1. The machine looked like a large, ________ , old-fashioned typewriter.

A) forceful B) clumsy C) intense D) tricky

2. Though she began her ______ by singing in a local pop group, she is now a famous Hollywood movie star.

A) employment B) career C) occupation D) profession

3. Within two weeks of arrival, all foreigners had to _______ with the local police.

A) inquire B) consult C) register D) profession

4. Considering your salary, you should be able to _____ at least twenty dollars a week.

A) put forward B) put up C) put out D) put aside

5. As he has _______ our patience, we’ll not wait for him any longer.

A) torn B) wasted C) exhausted D) consumed

6. These teachers try to be objective when they _______ the integrated ability of their students.

A) justify B) evaluate C) indicate D) reckon

7. Mrs. Morris’s daughter is pretty and _______, and many girls envy her.

A) slender B) light C) faint D) minor

8. Tomorrow the mayor is to _____ a group of Canadian businessmen on a tour of the city.

A) coordinate B) cooperate C) accompany D) associate

9. I’m ______ enough to know it is going to be a very difficult situation to compete against three strong teams.

A) realistic B) conscious C) register D) resolve

10. Can you give me even the _______ clue as to where her son might be?

A) simplest B) slightest C) least D) utmost

11. Norman Davis will be remembered by many _____ with not only as a great scholar but also as a most delightful and faithful friend.

A) kindness B) friendliness C) warmth D) affection

12. Salaries for ______ positions seem to be higher than for permanent ones.

A) legal B) optional C) voluntary D) temporary

13. Most people agree that the present role of women has already affected U.S. society. _______, it has affected the traditional role of men.

A) Above all B) In all C) At most D) At last

14. Science and technology have _____ in important ways to the improvement of agricultural　production.

A) attached B) assisted C) contributed D) witnessed

15. As an actor he could communicate a whole _____ of emotions.

A) frame B) range C) number D) scale

16. This is what you should bear in mind: Don’t _____ a salary increase before you actually get it.

A) hang on B) draw on C) wait on D) count on

17. The ship’s generator broke down, and the pumps had to be operated _____ instead of mechanically.

A) artificially B) automatically C) manually D) synthetically

18. The little girl was so frightened that she just wouldn’t ______ her grip on my arm.

A) loosen B) remove C) relieve D) dismiss

19. He never arrives on time and my ______ is that he feels the meetings are useless.

A) preference B) conference C) inference D) reference

20. Mrs. Smith was so ______ about everything that no servants could please her.

A) specific B) special C) precise D) particular

　　参考答案：

1 B) clumsy 2.B) career 3.C) register 4.D) put aside 5.C) exhausted

6.B) evaluate 7.A) slender 8.C) accompany 9.A) realistic 10.B) slightest

11.D) affection 12.D) temporary 13.A) Above all 14.C) contributed 15.B) range

16.D) count on 17.C) manually 18.A) loosen 19.C) inference 20.D) particular

　口语练习

Part one

What’s your full name?

Do you live in apartment or house? Do you think you will live there for a long time?

Where is your hometown? Is there anything you can recommend about your hometown? Is there anything in your hometown needs to be improved?

Why did you choose your school? What’s your major? Why did you choose it? What kind of subjects do you have?

What kind of job do you want to do in the future?How to get the job u want?

What kind of cloth do yu like to wear?

Do you often go to museum?why people like to go to museums?

Do you love animals?Which animal do you like? Do you think there are many people who like animals?

How do you usually relax yourself?

Among the places you have traveled to, which place you liked best? Which place you want to travel to?

What kind of weather do you like? Why? How does weather affect you? Do you pay attention to the weather forecast? Do you like the city with different seasons or one with one season?

Do you think it’s better to have a good neighbor? Have you ever asked for help from neighbor? How do you know about the neighbor live next your door? how do you think the most of problems between neighbors and you?do you prefer to have an old person to be your neighbor or a young person?

What is your favourite color and why? Do you have many clothes in that color?what kind of color do you want your future house to be?

Do you like sport?家周围有运动设施没?你多长时间做一次运动?你认为让小孩子做运动有必要吗?男生女生是不是喜欢一样的sport?

newspaper & tv news which one do you prefer and why?do you use internet to konw the news and compare it with tv,what is the difference?

How was your last holiday?how to spend your holiday usually?would you prefer have you holiday alone or with others?

上次dance是什么时候?do you like dancing?why people like dancing?

你经常用手机吗，手机好处是什么，不好处是什么?

What kinds of films do you like to watch? 电影是在家看还是在电影院看，为什么?What kinds of films do you dislike? What kinds of films did you like when you were a child, why?

What kind of music do you like to listen to?What kind of environment do you like? How is the air condition in your hometown?

How many languages can you speak? Do you think learning English is hard? Why? Do you want to learn another language?

Do you often look at your watch? why?Why not? Do you think time moves slowly? What do you feel when you are late for something? What is your favorite time of a day?

What kind of books do you like to read in your childhood? Why you think children should learn reading in their childhood?

What is your favorite sound from nature and why? The noise you hate the most?

Do you now how to cook? Who does cooking in your family? Did you learn cooking when you were young?

Do you think the foods we eat are healthy? Why or why not, explain. And what do you think the government can do for this?

小时候收集过什么东西么?现在收集什么么?如果有足够的钱，想要收集什么?

人们为什么喜欢花，在什么情况下人们会送花?老年人喜欢花吗,你喜不喜欢花园?最近一次买花是在什么时候?

Are there many ads around us? What kind of ads do you like to watch, and why? What’s the difference between Chinese ad and western ad? Do advertisements ever influence your choice about what to buy? Do you prefer advertisement on TV or those in magazine?

What kind of cloth do Chinese like to wear? Do you like to wear fashionable cloth?What’s the difference between the cloth nowadays and the past?

What about the public transport in your neighborhood? Do you know how to drive? Is driving skill important?

Do you know how to drive? Is driving skill important? When is the best age for people to learn driving?

How you learnt using computer for the first time? Who use internet most in your country?

What’s the difference between big shop and small shop? When was the last time you go shopping?

　雅思阅读判断题模拟试题 (1)

When was the last time you saw a frog? Chances are, if you live in a city, you have not seen one for some time. Even in wet areas once teeming with frogs and toads, it is becoming less and less easy to find those slimy, hopping and sometimes poisonous members of the animal kingdom. All over the world, and even in remote parts of Australia, frogs are losing the ecological battle for survival, and biologists are at a loss to explain their demise. Are amphibians simply oversensitive to changes in the ecosystem? Could it be that their rapid decline in numbers is signaling some coming environmental disaster for us all?　This frightening scenario is in part the consequence of a dramatic increase over the last quarter century in the development of once natural areas of wet marshland; home not only to frogs but to all manner of wildlife. However, as yet, there are no obvious reasons why certain frog species are disappearing from rainforests in Australia that have barely been touched by human hand. The mystery is unsettling to say the least, for it is known that amphibian species are extremely sensitive to environmental variations in temperature and moisture levels. The danger is that planet Earth might not only lose a vital link in the ecological food chain (frogs keep populations of otherwise pestilent insects at manageable levels), but we might be increasing our output of air pollutants to levels that may have already become irreversible. Frogs could be inadvertently warning us of a catastrophe.

An example of a species of frog that, at far as is known, has become extinct, is the platypus frog. Like the well-known Australian mammal it was named after, it exhibited some very strange behaviour; instead of giving birth to tadpoles in the water, it raised its young within its stomach. The baby frogs were actually born from out of their mother’s mouth. Discovered in 1981, less than ten years later the frog had completely vanished from the crystal clear waters of Booloumba Creek near Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. Unfortunately, this freak of nature is not the only frog species to have been lost in Australia. Since the 1970s, no less than eight others have suffered the same fate.?

One theory that seems to fit the facts concerns the depletion of the ozone layer, a well documented phenomenon which has led to a sharp increase in ultraviolet radiation levels.The ozone layer is meant to shield the Earth from UV rays, but increased radiation may be having a greater effect upon frog populations than previously believed. Another theory is that worldwide temperature increases are upsetting the breeding cycles of frogs.

TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN

1.Frogs are disappearing only from city areas.

2.Frogs and toads are usually poisonous.

3.Biologists are unable to explain why frogs are dying.

4.The frogs’ natural habitat is becoming more and more developed.

5.Attempts are being made to halt the development of wet marshland

6.Frogs are important in the ecosystem because they control pests.

7.The platypus frog became extinct by 1991.

8.Frogs usually give birth to their young in an underwater nest.

9.Eight frog species have become extinct so far in Australia.

10.There is convincing evidence that the ozone layer is being depleted.

11.It is a fact that frogs’ breeding cycles are upset by worldwide in creases in temperature.

　　Answer Keys1.F 2.F 3.T 4.T 5.NG 6.T 7.T 8.NG 9.F 10.T 11.F

　　雅思阅读判断题模拟试题 (2)

Practice 2

Almost everyone with or without a computer is aware of the latest technological revolution destined to change forever the way in which humans communicate, namely, the Information Superhighway, best exemplified by the ubiquitous Internet. Already, millions of people around the world are linked by computer simply by having a modem and an address on the `Net’, in much the same way that owning a telephone links us to almost anyone who pays a phone bill. In fact, since the computer connections are made via the phone line, the Internet can be envisaged as a network of visual telephone links. It remains to seen in which direction the Information Superhighway is headed, but many believeit is the educational hope of the future.

The World Wide Web, an enormous collection of Internet addresses or sites, all of which can be accessed for information, has been mainly responsible for the increase in interest in the Internet in the 1990s. Before the World Wide Web, the `Net’ was comparable to an integrated collection of computerized typewriters, but the introduction of the `Web’ in 1990 allowed not only text links to be made but also graphs, images and even video.

A Web site consists of a `home page’, the first screen of a particular site on the computer to which you are connected, from where access can be had to other subject related `pages’(or screens) at the site and on thousands of other computers all over the world. This is achieved by a process called `hypertext’. By clicking with a mouse device on various parts of the screen, a person connected to the `Net’ can go traveling, or surfing’ through a of the screen, a person connected to the `Net’ can go traveling, or `surfing’ through a web of pages to locate whatever information is required.

Anyone can set up a site; promoting your club, your institution, your company’s products or simply yourself, is what the Web and the Internet is all about. And what is more, information on the Internet is not owned or controlled by any one organization. It is, perhaps, true to say that no one and therefore everyone owns the `Net’. Because of the relative freedom of access to information, the Internet has often been criticised by the media as a potentially hazardous tool in the hands of young computer users. This perception has proved to be largely false however, and the vast majority of users both young and old get connected with the Internet for the dual purposes for which it was intended - discovery and delight.

TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN

1.Everyone is aware of the Information Superhighway.

2.Using the Internet costs the owner of a telephone extra money.

3.Internet computer connections are made by using telephone lines.

4.The World Wide Web is a network of computerised typewriters.

5.According to the author, the Information Superhighway may be the future hope of education.

6.The process called`hypertext’requires the use of a mouse device.

7.The Internet was created in the 1990s.

8.The `home page’is the first screen of a `Web’site on the `Net’.

9.The media has often criticised the Internet because it is dangerous.

10. The latest technological revolution will change the way humans communicate.

Answer Keys

1.F 2.NG 3.T 4.F 5.T 6.T 7.F 8.T 9.F 10.T

　　Writing

You should spend about 40 minutes on this task. Write about the following topic:

Successful sports professionals can earn a great deal more money than people in other important professions. Some people think this is fully justified while others think it is unfair.

Discuss both these views and give your own opinion.

Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

Write at least 250 words.

　　参考范文：

As a result of constant media attention, sports professionals in my country have become stars and celebrities, and those at the top are paid huge salaries. Just like movie stars, they live extravagantlifestyles with huge houses and cars.

Many people find their rewards unfair, especially when comparing these super salaries with those of top surgeons or research scientists, or even leading politicians who have the responsibilityof governing the country. However, sports salaries are not determined by considering the contribution to society a person makes, or the level of responsibility he or she holds. Instead, they reflect the public popularity of sport in general and the level of public support that successful stars can generate. So the notion of ‘fairness’ is not the issue.

Those who feel that sports stars’ salaries are justified might argue that the number of professionals with real talent are very few, and the money is a recognition of the skills and dedication a person needs to be successful. Competition is constant and a player is tested every time they perform. in their relatively short career. The pressure from the media is intense and there is little privacy out of the spotlight. So all of thesefactors may justify the huge earnings.

Personally, I think that the amount of money such sports stars make is more justified than the huge earnings of movie stars, but at the same time, it indicatesthat our society places more value on sport than on more essential professions and achievements.

参考翻译：

在媒体不断地推波助澜下，我国的许多职业运动员已成为了明星和名人。那些顶尖的运动员收入颇丰。像一些电影明星一样，他(她)们也是香车豪宅，生活极为奢华。

许多人觉得与那些挣高薪的顶级外科医生，从事研究的科学家或有管理国家责任的高官相比，他(她)们的回报极为不公。然而，运动员的薪水并不是由一个人对社会所做出的贡献或者其责任水平所决定。相反，它们反映的是从整体上来说体育运动在大众中的普及性以及那些成功的体育明星对促进公众对运动的支持所做出的贡献。所以，“公平”的概念并不是问题关键之所在。

那些认为体育明星拿高薪无可厚非的人争辩说那些有天赋的体育运动员实属凤毛麟角，高薪是对他(她)们娴熟技能和通往成功之路所付出努力的承认。竞争持续不断，运动员在他(她)们相对较短的运动生涯中迎接每次检验。来自于媒体的压力令人窒息，而且他(她)们必须生活在镁光灯下，没有隐私。这一切都证明了他(她)们高薪得之无愧。

在我个人看来，比起电影明星的高薪，体育明星的高薪更受之无愧。但与此同时，该现象也显得出我们的社会更关注体育而非其它一些更重要的领域和成就。