directions: the following 40 short statements are provided each with four items. you are to choose for each the best word or phrase in place of the underlined or missing part. please write your answer on the answer sheet by marking the corresponding letter in each case.
1. the police the witness about the accident.
a. question b. ask c. interrogate d. inquire
2. the salesman his product when challenged.
a. sold b. spoke of c stood up for d. stood for
3. she makes a rather living as a novelist.
a. precarious b. precautionary c. cautious d. precocious
4. she the chance to spend a whole day with her father. .
a. jumped on b. jumped at c. jumped with d. jumped up
3. the car to avoid hitting the old man.
a. swerved b. rambled c. scurried d. curtailed
6. anyone who has a sore throat should from alcohol.
a. abstain b. retain c. detain d. pertain
8. despite a whole night's emergency treatment, the boy’s condition is still critical and his life is now hanging by a
a. thread b. cord c. string d. rope
9. the film was banned officially- because of the language and scenes it contained.
a. decent b. optimal c. obscene d. vicious
10. china will continue to to control population growth and improve the living standard of chinese people.
a. stride b. contrive c. strive d. stripe
11. he avowed his commitment to those ideals.
a. acknowledged b. converted c. conformed d. renounced
12. the political dissident was accused of instigating a plot to overthrow the government.
a. devising b. supporting c. funding d. provoking
13 i wish you two would stop bickering.
a. complaining b quarreling c. bargaining d murmuring
14. the defendant is facing severe verdict despite the appeal for clemency by his lawyer.
a. forgiving b. release c. leniency d. impartiality
15. the little boy listened, enthralled by the captain’s story.
a. fascinated b. swindled c. shocked d. bored
16. i was impressed by his expertise on landing craft.
a. encouragement b. special skill c. shrewdness d. eloquence
17. your action is a breach of our university regulations.
a. observation b. violation c. creation d. attack
18. subsequent events vindicated his policy.
a. predicate b. swing c. dilate d. verify
19. drug smuggling carries a mandatory death penalty in most countries in the world.
a. impulsive b. multicolored c. obligatory' d. laughable
20. morality, for him, was doing what is expedient.
a. undesirable b. unavailable c advantageous d. inappropriate
21 you'd like this one, ?
a. don't you b. didn't you c. hadn't you d. wouldn’t you
22. do you happen to know the name of this ?
a. beautiful, little, red, butterfly-like insect
b. little, beautiful, red, butterfly-like insect
c. red, little, beautiful, butterfly-like insect
d. red, butterfly-like, beautiful, little insect
23. my son walked ten miles today. we never guessed that he could walk far.
a. / b. such c. that d. as
24. if talks for the new trade agreements take , food industries in both countries will be seriously affected.
a. much too long b. too much longer c. too much long d. much long
25. jim expected nobody in the room.
a. there being b. there been c. there to be d. there be
26. frankly, i'd rather you anything about it for the time being.
a. do b. didn't do c. don’t do d. didn't
27. this is a nation which easily to changes.
a. adapts b. is adapted c. is adaptable d. is adapting
28. the young man proved his parents’ expectation.
a. worth b. worthy c. worth of d. worthy of
29. after a whole day of hard work, all was a nice meal and a good rest
a. what he wanted b. which he wanted c. the thing he wanted d. that he wanted
30. a modem city has sprung up in was a wasteland ten years ago
a. which b. what c. that d. where
31. the new literature course differs from the old course the students aren’t required to attend lecture.
a. in which b. which c. in that d. whereas
32. i wonder whether he knows to write a book.
a. how great pains it will cost b. what great pains will it take
c. what great pains it will cost d what great pains it will take
33. college students should learn more about chinese history.
a. 1 consider important that b. i consider it important
c. i consider what is important d. i consider it important that
34. to a highly imaginative writer, is a pad of paper and a pen.
a. all are required b. all required is c. all is required d. all that is required
35. was of no much help to him at that time.
a. little could i do b. what could i do little
c. the little of which 1 could do d. the little that i could do
36. scientists have reached the conclusion the temperature on the earth is getting higher and higher.
a. when b. but c. that d. for that
37. the teacher said, "it's time you your oral presentation.”
a. began b. should begin c. begin d. are beginning
38. you and i could hardly understand each other, ?
a. could i b. couldn't you c. could we d. couldn't we
39. a clue americans may have been more honest in the past lies in the abe lincoln story.
a. as for why b. as to what c. as to which d as to why
40. petroleum is to industry blood is to man.
a. that b. as if c. what d. which
part ii cloze test (20 points)
directions: read the passage below carefully and choose the best answer from those given. write your choice on the answer sheet by marking the corresponding letter in each case.
the tuberculosis situation in china is worsening again. it cannot be 1 unless the current situation which china has four highs and one low is changed. the four highs and the one low means a high infection rate, a high drug 2 rate, a high death rate, a high__3 of infection, and a low rate of decline changes.
experts say that china is one of the twenty-two countries in the world with the highest tuberculosis 4 china ranks second in the world in the 5 number of the people who have tb. over 500 million chinese have been 6 to the tb bacillus, six million have active tb and two million are 7 carriers of the disease. over two hundred and fifty thousand chinese die each year from tb. this is twice as many as those who die 8 all of china' s other contagious diseases 9
the rate of tb in the chinese countryside is 2.4 times 10 in the city. in china, as in other countries, at lease half of the 11 active tb cases, and deaths are in women.
children are the most 12 to infection of all. 13 statistics, the tb death rate among children aged 0-4 are 0.8 per 100,000 and 0.5 per 100,000. a 14 found that about half of the tb 15 people have not been found and registered. for 16 reasons, about 65.9 per cent of the people with tb symptoms are not 17 having tb. experts warn that no disease compares with tb in the damage it 18 on families and the harm it does to china’s economic development. seventy-five percent of the people with active tb cases 19 in the 15-34 age group, the most 20 age group. this means that china loses 360 million working days each year to tb.
1. a. beaten b. conquered c. overcome d. defeated
2. a. resistance b. injection c. inferior d. resistable
3. a. incidence b. incident c. accident d. accidence
4. a. burden b. load c. cargo d. freight
5. a. whole b. large c. imaginary d. total
6. a. revealed b. revealing c. exposed d. exposing
7. a. contagious b. conscientious c. continuous d. consecutive
8. a. away b. down c. off d. from
9. a. joined b. added c. united d. combined
10. a. that b. than c as d. less
11. a. infections b. infectious c. affection d. infectants
12. a. fragile b. vulnerable c. feeble d. crisp
13. a. on the contrary b. according to c. with respect to d. in addition to
14. a. research b. inspect c. survey d. study
15. a. opposite b. negative c. opponent d. positive
16. a. disparate b. desperate c. various d. distinct
17. a. diagnosed as b. diagnosed to c. diagnosed about d. diagnosed with
18. a. inflicts b. affiliates c. afflicts d. conflicts
19. a. is b. are c. have d. has
20. a. prospective b. productive c. predictable d. prudent
part iii reading comprehension (40 points)
section a (30 points)
directions: there are 4 reading passages in this part. each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. for each of them there are some choices marked a, b, c and d. you should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the answer sheet
questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage.
the decline of traditional religion in the west has not removed the need for men and women to find a deeper meaning behind existence. why is the world the way it is and how do we, as conscious individuals, fit into the great scheme?
there is a growing feeling that science, especially what is known as the new physics, can provide answers where religion remains vague and faltering. many people in search of a meaning to their lives are finding enlightenment in the revolutionary developments at the frontiers of science. much to the bewilderment of professional scientists, quasi-religious cults are being formed around such unlikely topics as quantum physics, space-time relativity, black holes and the big bang.
how can physics, with its reputation for cold precision and objective materialism, provide such fertile soil for the mystical? the truth is that the spirit of scientific inquiry has undergone a remarkable transformation over the past 50 years. the twin revolutions of the theory of relativity, with its space-warps and time-warps, and the quantum theory, which reveals the shadowy and unsubstantial nature of atoms, have demolished the classical image of a clockwork universe slavishly unfolding along a predetermined pathway. replacing this sterile mechanism is a world full of shifting indeterminism and subtle interactions that have no counterpart in daily experience,
to study the new physics is to embark on a journey of wonderment and paradox, to glimpse the universe in a novel perspective, in which subject and object, mind and matter, force and field, become intertwined. even the creation of the universe itself has fallen within the province of scientific inquiry.
the new cosmology provides, for the first time, a consistent picture of how all physical structures, including space and time, came to exist out of nothing. we are moving towards an understanding in which matter, force, order and creation are unified into a single descriptive theme.
many of us who work in fundamental physics are deeply impressed by the harmony and order which pervades the physical world. to me laws of the universe, from quarks to quasars, dovetail together so felicitously that the impression there is something behind it all seems overwhelming. the laws of physics are so remarkably clever they can surely only be a manifestation of genius.
l. the author says people nowadays find that traditional religion is
a. a form of reassurance
b. inadequate to their needs
c. responding to scientific progress
d. developing in strange ways
2. scientists find the new cults bewildering because they are
a. too reactionary
b. based on false evidence
c. derived from inappropriate sources
d. too subjective
3. which phrase in paragraph 3 suggests that the universe is like a machine?
a. cold precision and objective materialism.
b. the shadowy and unsubstantial nature of atoms.
c. slavishly unfolding along a predetermined pathway.
d. shifting indeterminism and subtle interactions.
4. the new physics is exciting because it
a. offers a comprehensive explanation of the universe
b. proves the existence of a ruling intelligence
c. incorporates the work of men of genius
d. makes scientific theories easier to understand
5. the author of this passage is
a. a minister of religion
b. a research scientist
c. science fiction writer
d. a journalist