Ⅲ. Cloze (20 points)

　　Directions:

　　For each blank in the following passage, there are four choices given below and marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that is most suitable and mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

　　When Pat Jones finished college, she decided she wanted to travel around the world and see as many foreign places as she could _51_ she was young. Pat wanted to visit Latin America first, so she got a job _52_ an English teacher in a school in Bolivia. Pat spoke a little Spanish, _53_ she was able to communicate with her students even when they didn’t know much English.

　　A sentence she had read somewhere stuck in her mind: if you dream _54_ a foreign language, you have really mastered it. Pat repeated this sentence to her students and hoped that someday she would dream in Spanish and they would dream in English.

　　One day, one of her worst students came up and explained in Spanish that he had not done his homework. He had _55_ early, and had slept badly.

　　“What does this have to do with _56_?” Pat demanded.

　　“I dreamed all night, Miss, Jones, and my dream was in English!”

　　“In English” Pat was very surprised, since he was such a bad students. She was _57_ secretly jealous. Her dreams were still not in Spanish. But she encouraged her young student, “Well, tell me about your dream.”

　　“All the people in my dream _58_ English,” the student said, “And all the signs were in English. All the newspapers and magazines and all the TV programs were in English.”

　　“But that’s wonderful,” said Pat, “What did all the people say to you?”

　　“I’m _59_, Miss Jones. that’s _60_ I slept so badly. I didn’t understand a word they said. It was a nightmare!”

　　51.A. as B. while C. if D. since

　　52.A. for B. of C. as D. like

　　53.A. and B. but C. so D. yet

　　54.A. in B. about C. of D. for

　　55.A. got up B. gone to bed C. fallen asleep D. woken up

　　56.A. you B. me C. your dream D. your homework

　　57.A. usually B. seldom C. also D. still

　　58.A. read B. liked C. spoke D. learned

　　59.A. shy B. silly C. sorry D. sad

　　60.A. how B. why C. when D. where

　　Ⅳ. Reading Comprehension (60 points)

　　Directions:

　　There are four reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by five questions. For each question there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose one best answer and blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

　　Passage One

　　According to an old story, a farmer once found that a bag of corn had been stolen from his house. He went to the judge and told him about his loss. The judge ordered all the people of the farm to come before him. He took a number of sticks of equal length and gave one stick to each man.

　　He then said, “Come before me again tomorrow. I shall then know which of you is the thief because the stick given to the thief will be one inch longer than the others.”

　　The thief was afraid of being found out, and so the cut an inch off his stick. The next day the thief’s stick was found to be one inch shorter than any of the others. In this way the thief was found out, and was at once taken away to prison.

　　61. A bag of corn was found ________.

　　A. to be stolen B. stolen C. being stolen D. having stolen

　　62. The judge gave each man a stick _______.

　　A. to change back the farmer’s corn B. to beat the thief

　　C. as a tool to find out the thief D. so as to play a game together

　　63. According to the judge, the next day the thief’s stick would be one inch longer than the others’ because _______.

　　the thief’s stick would grow one inch longer

　　the other’s sticks would become one inch shorter

　　something wrong would happen to the thief’s stick

　　the judge had given the longer stick to the thief

　　64. Since the thief cut the stick short, ________.

　　he was found out

　　the judge couldn’t catch him

　　his stick had an equal length with the others’

　　his stick wouldn’t be any longer

　　65. The wise way the judge found out the thief in the end was to make ______.

　　the thief to cut an inch off the stick

　　the thief cut an inch off the stick

　　the stick grow an inch longer

　　the thief tell him what he had done