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PartIII Vocabulary (20 minute)
Directions: There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part.For each sentence there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D) . Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
31. Starting with the ________ that there is life on the planet Mars, the seientst
went on to develop his argument.
A) premise
B) pretext
C) foundation
D) presentation
32. After several nuclear disasters, a ________ has raged over the safety of nuclear
energy.
A) quarrel
B) suspicion
C) verdict
D) controversy
33. Their diplomatic principles complely laid bare their ________ for world conquest.
A) admiration
B) ambition
C) administration
D)orientation
34. The director gave me his ________ that he would double my pay if I did my job well.
A) warrant
B) obligation
C) assurance
D) certainty
35. The Christmas tree was decorated with shining ________ such as colored lights and
glass balls.
A) ornaments
B) luxuries
C) exhibits
D) complements
36. The two most important ________ in making a cake are flour and sugar .
A) elements
B) components
C) ingredients
D) constituents
37. Cultural ________ indicates that human beings hand their languages down from one generation to another.
A) translation
B) transition
C) transmission
D) transaction
38. We must look beyond ________ and assumptions and try to discover what is missing.
A) justifications
B) illusions
C) manifestations
D) specifications
39. No one imagined that the apparently ________ businessman was really a criminal. A) respective
B) respectable
C) respectful
D) realistic
40. If nothing is done to protect the environment, millions of spedes that are alive
today will have become ________ .
A) deteriorated
B) degenerated
C) suppressed
D) extinct
41. The ________ of the scientific attitude is that the human mind can suceeed in
understanding the universe.
A) essence
B) texture
C) content
D) threshold
42. The old lady has developed a ________ cough which cannot be cured completely in a short time.
A) perpetual
B) pemp3anent
C) chronic
D) sustained
43. What the correspondent sent us is an ________ news report. We can depend on it
A) evident
B) authentic
C) ultimate
D) immediate
44. Having had her as a professor and adviser, I can tell you that she is an
_______ force who pushes her students to excel far beyond their own expectations.
A) inspirational
B) educational
C) excessive
D) instantaneous
45. Some researchers feel that certain people have nervous systems particularly ______ to hot, dry winds. They are what we call weather sensitive people.
A) subjective
B) subordinate
C) liable
D) vulnerable
46. Hurricanes are killer winds, and their ________ power lies in the physical damage
they can do.
A) cumulative
B) destructive
C) turbulent
D) prevalent
47. In some countries, students are expected to be quiet and ________ in the classroom.
A) skeptical
B) faithful
C) obedient
D) subsidiary
48. In spite of the ______economic forecasts, manufacturing output has risen slightly.
A) gloomy
B) miserable
C) shadowy
D) obscure
49. Body paint or face paint is used mostly by men in pre?literate societies in order
to attract good health or to _______ disease.
A) set aside
B) ward off
C) shrug off
D) give away
50. The international situation has been growing _____difficult for the last few years.
A) invariably
B) presumably
C) increasingly
D) dominantly
51. The prisoner was ______ of his civil liberty for three years.
A) discharged
B) derived
C) deprived
D) dispatched
52. Small famp3s and the lack of modern technology have ______ agricultural production.
A) blundered
B) tangled
C) bewildered
D) hampered
53. The Japanese scientists have found that scents ______ efficiency and reduce stress among office workers.
A) enhance
B) amplilf
C) foster
D) magnify
54. All the students have to ______to the rules and regulations of the school.
A) confimp3
B) confront
C) confine
D) confomp3
55. He ______ his head, wondering how to solve the problem
A) scrapped
B) screwed
C) scraped
D) scratched
56. As soon as the boy was able to earn his own living he ______ his parents' strict
rules.
A) defied
B) refuted
C) excluded
D) vetoed
57. The helicopter a light plane and both pilots were killed.
A) coincided with
B) stumbled on
C) tumbled to
D) collided with
58. To ______ is to save and protect, to leave what we ourselves enjoy in such good
condition that others may also share the enjoyment.
A) conserve
B) conceive
C) convert
D) contrive
59. Put on dark glasses or the sun will ______ you and you won' t be able to see.
A) discern
B) distort
C) distract
D) dazzle
60. In ______ times human beings did not travel for pleasure but to find a more
favourable climate.
A) prime
B) primitive
C) primary
D) preliminary
Part IV 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 with a single line through the centre.
In the United States, the first day nursery, was opened in 1854. Nurseries were established in various areas during the 61 half of the 19th century; most
of 62 were charitable. Both in Europe and in the U.S., the day?nursery movemen
t received great 63 during the First World War, when 64 of manpower caused the
industrial employment of unprecedented(前所未有) numbers of women. In some European countries nurseries were established 65 in munitions(军火) plants, under direct government sponsorship. 66 the number of nurseries in the U.S. also rose 67 ,
this rise was accomplished without government aid of any kind. During the years
following the First World War, 68 , federal,State, and local governments gradually began to exercise a measure of control 69 the day nurseries, chiefly by 70 them and by. The 71 of the Second World War was quickly followed by an increase in the number of day nurseries in almost all countries, as women were 72 called up on to replace men in the factories. On this 73 the U.S. government immediately came to the support of the nursery schools, 74 $ 6,000,000 in July, 1942,for a nursery?school program for the children of working mothers. Many States and local communities 75 this Federal aid. By the end of the war, in August, 1945, more than 100,000 children were being cared 76 in daycare centers receiving Federal 77 . Soon afterward, the Federal government 78 cut down its expenditures for this purpose and later 79 them, causing a sharp drop in the number of nursery schools in operation. However, the expectation that most employed mothers would leave their 80 at the end of
the war was only partly fulfilled.
61. A) latter C) other B) late D) first
62. A) those B) them C) whose D) imitation
63. A) impetus B) input C) imitation D) initiative
64. A) sources B) abundance C) shortage D) reduction
65. A) hardly B) entirely C) only D) even
66. A) Because B) As C) Since D) Although
67. A) unanimously B) sharply C) predominantly D) militantly
68. A) therefore B) consequently C) however D) moreover
69. A) over B) in C) at D) about
70. A) fomp3ulating B) labeling C) patenting D) licensing
71. A) outset B) outbreak C) breakthrough D) breakdown
72. A) again B) thus C) repeatedly D) yet
73. A) circumstance B) occasion C) case D) situation
74. A) regulating B) summoning C) allocating D) transferring
75. A) expanded B) facilitated C) supplemented D) compensated
76. A) by B) after C) of D) for
77. A) pensions B) subsidies C) revenues D) budgets
78. A) prevalently B) furiously C) statistically D) drastically
79. A) abolished B) diminished C) jeopardized D)precluded
80. A) nurseries B) homes C) jobs D) chidren
试卷二
Part I
Section B Compound Dictation
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times 。When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from S1 to S7 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from S8 to S10 you are required to fill in the missing infomp3ation. You can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
The human body is a remarkable food processor. As an adult, you may consume(S1) a ton of food per year and still not gain or lose a pound of body weight. You are (S2) harnessing, and consuming energy through the intricate (S3)
of your body in order to remain in energy balance. To (S4) a given body weight, your energy input must balance your energy output. However, sometimes the (S5) energy balance is upset, and your(S6) body weight will either fall or (S7) .
The temp3 body image refers to the mental image we have of our own physical appea
rance, and (S8) . Research has revealed that about 40 percent of adult men and 55 percent of adult women are dissatisfied with their current body weight. (S9). Atthe college level, a study found that 85 percent of both male and female first year students desired to change their body weight. (S10) . Thinness is currently an attribute that females desire highly. Males generally desire muscularity. The vast majority of individuals who want to change their body weight do it for the sake of appearance: most want to lose excess body fat. while a smaller percentage of individuals actually want to gain weight.
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