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I. Vocabulary and Structure (10 points, 1 point for each item)
从下列各句四个选项中选出一个最佳答案，并在答题卡上将相应的字母涂黑。
1. conclusion, walking is a cheap, safe and enjoyable form of exercise.
A. In B. On C. By D. As
2. Julie went to the to buy a pair of shoes.
A. shoes store B. shoe’s store C. shoe store D. shoes’ store
3. He has called a meeting of all parties with a to forming a new government.
A. purpose B. reason C. view D. goal
4. Gazing into his eyes, she seemed to have all he said.
A. taken up B. taken over C. taken off D. taken in
5. In every major city there are more apartments than there are homeless people.
A. blank B. vacant C. empty D. bare
6. Very few people understood this contract, was very obscure.
A. the language B. the language of which C. all it said D. which it had said
7. Five minutes earlier, we may have caught the gunman.
A. and B. but C. or D. so
8. They claim that $150 million is to be spent on improvement.
A. sufficiently B. approximately C. considerably D. properly
9. I’m supposed to work by myself, there are other people who I can interact with.
A. If only B. So long as C. Even if D. As far as
10. These two areas are similar that they both have a high rainfall during summer.
A. except B. so C. now D. in
II. Cloze Test (10 points, 1 point for each item) 下列短文中有十个空白，每个空白有四个选项。根据上下文要求选出最佳答案，并在答题卡上将相应的字母涂黑。
Planning is important in almost anything you do. No matter what you are doing, taking the time to plan 11 can help you reach your goal. The purpose of insurance is 12 you plan for unexpected, costly emergencies (紧急需要). 13 the most important kind of insurance is medical insurance.
Medical insurance can be very 14 . The cost for this kind of insurance is going up. 15 most people, you may not be able to afford all of the insurance you might need.
Many people think if you could only afford one kind of insurance, you should buy health insurance. If you can afford only a small 16 of health insurance, it is best to insure yourself 17 the big unexpected costs and pay the smaller common bills yourself.
There are different kinds of insurance you can get. Hospital Expense insurance will pay for any costs you get 18 having to be in a hospital. Surgical Expense insurance will pay for the doctor to 19 on you. Regular Medical insurance will pay for any non-surgical 20.
11. A. away B. on C. ahead D. out
12. A. helped B. to help C. kept D. to keep
13. A. Probably B. Unfortunately C. Conversely D. Subsequently
14. A. impressive B. primitive C. constructive D. expensive
15. A. To B. With C. For D. Like
16. A. number B. amount C. figure D. quantity
17. A. against B. for C. of D. on
18. A. as B. whereas C. while D. whether
19. A. check B. examine C. inject D. operate
20. A. medicine B. prescription C. treatment D. drug
III. Reading Comprehension (30 points, 2 points for each item) 从下列每篇短文的问题后所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案，并在答题卡上将相应的字母涂黑。
Passage One
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
When John Todd was six, both his parents died. A kind-hearted aunt in North Killingworth agreed to take John and give him a home. He was brought up by her and lived in her home until he left to study for ministry.
His aunt fell seriously ill and feared she was about to die. In great distress she wrote John a letter in which she asked him to tell her what death would be like.
Here is the letter he sent in reply.
It is now thirty-five years since I, as a little boy of six, was left quite alone in the world. You sent me word you would give me a home and be a kind mother to me. I have never forgotten the day when I made the long journey to your house. I can still recall my disappointment when, instead of coming for me yourself, you sent your servant James to fetch me.
I well remember my tears and anxiety as I rode off to my new home. Night fell before we finished the journey, and as it grew dark I became lonely and afraid. “Do you think she’ll go to bed before we get there?” I asked James anxiously. “Oh, no,” he said reassuringly. “She’ll stay up for you. When we get out of these woods you’ll see her candle shining in the window.”
Presently we did ride out into the clearing, and there, sure enough, was your candle. I remember you were waiting at the door, that you put your arms close about me and that you lifted me---a tired little boy---down from the horse. You had a fire burning on the hearth, a hot supper waiting on the stove. After supper you took me to my new room, heard me say my prayers, and then sat beside me until I fell asleep.
You probably realized why I am recalling all this to your memory. Some day soon God will send for you, to take you to a new home. Don’t fear the summons (召唤), the strange journey, or the dark messenger of death who will fetch you. God can be trusted to do as much for you as you were kind enough to do for me so many years ago. At the end of the road you will find love and a welcome waiting, and you will be safe in God’s care. I shall watch you and pray for you till you are out of sight, and then wait for the day when I shall make the journey myself and find you waiting at the end of the road to greet me.
21. John Todd’s aunt wrote to him thirty-five years later because .
A. he was a doctor and could cure her illness
B. she wanted him at her side when she died
C. he was a minister and was used to comforting dying people
D. she was afraid that she would die
22. When recalling what happened thirty-five years ago, John Todd expressed a feeling of .
A. anxiety B. appreciation C. regret D. sadness
23. John Todd has never forgotten the day when he arrived in North Killingworth, because .
A. he was to have a home
B. he was left alone in the world
C. he was so disappointed to see his aunt’s servant to meet him, rather than his aunt
D. he liked his aunt, but didn’t like her servant
24. John Todd compared death to .
A. a warning from God B. a nightmare
C. a journey home to God D. a frightening story
25. We can infer from the passage that John Todd’s aunt would after reading his letter.
A. feel even more frightened B. feel even more depressed
C. get much relieved of the fear of death D. get cured
Passage Two
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
What happens when employees have access to their company’s financial information over an intranet (a network inside the company)? The company grows.
There was widespread fear and worry in our company when we decided to put all our financial information, including salaries, on our wide area network (WAN) in 1987 and then on our intranet in the early ’90s. People feared our competitors would get the numbers and use them against us---to scare our customers, steal our employees, or attempt some other unimaginably horrible tricks. But that has never happened. And I don’t believe it will.
Back in 1968, when I started my company, now an $11-million engineering-design firm, out of my house in Blacksburg, Virginia, my wife did the books. Later an employee took them over. As we added employees here and there, we saw no reason to keep any secrets. We just left the books open wherever they were last used. It wasn’t until a business writer told me, “Oh that’s what we call open-book management,” that I knew there was a name for what we did and that it was something unusual.
As we grew and opened five branch offices---three in Virginia, one in Tennessee, and one in North Carolina---this casual system was no longer possible. But we knew we wanted to continue the open style. I can’t say we’re always more profitable because of OBM; we have the same ups and downs as our competitors. And I can’t say we are always happier; we have the same quarrels as in other workplaces. But we do have a great deal of trust here, and our employees stick with us. When we have tough financial times, our 170 employees know that nobody’s drawing off money from the company for private purposes and that they’ve got to make the pie bigger if they’re going to get a bigger price.
26. From the passage we can learn that .
A. most business firms have adopted OBM
B. it was very unusual for business firms to make known their financial information
C. it is a good thing to let your competitors know your financial information
D. OBM can always result in greater profits.
27. The management style of the company can be described as .
A. open B. close C. competitive D. trusty
28. In the sentence in the third paragraph “My wife did the books,” the word “books” means .
A. the books which the company owned B. the books stored in the writer’s house in Blacksburg
C. records of money received and spent D. sheets of paper bound together for writing
29. The author adopted “open-book management” .
A. because of the increase of employees B. according to the recommendation of a business writer
C. because of the big profits it would bring D. without being aware of it
30. According to the author, the most outstanding benefit of his management is that his company .
A. makes more profits than his competitors B. has created a trusty atmosphere
C. makes his finance known to his employees D. has made a bigger piece of the pie
Passage Three
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.
Reading to oneself is a modern activity which was almost unknown to the scholars of the classical and medieval (中世纪)worlds, while in the fifteenth century the term “reading” undoubtedly meant reading aloud. Only in the nineteenth century did silent reading become commonplace.
However, one should be cautious to assume that silent reading came about simply because reading aloud is a distraction to others. Examination of factors related to the historical development of silent reading reveals that it became the usual form of reading for most adult reading tasks mainly because the tasks themselves changed in character.
The last century saw a steady gradual increase in literacy (识字), and thus in the number of readers. As readers increased, the number of potential listeners declined, and thus there was some reduction in the need to read aloud. As reading for the benefit of listeners grew less common, so come the flourishing of reading as a private activity in such public places as libraries, railway carriages and offices, where reading aloud would cause distraction to other readers.
Towards the end of the last century there was still considerable argument over whether books should be used for information or treated respectfully, and over whether the reading of materials such as newspapers was in some way mentally weakening. Indeed this argument still remains with us in education. However, whatever its virtues, the old shared literacy culture had gone and was replaced by the printed mass media on the one hand and by books and periodicals for a specialized readership on the other.
At the end of the last century students were being recommended to adopt attitudes to books and to use skills in reading them which were inappropriate, if not impossible, for the oral reader. The social, cultural, and technological changes in the century had greatly altered what the term “reading” implied.
31. “Reading to oneself” in the first paragraph means .
A. reading aloud to oneself B. reading aloud to oneself as well as to others
C. both silent reading and reading aloud to oneself D. silent reading
32.From the first paragraph we can infer that _______.
A. it was not until the fifteenth century that people began to know the difference between reading aloud and silent reading.
B. Scholars of the classical and medieval worlds could only read aloud
C. Silent reading was not popular before the nineteenth century
D. Silent reading was not accepted before the nineteenth century
33. Silent reading came about because ______.
A. reading aloud could disturb others B. the number of people who could read was increasing
C. people preferred to read in public D. people were less interested in reading aloud
34. According to the context, the word ”commonplace” in the first paragraph most probably describes something_____.
A. that happens often, and therefore is not surprising
B. that does not happen often, and therefore is surprising
C. that is very surprising
D. that is very unusual
35. In the passage the author tries to show_______.
A. the correct attitude towards reading B. how the present-day reading habits came about
C. different attitudes towards books D. the change the word “reading” underwent
PART TWO (50 POINTS)
Ⅳ.Word Spelling (10 points,1 point for two items) 将下列汉语单词译成英语。作为提示，每个单词的词类、首字母及字母数目均已给出。请将完整的单词写在答题纸上。
36.伴随,陪同 vt. a 37.分界线,边界 n. b
38.捕获,夺得 vt. c 39.下倾,下降 vi. d
40.雇员,雇工 n. e 41.可行的,可能的 a. f
42.使人心碎的 a. h 43.感谢的,感激的 a. g
44.不断增加地 ad. i 45.连接,结合点 n. j
46.忠诚,忠心 n. l 47.中等的,适度的 a. m
48.压倒之势的 a. o 49.提名,任命 vt. n
50.参加者 n. p 51.坚持地,固执地 ad. p
52.辫子,列队 n. q 53.自发的,本能的 a. s
54.增援,加强 vt. r 55.着手做,承担 vt. u
Ⅴ.Word Form (10 points, 1 point for each item)
将括号中的各词变为适当的形式填入空白。答案写在答题纸上。
56. There are several means_______ (measure) the length and width of the gap.
57._____ (seize) Jane by the collar, they dragged her out of the vehicle and locked her up in the dark room.
58. Cancer research ______(make) all over the world in the past twenty years.
59. He was unable to sit still for _____(long) than a few minutes.
60. There was a mistake on my paycheck. I____(receive) 10 more.
61. I couldn’t help but ____(feel) this is a very strange life.
62.______(use ) economically, one tin of oil will last at least three months.
63. The more stress you are under, ____(likely) you are to catch a cold .
64.The second half of the nineteenth century _____(witness) the first extended translation into English of the writings of Eliphas Levi.
65. It seems reasonable to assume that, other things ___(be ) equal, they would prefer single to shared rooms.
Ⅵ.Translation from Chinese into English (15 points, 3 points for each item)
将下列各句译成英语并将答案写在答题纸上。
66.除了英语,他们还得学一门第二外语。
67.人们认为饭后散步有助消化。
68.一个具有文学艺术欣赏力的人能胜任这项工作。
69.随着研究技术变得更加先进,用于实验的动物数量将会大大减少。
70.那位生物学家相信某些动物物种正受到灭绝的威胁。
Ⅶ.Translation from English into Chinese (15 points)
将下列短文译成汉语并将答案写在答题纸上。
We send our children to school to prepare them for the time when they will be big and will have to work for themselves. Nearly all they study at school has some practical use in their life, but is that the only reason why they go to school?
There is more in education than just learning facts. We go to school above all to learn how to learn ,so that when we have left school we can continue to learn. A man who really knows how to learn will always be successful, because whenever he has to do something new, he will rapidly teach himself how to do it in the best way. The uneducated person, on the other hand, is probably unable to do something, or does it badly. The purpose of schools, therefore, is not just to teach languages, arithmetic, etc., but to teach pupils a way to learn.
