第一部分:词汇选择(第1-15题,每题1分,共15分)
下面共有15句子,每个句子均有一个词或短语划有底横线,请从每个句子后面所给的四个选项中选择一个与划线部分意义最相近的词或短语。答案一律涂在答题卡相应的位置上。
1. first editions of certain popular books cannot be obtained for love or money.
a) at any place b) at any price c) in any language d) in any country
2. the company recommended that a new petrol station(should) be built here.
a) ordered b) insisted c) suggested d) demanded
3. it hard for the young people to imagine what severe conditions their parents once lived under.
a) sincere b) hard c) strict d) tight
4. the house stands as steady as a rock in the wind.
a) continuous b) quick c) firm d) exceptional
5. you must shine your shoes.
a) lighten b) clean c) wash d) polish
6. while serving in the senate in the early 1970s barbara jordan supported legislation to ban discrimination and to deal with environment problems.
a) list b) forbid c)handle d)investigate
7.a beautiful woman attended to me in that store yesterday.
a) waited on b) talked to c) spoke to d) stayed with
8. loud noises can be annoying.
a) hateful b) painful c) horrifying d)disturbing
9. these are our motives for doing it.
a) reasons b) arguments c) targets d)pursuit
10. successful leaders dominate events rather than react to them.
a) control b) contribute c) convey d)contact
11. the example was fundamental to the argument.
a) impressive b) public c) essential d)slight
12. they are still calculating the impact of automation on the lives of factory workers.
a) affect b) influence c) pressure d)passion
13. she finally recovered herself one month after the operation on her stomach.
a) got along b) got better c) got on d)got out
14. the minister headed the committee.
a) was on the verge of b) was on the basis of
c) was at the cost of d) was in charge of
15. her words offended me.
a) made angry b) made happy c) made excited d)made disappointed
第二部分:阅读判断(每题1分,共七分)
阅读下面这篇短文,短文后列出了七个句子,请根据短文的内容对每个句子作出判断。如果该句提供的是正确信息,请在答题卡上把a涂黑;如果该句提供的是错误信息,请在答题卡上把b涂黑;如果该句的信息文章中没有提及,请在答题卡上把c涂黑
plants and mankind
botany, the study of plants, occupies a peculiar position in the history of human knowledge. we don’t know what our stone age ancestors knew about plants, but from what we can observe of preindustrial societies that still exist, a detailed learning of plants and their properties must be extremely ancient. this is logical. plants are the basis of the food pyramid for all living things, even for other plants. they have always been enormously important to the welfare of people, not only for food, but also for clothing, weapons, tools, dyes, medicines, shelter, and many other purposes. tribes living today in the jungle of the amazon recognize hundreds of plants and know many properties of each. to them botany has no name and is probably not even recognized as a special branch of "knowledge" at all.
unfortunately, the more industrialized we BECome the farther away we move from direct contact with plants, and the less distinct our knowledge of botany grows. yet everyone comes unconsciously on an amazing amount of botanical knowledge, and few people will fail to recognize a rose, an apple, or an orchid. when our neolithic ancestors, living in the middle east about 10,000 years ago, discovered that certain grasses could be harvested and their seeds planted for richer yields the next season, the first great step in a new association of plants and humans was taken. grains were discovered and from them flowed the marvel of agriculture: cultivated crops. from then on, humans would increasingly take their living from the controlled production of a few plants, rather than getting a little here and a little there from many varieties that grew wild and the accumulated knowledge of tens of thousands of years of experience and intimacy with plants in the wild would begin to fade away .
1. it is logical that a detailed learning of plants and their properties must be extremely ancient.
a. right b. wrong c. not mentioned
2. people can not survive without plants.
a. right b. wrong c. not mentioned
3. tribes living today in the jungle of the amazon teach botany to their children at school.
a. right b. wrong c. not mentioned
4. our direct contact with plants grows with the process of industrialization.
a. right b. wrong c. not mentioned
5. today people usually acquire a large amount of botanical knowledge from textbooks.
a. right b. wrong c. not mentioned
6. people living in the middle east first learned to grow plants for food about 10,000 years ago.
a. right b. wrong c. not mentioned
7. once mankind began farming, they no longer had to get food from many varieties that grew wild.
a. right b. wrong c. not mentioned