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Directions:?
Read the following text. Choose the best word or phrase for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C, or D on your ANSWER SHEET 1.??
Many teachers believe that the responsibilities for learning lie with the student. ( D ) a long reading assignment is given, instructors expect students to be familiar with the ?27D? in the reading even if they don't discuss it in class or take an exam. The 28B student is considered to be 29B who is motivated to learn for the sake of 30A, not the one interested only in getting high grades. Sometimes homework is returned 31B brief written comments but without a grade. Even if a grade is not given, the student is 32C for learning the material assigned. When research is 33C, the professor expects the student to take it actively and to complete it with 34A guidance. It is the 35A responsibility to find books, magazines, and articles in the library. Professors do not have the time to explain ?36D? a university library works; they expect students, 37 Agraduate students, to be able to exhaust the reference 38 Cin the library. Professors will help students who need it, but 39D that their students should not be 40A dependent on them. In the United States, professors have many other duties 41D teaching, such as administrative or research work. 42B, the time that a professor can spend with a student outside of class is 43B. If a student has problems with classroom work, the student should either 44D a professor during office hour 45A make an appointment.
26. [A] If[B] Although [C] Because [D] Since?
27. [A] suggestion[B] context[C] abstract[D] information?
28. [A] poor[B] ideal[C] average[D] disappointed?
29. [A] such[B] one[C] any[D] some?
30. [A] fun[B] work[C] learning[D] prize?
31. [A] by[B] in[C] for[D] with?
32. [A] criticized[B] innocent[C] responsible[D]dismissed?
33. [A] collected[B] distributed[C] assigned[D] finished?
34. [A] maximum[B] minimum[C] possible[D] practical?
35. [A] student's[B] professor's[C] assistant's[D] librarian's?
36. [A] when[B] what[C] why[D] how?
37. [A] particularly[B] essentially[C] obviously[D] rarely?
38. [A] selections[B] collections[C] sources[D] origins?
39. [A] hate[B] dislike[C] like[D] prefer?
40. [A] too[B] such[C] much[D] more?
41. [A] but[B] except[C] with[D] besides?
42. [A] However[B] Therefore[C] Furthermore[D] Nevertheless?
43. [A] plentiful[B] limited[C] irregular[D] flexible?
44. [A] greet[B] annoy[C] approach[D] attach?
45. [A] or[B] and[C] to[D] but?
Section ⅢReading Comprehension (40 minutes)
Part A?
Directions:?
Read the following three texts. Answer the questions on each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET by drawing a thick line across the corresponding letter in the brackets.?
Text 1?
The dog, called Prince, was an intelligent animal and a slave to Williams. From morning till night, when Williams was at home, Prince never left his sight, practically ignoring all other members of the family. The dog had a number of clearly defined duties, for which Williams had patiently trained him and, like the good pupil he was, Prince lived for the chance to demonstrate his abilities.
When Williams wanted to put on his boots, he would murmur “Boots” and within seconds the dog would drop them at his feet. At nine every morning, Prince ran off to the general store in the village, returning shortly not only with Williams' daily paper but with a half?ounce packet of Williams' favorite tobacco, John Rhiney's Mixed. A gun?dog by breed, Prince possessed a large soft mouth specially evolved for the safe carrying of hunted creatures, so the paper and the tobacco came to no harm, never even showing a tooth mark.?
Williams was a railwayman, an engine driver, and he wore a blue uniform which smelled of oil and oil fuel. He had to work at odd times —“days”, “late days” or “nights”. Over the years Prince got to know these periods of work and rest, knew when his master would leave the house and return, and the dog did not waste this knowledge. If Williams overslept, as he often did, Prince barked at the bedroom door until he woke, much to the annoyance of the family. On his return, Williams' slippers were brought to him, the paper and tobacco too if previously undelivered.?
A curious thing happened to Williams during the snow and ice of last winter. One evening he slipped and fell on the icy pavement somewhere between the village and his home. He was so badly shaken that he stayed in bed for three days; and not until he got up and dressed again did he discover that he had lost his wallet containing over fifty pounds. The house was turned upside down in the search, but the wallet was not found. However, two days later—that was five days after the fall—Prince dropped the wallet into William's hand. Very muddy, stained and wet through, the little case still contained fifty?three pounds, Williams' driving license and a few other papers. Where the dog had found it no one could tell, but found it he had and recognized it probably by the faint oily smell on the worn leather.?
46. How did the dog perform his duties?C?
[A] He was delighted to show them off.?
[B] He did his best but was not often successful.?
[C] He did them quickly to get them over.?
[D] He had few opportunities to do them. ??
47. What does the passage tell us about gun dogs?C?
[A] They are the fastest runners of all dogs.?
[B] Their teeth are removed when they are young.?
[C] They can carry birds, etc. without hurting them.?
[D] They breed well, producing many young dogs. ??
48. As a result of Williams' work .D?
[A] he did not get enough sleep?
[B] there was an oily smell from his clothes?
[C] the dog grew accustomed to travelling by train?
[D] the dog was confused about the time of the day??
49. It upset Williams' wife and family when .B?
[A] Williams had to go to work at night?
[B] the dog made too much noise in the house?
[C] Williams made them all get up early?
[D] the dog would not let them see the newspaper??
50. Williams did not realise his loss for several days because .?B
[A] he trusted the dog to find the wallet?
[B] he was unconscious all that time?
[C] he thought the wallet was in the house?
[D] he had no occasion to feel in his pockets?
Text 2?
About ten men in every hundred suffer from colour blindness in some way; women are luckier only about one in two hundred is affected in this manner. There are different forms of colour blindness. A man may not be able to see deep red.
He may think that red, orange and yellow are all shades of green. Sometimes a person cannot tell the difference between blue and green. In rare cases an unlucky man may see everything in shades of green—a strange world indeed.?
In certain occupations colour blindness can be dangerous and candidates are tested most carefully. For example, when fighting at night, soldiers use lights of flares to signal to each other. A green light may mean “Advance” and a red light may mean “Danger! Keep back!”, You can see what will happen if somebody thinks that red is green! Colour blindness in human beings is a strange thing to explain. In a single eye there are millions of very small things called “cones”, These help to see in a bright light and to tell the difference between colours. There are also millions of “rods” but these are used for seeing when it is nearly dark. They show us shape but not colour. Wait until it is dark tonight, then go outside. Look round you and try to see what colors you can recognize.?
Birds and animals which hunt at night have eyes which contain few or no cones at all, so they cannot see colours. As far as we know, bats and adult owls cannot see colours at all only light and dark shapes. Similarly cats and dogs cannot see colours as well as we can.?
Insects can see ultra?violet rays which are invisible to us, and some of them can even see X?rays. The wings of a moth may seem grey and dull to us, but to insects they may appear beautiful, showing colours which we cannot see. Scientists know that there are other colours around us which insects can see but which we cannot see. Some insects have favorite colours. Mosquitoes like blue, but do not like yellow. A red light will not attract insects but a blue lamp will.?
51. Among people who suffer from colour blindness, .D?
[A] some may see everything in shades of green?
[B] few can tell the difference between blue and green?
[C] few may think that red, orange and yellow are all shades of green?
[D] very few may think that everything in the world is in green??
52. When millions of rods in our eyes are at work in darkness we can see.?C
[A] colours only?
[B] shapes and colours?
[C] shapes only?
[D] darkness only??
53. According to the passage, bats and adult owls cannot see colours.?D
[A] because they hunt at night?
[B] because they cannot see light?
[C] because they have no cones and rods?
[D] because they have no cones??
54. According to the passage, dogs and cats.A?
[A] as well as human beings can not see some colours?
[B] have fewer cones than human beings?
[C] have less rods than human beings?
[D] can see colours as well as human beings??
55. Which of the following is not true about insects?C?
[A] Insects can see more colours than human beings.?
[B] Insects can see ultra?violet rays which are invisible to men.?
[C] All insects have their favorite colours.?
[D] The world is more colorful to insects than to human beings. ?
Text 3?
A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as rule, to have it retold in identically the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as sacred texts. It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce what, in the actual circumstances of the time and the individual child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better.
A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or arousing his sadistic impulses. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often guilty of cruelty than those who had not. Aggressive, destructive, sadistic impulses every child has and, on the whole, their symbolic verbal discharge seems to be rather a safety valve than an incitement to overt action. As to fears, there are, I think, well?authenticated cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy stories. Often, however, this arises from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.?
There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true, that giants, witches, two?headed dragons, magic carpets, etc., do not exist; and that, instead of indulging his fantasies in fairy tales, the child should be taught how to adapt to reality by studying history and mechanics. I find such people, I must confess, so unsympathetic and peculiar that I do not know how to argue with them. If their case were sound, the world should be full of madmen attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a broomstick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their enchanted girl friend.?
No fairy story ever claimed to be a description of the external world and no sane child had ever believed that it was.?
56. In the writer's opinion, a fairy tale .?B
[A] cannot be read to children without variation because they find no pleasure in it?
[B] will be more effective if it is adapted by parents?
[C] must be made easy so that children can read it on their own?
[D] is no longer needed in developing children's power of memory??
57. According to the passage, some people who are openly against fairy tales argue that .?C
[A] fairy tales are harmful to children in that they show the primitive cruelty in children?
[B] fairy tales are harmful to children unless they have been adapted by their parent
[C] fairy tales increase a tendency to sadism in children?
[D] children who have read fairy stories pay little attention to the study of history and mechanics
58. In the writer's opinion to rid children of fears, fairy stories should be. B
[A] told only once?
[B] repeated many times?
[C] told in a realistic setting?
[D] presented vividly??
59. In the writer's opinion, fairy stories .? B
[A] have a very bad effect on children?
[B] have advantages in cultivating children's imagniativity?
[C] help children to come to terms with fears?
[D] harm children greatly??
60. According to the passage, which of the following statement is not true about fairy stories?? D
[A] If children indulged his fantasies in fairy tales instead of being
taught how to adapt to reality by studying history and mechanics the world should be full of madman. ?
[B] Children can often be greatly terrified when the fairy story is heard for the first time. ?
[C] Fairy tales may beneficially direct children's aggressive, destructive and sadistic impulses. ?
[D] Fairy tales are no more than stories about imaginary figures with magical powers which has nothing to do with external world. ?
Part B?
Directions: ?
Read the texts from an article in which five people talked about smoking. For questions 61 to 65, match the name of each person (1 to 5) to one of the statements (A to G) given below. Mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.
Hadley?
If you smoke and you still don't believe that there's a definite link between smoking and bronchial troubles, heart disease and lung cancer, then you are certainly deceiving yourself. Just have a look at those people in hospital with these diseases and count how many of them do not smoke, you may be surprised at the number. Even these few people might be passive smokers without realising it.
Randy?
Tobacco is a wonderful commodity to tax. It's almost like a tax on our daily bread. In tax revenue alone, the government of Britain collects enough from smokers to pay for its entire educational facilities. So while the authorities point out ever so carefully that smoking may be harmful, it doesn't do to shout too loudly about it.
Sampson?
The advertising of tobacco is one of the problems. We are never shown pictures of real smokers coughing up their lings early in the morning. That would never do. The advertisements always depict handsome, clean?shaven young men. They suggest it is manly to smoke, even positively healthy! Smoking is associated with the great open air life, with beautiful girls, true love and togetherness.
What utter nonsense!?
Rowley?
Of course tobacco can help government to raise money. However, while money is eagerly collected in vast sums with one hand, it is paid out in increasingly vaster sums with the other. Enormous amounts are spent on cancer research and on efforts to cure people suffering from the disease. Countless valuable lives are lost. In the long run, there is no doubt that everybody would be much better off if smoking were banned altogether.
Bernice?
Smoking can provide constant consolation. When I feel worried or nervous, I just get a cigarette and everything seem to get right. After a day's hard work, the thing I want to do most is smoking. It can be even better with a cup of coffee. It's so enjoyable and relaxing that it relieves stresses of every day life. So why bother to ban it and take the pleasure from us.?
Now match each of the people (1 to 5) to the appropriate statement.?
Note: there are two extra statements.?
61. Hadley C
62. Randy?B
63. Sampson?E
64. Rowley D ?
65. Bernice A
Statements?
[A] Smoking brings many psychological benefits. ?
[B] Tobacco is an important source of income to the government. ?
[C] Smoking is sure to cause diseases.?
[D] It's a short?sighted policy to depend on tobacco for money.
[E] The advertisement for it is dishonest and harmful. ?
[F] The tobacco industry makes high?quality advertisement for smoking. ?
[G] It's doubtful whether there is link between smoking and cancer.
Section Ⅳ Writing (40 minutes)
You should write your responses to both parts on ANSWER SHEET 1.??
Part A?
You go to the railway station to meet one of your friends, and the train has not arrived yet, so you have to leave him a note on the clipboard, from which he will learn how to find you.?
Part B?
Read the following material and write a short essay of about 150 words under the title “Should Men Be Forced by Law to Do Half the Housework?”
The Austrian parliament will shortly be considering a draft law designed to compensate women after a divorce if their former husbands never helped them with the housework.
Last week the German Green Party went even further, demanding a new law to make couples share the chores fifty?fifty if both partners were at work. The German paper Bild said a third of German women did all the housework on their own.?
Academics here in Britain talked of reversing what they called the“Allerednic effect”—that's “Cinderella” backwards?—in which a prince marries a princess and turns her into a scullery maid.?
So is it time for men to clean up their act? Or should the lawmakers leave it all well alone??
Joining Laurence Zavriew for the Europewide debate are from Rome the Italian journalist Carlo di Blasio, and in the Netherlands Kerstin Schweighoefer, correspondent of the German newsmagazine focus.??
參考答案：
Section Ⅱ
26. [A]?
此處if意為“如果”，引導(dǎo)條件狀語從句。?
27. [D]?
suggestion意為“建議”，“暗示”，“啟發(fā)”;context意為“上下文”，“(文章的)前后關(guān)系”;abstract意為“摘要”，“概括”;以上三詞均與本句意思不相符; information 在此處意為“知識”，全句意為：“指導(dǎo)教師期望學(xué)生了解所讀材料中所講的知識，即使他們不做課堂討論或測驗”。?
28. [B]?
ideal 在此處意為“理想的”，“稱心如意的”;其余三個詞均不符合本句的語義邏輯。
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29. [B]?
這是“ one ”用作代詞時的一種常見用法。?
類似例子如：He was one who never troubled about his personal comfort.?
He behaves like one who has gone mad. ?
30. [C]?
根據(jù)上下文只有C符合本句意思;for the sake of意為“為了……之好處”，“
出于……之興趣”。?
31. [D]?
“With brief written comments”正好與后面的“Without a grade”相對，意即“附有書面評語卻不打分”。?
32. [C]?
be responsible for... 意為“有責(zé)任做……”，“對……有責(zé)任”，“有義務(wù)做……”;其余三項均與本句毫不相干。?
33. [C]?
A、D可以首先排除;assign和distribute均有“分配”之意，但此處assign比distribute更明確地意為“分配/分派(任務(wù)、工作給某人)”。?
34. [B]?
根據(jù)句義判斷，C、D可以首先予以排除;maximum(最大量的，最大限度的)與minimum(最
小量的，最低程度的)為一對反義詞，此處minimum符合邏輯。?
35. [A]?
本文討論的是有關(guān)教與學(xué)的問題，與librarian和assistant無關(guān);就教授和學(xué)生而言，本文明顯地認(rèn)為學(xué)生應(yīng)當(dāng)自己去利用圖書館找資料。?
36. [D]?
“how a university library works”意為“大學(xué)圖書館是如何運作的”。?
37. [A]?
particularly 此處意為“特別是”，“尤其是”;其余三個詞essentially“本質(zhì)上，基本上”，obviously“明顯地，顯而易見地”，rarely“難得，很少，極好地”均不符合本句意思。
38. [C]?
“reference sources”意為“參考書的出處”或“(原始)參考資料”。?
39. [D]?
A、B可以排除，因為這樣的情況不太可能;like意為“比較喜歡”，即prefer, choose, 但不能跟賓語從句;prefer意為“較喜歡”，“寧愿”，意即choose rather, like better可跟賓語從句。?
40. [A]?
此處 too 是表示程度的副詞，意為“過于，太”。?
41. [D]?
C可以首先排除;besides, except和but均可譯成“除了”，但besides與except, but的含義卻完全不同：besides意為“in addition to”，“as well as”，意即“除……之外還”;except, but意為“not including”，“but not”，意即“除去……”，“但……不包括，不在內(nèi)”;本句的意思是：“教授們除了教學(xué)工作之外還有其他許多任務(wù)”，而不是“教授們有許多其他任務(wù)就是不教學(xué)”。?
42. [B]?
therefore是副詞，意為“為此”，“因此”。?
43. [B]?
根據(jù)上下文語義，B為最佳答案。?
44. [C]?
此處 approach 意為“與(某人)接洽或交涉”;其余三個詞的意思與本句無關(guān)。?
45. [A]?
此處是either... or... 句型的使用，意為“或者…… 或者……”。?
Section Ⅲ?
Part A?
46. [A]?
文章第一段第三句話告訴我們這只狗有幾項明確的職責(zé)，它利用機會來顯示它的才能“ demonstrate his abilities ”，show off正是demonstrate的意思。?
47. [C]?文章第一段的最后一句說Prince是一條獵狗，它的特點是能銜住獵物而不傷之。甚至連牙印都不留下。由此可推出C。?
48. B?文章的第二段第一句說Williams是鐵路工人，機車司機，他穿的藍色制服上有股油味，故選B。?
49. [B]?文章第二段倒數(shù)第二句說，Williams經(jīng)常睡過頭，這時，Prince就會在他的臥室外不停地叫，直到把他叫醒，這一點讓他的家人很煩。所以選B。?
50. [D]?這道題的答案需要從第三段中推理，這一段告訴我們William因為摔了一跤，在床上躺了三天，直到他起來能再穿衣服的時候他才發(fā)現(xiàn)錢包丟了。“got up and dressed again”中的“again”一詞說明了在這三天內(nèi)他一直沒能起床穿衣，自然也就沒機會摸衣服口袋了，這就是他這幾天一直沒意識到錢包丟了的原因。?
51. [D]?在第一段最后一句中作者說在罕見的病例中，不幸的患者會把每一種色彩都當(dāng)作是深淺不同的綠色。A、B、C的錯誤之處都在于對色盲人數(shù)多少的限定詞some或few不夠準(zhǔn)確。?
52. [C]?這道細節(jié)題可以“rods”這個專業(yè)詞匯幫助我們在第三段中間位置迅速定位，在這里，作者告訴我們視桿細胞(rod)在天色接近黑暗時發(fā)揮作用，他們能使我們看到物體的外形，而不是顏色。故選C。?
53. [D]?這道題可從第四段第一二句中找到答案，這兩句告訴我們在夜晚捕食的鳥和動物的眼睛幾乎沒有或根本沒有錐狀細胞(cone)，所以不能區(qū)別顏色。而蝙蝠或貓頭鷹就屬于這樣的動物。故D正確。?
54. [B]?這是道推斷題，文章第四段最后一句說，貓和狗識別顏色的能力不如人類，而前文又說了不能識別顏色是因為椎狀細胞少，由此，我們可以推出貓和狗的椎狀細胞不如人類多。這里易誤選的是A答案，注意文中的as well as是不如……好的意思，是比較級的as... as形式，不是作為“也”意思講的短語“as well as”。?
55. [C]?關(guān)于昆蟲的講述在文中的最后兩段中，從這兩段的敘述中，我們知道，昆蟲能看到許多我們?nèi)祟惪床灰姷念伾�，它們所看到紫外線和X射線，這里在講到昆蟲用的是表示類別的復(fù)數(shù)形式“insects”，代表的是所有的昆蟲共有的特征，所以A、B、D的內(nèi)容都是正確的，C的內(nèi)容說所有的昆蟲都有它們自己喜愛的顏色，而文中說的是一些昆蟲有自己喜愛的顏色，所以C的內(nèi)容不對，答案為C。?
56. [B]?答案可從第一段第二句中推出。“produce what, in the actual circumstances of the time and the individual child, is an improvement on the printed text”指的就是對童話加以改編。?
57. [C]?文中第二段第一句中的“arousing his sadistic impulses”即是答案所在，這里指的就是“喚起暴虐的欲望”。?
58. [B]?在第二段倒數(shù)第一、二句中作者解釋了孩子們恐懼的原因，并講述了消除這種恐懼的方法，即“by repetition”。?
59. [C]?答案也在第二段倒數(shù)第一句中，作者說多次重復(fù)一個故事會把恐懼的痛苦變?yōu)槊鎸謶植?zhàn)勝它的一種快樂。所以C中的幫助孩子接受恐懼最為合適。?
60. [A]?A項的內(nèi)容不是作者的觀點，而是作者在末段要批判的觀點。而且作者對童話是持肯定態(tài)度的，A項內(nèi)容顯然是一種否定態(tài)度，因而是錯誤的。故答案為A。
Part B?
61. [C]?Hardley主要講了吸煙與疾病的關(guān)系，他的觀點其實就是兩者之間有必然的聯(lián)系，所以C最合適。?
62. [B]?Randy從另外一個角度發(fā)表自己的觀點，即煙草業(yè)給國家?guī)砹撕芏喽愂�，以及由此帶來的好處，故選B。?
63. [E]?Sampson從香煙廣告這一角度而談，他認(rèn)為廣告里對吸煙者的形象塑造不符合實際情況，易產(chǎn)生誤導(dǎo)，用“advertisement”作為關(guān)鍵詞可首先把選擇范圍縮小，比較E、F選項，不難看出E較合適。?
64. [D]?Rowley的觀點與Randy相對，他承認(rèn)煙草為政府增加收入，但他更強調(diào)為治療和研究吸煙帶來的疾病所耗費的大量資金。所以他認(rèn)為從長遠利益考慮，應(yīng)禁煙。D選項正是這一意思的另一種表達方式。?
65. [A]?Bernice對吸煙持肯定態(tài)度，他認(rèn)為吸煙能使他消除緊張，進行放松。他所說的感受，即“worried”“nervous”等都是從心理角度來說的，所以總結(jié)起來，可以說他認(rèn)為吸煙可以帶來心理方面的益處。?
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