When Ted Komada started teaching 14 years ago at Kilip Elementary, he didn’t know how to manage a classroom and was struggling to connect with students, he noticed a couple of days after school that a group of kid would get together to play chess. “I know how to play chess, let me go and show these kids how to do it,” he said. Now, Komada coaches the school’s chess team. The whole program started as a safe place for kids to come after school. And this week, dozens of those students are getting ready to head out to Nashville Tennessee to compete with about 5000 other young people at the Super Nationals of Chess. The competition only happens every four years, and the last time the team went, they won the third place in the nation. Komada says Chess gives him and his students control. The school has the highest number of kids from low-income families. Police frequent the area day and night. As 2 months ago, a young man was shot just down the street. Komada likes to teach his students that they should think about their move before they do it. The lessons proved valuable outside the classroom as well. Many parents see these lessons translate into the real world. Students are more likely to think about their actions and see whether they will lead to trouble.

Questions 22—25 are based on the passage you have just heard.

22. What did Ted Komada notice one day after he started teaching at Kilip Elementary?

23. What are dozens of students from Komada’s school going to do this week?

24. What do we learn about the students of Kilip Elementary?

25. What have the students learned from Komada?

Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)

Section A

Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on ANSWER SHEET 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

Ships are often sunk in order to create underwater reefs (暗礁) perfect for scuba driving (水肺式潛泳) and preserving marine 26 . Turkish authorities have just sunk something a little different than a ship, and it wouldn’t normally ever touch water, an Airbus A300. The hollowed-out A300 was 27 of everything potentially harmful to the environment and sunk off the Aegean coast today/ Not only will the sunken plane 28 the perfect skeleton for artificial reef growth, but authorities hope this new underwater attraction will bring tourist to the area.

The plane 29 a total length of 54 meters, where experienced scuba divers will 30 be able to venture through the cabin and around the plane’s 31 . Aydin Municipality bought the plane from a private company for just under US$100,000,but they hope to see a return on that 32 through the tourism industry. Tourism throughout Turkey is expected to fall this year as the country has been the 33 of several deadly terrorist attacks. As far as sunken planes go,this Airbus A300 is the largest 34 sunk aircraft ever.

Taking a trip underwater and 35 the inside of a sunken A300 would be quite an adventure, and that is exactly what Turkish authorities are hoping this attraction will make people think. Drawing in adventure seekers and experienced divers, this new artificial Airbus reef will be a scuba diver’s paradise(天堂).

A) create B) depressed C) eventually D) Experiences E) exploring F) exterior G) habitats H) innovate

I)intentionally J)investment K)revealing L)stretches

M)stripped N)territory O)victim

答案：26. G 27. M 28. A 29. L 30.C 31.F 32. J 33. O 34. I 35. E

【答案解析】

26. 根據空格位置，marine此處形容詞，可判斷出26題應為名詞。marine的意思是“海生的，海運的”固定搭配“marine habitat”海洋棲息地。所以本題答案為“G”habitat“棲息地”。

27. 根據空格位置，詞性應該為動詞的被動態。本篇文章對A300持有肯定態度，所以此句想表達“A300”對環境沒有任何潛在的壞處，故答案應為“M”, “be stripped of”意為“剝奪”。

28. 此題空格前有“will”, 所以此處應填動詞原形。選項中動詞原形有“A”和“H”, 根據句意得知，沉沒的飛機可以讓人工珊瑚長的更好。所以本題答案為“A”，create“創造，產生”。

29. 此處應填動詞原形，主語為“plane”，故謂語動詞應為單三形式。所以答案是“L”,stretches意為“延伸”，此處指“飛機機身總長為54米”。

30. 此處應填副詞，用來修飾后面的“be able to venture”, 答案應鎖定在“C”eventually和“L”intentionally。這句話的意思是水肺式潛水者能夠在船艙內冒險。故選項“C”eventually“最終地”，更符合句意。

31. 此處應填名詞形式，因為空格前為“plane’s”。名詞選項有“F”和“N”。空格處前半句是時候水肺式潛水者能夠在船艙內冒險，所以后半句應該為他們也可以在船艙外面冒險。故答案為“F”exterior“外部，表面”。

32. 因為空格前為“on that”...所以此處應為名詞。本句話的大意是：買這架飛機花了很多錢，所以他們希望通過旅游業能夠看到自己投資的回報。所以答案為“J”investment“投資”。

33. 此處應填名詞形式。空格后的內容為“嚴重的致命恐怖襲擊”，所以空格處應為victim“受害者”。故答案為“O”。

34. 此處應為副詞形式。因為副詞修飾形容詞“largest”。副詞只剩“I”intentionally有目的性地，故意地，修飾后面sunk, 所以本題答案為“I”。

35. 此題應為v.-ing形式，與and前的“taking a trip underwater”保持并列。“E”exploring和“K”revealing都是v.-ing形式。根據本句句意，“E”exploring“探索”更符合句意。本句話的意思是“水下旅行和探索沉沒的A300的內部都會是一場冒險”。