【文章內容簡介】 ect, but then, who is? And after 30 years, this is still what strikes a chord with millions of viewers worldwide. 12. Compared with other cartoons, what makes The Simpsons so special? A. It has been the longest running primetime TV show since it was created. B. It has been popular with all the people, whether adults or children. C. It describes a functional family, unlike other cartoons. D. It contains characters that each has unique habits. 13. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in The Simpsons?. A. Social customs. B. The family life. C. Their government. D. International relationship. 14. Why has The Simpsons remained so popular after 30 years? A. The parents work hard and the children are lovely. B. It has been running at the primetime, when most people are free. C. It tells people how to bring up the children healthily. D. The characters are lovely and they live in the same way as ordinary people. 15. Which of the following statements is true? A. Most classic US primetime TV characters live in normal families. B. There are two sons and one daughter in the family. C. The father has set an example to the son who is good at school. D. The daughter is a good student and always follows the teacher’s orders. 第二節(jié)（共 5 小題；每小題 2 分，滿分 10 分） 根據(jù)短文內容，從 所給 的選項中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項。選項中有兩項為多余選項。 A city in the jungle In the summer of 1848, in Guatemala, a man called Ambrosio Tut went into the jungle(叢林 ), as he did almost every day. Tut was a gum(樹膠 ) collector, looking for gum in the jungle. 16. One day, he got to the top of one tree and something caught his eye. He looked out across the trees 7C 教育資源網（ 最全的免費教育資源網站，按教材詳細分類 （ 域名釋義： 7c 學科網 ） 批量購買請聯(lián)系 ： 372986183， 78763217 and saw the tops of some old buildings. 17. He ran to tell the local governor excitedly, and together they walked into the jungle. There they found Tikal, the city that the Mayans had built, many hundreds of years before. The two men saw pyramids(金字塔 ), squares and houses. For a long time before that day, local people had known that somewhere in the jungle there was an old Mayan city. 18. Between 200 and 900AD, the city of Tikal had been the centre of Mayan civilization in the area, but then the Mayans left itnobody knows why! After 1000AD, the jungle began to cover it. 19. Seven years before Tut found Tikal, two British explorers had gone to Guatemala and had written a report about Mayan treasures in the junglebut they hadn’t mentioned Tikal. Even earlier than this, local Indians had told people about a great city hidden in the trees, but no one had listened to them. 20. Now the lost city had been found again, and people went there immediately to see it. A. But no one had seen it for centuries. B. To do this, he had to climb the tree. C. And then people fot that it was there. D. So they lost the chance to find the treasure. E. Tut found many other treasures after that. F. More and more scientists began to study the Mayan city. G. Tut didn’t really know what he had seen but he knew it was something special. 第 二 部分 英語知識運用（共兩節(jié)，滿分 45 分） 第一節(jié) 完形填空（共 20 小題；每題 分，滿分 30 分） 閱讀下面短文，從短文后各題所給的四個選項（ A, B, C 和 D）中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項，并在答題卡上將此選項涂黑。 Honest Thanks I sat down at my desk and started writing. I wrote an emotional letter of gratitude. I put the notecard into the 21. , sealed it and stuck the stamps on it, but when it came to actually placing the letter into the mailbox, I 22. . The letter was to a schoolmate with whom I kept in contact via Facebook 23. . She had 7C 教育資源網（ 最全的免費教育資源網站，按教材詳細分類 （ 域名釋義： 7c 學科網 ） 批量購買請聯(lián)系 ： 372986183， 78763217 inspired me to live a (n) 24. life－ for example, by 25. more. Her volunteer efforts weren39。t 26. — she wasn39。t building wells in Uganda, but 27. she was doing small, local good deeds, such as serving as a crossing guard. These were things I could do, too. She made me 28. I could make a difference here at home. I felt I should let her know how her 29. positively influenced my life. I could have easily sent her an , 30. that seemed a bit lame for such an important thank you. That39。s why I ended up 31. the letter. But now I stood before the mailbox, unable to place the envelope inside. What was 32. me? Why was this so 33. to do? I guess I felt strange because it wasn39。t like she was my best friend. I just knew her. “People don39。t 34. do this, ” I thought to myself. However, 35. thinking it over, I still felt a(n) 36. to let her know how grateful I was. Finally, I put the envelope in the mailbox. Weeks later I received her reply. She was 37. a tough ti