Part I Vocabulary and Structure (35%)
machine operators are so ______to the noise that they don’t even notice it.
liar
doesn’t work but he gets a good ______ from his investments.
ry
result must be accurate ,because all the calculations have been done by an______computer.
tronic
is a conscientious student;she works very hard and is ______to her teachers.
ecting
new ______ machine is a great help in the production of this factory.
ctive
new regulation does not______ until the first of March.
into into y into practice into operation
TV advertising ______against the destruction of the rainforests in South America has drawn attention from millions of people .
ment
bus ______has gone up another nickel.
you mind if I______with my work while you are getting tea ready?.
y out to y on
owing two days of shooting along their borders,the two countries have ______diplomatic relations.
en down en off
11.I don’t know how you ______the severe winters in your part of the world.
d up to d for d out d up
the people in this village have black all ______each other.
mble as mble with mble mble from
requirement for this job is that you must be ______to work on weekends.
ssible
always ______the smell of fresh bread with her grandmother,who loved baking.
ciated
one really knows who composed this piece of music, but it has been ______to Bach.
tified ibuted
children will not be allowed to come with us if they don’t ______themselves better.
ve
is said that those people can ______the plastic sheet into money, but I don’t believe it at all.
rast ince
’t put too much pressure on the children, because anxiety can ______with their performance at school.
rview
se ask him to come in and wait here. We simply can’t ______to offend such an important person to our company .
r
re he fell into the river, he took hold of a small tree on the bank by ______.
ruction
21.I have got a loaf of bread ; now I’m looking for a knife ______.
cut it with cut with it to cut it cutting
the United States had built more homes for poor people in 1955,the housing problems now in some parts of the country ______so serious.
dn’t be dn’t have not be d have not been
ics is the present-day equivalent of ______used to be called natural philosophy, from which most of present-day sciences arose.
companies have introduced flexible working time with less emphasis on pressure ______.
more on more efficiency
more on efficiency
British are so familiar with different cultures and other ways of doing things, ______is often the case in other countries .
26. ______from the outer space, the earth looks like a blue ball.
ng
27.X-rays are able to pass through objects and thus make ______details that are otherwise impossible to observe.
are visible
e is no point ______to remember all those names and most important thing is to understand the events associated with them.
be trying
29. ______, the story of Snow White appeals to many adult readers, too.
gh it written for gh written for children
gh for children was written for children
factory turns out ______ as they did a decade ago.
e as many e motorbikes as many
e motorbikes as rbikes as twice much
it turned out to be a small house party, we ______so formally.
not have dressed not have dressed up
not need to dress not dress up
is very rich, so he ______.
make a ld have made a fortune
have made a ld make a fortune
33. ______, she failed again in the test and felt very depressed.
she worked as she worked
e she worked since she worked
34.I’m going to get my letters ______tomorrow afternoon if I can get them ready today.
d ng
of us agree that swimming is more enjoyable in such a fine day than ______novels under the tree.
g be reading
Part II Reading Comprehension(40%)
Passage One
About 70 million Americans are trying to lose weight. That is almost 1 out of every 3 people in the United people go in diet. This means they eat less of certain foods, especially fats and sugars. Other people exercise with special equipment, take diet pills, or even have surgery. Losing weight is hard work, and it can also cost a lot of money. So why do so many people in the United States want to lose weight?
Many people in the United States worry about not looking young and attractive. For many people, looking good also means being thin. Other people worry about their health. Many doctors say being overweight is not healthy. But are Americans really fat?
Almost 30 million Americans weigh at least 20 percent more than their ideal weight . In fact, the United States is the most overweight country in the world. “The stored fat of adult Americans weighs 2. 3 trillion (兆) pounds, ” says University of Massachusctts anthropologist (人类学家) George Armelagos. He says burning off that stored energy would produce enough power for 900,000 cars to go 12,000 miles.
Losing weight is hard work, but most people want to find a fast and easy way to take off fat. Bookstores sell lots of diet books. These books tell readers how to lose weight. Each year, dozens of new books like these are written. Each one promises to get rid of fat.
h of the following is NOT mentioned as a way of losing weight?
eat less fats and have surgery.
take much work hard.
Americans are trying to lose weight because ______.
A. they want to look only want to look young
C. they are misled by are laughed at by others
do the figures given in the third paragraph tell us ?
icans are dependent on consume a lot of energy.
icans need to lose ss of fat can be a source of energy.
is implied in the last paragraph?
books are not always books are usually helpful.
e are lots of ways of losing stores are keeping their promises.
can be concluded from the passage?
le think too much of their e is not a sure way of losing weight as yet.
ery is the fastest way of losing g on diet is a safe way of losing weight.
Passage Two
Instead of being playthings, early kites were used for military purposes. Historical records say they were large in size; some were powerful enough to carry men up in the air to observe enemy movements, and others were used to scatter some information over hostile forces.
During the Tang Dynasty (618 - 907) , people began to fix on kites some bamboo (竹子) strips which, when high in the air, would ring in the wind like a zheng (a traditional Chinese musical instrument) . Since then, the popular Chinese name for the kite has become fengzheng. The kites made today in some places are fixed with silk strings or rubber bands to give out pleasant ringing in the wind.
It was also believed, for instance, during the Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911) , that flying a kite and then letting it go , apart from the pleasure in itself, might send off one’s bad luck and illness. Consequently it would bring him bad luch if one should pick up a kite lost by other people, This may be regarded as superstition (迷信) but may not be altogether without reason: think of the good it will do to a person, ill and depressed all the time, if he or she could go out into the fields and fresh air to fly a kite.
Chinese kites fall into two major types: those with wings that can be taken apart and those with wings that are fixed. The former can be taken apart and packed in boxcs. Easy to carry about, they make good presents. The second type refers to those with fixed structure; they fly better and higher, given a steady wind, Classified by designs and other standards, there are no less than 300 varieties, including human figures, fish , insects, birds, animals and written Chinese characters. In size, they range from 304 meters to only 30 centimeters across.
41. What is the use of silk strings or rubber bands fixed to the kites?
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