Part I Structure and Vocabulary
Section A
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 the ANSWER SHEET. (5 points)
- Relaxation, _____ fresh air,pure water and clean food,is essential to
a sound mind and healthy body.
A.much less than
B.no less than
C.no more than
D.any less than
- Somebody in the next room must be ill, _____ a doctor has just come
out.
A.because
B.for
C.in that
D.as
- Exceptional children are different in some significant way from
others of the same age.For these children _____ to their full adult potential,their
education must be adapted to those differences.
A.to develop
B.to be developed
C.developing
D.will develop
- Plastics are warm materials,sympathetic to the human touch,and their
transformation _____ things that come into contact with human beings is entirely
appropriate.
A.of
B.by
C.into
D.for
- Recently many schools have faced what could be called the crisis of
comprehension or,in simple terms,the phenomenon of students with phonic and grammar skills
still _____ unable to understand what they read.
A.are
B.to be
C.being
D.have been
- Taking more vitamins than the body needs does not make it function
better, _____ overfulfilling the oillamp makes it lighten better.
A.no more than
B.any more than
C.not more than
D.much more than
- For most people the sea was remote,and with the exception of early
intercontinental travellers or others who earned a living from the sea,there was little
reason to ask many questions about it,let alone _____ what lay beneath the surface.
A.asking
B.ask
C.to ask
D.be asked
- If you are to catch a train,it is always better to be comfortably
early than even a fraction of a minute _____ late.
A.too
B.very
C.much
D.rather
- Suppose there were a flood or an earthquake and the people could not
be reached by trains or trucks. _____ packages of food could be dropped from planes,the
people might starve.
A.Until
B.Before
C.Unless
D.If only
- I find the courage of treatment by the author _____ so delights
us,and which large perception only can inspire.
A.who
B.which
C.what
D.as
Section B
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 the ANSWER SHEET.(5 points)
- Galileo found (A) it difficult to believe
(B) that the sun rotated (C) around the earth and the earth to be (D) the
center of the universe.
- He was told that the (A) money would have (B) to be
paid back (C) but he refused to do so (D) .
- In this case (A) it is cheaper to buy old furniture than to
have (B) new one (C) made (D) .
- There being (A) little rain in (B) the past sixty
days,the ground is (C) dry and people feel uncomfortable (D) .
- There were (A) expected to be (B) more discussions on
the President's speech given over (C) the radio the day before (D) .
- A (A) nation which stops (B) working (C) would be
dead (D) in a fortnight.
- As (A) more and more cars are produced and used,the emission
from (B) their exhaustpipes (C) contains an ever large (D) volume of
poisonous gas.
- Experts assert (A) almost all the products that television
sells are products that people who care about (B) kids feel (C) shouldn't
consume (D) in the first place.
- The position (A) which (B) a mother holds her baby against
(C) her body when resting is rather revealing (D) .
- Very (A) rarely a specialist is (B) capable of
(C) being an ideal generalist as well as (D) a good specialist in a particular
field.
Section 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 the ANSWER SHEET.(10 points)
- The leader should _____ every suggestion worthy of careful
consideration which is put forward by the masses.
A.take charge of
B.attach importance to
C.take responsibility for
D.give regards to
- He was suprised to find his room thoroughly cleaned and everything
arranged _____ .
A.at its place
B.up to date
C.in good order
D.to the full
- People who live in the countryside or in the mountains,where the eyes
are constantly _____ themselves to objects at a distance,seldom have to wear glasses in
early or middle life.
A.adapting
B.appealing
C.applying
D.adjusting
- The _____ temperature of a human body,no matter in what part of the
world he lives,is about 36.8℃.
A.common
B.average
C.regular
D.normal
- The Food and Drug Administration classifies as a cosmetic any product
whose _____ purpose is to improve a person's appearance.
A.singular
B.sincere
C.single
D.significant
- At the drug store,the pharmacist refused to give my medicine because
she could not read the doctor's _____ .
A.description
B.prescription
C.inscription
D.subscription
- For most children in North America,school vacation begins in
June.Classes _____ in late August or early September.
A.assume
B.presume
C.resume
D.consume
- Although he really did not want to open the mysterious drawer
again,his curiosity _____ him to take one last look.
A.compelled
B.attracted
C.aroused
D.stimulated
- Too many regard education as their own possession,and do not realize
that it is something to be shared with others,and to be used for good of society _____ .
A.in general
B.at length
C.at large
D.after all
- It is not unusual for ballet dancers to _____ more than one pair of
toe shoes during an evening's performance.
A.wear away
B.wear off
C.wear down
D.wear out
- Money is the _____ thing she wants,and you won't succeed in winning
her heart with money.
A.last
B.first
C.very
D.best
- The assignment is _____ easy.It took us three days to finish it.
A.anything but
B.nothing but
C.all but
D.none but
- Poor as he was,he was _____ making profits at the expense of others.
A.above
B.off
C.out of
D.beyond
- He is the kind of person who stops at nothing in order to _____ his
own purpose.
A.promote
B.obtain
C.reach
D.achieve
- _____ where the foreignborn Americans make peace with their new
culture,they will likely watch their children turn into Americans.
A.In place of
B.In memory of
C.Regardless of
D.In honour of
- There has been an accident.I think the road will be cleared and
traffic will _____ in about ten minutes' time.
A.recover
B.resume
C.be returned
D.restore
- Education is _____ the realization that people need to be motivated
to change things which are in their power to change.
A.concerned about
B.indicative of
C.indispensible for
D.beneficial to
- To _____ the structural imbalances in the budget,and also in the
economy, the Administration has given its support to a constitutional amendment.
A.supplement
B.compensate
C.remedy
D.complement
- The policy of the government was always interpreted and carried out
_____ specific conditions of different provinces.
A.in the light of
B.for the sake of
C.in the name of
D.in the interest of
- The _____ talks between China and the United States were the base of
the later agreement.
A.original
B.primary
C.initial
D.primitive
Part II Cloze Test
Directions:For each numbered blank in the following
passage,there are four choices labelled A,B,C and D.Choose the best one and put your
choice on the ANSWER SHEET.(10 points)
Nineoneone is a threedigit telephone number that
will provide the American public with access to an emergency answering center.It is the
number that has been 41 for reporting an emergency and 42 assistance in any community in the United States.The primary 43 of this public service is to preserve life and
property.Ideally,this means that 44 ,nearly every
American citizen and visitor to the country who has access to a telephone could summon aid
by dialling this simple threedigit number, 45 location,familiarity
with an area,time of day,or type of emergency.
The concept of a 46 emergency
telephone number is not new. 47 systems have been in
service nationwide in several European countries for many years. 48 the
selection of the particular agency to act as the answering center may differ from country
to country,the concept of a single number,received at a central reporting agency,has been
well accepted and 49 in practice to be an effective 50 of the total emergency response mechanism in these countries.
41.A.designed B.signalled C.signified D.designated
42.A.providing B.furnishing C.demanding D.requesting
43.A.motive B.objective C.initiative D.executive
44.A.finally B.conclusively C.eventually D.ultimately
45.A.regards B.regarding C.regard to D.regardless of
46.A.common B.mutual C.reciprocal D.threedigit
47.A.Similar B.Identical C.Versatile D.Optional
48.A.Since B.Because C.Although D.Even if
49.A.served B.proven C.regarded D.converted
50.A.element B.section C.component D.ingredient
Part III Reading Comprehension
Directions:Each of the passages below is followed by some
questions. For each eqestion there are four answers marked A,B,C and D.Read the passages
carefully and choose the best answer to each of the qnestions. Then mark the corresponding
letter in the brackets with a pencil(40 points)
Passage 1
It was the voyager who captured my imagination he who
carried the tremendous rods, paddled from dawn to dark fighting waves and storms, existing
on a diet of pea soup and a daily spoonful of fat. His muscle and brawn supplied the power
for all the exploration and trade, but in spite of the harshness of his life the privation
suffering, and constant threat of death by exposure,drowning, and Indian attack they
developed a nonchalance and joy in the wilderness that has never been equaled in man's
conquest and exploitation of a new land. These exuberant FrenchCanadian canoe men, with
songs in the face of monotony and disaster, were the ones who stood out.
Their barely adequately contracts with the various fur
companies proved that profit had little to do with their choice of work, that it must have
been something else perhaps the lure of far places, the romance and adventure of a way of
life they had never known before. Whatever the reason, they practically deserted the
villages along the St. Lawrence for the“pays d'en haute”?But in spite of long
absences from family and friends, grueling work on lakes and portages, they fought for the
chance to go and were proud when chosen for the brigades. No worse fate could befall a
young man than to be forced to remain at home.
What I learned in the land of the voyagers taught me what to
look for everywhere, convinced me that history means the warmth of human associations,
that while great events may find their place in books and museums, it is the people
themselves who really count. No longer did a country provide only opportunities for
fishing, hunting, and camping. When one followed the trails of the past, no matter who the
legendary figures were voyagers, or goldseekers their feelings came through, and when they
did, the land glowed with warmth and light.
- The author indicates that the voyagers _____ .
A.were a select group
B.were largely men who were single
C.received considerable military training
D.disliked military life
- The reader can most safely conclude that an outstanding quality of
the voyagers was their _____ .
A.imaginativeness
B.courage
C.sense of humour
D.inventiveness
- In the passage the author indicates that history can be understood by
_____ .
A.reading the statements of voyagers
B.becoming aware of the sentiments of a people
C.reading about military men
D.trusting the word of a people
- One of the author's purpose in writing this passage seems to be to
_____ .
A.defend the voyagers from unfair criticism
B.be obviously critical of the voyager's motives
C.point out the disadvantages of village life
D.describe the lifestyle of the voyagers
Passage 2
As a growing number of Americans live to age 85 and
beyond,will healthy Americans below age 65 support massive health care expenditures to
keep alive the extremely ill or the very old?Or will there be some attempt to ration(定量分配)expensive
lifesaving technologies?For instance,more than 30 percent of medicare's money goes to
patients with less than a year to live.Overall,4 percent of Americans account for 55
percent of all hospital costs.The idea of rationing care is alien to most Americans.The
British,however,have been living for a long time with a system that requires hard
choices.For instance,up to the age of 45 or 50,the rate of kidney dialysis and transplant
in Great Britain is nearly the same as in the United States.But only a small number of
patients over age 55 are placed on dialysis.There is no official age
cutoff;instead,British doctors typically do not refer elderly people who are ill with
other diseases,such as diabetes or heart trouble,to dialysis centers.
Since funds for medical care are not infinite,will Americans
be confronted in the near future with a similar kind of moral dilemma?If the United States
were to attempt to pare(减少)medical expenses by rationing services,which of our central
values would we have to modify?Consider the problem on three levels.First,there is the
macro level.At this level we would confront the question:How much should we spend on our
nation's health care?The next level of rationing would entail how we spend the money:Do we
invest in preventative and primary care or do we continue to emphasize curative
medicine?The final level of rationing would be the individual level.Consider this
situation raised by William Schwartz,a physician and professor of medicine:If we know that
keeping someone alive for another few months at a cost of 100000 will mean that this
money is not available for the care of several people with hip or heart disease,should we
use the limited resource for maintaining a life of poor quality for a few months and deny
care to others?
- In the first paragraph,the author points out that _____ .
A.a disproportional amount of money is used to save the extremely ill in America
B.American society doesn't take a humanistic attitude towards the extremely ill
C.The British are more humanistic toward the old and the extremely ill
D.In Britain,old people don't enjoy free medical care
- In Britain,doctors _____ .
A.rarely encourage the extremely ill to take further expensive treatment
B.there is a special law concerning the treatment of the extremely ill
C.the seriously ill usually reject any further expensive treatment
D.kidney patients constitute the majority of the extremely ill
- In the first sentence of paragraph 2,the“moral dilemma”refers to
whether _____ .
A.to spend the limited resource on the old or on the young and healthy
B.to modify the value on the macro level or on the individual level
C.to spend money on the extremely ill or to use that money for the wellbeing of more
people
D.to refer the extremely ill to further treatment or to refuse to take them into
hospital
- What might be the author's attitude towards rationing care?
A.He is neutral about it.
B.He objects to it.
C.He is confused by it.
D.He is arguing for it.
Passage 3
If your experience is that of most students,you will
probably find that drawing the plan and thinking about your early home brought back events
you have not thought of in years. Students in my classes remember exactly what it felt
like to fall out of bed and break an arm,what the blue tile in the bathroom looked like
smeared with lipstick,and the way the kitchen smelled after the furnace exploded.They find
that their memories contain many more details than they had expected.
Most of the memories stimulated by this exercise take two
forms:recounting events and supplying details.This combination of events and details
comprises narrative,because making experience conscious requires the ability both to tell
what happened,and happens,and to fill in details that make the events come alive.This
excursion into memory also illustrates the close connection between narrating and learning
because memory provides one way for us to know or bring to consciousness something about
experience in this world.
Not every writing task you face will carry the same
emotional freight as does the one based on your house plan, but the care in recounting and
attending to detail evoked here provides a model for writing narrative. By learning to
draw on the resources of your memory, you can increase the detail in your writing. One way
to reach these resources is to make connections with concrete objects. Visualizing your
childhood home probably helped you think of details that would have otherwise remained
buried in your mind. Perhaps you have had the experience of being able to recall
information during an exam by remembering where it was written on the page of your notes
or by focusing on the place where you learned it.
Another way to draw on the resources of your memory is to
recreate a memory chain that begins with some physical object and lead you to recall
various experiences.
- The passage is mainly about _____ .
A.the role of exercise in acquiring a good memory
B.the use of memory in learning writing
C.the role of memory in college learning
D.the use of past experience in learning
- The word“recount”in the first sentence of paragraph 2 probably
means _____ .
A.remember
B.relive
C.think about
D.tell
- Through recounting and applying details,a person _____ .
A.gets his memory exercised
B.edits his experience in an orderly manner
C.learns to speak before the public
D.gets to know that has happened
- When trying to recall your memory,the author recommends,you start
from _____ .
A.the very beginning of the experience
B.the very end of the experience
C.something physical and concrete
D.your own imagination
Passage 4
Futurists have identified two changes that seem to be
central to contemporary social life.First,the United States is being restructured from an
industrial to an information society.Second,modern societies are increasingly shifting
from a notional to a global economy.Futurists have applied a good many metaphors to these
changes,including Daniel Bell's “postindustrial society,” Alvin Toffler's “the third
wave” and John Naisbitt's “megetrends”. Common to these metaphors is the notion that
American society is shifting from the production of goods to the production of services
and from society based on the coordination of people and machines to a society organized
around knowledge.These changes,it is contended,will afford a myriad of choices.The world
will increasingly be one of many flavors,not just vanilla or chocolate.
Many observers of contemporary American life believe that we
are witnessing a historical change and the first major impact of the shift from an energy
economy to an information economy.For 300 years technology has been cast in a mechanical
model,one based on the combustion processes that go on inside a star like the sun.The
steam engine opened the mechanical age,and it reached its apex with the discovery of
nuclear fission and nuclear fusion,which replicated the energyproducing processes of a
star.We now seem to be moving toward a biological model based on information and involving
the intensive use of materials. Although biological processes need physical energy and
materials, they tend to substitute information for both. Biological processes“miniaturize”size,energy,and
materials by “exploding” information.The human brain is some ten times the size and
weight of the brain of a lemur,but it handles a billion times more information.As a
result,hightech industries are informationintensive rather than energy or
materialintensive.
Sociologists have played and will continue to play an
important role in assessing and interpreting these developments and other aspects of
change.
- It can be inferred that underlying the two changes is the
change of _____ .
A.the instrument of production
B.the size of the society
C.the social structure
D.the economic market
- With what does the mechanical age reach its highest point?
A.The steam engine.
B.Nuclear power production.
C.The combustion process.
D.The energyproducing process of the sun.
- With the coming of the information age,the society is becoming _____
.
A.more intolerable
B.larger
C.more varied
D.a pleasanter place
- What characterizes the information society?
A.The amount of knowledge to be learned.
B.Physical energy and materials.
C.Rapid change and its social effects.
D.Small size and high capacity.
Passage 5
Three passions,simple but overwhelmingly strong,have
governed my life:the longing for love,the search for knowledge,and unbearable pity for the
suffering of mankind.These passions,like great winds,have blown me hither and thither,in a
wayward course,over a deep ocean of anguish,reaching to the very verge(边缘)of despair.
I have sought love,first because it brings ecstasy so great
that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy.I have
sought it,next,because it relieves loneliness that terrible loneliness in which one
shivering consciousness looks over the rim(边沿)of the world into the cold unfathomable
lifeless abyss(深渊).I have sought it,finally,because in the union of love I have
seen,in a mystic miniature,the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have
imagined.This is what I sought,and though it might seem too good for human life,this is
what at last I have found.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge.I have wished to
understand the hearts of men.I have wished to know why the stars shine.And I have tried to
apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux.A little of
this,but not much,I have achieved.
Love and knowledge,so far as they were possible,led upward
toward the heavens.But always pity brought me back to earth.Echoes of cries of pain
reverberate(回荡)in my heart.Children in famine,victims tortured by oppressors,helpless
old people a hated burden to their sons,and the whole world of loneliness,poverty,and pain
make a mockery of what human life should be.I long to alleviate the evil,but I cannot,and
I too suffer.
This has been my life,I have found it worth living,and would
gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.
- The passage is mainly about _____ .
A.the author's wish to live his life again
B.the author's principles of life
C.the author's love for life
D.the author's search for love and knowledge
- The author has sought love because _____ .
A.it brings great happiness
B.it enables him to live a high spiritual life
C.it drives away loneliness
D.all of the above
- When he said“?pity brought me back to earth”(the second
sentence in paragraph 4),the author really means that it _____ .
A.made him lonely
B.enabled him to think clearly
C.gave him a feeling of despair
D.made life unworthy to him
- Generally the author's feeling towards life is one of _____ .
A.love
B.hatred
C.pity
D.despair
Part IV EnglishChinese Translation
Directions:Read the following passage carefully and then
translate the underlined sentences into Chinese.(15 points)
A number of foreign words still look like foreign
words;these are often expressions which were originally used by people who wanted to sound
particularly welleducated.(71) It was the desire to be scholarly
that brought about a wave of Latin terms which appeared in the 16th century when the
Humanist movement brought new impetus to learning throughout Europe.
Abbreviations such as e.g.(from the Latin meaning a voluntary example);PS(meaning“added
after the letter has been written”);a.m.and p.m.(meaning“before noon”and“after
noon”)came into the language at this time.(72) Nowadays they are
so common that most people don't even know what the letters actually stand for,and there's
certainly nothing learned about using them today!
In addition to the words brought to English by
foreigners,there are plenty of words which the British have collected from the countries
they have settled in all over the world.(73) There are even a few
Chinese words,which I'm sure a Chinese speaker would never recognize from the way we
pronounce them:“typhoon”is a great wind;“to kow tow”is to bow down low;a “sampan”is
a small wooden boat. Over 5000 of the words in common use in English today are
words of foreign origin.Some of them are clearly recognizable as foreign like“au pair”
or“rendezvous”; others now look so English that only a language historian knows where
they came from.
So English is in a state of permanent development.Both in
Britain and abroad it is gaining new words and expressions,and dropping and changing old
ones.Words change their meaning,and they go in and out of fashion like hairstyles.(74) Nobody knows all the four million words that are said to exist;a welleducated
person probably uses under 200000. (75) So don't be
surprised if you never encounter some of the expressions that still appear in school
textbooks; and next time you hear somebody using a
strange word you haven't heard before,you can comfort yourself that there may well be a
native speaker somewhere who doesn't know it either.
Part V Writing(15 points)
Directions:
A.Title:TOURISM IS TO DEVELOP RAPIDLY
B.Time limit:40 minutes
C.Word limit:no less than 150 words(not including the given opening sentence)
D.Your composition should be based on the OUTLINE below and should start with the given
opening sentence:China is in a unique position to develop its tourism.
E.Your composition must be written neatly on the ANSWER SHEET.
OUTLINE:
1.The basic conditions
2.The advantages
3.My suggestions