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A long time ago there lived a farmer in a village. One day, while   36  in the fields, the farmer’s son   37  and broke his leg. The villagers went to the __ 38 __ and said，“My goodness, what great misfortune! Your son has broken his leg; now he can’t   39  you in the fields.”O(jiān)ne day later, government troop (軍隊(duì)) went to the village   40  young men to join the __ 41 _. They had to leave the boy ___42  because his leg was broken. Again, the villagers came and said，“My goodness, what great __ 43 __!”  The farmer replied, “It is neither fortune __ 44 __ misfortune.”
Then one day the farmer’s    45   horse jumped the fence and ran away. The villagers came and said，“What great misfortune that your horse has run away.” Two or three days later, the horse __ 46 __ with a dozen wild horses ___47   it. The villagers came and said，“What great misfortune that your horse came back with twelve_ 48 __.”
The farmer was __49 __ enough to know that nothing was either fortune or misfortune. Everything that happens has a ___50 __ and meaning beyond   51   appearances of the events. So many times, we are __ 52  by the feelings we have about the events in our lives. Remember: “Nothing is long or short, hot or cold, good or bad.” There is no   53   in thinking of something as good or bad, because we __ 54  know what will happen next. The best thing we can do is__ 55  it.

The annual marathon in my town usually took place in summer. My job was to   21   behind the runners in an ambulance   22    any of them needed medical attention. The driver and I were in an air-conditioned ambulance behind nearly one hundred athletes    23   to hear the sharp crack of the starting gun.
“We’re supposed to stay behind the   24   runner, so take it slowly ,” I said to the driver , Doug , as we began to creep forward .
“Let’s just hope all the runners are fast!” he laughed.
As they began to pace themselves, the front runners started to   25   . It was then that my   26  were drawn to the woman in blue silk running shorts and a baggy white T-shirt.
“Doug, look!”
We knew we were already watching our “l(fā)ast runner”. Her feet were turned in, but her left knee was turned out. Her legs were so crippled and bent that it seemed impossible for her to be able to walk , let alone run a marathon .
Doug and I watched in   27   as she slowly moved forward. We didn’t say a thing. We would move forward a little bit, then stop and wait for her to gain some distance. Then we’d slowly move forward a little bit more.
Finally, she was the  28   runner left in sight. Tears streamed down my face as I sat on the edge of my seat and watched with amazement and even respect as she    29       forward with strong determination through the last miles.
When the    30   line came into sight, rubbishes lay everywhere and the cheering crowds had already gone home.    31  , a man waited proudly there. He was   32  one end of a ribbon (帶子) tied to a post.   33  slowly crossed through, leaving both ends of the ribbon fluttering behind her.
I do not know this woman’s name, but that day she became a part of my life –a part I often depend on. For her, it wasn’t about   34   the other runners or winning a competition, it was about finishing what she had set out to do, no matter    35  . When I think things are too difficult or too time-consuming, I think of the last runner. Then I realize how easy the task before me really is.
【小題1】

My wife and I had just finished the 150-mile trip home from our daughter’s college. It was the first time in our life that we would __36__ for any length of time. We wondered how other people had __37__ it.
Later in bed, I __38__ the time I started college. My father had driven me, too. My mother had to stay home to keep the __39__ from getting into the crops. I, the fourth in a line of brothers, was the first to __40__ college.
The truck was slow, and I was glad. I didn’t want to get to the city __41__. I shook hands with my father in the truck and he didn’t say a word. But I knew he was going to make a little __42__. He finally said, “I never went to college and __43__ of your brothers did. I can’t say don’t do this or that, because everything is __44__ and I don’t know what is going to come up, but I think things will __45__. When you get a job, be sure to be honest and work hard.” I knew that soon I would be __46__ in the big town and I would be __47__ the life home.
Then my father __48__ the Bible that he had read so often. I knew that he would miss it but I must __49__ it. He just said, “This can help you __50__ you will let it.”
When I finished school I took the Bible __51__ to my father. But he said he wanted me to __52__ it.
Now, too often, I remember. It would have been so __53__ to give it to my daughter when she got out of the car. But I didn’t. My father could give me only a Bible, but now I don’t really believe that I gave her half as __54__ as my father gave me. So the next morning I __55__ up the book and sent it to her. I wrote a note “This can help you.” I said, “if you will let it.”

Those days life was so hard that I finally wished that I could just be “l(fā)eft alone”.
The thought of going somewhere by myself would give me so much  1 . but then I’d remember when I was alone. Not that  2 _ left me. I was alone by myself in crowded places. It was the   3  that I built around me that would not  4  the outside in or the inside out.
When I was a child, I would play this silly   5 . It was always   6 _ because a place in a corner or under a table would do. My favorite place was simply to pull a blanket over my head. I would lie there and   7 , “Right now no one in the world knows where I am!” That thought was so   8 .
If you knew me well enough this wouldn’t   9  you…I still do it at 60. It drives my dogs crazy, because they find me and start digging at the blanket until they find a way in. All three of them  10  me. That thought is so satisfying, too.
I want you to know that at times we all wish that we could be left _11  . The fact that you can be alone with yourself and enjoy it shows clearly who you are. Imagine for a  12  being locked in a room with someone you  13 . It would be torture. So, if you find peace with being with yourself, that is good. However, if you are trying to build a wall so no one can ever  14 , it can’t happen.
The light of love can find a  15  through the tiniest cracks. You can pull the covers over your head and love will find you.

【小題1】

A．trouble B．experience C．pleasure D．worry

【小題15】

A．way B．help C． love D．hope

I moved to a new neighborhood two months ago. In the house with a large  31  across the road lived a taxi driver, a single parent with two school-aged children. At the end of the day, he would  32  his taxi on the road. I  33  why he did not park it in the garage.
Then one day I learnt that he had another car in his garage. In the afternoon he would come home  34  work, leave his taxi and go out for his  35  affairs in his other car, not in his taxi. I felt it was a 36  .
I was curious to see his personal car but did not make it until I 37  to be outside one evening two weeks  38 , when the garage door was 39  and he drove out in his “own” car: a Rolls-Royce（勞斯萊斯）! It shook me completely  40  I realized what that meant. You see, he was a taxi driver. But  41  inside, he saw himself as something else: a Rolls-Royce owner and a（n）  42  . He drove others in his taxi but himself and his children in his Rolls-Royce. The world looked at his taxi and 43  him a taxi driver. But for him, a taxi was just something he drove for a living. Rolls-Royce was something he drove for a (n）  44  .
We go to bed every night and  45  every morning as parents or children, not as bankers, CEOs or professors. We go for a  46  as close friends or go for a vacation as a 47  . We love life as it is. Yet often, we base our entire happiness and success on how much bigger and better a 48  we have. And we ignore our Rolls-Royce, by  49  it dusty in our garage. We should focus more on  50 we are than what we do!

【小題7】

A．a(chǎn)ppeared B．intended C．expected D．happened

My mother used to ask me what is the most important part of the body. Through the years I would   36   the correct answer. When I was younger, I thought   37  was very important to us as humans, so I said, "My ears, Mummy." She said. "No, Many people are   38 . But you keep thinking about it and I will ask you again soon."
Several years passed before she asked me again. Since making my first  39 , I had often thought over the question. So this time I told her, "Mummy, it must be our eyes." She looked at me and said, "You are   40  fast, but the answer is not correct because there are many people who are blind."  41  the years, mother asked me a couple more  42  and always her response to my answers was, "No, but you are getting  43  every year, my child." Then last year, my Grandpa  44 . Everybody was heart broken. Everybody was crying. My mum looked at me when it was our   45  to say our final good-bye to Grandpa. She asked me, "Do you know the most important body part yet, my dear?"
I was  46  when she was asking me this now. I always thought this was a  47  between her and me. She saw the   48  on my face and told me, "This question is very important. It shows that you have really  49  your life." I saw her eyes well up with tears. She said, "My dear, the most important body part is your   50  ." I asked, "Is it because they hold up your head?" she replied, "No, it is   51  on them a crying friend or loved one can rest their head. I only hope that you have enough friends and   52   that you will have a shoulder to cry   53  when you need it." Then and there I understood the most important body part is not a   54  one. It is sympathetic（同情的）to the pain of    55__.

【小題15】

A．shoulders B．feet C．hands D．hair

Although I love my life ,it hasn't been a lot of fun as I've been ill for 28 years
Music has always been a great love of mine and ,in my 20s,when my_21_was move manageable ,I  22  ten years as a professional singer in restaurant .playing and singing falk songs.  23 that was years ago and times have changed . __24__ I live with my mother on a country farm .
Two years ago,I decided that I would need to love some kind of extra work to _25_ my disability pension (殘疾撫恤金）._26_ I needed to sleep in afternoons.I was limited in my  _27_I decided that I would consider    28     to singing in restaurants.
My family are all musicians ,so I was _29 when I went into our local music store .I explained that I waned to sing again but using  recurded knraoke music I knew that discs were very expensive and I really didn't have a lot of  _30 to get started ,And    31    you find only three to four songs out of ten on a disc that you can __32__use.
When I told the owner of the shop about my    33  ,he gave me a long use the gave me a long ,thoughtful  __34__.
“This means a lot to you , doesn't it ?"be said . “Come with me.”
He led me    35  the crowded shop and to a bench with a large professional karaoke box on it. He placed his large hand   36  on his treasure and said . “I have 800 karaoke songs in here. You can take your   37    and I´ll record them for you .That should get you started.”
I  38   . Thanking him, I made a time with him to listen to all the songs and choose   39  that I could sing . I have come full circle with his help.
His   40  still warms my heart and makes me do just that bit extra , which I have the chance.
【小題1】 

Wherever in the world you’re reading this right now, you will be aware of just how mixed modern society has become in terms of race. Within the UK, mixed-raced children are the largest   1  ethnic minority. Bringing home a partner of a different   2  to yourself is no longer viewed as, “strange” or “different” in a lot of families. When Joseph brought home Hari, the   3  that she was of Indian parentage was never even talked about — she made him happy. They made each other happy. And that was all that   4 .
But the reason why they were together for 11 years before they got   5  is that Hari was afraid of telling her   6  about the person that she’d fallen in love with. She was afraid of the consequences it would   7  for her younger sisters. Would they be packed off to India? Would they end up in arranged   8  they may not want? At 22 years old, when she first fell in love with him — it was a large burden to   9 .
But she loved him, and   10  they moved in together… and then bought a house by the Brighton coast, where they have   11  for almost 8 years. All the while her parents didn’t know. Her sisters did, and they too loved Joseph — they   12  him as the brother they’d never had.
But after nine years together, she finally had to tell her father (her mother   13  away a few years ago). We were on tenderhooks（惶恐不安）the weekend she went up North to tell him.
It was emotional and as a family we were worried. Hari had been   14  of our family for so long, we felt for her. We knew how   15  it would be. She loved her father, but knew this would hurt him, who was a very traditional Sikh man.

When I was in the final year of my graduation studies, I visited a friend’s home for lunch. The moment I reached his house, I found the staircases of his building were not so good and his home was not painted very well. I couldn’t  36  in words but it was not even the type of house in which a typical middle-class Indian family lives.
The greatest things I did find there were his parents. We sat on the ground for lunch because they didn’t have a dining  37 . His mother served us very delicious food, smiled throughout and showed care for the  38  lunch session. I can never forget that.
His father worked as a normal  39  and I wondered if he earned enough money to support their two sons. While we were taking lunch, his father returned home to meet us. When he entered their home, his hands were dark black and his clothes were very dirty. My friend had no  40  about his father and made the introductions.
As soon as his father came in, my friend asked me if I wanted “Papad”（a typical Indian food）to eat. Before I could say anything, the father very gently and kindly  41  it for me, after going through many staircases even though he was looking  42 .
Today, my friend is a leader in a big company. He is able to  43  high rent in Hyderabad and have a new beautiful home. Not only that, he helped his brother  44  in his studies and is still helping.
What I want to say is that I consider  45  as richness in a poor family. The amount of money you make won’t  46  other’s hearts; the only way is with love and kindness. Struggle and bad periods are needed for everyone’s life, as they make us strong. If you have strong willpower, goals and also the attitude of hard and smart work, you can  47  be a successful person in some areas of life.
【小題1】  

完形填空（共20小題；每小題1.5分, 滿分30分）
It was a rainy day and I was riding on a bus downtown to go to work. I was_36_next to a man in a business suit and J paid little attention_37_ we both got off at the same stop and walked to the same news-stand to get a morning_38_.
The man running the stand was obviously having a_39_day. He was rude and unsmil­ing as we bought our papers，which only_40_ more gloom (郁悶) to my day. The business­man_41_my gloomy feeling and smiled brightly，_42_the news-stand owner for the paper and for being open on such a( n) _43_to make sure we were able to get our papers.
As we_44_away，I asked this man why he was so_45_to the newsman when he didn't _46_his expression of thanks and friendliness. The businessman smiled at me and said,"Why would I let someone else _47_what I say and what I feel?"
We then_48_to go to our own work places. To this day，I still don't know who that businessman was，or_49_he worked. He appeared briefly in my life and disappeared just as_50_. But I've never forgotten the words he said and his_51_which seemed like a ray of light on a gloomy day.
That was a good 25 years_52_，but the effect this had on my life has lasted. I_53_had a chance to thank him personally，but the way I look at life has changed _54_those words. I have learnt that we cannot control people and_55_that come to us， but we can always control our response to them.