
Part I. Vocabulary and Structure (10 points; 15 minutes)
Directions: Each of the following sentences is provided with four choices. Choose
the one that best completes the sentence. Then blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
1. In no circumstances __________ a lie.
A. you should tell B. shouldn't you tell
C. you shouldn't tell D. should you tell
2.__________they managed to take from the tombs, there seemed to be no end to the valuable.
| A. What | B. Which | |||||||||
| C. How much | D. However much | |||||||||
| 3. The ten-page | report | may __________ one simple point: | it | ’s impractical | to establish | |||||
| a chemical plant in that region with so many difficulties and oppositions. | ||||||||||
| A. get down to | B. come down to | |||||||||
| C. settle down | D. take down | |||||||||
| 4. Don’ t do that again! | You not only endangered yourself, | but also | put | your | friend | |||||
| __________. | ||||||||||
| A. as a result | B. at length | |||||||||
| C. at risk | D. by mistake | |||||||||
| 5. “ Perhaps you should | go home now. ” “ No, I __________ on staying | here | for | a while | ||||||
| longer. ” | ||||||||||
| A. persist | B. stick | |||||||||
| C. sit | D. insist | |||||||||
| 6. __________ a major | disaster will | get us to realize that | we can’ t | go on destroying | ||||||
| the rain forests of the world. | ||||||||||
| A. Anything but | B. Nothing but | |||||||||
| C. But that | D. Everything hut | |||||||||
| 7. Wewent very | often | to | Hyde Park | __________ speakers | addressed the | passing | crowds | |||
| on different subjects. | ||||||||||
| A. which | B. where | |||||||||
| C. that | D. for | |||||||||
| 8. The matter __________ you were arguing about last night had been settled. | ||||||||||
| A. as | B. that | |||||||||
9.The Chinese Red Cross __________ a generous sum to the relief of the physically disabled.
| A. assigned | B. contributed | |
| C. furnished | D. administered | |
| 10. | The motorway __________ we drive to work is always crowded. | |
| A. that | B. on which | |
| C. which | D. on that | |
| 11. | If he __________ promotion, he would be an important man today. | |
| A. gained | B. had gained | |
| C. gains | D. was to gain | |
| 12. | Will the AIDS patients benefit __________ the new drug | |
| A. out of | B. through | |
| C. upon | D. from | |
| 13. | Fond of singing as she is, she is __________ a good singer by profession. | |
| A. everything but | B. anything but | |
| C. nothing but | D. something but | |
| 14. | Could you tell me __________ to fly from Chicago to New York | |
| A. it costs how much | B. how much does it cost | |
| C. how much costs it | D. how much it costs | |
| 15. | I was very tired. Otherwise, I ___________ to the theatre with you. | |
| A. had gone | B. would go | |
| C. went | D. would have gone | |
| 16. | He couldn ’ t even __________ a cow from a horse. | |
| A. tell | B. contrast | |
| C. compare | D. recognize | |
| 17. | Are you sure Mr. Johnson will show you __________ the new computer | |
| A. to use | B. using | |
| C. how to use | D. what to use | |
| 18. | Quite a lot of people watch TV only to __________ time. | |
| A. waste | B. spend | |
| C. kill | D. pass | |
| 19. | The soldiers were put in prison because they __________ to obey orders.. | |
| A. refused | B. rejected | |
| C. denied | D. objected | ||||||||||||||||
| 20. I missed the train and __________ was late for school. | |||||||||||||||||
| A. finally | B. eventually | ||||||||||||||||
| C. subsequently | D. consequently | ||||||||||||||||
| Part II. Cloze Test (10 points | ; 20 minutes) | ||||||||||||||||
| Directions: Read the passage through. Then, go back and choose one suitable word | |||||||||||||||||
| or phrase | |||||||||||||||||
| marked A, B, | C, or | D for | each blank | in the passage. | Blacken the | ||||||||||||
| corresponding | |||||||||||||||||
| letter | of | the word or phrase you have chosen on the | Answer Sheet. | ||||||||||||||
| Geography is | the | study | of the | relationship | between | people | and the | land | .Geographers | ||||||||
| (地理学家) compare and contrast | 21 | places on the earth. But they | |||||||||||||||
| also | 22 | beyond | the | individual | places and consider | the | earth as a | 23 | . | ||||||||
| The world | geography | 24 | from two Greek words, ge, the Greek word for “ earth ” | ||||||||||||||
| and graphein, | 25 | means | “ to write ”. The English | word geography | means, | “ to | |||||||||||
| describe | the earth | ” . | 26 | Geography | books focus | on a small | area | 27 | a | ||||||||
| town or city. Others deal with a state, a region, a nation, or an | 28 | ||||||||||||||||
| continent. Many geography books deal with the whole earth. Another | 29 | to | |||||||||||||||
| divide the study of | 30 | is to distinguish between physical geography and | |||||||||||||||
| cultural | geography. The former | focuses | on the natural | world; | the | 31 | starts | ||||||||||
| with human beings and | 32 | how human beings and their | |||||||||||||||
| subject, | 33 | branch | can neglect | the | other. | But | when geography | is | considered | ||||||||
| as a single subject, | 34 | branch can neglect the other. | |||||||||||||||
| A geographer might be described | 35 | one who observes records and explains | |||||||||||||||
| the __36_ | |||||||||||||||||
| between places. If places | 37 | alike, there would be little need for | |||||||||||||||
| geographers. | |||||||||||||||||
| We know, however, | 38 | no two places are exactly the same. | |||||||||||||||
| Geography, | 39 | is a point of view, a special way of | 40 | at places. | |||||||||||||
| 21. A. similar | B. various | C. | |||||||||||||||
| distant | D. famous | ||||||||||||||||
| 22. A. pass | B. reach | C. | |||||||||||||||
| go | D. set | ||||||||||||||||
| 23. A. whole | B. unit | C. | |||||||||||||||
| part | D. total | |||
| 24. | A. falls | B. removes | C. | |
| results | D. comes | |||
| 25. | A. what | B. that | C. | |
| which | D. it | |||
| 26. | A. Some | B. Many | C. | |
| Most | D. Few | |||
| 27. | A. outside | B. except | C. | |
| like | D. as | |||
| 28. | A. extensive | B. enormous | C. | |
| overall | D. entire | |||
| 29. | A. way | B. means | C. | |
| habits | D. technique | |||
| 30. | A. world | B. earth | C. | |
| globe | D. geography | |||
| 31. | A. second | B. latter | C. | |
| next | D. later | |||
| 32. | A. learns | B. realizes | C. | |
| studies | D. believes | |||
| 33. | A. upon | B. for | C. | |
| as | D. to | |||
| 34. | A. either | B. neither | C. | |
| one | D. each | |||
| 35. | A. for | B. to | C. | |
| by | D. as | |||
| 36. | A. exception | B. differences | C. sameness | D. |
| divisions | ||||
| 37. | A being | B. are | C. | |
| were | D. be | |||
| 38. | A. although | B. whether | C. | |
| since | D. that | |||
| 39. | A. then | B. | ||
| nevertheless | C .still | D. moreover | ||
| 40. A. working | B. getting | C. | ||||||||||||||||||
| arriving | D. looking | |||||||||||||||||||
| Part III. Reading Comprehension (40 points; 55 minutes) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Section 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Directions: | Each of | the | following | three | passages | is followed | by some questions. | For | ||||||||||||
| each question | there | are | four | choices. | Choose the | best | answer | to each question. | Then | |||||||||||
| blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Passage One | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Questions 41 to 45 are based on the following passage. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Banks are ordinarily | prepared to pay | out all accounts; | they | rely | on depositors | not | ||||||||||||||
| to demand payment all at the same time. If depositors should come to fear that a | ||||||||||||||||||||
| bank is | not | sound, | that | it | cannot | pay | off | its | depositors, then that | fear | might | cause | ||||||||
| all the depositors to appear on the same day. If they did, the bank could not pay | ||||||||||||||||||||
| all the | accounts. | However, | if | they | did | not | all | appear at | once, | then there | would always | |||||||||
| be funds | to | pay those | who wanted | their | money when they | wanted it. | Mrs. Elsie Vaught | |||||||||||||
| has told us of a terrifying bank run that she experienced. One day in December of | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1925 several | banks | failed | to | open in | a city | where Mrs. | Vaught | lived. | The other | banks | ||||||||||
| anticipated | a run | the | next | day, and so the | officers | of | the bank in which Mrs. Vaught | |||||||||||||
| worked as a teller had enough funds in hand to pay off as many depositors as might | ||||||||||||||||||||
| apply. The officers simply instructed the tellers to pay on demand. Next morning | ||||||||||||||||||||
| a crowd gathered in the bank and on the sidewalk outside. The length of the line | ||||||||||||||||||||
| convinced many that the bank could not possibly pay off everyone. People began to | ||||||||||||||||||||
| push and then | to fight | for | places | near | the | tellers | ’ windows. | Clothing | was torn and | |||||||||||
| limbs were broken, | but | the | jam continued | for | hours. | The power of the | panic atmosphere | |||||||||||||
| is evident in the fact that two tellers, though they knew that the bank was sound | ||||||||||||||||||||
| and could pay out all depositors, nevertheless withdrew the funds in their own | ||||||||||||||||||||
| accounts. Mrs. Vaught says that she had difficulty restraining herself from doing | ||||||||||||||||||||
| the same. | ||||||||||||||||||||
A.a bank is closed for one or more days
B.too many depositors attempt to draw out their money at one time
C.there is not enough money to pay all of its depositors at one time
D.employees of a bank take their own funds out of the bank
42. The tellers in Mrs. Vaught ’ s bank were told to __________.
A. explain why they could not pay out all deposits
B. pay out deposits as requested
C. assure customers that the bank was sound
D. pay out money as slowly as possible
43. The essential cause of a run on a bank is __________.
A. loss of confidence B. lack of sufficient funds
C. crowds of people D. inefficient tellers
| 44. Which of the following did Mrs. Vaught say | ? | ||||||
| A. She knew that the bank was not sound. | |||||||
| B. She feared that too many withdrawals would close the bank. | |||||||
| C. She was not able to draw out her money. | |||||||
| D. She was tempted to draw out her money. | |||||||
| 45. According to the passage, the actions of the customers of Mrs. Vaught | ’ s bank | ||||||
| were influenced chiefly by the __________. | |||||||
| A. ease with which they could obtain their money | |||||||
| B. confidence demonstrated by other customers of the bank | |||||||
| C. confidence that Mrs. Vaught demonstrated | |||||||
| D. failure of several other banks to open | |||||||
| Passage Two | |||||||
| Questions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage. | |||||||
| Gravity holds us so dose to the Earth's surface that nobody can jump more than a | |||||||
| few feet into the air without the force of gravity pulling him down. It takes a | |||||||
| powerful engine to keep an airplane up in the air. If you throw a ball upwards as | |||||||
| hard as you can, you will notice that it travels in a curved path before it comes | |||||||
| back to the ground. If the Earth had no gravity, the ball, instead of traveling in | |||||||
| a curve, would move away in a straight line; in fact, it would never come back to | |||||||
| the ground. If the Earth were to lose its pull of gravity, we should all fly off | |||||||
| it | as it | spins round in space. The Earth has a strong pull, | but | modemrockets | going | ||
| out | into | space are able to escape from the | gravity, | because | they | travel so quickly. | |
| With the ball thrown into the air, the height reached by the ball depends upon how | |||||||
| hard it is thrown. The greater the starting-speed, the higher the ball will go. If | |||||||
| it | could | be thrown so that it traveled fast | enough, | the ball | would escape into | space | |
gravity is not able to pull them back. This is how we can now send rockets to the Moon.
46.Gravity holds us dose the Earth's surface, and as a result, __________. A. we can lift ourselves no more than a few feet above the Earth
B. nobody can jump a few feet into the air C. no one will be pulled down
D. any one of us can Jump as high as expected
47. What would happen to a ball thrown upwards if there were no gravity ?
A. It would spin round in space.
B. It would fly off into space
C. It would fall into a curved path.
D. It would move towards the Earth.
48.The ball thrown into the air would never come back to the ground __________. A. without such a powerful horizontal push
B. if it were thrown upwards as hard as you can
| 49. The height the ball will reach depends on __________. | ||||||
| A. the escape velocity | B. the limiting | |||||
| velocity | ||||||
| C. its | starting velocity | D. its traveling | ||||
| speed | ||||||
| 50. What is it that makes it possible to put a spaceship into orbit | ||||||
| A. the Earth's gravity | B. a strong | |||||
| pull | ||||||
| C. a powerful engine | D. the powerful | |||||
| rocket engine | ||||||
| Passage Three | ||||||
| Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage. | ||||||
| Does a bee know what | is | going on its | mind when it navigates its way to distant food | |||
| sources | and back to the | hive, using | polarized | sunlight | and the tiny magnet it carries | |
| as an aid Or is the bee just a machine (Unable to do its mathematics and dance its | ||||||
| language in any other | way to use Donald Griffin | ’s term) | Does a bee have “ awareness ”, | |||
| or to use a phrase I like better, can a bee think and imagine | ? | |||||
Von Frisch and more recently confirmed by James Gould at Princeton, biologists who
wish to study such things as bees to fly from the hive to one or another special
place. To do this, they begin by placing a source of sugar very close to the hive
so that the bees can learn what the game is about. Then, at regular intervals, the
dish or whatever is moved progressively farther and farther from the hive.
Eventually, the target is being moved 100 feet or more at a jump, very far from the
hive. Sooner or later, while this process is going on, the geologists shifting the
dish of sugar will find the bees are out there waiting for them precisely where the
next position had been planned. This is an uncomfortable observation to make.
51. Which of the following is the best title for the passage ?
A. The Bee Hive: Nature ’ s Candy Shop
B. Testing the Awareness of Bees
C. Navigational Techniques of Birds and Insects
D. Behaviorists Versus Biologists: A Zoological Debate
52. In the second paragraph why is Karl Von Frisch mentioned ?
A. To introduce his observation on bee behavior.
B. To contrast his theories with those of James Gould.
C. To give credit to his description of the bee hive.
D. To support the argument that bees use sunlight to navigate.
53. According to the author, why was sugar used in the study ?
A. To keep the bees nourished and healthy during the experiment.
B. To train the bees to travel to a particular place.
C. To reward the bees for performing the experiment correctly.
D. To ensure that the bees did not sting the scientists.
54. The result of the experiment explained in the passage seems to indicate which
of the following ?
A. Research using bees is too dangerous to be conducted successfully.
B. Bees are unable to navigate beyond 100 feet of their hive.
C. Scientists can teach bees to speak to people.
D. Bees are able to perform limited reasoning tasks.
55. Which of the following best describes the format of the passage ?
A. a response to criticism
B. a comparison of two competing theories
C. a question followed by a possible answer
D. a position supported by scientific debate
| Section 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Directions: | Read the | following | passage, | and then decide | whether the | statements | are | |||||||||||||
| true | (A) | or false | (B). | Then blacken the | corresponding | letter | ( A or | B) on the | Answer | |||||||||||
| Sheet. ( 对的在答题卡上划 | A, | 错的在答题卡上划 | B) | |||||||||||||||||
| Passage Four | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage: | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Mrs. Green gave her husband her letters to post when he was going to work. But | ||||||||||||||||||||
| sometimes Mr. Green forgot to do so and kept them in his pocket for days. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| One fine | morning | in | March, | Mrs. Green asked him to | post | a letter. | “ Please | post | ||||||||||||
| this letter and don | ’ t forget, | ’ she said. Mr. Green put the letter in his pocket | ||||||||||||||||||
| and said, | “ I | am sure | to | post | this | one. ” Mrs. | Green smiled | and said, | “ Yes, I | believe | ||||||||||
| that | you will | this | time. | ” Mrs. | Green looked | at | his back, | and was still | smiling | when | ||||||||||
| she closed the door. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Mr. Green walked slowly along the street. Soon a man came up from behind him. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Whenhe walked | by, | the | man looked | back and smiled, | “ Don’t | forget | to | post the letter! ” | ||||||||||||
| Then a girl | walked | by, | and she turned | and smiled, | too. | “ Don’ t | forget | to | post | |||||||||||
| that letter! | ” she said. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Mr. | Green said to himself, | “Why are | these | people | smiling | at me And how do they | ||||||||||||||
| know I have a letter to post | ” | |||||||||||||||||||
| At last he came to a post office, posted the letter, and walked on. But after | ||||||||||||||||||||
| a while, a boy came up from behind him and asked him, | “ Did you post your letter | ” | ||||||||||||||||||
| “ Then I can take off this paper, | ” said the boy. | |||
| He took a large piece of paper from the back of Mr. Green | ’ s coat and showed | |||
| it to him. On the paper were these words | – “ Ask him to post the | |||
| letter. | ” | |||
| ( | ) 56. Mrs. Green asked her husband to post her letters on his way home. | |||
| ( | ) 57. | Mr. Green sometimes forgot to post the letters immediately. | ||
| ( | ) 58. | Many people in the street knew Mr. Green. | ||
| ( | ) 59. | Mr. Green had his wife put the large piece of paper on his back. | ||
| ( | ) 60. The paper on his back | was a good hint to help | Mr. Green remember to post | |
Paper Two
(60 minutes)
Part IV. Short Answer Questions (10 points; 15 minutes)
Directions: In this part there is a short passage with five questions or incomplete
statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the
statements in the fewest possible words (not exceeding 10 words.) Write your answers
on the Answer Sheet of Paper Two. (请将此部分的答案写在试卷二的答题纸上)
Questions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage.
Thank— you cards seem to be rare in an age when the Internet continues to reduce
human contact .
Although our society has changed greatly over the past century , the etiquette
( 礼节 ) of thank-you notes has not .
While most people would agree that thank-you notes are a necessity , there are
still those who forever delay or are forgetful for unknown reasons .
And at no time of the year are thank-you notes more obvious (or lacking) than
June. The month of brides and graduations , and the beginning of summer parties .
“ It ’ s a must-do thing . A real thank-you does not come by e-mail . They come
in the mail in an envelope. And what comes out of an envelope is a beautiful thing
to touch and to pass around for everyone to read
Baldrige .
Don ’t think for a second that Baldrige
notes-any
,” said etiquette expert Letitia
is old-fashioned. Handwritten thank-you
handwritten letters
, for that matter-have taken on an air of extra importance and
dignity (
尊严
) in
this e-hyper ( 超电子 ) world .
Baldrige remains hopeful that the art may be enjoying a renaissance (
More than simply obeying rules of etiquette ,thank-you cards are a sign of
复兴 ).
caring
.
“They ’re more important
now than ever ,”expert Peter Post says .“ You’re building
a relationship . And part of building that relationship is that you acknowledge ( 表
) when someone has done something nice for you
The payoff ( 回报 ) ,Post says ,can be huge.“ It perpetuates ( 延续 ) ,”he says .“ The
more we do it , the more it comes back to us,and it ’ s a benefit to us a11. It makes
our world a little bit nicer place to live in. ”
61. The writer thinks the Internet ________________________________________.
62. Baldrige argues that a thank-you note should be __________________________
63.A thank-you note should be handwritten because it takes on an air of _________
____________________
. To build a relationship , you should give thanks to someone who
________________________
65.The passage is mainly about _______________________________________. Part V. Writing (30 points; 45 minutes)
Task 1 (10points; 15minutes)
Directions: Write a letter of about 80 words (
从略 )
Task 2 (20points; 30minutes)
Directions: For this part,
you are
required
to
write
a short essay of about 150 words
(从略)
答案:
1-5 DDBCD 6-10 BBBBB
BDBDD. 16-20 ACCAD
21-25 B CADC 26-30 ACDAD
BCDAD
41-45 BBADD 46-50 ABDCD
BABDC 56-60FTFFT
11-15
31-35 BCABD
51-55
36-40
61.reduces human contact
62.handwritten and sent in an envelope
63.extra importance and dignity
.has done something nice for you
65.the role of thank-you notes
