8. A. called for B. drove off C. went through D. depended on

　9. A. catastrophe B. coincidence C. dilemma D. drawback

　10. A. elect B. appoint C. regard D. recommend

　11. A. education B. occupation C. contribution D. recovery

　12. A. survived B. excelled C. competed D. registered

　13. A. discrimination B. resistance C. circumstances D. uncertainties

　14. A. dreamed B. thought C. approved D. complained

　15. A. criticized B. motivated C. cursed D. interrupted

　16. A. preferences B. requirements C. failures D. attempts

　17. A. bridge B. vision C. reward D. cure

　18. A. dramatically B. occasionally C. abruptly D. roughly

　19. A. limits B. predicts C. determines D. replaces

　20. A. of B. from C. for D. up

第三节 书面表达

　　请认真阅读下面短文，并按照要求用英语写一篇115 词左右的文章。

　　Education does count (excerpt)

　　Hundreds of students send me e-mails each year asking for advice about education. They want to know what to study, or whether it's OK to drop out of college since that's what I did.

　　My basic advice is simple and heartfelt. "Get the best education you can. Take advantage of high school and college. Learn how to learn."

　　It's true that I dropped out of college to start Microsoft, but I was at Harvard for three years before dropping out-and I'd love to have the time to go back. As I've said before, nobody should drop out of college unless they believe they face the opportunity of a lifetime. And even then they should reconsider.

　　In my company's early years, we had a bright part-time programmer who threatened to drop out of high school to work full-time. We told him no.

　　Quite a few of our people didn't finish college, but we discourage dropping out.

　　Having a diploma certainly helps somebody who is looking to us for a job.

There's not a perfect correlation between attitudes in high school and success in