23. A. effort B. offer C. promise D. profit

24. A. come across B. look after C. depend on D. laugh at

25. A. instead B. indeed C. aside D. apart

26. A. worse B. better C. less D. higher

27. A. relaxing B. disappointing C. pleasant D. regular

28. A. agents B. buyers C. managers D. owners

29. A. already B. still C. generally D. ever

30. A. so B. or C. for D. but

31. A. apologized B. complained C. criticized D. explained

32. A. check B. analyze C. appreciate D. ignore

33. A. loss B. risk C. chance D. lead

34. A. increase B. difference C. interest D. average

35. A. kind B. polite C. smart D. Energetic

【答案】 ACDBA CDACD ADBCD BADCB

第三节：阅读理解

　　One day when I was 12, my mother gave me an order: I was to walk to the public library, and borrow at least one book for the summer. This was one more weapon for her to defeat my strange problem - inability to read.

　　In the library, I found my way into the "Children's Room." I sat down on the floor and pulled a few books off the shelf at random. The cover of a book caught my eye. It presented a picture of a beagle. I had recently had a beagle, the first and only animal companion I ever had as a child. He was my secret sharer, but one morning, he was gone, given away to someone who had the space and the money to care for him. I never forgot my beagle.

　　There on the book's cover was a beagle which looked identical to my dog. I ran my fingers

over the picture of the dog on the cover. My eyes ran across the title, Amos, the Beagle with a Plan. Unknowingly, I had read the title. Without opening the book, I borrowed it from the library for the summer.

Under the shade of a bush, I started to read about Amos. I read very, very slowly with difficulty. Though pages were turned slowly, I got the main idea of the story about a dog who, like mine, had been separated from his family and who finally found his way back home. That dog was