Part Ⅰ Listening Comprehension (10%) (略)
Part Ⅱ Vocabulary and Structures (10%) Section A
Directions: In this section, there are ten incomplete sentences. Beneath each of the sentences you will see four words or phrases, marked A, B, C and D．Choose the one word or phrase that completes best the sentence, and mark out your choice on the ANSWER SHEET.
16．The concept of a loyal opposition—the ______ of modern democracy—rarely prevails and, much more frequently, opposition is equated with treason and ruthlessly suppressed.
A．loop B．essence C．equivalent D．velocity 17．Timmer is known as a touch manager who demands ______ results.
A．credible B．undeniable C．dynamic D．tangible 18．He has been plowing through a biography of Lyndon Johnson and a______ of Henry Kissinger.
A．casualty B．criteria C．dissection D．necessity
19．Now the public has an unprecedented chance to peer over the shoulders of archaeologists and historians and get a firsthand look at the ______ of the Mongols and their Asian predecessors.
A．legacy B．bequest C．converse D．miracle
20．In the search for solution to seemingly overwhelming problems, it became increasingly ______to include radical, even revolutionary ideas.
A．stable B．absolute C．immortal D．plausible
21．Researchers at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh announced they had discovered ______evidence that a virus is involved in what used to be called juvenile diabetes.
A．incessant B．compelling C．identical D．problematic 22．Stephen Schneider, a climatologist at Stanford, notes that unlike greenhouse gases, which ______ rapidly around the globe, the sulfate droplets tend to concentrate over industrialized regions.
A．unify B．fragment C．disperse D．shatter
23．Now the juries, and ultimately the society they speak for, have to find some way to express ______ at the brutality that women and children face every day.
A．aggression B．extenuation C．outrage D．suppression 24．It was a type of urban story that continues to ______ big-city dwellers forward each day, a tale of hard work and self-starting initiative, of taking matters into one's own hands to make dreams come true.
A．propel B．penetrate C．baffle D．harness
25．The primordial fireball would have been a dense roiling stew of radiation and elementary particles condensing out of the ______ energy, annihilating each other, recondensing, then colliding and disappearing all over again.
A．colossal B．audacious C．ambient D．autonomous Section B
Directions: In this section, each sentence has four underlined words or phrases marked A, B, C and D．Identify the one underlined word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be correct, and mark out your choice on the ANSWER SHEET.
26．The lecturer made too a long speech, so every listener felt tired of him, and some even went out of the lecture hall without getting the permission from the speaker.
A B C D 27．It is raining hard outside. Haven't you taken an umbrella with you? A B C D
28．If he was to come here this afternoon, I should ask him to go to the party held by student union.
A B C D
29．He did not like abstract painting at all, so the more he looked at the drawings exhibited in the art gallery, the little he liked them.
A B C D
30．He is a well-known hardworking and clever student, and he often gets top scores in his class; so all his classmates are sure that he studies very hardly.
A B C D
31．He looked a little bit nervous, that could be seen from his facial expression. A B C D
32．Although the wages for all the members of the working staff increase regularly, so their expenses do; for the prices for everything are increasing dramatically at the same time.
A B C D
33．Sound waves travel in the air in much the same way like water waves spread on the water.
A B C D
34．Like any other constant repeated action, speaking has to be learned, but once it is learned, it becomes a generally unconscious and apparently automatic process.
A B C D 35．More and more old people whose grown - up children pay little attention to them gathered together and organize interesting activities for themselves.
A B C D Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension (25%)
Directions: In this section, you will read five passages. Each one is followed by several questions. You are to choose the one best answer to each question, and mark your choice on the ANSWER SHEET.
Passage One
Questions 36～40 are based on the following passage.
Large companies need a way to reach the savings of the public at large. The same problem, on a smaller scale, faces practically every company trying to develop new products and create new jobs. There can be little prospect of raising the sort of sums needed from friends and people we know, and while banks may agree to provide short-term finance, they are generally unwilling to provide money on a permanent basis for long-term projects. So companies run to public, inviting people to lend them money, or take a share in the business in exchange for a share in future profits. They do this issuing stocks and shares in the business through The Stock Exchange. By doing so, they can put into circulation the savings of individuals and institution, both at home and overseas. When the saver needs his money back, he does not have to go to the company with whom he
originally placed it. Instead, he sells his shares through a stockbroker to some other saver who is seeking to invest his money.
Many of the services needed both by industry and by each of us are provided by the Government or by local authorities. Without hospitals, roads, electricity, telephones, railways, this country could not function. All these require continuous spending on new equipment and new development if they are to serve us properly, requiring more money than is raised through taxes alone. The government, local authorities, and nationalized industries therefore frequently needed to borrow money to finance major capital spending, and they, too, come to The Stock Exchange.
There is hardly a man or woman in this country whose job or whose standard of living does not depend on the ability of his or her employers to raise money to finance new development. In one way or another, this new money must come from the savings of the country. The Stock Exchange exists to provide a channel through which these savings can reach those who need finance.
36．Almost all companies involved in new production and development must ______. A．rely on their own financial resources
B．persuade the banks to provide long-term finance
C．borrow large sums of money from friends and people we know D．depend on the population as a whole for finance
37．The money which enables these companies to go ahead with their projects is ______. A．repaid to its original owners as soon as possible B．raised by the selling of shares in the companies C．exchanged for part ownership in The Stock Exchange D．invested in different companies on The Stock Exchange 38．When the savers want their money back they ______. A．ask another company to obtain their money for them B．look for other people to borrow money from C．put their shares in the company back on the market D．transfer their money to a more successful company 39．All the essential services on which we depend are ______. A．run by the Government or our local authorities
B．in constant need of financial support C．financed wholly by rates and taxes
D．unable to provide for the needs of the population
40．The stock exchange makes it possible for the Government, local authorities and nationalized industries ______.
A．to borrow as much money as they wish B．to make certain everybody saves money C．to raise money to finance new developments D．to make certain everybody lends money to them
Passage Two
Questions 41～45 are based on the following passage:
The year 1400 opened with more peacefulness than usual in England. Only a few months before, Richard Ⅱ, weak, wicked, and treacherous— had been deposed, and Henry Ⅳ declared king in his stead. But it was only a seeming peacefulness, lasting for but a little while; for though King Henry proved himself a just and a merciful man—as justice and mercy went with the men of iron of those days—and though he did not care to shed blood needlessly, there were many noble families who had been benefited by King Richard during his reign, and who had lost some of their power and prestige from the coming of the new king.
Among these were a number of great lords who had been degraded from their former titles and estates, from which degradation King Richard had lifted them. They planned to fall upon King Henry and his followers and to massacre them during a great tournament which was being held at Oxford. And they might have succeeded had not one of their own members betrayed them.
But Henry did not appear on the lists; whereupon, knowing that he had been lodging at Windsor with only a few attendants, the conspirators marched there against him. In the meantime, the king had been warned of the plot, so that instead of finding him in the royal castle, they discovered through their scouts that he had hurried to London, and that he was marching against them as the head of a considerable army. So nothing was left but flight. One and another, they were all caught and some killed. Those few who found friends faithful and bold enough to afford them shelter dragged those friends down in their own ruin.
41．What does the author seem to think of King Henry? A．He was the best king England had ever had. B．He was unfair and cowardly. C．He was just as evil as King Richard. D．He was a better ruler than King Richard. 42．How did King Henry find out about the plot?
A．His scouts discovered it. B．He saw the conspirators coming. C．One of the conspirators told him. D．He found a copy of the conspirators' plan. 43．How did the conspirators find out that Henry was in London?
A．They saw him leave Windsor. B．Henry's attendants told them. C．They saw him at the tournament. D．Their scouts told them. 44．Why did the nobles wish to kill Henry?
A．Henry had taken away power given to them by Richard. B．Henry was weak, wicked, and treacherous.
C．Henry had needlessly killed members of their families. D．Henry had killed King Richard.
45．It can be inferred that Richard Ⅱ's reign was ______.
A．peaceful B．corrupt C．democratic D．illegal
Passage Three
Questions 46～50 are based on the following passage.
The ballad and the folk song have long been recognized as important keys to the thoughts and feelings of a people, but the dime novel though sought by the collector and referred to in a general way by the social historian, is dismissed with a smile of amusement by almost everyone else. Neither folk songs nor dime novels were actually created by the plain people of America. But in their devotion to these modes of expression, the people made them their own. The dime novel, interested as it was for the great masses and designed to fill the pockets of both author and publisher, quite naturally sought the lowest common denominator: themes that were found to be popular and attitudes that met with the most general approval became stereotyped. Moreover, the dime novel, reflecting a much wider range of attitudes and ideas than the ballad and the folk song, is the nearest thing we have had in this country to a true “proletarian” literature, that is, a literature
written for the great masses of people and actually read by them.
Although a study of our dime novels alone cannot enable anyone to determine what are the essential characteristics of the American tradition, it can contribute materially to that end. Sooner or later, the industrious researchers who have minded so many obscure lodes of American literary expression will almost certainly turn their attention to these novels and all their kind. Let no one think, however, that the salmon-covered paperbacks once so eagerly devoured by soldiers, lumberjacks trainmen, hired girl, and adolescent boys now make exciting or agreeable even for the historian, much as the social and historical implications may interest him. As for the crowds today who get their sensational thrills from the movies and the tabloids, I fear that they would find these hair-raisers of an earlier age deadly dull.
46．The principal intention of the author of a dime novel was to ______. A．explore a segment of American society B．promote the American political philosophy
C．raise the level of intelligence of the great masses of people D．make money
47．The “lowest common denominator” refers to ______. A．the poorer classes
B．themes and attitudes that would be accepted by the greatest number of people C．attitudes accepted by the American intellectuals D．the character of the authors of the dime novel 48．“Proletarian” literature is ______.
A．written for and read by the great masses of people B．distinguished by its devotion to pornography C．distinguished by its elegant style
D．written for, but not actually read by, most people
49．The author believes that a study of our dime novels ______. A．is a waste of time
B．would be sufficient in itself to determine the essential characteristics of the American tradition
C．would be a valuable contribution in determining the essential characteristics of the
American tradition
D．would be amusing but unimportant
50．Which of the followings implied in the passage?
A．The attitudes of the masses of people are best expressed by sociology texts. B．The nearest thing we have had to a proletarian literature is the dime novel.
C．The study of the formal literature alone will not enable the historian to understand the attitudes and interests of the common people.
D．Because the themes in the dime novels were not good, they could no longer be legally distributed.
Passage Four
Questions 51～55 are based on the following passage.
There are two methods of fighting, the one by law, the other by force; the first method is that of men, the second of beasts; but as the first method is often insufficient, one must have recourse to the second. It is, therefore, necessary for a prince to know how to use both the beast and the man. This was covertly taught to the rulers by ancient writers, who relate how Achiiles and many others of those ancient princes were given Chiron the centaur to be brought up and educated under his discipline. The parable of this semi-animal, semi-human teacher is meant to indicate that a prince must know how to use both natures, and that one without the other is not durable.
A prince, being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast, must imitate the fox, and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. Those that wish to be only lions do not understand this. Therefore, a prudent ruler ought not to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interest, and the reasons which made him bind himself no longer exist. If men were all good, this percept would not be a good one; but as they are bad, and would not observe their faith with you, so you are not bound to keep faith with them. Nor have legitimate grounds ever failed a prince who wishes to show colorable excuse for the unfulfilment of his promise. Of this one could furnish an infinite number of examples, and also how many times peace has been broken, and how man promises rendered worthless, by the faithlessness of princes, and those that have best been able to imitate the fox have succeeded best. But it is necessary to be able to disguise this character well, and to be a great feigner and dissembler, and men are so simple and so ready to obey present necessities, that the one who
deceives will always find those who allow themselves be to deceived.
51．The writer does not believe that ______.
A．the truth makes men free B．people can protect themselves C．princes are human D．leaders have to be consistent 52．“Prince” in the passage designates ______.
A．anyone in power B．elected officials C．aristocrats D．sons of kings 53．The lion represents those who are ______.
A．too trusting B．reliant on force C．strong and powerful D．lacking in intelligence 54．The fox, in the passage, is ______.
A．admired for his trickery B．no match for the lion C．pitied for his wiles D．considered worthless 55．The writer suggests that a successful leader must ______. A．be prudent and faithful B．cheat and lie C．have principle to guide his actions D．follow the truth
Passage Five
Questions 56～60 are based on the following passage.
These is a new type of advertisement becoming increasingly common in newspaper classified columns. It is sometimes placed among “situations vacant”, although it doesn't offer anyone job, and sometimes it appears “situations wanted”, although it is not placed by someone looking for a job either. What it does is to offer help in applying for a job.
“Contact us before writing your application”, or “Make use of our long experience in preparing your curriculum vitae or job history”, is how it is usually expressed. The growth and apparent success of such a specialized service is, of course, a reflection on the current high levels of unemployment, is also an indication of the growing importance of the curriculum vitae, with the suggestion that is may now qualify as an art form in its own right.
There was a time when job seeker simply wrote letters of application. “Just put down your name, address, age and whether you have passed any exams”, was about the average level of advice offered to young people applying for their first jobs when I left school. The letter was really just for openers, it was explained, and everything else could and should be saved for the
interview. And in those days of full employment the technique worked. The letter proved that you could write and were available for work. Your eager face and intelligent replies did the rest.
Later, as you moved up the ladder, something slightly more sophisticated was called for. The advice then was to put something in the letter, which would distinguish you from the rest. It might be the aggressive approach. “Your search is over. I am the person you are looking for,” was a widely used trick that occasionally succeeded. Or it might be some special feature specially designed for the job in view.
There is no doubt, however, that it is the increasing number of applicants with university education at all points in the process of engaging staff that has led to the greater importance of the curriculum vitae.
56．The new type of advertisement which is appearing in newspaper columns ______. A．informs job hunters of the opportunities available B．promises useful advice to those looking for employment C．divides available jobs into various types
D．informs employer that people are available for work
57．Nowadays a demand for this specialized type of service has been created because ______.
A．there is a lack of jobs available for artistic people B．there are so many top-level jobs available C．there are so many people out of work D．the job history is considered to be a work of art
58．In the past it was expected that first-job hunters would ______. A．write an initial letter giving their life history B．pass some exams before applying for a job
C．have no qualifications other than being able to read and write D．keep any detailed information until they obtained an interview
59．Later, as one went on to apply for more important jobs, one was advised to include in the letter ______.
A．something that would attract attention to one's application B．a personal opinion about the organization one was trying to join
C．something that would offend the person reading it D．a lie that one could easily get away with telling
60．The job history has become such an important document because ______. A．there has been an increase in the number of jobs advertised B．there has been an increase in the number of applicants with degrees C．jobs are becoming much more complicated nowadays D．the other processes of applying for jobs are more complicated Part Ⅳ Translation (40%) Section A (20%)
Directions: Translate the following passages into Chinese. Write your Chinese version on the ANSWER SHEET.
The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind: it is simply the mode by which all phenomena are reasoned about and given precise and exact explanations. The difference between the operations and methods of a baker weighing out his goods in common scales, and the operations of a chemist by means of his balance is not that the scales in the one case, and the balance in the other, differ in the principles of their construction or manner of working; but that the latter is a much finer apparatus and of course much more accurate in its measurement than the former.
Probably there is not one here who has not in the course of the day had occasion to set in motion of a complex train of reasoning, of the very same kind, though differing in degree, as that which a scientific man goes through in tracing the causes of natural phenomena.
Section B (20%)
Directions: Translate the following sentences into English and write your English version on the ANSWER SHEET.
1．荷花居污泥而不染，若为怕泥污而种在旱地上，它早就枯死了。人生也一样，避恶、避丑、避邪，只能说明自己心灵脆弱。
2．任何时候我们都必须坚持尊重社会发展规律与尊重人民历史主导地位的一致性，坚持为崇高理想奋斗与为广大人民谋利益的一致性，坚持完成党的各项工作与实现人民利益的一致性。
3．美国的经济体制主要是围绕着私人企业和以市场为导向而建立起来的，在这种经济
中，消费者们在很大程度上通过他们在市场上花钱购买他们最需要的货物和设施来决定厂家该生产什么。
4．在经济加快发展的过程中，又出现一些新的矛盾，特别是投资规模偏大，部分行业和地区盲目投资，低水平重复建设比较严重，能源、交通和部分原材料供求关系紧张。
5．回顾过去一年，我们清醒地看到，在前进道路上还有许多困难和问题，政府工作还有不少缺点，群众还有一些不满意的地方，多年积累的深层次矛盾从根本上解决还需要相当长时间。
Part Ⅴ Writing (15%)
It is known that more and more universities in China are seeking to increase their enrollment. As a result, more than ever universities are becoming career-oriented. Write a composition “University: Where Will You Go?” with 300 words to give your comment.
Topic: University: Where Will You Go
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