Ⅰ. GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY Complete each of the following 15 sentences with the most likely answer. Blacken the letter corresponding to your choice on the answer sheet.
1. —Shall I turn on the television for you? —No, thanks. I'd rather not ______ television tonight.
A.watch
B.to watch
C.watching
D.for watching
A B C D
A
[解析] 本题主要考查的知识点为固定句型。 [要点透析] I'd rather后面用动词原形,否定形式为I'd ralher not do。
2. On a quiet weekend one ______ by the noise of the home interior decoration of one's neighbours.
9. As a developing country, China must ______ the rapid development of world economy.
A.meet with
B.catch hold of
C.keep pace with
D.get on with
A B C D
C
[解析] 本题主要考查的知识点为keep pace with。 [要点透析] 句意:作为一个发展中国家,中国的经济增长必须与世界经济的快速增长保持同步。meet with与……会话,碰面;catch hold of抓住……;get on with (sb)和(某人)关系良好;keep pace with与……保持同步。故选C。
10. Although I had several talks with her about the matter, she obviously ______ little notice of what I had said.
13. He went out to Long Beach to thank Mr. Brown, who had provided assistance while he was studying at college. Arrangements ______ beforehand, of course.
Ⅱ. CLOZE Fill in each of the 15 blanks in the passage with the most likely answer. Blacken the letter corresponding to your choice on the answer sheet. As the pace of life continues to increase, we are fast losing the art of relaxation. Once you are in the habit of rushing through life, being on the go from morning till night, it is hard to slow down. 1 relaxation is essential for a healthy mind and body. Stress is a natural part of everyday life and there is no 2 to avoid it. In fact, it is not the bad thing as it is often 3 to be. A certain amount of stress is vital to provide motivation and give purpose to life. It is only 4 the stress gets out of 5 that it can lead to poor performance and ill health. The amount of stress a person 6 withstand depends very much on the individual. Some people are not 7 stress, and such characters are obviously prime material for managerial responsibilities. Others 8 at the first signs of unusual difficulties. When 9 to stress, in whatever form, we react both chemically and physically. 10 we make choice between "flight or fight" and 11 more primitive days the choice made the difference between life and death. The crises we meet today are 12 to be so extreme, but however little the stress, it involves the same response. It is when such a reaction lasts long, 13 continued exposure to stress, that health become 14 . Such serious conditions as high blood pressure and heart diseases have 15 links wit stress. Since we cannot remove stress from our lives, we need to find ways to deal with it.
1.
A.And
B.But
C.Or
D.Therefore
A B C D
B
[解析] 逻辑关系题。 [要点透析] 根据空格前后的两句话可推知两者间为转折关系,故选B。
2.
A.plan
B.choice
C.way
D.idea
A B C D
C
[解析] 词语搭配题。 [要点透析] “there is on way to do...”表示“不可能或没办法做……”。
Ⅲ. PARAPHRASING Choose the closest paraphrased version after each of the following sentences or the italicized part. Blacken the letter corresponding to your choice on the answer sheet.
1. The answers [to stupid questions] can be a gateway to real insight.
A.Asking questions is important in learning.
B.You will learn something useful from the answers.
C.Answering questions is a way of learning new things.
D.The answers can open the way to a deeper understanding.
A B C D
D
2. Normally, Americans do not assess their visitors in such relaxed surroundings over prolonged small talk.
A.Generally, Americans like to assess their visitors in such relaxed surroundings.
B.Generally, Americans will have a clear attitude towards their visitors over long talk.
C.Generally, Americans do not evaluate their visitors in such relaxed circumstances over long chat.
D.Normally, Americans do not evaluate their visitors.
A B C D
C
3. It [sleepiness] filled my brain like a cloud. I was going, going...
A.I was almost overcome by sleepiness and would doze off any moment.
B.I was trying hard to beat back sleepiness so that I could keep moving.
C.Due to sleepiness, I was not aware that I had lost my sense of direction.
D.Sleepiness clouded my mind and I was unable to see or hear clearly.
A B C D
A
4. I was to close the file and write the obituary for the school paper. The almost bare sheets in the file mocked the effort.
A.I felt that my efforts were laughed at.
B.I find it a tough job to write the obituary.
C.The sheets were full of unfavorable remarks.
D.There was hardly anything important to write about.
A B C D
D
5. Nowhere is thinking courtesy more important than in marriage.
A.People don't think courtesy is important in marriage.
B.People think courtesy is more important in marriage than anywhere else.
C.Thinking courtesy is less important in marriage than anywhere else.
D.Thinking courtesy is more important in marriage than anywhere else.
A B C D
D
6. I can penetrate social masks and roles and see the other person on a deeper level.
A.I can see the true colours of the person however nice he claims to be in society.
B.I know what the other person is deep down no matter how he presents himself.
C.I see through the other person no matter what he appears to be in public.
D.I can see the other person beyond his status and image.
A B C D
D
7. But he could not shut the war out of the sheltered world he had built for himself and his family.
A.It was impossible for his family to survive the war.
B.It was impossible for him to protect his family from storms.
C.He could not protect his family from being affected by the war.
D.He could not shut his family in the house he had built for them.
A B C D
C
8. The motto is, "Live and let live."
A.If you want to live, you must allow others to live.
B.Accept others and live peacefully with them.
C.Do not interfere with other people's affairs.
D.Let other people live the way they choose.
A B C D
B
9. When I show the documents to Dyson, he is visibly shaken.
A....he doesn't accept what he has seen.
B....he begins trembling all over with fear.
C....clearly, he is indifferent.
D....clearly, he is shocked.
A B C D
D
10. Having sized up the material the Lord had given her to mold, she [my mother] didn't overestimate what site could do with it.
A....finding the material too thin, she decided to do what she could with it.
B....knowing what I was, she didn't expect me to achieve great success.
C....she was realistic about what I could become, for I lacked ambition.
D....she knew she couldn't make anything valuable out of the material from God.
A B C D
B
Ⅳ. READING COMPREHENSION Read the two passages and choose the most likely answer to each of the questions. Blacken the letter corresponding to your choice on the answer sheet.
Passage 1 Every man ought so to manage as to live within his means, This practice is of the very essence of honesty; for if a man does not manage honestly to live within his own means, he must necessarily be living dishonestly upon the means of somebody else. Those who are careless about personal expenditure and consider merely their own satisfaction without regard for the comfort of others generally find out the real uses of money when it is too late. Though by nature generous, these thriftless(不节俭的) persons are often driven in the end to do very shabby things. They dawdle with(浪费) their money as with their time, draw bills upon the future, anticipate their earnings and are thus under the necessity of dragging after them a load of debts and obligations which seriously handicap their ability to act as free and honest men. The loose cash which many persons throw away uselessly, and worse, would often form a basis of fortune and independence for life. These wasters are their own worst enemies, though they are generally found amongst the ranks of those who criticize "the injustice of the world". But if a man will not be his own friend, how can he expect others will? Orderly men of moderate means have always something left in their pockets to help others; whereas your wasteful and careless fellows who spend all never find an opportunity for helping anybody. It is a poor sort of economy, however, to be a skinflint. Narrow-mindedness in living and dealing is generally short-sighted and often leads to failure. The penny soul, it is said, never comes to two pence. Generosity and liberality, like honesty, prove the best policy, after all. And there are numerous examples of brilliant results from a course of generous and honest policy. The proverb says: "An empty bag cannot stand upright. " Neither can a man who is in debt. Debt makes everything a temptation. It lowers a man in self-respect, places him at the mercy of his tradesmen and his servants and makes him a slave in many respects; for he can no longer call himself his own master, nor boldly look the world in the face. It is also difficult for a man who is in debt to be truthful. Therefore, it is said that lying rides on debt's back. The debtor has to frame excuses to his creditor for postponing payment of the money he owes him; and probably also to bring about falsehoods. It is easy enough for a man who will exercise a healthy resolution to avoid incurring the first obligation; but the facility with which that has been incurred often becomes a temptation to a second; and very soon the unfortunate borrower becomes so entangled that no belated exertion of industry can set him free. The first step in debt is like the first step in falsehood, almost involving the necessity of proceeding in the same course, debt following debt as lie follows lie. Dr. Johnson held that early debt is ruin. His remarks on the subject are weighty and worthy of being held in remembrance. "Do not, " said he, " accustom yourself to considering debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a disaster. Poverty takes away so many means of doing good and produces so much inability to resist evil, both natural and moral, that it is by all virtuous means to be avoided. Let it be your first care, then, not to be in any man's debt. Resolve not to be poor; whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty and it makes some virtues impracticable and others extremely difficult. No man can help others that wants help himself; we must have enough before we have to spare. "
1. "To live within one's means" is most accurately explained as ______.
A.to cut down expenditure
B.to plan one's expenditure with great care
C.to spend no more than one actually earns
D.to live frugally and spend nothing except on necessities
A B C D
C
[解析] 词语理解题。 [要点透析] “To live within one's means”是一个固定用法,意思是“量入为出”。故选C。
2. "They anticipate their earnings" (Para. 1) means ______.
A.they eagerly look forward to a pay rise
B.their expenditure is ahead of their income
C.they feel sure they will be able to earn more
D.their income is smaller than what they expect
A B C D
B
[解析] 词语理解题。 [要点透析] “They anticipate their earnings;”意思是“他们提前消费”,故B为最佳选项。
3. Orderly men of moderate means have always something left in their pockets to help others. The best explanation of this is ______.
A.planning expenditure wisely, one will be able to help those less fortunate
B.those who run their lives systematically always have money to spare
C.one does not necessarily have to he rich to help other people
D.if a man is well-off, he can spare some money for others
Passage 2 Some years ago, I was caught in a sudden, blinding snowstorm near Indiana, Pennsylvania. My car stalled at the edge of town. I walked into town and into the nearest store. The shop owner phoned for help to get my car out of the deep snow. In a short time, a tall blond man showed up with a team of horses and pulled my ear out of the snow into town. I asked him how much I owed him for his trouble. He refused any pay, saying, "I will charge you nothing but the promise that you will help the next man you find in trouble. " I thanked him and made the promise. After he left, the storekeeper explained that the guy who had helped me was a Mennonite(蒙诺派教徒) who considered it wrong to charge anyone for a service made necessary by an act of God. Four years later, a friend and I were driving over flooded land south of St.Louis, Missouri. We crossed through water a foot deep without difficulty, but through my rearview mirror, I could see that the small car behind us was in trouble. I walked back with difficulty in the water while my companion turned the car around so I could hook up onto his car with chains. We pulled the ear out and waited until he got his engine started. Then he offered to pay me. I told him of my experience in Indiana, Pennsylvania, then repeated the Mennonite's words: "I will charge you nothing but the promise that you will help the next man you find in trouble. " He promised, and we parted. About a year later, my family and I were camping about a hundred miles from Aurora, Missouri. We put up our tents near the James River. We'd been told that it never flooded at that time of the year. However, the river evidently misread the calendar. I woke up in the middle of the night with a very cold back from water deep enough to cover the canvas bed. We loaded our wet equipment into our car, but we were unable to drive it to higher ground. I walked to an inn some distance from our camping spot and asked the innkeeper if he could get help to pull us out. Shortly afterwards, a farmer showed up with a tractor and a long rope and pulled us to safe ground. When I offered to pay him, he told me of a man who had helped him get his tractor out of the mud and then said: "I will charge you nothing but the promise that you will help the next man that you find in trouble. " I had never imagined that a man's act of kindness could have traveled so tar and wide.
1. What is the message of this story?
A.Kindness can spread from person to person.
B.Experiences of the author in different places.
C.How kind American people are.
D.How much the author liked sight-seeing when he was young.
Ⅴ. WORD DERIVATION Complete each of the following sentences with a (compound) word derived from the one (s) given in brackets. Write your word on the answer sheet.
1. He has been more appreciated by people abroad than by his own ______. (country, man)
countrymen
2. At the conference the chairman made a detailed ______ of the international economic situation. (appraise)
appraisal
3. The use of plenty of short, simple, and elliptical sentences in the story creates a sense of ______. (emergent)
emergency
4. Upon graduation from university, he was assigned to work as Professor Stevenson's ______. (assist)
assistant
5. Her six-year-old daughter is a rely ______ girl. She always insists on making her own decisions. (dependent)
independent
6. She could not give us a ______ explanation for her decision to give up the opportunity. (reason)
reasonable
7. They were sitting on a ______ bench, enjoying the warm sunshine. (wood)
wooden/wood
8. The questioner is just interested in you; he does not mean to be ______. (polite)
impolite
9. She encouraged her students to give their opinions, and she always listened ______. (attentive)
attentively
10. In the later period of the war, enemy planes began to ______ the city even in the daytime. (bomb)
bomb
Ⅵ. SENTENCE TRANSLATION Turn the following sentences into English and write your sentences on the answer sheet.
1. 如果有效利用的话,因特网对于拓展学生的视野有着令人难以置信的潜力。
Used effectively, the Internet has incredible potential to expand students' horizons.
2. 公司越来越多地借助高科技来保护计算机的安全。
Companies are increasingly using high technology to keep computers safe.
3. 20世纪被称为巨变的时代,而21世纪被称为信息时代。(refer)
The 20th century is referred to as an/the age of drastic change, and/while the 21st century as an/ the age of information.
4. 一个人如果没有生活目标,就可能丧失希望,自暴自弃。
Without something to live for/Without an aim in life, one/a person may lose hope and simply give up.
5. 如果他不近视,他早就成为一名飞行员了。
If he were not short-sighted, he would have become a pilot.
Ⅶ. WRITING Write a composition on the answer sheet in about 150 words, basing yourself on one of the texts you have learned.
1. Topic: Explain culture shock and the four stages of adjustment with the help of the following outline. (1)The honeymoon. (2)The crisis. (3)The recovery. (4)The adjustment.
Culture shock is the feeling of confusion and anxiety that people get when they visit a foreign country or a place that is very different from the one they are used to. These people usually go through four stages before they feel at home in the new place. When they first arrive, everything seems marvelous and they feel excited. However, when the exciting days of the honeymoon stage are over, they begin to experience a period of crisis. As they have trouble adjusting to the new environment, they become homesick. If these people take a realistic attitude towards the new experience and stick with it, they gradually learn about the system, customs and the language of the place. Then they move from the recovery stage into that of adjustment, in which they have learned enough of the language to communicate with the local people and they become well adapted to the new environment.