英语阅读(一)练习第1套
浙江万里学院地址-关于创新的英语作文
华东师范大学网络学院英语阅读(一)第1套练习题
Part One. Multiple Choice
Choice For
each italicized word or expression, choose the
best meaning below.
1. The old fat man
looks ridiculous in the old jeans. B
A. smart
B. silly C. youthful D. high-spirited
2. The negotiations are at a very delicate
stage..D
A. elegant B. sensitive C.
important D. crucial
3. I can't recall
where we met last month.. C
A. tell
B. describe C. remember D. find
4. We are under no obligation to give what he
wants.B
A. promise B. duty C.
pressure D. agreement
5. The
accident generated a of public interest in the
nuclear power issue.B
A. sopped B.
produced C. increased D. decreased
6. Some people are struck down by the
stresses of modern life.A
A. difficulties
B. luxury C. expense D. tension
7. A little girl was sitting sobbing in the
corner.C
A. laughing B. talking
C. weeping D. smiling
8. With an
intense will to recover, the patient follows the
doctor's order quite willingly.C
A. a weak
B. an inclined C. a strong D. an
intending or the weekend.
9. They went to the
shooting lodge in Scotland for the weekend. A
A. A hut B. a villa C. a
palace D. a mansion
10. This poem
conveys the poet's deep love of is wife.A
A.
expresses B. takes C. hides
D. means
11. Once the drug is approved for
sale, doctors will be able to ________ it for
users.A
A. prescribe B. describe C.
deceive D. perceive
12 . Some scientists
think average global temperatures have risen due
to the greenhouse effect. Others are
________
of global warming.A
A. skeptical B.
flexible C. optimistic D. universal
13..
Some think that cloned human beings will be
________ of freedom or dignity or personal
identity.C
A. confessed B. alleged
C. deprived D. stressed
14. As a teacher you
have to ________ your methods to suit the needs of
slower children. C
A. propose B. enhance
C. adjust D. inspire
15. Inflation is
likely to ________ this year, adding further
upward pressure on interest rates.A
A.
exceed B. approach C. accelerate D.
overstate
16. I rang Jill and ________ her
that the conference had been cancelled.B
A. reminded B. alerted C. predicted
D. recalled
17. The doctors have ________ the
cause of the illness to an unknown virus.B
A.
converted B. attributed C. contributed D.
diverted
18. A ________of the Chinese diet has
revealed that a growing number of children in
cities are
overweight.B
A. survey B.
controversy C. factor D. sector
19. It
________ that the fashionable young lady he spoke
to was a pickpocket.A
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A.
turned up B. turned in C. turned down D.
turned out
20. You are distorting
his
argument.D
A. giving a truthful account of
B. giving a false account of
C. giving a
bad account of D. Giving an exact account of
21. They accepted that what you are doing is
relevant to their problems.B
A. troublesome
B. helpful C. practical D. useless
22. It was a contest in verbal skills.A
A.
using words B. using signs C. using
strength D. using methods
23. I interpret his
silence as a refusal.A
A. understood B.
examined C. remembered D. forget
24.
A. She showed great aptitude for learning
languages.A
A. natural ability B. keen
interest C. great passion D. emotion
25.
He was more involved in sports than in scholastic
achievements.C
sional B. vocational
C. academic D. vacatioal
a nuisance! I have
forgotten my ticket.A
A. something that causes
annoyance or inconvenience
B. something that
brings joy or comfort
C. something that brings
destruction or disaster.
ing that denotes
convenience.
27. She slung her coat over her
shoulder.C
A. hung loosely B. stayed
C. hung strangely
28. He checked in at the
hotel at 9 o'clock in the evening under a false
name.B
A. searched B. booked
C. left D. looked
29. Take it easy!
You won't fall off ths ladder as it is quite
stable.A
A. steady B. new
C. old D. new
30. He burst into tears when
he heard his mother's bad news.B
A. cried
suddenly B. talked sadly C. felt
depressed D. lost his mind
31. To obtain the
job, you must have of residence in
Michigan, such as a Michigan ID card..A
A.
proof B. prove C. presence D.
present
32. Roger was quite stubborn
and it was almost impossible to _______ him
_______ his mistakes.D
A. convince; about B.
convince; of C. convert; on D. convert; to
33. He knew he had said the wrong thing and
_______ the conversation to a less embarrassing
subject.D
A. infected B. reflected C.
dismissed D. switched
34. They have done
pretty well in _______ the problem of storing
radioactive waste.B
A. keeping up B.
coping with C. going on D. turning away
35. It’s ________ of you to postpone the
meeting to next Friday.D
A. considerable B.
considered C. considerate D. considering
36. Once Amelia sets her mind _______
something she wouldn’t easily give up.A
A.
into B. over C. on D. in
37. You can
go out and enjoy yourself if you like, but I
_______ stay home and read.B
A. instead B.
besides C. would rather D. other than
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38. The language barrier between
us made communication _______ impossible.C
A. absolutely B. solely C. hardly D. only
39. It wasn’t until after midnight that the
meeting _______.B
A. broke out B. broke up
C. broke in D. broke off
40. The new
dormitory completed a fortnight ago is large
enough to _______ over two hundred students.B
A. comment B. accommodate C. pool D.
stuff
41. As it turned out, the speaker was
shouted down by the _______ crowd.A
A.
hostile B. creative C. friendly D. kind
42. Mrs. Bliss kept the door and the windows
shut lest the noise outside should _______ her
son’s sleep.D
A. neglect B. infer C.
refer to D. interfere with
43. Many
university students experience severe ________ as
final exams draw near.
44. If you try to
_______ the problem _______, it would be
impossible for you to make any progress in this
field.D
A. pass; on B. pass; by
C. pass; away D. pass; out
45. Miss
Main kept practicing until she finally _______
herself for the job.B
A. qualified B.
approached C. bound D. claimed
46. The
dove, poetically _______ as the symbol of peace,
is adored by peace-loving people all over the
world.B
A. thought B. awarded C.
confirmed D. regarded
47. I was greatly
shocked by the way Henry _______ the affairs of
such a big business.B
A. dismissed B.
committed C. concluded D. conducted
48.
Perhaps you shouldn’t _______ the suggestion Mary
put forward during the discussion.B
A. brush
off B. bring up C. brush aside D. bring
through
49. Greater efforts are needed before
we can _______ our goal of economic reform.A
A. attain B. contain C. retain
D. sustain
50. To our surprise, her _______
remark about the mission should have caused a
political storm.C
A. careful B.
casual C. due D. obvious
51.
Unfortunately medical tests _______ the fact that
the baby was not their own child.C
A.
supplied B. established C. provided D.
fanned
52. On most of the nights, Jane _______
reading classical literature.C
A. stayed in
B. stayed on C. stayed up D. stayed
over
53. For him reading novels was a(n)
_______ from the harsh realities of his time.A
A. escape B. effect C. affect D.
view
54. After a careful examination, the
doctor ________ a new medicine and a three-day
rest for her.D
A. prescribed B. gave C.
described D. instructed
55. The newly
appointed director is trying to _______ the
working conditions in the factory.A
A. cope
B. deal C. best D. better
56. We _______ a collection to buy presents
for Roger and Ruth who were getting married.A
A. took up B. took in C. took over D. took
on
57. The visit to the computer center has
_______ the pupil’s interest in computer science.B
A. switched B. risen C. stimulated
D. reflected
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58.
According to the evening newscast, several
villages in the area have been _______ by the
heavy
snowfall.C
A. isolated B. shifted
C. tucked D. divided
59. For my own part,
everything is O.K. I have nothing to _______ of.C
A. apologize B. conduct C.
complain D. dismiss
60. Many young girls
like to _______ a diary for recording their
private thoughts and feelings. B
A. keep
B. write C. take D. make
Part
Two. Read The Following Short Passages And Choose
The Best Answer.
Passage 1
There are a lot of dangerous and terrible
pests in Northeastern India, but the tree-bees are
the most
terrible. They are killers. Unlike
most bees, which will sting you only if they are
disturbed or annoyed,
tree-bees will attack
you in thousands for no apparent reason. And then
they will chase you for your life.
Walking
along a dusty road one sunny morning, while I was
on holiday there last year, I found myself,
without the least warning, the center of such
an attack. The air above me suddenly became thick
with bees.
Despite the heat, I went cold all
over. Until then I had never heard of Indian tree-
bees, but I had recently
seen a film called
I began to run to the village about half a
mile away. But I was soon covered from head to
foot with
bees. They crawled in thousands all
over me, stinging with terrible pain. I tore them
away in handfuls, only
to make room for
others. Each time I opened my lips for breath,
more bees entered my mouth, until my
tongue
was stung to twice its normal size and I could
hardly breathe.
When I reached the village, I
ran towards a house that was being built. As soon
as the men working
there saw the bees that
were accompanying me, they ran for safety at top
speed.
Soon my eyes had completely closed. I
fell into a heap of brick dust used for building.
I pushed myself
frantically down into this
until my head and shoulders were covered. I
immediately found myself in a
worse situation,
the dust choking out what little life I had left.
When I struggled up out of the brick dust, the
angry swarm made a new attack on me. I was now
at the end of my tether. I ran weakly about in
circles.
Then I went down, in a state of come.
My rescue was made by two quick-witted Gurkhas
who raced to a heap of dry grass and quickly
surrounded me with a thick wall of fire and
smoke until the bees were driven away. They
remained with me,
I later learned, taking
stings out of my swollen body for the next three
hours until a doctor was found and
brought.
1. Which of the following is not true
about the tree-bees in Northeastern India?
A)
They are most dangerous and terrible.
B) They
attack people in large numbers.
C) They will
not attack unless they are annoyed
D) They
will sting people to death.
2. What was the
principal reason the writer had for feeling
frightened when he saw the tree-bees?
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A) He was surrounded without warning.
B) He thought of the film he had recently seen
about killer-bees.
C) He knew that Indian
tree-bees were most dangerous.
D) The
temperature of the atmosphere suddenly went cold.
3. When the men building the house saw the
bees chasing the writer, they ________.
A) ran
over to save him B) ran away as fast as they
could
C) ran to the top of the building
D) ran to light a heap of dry grass
4. The
writer felt that he had reached the end of his
tether. Which of the following is not the reason
for that?
A) His eyes were stung so badly that
he could not open them.
B) He fell into a heap
of brick dust, which almost choked him to death.
C) The angry swarm of bees made a new attack
on him.
D) He was frightened out of his wits.
5. What seems to be most effective in driving
away the tree-bees?
A) Quick-witted Gurkhas.
B) Dry grass.
C) Brick dust. D) Smoke
and fire.
Passage 2
The
earliest films were short, lasting only one minute
or less. People could, for one cent, see simple
action films of trains, fire engines, parades,
crowds on city streets, and similar subjects. Soon
20-minute
pictures of news items were being
shown in theaters at the end of the regular stage
show. Later, films used
a new method (putting
the beginning of one scene upon the end of the
scene before) for magical effects and
to tie a
story together. In 1903 a film was made about a
train robbery. Much of the action took place at
the
same time---the robbers escaping, the men
meeting and planning to capture them---and the
scenes moved
smoothly, back and forth, from
one scene to another instead of unnaturally
showing each scene separately.
This was the
earliest successful film in which scenes were
filmed at different places and times and they
combined to make a logical story. A short time
later, theaters showed for five cents a whole
hour's
entertainment of short films---comedy,
travel, and drama. These films were simple and
rough, and many
were vulgar. Gradually, the
audiences improved as the techniques improved.
Before 1910 actors were employed in films
without their names being given, because the
producers
were afraid that, if an actor became
well known, he might demand more money. But later
it became known
that a film with a popular
actor in it could be sold at a higher price to
theater owners than could a film in
which the
actor was not known. Soon
more popular stars
were earning as much as $$2,000 a week, and large
theaters were being built downtown
in all the
larger cities to show films alone. The films shown
in those theaters were of several types:
comedies, emphasizing speed, movement, and
camera tricks;
American cowboy fighting on the
side of law and justice; murder mysteries and
crime stories, and special
films on art,
music, and other cultural subjects.
6.
Pictures of paradox shown in the first films went
on for no more than________.
A) one minute
B) 20 minutes
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C) a whole
hour D) about two minutes
7. It was not
until 1903 that people began to make
films________.
A) by using magical effects
B) by naturally joining the scenes together in
a story
C) at a railroad station
D) by
putting the beginning of one scene upon the end of
another
8. The first successful film in which
the pictures were taken at different places and
times and then put
together logically was
about ________.
A) a train accident B) the
robbery of a train
C) a story of a train D)
the capturing of the robbers
9. It was most
likely that
A) as early as 1903 B)
not until 1910
C) in 1915 D) after 1915
10. This passage is mainly about ________.
A) modern movie development
B) early
movie stars
C) various types of films in the
early 20th century
D) history of film-making
Passage 3
On May 13, 1787, a
fleet of English ships set sail for Australia with
about 750 people. These men and
women were no
ordinary passengers. They were sent to Australia
as punishment for their
crimes.
Laws in
England during this period were very harsh, and
people were punished severely for even the
smallest crimes. A man could be sentenced to
death for hunting on another man’s property or he
could be
put to death for chopping down
someone else’s tree. For many other crimes, the
punishment was
“transportation” .The guilty
person was shipped to a distant land where he was
forced to work without pay.
Often women and
children were shipped to other land, too.
In
1770, Captain Cook had discovered the continent of
Australia and claimed it for England. At first,
England found no use for this vast land on the
other side of the world, but then the American
Revolution
took place. England could no longer
ship her convicts to the American colonies. So she
turned to Australia
as a good place for her
prisoners.
A former naval captain was picked
to accompany the convicts to the new colony. His
job was to help
them build a settlement which
he would govern. The captain was glad to go. He
believes the convicts could
learn to live in
peace. He felt they would obey the laws in new
country.
In January 1788, the English fleet
and its stranger cargo landed in Australia. After
days of searching,
the captain found a fine
harbor. The land nearby had tree and streams. The
convicts colony made a new
beginning here.
Australia’s history had begun.
11. What is implied but not directly stated in
the passage?
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A) People
were not often punished in England long ago.
B) England’s laws have changed very much since
1787.
C) Laws in England remain the same
since 1787.
D) Captain Cook claimed
Australia for the convicts.
12. On the whole,
the article tells about _______.
A) a fleet of
English ships
B) hunting on other
people’s property
C) a convict settlement in
Australia
D) the transportation of Cook
13. Which statement does the article lead you
to believe?
A) A new chance may de good for
many people.
B) All English fleets have very
stranger cargo.
C) The men on the English
ships were ordinary.
D) Captain Cook could
not govern the new country.
14. Why did
England sent convicts to Australia?
A) It
wanted to make Captain Cook happy about Australia.
B) It wanted convicts to find a fine harbor
and good land.
C) It could not feed its
overpopulation.
D) It could no longer send
convicts to America.
15. Which statement seems
true according to the passage?
A) Former
naval captains always start new colonies.
B)
The American Revolution took place in Australia.
C) A great country may grow from a small
colony.
D) Convicts are not easy to be
governed.
Part Three.Cloze
Fill in
each blank with a word given below. Change the
form of the word if necessary.
subject
give advantage meaningful read
picture unsatisfactory express
arise disadvantage
One
advantage of the essay is that it reduces the
element of luck. The student cannot get a high
score
just by making a lucky guess. Another
_________________ is that it shows the examiner
more about the
student's ability to put facts
together into a ________________ whole. It should
show how deeply he has
thought about the
subject. Sometimes, though, essay tests have
___________________ , too. Some
students are
able to write rather good answers without really
knowing much about the
___________________.,
while other students who actually know the
material have trouble
_________________ their
ideas in essay form..
Besides, on an essay
test the student's score may depend on the
examiner's feelings at the time of
_______________ the answer.
Most teachers
and students would probably agree that
examinations are ________________. Students
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don't like to take them; teachers
dislike _____________ them and scoring students'
answers. Whether an
objective teat or an essay
test is used, problems ______________. When some
objective questions are used
along with some
essay questions, however, a fairly clear
________________ of the student's knowledge
can usually be obtained.
Part Four.
Multiple Choices for Synonyms (1——5)& Multiple
Choices for antonyms(6
——10)
1.
competitive A. friendly B. auxiliary C.
rival
2. ultimate A. final B
chief C. primary
3. diversity
A. uniformity B. variety C. similarity
4. private A. public B. open
C. personal
5. exclude A. include B.
incorporate C. bar
6. retrieve A.
recover B. regain C. lose
7. vertical
A. upright B. horizontal C. erect
8.
prolific A . fertile B. sterrile
C. fruitful
9. novel A. original B. new
C. old
10. diverse A. identical B.
different C. various
Part Five.
Multiple Choices (Skimming and Scanning)
Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following
passage.
One day a police officer managed
to get some fresh mushrooms. He was so pleased
with what he had
bought that he offered to
share the mushrooms with his fellow officers. When
their breakfast arrived the
next day, each
officer found some mushrooms on his plate.
“Let the dog examine a piece first,” suggested
one careful officer who was afraid that the
mushrooms
might be poisonous.
The dog
seemed to enjoy his mushroom, and the officers
then began to eat their meal, saying the
mushrooms had a very strange but quite
pleasant taste.
An hour later, however, they
were all astonished when the gardener rushed in
and said seriously that
the dog was dead.
Immediately, the officers jumped into their cars
and rushed to the nearest hospital.
Pumps were
used and the officers had a very hard time getting
rid of the mushrooms that remained in their
stomachs.
When they returned to the police
station, they sat down and started to discuss the
mushroom poisoning.
Each man complained the
pains that he had felt. The gardener was called to
tell the way in which the poor
dog had died.
“Did it suffer much before death?” asked one of
the officers, feeling very pleased that he had
escaped a painful death himself. “No,” the
gardener looked rather surprised. “It was killed
the moment a
car hit it.”
1. From the
first paragraph, we can see that the police
officer _______.
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A) acted
like selfish motives B) was very kind to his
friends
C) did things foolishly D) was a
slow-minded person
2. The careful officer
wanted the dog to eat first because ________.
A) he liked the dog very
B) nobody
seemed to like the mushrooms
C) he suspected
the mushrooms to be poisonous
D) he was afraid
that there were not enough
3. In the
4
th
paragraph, the expression “had a very
hard time” probably means _______.
A) to
examine very carefully B) to work hard to get
things done
C) to live a hard life
D) to suffer terribly
4. The reason why the
dog died suddenly is _______.
A) that it had
just eaten the mushrooms
B) that it died from
hunger
C) that it died in traffic accident
D) that it died of a serious illness
5.
Which of the following would be the best title for
the passage?
A) An Unnecessary Surprise B)
The Delicious Mushrooms
C) Dog and Mushrooms
D) Police Officers and Dog
Questions 6 to 10
are based on the following passage.
Male
pilots flying general aviating (private) aircraft
in the United States are more likely to crash due
to inattention or flawed decision-making,
while female pilots are more likely to crash from
mishandling the
aircraft. These are the
results of a study by researchers at the Johns
Hopkins University Bloomberg School
of Public
Health.
The study identifies the differences
between male and female pilots in terms of
circumstances of the
crash and the type of
pilots error involved. “Crashes of general
aviation aircraft account for 85 percent of
all aviation deaths in the United States. The
crash rate for male pilots, as for motor vehicle
drivers, exceeds
that of crashes of female
pilots,” explains Susan P. Baker, MPH, professor
of health policy and
management at the
Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Because pilot
youth and inexperience are
established
contributors to aviation crashes, we focused on
only mature pilots, to determine the gender
differences in the reasons for the crash. ”
The researchers extracted data for this
study from a large research project on pilot aging
and flight
safety. The data were gathered from
general aviation crashes of airplanes and
helicopters between 1983 and
1997, involving
144 female pilots and 267 male pilots aged 40-63.
Female pilots were matched with male
pilots in
a 1:2 ratio, by age, classes of medical and pilot
certificates, state or area of crash, and year of
crash.
Then the circumstances of the crashes
and the pilot error involved were categorized and
coded without
knowledge of pilot gender.
The researchers found that loss of control on
landing or takeoff was the most common
circumstance
for both sexes, leading to 59
percent of female pilots’ crashes and 36 percent
of males. Experiencing
mechanical failure,
running out of fuel, and landing the plane with
the landing gear up were among the
factors
more likely with males, while stalling was more
likely with females.
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The
majority of the crashes—95 percent for females and
88 percent for males—involved at least
one
type of pilot error. Mishandling aircraft kinetics
was the most common error for both sexes, but was
more common among females (accounting for 81
percent of the crashes) than males (accounting for
48
percent). Males, however, appeared more
likely to be guilty of poor decision-making, risk-
taking, and
inattentiveness, examples of which
include misjudging weather and visibility or
flying an aircraft with a
known defect.
Females, though more likely to mishandle or lose
control of the aircraft, were generally
more
careful than their male counterparts.
6. What is the research at Johns Hopkins
University about?
A) Causes of aircraft
crash.
B) Gender difference in relation to
types of aircraft crashes.
C) Causes of
mishandling aircraft.
D) Gender
discrimination in general aviation in the United
States.
7. Which of the statements is NOT
true according to the second paragraph?
A)
Crashes of general aviation aircraft is a major
source of aviation accidents in the United
States.
B) Male pilots, like male
vehicle drivers, are more likely to have accidents
than female pilots.
C) It is commonly known
that aircraft crashes are mostly caused by young
and inexperienced pilots.
D) Only mature
pilots are studied to determine the gender
differences in the reasons for
aircraft crash.
8. How did the
researchers carry out their study?
A)
They studied the findings of several previous
research projects.
B) They conducted a
questionnaire with 411 pilots.
C) They
collected data from the database at the Johns
Hopkins University.
D) They analyzed the
circumstances of the crashes involved.
9.
What is the most common circumstance of crash with
female pilots?
A) Mechanical failure and
running out of fuel.
B) Loss of control
on landing or takeoff and stalling.
C)
Loss of control on landing or takeoff and running
out of fuel.
D) Stalling and landing with
the gear up.
10. In the comparison of female
and male pilots.
A) female pilots are
found to be more courageous and risk-taking.
B) male pilots are found to be more professional
and attentive.
C) female pilots are found
to make more errors out of carelessness.
D) male pilots are found to make more errors in
decision-making.
(The End)
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华东师范大学网络学院英语阅读(一)第1套练习题
Part One.
Multiple Choice
Choice For each italicized
word or expression, choose the best meaning below.
1. The old fat man looks ridiculous in
the old jeans. B
A. smart B. silly C.
youthful D. high-spirited
2. The
negotiations are at a very delicate stage..D
A. elegant B. sensitive C.
important D. crucial
3. I can't recall
where we met last month.. C
A. tell
B. describe C. remember D. find
4. We are under no obligation to give what he
wants.B
A. promise B. duty C.
pressure D. agreement
5. The
accident generated a of public interest in the
nuclear power issue.B
A. sopped B.
produced C. increased D. decreased
6. Some people are struck down by the
stresses of modern life.A
A. difficulties
B. luxury C. expense D. tension
7. A little girl was sitting sobbing in the
corner.C
A. laughing B. talking
C. weeping D. smiling
8. With an
intense will to recover, the patient follows the
doctor's order quite willingly.C
A. a weak
B. an inclined C. a strong D. an
intending or the weekend.
9. They went to the
shooting lodge in Scotland for the weekend. A
A. A hut B. a villa C. a
palace D. a mansion
10. This poem
conveys the poet's deep love of is wife.A
A.
expresses B. takes C. hides
D. means
11. Once the drug is approved for
sale, doctors will be able to ________ it for
users.A
A. prescribe B. describe C.
deceive D. perceive
12 . Some scientists
think average global temperatures have risen due
to the greenhouse effect. Others are
________
of global warming.A
A. skeptical B.
flexible C. optimistic D. universal
13..
Some think that cloned human beings will be
________ of freedom or dignity or personal
identity.C
A. confessed B. alleged
C. deprived D. stressed
14. As a teacher you
have to ________ your methods to suit the needs of
slower children. C
A. propose B. enhance
C. adjust D. inspire
15. Inflation is
likely to ________ this year, adding further
upward pressure on interest rates.A
A.
exceed B. approach C. accelerate D.
overstate
16. I rang Jill and ________ her
that the conference had been cancelled.B
A. reminded B. alerted C. predicted
D. recalled
17. The doctors have ________ the
cause of the illness to an unknown virus.B
A.
converted B. attributed C. contributed D.
diverted
18. A ________of the Chinese diet has
revealed that a growing number of children in
cities are
overweight.B
A. survey B.
controversy C. factor D. sector
19. It
________ that the fashionable young lady he spoke
to was a pickpocket.A
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A.
turned up B. turned in C. turned down D.
turned out
20. You are distorting
his
argument.D
A. giving a truthful account of
B. giving a false account of
C. giving a
bad account of D. Giving an exact account of
21. They accepted that what you are doing is
relevant to their problems.B
A. troublesome
B. helpful C. practical D. useless
22. It was a contest in verbal skills.A
A.
using words B. using signs C. using
strength D. using methods
23. I interpret his
silence as a refusal.A
A. understood B.
examined C. remembered D. forget
24.
A. She showed great aptitude for learning
languages.A
A. natural ability B. keen
interest C. great passion D. emotion
25.
He was more involved in sports than in scholastic
achievements.C
sional B. vocational
C. academic D. vacatioal
a nuisance! I have
forgotten my ticket.A
A. something that causes
annoyance or inconvenience
B. something that
brings joy or comfort
C. something that brings
destruction or disaster.
ing that denotes
convenience.
27. She slung her coat over her
shoulder.C
A. hung loosely B. stayed
C. hung strangely
28. He checked in at the
hotel at 9 o'clock in the evening under a false
name.B
A. searched B. booked
C. left D. looked
29. Take it easy!
You won't fall off ths ladder as it is quite
stable.A
A. steady B. new
C. old D. new
30. He burst into tears when
he heard his mother's bad news.B
A. cried
suddenly B. talked sadly C. felt
depressed D. lost his mind
31. To obtain the
job, you must have of residence in
Michigan, such as a Michigan ID card..A
A.
proof B. prove C. presence D.
present
32. Roger was quite stubborn
and it was almost impossible to _______ him
_______ his mistakes.D
A. convince; about B.
convince; of C. convert; on D. convert; to
33. He knew he had said the wrong thing and
_______ the conversation to a less embarrassing
subject.D
A. infected B. reflected C.
dismissed D. switched
34. They have done
pretty well in _______ the problem of storing
radioactive waste.B
A. keeping up B.
coping with C. going on D. turning away
35. It’s ________ of you to postpone the
meeting to next Friday.D
A. considerable B.
considered C. considerate D. considering
36. Once Amelia sets her mind _______
something she wouldn’t easily give up.A
A.
into B. over C. on D. in
37. You can
go out and enjoy yourself if you like, but I
_______ stay home and read.B
A. instead B.
besides C. would rather D. other than
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38. The language barrier between
us made communication _______ impossible.C
A. absolutely B. solely C. hardly D. only
39. It wasn’t until after midnight that the
meeting _______.B
A. broke out B. broke up
C. broke in D. broke off
40. The new
dormitory completed a fortnight ago is large
enough to _______ over two hundred students.B
A. comment B. accommodate C. pool D.
stuff
41. As it turned out, the speaker was
shouted down by the _______ crowd.A
A.
hostile B. creative C. friendly D. kind
42. Mrs. Bliss kept the door and the windows
shut lest the noise outside should _______ her
son’s sleep.D
A. neglect B. infer C.
refer to D. interfere with
43. Many
university students experience severe ________ as
final exams draw near.
44. If you try to
_______ the problem _______, it would be
impossible for you to make any progress in this
field.D
A. pass; on B. pass; by
C. pass; away D. pass; out
45. Miss
Main kept practicing until she finally _______
herself for the job.B
A. qualified B.
approached C. bound D. claimed
46. The
dove, poetically _______ as the symbol of peace,
is adored by peace-loving people all over the
world.B
A. thought B. awarded C.
confirmed D. regarded
47. I was greatly
shocked by the way Henry _______ the affairs of
such a big business.B
A. dismissed B.
committed C. concluded D. conducted
48.
Perhaps you shouldn’t _______ the suggestion Mary
put forward during the discussion.B
A. brush
off B. bring up C. brush aside D. bring
through
49. Greater efforts are needed before
we can _______ our goal of economic reform.A
A. attain B. contain C. retain
D. sustain
50. To our surprise, her _______
remark about the mission should have caused a
political storm.C
A. careful B.
casual C. due D. obvious
51.
Unfortunately medical tests _______ the fact that
the baby was not their own child.C
A.
supplied B. established C. provided D.
fanned
52. On most of the nights, Jane _______
reading classical literature.C
A. stayed in
B. stayed on C. stayed up D. stayed
over
53. For him reading novels was a(n)
_______ from the harsh realities of his time.A
A. escape B. effect C. affect D.
view
54. After a careful examination, the
doctor ________ a new medicine and a three-day
rest for her.D
A. prescribed B. gave C.
described D. instructed
55. The newly
appointed director is trying to _______ the
working conditions in the factory.A
A. cope
B. deal C. best D. better
56. We _______ a collection to buy presents
for Roger and Ruth who were getting married.A
A. took up B. took in C. took over D. took
on
57. The visit to the computer center has
_______ the pupil’s interest in computer science.B
A. switched B. risen C. stimulated
D. reflected
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58.
According to the evening newscast, several
villages in the area have been _______ by the
heavy
snowfall.C
A. isolated B. shifted
C. tucked D. divided
59. For my own part,
everything is O.K. I have nothing to _______ of.C
A. apologize B. conduct C.
complain D. dismiss
60. Many young girls
like to _______ a diary for recording their
private thoughts and feelings. B
A. keep
B. write C. take D. make
Part
Two. Read The Following Short Passages And Choose
The Best Answer.
Passage 1
There are a lot of dangerous and terrible
pests in Northeastern India, but the tree-bees are
the most
terrible. They are killers. Unlike
most bees, which will sting you only if they are
disturbed or annoyed,
tree-bees will attack
you in thousands for no apparent reason. And then
they will chase you for your life.
Walking
along a dusty road one sunny morning, while I was
on holiday there last year, I found myself,
without the least warning, the center of such
an attack. The air above me suddenly became thick
with bees.
Despite the heat, I went cold all
over. Until then I had never heard of Indian tree-
bees, but I had recently
seen a film called
I began to run to the village about half a
mile away. But I was soon covered from head to
foot with
bees. They crawled in thousands all
over me, stinging with terrible pain. I tore them
away in handfuls, only
to make room for
others. Each time I opened my lips for breath,
more bees entered my mouth, until my
tongue
was stung to twice its normal size and I could
hardly breathe.
When I reached the village, I
ran towards a house that was being built. As soon
as the men working
there saw the bees that
were accompanying me, they ran for safety at top
speed.
Soon my eyes had completely closed. I
fell into a heap of brick dust used for building.
I pushed myself
frantically down into this
until my head and shoulders were covered. I
immediately found myself in a
worse situation,
the dust choking out what little life I had left.
When I struggled up out of the brick dust, the
angry swarm made a new attack on me. I was now
at the end of my tether. I ran weakly about in
circles.
Then I went down, in a state of come.
My rescue was made by two quick-witted Gurkhas
who raced to a heap of dry grass and quickly
surrounded me with a thick wall of fire and
smoke until the bees were driven away. They
remained with me,
I later learned, taking
stings out of my swollen body for the next three
hours until a doctor was found and
brought.
1. Which of the following is not true
about the tree-bees in Northeastern India?
A)
They are most dangerous and terrible.
B) They
attack people in large numbers.
C) They will
not attack unless they are annoyed
D) They
will sting people to death.
2. What was the
principal reason the writer had for feeling
frightened when he saw the tree-bees?
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A) He was surrounded without warning.
B) He thought of the film he had recently seen
about killer-bees.
C) He knew that Indian
tree-bees were most dangerous.
D) The
temperature of the atmosphere suddenly went cold.
3. When the men building the house saw the
bees chasing the writer, they ________.
A) ran
over to save him B) ran away as fast as they
could
C) ran to the top of the building
D) ran to light a heap of dry grass
4. The
writer felt that he had reached the end of his
tether. Which of the following is not the reason
for that?
A) His eyes were stung so badly that
he could not open them.
B) He fell into a heap
of brick dust, which almost choked him to death.
C) The angry swarm of bees made a new attack
on him.
D) He was frightened out of his wits.
5. What seems to be most effective in driving
away the tree-bees?
A) Quick-witted Gurkhas.
B) Dry grass.
C) Brick dust. D) Smoke
and fire.
Passage 2
The
earliest films were short, lasting only one minute
or less. People could, for one cent, see simple
action films of trains, fire engines, parades,
crowds on city streets, and similar subjects. Soon
20-minute
pictures of news items were being
shown in theaters at the end of the regular stage
show. Later, films used
a new method (putting
the beginning of one scene upon the end of the
scene before) for magical effects and
to tie a
story together. In 1903 a film was made about a
train robbery. Much of the action took place at
the
same time---the robbers escaping, the men
meeting and planning to capture them---and the
scenes moved
smoothly, back and forth, from
one scene to another instead of unnaturally
showing each scene separately.
This was the
earliest successful film in which scenes were
filmed at different places and times and they
combined to make a logical story. A short time
later, theaters showed for five cents a whole
hour's
entertainment of short films---comedy,
travel, and drama. These films were simple and
rough, and many
were vulgar. Gradually, the
audiences improved as the techniques improved.
Before 1910 actors were employed in films
without their names being given, because the
producers
were afraid that, if an actor became
well known, he might demand more money. But later
it became known
that a film with a popular
actor in it could be sold at a higher price to
theater owners than could a film in
which the
actor was not known. Soon
more popular stars
were earning as much as $$2,000 a week, and large
theaters were being built downtown
in all the
larger cities to show films alone. The films shown
in those theaters were of several types:
comedies, emphasizing speed, movement, and
camera tricks;
American cowboy fighting on the
side of law and justice; murder mysteries and
crime stories, and special
films on art,
music, and other cultural subjects.
6.
Pictures of paradox shown in the first films went
on for no more than________.
A) one minute
B) 20 minutes
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C) a whole
hour D) about two minutes
7. It was not
until 1903 that people began to make
films________.
A) by using magical effects
B) by naturally joining the scenes together in
a story
C) at a railroad station
D) by
putting the beginning of one scene upon the end of
another
8. The first successful film in which
the pictures were taken at different places and
times and then put
together logically was
about ________.
A) a train accident B) the
robbery of a train
C) a story of a train D)
the capturing of the robbers
9. It was most
likely that
A) as early as 1903 B)
not until 1910
C) in 1915 D) after 1915
10. This passage is mainly about ________.
A) modern movie development
B) early
movie stars
C) various types of films in the
early 20th century
D) history of film-making
Passage 3
On May 13, 1787, a
fleet of English ships set sail for Australia with
about 750 people. These men and
women were no
ordinary passengers. They were sent to Australia
as punishment for their
crimes.
Laws in
England during this period were very harsh, and
people were punished severely for even the
smallest crimes. A man could be sentenced to
death for hunting on another man’s property or he
could be
put to death for chopping down
someone else’s tree. For many other crimes, the
punishment was
“transportation” .The guilty
person was shipped to a distant land where he was
forced to work without pay.
Often women and
children were shipped to other land, too.
In
1770, Captain Cook had discovered the continent of
Australia and claimed it for England. At first,
England found no use for this vast land on the
other side of the world, but then the American
Revolution
took place. England could no longer
ship her convicts to the American colonies. So she
turned to Australia
as a good place for her
prisoners.
A former naval captain was picked
to accompany the convicts to the new colony. His
job was to help
them build a settlement which
he would govern. The captain was glad to go. He
believes the convicts could
learn to live in
peace. He felt they would obey the laws in new
country.
In January 1788, the English fleet
and its stranger cargo landed in Australia. After
days of searching,
the captain found a fine
harbor. The land nearby had tree and streams. The
convicts colony made a new
beginning here.
Australia’s history had begun.
11. What is implied but not directly stated in
the passage?
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A) People
were not often punished in England long ago.
B) England’s laws have changed very much since
1787.
C) Laws in England remain the same
since 1787.
D) Captain Cook claimed
Australia for the convicts.
12. On the whole,
the article tells about _______.
A) a fleet of
English ships
B) hunting on other
people’s property
C) a convict settlement in
Australia
D) the transportation of Cook
13. Which statement does the article lead you
to believe?
A) A new chance may de good for
many people.
B) All English fleets have very
stranger cargo.
C) The men on the English
ships were ordinary.
D) Captain Cook could
not govern the new country.
14. Why did
England sent convicts to Australia?
A) It
wanted to make Captain Cook happy about Australia.
B) It wanted convicts to find a fine harbor
and good land.
C) It could not feed its
overpopulation.
D) It could no longer send
convicts to America.
15. Which statement seems
true according to the passage?
A) Former
naval captains always start new colonies.
B)
The American Revolution took place in Australia.
C) A great country may grow from a small
colony.
D) Convicts are not easy to be
governed.
Part Three.Cloze
Fill in
each blank with a word given below. Change the
form of the word if necessary.
subject
give advantage meaningful read
picture unsatisfactory express
arise disadvantage
One
advantage of the essay is that it reduces the
element of luck. The student cannot get a high
score
just by making a lucky guess. Another
_________________ is that it shows the examiner
more about the
student's ability to put facts
together into a ________________ whole. It should
show how deeply he has
thought about the
subject. Sometimes, though, essay tests have
___________________ , too. Some
students are
able to write rather good answers without really
knowing much about the
___________________.,
while other students who actually know the
material have trouble
_________________ their
ideas in essay form..
Besides, on an essay
test the student's score may depend on the
examiner's feelings at the time of
_______________ the answer.
Most teachers
and students would probably agree that
examinations are ________________. Students
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don't like to take them; teachers
dislike _____________ them and scoring students'
answers. Whether an
objective teat or an essay
test is used, problems ______________. When some
objective questions are used
along with some
essay questions, however, a fairly clear
________________ of the student's knowledge
can usually be obtained.
Part Four.
Multiple Choices for Synonyms (1——5)& Multiple
Choices for antonyms(6
——10)
1.
competitive A. friendly B. auxiliary C.
rival
2. ultimate A. final B
chief C. primary
3. diversity
A. uniformity B. variety C. similarity
4. private A. public B. open
C. personal
5. exclude A. include B.
incorporate C. bar
6. retrieve A.
recover B. regain C. lose
7. vertical
A. upright B. horizontal C. erect
8.
prolific A . fertile B. sterrile
C. fruitful
9. novel A. original B. new
C. old
10. diverse A. identical B.
different C. various
Part Five.
Multiple Choices (Skimming and Scanning)
Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following
passage.
One day a police officer managed
to get some fresh mushrooms. He was so pleased
with what he had
bought that he offered to
share the mushrooms with his fellow officers. When
their breakfast arrived the
next day, each
officer found some mushrooms on his plate.
“Let the dog examine a piece first,” suggested
one careful officer who was afraid that the
mushrooms
might be poisonous.
The dog
seemed to enjoy his mushroom, and the officers
then began to eat their meal, saying the
mushrooms had a very strange but quite
pleasant taste.
An hour later, however, they
were all astonished when the gardener rushed in
and said seriously that
the dog was dead.
Immediately, the officers jumped into their cars
and rushed to the nearest hospital.
Pumps were
used and the officers had a very hard time getting
rid of the mushrooms that remained in their
stomachs.
When they returned to the police
station, they sat down and started to discuss the
mushroom poisoning.
Each man complained the
pains that he had felt. The gardener was called to
tell the way in which the poor
dog had died.
“Did it suffer much before death?” asked one of
the officers, feeling very pleased that he had
escaped a painful death himself. “No,” the
gardener looked rather surprised. “It was killed
the moment a
car hit it.”
1. From the
first paragraph, we can see that the police
officer _______.
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A) acted
like selfish motives B) was very kind to his
friends
C) did things foolishly D) was a
slow-minded person
2. The careful officer
wanted the dog to eat first because ________.
A) he liked the dog very
B) nobody
seemed to like the mushrooms
C) he suspected
the mushrooms to be poisonous
D) he was afraid
that there were not enough
3. In the
4
th
paragraph, the expression “had a very
hard time” probably means _______.
A) to
examine very carefully B) to work hard to get
things done
C) to live a hard life
D) to suffer terribly
4. The reason why the
dog died suddenly is _______.
A) that it had
just eaten the mushrooms
B) that it died from
hunger
C) that it died in traffic accident
D) that it died of a serious illness
5.
Which of the following would be the best title for
the passage?
A) An Unnecessary Surprise B)
The Delicious Mushrooms
C) Dog and Mushrooms
D) Police Officers and Dog
Questions 6 to 10
are based on the following passage.
Male
pilots flying general aviating (private) aircraft
in the United States are more likely to crash due
to inattention or flawed decision-making,
while female pilots are more likely to crash from
mishandling the
aircraft. These are the
results of a study by researchers at the Johns
Hopkins University Bloomberg School
of Public
Health.
The study identifies the differences
between male and female pilots in terms of
circumstances of the
crash and the type of
pilots error involved. “Crashes of general
aviation aircraft account for 85 percent of
all aviation deaths in the United States. The
crash rate for male pilots, as for motor vehicle
drivers, exceeds
that of crashes of female
pilots,” explains Susan P. Baker, MPH, professor
of health policy and
management at the
Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Because pilot
youth and inexperience are
established
contributors to aviation crashes, we focused on
only mature pilots, to determine the gender
differences in the reasons for the crash. ”
The researchers extracted data for this
study from a large research project on pilot aging
and flight
safety. The data were gathered from
general aviation crashes of airplanes and
helicopters between 1983 and
1997, involving
144 female pilots and 267 male pilots aged 40-63.
Female pilots were matched with male
pilots in
a 1:2 ratio, by age, classes of medical and pilot
certificates, state or area of crash, and year of
crash.
Then the circumstances of the crashes
and the pilot error involved were categorized and
coded without
knowledge of pilot gender.
The researchers found that loss of control on
landing or takeoff was the most common
circumstance
for both sexes, leading to 59
percent of female pilots’ crashes and 36 percent
of males. Experiencing
mechanical failure,
running out of fuel, and landing the plane with
the landing gear up were among the
factors
more likely with males, while stalling was more
likely with females.
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The
majority of the crashes—95 percent for females and
88 percent for males—involved at least
one
type of pilot error. Mishandling aircraft kinetics
was the most common error for both sexes, but was
more common among females (accounting for 81
percent of the crashes) than males (accounting for
48
percent). Males, however, appeared more
likely to be guilty of poor decision-making, risk-
taking, and
inattentiveness, examples of which
include misjudging weather and visibility or
flying an aircraft with a
known defect.
Females, though more likely to mishandle or lose
control of the aircraft, were generally
more
careful than their male counterparts.
6. What is the research at Johns Hopkins
University about?
A) Causes of aircraft
crash.
B) Gender difference in relation to
types of aircraft crashes.
C) Causes of
mishandling aircraft.
D) Gender
discrimination in general aviation in the United
States.
7. Which of the statements is NOT
true according to the second paragraph?
A)
Crashes of general aviation aircraft is a major
source of aviation accidents in the United
States.
B) Male pilots, like male
vehicle drivers, are more likely to have accidents
than female pilots.
C) It is commonly known
that aircraft crashes are mostly caused by young
and inexperienced pilots.
D) Only mature
pilots are studied to determine the gender
differences in the reasons for
aircraft crash.
8. How did the
researchers carry out their study?
A)
They studied the findings of several previous
research projects.
B) They conducted a
questionnaire with 411 pilots.
C) They
collected data from the database at the Johns
Hopkins University.
D) They analyzed the
circumstances of the crashes involved.
9.
What is the most common circumstance of crash with
female pilots?
A) Mechanical failure and
running out of fuel.
B) Loss of control
on landing or takeoff and stalling.
C)
Loss of control on landing or takeoff and running
out of fuel.
D) Stalling and landing with
the gear up.
10. In the comparison of female
and male pilots.
A) female pilots are
found to be more courageous and risk-taking.
B) male pilots are found to be more professional
and attentive.
C) female pilots are found
to make more errors out of carelessness.
D) male pilots are found to make more errors in
decision-making.
(The End)
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