55. cultures。 根据文化背景知识可知香港融合了东西文化， 是个国际化的大都市。

PART THREE: READING COMPREHENSION (30分)

Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.

　　　 　　　　　　　　 　　　　　　　A

Philo Farnsworth was a man who made it possible for one of the most important communication devices - television to be created. Philo was born on August 19th, 1906, near Indian Creek in the western state of Utah. He attended a very small school near his family’s farm. He did very well in school. He asked his teacher for special help in science. The teacher began helping Philo learn a great deal more than most young students could understand.

One night, Philo read a magazine story about the idea of sending pictures and sound through the air. Anyone with a device that could receive this electronic information could watch the pictures and hear the sound. The magazine story said some of the world’s best scientists were using special machines to try to make a kind of device to send pictures.

14-year-old Philo decided these famous scientists were wrong and that mechanical devices would never work. He decided that such a device would have to be electronic. Philo knew electrons could be made to move extremely fast. All he would have to do was to find a way to make electrons do the work.

Very quickly Philo had an idea for such a receiver. It would trap light in a container and send the light on a line of electrons. Philo called it “light in a bottle”.

Several days later, Philo told his teacher about a device that could capture pictures. He drew a plan for it, which he gave his teacher. Philo’s drawing seemed very simple, but it clearly showed the information needed to build a television. In fact, all television equipment today still uses Philo’s early idea.

Philo Farnsworth was only 14 years old then. He knew no one would listen to a child. In fact, experts say that probably only ten scientists in the world at that time could have understood his idea.

On September 7th, 1927, Philo turned on a device that was the first working television receiver. In another room was the first television camera. Philo had invented the special camera tube earlier that year.

The image produced on the receiver was not very clear, but the device worked. In1930, the United States government gave Philo patent documents. These would protect his invention from being copied by others.

54. choice / decision。 句意是“我很高兴我做出了正确的选择/决定来到这里学习”。

53. time。 根据语境可以知道她仍然需要时间适应新的环境。

52. language。 从下文“People speak Cantonese and almost all classes are in English.”可知， 她面临的是食物和语言问题。

51. foot。 set foot on…“踏上……”属于固定搭配。

50. majoring / interested. Lou Ran 在香港大学学习， 她主修新闻专业。注意用现在进行时。

49. although / though。 句意是“(高中)毕业后，尽管北京大学和清华大学都录取了她，但她选择了中国香港大学学习。”从语法角度看是让步关系。

48. top/ highest。 从下文她既可以进北大也可以进清华，最后选择进入香港大学学习，说明这个女孩是福建省去年的高考最高分.

47. D。 句意：如果你与她亲密的关系有所疏远的话，也没什么关系，因为你可以结交许多其它的朋友。

Section C (12分)

Directions: Complete the following passage by using ONE word that best fits the context.

I never expected that I would be so busy. Why can’t there be 25 hours a day?” complained Lou Ran in Hong Kong as final exams were going on.

The 18-year-old girl was Fujian Province’s ___48__ scorer in last year’s college entrance examination. After leaving school, she chose the Chinese University of Hong Kong __49__ both Peking University and Tsinghus University promised her a place.

“I want to experience a more international school and social life in Hong Kong. I’m __50__ in journalism, so Hong Kong will surely help widen my horizons,” Liu said.

It is about four months since Liu Ran set __51_ on Hong Kong. She missed home a lot at the beginning, because of the food and __52__problems.

“The canteen offers mostly Western or Guangdong food, but it’s convenient to cook for ourselves in our dorm if we like. People speak Cantonese and almost all classes are in English,” Liu explained.

Her English and Cantonese are now improving, but she still needs more __53_ to adapt to the new environment.

“I’m happy that I made the right __54__ to study here. With a mix of the Eastern and Western__55__, there is so much to discover and learn,” she said.

[解析]

46. B。 otherwise “否则”。