Part I Vocabulary and Structure (15 points) Directions: There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices

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1 Part I Vocabulary and Structure (15 points) 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 ANSWER SHEET I with a single line through the center. 1. He s color-blind and can t the difference between red and green easily. A. detect B. discover C. distinguish D. determine 2. As many as 100 species of fish, some to these waters, may have been affected by the pollution. A. unusual B. particular C. typical D. unique 3. In her bright yellow coat, she was easily in the crowed. A. accessible B. identifiable C. negligible D. incredible 4. Some people find that certain foods their headaches. A. introduce B. trigger C. summon D. create 5. The workers chose to their dissatisfaction in a series of strikes. A. deliver B. offer C. manifest D. indicate 6. Living with a roommate constraint on her---- she couldn t play her trumpet or have parties late at night. A. imposed B. illustrated C. impressed D. left 7. I don t know how to get there either perhaps we d better a map. A. note B. mark C. consult D. draft 8. In the of recent incidents, we asking our customers to take particular care of their belongings. A. evidence B. company C. light D. form 9. The police are doing all the can to bring those responsible for the bombing to A. evidence B. hearing C. justice D. rule 10. The programme aims to make the country in food and to cut energy imports. A. self-confident B. self-sufficient C. self-satisfied D. self-restrained 11. I think I d like to stay home this evening going out as it is raining to heavily. A. better than B. other than C. rather than D. sooner than 12. The public can rest that detectives are doing everything possible to find the murderer. A. assured B. approved C. guaranteed D. convinced 13. The child s bad behavior is often more than a way of trying to his mother s attention away from his sister. A. reflect B. catch C. deflect D. reduce 14. The small building was marked with a modest brass, stating the name and the business of the occupiers. A. plaque B. plateau C. plague D. plaster 15. I don t know what all the was about----it was a dull sort of a film and there was almost no sex in it. A. coutroversy B##### C.### D.##### 16. I missed the last flight, and declded to stay the night at the airport. A. however B. therefore C. moreover D. meanwhile 17. You could be many dangers by traveling alone in that area. A. subject to B. immune to C. sensitive to D. resistant to 1

2 18. She chewed each delicious mouthful as slowly as she could, the pleasure. A. delaying B. prolonging C. insisting D. indulging 19. The candidate has an impressively range of interests and experience. A. diverse B. vivid C. mobile D. alive 20. When I was sent to prison, I really felt I had my parents. A. let off B. let down C. let out D. let alone 21. He outrage by calling the TV programmes talking wallpaper A. provnked B. evoked C. revoked D. invoked 22.The governments is trying to the people into thinking that a war is necessary. A. enlighten B. involve C. orient D. brainwash 23. All the questions around what she had been doing on the night of the robbery. A. dissolved B. revolved C. evolved D. devolved 24. Make sure you re him before you start sharing a house. A. synonymous with B. compatible with C. subordinate to D. autonomous of 25. She said that the treatment she had received in the hospital has completely her as her dignity. A. thrived B. suspended C. deprived D. contrived 26. She was unimpressed by the describing him as a vain man and dull A. intensively B. intensely C. downright D. actual 27. down than the telephone rang. A. Not until 1 lay B. No sooner had 1 lain C. Hardly had 1 lain D. Searcely did 1 lie 28. I m sorry I m late ----I had a mental and forget that we would have a meeting today. A. aberration B. perversion C. imbalance D. sanity 29. I ignored an old woman who asked me for money in the street yesterday and it s been on my ever since. A. morality B. conscience C. morale D. rationale 30. He saw university as a community of schlars, where students were by teachers into an appreciation of different philosophical approaches. A. extracted B. deducted C. inducted D. conducted Part II Reading Comprehension (40 points) Directions: There are 4 reading 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. Choose the best answer and mark corresponding letter on ANSWER SHEET I with a single line through the center. (1) I am running down an alley with a stolen avocado, having climbed over a white brick fence and into the forbidden back yard of a carefully manicured estate at the comer of E1 Dorado and Crescent Drive in Beverly Hills, California. I have snatched a rock-hard Fuerte avocado from one of the three avocado trees near the fence. I have been told that many ferocious dogs patrol the grounds; they are killers, these dogs. I am defying them. They are nowhere to be found, except in my mind, and I m out and gone and in the alley with their growls directing my imagination. I am running with fear and exhilaration, beginning a period of summer. 2

3 Emerging from the shield of the alley I cut out into the open. Summer is about running, and I am running protected by distance from the dogs. At the corner of Crescent Drive and Lomitas I spot Bobby Tomitzer on a bike. I shout Tomitzer! He turns his head. His bike wobbles. An automobile moving rapidly catches Tomitzer s back wheel. Tomitzer is thrown high into the air and onto the concrete sidewalk of Crescent Drive. The driver, a woman with gray hair, swirls from the car hysterically and hovers noisily over Tomitzer, who will not survive the accident. I hold the avocado to my chest and stand, frozen, across the street. I am shivering in the heat, and sink to my knees. It is approximately 3:30 in the aftemoon. It is June 21,1946. In seven days, I will be 8 years old. 31. The best title for this story could be A. Summer B. Killer Dogs C. My Eighth Birthday D. The Alley 32. The main image in paragraph 1 is of a young boy A. climbing a white brick fences B. snatching avocados C. running with fear and exhilaration D. defying femcious dogs 33. The main image in paragraph 2 is of A. Tomitzer riding his bike B. exhilaration turning into horror C. the 7-year-old emerging from the alley D. the hysteria of the woman driver 34. The story start with the feeling of and ends with the feeling of. A. joyful action horrified inaction B. being alone standing C. being alone being with others D. being alone in the open shivering in the heat 35. The phrase shivering in the hest (near the end of this passage) dramatically describes shock through A. the use of minute detail B. the unexpected combination of hot and cold C. its implied reference to the word frozen D. the contrast of death and play (2) Analysts have had their go at humor, and I have read some of this interpretative literature, but without being greatly instructed. Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to and but the pure scientific mind. In a newsreel theatre the other day I saw a picture of a man who had developed the soap bubble to a higher point than it had ever before reached. He had became the ace soap bubble blower of America, had perfected the business of blowing bubbles, refined it, doubled it, squared it, and had even worked himself up into a convenient lather. The effect was not pretty. Some of the bubbles were too big to be beautiful, and the blower was always jumping into them or out of them, 3

4 or playing some sort of unattractive trick with them. It was, it anything, a rather repulsive sight. Humor is a little like that: it won t stand much blowing up, and it won t stand much poking. It has a certain fragility, an evasiveness, which one had best respect. Essentially, it is a complete mystery. A human frame convulsed with laughter, and the laughter becoming hysterical and uncontrollable, is as far out of balance as one shaken with the hiccoughs or in the throes of a sneezing fit. One of the things commonly said about humorists is that they really very sad people clown with a breaking heart. There is some truth in it, bur it is badly stated. It would be more accurate, I think, to say that there is a deep vein of melancholy running through everyone s life and that the humorist, perhaps more sensible of it than some others, compensates for it actively and positively. Humorist fatten on trouble. The have always made trouble pay. They struggle along with a good will and endure pain cheerfully, knowing how well it will serve them in the sweet by and by. You find them wrestling with foreign languages, fighting folding ironing boards and swollen drainpipes, suffering the terrible discomfort of tight boots (or as Josh Billing wittily called them, the boots). They pour out their sorrows profitably, in a form that is not quite fiction nor quite fact either. Beneath the sparkling surface of these dilemmas flows the strong tide of human woe. 36.The central theme of this essay is: A. There is little humor in old newsreel. B. Humor can be dissected like a frog. C. Humor is essentially a mystery, and because humorists are more aware of melancholy, they seem sadder than most people. D. Humorists need to compensate for the pain they have suffered. 37. The main idea of paragraph 2 is: A. The author once saw a picture of the largest soap bubble ever made B. The bubble blowing performance was a repulsive sight. C. Humor is fragile. D. Laughter is not a measure of humor. 38. Why does the author feel that when humor is dissected, it dies in the process? A. The fun in humor lies in examining its contents B. Humor must tantalize the senses on impact----if it has to be explained, it loses its effect. C. Humor is best enjoyed by people with scientific minds. D A good humorist should explain his or her joke to make sure everyone understands it. 39. The word melancholy in paragraph 3 probably means. A. joy B. sadness C. hysteria D. exhilaration 40. In his final sentence, the author is evoking an image of A. the ocean B. sparkling germs C. high tide D. flowing water (3) Every time an old building is tom down in this country, and a new building goes up, the ground floor becomes a bank. 4

5 The reason for this is that banks are the only ones who can afford the rent for the ground floor of the new building going up. Besides, when bank loans someone money to build a new building, it usually takes an option for the street-floor facilities. Most people don t think there is anything wrong with this and they accept it as part of the American free-enterprise system. But there is a small group of people in this country who are fighting for Bank Birth Control. This is how Huddlestone Hubbard, the BBC s chairman, explained it. whenever you see an building torn down, Hubbard said, you usually see a candy store, a dry cleaner, a delicatessen, and possibly a florist torn down with it. These shops are all replaced in the new buildings with a beautiful glass, aluminum, wall-to wall-carpeted money factor. Now from an aesthetic viewpoint, a bank looks better than a fry cleaner, a candy store, a delicatessen and a florist. But from a practical point of view, it s a sheer disaster. If you want a newspaper, a candy bar or a chocolate milk shake, you can t get it a bank. Nor can you run out to a bank for a pound of Swiss cheese and a six-pack of beer when have guests coming over. A bank is great if you want to buy a car, but it s useless if you want to have your dress cleaned. And while a bank might buy flowers to give itself a human image, it doesn t sell any when you want to make up with your wife. What you re saying then, Mr. Hubbard, is that every time a bank goes up, something in all of us dies. Exactly. One of the reasons kids are getting in so much trouble these days is that there are candy stores to hang around anymore. When tear down a delicatessen, the tangy smell of potato salad, comed beef and dill pickles are lost forever. Unless you re trying to make a loan, no one ever salivates in a bank. It is true, I said. The situation is more crucial than anyone thinks, Hubbard said. at the rate they re tearing down consumer stores and replacing them with banks, we estimate that in ten years it will be impossible to buy a loaf of bread in the country. What good is it to get 7 percent on your money if you starve to death? Then what you re saying is that it isn t a question of not taking it with you. It s question of staying alive while you have it, I said. Something like that, Hubbard agreed. we re tying to get the public to wake up to e fact it s better to have a store that sells screwdrivers than a bank that gives away alarm clocks. what s the solution? A govemment decree that a bank has to supply the same services of the stores it true down on the same property. If it s a bakery, they have to sell cake, if it s a photography shop, they have to develop films, and if it s a dry-goods store, they have to sell warm underwear. If they provide the services of the stores they tore down, then we ll let them do a little money lending on the side. 41. The central theme of the essay is: A. Practically every new commercial building erected today is owned by a bank. B. Banks are attempting to drive small merchants out of service. C. New banks are not assets to a neighborhood in spite of their attractive appearance. D. By occupying ground floor space in new buildings, banks are replacing neighborhood 5

6 shopping conveniences. 42. This essay is written in a tone of A. humorous exaggeration B. humorous understatement C. serious anger D. serious fear of the futrue 43. The author talks about the Bank Birth Control group because A. it is the name of a real group B. he hopes to become its president C. he is being humorous to make his point D. he is being humorous to make his point 44. He is inn favor of the author toward small neighborhood stores is that they A. are dirty B. are convenient and colorful C. should be replaced by banks D. should become supermarkets 45. The author makes his point by using A. satire B. drama C. romance D. poetry (4) What if our society uses new-found technologies of genetic engineering to interfere with the biological nature of human beings? Might that not be disastrous? What about cloning, for instance? Cloning is a term originally used in connection with nonsexual reproduction of plants and very simple animal. Now it is coming into use in connection with higher animals, since biologists are finding ways of starting with an individual cell of a grown animal and inducing it to multiply into the same way in the future. But is cloning a safe thing to unleash on society? Might It not be used for destructive purposes? For instance, might not some ruling group decide to clone their submissive, downtrodden peasantry, and thus produce endless hordes of semi-robots who will slave to keep a few in luxury and who may even serve as endless ranks of soldiers designed to conquer the rest of the world? A dreadful thought, but an unnecessary fear. For one thing, there is no need to clone for the purpose. The ordinary method of reproduction produces all the human beings that are needed and as rapidly as is needed. Right now, the ordinary method is producing so many people as to put civilization in danger of imminent destruction. What more can cloning do? Secondly, unskilled semi-robots cannot be successfully pitted against the skilled users of machine, either on farms, in factories or in armies. Any nation depending on downtrodden masses will find itself an easy mark for exploitation by a less populous but more skilled and versatile society. This has happened in the past often enough. But even if we forget about self-hords, what about the cloning of a relatively few individuals? There are rich people who could afford the expense, or politicians who could have the influence 6

7 for it, or the gifted who could undergo it by popular demand. There can be two if a particular banker or governor or scientist or three or a thousand. Might this not create a kind of privileged caste, who would reproduce themselves in greater and greater numbers, and who would gradually take over the world? Before we grow concemed about this, we must ask whether there will really be any great demand for cloning. Would you want to be cloned? The new individual formed your cell will have your genes and therefore your appearance and, possibly, talents, but he will not be you. The clone will be, at best, merely your identical twin. Identical twins share the same genetic pattem, but they each have own individuality and are separate persons. Cloning is not a pathway to immortality, then, because your consciousness does not survive in your clone, any more than it would in your identical twin if you had one. In fact, your clone would be far less than your identical twin. What shapes and forms a personality is not genes alone, but all the environment to which it is exposed. Identical twins grow up in identical surroundings, in the same family, and under each other s influence. A clone of yourself, perhaps thirty of forty years younger, would grow up in a different world altogether and would be shaped by influences that would be sure to make him less and less like you as he grows older. He may even earn your jealousy. After all, you are old and he is young. You may once have been poor and struggled to become well-to-do, but he will be well-to-do form the start. The mere fact that you won t be able to view it as a child, but as another competing and better-advantaged you, may accentuate the jealousy. No! imagine that, after some initial experiments, the demand for cloning will be virtually nonexistent. 46. The central theme of the essay is: A. Genetic engineers are experimenting with cloning. B. The cloning of human could produce a privileged class. C. worries about the dangers of human cloning are ill-founded. D. Personality traits cannot be passed on though cloning. 47. The author assumes that the readers is A. afraid of a nation of dictators B. worried about the abuses of cloning C. egger to put cloning to practical use D. ready to be cloned 48. The author assumes that the reader thinks immortality A. frightening B. unavoidable C. profitable D. desirable 49. To hold the reader s interest, the author A. used quotations by famous people B. asks frequent questions of the reader C. presents many research statistics D. tells many amusing stories 50. The word hordes as used the passage means 7

8 A. swarms of fish B. large groups of people C. mountain ranges D. large fields of grain Paper Two Part III Cloze (10%) Directions: Fill in each of the following blanks with ONE word to complete the meaning of the passage. Write your answer on Answer Sheet II. A considerable amount of medical research is aimed at identifying risk factors for disease. The rationale behind this work is that where people are informed of their risk, they will happily change their behavior to lower that risk. 51 This is certainly a reasonable assumption, it turns out that things are not quite that simple and straightforward. First of all, health is not necessarily a top priority in everyone s life and, for these people, changing behavior in the interests of health may interfere 52 such changes rarely are immediate or obvious. Usually, improvements in health take palace over long periods of time and are quite subtle. 54, we are all so bombarded with information about the thousands of health hazards of health hazards to which we are exposed 55 most of us tune out much of this information. This latter issue is compounded by the fact that much of new information to which we are exposed through the media is exaggerated and, as often as not, is contradicted later by even newer information. For these and other reasons, simply knowing about a risk does not necessarily ensure that people will take appropriate steps to 56 it. 57 when people want to change their behavior, this is not easy to do. For example, the overwhelming majority of smokers in this country want to quit, but 58 great effort very few are able to do so. Most smokers acknowledge, at some level, that health hazards associated with smoking and most wish that there were a simple and painless way to stop. 59 the number of people who want to lose weight is very large, but few of these people are able to do it and even 60 are able to maintain such weight losses. Part IV Translation (20%) Directions: Put the following passage into English. Write your English version on Answer Sheet II. 我认为没有人不喜欢到处去看看 : 多看看他人, 多阅他乡, 不但可以认识世界, 亦可以认识自己 有人旅行时乘豪华游轮, 谢灵运再世大概也会如此 有人背负行囊, 翻山越岭 ; 有人骑自行车环游天下 这些都令人羡慕 我所优为的, 却是驾车长征, 去看天涯海角 我的太太比我更爱旅行, 所以夫妻两人正好互作旅伴, 这一点只怕徐霞克也要羡慕 不过徐霞客是大旅行家 大探险家, 我们, 只是浅游而已 Part V Writing (15%) Directions: plagiarism (L. plagiarius: kidnapper), is generally considered as the use or close imitation author s original language, thouthts, ideas, or expressions, and the representation of them as one s own original work. Within academia, plagiarism is considered academic dishonesty or academic fraud, and is punished by sanctions ranging from suspension to termination, along with the loss of credibility and integrity, as well as other severe career damages. In an essay entitled: Reflection on Plagiarism. You are expected to make your comments on 8

9 this issue in about 250 words. Remember to write your composition of Answer Sheet II. 9