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Section A (1 mark each) /=T:W*C
Directions: There are ten sentences in this section. Each sentence has something omitted. Choose the word or words from the four choices given to the best complete each sentence.Mark the corresponding letter with a single bar on the Answer sheet 1. Cg|\UKfy$
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1. The chairman proposed at the meeting that we have someone with D and imagination to design a marketing strategy. &F:.OVzX
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2. The fish moved silently through the water , C by short sweeps of its tail. Wffz&pR8
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3. A few workers have A the majority decision and gone into work despite the strike. &8Z.m,s]
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4. Philosophy differs from science in that its questions cannot be answered C by observation or experiment. C#4_`4{
A. emotionally B. deliberately C. empirically D. extremely
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5. The music the Three Brothers played yesterday is described in the paper as an explosive C of Latin American and modern jazz rhythms. C,A/29R,s
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6. Didn’t you find her enthusiasm for the project A ? Almost everyone on the team is now doing their utmost to resolve the difficulty. A2;6Vz=z
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7. Recently a large international conference was held with the aim of promoting B development in all countries. Br15S};Ce
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9. The delegates to the convention insist that steps be taken to stop the d of the world’s tropical forests. [3I|
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Directions: There are twenty sentences in this section. Each sentence has a word or phrase underlined. Below the sentence are four words of phrases marked A, B, C and D, Choose the word or phrases that is closet in meaning to the underlined one. Mark the corresponding letter with a single bar on the Answer sheet 1. 8e3eQ
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11.The other worry is that the entrepreneur will be forced to go public too early, so the investor can recoup his investment. Kvo&_:
A. get back B. get by C. get in D. get over zTjie
12.I n his speech, the president emphasized that the challenge to man’s future cannot be met by making marginal adjustments here and there. =4co$oD}
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13.Since nascent firms are more fragile than the most other traditional ones, they are even more vulnerable to economy-wide swings. lux
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14.The success of the event will be determined by the vagaries of the wearther. rhy-o?
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15.The effects of the drought have been exacerbated by a history of agricultural problems. JO0o@M5H
A. degraded B. endangered C. aggravated D. accelerated BWy-R6br
16.The depression is forcing us to make a series of retrenchments, which has led to large numbers of lay-offs in the industry. R:YVmqd
A. recoveries B. reductions C. retreats D. restorations "mQcc}8
17.Such persons are accountants licensed on the basis of educational background, a rigorous certification examination, and relevant field experience. aEvbGo
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18.The association publishes the weekly magazine Science, as well a various symposium volumes. iiMS3ueF
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19.Some radiators have a zigzag pattern of tubes to increase their length and surface area. rMi\#[oB
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20.A characteristic European village had a cluster of houses in the middle, surrounded by rudely cultivated fields comprising individually owned farmlands. `Ucj_6&Tqs
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Part Ⅱ Close test (20minutes,20 marks, 1 mark each ) T@U,<[,
Directions: Choose the best word(s) from those suggested to fill each blank in the text below, Mark your choices on Answer sheet 1. jIT|Kk&]
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During the past ten years a great deal of attention has been given to “telling it like it is.” My impression is that this devotion 21 speaking one’s mind has more often 22 hurt feelings and ruined relationships than to great joy. 8`urkEI^r
I think we generally agree that never 23 real feelings and withholding all less-than-lovely thoughts about each other 24 leads to construct communication. It’s a great 25 to allow ourselves to admit our human weaknesses and pursue more honest relationships with others.26 we need to keep a balance between telling it all and telling nothing. r^}0qO,XM
Recently I received a letter from a mother who had been 27 by her son to attend a weekend meeting with him.28 pressure from the group her defenses cracked and she heard herself telling her son for the first 29 that he had been an accident-that she hadn’t been planning to have a 30 . He, in turn, told her that he couldn’t 31 a single day in his childhood that he’d been happy. “At that time”, this woman wrote, “it seemed helpful. We cried and we made up, I thought telling 32 truth had been good for us. But the trouble is, it wasn’t the whole truth. By the time Tommy was born I did want him, and 33 he was happy. Ever since that day, we’ve both been troubled by some terrible 34 we exchanged.” I must admit I’ve come to the conclusion that some things are better left 35. Honesty is a fine policy, but we need a new sense of balance. Disclosing is not a 36 to every problem. Nor even an end 37. It’s useful under some circumstances and terribly hurtful under 38. It’s a good idea, I think, to bite your tongue for ten or fifteen minutes before saying what’s on your 39. Try to decide whether it’s going to open up new and better ways of communication or 40 wounds that may never heal. 1b3k|s4
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22. A. stirred up B. led to C. gave off D. brought about ZH;4e<gg
23. A. exhausting B. expanding C. expressing D. experiencing Z/G#3-5)p
24. A. always B. seldom C. never D. only #J&3Zds
25. A. belief B. replacement C. abandonment D. relief NL$z4m0
26. A. And B. But C. Further D. Though ~nU9j"$
27. A. pursued B. cheated C. induced D. persuaded |YROxY"ML
28. A. Form B. Out of C. Under D. Along with D1Zy Js#
29. A. time B. round C. place D.hour GJcxqgk$
30. A. juvenile B. infant C. child D. descendent tUxH6IS
31. A. receive B. revise C. recall D. remind ]VKQm(,0
32. A. the B. no C. any D. little A/I\MN|
33. A. at times B. at a time C. at one time D. at the time L}rZ1wV6
34. A. stories B. feeling C. moods D. manners 3{?X>6T
35. A. unreported B. unwritten C. unhealed D. uncovered dB6,pY(
36. A. clue B. decision C. key D. solution :Q("
37. A. on itself B. by itself C. for itself D. in itself E|c(#P{
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Part Ⅲ Reading comprehension (60minutes,30 marks, 1 mark each) }Mt)57rU
Directions: In this part of the test, there are six short passages. Read each passage carefully, and then do the questions that follow. Choose the best answer A, B, C and D, and mark the corresponding letter with a single bar on Answer sheet 1. %Hd[,duwO
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The film The Tides of Kirawira, which won two awards at a recent television festival, was made by Mark Deeble and Victoria Stone. The couple are in England to visit friends and family before heading back to Tanzanoa for their next project. vO2WZ7E!
“We met in London when Mark was studying zoology and I was at the Royal College of Art studying photography,” says Victoria. “We both learned to dive at the same pool in London and went on diving weekends in the country. It was a horrible place, freezing cold, where we dived in wetsuits full of holes. But at least we got our qualifications.” lM4 Z7mT /
After their studies they became involved in the management of a conversation area in the mouth of the River Fal in Cornwall. “We needed some underwater photographs,” says Victoria. “I turned the pictures into a traveling exhibition. Then we heard about plans to expand the port at Falmouth,” she continues.
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“We were horrified. Nobody seemed to be aware of the river’s ecological importance. So we thought, why don’t we make a film to show people what a special place it is? ”A television company agreed to found them and the film they produced about the underwater life of the River Fal was shown on television and won a number of awards. bKsjbYuo
By then, they both knew they wanted to work with wildlife in distant places around the world. “We found that working underwater had created an opportunity in the highly competitive world of wildlife film-making,” says Victoria. “The next thing that happened was that Alkan Root, the famous East African wildlife film-maker asked us to work for him.” C\5G43`
That was seven years ago and the job took them to the Serengeti to film crocodiles. Their film, Here Be Dragons, was a huge success. “Everyone loved the contrast between the extraordinary love of the mother crocodiles for their babies and the horror-movie aspect of the six-metre males, attacking wildebeest,” Says Victoria. Mark and Victoria were soon on their travels again, this time to the coast of America, to make a film called Devil Fish for BBC television. “We love Africa but we have to come back to England every year,” says Victoria. “We need to return to see our friends and family. For us, Africa is temporary and England means permanence. It’s the difference between living in a tent in Tanzania and a house in Cornwall. We are lucky…we have the best of both worlds.” N!~]D[D
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45. What does Victoria mean when she says “We have the best of both worlds”? 0,RYO :`
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In the sixteenth century, tens of millions of people across Europe came to believe that their lives and well-being were being threatened by witches. Today tens of millioms of people across the United States have come to believe that the social security system is plunging into insolvency. Historians still debatethe origins of the hysteria surrounding witches whereas the source of the social security panic is much clear. _Kaqx"D
If social security can be dismantled even partially, and replaced by a government-mandated savings scheme, it will place tens of trillion of dollars under the control of the financial industry in coming decades. This will lead to hundreds of billion of dollars of additional fees and commissions.The industry’s pursuit of this windfall supports the research, conferences, and editorials that keep the “social security crisis” in the public eye. a({Rb?b
The basic facts show that social, security is in fine shape. It currently is running a surplus of more than 60 billion a year. The program does exactly what it was supposed to do. It provides a base retirement income sufficient to keep tens of million of retirees out of poverty. It also provides disability and life insurance for virtually the entire working population. Social security is extremely efficient. Its administrative expenses are just 0.7 percent of benefits, compared to more than 30 percent for private insurers. If the tax and benefit structure are left exactly as specified in current law, the fund’s reserves will be depleted in 2029. At that point, annual tax revenue will be sufficient to pay only 76 percent of benefits. If the fund is to be kept solvent beyond 2029, revenue will have to increase, or benefits will have to be cut. This is crisis in the same way that a car headed westward in the middle of Kansas faces a crisis. If it doesn’t stop or ture, the car will eventually fall into the Pacific Ocean, but it’s hard to get too worried about the possibility. >4wigc
Most senior citizens live fairly close to the poverty line already. Their median household income is only about £ 18,000. Therefore benefit cuts are not a good idea, unless the intention is to throw our parents into poverty. In any case the tax increases needed to maintain the fund’s solvency for its seventy-five-year planning horizon are not terribly oncrous. For example, one way would be to increase the social security tax at a rate of 0.1 percent a year,0.05 percent each for the employer and the employee for thirty-six years beginning in 2010 and continuing until 2046-a total of 36 percentage points. This rate of tax increase would allow the average real wage net of taxes to rise 0.9 percent a year, so that in the year 2046 it would be approximately 5 percent higher it is today. This “burden”should not give our children and grandchildren too much to complain about. I>.pkf<V
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49. The writer proposes that the workers should increase the social security tax from 2010 on at a rate of HHw&BN