HER SMALL GARDEN LOOKS VERY BEAUTIFUL IN SPRING BECAUSE ALL THE FLO...

7. Her small garden looks very beautiful in spring because all the flowers are (10) ...

full bloom.

III. READING: (25 points)

Part 1: Put ONE suitable word in each space

Miss Darby was one of those people who never threw anything away. “You never

know when you might need it” was (1) ... of her favorite sayings. She lived

(2) ... herself in a large Victorian house across the road from us. Although

I never went to her house, I knew it was full (3) ... antique furniture,

Persian carpets and so on. In every room, there were dozens of paintings so that her house was

(4) ... an art gallery. I remember my father (5) ... that

she was a “ Staffordshire Darby” but I had (6) ... idea what he meant. I

(7) ... out years later that the Darby family had made their money from

coal-mining in Staffordshire. We used to make up stories (8) ... her. My

sister Alice, (9) ... was a romantic girl, told us that Miss Darby once had a

lover, but he walked out one day and she (10) ... saw him again!

Part 2 : Read the following passage and answer the questions.

The world's oceans are so vast that they can cope with the present levels of pollution.

However, little is known about the long-term effects of such slow poisoning. The most serious

problem of modern time is that man is destroying the earth's natural resources and transforming

huge areas into waste land. As a result, it is becoming extremely difficult to grow enough to feed

the world's rapidly increasing population. A way of protecting all wild life on the earth must also

be found as many species are in danger of disappearing completely from the face of the earth.

The smoke in the atmosphere, for example, is increasing so much that the amount of sunlight has

been reduced in many cities. Man's whole environment is being changed in a serious way.