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1. Jane is slow but her brother, on the contrary, is quick at _ the point of an argument.A. grabbing B. grasping C. capturing D. snatching2. In an attempt to get to the _ of the problem, the reporter interviewed every eyewitness. A. root B. stem C. center D. base3. The tourists _ through the fog, trying to read what was engraved on the gravestone Shakespeare had chosen for himself. A. peered B. peeped C. glanced D. glimpsed4. The noise was so faint that you had to _ your ears to hear it. A. stir B. strengthen C. strain D. stride5. Because of the severe drought, the government has urged people to be _ with water. A. economic B. thrifty C. cautious D. economical6. They came to inspect the house _ buying it. A. in the event of B. with a view to C. with reference to D. on account of7. If a child is brought up in isolation away from human beings, he does not _ language. A. inquire B. require C. acquire D. request8. The use of sound is widespread as _ of animal communication. A. a means B. ways C. a tool D. signals9. There is no _ evidence to date that people in the Western world can control their dreams, at least in experimental situations in a lab. A. solid B. hard C. good D. fine10. Many of the inventions that made people _ and have determined the direction of American industry were related to agriculture and food production. A. affluent B. abundant C. sufficient D. bankrupt11. _ plastics, the machine is light in weight. A. To make of B. To be made of C. Having made of D. Made of12. “_ all three people in the car injured in the accident?” “No,_ only the two passengers who got hurt.” A. Were/it was B. Are/there is C. Were/it were D. Was/there was13. _ is to be in the flowing “river” of bears. A. Stand on the tip of the cape B. To stand on the tip of the capeC. Standing on the tip of the cape D. Being standing on the tip of the cape14. The speech which he made _ the football match bored a lot of fans to death. A. being concerned B. be concerned C. concerned D. concerning15. _ in an atmosphere of simple living was what his parents wished for. A. He was educated B. He educated C. His being educated D. He to be educated16 .No sooner _ than he realized that he should have remained silent. A. the words had spoken B. had the words spokenC. the words had been spoken D. had the words been spoken17. He went out of the General Managers office, looking as if he _. A. has been severely punished B. were severely punishedC. was severely punished D. had been severely punished18. The factory manager and secretary _ our party. A. is to attend B. are to attend C. were to attend D. is attended19. This project is known to _ for three months. A. having been going on B. go on C. have been going on D. be going on20. _ the car accident, they would have arrived earlier. A. Except for B. But for C. Besides D. Save for21.Before the invention of refrigeration, the _ of fish and meat was a thorny problem. A. keeping B. maintaining C. protection D. preservation22. A sudden movement caught the ponys attention and he instantly became _ and alert.A. doubtful B. suspicious C. suspecting D. hesitating23. During their first teacher-training year, the students often visited local schools for the _ of lessons. A. investigation B. observation C. inspection D. observance24. Ill be very glad that you agree to_ this matter. A. look up B. look for C. look over D. look into25. As there was a power cut in the hospital, the surgeon had to _ the operation. A. call for B. call off C. call on D. call out26. From ancient times, the valley of the Nile has been made _ by the river floods. A. famous B. deserted C. attractive D. fertile27. The manager made a far-seeing decision _ what she had said. A. in the light of B. in the course of C. in favor of D. in the face of28. Each household _ five pounds of meat every month. A. availed B. allocated C. was endowed with D. was entitled to29. All the information we have collected in relation to that case _ very little. A. comes up to B. makes up for C. stands up for D. adds up to30. The manager was pleased with increased _ from the factory. A. outcome B. output C. outset D. outletReading ComprehensionSection ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.Shopping habits in the United States have changed greatly in the last quarter of the 20th century. 47 in the 1900s most American towns and cities had a Main Street. Main Street was always the heart of a town. This street was lined on the both sides with many 48 businesses. Here, shoppers walked into stores to look at all sorts of merchandise: clothing, furniture, hardware, groceries. In addition, some shops offered 49 . There shops included drugstores, restaurants, shoe repair stores, and barber or hairdressing shops. But in the 1950s, a change began to 50 place. Too many automobiles had crowded into Main Street while too few parking places were 51 to shoppers. Because the streets were crowded, merchants began to look with interest at the open spaces outside the city limits. Open space is what their car driving customers needed. And open space is what they got when the first shopping centre was built. Shopping centers, or rather malls, 52 as a collection of small new stores away from crowded city centers. 53 by hundreds of free parking space, customers were drawn away from 54 areas to outlying malls. And the growing 55 of shopping centers led in turn to the building of bigger and better stocked stores. By the late 1970s, many shopping malls had almost developed into small cities themselves. In addition to providing the 56 of the stop shopping, malls were transformed into landscaped parks, with benches, fountains, and outdoor entertainment.AdesignedFconvenienceKcosmeticsBtakeGservicesLstartedCEarlyHfameMdowntownDAttractedIvariousNavailableE thoughJ popularityOcheapnessSection BDirections: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D.You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.Culture is one of the most challenging elements of the international marketplace. This system of learned behavior patterns characteristic of the members of a given society is constantly shaped by a set of dynamic variables: language, religion, values and attitudes, manners and customs, aesthetics, technology, education, and social institutions. To cope with this system, an international manager needs both factual and interpretive knowledge of culture. To some extent, the factual knowledge can be learned; its interpretation comes only through experience.The most complicated problems in dealing with the cultural environment stem from the fact that one cannot learn cultureone has to live it. Two schools of thought exist in the business world on how to deal with cultural diversity. One is that business is business the world around, following the model of Pepsi and McDonalds. In some cases, globalization is a fact of life; however, cultural differences are still far from converging.The other school proposes that companies must tailor business approaches to individual cultures. Setting up policies and procedures in each country has been compared to an organ transplant; the critical question centers around acceptance or rejection. The major challenge to the international manager is to make sure that rejection is not a result of cultural myopia or even blindness.Fortune examined the international performance of a dozen large companies that earn 20 percent or more of their revenue overseas. The internationally successful companies all share an important quality: patience. They have not rushed into situations but rather built their operations carefully by following the most basic business principles. These principles are to know your adversary, know your audience, and know your customer. 57. According to the passage, which of the following is true? AAll international managers can learn culture.BBusiness diversity is not necessary.CViews differ on how to treat culture in business world.DMost people do not know foreign culture well.58. According to the author, the model of Pepsi. Ais in line with the theories of the school advocating the business is business the world around. Bis different from the model of McDonalds Cshows the reverse of globalization Dhas converged cultural differences 59. The two schools of thought. Aboth propose that companies should tailor business approaches to individual cultures Bboth advocate that different policies be set up in different countries Cadmit the existence of cultural diversity in business world DBoth A and B60. This article is supposed to be most useful for those. Awho are interested in researching the topic of cultural diversity Bwho have connections to more than one type of culture Cwho want to travel abroad Dwho want to run business on International Scale 61. According to Fortune, successful international companies. Aearn 20 percent or more of their revenue overseas Ball have the quality of patience Cwill follow the overseas local cultures Dadopt the policy of internationalizationPassage TwoQuestions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.There are people in Italy who cant stand soccer. Not all Canadians love hockey. A similar situation exists in America, where there are those individuals you may be one of them who yawn or even frown when somebody mentions baseball. Baseball to them means boring hours watching grown men in funny tight outfits standing around in a field staring away while very little of anything happens. They tell you its a game better suited to the 19th century, slow, quiet, and gentlemanly. These are the same people you may be one of them who love football because theres the sport that glorifies “the hit”.By contrast, baseball seems abstract, cool, silent, still.On TV the game is fractured into a dozen perspectives, replays, closeups. The geometry of the game, however, is essential to understanding it. You will contemplate the game from one point as a painter does his subject; you may, of course, project yourself into the game. It is in this projection that the game affords so much space and time for involvement. The TV wont do it for you.Take, for example, the third baseman. You sit behind the third base dugout and you watch him watching home plate. His legs are apart, knees flexed. His arms hang loose. He does a lot of this. The skeptic still cannot think of any other sports so still, so passive. But watch what happens every time the pitcher throws: the third baseman goes up on his toes, flexes his arms or bring the glove to a point in front of him, takes a step right or left, backward or forward, perhaps he glances across the field to check his first basemans position. Suppose the pitch is a ball. “Nothing happened,” you say. “I could have had my eyes closed.”The skeptic and the innocent must play the game. And this involvement in the stands is no more intellectual than listening to music is. Watch the third baseman. Smooth the dirt in front of you with one foot; smooth the pocket in your glove; watch the eyes of the batter, the speed of the bat, the sound of horsehide on wood. If football is a symphony of movement and theatre, baseball is chamber music, a spacious interlocking of notes, chores and responses.62.The passage is mainly concerned with .Athe different tastes of people for sportsBthe different characteristics of sportsCthe attraction of footballDthe attraction of baseball63.Those who dont like baseball may complain that.Ait is only to the taste of the oldBit involves fewer players than footballCit is not exciting enoughDit is pretentious and looks funny64.The author admits that.Abaseball is too peaceful for the young Bbaseball may seem boring when watched on TVCfootball is more attracting than baseballDbaseball is more interesting than football65.By stating “I could have had my eyes closed.” the author means (4th paragraph last sentence).AThe third baseman would rather sleep than play the gameBEven if the third baseman closed his eyes a moment ago, it could make no different to the resultCThe third baseman is so good at baseball that he could finish the game with eyes closed all the time and do his work wellDThe consequent was too bad he could not bear to see it66.We can safely conclude that the author.Alikes footballBhates footballChates baseballDlikes baseballPart Cloze （15 minutes）Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D on the right side of the paper. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.Who won the World Cup 1994 football game? What happened at the United Nations? How did the critics like the new play? 67 an event takes place; newspapers are on the streets 68 the details. Wherever anything happens in the world, reports are on the spot to 69 the news.Newspapers have one basic 70 , to get the news as quickly as possible from its source, from those who make it to those who want to 71 it. Radio, telegraph, television, and 72 inventions brought competition for newspapers. So did the development of magazines and other means of communication. 73 , this competition merely spurred the newspapers on. They quickly made use of the newer and faster means of communication to improve the 74 and thus the efficiency of their own operations. Today more newspapers are 75 and read than ever before. Competition also led newspapers to branch out to many other fields. Besides keeping readers 76 of the latest news, todays newspapers 77 and influence readers about politics and other important and serious matters. Newspapers influence readers economic choices 78 advertising. Most newspapers depend on advertising for their very 79 .News papers is sold at a price that 80 even a small fraction of the cost of production. The main 81 of income for most newspapers is commercial advertising. The 82 in selling advertising depends on a newspapers value to advertisers. This 83 in terms of circulation. How many people read the newspaper? Circulation depends 84 on the work of the circulation department and on the services or entertainment 85 in a newspapers pages. But for the most part, circulation depends on a newspapers value to readers as a source of information 86 the community, city, country, state, nation, and world and even outer space.67.A Just whenB WhileC Soon afterD Before68.A to giveB givingC givenD being given69.A gatherB spread C carryD bring70.A reasonB causeC problemD purpose71.A makeB publish C knowD write72.A anotherBother C one anotherD the other73.A HoweverB AndC ThereforeD So74.A valueB ratio C rateD speed75.AspreadB passed C printedD completed76.A informB be informedC to informedD informed77.A entertainB encourage C educateD edit78.A onB throughC withD of79.A formsB existence C contentsD purpose80.A tries to coverBmanages to cover C fails to coverD succeeds in81.A source B origin C courseD finance82.A wayB means C chance D success83.A measuresB measuredC is measuredD was measured84.A somewhat B littleC muchD something85.A offeringB offeredC which offeredD to be offered86.A by B withC atD aboutReading Comprehension（Reading in Depth）Section A【短文大意】本文主要介绍了美国城镇人们购物方式的变化。47.【解析】C20世纪早期，大多数美国城市和城镇都有一条主街道。20世纪早期即用early in the 1900s。48.【解析】I这条街道排成一列，街道两边都是各式各样的商店。Various 意为“不同的、各种各样的”49.【解析】G另外，一些商店还提供服务。提供服务可用固定的搭配 offer services。50.【解析】B所填词take 才能与后面的词place搭配，take place 为固定词组，意为“发生”But in the 1950s, a change began to take place 意为20世纪50年代发生了巨大的变化。51.【解析】N主街道充斥着太多的汽车，却没有地方给顾客停车。Available 意为“可用到的、可利用的”，这里指没有可用的地方给顾客停车。52.【解析】LShopping centers, or rather malls, started as a collection of small new stores away from crowded city centers. 购物中心或者购物商场开始在拥挤的城市中心之外建小型的新商场。开始即用start。53.【解析】D顾客们被许多免费的停车场所吸引，attracted 是被吸引之意。54.【解析】Mcustomers were drawn away from downtown areas to outlying malls.顾客们被从市区吸引到郊区的购物商场。市区即用downtown