-
Part Ⅰ Writing [45 min]
Section A Composition [35
min]
Nowadays people are
becoming increasingly aware of the importance of
health. And they have different ways to
stay healthy. For example, some
exercise every day; others try to keep
a balance diet. What do you think
is
the best way to stay healthy?
Write on
ANSWER SHEET ONE a composition of about 150 words
on the
following topic:
The Best Way to Stay Healthy
You are to write in three parts.
In the second part, state
what you think is the best way.
In the second part, support your view
with one or two reasons.
In
the last part, bring what you have written to a
natural conclusion or
a summary.
Marks will be awarded for
content, organization, grammar and appropriacy.
Failure to follow the instructions may
result in a loss of marks.
Section B Note-writing [10
min]
Write on ANSWER SHEET
ONE a note of about 50-60 words based on the
following situation:
You have heard that your friend, Jack,
wishes to sell his walkman. Write
him a
note expressing your interest in it, asking him
about its
condition and offering a
price for it.
Part Ⅳ Cloze [15
min]
Decide
which of the choice given below would best
complete the passage
if inserted in the
corresponding blanks. Mark the best choice for
each
blank on your answer sheet.
People thinking about the origin of
language for the first time usually
arrive at the conclusion that it
developed gradually as a system of
grunts, hisses and cries and ____26 a
very simple affair in the
beginning.
______27 when we observe the language behavior of
____28 we
regard as primitive cultures,
we find it _____29 complicates. It was
believes that an Eskimo must have at
the tip of his tongue a vocabulary
of
more than 10,000 words ___30 to get along
reasonably well, much
larger than the
active vocabulary of an average businessman who
speaks
English. ______31, These Eskimo
words are far more highly inflected
（词
尾变化的）
than
_____32 of any
Of the well-
known European languages, for a ___33 noun can be
spoken or
written in ______34 hundred
different forms, each ___35 a precise
meaning different from that of any
other. The forms of the verbs are
even
more _____36. The Eskimo language is, therefore,
one of the most
difficult in the world
to learn, ______37 the result that almost no
traders or explorers have ___38 tried
to learn it. Consequently, there
has
grown up, in communication between Eskimos and
whites, a jargon
___39 to the pidgin
English used in Old China, with a vocabulary of
from
300 to 600 uninflected words. Most
of them are derived from Eskimo but
some are derived from English, Danish,
Spanish, Hawaiian and other
languages.
It is this jargon that is usually _____by
travelers as the
Eskimo language.
26. A. must be B. must have
been C. ought to be D. should be
27. A. However B. Therefore C. probably
D. undoubtedly
28. A. whose
B. that C. which D. what
29. A. conspicuously B. usually C.
surprisingly D. sufficiently
30. A. so as B. so that C. as such D.
as well as
31. A. However
B. Moreover C. Though D. Therefore
32. A. the others B. all others C.
these D. those
33. A.
single B. singular C. plural D. compound
34. A. some B. several C.
various D. varied
35. A.
getting B. causing C. having D. owning
36. A endless B. multiple C.
uncountable D. numerous
37.
A. with B. for C. owing to D. as
38. A still B. indeed C. just D. even
39. A. alike B. similar C.
related D. relevant
40. A.
referred to B. talked about C. spoken D. told
Part Ⅴ GRAMMAR
& VOCABULARY [15 min]
There are
twenty-five sentences in this Section. Beneath
each sentence
there are four words or
expressions marked A, B, C and D. Choose one
word or phrase that best completes the
sentence.
Mark your answers
on your answer sheet.
41.
She did her work _________her manager had
instructed.
A. as B. until
C. when D. though
42.
_______ of the twins was arrested, because I saw
both at a party
last night.
A. None B. Both C. Neither D. All
43. For some time now,
world leaders _______ out the necessity for
agreement on arms reduction.
A. had been pointing B.
have been pointing
C. were
pointing D. pointed
44.
Have you ever been in a situation ______ you know
the other person
is right yet you
cannot agree with him?
A.
by which B. that C. in where D. where
45. We’ve just installed two
air
-conditions in out apartment,
_______should make great differences in
our life next summer.
A.
which B. what C. that D. they
46. AID is said _________ the number-
one killer of both men and women
over
the past few years in that region.
A. being b. to be C. to have been D.
having been
47. She managed
to save ______ she could out of her wages to help
her
brother.
A.
how little money B. so little money
C. such little money D. what little
money
48. Fool ____ Jane
is, she could not have done such a thing.
A. who B. as C. that D.
like
49. The experiment
requires more money than _____.
A. have been put in B. being put in
C. has been put in D. to be
put in
50. _______ for the
fact that she broke her leg, she might have passed
the exam.
A. Had
it not been B. Hadn’t it been
C. Was it not D. Were it
not
51. “ What courses are
you going to do next semester?”
“ I don’t know. But its
about time _______ on something.”
A. I’d decide B. I
decided
C. I
decide D. I’m deciding
52. The police have offered a large
________for information leading to
the
robbers arrest.
A. award B.
compensation C. prize D. reward
53. I arrives at the airport so late
that I ______ missed the plane.
A. only B. quite C. narrowly D. seldom
54. The popularity of the
film shows that the reviewers’ fears
were
completely ______
A. unjustified B. unjust C.
misguided D. unaccepted
55.
The head of the Museum was ____ and let us
actually examine the
ancient
manuscripts.
A. promising
B. agreeing C. pleasing D. obliging
56. The multinational corporation was
making a take-over _____ for a
property
company.
A. application B.
bid C. proposal D. suggestion
57. The party’s reduced vote was ______
of lack of support for its
policies.
A. indicative B. positive
C. revealing D. evident
58.
There has been a ______ lack of communication
between the union and
the management.
A. regretful B. regrettable
C. regretting D. regretted
59. The teacher ________ expects his
students to pass the university
entrance examination
A. confidently B. proudly C. assuredly
D. confidently
60. The
______ family in Chinese cities now spends more
money on housing
than before.
A. normal B. average C.
usual D. general
61. The
new colleague ____ to have worked in several big
corporations
before he joined our
company.
A. confess B.
declares C. claims D. confirms
62. During the reading lesson, the
teacher asked students to read a few
______ from the novel.
A. pieces B. essays C. fragments D.
extracts
63. During the
summer holiday season it is difficult to find a(n)
_____
room in the hotels here.
A. empty B. vacant C. free
D. deserted
64. The old
couple will never ______ the loss of their son.
A. get over B. get away C.
get off D. get across
65.
Scientific research results can now be quickly
________ to factory
production.
A. used B. applied C. tried
D. practiced
Part Ⅵ Reading Comprehension [30
min]
Section A
Reading Comprehension [25 min]
In this Section there are
four passages followed by questions or
unfinished statements, each with four
suggested answers marked A, B, C
and D.
choose the one that you think is the best answer.
Mark your answers on your
answer sheet.
Text A
Many of the home electric goods which
are advertised as liberating the
modern
woman tend to have the opposite effect, because
they simply
change the nature of work
instead of eliminating it. Machines have a
certain novelty value, like toys for
adults. It is certainly less tiring
to
put clothes in a washing machine, but the time
saved does not really
amount to much:
the machine has to be watched, the clothes have to
be
carefully sorted out first, stains
removed by hand, buttons pushed and
water changed, clothes taken out, aired
and ironed. It would be more
liberating
to pack it all off to a laundry and not
necessarily more
expensive, since no
capital investment is required. Similarly, if you
really want to save time you do not
make cakes with an electric mixer,
you
buy one in a shop. If one compares the image of
the woman in the
women’s magazine with
the goods advertised by those periodicals, one
realizes how useful a projected image
cab be commercially. A careful
balance
has to be struck: if you show a labor-saving
device, follow it
up with a complicated
recipe on the next page; on no account hint at the
notion that a woman could get herself a
job, but instead foster her
sense of
her own usefulness, emphasizing the creative
aspect of her
function as a housewife.
So we get cake mixes where the cook simply adds
an egg herself, to produce “ that
lovely home
-baked flavor the family
love”, and knitting patt
erns
that can be made by hand, or worse still,
on knitting machines, which became
tremendously fashionable when they
were
first introduced. Automatic cookers are advertised
by pictures of
pretty young mothers
taking their children to the park, not by
professional women presetting the
dinner before leaving home for work.
66. According to the passage, many of
the home electric goods which are
supposed to liberate women_________
A. remove unpleasant
aspects of housework.
B.
Save the housewife very little time.
C. Save the housewife’s time but not
her money.
D.
Have absolutely no value for the housewife.
67. According to the
context, capital investment refers to money _____
A. spent on a washing
machine. B. borrowed from the bank.
C. saved in the bank. D. lent to other
people.
68. The goods
advertised in women’s magazines are really meant
to
________
A.
free housewives from housework.
B. Encourage housewives to go out to
work.
C. Turn housewives
into excellent cooks.
D.
Give them a false sense of fulfillment.
Text B
The “ standard of
living” of any country means the average persons
share of the goods
and services which the country
produces. A country's standard of living,
therefore, depends
first and foremost on its capacity to
produce wealth.
sense is not money, for
we do not live on money but
on things that money can buy.-
as food
and cloth-
ing, and
A country's capacity to
produce wealth depends upon many factors, most
of which have
an
effect on one another. Wealth depends to a great
extent upon a
country' s natural re-
sources, such as coal,
gold, and other minerals, water supply and so on.
Some regions of
the world are well supplied with coal
and minerals, and have a fertile
soil
and a favorable
climate;
other regions possess none of them.
Next to natural resources comes the
ability to turn them to use. Some
countries are per-
haps well off in natural resources, but
suffered for many years from
civil and
external wars,
and for this
and other reasons have been unable to develop
their
resources. 'Sound and stable
political conditions, and
freedom from foreign invasion, enable a
country to develop its natu-
ral resources peacefully
and steadily, and to produce more wealth than
another country
equally well served by nature but less
well ordered. Another important
factor
is the technical
efficiency
of a country's people. Industrialized countries
that have
trained numerous skilled
workers and technicians are
better placed to produce wealth than
countries whose workers
are largely unskilled.
A country's standard of living does not
only depend upon the wealth that
is
produced
and consumed
within its own borders, but also upon what is
indirectly
produced through
international trade. For example,
Britain's wealth in foodstuffs' and
other agricultural
products would be much less if she had
to depend only on those grown at
home.
Trade makes
it possible for
her surplus manufactured goods to be traded abroad
for
the agricultural
products that would otherwise be
lacking. A country's wealth is,
therefore, much influenced by
its manufacturing capacity,
provided that other countries can be found
ready to accept its
manufactures.
69. The standard of living in a country
is determined by___________
A. its goods and service.
B. the type of wealth produced.
C. how well it can create
wealth.
D. what an ordinary
person can share.
70. A
country's capacity to produce wealth depends on
all the factors
EXCEPT________
A. peoples share of its
goods.
B. political and
social stability.
C.
qualities of its workers.
D. use of natural resources.
71. According to the
passage,________ play an equally important role in
determining a
country's standard of living.
A.
farm products
B. industrial
goods
C. foodstuffs
D. export import
Text C
How we look and how we
appear to others probably worries us more when we
are in our
teens
or early twenties than at any other time in our
life. Few of us
are content to accept
our-
selves as we are, and
few are brave enough to ignore the trends of
fashion.
Most
fashion magazines or TV advertisements try to
persuade us that we
should dress in
a certain way or behave in
a certain manner. If we do, they tell us, we
will be able to meet
new people with confidence and deal
with every situation confidently and
without embarrassment. Changing
fashion, of course, does not apply just
to dress. A barber today does not cut
a boy's hair in the same
way as he used to, and girls do not make up in
the same way as their
mothers and grandmothers did. The
advertisers show us the latest
fashionable Styles and we
are constantly under pressure to follow
the fashion in case our friends
think
we are odd or
dull.
What causes fashions to
change? Sometimes convenience or practical
necessity or just
the fancy of an influential person can
establish a fashion. Take hats,
for
example. In cold
climates,
early buildings were cold inside, so people wore
hats indoors
as well as outside. In
recent times, the late
President Kennedy caused a depression in the
American hat industry by
not wearing hats: more American men
followed his example.
There
is also a cyclical pattern in fashion. In the
1920s in Europe and
America, short
skirts became fashionable.
After World War Two, they dropped to ankle
length. Then they
got shorter and shorter until the
miniskirt was in fashion. After a few
more years, skirts
became longer again.
Today, society is much freer and easier
than it used to be. It is no
longer
necessary to
dress like
everyone else. Within reason, you can dress as you
like or do
your hair the way
you like instead of the way
you should because it is the fashion. The
popularity of jeans and
the
expensive fashions of
the top
fashion houses.
At the same time,
appearance is still important in certain
circumstances
and then we
must choose our clothes carefully. It
would be foolish to go to an
interview
for a job in a law
firm
wearing jeans and a sweater; and it would be
discourteous to visit
some
distinguished
scholar
looking as if we were going to the beach or a
night club.
However, you need never
feel depressed if you don't
look like the latest fashion photo. Look
around you and you’ll s
ee
that no one else does
either!
72. The author thinks that people
are____________
A.
satisfied with their appearance.
B. concerned about appearance in old
age.
C. far from neglecting
what is in fashion.
D.
reluctant to follow the trends in fashion.
73. Fashion magazines and
TV advertisement seem to link fashion to
_________
A.
confidence in life. B. personal dress.
C. individual hair style. D. personal
future.
74. Causes of
fashions are ____________
A. uniform. B. varied
C. unknown D. inexplicable.
75. Present-day society is much freer
and earlier because it emphasizes
________
A.
uniformity. B. formality.
C. informality D. individuality.
76. Which is the main idea
of the last paragraph?
A.
Care about appearance in formal situations.
B. Fashion in formal and
informal situations.
C.
Ignoring, appearance in informal situations.
D. Ignoring appearance in
all situations.
TEXT D
Massive
changes in all of the world's deeply cherished
sporting habits
are underway.
Whether it's one of
London's parks full of people playing softball,
and
Russians taking up
rugby, or the Superbowl rivaling the
British Football Cup Final as a
televised: spectator event
in Britain, he patterns of players and
spectators are changing beyond
recognition, We are