Part Ⅰ Grammar and VocabularyDirections: There is a blank in each of the following 30 sentences. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the sentence. Part Ⅴ Translation1. There was once a harmony town in this country where all life seemed to live in with its surroundings.
2. The government has devoted a larger slice of its national budget to agriculture than most other countries.
3. If there were only a dozen or so air molecules in my kitchen, it would be likely if I waited a year or so—that at some point the six coldest ones would congregate inside the freezer.
如果在厨房里只有十几个空气分子,那么我要等上一年左右,或许在某个时刻6个最冷的分子会聚集在冰箱里。
4. Instead of a global village, which is a nice dream but impossible to manage, we will have invented another world of self-contained communities that cater to their own member's inclinations without interfering with anyone else.
我们不是要建立一个梦寐以求又难以管理的全球村,而是要建立一个由各种独立的、不受外界影响的群体组成的世界,这些群体将投其所好,而又不干涉他人。
5. Its goal is to find out how the world works, to seek what regularities there may be, to penetrate to the connections of things—from subnuclear particles, which may be the constituents of all matter, to living organisms, the human social community, and thence to the cosmos as a whole.
它的目的是弄清世界的运行机制,寻求其间可能存在的规律,洞察事物之间的联系——从构成一切物质的亚核粒子,到生物的有机体,人类社会群体,乃至整个宇宙。
Part Ⅵ Writing1. Describe children surfing the net briefly and give your comments.
Nowadays, the Internet is one of the most powerful tools throughout the world. The Internet is a collection of various services and resources for people. Almost all households have access to the Internet; however, before people connecting the Internet, they need to be aware of its disadvantages and advantages.
Children of net users have become a big concern. Most parents do not realize the dangers involved when their children log onto the Internet. When children are online, they can easily be lured into something dangerous. When children talk to others online, they do not realize they could actually be talking to a harmful person. As a result, there have been many cases where children have been convinced to meet people they have talked with online. In addition, children may also receive pornography online by mistake; therefore, causing concern among parents everywhere. Whether surfing the Web, reading newsgroups, or using email, children can be exposed to extremely inappropriate material. Pornographic sites tend to make sure they are the first sites to be listed in any search area; thus, children come across such sites easily.
We could control the issue from the following three aspects. First and foremost, parents are responsible for their own children on the Internet because there are available services to protect children. Further, to keep children safe, parents and teachers must be aware of the dangers. They must actively guide and guard their children online and should talk to children about what is online and what might happen online. In addition, the companies should develop a number of tools available today that may help keep the Internet environment safer for children.
In other words, children want to explore things; however, there are people on the Internet that are just too persuasive.