第三部分：閱讀理解（共20小題，每小題2分，滿分40分）
閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。
A
Operator services 101,
The operator is there to help you if you have difficulty making a call or if you want to use any of our special call service. These include: ALARM CALLS, ADVICE OF DURATION, CHARGE CREDIT CARDS CALL, FIXED TIME CALLS, FREEPHONE CALLS, PERSONAL CALLS, TRANSFERRED CHARGE CALLS, SUBSCRIBER（用戶）CONTROLLED TRANSFER. For details of charges see our free leaflet(小冊子) . Dial 101 and ask for financial services.
International operator 123
See Section 3(international) for details.
Directory enquiries 142
Tell the operator the town you reqire. Have paper and pencil ready for the number.
International directory enquries 130
Emergecy 010
Tell the operator what sevice you want
Faults 166
Any fault should be reported to the local fault repair service.
Sales 170
Telemessage 190
If you have something special to say and prefer to say it in writing.
International telemessage 191
International telegrams 192
You can send a telegram to most other countries.
Maritime(海事) service 200
SHIP’S TELEGRAM SERVICE, SHIP’S TELEPHONE SERVICE, INMARSAT SATELLITE SERVICE. You can call or send a message to someone abroad ship by using our maritime sevices. For INMARSAT (international maritime satellite) sevice, dial 178. Give the ship’s name, its identification numeber and ocean region, if you want to know about satellite sevice.
Any other call enquiries 111.
56. What should you dial if you want to find out a number in a foreign country?
A. 130 B. 142 C. 192 D. 123
57. According to the text, one can’t call his friend on a ship at sea without knowing____ besides dialing 178.
A. the number of the ship’s telephone service
B. how to telephone INMARSAT service
C. the ship’s name, the number of its identification and ocean region
D. the number of maritime service
58. Which of the following will you telephone if you want to send the injured to hospital after an accident?
A. Special call service B. Emergency C. Alarm calls D. Faults
59. This selection is most probably taken from a(n) ________.
A. advertisement B. instruction C. telephone directory D. free leaflet
B
What science fiction (story), once told of other worlds far away, is now a fact. Astronomers (experts at the science of the universe) prove another solar (of the sun) system like ours with some planets in the constellation（星座）Andromeda.
Geoffrey Marcy is a professor of astronomy and physics at San Francisco State University and says, “What we have found now, for the first time ever, is indeed a fully-grown system of planets around the star Upsilon Andromeda. It appears to have three planets, one close in, one at a middle distance, and one farther out.” The star is slightly larger than our sun. The planets are huge, like our Jupiter（木星）.
Marcy’s partner in this research, Debra Fischer, describes the solar system, “Here’s the inner planet that goes around every 46 days, the middle planet that goes around every 242 days, and then the outer planet that goes around every three and a half to four years.”
Astronomically, it’s not far away, 44 light years. The sun of that solar system, Upsilon Andromeda, is so near and bright that it can be seen by using no equipment during summer and fall.
For twelve years astronomers searched the skies in the belief that if our sun has planets around it, surely others do, too. Geoffrey Marcy says, “And then starting three and a half years ago, we began finding for the first time planets singly, one planet here around one star.”
“When I look up at the stars now at night, I can imagine easily that every one of them has planets around them,” says Debra Fischer.
It was a tremble in the star that led Marcy to the planets. “The star rocks around due to the gravity（引力）of the planet much like a dog owner gets pulled around by a little dog.”
Can they support life? We don’t know, because present technology is not advanced enough to determine what the planets are made of. That, Marcy says, is astronomy’s next challenge.
60．What’s the relation between Andromeda (A), Upsilon Andromeda system (U) and the mentioned planets (P)?
A. B.
C. D.
61．According to Debra Fischer, in the new solar system, .
A．the farther a planet is from the star, the longer it takes to go around the star
B．the larger a planet is, the shorter it takes to go around the star
C．it takes all the planets around three and a half to four years to go around the star
D．the planets move around the star at uneven（不勻）speed
62．What led to Marcy’s discovery of the planets?
A．That he found a dog owner was pulled by his dog.
B．The tremble of Upsilon Andromeda.
C．That any planet has gravity.
D．That he believes any star has its planets.
63．We can infer that the scientists are .
A．to find out whether the planets can support life
B．to find means to communicate with the living beings on the planets
C．to find means to travel to the planets
D．soon to be able to answer the question of whether there is life on these planets
閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。
A
Operator services 101,
The operator is there to help you if you have difficulty making a call or if you want to use any of our special call service. These include: ALARM CALLS, ADVICE OF DURATION, CHARGE CREDIT CARDS CALL, FIXED TIME CALLS, FREEPHONE CALLS, PERSONAL CALLS, TRANSFERRED CHARGE CALLS, SUBSCRIBER（用戶）CONTROLLED TRANSFER. For details of charges see our free leaflet(小冊子) . Dial 101 and ask for financial services.
International operator 123
See Section 3(international) for details.
Directory enquiries 142
Tell the operator the town you reqire. Have paper and pencil ready for the number.
International directory enquries 130
Emergecy 010
Tell the operator what sevice you want
Faults 166
Any fault should be reported to the local fault repair service.
Sales 170
Telemessage 190
If you have something special to say and prefer to say it in writing.
International telemessage 191
International telegrams 192
You can send a telegram to most other countries.
Maritime(海事) service 200
SHIP’S TELEGRAM SERVICE, SHIP’S TELEPHONE SERVICE, INMARSAT SATELLITE SERVICE. You can call or send a message to someone abroad ship by using our maritime sevices. For INMARSAT (international maritime satellite) sevice, dial 178. Give the ship’s name, its identification numeber and ocean region, if you want to know about satellite sevice.
Any other call enquiries 111.
56. What should you dial if you want to find out a number in a foreign country?
A. 130 B. 142 C. 192 D. 123
57. According to the text, one can’t call his friend on a ship at sea without knowing____ besides dialing 178.
A. the number of the ship’s telephone service
B. how to telephone INMARSAT service
C. the ship’s name, the number of its identification and ocean region
D. the number of maritime service
58. Which of the following will you telephone if you want to send the injured to hospital after an accident?
A. Special call service B. Emergency C. Alarm calls D. Faults
59. This selection is most probably taken from a(n) ________.
A. advertisement B. instruction C. telephone directory D. free leaflet
B
What science fiction (story), once told of other worlds far away, is now a fact. Astronomers (experts at the science of the universe) prove another solar (of the sun) system like ours with some planets in the constellation（星座）Andromeda.
Geoffrey Marcy is a professor of astronomy and physics at San Francisco State University and says, “What we have found now, for the first time ever, is indeed a fully-grown system of planets around the star Upsilon Andromeda. It appears to have three planets, one close in, one at a middle distance, and one farther out.” The star is slightly larger than our sun. The planets are huge, like our Jupiter（木星）.
Marcy’s partner in this research, Debra Fischer, describes the solar system, “Here’s the inner planet that goes around every 46 days, the middle planet that goes around every 242 days, and then the outer planet that goes around every three and a half to four years.”
Astronomically, it’s not far away, 44 light years. The sun of that solar system, Upsilon Andromeda, is so near and bright that it can be seen by using no equipment during summer and fall.
For twelve years astronomers searched the skies in the belief that if our sun has planets around it, surely others do, too. Geoffrey Marcy says, “And then starting three and a half years ago, we began finding for the first time planets singly, one planet here around one star.”
“When I look up at the stars now at night, I can imagine easily that every one of them has planets around them,” says Debra Fischer.
It was a tremble in the star that led Marcy to the planets. “The star rocks around due to the gravity（引力）of the planet much like a dog owner gets pulled around by a little dog.”
Can they support life? We don’t know, because present technology is not advanced enough to determine what the planets are made of. That, Marcy says, is astronomy’s next challenge.
60．What’s the relation between Andromeda (A), Upsilon Andromeda system (U) and the mentioned planets (P)?
A. B.
C. D.
61．According to Debra Fischer, in the new solar system, .
A．the farther a planet is from the star, the longer it takes to go around the star
B．the larger a planet is, the shorter it takes to go around the star
C．it takes all the planets around three and a half to four years to go around the star
D．the planets move around the star at uneven（不勻）speed
62．What led to Marcy’s discovery of the planets?
A．That he found a dog owner was pulled by his dog.
B．The tremble of Upsilon Andromeda.
C．That any planet has gravity.
D．That he believes any star has its planets.
63．We can infer that the scientists are .
A．to find out whether the planets can support life
B．to find means to communicate with the living beings on the planets
C．to find means to travel to the planets
D．soon to be able to answer the question of whether there is life on these planets