1卷(选择题,共125分)
I. Phonetics( 5 points)
Directions : In each of the following groups of words, there are four underlined letters or letter combinations marked A, B, C and D. Compare the underlined parts and identify the one that is different from the others in pronunciation. Mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
1 选出下列选项中划线部分读音不同的选项( )
A.hot
B.home
C.top
D.off
答案:B
2 选出下列选项中划线部分读音不同的选项( )。
A.sincere
B.there
C.mere
D.here
答案:B
3 选出下列选项中划线部分读音不同的选项( )。
A.trouble
B.soul
C.double
D.enough
答案:B
4 选出下列选项中划线部分读音不同的选项( )。
A.either
B.eight
C.neither
D.height
答案:B
5 选出下列选项中划线部分读音不同的选项( )。
A. wall
B. shall
C. fall
D. call
答案:B
Ⅱ. Vocabulary and Structure(15 points )
Directions : There are 15 incomplete sentences in this section. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose one answer that best completes the sentence and blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
6 He__________many experiences he ever__________in his childhood.
A.gradually forget; had
B.is gradually forgetting; had
C.was gradually forgetting; had had
D.have gradually forgotten; had
答案:B
7 He will get everything ready__________three days.
A.after
B.for
C.in
D.since
答案:C
8 Does John know any other foreign languages__________French?
A.except
B.but
C.besides
D.beside
答案:C
9 I'm sure that they will__________the game.
A.beat
B.succeed
C.success in
D.win
答案:D
10 The squirrel was so lucky that it just missed__________.
A.catching
B.to be caught
C.being caught
D.to catch
答案:C
11 He is__________to speak the truth.
A.too much of a coward
B.too much a coward
C.so much a coward
D.so much of a coward
答案:A
12 The shoes he wore made his__________look funny.
A.feet
B.foots
C.hand
D.foot
答案:A
13 I liked to play football when I was young.__________ .
A.So he was
B.So was he
C.So did he
D.So he did
答案:C
14 I am very__________to you for your help.
A.grateful
B.agreeable
C.pleased
D.thanks
答案:A
15 The school authorities and teachers__________over the advantages and disadvantages of the educational system.
A.were always argued
B.were always arguing
C.had always argued
D.had always been argued
答案:B
16 My friend and I would like to go to the concert, but__________of us has got a ticket.
A.both
B.none
C.neither
D.all
答案:C
17 Don't put off until tomorrow__________should be done today.
A.that
B.what
C.is
D.when
答案:D
18 "Let me you," said my boss," you should call me__________immediately after you arrive at the airport. "
A.ask
B.advise
C.remember
D.Remind
答案:D
19 I feel my health__________.
A.improve
B.to be improving
C.to be improved
D.to have improved
答案:A
20 Our classroom is__________in the school building.
A.bigger than any other one
B.bigger than all
C.the biggest of all the others
D.the biggest of any one
答案:A
Ⅲ. Cloze ( 30 points )
Directions :For each blank in the following passage, there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that is most suitable and mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
The number of speakers of English in Shakespeare's time is estimated to have been about five million. Today it is estimated that some 260 million people speak it as a(an) 21 language, mainly in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. In addition to the standard varieties of English found in these areas, 22 are a great many regional and social varieties of the language as well as 23 levels of usage that are employed both in its spoken and written forms.
In fact, it is 24 to estimate the number of people in the world who have acquired an adequate working knowledge of English in addition to their own languages. The 25 for English learning and the situations in which such learning takes place are so varied that it is 26 to explain and still more difficult to judge 27 forms an adequate working knowledge for each situation.
The main reason for the widespread 28 for English is its present day importance as a world language. Besides 29 the indefinite needs of its native speakers, English is a language in which some of important works in science, technology, and other 30 are being produced, and not always by native speakers. It is widely used for 31 purposes as meteorological(气象的) and airport communications, international conferences, and the 32 of information over the radio and television networks of many 33 It is a language of wider communication for a number of developing countries, specially former British colonies. Many of these countries have multi-lingual 34 and need a language for internal communication in such matters as government, commerce, industry, law and 35 as well as for international communication and for entrance to the scientific and technological developments in the West.
21 ( )A.foreign B.native C.second D.official
答案:B
22 ( )A.they B.which C.there D.that
答案:C
23 ( )A.various B.similar C.familiar D.same
答案:A
24 ( )A.possible B.necessary C.unnecessary D.impossible
答案:D
25 ( )A.purpose B.cause C.effect D.method
答案:A
26 ( )A.simple B.natural C.practical D.difficult
答案:D
27 ( )A.what B.how C.why D.where
答案:A
28 ( )A.require B.request C.supply D.demand
答案:D
29 ( )A.providing B.serving C.supposing D.leaving
答案:B
30 ( )A.areas B.courses C.races D.fields
答案:D
31 ( )A.such B.all C.many D.those
答案:A
32 ( )A.use B.spread C.cover D.connection
答案:B
33 ( )A.cities B.stations C.states D.nations
答案:D
34 ( )A.languages B.populations C.accents D.customs
答案:B
35 ( )A.education B.market C.college D.business
答案:A