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英语一
1. The old man
put meat into the oven to
_____ for
dinner.
A. bake
B.
scorch
C. roast
D.
heat
2. _______
disturbing her, the news
had a strangely calming effect.
A. While
B. Nevertheless
C. However
D. Instead of
3. Few would question the impact
technology has had on education.
A. doubt
B. challenge
C. ask
questions
D.
complain
4. Instant
Messenger is a program that enables friends to
e-mail simultaneously.
A. urgently
B. from time to
time
C. immediately
D. at the same
time
5. __________ better or
worse, England and France were connected by the
Channel Tunnel in 1994.
A. While
A. to
B.
As
B. into
C.
With
D.
For
D. of
6. Parents should help their children
to tap
____
___
technology
’
s ability to
improve learning.
C. of
7. They slaughtered
us.
A. killed
B.
bothered
C. destroyed the will of
D. defeated
completely
8. Human will is
indomitable.
A. dominating
B. prevailing
C. unconquerable
D. yielding
9.
Warren coaxed the girls away from their mother
___
___ a promise
of ice cream and assured Rebekah of their return
the next day.
A. with
A. of
A.
picked
B. of
C. on
D. up
D. upon
C. licked
D. spotted
10. The old lady was terrified __
___
crossing such a busy road.
B. off
C.
out
11. The bank clerk
______
the counterfeit
money.
B. tucked
12. There were forty people
in the bus, ______
the
driver.
A. measuring
A. mean
A. priority
B. counting
B.
average
C.
calculating
D.
reckoning
13. The ______
American family today has two or three
children.
C. level
D. casual
D.
clarity
14. Those who have
worked for thirty years for the school should be
given __ ____
in this year’s
salary rise.
B. seniority
C. majority
15. Most of the
things the captain has _______
so far have worked out.
A. said
B.
demanded
C. suggested
D.
ordered
16. He ______
the right to enter the
building when he wished.
A.
maintained
B.
declared
C. stated
D. claimed
17.
The early pioneers had to
_______ many hardships to settle on the
new land.
A. go along with
B. go back on
C. go through
D. go into
18.
The professor could hardly find sufficient grounds
_______ his argumentsin
favorof the new theory.
A.
to be based on B. to base on C. which to base on
D. on which to base
19. You _______
him
so closely; you should have kept your
distance.
A.
shouldn’t follow
B.
mustn’t
follow
C.
couldn’t have been f
ollowing
D.
shouldn’t have been
following
20. In the _______
of the project not being a
success, the investors stand to lose upto $$30
million.
A. face B. time C.
event
D. course
21. The firemen acted quickly because
lives were
_______.
A. at
stake
B. in despair
C. out of condition
D.
out of danger
22. Techniques
to _____
the
energy of the sun are being developed.
A. harness
B. convert
C. receive
D. store
23. I warned him to keep the matter
______.
A. confidential
B. private
C. safe
D.
personal
24. The expected
growth in happiness is vitiated by the effect of
increases in aspiration _____
to higher income.
A. down
A.
over
B. on
C. due
D.
up
D.
on
25. His prediction
indicated the triumph of material wants ___
__ humanity.
B. against
C. to
26. There is a(n) ______
need for environmental protection in
industrialized areas of this country.
A. pressed
B.
impressive
C.
pressing
D.
necessary
27. He saw the
_______
of his face in the
mirror.
A. image
A. senility
A. at
B. picture
B.
serenity
B. on
B. with
C. portrait
D. drawing
28.
The _____
of the sleepy town was shattered by a
tremendous explosion.
C.
seniority
C. from
D. scarcity
D.
at
D.
upon
29. He was absent
______
the
meeting.
30. This drug
industry is devoted
______
promoting the health index of aged
people.
A. to
II. Cloze
(10%)
There are 20
blanks in the following passage. For each blank,
there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D.
Choose the ONE that best fits into
the
passage.
He
discovered from the timetable that the train was
__(31)___ in twenty minutes. Edgar settled himself
into a
(32)
, worried in
case
when people saw him they would all
wonder _(33)___ a child like him was making a
train journey alone. He sighed with __(34)___ when
at last he
heard the first sound of the
train and then saw it roar
in
—
the train __(35)___ was
to take him out into the world.
As
he
climbed
__
(36)____
he
noticed
his
ticket
was
second-class.
He
__
(37)___
always
traveled
first-class
before
and
again
he
felt
that
everything had changed. There were
differences he had never __ (38)____ before. His
__ (39)___ companions were not __ (40)___ those he
usually
met.
Some
Italian
workmen
with
hard
hands
and
rough
voices
sat
opposite,
__
(41)
__
spades
and
shovels,
and
looked
out
with
dull,
blank
expressions. They had been working to
__(42)
_ money, Edgar
__(43) __, but he could not imagine how much it
could be. He became __(44)
__
for the first time that
he was accustomed as a matter of course to an air
of comfortable ease in his (45)
, and there was so much he knew
nothing about.
Edgar began to see many things from
that narrow compartment with its windows to the
(46) world. He _ _(47)
__ out of the window
with
new eyes. And it seemed to him that he saw
everything in its proper light for the first
time.
Houses fled by as __
(48) __ blown away by the wind, and this made him
think about the people who lived in them. Were
they __(49)
__ or
poor Happy or miserable Did they __
(50) __, as he did, to know everything
31. A. close
32. A. district
33.
A. why
34. A. relation
35. A. it
36. A.
board
37.
A. had
38. A. looked
39. A. trip
40. A. as
41.
A. holding
42. A. hold
43. A. noticed
44. A. clever
45.
A. life
46. A.
outer
47.
A. looked
B. around
B. what
C.
due
D. down
D. area
D.
which
D. relief
D.
this
D. abroad
B. corner
B.
reliance
B. what
B. aboard
B.
noted
B. alike
C. quarter
C. at
C. where
C. relapse
C. that
C.
broadened
C. watched
D.
journey
C. for
B. would
B. voyage
C. has
D. should
D. seen
D.
like
D. missing
D. obtain
D.
sought
D. aware
D. work
D.
watched
C.
traveling
B. grasping
B. thought
B. tense
B. world
B. saw
C. setting
C.
earn
C. saw
B. grab
C.
sleepy
C. career
C.
peeped
B. outside
C. inner
D.
inside
48. A. like
49. A. lucky
50. A. strong
B. however
B. happy
B. short
C. yet
D. though
D. fortunate
D. long
C. rich
C. lengthy
III.
Reading Comprehension
(40%)
Passage 1
Tobacco
was
first
used
by
the
people
of
pre-Columbian
Americas.
Native
Americans
apparently
cultivated
the
plant
and
smoked
it
in
pipes
for
medicinal and ceremonial
purposes.
中间洛
Tobacco has been around
longer than the United States, and a causal
relationship between smoking and cancer has been
acknowledged by
the . government for
over three decades. So why has it taken so long
for the tobacco industry to be forced to settle
lawsuits over the dangers of
cigarettes
51. The tobacco
was used by the native Americans for ceremonial
purposes.
A. rituals and
ceremonies
B. celebrations
C.
feasts
D. important
occasions
52. Cigarette
sales surged in the late 1880s.
A. waved
B. swelled
C. demanded
D. increased suddenly
53. Their conclusion was expressed in
unequivocal terms.
A.
ambiguous
B. frank
C. distinguished
D. clear
54. Tobacco has been around longer than
the United States.
A. nearby
B. in existence
C. turned around
D. in succession
55. Articles addressing the health
effects of smoking began to appear in
periodicals.
A. dealing with
B. showing
C. counting
D. writing
Passage 2
The bustle
of the hospital
was a welcome distraction as I opened my new
patient’s chart and headed for her room. My son,
Eric, had just
brought home a
disappointing report card, and my daughter,
Shannon, and I had argued again about her getting
a driver’s licen
se. For the next
eight hours I wanted to throw myself
into helping people who I knew had much more to
worry about than I did.
以下中间省略
A time would come when the tape would
be played for Rebekah’s children, but right
the
n
, after I smoothed
Rebekah’s blanket, I
got in my car
and I hurried home. I thought of how my
Shannon also liked her sauce on the side and
suddenly that quirk, which had annoyed me so many
times,
seemed to make her so much more
precious. That night the kids didn’t go out; they
sat with me long a
fter the spaghetti
sauce had dried into the
dishes. And we
talked
—
without
interrogations, without
complaints
—
late into the
night.
56. By
“The bustle of the hospital was a
welcome distraction
,
”
the nurse means
.
A.
the hospital
was busy and noisy
B.
the bustle of
the hospital was annoying
C.
she was not
happy with the hospital
D.
s
he
didn’t feel annoyed because the bustle of the
hospital made her forget those unhappy
things
57. When the nurse
entered Rebekah
’
s room, she
found Rebekah
.
A.
coaxing her children
B.
bouncing together with her children
D. giggling like her
children
C.
surrounded by her children
A.
were separated
from her
B.
were different from
Rebekah
’
s
children
C.
were never attached to her
D.
were not as
attached to her as they used to be
59. The words in italics in the
fifteenth paragraph of the passage refer to
.
A.
what the nurse thought about in her own
mind
58. The nurse felt her
children
.