B

In the past, when people had problems, they usually went to their families or friends to get advice. Today it is possible to get advice from radio shows, TV programmes and telephone hot lines. A hot line is a telephone line. It offers a direct way of getting in touch with advisers. Most hot lines are completely anonymous. That is to say, callers do not have to say their names or telephone numbers. Most hot lines are free. Callers do not have to pay for the advice or the phone calls. At some hot lines, the advisers are volunteers. Other hot lines pay their advisers for their work. Usually the advisers are full-time-job people with years of education and experience, but sometimes, the advisers have only taken a short class before starting to work on the hot line. All the advisers listen to people and help them solve their problems.

34. How did people get advice when they had problems in the past?

A. They listened to the radio                   B. They went to their families or friends

C. They watched TV programmes               D. They made telephone calls

35.  What is a telephone hot line?

A. A hot telephone

B. A phone call to the listeners

C. A telephone line for people to get advice

D. A training class on the phone

36. What does the underlined word anonymous mean in Chinese in the passage?

A.匿名的              B. 虔诚的           C. 开放的           D. 免费的

37. According to the passage, how does a caller get in touch with the adviser working on the hot line?

C

The class teacher thought that hobbies were important for children. So she encouraged all her students to have one, and sometimes she arranged hobby shows for their parents to see as a result.

One morning the teacher told the class to have a holiday and get their hobby things to school before 5p.m. A hobby show would be held the following afternoon.

So in the afternoon, the students with nothing to show did their lessons at school as usual, while the lucky ones had a holiday to go home for their hobby works.

When the afternoon lessons began, the teacher was surprised to see that Tommy was not there. “I don’t believe Tommy has a hobby,” she thought. However, at a quarter to five, Tommy arrived with a beautiful collection of butterflies in glass cases. The teacher liked the samples(标本) very much and put them on a desk in the classroom. But, to her surprise, Tomm y picked them up again and began to leave.

“What are you doing, Tommy?” she asked. “Those things must stay here until tomorrow afternoon. That’s when the parents are coming to see them.”

“I know that,” answered Tommy, “and I will bring them back tomorrow, but my big brother doesn’t want them to be out of our house at night.”

“But, aren’t the butterflies yours?” asked the teacher.

“No,” answered Tommy. “They are my brother’s”

“But Tommy, you should show your own hobby here, not somebody else’s”

“I know that,” answered Tommy. What surprised her most was the answer, “My hobby is watching my brother collecting butterflies.”

38. What did the class teacher think of hobbies for children?

A. Unwelcome        B. Hopeless          C. Harmful          D. Important

39.    What time did Tommy get back to school that afternoon?

40. What would NOT happen the following afternoon?

A. The parents would enjoy the show in the classroom

B. Tommy would bring the butterflies back

C. The teacher would encourage her students for hobbies

D. The butterflies would fly away

41. Which was the teacher’s greatest surprise?

A. Tommy w as not at school as usual

B. Tommy picked the butterflies up again and began to leave

C. Tommy said his hobby was watching his brother collecting butterflies

D. Tommy came back to school before 5 that afternoon

42. What’s the best title for this passage?

A. Important Hobbies                 B. Tommy’s Hobby

C. Different Hobbies                  D. Collecting Butterflies

四、词汇(共16小题，每小题1分，满分16分)

A) 选用方框内的单词或词组填空，其中有一个单词或词组是多余的。

43. Some parents dinosaurs     ▲    their babies; some didn’t.

44. Taiwan is in the     ▲    of China.

45. Every morning the old man takes a walk     ▲    the river.

46. It is      ▲     to shout  at your grandfather like that.’

47. January is      ▲    month of the year.