SectionⅠ listening Comprehension(20 points)(略)

SectionⅡ Use of English

Directions:

Reading the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C, or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)

Anyone trying to recover in the wake of last week’s visit by Hurricane probably isn’t feeling especially lucky at the moment. Good fortune isn’t the first thing you think of 1 your room is full of 2 , your roof is missing, your power has been out for days on 3 . But considering the destruction that often accompanies storms of this 4 , residents of North and South Carolina and Virginia 5 remarkably lightly. Only three people died. Property 6 was far lower than it might have been. Beaches remained largely intact.

7 , the storm 8 the popular belief that hurricanes are so thoroughly tracked, probed and forecast these days that they cannot possibly cause great loss of life. Scientist don’t share that optimism, 9 . Many believe we’re entering a cycle 10 violent storms are going to be more frequent, and in which the likelihood of a 11 strike will be greater than ever. The scientists’ pet nightmare is of the Big One-a catastrophic storm that could do billion dollars’ 12 of damage and skill thousands of people. No one knows when orswheresthe Big One will 13 but the certainty is growing that it will.

Even a Little One like Bonnie, of course, can do plenty 14 .Some half a million people were forced to flee inland last week, as the 400-mile-wide storm-mammoth 15 size even by hurricane standards- 16 toward Cape Fear, N. C.. And though Bonnie’s 115-m.p.h. winds slowed rapidly as she lumbered inland, her forward progress 17 too, with the result that the storm 18 the state and struck it repeatedly for more than a day. Downed power lines robbed over 240 000 people of electricity. Even 19 the winds were the rains more than 12 inches in some places-which caused the flooding in North and South Carolina. When the crisis seemed to be over, Bonnie regained some of her 20 to pound Virginia before heading out to sea.

1.[A] when [B] that [C] which [D] where

2.[A] mud [B] earth [C] soil [D] grease

3.[A] hand [B] purpose [C] standing [D] end

4.[A] magnitude [B] magnet [C] majesty [D] manifestation

5.[A] got up [B] got out [C] got off [D] got on

6.[A] casualty [B] damage [C] hazard [D] harm

7.[A] If everything [B] If something [C] If nothing [D]If anything

8.[A] believed [B] reinforced [C] showed [D] making

9.[A] whatever [B] whereas [C] however [D] as well

10.[A] of which [B] on which [C] in which [D] with which

11.[A] strategic [B] overwhelmed [C] notorious [D] disastrous

12.[A] worth [B] value [C] price [D] worthy

13.[A] fall [B] knock [C] hit [D] beat

14.[A] for destruction [B] as damage [C] of harm [D] on loss

15.[A] in [B] at [C] of [D] on

16.[A] swirled [B] hurried [C] removed [D] flowed

17.[A] quickened [B] slowed [C] shortened [D] strengthened

18.[A] rode in [B] suspended on [C] hovered over [D] headed for

19.[A] better of [B] worse than [C] more than [D] if

20.[A] fuss [B] fusion [C] fringe [D] fury

SectionⅢReading Comprehension

Part A

Directions:

Reading the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points)

Text 1

Our society worships youth. Advertisements convince us to buy Grecian Formula and Oil of Olay so we can hide the gray in our hair and smooth the lines on our face. Television shows feature attractive young stars with firm bodies, perfect complexions, and thick manes of hair. Middle-aged folk work out in gyms and jog down the street, trying to delay the effects of age.

Wouldn’t any person over thirty gladly sign with the devil just to be young again? Isn’t aging an experience to be dreaded? Perhaps it is un-American to say so, but I believe the answer is “No”. Being young is often pleasant, but being older has distinct advantages.

When young, you are apt to be obsessed with your outward appearance. When my brother Dave and I were teens, we worked feverishly to perfect the bodies we had. As a teenager, I dieted constantly. No matter what I weighed, though, I was never satisfied with the way I looked. My legs were to heavy, my shoulders too broad, and my waist too big. When Dave and I were young, we begged and pleaded for the “right” clothes. If our parents didn’t get them for us, we felt our world would fall apart. I often wonder how my parents and parents in general manage to tolerate their children during the adolescent years. Now, however, Dave and I are beyond such adolescent agonies. The two of us enjoy wearing fashionable clothes, but we are no longer slaves to style. And women, I’m embarrassed to admit, even more than men, have always seemed to be at mercy of fashion. Now my clothes are attractive yet easy to wear. We no longer feel anxious about others will think. As long as we feel good how we look, we are happy.

Being older is preferable to being younger in another way Obviously, I still have important choices to make about my life, but I have already made many of the critical decisions that confront those just starring out. I chose the man I wanted to marry. I decided to have children. I elected to return to college to complete my education. But when you are young, major decision await you at every turn. “What college should I attend?” “What career should I pursue?” “Should I get married?” These are just a few of the issues facing young people. It’s no wonder that, despite their carefree fa?ade, they are often confused, uncertain, and troubled by all the unknown in their future.

But the greatest benefit of being forty knows who I am. The most unsettling aspect of youth is the uncertainty you fell about your values, and dreams. Being young means wondering what is worth working for. Being young means feeling happy with yourself one day and wishing you were never born the next. It means resenting your parents and their way of life one minute and then feeling you will never be as good or as accomplished as they are. By way of contrast, forty is sanity. I have a surer self-identity now. I don’t laugh at jokes I don’t think are funny. I can make a speech in front of a town meeting or complain in a store because I am no longer terrified that people will laugh at me; I am no longer anxious that everyone must like me. I no longer blame my parents for my every personality quirk or keep a running score of everything they did wrong raising me. Life has taught me that I, not they, am responsible for who I am. We are all human being-neither saints nor devils.

21.The best title for this passage would be.

[A] Advantages of Being Young And Old

[B] The Virtues of Growing Older

[C] Advantages of Being Young

[D] Being Young Or Old

22. The author’s attitude towards aging is that.

[A] it is as pleasant as being young

[B] it is a terrible experience

[C] it has advantages over being young

[D] it is dreadful to most Americans

23. The example of clothes were given in the passage to suggest that young people.

[A] cared more about others’ attitudes towards them

[B] paid no attention to their outward appearance

[C] were crazy about their clothes

[D] were slaves to fashion

24. The preference of being older to being young is shown in.

[A] self-confidence

[B] decision-making

[C] awareness

[D] self-control

25. The author develops his main ideas by.

[A] stating his own point of view

[B] giving vivid example of youth

[C] explaining the advantages of being young and old

[D] contrasting youthful innocence with mature sophistication

Text 2

A vast health check-up is now being conducted in the western Swedish province of Varmland with the use of an automated apparatus for high-speed multiple blood analysis. Developed by two brothers, the apparatus can process more than 4,000 blood samples a day, subjecting each to 10 or more tests. Automation has cut the cost of the analyses by about 90 percent.

The result so far

have been astonishing, for hundreds of Swedes have learned that they have silent symptoms of disorders that neither they nor their physicians were aware of. Among them were iron-deficiency anemia, hypercholesterolemia hypertension and even diabetes.

The automated blood analysis apparatus was developed by Dr. Gunnar Junger, 49-year-old associate professor of clinical chemistry at Goteborg University, and his brother, Ingmar, 39, the physician in charge of the chemical central laboratory of Stockholm’s Hospital for Infections Disease.

The idea was conceived 15 years ago when Dr. Gunnar Jungner was working as clinical chemist in northern Sweden and was asked by local physicians to devise a way of performing multiple analyses on a single blood sample. The design was ready in 1961.

Consisting of calorimeters, pumps and other components, many of them American-made, the Jungner apparatus was set up here in Stockholm. Samples from Varmland Province are drawnsintosthe automated system at 90-second intervals.

The findings clatter forth in the form of numbers printed by an automatic typewriter.

The Jungner predict that advance knowledge about a person’s potential ailments made possible by the chemical screening process will result in considerable savings in hospital and other medical costs. Thus, they point, the blood analyses will actually turn out to cost nothing.

In the beginning, the automated blood analyses ransintosconsiderable opposition from some physician who had no faith in machines and saw no need for so many tests. Some laboratory technicians who saw their jobs threatening also protested. But the opposition is said to be warning.

26.Automation is viewed by the writer with.

[A] indecision

[B] remorse

[C] indifference

[D] favor

27.The result of the use of the Jungner apparatus indicate that.

[A] people may become aware of an ailment not previously detected

[B] blood disease can be cured very easily

[C] diabetes does not respond to the apparatus

[D] practically all Swedish physicians have welcomed the invention

28.All of the following statements about automated blood analysis are true except.

[A] the analysis is recorded in a permanent form

[B] the idea for the apparatus involved an international effort

[C] the system has not met opposition from physicians and technicians

[D] the process is a means to save on hospital costs

29.The main purpose of the passage is to.

[A] predict the future of medical care

[B] describe a health check-up system

[C] show how Sweden has superior health care

[D] warn about the dangerous of undetected disease

30.The prediction process that the Jungners use is essentially.

[A] biological

[B] physiological

[C] chemical

[D] biophysical

Text 3

More than 360,000 babies are born every day on the planet. Which one of them will grow up to be a future Shakespeare, find a cure for cancer or perhaps even prove Einstein wrong?

For a smarter baby, experts say it’s not all in the books — emotional development plays a big role in raising intelligent kids. “We really need to change that historic dichotomy of cognition on the one hand, emotions on the other hand, and realize that our emotions are the fuel that gives rise to social behavior but also to different levels of intelligence,” says Dr. Stanley Greenspan, a child development researcher at the George Washington University medical school. Genetics also plays a role, but Greenspan says a baby’s future is not written in his DNA. “Regardless of the history of IQ tests in the family, if I see nurturing, warm, interactive people who read emotional signals well and interact well, usually I see happy, competent and bright children,” Greenspan says.

Besides parent-child interaction, there are other ways to increase baby brain power that have been in the spotlight recently: Breast-feeding is good for a baby — and most experts say they believe it’s also good for a baby’s developing brain. Those who had been breast-fed for seven to nine months scored higher on IQ tests than those breast-fed for one month or less, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association in May. Listening to music was once thought to enhance math skills. A 1999 Harvard medical school analysis of more than a dozen studies doesn’t support this claim, but music and dancing can be excellent ways to interact. Other research shows infants can learn basic sign language even before they speak. These infants appear to grow up a little smarter, but some experts say they think the benefit is due to increased parent-child interaction.

Baby reading lessons are growing in popularity. The makers of video, books and flash cards aimed at the very young claim to sometimes have 2-year-olds reading simple children’s books by themselves. Some experts support these programs, while others oppose them. “If you do a little bit of looking at books with your children and inspire them to be curious about the pictures and … what the word means, but don’t getsintosvery structured systematic teaching at too early an age,” Greenspan says, “and you also interact emotionally and have fun with pretend play … then you have the best of both worlds.”

31. Dr. Stanley Greenspan thinks that.

[A] cognition and emotions are independent of each other in children’s development

[B] a baby’s future is written in his DNA

[C] parent-child interaction is important for children’s mental development

[D] some babies are born smart, while others not

32. Which of the following is not a way mentioned in the passage that can increase baby brainpower directly or in directly?

[A] Parent-child interaction.

[B] Breast-feeding.

[C] Listening to music and dancing.

[D] Sending the babies to school early.

33. What does the phrase “in the spotlight” mean?

[A] in the sunshine.

[B] drawing attention.

[C] become more clear.

[D] in a particular place.

34. From the last passage we can learn that.

[A] Greenspan agrees with the baby reading lessons

[B] Greenspan opposes the baby reading lessons

[C] Greenspan doesn’t care about the baby reading lessons

[D] We can’t infer whether Greenspan care about the baby reading lessons or not

35. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

[A] Children and parents.

[B] How to boost babies’ brain power.

[C] How to raise children.

[D] The role of emotions in children’s development.

Text 4

A judge sided Friday with the husband of a woman who has been comatose for 12 years and ordered that her feeding tube be removed and she be allowed to die. The parents of Terri Schiavo, 38, who suffered heart failure and massive brain damage in 1990, had sought to keep her alive. She breathes on her own and can open her eyes, but is fed through a tube.

In a nine-page order, Pinellas County Circuit Court Judge George Greer ordered that food be withheld from her starting at 3 p.m. January 3. The delay in carrying out thesgroupswill give the parents time to file an appeal, which a lawyer for the parents said he will do next week. “Viewing all the evidence as a whole and acknowledging that medicine is not a precise science, the court finds that the credible evidence overwhelmingly supports the view that [Terri] Schiavo remains in a persistent vegetative state,” Greer wrote.

George Felos, a lawyer for Terri’s husband, Michael Schiavo, said he is “very pleased” with the ruling. “Terri is in a persistent vegetative state and the court found as such,” Felos said. “There are no treatments or therapies that can help her and the judge’s ruling supports that position.” “She wouldn’t like to live like this and that’s all she’s doing — surviving,” Michael Schiavo told CNN before the ruling was announced. “There’s nothing there.” Schiavo said his wife had told him and others she would not want to live on life support. But the woman’s parents argued she never would have said such a thing and have fought to keep their daughter from dying. After the ruling, Bob Schindler, her father, called the decision tantamount to murdering his daughter. Last year, Michael Schiavo won a court ruling to discontinue his wife’s feeding. But the Schindlers appealed, and the feeding resumed three days later.

The case was reheard recently. Two doctors selected by the husband and one by the court testified Terri Schiavo is in a persistent vegetative state, beyond help. “Unfortunately, I know of no single treatment or combination of treatments that could result in any meaningful improvement in her current situation,” said Dr. Peter Bambakidis, a neurologist appointed by the court to make an independent evaluation. But the woman’s parents insist she is aware and responsive. Two doctors selected by the parents testified Terri Schiavo is not brain dead and can be treated. She is being cared for in a hospice near St. Petersburg, Florida.

36.From the first paragraph we can learn that.

[A] Terri Shiavo is dying

[B] Terri Shiavo was hurt recently in an accident

[C] Terri Shiavo’s parents think their daughter should be kept alive

[D] Terri Shiavo can’t breathe on her own

37. According to Judge George Greer,.

[A] Michael Shiavo should let his wife die

[B] no evidence shows that Schiavo is in a persistent vegetative state

[C] medicine is good for Schiavo’s recovery

[D] there should be no delay in carrying out thesgroups

38. The Schindiers think that their daughter.

[A] would not want to live on life support

[B] will not live for long

[C] was murdered by someone

[D] is not brain dead and can be treated

39. What can be inferred from this passage?

[A] Doctors in the US are impartial.

[B] Women’s status is low in the US society.

[C] Good intention often lead to bad results.

[D] The dispute between Schiavo’s parents and husband will continue.

40. This passage is most probably written by.

[A] A judge

[B] A doctor

[C] A socialist

[D] A journalist

Part B

Directions:

Reading the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segmentssintosChinese. Your translation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2. (10 points)

It is predicted that there will be 5 scientific breakthroughs in 21st century.

We will knowswhereswe came from. Why does the universe exist? To put it another way, why is there something instead of nothing? 41) Since the 1920s, scientists have known the universe is expanding, which means it must have started at a definite time in the past. They even have developed theories that give a detailed picture of the evolution of the time it was fraction of a second old to the present. Over the next couple of decade, these theories will be refined by data from extraordinary powerful new telescope. 42) We will have a better understanding of how matter behaves at the unfathomably high temperatures and pressures of the early universe.

We’ll crack the genetic code and conquer cancer.

In 19th-century operas, when the heroine coughs in the first act, the audience knows she will die of tuberculosis in Act 3. 43) But thanks to 20th-century antibiotics, the once-dreaded, once-incurable disease now can mean nothing more serious than taking some pills. As scientists learn more about the genetic code and the way cells work at the molecular level, many serious diseases-cancer, for one-will become less threatening. Using manufactured “therapeutic” viruses, doctors will be able to replace cancer-causing damaged DNA with healthy genes, probably administered by a pill or injection.

We’ll live longer (120 years?).

44) If the normal aging process is basically a furious, invisible in our cells-a contest between damage to our DNA and our cell’s ability to repair that damage-then 21st -century strides in genetic medicine may let us control and even reverse the process. But before we push scientists to do more, consider: Do we really want to live in a worldswheresno one grows old and few children are born because the planet can hold only so many people?swhereswould new ideas come from? What would we do with all that extra time?

We’ll “manage” Earth.

In the next millennium, we’ll stop taking about the weather but will do something about it. We’ll gradually learn how to predict the effects of human activity on the earth, its climate and its ecosystems”. And with that knowledge will come an increasing willingness to use it to manage the working of our planet.

We’ll have a brain road map.

Early in the next century, we will use advanced forms of magnetic resonance imaging to produce detailed maps of the neurons in operation. We’ll be able to say with certainly which ones are working when you read a word, when you say a word, when you think about a word, and so on.45) This is the real “final frontier of the 21st century: the brain is the most complex system we know. It contains about 100 billion neurons (roughly the number of stars in the Milky Way), each connected to as many as 1,000 others.

SectionⅣ Writing

46. Directions:

Study the following picture, and then write an essay based on the topic of the picture. In the essay, you should

1) Describe the picture below.

2) Show you understanding of the symbolic meaning of the picture.

3) Make your own comments.

You should write about 200 words neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2. (20 points)

参考答案

SectionⅠ listening Comprehension (20 points) (略)

SectionⅡ Use of English (10 points)

1.A 2.A 3.D 4.B 5.C 6.C 7.B 8.B 9.A 10.C 11.D 12.A 13.B 14.C 15.A 16.A 17.B 18.D 19.B 20.B

SectionⅢ Reading Comprehension (50 points)

Part A (40 points)

21.B 22.C 23.A 24.B 25.D 26.D 27.A 28.B 29.B 30.C 31.C 32.D 33.B 34.A 35.B 36.C 37.A 38.D 39.D 40.D

Part B (10 points)

41.自20世纪20年代以来，科学家已经了解到宇宙正在扩张。这就是说宇宙是在过去的某一特定时候开始形成的。科学家们甚至已经提出种种理论，详尽地描绘宇宙从它形成的最初一瞬间一直到现在的演变过程。

42.同时，我们将进一步了解物质在宇宙初期不可思议的高温高压下，是如何表现的。

43.但是，由于20世纪抗生素的出现，曾经是那样可怕的不治之症现在成了服点药片就万事大吉的事情。

44.如果说通常的衰老过程主要是我们细胞内的一场激烈而不可见的竞赛的话(一场对我们的脱氧核糖酸进行破坏同我们体内的细胞对破坏的组织进行修复的竞赛)，那么，21世纪遗传医学的巨大成就会使我们能够控制、甚至逆转这一过程。

45.这是21世纪的一个真正的”尖端领域”：人脑是我们所知道的最复杂的系统。它含有1000多亿个神经单元(大概是银河系中星星的数量)，其中每一个神经元又连接到另外1000多种其他神经元。

SectionⅣ Writing (20 points)