“It was all his own idea, ” says Pat Peters, the 38-year-old wife of Palo Alto, California high school football coach Bob Peters, 39. Bob had just drawn up a “motherhood contract” --a document stating that for 70 days this summer he would take over the care and feeding of the couple’s four children, plus all household chores. Although he didn’t even know how to make coffee when he signed, he was quite confident.(He thought the experience would make a nice book.)

     After 40 of the 70 days, he was ready to give up. “I was beaten down, pletely humbled（挫敗的）,”  admits Peters. Three weeks later he spoke to the local press, stating, “Not only is motherhood a difficult task, not only is it never-ending, it is an impossible job for any normal human being.”

     Bob and Pat were high school sweethearts. After they were married in 1960, she worked as a secretary to help put him through university. Since then Bob has been the football and wrestling coach at Palo Alto’s Cubberley High while Pat raised the kids. Then two years ago Pat went back to work as a secretary at Cubberley. “I had been around children so much,” she sighs, “I couldn’t talk to a grown-up.” She continued to run the household, however----until Bob signed the contract, therefore, she decided to relax and enjoy it. 

Although Peters had consulted(咨詢) with his school’s home economics teachers and the head of the cafeteria, his meals were sometimes a disaster. “I tried to slip the butter I’d forgotten under the eggs after they were frying, ” he says. For the last three weeks, the family ate out a lot—sometimes having Macdonald’s hamburgers for lunch and dinner.

     As for housekeeping, a home economics teacher had told Bob that a room always looks clean if the bed is made. “I found an easier way-I shut the doors, ” he says. Soon the kids were wearing the same clothes for a week. “I made them wear their shirts inside out, and when we went to pick up Pat at work they turned them right side out so they would look clean.”

     Now that Bob has publicly admitted he was wrong, he is routinely sharing the child-raising and household tasks with Pat. The tentative（暫時的） title of his book about the summer is taken from something he shouted at the kids one day.

1.The couple signed the contract because _______.

    A. Pat plained a lot about her doing the housework all by herself

    B. Bob loved taking care of children and wanted his wife to have a good rest

    C. they agreed that husband and wife should share household tasks

    D. Bob thought it easy to take care of the family and wanted the experience for a book

2.It was agreed that if Bob failed to keep to the contract, he would have to _______.

    A. pay a certain amount of money

    B.  admit publicly he was wrong about motherhood 

 C. say sorry to his wife

    D. do all the housework for years

3.What can we learn about Pat Peters?

    A. She was hard-working and selfless.

    B. She was pretty and kind-hearted.

    C. She was tired of the child-raising and household tasks.

    D. She did not love Bob any longer.

4. Which of the following can best end the news story?

    A. “Wait till your mother gets home!”

    B. “My experience of being a mother.”

    C. “I’m proud of you all, my dear!”

    D. “Motherhood: an impossible job for anyone.”

—I think you should phone Jenny and say sorry to her.
—________. It was her fault.

短文改錯(共10小題，每小題0.5分，滿分5分)

此題要求改正所給短文中的錯誤, 對標(biāo)有題號的每行作出判斷：

如無錯誤，在該行右邊橫線上畫一個勾(√)；如有錯誤(每行只有一個錯誤)，則按下列情況改正：

該行多一個詞；把多余的詞用斜線(＼)劃掉，在該行右邊橫線上寫出該詞，并也用斜線劃掉。

該行缺一個詞：在缺詞處加一個漏字符號( ∧)，在該行右邊橫線上寫出該加的詞。

該行錯一個詞：在錯的詞下畫一橫線，在該行右邊橫線上寫出改正后的詞。

注意：原行沒有錯的不要改。

Thank you very much for invite me to go and stay with   1. __________

you in Mianyang. It’s the most beautiful city, and I have been 2. __________

eager to see you again. So I’m very sorry to tell you that I can’t3. __________

go this summer vacation, since I’ve already been promised  4. __________

to stay with my grandmother in the countryside. She has 5. __________

already 80 years old and miss me so much that I have no choice6. __________

but to do it. I’m busy preparing for my mid-term exams 7. __________

all these days, and I feel quite surely of myself. I hope I can go8. __________

and see you and Tom at the end this year. 9. __________

Best wish to both you and Tom!10. __________

Alice was very sorry to hear that her grandmother had _____ two days before.

　　A. broken off    B. passed off

　　C. given away    D. passed away

We are sorry to have to announce that the Leeds train that _____ due to arrive at 12 ： 20 has been delayed by one hour and will now arrive at 13 : 20.

A．was???? B．is?????? C．will be????? D．had been