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Part L Listening Comprehension ( 25)Part 11. Vocabulary (20%) ,Directions: In each question, decide which of the four choices given will most suitably complete the sentence if inserted at the place marked. Write your answer on the Answer Sheet.31. To qualify for such a position, the native would first have to receive specialized training, and this isA) refused B) discouragedC) denied D) forbidden32. The little girl wore a very thin coat. A sudden gust of cold wind made herA) whirl B) shiftC) shiver D) shake33. Presently, there are nine teachers in my team, who have the task of teaching advanced English to more than 500 non-English majors.A) inclined B) hesitatedC) afforded D) undertaken34. The press demands that politiciansthe sources of their income.A) betray B) concealC) disclose D) renew35. Having gone through all kinds of hardships in life, he became a m with a strongA) philosophy B) idealismC) morality D) personality36. One new to learning a foreign language is to study the language in its cultural context.A) approach B) solutionC) manner D) road37. To maintain publicis not only the policemens duty but f every citizens responsibility.A) custom B) confidenceC) security D) simplicity38. All was dark in the district except for a candle through th curtains in one of houses.A) glimmering B)glitteringC) flaming D) blazing39. One of the standsand dozens of people were either killer or injured.A) destroyed B) collapsedC) corroded D) ruined40. Me, afraid of him? he said with a(n) smile, Not me!A) contemptible B) amusingC) contagious D) contemptuous41. He will simply no listen to anybody; he is to argument.A) impervious B) imperceptibleC) impassable D) blunt42. Stop asking all these personal questions! It is bad manners to beA) inquisitive B) impatientC) acquisitive D) informative43. He between life and death for a few days but then he pul:A) hovered B) lurchedC) wavered D) fluctuated44. We are prepared to satisfy all your claimA legitimate B) legibleC) intimate D) legislative 45. There is not a Greek word which is the exact_ of the English word stile.A) equivalent B) copyC) counterpart D) meaning46. The prizes will be at the end of the school year.A) distributed B) attributedC) granted D) contributed47. During our stay in Paris we were splendidly by the Italian Ambassador.A) sustained B) maintainedC) retained D) entertained48. On leaving, we thanked him most warmly for the hospitality _ to us and our friends.A) extended B) expandedC) expended D) awarded49. If the dispute is not settled in a(n) _ way soon, the two countries will certainly go to war.A) amiable B) amicableC) inimical D) unfriendly50, If I may be so as to advise you, my opinion is that you should not reply to his letter.A) generous B) humbleC) proud D) bold51. If you take a(n) course like her you can learn English in less than two years.A) intensive B) extensiveC) expansive D) retentive 52. After a years hard work I think I am to a long holiday. 10,A) entailed B) deservedC) entitled D) satisfied53. Thousands of people from Greece every year to work in West Germany.A) emigrate B) leaveC) abandon D) immigrate54, lie was a member of the Hillary that conquered MountEverest.A) mission B) invasionC) experiment D) expedition55. It was my sad duty to _ the news of Johns death to his family.A) submit B) breakC) say D) proclaim56. He himself as a war correspondent in Vietnam.A) discerned B) distinguishedC) discriminated D) extinguished57. She his invitation to dinner as she was on a diet.A) inclined B) declinedC) denied D) disinclined58. He waswith attempted robbery and held in custody.A) accused B) prosecutedC) charged D) arrested59. What the witness said in court was not with the statement he made to the police.A) prevalent B) relevantC) consistent D) coincident60. Molly has always beep a(n) child; she becomes ill easily.A) delicate B) gloomyC) energetic D) confident61. There are some very beautifully glass windows in the church.A) designed B) drawn C) marked D) stained62. The man who never tries anything new is a(n) on the wheels of progress.A) obstacle B) brakeC) break D) block63. There is a sale at Hamfridges next week with in all departments.A) decreases B) subtractionsC) reductions D) accounts64. Doctors have long known that if a patient is _ that he will recover and is treated with sympathy, his pain will often disappear. A) assumed B) assuredC) informed D) proved65: Although most birds have only a sense of smell, they have acute vision.A genuine. B) negativeC) negligible D) condensed66. We are sorry to say that Mary is not the very person who can be with either money or secret information.A）entrusted B) committed C)consigned D) assigned67. If you never review your lessons, you will only have yourself to if you fail in your examination.A) complain B) blameC) mistake D) fault68. We were four scores left behind with five minutes to go, so the game looked completely A) irresistible B) irremissibleC irreplaceable D) irretrievable69. Had the explosion broken out, the passagers in the plane should have been killed, for it was_timed with the planes take-off.A) spontaneously B) instantaneouslyC simultaneously D) conscientiously70. The two witnesses who saw the shootings were able towho hard fired first.A) encounter B) highlightC testify D) identifyPart III. Reading Comprehension (50 minutes, 30 points) Directions: There are 6 passages in this part. 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 write your answer on the Answer Sheet.One day in 1963, a dolphin named Elvar and a famous astronomer, Carl Sagan, were playing a little game. The astronomer was visiting an institute which was looking into the way dolphins communicate with each other. He was standing at the edge of one of the tanks where several of these highly intelligent, friendly creatures were kept. Elvar had just swum up alongside hiui,and had turned on his back. He wanted Sagan to scratch his stomach again, as the astronomer had done twice before. But this time Elvar was too deep in the water for Sagan to reach him. Elvar looked up at Sagan, waiting. Then, after a minute or so, the dolphin leapt up through the water into the air and made a sound just like the word More?The astonished astronomer went -to the director of the institute and told him about the incident.Oh, yes: Thats one of the words he knows, the director said, showing no surprise at all.Dolphins have bigger brains in proportion to their body size than humans have, andit has been known for a long time that they can make a number o sounds. What is more, these sounds seem to have different functions, such as warning each other of danger. Sound travels much faster ,and much further in water than it does in air. That is why the parts of the brain that deal with sound are much better developed in dolphins than in humans. But can it be said that dolphins have a language in the real sense of the word? Scientists dont agree on this.A language is not just a collection of sounds, or even words. A language has a structure, or what we call a grammar. The grammar of a language helps to give it meaning. For example, the two questions Who loves Mary? and Who does Mary love? mean different things. If you stop to think about it, you will see that this difference doesnt come from the words in the question but from the difference in structure. That is why the question Can dolphins speak? cant be answered until we find out if dolphins not only make sounds but also arrange them in ways which affect their meaning.71. The dolphin leapt into the air because A) Sagan had turned his backB) it was part of the game they were playingC) he wanted Sagan to scratch him againD) Sagan wanted him to do this72. When Sagan told the director about what the dolphin had done, the directorA) didnt seem to think it was unusualB) thought Sagan was jokingC) told Sagan about other words the dolphin knewD) asked him if he knew other words73. Dolphins brains are particularly well-developed toA) help them to travel fast in waterB) arrange sounds in different structuresC) respond to different kinds of soundD) communicate with humans through sound74. The sounds we call words can be called a language only ifA) each sound has a different meaningB) each sound is different from the otherC) there is a system of writingD) they have a structure or grammarPassage（2）Married people live happily ever after in fairy tales, but they do so less and less often in real life. 1, like many of my friends, got married, divorced, and remarried. I suppose, to some people, Im a failure. After all, I broke my first solemn promise to love and cherish until death us do part. But I feel that Im finally a success. I learned from the mistakes I made in my first marriage. This time around, the ways my husband and I share our free time, make decisions, and deal with problems are very different.I learned, first of all, not to be a clinging vine (依赖男子的妇女) . In my first marriage, I felt the every moment we spent apart was wasted. If Ray wanted to go out to a bar with his friends to watch a football game, I felt rejected and talked him into staying home. I wouldnt accept an offer to go to a movie or join an exercise class it it meant that Ray would be home alone. I realize now that we were often angry with each other just because we spent too much time together. In contrast, my second husband and I spend some of our tree time apart and try to have interests of our own. I have started playing racquetball at a health club, and David sometimes takes off to go to the local auto races with his friends. When we are together, we arent bored with each other; our separate interests make us more interesting people.I learned not only to be apart sometimes but also to work together when its time to make decisions. When Ray and I were married, I left all the important decisions to him. He decided how we would spend money, whether we should sell the car or fix it, and where to take a vacation. I know now that I went along with this so that I wouldnt have to take the responsibility when things went wrong. I could always end an argument by saying, It was your fault! With my second marriage, I am trying to be a full partner. We ask each others opinions on major decisions and try to compromise if we disagree. If we make the wrong choice, were equally guilty. When we rented an apartment, for example, we both had to take the blame for not noticing the drafty windows and the no pets clause in our lease.Maybe the most important thing Ive learned is to be a grown-up about facing problems. David and i have made a vow to face our troubles like adults. If were mad at each other or worried and upset, we say how we feel. Rather than hide behind our own misery, we talk about the problem until we discover how to fix it. Everybody argues or has to deal with the occasional crisis, but Ray and I always reacted like children to these stormy times. I would lock myself in the spare bedroom. Ray would stalk out of the house, slam the door, and race off in the car. Then I would cry and worry till he returned.I wish that my first marriage hadnt been the place where I learned how to make a relationship work, but at least I did learn. 1 feel better now about being an independent person, about making decisions, and about facing problems. My second marriage isnt perfect, but it doesnt have the deep flaws that made the first one fall apart.75. Which of the following has contributed to the writers divorce? A) Her former husband went out to watch football games.B) She started to play racquetball at a health club.C) They spent too much time together and got bored with each other.D) They spent so little time together that they could not talk to each other.76. It can be learned from the passage that the writer, in her first marriage,A) took less responsibility than she should for major decision B) tool: the same responsibility as her husbandC) took more blame when things went wrongD) felt equally guilty when things went wrong 77. Which of the following that the author should have said when she quarrelled with her former husband but she did not.A) It was your fault!B) Maybe youre right.C) Its none of your business.D) Its none of my business.78. All the problems between the writer and David can be resolved becauseA) they hide their feelingsB) they lock themselves in their bedroomC) they have promised not to be mad at each otherD) they dare to face them79, The writers second marriage is different from the first one in all the following ways exceptA) that they share their free time B) that they make their decisions together C) that they talk to each otherD) that they deal with their troubles together 80. The best title for the passage isA) First MarriageB) Second Marriage C) DivorceD) Perfect MarriagePassage（3）Classified Advertising is that advertising which is grouped in certain sections of the paper and is thus distinguished from display advertising. Such groupings as Help Wanted, Real Estate, Lost and Found are made, the rate charged being less than that for display advertising. Classified advertisements are a convenience to the reader and a saving to the advertiser. The reader who, is interested in a particular kind of advertisement finds all advertisements of that type grouped for him. The advertiser may, on this account, use a very small advertisement that would be lost if it were placed among larger advertisements in the paper.It is evident that the reader approaches the classified advertisement in a different frame of mind from that in which he approaches the other advertisements in the paper. He turns to a page of classified advertisements to search for the particular advertisement that will meet his needs. As his attention is voluntary, the advertiser does not need to rely to much extent on display type to get the readers attention.Formerly all classified advertisements were of the same size and did not have display type. With the increase in the number of such advertisements, however, each advertiser within a certain group is vying with others in the same group for the readers attention. In many cases the result has been an increase in the size of the space used and the addition of headlines and pictures. In that way the classified advertisement has in reality become a display advertisement. This is particularly true of realestate advertising.81. Classified advertising is different to display advertising becauseA) all advertisements of a certain type are grouped togetherB) it is more distinguishedC) it is more expensiveD) nowadays the classified advertisements are all of the same size82. One of the examples given of types of classified advertisement isA) house for saleB) people who are asking for help C) people who are lostD) real antiques for sale83. What sort of attitude do people have when they look at classified advertisements, according to the writer?A) They are in the frame of mind to buy anything. B) They are looking for something they need.C) They feel lost because there are so many advertisements.D) They feel the same as when they look at display advertisements.84. What does the writer say about the classified advertisements that used to be put in the papers?A) They used to be voluntary.B) They used to use display type.C) They were all the same size.D) They were more formal.85. Why have classified advertisements changed in appearance, according to the writer?A) Because people no longer want headlines and pictures.B) Because real estate advertising is particularly truthful now.C） Because the increase in the number of such advertisements means they have to be smaller now.D) Because there are more advertisements now and more competition amongst advertisers. .Passage（4）Mr Abu, the laboratory attendant, came in from the adjoining store and briskly cleaned the blackboard. He was a retired African sergeant from the Army Medical Corps and was feared by the boys. If he caught any of them in any petty thieving, he offered them the choice of a hard smack on the bottom or of being reported to the science masters. Most boys chose the former as they knew the matter would end there with no long interviews, moral arguments and an entry in the conduct book.The science master, a man called Vernier, stepped in and stood on his small platform. Vernier set the experiments for the day and demonstrated them, then retired behind the Church Times which he read seriously in between walking quickly along the rows of laboratory benches, advising boys. It was a simple heat experiment to show that a dark surface gave out more heat by radiation than a b