【正文】 （注意：文中不得出現(xiàn)考生的姓名、校名及其它相關信息，否則不予評分。 ） 假設你是小明（ Xiao Ming），是美國中學生 Tony 的筆友，你收到了他的來信。要求內容適切，意思連貫，標點符號不占格。）（ 14分） 62. The new car cost Mr. Smith a lot of money.（改為否定句） The new car _______ _______ Mr. Smith much money. 63. His aunt has never been to another country.（改為反意疑問句） His aunt has never been to another country, _______ _______? 64. John didn’t have his dinner and went to bed last night. （保持句意基本不變） John _______ to bed _______ his dinner last night. 65. They got up early in the morning to see the sunrise.（對劃線句部分提問） ________ ________ they get up early in the morning? 66. According to the plan, we will plant more trees this spring.（改為被動語態(tài)） According to the plan, more trees will _______ _______ this spring. 67.“Have you got enough time to finish your homework?”Mum asked May. （改 為賓語從句） Mum asked May ________ she ________ got enough time to finish her homework. 68. be possible, for, it, would, visit my pany, you, to, next time（連詞成句） _____________________________________________________________________________ Part 3 Reading and Writing（第三部分 讀寫） VI. Reading prehension（閱讀理解）：（共 50分） A. Choose the best answer（根據短文內容，選擇最恰當的答案）：（ 12 分） Here is a report on school in the United States of America. 1 Introduction Some of you may wonder : What are schools in the US like ? Are there more activities than schools in Hong Kong ? Are there more teachers ? This report aims to answer some of these questions 2. Education system There are two types of schools in the US: public and private schools . Students studying at public schools do not have to pay tuition fees (學費 ) because the schools get funding (資金 ) from the government . Private schools ,however , have to seek their own funding , so they may charge parents a high fee. Students in the US have three years of preschool education . They enter elementary school at the age of six . There are four different ways for them to get their high school diploma(學位證書 )。每空格限填一詞，每個單詞或詞組只能填一次）：（共 8分） A. clean B. lamp C. changed E. On the other hand There have been some strange laws in the past . In the times of Peter Great in Russia , rich people weren’t allowed to have beards ( 胡子 ). If they wanted to keep their beards , they had to pay a _______tax （稅） to the government . In eighteenthcentury England , people had to pay “window tax” for each w indow in their houses. However , this law was finally _______because many people chose to live in houses without windows so that they didn’t have to pay ! In the nieenth century, female teachers in the USA couldn’t get married , or even go out with men . If they got engaged (訂婚 ), they had to give up their jobs immediately . _________, male teachers could get married and have children without any problems ! If you travelled in any motor vehicle in nieenthcentury Britain , the law said that here must be someone in front of you, waving a red flag, or at night time a red ___49___. This meant, in practice, that you couldn’t travel at more than about eight kilometers per hour! 46. _________ 47. __________ 48. __________ 49. ___________ A. only B. problem C. hot D. leave E. stayed In the Midwest of the USA in the 1880s, you were not allowed to eat ice cream sodas on Sunday. Restaurant owners solved this ___50___ by serving ice cream without soda, which became known as a “Sunday”or “sundae”. Also there are some more unusual laws from around the world. In Singapore, people who like to chew gum（口香糖） must ___51___ Singapore. The government really wants to keep the city clean and will fine you for chewing gum. In Thailand it’s against the law to drive a car or motocycle without a shirt on, no matter how ___52___ it is. Punishments（懲罰） are different in different areas and can include warnings and tickets costing about $10. No joke the local police will stop you. Don’t buy things using coins in Canada. The Law of 1985 doesn’t allow using ____53____ coins to buy things. Even the use of the dollarcoin is limited. The shop owner has the right to choose whether to take your coins or not. 50. ________ 51. _________ 52. __________ 53. __________ IV. Complete the sentences with the given words in their proper forms（用括號中所給單詞的適當形式完成下列句子，每空格限填一詞）（ 8分） 54. Be careful with the ________. They