GEPT · ELEMENTARY READING
初級閱讀模擬測驗 第三十七回
Elementary Reading Comprehension Test
題數 30 題時間 35 分鐘題型 詞彙 / 段落填空 / 閱讀理解CEFR A2
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詞彙 Vocabulary
共 10 題／每題選出最適合題意的字詞
請由四個選項中，選出一個最適合句意的字或詞。
1The stands on a hill above the river.
Aglove
Bscooter
Ccastle
Dmuseum
2This book tells the of our town from 1700 to now.
Apie
Bflight
Cwidth
Dhistory
3The two countries were for almost thirty years.
Agloves
Bmethods
Cenemies
Dmarkers
4An city was found under the sand last year.
Aancient
Babsent
Cconfident
Davailable
5Please your answer before you hand in the paper.
Aseek
Bpause
Cregret
Dcorrect
6She is that her team will win on Saturday.
Aabsent
Bconfident
Cancient
Dmissing
7The police will why the old door was open.
Ainvestigate
Breturn
Creply
Dchoose
8We should not that every old story is true.
Asucceed
Bassume
Cpause
Dmark
9The wall is two long and four meters high.
Agloves
Bpies
Cmarkers
Dmiles
10A good knows when to listen and when to decide.
Abeginning
Bflight
Cleadership
Dmuseum
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段落填空 Cloze
共 8 題／2 個段落，每段 4 格
請閱讀段落，並由四個選項中選出最適合每個空格的答案。
Passage 1
The Wall Nobody Finished
In the north of our county there is a stone wall that runs for two miles and then simply stops. It was started in the 15th century by a king who feared a military force from the sea. (11) Some say the money ran out; others say the enemy never came. The truth is simpler: the king died, and the next one feared other things. Farmers took the stones for their own walls, (12) today you can find a piece of a castle in a pig house. (13), the wall is the most visited place in the county. The view is beautiful and the path is full of visitors, but people do not come to see what was built, (14) to stand where somebody changed his mind.
Questions 11–14
11
AIt was finished in only two years.
BThe king built three more walls.
CThe wall has never been visited.
DNobody knows exactly why it was never finished.
13
AAt first
BThese days
CHowever
DFor example
Passage 2
Why Old Stories Change
Every country tells stories about its own beginning, and every one of those stories has been changed. (15) A story is repeated because it is useful now, not because it is correct. A king who lost a war may become a king who chose peace. A war that began over land may be remembered as a war about a word. None of this is a lie, (16) each teller believed what he said. (17), history is not a box of facts but a conversation that never ends. The useful question is not only what happened, (18) who is telling me, and what do they need me to feel?
Questions 15–18
15
AThe change is always written down.
BNo story is ever repeated twice.
COnly one country does this.
DThe change seldom happens all at once.
17
AHowever
BAt first
CBy chance
DIn other words
3
閱讀理解 Reading Comprehension
共 12 題／4 個題組
請閱讀下列短文，並回答相關問題。
NOTICE
Messages and a Museum Ticket
Ann: I got us into the castle show. Here is the ticket.
| COUNTY MUSEUM · Ancient Weapons |
|---|
| Saturday, 10:00 to 17:00 |
| Student 80 · Under 6 free · Double price at Halloween |
| Guided talk 11:00 and 14:00, 40 minutes |
| No photos in Room 2 · Enter by the left-hand door |
Ken: Let us take the 11:00 talk. Then we can eat after.
Ann: Good. My little brother is five, so he does not pay.
Ken: Tell him about Room 2 before we go in. He will want to take photos of everything.
Questions 19–21
19How much will Ann's brother pay?
AEighty dollars
BHalf of eighty
CNothing
DForty dollars
20When will they finish the talk?
AAt 11:00
BAt 11:40
CAt 14:00
DAt 17:00
21What does the ticket NOT tell us?
AThe price for a student
BHow long the talk lasts
CWhen the museum closes
DWhere to eat after
NOTICE
School History Project
Grade 8 · Hand in at the beginning of March
Choose one building, road or bridge in this town and find out what was there before it. The principal will read the best three.
- Talk to at least one person over seventy; a mechanic, a farmer, anyone is OK
- Find one paper, photo or map from before 1990
- Write two pages; a third page of pictures is welcome but not needed
You may not use only what you find online. At least one of your sources must be a person or a paper you have held in your hand. If the person you talk to cannot remember clearly, write that down too; it is part of the answer.
Do not choose the old wall. Eleven students chose it last year, and the library has no more material about it.
Questions 22–24
22What must every project include?
AThree pages of writing
BA person or a paper source
CA photo from this year
DA map made by the student
23What should a student do if the person cannot remember clearly?
AWrite that down as part of the answer
BFind another person
CLeave that part blank
DUse only online sources
24Why may students not choose the old wall?
AThe library has no more material about it
BIt is too far from school
CIt is not old enough
DNobody knows anything about it
EMAIL
A Letter to the County Office
Dear Sir,
I am a Taiwanese student at Sun Hill School. Our class is studying the old wall in the north of the county for a history project.
At the wall there is a sign with four lines about that particular king; you can point a finger at two dates on it. Two dates on that sign do not agree with the dates in the county history book of 1978, which we found in the library. The sign says the work started in 1420; the book says 1428.
We are not sure which is correct, and we do not assume the sign is wrong. Could somebody tell us where the date on the sign came from? If it is an error, many visitors read it every week.
Chen Li, Grade 8
Questions 25–27
25What is the purpose of this letter?
ATo ask for a new sign
BTo report that the book is wrong
CTo ask where a date on a sign came from
DTo ask to visit the county office
26What difference did the students find?
AThe wall is longer than the book says
BThe sign and the book give different dates
CThe king had a different name
DThe sign has only three lines
27What do the students NOT do in this letter?
AGive the name of their school
BExplain why they are writing
CSay which source is wrong
DSay where they found the book
ARTICLE
Who Gets a Statue
Walk through any old town and count the stone figures. Most of them show men who took armies to war. Almost none are of the people who built the roads under your feet.
This is not because nobody thought those people mattered. It is because a stone figure costs money, and for most of history the people with money were the people with power. A town remembers what somebody had the money to have remembered.
Some towns now put up small signs: the name of the woman who ran the first school, the family who kept the river boat for eighty years. They cost almost nothing. But a child who reads one learns that history is not only made by the people on horses.
Questions 28–30
28What is the main idea of this article?
AStone figures should be taken down
BWho is remembered often depends on who could pay
CSoldiers should get more stone figures
DTowns should build fewer roads
29According to the writer, why are there few stone figures of the people who built roads?
AA stone figure costs money and they had none
BTheir work was not important
CNobody knows their names
DRoads are made new often
30What do some towns do now?
ABuild larger stone figures
BClose the old roads
CPut up small signs about ordinary people
DAsk children to pay for signs