Part I Structure and Vocabulary Section B
Sections A
Directions:Beneath each of the following sentences, there are four choices
marked A),B),C)andD).Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Mark your answer on
the ANSWER SHEET I by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets with a pencil.
(5 points)
Example:
I have been to the Great Wall three times _____ 1979.
A)fromB)afterC)forD)since
The sentence should read,"I have been to the Great Wall three times since
1979."Therefore, you should choose D).
A)to have caught
B)to catch
C)catching
D)having caught
A)needn't dress up
B)did not need have dressed up
C)did not need dress up
D)needn't have dressed up
A)offend
B)had offended
C)should have offended
D)might have offended
A)to be told
B)having been told
C)being told
D)to have been told
A)is to be
B)can be
C)will be
D)has been
A)before
B)as
C)since
D)when
A)how
B)where
C)what
D)when
A)about
B)since
C)till
D)with
A)being considerd
B)considering
C)to be considered
D)having considered
A)Had it not been
B)Were it not
C)Be it not
D)Should it not be
Directions:Each of the following sentences has four underlined parts marked
A),B),C)and D). Identify the part of the sentence that is incorrect and mark your answer
on ANSWER SHEET I by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets with a pencil. (5
points)
Example:
A number of A) foreign visitors were taken B) to the industrial exhibition which
C) they saw D) many new products.
Part C) is wrong. The sentence should read, “A number of foreign visitors were taken to
the industrial exhibition where they saw many new products.” So you should choose C).
Sections C
Directions:Beneath each of the following sentences, there are four choices
marked A),B),C)and D). Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Mark your answer
on ANSWER SHEET I by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets with a pencil.
(10 points)
Example:
The lost car of the Lees was found _____ in the woods off the highway.
A)vanishedB)scattered C)abandonedD)rejected
The sentence should read, “The lost car of the Lees was found abandoned in the woods off
the highway.” Therefore, you should choose C).
Part II Cloze Test
A)amending
B)fitting
C)mending
D)renovating
A)glance
B)glimpse
C)look
D)sight
A)show up
B)show out
C)show in
D)show off
A)interval
B)range
C)span
D)term
A)acquisition
B)discrimination
C)curiosity
D)familiarity
A)justify
B)testify
C)rectify
D)verify
A)take away
B)cut out
C)write off
D)clear up
A)explosion
B)sensation
C)exaggeration
D)stimulation
A)shoulders
B)possesses
C)carries
D)shares
A)comment
B)reaction
C)impression
D)comprehension
A)restrain
B)hinder
C)restrict
D)prohibit
A)practically
B)preferably
C)precisely
D)presumably
A)in proportion to
B)in reply to
C)in relation to
D)in contrast to
A)expire
B)exceed
C)terminate
D)cease
A)sentimental
B)affectionate
C)intimate
D)sensitive
A)revolt
B)revolve
C)reverse
D)revive
A)arbitrary
B)rational
C)mechanical
D)unpredictable
A)altered
B)converted
C)fluctuated
D)modified
A)spur
B)further
C)induce
D)reinforce
A)applies
B)accounts
C)attaches
D)amounts
Directions:For each numbered blank in the following passage, there are four choices
marked A),B),C),D). Choose the best one and mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET I by
blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets with a pencil. (10 points)
Until recently most histroians spoke very
critically of the Industrial Revolution. They 41 that in the long run
industrialization greatly raised the standard of living for the 42 man. But they
insisted that its 43 results during the period from 1750 to 1850 were widespread
poverty and misery for the 44 of the English population. 45 contrast, they
saw in the preceding hundred years from 1650 to 1750, when England was still a 46
agricultural country, a period of great abundance and prosperity.
This view, 47 ,is generally thought
to be wrong. Specialists 48 history and economics, have 49 two things:that
the period from 1650 to 1750 was 50 by great poverty, and that industrialization
certainly did not worsen and may have actually improved the conditions for the majority of
the populace.
41.A)admitted B)believed C)claimed D)predicted 42.A)plain B)average C)mean D)normal 43.A)momentary B)prompt C)instant D)immediate 44.A)bulk B)host C)gross D)magnitude 45.A)On B)With C)For D)By 46.A)broadly B)thoroughly C)generally D)completely 47.A)however B)meanwhile C)therefore D)moreover 48.A)at B)in C)about D)for 49.A)manifested B)approved C)shown D)speculated 50.A)noted B)impressed C)labeled D)markedPart III Reading Comprehension
Passage 2
Well, no gain without pain, they say. But
what about pain without gain? Everywhere you go in America, you hear tales of corporate
revival. What is harder to establish is whether the productivity revolution that
businessmen assume they are presiding over is for real.
The official statistics are mildly
discouraging. They show that, if you lump manufacturing and services together,
productivity has grown on average by 1.2% since 1987. That is somewhat faster than the
average during the previous decade. And since 1991, productivity has increased by about 2%
a year, which is more than twice the 1978 87 average. The trouble is that part of the
recent acceleration is due to the usual rebound that occurs at this point in a business
cycle, and so is not conclusive evidence of a revival in the underlying trend. There is,
as Robert Rubin, the treasury secretary, says, a “disjunction” between the mass of
business anecdote that points to a leap in productivity and the picture reflected by the
statistics.
Some of this can be easily explanied. New
ways of organizing the workplace all that re engineering and downsizing - are only one
contribution to the overalll productivity of an economy, which is driven by many other
factors such as joint investment in equipment and machinery, new technology, and
investment in education and training. Moreover, most of the changes that companies make
are intended to keep them profitable, and this need not always mean increasing
productivity:switching to new markets or improving quality can matter just as much.
Two other explanations are more
speculative. First, some of the business restructuring of recent years may have been
ineptly done. Second, even if it was well done, it may have spread much less widely than
people suppose.
Leonard Schlesinger, a Harvard academic
and former chief executive of Au Bong Pain, a rapidly growing chain of bakery cafes, says
that much “re engineering” has been crude. In many cases, he believes, the loss of
revenue has been greater than the reductions in cost. His colleague, Michael Beer, says
that far too many companies have applied re engineering in a mechanistic fashion, chopping
out costs without giving sufficent thought to long term profitability. BBDO's Al
Rosenshine is blunter. He dismisses a lot of the work of re engineering consultants as
mere rubbish - “the worst sort of ambulance cashing.”
Passage 3
Science has long had an uneasy
relationship with other aspects of culture. Think of Gallileo's 17th century trial for his
rebelling belief before the Catholic Church or poet William Blake's harsh remarks against
the mechanistic worldview of Isaac Newton. The schism between sceience and the humanities
has, if anything, deepened in this century.
Until recently, the seientific community
was so powerful that it could affort to ignore its critics - but no longer. As funding for
science has declined, scientists have attacked “antiscience” in several books, notably
Higher Superstition, by Paul R.Gross, a biologist at the University of Verginia,
and Norman Levitt, a mathematician at Rutgers University; and The DemonHaunted World,
by Car Sagan of Cornell University.
Defenders of science have also voiced
their concerns at meetings such as “The Flight from Science and Reason,” held in New
York City in 1995, and “Science in the Age of (Mis)information,”which assembled last
June near Buffalo.
Antiscience clearly means different things
to different people. Gross and Levitt find fault primarily with sociologists, philosophers
and other academics who have questioned science's objectivity. Sagan is more concerned
with those who believe in ghosts, creationism and other phenomena that contradict the
scientific worldview.
A survey of news stories in 1996 reveals
that the antiscience tag has been attached to many other groups as well, from authorities
who advocated the elimination of the last remaining stocks of smallpox virus to
Republicans who advocated decreased funding for basic research.
Few would dispute that the term applies to
the Unabomber, those manifesto, published in 1995, scorns science and longs for return to
a pretechnological utopia. But surely that does not mean environmentalists concerned about
uncontrolled industrial growth are antiscience, as an essay in US News & World
Report last May seemed to suggest.
The environmentalists, inevitably, respond
to such critics. The true enemies of science, argues Paul Ehrlich of Stanford University,
a pioneer of environmental studies, are those who question the evidence supporting global
warming, the depletion of the ozone layer and other consequences of industrial growth.
Indeed, some observers fear that the
antiscience epithet is in danger of becoming meaningless. “The term 'antiscience' can
lump together too many, quite different things,” notes Harvard University philosopher
Gerald Holton in his 1993 work Science and Anti Science. “They have in common
only one thing that they tend to annoy or threaten those who regard themselves as more
enlightened. ”
Passage 4
Emerging from the 1980 census is the
picture of a nation developing more and more regional competition, as population growth in
the Northeast and Midwest reaches a near standstill.
This development - and its strong
implications for US politics and economy in years ahead - has enthroned the South as
America's most densely populated region for the first time in the history of the nation's
head counting.
Altogether, the US population rose in the
1970s by 23.2 million people - numerically the third largest growth ever recorded in a
single decade. Even so, that gain adds up to only 11.4 percent, lowest in American annual
records except for the Depression years.
Americans have been migrating south and
west in larger number since World War II, and the pattern still prevails.
Three sun belt states - Florida, Texas and
California - together had nearly 10 million more people in 1980 than a decade earlier.
Among large cities, San Diego moved from 14th to 8th and San Antonio from 15th to 10th -
with Cleveland and Washington.DC,dropping out of the top 10.
Not all that shift can be attributed to
the movement out of the snow belt, census officials say, Nonstop waves of immigrants
played a role, too - and so did bigger crops of babies as yesterday's “baby boom”
generation reached its child bearing years.
Moreover, demographers see the continuing
shift south and west as joined by a related but newer phenomenon: More and more, Americans
apparently are looking not just for places with more jobs but with fewer people, too. Some
instances-
● Regionally, the Rocky Mountain states
reported the most rapid growth rate - 37.1 percent since 1970 in a vast area with only 5
percent of the US population.
●Among states, Nevada and Arizona grew
fastest of all: 63.5 and 53.1 percent respectively. Except fro Florida and Texas, the top
10 in rate of growth is composed of Western states with 7.5 million people - about 9 per
square mile.
The flight from overcrowdedness affects
the migration from snow belt to morebearable climates.
Nowhere do 1980 census statistics
dramatize more the American search for spacious living than in the Far West. There,
California added 3.7 million to its population in the 1970s, more than any other state.
In that decade, however, large numbers
also migrated from California, mostly to other parts of the West. Often they chose - and
still are choosing - somewhat colder climates such as Oregon, Idaho and Alaska in order to
escape smog, crime and other plagues of urbanization in the Golden State.
As a result, California's growth rate
dropped during the 1970s, to 18.5 percent - little more than two thirds the 1960s growth
figure and considerably below that of other Western states.
Discerned from the perplexing picture of population growth the 1980 census provided,
America in 1970s _____ .
A)enjoyed the lowest net growth of population in history
B)witnessed a southwestern shift of population
C)underwent an unparalleled period of population growth
D)brought to a standstill its pattern of migration since World dWar II
Passage 5
Scattered around the globe are more than
100 small regions of isolated volcanic activity known to geologists as hot spots. Unlike
most of the world's volcanoes, they are not always found at the boundaries of the great
drifting plates that make up the earth's surface; on the contrary, many of them lie deep
in the interior of a plate. Most of the hot spots move only slowly, and in some cases the
movement of the plates past them has left trails of dead volcanoes. The hot spots and
their volcanic trails are milestones that mark the passage of the plates.
That the plates are moving is not beyond
dispute. Africa and South America, for example, are moving away from eath other as new
material is injected into the sea floor between them. The complementary coastlines and
certain geological features that seem to span the ocean are reminders of where the two
continents were once joined. The relative motion of the plates carrying these continents
has been constructed in detail, but the motion of one plate with respect to another cannot
readily be translated into motion with respect to the earth's interior. It is not possible
to determine whether both continents are moving in opposite direcitons or whether one
continent is stationary and the other is drifting away from it. Hot spots,anchored in the
deeper layers of the earth, provide the measuring instruments needed to resolve the
quesiton. From an analysis of the hot spot popultion it appears that the African plate is
stationary and that it has not moved during the past 30 million years.
The significance of hot spots is not
confined to their role as a frame of reference. It now appears that they also have an
important influence on the geophysical processes that propel the plates across the globe.
When a continental plate come to rest over a hot spot, the material rising from deeper
layer creates a broad dome. As the dome grows, it develops seed fissures(cracks); in at
least a few cases the continent may break entirely along some of these fissures, so that
the hot spot initiates the formation of a new ocean. Thus just as earlier theories have
explanied the mobility of the continents, so hot spots may explain their
mutability(inconstance).
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74._____________________________________________________________.
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Part V Writing (15 points)
Directions:
A.Study the following cartoon carefully and write an essay in no less than 150words.
B.Your essay must be written clearly on the ANSWER SHEET II.
C.Your essay should meet the requirements below:
1. Write out the messages conveyed by the cartoon.
2. Give your comments
Part I Structure and Vocabulary
Section A(1-10)
BDBCADCDAA
Section B(11-20)
BDCBCBACAC
Section C(21-40)
CBDDDACBCBAADABCACBD
Part II Cloze Test(41-50)
ABDADDABCD
Part III Reading Comprehension(51-70)
CDDCABBACDAABCDCBBDC
Part IV English Chinese Translation
Part V Writing
第一篇
Recently, more and more people have seen varieties of promises
either from TV, newspaper or from other media. As is shown in the cartoon, even a hen has
leanred how to promise. We all know that hen's duty is to lay eggs which should undoutbly
consist of most elementary part. But the hen promises what she should do!(图画点题,夹叙夹议)
With the development of the society and the improvement of people's
living standard, more and more attention should be paid to the improvement of quality of
service. Therefore, many enterprises and departments promise to better their services so
as to meet the people's need better. They are also pleased to invite people to supervise
what they have done and will do. But much to our surprise, some of them just say something
that they should do. These promises are only laughted at by people. (解释配诗,又有议论)
In my opinion, doing more is better than proming more. Because
people are willing to be served really. All we should lay more emphasis on what we do and
how we can virtually improve the level of service. Only in this way can we make people
satisfied with what we do. (发表自己的观点)
评语:内容切题,包括图画的全部信息;清楚表达其内涵,文字连贯;句式有变化,句子结构和用词正确,文章长度符合要求。本作文得13分
第二篇
Such A Promise
There is a cartoon with the topic of “Such A Promise” says “Promises
are often make in many business, that we welcome your supervisement and will not refuse
it.”
But it's all what they should do and it's not at all necessary to
sing this “song of civilization.”(这两段写出了“message conveyed by the cartoon”)
Yes, it's ture, There are so many people thinking that it's not
their obligation to do what they should do. They like to sing that “song of civilization”
and pretend they were good to finish their job. But in fact, it's normal. People should
finish their jobs heart and soul. Nice men do thier job without any vacant promise. They
just do their best. Only such people can improve the development of the country. They are
common. But they are needed, they are useful.
Those who only can say something and always make vacant comments
are not practical. They just say and not do. They are unfit for the modernization. They
are harmful to our country. And there are so many such people. So we should have a
thorough refermation just as we are doing now. We should improve our people's virgin and
teach them to do more things than to say. (这两段为评论)
评论:内容切题,包括图画的全部信息;比较清楚地表达其内涵,文字基本连贯;句式有一定变化,句子结构和用词无重大错误,文章长度符合要求。本作文得10分。
第三篇
The carton shows us the messages conveyed. Today, we see messages
conveyed in our life, this like the cartoon picture, the hen's promise, the hen's egg who
are ensured the egg should be all the age things.
From the cartoon, we see this recovered some problem. Some promise
raised in our social. Firstly, some produties and some companies in order to gain profits,
they nelected the peoples's hope and ieads. A serval proty says produce a large of by
profitable. Secondly, some unit long for advance in some unite and factory, they seledom
songs highly songs, which keep thier majority conditions, this generally made wrong
measure to deal with our goverment, our people. Thirdly, this observes let's unpleasured
and worried. This cheat factors bring up troulbes in people's life, the people don't know
the massages conveyed is true or not. The messages conveyed is conveyed, or isn't
conveyed.
In my opinion that this observes large dangerous our life, the
messages conveyed isn't conveyed, and the messages conveyed bring not conveyed. My
comments that we improve and critics this observes, Our goverment and our solical must
highly deal with this promblem, Our people must save this wrong action, let messages
conveyed truely bring our life, let our solical have actually improved this problem, In
order to our future.(10分,本题在于结构好,使阅卷老师“一不留神”就给了高分。)
第四篇
From this cartoon, I laugh at the hen keep promises that she ought
to do it. Hence, I think that many compnaies keep their promises like this now. Hens
should lay eggs like this instead of keeping this promises.
As Chinese economy is advancing, the commodity become rich. At the
same time a lot of products that are not qualified one sold in market places. Although
those products do great harm to people, the cases are encouraged by some admistrations
because renevues can be gained from this. People complain this deeply.
As a result, many companies assure people that their products and
services are qulified. Consumers are all puzzled by those cases. Why do so many companies
keep their promises that they should do?
It is true that companies may show their advertisement, but they
should not have done less than what they have promised. Companies should do their works
honestly.(8分)
第五篇
PROMISE
From the cartoon, we can see a hen promises that her eggs are in
good qualities. At first sight, you may busrt into laughing, but do you realize what's
meaning it hints? (cartoon)
At present, promise is popular thoughout all the working areas.
From radio, television or all kinds of newspaper, we can easily see one advertisement with
good promise, such as the quality of goods, the ensurement of reparing, the exchangement,
etc. Some sound reasonable, but some are not necessary.
Some quality are a part of goods, so if it's no use of promising
such things. And sometime it may gives rise to bad influence on goods. People may not
think the goods are good enough. Make sure good promising is available!(8分)
第六篇
Such Promise
At present, it is popular that all kinds of business and produce
both make promise. All businessmen and producers make promise: it is happy for consumers'
instructment. But, when the promise is produced by these businessmen and producer's,
consumers will find the promise is “false”. Because the promise is these bussinessmen
and producers duty which shall be. As a hen produce eggs, the hen promised it produce a
egg must be a real egg. Such promise! Is it humor?
All kinds of business and producers promise is popular. Because
there are many bussiness and producers, consumers have rights for selection. These
producers make “false” promise for getting many consumers and expanding their sales.
In my opinion, such promise isn't necessary. All producers should try their best to
enhance their produce quality is vital. Only this, they can make their produce sale more
and get more consumers. In modern market economy, these producers will be strong and will
defeat other producers. (6分)
第七篇
Nowday, many departments, example shop, band, impose to people the
something what they ought to do. Shops impose that they do not sell false and bad goods.
But they ought ot sell true and good goods. Why they impose what they ought to do. I
think, first many departments do something that they ought to do.
Example, some shops sell bad and false goods, so few of shop
impose that they do not sell bad and false goods in order to earn more money. Other shop
impose to people too. Second, these departments impose to people in order to frashion.(5分)
第八篇
Promise
From the cartoon, we see that a hen has a promise about her eggs,
we conclud the the promise is out of it ture implication and promise is of no use.
Give the cartoon, I thought that a promise shout have its
reponsibility for the costomber. Like the cartoon discribe, some one or some companies
roast their product and it function no less than what there producty is. Therefore it
leads to the consumer's fail, so we should plane some politics to prevent this pernomene.
First, reinforce the country offercials work. Second, every company should reponside for
what you have said and do it correctly. The last, every coustomber should rise his ability
to distinguish the promise.
With all describe, we can conclude that every company should
sponsible for his promise and we also should do some to prvend him. (4分)
第九篇
You can see the picture. after the hen lay eggs, what it show is
humor. What it says is her own ability.
Our country have many people like the hen what he do is his own
things, but he pretend to advise(AD) The people should be critis and we should forbit it
and force he to do good thing.(3分)
第十篇
From the cartoon, we can see that the cook show his promise. But
the promise is that she should do.
A chicken broning egges is his responsibility. But (3分)
第十一篇
With the development of society, and as the markets mechandise is
carried on, many companies and enterprises have greatly involved the fights of
advertisement. They spended lots of money on advertising. This is a good way to make the
firms fames.
But many enterprises advertisement fake the consume, make many
people puzzle of thier products. This damage the advantages of many consumers.
So I think we should punish the enterprises just that the cartoon
reads.
Their says were competely unreasonable and without any essense of
their products' word. (2分)
第十二篇
Quality of Products
Now our society is undergoing a reform from plannned economy to
marketoriented economy. It bring us many benefits, including the raising of the
material livings and entertainments. However, with the development of market economy, some
people who do not observe the law take advantage of the opportunity to make money.
To some manufacturers, regardless of the quality of products, they
only care for making money. They make all sorts of promises, but virtually mean nothing.
They do not avoid being invested. Like the drawing in the cartoon, the hen promises that
the eggs she lays are bound to contain the three things all the eggs have. But whether the
eggs can be eaten, it is another thing. Perhaps, they do not contain nurtrions at all.
Thus we see that her promises is not relianble.
As to the quality of products, people have a great concern to it.
Inferior products make us suffer not only economally but also psychologily. When we spend
some money but get nothing, we are sure to be angry. I hope that there are more laws about
the quality of products to protect the consumer. As long as all of us take action, the
quality of products will be improved greatly.(1分)
第十三篇
Quality of products
in order to improve the quality of products made in this country,
quality control will have to be effectively inforced. Many people have complained about
products that don't work, sometimes shortly after they are bought, bikes that break down,
radios that do not work, and even pens that refuse to write after a few words.
Unless the quality of products is improved, people in our country
will tend to buy foerign made products, we notice that many people prefer Japanese
electronic products (radio, television, ect.) to those made here. It is said that the
foreign made products are sure to be better than those homemade.
Once quality control comes into force, domestic products can
gradually best down the foreign products. As a result, buyers will turn back to homemade
products. the sales of Chinese products within the contary and even outsidethe century
will increase.(0分)
第十四篇
From the carton above, we can see an odd thing. The eggs - having
been known as round. But his producer has to announce and grarante his reality. It
reflects that between producers and consumers they distrust each other.
We live in a material world. Making money has become the most
important thing. Because many symbolizes one's success and ability and can bring many
benefits. So some products make fake production in sake of earning more money. when
consumers buy thesefake production and are harmed, they don't believe producers no longer.
They begin to seek productions safe and high quantity. Therefore, product, have to
guarantee to consumers.
In fact, in a long run, these cheating do harm to not only
consumers, but also cheaters. In international competitions, quantity is the most
important. High quantity bring good fame, and can bring good profits and can modify the
competition. Above all, it can quarantee your comparison more and more large.
Distrust can cantagions, so can trust. Honest is one of the most
important virtues. We should keep honest and make the consumption equality. The government
should take actions to regulate market. Laws should be make to warn fake producers. And
our market will be more stable and prosperity. (0分)
第十五篇
Fake and inferior goods
Fake and inferior goods can be seen everywhere. Almost every kind
of goods not only in small shops, but in big department stores or markets, from daily
necessies to industrical material, from soft drinking to clotheses. It would be fatal for
the government to underestimate the destructive power of it.
Fake and inferior good do lots harm for us. First, it damages not
only the consumers interest, but their health and even their lives. Second most of fake
and inferior good will damage the famous brands. Third more and more fake and inferior
goods makes the consumers hesitate before choosing goods.
Faced with fake and inferior goods we must take measure. First of
all, helping to consumer improve their recognize. Second helping the consumer to
distinguish fake and inferior good. So we can controlled and elimited fake and inferior
goods. (0分)