Part I Vocabulary and Structure
Multiple Choice
1. ____some money, Jane was able to buy her mother a bicycle.
A. Having saved B. Saving C. Saved D. To save
2. She has often watched English films since the cable TV ______.
A. installed B. has installed C. has been installed D. was installed
3. Why is she always talking about ______tired she feels ______the baby?
A. that … taking care of B. what… to take care of
C. how… talking care of D. how… to take care of
4. People ______are unhappy about the ever-rising housing prices.
A. in average B. on general C. in general D. on average
5. This was an arid desert ______.
A. until it was irrigated B. until it had been irrigated
C. before it is irrigated D. before it was irrigated
6. “ What did Mr. Wang say?”
He said that he ______the agreement since eight o’clock.
A. was drafting B. had been drafting C. drafted D. has been drafting
7. Grandpa hoped that his grand-children ______him at weekends.
A. visit B. will visit C. would visit D. visited
8. Michael said he ______of going back home next month.
A. thought B. thinks C. was thinking D. had thought
9. She finally realized that life is ______than romantic.
A. more realistic B. more real C. realer D. realistically
10. Though ______by accident, Penicillin is one of the greatest ______in the 20th century.
A. being discovered… discovery B. discovered… discoveries
PartⅡBlank Filling
11. She heard the terrible news without showing any (emotional) ____.
12. Hurried (decide) ____ are likely to be bad ones.
13. The children stopped (talk) ____ as the teacher came in.
14. Your manager will (assignment) ____ you your work for today.
15. We spent two weeks (drive) ____ in England last summer.
PartⅢReading Comprehension
Our child's behavior is greatly influenced by the way we react to what he has done. Our reactions help to determine whether our child will repeat his behavior or whether he will do something different. This statement is a very important part of a principle of behavioral psychology.
The principle states that a behavior is influenced or affected by how the environment ---- people, places and things ---- immediately responds to the behavior. Perhaps without realizing it, you have used this principle many times.
On the occasion when you told your child what a good boy he was after he cleaned up his room, you used the principle. When you sent your child to his room for fighting with his brother, you used the principle. When I gave Kim a cookie after she started to cry, I used the principle. In each of these examples, a particular behavior occurred first ---- cleaning up a room, fighting, and crying.
In addition, there was a reaction to each behavior ---- the child was praised, sent to his room, or given a cookie. By these actions, we have influenced the previous behaviors and have helped to determine whether those behaviors will occur again in the future.
16. What is the lecture mainly about?
A. Children and environmental protection.
B. Children's behavior and fighting.
C. Children's behavior and our response.
D. Children and principles.
17. On what kind of principle is the lecture based?
A. A principle in chemistry.
B. A principle in behavioral psychology.
C. A principle in physics.
D. A principle in geology.
18. Who do you think the audience at this lecture might be?
A. Teachers.
B. Doctors.
C. Social workers.
D. Parents.
19. According to the lecture, why was the child sent to his room?
A. As a kind of punishment.
B. As a kind of reward.
C. As an experiment on the principle.
D. As an example of the principle.
20. What does the lecturer mean by "environment"?
A. Rooms, cookies and toys.
B. Water, air and forest.
C. People, places and things.
D. Family, school and friends.
If you've been joining in chat room conversations, or trading e-mail with net pals, you have become one of the millions who write in a special, short form of English.
Throughout the world, every night children and their elders are "talking" online ─ many of them are talking at the same time.
It's fast: trying talking to six people once. It's convenient: three or four words per exchange. It takes cleverness, concentration and quick fingers.
And it requires very simple language. There's neither time nor space for explanations. Why waste precious time telling six friends you have to leave for a moment to take care of your little brother when BRB (=be right back) will do?
Want to enter a conversation? Just type PMFJI (=pardon me for jumping in).
Interested in whom you're talking to? Type A/S/L, the common request to know your pal's age, sex and location. You may get 15/M/NY as a reply from your pal.
If something makes you laugh, say you're OTF (=on the floor), or LOL (=laughing out loud), or join the two into ROTFL (=rolling on the floor laughing).
And when it's time to get back to work or go to bed, you type GTG (=got to go) or TTYL (=talk to you later).
People want to write as fast as possible, and they want to get their ideas across as quickly as they can. Capital letters are left in the dust, except when expressing feeling, as it takes more time to hold down the "shift" key and use capitals. Punctuation is going too.
21. When people are online, they talk by ______.
A. using body language
B. drawing some strange pictures
C. making phone calls
D. making use of an especially short form of English
22. The Internet makes many people in the world ______.
A. talking at the same time
B. discover their friends and relatives
C. pick out good things to buy
D. find out about some problems in society
23. The sentence "There's neither time nor space for explanations" means that ______.
A. people should use words properly
B. people should know what time it is when they are talking
C. people online have to express themselves in a simple way
D. people should communicate in a funny way
24. If you get 19/M/HK as an answer to your A/S/L, it means ______.
A. the person who is talking to you is 19 from Hong Kong and he is high
B. you are talking to a boy 19 years old and he lives in Hong Kong
C. you are talking to 19 boys from Hong Kong at the same time
D. the boy from Hong Kong has been online for 19 minutes
25. Which of the following is a way to save online time?
A. People seldom use capital letters or punctuation marks.
B. Many people draw pictures.
C. People only use the mouse instead of the keyboard.
D. People never use the "shift" key.
In the water around New York city is a very small island called Liberty Island. On Liberty Island there is a very special statue called the Statue of Liberty. It is one of the most famous sights in the world.
The Statue of Liberty was a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States. The statue was made by a French sculptor named Frederic Auguste Bartholdi. The inner support system was designed by Gustave Eiffel, the same man who made the famous EiffelTower in Paris.
Liberty, of course, means freedom, and the Statue of Liberty was given to the United States to celebrate the one-hundredth anniversary of U.S independence from England. The statue was built in France, taken apart piece by piece, and then rebuilt in the United States. It was opened for the public on October 28, 1886.
As you might expect, the statue is very big. Visitors can ride an elevator from the ground to the bottom of the statue. If they want, they can then walk up 168 steps to reach the head of the statue where they can look out and enjoy the beautiful sight of the city of New York.
26. A good title for this selection is ______.
A. Famous Sights in the world
B. Liberty Island
C. The Statue of Liberty
D. A city in France
27. The word "sights"in the first paragraph means ______.
A. a small present or gift
B. a kind of postcard
C. the power of seeing
D. something that you can see
28. The statue was built ______.
A. in France
B. in the United States
C. in England
D. on Liberty Island
29. We may conclude that the elevator does not ______.
A. go fast enough
B. cost lots of money
C. go to the top
D. both A and B
30. The man who made the part of the statue that we can see on the outside was ______.
A. an unknown architect
B. Bartholdi
C. Eiffel
D. both B and C
Albert Einstein had a great effect on science and history, greater than what only a few other men have achieved. An American university president once commented that Einstein had created a new outlook, a new view of the universe. It may be some time before the average mind understands fully the identity of time and space and so on-but even ordinary men understand now that the universe is something larger than ever thought before.
By 1914 the young Einstein had gained world fame. He accepted the offer to become a professor at the PrussianAcademy of Science in Berlin. He had few duties, little teaching and unlimited opportunities for study, but soon his peace and quiet were broken by the First World War.Einstein hated violence. The misery of war affected him deeply, and he sat unhappily in his office doing little. He lost interest in his research. Only when peace came in 1918 was he able to get back to work.
In the years following World War I honors were increasingly heaped on him. He became the head of the Kaiser Whihem Institute of Theoretical Physics. In 1921 he won the Noble Prize, and he was honored in Germany until the rise of Nazism when he was driven from Germany because he was a Jew.
31. The main idea of Paragraph 1 is ______.
A. the time when people know Einstein
B. the feeling of an American college president
C. the change in human thought produced by Einstein
D. the difficulty of Einstein's thought to teachers
32. According to the American university president, ______.
A. everyone understands Einstein's theory today
B. Einstein achieved more than any other scientists in history
C. The theory of relativity can be quickly learned by everyone
D. Our ideas about the universe are different today because of Einstein
33. According to Paragraph 2, Albert Einstein ______.
A. was a famous chemist
B. headed a research institute
C. was famous in the world
D. enjoyed reading about war
34. According to the passage Einstein did his greatest work ______.
A. during World War I
B. when he was young
C. when Naziism rose
D. between 1906-1915
35. It may be concluded that ______.
A. Albert Einstein was forced to serve in the German army
B. Albert Einstein had no other interests besides science
C. Germans usually have a high respect for science
D. his reputation was ruined because of his work during World War I
PartⅣ cloze
The Internet began more than thirty years ago, and its 36 was to increase communication among universities, the government and some 37 American businesses by linking their computers together. The Internet makes it easy for them to send large 38 of information quickly.
As time passed, more people began using the Internet. In 1981, the Internet linked 13 computers. Only nine years later, it 39 more than 350,000 computers. Today experts say there are about 100 million computers connected to the Internet.
The Internet has changed the way people work. They can travel from place to place 40 getting in touch 41 their office all the time via the Internet. A 42 report in the America magazine, Newsweek, said more than 89 million Americana now use the Internet at work. Companies around the world now use the Internet. One can hardly imagine how business could be done 43 the Internet.
The Internet is becoming more 44 than any one had thought possible. And its importance is 45 to increase more in the future.
36.A. resultB. goalC. findingD. experiment
37.A. majorB. minorC. mentionedD. stated
38.A. amountB. numberC. sizeD. part
39.A. increasedB. raisedC. limitedD. linked
40.A. asB. whenC. whileD. however
41.A. toB. onC. intoD. with
42.A. decentB. recentC. absentD. present
43.A. withB. withoutC. throughD. on
44.A. creativeB. crazyC. importantD. smart
45.A. provedB. improvedC. expectedD. regarded
PartⅤ
Translation
Directions:Choose the best translation for each of the following sentences.
46. How things go is beyond my control.
A.事情的发展超出了我的控制。
B.事情的发展比我的控制力强。
C.事情往哪去控制不了我。
D.我无法控制事态的发展。
47. The first time I wrote an English composition, I made a lot of spelling mistakes.
A.我第一次写英语作文时，犯了许多拼写错误。
B.因为我第一次用英语写作文，所以犯了不少拼写错误。
C.一旦写英语作文，我就会制造一些拼写错误。
D.第一次写英语作文时，我制造了一些拼写错误。
48. Once you take the job, you can enjoy fourteen days’ paid leave a year.
A..你一旦做这份工作，你能享受的就是每年14天的假期。
B.你一旦接受了这份工作，每年可以享受14天的带薪假期。
C.只要你接受了这份工作，我们每年会多付给你14天的薪金。
D.你曾经承担过这份工作，一年后离职就可以多拿14天的工资。
49. The teach told us not to use electronic dictionary more often than it is necessary.
A.老师让我们必要时使用电子字典，别多用。
B.老师让我们不要多用电子字典，这没必要。
C.老师没让我们用必需要用的电子字典。
D.老师让我们不要用不必要的电子字典。
50．No wonder the sight of t should send the memories of the old generation back dozens of years ago.
A.难怪老一辈人见了它就回想起几十年前的往事。
B.不管怎样这一场景会把老一代人的记忆带到几十年前。
C.不管怎样，看到这一场景，人们就想起几十年前的老一代人。
D.若不出现奇迹，这一场景就不会把老一辈人的记忆带到几十年。
PartⅥ
Directions:This part is to test your ability to do practical writing. You are required to write a letter of apology according to the following instructions given in Chinese.
你不小心摔坏了同学李明心爱的多功能相机。李明很生气，请你给他写封道歉信，说明自己愿意赔一个新的，并请求对方的原谅。
答案：
1-5 ADCCB 6-10 BCCAB
11. driving
12. decisions
13. talking
14. assign
15. emotion
16-20CBDAC21-25DACBA26-30CDACB31-35CDCBC
36-40 BAADC41-45 DBBCC 46-50 DABAA
Dear Liming,
I am so sorry that I broke your favorite camera. I did not intend to do so. I know you are really angry at me and feel sorry for your broken camera. As to your camera, I’d like to say “What a pity!” I know it is a classic camera with multi-functions. If it would compensate for my mistakes, I would be willing to buy another one for you. I really appreciate your forgiveness.
Yours
Wang Chen