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Directions: Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence.
1.As the semester is drawing to an end, the student union is calling on all the students to ____ the temptation to cheat on exams.
A. refuse C. resist D. resolve
2.You don’t agree with me on this matter, I know, but ____ you’ll see I am in the right.
A. at times B. in time eD. all the time
3.As some of the rules concerning foreign trade ran contrary to the principles of the WTO, the government decided to ____ them as soon as possible.
A. abolish D. establish
4.It is impossible for me to sing a song these days, for my voice is ____.
A. going of B. going to C. going offD. going away
5.The old man regained consciousness and found himself lying in a room which had nothing but ____ walls.
A. blank C. vacant D. bare
6.The typical symptom of the epidemic SARS is ____ high fever and acute cough.
A. persistent C. subsequent D. perseverant
7.The Christmas dinner includes poultry for the main course, salad, bread, and vegetables, and ____ a variety of desserts, for example, pies, puddings and ice-cream.
A. involves B. features C. characterizes D. protrudes
8.____ the events of last week, I think, we could have handled things more efficiently.
A. Falling back on B. Looking back on
C. Getting back on D. Going back on
9.A suicide bomb exploded in a Jewish ____, killing dozens of people.
A. site D. settlement
10.In the last few years, the Internet and the World Wide Web have become ____ words; almost everyone has heard of them.
A. family C. house D. household
11.It can said without exaggeration that no part of the United States is not easily accessible by car, by train, or by air, and ____ by all the three of them.
A. more often than B. more often than not
C. no more often than D. less often than
12.While freshmen are considered part of the academic elite(精英), some of them appear to lack common sense ____ following traffic regulations.
A. coming to
C. when it comes to D. when they come to
13.Dangerous animals such as bears and wolves can be ____ by lighting a fire when you go camping in a virgin forest.
A. kept in hand B. kept at bay
C. kept in touch D. kept in mind
14.As she matured as an artist, she ____ realize that “all artists are a product of their culture”.
A. came to C. took to D. went to
15.He always uses the same ____ of lies to cheat strangers.
A. number B. flock C. group D. web
16.Many European countries ____ all alliance(同盟) against Hitler’s military invasion.
A. passed for C. compelled D. authorized
17.Because of the mad cow disease, the European Union ____ a worldwide ban on British beef and beef product exports.
A. challenged D. imposed
18.The ancient tribes there are supposed ____ from the mainland to the island.
A. to move
C. to have moved D. to have been moving
19.Bicycle riders want the city government to set aside special lanes(行车道) for bicycles on some of the main streets, but though they have got some supporters, ____ likes the idea.
A. everyone B. not everyone
C. no one D. someone
20.On Children’s Day, our nieces and nephews were taken to the department store and then ____ to pick their favorite toys.
A. set out B. let alone
C. brushed aside D. turned loose
21. Our house is about a mile from the station and there are not many houses ______.
A. in between B. among them
C. far apart D. from each other
22. The destruction of these treasures was a loss for mankind that no amount of money could _________.
A. stand up to B. put up with
C. come up with D. make up for
23. Some fish have a greater ________ for acid water than others.
A. tolerance B. resistance
C. dependence D. persistence
24. Many scientists have been _________ the goal of a practical and economical way to use sunlight to split water molecules.
A. pursuing B. chasing C. reaching D. winning
25. I have no formal clothes for the occasion. Perhaps I can get _________ in a dark suit?
A. through B. by C. at D. off
26. The money I get from teaching the piano is a useful _________ to my ordinary income.
A. implement B. complement C. supplement D. compliment
27. The _________ consists of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, their son and two daughters.
A. house B. household C. home D. housing
28. He never talks to me _________ to ask for something.
A. besides B. aside from C. apart from D. other than
29. I _________ my grant by working in the evenings.
A. compliment B. complement C. supplement D. implement
30._________ my point I have done a comparative study.
A. Illustrating B. To illustrate
C. Having illustrated D. Being illustrated
Part II. Reading Comprehension (30%)
Passage One:
When John and Victoria Falls arrived in New York City for one-year stay, they did not bring very many things with them. They had planned either to live in a furnished apartment or to buy used furniture. But they soon learned about a new system that more and more people are using. The renting of home furnishings (bed, tables, dishes, and so on) has become one of America’s fastest growing businesses.
What kinds of people rent their home furnishings instead of buying them? People who are international business or government officials, foreign students, airline workers, young married couples --- people whose job or business may force them to move frequently from one city to another. They save a lot of trouble and the cost of moving their furniture each time. They simply rent new furniture when they reach their new homes. Young people with little money do not want to buy cheap furniture that they may soon dislike. They prefer to wait until they have enough money to buy furniture they really like. Meanwhile, they find they can rent better quality furniture than they could afford to buy.
One family, who now have a large, beautiful home of their own, liked their rented furniture so much that they decided to keep renting it instead of buying new things. But usually people don’t like to tell others about it. The idea of renting home furnishings is still quite new, and they are not sure what their neighbors might think.
1.Which of the following has become one of America’s fastest growing businesses?
A. Selling home furnishings.
B. Renting furnished apartments.
C. Selling used furniture.
D. Renting home furnishings.
2.Why do some people prefer to rent furniture?
A.Because the furniture they get in this way is new.
B.Because it saves them a lot of money.
C.Because it saves them much trouble and money.
D.Because they can always get better quality furniture in this way.
3.What can you infer from the passage?
A.The idea of renting furniture is not acceptable.
B.Renting furniture is not popular in the couple’s home town.
C.Only those who don’t have enough money rent furniture.
D.People usually grow to like the furniture they have rented.
4.Which of the following can best serve as the title of the passage?
A. rent or Buy?
B. A New Way of Getting Home Furnishings
C. Furnished Apartments
D. A New Idea
5.Young people liked renting home furniture in that _______.
A. They have less money.
B. They don’t want to buy old furniture.
C. The new furniture is of good quality.
D. They don’t have much money and don’t want to buy the cheap furniture.
Passage Two:
China has taken the need for more exercise to heart, with the government running several activities last Sunday, which was the designated World Health Day. Pamphlets and posters based on the theme“Move for Health” were distributed nationwide, encouraging people to develop a positive and healthy lifestyle.
6.Rapid economic development has resulted in all the following except ____.
A.an increasing number of taxi passengers
B.the wide use of labor-saving devices
C.an increasingly fast pace of life
D.people’s awareness of the importance of exercise
7.Some people are getting overweight because ____.
A.they are too busy to have any time for exercise
B.they are ignorant of the benefits of exercise
C.they are too weak to participate in physical activity
D.they are short of money to pay for different exercises
8.According to the passage, who need regular daily exercise most?
A.People taking taxis to work.
B.Urban adults with full-time jobs.
C.Elderly people suffering from high blood pressure.
D.Youngsters dreaming of becoming professional athletes.
9.What is the main idea of the last paragraph but one?
A.Many people are still unable to afford the cost of physical exercises.
B.Nobody should take part in physical activity in order to be an athlete.
C.Moderate physical exercise is usually enough for ordinary people.
D.Old or sick people should only take part in physical exercises of the slowest type.
10.By referring to rapid economic development as “a boon” at the beginning of the passage, the author means that ____.
A.it has benefited the general public greatly
B.it has done harm to people’s health nationwide
C.it is going faster than anyone could have imagined
D.it has helped to establish a positive and health lifestyle of the public
Passage Three:
Johnstown campus of the University of Pittsburgh set themselves the opposite problem – how to collect body heat. They have designed a collection system which utilizes not only body heat, but the heat given off by such objects as light bulbs and refrigerators as well. The system works so well that no conventional fuel is needed to make the campus’s six buildings comfortable.
of saving heat and redistributing it is called “heat recovery”. A few modern buildings recover heat, but the University’s system is the first to recover heat from some buildings and reuse it in others.
Johnstown campus would be a hard-working, overweight male genius.
11.Until recently, body heat has caused problems because it_____.
A. was difficult to collect
C. was difficult to get rid of it
12.Which of the following is true of the heating system of the Johnstown campus?
B. The heat is supplied by both human bodies and other
heat-emitting objects
13.At the Johnstown campus, how many of the buildings are heated entirely by the heat collection system?
D. Six
14.According to the passage, which of the following would produce the LEAST amount of heat?
A. A fat female who studies hard
15.In the last paragraph, the “hottest prospect” means the____.
C. most diligent student
D. most learned student
Passage Four:
The resources of the library can be helpful even when we are doing something very informal, such as trying to devise a better way to measure attitudes toward music or looking for a better way to teach mathematics. The library can be equally helpful when we are doing something very formal, such as writing a dissertation (学位论文) or preparing an article for publication in a professional journal. In either case, our goal should be to use the library as a useful tool to help us understand and solve our problem.
The following sections of this chapter will describe specific resources available in many libraries. In some cases you may already be aware of a resource and may use it frequently and successfully. In other cases you may be completely unfamiliar with a resource. Your goal should be to become aware of what is available and to know how to use each of these resources to help you solve the problem they are designed to solve.
When educators have a piece of information that they want to share with their colleagues, they often make this information available in professional journals or at professional meetings. It would often be useful to have access to such information, and this chapter will describe the special services that enable us to locate such information.
16.The library resources can be helpful when we ______.
A. want to find a better way to measure attitudes toward music
B. are preparing a paper for a professional journal
C. are writing a dissertation
D. All of the above
17.Readers’ familiarity with different resources ______.
A. is more or less the same B. varies slightly
C. differs greatly D. should not be different
18.The author believes that ______.
A. library resources should be used frequently and completely
B. library resources cannot be made good use of if they are not available to us
C. one is supposed to be aware of the library resources that are usually not available
D. one is supposed to have good knowledge and make good use of library resources
19.When educators wish to share some information with their colleagues, they often ______.
A. publish it in a professional journal
B. organize professional meetings
C. get access to it in the library
D. make use of some library services
20.The chapter in question mainly ______.
A. deals with the ways of dissertation writing
B. presents information on publishing papers in professional journals
C. introduces some library services
D. describes some professional meetings
Part III. Cloze (15%)
One day when Jamie came home after school, his mother had on her worry face. He knew she was thinking of 1 “It’s bad out there. Black clouds are coming from the sea,” Jamie said. “Yes. I’m thinking of those fishing boats at sea,” she said.
At that moment 2. went out. Jamie and his mother were in the dark.
“The coastline will be in the dark,” Jamie’s mother said. She got more worried. 3 always come in threes. I broke my best glasses this morning, and my sister has the cold.
“Now, don’t worry, mum. They’re right.” They’re 4 to come through this all right.
But Jamie really worried about those fishing boats himself. The fishing boats would 5 the cove in the dark.
Jamie took flares and rushed into the wind. There was a cliff by the sea. He started to climb. He 6 himself up hand over hand. At last he reached the top.
He 7 three times. On the fourth try he fired off one of the flares. It rose and cut into the black sky in bright light. Then he saw an answering flare up at sea. Jamie fired off two more. He saw another answering flare up, then another, then another. The answering flares from the fishing boats showed they 8 the entrance to the cove but then changed course and were 9 sailing into the cove. They were almost home. Jamie helped 10 the fishermen of the village.
A. the wind B. the clouds
C. the rain D. the weather
1.A. Jamie B. his mother
C. the fire D. the lights
2.A. Messages B. Accidents
C. Troubles D. Questions
3.A. sure B. lucky
C. safe D. ready
4.A. lose B. miss
C. leave D. forget
5.A. pushed B. pulled
C. carried D. climbed
6.A. made B. tried
C. failed D. finished
7.A. were at B. had found
C. had passed by D. were going into
8.A. now B. then
C. once D. again
9.A. answer B. save
C. find out D. look for
Part IV. Translation (25%)
1.至于这本杂志,它刊载世界各地许多报刊杂志上文章的摘要。
When it comes to this magazine, it is/ carries a digest of articles from many newspapers and magazines around the world.
2.在持续不断的沙尘暴的威胁下,我们被迫离开我们喜爱的村庄,搬迁到新的地方。
Under threat of constant sand storms, we were compelled to leave our cherished village and
move to the new settlement.
3.他们从来没有想到他们队会一大比分赢得那场篮球赛。
It never occurred to him that their team would win the basketball match by a large margin.
4.这间房间的窗帘同家具的风格不大协调。
The curtains of the room are not quite in tune with the style of the furniture.
5.奶奶想当然地认为粮价要涨,所以买了许多大米。
Grandma took it for granted that food prices would soar, so she bought a lot of rice.
