一．Vocabulary词汇
The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to T. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences and write the corresponding letter on your answer sheet. One word or expression for each blank only. (20points, 1point each)
Passage 1:
1 Industry adds its own 1. Factories cluster round the coastline, and even the most modern rarely has proper waste 2.plant. They do as much 3. to the sea as 4.
2 Not 5., vast areas of the shallows are 6. with bacteria and it doesn't take long for these to 7. people. Professor William Brumfitt of the Royal Free Hospital once 8. that anyone who goes for a swim in the Mediterranean has a one in seven 10. of getting some sort of 9. Other scientists say this is an overestimate; but almost all of them agree that bathers are 11.
3 In short, the very 12. of American city has13. poverty from the living, emotional of millions upon millions of 14. Americans. Living out in the 15., it is easy to 16. that ours is ,indeed, an 17. society.
4 After the first years, as children’s 18. of the new medium increased, together with parental concern about the possible 19. of so much television viewing, a steady refrain helped to soothe and 20. anxious parents.
A. surprisingly B. reach C. disease D. chance E. awash(adj.与水面齐平的, 被浪冲打的) F. development G. at risk (在危险中) H. calculated(计算出的, 有计划的, 适当的, 适合的) I. removed J. sewage (n.下水道, 污水v.用污水灌溉, 装下水道于) k. assume(vt.假定, 设想, 采取, 呈现) L. effects (n.动产, (家庭)财物) M. middle-class(中层社会的, 中产阶级的) N. consumption(消费, 消费量, 肺病) O. reassure(使...安心, 再保证, 使...恢复信心, 打消...的疑虑) P. damage Q. affluent(丰富的, 富裕的) R. suburbs(市外) S. treatment (待遇, 对待, 处理, 治疗) T. poisons (毒药, 败坏道德之事, 毒害)
Passage 2:
1 It was conversation I was hearing, the tree, passionate, witty 1. of studied minds as polished as fine 2.. They were always courteous; no two ever spoke together; there were no 3.; the all talked to the question before house, and while they were on the job of 4. anyone, regardless of his side, would contribute his 5. of facts, or his remembrance of some philosopher’s 6. or some poet’s perfect phrase for the 7. or the 8. of the theme.
2 That the poor are 9. is one of the most 10. things about time. They are not simply 11. and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of 12.; what is much worse, they are not 13..
3 Of course, families today still do 14. things together at times: go camping in the summer, go to the zoo on a nice Sunday, take 15. trips and expeditions. But their 16. daily life together is 17..
4 A dreamy, faraway and yet inward look would come over his face. There was no 18. of concentration, no 19. of brow—only a placid inner 20.
A. exposition B. opinion C. invisible D. neglected E. important F. quota G. tools H. seen I. asides J. elucidation K. exchanges L. diminished M. appearance N. special O. ordinary P. various Q. communion R furrowing. S. reform T. beautification
The following paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to T. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences and write the corresponding letter on your answer sheet. One word or expression for each blank only. (20points, 1point each)
Passage 1:
1 Industry adds its own 1. Factories cluster round the coastline, and even the most modern rarely has proper waste 2.plant. They do as much 3. to the sea as 4.
2 Not 5., vast areas of the shallows are 6. with bacteria and it doesn't take long for these to 7. people. Professor William Brumfitt of the Royal Free Hospital once 8. that anyone who goes for a swim in the Mediterranean has a one in seven 10. of getting some sort of 9. Other scientists say this is an overestimate; but almost all of them agree that bathers are 11.
3 In short, the very 12. of American city has13. poverty from the living, emotional of millions upon millions of 14. Americans. Living out in the 15., it is easy to 16. that ours is ,indeed, an 17. society.
4 After the first years, as children’s 18. of the new medium increased, together with parental concern about the possible 19. of so much television viewing, a steady refrain helped to soothe and 20. anxious parents.
A. surprisingly B. reach C. disease D. chance E. awash(adj.与水面齐平的, 被浪冲打的) F. development G. at risk (在危险中) H. calculated(计算出的, 有计划的, 适当的, 适合的) I. removed J. sewage (n.下水道, 污水v.用污水灌溉, 装下水道于) k. assume(vt.假定, 设想, 采取, 呈现) L. effects (n.动产, (家庭)财物) M. middle-class(中层社会的, 中产阶级的) N. consumption(消费, 消费量, 肺病) O. reassure(使...安心, 再保证, 使...恢复信心, 打消...的疑虑) P. damage Q. affluent(丰富的, 富裕的) R. suburbs(市外) S. treatment (待遇, 对待, 处理, 治疗) T. poisons (毒药, 败坏道德之事, 毒害)
Passage 2:
1 It was conversation I was hearing, the tree, passionate, witty 1. of studied minds as polished as fine 2.. They were always courteous; no two ever spoke together; there were no 3.; the all talked to the question before house, and while they were on the job of 4. anyone, regardless of his side, would contribute his 5. of facts, or his remembrance of some philosopher’s 6. or some poet’s perfect phrase for the 7. or the 8. of the theme.
2 That the poor are 9. is one of the most 10. things about time. They are not simply 11. and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of 12.; what is much worse, they are not 13..
3 Of course, families today still do 14. things together at times: go camping in the summer, go to the zoo on a nice Sunday, take 15. trips and expeditions. But their 16. daily life together is 17..
4 A dreamy, faraway and yet inward look would come over his face. There was no 18. of concentration, no 19. of brow—only a placid inner 20.
A. exposition B. opinion C. invisible D. neglected E. important F. quota G. tools H. seen I. asides J. elucidation K. exchanges L. diminished M. appearance N. special O. ordinary P. various Q. communion R furrowing. S. reform T. beautification
