Part Ⅰ Vocabulary Directions: Choose the word or expression below each sentence that best completes the statement, and mark the corresponding letter of your choice with a single bar across the square brackets on your Machine-scoring Answer Sheet.
1. He worked as a builder in London and ______ half his monthly wage to his family in the Philippines.
3. The stadium has been specifically designed as a ______ for European Cup matches.
A.vet
B.verdure
C.venue
D.venison
A B C D
C
vet是“兽医”;verdure是“新鲜;欣欣向荣或茂盛的状况”,如:the verdure of childhood童年时期的朝气蓬勃;venue是“大型集会的地点”;venison是“野味,鹿肉”。句子大意是:“这个运动场是专门为欧洲杯的比赛而设计兴建的。”
4. She ______ at the thought of picking up the dead animal.
A.whined
B.blenched
C.wreathed
D.sapped
A B C D
B
whine是“报怨,哭诉,发牢骚,”;blench是“畏缩,退缩”,如:She blenched before her accuser.她在(她的)指控者面前畏缩了;wreathe是“环绕,盘旋”;sap是“挖掘坑道;通过坑道接近敌人阵地”。根据句子大意“她一想到要捡动物尸体就退缩了”,只有blench符合。
5. Three dinosaurs have already been found on the ______ site.
17. Although her mind was in a ______, she tried to stay calm for the sake of her children.
A.solace
B.yew
C.capillary
D.turmoil
A B C D
D
turmoil完全混乱或极端骚动的状态,如:a country in turmoil over labor strikes处于工人罢工造成的动乱中的国家;solace安慰,如:The invalid bund solace in music.那病人从音乐中得到安慰;yew紫杉,红豆杉;capillary毛细管。
18. The meaning of some ______ forms of writing is not always well understood to-day.
20. The book would have been more useful if a ______ of technical terms and abbreviation had been included.
A.gibbon
B.glut
C.glucose
D.glossary
A B C D
D
glossary术语表;gibbon长臂猿;glut是供应过剩,充斥;glucose葡萄糖。
Part Ⅱ Cloze Directions: For each blank in the following passage, choose the best answer from the four choices given below. Mark the corresponding letter of your choice with a single bar across the square brackets on your Machine-scoring Answer Sheet. Given the choice between spending an evening with friends and taking extra time for his school-work, Andy Klise admits he would probably 1 for the latter. It's not that he doesn't like to have fun; It's just that his desire to excel 2 drives his decision-making process. A 2001 graduate of Wooster High School and now a senior biology major at The College of Wooster, Klise acknowledges that he may someday have 3 thoughts about his decision to limit the time he has spent 4 , but for now, he is comfortable with the choices he has made. "If things had not 5 out as well as they have, I would have had some regrets," says Klise, who was a Phi Beta Kappa inductee as a junior. "But spending the extra time studying has been well worth the 6 . I realized early on that to be successful, I had to make certain 7 ." 8 the origin of his intense motivation, Klise notes that it has been part of his makeup for as long as he can remember. "I've always been goal 9 ," he says. "This internal drive has caused me to give my all 10 pretty much everything I do." Klise 11 Wooster's nationally recognized Independent Study (I. S. ) program with preparing him for his next 12 in life: a research position with the National Institute of Health (NIH). "I am hoping that my I.S. experience will help me 13 a research position with NIH," says Klise. "The yearlong program gives students a chance to work with some of the nation's 14 scientists while making the 15 from undergraduate to graduate studies or a career in the medical field."
Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension Directions: There are four reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.
Part Ⅳ Translation Directions:Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Write your pieces of Chinese version in the proper space on your Answer Sheet Ⅱ The magnitude of the problem of disappearing species, viewed worldwide, dwarfs resources currently available to address it. By the end of the century, experts predict, one species will be lost every hour. Faced with shrinking budgets and accelerating extinction rates, environmental managers agonize over which species to save. (1) Different criteria for placing value on species--ecological, economic, aesthetic, cultural--compete with one another, and controversy abounds. One proposal for sidestepping direct debates about the value of species is to adopt a system of triage, which takes its name from the French policy of sorting wartime casualties into three categories for medical treatment: those with superficial wounds that do not require immediate attention; those with wounds too serious to make treatment efficacious; and those in the middle range, having serious but treatable wounds. Once the issue is formulated in this manner, it seems obvious that efforts toward species preservation are best concentrated in the third category. (2) Scarce funds and energies should be targeted at saving those species that are both in need of saving and susceptible to being saved. But the most arresting formulation of an issue is not always the most illuminating one; (3) it will be useful to stand back from the triage formulation (三级分类法), which casts the problem of setting priorities as one of sorting species into categories, and ask whether there are other, more fruitful ways to look at the problem. The endangered species problem is not a single problem. It is more accurately seen as four closely related problems: what should be done when a species' population becomes so depleted as to threaten its continued existence; (4) what should be done to keep relatively healthy populations from declining and thereby falling into the threatened category; how to avert, or at least slow, the predicted and potentially cataclysmic reduction of biological diversity over the next few decades; and how to slow the trend toward conversion of natural systems to intense human use? In the triage formulation the priorities problem is most naturally associated with the first question, because it considers threats to individual species. (5) Once threatened, species require management initiatives designed to protect and nurture them, individually. But the goal of protecting biological diversity should not be reduced to the goal of protecting remnant populations of threatened species. If one thinks about the endangered species problem in this way, there is a tendency to treat it as merely a problem of protecting genetic diversity, with each species regarded as a repository for a set of genes.