As for having babies， today the birth rate is only 1.5 babies for each woman. Fifty years ago， the birth rate was much higher， 4.5 babies.
一、语音知识（共5小题；每1.5题分，共7.5分。）
在下列每组单词中，有一个单词的划线部分与其他单词的划线部分的读音不同。找出这个词。
1.A.bus
B.butter
C.button
D.buy
2.A.cabbage
B.cage
C.captain
D.candle
3.A.feather
B.depth
C.theatre
D.everything
4.A.within
B.wonderful
C.wrong
D.worth
5.A.health
B.harvest
C.happen
D.honest
二、词汇与语法知识（共15小题；每小题1.5分，共22.5分。）
从每小题的四个选择中，选出最佳的一项。
6.Go and get your coat. It's_______ you left it.
A. there
B. where
C. there where
D. where there
7.It worried her a bit _______ her hair was turning grey.
A. while
B. that
C. if
D. for
8.I remember _______ this used to be a quiet village.
A. when
B. how
C. where
D. what
9.These houses are sold at low price ______ people expected.
A. like
B. as
C. that
D. which
10.A computer does only what thinking people ______ .
A. have it do
B. have it done
C. have done it
D. having it done
11._______ ！ There's a train coming.
A. Look out
B. Look around
C. Look forward
D. Look on
12.The accident is reported to have occurred _______ the first Sunday in February.
A. at
B. on
C. in
D. to
13.－Do you remember _______ he came？
－Yes， I do. He came by car.
A. how
B. when
C. that
D. if
14.Smith was reluctant to tell the schoolmaster _______ he had done the day before.
A. that
B. how
C. where
D. what
15.He will have learned English for eight years by the time he ______ from the university next year.
A. will graduate
B. will have graduated
C. graduates
D. is to graduate
16.______ terrible weather we've been having these days！
A. How a
B. What a
C. How
D. What
17.Can you tell me _______ the railway station？
A. how I can get to
B. how can I get to
C. where I can get to
D. where can I get to
18.The other day， my brother drove his car down the street at ______ I thought was a dangerous speed.
A. as
B. which
C. what
D. that
19.I don't ______ rock and roll. It's much too noisy for my taste.
A. go after
B. go away with
C. go into
D. go in for
20.Parents must _______ their children's act.
A. pay off
B. rise up
C. answer for
D. get along with
三、完形填空（共20小题；每 1.5分，共30分。）
通读正面的短文，掌握其大意。然后，从每小题的四个选择项中选出可填入相应空白处的最佳选择。
A German taxi-driver， Franz Bussman， recently found his brother who was thought to have been killed twenty years before.
While on a walking _21_with his wife， he stopped to talk to a workman. After they had gone on， Mrs. Bussman said that the workman was closely _22_ her husband and even suggested that he might be his brother. Franz laughed _23_ the idea， pointing out that his brother had been killed in _24_ during the war. Though Mrs. Bussman knew this story quite well， she thought that there was a chance in a million that she _25_ be right.
A few days _26_ ， she sent a boy to the workman to ask him if his name was Hans Bussman. Needless to say， the man's name was Hans Bussman. And he really was Franz's _27_ brother. When the brothers were _28_ ， Hans explained _29_ it was that he was still _30_ .
After having been wounded towards the end of the war， he had been sent to hospital and was _31_ his unit. The hospital had been bombed and Hans had made his way back into Western Germany on foot. _32_ ， his unit was lost and all _33_ of him had been destroyed. Hans _34_ to his family house， but the house had been bombed. Guessing that his family had been killed during an air-raid（空袭）。 Hans settled down in a village fifty miles away where he had remained _35_ .
21. A. hour B. way C. tour D. time
22. A. from B. to C. near D. like
23. A. of B. at C. in D. through
24. A. action B. field C. area D. motion
25. A. might B. must C. may D. should
26. A. forward B. later C. lastly D. more
27. A. missed B. long-losing C. long-lost D. losing
28. A. united B. reunited C. gathered D. mated
29. A. which B. what C. where D. how
30. A. alived B. lived C. alive D. live
31. A. settled down B. picked up C. chosen from D. separated from
32. A. Generally B. Hopefully C. Whereas D. Meanwhile
33. A. records B. rewards C. methods D. facts
34. A. returned B. turned C. tried D. completed
35. A. for long B. for ever C. ever since D. soon after
