Part III Vocabulary and Structure (20 minutes)
Directions: There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
31. Starting with the ______________ that there is life on the planet Mars, the scientist went on to develop his argument.
A) premise B) pretext
C) foundation D) presentation
32. After several nuclear disasters, a __________ has raged over the safety of nuclear energy.
A) quarrel B) suspicion
C) verdict D) controversy
33. Their diplomatic principles completely laid bare their ____________ for world conquest.
A) admiration B) ambition
C) administration D) orientation
34. The director gave me his ___________ that he would double my pay if I did my job well.
A) warrant B) obligation
C) assurance D) certainty
35. The Christmas tree was decorated with shining _____________ such as colored lights and glass balls.
A) ornaments B) luxuries
C) exhibits D) complements
36. The two most important ______________ in making a cake are flour and sugar.
A) elements B) components
C) ingredients D) constituents
37. Cultural _______________ indicates that human beings hand their languages down form one generation to another.
A) translation B) transition
C) transmission D) transaction
38. We must look beyond ___________ and assumptions and try to discover what is missing.
A) justifications B) illusions
C) manifestations D) specifications
39. No one imagined that the apparently _____________ businessman was really a criminal.
A) respective B) respectable
C) respectful D) realistic
40. If nothing is done to protect the environment, millions of species that are alive today will have become _______________.
A) deteriorated B) degenerated
C) suppressed D) extinct
41. The _________of the scientific attitude is that the human mind can succeed in understanding the universe.
A) essence B) content
C) texture D) threshold
42. The old lady has developed a ______________ cough which cannot be cured completely in a short time.
A) perpetual B) permanent
C) chronic D) sustained
43. What the correspondent sent us is an _____________ news report. We can depend on it.
A) evident B) authentic
C) ultimate D) immediate
44. Having had her as a professor and adviser, I can tell you that she is an __________ force who pushes her students to excel far beyond their own expectations.
A) inspirational B) educational
C) excessive D) instantaneous
45. Some researchers feel that certain people have nervous systems particularly ___________ to hot, dry winds. They are what we call weather-sensitive people.
A) subjective B) subordinate
C) liable D) vulnerable
46. Hurricanes are killer winds, and their ____________ power lies in the physical damage they can do.
A) cumulative B) destructive
C) turbulent D) prevalent
47. In some countries, students are expected to be quiet and ___________ in the classroom.
A) skeptical B) faithful
C) obedient D) subsidiary
48. In spite of the ___________ economic forecasts, manufacturing output has risen slightly.
A) gloomy B) miserable
C) shadowy D) obscure
49. Body paint or face paint is used mostly by men in pre-literate societies in order to attract good health or to ___________ disease.
A) set aside B) ward off
C) shrug off D) give away
50. The international situation has been growing __________ difficult for the last few years.
A) invariably B) presumably
C) increasingly D) dominantly
51. The prisoner was ________________ of his civil liberty for three years.
A) discharged B) derived
C) deprived D) dispatched
52. Small farms and the lack of modern technology has __________ agricultural production.
A) blundered B) tangled
C) bewildered D) hampered
53. The Japanese scientists have found that scents ______________ efficiency and reduce stress among office workers.
A) enhance B) amplify
C) foster D) magnify
54. All the students have to _____________ to the rules and regulations of the school.
A) confirm B) confront
C) confine D) conform
55. He ____________ his head, wondering how to solve the problem.
A) scrapped B) screwed
C) scraped D) scratched
56. As soon as the boy was able to earn his own living he _________ his parents' strict rules.
A) defied B) refuted
C) excluded D) vetoed
57. The helicopter _____________ a light plane and both pilots were killed.
A) coincided with B) stumbled on
C) tumbled to D) collided with
58. To ______________ is to save and protect, to leave what we ourselves enjoy in such good condition that others may also share the enjoyment.
A) conserve B) conceive
C) convert D) contrive
59. Put on dark glasses or the sun will _____________ you and you won't be able to see.
A) discern B) distort
C) distract D) dazzle
60. In __________ times human beings did not travel for pleasure but to find a more favorable climate.
A) prime B) primitive
C) primary D) preliminary
Part IV Cloze (15 minutes)
Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D) on the right side 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 centre.
In the United States, the first day nursery was opened in 1854. Nurseries were established in various areas during the ___61__ half of the 19th century; most of ___62___ were charitable. Both in Europe and in the U.S. the day-nursery movement received great ___63___ during the First World War, when ___64___ of manpower caused the industrial employment of unprecedented（前所未有）numbers of women. In some European countries nurseries were establishes ___65___ in munitions（军火）plants, under direct government sponsorship. ___66___ the number of nurseries in the U.S. also rose ___67___, this rise was accomplished without government aid of any kind. During the years following the First World War ___68___, Federal, State, and local governments gradually began to exercise a measure of control ___69___ the day nurseries, chiefly by ___70___ them and by inspecting and regulating the conditions within the nurseries.
The ___71___ of the Second World War was quickly followed by an increase in the number of day nurseries in almost all countries, as women were ___72___ called upon to replace men in the factories. On this ___73___ the U.S. government immediately came to the support of the nursery schools. ___74___ $6,000,000 in July, 1942, for a nursery-school program for the children of working mothers. Many States and local communities ___75___ this Federal aid. By the end of the war, in August, 1945, more than 100,000 children were being cared ___76___ in day-care centers receiving Federal ___77___. Soon afterward, the Federal government ___78___ cut down its expenditures for this purpose and later ___79___ them, causing a sharp drop in the number of nursery schools in operation. However, the expectation that most employed mothers would leave their ___80___ at the end of the war was only partly fulfilled.
61. A) latter B) late C) other D) first
62. A) those B) them C) whose D) whom
63. A) impetus B) input C) imitation D) imitative
64. A) sources B) abundance C) shortage D) reduction
65. A) hardly B) entirely C) only D) even
66. A) Because B) As C) Since D) Although
67. A) unanimously B) sharply C) predominantly D) militantly
68. A) therefore B) consequently C) however D) moreover
69. A) over B) in C) at D) about
70. A) formulating B) labeling C) patenting D) licensing
71. A) outset B) outbreak C) breakthrough D) breakdown
72. A) again B) thus C) repeatedly D) yet
73. A) circumstance B) occasion C) case D) situation
74. A) regulating B) summoning C) allocating D) transferring
75. A) expanded B) facilitated C) supplemented D) compensated
76. A) by B) after C) of D) for
77. A) pensions B) subsidies C) revenues D) budgets
78. A) prevalently B) furiously C) statistically D) drastically
79. A) abolished B) diminished C) jeopardized D) precluded
80. A) nurseries B) homes C) jobs D) children
Part V Writing (30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic How to Succeed in a Job Interview? You should write at least 120 words, and base your composition on the outline given in Chinese below:
1. 面试在求职过程中的作用。
2. 取得面试成功的因素：仪表、举止谈吐、能力、专业知识、自信、实事求是……
How to Succeed in a Job Interview?
参考答案：
1. A 2. C 3. C 4. D 5. A 6. B 7. B 8. C 9. D 10. B
11. C 12. A 13. C 14. B 15. D 16. C 17. C 18. D 19. D 20. A
21. A 22. B 23. C 24. B 25. D 26. A 27. D 28. C 29. A 30. B
31. A 32. D 33. B 34. C 35. A 36. C 37. C 38. B 39. B 40. D
41. A 42. C 43. B 44. A 45. D 46. B 47. C 48. A 49. B 50. C
51. C 52. D 53. A 54. D 55. D 56. A 57. D 58. A 59. D 60. B
61. A 62. B 63. A 64. C 65. D 66. D 67. B 68. C 69. A 70. D
71. B 72. A 73. B 74. C 75. C 76. D 77. B 78. D 79. A 80. C