【正文】 to avoid reaching out to fort them. The outbreak was declared over in Sierra Leone on 7 November. I returned for the celebrations. But despite reaching this longawaited milestone, all is not well. Ibrahim Koroma, 21, clings to (緊緊抓住 ) his survivor39。 17. What will people do tomorrow morning? A. Watch a performance. B. Have a meeting. C. Go sightseeing. 18. Why does the speaker have to change today?s plan? A. Diana Decker wants to speak first. B. The first speaker got food poisoning. C. He will attend an important meeting. 19. When will the coffee break start? A. At 9:30. B. At 10:00. C. At 10:30. 20. Where will the discussion be held? A. In Room 201. B. In the meeting hall. C. In the Youth Action Theater. 第二部分 閱讀理解 （共兩節(jié) 滿分 40 分） 第一節(jié) （共 15 小題；每小題 2 分，滿分 30 分） A After spending a year in Brazil on a student exchange program, her mother recalled(回憶 ), Marie Colvin returned home to find that her classmates had narrowed down their college choices. “Everyone else was already admitted to college,” her mother, Rosemarie Colvin, said from the family home. “So she took our car and drove up to Yale and said, ?You have to let me in .? ” “Impressedshe was a National Merit (全國英才 ) finalist who had picked up Portuguese in Brazil. Yale did, admitting her to the class of 1978, where she started writing for the Yale Daily News and decided to be a journalist,” her mother said. On Wednesday, Marie Colvin, 56, an experienced journalist for The Sunday Times of London, was killed as Syrian forces shelled(炮擊 ) the city of Homs. She was working in a temporary media center that was destroyed in the attack. “She was supposed to leave Syria on Wednesday”, Mrs. Colvin said. “Her editor told me he called her yesterday and said it was getting too dangerous and they wanted to take her out. She said she was doing a story and she wanted to finish it.” Mrs. Colvin said it was pointless to try to prevent her daughter from going to conflict （沖突） zones. “If you knew my daughter,” she said, “it would have been such a waste of words. She was determined, she was enthusiastic about what she did, it was her life. There was no saying ?Don?t do this.? This is who she was, absolutely who she was and what she believed in: cover the story, not just have pictures of it, but bring it to life in the deepest way you could.” “So it was not a surprise when she took an interest in journalism,” her mother said. 21. From the underlined sentence in Paragraph 1, we can infer that ________ . A. Yale was her last choice B. Marie Colvin was confident of herself C. Yale must keep its promise to Marie Colvin D. Marie Colvin was good at persuading 22. Which of the following is the correct order to describe Marie Colvin?s life ? a. She was doing a story in Syria and got killed. b. She was admitted to Yale University. c. She studied in Brazil as an excellent student. d. She was hired by The Sunday Times of London. e. She began to take an interest in journalism. A. d→e→c→a→b B. b→c→d→e→a C. e→d→c→b→a D. c→b→e→d→a 23. From the last paragraph, we can know that Mrs. Colvin ________. A. dislikes the choice of her daughter B. cares little about her daughter C. knows her daughter very well D. doesn?t fully appreciate her daughter 24. What can be the best title of the text? A. Covering Stories in a Dangerous Conflict Area. B. Applying for Top Universities, a Successful Case C. Choosing Lifelong Careers Based on Your Own Interest. D. Recalling Her Daughter, a Journalist Killed in Syria. B Ammie Reddick from East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, was only 18 months old when she had the accident that had scarred(留下創(chuàng)傷 ) her for life. The curious child reached up to grab the wire of a hot kettle in the family kitchen and poured boiling water over her tiny infant frame（身軀） . Her mother Ruby turned round and, seeing Ammie horribly burnt, called an ambulance which rushed her daughter to a nearby hospital. Twenty percent of Ammie?s body had been burned and all of her burns were thirddegree. There, using tissue(組織 ) taken from unburned areas of Ammie?s body, doctors performed plex skin transplants(移植 ) to close her wounds and control her injuries, an operation that took about six hours. Over the next 16 years, Ammie underwent 12 more operations to repair her body. When she started school at Maxwelton Primary at age 4, other pupils made cruel ments or simply wouldn?t play with her. “I was the only burned ch