I
. In each question, decide which of the four choices given will most
suitably complete the sentence if inserted at the place marked. Put
your choice in the ANSWER SHEET, ( 15 points)
EXAMPLE:
I was
caught_the rain yesterday.
A. in B. by C.with D. at
ANSWER:
(A)
l . Those two families have been quarrelling __ each other
for many years.
A. to B. between C. against D. with
2. There
are many things whose misuse is dangerous, bur it is hard to think
of anything that can
be compared ___
A. in B. with C. among
D. by
3. "How often have you seen cases like this?" one
surgeon asked another. "Oh ,__ times,
I guess, " was
the reply.
A. hundred of B . hundreds C. hundreds of D. hundred
4.
Give me your telephone number __ I need your help.
A. whether B.unless
C. so that D. in case
5. You sang well last night. We hope you`ll
sing __.
A. more better B. still better C. nicely D. best
6.
Those people __a general understanding of the present situation.
A.
lack of B. are lacking of C. lack D. are in lack
7. Alone in a
desert house ,he was so busy with his research work that he felt __lonely.
A.
nothing but B. anything but C. all but D. everything but
8. Grace
__tears when she heard the sad news.
A. broke in B.broke into C.
broke off D.broke through
9. She refused to __the car keys to her
husband until he had promised to wear his safety
belt .
A. hand
in B. hand out C.hand down D. down
10. Michael found it difficult
to get his British jokes __to American audiences.
A. around B.
over C.across D. down
11. The book contained a large__ of information.
A.
deal B. amount C. number D. sum
12 . Nowadays advertising costs
are no longer in reasonable_ to the total cost of the prod-
uct
.
A. proportion B. correlation C. connection D. correspondence
13.
When she saw the clouds she went back to the house to _ her umbrella.
A.
carry B. fetch C. bring D. reach
14. We must _ that the experiment
is controlled as rigidly as possible.
A. assure . B. secure C.
ensure D. issue
15. He was knocked down by a car and badly _
A.
injured B. damaged C. harmed D. ruined Ⅱ. Each of the
three passages below is followed by some questions.For each question
there are
four answer. Read the passages carefully and choose the
best answer to each of the ques-
tions. Put your choice in the
ANSWER SHEET. (20 points)
1
In
May l989 , space shuttle "Atlantis" released in outer space
the space probe "Megallan" ,
which is now on her 15-month
and one-billion-kilometer flight to Venus. A new phase in space
exploration
has begun .
The planet Venus is only slightly smaller than Earth;
it is the only other object in the solar
system, in fact, that
even comes close to earth` s size. Venus has a similar density, so
it is proba-
bly made of approximately the sanle stuff, and it
has an atmosphere, complete with clouds. It is
also the closest
planet to earth, and thus the most similar in distance from the sun.
In short,
Venus seems to justify its long-held nickname of "earth`
s twin. "
The surface temperature of Venus reaches some
900F. Added to that is an atmospheric pres-
sure about 90 times
Earth` s: High overhead in the carbon dioxide that passes for air
is a
layer of clouds, perhaps IO to 20 miles thick, whose little
drops consist mostly of sulfuric acid
(H2SO4) . Water is all but
nonexistent.
Born with so many fundamental similarities to earth,
how did Venus get to be so radically
different : It is not just
an academic matter. For all its extremes, Venus is a valuable laboratory
for
researchers studying the weather and climate of earth. It has
no earth` s oceans, so the heat trans-
port and other mechanisms
are greatly simplified. In addition, the planet Venus takes 243 earth-
days
to turn once on its axis, so incoming heat from the sun is added and
distributed at a more
leisurely , observable pace.
16.
Venus is similar to Earth in __
A. size and density B. distance
from the sun
C. having atmosphere D. all of the above
17. The
greatest value in studying Venus should be to__
A. allow us to
visit there B. understand Earth better
C. find a new source of
energy D. promote a new space program
18. The main idea of this
passage is about _
A. problems of space travel B. scientific methods
in space exploration
C. the importance of Venus to Earth D. conditions
on Venus
2
Tourists
were surprised to see a woman driving a huge orange tractor down one
of Rome` s
main avenues. Italy` s political leaders and some of
its male union chiefs are said to have been even
more puzzled to
see that the tractor was followed by about 200,OOO women in a parading
proces-
sion that took more than three hours to snake through central
Rome.
Shouting slogans, waving flags and dancing to drumbeats,
the women had come to the capi-
tal from all over Italy to demonstrate
for "a job for each of us, a different type of job, and a soci-
ety
without violence" . So far, action to improve women` s opportunities
in employment has been
the province of collective industrtal bargaining.
"But there is a growing awareness that this is not
enough,
" says a researcher on female labor at the govemment-funded Institute
for the Develop-
ment of Professional Training for Workers.
Women, who constitute 52 per cent of Italy` s population, today represent
only 35 per cent
of Italy` s total workforce and 33 per cent of
the total number of Italians with jobs. However,
their presence
in the workplace is growing. The employment of women is expanding
considerably
in services, next to the public administration and
commerce as their principal workplace. Official
statistics also
show that women have also made significant strides in self-employment.
More and
more women are going into business for themselves. Many
young women are turning to business
because of the growing overall
in employment. It is also a fact that today many prejudices have
disappeared
, so that banks and other financial institutes make judgements on
purely business con-
siderations without caring if it is a man
or a woman.
Such changes are occurring in the professions too.
The number of women doctors, dentists ,
lawyers , engineers and
university professors increased two to three fold. Some of the changes
are
immediately visible. For example, women have appeared on the
scene for the first time as state
police , railway workers and
street cleaner.
However , the present situation is far from
satisfactoty though some progress has been made.
A breakthrough
in equal opportunities for women is now demanded.
19 . The
expression "snake through central Rome" probably means "to
move_
A. quietly through central Rome"
B. violently through
central Rome"
C. in a long winding line through central Rome"
D.
at a leisurely pace through central Rome"
20 . Which of the
following statements is NOT true?
A. There are more women than
men in Italy.
B. In Italy, women are chiefly employed in services.
C.
In Italy, women are still at a disadvantage in employment.
D. In
Italy, about two-thirds of the jobs are held by men.
21.About 200
,OOO women in Rome demonstrated for_
A. more job opportunities
B. a greater variety of jobs
C. "equal job, equal pay"
D. both A and B
22.The best title for this passage would be_
A.
The Role of Women is Society
B. Women Demonstrate for Equality
in Employment
C. Women as Self-enlployed Professionals
D. Women
and the Jobs Market
3
"The
old idea that talanted children "burn themselves out" in
the early years, and, therefore, are
subjected to failure and at
worst, mental illness if unfounded. As a matter of fact, the outstanding
thing that happens to bright kids is that they are very likely to
grow into bright adults.
To find this out, l,500 gifted persons
were followed up to their thirty-fifth year with these
results
: .
On adult intelligence tests, they scored as high as they
had as children. They were, as a
group, in good health, physically
and mentally. 84 per cent of their group were married and
seemed
content with their lives.
About 70 per cent had graduated from
college , though only 30 per cent had graduated with
honors. A
few had even dropped out, but nearly half of these had returned to
graduate.
Of the men, 80 per cent were in one of the professions
or in business management or
semiprofessional jobs. The women who
had remained single had office , business , or professional
occupations
.
The group had published 90 books and 1, 500 articles in scientific,
scholarly, and literary
magazines and had collected more than 100
patents.
In a material way they did not do badly either. Average
income was considerably higher a-
mong the gifted people, especially
the men, than for the country as a whole, despite their com-
parative
youth .
In fact , far from being strange , most of the gifted
were turning their early promise into prac-
tical reality.
23.
The old idea that talented children "bum themselves out"
in the early years is_
A. true in all senses B. refuted by the
author
C. medically proven D. a belief of the author
24. The
survey of bright children was made to
A. find out what had happened
to talented children when they became adults
B. prove that talented
children "burn themselves out" in the early years
C.
discover the percentage of those mentaUy ill among the gifted
D.
prove that talented children never bum themselves out
25 . Intelligence
tests showed that_
A. bright children were unlikely to be mentally
healthy
B. between childhood and adulthood there was a considerable
loss of intelligence
C. talented children were most likeLy to become
gifted adults
D. when talented children grew into adults, they
made low scores
Ⅲ. 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 in the ANSWER SrmET. Read the whole
passage
before making your choice. ( 1O point)
No one knows for sure
what the world would be like in the year 2001 . Many books have
been
written _26__the future. But the 19th-century French novelist Jules
Veme may be called a
futurologist in the fullest _27__ of the
word. In his fantastic novels "A Trip to the Moon" and
"80
Days Around the World" , he described` with detail the aeroplane
and even the helicopter.
These novels still have a great attraction
_28__ young readers of today because of their bold
imagination
and scientific accuracy .
Below is a description of what our
life will be in the year 2001 as predicted by a _29___ writ-
er
.
In 2001 , in the home, cookers will be set so that you can
cook a complete meal at the touch
of a switch.
Television
will provide information on prices at the _30__ shops as well as news
and enter-
tainment. Videophones will bring pictures as well as
_31____ to telephone conversations.
Machines will control temperature,
lighting, entertainment, security alarms, laundry and
gardening
.
Lighting will provide decoration as well as wallpaper.
At
work, robots will take _32___ most jobs in the manufacturing industries.
Working hours
will fall to under 30 hours a week. Holidays will
get longer; six weeks will be the normal annual
holiday. Men and
women will retire at the sarlle age.
Our leisure will be different
too. The home will become the center of entertainment through
television
and electronic games. More people will eat out in restaurants _33_
they do today; al-
so they will have a much wider variety of food
available. There will be a change of taste towards
a more savoury-flavored
menu. New synthetic foods will form a _34____ part of people` s diets.
Foreign
travel will _35__;winter holidays will become more popular than summer
ones.
Also non-stop flights from Britain to Australia and New Zealand
will be easily available and much
cheaper. Education will become
increasingly more important than ever before.
26. A. in
B. of C. about D. for
27. A. sense B. meaning C. detail D. implication
28.
A. for B. of C. on D. towards
29. A. today B. nowadays C. present-day
D. present
30. A. near B. nearby C. nearly D. nearer
31. A.
noise B. sound C. tone D. tune
32. A. to B. away C. off D. over
33.
A. than B. as C. when D. while
34. A. usual B. popular C. daily
D. regular
35. A. add B. increase C. raise D. arise
IV
. Each of the follnwing sentence has four underlined parts. These
parts are labelled A, B, C
and D. Identify the part of sentence
that is incomect and put your choice in the ANSWER
SHEET. Then
, without altering the meaning of the sentence , wite down your correction
nn
the line in the ANSWER SHEET. (IO points)
`
EXAMPLE :
You
have to hurry up if you want to buy something because the_re`s hardly
something Jeft.
A BCD
ANSWER : ( C)anything
36. Alice
was having trouble to control the children because there were so many
of them.
A B C D
37.
We were very much surprised that the village was such long way from
the road.
A B C D
38.
John`s chance of being elected chairman of the committee is far greater
than Dick.
A B C
D
39. "We have won a great victory on our enemy,
" the captain said.
A B C D
40.
There are many valuable services which the public are willing to pay
for, but which
A B
does
not bring a return in money to the community.
C
D
41 . The law I am .referring require that everyone who owns a
car have accident insurance.
A B
C D
42. "I considered it a honor to be invited
to address the meeting of world-famous scientists, "
A
B C D
said Professor Leacock
.
43. He was seeing somebody creeping into the house through the
open window last night .
A B
C D
44. The reason for all the changes being made has not
explained to us yet.
A B C D
45
. Even though the children pretended asleep , the nurses were not
deceived when they came in-
A B
C D
to the room.
V . Fill in the blanks
with the appmpriate fnmts of the verbs given in the brackets. Put
your
answers in the ANSWER SHEET. ( IO point)
EXAMPLE :
It
is highly desirable that a new president _ (appoint) for this college.
ANSWER
: (should) be_appointed
46 . Buying clothes _(be) very
time-consuming as you rarely find things that fit you nice-
Iy
.
47. They keep telling us it is of utmast importance that our
representative _ (send) to the
conference on schedule .
48.
I must call your attention to the directions. Read them carefully
and act as _ (in-
struct) .
49. Emma said in her letter that
she would appreciate _ (hear) from you soon.
50. I _(call) to make
an airline reservation, but I didn` t.
51 . If Greg had tried harder
to reach the opposite shore, we _ _ _(not have) to pick him up
in
the boat.
52 . After twenty years abroad, William came back only
_ ( find) his hometown severely
damaged in an earthquake.
53.
The lecture _ (begin) , he left his seat so quietly that no one complained
that his leav-
ing disturbed the speaker.
54. The children were
surprised when the teacher had them _ (cloes) their books unex-
pectedly
.
55. A new road will be built here, and therefore a number of
existing houses _(have to
destroy ) .
Ⅵ.Translate the following
into English(15points)
56．你应该仔细核对全部资科，以避免严重错误。
57．尽管这个实验复杂，他们决心按时把它完成c
58．一切迹象表明这个人对这里发生的情况毫无所知。
59．只有那些不怕困难的人，才有可能在工作中取得卓越的成果。
60．这篇作品与其说是短篇小说，不如说更像是新闻报导。 Ⅶ
. Tanslate the following passage carefully and then translate the
sentences underlined into Chinese. (20 point)
People have wondered
for a long time how their personalities and behaviors are formed.
It is
not easy to explain why me person is intelligent and another
is not, or why one is cooperative and
another is competitive.
Sociat
scientists are, of course, extremely interested in these types of
questions. (61 ) They
want to explain why we poesess certain characteristics
and exhibit certain behaviors. There are no
clear arlswers yet,
but two distinct schools of thought on the matter have developed.
As one
might expect, the two approaches are very different from
each other. The controversy is often
conveniently referred to as
"nature as nurture. " .
(62 ) Those who suppqrt the
"nature" side of the conflict believe that our personalities
and
behavior patterns are largely determined by biological factors.
(63 ) That our environment has lit-
tle, if anything, to do with
our abilities, characteristics and behavior is central to this theory.
Taken
to an extreme, this theory maintains that our behavior is pre-determined
to such a great
degree that we are almost completely governed bv
our instincts.
Those who support the "nurture" theory,
that is, they advocate education, are often called
behaviorists.
They claim that our environment is more important than our biologically
based in-
stincts in determining how we will act. A behaviorist,
B. F. Skinner, sees humans as beings
whose behavior is almost completely
shaped by their surroundings. ( 64 ) The behaviorists main-
tain
that , like machines, humans respond to environmental stimuli as the
basis of their behavior.
Let us examine the different explanations
about one human characteristic , intelligence , of-
fered by the
two theories. (65 ) Supponers of the "nature" theory insist
that we are born with a
certain capacity for learning that is biologically
determined. Needless to say. They don`t believe
that factors in
the environment have much influence on what is basically a predetemlined
charac-
tedstic. On the other hand, behaviorists argue that our
intelligence levels are the product of our
experiences. (66) Behaviorists
suggest that the child who is raised in an environment where there
are
many stimuli which develop his or her capacity for appropriate responses
will experience
greater intellectual development .
The social
and political implications of these two theories are profound. (67
) In the United
States, blacks often score below whites on standardized
intelligence tests. This leads some " na-
ture" proponents
to conclude that blacks are biologically inferior to whites. ( 68)
Behaviorists, in
contrast , say that differences in scores are
due to the fact that blacks are often deprived of many of
the educational
and other environmental advantages that whites enjoy. .
Most
people think neither of these theories can yet fully explain human
behavior. |