I think John will________a good monitor, so I’d like to vote for him.

   A. turn        B．change       C．elect  D．make

       You are near the front line of a battle .Around you shells are exploding ;people are shooting from a house behind you .What are you doing there? You aren’t a soldier .You aren’t  36   carrying a gun .You’re standing in front of a    37  and you’re telling the TV   38  what is happening.

       It’s all in a day’s work for a war reporter ,and it can be very    39  .In the first two years of the   40   in former Yugoslavia（前南斯拉夫）,28 reporters and photographers were killed .Hundreds more were    41  .What kind of people put themselves in danger to   42   pictures to our TV screens and   43   to our newspapers? Why do they do it ?

       “I think it’s every young journalist’s   44   to be a foreign reporter,” says Michael Nicholson, “that’s   45   you find the excitement .So when the first opportunity comes ,you take it    46  it is a war.”

       But there are moments of   47   . Jeremy Bowen says, “Yes ,when you’re lying on the ground and bullets （子彈）are flying  48   your ears ,you think: ‘What am I doing here? I’m not going to do this again.’ But that feeling   49   after a while and when the next war starts , you’ll be

  50   .”

       “None of us believes that we’re going to   51   ,” adds Michael .But he always  52   a lucky charm（護(hù)身符）with him .It was given to him by his wife for his first war .It’s a card which says “Take care of yourself.” Does he ever think about dying? “Oh,   53  ,and every time it happens you look to the sky and say to God, ‘If you get me out of this ,I   54   I’ll never do it again.’ You can almost hear God   55   ,because you know he doesn’t believe you .”

對(duì)話填空(共10小題，每小題1分，滿分10分)

R= Reporter     L = Mr. Li

R：Thanks for your coming to talk about your experience.

L：Not at all. I’m happy to be here.

R：Could you tell me what you were doing when the (76) d___ __ happened?           

L：Well, I didn’t know (77) e_____ when it happened. I was fast asleep at              

   that time.

R：How did you feel at first?

L：I was (78) f ____, and then I cried, racing outside. Unfortunately, I              

   couldn’t run out of my house.

R：And what happened?

L：I was (79) b       among the ruins.                                                            

R：How long were you (80) t ___there?                                          

L：I think it was long time before I was (81) r     .                                 

R：But you were lucky enough to be dug (82) o     by the soldiers soon.                

L：I didn’t know how to express my (83) g       .                                   

R：And I heard you burst into (84) t    after being saved.                                     

L：Yes. I was very sad when I saw millions of houses disappeared and many

   children (85)1____ their parents.                                                                 

R：OK. Thank you.I hope we will talk again. Goodbye.

L：It is my pleasure. Bye.

One of my fondest memories as a child is going by the river and sitting idly(閑散地)on the bank. There I would enjoy the peace and___1___, watch the water ___2__downstream, and listen to the chirps(喳喳聲)of the birds and the rustling (沙沙聲)of the leaves in the trees. I would  also___3___the bamboo trees___4___under pressure from the wind and watch them ___5____gracefully to their upright or ___6___ position after the wind had___7____. When I think about the bamboo tree’s ___8____to bounce back or return to it’s original position, the word resilience(彈性)__ 9___to mind. When used in ___10_____ a person , this word means the ability to readily _11__from shock, depression or any other situation___12____stetches the limits of a person’s emotions. Have you ever felt like you are about to shout? Have you ever felt like you are at your __13__point?__14__, you have survived the experience to live to talk about it. During the experience you probably felt a mix of __15____that threatened your health. You felt emotionally tired,___16_____ exhausted and you most likely endured unpleasant physical symptoms.

   Life is a __17__ of good times and bad times, happy moments and unhappy moments. The next time you are __18___one of those bad times or unhappy moments that take you __19____to your breaking point, bend but don’t break. Try your best not to let the situation get the best of you. A measure of hope will__20__ you through the unpleasant test.

1.A. quiet  B. beautiful     C. noisy     D. happy

2.A. flow    B. rush     C. go     D. come

3. A. see     B. notice    C. watch   D. look at

4.A. bend    B. swing    C. break   D. tremble

5.A. return   B. recover  C. give   D. fly

6.A. straight  B. original  C. quick  D. necessary

7.A. died from  B. died out C. died down  D. died off

8.A. ability   B. power C. energy  D. strength

9.A. strikes  B. goes   C. appears  D. comes

10.A. preference to  B. conference to C. reference to D. appearance to

11.A. recover  B. calm  C. comfort  D. sink

12.A. where   B. that   C. when  D. in which

13.A. high   B. low   C. breaking   D. returning

14．A．Thankfully B. Hopefully  C. Happily  D. Surprisingly

15.A. senses  B. emotions  C. thoughts  D. minds

16.A. physically  B. mentally  C. patiently  D. fully

17.A. way     B. mixture   C. condition    D. feeling

18.A. experiencing  B. making   C. living  D. meeting

19.A. away  B. far  C. close   D. fast

20.A. bring  B. take  C. make  D. set

--- I’m sure Andrew will win the first prize in the final.

--- I think so. He ___________ for it for months

A. is preparing      B. was preparing

C. had been preparing    D. has been preparing