中国石油考试中心老托福试题及答案

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1A She is younger than her sister

.

B she does not spend much time with her sister’s children.

C she does not get along well with her sister

D she no longer resembles her sister.

2A Paper plates are cheaper than dishes.

B Dishes break more easily than paper plates.

C There is no need to wash any dishes now.

D The woman’s roommate will return soon.

3A She has not applied to any universities yet,

B She will begin university classes in a few weeks.

C She does not know yet if a university will accept her.

D She is too busy to contact the university right now.

4A Reconsider his position later

B Allow the student to miss class

C Lower the student’s grade

D Suggest that the student try to reschedule the operation

5A He does not have enough money for the trip yet.

B He is planning to work during spring break .

C The trip is too far off in the future to think about.

D He has changed his mind about going to Canada.

6A The photograph is not good enough to send.

B The photograph was not taken at the Grand Canyon.

C They already sent Mary a photograph of their vacation.

D Sending pictures through the mail is too expensive.

7A She should have asked to be excused from the trip.

B She deserves the zero.

C She is right to be angry.

D She should have gone on the field trip.

8A He wants to live off campus.

B There are advantages and disadvantages to living off campus.

C Living space in the dorm is crowded.

D There are only a few apartments available off campus.

9A Turn down the volume of the music

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B Turn the music off

C Play a different style of music.

D Listen to music in a different room.

10A It took a long time to finish the building.

B He was too busy to notice the opening of the hotel.

C He did not know the hotel had a restaurant.

D He would like to meet the woman for brunch next Sunday.

11A Go to her class.

B Cancel her appointment with the president.

C Ask her professor to excuse her from class.

D Attend the presentation.

12A She admires Steve’s relationsh

ip with his father.

B She does not know Steve or his father.

C Her daughter is older than Steve.

D She disagrees with the man.

13A He has heard the new CD.

B He does not enjoy classical music.

C He is not interested in the CD.

D He rarely listens to music.

14A Buy tickets for the next showing.

B Leave the theater

C Change their seats for a better view

D Ask the couple in front of them to be quiet

15A The library closes earlier during the summer.

B The library is closed during summer vacation.

C The library will be open until midnight tonight.

D She does not usually go to the library during the summer.

16A She is sorry the man has to cancel the plans

B She wants to hand in her report early.

C She would like to go with the man.

D she does not usually enjoy the symphony.

17A He has other plans for the evening

B He is looking forward to attending the party.

C He often misses Linda’s parties.

D he wants to know if he should bring anything to the party.

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18A There is just about enough time to do the job

B The desk has never been so orderly.

C The clock on the desk needs to be set.

D The desk really needs organizing.

19A He enjoys looking at the flowers.

B He thinks the park is boring.

C He does not like walking with the woman.

D He does not see any trees.

20A There are not very many hotels in the area.

B She stayed at the Clover Inn last month.

C She is not sure the man’s parents would like the Clover Inn.

D It may be too late to get a room at the Clover Inn.

21A Wait until later to eat

B Go to the cafeteria without her

C Bring her some food from the cafeteria

D Meet her at the cafeteria

22A He has to work with his brother .

B He has no definite plans.

C He usually works on weekends.

D His plants depend on the woman.

23A Buy stamps at the post office

B Mail the woman’s bill

C Drive to the woman’s house

D Pick up a package from the post office

24A The woman should call Bill to check his schedule.

B The woman should have left for the airport earlier.

C The woman does not need to rush to meet Bill .

D Traffic near the airport could delay the woman’s arrival.

25A She did better on the quiz than the man did.

B She did not have to take the quiz.

C She has not yet received her grade on the quiz.

D She did not do well on the quiz.

26A He will be happy to share their dessert

B He did not know what time he was supposed to arrive.

C He expected the traffic to be bad.

D He is not upset that they ate lunch.

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27A She has to quit her job in the laboratory.

B She cut herself while working in the laboratory.

C She enjoys doing laboratory experiments.

D She feels that the man is dedicated to his work too.

28A Ask for directions

B Try a different route to the beach

C Go back for the map

D Cancel their trip

29A He would like the woman to reschedule the meeting.

B He will meet the woman briefly on Friday

C The report will not be ready until Thursday.

D The report was finished last Friday.

30A Find out when the bookstore opens

B Withdraw some cash

C Inquire about a job

D Spend her extra money on books

31A Ways to determine the age of a fossil

B The identity of a fossil the woman found

C A comparison of two shellfish fossils

D Plans for a field trip to look for fossils

32A The class is going to study them .

B They evolved from brachiopods.

C They are similar to brachiopods in appearance.

D They belong to the same species as brachiopods.

33A It has a ribbed shell.

B It has an unusually large valve.

C It was found near the water.

D It is smaller than a mollusc.

34A He has never seen a fossil that old.

B It could be many millions of years old.

C It is probably a recent specimen.

D He will ask the lab how old it is.

35A Take it to class

B Put it in her collection

C Take it to the lab

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D Leave it with her professor

36A A jewelry store robbery

B Buying a birthday present

C Writing a story

D Doing research for a class assignment

37A Her professor did not like her story .

B She had trouble finishing her assignment

C she did not like the topic she had chosen for her paper.

D She was taking too many courses,

38A Take some extra time

B Do a writing exercise

C Do some work for another course

D Write the story ending first

39A To go shopping

B To do research for her story

C To meet with her professor

D To take a break from her work

40A To describe ways pests can damage plants

B To examine the life cycle of caterpillars

C To explain how corn plants develop

D To describe how a natural pesticide works

41A Caterpillars chewing on its leaves

B Wasps laying eggs on its leaves

C Pesticides sprayed on its leaves

D Knives cutting its stalk

42A By flying in circles around a field

B By detecting a chemical signal

C By inspecting individual corn leaves

D By noticing the caterpillar’s coloration

43A Recently discovered manuscripts

B Similarities among religions

C Methods of analyzing ancient manuscripts

D How ancient manuscripts are preserved

44A The simplicity of their language

B Their age

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C The location of their discovery

D The material they are made of

45A Orally preserved teachings

B A collection of letters

C A diary

D A scholarly article

46A Ancient settlers in Asia

B How Buddhism is practiced today

C The spread of Buddhism in Asia

D Why some languages disappear

47A The language they are written in is not widely known.

B They cannot be moved from where they were found

C The writing in them has faded

D Many people want credit for the discovery.

48A The advantages of an economy based on farming

B Reasons farmers continued using river transportation

C The role of cotton in the United States economy

D Improved methods of transporting farm crops

49A The new technology used to build roads

B The ability to transport goods over land

C The trade in grain and cotton

D The linking of smaller local roads into one long road

50A Reduced charges for transporting farm products

B Required payment from vehicles that used their roads

C Made repairs to older roads

D Installed streetlights on roads connecting major cities

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月语法

musical

comedy

Oklahoma!

did

much to expand the potential of the musical

stage, and it encouraged others to attempt......

(a)original themes

(b)to original themes

(c)that were original themes

(d)how original themes

e its fishlike form, the whale is......and will drown if submerged too long.

(a)an animal breathes air that

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(b)an animal that breathes air

(c)an animal breathes air

(d)that an animal breathes air

saguaro ,found in desert regions in the southwestern United States ,......cactus in

the world.

(a)is the largest

(b)the largest

(c)that is the largest

(d)the largest that is a

is said that United Stales literature......individuality and identity in the twentieth

century, after long imitation of European models.

(a)was achieved

(b)achieved

(c)to achieve

(d)achieving

Stone ,......first feminists in the United States ,helped organize the American

Woman Suffrage Association in 1869.

(a)the one

(b)who was the

(c)another

(d)one of the

6.......,including

climate,

mineral

content,

and

the

permanency

of

surface

water,

wetlands may be mossy ,grassy , scrubby, or wooded.

(a)Depending on many factors

(b)Many factors depending on

(c)Factors depending on many

(d)On many factors depending

(7)Duke Ellington's orchestra ,......his own often complex compositions, made many

innovations in jazz.

(a)he played

(b)playing

(c)that it played

(d)was playing

(8)The term

considerably more of Earth's surface......

(a)as is today

(b)than today is

(c)than they do today

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(d)that today

(9)From

colonial

times

,United

States

property

owners

agreed

to

tax

themselves

on

the theory......directly from services that the government could provide.

(a)property owners benefited so that

(b)why property owners benefited

(c)that if property owners benefited

(d)that property owners benefited

(10)Helium is not flammable and ,next to hydrogen ,is......

(a)known the lightest gas

(b)lightest the known gas

(c)the lightest gas known

(d)the known gas lightest

(11)Wild eagles that survive to adulthood are believed......from 20 to 30 years.

(a)live

(b)to live

(c)they live

(d)their living

(12)Portland,......,is located primarily on two hilly peninsulas overlooking Casco Bay

and its many island.

(a)which Maine's largest city

(b)Maine's largest city where

(c)is Maine's largest city

(d)Maine's largest city

13.......widely

used

in

the

chemical

industry,

sodium

carbonate

is

principally

consumed by the glass industry.

(a)Despite

(b)Whether

(c)Though

(d)Except for

,first identified by the

early microscopists,

began to

be considered......in

the

nineteenth century.

(a)them as microcosm of living organisms

(b)the microcosm of living organisms

(c)the microcosm of living organisms to be

(d)as which ,the microcosm of living organisms

Jupiter,

Saturn

is

a

large

,gaseous

planet

composed......of

hydrogen

and

helium.

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(a)it is mostly

(b)mostly

(c)almost

(d)both are almost

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．

Bacterial

cultures

are

used

commercially

in

the

preparation

of

food

products

such that

yogurt ,sour cream ,and vinegar.

with absolute ,or perfect,pitch

are

able to identify by ear

any

note at

some

standard pitch or to

sing

a specified note at will.

horses

usually

live along the shore among seaweed and

other

plants to which

they

cling to

by

their tails

.

have

soft

spots

between

the

bones

of

their

skulls

,which

allowing

for

further growth.

,

who

a

poet

,playwright,

literary

critic

,and

editor

,was

a

leader

of

the

Modemist

movement

in poetry.

Pacific

Ocean

comprises

almost

th

e

entire

boundary

western

of

North and South America.

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．

Es tablished

in 1948 ,the State University of

New York is the

singly

largest

university

system

in the United States.

raphy

disseminates

information

about

humanity

and

nature

,records

the

visible

world, and

extension

human knowledge into

areas the

eye cannot penetrate.

e of their

rapidly

changing

economically

fortunes, many frontier towns of

the American West

underwent

spectacular fluctuations in

population

in the nineteenth

century.

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.Virtually

no

disease

exists

today

for

which

there

is

no

drug

that

can

be

given ,

neither

to cure the disease or to alleviate

its

symptoms.

m is

essential

for

blood

clotting ,for the action of

certain

enzymes, and for

the normal contraction and

relax

of muscles.

large

collection of the Williams College Museum of Art

includes

ancient and

medieval art ,but

much

exhibits are

modern

or contemporary.

technique of spectroscopy allows

analyst

of incoming light after it

has been

separated into

its

component wavelengths

by passage

through a prism.

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29.

Today

,fifty

years

after

its

construction

,the

Alaska

Highway

conveys

40,000

vehicles

in normal

year.

prehistoric times ,artists (

have been)

arranged colors on surfaces

(in ways)

(that express)

their ideas (

about people)

,the world ,and religion.

31.(

Few

substances)

look

less

(

alike

than)

coal

and

diamonds

,yet

both

(

are

fashioned

)

(

from same)

elemental carbon.

ologists

can

program

their

computes

to

scan

for

a

specific

set

of

weather

criteria,

such

as

falling

barometric

pressure

,

increase

cloud

cover

,and

rising

humidity

.

an

is

formed

when

siliceous

lava

cools

too

rapidly

to

crystallized

into

rock-forming minerals.

an

settlers

in

North

America moved from the Atlantic

coast across

3,000

miles forests

, grasslands, deserts, and mountains

until

they reached the Pacific Ocean.

ophy tries

to discover

the nature of

true

and knowledge and to find

what is

of basic value and

importance

in life.

this world of

high

technology ,it is

easy

to forget that the most important

tools

ever

developed for

learning is still the book.

element

potassium

makes up

less

than one half

percentage

of the human

body.

thousand

years

ago

a

sheet

of

ice

a

thousand

meters

thick

covered

the

coastal region

which

the cities of Vancouver and Juneau

now are

located.

Crow

,Blackfoot

,and

Sioux

tribes

traditionally

adorned

they

dwellings

and

costumes with

colorful

and highly valued beaded

decorations

.

the late 1800

’

s ,United States painter Thomas Eakins

develop

a

broad

,powerful

Realist

style that

became

almost

expressionistic in his later years.

Questions 1-9:

Europa is the smallest of planet Jupiter

’

s four largest moons and the second moon

out from Jupiter. Until 1979, it was just another astronomy textbook statistic. Then

came the close-up images obtained by the exploratory spacecraft Voyager 2, and within

days, Europa was transformed-in our perception, at least-into one of the solar system

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s

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