第一部分 交际用语1. — Sam, this is my friend, Jane. — _________________.B. Glad to meet you, Jane 2. — What’s the matter with you? — _________________.C. I feel a bit sick 3. — Could I talk to Prof. Lee? — _________________.A. Yes, speaking 4. — I’ve got a bad cold today. — _________________.B. Oh, dear! I hope you get better soon 5. — Can you tell me where I can park the car? — _________________.C. Well, just over there 6. — What’s the best way to get to the Empire Hotel from here? — _________________.B. Walking through the wood 7. — You needn’t do the work till after the New Year. — _________________.B. Oh, good! Thank you. 8. — Have a nice holiday, Ted. — _________________. C. Thank you, and you too 9. — How was the journey to London? — _________________.A. It went very well 10. — Can you help me clear up the mess? — _________________.D. No problem 11. — Are you on holiday here? — _________________.C. No, we aren’t. We live here 12. — What’s the fare to the museum? — _________________. D. Five dollars 13. — Is it going to be warm next week? — _________________.A. Yes, it is 14. — What do you usually do in your spare time? — _________________.B. Reading 15. — Do you mind if I read the newspaper on the table? — _________________.B. Go ahead, please 16. — May I speak to Prof Li please? — _________________. D. I’m afraid you’ve got the wrong number 17. — Here you are, Sir. — _________________.D. Thank you very much 18. — So sorry to trouble you. — _________________.A. It’s a pleasure 19. — Would you like a tea? — _________________.A. Yes, please 20. — What does your English teacher look like? — _________________.D. She looks much like her mother 21. — How long will you be away from Italy? — _________________.B. About a month 22. — What’s the weather like in this area? — _________________.B. It’s rainy 23. — How are you feeling now? — _________________.A. Much better 24. — What time does the train leave? — _________________. C. At half past five 25. — Have you ever been to Tokyo? — _________________.B. No, but I hope to go there next year 第二部分：词汇与语法结构 1. My watch has been losing time for the past week. It probably needs . A. cleaning 2. We are going to have our office _________ to make room for a new engineer. C. rearranged 3. Mary said to me, “If I had seen your bag, I ________ it to you.” B. would have returned 4. We shall have an opportunity to exchange _______ tomorrow. C. views 5. Since this road is wet and slippery this morning, it __________ last night. C. must have rained 6. You will get used to ________ here when you have settled down. A. living 7. She is very careful. She _______ very few mistakes in her work. C. makes 8. Unfortunately the poor girl can’t do anything but ________ all her belongings at a low price. B. sell 9. Do you think Tommy is ______________ the truth? C.telling 10. _______________ she couldn’t understand was why fewer and fewer went to him for help. B.What 11.. They were asked to avoid _______ any water which had not been boiled. A. drinking 12. John fell asleep _______ he was listening to the music. C. while 13. 1 have taken many photos. I’m going to get the film ________ B. developed 14. If the weather had been good, the children ________ out for a walk. C. could have gone 15. The car won’t start because the battery has________.A. run out 16. The hall was almost empty. There were ________ people in it. C. few 17. Before joining the army, he spent a lot of time in the village ________ he belonged. B. to which 18. The doctor advised her _______ enough rest before going back to work. B. to get 19. _______ of them has a bedroom and a study.C. Each 20. The workers are busy _______ models for the exhibition. D. making 21. My boss is _________ holding pointless meetings. It really annoys me. B. always 22. That dinner was the most expensive meal we _____________.D. had ever had 23. Robert is said __________ abroad, but I don’t know what country he studied in. A. to have been studying 24 – If he ____________, he ____________ that food. -- Luckily he was sent to the hospital immediately. B. had been warned; would not have taken 25. I was sick, but I __________ it at the weekend. B. got over 26. John was bored, _________ he left his life in England. B. so 27. These new processes _____________.A. should be controlled 28. This is very important. You __________ remember to shut down your computer every evening. B. must 29. John Walters claimed that this lack of information ___________ in negative feelings towards the media. B. had resulted 30. _________ you change your mind, I won’t be able to help you. B. Unless 31. It is one of the best concerts I ____________. C.have ever been to 32. He _________ his father for both of them love walking in the countryside. B. is like 33. Then she cheered ______ a lot when they got ______ the taxi. D. up… into 34. Does this patient’s record need ___________ now? No, you can finish it later. C. completing 35. Could you tell me ________?C．how long you have lived here 36. There are many cities _________ very fast. D. expanding 37.Last year _________________ of new books were published on environmental protection. A. hundreds 38. Waste electrical goods _______________ safely. B. must be disposed of 39. There is a lot of crime on television. _________ other issues are pushed out. A. Therefore 40. China is no longer what it ___________.A. used to be 41. I __________________ reading the novel by the end of this week. D. shall have finished 42. He didn’t want anything to eat because he ________________ already eaten. C. had 43. The best thing __________________ to sleep.A. to do is 44. You had better _____________ a coat with you.C. take 45. The food was _____________ good, but not good enough for me to eat there again. B. quite 46. He has three companies ___________________.A. employing 50 people each 47. She was _____________ late that she missed the last train. C. so 48. Could you tell me __________________?A. where I can find a toilet 49. The new computer allows me _______________ work more efficiently.A. to 50. The trip to the countryside was great ___________.C. fun 第三部分：完形填空 Passage 1 The biggest adventure I’ve ever had was trekking in Thailand. We hired a guide (1)_ to take ____us to a village in the jungle. We didn’t know that he (2)_ had never been ____ there before. (3)_ Unless ____ we reached the village, we wouldn’t be able to find somewhere to sleep, (4)_ so ____ we wanted to get there in about 8 hours. After two hours we all realised we were lost. The (5)_ further ____ we walked, the more confused we became. Luckily after a further 4 hours we met some hunters. They didn’t speak the same language as our guide, but we were able to (6)_ get across ____ that we were lost. They (7)_ redirected ____ us towards the village. It was after dark when we arrived there. We had been walking (8)__ for ___ over 14 hours and we were (9)_ absolutely ____ exhausted. We had been very lucky; if we (10)_ hadn’t met ___ the hunters, we would have had to sleep in the jungle. Passage 2 Scientists are working hard to develop better aerials for mobile phones, a spokesman for Phikia Phones said today. ‘It really (11) _ irritates _____ users when they lose the signal in the middle of a call, so we are developing new aerials that will enable users (12) __ to receive _____ stronger signals. Many users reported that when they (13) _ were travelling ______, the signal was often lost’, said the spokesman. The new aerials are designed to avoid (14) _ losing _____ the signal by receiving the message on a wider range of radio frequencies. ‘We (15) ___ have learnt ____ that this is a major concern for phone users’ said the spokesman. The new phones have a flexible external aerial, which users will have (16) __ to get used to ____ touching their ear or head. The aerials (17) _--_____ make the phones able to pick up a wider range of signals. The company spokesman insisted (18) _ that _____ this was not a potential danger – “(19) _ Every _____ safety regulation has been followed”, he told our reporter. “If (20) _ I’d had _____ one of these phones this morning, I wouldn’t have missed my train coming here”, joked the spokesman. Passage 3 Ian and Shiree are a very unusual couple. Although they (21) _ live _______ in the heart of London, they try to grow as much of their own food as possible. At the moment they (22) _ are renting ______ an allotment from the local council to grow food on, but they plan (23) _ to buy _______ more land soon. ‘We (24) _ started ________ growing our own food five years ago’, said Ian, ‘Since then we (25)___ have grown _______ about half of the vegetables we need and a quarter of the fruit. We (26)__ have been working ______ on the allotment for three years. We (27)__ had only used ______ our own garden before that.’ They do not plan to stop there though, ‘By this time next year we (28)__ will have bought ______ enough land to grow about 75% of our food’, said Ian. Why do they do this? ‘We (29)__ worry ______ about the chemicals used to grow our food’, said Shiree. ‘More and more people (30)__ are going to do ______ the same in the future’, predicted Shiree. Passage 4 2 Patten Close Derby DJ5 6XX 16 April 2003 Dear Sir or Madam, I am writing (31)____ to complain _____________ about a recent stay at your hotel, The Grand. My wife and I arrived on 21st March and stayed for two nights. Firstly we waited twenty minutes at reception because there was nobody (32)_____at____________ the desk. Then we waited a further twenty minutes because the receptionist could not find our booking. (33)____ Moreover _____________our luggage was left unattended in reception for three hours until we finally took it to our room ourselves. Our room was not available immediately when we arrived. Therefore we had to wait another hour (34)______ before ___________ we could go to the room. When we saw the room, it had two single beds and we (35)__ had asked for _______________ a double bed, so we had to change it. Unfortunately the second room was on the top floor and the lift was (36)___ A. out of order ______________. And although we had asked for a room with a sea view, it was facing the road. Although the food in the restaurant was quite good, we were unhappy with the (37)___ service _______ we received. We had booked an evening meal inclusive in the price of the room. Consequently we did not take money to the dining room and then discovered (38)_____ that ____________ we had to pay for the wine immediately. Unfortunately, the waiters were rude and (39)_____ unhelpful ____________. However the manager did agree that we could pay the wine bill in the morning. To sum up I was most dissatisfied with the entire experience and I expect full compensation for the inconvenience caused. I look forward (40)_ to hearing________________ from you. Yours faithfully, Arthur Mullard Passage 5 I was travelling alone in Western Australia last year, and one day I set 41 off to climb a high peak in that area. Although in the summer there are many tourists, I was there out of season 42___so________ there weren’t any tour groups. Soon after I reached the top, it began to drizzle and the fog came 43 down . Very soon, it was so thick 44 that I couldn’t even make out the path. I take my phone with me everywhere 45 because you never know when you will need it. Eventually I called my dad, 46 that was 9,000 miles away in the UK. He told me to phone the local emergency services, but I felt 47 so stupid that I didn’t want to. 48 Unluckily , my dad realised this and made up his mind to call them himself. The rescuers called me 49 at my mobile to find out exactly where I was, but unfortunately the battery ran out after five seconds. I lay down under a rock and waited – it was nearly night-time and I was cold and wet. Just as they were about to call off the search for the night, they found me. Fortunately one rescuer had said ‘Let’s try for just five more minutes.’ 50 Unless they had given up, I would have died. Passage 6 Dealing with waste is a huge global problem. Unfortunately, many people don’t usually think much about what happens 51 at their old fridge when they update to the latest model. A few just dump it 52 in the street without another thought. 53 As a result , Britain currently has over a million old fridges rotting in dumps in fields and in warehouses because the country does not have enough equipment to dispose 54_____of_________ them. New European Union regulations say that from 1 January 2002, all material 55 that depletes the ozone layer, such as CFC coolants, must 56_____ be removed from _______ fridges before they are put in landfill sites. It is 57 likely to take quite a while to solve the problem. But it is not only fridges 58 that are difficult to get rid of. What about old computers, TVs and other hi-tech junk? For example, Guangdong Province, in the southeast of China, has been suffering 59 from problems caused by imported waste electrical goods like computers. Workers there have been breaking up old computers to extract the recyclable parts like chips, and precious metals 60 like gold and platinum. 第四部分：阅读理解（单项选择） 短文理解1 Blocks of “high-rise” flats have been built in large numbers in London and in many other big cities. Just after the Second World War these big, twenty-to-thirty storey buildings, hundreds of feet in height, were thought to be the ideal solution to the housing problem. For on the one hand, there was severe housing shortage, but on the other hand, there was lack of space to build houses in urban areas. Blocks of …… 1. There was a big housing problem after the Second World War ____________. A. in many big cities 2. Blocks of “high-rise” flats were thought to be the ideal solution to the housing problem, because ____________. D.they were built on less land and were able to house a lot more people 3. The sentence “Hundreds of the vast blocks had been built before anyone began to doubt about whether they were good solutions or not.” means ____________. A. it was not until hundreds of the vast blocks had been built, people began to doubt about whether they were good solutions or not 4. The author takes a well-known British architect as an example to show us that ____________. B.even a well-known designer of the high-rises believes they are no good for people 5. What is the greatest danger for people living in a high-rise according to some experts? C.Developing criminal tendencies. 短文理解2 Sura Elmer came to Shanghai last July from the Netherlands, and will remain here for the next couple of years. He worked at the Holiday Inn Hotel as a sales manager, “One important part of my job consists in staying in contact with consultant-generals here. With a white face, it is easier for me to persuade people,” he said. Before working in Shanghai, he worked for a Holiday Inn Hotel in Amsterdam. He was transferred here by an arrangement between the hotels in Shanghai and Amsterdam. 。。。。。。 6. From the passage, we know that Sura Elmer is ____________. A.a Dutch 7. Sura Elmer came to Shanghai, ____________. D.according to an agreement between the hotels in Shanghai and Amsterdam 8. Sura Elmer’s impression on his Chinese colleagues is that they ____________ than his colleagues in the Netherlands. B. are more serious 9. In the second paragraph, the sentence, “…accommodation and meals are freely available” means ____________. B. Sura Elmer eats and sleeps in the hotel free of charge 10. The thing that Sura Elmer dislikes in China is ____________.C.people spit on the ground 短文理解3 Passage 3 I used to think education was the most important thing in my life. Recently my attitude has begun to change, although I still hold that it is essential for everyone in the world today.。。。。。。 11.From this passage, we know that the author ____________. C.realizes that it is more important to really develop oneself than just to store knowledge 12. By saying that she is “a junior student” in her college, the author means that she is ____________.A. a student in her third year in college 13. The author thinks the awards she has received ____________. D. don’t necessarily reflect her real self 14. The author fears that she will be of no use to society, mainly because ____________.B.she does not know how to communicate with others 15.Which of the following statements is not true according to the passage, when the author says that she wants to find a part time job? D. She wants to get some shelter from the real world. 短文理解4
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