一、完形填空

There was a very special teacher who made a far-reaching difference in my life.

Fall， 1959， the first day of class at Bethesda Chevy Chase High School was about to begin. “Who”， I asked a senior， “is Mrs McNamara， my 10th grade English teacher？” He just 1 and said something about my being in 2 . Soon， l understood what he meant.

Mrs McNamara had a pattern of 3 that she repeated again and again. We would have a literature reading task for 4 . The next day， when we came to class， there would be two or three topics on the blackboard 5 to the homework reading. We were 6 to write an in-class essay about one of the topics. The following day， she would 7 the corrected and graded essays and each person would be called 8 to stand in front of the class and to 9 his/her essay. The class were required to criticize that essay， 10 the grade of everyone in class would be reduced.

The first time that I 11 her read-write-criticize method， I had not 12 to do the homework and had written something without knowing what it meant. 13 the extreme embarrassment I suffered， standing before my classmates， 14 myself. No one laughed at me； no one would be 15 enough， or foolish enough， to do that in Mrs McNamaras class. The embarrassment came from 16 and along with it came a strong 17 not to let it happen again.

Mrs McNamara kept all of our written work in files； it was easy to see the 18 in writing that had occurred. What was not so easy to see was the inner transformation that had taken place， at least for me. What Mrs McNamara 19 me to do was to see myself as others see me and， having done that， I could improve myself. And I 20 . Thank you， Mrs McNamara.

1. A. nodded B. laughed

C. apologized D. shouted

2. A. trouble B. sorrow

C. danger D. anger

3. A. behaviour B. evaluation

C. activity D. thought

4. A. review B. performance

C. practice D. homework

5. A. added B. related

C. contributed D. compared

6. A. expected B. persuaded

C. allowed D. advised

7. A. collect B. return

C. send D. receive

8. A. on purpose B. at first

C. by chance D. in turn

9. A. talk through B. hand over

C. read out D. show off

10. A. so B. and C. but D. or

11. A. tried B. adopted

C. examined D. experienced

12. A. undertaken B. attempted

C. bothered D. hesitated

13. A. Remember B. Predict C. Bear D. Imagine

14. A. playing jokes on B. making a fool of

C. setting a trap for D. taking advantage of

15. A. brave B. careless C. proud D. selfish

16. A. above B. within

C. behind D. below

17. A. tendency B. preference

C. determination D. sense

18. A. improvements B. pains

C. difficulties D. advantages

19. A. trusted B. invited

C. forced D. permitted

20. A. did B. could C. had D. would

二、閱讀理解

Space is a dangerous place， not only because of meteors （流星） but also because of rays from the sun and other stars. The atmosphere again acts as our protective blanket on earth. Light gets through， and this is essential for plants to make the food which we eat. Heat， too， makes our environment endurable. Various kinds of rays come through the air from outer space， but enormous quantities of radiation from the sun are screened off. As soon as men leave the atmosphere they are exposed to this radiation but their spacesuits or the walls of their spacecraft， if they are inside， do prevent a lot of radiation damage.

Radiation is the greatest known danger to explorers in space. The unit of radiation is called “REM”. Scientists have reason to think that a man can put up with far more radiation than 0.1 rem without being damaged； the figure of 60 REMS has been agreed on. The trouble is that it is extremely difficult to be sure about radiation damage — a person may feel perfectly well， but the cells of his or her sex organs may be damaged， and this will no be discovered until the birth of deformed（畸形的） children or even grandchildren. Missions of the Apollo flights have had to cross belts of high radiation and， during the outward and return journeys， the Apollo crew accumulated a lager amount of REMS. So far， no dangerous amounts of radiation have been reported， but the Apollo missions have been quite short. We simply do not know yet how men are going to get on when they spend weeks and months outside the protection of the atmosphere， working in a space laboratory. Drugs might help to decrease the damage done by radiation， but no really effective ones have been found so far.

1. According to the first paragraph， the atmosphere is essential to man in that .

A. it screens off the falling meteors

B. it provides sufficient light for plant growth

C. it supplies the heat necessary for human survival

D. it protects him against the harmful rays from space

2. We know from the passage that .

A. radiation is avoidable in space exploration

B. exposure to even tiny amounts of radiation is fatal

C. the effect of exposure to radiation is slow in coming

D. astronauts in spacesuits neednt worry about radiation damage

3. The harm radiation has done to the Apollo crew members .

A.is significant

B.seems overestimated

C.is enormous

D.remains unknown

4. The best title for this passage would be .

A.The Atmosphere and Our Environment

B.Research on Radiation

C.Effects of Space Radiation

D.Importance of Protection Against Radiation

三、短文寫(xiě)作

請(qǐng)根據(jù)以下提示，用英語(yǔ)寫(xiě)一篇短文。

注意：1. 無(wú)須寫(xiě)標(biāo)題，不得照抄英語(yǔ)提示語(yǔ)；

2. 文中不得透露個(gè)人姓名和學(xué)校名稱(chēng)；

3. 詞數(shù)為120左右。