Part Ⅰ Listening Comprehension
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Part Ⅱ Vocabulary

Part A
   Directions: Beneath each of the following sentences, there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square bracket on ANSWER SHEET I.

A censership

B censureship

C sensorship

D censorship

A conquered

B contested

C dominated

D determined

A connotation

B denomination

C donation

D denotation

A valuing

B evaluating

C estimating

D weighing

A gut the feel of

B got the hang of

C gut the better of

D gut the worst of

A ideological

B idyllic

C idiotic

D idiomatic

A alterations

B alternatives

C alternations

D altercation

A fashion

B necessity

C proclivity

D nuisance

A oblivious

B patent

C obvious

D pernicious

A vague

B vigor

C vogue

D vulgar

Part B
   Directions: In each of the following sentences there is one word or phrase underlined. Below the sentence are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the word or phrase that is closest in meaning to the underlined one Mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square bracket on Answer Sheet I.

A rational

B obscure

C worldly

D eminent

A withdraw

B emerge

C recover

D uncover

A intersect

B interject

C penetrate

D adulterate

A casualty

B catastrophe

C catalogue

D crusade

A prohibition

B insurance

C prophecy

D guarantee

A submit

B commit

C transmit

D permit

A promote

B protect

C preserve

D prolong

A exceed

B wither

C overpass

D neglect

A contemptuous

B contagious

C conspicuous

D contemplated

A fascinating

B factitious

C fastidious

D fictitious

Part Ⅲ Cloze
   Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage, and for each blank there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D at the end of the passage. You should choose the ONE answer that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

Motorways are, no doubt the safest roads in Britain. Mile  (21)  mile, vehicle for vehicle, you axe much  (22)  likely to be killed or seriously injured than on an ordinary road. On  (23)  hand, if you do have a serious accident on a motorway, fatalities are much more likely to  (24)   than in a comparable accident  (25)   on the roads.
   Motorways have no  (26)   bends, no roundabouts or traffic lights and  (27)   speeds are much greater than on other roads. Though the 70 mph limit is  (28)   in force, it is often treated with the contempt that most drivers have for the 30 mph limit applying in built up areas in Britain. Added to this is the fact that motorway drivers seem to like traveling in groups with perhaps  (29)   ten meters between each vehicle. The resulting horrific pile-ups  (30)   one vehicle stops for some reason—mechanical failure, driver error and so on—have become all  (31)   familiar through pictures in newspapers or on television. How  (32)   of these drivers realize that it takes a car about one hundred meters to brake to a stop  (33)   70 mph? Drivers also seem to think that motorway driving gives them complete protection from the changing weather.  (34)   wet the road, whatever the visibility in mist or fog, they  (35)   at ridiculous speeds oblivious of police warnings or speed restrictions  (36)   their journey comes to a conclusion.
   Perhaps one remedy  (37)   this motorway madness would be better driver education. At present, learner drivers are barred  (38)   motorways and are thus as far as this kind of driving is  (39)  , thrown in at the deep end. However, much more efficient policing is required,  (40)   it is the duty of the police not only to enforce the law but also to protect the general public from its own foolishness.

A many

B much

C deeply

D profoundly

A for

B after

C to

D by

A too

B also

C unduly

D unreasonably

A everywhere

B elsewhere

C anywhere

D somewhere

A Whatever

B However

C Whoever

D How

A more

B far

C less

D lesser

A but

B then

C them

D for

A to

B from

C at

D for

A related

B considered

C concerned

D touched

A come up

B occur

C be found

D arise

A yet

B even

C still

D subsequently

A to

B for

C of

D on

A thus

B then

C so

D thereupon

A push

B rake

C till

D plough

A unless

B before

C thus

D until

A pointed

B steep

C vertical

D sharp

A because

B since

C when

D for

A another

B other

C one

D the other

A utterly

B simply

C barely

D purely

A from

B against

C away

D off

Part Ⅳ Reading Comprehension
   Directions: Read the following passages, decide on the best one of the choices marked A, B, C and D for each question or unfinished statement and mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square bracket on ANSWER SHEET I.

Passage 1
   The next time the men were taken up onto the deck, Kunta made a point of looking at the man behind him in line, the one who lay beside him to the left when they were below. He was a Serer tribesman much older than Kunta, and his body, front and back, was creased with whip cuts, some of them so deep and festering that Kunta, felt badly for having wished sometimes that he might strike the man in the darkness for moaning se steadily in his pain. Staring back at Kunta, the Serer's dark eyes were full of fury and defiance. A whip lashed out even as they stood looking at each other—this time at Kunta, spurring him to move ahead. Trying to roll away, Kunta was kicked heavily in his ribs. But somehow he and the gasping Wolof managed to stagger back up among the other men from their shelf who were shambling toward their dousing with bucked of seawater.
   A moment later, the stinging saltiness of it was burning in Kunta's wounds, and his screams joined those of others over the sound of the drum and the wheezing thing that had again begun marking time for the chained men to jump and dance for the toubob. Kunta and the Wolof were so weak from their new beating that twice they stumbled, but whip blows and kicks sent them hem hopping clumsily up and down in their chains. So great was his fury that Kunta was barely aware of the women singing "Toubob fa!" And when he had finally been chained hack down in his place in the dark hold, his heart throbbed with a lust to murder toubob.
   Every few days the eight naked toubob would again come into the stinking darkness and scrape their tubs full of the excrement that had accumulated on the shelves where the chained men lay. Kunta would lie still with his eyes staring balefully in hatred, following the bobbing orange lights, listening to the toubob cursing and sometimes slipping and tailing into the slickness underfoot—so plentiful now, because of the increasing looseness of the men's bowels, that the filth had begun to drop off the edges of the shelves down into the aisleway.
   The last time they were on deck, Kunta had noticed a man limping on a badly infected leg. This time the man was kept up on deck when the rest were taken back below. A few days later, the women told the other prisoners in their singing that the man's leg had been cut off and that one of the women had been brought to tend him, but that the man had died that ,fight and been thrown over the side. Starting then, when the toubob came to clean the shelves, they also dropped red-hot pieces of metal into pails of strong vinegar. The clouds of acrid steam left the hold smelling better, but soon it would again be overwhelmed by the choking stink. It was a smell that Kunta felt would never leave his lungs and skin.
   The steady murmuring that went on in the hold whenever the toubob were gone kept growing in volume and intensity as the men began to communicate better and better with one another. Words not understood were whispered from mouth to ear along the shelves until someone who knew more then one tongue would send back their meaning. In the process, all of the men along each shelf learned new words in tongues they had not spoken before. Sometimes men jerked upward, bumping their heads, in the double excitement of communicating with each other and the fact that it was being done without the toubeb's knowledge. Muttering among themselves for hours, the men developed a deepening sense of intrigue and of brotherhood. Though they were of different villages and tribes, the feeling grew that they were not from different peoples or places.

A Indulgently

B Vacantly

C Forlornly

D Menacingly

A adequate but primitive

B inhumane and inadequate

C humane but crowded

D similar to the crew's quarters

A their exercise periods on deck

B the breathtaking ocean scenery

C their conversations with the Black women

D their conversations with one another

A disgust with the dirt

B horror at the injustice

C revolting at the foul odor

D relief that this happened long ago

A they were too sick to talk

B they distrusted one another

C no one felt like talking

D they spoke different languages

Passage 2
   Large, multinational, corporations may be the companies whose ups and downs seize headlines. But to a far greater extent than most Americans realize, the economy's vitality depends on the fortunes of tiny shops and restaurants, neighborhood services and factories. Snell businesses, defined as those with fewer than 100 workers, now employ nearly 60 percent of the work force and are expected to generate half of all new jobs between now and the year 2000. Some 1.2 million small firms have opened their doors over the past six years of economic growth, and 189 will see an additional 200,000 entrepreneurs striking off on their own.
   Too many of these pioneers, however, will blaze ahead unprepared. Idealism will overestimate the clamor for their products or fail to factor in the competition. Nearly everyone will underestimate, often fatally, the capital that success requires. Midcareer executives, forced by a takeover or a restructuring to quit the corporation and find another way to support themselves, may savor the idea of being their own boss but may forget that entrepreneurs must also, at least for a while, be bookkeeper and receptionist, too. According to Small Business Administration data, 24 of every 100 businesses starting out today are likely to have disappeared in two years, and 27 more will have shut their doors four years from now. By 1995, more than 60 of those 100 start-ups will have folded. A new study of 3,000 small businesses, sponsored by American Express and the National Federation of Independent Business, suggests slightly better odds: Three years after start-up, 77 percent of the companies surveyed were still alive. Most credited their success in large part to having picked a business they already were comfortable in. Eighty percent had worked with the same product or service in their last jobs.
   Thinking through an enterprise before the haunch is obviously critical. But many entrepreneurs forget that a firm's health in its infancy may be little indication of how well it will age. You must tenderly monitor its pulse. In their zeal to expand, small-business owners often ignore early warning signs of a stagnant market or of decaying profitability. They hopefully pour more and more money into the enterprise, preferring not to acknowledge eroding profit margins that mean the market for their ingenious service or product has evaporated, or that they must cut the payroll or vacate their lavish offices. Only when the financial well runs dry do they see the seriousness of the illness, and by then the patient is usually too far gone to save.
   Frequent checks of your firm's vital signs will also guide you to a sensible rate of growth. To snatch opportunity, you must spot the signals that it is time to conquer new markets, add products or perhaps franchise your hot idea.

A It helps effectively to fight unemployment.

B The earlier it starts, the sooner it collapses.

C There's a good omen for small business according to a survey.

D Some small business owners are blind to early premonition of failur

A The patient is seriously ill because of lack of water in the well.

B The patient can be saved if he has enough money to solve the financial problem.

C It's too late for small business owners to realize the gravity of the problem because they have used up their money.

D It's too late for small business owners to realize the gravity of the problem because they have used up their business.

A get very well prepared for his new business

B choose a business he's already familiar with

C examine the company's crucial signs now and then

D invest as much as possible into his enterprise

A How to become a winner in small business?

B How to be a successful boss in multinational corporation?

C How to deal with the ups and downs in small business?

D How to conquer new markets and gain the largest profit?

A the prosperity and decline of the transnational corporations

B the rise and fall of the markets and products as well as capital

C the fate of the small businesses such as small plants and restaurants

D the economic increase and decrease of the large companies

Passage 3
   The blue, mystic Lake Elsinore lies in an inland California valley, which is teeming and steaming with hot springs. Rimmed by shaggy mountains whose forested crests are reflected in its clear waters, Lake Elsinore is the very personification of peace—but on it rests the curse of Tondo.
   The lake had a colorful history. Much of it lies buried in legend, and it is difficult to separate fact from fiction. There have been stories of underground volcanoes on the lake bottom, erupting, killing fish and discoloring the water. There have been stories of a playful sea serpent that lived in its depths.
   kong noted for its scenic beauty and health-giving waters, the lake was a famous resort in the Nineties. But long before the first white man had set foot along the shore of the lake, this part of California had been the home of the Soboba Indians. Their chief was Tondo, a stem and unforgiving man.
   He had a daughter, Morning Star, who was in love with Palo, son of the chief the Pales, a neighboring tribe. The Sobobas and Pales were sworn enemies. For a time the lovers met secretly. Then one day they were discovered by Tondo. His rage was terrible to behold. He forbade the lovers ever to meet again.
    Morning Star tried in every way to appease her father's anger, to soften his heart toward Palo. But in time she saw that it was useless; that he would never give his consent to their marriage. Vowing that they would never be separated, the Indian maid and her lover walked hand in hand into the lake, as the dreary November sun cast long shadows on the land. They were followed by a group of orphan children whom Morning Star had befriended. All walked into the lake, singing the mournful death song of their people, while Tondo stood on the shore and cursed the lovers, cursed the blue water into which they all walked to their death.
   Ever since that day it would see that a jinx has been laid over Lake Elsinore. Old-timers tell of a great upheaval in the lake which caused water to spout into the air like a geyser and turn blood-red. Later, it became known that three hundred springs of boiling mud and water were born in the valley during that upheaval. The springs reeked with sulphur.
   For many years after this phenomenon the lake remained peaceful. Then boats were overturned for an apparent reason, and few of their occupants ever returned to tell the story. This continued for several years. At the same time, strong swimmers dived into the lake never to reappear.
   In 1833 and again in 1846, fish in the lake suddenly died.
   In the spring of 1850 came the Battle of the Gnats. They bred in the water of the lake and swarmed over the land. They invaded the countryside until the harassed inhabitants called for help.
   And in July 1951, the sky-blue waters of the lake vanished like mist before a noonday sun. When the bottom was laid bare there was no trace of a volcano, the bottomless pits, or the other disturbances of legend or fact.
   The copious winter rains of 1951--52 have replenished the lake. But what menace does its haunting beauty hold today? For tomorrow?
   The once mighty Sobobas are few now. But the old men swear that their ancestors still haunt the lake. They nod grizzled head and murmur that the Great Tondo's curse will forever remain upon the lake. Only Time, the wise and silent one, can tell.

A It is considered by legend to be rich in gold.

B It was once famous as a beautiful resort.

C It is located in a volcanic crater in California.

D It used to be the center of a mining villag

A The Curse of Tondo.

B The Beautiful Lake Elsinore.

C The Mysterious Indian Tribes.

D The tragic Love of Morning Star.

A the water of the lake turned red

B lake water sprouted into the air

C the Gnats invaded the countryside

D fish in the lake suddenly died

A spell of bad luck

B hot air current

C strange tranquility

D storm of unusual duration

A Morning Star was too young to marry

B Tondo's tribe and Palo's tribe were enemies

C Palo mistreated his Soboba girl friend

D Palo vowed meet Morning Star in secret

Passage 4
   The crucial years of the Depression, as they are brought into historical focus, increasingly emerge as the decisive decade for American art, if not for American culture in general. For it was during this decade that many of the conflicts which had blocked the progress of American art in the past came to a head and, sometimes boiled over. Janus-faced, the thirties look backward, sometimes as far as the Renaissance; and at the same time forward, as far as the present and beyond. It was the moment when artists, like Thomas Hart Benton, who wished to turn back the clock to regain the virtues of simpler times came into direct conflict with others, like Stuart Davis and Frank Lloyd Wright, who were ready to come to terms with the Machine Age and to deal with its consequences.
   America in the thirties was changing rapidly. In many areas the past was giving way to the present, although not without a struggle. A Predominantly rural and small town society was being replaced by the giant complexes of the big cities; power was becoming increasingly centralized in the federal government and in large corporations. As a result, traditional American types such as the independent farmer and the bureaucrat. Many Americans, deeply attached to the old way of life, felt disinherited. At the same time, as immigration decreased and the population became more homogeneous, the need arose in art and literature to commemorate the ethnic and regional differences, that were fast disappearing. Thus, paradoxically, the conviction that art, at least, should serve some purpose or carry some message of moral uplift grew stronger as the Puritan ethos lost its contemporary reality. Often this elevating message was a sermon in favor of just those traditional American virtues, which were now threatened with obsolescence in a changed social and political context.
   In this new context, the appeal of the paintings by the Regionalists and the American Scene painters often lay in their ability to recreate an atmosphere that glorified the traditional American values-self-reliance tempered with good-neighborliness, independence modified by a sense of community, hard work rewarded by a sense of order and purpose. Given the actual temper of the times, these themes were strangely anachronistic, just as the rhetoric supporting political isolationism was equally inappropriate in an international situation soon to involve America in a second world war Such themes gained popularity because they filled a genome need for a comfortable collective fantasy of a God-fearing, white-picketfence America, which in retrospect took on the nostalgic appeal of a lost Golden Age.
   In this light, an autonomous art-for-art's sake was viewed as a foreign invader liable to subvert the native American desire for a purposeful art. Abstract art was assigned the role of the villainous alien; realism was to personify the genuine American means of expression. The argument drew favor in many camps: among the artists, because most were realists; among the politically oriented intellectuals, because abstract art was apolitical; and among museum officials, because they were surfeited with mediocre imitations of European modernism and were convinced that American art must develop its own distinct identity. To help along this road to self-definition, the museums were prepared to set up an artificial double standard, one for American art, and another for European art. In 1934, Ralph Flint wrote in Art News, "We have today in our midst a greater array of what may be called second, third, and fourthstring artists than any other country. Our big annuals are marvelous outpourings of intelligence and skill; they have all the diversity and animation of a fine-ring circus."

A uniquely America

B uniquely European

C imitative of European modernism

D counter to American regionalism

A reactionary

B consistent

C dynamic

D melancholic

A A. the rapid growth of urban populationB. The impact of industrialization on rural lifeC. The disappearance of traditional valuesD. The changing scenes in religion and politics

A The thirties in Art: Reaction and Rebellion

B America in the Thirties: A Changing Time

C Thomas Hart Benton and Regionalism

D American Art: appeal and diversity

A Realism and Abstract art

B Politically oriented intellectuals and museum officials

C European art and American art

D landscape painting and abstract painting

Part Ⅴ Translation

Part A
   Directions: Translate the following English into Chinese onto your ANSWER SHEET.

Part B
   Direction: Translate the following Chinese paragraph into English on your ANSWER SHEET.

Part Ⅵ Writing
   Directions:
   A. Write an essay in no less than 200 words with the title "What can I Offer to the Society?"
   B. First, write an outline for you essay, and then according to your outline, write your essay. Both your outline and your essay should be written clearly on your ANSWER SHEET.