II.Vocabulary and Structure

Directions : There are 40 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C, D. Choose the one answer that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.(1-10 PRACTICE TEST 5，6;11-15 QUIZ 5，6;16-40 课外)

1. His wife’s death ___ him deeply.

A. affected B. effected

C. offended D. infected

2. He had a clear ___ of what needs to be done.

A. knowing B. understanding

C. learning D. meaning

3. The paper parcel ___ a clean shirt, socks and a handkerchief.

A. composed B. contained

C. constituted D. was made up of

4. The research scientists often meet with problems ___ new type of instruments for their solution.

A. require B. to require

C. required D. requiring

5. I shall ___ you by telephone on Friday.

A. contend B. contact

C. constitute D. conflict

6. It was then that I ___ a change come over her face.

A. watched B. fixed

C. noted D. located

7. With such poor ___ he really needs glasses.

A. vision B. view

C. sense D. scene

8. I’ll never ___ to her marrying that man.

A. promise B. content

C. consent D. allow

9. It is only by ___ that you see me here. I ought to be in the office.

A. surprise B. incident

C. mistake D. accident

10. It is desired that he ___ his plan right away.

A. carries out B. had carried out

C. would carry out D. carry out

11. The major read the order and then passed it ___ to the commander.

A. away B. off

C. along D. apart

12. I caught my shirt on a nail and nearly had it torn ___ .

A. off B. up

C. away D. down

13. My wool sweater ___ when I washed it.

A. decreased B. withdrew

C. shrank D. flooded

14. I caught a ___of the bus before it disappeared around the corner.

A. vision B. glimpse

C. look D. view

15. He is ___ to getting up early and doing morning exercise in the nearby park everyday.

A. intended B. accustomed

C. probable D. easy

16. The event will be televised ___.

A. alive B. live C. lively D. living

17. Bill ___ a job in a factory, but he refused to take it.

A. was offered B. offered C. was offering D. had offered

18. If the earth suddenly ___ spinning, we would all fly off it.

A. had stopped B. stopped C. has stopped D. would stopped

19. Soldiers are all eager to ___ special skills, which are useful when they are on duty and after they are discharged.

A. acquire B. conquer C. obtain D. achieve

20. The new comer had found it impossible to ___to the climate sufficiently to make permanent homes in the new country.

A. adept B. adopt C. adapt D. admit

21. ___ coal, the most important natural fuels are the gas and oil.

A. Except for B. Except C. Beside D. Apart from

22. For years, students were ___ that with a college degree in hand they could acquire a good job.

A. supposed B. promised C. assumed D. assured

23. Many difficulties have ___ as a result of the change over to a new type of fuel.

A. risen B. arisen C. raised D. arrived

24. No fault is attached ___ the bus driver for the terrible accident at the railway crossing.

A. for B. with C. in D. to

25. Our troops have little difficulty in breaking ___the enemy’s line.

A. out B. down C. off D. through

26. There was only one of my friends ___ lending me so much money.

A. able to B. capable to C. can be D. capable of

27. This hotel ___ $60 for a single room with bath.

A. claims B. demands C. prices D. charges

28. After years of hard work, these researchers have at last discovered a new ___ to cancer treatment.

A. channel B. road C. route D. approach

29. In your first days at the school, you’ll be given a test to help the teacher to ___you to a class at your level.

A. locate B. assign C. deliver D. place

30. Jim always ___ his classmates in a debate.

A. backs up B. backs away C. backs down D. backs out

31. Much ___ I have traveled, I have never seen anyone to equal her in efficiency.

A. although B. as C. while D. if

32. On our vacation in Texas, our car broke___ in the middle of a desert.

A. off B. down C. through D. up

33. ___ all of us who are here tonight, I would like thank Mr.Brown for his talk.

A. On behalf of B. On account of

C. In honor of D. In terms of

34. After lunch I felt ___ enough to ask my boss for a rise.

A. strong B. bold C. encouraged D. fearless

35. Although they plant trees in this area every year, the tops of some hills are still ___.

A. blank B. hollow C. vacant D. bare

36.Her life was devoted to caring ___the sick and needy.

A. of B. with C. about D. for

37. Children are ___ to have some accidents as they grow up.

A. obvious B. indispensable C. bound D. doubtless

38. The major ___ of working with the company was the opportunity to travel.

A. gift B. problem C. benefit D. result

39 . The production of raw materials ___ a considerable proportion of the national economy.

A. accounts on B. accounts to C. accounts for D. ends up

40. While most people approve ___ this system, there are some problems with it.

A. in B. of C. for D. on

　　III.Reading　Comprehension

Many private institutions of higher education around the country are in danger. Not all will be saved, and perhaps not all deserve to be saved. There are low-quality schools just as there are low-quality business. We have no obligation to save them simply because they exist. But many thriving institutions that deserve to continue are threatened. They are doing a fine job educationally, but they are caught in a financial difficulty, with no way to reduce rising costs or increase revenues significantly. Raising tuition doesn’t bring in more revenue, for each time tuition goes up. Schools are bad businesses, whether public or private, not usually because of bad management but because of the nature of the enterprise. They lose money on every customer, and they can go bankrupt either from too few students or too many students. Even a very good college is a very bad business.

It is such colleges, thriving but threatened, that I worry about. Low enrollment is not their chief problem. Even with full enrollments, they may go under. Efforts to save them, and preferably to keep them private , are a national necessity.

There is no basis for arguing that private schools are bound to be better than public schools. There are abundant examples to the contrary. Anyone can name state universities and colleges that rank as the finest in the nation and the world. It is now inevitable that public institutions will be dominant, and therefore diversity is a national necessity. Diversity in the way we support schools tends to give us a healthy diversity in the forms of education. In an imperfect society such as ours, uniformity of education throughout the nation could be dangerous. In an imperfect society, diversity is a positive good. Eager supporters of public higher education know the importance of sustaining private higher education.

1. In the passage, the author appeals to the public to support ___.

A. private higher education in general

B. public higher education in general

C. high-quality private universities and colleges

D. high-quality state universities and colleges

2. According to the passage, schools are bad businesses because of ___.

A. the nature of school

B. poor teachers

C. bad management

D. too few students

3. What does the phrase “go under”( Par. 2, sentence 3) probably mean?___.

A. have low tuition

B. get into difficulties

C. do a bad job educationally

D. have high tuition

4. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. There are many cases to indicate that private schools are superior to public schools.

B. The author thinks diversity of education is preferable to uniformity of education.

C. A high-quality university is always a good business.

D. Each time tuition is raised, the enrollment goes up.

Humanity’s primal efforts to systematize the concepts of size, shape, and number are usually regarded as the earliest mathematics. However, the concept of number and the counting process developed so long before the time of recorded history ( there is archaeological evidence that counting was employed by humans as far back as 50,000 years ago) that the manner of this development is largely conjectural. Imagining how it probably came about is not difficult. The argument that humans, even in prehistoric times, had some number sense, at least to the extent of recognizing the concepts of more and less when some objects were added to or taken away from a small group, seems fair, for studies have shown that some animals possess such a sense.

With the gradual evolution of society, simply counting became imperative. A tribe had to know how many members it had and how many enemies, and a shepherd needed to know if the flock of sheep was decreasing in size. Probably the earliest way of keeping a count was by some simple tally method, employing the principle of one-to-one correspondence. In keeping a count of sheep, for example, one finger per sheep could be turned under, counts could also be maintained by making scratches in the dirt or on a stone, by cutting notches in a piece of wood, or by tying knots in a string.

Then, perhaps later, an assortment of vocal sounds was developed as a word tally against the number of objects in a small group. And still late, with the refinement of writing, a set of sighs was devised to stand for these numbers. Such an imagined development is supported by reports of anthropologists in their studies of present-day societies that are thought to be similar to those of early humans.

5. What does the passage mainly discuss?___

A. The efforts of early humans to care for herds of animals.

B. The development of writing.

C. The beginnings of mathematics.

D. Similarities in number sense between humans and animals.

6. The word “ conjectural” in line 4 is closest in meaning to ___.

A. complex B. based on guessing

C. unbelievable D. supported by careful research

7. What is the basic principle of the tally method described in the second paragraph?

A. The count is recorded permanently.

B. Calculations provide the total count.

C. Large quantities are represented by symbols.

D. Each marker represents a single object.

8. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as an early method of counting?

A. Cutting notches

B. Bending fingers

C. Piling stones

D. Tying knots

A good modern newspaper is an extraordinary p0iece of reading. It is remarkable first for　what it contains: the range of news from local crime to international politics, from sports to business to fashion to science, and the range of comment and special features as well, from editorial page to feature articles, from interviews to criticism of books, art, theatre, and music. A newspaper is even more remarkable for the way one reads it: never completely, never straight through, but always by jumping from here to there, in and out, glancing at one piece, reading another article all the way through, reading just a few paragraphs of the next. A good modern newspaper offers a variety to attract many different readers, but far more than any one reader is interested in. What brings this variety together in one place is its topicality, its immediate relation to what is happening in your world and your locality now. But immediacy and the speed of production that goes with it mean also that much of what appears in a newspaper has no more than transient value. For all these reasons, not two people really read the same paper: what each person does is to put together, out of the pages of that day’s paper, his own selection and sequence, his own newspaper. For all these reasons, reading newspapers efficiently, which means getting what you want from them without missing things you need but without wasting time, demands skill and self-awareness as you modify and apply the techniques of reading.

9. A modern newspaper is remarkable for all the following except its ___.

A. wide coverage B. uniform style

C. speed in reporting news D. popularity

10. According to the passage, the reason why no two people really read the “same” newspaper is that___.

A. people scan for the news they are interested in

B. different people prefer different newspapers

C. people are rarely interested in the same kind of news

D. people have different views about what a good newspaper is

11. It can be concluded from the passage that newspaper readers ___.

A. apply reading techniques skillfully

B. jump from on newspaper to another

C. appreciate the variety of a newspaper

D. usually read a newspaper selectively

12. A good newspaper offers “ a variety” to readers because ___.

A. it tries to serve different readers

B. it has to cover things that happen in a certain locality

C. readers are difficult to please

D. readers like to read different newspapers

He was in the first third-grade class I taught at Saint Mary’s School in Morris, Minnesota. All  34 of my students were dear to me, but Mark Eklund was one in a million. Very neat in appearance, he had that happy-to-be-alive attitude that made even his occasional mischievous delightful.

One morning my patience was growing thin when Mark talked once too often, and then I made a novice-teacher’s mistake. I looked at Mark and said, “ If you say one more word, I am going to tape your mouth shut!” But he talked again. Without saying a word, I proceeded to Mark’s desk, tore off two pieces of tape and made a big X with them over his mouth. After class he said to me, “Thank you for correcting me, Sister!”

The years flew by, and before I knew it Mark was in my class again. One Friday, things just didn’t feel right. We had worked on a new concept all week, and I sensed that the students were growing frustrated with themselves—and edgy with one another..So I asked them to list the names of the other students in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving a space between each name. Then I told them to think of the nicest thing they could say about each of their classmates and write it down.

It took the remainder of the class period to finish the assignment, but as the students left the room, each one handed me the papers. Charlie smiled. Mark said, “ Thank you for teaching me, Sister. Have a good weekend.”

That Saturday, I wrote down the name of each student on a separate sheet of paper, and I listed what everyone else had said about that individual. On Monday I gave each student his or her list. Some of them ran tow pages. Before long, th4e entire class was smiling. “Really?” I heard whispered. “I never knew that meant anything to anyone!” “I didn’t know others liked me so much!”

No one ever mentioned those papers in class again. Several years later, after I returned from a vacation, my parents met me at the airport. From them I knew that Mark was killed in Vietnam. So I attended the funeral. After the funeral, Mark’s father took a wallet out of his pocket. “They found this on Mark when he was killed. We thought you might recognize it.”

Opening the billfold, he carefully removed two worn pieces of notebook paper that had obviously been taped, folded and refolded many times. I knew without looking that the papers were the ones on which I had listed all the good things each of Mark’s classmates had said about him.

Mark’s classmates started to gather around us. Charlie smiled rather sheepishly and said, “I still have my list. It’s in the top drawer of my desk at home.” Chuck’s wife said, “ Chuck asked me to put his in our wedding album.”

That’s when I finally sat down and cried. I cried for Mark and for all his friends who would never see him again.

13. When Mark was in the third grade, he ___.

A. was very shy and quiet

B. was rough and disobedient

C. never talked without permission

D. often talked without permission

14. One Friday, the students were growing frustrated with themselves because ___.

A. the new concept they had been working on was too difficult

B. they were not interested in learning the new concept

C. the teacher became very impatient with them

D. the teacher was not familiar with the new concept

15. The reason why the students kept the lists of all the good things is that ___.

A. they missed each other after they departed

B. they treasured what made them feel good about themselves

C. they valued the teacher’s effort for copying all the good things about them

　　IV.Translation:

1. Even top corporate managers, who have mostly affected styles of leadership that can be characterized only as tough, cold and aloof, have begun to learn the lesson, and earn the benefits, of writing notes that lift people up.

2. The research “ points to the enormous human potential available in each society and the likelihood that only a very small amount of this human potential is fully developed,” he concluded.

3. You should know that my mother’s expressive command of English doesn’t reflect how much she actually understands.

4.Such a sweet gift – a piece of handmade writing, in an envelope that is not a bill, sitting in our friend’s path when she trudges home from a long day at work, a day our words will help repair.

5. We all want to get at the table, above the salt.

6. 选手们将他们比赛获得的成功归功于他们的教练。

7.他们一点也不相信他所说的被熊所袭击的故事。

8.他将他的毕生献给了照顾发展中国家的穷人。

9.近几年发生了巨大的变化，教育就是一个有利的证明。

10.从金钱的角度考虑，这项工作没有多少利润。但我从中获得了宝贵的经验。

　　V. Writing

Directions: For this part you are required to write a composition about HOW TO BECOME A WINNER IN LIFE in three paragraphs. Your composition should be about 100 words.

1. Success is very important in people’s life.

2. What kind of person is a winner as far as you are concerned.

3. How do you become a winner in your life.

　参考答案

Section A BABDDCDCAB

Section B ACDCDAC

Section C 1. they both ordered soup

2. But the soup was so hot

3. tears come to his eyes

4. ashamed to admit

5. who committed a great crime

6. which made me weep

7. too burned his mouth

8. why do you weep

9. had deceived him

10. hanged together with your brother

II.

1-10 ABBDBCACDD 11-20 CACBBBABAC

21-30 DDBDDDDDBA 31-40 BBABDDCCCB

III

CABBCBDCBADADAB

IV.

1.那些领导作风大体上做作不自然的公司高层经理们，其作风的特点只能是粗暴固执﹑冷漠无情﹑脱离群众，甚至这些人也开始学习写便笺去鼓舞人心，且获益匪浅。

2.该项研究显示，“每个社会都存在巨大的人类潜能，很可能只有很小一部分的人类的潜能得到了成分爱戴开发。”

3.你应该知道，我母亲的英语表达能力并不能反映出她实际的理解能力。

4.这样一份甜美的礼物—――　一页手写的文字，而并非帐单，装在一个信封里面，它就静静地躺在我们的朋友回家的路上，当朋友拖着一整天工作的劳顿缓慢地回家时，我们的话语将为他弥补一切。

5.我们都想身居要职，声名显赫。

6. The players owed it to their coach that they won at the sports meet.

7. They placed little credit in his story of his story of having been attacked by a bear.

8. He dedicated his whole life to taking care of the poor in the developing countries.

9.There has been rapid change in recent years, education is a case in point.

10. The work is not very profitable in terms of cash, but I am getting valuable experience from it.