英语水平考试

试卷类型：24

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2、本次考试包括试卷一和试卷二，考试时间为9:00-11:00。试卷一为客观选择题，在标准答题卡上用2B铅笔将所选答案划出。试卷二为翻译题，将译文写在答题纸上，填上单位、姓名、准考证号、考场号、考点，以备核对总分。

3、试卷一为标准化考试，所有答案必须在标准化答题卡上划出，若答在试卷上不予评分，后果自负。 4、在填写被准话答题卡时应注意：

1）在填写“姓名、单位、准考证号”等栏目时，应用钢笔或圆珠笔。在填涂准考证号时，一律用2B铅笔划横线。注意准考证号不要漏涂或涂错，否则客观题部分将无成绩，责任由考生自负。 2）试卷一答题时一律用2B铅笔，若用钢笔或圆珠笔答题均无效，请按答题卡上“正确填涂”的示范划横线，横线长度和宽度以方框为准，若划“√、○、／、＼”等符号均为无效。 3）答题卡四角应保持平整，不应折角或皱卷，以免影响阅卷机工作。 4）如需更改答案时，应先用橡皮擦净后，再划线答题。

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试 卷 一

I. Vocabulary

Directions: There are 20 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A,B,C and D. Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence and mark your answer on the Answer 16. With winter here you can these skirts till you need them again next summer.

A. get rid of B. give away C. do away with D. put away 17. The good service at the hotel the poor food to some extent.

A. made for B. made out C. made up for D. mad use of 18. Those gifts of rare books that were given to us were deeply .

Sheet.

1. Being able to save and accumulate wealth is not automatic.

A. considerate B. considerable C. conscious D. careful 2. Wonderful of nature are all around us.

A. appearance B. experience C. phenomena D. philosophy 3. The whole county with little red hearts on Valentine’s Day.

A. breaks in B. breaks into C. breaks off D. breaks out

4. If I were the president of a university I should a compulsory course in “How to Use Your Eyes”.

A. escape B. establish C. estate D. elapse

5. The statement that oil originated in the sea is world.

A. confined B. confessed C. conformed D. confirmed

6. Almost 70 percent of all non-food purchases in supermarkets are generated by in-store A. decided B. decisive C. decide D. decisions 7. I believe that truth and justice are to an enduring social order.

A. fundamental B. fountain C. formation D. friction 8. Some of these “upside down” airmail stamps are now over $6,000.

A. worthy B. worthed C. worth D. worthwhile 9. The early pioneers had to many hardships to settle on the new land.

A. go into B. go along with C. go back on D. go through 10. Remember that customers don't about prices in that city.

A. dispute B. bargain C. consult D. discuss 11. Difficulties and hardships have the best qualities of the young geologist.

A. brought about B. brought in C. brought up D. brought out 12. Do you know where the pictures on money ?

A. resulted from B. removed from C. came from D. fell from 13. I often about how quickly time flies.

A. complain B. complaint C. compile D. conceive

14. I'm with computer programs that correct spelling through the use of built-in dictionaries.

A. common B. familiar C. known D. friendly

15. Male cigarette smokers have a higher death from heart disease than non-smoking males.

A. rate B. price C. speed D. degree

A. applied B. appreciated C. approved D. appealed 19. Inflation is the first problem that the new government will have to .

A. revolve B. grasp C. seize D. tackle 20. Few people who of high school will be rich.

A. run down B. check in C. drop out D. check out

II. Grammatical Structure

Directions: There are 20 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence and mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.

21. The young receptionist doesn't permit in the exhibition center.

A. smoking B. to smoke C. smoke D. to have smoked

22. I wish to thank you for the incomparable hospitality for the Chinese people are justly famous throughout the world.

A. what B. whom C. that D. which 23. More than two thousands work in this refinery.

A. Russias B. Russian C. Russians D Russia

24. The ancient Egyptians believed all illnesses were related to was eaten.

A. what B. which C. it D. that

25. If all the continents and mountains were bulldozed fiat, the earth by water more than 12,000 feet deep.

A. could have been covered B. might had been covered C. is covered D. would be covered

26. Since 1939, numerous scientific studies to determine whether smoking is a health hazard. A. have been conducted B. are conducted C. is conducted D. being conducted 27. All the money A. has been spent B. have been spent C. being spent D. having been spent

28. One main branch of sea science, A. physical oceanography B. is physical oceanography

C. called physical oceanography D. what is physical oceanography 29. An crowd is awaiting the arrival of the famed statesman.

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A. excite B. excitedly C. excited D. exciting 30. There a lot of on the roads yesterday. A. were...traffic B. was...traffic

C. were...traffics D. was...traffics 31. China and America are separated by .

A. Pacific Ocean B. a Pacific Ocean

C. the Pacific Ocean D. Pacific Oceans

32. to completely cut off its oil supply, it would badly damage its own economy.

A. If Iran was B. Was Iran C. If Iran is D. Were Iran

33. in 1943 the harmful smog made its appearance in Los Angeles.

A. Only...that B. It was...then C. That it was...when D. It was...that

34. The population of Beijing is three times that of Qingdao.

A. so large as B. as large to C. as large as D. as larger than 35. He his office for there was no one to answer the phone.

A. must have left B. must leave C. may have left D. can have left

36. Jane's family couldn't agree on where to spend vacation.

A. his B. her C. its D. their 37. I will leave him a note he will know where we are.

A. so that B. that C. in order D. in case

38. The teacher thinks that Tom for the accident and instead we should try to comfort him.

A. doesn't blame B. is to blame C. isn't to blame D. isn't blamed

39. When I pulled into her driveway, she by the door with her coat on.

A. is waiting B. was waiting C. waits D. waited 40. The clerk asked Robey later in the day.

A. returning B. to return C. return D. to be returned

Like the Roman Catholic Church and other ancient institutions, it is asking—still in private rather than in public—whether its past assumptions about faculty, authority, admissions, courses of study, are really relevant to the problems of the 1990's.

Should Harvard—or any other university—be an intellectual sanctuary, apart from the political and social revolution of the age, or should it be a laboratory for experimentation with these political and social revolutions; or even an engine of the revolution? This is what is being discussed privately in the big clapboard houses of faculty members around the Harvard Yard.

The issue was defined by Waiter Lippmann, a distinguished Harvard graduate, several years ago. “If the universities are to do their work," he said, "they must be independent and they must be disinterested...They are places to which men can turn for judgments which are unbiased by partisanship and special interest. Obviously, the moment the universities fall under political control, or under the control of private interests, or the moment they themselves take a hand in politics and the leadership of government, their value as independent and disinterested sources of judgment is impaired...”

This is part of the argument that is going on at Harvard today. Another part is the argument of the militant and even many moderate students: that a university is the keeper of our ideals and morals, and should not be “disinterested” but activist in bringing the nation's ideals and actions together.

Harvard's men of today seem more troubled and less sure about personal, political and academic purpose than they did at the beginning. They are not even clear about how they should debate and resolve their problems, but they are struggling with them privately, and how they come out is bound to influence American universities and political life in the 1990's.

41. The issues in the debate on Harvard's goals are whether the universities should remain independent of our society and its problems, and whether they should A. overcome the widespread drug dependency B. take an active part in solving society's ills C. fight militarism

D. support our old and established institutions 42. The word “paradox” in paragraph 1 is .

A. an abnormal condition B. a parenthetical expression C. a difficult puzzle D. a self-contradiction

43. The word “sanctuary” in paragraph 3 is .

A. a temple or nunnery of middle age

B. a certain place you can hide in and avoid mishaps C. a holy place dedicated to a certain god D. an academy for intelligent people

44. In the author's judgment, the ferment going on at Harvard .

A. will soon be over, because times are bound to change

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III. Reading Comprehension Section A

Directions: There are 5 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by4 questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice and mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.

Questions 41 to 44 are based on the following passage:

One of the most interesting paradoxes in America today is that Harvard University, the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States, is now engaged in a serious debate about what a university should be, and whether it is measuring up.

B. is of interest mostly to Harvard men and their friends C. will influence future life in America D. is a sad symbol of our general bewilderment

Questions 45 to 48 are based on the following passage:

Scientists now believe that many, if not all, living things are born with some type of hidden clock. These clocks are sometimes set by the number of hours of light or darkness in a day, by the rhythm of the tides or by the seasons.

One of the most remarkable of nature's living clocks belongs to the fiddler crab, that familiar beach-dweller with tile overgrown claw. Biologists have long known that the crab's shell is darkest during the day, grows pale in late afternoon, then begins to darken again at daybreak. This daytime darkening is valuable for protection against enemies and sunlight, and for many years it was thought to be a simple response by the crab to the sun--just as if we were to get a tan during the day and lose it at night.

But when an enterprising scientist placed a fiddler crab in darkness, be was amazed to find that the color of the crab's shell kept ticking off the time with the same accuracy.

Yet another startling fact was revealed: the crab's shell reached the darkest color about 50 minutes later each day. There was a second clock inside the crab, for the tides also occur 50 minutes later from day to day. Moreover, even when the crabs were taken from the beach and put back in the dark, they continued their tidal rhythm. More research disclosed that a crab from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, reached its darkest color four hours earlier than the one taken from a beach on a neighboring island. The tides on the nearby island were found to be exactly four hours later than the Cape Cod tides.

Ants don't carry calendars around with them any more than fiddler crabs possess real wrist watches. But ants show amazing accuracy as to the day of the year. Each year, an ant nest sends out winged, young queens on mating flights. Hundreds of them may fly out of a single nest in the soil. Last summer, at the crest of my mountain, I watched an ant city prepare to send forth its young queens. At the precise moment that they took wing, a colony of the same species that my wife was watching near the bottom of the mountain, also sent its queen on a wedding flight. There was, of course, no way could the two colonies have checked take off time with each other.

Entomologist Albro T. Gaul once jotted down in his notebook that a particular the same time! This split-second timing is not always the rule. However, most flights take place within a definite period of time.

Birds also have built-in timepieces which send them off on fall and spring migrations. What the birds really have is a clock like mechanism which allows them to time hours of darkness or light in each day.

But what sends birds northward again in the spring? New research by Dr. Albert Wdifson of Northwestern University seems to indicate that the timing of return flight is extraordinarily complex. In the fall of the year the short days and long nights cause the "clocks" in migratory birds to undergo a kind of "winding" in preparation for their spring return and breeding. Then during the late fall and winter as the clock "ticks", certain physiological changes occur in the bird. The length of each day during the winter determines how fast the clock will run, and hence when the "alarm" will ring for the spring migration. The clock continues to run through breeding time, then stops—to be re-wound again the next fall.

46. The fiddler crab seems to darken his color according to ____. A. time of sunrise B. its background C. amount of daylight D. time of tides

47. The reported activity of the ant colony occurred in relation to ____. A. the position of the sun B. the day of the year

C. the temperature D. the geographical location 48. What controls the migration of birds seems to be ____. A. dark, cloudy days and bright, sunny days B. direction of migration

C. time between sunrise and sunset D. breeding habits

Questions 49 to 52 are based on the following passage:

Medicine comes in many forms. In its liquid form, medicine affects the body very quickly. But the effects of liquid medicine aren't usually long lasting. That is why pills and capsules are also used.

The pills and capsules being sold today aren't perfect, either. Pills dissolve in the stomach. The medicine in the pills is released when the pills dissolve. But often, the pills dissolve too quickly.

Scientists have been trying to develop a pill that can release medicine slowly over a long period of time. They have applied their knowledge of plants to produce the “osmotic (渗透的) pump pill”.

The cell walls of plants are made of cellulose (纤维素). Cellulose is a very porous substance. There are millions of tiny holes, or pores, in the cellulose walls of plants. These holes are big enough to allow water through the cell walls. As water enters a cell, pressure builds up in the cell. The pressure pumps other substances out of the cell. These substances leave the cell through the cellulose wall. This slow, steady process is called osmosis.

The osmotic pump pill is coated with synthetic cellulose. Liquid medicine is contained in the pill. The holes in the cellulose coating of the pill are big enough to allow water in the pill. As water from the body enters the pill, pressure builds up and the medicine is then slowly pumped out of the pill.

49. The passage implies that the osmotic pump pill is better than other pills and capsules because____.

A. it releases medicine slowly over a long period of time B. the coating doesn't dissolve in the stomach

C. the medicine in the pill can affect the body quickly D. it helps to build pressure in the body

50. The way that the osmotic pump pill works is based on a process called ____.

A. cellulose B. osmosis C. pressure D. synthesis

51. The passage implies that medicine in an osmotic pump pill will leave the pill when ____. A. the pill is swallowed

B. the cellulose coating is dissolved C. enough pressure builds up in the pill

D. the medicine is dissolved with water from the body

52. The passage implies that cellulose is a very porous substance because it contains ____.

45. The alarm clock that determines the activity of certain living things is governed by ____. A. hours of daylight B. the time of day in their native environments C. the moon D. something we don't understand completely

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