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1. Basic English: (100/150)
I. In each of the following sentences, four words or phrases have been underlined. Choose the one word or phrase that would not be appropriate in standard English. Write your choice on the ANSWER SHEET. (10/150)
1. Two police officers fired up their siren, pulled me over, and pointed out that my car’s registration had outdated.
A B C D
2. I would rather you can give me an exact number of the people present at the meeting.
A B C D
3. What a mistake! You haven't paid the least attention to the spelling.
A B C D
4. The slave would do anything his master asked him, for he is habitually obedient to his master.
A B C D
5. Today's plentiful supply of graduates mean increasing competition for jobs, disappointment for many in terms
A B C D
of pay or type of work and, for some, no job at all.
6. How good we are educated is simply a matter of how well we have adjusted ourselves to our lives and our
A B C D
environment.
7. Despite our mass attendance at college and our mass exposure on culture, education remains an individual
A B C D
achievement.
8. Many argue that even college had no impact on that part of your life, it would still be a good investment.
A B C D
9. In our generation American women are shaping new goals which are well reflected in the fiction on many
A B C
contemporary woman writers.
D
10. There are many interrelationships among philosophy, politics, economics and the science of
A B C D
II. Find the one choice that best completes the sentence. Write your choice on the ANSWER SHEET. (10/150)
1. The food made for pregnant women is easy_________.
A. to be digested B. digested C. to digest D. digesting
2. Buy your wife a present on her birthday, ________she should get angry.
A. lest B. otherwise C. however D. perhaps
3. The juvenile offender was released from custody on condition that he ________ out of trouble for six months.
A. would stay B. stays C. could stay D. stay
4. Jane has recently bought_________
A. a new beautiful green Hong Kong jacket
B. a beautiful new Hong Kong green jacket
C. a new green beautiful Hong Kong jacket
D. a beautiful new green Hong Kong jacket
5. In vain ________to engage him in our group activities, and he didn't show the least interest.
A. have we tried B. we tried C. did we try D. we had tried.
6. His success could not shield him from the racial prejudice _________rampant in those days.
A. being B that C. as D. so
7. As she grows her happy ______grew sour, and she often flew into violent rages.
A. disposition B. personality C. character D. temper
8. The typhoon could sweep off all the things in the village, _________.
A. whether they are high trees and buildings
B. be they high trees or buildings
C. should they be high trees or buildings
D. they are high trees or buildings
9. I prefer _________the examination today rather than ________ it for a whole week.
A. taking ... postponing B. to take ... postpone
C. taking ... postpone D. to take ... to postpone
10. The boy anticipates ________the first prize in the contest.
A. to win B. winning C. his winning D. to have won
III. Proofreading: (15/150): (Do it in on the ANSWER SHEET)
The following passage contains 12 errors. Each line contains a maximum of one error, and three are free from error. In each case only one word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way:
For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line.
For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a "∧" and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line.
For an unnecessary word, cross out the unnecessary word with a slash , "/" and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the line.
If the line is correct, place a tick "√" in the blank at the end of the line.
Example: It is impossible ∧ any sentence in one language to have exactly (1)____for_____
the same meaning as any single sentence in another language. It is also (2) ____single__
impossible for any sentence in a particular language to have exactly (3) ____√_____
the same meaning as the other sentence in that same language. (4) any_____
The motion of the sun along the ecliptic is, of course
merely a reflection of the revolution of the earth . (1) __________
around the sun, but the ancients believed earth was
fixed and the sun had an independent motion of its (2) __________
own, eastward among the stars. The glare of sunlight
hide the stars in daytime, but the ancients were aware (3) __________
that the stars were up there even at night, and the slow
eastward motion of the sun around the sky, in the (4) __________
rate of about thirty degrees each month, cause different
stars to be visible at night at different times of the (5) __________
year. The moon, revolves around the earth each month,
also has an independent motion in the sky. (6) __________
The moon, however, changes its position relatively
rapid. Although it appears to rise and set each (7) __________
day, as is nearly everything else in the sky, we
can see the moon changing position during as short (8) ___________
an interval as a hour or so. The moon's path around
the earth lies nearly in the same plane as the earth's (9) ___________
path around the sun, so the moon is never seen very
far from the ecliptic in the sky. There are five other (10) __________
objects visible to the naked eye that also appear to
move in respect to the fixed background of stars (11) __________
on the celestial sphere. These are the planets Mercury,
Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and the Saturn. All of which (12) __________
revolve the sun in nearly the same plane as the
earth does, so they, like the moon, always appear (13)__________
near the ecliptic. Because we see the planets
from the moving earth, however, they behave in a (14)__________
complicated way, with their apparent motions on the
celestial sphere reflecting both their won dependent (15)__________
motions around the sun and our motion as well.
IV. Academic Reading: (12/150)
Asian Economies Not as Vulnerable as Before
A. Central bank governors from the Asia-Pacific region, at a recent meeting warned that the global trade environment is much tougher for their countries now than during the Asian crisis of four years ago. Singapore is in recession, and South Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Taiwan and the Philippines have sharply slowing growth. The only bright spot is China, which has maintained brisk output growth because stronger investment and household spending have more than offset the regional export slowdown.
B. However, a new financial crisis does not seem to be looming for the region, as some remarkable changes have taken place over the past four years. These changes mean that the region's economies are likely to experience slower but still positive growth this year, and stronger growth next year. The first change is that the economies of Korea, Thailand the Indonesia can no longer be broken by a stampede of foreign bank lenders. The hot money has already gone. According to the most recent International Monetary Fund statistics, net international bank claims in East Asia have fallen by US$354 billion over the last four years. Loans have been repaid by stronger flows of foreign direct investment, by lending from international institutions and by the reemergence of a bond market in the first half of last year, as well as through large trade surpluses resulting from imports growing more slowly than exports. In the four years from 1997 to 2000, these economies accumulated current account surpluses of US$239 billion, compared to a cumulative deficit of US$88 billion during the five years from 1992.
C. Large current account surpluses have seen not only foreign debt reduced, but also big reserves accumulated. These reserves are seen as a cushion against future financial shocks. The reserves in Southeast Asia have increased by US$214 billion in recent years. The central banks of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan hold most of this sum. Moreover, the central banks of the region have agreed on swap arrangements, which could allow the reserves for one currency to be used in the defense of another in case of the threat of another Asian financial crisis. As noted by a report prepared by the regional central banks, intervention is most effective when coordinated.
D. These changes defend against a stampede and contagion, but do not, in themselves, encourage growth. That depends on the regional shift toward more flexible exchange rates. Although far form floating freely, most regional exchange rates are no longer hostage to unhedged US dollar bank debt or to entrenched convictions that exchange rate stability is essential. Managed floats have been adopted in most regional economies. Responding to the stronger US dollar, falling exports and slowing imports, these exchange rates have been depreciating. For example, the Singapore dollar recently reached a ten-year low, while the Taiwan dollar reached a 15-year slow.
E Foreign direct investment is slowing, and exports are tumbling, but with room to expand domestic demand there are good reasons to think that the region will get through the most serious global downturn in a decade. Foreign investment flows and domestic reconstruction will maintain China's growth. Even South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan—all highly dependent on technology exports to the US—are now buttressed by trade surpluses, huge reserves and flexible exchange rates. All these factors are favorable for expanding domestic demand.
F The perennial problems of the Philippines apart, the economies at the greatest risk are those of Thailand and Malaysia, because they are attempting to sustain pegged exchange rates, and this weakens their ability to respond to sudden strains on their currencies. Although Thailand has sharply reduced its foreign debt, it has pegged its US dollar exchange rate at about 45 baht. Without strong capital controls, the informal peg limits Thailand's freedom to ease interest rates. As for Malaysia, its peg depends on its reserves, which have fallen by US$ billion during the past year as the country has defended an exchange rate appreciating against those of its neighbors.
Questions 1-4
This passage has six paragraphs A—F. Choose the most suitable headings for paragraphs B—E from the list of headings below. Write the appropriate numbers (i—ix) on the ANSWER SHEET.
NB There are more headings than paragraphs, so you will not use them all.
List of Headings
i. Disappearance of hot money ii. Changes in the region's economies iii. The role of the US dollar iv. The region's weak spots v. The importance of currency reserves vi. Swap arrangements vii. The need for flexible exchange rates viii. Expanding domestic demand ix. The Philippines' economic problems |
1. Paragraph B
2. Paragraph C
3. Paragraph D
4. Paragraph E
Questions 5-8
Using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage, answer the following questions. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.
5. Who is cooperating to stave off another Asian financial crisis?
6. According to the author, what do the changes in the region's economies NOT do?
7. Which country is an exception to the region's slow economic growth?
8. When was the last most serious worldwide economic slowdown?
Questions 9-12
Do the following statements agree with the information in this passage? Write on the ANSWER SHEET
YES if the statement agrees with the information
NO if the statement contradicts the information
NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this in the passage
9. The changes in the region's economies will accelerate their growth.
10. Pegged exchange rates are a danger to Thailand and Malaysia.
11. Most of the regional economies allow their exchange rates to float freely.
12. To survive the global economic slump, the region must export more than it imports.
V. Read the following passages carefully and choose the one best answer to each question from the four choices given. Write your choice on the ANSWER SHEET. (13/150)
Text A
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13. According to this advertisement,
a. all fights are non-stop
b. all flights from Newark leave in the morning
c. it is possible to take the return flight from Phoenix and flight to Boston on the same day
d. the flight to Phoenix takes three hours and ten minutes
Text B
The Antler Riddle: Has Lambourne of the Yard been called in 5,000 too late?
“Scotland Yard's top fingerprint expert, Detective Chief Superintendent Gerald Lambourne had a request from the British Museum's Prehistoric Department to focus his magnifying glass on a mystery "somewhat outside my usual beat”.
This was not a question of Whodunit, but Who Was It. The blunt instruments he pored over were the antlers of red deer, dated by a radio-carbon examination as being up to 5,000 years old. They were used as mining picks by Neolithic man to hack flints and chalk, and the fingerprints he was looking for were of our remote ancestors who had last wielded them.
The antlers were unearthed in July during the British Museum's five-year-long excavation at Grime's Graves, near Thetford, Norfolk, a 93-acre site containing more than 600 vertical shafts in the chalk some 40 feet deep. From artifacts found in many parts of Britain it is evident that flint was extensively used by Neolithic man as he slowly learned how to farm land in the period from 3,000 to 1,500 B.C.
Flint was especially used for axeheads to clear forests for agriculture, and the quality of the flint on the Norfolk site suggests that the miners there were kept busy with many orders.
What excited Mr. G. de G. Sieveking, the museum’s deputy director of the excavations, was the fried mud still sticking to some of them. "Our deduction is that the miners coated the base of the antlers with mud so that they could get a better grip," he says. "The exciting possibility was that fingerprints left in this mud might at last identify as individuals a people who "have left few relics, who could not read or write, but who may have had much more intelligence than has been supposed in the past."
Chief Superintendent Lambourne, who four years ago had "assisted" the British Museum by taking the fingerprints of a 4,000-year-old Egyptian mummy, spent two hours last week examining about 50 antlers. On some he found minute marks indicating a human grip in the mud. Then on one he found the full imprint of the "ridge structure" of a human hand—that part of the hand just below the fingers where most pressure would be brought to bear in wielding a pick.
After 25 years' specialization in the Yard's fingerprints department, Chief Superintendent Lambourne knows all about ridge structures—technically known as the "tri-radiate section".
It was his identification of that part of the hand that helped to incriminate some of the Great Train Robbers. In 1975 he discovered similar handprints on a bloodstained tee-marker on a golf-course where a woman had been brutally murdered. They eventually led to the killer, after 4,065 handprints had been taken.
Chief Superintendent Lambourne has agreed to visit the Norfolk site during further excavations next summer, when it is hoped that further hand-marked antlers will come to light. But he is cautious about the historic significance of his findings.
“Fingerprints and handprints are unique to each individual but they can tell us nothing about the age, physical characteristics, even sex of the person who left them,” he says. “Even the fingerprints of a gorilla could be mistaken for those of a man. But if a number of imprinted antlers are recovered from given shafts on this site I could at least determine which antlers were handled by the same man, and from there might be deduced the number of miners employed in a team.
“As an indication of intelligence I might determine which way up the miners held the antlers and how they wielded them."
To Mr. Sieveking and his museum colleagues any such findings will be added to their dossier of what might appear to the layman as trivial and unrelated facts but from which might emerge one day an impressive new image of our remote ancestors.
14. Mr Lambourne is said to have regarded the examination of the antlers as a task
a. rather more difficult than his usual duties
b. different in nature from routine investigations
c. causing him to leave his usual headquarters
d. involving a different technique from the one in which he was qualified
15. What was the aim of the investigation referred to in the passage?
a. to provide some kind of identification of a few Neolithic men
b. to find out more about the period when the antlers were used
c. to discover more about the purpose of the antlers
d. to learn more about the type of men who used them
16. What had been the principal use of the antlers?
a. to obtain the material for useful tools
b. to prepare the fields for cultivation
c. to help in removing trees and bushes so that land could be cultivated
d. to make many objects useful in everyday life
17. How do archaeologists know that Neolithic men relied considerably on flint?
a. they have found holes that were dug with it
b. they have discovered many objects made of it
c. they have found many fingerprints on tools made of flint
d. it was useful in agriculture
18. The Museum's deputy director is very interested in the prints because
a. useful facts about this remote period can be learned from them
b. they are valuable records of intelligent but illiterate people
c. very few objects of this remote period have been found
d. the antlers serve as link with actual people who lived at that time
19. What is the ultimate value of Lambourne's work?
a It has no value as so little of importance can be deduced
b It will provide information about the organization of work
c. It throws light on an interesting facet of early man's methods of work
d It can assist in filling in an increasingly detailed picture
Text C
She kisses his lips; he kisses hers; they solemnly bless each other. The spare hand does not tremble as he releases it; nothing worse than a sweet, bright constancy is in the patient face. She goes next before him - is gone; the knitting-women count Twenty-Two.
"I am the Resurrection and the Life, saith the Lord: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die."
The murmuring of many voices, the upturning of many faces, the pressing on of many footsteps in the out skirts of the crowd, so that it swells forward in a mass, like one great heave of water, all
flashes away. Twenty-Three.
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They said of him, about the city that night, that it was the peaceful lest man's face ever beheld there. Many added that he looked sublime and prophetic.
One of the most remarkable sufferers by the same axe - a woman - had asked at the foot of the same scaffold, not long before, to be allowed to write down the thoughts that were inspiring her. If he had given an utterance to his, and they were prophetic, they would have been these:
"I see Barsad, the Cly, Defarge, The Vengeance, the Juryman, the Judge, long ranks of the new oppressors who have risen on the destruction of the old, perishing by this retributive instrument, before it shall cease out of its present use. I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long, long years to come, 1 see the evil of this time, and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out.
"I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy, in that England which I shall see no more. I see her with a child upon her bosom, who bears my name. I see her father, aged and bent, but otherwise restored, and faithful to all men in his healing office, and at peace. 1 see the good old man, so long their friend, in ten years' time enriching them with all he has, and passing tranquilly to his reward.
"I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. I see her, an old woman, weeping for me on the anniversary of this day. I see her and her husband, their course done, lying side by side in their last earthly bed, and I know that each was not more honoured and held sacred in the other's soul than I was in the souls of both.
"I see that child who lay upon her bosom and who bore my name a man winning it so well, that ray name is made illustrious there by the light of this. I see the blots I threw upon it, faded away. I see him, foremost of just judges and honoured men, bringing a boy of my name, with a forehead that I know and golden hair, to this place - then fair to look upon, with not a trace of this day's disfigurement - and I hear him tell the child my story, with a tender and faltering voice.
"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than 1 have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."
20. The male and female referred to in the first section (above the asterisks) are
a. making love in a church
b. saying farewell prior to his going on a business trip
c. losing their lives, one after the other
d. on a stage performing a love scene
21. In the man's unspoken prophecy, he sees the people for whom he sacrificed his life
a. dying soon afterwards in the terrible Reign of Terror
b. unmindful of his sacrifice for them
c. living in peace and contentment and remembering him with gratitude
d. forgetting him and his deed in their joy at escaping from Paris
22. The man's prophecy further foretells that someone's son will become
a. a fine physician like his grandfather ,
b. a failure like himself
c. a highly respected judge
d. a victim of the axe also
23. He foresaw that a certain married couple
a. will think of him with mixed feelings of respect and repulsion
b. will honour his memory as much as they honoured each other
c. will think of him lovingly for a time but then forget his memory
d. will never know that he sacrificed his life for them, but will nevertheless think of him with great affection
24. The bold-faced word "illustrious" in the last paragraph but one means
a. glorious b. dishonoured c. clearly pictured d. well known
25. The tone of this selection is best described as
a. matter-of-fact and prosaic
b. sentimental and semiserious
c. pompous and self-conscious
d. elevated and dignified
VI. Cloze
Fill in each blank with one word that is logically and grammatically suitable. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (20/150)
Net Offers New Teaching and Learning Mode
Using the internet for English teaching ___1____ very new. However, as a resource 2 the hands of a skilled teacher, the 3 can provide a wealth of authentic 4__, with which the skilled teacher can 5 motivating or productive activities.
For example, Internet resources 6 be used for class follow-up, discussing and submitting writing assignments. The teacher can 8 __ useful materials from the Net, and can 9 grade students' papers at home by just 10 to the Internet and grading students' e-mail messages.
Through subscribing to electronic journals, participating in electronic discussion forums and attending conferences on the Internet, the teacher can share views and ideas with far-off colleagues quickly, easily and inexpensively. This is especially attractive and helpful for those in isolated geographic areas.
Seen in this light, the interactive nature 11 the Internet is certainly conductive to English 12 professional development: updating their knowledge in 13 area of expertise and enabling them to 14 up with social and educational changes.
On the 15 hand, the Internet provides unprecedented opportunities and 16 to the Internet. They are able to 17 their reading, information processing, and listening skills 18 exposure to the authentic language they encounter on 19 Internet.
Their productive skills will also 20 developed. For example, they develop oral fluency through group work on a common task, and written fluency through extensive composition practice on the Internet. In addition, Internet activities can encourage the development of cultural awareness by being exposed to international influences and foreign cultures.
VII. Fill in each blank with the best answer from the four choices given under the correspondent number. Write your choice on the ANSWER SHEET. (20/150)
Cosmic Close-ups
They look 1 like great towering thunderheads, billowing high 2 the evening sky as they catch the last 3 of the setting sun. They are so 4 , so startlingly three dimensional that the mind 5 to domesticate them, to bring them 6 to earth, to imagine them rising on the horizon or 7 beyond the wings of an airliner. These are no ordinary clouds, 8 . They stand not 9,000m but almost 10 trillion km 9 .They are illuminated not with ordinary earthly 10 but with searing ultraviolet radiation spewing 11 nuclear fires at the center of a handful of 12 formed stars. And they're 7,000 light-years from Earth—more than 400 million times as far away as the sun.
If anyone still harbored 13 doubts about the Hubble's power to do 14 science, the new photograph should put those doubts to 15 . Without the Hubble this discovery ___16 ___possible—and neither would a score of others spanning virtually every 17 of astronomy. The telescope has already thrown Big Bang 18 a curve by suggesting that some 19 in the universe are older than the 20 itself.
This cosmic vista, seen in a photo released by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) two weeks ago, is the latest in a series of stunning images captured from the ends of the universe by the Hubble Space Telescope. Once written off as a near total loss because of an inaccurately ground mirror, the Hubble has in the past two years redeemed itself spectacularly. It has offered close-up pictures of distant galaxies that are 10 times as sharp as those produced by earthbound telescopes-pictures that are not just scientifically significant but breathtakingly beautiful as well. In fact, the orbiting observatory has extended our view of the cosmos more dramatically than any single instrument since Galileo first pointed his crude, low-power telescope at the heavens.
1. a. remarkably b. outstanding c. startling d. extraordinary
2. a. in b. into c. on d. up
3. a. light b. beam c. brightness d. rays
4. a. blunt b. dark c. dim d. sharp
5. a. wants b. gets c. keeps d. has
6. a. up b. forth c. down d. in
7. a. even b. merely c. just d. scarcely
8. a. anyhow b. however c. whatever d. therefore
9. a. high b. tall . c. lofty d. low
10. a. light b. beam c. brightness d. rays
11. a. off b. of c. from d. through
12. a. recent b. new c. late d. newly
13. a. linger b. lingering c. lingered d. to linger
14. a. ground break b. groundbreaking c. groundbroken d. to ground break
15. a. rest b. trial c. suspension d. light
16. a. would have been b. won't be c. would not have been d. would not be
17. a. field b. branch c. section d. part
18. a. philosophers b. thinkers c. truth-seekers d. theorists
19. a. stars b. objects c. globes d. planets
20. a. sky b. space c. universe d. world