Paper One Part Ⅰ Listening comprehension (20 minutes, 15 points) Section A 　　Directions: In this section, you will hear nine short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a third voice will ask a question about what was said. Both the conversation and the question will be spoken only once. Choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D by marking the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center. Example: You will hear: You will read: A. At the office. B. In the waiting room. C. At the airport. D. In a restaurant. Sample Answer [A] [B] [C] [D] 　　From the conversation we know that the two speakers are talking about some work they have to finish in the evening. This is most likely to have taken place at the office. Therefore, A. “At the office” is the best answer. You should choose [A] on the ANSWER SHEET and mark it with a single line through the center. 1. A. At work. B. In a cafeteria. C. In a queue. D. In a food store. 2. A. The man has got lost. B. The woman can’t understand why the man disappeared. C. It seems the woman can’t find something. D. The man saw the woman this morning but now she seems to have disappeared. 3. A. What the weather is like in Hong Kong. B. When autumn sets in Hong Kong. C. The period from September the November is best for a tour in Hong Kong. D. Whether Jane is going to visit Hong Kong in autumn. 4. A. In a hotel. B. In a telephone company. C. In a police station. D. In a restaurant. 5. A. There are some tickets left for 9 o’clock show tomorrow. B. The tickets for 9 o’clock show tomorrow have been sold out. C. The man decided to buy tickets for tomorrow. D. The man decided to buy tickets for tomorrow. 6. A. The man doesn’t want to repeat what he said. B. The man has learned a lesson from his car accident. C. The man is shy, so he can’t drive fast. D. The woman can’t tolerate the man’s attitude. 7. A. Watching TV is better than reading a newspaper. B. Newspapers may give more information. C. TV is more interesting than a newspaper. D. A combination of reading and listening is more effective. 8. A. The food will arrive shortly. B. He will take their order soon. C. He is ready to take their order. D. They will have to wait for a table. 9. A. The woman asked the man to show her around the place. B. The woman arrived sooner than was expected. C. The traffic didn’t prevent the woman from arriving on time. D. The show was to start at four, and the woman got there too early. Section B 　　Directions: In this section, you will hear two short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passages will be read only once. After you hear one question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D by marking the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center. Question 10~12 are based on the following conversation: 10. A. It rains a lot in Seattle. B. It has a lot of sunshine in Seattle. C. It’s easy to find jobs in Seattle. D. It’s a place where one can earn a good salary. 11. A. Because he is a sun lover. B. Because he can get a good pay. C. Because he can’t find a job in his present place. D. Because he has to go a long way to work in his present place. 12. A. He doesn’t like his present job. B. He likes to switch from one place to another. C. He got a terrible job offer in Seattle. D. He doesn’t earn much from his present job. Question 13~15 are based on the following passage: 13. A. Television programs in the United States are of low quality. B. Watching too much television is undesirable for children. C. The degree of violence in programs is too high. D. There shouldn’t be any commercials on television 14. A. A famous street in United States. B. Street that provides children with interesting videotapes. C. An open school for teenagers. D. An educational program. 15. A. They will become inactive and dull. B. They will not go to cinemas as often. C. They will imitate what they see in the programs. D. They will forget to do their homework Part II Vocabulary (10 minutes, 10 points) Section A 　　Directions: In each item, choose one word that best keeps the meaning of the sentence if it is substituted for the underlined word. Mark out your choice on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center. 16. He was nominated as the best model football player of 1996. A) rejected B) denied C) designated D) asserted 17. The government is deliberating about what should be done to solve the problem. A) regulating B) diagnosing C) contemplating D) wandering 18. The Great Wall is a great tourist attraction, luring millions of visitors each year from all over the world. A) attracting B) serving C) entertaining D) receiving 19. The small building was established as a subsidiary of the great theatre n order to give young singers performing experience. A) foundation B) continuation C) supplement D) fraction 20. You must hand in your paper by the end of this month. A) draft B) submit C) modify D) revise 21. The essence of the priest’s sermon was that all human beings should love each other. A) purpose B) destination C) definition D) nature 22. He was too honorable to have gone without paying his premium. A) respectable B) considerate C) hospitable D) liable 23. The teacher asked his students to try to depict realistically the Battle of Waterloo. A) recall B) couch C) celebrate D) describe 24. This autumn’s electricity privatization alone is reckoned to have generated about 47 letters. A) assessed B) estimated C) balanced D) forecasted 25. Short, frequent practice is more effective than long, infrequent sessions, because it is less fatiguing. A) deliberate B) harmful C) sophisticated D) exhausting Section B Directions: In each question, decide which of the four choices given will most suitably complete the sentence if inserted at the place marked. Mark out your choice on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center. 26. Now in China many large stores use discount coupons as _____ to attract customers. A. motives B. incentives C. awards D. rewards 27. He was regarded as a great _____ to the committee. A. asset B. profit C. prosperity D. interest 28. According to the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, wisdom comes from the _____ of maturity. A. fulfillment B. achievement C. establishment D. accomplishment 29. The fight could have been avoided if both of you had been able to _____ your anger. A. hold back B. hold on C. hold out D. hold up 30. In speaking, the choice of words is of the utmost importance. But too often careless use of words _____ a meeting of the minds of the speaker and listener. A. stirs B. prevents C. destroys D. offers 31. He always acts on his own _____. A. initiative B. creative C. infinitive D. aggressive 32. Football, baseball and basketball are _____ sports – that is, only a few people actually take part in them while many more only watch them. A. spectacle B. spectrum C. spectator D. spectacular 33. Sally wanted to go to Florida for the holiday, but her husband thought _____, saying that they would go to New York to join his parents for Christmas. A. likewise B. meanwhile C. likely D. otherwise 34. We are trying to make people more _____ to the difficulties faced by the laid-off workers. A. sensible B. sensational C. sensitive D. sentimental 35. Several international events in the early 1990s seem likely to _____ or at least weaken, the trends that emerged in the 1980s. A. reverse B. revolve C. revolt D. revive Part III Reading Comprehension (50minutes, 30 points) 　　Directions: There are six passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center. Passage 1 　　Thousands of years ago man used handy rocks for his surgical operations. Later he used sharp bone and horn, metal knives and more recently, rubber and plastic. And that was where we stuck, in surgical instrument terms, for many years. In the 1960’s a new tool was developed, one which was, first of all, to be of great practical use to the armed forces and industry, but which was also, in time, to revolutionize the art and science of surgery. 　　The tool is the laser and it is being used by more and more surgeons all over the world, for a large number of different complaints. The word laser means: Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation (激光). As we all know, light is hot, any source of light – from the sun itself down to a humble match burning will give warmth. But light is usually spread out over a wide area. The light in a laser beam, however, is concentrated. This means that a light with no more power than that produced by an ordinary electric light bulb becomes intensely strong as it is concentrated to a pinpointsized beam. 　　Experiments with these pinpoint beam shows researchers that different energy source produce beams that have a particular effect on certain living cells. It is now possible for eye surgeons to operate on the back of the human eye without harming the front of eye, simply by passing a laser team right through the eyeball. No knives, no stitches, no unwanted damage – a true surgical wonder. Operations which once left patients exhausted and in need of long periods of recovery time now leave them feeling relaxed and comfortable. So much more difficult operations can now be tried. The rapid development of laser techniques in the past ten years has made it clear that the future is likely to be very exciting. Perhaps some cancers will be treated with laser in a way that makes surgery not only safer but more effective. Altogether, tomorrow may see more and more information coming to light on the diseases which can be treated medically. 36. Up until the 1960’s the instruments used to perform surgical operation were __________. A. fashionable B. extraordinary C. special D. basic 37. After the development of the laser in the 1960s, we find that __________. A. medical help became available for industrial workers B. the study of art went through a complete revolution C. more and more surgeons began using surgical instruments D. man’s whole approach to surgery changed completely 38. Surgeons can now carry out operations which __________. A. can be performed successfully only on the human eye B. result in long periods of recovery time for patients C. are made much more complicated by using the laser beam D. result in very little damage to the patients themselves 39. The rapid development of laser techniques has meant that __________. A. in another ten years we shall be able to cure cancer B. surgery is likely to improve considerably C. we shall be able to treat all the diseases we suffer from D. we are now able to treat most forms of cancer 40. The laser beam is so strong because __________. A. it is composed of a concentrated beam of light B. its heat is increased by the heat of the sun C. it can be plugged into an ordinary light firing D. it sends out heat in many different directions Passage 2 　　What do we think with? Only the brain? Hardly. The brain is like a telephone exchange. It is the switchboard, but not the whole system. Its function is to receive incoming signals, make proper connections, and send the messages through to their destination. For efficient service, the body must function as a whole. 　　But where is the “mind”? Is it in the brain? Or perhaps in the nervous system? After all, can we say that the mind is in any particular place? It is not a thing, like a leg, or even the brain. It is a function, an activity. Aristotle, twenty-three hundred years ago, observed that the mind was to the body what cutting was to the ax. When the ax is not in use, there is no cutting. So with the mind. “Mind,” said Charles H. Woolbert, “is what the body is doing.” 　　If this activity is necessary for thinking, it is also necessary for carrying thought from one person to another. Observe how people go about business of ordinary conversation. If you have never done this painstakingly, you have a surprise in store, for good conversationalists are almost constantly in motion. Their heads are continually nodding and shaking sometimes so vigorously that you wonder how their necks can stand the strain. 　　Even the legs and feet are active. As for the hands and arms , they are seldom still for more than a few seconds at a time. 　　These people, remember, are not making speeches. They are merely common folk trying to make others understand what they have in mind. They are not conscious of movement. Their speech is not studied. They are just human creatures in a human environment, trying to adapt themselves to a social situation. Yet they converse, not only with oral language, but with visible actions that involve practically every muscle in the body. 　　In short, because people really think all over, a speaker must talk all over if he succeeds in making people think. 41. Which of the following is the best title for this passage? A. Bodily Communication B. Bodily Actions C. Spoken Language D. Conversations 42. Which of the following statements would the author agree with? A. Thinking is a social phenomenon. B. Thinking is solely a brain function. C. Thinking is a function of the nervous system. D. Thinking is the sum total of bodily activity. 43. In communication, it is essential not only to employ speech, but also __________. A. to speak directly to the other person B. to employ a variety of bodily movements C. to be certain that the other person is listening D. to pay great attention to the other person’s behavior 44. It can be inferred from the passage that the basic function of bodily activity in speech is to __________. A. make the listener feel emotional B. make the speaker understood C. strengthen the speaker’s oral words D. convey the speaker’s implied meaning to the listener 45. Which of the following is TRUE? A. The brain is compared to a telephone exchange. B. The mind is an activity of the nervous system. C. Some people remain still while talking to others. D. Many people move their bodies on purpose while talking. Passage 3 　　Censorship is becoming more and more of a dirty word. So persuasive have been the arguments against it, put forward by intelligent, well-meaning and above all articulate (雄辩的) campaigners, that nowadays censorship is hardly found in any state of the US. These people argued that the censorship which had prevailed throughout most of history had resulted in needless interference with, and frustration of, the creative talent of artists and writers. So now we have the opposite situation. But are the effects of this change as beneficial as expected? To put it bluntly, has the literary market been flooded with hitherto （到目前为止）suppressed masterpieces since censorship was eased? Oddly enough, rather the opposite is the case, and moreover we now have a situation in which fornication (通奸) and homosexual rape can be displayed on stage in the name of entertainment. The nook and magazine market is awash（覆盖，淹没）with printed filth and the public flocks to buy it. 　　But perhaps I am wrong to be worried by this – maybe my disquiet, and that of others like me, is just a hangover from the former more restrictive situation. Many people would argue against us that books, plays and films do not have the power to corrupt. 　　Yet it’s clear that society does have some conscience about what its members do in the name of entertainment. We would not, for example, allow someone to take his own life as part of a television show (although a recent Hollywood movie was frighteningly realistic in its depiction of TV producers promoting just this event to enhance their audience ratings ). We have made such entertainment as bear-baiting, and cockfighting, criminal offenses, because we believe that watching such things tends to deprave (使堕落) and corrupt spectators. The type of censorship we need is, in my view, similar to the laws we have governing the use of alcohol and tobacco. 　　Although we can trace the bad effects of smoking and drinking, we have not prohibited them, but introduced laws which regulate their use, rather than repressing it altogether. In the case of pornography (色情文学) , such registration would not run contrary to liberal principles and should therefore be acceptable to even the most ardent civil libertarians. The rising tide of pornography must be curbed, before it does irreparable damage to the quality of life in our country. 46. The people who oppose censorship assume that __________? A. censorship is turning into a filthy word B. censorship is rarely found in the U.S. C. censorship prevents the original gift of artists and writers D. censorship is put forward by intelligent campaigners 47. Censorship should become according to the author __________. A. something like laws to regulate the pornography in the book and magazine market B. more flexible as to tracing the bad effects of pornography C. a relatively new method to control the corruption of plays and films D. more effective to allow the publishing of books and magazines 48. Since censorship was eased, __________. A. many literary masterpieces have papered B. the amount of pornographic material has increased C. more entertainment plays and television shows are produced D. sale of pornographic material has come down 49. Which of the following statements is true? A. The author believes pornography should be completely suppressed. B. The society cares nothing about what its members do in the name of amusement. C. There are legal precedents for the regulation of pornography. D. The censorship has run throughout the whole history. 50. What’s the author’s attitude towards censorship? A. opposition B. objectivity C. indifference D. approval Passage 4 　　Some day there will be a robot that takes the drudgery out of housework – and even cleans windows, but how soon such a robot will emerge is anybody’s guess. Mr. Joseph Engelberger, President of Unimation, Inc., which makes industrial robots, says a workable domestic robot might take shape by the late 1980s, but Mr. Ben Skora, an amateur robot builder now working on his second creation, predicts household robots in about fifty years, and the Director of Stanford University’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Dr. John McCarthy, says domestic robots are anywhere from five to five hundred years away. 　　Although robots are already widely used in industry – from welding car parts to handling explosives – the gap between the industrial robot and a domestic one is great, according to Dr. McCarthy. Closing the gap will require an intellectual break-through. 　　“Take the task of clearing the table and washing the dishes,” he suggested. “The robots will have to be able to discriminate between rubbish and dishes that should be washed and, meanwhile, not trip over the dog or baby on the floor on its way to the dishwasher.” He said that the robot, which he defines as a general purpose physical action machine that is automatically controlled, probably will not end up looking anything like a human being. Instead the robot might have a central “brain” that controls a whole army of bodies, like a staff of servants, each assigned to a specific duty. Mr. Engelberger thinks the domestic robot is right around in corner, just waiting for an economic boost to help it over the remaining technological hurdles. He expects the household robot to be modeled after an industrial forebear. 　　“But the person who wants a robot will have to build this world around it,” Mr. Engelberger said. For example, a fellow building a house might spend twenty-five percent more to have it “robotised”. Such a “robotised” house probably would have to be free of stairs and other encumbrances (障碍物) that could trip a near-sighted robot, would provide special sockets (插座) for it to plug into, and would contain a “pantry” (餐具室) where the robot’s brain and tools would be stored. 　　He added that the robot would probably have to use (by means of a sophisticated TV camera ) and have a sense of touch to do housework. It could even be programmed for some superhuman tasks, such as acting as a smoke-detector that would alert a family to a fire and then fight it. 51. The day domestic robots come into being is _________. A. coming very soon B. definite C. impossible D. uncertain 52. A domestic robot differs from an industrial one in that it _________. A. will be much more effective B. will be more intellectual C. will be automatically controlled D. will be more energy-saving 53. Mr. Engelberger deems that what hinders the development of domestic robots is the lack of _________. A. moneybr> B. time C. technology D. energy 54. Mr. Engelberger thinks that the industrial robot _________. A. is more useful than the domestic robot B. is completely different from the domestic robot C. is more complicated than the domestic robot D. is likely to be used as a model for the domestic robot. 55. Which of the following is not true according to the passage? A. Domestic robot will undertake some hard, unpleasant and uninteresting housework. B. Domestic robot will be designed human-like. C. The using of industrial robot is pervasive now. D. The future domestic robot should have great adaptability. Passage 5 　　The U.S. court system, as part of the federal system of government, is characterized by dual hierarchies: there are both state and federal courts. Each state has its own system of courts, composed of civil and criminal trial courts, sometimes intermediate courts of appeal, and a state supreme court. The federal court system consists of a series of trial courts (called district courts) serving relatively small geographic regions (there is at least one for every state), a tier (系列，等级) of circuit (巡回) courts of appeal that hear appeals from many district courts in a particular geographic region, and the Supreme Court of the United States. The two court systems are to some extent overlapping, in that certain kinds of disputes (such as a claim that a state law is in violation of the Constitution) may be initiated in either system. They are also to some extent hierarchical, for the federal system stands above the state system in that litigants （诉讼当事人）（persons engaged in lawsuits）who lose their cases in the state supreme court may appeal their cases to the Supreme Court of the United States. 　　Thus, the typical court case begins in a trial court – a court of general jurisdiction (司法) in the state or federal system. Most cases go no further than the trial court for example, the criminal defendant is convicted (by a trial or a guilty plea) and sentenced by the court and the case ends; the personal injury suit results in a judgment by a trial court (or an out-of-court settlement by the parties while the court suit is pending (悬而未决的)) and the parties leave the court system. But sometimes the losing party at the trial court care enough about the course that the matter does not end there. In these cases, the “loser” at the trial court may appeal to the next higher court. 56. What does the passage mainly discuss? A. Civil and criminal courts. B. Typical court cases. C. The court system in the U.S. D. The appeal court process. 57. In the last sentence of the first paragraph, the phrase “engaged in” could best be replaced by which of the following? A. Committed to. B. Involved in. C. Attentive to. D. Engrossed in. 58. The passage indicates that litigants who lost their cases in the state trial court may take them to a __________. A. different trial court in the same state B. court in a different geographic region C. federal trial court D. state supreme court 59. It can be inferred from the passage that typical court cases are __________. A. always appealed B. usually resolved in the district courts C. always overlapping D. usually settled by the Supreme Court 60. Which of the following is most likely to be the subject of the paragraph following the passage? A. the process of an appeal. B. out-of-court settlements. C. The state court structure. D. Sentencing procedure. Passage 6 　　Headlines have bannered the sad news about American education for years: “Johnny Can’t Read”… “Johnny Can’t Count”… “Johnny Can’t Write.” Are youngsters in other Industrialized countries doing any better? Yes, in many ways they are, and there’s one big reason they work hard. 　　The consequences are sobering. Students in the U.X. now enter the job market with inferior skills. Once the unquestioned champion in industrial research, America is watching its lead dwindle. Some experts go so far as to suggest that failings in education put the nation in danger of becoming a second-class economic power. Whether or not that’s the case is a key element in a bubbling debate over international competitiveness. Consider just these few examples of how American students are falling behind: 　　When Japanese teenagers finish the 12th grade, they have the equivalent of three to four more years of school than U.S. high-school graduates. Stanford’s Thomas Rohlen, a leading expert on Japan, says half of them know as much as the average U.S. college graduate. 　　Nine of 10 Japanese get high-school diplomas. But nearly a quarter of America’s teenagers drop out, sending one million untrained youngsters into the job market every year. The problem would be worse, some experts say with a straight face, if so many teenagers didn’t stay in school so they could take driver’s education and get a driver’s license. 　　For years, foreigners have outclassed young Americans in academic knowledge, and this week sees still another indictment of U.S. education: New details on how thousands of 12th graders in selected countries did on a 1982 algebra test given by the International Association for Evaluation of Educational Achievement. Hong Kong ranked first, barely ahead of Japan. The U.S. Finished 14th among the 15 countries, just ahead of Thailand, just behind Hungary. In a United Nations survey of what students in nine countries know about foreign cultures, the U.S. comes in next to last. One test of American 12-year-olds shows 20 percent unable to locate even their own nation on a world map. “Our students lag behind, and it doesn’t bode well for our country,” says Herbert Walberg, a comparative-education expert for the University of Illinois in Chicago. “Fifty-five percent of America’s jobs involve information processing. If we don’t have good, solid skills in language, geography, math and science, we’ll be at a severe disadvantage.” 61. American newspapers have carried the sad news about American education that __________. A. Johnny can’t read or write B. many American students can’t find job C. American youngsters do not work hard D. many American young people are illiterate 62. Which of the following sentences is not true according to the passage? A. The United States was once considered the best in industrial research. B. Japanese high-school students know much more than their American peers. C. Only in these years have American students fallen behind foreigners in academic knowledge. D. One out of four American teenagers choose to work before they finish high school education. 63. “With a straight face” in Paragraph 4 most probably means __________. A. with a long face B. with a clean face C. with a serious expression D. with an honest expression 64. A 1982 algebra test given by the IAEEA showed that __________. A. Thai students were better than the Americans B. American students were better than Thai students C. Japanese students were the best D. Hungarian students ranked the 15th 65. According to Herbert Walberg, American students will be at a serious disadvantage because _________. A. there will not be sufficient jobs for them B. they lack the skills needed for their future jobs C. more foreigners will seek jobs in the U.S. D. almost all the jobs require information processing Part Ⅳ Cloze Test (15 minutes, 10 points) 　　Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each bland there are four choices marked A, B, C and D at the end of the paper. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center. 　　It has been necessary to refer repeatedly to the effects of the two world wars in promoting all kinds of innovation. It should be __66__ also that technological innovations have __67__ the character of war itself by the __68__ of new mechanical and chemical devices. One weapon developed during World War II __69__ a special mention. The __70__ of rocket propulsions was well known earlier, and its possibilities as a __71__ of achieving speeds sufficient to escape from the earth’s gravitational pull had been __72__ by the Russian and the American scientists. The latter built experimental liquid-fuelled rockets in 1926. __73__, a group of German and Romanian pioneers was working __74__ the same line, and in the 1930s, it was this team that developed a rocket __75__ of delivering a warhead hundreds of miles away. Reaching a height of over 100 miles, the V-2 rocket __76__ the beginning of the Space Age, and members of its design team were __77__f in both the Soviet and United States space programs after the war. 　　Technology had a tremendous social __78__ in the period 1900~1945. The automobile and electric power, __79__, radically changed both the scale and the quality of 20th-century life, __80__ a process of rapid urbanization and a virtual revolution __81__ living through mass production of household goods and __82__. The rapid development of the airplane, the cinema, and radio made the world seem suddenly smaller and more __83__. The development of many products of the chemical industry further transformed the life of most people. In the years __84__ 1945 the constructive and creative opportunities of modern technology could be __85__, although the process has not been without its problems. 66. A. notified B. observed C. commented D. detected 67. A. transformed B. imitated C. innovated D. simulated 68. A. introduction B. innovation C. elimination D. alteration 69. A. requires B. entitles C. furnishes D. deserves 70. A. principle B. discipline C. strategy D. doctrine 71. A. methods B. means C. technique D. medium 72. A. take over B. handed over C. carried out D. pointed out 73. A. Simultaneously B. Advantageously C. Spontaneously D. Instantaneously 74. A. across B. at C. along D. with 75. A. capable B. able C. possible D. suitable 76. A. spoiled B. informed C. labeled D. marked 77. A. instrumental B. mechanical C. structural D. integral 78. A. influence B. connection C. impact D. conflict 79. A. on the other hand B. as a result C. on the contrary D. for instance 80. A. encouraging B. urging C. promoting D. assisting 81. A. by B. in C. through D. on 82. A. appliances B. utilities C. instruments D. equipment 83. A. perceptive B. accessible C. complex D. controversial 84. A. preceding B. previous C. subsequent d. following 85. A. exploited B. applied C. adopted D. processed Paper Two 　　Part Ⅰ Error Detection and Correction (10minutes, 10 points) Directions: Each of the following sentences has four underlined parts. These parts are labeled A, B, C, and D. Identify the part of the sentence that is incorrect and mark out your choice on the ANSWER SHEET. Then, without altering the meaning of the sentence, write down your correction on the line on the ANSWER SHEET. 86. I have no idea (A) of Mr. Williams (B) being promoted to the new post. You (C) should have told me about it (D) earlier. 87. Do you (A) regret paying U.S. $500 for the painting? No, I (B) would gladly pay (C) twice as much for (D) it. 88. (A) So little (B) were his belongings that he (C) carried them in a bundle (D) over his shoulder. 89. (A) Salesmen are so smart that the customers can’t help but (B) being persuaded to buy (C) something they do not really (D) want. 90. I don’t know (A) what illness he (B) suffered from, but I do remember he mentioned (C) being (D) in hospital last year. 91. In the Middle Age, in Rome, Venice and in (A) other Italian cities, there (B) developed an intellectual movement (C) called humanism, which (D) is the basis of the Renaissance. 92. In 1898, (A) the Curies obtained a new element (B) that radioactivity was (C) several million times stronger than (D) uranium’s. 93. One survey (A) indicated each Chinese family averaged (B) as many as 30 minutes of (C) daily television (D) usage in 1985. 94. Perhaps transportation and (A) the means of communication (B) have really made (C) it possible for there (D) being an end to the big cities. 95. As more and more cars are produced and used, (A) so the emission from their (B) exhaust-pipes (C) contain an (D) ever larger volume of poisonous gas. Part II Translation (15 minutes, 10 points) Direction: Translate the following sentences into English. 96． 北京申奥成功、中国进入WTO，既给商业、企业界带来新的发展机遇，同时也带来一系列新的挑战。 97． 中国地大物博，近年来经济迅猛发展，这使得中国在现代国际经济中成为一支越来越重要的力量。 98． 在大公司里工作并不是一件轻松的事，因为除了要承受巨大的工作压力，你还要天天处于严格的监督之下。 99． 近50年来，癌症的发病率地直处于上升趋势，专家认为，这与生活方式和饮食有关。 100． 中国移动电话用户到2001年7月底达到1.206亿户，居世界第一。 Part III Guided Writing (30 minutes, 15 points) Directions: In this part, you are to write within 30 minutes a composition of at least 100 words on the topic: Dangers from Air Pollution. You should base your composition on the following points: 空气污染有很大危害；空气污染给人类和人们居住环境带来的坏处。 写作提示： 空气污染的危害 在具体分析空气污染危害前，应先概括地写一下人们对空气污染的认识，然后再分段具体论述。世界许多地区都有空气污染，许多人都意识到它对人类的危害。空气污染会使人生病，还会影响环境和我们的日常生活。它侵蚀建筑物，毁坏庄稼和树木，造成飞行和交通事故。此外空气中的粉尘还能随风移动，从一个地区飘向另一个地区，从一国飘向另一国。所以空气污染是值得引起重视的全球性问题，我们应下大力气控制空气污染。 --------------------------------------------- 听力原文 第一部分　　听力理解 Tapescripts Section A 1. M: We shouldn’t have very long to wait now. W: I hope not. I’m starving. M: How can you think of food at a time like this? Q: Where are the man and the woman? 2. W: I don’t understand how or why, but it seems to have disappeared. M: But you just had it this morning, didn’t you? Q: What happened? 3. M: What is the best time to visit Hong Kong, Jane? W: I think autumn is the best. From September to November. Q: What are they discussing? 4. M: I’d like to make a long distance call to New York, please. The number is 4763489. W: May I have your name and room number please? Q: Where is the woman working? 5. M: I would like two tickets for the 9 o’clock show this evening. W: I’m sorry, sir. They are sold out. But we have a few left for tomorrow. Q: what do we learn from this conversation? 6. W: You are too careful. I can hardly put up with a car moving at this speed. M: Once bitten, twice shy. I was involved in a head-on collision a few months ago. I don’t want to repeat it. Q: What can we learn from this conversation? 7. W: Our teacher encourages us to watch the news in English on TV. She says it is a good way to learn a language. M: I think so. It will especially helpful if you can check the same story in the newspaper. Q: What does the man mean? 8. W: Excuse me, we are ready to order now. M: I’ll be with you in just a minute. Q: What does the man mean? 9. M: What time did you show up? I didn’t expect you to arrive here so soon. W: I got here are four o’clock. There was little traffic today. Q: What can be concluded from the conversation? Section B Passage one W: Did you hear the latest about Danny? M: No. What happened to him? W: Nothing happened to him exactly. He’s going to move to Seattle. M: To Seattle? That’s a long way from here! What in the world made him decide to move to Seattle? W: He got this terrific job offer. I guess the salary was so good he just couldn’t turn it down. M: Well. It certainly will be a switch for him to be living in a place where it rains a lot. You know what a sun lover he is. W: I guess if you are earning good money you can learn to like rain. M: I don’t know. I’ve never had the chance to learn. I’ve never had a lot of money! Questions: 10. From the conversation what do we know about Seattle? 11. Why did Danny decide to move to Seattle? 12. What can be concluded about Danny? Passage two Children in the United states are exposed to many influences other than that of their families. Television is the most significant of these influences, because the habit of watching television usually begins before children start attending school. And, by the time that the average child finishes high school, he or she will have spent 18,000 hours in front of a television set as opposed to 12,000 hours in a classroom. 　　Parents are concerned about these figures. They are also concerned about the lack of quality in television programs for children. The degree of violence in many of these shows also worries them. 　　Even if it is unreal – a cartoon cat beating up a cartoon mouse with a baseball bat – this violence may have a negative effect on the young minds exposed to it. Studies indicate that, when children are exposed to violence, they may become aggressive or insecure. 　　Parents are also concerned about the commercials that their children set on television. Many parents would like to see fewer commercials during programs for children. And some parents feel that these shows should not have commercials at all because young minds are not mature enough to deal with the claims made by advertisers. 　　Educational television has no commercials and has programs for children that many parents approve of. The most famous of these is “Sesame Street”, which tries to give preschool children a head start in learning the alphabet and numbers. It also tries to teach children useful things about the world in which they live. 　　Even though most parents and educators give “Sesame Streets” and shows like it high marks for quality, some critics argue that all television, whether educational or not, is harmful to children. These critics feel that the habit of watching hours of television every day turns children into bored and passive consumers of their world rather than encouraging them to become active explorers of it. Questions: 13. Which of the following statements best gives the main idea of the passage? 14. According to the passage, what do you think “Sesame Street “is? 15. What will be the consequence if a child forms a habit of watching hours of television every day? 本