C. it
C. of
experiment by himself.
A. to
B. what
A. and
A. that
C. where
A. warns
A. happen
C. happened
C. has warned
A. did not know
C. had not known
A. to have taken her photograph
C. to have her photograph being taken
I. GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY
safety seems difficult to fulfill.
3. I was surprised that no one ________them of the danger.
1. It is strange that such a thing ________in your company.
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4. Alice is going to the photographer’s this afternoon ________.
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D. at
B. for
D. that
B. when
D. which
B. warned
B. happens
D. had warned
D. not knowing
D. has happened
B. having not known
2. She considered________ important that everything should be finished by ten.
corresponding to your choice on the answer sheet. (1 point each, 15 points in all)
6. It was not until she arrived at the airport ________she realized she had forgotten her passport.
Complete each of the following 15 sentences with the most likely answer. Write the letter
5. The professor, ________whether anyone would come to help him, had to prepare for the
7. The promise of finding long-term technological solution ________the problem of world food
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B. to have her photograph takenD. to have her photograph been taken
C. tell
C. view
A. force
A. away
A. order
C. down
C. grand in nature.________with it.
A. look to
A. opinion
II. CLOZE
D. outB. off D. trainB. trust B. make D. look atB. enlarge B. reactionD. expandB. look up D. authorityB. concerned D. correlatedD. impression
A. stimulate
A. compared
C. connected
C. strengthen
C. permission
A. magnificent
C. look through
benefits to humankind.
8. It is difficult to predict what his ________to the result will be.
D. brilliant
B. remarkable
9. To telephone him, you will have to ________his number in your phone book.
13. A good education should, among other things, ________you to think for yourself.
11. By the time the fire-engine arrived, the fire had been put ________by the inhabitants.
12. You are not allowed to make any changes to the book without the author’s________.
14. Because agriculture is so important to a nation’s well-being, governments have always been
15. The ________progress of science and technology in the 20th century has brought enormous
10. At the level of primary education, the most important task is to________ children’s interest
Fill in each of the 15 blanks in the passage with the most likely answer. Write the letter
corresponding to your choice on the answer sheet. (1 point each, 15 points in all)
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There are currently three living species of elephants: the African Bush Elephant, the African Forest Elephant and the Asian Elephant or Indian Elephant. Other species such as the mammoths (猛犸象) 16 before the last ice age but are now 17 .
Elephants live in a structured social order. 18 females spend their entire lives in tight-knit family groups 19 mothers, daughters, sisters and aunts, males live mostly solitary lives. Elephants 20 live for 50 to 70 years. The elephant’s pregnant period is 22 months, the longest of 21 land animal. Newborn elephant calves weigh 22 260 pounds.
Elephants spend about 16 hours a day finding and eating food. Their diet consists 23 grasses, leaves, bamboo, twigs, bark, roots and small amounts of fruits, seeds and flowers. Interestingly, elephants only digest 40% of 24 they eat; an adult elephant can consume 300-600 lb of food a day.
Elephant skin is thick, grey and wrinkled. The wrinkles help elephants stay cool 25 water gets trapped inside the wrinkles and evaporates slowly. Their hearing is 26 and they can detect noise from miles away.
One of the most distinct 27 attributes of elephants is their tusks. Elephants use their tusks to dig for food, mark their 28 and perform other tasks. Elephants’ tusks are made of ivory. The 29 elephant ivory is one of the major reasons people hunt elephants and thus have significantly 30 the world’s elephant population. For this reason and many others, many people around the world are working hard to protect the species from further extinction.16. A. remained 17. A. rare 18. A. When 19. A. made up of 20. A. naturally 21. A. any 22. A. for example 23. A. with 24. A. that 25. A. because 26. A. weak
B. stayed B. extinct B. WhileB. tied to B. largely B. other B. on average B. on B. those B. although B. lost
C. existed C. plentiful C. As
C. dependent on C. typically C. the C. in fact C. in C. which C. in case C. normal
D. appearedD. commonD. SinceD. filled withD. characteristicallyD. aD. by chanceD. ofD. whatD. so thatD. keen
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27. A. mental 28. A. territory 29. A. supply of 30. A. balanced Ⅲ. PARAPHRASING
B. physical B. land B. call for B. restricted
C. biological C. surroundings C. cost of C. destroyed
D. psychologicalD. areaD. desire forD. increased
Choose the closest paraphrased version after each of the following sentences or the italicized part. Write the letter corresponding to your choice on the answer sheet. (1 point each, 10 points in all)
31. “We’ve got to believe it,” he said … “We can’t afford not to.”A. There is no reason not to believe it.B. We have no other choice but to believe it.C. We should pretend to believe it even if we don’t.D. The consequence of not believing it would be severe.
32. Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow.A. Good looks is useless for a poor guy.B. Nice appearance cannot make a person rich.C. Rich men usually do not have nice personality.
D. One’s attractiveness does not come from material wealth.
33. No man [in, Carnegie’s family] would complain and give up—he would die first.A. Even a dying family member would not complain and give up.B. No one in the family dared to complain and give up for fear of death.C. Every member of the family would rather die than complain and give up.D. The family member who complained and gave up would be the first to die.34. She had fancier ideas of [my] life’s possibilities.A. She had impractical expectation of my future.B. Her opinion about my life was proved wrong.C. The goal she set for me was what I preferred.D. She believed that I would be successful in life.
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35. Time is treated [by Americans] as if it were something almost tangible.A. Americans try various means to hold time tightly in their hands.B. Americans are serious about time and they manage their time well.C. To Americans, time is as valuable as money, which they can see and touch.D. To Americans, time is like something solid, which they can seize and control.
36. Most hosts [of TV talk shows] are grateful just to get someone who will fill the room with sound.
A. Most hosts like those guests who come to the talk shows.B. It’s really difficult for most hosts to find some talkative guests.C. Most hosts are more than happy as long as the guests keep talking.D. Whatever the guests say about themselves, most hosts wouldn’t mind.37. It makes me very humble to think of a guy like Scotty.A. I don’t want to be reminded of how great Scotty is.
B. Scotty is even more important than I’d like to admit.C. The thought of Scotty doesn’t make me comfortable.D. I feel I’m a nobody when I think of Scotty’s success.
38. The class discusses the possibility of terrorists’ using a homemade atomic bomb to push their extravagant political demands.
A. ... to promote their unique political ideas to a target government.B. ... to force a government to accept their unreasonable political demands.C. ... to persuade a government to agree with their terrorist political ideas.D. ... to negotiate their extraordinary political demands with a government.39. Nothing was too good for that child [Laura].A. Laura deserved whatever her parents did for her.
B. Laura was never satisfied with whatever her parents did for her.C. Laura was grateful to her parents for what her parents had done for her.D. Laura was too greedy a child to appreciate what her parents had done for her.
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