Part One:
1. Do you enjoy listening to records? I find records are often _____,of
better than an actual performance.
A. as good as Bas good C. good D. good as
2. My pain _____apparent the moment I walked into the room. for the first
man I met asked sympathetically: "Are you feeling all right?"
A. must be B. had C. must have been D. had to be
3. The senior librarian at the circulation desk promised to get the book
for me ____ she could remember who last borrowed it.
A. ever since B. much as C. even though. D if only
4. Observations were made ____ the children at the beginning and at the
end of pre-school and first grade.
A. towards B. of C. on D. with
5. The article opens and closes with descriptions of two news reports, each
____ one major point in contrast with the other.
A. makes B. made C. is to make D. making
6. A safety analysis ___ the target as a potential danger. Unfortunately,
it was never done.
A. would identify B. will identify C. would have identified D. will have
identified
7. The number of registered participants in this year's marathon was half
_____ .
A. of last year's B. those of last year's C. of those of last year D. that
of last year's
8. For there ____ successful communication, there must be attentiveness
and involvement in the discussion itself by all present.
A. is B. to be C. will be D. being
9. There was a very interesting remark in a book by an Englishman that I
read recently _____ what he thought was a reason for this American characteristic.
A. giving B. gave C. to give D. given
10. No one would have time to read or listen to an account of everything
____ going on in the world.
A. it is B. as is C. there is D. what is
Section B(改错):
ll . I'd rather you would go by train, because I can't bear the idea of
your being in an airplane A B C
in such bad weather.
D
12 . It's essential that people be psychological able to resist the impact
brought about by the tran-
A B C
sition form planned economy to market economy.
D
13. Some bosses dislike to allow people to share their responsibllities;
they keep all important
A B C
matters tightly in their own hands.
D
14. Each cigarette whlch a person smokes does some harm, and eventually
you may get a serious
A B C
disease from its effect.
D
15 . On the whole , ambitious students are much likely to succeed in their
studies than are those
A B C
with little ambition .
D
16. Despite much research, there are still certain elements in the life
cycle of the insect that is
A B C
not fully understood .
D
17 . In 1921 Einstein won the Nobel Prize, and was honored in Germany
until the rise of Nazism
A B
then he was driven from Germany because he was a Jew.
C D
18. The data received from the two spacecrafts whirling around Mars indicate
that there is much
A B C
evidence that huge thunderstorms are occuning about the equator of the
planet .
D
19. Generally speaking, the bird flying across our path is observed, and
the one staying on the
A B
tree near at hand is passed by without any notice taking of it.
C D
20. Mercury's velocity is so much greater than the Earth's that it completes
more than four rev-
A B
olutions around the Sun in the time that takes the Earth to complete one.
C D
Section C:
21. I was speaking to Ann on the phone when suddenly we were ___.
A. hung up B. hung back C. cut down D. cut off
22. She wondered if she could have the opportunity to spend _____ here
so that she could learn more about the city.
A. sometimes B. some time C. sometime D. some times
23. Ms. Green has been living in town for only one year, yet she seems
to be ____ with everyone who comes to the store.
A. accepted B. admitted C. admired D. acquainted
24. He does not ___ as a teacher of English as his pronunciation is terrible.
A. equal B. match C. qualify D. fit
25. Dozens of scientific groups all over the world have been ____ the
goal of a practical and economic way to use sunlight to split water molecules.
A. pursuing B. chasing C. reaching D. winning
26. The discussion was so prolonged and exhausting that ____ the speakers
stopped for refreshments.
A. at large B. at intervals C. at ease D. at random
27. When travelling, you are advised to take travellers' checks, which
provide a secure ____ to carrying your money in cash.
A. substitute B. selection C preference D. alternative
28. I never trusted him because I always thought of him as such a ______
character.
A. gracious B. suspicious C. unique D. particular
29. Changing from solid to liquid, water takes in heat from all substances
near it, and this _____ produces artificial cold surrounding it.
A. absorption B. transition C. consumption D. interaction
30. I didn't say anything like that at all. You are purposely ____ my
ideas to prove your point.
A. revising B. contradicting C. distorting D. distracting
31. Language culture, and personality may be considered ____ of each other
in thought, but they are inseparable in fact.
A. indistinctly B. separately C. irrelevantly D. independently
32. Watching me pulling the calf awkwardly to the barn, the Irish milkmaid
fought hard to ____ her laughter.
A. hold back B. hold on C. hold out D. hold up
33. The manager gave one of the salesgirls an accusing look for her ____
attitude toward customers.
A. impartial B. mild C. hostile D. opposing
34. I ____ with thanks the help of my colleagues in the preparation of
this new column.
A. express B confess C. verify D. acknowledge
35. It is strictly ____ that access to confidential documents is denied
to all but a few.
A. secured B. forbidden D. regulated D determined
36. The pollution question as well as several other issues is going to
be discussed when the Congress is in ____ again next spring.
A. assembly B. session C. conference D. convention
37. Christmas is a Christian holy day usually celebrated on December 25th
____ the birth of Jesus Christ.
A. in accordance with B. in terms of
C. in favor of D. in honor of
38. Since it is too late to change my mind now, I am _____ to carrying
out the plan.
A. obliged B. committed C. engaged D. resolved
39. It was a bold idea to build a power station in the deep valley, but
it ____ as well as we had hoped.
A. came off B. Went off C. brought Out D. made out
40. To survive in the intense trade competition between countries, we
must ____ the qualities and varieties of products we make to the world
--- market demand.
A. improve B. enhanced C guarantee D. gear
Part Two:
Vitamins are organic compounds necessary in small amounts in the diet
for the normal growth and maintenance of life of animals, including man.
They do not provide energy, 41 do they construct or build any part of
the body. They are needed for 42 foods into energy and body maintenance.
There are thirteen or more of them, and if 43 is missing a deficiency
disease becomes 44 .
Vitamins are similar because they are made of the same elements-usually
carbon, hydrogen , oxygen , and 45 nitrogen. They are different 46 their
elements are arranged differently, and each vitamin 47 one or more specific
functions in the body.
48 enough vitamins is essential to life, although the body has no nutritional
use for 49 vitamins. Many people, 50 , believe in being on the "safe
side" and thus take extra vitamins. However, a well- balanced diet
will usually meet all the body' s vitamin needs.
41. (A) either (B) so (C) nor (D) never
42. (A) shifting (B) transfening (C) altering (D) transforming
43. (A) any (B) some (C) anything (D) something
44. (A) serious (B) apparent (C) severe (D) fatal
45. (A) mostly (B) partially (C) sometimes (D) rarely
46. (A) in that (B) so that (C) such that (D) except that
47. (A) undertakes (B) holds (C) plays (D) performs
48. (A) Supplying (B) Getting (C) Providing (D) Furnishing
49. (A) exceptional (B) exceeding (C) excess (D) external
50. (A) nevertheless (B) therefore (C) moreover (D) meanwhile
Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension
Passage l
Tight-lipped elders used to say, "It's not what you want in this
world, but what you get. "Psych- ology teaches that you do get what
you want if you know what you want and want the right things.
You can make a mental blueprint of a desire as you would make a blueprint
of a house, and each of us is continually making these blueprints in the
general routine of everyday living. If we intend to have friends to dinner,
we plan the menu, make a shopping list, decide which food to cook first,
and such planning is an essential for any type of meal to be served.
Likewise, If you want to find a job, take a sheet of paper, and write
a brief account of yourself. In making a blueprint for a job, begin with
yourself, for when you know exactly what you have to offer, you can intelligently
plan where to sell your services.
This acoount of yourself is actuaLly a sketch of your working life and
should include alucation, experience and references. Such an account is
valuable. It can be referred to in filling out standard application blanks
and is extremely helpful in personal interviews.While talking to you,your
could-be employer is deciding whether your "wares" and abilities
must be displayed in an orderly and reasonably connected manner.
When you have carefully prepared a blueprint of your abilities and desires,
you have something tangible to sell. Then you are ready to hunt for a
job. Get all the possible information about your could-be job. Make inquiries
as to the details regarding the job and the firm. Keep your eyes and ears
open, and use your own judgement. Spend a certain amount of time each
day seeking the employment you wish for, and keep in mind: Securing a
job is your job now.
51. What do the elders mean when they say, "It's not what yau want
in this world, but what
you get. "?
(A) You'll certainly get what you want.
(B) It's no use dreaming.
(C) You should be dissatisfied with what you have.
(D) It's essential to set a goal for yourself.
52. A blueprint made before inviting a friend to dinner is used in this
passage as__.
(A) an illustration of how to write an application for a job
(B) an indication of how to secure a good job
(C) a guideline for job description
(D) a principle for job evaluation
53. According to the passage, one must write an account of himself before
starting to find a job
because __.
(A) that is the first step to please the employer
(B) that is the requirement of the employer
(C) it enables him to know when to sell his services
(D) it forces him to become clearly aware of himself
54. When you have carefully prepared a blueprint of your abilities and
desires, you have some-
thing__.
(A) definite to offer (B) imaginary to provide
(C) practical to supply (D) desirable to present
Passage 2
With the start of BBC World Service Television, millions of viewers in
Asia and America can now watch the Corporation's news coverage, as well
as listen to it. And of course in Britain listeners and viewers can tune
in to two BBC television channels, five BBC national radio services and
dozens of local radio station. They are brought sport , comedy, drama,
music, news and current affairs , education , religion , parliamentary
coverage, children ' s pragrammes and films for an annual licence fee
of 83 pounds per household.
It is a remarkable record, stretching back over 70 years--yet the BBC'
s future is now in doubt. The Corporation will survive as a publicly-funded
broadcasting organization, at least for the time being, but its role,
its size and its programmes are now the subject of a nation-wide debate
in Britain.
The debate was launched by the Government , which invited anyone with
an opinion of the
BBC-including ordinary listeners and viewers--to say what was good or
bad about the Corporation, and even whether they thought it was worth
keeping. The reason for its inquiry is that the BBC' s royal charter runs
out in 1996 and it must decide whether to keep the organization as it
is,or to make changes.
Defenders of the Corporation-of whom there are many---are fond of quoting
the American slogan "If it ain't broke, don't fix it. " The
BBC "ain' t broke" ,they say, by which they mean it is not broken
(as distinct from the word 'broke' , meaning having no money) , so why
bother to change it?
Yet the BBC will have to change, because the broadcasting world around
it is changing. The
commercial TV channels---TV and Channel 4-were required by the Thatcher
Government's Broadcasting Act to become more commercial, competing with
each other for advertisers, and cutting costs and jobs. But it is the
anival of new satellite channels--funded partly by advertising and partly
by viewers' subscriptions-which will bring about the biggest changes in
the long term .
55 . The world famous BBC now faces__ .
(A) the problem of new coverage (B) an uncertain prospect
( C) inquiries by the general public (D) shrinkage of audience
56. In the passage, which of the following about the BBC is not mentioned
as the key issue?
(A) Extension of its TV service to Far East.
(B) Programmes as the subject of a nation-wide debate.
(C) Potentials for further intemational co-operations.
(D) Its existence as a broadcasting organization.
57. The BBC's "royal charter" (Llne 4, Paragraph 3) stands for__
(A) the financial support from the roval family (B) the privileges granted
by the Queen
(C) a contract with the Queen (D) a unique relationship with the royal
family
58. The foremost reason why the BBC has to readjust itself is no other
than__
(A) the emergence of commercial TV channels
(B) the enforcement of Broadcasting Act by the government
(C) the urgent necessity to reduce costs and jobs
(D) the challenge of new satellite channels
Passage 3
In the last half of the nineteenth century "capital" and "labour"
were enlarging and perfecting their rival organizations on modern lines.
Many an old firm was replaced by a limited liability company with a bureaucracy
of salaried managers. The change met the technical requirements of the
new age by engaging a large professional element and prevented the decline
in efficiency that so commonly spoiled the fortunes of family firms in
the second and third generation after the energetic founders. It was moreover
a step away from individual initiative, towards collectivism and municipal
and state-owned business. The railway companies, though still private
business managed for the benefit of shareholders, were very unlike old
family business. At the same time the great municipalities went into business
to supply lighting , trams and other services to the taxpayers .
The growth of the limited liability company and municipal business had
important consequences. Such large, impersonal manipulation of capital
and industry greatly increased the numbers and importance of shareholders
as a class , an element in national life representing irresponsible wealth
detached from the land and the duties of the landowners; and almost equally
detached from the responsible management of business. All through the
nineteenth century, America,Africa, India, Australia and parts of Europe
were being developed by British capital, and British shareholders were
thus enriched by the world ' s movement towards industrialisation. Towns
like Bournemouth and Eastboume sprang up to house large. " comfonable"
classes who had retired on their incomes, and who had no relation to the
rest of the community except that of drawing dividends and occasionally
attending a shareholders' meeting to dictate their orders to the management.
On the other hand "shareholding" meant leisure and freedom which
was used by many of
the later Victorians for the highest purpose of a great civilisation.
The "shareholders" as such had no knowledge of the lives, thoughts
or needs of the workmen employed by the company in which he held shares,
and his influence on the relations of capital and labour was not good.
The paid manager acting for the company was in more direct relation with
the men and their demands, but even he had seldom that familiar personal
knowledge of the workmen which the employer had often had under the more
patriarchal system of the old family business now passing away. Indeed
the mere size of operations and the numbers of workmen involved rendered
such personal relations impossible. Fortunately, however, the increasing
power and organization of the trade unions, at least in all skilled trades,
enabLed the workmen to meet on equal terms the managers of the companies
who employed them. The cruel discipline of the strike and lockout taught
the two parties to respect each other' s strength and understand the value
of fair negotiation .
59. It's true of the old family finns that__.
(A) they were spoiled by the younger generations
(B) they failed for lack of individual initiative
(C) they lacked efficiency compared with modem companies
(D) they could supply adequate services to the taxpayers
60. The growth of limited liability companies resulted in__.
(A) the separation of capital from management
(B) the ownership of capital by managers
(C) the emergence of capital and labour as two classes
(D) the participation of shareholders in municipal business
61 . According to the passage, all of the following are true except that__.
(A) the shareholders were unaware of the needs of the workers
(B) the old firm owners hand a better understanding of their workers
(C) the limited liability Qompanies were too large to run smoothly
(D) the trade unions seemed to play a positive role
62. The author is most critical of___ .
(A) family film owners (B) landowners ( C) managers (D) shareholders
Passage 4
What accounts for the great outburst of major inventions in early America-breakthroughs
such as the telegraph , the steamboat and the weaving machine?
Among the many shaping factors, I would single out the country ' s excellent
elementary schools; a labor force that welcomed the new technology; the
practice of giving premiums to inventors ; and above all the American
genius for nonverbal , "spatial"thinking about things technological
.
Why mention the elementary schools? Because thanks to these schools our
early mechanics ,especially in the New England and Middle Atlantic states,
were generally literate and at home in arithmetic and in some aspects
of geometry and trigonometry.
Acute foreign observers related American adaptiveness and invelltiveness
to this educational
advantage. As a member of a British commission visiting here in 1853 reported,
"With a mind prepared by thorough school discipline, the American
boy develops rapidly into the skilled workman. "
A further stimulus to invention came from the "premium" system,
which preceded our patent system and for years ran parallel with it. "fhis
approach,originated abroad, offered inventors medals, cash prizes and
other incentives.
In the United States, multitudes of premiums for new devices were awarded
at country fairs and at the industrial fairs in major cities. Americans
flocked to thess fairs to admire the new machines and thus to renew their
faith in the beneficence of technological advance.
Given this optimistic approach to technological innovation, the American
worker took readily to that special kind of nonverbal thinklng required
in mechanical technology. As Eugene Ferguson has pointed out , "A
technologist thinks about objects that cannot be reduced to unambiguous
verbal descriptions; they are dealt with in his mind by a visual, nonverbal
process . . . The designer and the inventor . . . are able to assemble
and manipulate in their minds devices that as yet do not exist. "
This nonverbal "spatial" thinking can be just as creative as
painting and writing. Robert Fulton once wrote, "The mechanic should
sit down among levers, screws, wedges, wheels, etc. ,like a poet among
the letters of the alphabet , considering them as an exhibition of his
thoughts, in which a new arrangement transmits a new idea. "
When all these shaping forces--schools, open attitudes, the premium system,
a genius for spatial thinking--interacted with one another on the rich
U. S. mainland, they produced that American characteristic , emulation
. Today that word implies mere imitation. But in earlier times it meant
a friendly but competitive striving for fame and excellence.
63. According to the author, the great outburst of major inventions in
early America was in a
large part due to__
(A) elemental'y schools ( B) enthusiastic workers
(C) the attractive premium system (D) a special way of thinking
64 . It is implied that adaptiveness and inventiveness of the early American
mechanics__
(A) benefited a lot from their mathematical knowledge
(B) shed light on disciplined school management
(C) was brought about by privileged home training
(D) owed a lot to the technological development
65 . A technologist can be compared to an artist because __
(A) they are both winners of awards
(B) they are both experts in spatial thinking
(C) they both abandon verbal description
(D) they both use various instruments
66. The best title for this passage might be__
(A) Inventive Mind (B) Effective Schooling
(B) Ways of Thinking (D) Outpouring of Inventions
Passage 5
Rumor has it that more than 20 books on creationism/evolution are in the
publisher ' s pipelines. A few have already appeared. The goal of all
will be to try to explain to a confused and often unenlightened citizenry
that there are not two equally valid scientific theories for the origin
and evolution of universe and life. Cosmology , geology , and biology
have provided a consistent , unified, and constantly improving account
of what happened. "Scientific" creationism, which is being pushed
by some for "equal time" in the classrooms whenever the scientific
accounts of evolution are eivel, is based on religion, not science. Virtually
all scientists and the majority of nonfundamentalist religious leaders
have come to regard "scientific" creationism as bad science
and bad religion.
The first four chapters of Kitcher's book give a very brief introduction
to evolution. At ap-
propriate places, he introduces the criticisms of the creationists and
provides answers. In the last
three chapters, he takes off his gloves and gives the creationists a good
beating. He describes their
programmes and tactics, and, for those unfamiliar with the ways of creationists,
the extent of their deception and distortion may come as an unpleasant
surprise. When their basic motivation is religious, one might have expected
more Christian behavior.
Kitcher is a philosopher, and this may account, in part, for the clarity
and effectiveness of
his arguments. The non-specialist wiU be able to obtain at least a notion
of the sorts of data and
argument that support evolutionary theory. The final chapter on the creationists
will be extremely
clear to all. On the dust jacket of this fine book, Stephen Jay Gould
says: "This book stands for
reason itself. "And so it does-and all would be well were reason
the only judge in the creation-
ism/evolution debate .
67. "Creationism" in the passage refers to__
(A) evolution in its true sense as to the origin of the universe
(B) a notion of the creation of religion
(C) the scientific explanation of the earth formation
(D) the deceptive theory about the origin of the universe
68. Kitcher's book is intended to __.
(A) recommend the views of the evolutionists
(B) expose the true features of creationists
(C) curse bitterly at this opponents
(D) launch a surprise attack on creationists
69 From the passage we can infer that__
(A) reasoning has played a decisive role in the debate
(B) creationists do not base their argument on reasoning
(C) evolutionary theory is too difficult for non-specialists
(D) creationism is supported by scientific findings
70. This passage appears to be a digest of__
(A) a book review (B) a scientific paper
(C) a magazine feature (D) a newspaper editorial
Part Ⅳ English-Chinese Translation
The differences in relative growth of various areas of scientific research
have several causes.
71 )Some of these causes are completely reasonable results of social needs.
Others are reasonable
consequences of particular advances in science being to some extent self-accelerating.
Some , how-
ever , are less reasonable processes of different growth in which preconception
of the form scientif-
ic theory ought to take, by persons in authority, act to alter the growth
pattern of different areas.
This is a new problem probably not yet unavoidable; but it is a frightening
trend. 72)This trend
began during the Second World War, when several govemments came to the
conclusion that the
specific demands that a government wants to make of its scientific establishment
cannot generally
be foreseen in detail. It can be predicted, however, that from time to
time questions will arise
which will require specific scientific answers. It is therefore generally
valuable to treat the scien-
tific establishment as a resource or machine to be kept in functional
order. 73)This seems mostly
effectively done by supporting a certain amount of research not related
to immediate goals but of
possible consequence in the future.
This kind of support , like all government support , requires decisions
about the appropriate
recipients of funds. Decisions based on utility as opposed to lack of
utility are straightforward. But
a decision among projects none of which has immediate utility is more
difficult. The goal of the
supporting agencies is the praisable one of supporting "good "
as opposed to "bad" science, but a
valid determination is difficult to make. Generally, the idea of good
science tends to become con-
fused with the capacity of the field in question to generate an elegant
theory. 74)However, the
world is so made that elegant systems are in principle unable to deal
with some of the world's
more fascinating and delightful aspects. 75) New forms of thought as well
as new subjects for
thought must arise in the future as they have in the past, giving rise
to new standards of elegance.
Part V Writing (15 points)
76. DIRECTIONS :
A. Title : GOOD HEALTH
B. Time limit :40 minutes
C. Word limit : 120-150 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 : "The desire for good health is universal.
"
E. YOur composition should be written neatly on the ANSWER SHEET.
OUTLINE:
1. Importance of good health
2. Ways to keep fit
3. My own practices
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