【正文】 may have no idea at all what you want to do. Both situations are fine! Work hard and the right opportunity will present itself to you. Young adulthood means greater freedom and more choices. 38 But try not to shut your family out of your life. You school learn to think of others even though you are old enough to look after yourself. It is also perfectly natural at this time for you to spend more time with your friends than your family. 39 A true friend will stand by you no matter what happens. This period is a part of the life cycle. There are some people who will be with you throughout life’s journey. There will be some people with whom you part and go separate ways. Leaving school can be hard. The reality is that you may not even see all of your classmates again. You are a young adult. It is your life. No one can live it for you. 40 So making the right choices will be important to you. Life is for living. Enjoy your life wisely! A. Choose your friends wisely. B. They will help shape the future. C. They may seem to happen quickly. D. You will probably want to be independent. E. You may appreciate what you have in your own life. F. The choices that you make from now on will be your choices. G. Your family has been with you since you came into this world. 第三部分 英語知識運用（共兩節(jié)，滿分 40 分） 第一節(jié) 完形填空（ 共 20 小題； 每小題 分， 滿分 30 分 ） The Japanese have always loved fresh fish. But the 41 close to Japan have not held many fish for decades. So to 42 the Japanese population, fishing boats got bigger and went a longer way than ever. The 43 the fishermen went, the longer it took to bring in the fish. If the return trip 44 more time, the fish were not fresh. To settle this 45 , fish panies installed(安裝 ) freezers on their boats. They would catch the fish and freeze them at sea. Freezers 46 the boats to go farther and stay longer. 47 , the Japanese could taste the difference 48 the fresh and the frozen fish. And they did not like the taste of the frozen fish. The frozen fish brought a lower 49 . So, the fishing panies installed fish tanks. They would catch the fish and put them in the tanks, fin to fin. After struggling for some time, they stopped moving and became 50 and dull. Days later, they lost their freshfish taste. The fishing industry 51 a ing economic crisis! But today, they get freshtasting fish to Japan. How did they 52 ? To keep the fish tasting fresh, the Japanese fishing panies 53 put the fish in the tanks but with a small shark. The fish are challenged and therefore are constantly on the 54 . The challenger they face keeps them 55 and fresh! Have you 56 that some of us are also living in a pond but most of the time not active or awake? So we need 57 , which, basically in our life, are new challenges, to keep us awake and moving. If you are steadily 58 challenges, you are happy. “Your challenges keep you 59 and fresh. Don’t create success and enjoy it in a state of 60 . You have the resources, skills and abilities to make a difference.” 41. A. islands B. waters C. towns D. tanks 42. A. increase B. satisfy C. reduce D. feed 43. A. farther B. longer C. slower D. faster 44. A. wasted B. spent C. took D. saved 45. A. quarrel B. argument C. conflict D. problem 46. A. encouraged B. allowed C. forced D. advised 47. A. However B. Thus C. Besides D. Otherwise 48. A. between B. through C. among D. beyond 49. A. cost B. value C. price D. money 50. A. surprised B. puzzled C. excited D. tired 51. A. faced B. avoided C. built D. stopped 52. A. change B. follow C. manage D. exist 53. A. also B. still C. already D. even 54. A. rise B. march C. mend D. move 55. A. alive B. sleepy C. alone D. alike 56. A. promised B. predicted C. realized D. remembered 57. A. wolves B. sharks C. tigers D. lions 58. A. searching B. collecting C. obeying D. overing 59. A. energetic B. independent C. curious D. gentle 60. A. thankfulness B. sadness C. stillness D. weakness 第二節(jié) （共 10 小題；每小題 1 分，滿分 10 分）（ 原創(chuàng)） 閱讀下面材料，在空白處填入適當(dāng)?shù)膬?nèi)容（ 1 個單詞）或括號內(nèi)單詞的正確形式。 A young man presented himself to the local expert on gems and said he wanted to learn from him and bee 61 expert on gems, too. The expert refused to teach him because he feared that the youth would not have the 62 (patient) to learn. The young man asked for a chance. Finally the expert agreed and told the youth, “Be here tomorrow.” The next morning the expert put a jade stone in the boy’s hand and told him to hold 63 . The expert then went about his work, cutting, weighing, and setting gems. The boy