Ⅰ. Phonetics (10 Points)

  Directions:

  In each of the following groups of words, there are four underlined letter combinations marked A, B, C and D. Compare the underlined parts and identify the one that is different from the others in pronunciation. Mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

  1.A. nurse B. thirsty C. universe D. surprise

  2.A. belief B. niece C. field D. variety

  3.A. surprised B. pleased C. refused D. increased

  4.A. temperature B. change C. average D. surface

  5.A. construction B. coral C. cross D. model

  6.A. mental B. metal C. total D. metallic

  7.A. detective B. decide C. nephew D. desire

  8.A. determine B. demand C. medical D. belief

  9.A. peasant B. present C. promise D. possession

  10.A. speech B. stomach C. charge D. church

  Ⅱ. Vocabulary and Structure (40 points)

  Directions:

  There are 40 incomplete sentences in this section. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose one answer that best completes the sentence and blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

  11. Luckily, the fire fighters arrived and _______ the terrible fire.

  A. put on B. put out C. put down D. put away

  12. For miles and miles, I could see nothing _______ a great fire and lots of smoke.

  A. beside B. besides C. except D. without

  13. The shop assistant didn't give me the right ________.

  A. change B. money C. serve D. note

  14. The prices of fridges have been ______ recently.

  A. pressed B. brought out C. cut off D. brought down

  15. This means the boy may be out of job for some time. In this sentence "be out of job" means _______.

  A. be on their days off B. go outside

  C. lose his job D. finish his work

  16. The TV play we watched last night was very ________.

  A. frightening B. afraid C. fright D. frightened

  17. We took soft drinks to the _______ and our friends took beer there.

  A. bench B. beach C. bank D. bend

  18. Who will ________ the bill?

  A. pay B. pay for C. pay off D. pay out

  19. Their debts _______ 700.

  A. added to B. adds up C. add to D. add up to

  20. There is _______ bread in the cupboard, ________?

  A. no more…is there B. not any more…isn't there

  C. no longer…is there D. not any longer…isn't there  21.-Would you please go out for a walk with us?

 21-______, but I'm very busy now.

  A. Of course not B. I'd like to C. That's all right D. That's right

  22.-Can I get you a cup of tea?

  -______.

  A. That's very nice of you B. With pleasure

  C. You can, please D. Thank you for the tea

  23.-When can I call on you, afternoon or evening?

  -________. I'll be at home all the time.

  A. Any B. Either C. Both D. Neither

  24.-Has anyone seen my glasses?

  -________.

  A. Here it is B. It is here C. Here are they D. Here they are

  25.-May I use your phone?

  -_______.

  A. No, I don't mind B. Yes, you do it

  C. Yes, my pleasure D. I'm afraid not

  26. He is much more _______ a German

  A. like to be B. liking to be C. likely to be D. likely

  27. I had a new tap _______ the day before yesterday.

  A. fix B. fixing C. to be fixed D. fixed

  28. We couldn't eat at a restaurant because _______ of us had _______ money on us.

  A. all…no B. any…no C. none…any D. no one…any

  29. Have you any rooms _______? We'll stay here for only two days.

  A. to spare B. to spend C. to take D. to borrow

  30. I was so ______ moved by his words that I couldn't fall asleep ______ into the night.

  A. deep…deeply B. deep…deep C. deeply…deeply D. deeply…deep

  31. The crowd cheered ______ the sight of the honoured guests' motorcade.

  A. at B. on C. as soon as D. in

  32. He's a new comer. So we try to be as _______ to him as we could.

  A. friend B. friends C. friendly D. good friends

  33. She had a good time last night, _______?

  A. hadn't she B. had she C. didn't she D. did she

  34. Don't _______ the child, it will frighten him.

  A. call at B. laugh at C. shout to D. shout at

  35.-________?

  -He is a tall young man with blue eyes and broad shoulders.

  A. What is he like B. What does he look like

  C. What does he like D. How is he

  36. She no longer talked and laughed _______ she used to.

  A. like B. as though C. as D. just as

  37. I don't know why _______ late for class.

  A. you are B. are you C. are you being D. being you are

  38. As both dictionaries were good, he said he would take _______.

  A. any of them B. all of them C. either of them D. either ones

  39. _______ of them knows much English.

  A. No B. None C. Both D. Not all

  40. Will you ______ the book Tom Sawyer ______ him if he wants to _____ it _____ you?

  A. lend…to…borrow…from B. lend…to…borrow…of

  C. borrow…to…lend…from D. lend…for…borrow…of

  Ⅲ. Cloze (20 points)

  Directions:

  For each blank in the following passage, there are four choices given below and marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that is most suitable and mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

  When Pat Jones finished college, she decided she wanted to travel around the world and see as many foreign places as she could _51_ she was young. Pat wanted to visit Latin America first, so she got a job _52_ an English teacher in a school in Bolivia. Pat spoke a little Spanish, _53_ she was able to communicate with her students even when they didn't know much English.

  A sentence she had read somewhere stuck in her mind: if you dream _54_ a foreign language, you have really mastered it. Pat repeated this sentence to her students and hoped that someday she would dream in Spanish and they would dream in English.

  One day, one of her worst students came up and explained in Spanish that he had not done his homework. He had _55_ early, and had slept badly.

  "What does this have to do with _56_?" Pat demanded.

  "I dreamed all night, Miss, Jones, and my dream was in English!"

  "In English" Pat was very surprised, since he was such a bad students. She was _57_ secretly jealous. Her dreams were still not in Spanish. But she encouraged her young student, "Well, tell me about your dream."

  "All the people in my dream _58_ English," the student said, "And all the signs were in English. All the newspapers and magazines and all the TV programs were in English."

  "But that's wonderful," said Pat, "What did all the people say to you?"

  "I'm _59_, Miss Jones. that's _60_ I slept so badly. I didn't understand a word they said. It was a nightmare!"

  51.A. as B. while C. if D. since

  52.A. for B. of C. as D. like

  53.A. and B. but C. so D. yet

  54.A. in B. about C. of D. for

  55.A. got up B. gone to bed C. fallen asleep D. woken up

  56.A. you B. me C. your dream D. your homework

  57.A. usually B. seldom C. also D. still

  58.A. read B. liked C. spoke D. learned

  59.A. shy B. silly C. sorry D. sad

  60.A. how B. why C. when D. where

Ⅳ. Reading Comprehension (60 points)

  Directions:

  There are four reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by five questions. For each question there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose one best answer and blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

  Passage One

  According to an old story, a farmer once found that a bag of corn had been stolen from his house. He went to the judge and told him about his loss. The judge ordered all the people of the farm to come before him. He took a number of sticks of equal length and gave one stick to each man.

  He then said, "Come before me again tomorrow. I shall then know which of you is the thief because the stick given to the thief will be one inch longer than the others."

  The thief was afraid of being found out, and so the cut an inch off his stick. The next day the thief's stick was found to be one inch shorter than any of the others. In this way the thief was found out, and was at once taken away to prison.

  61. A bag of corn was found ________.

  A. to be stolen B. stolen C. being stolen D. having stolen

  62. The judge gave each man a stick _______.

  A. to change back the farmer's corn B. to beat the thief

  C. as a tool to find out the thief D. so as to play a game together

  63. According to the judge, the next day the thief's stick would be one inch longer than the others' because _______.

  the thief's stick would grow one inch longer

  the other's sticks would become one inch shorter

  something wrong would happen to the thief's stick

  the judge had given the longer stick to the thief

  64. Since the thief cut the stick short, ________.

  he was found out

  the judge couldn't catch him

  his stick had an equal length with the others'

  his stick wouldn't be any longer

  65. The wise way the judge found out the thief in the end was to make ______.

  the thief to cut an inch off the stick

  the thief cut an inch off the stick

  the stick grow an inch longer

  the thief tell him what he had done   Passage Two

  The home computer industry has been growing rapidly in the United States for the last ten years. Computers used to be large, expensive machines that were very difficult to use. But scientists and technicians have been making them smaller and cheaper while at the same time they have been made easier to use. As a result, their popularity has been increasing as more people have been buying computers for their homes and businesses.

  Computers have been designed to store information and compute problems that are difficult for human beings to work out. Some have voices that speak with the operators. Stores use computers to keep records of their inventories (????) and to send bills to their customers. Offices use computers to copy letters, record business and keep in touch with other offices. People have been using computers in their homes to keep track of the money they spend.

  One important new use for computers is for entertainment. Many new games have been designed to be played on the computers. People of all ages have been playing these games. People also have been buying home computers to play computer games, watch movies and listen to concerts at home. They have become very popular indeed.

  66. Computers used to _______.

  A. work rapidly B. be large and expensive

  C. be easy to use D. be used for fun

  67. In recent years, computers are being made _______.

  larger and more expensive B. smaller and cheaper

  C. more difficult to use D. to work more slowly

  68. Home computers can be used for _______.

  A. writing letters B. playing games C. doing business D. all of the above

  69. Salesmen use computers mainly to _______.

  check the list of goods and materials that are kept in the store house

  play games for pleasure

  talk with their friends

  write letters

  70. The best title for the passage would be _______.

  A. New Uses For Computers B. The Popularity of Home Computers

  C. The Home Computer Industry D. Computers At Home

 Ⅴ. Writing (20 points)

  Directions:

  For this part, you are allowed 20 minutes to write a short composition of about 80 words on the title: Fake Commodities. Base your composition on the outline given below.

  1.假冒偽劣商品是個(gè)嚴(yán)重問(wèn)題。

  2.一些原因?qū)е铝诉@種現(xiàn)象。

  3.為了掃除假冒偽劣商品，……

 參考答案

  Ⅰ. Phonetics

  1.D 2.D 3.D 4.B 5.A 6.D 7.C8.C 9.C 10.B

  Ⅱ. Vocabulary and Structure

  11.B 12.C 13.A 14.D 15.C 16.A 17.B18.A 19.D 20.A 21.B 22.A 23.B 24.D

  25.D 26.C 27.D 28.C 29.A 30.D 31.A 32.C 33.C 34.D 35.B 36.C 37.A 38.C

  39.B 40.A 41.A 42.B 43.D 44.D 45.C46.C 47.A 48.B 49.C 50.B

  Ⅲ. Cloze

  51.B 52.C 53.C 54.A 55.B 56.D 57.C 58.C 59.C 60.B

  Ⅳ. Reading Comprehension

  61.B 62.C 63.C 64.A 65.B 66.B 67.B