二、綜合題。
1.第2部分：閱讀判斷
Trees
1. Trees are plants that survive year after year and have a single main stem composed entirely of wood. Some kinds grow to only ten feet. Others attain heights of more than 350 feet. These giants also have stems that are as much as 100 feet in circumference （圓周）.
2. Over 25,000 different species of tree grow around the wood, except near the North and South Poles. They all belong to one of two possible groups. They are either coniferous （松類的） or deciduous （落葉的）. Coniferous trees are evergreens （常綠的）， such as pine or fir, which bear needlelike foliage （子） all year long. Many deciduous trees have broad leaves, which they usually shed each year at the beginning of the cold season.
3. Trees provide people with a host of oils, drugs glues, candy, cloths, fuels, and well over 10,000 wooden products. Some have unique qualities that make their wood valuable for special purposes. One particular type of tree, for example, is used to make fishing rods because it is not strong but unusually flexible. Queensland walnut is used by the electrical industry in Australia, because it is almost as good an electrical insulator as rubber. One of the world most unusual trees is the teak （柚木）. It is one of the heaviest of all woods, and it has the largest leaves of any tree. These enormous leaves are two feet square and their surface is so tough and coarse that cabinetmakers in India use them as sandpaper. Teakwood itself is so heavy that when a teak tree is first cut down it will not float in water. It takes three years for the ten or fifteen ton trunk to dry out enough so it will not sink.
4. Of all the world’s billions of living trees, the tallest is a giant redwood in California. It towers 368 feet. This redwood tree is anchored and nourished by a massive root system. It extends over three full acres.
16. Trees grow every corner of the world.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
17. The tallest tree in the world is 368 feet in height.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
18. Teak is the heaviest tree in the world.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
19. Queensland walnut can conduct electricity well.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
20. Coniferous trees never shed leaves.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
21. Short trees are often deciduous.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
22. Redwood only grows in California.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
2.第3部分：概括大意與完成句子
What is Happiness?
1. The way people hold to the belief that a fun-filled, 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 things that lead to happiness involve some pain.
2. As a result, many people avoid the very attempts that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain inevitably brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, religious commitment, self-improvement.
3. Ask a bachelor why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying. If he is honest he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment （應(yīng)承擔的義務(wù)）. For commitment is in fact quite painful. The single life is filled with fun, adventure, and excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most distinguishing features.
4. Couples with infant children are lucky to get a whole nights sleep or three-day vacation. I dont know parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children. But couples who decide not to have children never know the joys of watching a child grow up or of playing with a grandchild.
5. Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations. It liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can genuinely increase our happiness. It liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless. And it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all those who are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all.
23. Paragraph 1 ______.
24. Paragraph 2 ______.
25. Paragraph 4 ______.
26. Paragraph 5 ______.
A. The reason of marriage
B. Pain and happiness
C. Kinds of liberating realizations
D. Joys of raising a child
E. Fear to true happiness
F. Seeking happiness
27. Raising children is ______.
28. The bachelor resists marriage chiefly because of ______.
29. Envy sometimes stem from ______.
30. Happiness often ______ with pain.
A. goes hand in hand
B. his reluctance to take on responsibilities
C. hatred
D. misunderstanding
E. a rewarding task
F. a moral duty 二、綜合題。
1.第2部分：閱讀判斷
Trees
1. Trees are plants that survive year after year and have a single main stem composed entirely of wood. Some kinds grow to only ten feet. Others attain heights of more than 350 feet. These giants also have stems that are as much as 100 feet in circumference （圓周）.
2. Over 25,000 different species of tree grow around the wood, except near the North and South Poles. They all belong to one of two possible groups. They are either coniferous （松類的） or deciduous （落葉的）. Coniferous trees are evergreens （常綠的）， such as pine or fir, which bear needlelike foliage （子） all year long. Many deciduous trees have broad leaves, which they usually shed each year at the beginning of the cold season.
3. Trees provide people with a host of oils, drugs glues, candy, cloths, fuels, and well over 10,000 wooden products. Some have unique qualities that make their wood valuable for special purposes. One particular type of tree, for example, is used to make fishing rods because it is not strong but unusually flexible. Queensland walnut is used by the electrical industry in Australia, because it is almost as good an electrical insulator as rubber. One of the world most unusual trees is the teak （柚木）. It is one of the heaviest of all woods, and it has the largest leaves of any tree. These enormous leaves are two feet square and their surface is so tough and coarse that cabinetmakers in India use them as sandpaper. Teakwood itself is so heavy that when a teak tree is first cut down it will not float in water. It takes three years for the ten or fifteen ton trunk to dry out enough so it will not sink.
4. Of all the world’s billions of living trees, the tallest is a giant redwood in California. It towers 368 feet. This redwood tree is anchored and nourished by a massive root system. It extends over three full acres.
16. Trees grow every corner of the world.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
17. The tallest tree in the world is 368 feet in height.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
18. Teak is the heaviest tree in the world.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
19. Queensland walnut can conduct electricity well.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
20. Coniferous trees never shed leaves.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
21. Short trees are often deciduous.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
22. Redwood only grows in California.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
2.第3部分：概括大意與完成句子
What is Happiness?
1. The way people hold to the belief that a fun-filled, 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 things that lead to happiness involve some pain.
2. As a result, many people avoid the very attempts that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain inevitably brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, religious commitment, self-improvement.
3. Ask a bachelor why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying. If he is honest he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment （應(yīng)承擔的義務(wù)）. For commitment is in fact quite painful. The single life is filled with fun, adventure, and excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most distinguishing features.
4. Couples with infant children are lucky to get a whole nights sleep or three-day vacation. I dont know parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children. But couples who decide not to have children never know the joys of watching a child grow up or of playing with a grandchild.
5. Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations. It liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can genuinely increase our happiness. It liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless. And it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all those who are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all.
23. Paragraph 1 ______.
24. Paragraph 2 ______.
25. Paragraph 4 ______.
26. Paragraph 5 ______.
A. The reason of marriage
B. Pain and happiness
C. Kinds of liberating realizations
D. Joys of raising a child
E. Fear to true happiness
F. Seeking happiness
27. Raising children is ______.
28. The bachelor resists marriage chiefly because of ______.
29. Envy sometimes stem from ______.
30. Happiness often ______ with pain.
A. goes hand in hand
B. his reluctance to take on responsibilities
C. hatred
D. misunderstanding
E. a rewarding task
F. a moral duty
二、綜合題。
1.第2部分：閱讀判斷
Trees
1. Trees are plants that survive year after year and have a single main stem composed entirely of wood. Some kinds grow to only ten feet. Others attain heights of more than 350 feet. These giants also have stems that are as much as 100 feet in circumference （圓周）.
2. Over 25,000 different species of tree grow around the wood, except near the North and South Poles. They all belong to one of two possible groups. They are either coniferous （松類的） or deciduous （落葉的）. Coniferous trees are evergreens （常綠的）， such as pine or fir, which bear needlelike foliage （子） all year long. Many deciduous trees have broad leaves, which they usually shed each year at the beginning of the cold season.
3. Trees provide people with a host of oils, drugs glues, candy, cloths, fuels, and well over 10,000 wooden products. Some have unique qualities that make their wood valuable for special purposes. One particular type of tree, for example, is used to make fishing rods because it is not strong but unusually flexible. Queensland walnut is used by the electrical industry in Australia, because it is almost as good an electrical insulator as rubber. One of the world most unusual trees is the teak （柚木）. It is one of the heaviest of all woods, and it has the largest leaves of any tree. These enormous leaves are two feet square and their surface is so tough and coarse that cabinetmakers in India use them as sandpaper. Teakwood itself is so heavy that when a teak tree is first cut down it will not float in water. It takes three years for the ten or fifteen ton trunk to dry out enough so it will not sink.
4. Of all the world’s billions of living trees, the tallest is a giant redwood in California. It towers 368 feet. This redwood tree is anchored and nourished by a massive root system. It extends over three full acres.
16. Trees grow every corner of the world.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
17. The tallest tree in the world is 368 feet in height.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
18. Teak is the heaviest tree in the world.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
19. Queensland walnut can conduct electricity well.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
20. Coniferous trees never shed leaves.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
21. Short trees are often deciduous.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
22. Redwood only grows in California.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
2.第3部分：概括大意與完成句子
What is Happiness?
1. The way people hold to the belief that a fun-filled, 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 things that lead to happiness involve some pain.
2. As a result, many people avoid the very attempts that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain inevitably brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, religious commitment, self-improvement.
3. Ask a bachelor why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying. If he is honest he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment （應(yīng)承擔的義務(wù)）. For commitment is in fact quite painful. The single life is filled with fun, adventure, and excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most distinguishing features.
4. Couples with infant children are lucky to get a whole nights sleep or three-day vacation. I dont know parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children. But couples who decide not to have children never know the joys of watching a child grow up or of playing with a grandchild.
5. Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations. It liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can genuinely increase our happiness. It liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless. And it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all those who are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all.
23. Paragraph 1 ______.
24. Paragraph 2 ______.
25. Paragraph 4 ______.
26. Paragraph 5 ______.
A. The reason of marriage
B. Pain and happiness
C. Kinds of liberating realizations
D. Joys of raising a child
E. Fear to true happiness
F. Seeking happiness
27. Raising children is ______.
28. The bachelor resists marriage chiefly because of ______.
29. Envy sometimes stem from ______.
30. Happiness often ______ with pain.
A. goes hand in hand
B. his reluctance to take on responsibilities
C. hatred
D. misunderstanding
E. a rewarding task
F. a moral duty 二、綜合題。
1.第2部分：閱讀判斷
Trees
1. Trees are plants that survive year after year and have a single main stem composed entirely of wood. Some kinds grow to only ten feet. Others attain heights of more than 350 feet. These giants also have stems that are as much as 100 feet in circumference （圓周）.
2. Over 25,000 different species of tree grow around the wood, except near the North and South Poles. They all belong to one of two possible groups. They are either coniferous （松類的） or deciduous （落葉的）. Coniferous trees are evergreens （常綠的）， such as pine or fir, which bear needlelike foliage （子） all year long. Many deciduous trees have broad leaves, which they usually shed each year at the beginning of the cold season.
3. Trees provide people with a host of oils, drugs glues, candy, cloths, fuels, and well over 10,000 wooden products. Some have unique qualities that make their wood valuable for special purposes. One particular type of tree, for example, is used to make fishing rods because it is not strong but unusually flexible. Queensland walnut is used by the electrical industry in Australia, because it is almost as good an electrical insulator as rubber. One of the world most unusual trees is the teak （柚木）. It is one of the heaviest of all woods, and it has the largest leaves of any tree. These enormous leaves are two feet square and their surface is so tough and coarse that cabinetmakers in India use them as sandpaper. Teakwood itself is so heavy that when a teak tree is first cut down it will not float in water. It takes three years for the ten or fifteen ton trunk to dry out enough so it will not sink.
4. Of all the world’s billions of living trees, the tallest is a giant redwood in California. It towers 368 feet. This redwood tree is anchored and nourished by a massive root system. It extends over three full acres.
16. Trees grow every corner of the world.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
17. The tallest tree in the world is 368 feet in height.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
18. Teak is the heaviest tree in the world.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
19. Queensland walnut can conduct electricity well.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
20. Coniferous trees never shed leaves.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
21. Short trees are often deciduous.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
22. Redwood only grows in California.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
2.第3部分：概括大意與完成句子
What is Happiness?
1. The way people hold to the belief that a fun-filled, 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 things that lead to happiness involve some pain.
2. As a result, many people avoid the very attempts that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain inevitably brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, religious commitment, self-improvement.
3. Ask a bachelor why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying. If he is honest he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment （應(yīng)承擔的義務(wù)）. For commitment is in fact quite painful. The single life is filled with fun, adventure, and excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most distinguishing features.
4. Couples with infant children are lucky to get a whole nights sleep or three-day vacation. I dont know parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children. But couples who decide not to have children never know the joys of watching a child grow up or of playing with a grandchild.
5. Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations. It liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can genuinely increase our happiness. It liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless. And it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all those who are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all.
23. Paragraph 1 ______.
24. Paragraph 2 ______.
25. Paragraph 4 ______.
26. Paragraph 5 ______.
A. The reason of marriage
B. Pain and happiness
C. Kinds of liberating realizations
D. Joys of raising a child
E. Fear to true happiness
F. Seeking happiness
27. Raising children is ______.
28. The bachelor resists marriage chiefly because of ______.
29. Envy sometimes stem from ______.
30. Happiness often ______ with pain.
A. goes hand in hand
B. his reluctance to take on responsibilities
C. hatred
D. misunderstanding
E. a rewarding task
F. a moral duty
1.第2部分：閱讀判斷
Trees
1. Trees are plants that survive year after year and have a single main stem composed entirely of wood. Some kinds grow to only ten feet. Others attain heights of more than 350 feet. These giants also have stems that are as much as 100 feet in circumference （圓周）.
2. Over 25,000 different species of tree grow around the wood, except near the North and South Poles. They all belong to one of two possible groups. They are either coniferous （松類的） or deciduous （落葉的）. Coniferous trees are evergreens （常綠的）， such as pine or fir, which bear needlelike foliage （子） all year long. Many deciduous trees have broad leaves, which they usually shed each year at the beginning of the cold season.
3. Trees provide people with a host of oils, drugs glues, candy, cloths, fuels, and well over 10,000 wooden products. Some have unique qualities that make their wood valuable for special purposes. One particular type of tree, for example, is used to make fishing rods because it is not strong but unusually flexible. Queensland walnut is used by the electrical industry in Australia, because it is almost as good an electrical insulator as rubber. One of the world most unusual trees is the teak （柚木）. It is one of the heaviest of all woods, and it has the largest leaves of any tree. These enormous leaves are two feet square and their surface is so tough and coarse that cabinetmakers in India use them as sandpaper. Teakwood itself is so heavy that when a teak tree is first cut down it will not float in water. It takes three years for the ten or fifteen ton trunk to dry out enough so it will not sink.
4. Of all the world’s billions of living trees, the tallest is a giant redwood in California. It towers 368 feet. This redwood tree is anchored and nourished by a massive root system. It extends over three full acres.
16. Trees grow every corner of the world.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
17. The tallest tree in the world is 368 feet in height.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
18. Teak is the heaviest tree in the world.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
19. Queensland walnut can conduct electricity well.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
20. Coniferous trees never shed leaves.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
21. Short trees are often deciduous.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
22. Redwood only grows in California.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
2.第3部分：概括大意與完成句子
What is Happiness?
1. The way people hold to the belief that a fun-filled, 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 things that lead to happiness involve some pain.
2. As a result, many people avoid the very attempts that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain inevitably brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, religious commitment, self-improvement.
3. Ask a bachelor why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying. If he is honest he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment （應(yīng)承擔的義務(wù)）. For commitment is in fact quite painful. The single life is filled with fun, adventure, and excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most distinguishing features.
4. Couples with infant children are lucky to get a whole nights sleep or three-day vacation. I dont know parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children. But couples who decide not to have children never know the joys of watching a child grow up or of playing with a grandchild.
5. Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations. It liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can genuinely increase our happiness. It liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless. And it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all those who are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all.
23. Paragraph 1 ______.
24. Paragraph 2 ______.
25. Paragraph 4 ______.
26. Paragraph 5 ______.
A. The reason of marriage
B. Pain and happiness
C. Kinds of liberating realizations
D. Joys of raising a child
E. Fear to true happiness
F. Seeking happiness
27. Raising children is ______.
28. The bachelor resists marriage chiefly because of ______.
29. Envy sometimes stem from ______.
30. Happiness often ______ with pain.
A. goes hand in hand
B. his reluctance to take on responsibilities
C. hatred
D. misunderstanding
E. a rewarding task
F. a moral duty 二、綜合題。
1.第2部分：閱讀判斷
Trees
1. Trees are plants that survive year after year and have a single main stem composed entirely of wood. Some kinds grow to only ten feet. Others attain heights of more than 350 feet. These giants also have stems that are as much as 100 feet in circumference （圓周）.
2. Over 25,000 different species of tree grow around the wood, except near the North and South Poles. They all belong to one of two possible groups. They are either coniferous （松類的） or deciduous （落葉的）. Coniferous trees are evergreens （常綠的）， such as pine or fir, which bear needlelike foliage （子） all year long. Many deciduous trees have broad leaves, which they usually shed each year at the beginning of the cold season.
3. Trees provide people with a host of oils, drugs glues, candy, cloths, fuels, and well over 10,000 wooden products. Some have unique qualities that make their wood valuable for special purposes. One particular type of tree, for example, is used to make fishing rods because it is not strong but unusually flexible. Queensland walnut is used by the electrical industry in Australia, because it is almost as good an electrical insulator as rubber. One of the world most unusual trees is the teak （柚木）. It is one of the heaviest of all woods, and it has the largest leaves of any tree. These enormous leaves are two feet square and their surface is so tough and coarse that cabinetmakers in India use them as sandpaper. Teakwood itself is so heavy that when a teak tree is first cut down it will not float in water. It takes three years for the ten or fifteen ton trunk to dry out enough so it will not sink.
4. Of all the world’s billions of living trees, the tallest is a giant redwood in California. It towers 368 feet. This redwood tree is anchored and nourished by a massive root system. It extends over three full acres.
16. Trees grow every corner of the world.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
17. The tallest tree in the world is 368 feet in height.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
18. Teak is the heaviest tree in the world.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
19. Queensland walnut can conduct electricity well.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
20. Coniferous trees never shed leaves.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
21. Short trees are often deciduous.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
22. Redwood only grows in California.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
2.第3部分：概括大意與完成句子
What is Happiness?
1. The way people hold to the belief that a fun-filled, 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 things that lead to happiness involve some pain.
2. As a result, many people avoid the very attempts that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain inevitably brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, religious commitment, self-improvement.
3. Ask a bachelor why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying. If he is honest he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment （應(yīng)承擔的義務(wù)）. For commitment is in fact quite painful. The single life is filled with fun, adventure, and excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most distinguishing features.
4. Couples with infant children are lucky to get a whole nights sleep or three-day vacation. I dont know parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children. But couples who decide not to have children never know the joys of watching a child grow up or of playing with a grandchild.
5. Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations. It liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can genuinely increase our happiness. It liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless. And it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all those who are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all.
23. Paragraph 1 ______.
24. Paragraph 2 ______.
25. Paragraph 4 ______.
26. Paragraph 5 ______.
A. The reason of marriage
B. Pain and happiness
C. Kinds of liberating realizations
D. Joys of raising a child
E. Fear to true happiness
F. Seeking happiness
27. Raising children is ______.
28. The bachelor resists marriage chiefly because of ______.
29. Envy sometimes stem from ______.
30. Happiness often ______ with pain.
A. goes hand in hand
B. his reluctance to take on responsibilities
C. hatred
D. misunderstanding
E. a rewarding task
F. a moral duty
二、綜合題。
1.第2部分：閱讀判斷
Trees
1. Trees are plants that survive year after year and have a single main stem composed entirely of wood. Some kinds grow to only ten feet. Others attain heights of more than 350 feet. These giants also have stems that are as much as 100 feet in circumference （圓周）.
2. Over 25,000 different species of tree grow around the wood, except near the North and South Poles. They all belong to one of two possible groups. They are either coniferous （松類的） or deciduous （落葉的）. Coniferous trees are evergreens （常綠的）， such as pine or fir, which bear needlelike foliage （子） all year long. Many deciduous trees have broad leaves, which they usually shed each year at the beginning of the cold season.
3. Trees provide people with a host of oils, drugs glues, candy, cloths, fuels, and well over 10,000 wooden products. Some have unique qualities that make their wood valuable for special purposes. One particular type of tree, for example, is used to make fishing rods because it is not strong but unusually flexible. Queensland walnut is used by the electrical industry in Australia, because it is almost as good an electrical insulator as rubber. One of the world most unusual trees is the teak （柚木）. It is one of the heaviest of all woods, and it has the largest leaves of any tree. These enormous leaves are two feet square and their surface is so tough and coarse that cabinetmakers in India use them as sandpaper. Teakwood itself is so heavy that when a teak tree is first cut down it will not float in water. It takes three years for the ten or fifteen ton trunk to dry out enough so it will not sink.
4. Of all the world’s billions of living trees, the tallest is a giant redwood in California. It towers 368 feet. This redwood tree is anchored and nourished by a massive root system. It extends over three full acres.
16. Trees grow every corner of the world.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
17. The tallest tree in the world is 368 feet in height.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
18. Teak is the heaviest tree in the world.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
19. Queensland walnut can conduct electricity well.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
20. Coniferous trees never shed leaves.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
21. Short trees are often deciduous.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
22. Redwood only grows in California.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
2.第3部分：概括大意與完成句子
What is Happiness?
1. The way people hold to the belief that a fun-filled, 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 things that lead to happiness involve some pain.
2. As a result, many people avoid the very attempts that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain inevitably brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, religious commitment, self-improvement.
3. Ask a bachelor why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying. If he is honest he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment （應(yīng)承擔的義務(wù)）. For commitment is in fact quite painful. The single life is filled with fun, adventure, and excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most distinguishing features.
4. Couples with infant children are lucky to get a whole nights sleep or three-day vacation. I dont know parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children. But couples who decide not to have children never know the joys of watching a child grow up or of playing with a grandchild.
5. Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations. It liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can genuinely increase our happiness. It liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless. And it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all those who are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all.
23. Paragraph 1 ______.
24. Paragraph 2 ______.
25. Paragraph 4 ______.
26. Paragraph 5 ______.
A. The reason of marriage
B. Pain and happiness
C. Kinds of liberating realizations
D. Joys of raising a child
E. Fear to true happiness
F. Seeking happiness
27. Raising children is ______.
28. The bachelor resists marriage chiefly because of ______.
29. Envy sometimes stem from ______.
30. Happiness often ______ with pain.
A. goes hand in hand
B. his reluctance to take on responsibilities
C. hatred
D. misunderstanding
E. a rewarding task
F. a moral duty 二、綜合題。
1.第2部分：閱讀判斷
Trees
1. Trees are plants that survive year after year and have a single main stem composed entirely of wood. Some kinds grow to only ten feet. Others attain heights of more than 350 feet. These giants also have stems that are as much as 100 feet in circumference （圓周）.
2. Over 25,000 different species of tree grow around the wood, except near the North and South Poles. They all belong to one of two possible groups. They are either coniferous （松類的） or deciduous （落葉的）. Coniferous trees are evergreens （常綠的）， such as pine or fir, which bear needlelike foliage （子） all year long. Many deciduous trees have broad leaves, which they usually shed each year at the beginning of the cold season.
3. Trees provide people with a host of oils, drugs glues, candy, cloths, fuels, and well over 10,000 wooden products. Some have unique qualities that make their wood valuable for special purposes. One particular type of tree, for example, is used to make fishing rods because it is not strong but unusually flexible. Queensland walnut is used by the electrical industry in Australia, because it is almost as good an electrical insulator as rubber. One of the world most unusual trees is the teak （柚木）. It is one of the heaviest of all woods, and it has the largest leaves of any tree. These enormous leaves are two feet square and their surface is so tough and coarse that cabinetmakers in India use them as sandpaper. Teakwood itself is so heavy that when a teak tree is first cut down it will not float in water. It takes three years for the ten or fifteen ton trunk to dry out enough so it will not sink.
4. Of all the world’s billions of living trees, the tallest is a giant redwood in California. It towers 368 feet. This redwood tree is anchored and nourished by a massive root system. It extends over three full acres.
16. Trees grow every corner of the world.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
17. The tallest tree in the world is 368 feet in height.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
18. Teak is the heaviest tree in the world.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
19. Queensland walnut can conduct electricity well.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
20. Coniferous trees never shed leaves.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
21. Short trees are often deciduous.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
22. Redwood only grows in California.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
2.第3部分：概括大意與完成句子
What is Happiness?
1. The way people hold to the belief that a fun-filled, 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 things that lead to happiness involve some pain.
2. As a result, many people avoid the very attempts that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain inevitably brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, religious commitment, self-improvement.
3. Ask a bachelor why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying. If he is honest he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment （應(yīng)承擔的義務(wù)）. For commitment is in fact quite painful. The single life is filled with fun, adventure, and excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most distinguishing features.
4. Couples with infant children are lucky to get a whole nights sleep or three-day vacation. I dont know parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children. But couples who decide not to have children never know the joys of watching a child grow up or of playing with a grandchild.
5. Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations. It liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can genuinely increase our happiness. It liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless. And it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all those who are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all.
23. Paragraph 1 ______.
24. Paragraph 2 ______.
25. Paragraph 4 ______.
26. Paragraph 5 ______.
A. The reason of marriage
B. Pain and happiness
C. Kinds of liberating realizations
D. Joys of raising a child
E. Fear to true happiness
F. Seeking happiness
27. Raising children is ______.
28. The bachelor resists marriage chiefly because of ______.
29. Envy sometimes stem from ______.
30. Happiness often ______ with pain.
A. goes hand in hand
B. his reluctance to take on responsibilities
C. hatred
D. misunderstanding
E. a rewarding task
F. a moral duty