()18.This is the first time wea film in the cinema together as a family.

A.seeB.had seen

C.saw D.have seen

()19.Joe is not good at sports, but when itmathematics, he is the best in the class.

A.comes up to B.comes around to

C.comes to D.comes on to

()20.The that exists among nations could certainly be lessened if misunderstanding and mistrust were removed.

A.tension B.strain

C.stress D.intensity

Ⅱ. Reading Comprehension 20%

Directions: There are two passages in this part. Each passage is followed by five questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D.You should decide on the BEST CHOICE.

Passage One

We once had a poster competition in our fifth grade art class.

“You could win prizes,” our teacher told us as she wrote the poster information on the blackboard. She passed out sheets of construction paper while continuing, “The first prize is ten dollars. You just have to make sure that the words on the blackboard appear somewhere on your poster.”

We studied the board critically. Some of us looked with one eye and held up certain colors against the blackboard, rocking the sheets to the right or left while we conjured up our designs. Others twisted their hair around their fingers or chewed their erasers while deep in thought. We had plans for that ten?dollar grand prize，each and every one of us. I?m going to spend mine on candies，one hopeful would announce，while another practiced looking serious，wise and rich.

Everyone in the class made a poster. Some of us used parts of those fancy paper napkins, while others used nothing but colored construction paper. Some of us used big designs, and some of us preferred to gather our art tidily down in one corner of our poster and let the space draw the viewer?s attention to it. Some of us would wander past the good students? desks and then return to our own projects with a growing sense of hopelessness. It was yet another grown?up trick of the soil they seemed especially fond of making all of us believe we had a fair chance，and then always—always—rewarding the same old winners.

I believe I drew a sailboat，but I can?t say that with any certainty. I made it. I admired it. I determined it to be the very best of all of the posters I had seen，and then I turned it in.

Minutes passed.

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