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Part I Multiple
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Direction: There are 15 incomplete
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computers, with artificial intelligence, _______
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always been kind to me – I can’t just turn
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between researchers and teachers.
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accept your order _______ payment is made in
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medical experts warned the authorities of the
danger of diseases in the _______ of the
earthquake.
A. consequence B.
aftermath C. results D. effect
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with the latest computer and scientific hardware
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regardless of C. in addition to D. not to mention
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9. I am surprised _______ this city is a
dull place to live in.
A. that you
would think B. by what you are thinking
C. that you should think D. with
what you were thinking
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Don’t let the child play with scissors _______ he
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so that C. now that D. only if
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They always give the vacant seats to _______ comes
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A. whoever B. whomever C.
who D. whom
12. Doing your homework is a
sure way to improve your test scores, and this is
especially true _______ it
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comes to classroom tests.
A. when B. since C. before D. after
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Personal computers are no longer something beyond
the ordinary people; they are _______ available
these
days.
A. promptly B. instantly
C. readily D. quickly
14. Owing to _______
competition among the airlines, travel expenses
have been reduced considerably.
A. fierce
B. strained C. eager D. critical
15. Doctor
often ______uneasiness in the people they deal
with.
A. smell B. sense C. hear D.
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Part II Word Match (15
points, 1 point each)
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Direction: Match
the following words with their definitions within
each group of five words. Write
down the
matched letter on the answer sheet.
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1. authentic A. having powers of
learning, reasoning or understanding
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commitment B. twist; changing shape
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exaggerate C. a promise or decision to do
something
4. intelligent D. real; true and
accurate
5. distortion E. say more than the
truth about something
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6. authority
A. basic; central; forming the necessary basis of
something
7. donate B. something that is
considered more important than other matters
8. substantial C. the right or ability to
control
9. priority D. give something for
the benefit of others
10. fundamental E.
large in size, value or importance
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Part III Sentence
Completion (10 points, 1 point each)
Direction: Fill in each of the blanks with the
given word in its proper form.
1. George
is not only a skillful painter, but also a ______
writer. (talent)
2. The ________ John to Mary
was announced in the newspapers yesterday.
(engage)
3. I love the movie because the
_______ is my favorite. (act)
4. _______ to
say, this absent-minded professor left his
umbrella in the classroom again. (need)
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I'm afraid the girl is a little ________ for her
age and height. (weight)
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6. Because of his
_______ words, the widow committed suicide.
(responsibility)
7. Reading English novels
helps _______ your vocabulary. (large)
8. His
conduct ______ with his words, so now nobody
believes in him. (agree)
9. I was annoyed by
that __________ man. (mind, narrow)
10. Most
people think that we have more natural resources
than we need, but it is not ________ true.
(necessary)
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Part IV Cloze
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Direction: For
each blank in the following passage, choose the
most suitable word from this list of
words
provided underneath. Each word can be used once
only. Write your choice of word in the
corresponding blank
on the ANSWER SHEET.
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A Thirsty World
The world is not only
hungry, it is also thirsty for water. This may
seem strange to you, (1) _____ nearly 75 per
cent of the earth’s surface is covered with
water. But about 97 per cent of this huge (2)
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the (3) _____ 3 per cent — the fresh water (4)
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Passage 1
Every animal is a
living radiator — heat formed in its cells is
given off through its skin. Warm-blooded animals
maintain a steady temperature by constantly
replacing lost surface heat; smaller animals,
which have more skin for
every ounce of body
weight, must produce heat faster than bigger ones.
Because smaller animals burn fuel faster,
scientists say they live faster.
The
speed at which an animal lives is determined by
measuring the rate at which it uses oxygen. A
chicken, for
example, uses one-half cubic
centimeter of oxygen every hour for each gram it
weighs. The tiny shrew uses four
cubic
centimeters of oxygen every hour for each gram it
weighs. Because it uses oxygen eight times as
fast, it is said
that the mouse-like shrew is
living eight times as fast as the chicken. The
smallest of the warm-blooded creatures, the
hummingbird, lives a hundred times as fast as
an elephant.
There is a limit to how small a
warm-blooded animal can be. A mammal or bird that
weighed only two and a
half grams would starve
to death. It would burn up its food too rapidly
and would not be able to eat fast enough to
supply more fuel.
1. The passage says that
every animal is a living radiator because it_____.
A. produces heat in its body cells B. burns
fuel to produce heat
C. sends out heat from
its bodies D. requires oxygen to produce heat
2. Warm-blooded animals maintain a steady
temperature by_____.
A. restoring heat
continually
B. storing heat in their body
cells
C. regulating the amount of heat
produced
D. regulating the amount of heat
given off
3. The amount of oxygen an animal
uses depends on_____.
A. how much it weighs
B. what food it eats
C. what it is like
D. how long it lives
4. An animal weighing
less than 2.5 grams would starve because it would
not be able to _____.
A. get enough oxygen
B. maintain its body temperature
C. burn its
food fast enough D. eat fast enough to supply
fuel
5. What is implied but not stated in the
passage?
A. There is no limit as to how large
a warm-blooded animal can be.
B. The
hummingbird lives faster than any other warm-
blooded creature.
C. Small animals have less
skin for their body weight than large ones.
D. The hummingbird is the smallest of the warm-
blooded animals.
Passage 2
California is
a land of variety and contrast. Almost every type
of physical land feature, short of arctic ice
fields
and tropical jungles can be found
within its borders. Sharply contrasting types of
land often lie very close to one
another.
People living in Bakersfield, for instance, can
visit the Pacific Ocean and the coastal plain, the
fertile San
Joaquin Valley, the arid Mojave
Desert, and the high Sierra Nevada, all within a
radius of about 100 miles. In other
areas it
is possible to go snow skiing in the morning and
surfing in the evening of the same day, without
having to
travel long distances.
Contrast
abounds in California. The highest point in the
United States (outside Alaska) is in California,
and so is
the lowest point (including Alaska).
Mount Whitney, 14 494 feet above sea level, is
separated from Death Valley,
282 feet below
sea level, by a distance of only 100 miles. The
two areas have a difference in altitude of almost
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California
has deep, clear mountain lakes like Lake Tahoe,
the deepest in the country, but it also has
shallow,
salty desert lakes. It has Lake
Tulainyo, 12 020 feet above sea level, and the
lowest lake in the country, the Salton Sea,
236 feet below sea level. Some of its
lakes, like Owens Lake in Death Valley, are not
lakes at all; they are dried-up
lakebeds.
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mountains, lakes, valleys, deserts, and plateaus,
California has its Pacific coastline, stretching
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longer than the coastlines of Oregon and
Washington combined.
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6. Which of the
following is the lowest point in the United
States?
A. Lake Tulainyo. B.
Mojave Desert. C. Death Valley. D. The Salton Sea.
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7. Where is the
highest point in the United States located?
A. Lake Tahoe. B. Sierra Nevada. C.
Mount Whitney. D. Alaska.
8. How
far away is Death Valley from Mount Whitney?
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A. About 3 miles. B. Only 100
miles. C. 282 feet. D. 14 494 feet.
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mentioned in the passage as being within a radius
of about 100 miles of
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A. The Pacific Ocean. B.
San Joaquin Valley.
C. Mojave Desert. D.
Oregon and Washington.
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Which statement best demonstrates that California
is a land of variety and contrast?
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A. The highest lake in California
is Lake Tulainyo.
B. It is
possible to go surfing and snow skiing in some
parts of California without having to travel long
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Sierra Nevada, San Joaquin Valley, Mojave Desert
and the Pacific Ocean all lie within a radius of
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D. Owens Lake, in Death Valley, is not really a
lake at all.
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Children are a relatively modern
invention. Until a few hundred years ago they did
not exist. In medieval and
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Renaissance painting you see pint-sized
men and women, wearing grown-up clothes and grown-
up expressions,
performing grown-up
tasks. Children did not exist because the family
as we know it had not evolved.
Children today not only exist; they have taken
over, in no place more than in America, and at no
time more than
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now. It is
always Kids’ Country here. Our civilization is
child-centered, child-obsessed. A kid’s body is
our physical
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ideal. In Kid’s Country
we do not permit middle-age. Thirty is promoted
over 50, but 30 knows that soon his time to
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We are the first society in which parents
expect to learn from their children. Such a topsy-
turvy (颠倒) situation
has come
about at least in part because, unlike the rest of
the world, ours is an immigrant society, and for
immigrant
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kids. In the Old Country, that is, Europe, hope
was in the farther, and how much wealth he
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could accumulate and pass along to
his children. In the growth pattern of America and
its ever-expanding frontier, the
young
man was ever advised to GO WEST; the farther was
ever inheriting from his son. Kids’ Country may be
the
inevitable result.
Kids’ Country is not all bad.
American is the greatest country in the world to
grow up in because it is Kids’
Country. We not only wear kids’ clothes and
eat kids’ food; we dream Kids’ dreams and make
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in the old days children did not exist, it seems
equally true today that adults, as a class, have
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disappear, condemning all of us
to remain boys and girls forever, jogging and
doing push-ups (俯卧撑) against
eternity.
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11. The
author uses the example of the Renaissance
painting to show that _______.
A. adults
showed less concern for children than we do now
B. adults were smaller and thinner at that
time, but they still had a lot of work to do
C. children looked and acted like adults at that
time
D. children were not permitted to appear
in family paintings at that time
12. In the
third paragraph, the Old Country is contrasted
with America _______.
A. to show differences
in family size
B. to show differences in
attitudes towards family relations
C. to sow
two kinds of geography
D. to show two
different kinds of economic relations between
generations
13. Going to the moon is an
example of _______.
A. America’s dreams and
creativity
B. America’s childish and queer
behavior
C. why America hasn’t grown up
D. why America is considered the greatest country
in the world
14. According to the passage,
which of the following is true?
A. It is very
difficult for the middle-aged to live in America.
B. America is Kids’ Country because the
majority of its people are young and vigorous.
C. Kids’ Country was taking shape in America
when immigrants poured into the country
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America is more of Kids’ Country than any other
countries in the world.
15. By saying
“condemning all of us to remain boys and girls
forever, jogging doing push-ups against
eternity,” the author means that _______.
A. she thinks people shouldn’t be so concerned
about physical fitness
B. she feels too old
and tired to do such hard exercise
C.
American society is overemphasizing youth and
physical appearance
D. what happened to
children centuries ago may occur to adults in
America soon
Passage 4
By far the most
common snake in Britain is the adder. In Scotland,
in fact, there are no other snakes at all. The
adder is also the only British snake with a
poisonous bite. It can be found almost anywhere,
but prefers sunny
hillsides and rough open
country, including high ground. In Ireland there
are no snakes at all.
Most people regard
snakebites as a fatal misfortune, but not all
bites are serious, and very few are fatal.
Sometimes attempts at emergency treatment turn
out to be more dangerous than the bite itself,
with amateurs
heroically, but mistakenly,
trying do-it-yourself surgery and other
unnecessary measures.
All snakes have small
teeth, so it follows that all snakes can bite, but
only the bite of the adder presents any
danger. British snakes are shy animals and are
far more frightened of you than you could possibly
be of them. The
adder will attack only if it
feels threatened, as can happen if you take it by
surprise and step on it accidentally or if you
try to catch it or pick it up, which it
dislikes intensely. If it hears you coming, it
will normally get out of the way as
quickly as
it can, but adders cannot move very rapidly and
may attack before moving if you are very close.
The effect of a bite varies considerably. It
depends upon several things, one of which is the
body-weight of the
person bitten. The bigger
the person, the less harmful the bite is likely to
be, which is why children suffer far more
seriously from snake bites than adults. A
healthy person will also have better resistance
against the poison.
Very few people actually
die from snakebites in Britain, and though these
bites can make some people very ill,
there are
probably just as many cases of bites having little
or no effect, as there are of serious illness.
16. Which of the following statements is NOT
true?
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A. The
adder is the only poisonous snake in Britain.
B. In Scotland there are no other snakes except
the adder.
C. Snake bites seem more
dangerous than they actually are.
D. People’s
attempts at emergency treatment are utterly
unnecessary.
17. Adders are most likely to be
found _______.
A. in wilder parts of Britain
and Ireland
B. in Scotland and nowhere else
C. on uncultivated land throughout Britain
D. in shady fields in England
18. We are
told that British snakes are _____.
A. afraid
of human beings B. poisonous including the adder
C. dangerous except the adder D. friendly
towards human beings
19. When will the adder
not attack you?
A. When you try to catch it.
B. When you are some distance away from it.
C. When you happen to step on it.
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When you try to pick it up.
20. If an adder
hears you coming, it will usually ______.
A.
attack you immediately B. disappear very quickly
C. wait to frighten you D. move out of the
way
B. Drunken Drivers.
C. Drunken
Pedestrian Accidents.
D. A Severe Highway
Safety Problem.
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