【正文】 A. torrent B. transient C. tensile D. textured22. Nobody knew how he came up with this _______idea about the trip. A. weary B. twilight C. unanimous D. weird23. The flower under the sun would ____________quickly without any protection. A. wink B. withhold C. wither D. widower24. The ________of gifted children into accelerated classes will start next week according to their academic performance. A. segregation B. specification C, spectrum D. subscription25. He __________himself bitterly for his miserable behavior that evening.A. repealed B. resented C. relayed D. reproached26. Written at least 100 years ago, the handwriting faded and certainly became _________. A. infinite B. illegible C. infectious D. immune27. He cut the string and held up the two ________to tie the box.A. segments B. sediments C. seizures D. secrets28. All the music instruments in the orchestra will be ________before it starts. A. civilized B. chattered C. chambered D. chorded29. When the air in a certain space is squeezed to occupy a smaller space, the air is said to be __________. A. menced B. pressed C. promised D. pensated30. She made two copies of this poem and posted them ________to different publishers. A. sensationally B. simultaneously C. strenuously D. simplyPart Ⅲ Reading Comprehension (45 minutes, 30 points) Directions: There are 5 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer and mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machinescoring ANSWER SHEET. Passage One The way people hold to the belief that a funfilled, painfree life equals happiness actually reduces their chances of ever attaining real happiness. If fun and pleasure are equal to happiness then pain must be equal to unhappiness. But in fact, the opposite is true: more often than not 39。s sleep or a threeday vacation. I don39。s opinion, is ________. A. a moral duty B. a thankless job C. a rewarding task D. a source of inevitable pain33. From the last paragraph, we learn that envy sometimes stems from __________. A. hatred B. misunderstanding C. prejudice D. ignorance34. To understand what true happiness is, one must ___________. A. have as much run as possible during one39。s opinion, __________. A. happiness is different from fun B. fun always leads to happiness C. happiness is always originated from funD. pain is another kind of happiness Passage Two It39。 none of them is talking about getting rid of those instruments that produce diversity. In fact, they say that if their panies are to pete in the global village and in the global market place, diversity is an imperative. They also say that the need for talented, skilled Americans means we have to expand the Pool of potential employees. And in looking at where birth rates growing and at where the Population is shifting, corporate America understands that expanding the pool means Promoting policies that help provide skills to more minorities, more women and more immigrants. Corporate leaders know that if that doesn39。t hear people in the academy saying Let39。s go back to the good old days, when we had a meritocracy (不拘一格選人才) (which was never true—we never had a meritocracy, although we39。s attitude towards diversity is _________. A. positive B. neural C. objective D. critical Passage Three Psychologist George Spilich and colleagues at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, decided to find out whether, as many smokers say, smoking helps them to think and concentrate. Spilich put young nonsmokers, active smokers, active smokers and smokers deprived (被剝奪) of cigarettes through a series of tests. In the first test, each subject (試驗對象) sat before a puter screen and pressed a key as soon as he or she recognized a target letter among a grouping of 96. In this simple test, smokers, deprived smokers and nonsmokers performed equally well. The next test was more plex, requiring all to scan sequences of 20 identical letters and respond the instant one of the letters transformed into a different one. Nonsmokers were faster, but under the stimulation of nicotine (尼古丁), active smokers were faster than deprived smokers. In the third test of shortterm memory, nonsmokers made the fewest errors, but deprived smokers mitted fewer errors than active smokers. The fourth test required people to read a passage, then answer questions about it. Nonsmokers remembered 19 percent more of the most important information than active smokers, and deprived smokers bested those who had smoked a cigarette just before testing. Active smokers tended not only to have poorer memories but also had trouble separating important information from insignificant details. As our tests became more plex, sums up Spilich, nonsmokers performed better than smokers by wider and wider margins. He predicts, smokers might perform adequately at many jobs until they got plicated. A smoking airline pilot could fly adequately if no problems arose, but if something went wrong, smoking might damage his mental capacity.43. The purpose of George Spilich39。s mental capacity C. to prove that smoking affects people39。s shortterm memory44. George Spilich39。s international ruling body, wants to improve the standard of refereeing at the next World Cup, it should encourage referees to ke