Part III Vocabulary and Structure (20 minutes)
Directions: There are 3.0. 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.
41. It was ______ that the restaurant discriminated against black customers.
A) addicted B) alleged
C) assaulted D) ascribed
42. The medicine ______ his pain but did not cure his illness.
A) activated B) alleviated
C) medicated D) deteriorated
43. He is the only person who can ______ in this case, because the other witnesses were killed mysteriously.
A) testify B) charge
C) accuse D) rectify
44. Professor Hawking is ______ as one of the world's greatest living physicists.
A) dignified B) clarified
C) acknowledged D) illustrated
45 The financial problem of this company is further ______ by the rise in interest rates.
A) increased B) strengthened
C) reinforced D) aggravated
46. We shall probably never be able to ______ the exact nature of these sub-atomic particles.
A) assert B) impart
C) ascertain D) notify
47. All the people in the stadium cheered up when they saw hundreds of colourful balloons ______ slowly into the sky.
A) ascending B) elevating
C) escalating D) lingering
48. Many years had ______ before they returned to their original urban areas.
A) floated B) elapsed
C) skipped D) proceeded
49. What you say now is not ______ with what you said last week.
A) consistent B) persistent
C) permanent D) insistent
50. Military orders are ______ and cannot be disobeyed.
A) defective B) conservative
C) alternative D) imperative
51. Some educators try to put students of similar abilities into the same class because they believe this kind of ______ grouping is advisable.
A) homogeneous B) instantaneous
C) spontaneous D) anonymous
52. Even sensible men do ______ things sometimes.
A) abrupt B) absurd
C) acute D) apt
53. The commission would find itself ______ at every turn if its members couldn't' reach an agreement.
A) collided B) savaged
C) crumbled D) hampered
54. Grain production in the world is ______, but still millions go hungry.
A) staggering B) shrinking
C) soaring D) suspending
55. He developed a ______ attitude after years of frustration in his career.
A) sneaking B) disgusted
C) drastic D) cynical
56. They believed that this was not the ______ of their campaign for equality but merely the beginning.
A) climax B) summit
C) pitch D) maximum
57. Several guests were waiting in the ______ for the front door to open.
A) porch B) vent
C) inlet D) entry
58. As the mountains were covered with a ______ of cloud, we couldn't see their tops.
A) coating B) film
C) veil D) shade
59. We couldn't really afford to buy a house so we got6 it on hire purchase and paid monthly ______.
A) investments B) requirements
C) arrangements D) installments
60. The magician made us think he cut the girl into pieces but it was merely an ______.
A) illusion B) impression
C) image D) illumination
61. A good education is an ______ you can fall back on for the rest of your life.
A) asset B) ethic
C) inventory D) obligation
62. Giving a gift can convey a wealth of meaning about your appreciation of their ______ and the importance you place upon the relationship.
A) solidarity B) priority
C) superiority D) hospitality
63. The designer has applied for a ______ for his new invention.
A) tariff B) discount
C) version D) patent
64. The toy maker produces a ______ copy of the spaced station, exact in every detail.
A) minimal B) minimum
C) miniature D) minor
65. An energy tax would curb ordinary air pollution, limit oil imports and cut the budget ______.
A) disposition B) discrepancy
C) defect D) deficit
66. They have decided to ______ physical punishment in all local schools.
A) put away B) break away from
C) do away with D) pass away
67. Astronauts are ______ all kinds of tests before they are actually sent up in a spacecraft.
A) inclined to B) subjected to
C) prone to D) bound to
68. Individual sports are run by over 370 independent governing bodies whose functions usually include ______ rules, holding events, selecting national teams and promoting international links.
A) drawing on B) drawing in
C) drawing up D) drawing down
69. Up until that time, his interest had focused almost ______ on fully mastering the skills and techniques of his craft.
A) restrictively B) radically
C) inclusively D) exclusively
70. All the ceremonies at the 2000 Olympic Games had a unique Australian flavor, ______ of their multicultural communities.
A) noticeable B) indicative
C) conspicuous D) implicit
Part IV Error Correction (15 minutes)
Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put an insertion mark (∧) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a word, cross it out and put a slash (／) in the blank.
Example:
Television is rapidly becoming the literatures of our periods. 1. time/times/period
Many of the arguments having used for the study of literature. 2. ／___________
As a school subject are valid for ∧ study of television. 3. the___________
A great many cities are experiencing difficulties which
are nothing new in the history of cities, except in their scale.
Some cities have lost their original purpose and have not found
new one. And any large or rich city is going to attract poor S1. __________
immigrants, who flood in, filling with hopes of prosperity S2. __________
which are then often disappointing. There are backward towns
on the edge of Bombay or Brasilia, just as though there were S3. __________
on the edge of seventeenth-century London or early nine-
teenth-century Paris. This is new is the scale. Deions S4. __________
written by eighteenth-century travelers of the poor of Mexico
City, and the enormous contrasts that was to be found there, S5. __________
are very dissimilar to deions of Mexico City today-the S6. __________
poor can still be numbered in millions.
The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosper-
ity, but behind it lies two myths: the myth of the city as a S7. __________
promised land, that attracts immigrants from rural poverty S8. __________
and brings it flooding into city centers, and the myth of the S9. __________
country as a Garden of Eden, which, a few generations late, S10. __________
sends them flooding out again to the suburbs.
Part V Writing (30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic: Student Use of Computers. You should write at least 150 words, and base your composition on the outline given in Chinese below:
1. 上图所示为1990年、1995年、今年某校大学生使用计算机的情况，请描述其变化；
2. 请说明发生这些变化的原因（可从计算机的用途、价格或社会发展等方面加以说明）；
3. 你认为目前大学生在计算机使用中有什么困难或问题。
Student Use of Computers
参考答案：
1. A 2. D 3. B 4. C 5. B 6. A 7. B 8. D 9. C 10. B
11. C 12. A 13. B 14. C 15. B 16. C 17. D 18. D 19. C 20. A
21. A 22. D 23. C 24. C 25. B 26. C 27. A 28. A 29. B 30. A
31. B 32. A 33. D 34. A 35. D 36. B 37. A 38. D 39. C 40. D
41. B 42. B 43. A 44. C 45. D 46. C 47. A 48. B 49. A 50. D
51. A 52. B 53. D 54. C 55. D 56. A 57. A 58. C 59. D 60. A
61. A 62. D 63. D 64. C 65. D 66. C 67. B 68. C 69. D 70. B
S1. 在new前面加不定冠词a S2. 将filling 改为filled
S3. just as thought改为just as S4. 将This改为What
S5. 将was改为were S6. 将dissimilar改为similar
S7. 将lies改为lie S8. 将that改为which
S9. 将it改为them S10. 将late改为later