Passenger:Good afternoon Miss. Are there plane tickets to San Francisco on the day after tomorrow?

Conductor: Good afternoon Sir. I'll have a look at the time-table for you. （1）

Passenger: Are there tickets for Saturday then?

Conductor:Yes,there are. How do you want to go, first class or coach?

Passenger: （2） What's the fare?

Conductor: It is 260 dollars.

Passenger:（3）

Conductor: The flight will get you there at six Sunday morning.

Passenger:（4）What's the flight number?

Conductor: The flight number is 301 at Gate Two.

[A] I'll need a coach open return.

[B] OK,I'll take three.

[C] What time will the flight put me there?

[D] I'm sorry but there aren't any direct flights available.

Attendant: Can I help you, sir?

Customer:Yes, I've been sitting here for a few minutes. （1）

Attendant: I'm sorry, sir. But this is the self-service pump.

Customer:Self-service?

Attendant:Yes. （2）

Customer: Are you serious?

Attendant: Yes.（3）

Customer: Yes, I'm from Taiwan. I never heard of a gas station where you fill up your own car.

Attendant: In America, most gas stations are like this.

[A] Of course.

[B] Are you traveling here?

[C] I'm waiting for someone to put gas in my car.

[D] You must fill up the car yourself.

Salesclerk:Good morning, madam. Can I help you?

Customer: Good morning.（1）

Salesclerk: Our jackets are over here next to coats and accessories.

Customer: I like this jacket. （2）

Salesclerk: Of course.（3）

Customer:Thanks.

[A] Can I try it on?

[B] The changing rooms are over there.

[C] Here you are.

[D] I'm looking for a new jacket.

Passage One
Jack Billabong is a stockman. One Friday afternoon he was riding along
the track towards the Henderson farm. He was looking for a prize bull which had escaped from the Borrogee paddock. He reached the hills and saw at once that he could not go further.
There had been a fire in the forest which had gone out. But the air was
still full of smoke and fallen trees had blocked the track. Jack was just going to turn back when he saw something moving in the smoke. He waited. It was a girl on a horse, and she was riding towards him.  “There’s a badly burnt man on the farm, ”the girl shouted. “He saved my life. Please help me to save him. ”The girl was Cathy Henderson. She had been on horseback for two hours.
She had tojump over fallen trees that were still burning. Her pony had fallen withher twice.
She was thirsty and almost dead from want of sleep. But she rode back to
the farmwith Jack immediately.
Joe Brook was unconscious when they reached him. They lifted him onto Jack’s horse.
The ride back to Borrogee was terrible. Cathy was so tired that Jack had
to tie her to her pony. The pony was tired too, but its courage was astonishing. It followed Jack right to Borrogee Hospital. Nobody saw them arrive because it wasnight.“I’ve never seen a horse like that pony, ” Jack said. Cathy praised Jack Billabong,but she refused to say anything about the pony,  “Joe will write about her in his story,” she said.
But she did say one thing:  “If flame hadn ’t returned to the farm that
afternoon,Joe and I would have died. ”

A. he hadn’t found the bull yet

B. he smelt a heavy smoke in the forest

C. he knew there was a burnt man there

D. he saw something moving
Towards him

Why was the ride back to Borrogee terrible?

A. Because Joe was tired out

B. Because the ride started late at night

C. Because they didn ’t have enough courage

D. Because both Cathy and her pony were exhausted

A. she didn ’t know what to say

B. Jack asked her not to talk to them

C. she was too weak to say anything

D. Joe would write about it in his writing

What does the word  “flame” in the last paragraph refer to?

A. Jack

B. The pony

C. Jack ’s horse

D. The fire

Which of the Following is the best title of the story?

A. Rescue of Joe Brook

B. Courage of Jack Billabong

C. Love of a Young Girl

D. Heroism of a Lovely Pony

Passage Two
The faces of elderly, happily-married people sometimes resemble each
other. Dr. Aiken studied a number of couples who had been married for at least twenty-five years.
Each couple provided four photographs—one photo of each partner at the time of their marriage and another photo of each partner twenty-five or more years later. All background was cut from the photos to remove any
clues. The photos were then displayed in groups: a random grouping of
the persons at the time of their marriage and another random grouping of the same persons who took photographs later.
Some testees were asked to pick out the partners. They failed totally
with the first group. Their judgements were no better than chance. But with the photos taken twenty-five or more years after the marriage, the testees were quite successful with the most happily-married couples.
Dr. Aiken believes there are several reasons why couples grow alike. One
reason has something to do with imitation. One person tends to copy or do the same as someone else without knowing it.
He says human begins to imitate the expressions of the faces of their
loved ones.  “Another possible reason, ” he says,  “is the common experience of the couples. ”
There is a tendency for people who have the same life experience to change their faces in similar ways. For example, if a couple have suffered from a lot of sad experiences, their faces are likely to change in a similar way.

A. imitating the couples ’ life

B. grouping the couples again

C. leaving no trace for the testees

D. giving the testees more chances

The underlined sentence  “Their judgements were no better than chance” implies that the testees __________.

A.did a good job in making their choices

B.had difficulty in picking out the partners

C. had no chance to make the right judgements

D. did better with the first group than with the second

A. copy

B. change

C. know

D. suffer

A. couples who look alike can live longer

B. most partners have been proved to grow alike

C. the influence between partners can be quite strong

D. happily-married couples are often richer than others

A. explain why couples grow alike

B. tell how couples like each other

C. discuss the function of marriage

D. describe the life of happily
Married couples