【正文】 to use it to make a difference. If we make a difference to the world, won’t we make a difference to ourselves? If the world is happy that we are here, won’t we feel the same way? Perhaps this is why Zig Ziglar offers the following advice: ―don’t bee a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.‖ ( ) 11. Those who have no purpose of life are wicked and shallow. ( ) 12. We don’t have time to find a appropriate aim of life, we avoid to have a purpose. ( ) 13. So we need to be careful to choose a purpose that will help us to grow. ( ) 14. We seldom reap the benefits of living a life of purpose. ( ) 15. Find a destination in your life and you will discover yourself to be greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be. ( ) 16. To know where you are going is to have meaning and happiness. ( ) 17. A life of purpose is effortless. 18. We find _______, _______, and _______ in relationships of family and munity 19. One way of helping create a better world or make others happier is by refusing to ____, _____, ______, ______ or ______. 20. People without purpose of life lack ______, ______ and _______ Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (70 minutes, 80 points) Section A (40 points) Directions: In this section, there are 4 passages with ten blanks. You are required to select one 新四級英語閱讀理解自測試卷 113 word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. Passage C The French are very attached to the family — blood is definitely 21 than water. They take pride in their children, partly because for many years France suffered a 22 birthrate. There are still tax incentives 23 in France to encourage and reward having a large family. The elderly are given respect, the young are given 24 . There is interdependence in French families , where grandparents , aunts and uncles may well live very near the immediate family. All 25 are included in family plans, holidays, discussions, meals and celebrations. Children are encouraged to air their thoughts at a tender age, so that they are often good conversationalist by the time they are seven or eight years old. One of the 26 of French life is the spectacle of an entire family of three or four generations all enjoying themselves at the same restaurant, or at a party. And one of the most severe sanctions which can be imposed on a child by a parent is to be 27 from such a function. One French family, whose son 28 some mild beach of family etiquette, ceremoniously 29 his placesetting at the table for dinner that evening , frighteningly reminiscent of poor Dreyfus being marched round parade ground, having the buttons torn from his uniform and his sword snapped in half. But the son unplainingly did as he was told and ate 30 in the kitchen. Passage D When we think of creative people the names that 31 spring to mind are those of men such as Leonardo da Vince, Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso, ., great artists , 32 and scientists—a select and exceptionally gifted body of men wit rare talents and genius. The A) expect I) capacity B) banned J) affection C) thicker K) delights D) spread L) generations E) declining M) alone F) career N) mitted G) available O) process H) removed 大學英語閱讀與理解 114 tendency to 33 creativity and imaginative thinking as exclusive province of a lucky few disregards the creative and imaginative aspects inherent in the 34 of many of the tasks we regularly have to face the discovery and development of new methods and techniques , the improvement of old methods, existing inventions and products. Everyone has creative ability to some 35 . Creative thinking 36 posing oneself a problem and then originating or inventing a solution along new and unconventional lines. It involves drawing new analogies, discovering new binations and/or new 37 of things that are already known. It 38 , then, that a creative person will exhibit great intellectual curiosity and imagination. He will be alert and observant with a great store of information which he will be able to sort out and bine, in the solution of problem. He will be emotionally receptive to new and unconventional ideas and will be less interested in facts than in their implications. Most important of all he will be able to municate uninhibitedly and will not be too 39 about other people’s reaction to his apparently ―crazy‖ notions. People called the Wright brothers mad but it did not stop them from being the first men to construct and 40 a heavierthanair craft. Passage E The quest for success always begins with a target. As Yogi Bear once said, ― You have got to be very careful if you don’t know 41 you are going , because you might not get there.‖ Too many people 42 through life like sleepwalkers. Each day they follow familiar 43 , never asking, ― What am I doing with my life?‖ and they don’t know what they are doing because they lack goals. Goalsetting is a 44 of the will to move in a certain direction. Begin with a clear conception of what you want. Write down your 45 and date them –putting them into words and clarifying them. Rather than concentrating on objects to acquire and possess, focusing on fulfilling your desires to do, to produce , to 46 your goalsetting that yield