第二節(jié)　語法填空（共10小題；每小題1.5分，滿分15分）

　　閱讀下面短文，按照句子結(jié)構(gòu)的語法性和上下文連貫的要求，在空格處填入一個適當(dāng)?shù)脑~或使用括號中詞語的正確形式填空，并將答案填寫在答題卡標(biāo)號為16～25的相應(yīng)位置上。

　　Fleming was a poor Scottish farmer. One day while working in a field, he heard a cry for help. He immediately   16  (throw) his tools away. Following the sound, Fleming came to a deep bog (沼澤), in which a boy was screaming and sinking. Fleming tied a rope around   17   own waist and the other end   18   a tree, and walked into the bog. With great effort he pulled himself and the boy to   19   (safe). He quickly took the boy to his farmhouse,   20   Mrs. Fleming fed him, dried his clothes, and sent him home.

　　The next day a carriage arrived. A well-dressed man stepped out,   21   (say) he was the father of the boy. “You saved my son’s life.” said the man. “  22   can I repay you?”

　　“I don’t want payment.” Fleming replied, “Anyone would have done the same.”

　　Just then, Fleming’s son appeared at the door.

　　“Is he your son?” the man asked. “Yes.” said Fleming   23  (happy).

　　“I have an idea. Let me pay for his education. If he’s like his father, he’ll grow to be a man we’ll both be proud of.”

　　And so he did. Thus   24   farmer’s son attended the best schools, graduated from a medical college, and became the world-famous Nobel prize-winning scientist and discoverer of penicillin, Sir Alexander Fleming.

　　It’s said   25   many years later the man saved from the bog caught pneumonia(肺炎).

　　Penicillin saved his life. His name? Sir Winston Churchill.

Ⅱ 閱讀  (共兩節(jié)，滿分50分)

第一節(jié)　閱讀理解（共20小題；每小題2分，滿分40分）

　　閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的A、B、C和D中，選出最佳答案，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。

A

　　Homebuyers nationwide are watching housing prices go up, up, and up. “How high can they go?” is the question on everyone’s lips. “As long as interest rates stay around 5 percent, there’s no telling,” remarked one realtor(房產(chǎn)中介) in Santa Monica, California.

　　“It’s crazy,” said Tim, who is looking for a house near the beach. “In 1993, I bought my first place, a two-bedroom apartment in Venice, for $70,000. My friends thought that I was overpaying then. Five years later, I had to move. I sold it for $230,000, which was a nice profit. Last year, while visiting friends here, I saw in the local paper that the exact same apartment was for sale for $510,000!”

　　It is a seller’s market. Homebuyers feel like they have to offer at least 10 percent more than the asking price. Donna, a new owner of a one-bedroom apartment in Venice Beach, said, “That’s what I did. I told the owner that whatever anyone offers you, I’ll give you $20,000 more, under the table, so you don’t have to pay your realtor any of it. I was tired of looking.”

　　Tim says he hopes he doesn’t get that desperate. “Whether you decide to buy or not, you still feel like you made the wrong decision. If you buy, you feel like you overpaid. If you don’t buy, you want to kick yourself for passing up a great opportunity.”

　　Everyone says the bubble (泡沫) has to burst sometime, but everyone hopes it will burst the day after they sell their house. Even government officials have no idea what the future will bring. “All we can say is that, unavoidably, these things go in cycles,” said the state director of housing. “What goes up must come down. But, as we all know, housing prices always stay up a little higher than they go down. So you can’t lose over the long run. Twenty years down the road, your house is always worth more than you paid for it.”

26．From Paragraph 1 we know that         .

　　A．the housing price is not a daily topic at all

　　B．everyone is concerned about the housing price

　　C．no one would like to talk about the housing price 

　　D．the housing price is a difficult question to talk about

27．Why would Donna pay $20,000 more to the owner under the table?

　　A．Because Donna wanted to save money.

　　B．Because it was worth more than the price.

　　C．Because Donna was tired of the realtor.

　　D．Because Donna never cared about money.

28．What do we know about Tim?

　　A．He made a wrong decision.

　　B．He chose to wait for a while.

　　C．He wanted to kick himself.

　　D．He didn’t know what to do.

29．The last sentence of the passage tells us that         .

　　A．the housing price will go down

　　B．you will lose money in the long run

　　C．buying houses is always worthwhile

　　D．people always pay more for their houses

30．Which of the following is the best title of the passage?

　　A．Crazy Housing Prices

　　B．The Homebuyers

　　C．Whether to Buy a House or Not

　　D．The Future of Housing Prices
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