 11. We told him it was dangerous, but he insisted on ____ there. A. to stay B. stayed C. staying D. stays 12. It was warm during the whole night. The temperature in the room ____ between 17℃ and 25℃ . A. kept B. keeps C. is keeping D. was kept 13. She couldn’t help _____ when she heard she failed the examination. A. to cry B. cry C. be cried D. crying 14. They were made ____ for more than 12 hours a day by their parents. A. working B. to work C. be worked D. worked 15. He is looking forward ____ his father. A. of receiving B. of hearing from C. to hearing from D. to hear from II. 補全對話 Tom: Hello, Jim. What did you do last night? Jim: I saw a film about Zhan Tianyou. It’s a very famous story and a very good film, too. Tom: ____1____ Jim: He’s a national hero. Tom: Sorry, my history is poor. ___2____ Jim: You must work hard at history. He was the engineer of a famous railroad. It started in Beijing and finished in Zhangjiakou. Tom: ___3___? Jim: From 1905 to 1909. At that time the British and the Russians wanted to build it, but the government didn’t want foreign engineers to do that. Tom: ____4____? Jim: Because they wanted a Chinese engineer to build a Chinese railroad. You know, it was very hard to build the railroad because it was in the mountains and there were many bridges and tunnels（隧道） . Tom: ____5____? Jim: He dies in1919. All Chinese people are proud of him. After he died, the Chinese opened a museum in Badaling near the Great Wall. Tom: I’m going to visit it this winter holiday. A. What was the reason? B. When did Zhan Tianyou die? C. What did he do? D. Who was Zhan Tianyou? E. When did he work on it? III. 完形填空 Johnny Sylvester, eleven years old, was in bed in the hospital. Several days before, while he was ___1___ in a football game, he fell and his head hit the ground. The doctors believed that ___2___ might never get well. “He seems to have given up ___3___. So medicine won’t___4___. Perhaps he needs something else,” said one of the doctors. “When I visit Johnny, all he___5___ says is that he would like to meet Babe Ruth.” To meet Babe Ruth, of course, was not possible. Babe Ruth was as ___6___ a man in America as the president himself, ___7___he was the most famous baseball（棒球） player in the game. The next day Johnny’s father managed to tell Babe Ruth about the story of Johnny on the phone. Twentyfour hours later, as Johnny ___8___ in his hospital room, in walked Babe Ruth. Young Johnny couldn’t___9___ it really was the Babe. Babe Ruth sat down at Johnny’s bedside and said, “Now listen, kid, you’ve got to get well. I’ve brought you a new American League baseball. You must start throwing it.” Sylvester just stayed there, saying nothing, and his eyes were ___10___in awe（敬慕） at the great man. For Johnny this was the beginning of a new life, one he thought he would never see. To the surprise of his doctors, young Sylvester walked out of the hospital on his own a few weeks later. He was also able to live a healthy lifeall because of the present of Babe Ruth. 1. A. playing B. sitting C. looking D. stopping 2. A. one B. it C. he D. they 3. A. game B. study C. medicine D. hope 4. A. do B. fit C. win D. go 5. A. even B. also C. ever D. still 6. A. strong B. important C. kind D. clever 7. A. so B. and C. but D. or 8. A. waited B. laid C. prepared D. lay 9. A. know B. notice C. believe D. understand 10. A. shining B. falling C. watching D. fixing IV. 閱讀理解 A When you’re curious（好奇） about something, and want to know more about it, you can use the way of asking questions. Asking questions is the first step to make discoveries and find interesting answers. The steps below can guide you during the research（研究） . Step 1 On a notecard or piece of paper, write down the subject that you are interested in. Just get the main idea down. For example, you might write: Discover more about dinosaurs. Step 2 Next, stop and think for a moment about what you already kn