……….out of the water, penguins are almost found in groups, and are quite sociable.
A.Before
B.Just as
C.By the time
D.While

Mickey Mantle was one of the greatest baseball players of all time. He played for the New York Yankees in their years of glory. From the time Mantle began to play professionally in 1951 to his last year in 1968, baseball was the most popular game in the United States. For many people, Mantle symbolized the hope, prosperity, and confidence of America at that time.
Mantle was a fast and powerful player, a “switch-hitter” who could bat both right-handed and left-handed. He won game after game, one World Series championship after another, for his team. He was a wonderful athlete, but this alone cannot explain America’s fascination with him.
Perhaps it was because he was a handsome, red-haired country boy, the son of a poor miner from Oklahoma. His career, from the lead mines of the West to the heights of success and fame, was a fairy-tale version of the American dream. Or perhaps it was because America always loves a “natural”: a person who wins without seeming to try, whose talent appears to come from an inner grace. That was Mickey Mantle.
But like many celebrities, Mickey Mantle had a private life that was full of problems. He played without complaint despite constant pain from injuries. He lived to fulfill his father’s dreams and drank to forget his father’s early death.
It was a terrible addiction that finally destroyed his body. It gave him cirrhosis of the liver and accelerated the advance of liver cancer. Even when Mickey Mantle had turned away from his old life and warned young people not to follow his example, the destructive process could not be stopped. Despite a liver transplant operation that had all those who loved and admired him hoping for a recovery, Mickey Mantle died of cancer at the age of 63.
It can be inferred from the passage that for most Americans ______.




A.success in Mantle’s career was difficult to believe
B.Mantle had a lot of difficulty achieving fame and success
C.success in Mantle’s career was unnatural
D.Mantle had to be trained hard to become a good player

Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.

Thanks to the efforts of environmentalists, people are becoming better aware of the problems of endangered species.




A.Environmentalists are expressing their gratitude towards people who are better aware of the problems of endangered species.
B.People have no idea about the problems of endangered species in spite of the efforts of environmentalists.
C.Environmentalists are doing their best to make peope aware of the problems of endangered species.
D.People owe their growing awareness of the problems of endangered species to the efforts of environmentalists.

The major differences between Chinese cartoons and Western cartoons come from
their ______.




A.styles
B.values
C.purposes
D.nationalities

XIII:
Choose the best answer for each sentence
A: “Trudy sure did a good job of decorating your department.” B: “ Yes, but I’d _________ some of the work myself.”




A.better have done
B.prefer having done
C.rather done
D.rather have done

A.examine
B.determine
C.undermine
D.discipline

A.conservatively
B.necessarily
C.luxuriously
D.umbrella

We know that animals need vitamins for growth and development. Plants need them, too.




A.Plants are known to need the same vitamins for growth and development as do animals.
B.In order to grow and develop, plants are known to need the vitamins that are produced by animals.
C.Animals need vitamins to grow and develop like plants need them for growth and development.
D.What we know is that both animals and plants can produced vitamins for growth and development.

Never before had the community seen anything more spectacular than the magician’s show.




A.The community would never again experience anything more spectacular than the show the magician did.
B.If the community enjoyed magic more, they would have been more amazed by the magician’s show.
C.The magician’s performance was the most amazing thing that the community had ever witnessed.
D.After the magician’s incredible show, the community agreed that they’d never seen anything like it.

The final paragraph of the passage will probably continue with a discussion of _________ .




A.artists moving between countries
B.other ways artists tried to gain local
C.artists from other countries
D.other lesser known artists