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II. Grammar and Vocabulary

SectionA

Directions

：

After reading the passages below

，

fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and

grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given

word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

(A)

Residents of southern California are trying to get used to skyrocketing prices for gasoline. The average

price for 87 octane economy gas is $$2.22, almost 30 percent higher today than it was 12 months ago. The(25)

(low) gas price in the Southland right now is $$2.09 a gallon at the Seashell station in Arcadia. The station

manager, Everett, said the reason his gas is cheaper than elsewhere is (26)

he bought a lot of gas two years

ago at(27)

(reduce) prices, so he is passing his savings on to his customers.

The lines at the Seashell station often run 10 to 20 vehicles long. The police have been here several times

(28)

cars block traffic on Horsetrail Drive. Everett said, “I tell people in line that the Barco station a

block away is only $$2.14, (29)

they’d rather wait and save 5 cents. It’s OK with me, of course. I don’t mind

(30)

(make) money.”

A young man pumping gas was said(31)

(wait) in line for 20 minutes. When asked why he didn’t

go a block away where there were

no lines, he said, “Every penny counts. When I bought this ’99 Bummer, gas

was only $$1 a gallon, which was pretty cheap. So, (32)

I only get eight miles per gallon, I wasn’t paying

that much to fill my tank. But today’s prices are killing me. I drive t

o work, and I drive to the grocery store.

That’s it. I used to drive around the neighborhood just to show off my wheels, but I(33)

never do that any

more.”

(B)

People joke that no one in Los Angeles reads; everyone watches TV, rents videos, or goes to the movies.

The most popular reading material is comic books, movie magazines, and TV guides. City libraries have only 10

percent of the traffic (34)

car washes have. But how do you ex- plain this? An annual book festival in west

Los Angeles is

This outdoor festival, sponsored by(35)

newspaper, occurs every April for one weekend. This year's

attendance(36)

(estimate)at 70,000 on Saturday and 75,000 on Sunday. (34)The festival featured 280

exhibitors. There were about 90 talks given by authors, with an audience question-and-answer period(37)

(follow) each talk. Autograph seekers

(38)

(seek)out more than 150 authors. A food court

sold all kinds of popular and ethnic foods, from American hamburgers to Hawaiian shave ice drinks. (39)

a $$ 7 parking fee, the festival was free. Even so, some people avoided the food court prices by sneaking in their

own sandwiches and drinks.

People came from all over California. One couple drove down from San Francisco. “This is their sixth year

here now. We love it.” said the husband. “It is just fantastic to be in the great outdoors, to be among so many

books and authors, and to get so

me very good deals, too.”

The idea for the festival occurred years ago, but nobody knew

it would succeed. Although book

festivals were already popular in other US cities, would Los Angeles residents embrace one? (35)One of the

festival founders said that it all depends as angelinos are very unpredictable.

Section B

Directions:

Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Echa word can be only be used once.

Note that there is one word more than you need.

A .observers

B .customs

C. isolated

D. occasionally

E. rejected

F. intentionally

G. preferring

H. although

I. distinctive

J .hooks

K. other

Primarily a farming community, the Amish was attracted to the fertile farmlands in the eastern United States.

The largest concentration of Amish today is in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and

(41)

important groups are in Ohio, Indiana, and Ontario, Canada.

The Amish are best known for their simple way of life. They are easily recognized by their (42)

Clothing. The men wear wide-brimmed black hats, collarless black coats, and black trousers. These homemade

clothes are fastened with (43)

and eyes instead of with buttons or zippers. Those who are strict (44)

of Amish customs do not wear neckties or belts. In fact, anything which is considered to be a part of modern,

worldly life is (45)

.the men have beards but ni mustaches. Their long hair is parted in the middle and

drawn back over their ears.

The women’s clothing is black, (46)

they wear white prayer caps. They wear hats and long,

high- necked dresses, long black coats, and black shoes and stockings. They wear their hair parted in the middle

and tied behind in a bun. An Amish woman wears no jewelry of any kind.

The Amish have (47)

separated themselves from the modern technological world. They prefer to live

according to the (48)

of their 17

th

century European ancestors. Often called the Plain People, the Amish

live in simple homes without mirrors, pictures, curtains and carpets. Somehow they manage to get along without

radios, telephones, and electric lights. They do not own cars, (49)

to travel by horse. The Amish are

excellent farmers, yet they refused to buy tractors or other modern farm machinery. They work the land with

horse-drawn plows.

Because the Amish are largely self-sufficient and fairly (50)

from other communities, they have

resisted social change.

III Reading Comprehension

Section A

Directions:

for each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked a,b,c and D. Fill in

each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.

The next great land area that man hopes to control is the moon. In size it is nearly (51)

to the area of

North and South America. However, it presents a hostile (

不友好的

) environment. Temperatures (52)

+120 to -150 degrees Centigrade (

摄氏

). There is no air, and no water.

Today there are (53)

scientific speculation (

思索

) about living on the moon. When man will begin life

on the moon surface is still not (54)

. But experts believe that settlement will take place in three steps.

First, there will be increasing periods of exploration with temporary

(55)

. These periods will be

followed by longer stays with housing under the surface of the moon and systems necessary to(56)

life

brought by the colonizers themselves. Finally, colonies that are ecologically and (57)

self-supporting

will be established.

The principal job of the early settlers will be to stay (58)

. They will have to bulid shelters to (59)

an atmosphere like that of earth. They will have to plant crops under huge domes to produce food and (60)

and find water sources. After this is done, the settlers will have time to explore the possibilities of commercial

development and to make discoveries important to science.

The characteristics of the moon that make it bad for human staying alive may make it (61)

for certain kinds of manufacturing. Operations that require a vacuum or extreme cold, are an(62)

.

Precision ball bearing, industrial diamonds, or certain medicines might be produced on the moon.

The most immediate interest in the moon, however, is a scientific one, Geologists can explore the history

and composition of the(63)

. Meteorologists will have opportunities to forecast weather on earth.

Cosmologists can study the origin of the solar system, Astronomers(

天文学家

) can use their optical telescopes

and radio telescopes(64)

of atmospheric and man-made distortions. And perhaps at some distant date the

moon can serve as a base from which space explorers can travel to other planets in the earth’s solar system and

to worlds(65)

.

51. A superior

52. A range

53. A sociable

54.A determined

55.A monuments

56.A sacrifice

57.A economically

Section B

Directions:

Read the following passages. Each passage is followed by several quesitons or unfinished

statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A,B,C and D. Choose the one that fits best according

to the information given in the passage you have just read.

(A)

Culturally speaking, America might be called a European colony. No other country whose origins lie in

Europe has had so sharp an awareness of its distinction and superiority to the parent cultures. Running through

American history, and therefore through American literature, is a double consciousness of Old World modes and

New World possibilities. As American , the writer has distributed Europe; as writer, he has envied the riches

available to his European Counterpart.

In the nineteenth century some immigrants came in order to avoid military service in their homeland. But

even so, the snowballing process had for most Americans a deep, almost legendary significance.

In the legends, Europe was associated with the Past, with British red-coats at Concord, absentee

landlords(

不在的地主

)

，

dynastic pride, hunger, poverty, oppression. America, by contrast, was the future:

plenty, prosperity, freedom. For much of its history America has been a busy, restless land, more interested in

innovation than in conservation(

保守

). Its people have been highly optimistic, setting great store by the ability of

the individual to overcome obstacles. The individual has had a right to expect success. Optimism and pessimism

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mix unusuallyin American writing;Mark Twain is an obvious example. Or, the individual tends to set himself up

in a dramatic relationship to society.

Yet although American literature has revealed certain fairly permanent trends, it has not been a still affair.

Its tone has changed from decade to decade.

66.

What does the underlined phrase “the parent cultures” refer to?

A. Culture of parents

B. Culture of Europe

C. Culture of Britain

D. Culture of America

67.

What is the American writer’s attitude towards Europe?

A. He hates Europe for its conversation, poverty and permission.

B. He has no trust in Europe and is also jealous of its riches.

C. He envies that all the Europeans are much richer.

D. He believes that America is looked down upon.

68.

What is the main characteristic of the American writing?

A. The description of a dramatic relation between the individual and society.

B. The optimistic description of the Americans overcoming obstacles.

C. The strange combination of optimism and pessimism.

D. The ever changing of its characteristic from decade to decade.

69.

The main idea of this passage is about _____.

A. a double consciousness in American literature.

B. the European culture’s

contribution to America literature.

C. optimism and pessimism in America writing

D. Americans can always overcome obstacles.

（

B

）

As rules, laws are people’s rights and responsibilities toward society. Laws are agreed on by society and

made official by governments.

Some persons look on laws with fear, hatred, or annoyance. Laws seem to limit people’s freedom to do

many things they would like to do. Though laws may prvent us from doing things we wish to do at the moment,

laws make everyone’s life safer and more pleasant. Without laws we could not hold on to our property; we could

not go to bed at night expecting to wake up in the morning and find that we had not been robbed; no stores in

which we buy food, clothes, and other necessities could stay open and sell to us. Our banks would not be safe

places to keep our money.

Social life would be impossible without laws to control the way people treat one another. It is not the laws

that should be feared but the trouble that comes to everyone when laws are broken. Once this is understood, a

citizen will not fear or hate the law. Understanding the need for good laws and the evil results of breaking laws is

the first requirement of good citizenship and government.

Philosophers once believed that in prehistoric time people lived without laws in a “state of nature”. People

were free to do as they pleased unless someone stronger stopped them by force. As a result, life became so

dangerous and unsafe that leaders had to create laws to protect life and property.

This is no longer believed to be true. Scholars now think that as soon as people began living in small groups,

they worked out rules for getting along with one other. In time everyone accepted and supported the rules.

Manners, customs and beliefs controlled the living habits and behavior of the group. Such rules and habits of life

are called folkways.

Folkways are probably the real meaning of human laws, as well as of religion, morals, and education. As

life became more complex, folkways became more complete guides to living. After thousands of years, some of