【正文】 Australian championships at Homebush , now a 47yearold mother of four , has announced she will be making 13 a return to elite petition（頂級賽事）to swim the one event , having set a qualifying（合格的）time of seconds in winning gold at last year39。s United States Masters eback es 32 years after she won three golds at the Munich , now a 17yearold from Brisbane with a bright future of going to Athens for her first Olympics , yesterday recalled（回憶）her time with Gould five years ago.“ I was at a national youth camp on the Gold Coast and Shane had e along to talk to us and watch us train , ” Schipper explained.“ It seemed as if we had long been good don39。t know just started talking and it went from there.” “ She had a lot to share with all of us at that told us stories about what it was like at big meets like the Olympics and what it39。s like to be on an Australian was really interesting.” Next time , things will be more serious.“ I will still be swimming in the 50m butterfly at the nationals , so there is a chance that I could actually be peting against Shane Gould , ” said Schipper , who burst onto the scene at last year39。s national championships with second places in the 100m and 200m is the passage mainly about ? and petition between two and Schipper are going part in the same sports event won her three Olympic golds when she underlined word “ it ” in the fifth paragraph probably refers friendship Schipper said showed that learned a lot from Gould（二）Giving Back Fair Way The Westborough High School golf team had taken the official photos with the state other teams, disappointed, were on the bus heading then Westborough instructor Greg Rota noticed something wrong with one of the score 9 had been recorded as a were not the state prize winner。Wobum High had won.“No one would have known,” said Wobum39。sinstruc?tor, Bob Rota, it wasn39。t a difficult decision: “The prize wasn39。t ours to take.” Coin Stars “College students are lazy, but they also want to help,” says University of Pennsylvania graduate Dana she made it easy, placing cups in rooms where students could leave their spare coins, and handing out cups to 14 firstyear students to keep in their “ Change for Change” effort has collected $40,000 for charities 慈善機構(gòu)), which were decided upon by Forgotten A school in Massachusetts received a $ million check from Jacques it took offi?cials several days of digging to discover his connection to the showed the LeBermuth came from Belgium and studied in the school in the his family fell on hard times, he was offered free room and became a trader, owned shares of ATamp。T and lived off the earnings until he died, at age did Greg Rota probably do in the end? the prize to the organizer Rota39。s decision shows that he was underlined word “Change” in the second paragraph means did the school officials do after receiving the check from ? tried to find out why he gave them the LeBermuth gave the money to the school because school had helped him in the past（三）Most great inventors in the capitalist society meet with much opposition to their inventions from the people who place their own interests before those of the monopolies try to buy inventions and turn them to their own they fail, they resort to other have to overe thousands of difficulties put in their path before they can see their dreams George Stephenson was experimenting with the stream engine, there was much opposition from the Parliament, the newspaper, and claimed that the noise and the smoke would kill cows, horses and sheep, that the engine would burst or that hot coals from it would set fire to their it was a very difficult matter for George Stephenson to persuade the people that trains could go on smooth rails, could pull carriages and wagons full of people and goods, and that there was no great danger of , he was able to do it, and the first train driven by Stephenson himself showed that the newly invented steam engine was a plete word “those” in the first sentence refers to do big monopolies buy inventions? want to make more of the following is not the very reason for the opposition to Stephenson39。s experiment? would waste word “dream” in the first paragraph refers to _____ 39。 plans for inventions 15 is the main idea of this paragraph? to Stephenson the inventor.（四）As a young girl, Elizabeth Barrett(Browning英國作家勃朗寧)ruptured a blood vessel on the lungs which did not physician consigned her to a milder climate for the winter and she went Devonshire for the members of her family who acpanied her to those healing shores was her eldest a whole year they lived side by side in affectionate panionship, she all the while being greatly benefited by mild sea breezes of summer morning her brother went board a small sailboat with two friends for a trip of several hours around the as the vessel came in sight of the window where Miss Barrett sat watching, the boat struck a sunken reef。and all who were in it went down and perished in the sea, before assistant could be of the bodies were ever found although the whole village, full of sympathy, assembled in was the tragedy which utterly prostrated for some years afterwards the health and soul of Elizabeth she felt that she herself had in some measure been the cause of all this horror, and she suffered whole being seemed shattered, and a year longer elapsed before, she was able to be more to fatal event, which so saddened her youth gave also a still deeper devotional feeling to hue of sorrow so apparent in many of her earlier sort of climate did Elizabeth39。s doctor prescribe? many people were drowned when the boat sank? did the tragedy affect Elizabeth? affected her both physically and did she blame for the accident? incident had _____ on her strong influence六、寫作題（共15分）Directions: For this part, you are required to write a position on the topic Great Changes in My position should be based on the following position should be no less than 120 : in appea