【正文】 It’s much cheaper to go around by bus than by train．C．You can see a lot more in Singapore only by renting a car．D．It’s easy and convenient for visitors to travel in Singapore．第二節(jié) 閱讀填空 閱讀短文內(nèi)容，從短文后的ABCDE五個選項中選出能填入空白處最佳選項。t use English C．can39。s radio broadcast(廣播) and 70% of the mails are in English．At international sports，and at talks of writers and artists all around the world，English is the language which is most monly used and most widely understood． English has，in fact，bee the language of international cooperation(合作) and technology．The most advanced(先進) results in space，nuclear and puter research are published in English．A scientist who speaks and writes in English is in closer touch with the scientists in other countries than one who doesn39。s one of the few working languages of the United Nations and is more often used than the others．It39。 D. play三、閱讀（共兩節(jié)，滿分45分）第一節(jié) 閱讀理解（共20小題；每小題2分，滿分40分）26~45題 (A)Some people like to collect stamps. Others prefer posters or boxes. But Poly is different. She collects children. In her mountain village, in Grosmtra, she is known as the wonderful young woman who adopts all the children she can.Poly was 14 when she adopted her first child, a Nepali baby girl, whose parents passed away. Poly’s parents did not mind. Poly left school and started working fulltime because she had a baby to feed. Today, she has twelve adopted children, and two sons from her marriage.Poly is about 30 years old and she es from a mon family. If you passed her on the street, you wouldn’t give her a second look. She lives in a brown mudwashed house. There is a vegetable garden outside. Red hens with noisy chicks run all over the garden looking for food.If you ask her why she provides a home for so many kids, she smiles shyly but her eyes are serious, “I know what it is to be poor and hungry.” As a child, her only dream was to eat a full meal, and her favourite amusement(娛樂活動) was watching people with shoes and imagining what it felt like. By adopting poor and homeless children she is making sure that they never feel that hopeless.Poly feels very proud when she sees her children happy and bright. Her oldest baby, Sarita Rai, is now 20 years old. Then, there is 19yearold Nimbhe who came to Poly because her mother was unable to look after her. She started to work in a government office two years ago. Tenyearold Bhim and 14yearold Kumar came to Pinky five years ago. After their father’s death, they started living on a patch of land given by Poly and grew vegetables for sale.“I like children. It’s not one more mouth to feed but one more soul to save,” Poly says.( )26. What does Poly like to collect? A. Stamps B. Posters C. Boxes D. Children( )27. What’s the Chinese meaning of the underline word “adopt”? A. 培養(yǎng) C. 飼養(yǎng) D. 養(yǎng)育( )28. After Poly adopted her first child, she _____. A. began to raise some chicks B. didn’t go to school anytime C. asked her parents for help D. left her mountain( )29. Which of the following is true according to the passage? A. Poly likes smart children. B. Bhim and Kumar are from the same family. C. People in Poly’s village have no shoes to wear. D. Sarita rai works in a government office.( )30. We can infer from the passage that Poly is _____. A. kind B. strict C. bright D. careful (B)After giving a talk at a high school, I was asked to pay a visit to a special student. An illness had kept the boy home, but he had expressed an interest in meeting me. I was told it would mean a great deal to him, so I agreed.During the ninemile drive to his home, I found out something about Matthew. He had muscular dystrophy(肌肉萎縮癥). When he was born, the doctor told his parents that he would not live to five, and then they were told he would not make it to ten. Now he was thirteen. He wanted to meet me because I was a goldmedal power lifter, and I knew about overing obstacles(困難) and going for my dreams.I spent over an hour talking to Matthew. Never once did he plain or ask, “Why me?” He spoke about