Section Ⅱ Use of English Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word or phrase for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1.
Text In common with many countries, Britain has serious environmental problems. In 1952, more than 4,000 people died in London because of the smog. The government 1 new laws to stop smog from coal fires and factories and the 2 improved a lot. Today, London is much cleaner 3 there is a new problem: smog from cars. In December 1991, there was very 4 wind in London and pollution 5 a lot, which led to 160 deaths in just four days. 6 of the problem is the new "out of town" shopping centers. In the past, people often 7 to shops near their homes or went by bus. Today, many people drive to the new shopping centers. 8 , the small shops have 9 and more people have to go a long way to 10 their shopping. Critics say that Britain needs better and cheaper public 11 . Many people are trying to 12 the use of cars in Britain. Some cities now have special bicycle 13 and many people ride to work. Some people also 14 to work together in one car to reduce the pollution and the 15 . Sometimes people take "direct 16 ". In 1995, for example, many people wanted to 17 a new road near Newbury. They built houses 18 trees and lived there for many months. It 19 a long time to force the people out of the trees 20 work on the road could continue.
[解析] 本题考查不定代词。这里的problem指的是前面所说“smog from cars”,所以此空应该填一个修饰可数名词的词,故排除B;且驾车去购物并不是汽车尾气排放的唯一原因,所以不能选D;这里problem为单数,故C项也不正确。part部分在这里表示问题的其中一部分在于…,且可修饰可数名词,符合题意。故选A。
7.
A.drove
B.went
C.walked
D.cycled
A B C D
C
[解析] 本题考查语境的分析。从后面的“near their homes”可知这里说的是步行去商店。故选C。
[解析] 本题考查上下文语义的衔接。从后文“..more people have to go long way to do their shopping...”可以推测出这里应是指小商店消失或减少了。decrease常与number搭配;descend指高度的降低,或遗产等传至下一代,均不合题意,故选C。
[解析] 本题考查词义辨析。A、B、C三项均表花费之义,但三者用法有所不同:take表示“花费”时,通常用it作形式主语,常用于“it takes sb. some time(money)to do sth.或doing sth.takes sb+时间”结构,表示“做某事花了某人多少时间”;spend表“花费时间/金钱”时主语是人,常用结构为:sb.spend time. money on sth./(in)doing sth.;cost表示“花费金钱”时主语是物,常用结构为sth.costs(sb.)+金钱,某物花了(某人)多少钱,表示花费时间时常用结构为(doing)sth.costs(sb.)+时间,某物(做某事)花了(某人)多少时间;use“使用”,不表“花费”之意。由前面的让可知这里选B项took。
Part A Directions: Read the following three texts. Answer the questions on each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.
Text 1 It was the day I froze a household pet that I began to worry about my memory. Technically, it was not a real household pet I froze but a bag of tropical fish, which on the scale of beloved members of any home, rank somewhere below the family cat and above an attractive set of coasters. And technically, I didn' t completely freeze my fish. Rather, I absent-mindedly tossed them into the refrigerator with a bag of other things I had bought and fortunately found them just before my highly sensitive tropical fish could turn into lightly breaded dinner fish. Nonetheless, that near-death experience--for the fish, if not for me--woke me up to the fact that my memory might not be all it once was: In the hope of improving my memory, I decided I would first try the memory books. How-ever, much of what I read was, at first blush, utterly forgettable. If I was truly going to juice up my recall, however, book reading wouldn't cut it. What I needed was some kind of memory pill. The big bat in the memory-pill lineup is ginkgo biloba, the dried leaf of the maidenhair tree, thought to improve circulation and, in theory, memory. I decided to try it. The package warned that in addition to any other problems, ginkgo can cause "mild stomach discomfort". After just one pill, I discovered that the package was--how best to put this? --not kidding. It' s hard to say if my memory improved in the little time l was on ginkgo, but I can say I had no trouble at all remembering to' eat a tasteless diet for several days afterward. For me, the answer to memory problems was not in the medicine chest, but that didn't mean I was a hopeless case. My recall had improved after two weeks in the memory-improvement battle. I may not be able to read a magazine and instantly memorize it, but I now remember to buy it when I get to the store. I may not be able to memorize hundreds of names and faces, but at least I won' t meet an Alex at a party and find myself calling him Alan or Alvin or Evelyn.
1. The writer became aware of her memory problem when she realized that she had ______.
A.forgotten to feed her fish
B.forgotten to freeze her fish
C.misplaced a bag of dinner fish
D.misplaced a bag of tropical fish
A B C D
D
[解析] 细节题。文章第一段第一句说“It was the day I froze a household pet that I began to worry about my memory.”,且从下文可知这里的“household pet”指的是一袋热带鱼,可知作者是在发现自己将热带鱼放错时意识到她的记忆问题的。故选D。
2. According to the writer, the memory books she read ______.
5. The writer' s tone can best be described as one of ______.
A.relief
B.humor
C.worry
D.solemnity
A B C D
B
[解析] 推理题。我们可以从文中的几处看出作者写这篇文章的基调,“…tropical fish could turn into lightly breaded dinner fish”“It’s hard to say if my memory improved in the little time...for several days afterward.”“...but at least I won’t meet an Alex at a party...or Alvin or Evelyn.”,可见作者用的是幽默的手法。故选B。
Text 2 To get a chocolate out of a box requires a considerable amount of unpacking: the box has to be taken out of the paper bag in which it arrived, the cellophane wrapper has to be torn off, the lid opened and the paper removed, the chocolate itself then has to be unwrapped from its own piece of paper. But this overuse of wrapping is not confined to luxuries. It is now becoming increasingly difficult to buy anything that is not done up in beautiful wrapping. The package itself is of no interest to the shopper, who usually throws it away immediately. Useless wrapping accounts for much of the refuse put out by the average London household each week. So why is it done? Some of it, like the cellophane on meat, is necessary, but most of the rest is simply competitive selling. This is absurd. Packaging is using up scarce energy and re sources and messing up the environment. Recycling is already happening with milk bottles which are returned to the dairies, washed out, and refilled. But both glass and paper are being threatened by the growing use of plastic. More dairies are experimenting with plastic bottles. The trouble with plastic is that it does not rot. Some environmentalists argue that the only solution to the problem of ever increasing plastic containers is to do away with plastic altogether in the shops, a suggestion unacceptable to many manufacturers who say there is no alternative to their handy plastic packs. It is evident that more research is needed into the recovery and re-use of various materials and into the cost of collecting and recycling containers as opposed to producing new ones. Unnecessary packaging, intended to be used just once, and make things look better so more people will buy them, is clearly becoming increasingly absurd. But it is not so much a question of doing away with packaging as using it sensibly. What is needed now is a more advanced approach to using scarce resources for what is, after all, a relatively unimportant function.
1. "This overuse of wrapping is not confined to luxuries." (line 4, Paragraph 1) means ______.
A.more wrapping is needed for ordinary products
B.more wrapping is used for luxuries than for ordinary products
C.too much wrapping is used for both luxury and ordinary products
D.the wrapping used for luxury products is unnecessary
A B C D
C
[解析] 推理题。从该句的后一句“It is now becoming increasing ly difficult to buy anything that is not done up in beautiful wrap ping.”可知没有精美包装的物品越来越少,言外之意是不仅仅奢侈品,即使普通物品也都使用很多包装。故选C。
2. Packaging is important to manufacturers because ______.
A.it is easy to use it again
B.shoppers are interested in beautiful packaging
C.they want to attract more shoppers
D.packaged things will not go rotten
A B C D
C
[解析] 推理题。从文章第二段对So why is it done?的回答“..most of the rest is simply competitive selling...”可知大多数包装只是为了促销,即吸引顾客。故选C。
Text 3 Children in the United States are exposed to many influences other than that of their families. Television is the most significant of these influences, because the habit of watching television usually begins before children start attending school. And, by the time that the average child finishes high school, he or she will have spent 18,000 hours in front of a television set as opposed to 12,000 hours in a classroom. Parents are concerned about these figures. They are also concerned about the lack of quality in television programs for children. The degree of violence in many of these shows also worries them. Even if it is unreal--a cartoon cat beating up a cartoon mouse with a baseball bat--this violence may have a negative effect on the young minds exposed to it. Studies indicate that, when children are exposed to violence, they may become aggressive or insecure. Parents are also concerned about the commercials that their children see on television. Many parents would like to see fewer commercials during programs for children. And some parents feel that these shows should not have any commercials at all because young minds are not mature enough to deal with the claims made by advertisers. Educational television has no commercials and has programs for children that many parents approve of. The most famous of these is ' Sesame Street', which tries to give preschool children a head start in learning the alphabet and numbers. It also tries to teach children useful things about the world in which they live. Even though most parents and educators give ' Sesame Street' and shows like it high marks for quality, some critics argue that all television, whether educational or not, is harmful to children. These critics feel that the habit of watching hours of television every day turns children into bored and passive consumers of their world rather than encouraging them to become active explorers of it. We still do not know enough about the effects of watching television to be able to say whether or not it is good for children. Until we do, perhaps it would be wise to put a warning on television sets such as the one on cigarette packages: 'Caution: Watching Too Much Television May Be Harmful to Your Child' s Developing Mind.
1. We can infer from the text that ______.
A.parents are strongly opposed to children watching TV
B.a cartoon program is not harmful if it is not real
C.children may imitate what they have seen on television
D.the quality of children' s programs is not the parents' main concern
Part B Directions: Read the texts from the "LETTERS' section of a magazine in which five people commented on the magazine's story of Bono, a superstar. For questions 61 to 65, match the name of each person (61to 65) to one of the statements (A to G) given below. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.
Caroline Hartman: Thanks for the terrific article on U2' s Bono and his efforts to save Africa from financial ruin. He' s not a saint. He is a hard-working, real man, using his gifts to inspire us in song and make a difference in the world. Some issues are so serious that most of us don' t even try to fix them. Bo no can' t save the world by himself, but like others who have shown the way, such as Martin Lu flier King, Jr. and Mohandas Gandhi, he is proving that one man can make a difference. Molly Leuschel: Bono may be smarter, better informed and more committed than other stars, but Africa' s problems are larger than his ambition. After living in Africa nearly six years, I returned to the U. S. with more questions than answers. Debt relief is a noble idea, but most foreign aid does little to enrich the life of the average African. Amanda Adichie: I am a 24-year-old Nigerian and have often viewed stars' "concern" for Africa with resentment. My reaction to Bono was different: I was impressed. He is right in recommending not only debt relief but the lowering of trade restrictions on African countries, What Africa needs is not gifts of fish but fair access to the fishing pond. Malini Ranganathan: Your story on the smartest superstar on the planet was brilliant. I felt like I was right there with him, there to nod my head in approval and to believe in the potential of his African-debt-relief campaign, there to appreciate the peculiar, stubborn, witty and human sides to a guy who seems too famous to be real. Hats off to you for capturing these features so aptly and for making Bono' s personality so real, his cause so true. Lynne Pereira: I loved your article on Bono, but why the annoying wording on your cover: "Don' t laugh-- the planet's biggest rock star is on a mission to make a difference"? Who would want to laugh? Bono has proved that he' s willing and able to do what plenty of world leaders can' t or won' t do: put his money where his mouth is and make a difference. Now match each of the people (61 to 65) to the appropriate statement. Note: there are two extra statements. Statements A. Competition on an equal footing is vital to Africa. B. Bono should save himself from himself. C. One man' s power, though limited, is significant. D. Africa' s problems are insolvable. E. You have presented a real image of Bono. F. Africa is faced with other issues besides debts. G. Bono' s cause is a serious business.
Section Ⅳ Writing Directions: You should write your responses to both Part A and Part B of this section on ANSWER SHEET 2.
Part A
1. Read the job advertisement below from a newspaper and suppose you want to apply for the job. Write a letter of application, giving all the necessary personal information. Teacher of Chinese Wanted temporary, part-time Part-time (6 hr/w) teacher of intermediate level Chinese needed for a class of 15 students Experience in teaching kids is essential weekend work involved salary $ 90 per week Please apply in writing to: Mr. J. Malloy, 39 Eastern Street, Boston, MA 10084 You should write approximately 100 words. Do not sign your own name at the end of your letter. Use "Wang Lin" instead.
[高分范文] Dear Mr. J. Malloy, I read your job advertisement in a newspaper. I think the job is suit able for me, so I write to apply for the job. My name is Wang Lin, and I' m a college student right now. My major is International Communication, which includes many Chinese courses. So I think I must be qualified for teaching the kids Chinese. I have a lot of teaching experience, both in Chinese and in English. I' m totally free at week ends, so there will be no problem to teach at weekends. And I have paid attention to the salary you could offer, and I think it is reasonable. I'm looking forward to your reply. Thanks for your attention. Yours sincerely, Wang Lin
[解析] 写求职申请要用比较正式的文体。在申请中要写清楚自己的概况,并阐明自己有哪些条件是适合申请这个职位的。在文章中要让对方感觉你已经很认真地看过他们公司的职位描述和要求。如果职位要求里没有对工作经验作出要求,我们在写申请的时候也要表明自己有相关工作经验,因为公司都很注重应聘者是否有相关工作经验。求职申请开头的称呼和最后的署名一定要写。 [高频词句] 1.My major is International Communication,which includes many Chinese courses.我的专业是国际交流,这个专业包含了很多汉语课程。 2.be qualified for doing sth.有资格做某事 3.There will be no problem to teach at weekends.周末上课完全没有问题。 4.I have paid attention to the salary you could offer,and I think it is reasonable.我看过你们的薪水制度了,我觉得很合理。
Part B
1. Below is a graph showing the percentages of the average Chinese citizen expenses on different items in the year 1995 and the year 2004. Look at the graph and write an essay of about 120 words making reference to the following points: 1. changes happened in the consumption pattern 2. possible reasons behind these changes
[高分范文] From the picture we can see the expenses on Education and Entertainment, Transportation and Communications in 2004 have increased a lot compared with that in 1995. But the expense on Food and Clothing ac counts for less proportion of the total expenses. What do these figures show us? We can get some information from the picture. Spending more on Education and Entertainment means our living standard has improved. More expense on Transportation and Communications means people no longer stay at where they live. They may go out for traveling. This shows that people are living a better life. Expense on Food and Clothing is still a big deal. But the percentage it accounts for is falling, which is now less than 35% of our total expense. This means our income is increasing, and food and clothing are no longer our main need in life. People are getting richer. And this means our country is getting stronger. That is what we are looking forward to and it really happens.
[解析] 看图表写作文一般都是多件事情进行比较,所以分析图表是很重要的。首先要看清楚比较的是哪些事物,其次要明白这种比较说明的是什么问题。在作文中要把你对图表深层含义的理解表达出来。 [高频词句] 1.expense开支 2.But the expense on Food and Clothing accounts for less proportion of the total Expenses.但是衣食方面的开销占总开销的比例减小了。 3.Expense on Food and Clothing is still a big deal.衣食方面的开销仍占很大份额。 4.Spending more on Education and Entertainment means our living standard has improved.在教育和娱乐方面的花费增多意味着我们的生活水平提高了。