Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)

　　Section A

　　Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

　　Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.

　　One in six. Believe it or not, that’s the number of Americans who struggle with hunger. To make tomorrow a little better, Feeding America, the nation’s largest(36) hunger-relief organization, has chosen September as Hunger Action Month. As part of its 30 Ways in 30 Days program, it’s asking (37) across the country to help the more than 200 food banks and 61,000 agencies in its network provide low-income individuals and families with the fuel they need to (38) .

　　It’s the kind of work that’s done every day at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in San Antonio. People who (39) at its front door on the first and third Thursdays of each month aren’t looking for God – they’re there for something to eat. St. Andrew’s runs a food pantry (食品室) that (40) the city and several of the(41) towns. Janet Drane is its manager.

　　In the wake of the (42) , the number of families in need of food assistance began to grow. It is (43) that 49 million Americans are unsure of where they will find their next meal. What’s most surprising is that 36% of them live in (44) where at least one adult is working. “It used to be that one job was all you needed,” says St. Andrew’s Drane. “The people we see now have three or four part-time jobs and they’re still right on the edge(45) .”

　　注意：此部分試題請在答題卡2上作答。

　　A) accumulate

　　B) circling

　　C) communities

　　D) competition

　　E) domestic

　　F) financially

　　G) formally

　　H) gather

　　I) households

　　J) recession

　　K) reported

　　L) reviewed

　　M) serves

　　N) surrounding

　　O) survive