Multiple Choice.
1. The newspaper _B__ the rain will last for another three days.
2. A __C_ of red arrows on the wall point the way to the meeting room.
3. When presented with the first price, she _A__ with delight.
4. There are some people who show great _D__ about others' affairs.
5. He considered it his good _B__ to have won her love.
6. It was essential that the application forms __C_ back before the deadline.
7. I hope my teacher will take my recent illness into _A__ when judging my exams.
8. There is an undesirable _D__ nowadays to make films showing violence.
9. The _C__ runner can run 2 miles in 15 minutes.
10. It is not that we are more eager, _B__ we have invented all sorts of social devices to hasten the process.
11. Human beings ___B____a lot to the birds and beasts who eat insects.
12. The villages wanted very much to have a cinema__C___ in this area.
13. I wish I ___B____my research paper yesterday. But I was too late.
14. No sooner __C_____his room when the telephone rang.
15. Should she come tomorrow, I ___C______ take her to the museum.
16. His name will be crossed out from the list ____A____ he makes the same mistakes again.
17. The students would not have made so much progress under less ___C_____ conditions.
18. ____D_____ it was raining, many international tourists were having picnics in the woods.
19. Lots of empty beer bottles were found under the young man's bed; he ____A___ heavily.
20. ____D_____ home, she found that she had left the key at the office.
I. Cloze (1 point for each, altogether 10 points)
Directions: Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks. Write your answers on the answer sheet.
When you visit London, one of the first things you will see is Big Ben, the famous clock which can be 21 all over the world on the BBC. If the House of Parliament had not been burned down in 1834, the great clock would never have been erected. Big Ben takes its name from Sir Ben Gamin Hall who was responsible 22 the making of the clock when the new House of Parliament was 23 . It is not only 24 , but is extremely accurate 25 . Officials from Greenwich Observatory（格林威治天文台）have the clock 26 twice a day. On the BBC you can hear the clock when it is actually 27 because microphones are connected to the clock tower. Big Ben has 28 gone wrong. Once, however, it failed to give the correct time, a painter who had been _29 the tower bung a pot of paint on one of the hands and the clock was 30 !
21. C
22. D
23. B
24. C
25. B
26. A
27. A
28. C
29. C
30. D
Reading Comprehension.
One night when Mr. Robinson was asleep，he was woken up by some strange noise outside his house. "Thieves." he thought. Jumping out of bed，he took his gun and hurried to the bedroom window. The night was rather dark. But he could see a white shape. It looked like a man in the garden. He pointed his gun at it，fired and went back to bed. Early in the morning，he went down to the garden. His shirt was hanging from a tree. He had washed it the day before and hung it on the tree to dry. It had a hole right through the middle. Mr. Robinson was really frightened out of his life when he saw it and began to tremble (颤抖). His neighbor arrived at that moment. "How are you today，Mr. Robinson?" he asked in an anxious voice. "You don't look well."
"I'm all right，thank you，"said Mr. Robinson. "But I'm lucky to be alive. You see that shirt there?"
"Yes?" said the neighbor.
"If I'd been wearing that shirt last night，"said Mr. Robinson，"I'd be a dead man now."
31. When Mr. Robinson jumped out of his bed and went to the window，he saw _B____ in the garden.
32. Who had hung the shirt on the tree the day before? __B___
33. After firing the gun，Mr. Robinson __A___.
34. The next morning Mr. Robinson's neighbor came and saw him looking __C___.
35. The title "A Narrow Escape" suggests that one has ___D__.
Billy is 14 years old and in the ninth grade. He has a part-time job which gets him up every morning at 5 o'clock. He is a newspaper boy. Each morning，Billy leaves the house at 5:15 to go to the corner，where the newspapers are. The newspapers are delivered to the corner by truck at midnight. He always takes a wagon to carry them.
In the winter, it is still dark when he gets up，but during the rest of the year it is light. Billy must deliver the newspapers to the houses of people on his route in all kinds of weather. He tries to put each paper on the porch (门廊) where it will be protected from wind and rain or snow. His customers think he does a good job. Sometimes they give him tips (小费).
Billy earns about $ 70 per month，and he is saving some of the money to go to college. He spends the rest on records and clothes. Once a month，he has to collect money from his customers. Since many of them work during the day，Billy has to collect the money at night. Sometimes，when Billy is sick，his brother has to deliver the newspapers. Once，Billy's father had to help. Billy has seventy customers now，but he hopes to get more soon. Someday，if he gets more customers，Billy might win a prize for being an outstanding (突出的) newspaper boy. He wants to win a trip to Europe，but he will be happy if he wins a new bicycle.
36. Keeping a part-time job tells us that Billy __D____.
37. He did his work __A____.
38. To deliver newspapers means ___B___.
39. One of the purposes of delivering newspapers is ___A___.
40. The prize for an outstanding newspaper boy is __D___.
In the early part of the twentieth century, racism was widespread in the United States. Many African Americans were not given equal opportunities in education or employment. Marian Anderson (1897-1993) was an African American woman who gained fame as a concert singer in this climate of racism. She was born in Philadelphia and sang in church choirs during her childhood. When she applied for admission to a local music school in 1917, she was turned down because she was black. Unable to attend music school, she began her career as a singer for church gatherings. In 1929, she went to Europe to study voice and spent several years performing there. Her voice was widely praised throughout Europe. Then she returned to the US in 1935 and became a top concert singer after performing at Town Hall in New York City.
Racism again affected Anderson in 1939. When it was arranged for her to sing at Constitution Hall in Washington, DC, the Daughters of the American Revolution opposed it because of her color. She sang instead at the Lincoln Memorial for over 75 000 people. In 1955, Anderson became the first black soloist to sing win the Metropolitan Opera of New York City. The famous conductor Toscanini praised her voice as “heard only once in a hundred years”. She was a US delegate to the United Nations in 1958 and won the UN peace prize in 1977. Anderson eventually triumphed over racism.
41. According to this passage, why many African Americans were not given equal opportunities in education or employment in the early part of 20th century? C
42. According to this passage, what did Marian Anderson do between 1917 and 1929? B
43. Toscanini thought that Marian Anderson A .
44. Anderson’s beautiful voice was first recognized C .
45. This passage shows that Anderson finally defeated racism in the US by D .
Blanking filling.
V. Translation.
56. 囚犯被从严判处十五年徒刑。(give a sentence of ..years)
The criminal was given a stiff sentence of 15 years.
57. 不断努力，你迟早会解决这个难题的。(as long as )
As long as/If you keep on trying, you will be able to resolve this difficult problem sooner or later.
58. 我确实知道，现在不少年轻人有一边做作业，一边听背景音乐的习惯。(have the habit of doing one thing while doing another)
I do know that many young people have the habit of listening to background music while doing their homework.
59. 市长在他的电视讲话中详细谈了交通安全问题。他提到自一月份以来，由交通事故造成的死亡人数一直在上升。(TV talk, on the rise)
The mayor dwelt on the problem of traffic safety in his TV talk, in which he mentioned the deaths caused by traffic accidents had been on the rise since January.
60. 这个故事是由两部分构成的。(be composed of)
This story is composed of two parts
61. 你向我大喊大叫，你得向我道歉。(scream at, owe, apology)
You screamed at me. You owe me an apology
62. 这部小说的依据是我的一些最好的朋友的生活故事。(be based on)
This novel is basexd on some of my best friends' lives.
63. 他是一个总是按照原则办事的人。（act on）
He is a person who always acts on the rules
64. 弗吉尼亚(Virginia)是根据弗吉女王（Virgin Queen）命名的。(name after)
Virginia is named after Virgin Queen
65. 恶劣天气阻碍了卫星的发射。(set back)
the terribble weather blocked the set back of the satellite.
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