【正文】 the ticket to him, he was surprised. The __44__ was very apparent on his face as we waited for the time of the __45__. Just like a schoolboy, he was __46__ himself on that day, using the trolley (手推車 ) for his luggage and asking for a window seat. He was __47__ enjoying himself and I, too, watching him experience all these things with __48__. As he was about to go in for the security checkin, he walked up to me with tears in his eyes and __49__ me. He became very __50__ for what I had done meant a great deal to him. I told him there was no need to thank me. Later, I __51__ my life. As a child, how many dreams had our parents made e true? Without __52__ the financial situation, we asked for dresses, toys, outings, etc. They tried to __53__ all our needs. Did we ever say thanks for all they had done for us? Today __54__ it es to our children, we always think we should give them the best. But we tend to __55__ that our parents have sacrificed a lot to see us happy, so it is our __56__ to make sure their dreams are realized. Old age is like a second childhood and just as we take care of our children, the same __57__ needs to be given to our parents. I want to say sorry for making my father __58__ so long for this small dream to be realized. Just the fact that they are old does not mean that they will have to __59__ everything and keep sacrificing. They have __60__, too. Take care of your parents. They are precious. 41. A. Bus B. train C. ship D. air 42. A. catch B. miss C. experience D. change 43. spite of B. Because of C. In case of D. Instead of 44. A. pride B. excitement C. admiration D. ambition 45. A. appointment B. dream C. travel D. show 46. A. encouraging B. warning C. teaching D. preparing 47. A. thoroughly B. slowly C. immediately D. suddenly 48. A. anger B. joy C. shyness D. curiosity 49. A. helped B. patted C. thanked D. praised 50. A. honest B. childish C. nervous D. emotional 51. A. looked for B. looked down upon C. looked into D. looked back on 52. A. understanding B. describing C. solving D. improving 53. A. avoid B. meet C. record D. check 54. A. unless B. because C. when D. though 55. A. learn B. express C. promise D. fet 56. A. ability B. responsibility C. freedom D. fortune 57. A. song B. advice C. attention D. thing 58. A. struggle B. wait C. rest D. stand 59. A. hand in B. pick up C. pay off D. give up 60. A. wishes B. jobs C. plans D. suggestions 第二節(jié)（共 10 小題；每小題 分，滿分 15 分 閱讀短文，在空白處填入適當(dāng)?shù)?內(nèi)容（不多于 3 個(gè)單詞）或括號(hào)內(nèi)單詞的正確形式。t function on the basis of science. 32. It can be inferred from the passage that McCormick _______. A. sold the equipment at a low price B. was wellknown in most countries C. did not think he had mitted the crime D. had not got such huge profit as mentioned in the text D. “Indeed,” Gee Washington wrote in his diary in 1785, “some kind of fly, or bug, had begun to eat the leaves before I left home.” But the father of America was not the father of bug. When Washington wrote that, Englishmen had been referring to insects as bugs for more than a century, and Americans had already created lightningbug(螢火蟲 ). But the English were soon to stop using the bugs in their language, leaving it to the Americans to call a bug a bug in the nieenth and twentieth centuries. The American bug could also be a person, referring to someone who was crazy about a particular activity. Although fan became the usual term, sports fans used to be called racing bugs, baseball bugs, and the like. Or the bug could be a small machine or object, for example, a bugshaped car. The bug could also be a burglar alarm, from which es the expression to bug, that is, “to install (安裝 ) an alarm”. Now it means a small piece of equipment that people use for listening secretly to others? conversation. Since the 1840s, to bug has long meant “to cheat”, and since the 1940s it has been annoying. We also know the bug as a flaw in a puter program or other design. That meaning dates back to the time of Thomas Edison. In 1878 he explained bugs as “l(fā)ittle problems and difficulties” that required months of study and labor to overe in developing