Directions:
Read the following emarkably lightly. Only three people died. Property (5) was far lower than it might have been. Beaches remained (6) intact.
(7), the storm reinforced the popular belief that hurricanes are so thoroughly tracked, probed and forecast these days that they cannot possibly cause (8) loss of life. Scientists don’t share that optimism, (9). Many believe we’re entering a cycle in which violent storms are going to be more (10), and in which the likelihood of a (11) strike will be greater than ever. The scientists’ pet nightmare is of the Btext. 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 Bonnie probably isn’t feeling especially lucky at the moment. Good fortune isn’t the first thing you think of when your living room is full of (1), your roof is missing, your power has been out for days on (2). But considering the destruction that often accompanies storms of this (3), residents of North and South Carolina and Virginia (4) rig One—a catastrophic storm that could do $100 billion dollars’ (12) of damage and kill thousands of people. No one knows when or where the 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 (15) inland last week, as the 400-mile-wide storm—mammoth in 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 (19). Even worse than 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. mud B. earth C. soil D. grease
2. A. hand B. purpose C. standing D. end
3. A. magnitude B. magnet C. majesty D. manifestation
4. A. got up B. got out C. got off D. got on
5. A. casualty B. damage C. hazard D. harm
6. A. totally B. largely C. most D. almost
7. A. If everything B. If something C. If nothing D. If anything
8. A. big B. great C. more D. much
9. A. whatever B. whereas C. however D. as well
10. A. terrible B. frequent C. violent D. peaceful
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. go B. run away from C. flee D. leave
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. water B. electricity C. goods D. commerce
20. A. fuss B. fusion C. fringe D. fury
答案：
1.—5. ADADB 6.—10. BDBCB 11.—15. DACCC 16.—20. ABCBD
Section II Reading Comprehension
Part A
Directions:
Read 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
The list of “should” is very long. You should give more than 100 per cent at work. You should never stop learning and developing. You should read and keep up with events. You should spend time with your family and take care of your myriad of daily chores.
At work, it’s not enough to be qualified for your job. You have to have excellent people skills and problem-solving abilities. Your IQ have better be high, and you should welcome anything and everything new. Commitment and enthusiasm are the bottom line.At home, it’s not enough to have money in the bank. There are children to raise, hobbies to encourage and daily routines to organize. Contacts between home and the day care center or school are another priority. You have to keep up your friendships and your family relationships. You have to have empathy for everyone around you. You have to have time.
How do we catch a guilty conscience? Finns in Business asked family counselor Hannu Kuukka from the Helsinki parish services. “A bad conscience comes from conflicting pressures, from the feeling that you just can’t manage everything that you consider important. Frustration and stress are the result.”
“Our internalized roles—the role models that we subconsciously follow—also contribute to the problem. Throughout our lives, we carry with us the part we played in our own family. This can be a source of encouragement and support, or the seeds of a bad conscience.”
What can we do for a bad conscience? “Our failures tend to become exaggerated in our minds, especially if someone close to us verbalizes them. You have to set priority. Couples should decide together if one of them is going to concentrate on work and the other on family. The couple is the foundation of the home, so they have to find common ground,” comments Hannu Kuukka.
At work, you spend your time with adults, and you can excel in your own field. Are you more comfortable at work than at home? This is a common feeling—and another source of guilt. “It is not unusual for relationships at work to be easier and more straightforward than those at home. The everyday life of a family with children can be exhausting. And today, with growing competition and more friction at work, even these relationships have become more difficult,” says Kuukka.
21．The purpose of the first paragraph is to _____.
A. itemize what people have to accomplish in their lives
B. brief a real but tough situation for couples to cope with
C. explain why some people long for a break of routine
D. show how a full-time job goes against a family life
22.According to the author, the decisive factor for one to perform well at work is _____.
A. responsibility and devotion
B. right qualifications
C. originality and open-mindedness
D. an IQ at least above 130
23.According to the passage, the constant cause of a bad conscience lies in the fact that _____.
A. one attempts to achieve a good balance between work and family-life
B. people have unknowingly played stereotyped sex roles in family
C. our minds are beset with exaggerated information about family problems
D. no couple is capable of handling more than one thing at a time
24 As suggested by Kuukka, the right way to approach the problem is to ______.
A. exchange role models between the couple in the same boat
B. look at the same problem from a different perspective
C. turn a deaf ear to whatever other people would say
D. get the couple’s priorities right to ensure a rewarding life
25. From the last paragraph, it can be safely inferred that _____.
A. work relationships are as difficult to keep up as family relationships
B. working parents usually feel more comfortable at work than at home
C. growing competition has affected the otherwise good terms with co-workers
D. the best moment of the day is when you might have escaped from family chores
答案：21B 22A 23A 24D 25B
Text 2
Chinese cinema is still the big unwritten chapter in world film industry. The gap is surprising, in only because so many other facets of twentieth-century Chinese history, culture and politics have been extensively analyzed. The past ten years, however, have seen a significant growth of interest in Chinese film-both in China and farther afield.
The China Film Archive, forced to close by Red Guards in 1996, resumed its activities in 1978; it has now recatalogued its collection and begun facing up to the massive task of copying its large holdings of old prints on to safety-film stock. Two years ago, it organized a special season of pre-1949 films for internal circulation to film professionals on the country’s leading production centers. This give many of the younger film-makers their first glimpses of work done in the 1930s and 1940s. Later films, banned since the “anti-rightist purge” of 1957, have also begun to reappear on China’s screens.
The western discovery of China’s film heritage began at London’s National Film Theatre in 1980, with a 25-film season called “Electric Shadows”. Several classics had their first screenings outside China at this event, which established two important points. First, that the Shanghai film industry of the 1930s and 1940s produced work of international standing. Second, that the films of the People’s Republic, while hardly as remarkable as their predecessors, did offer much more than celebrations of successful work in the countryside and military field.
The London initiative was quickly copied in a dozen or more cities, from Sydney to Turin, with the result that Chinese cinema has found a place on the map that it did not have in 1980. the decades of neglect and ignorance, however, have forced all such events to take the form of broad, general surveys , which has not helped the discovery of individual talents.
London has now picked up the baton again with a second, larger season, to beheld at the National Film Theatre throughout January and February. It is called, inevitably, “More Electric Shadows”. Unlike the first season, this has been organized with the co-operation of the China Film Archive; the result is a program more or less evenly balanced between pre-1949 and post-1949 titles. It offers more 1930s films than have previously been seen outside China at one time and includes a number of western premieres.
26.In relation to the author’s knowledge of 20th-century Chinese culture generally, ______.
A. the actual history of the country is still somewhat hazy
B. Chinese cinemas are still an unknown quantity
C. Little is known about Chinese films
D. The growing interest is out of proportion
27.The special season of pre-1949 films mentioned _______.
A. was shown in cities all over the world
B. consisted mainly of films banned since 1957
C. was organized by the China Film Archive
D. gave young film- makers a second chance to see film of the 30s and 40s
28.The London season of 1980 showed that Chinese films of the People’s Republic era ______.
A. could rank among international film classics
B. were better than many Western film of the same era
C. were remarkably inferior to the Shanghai 30s and 40s films
D. dealt mainly with agricultural and military themes
29.The writer presents the fact that after the London season, ______.
A. no more Chinese film was shown outside China
B. many Chinese film seasons were organized outside China
C. no more Chinese films were produced outside China
D. Western people were still ignorant about Chinese films
30.The new season in London in January and February will be special because it will ______.
A. show more films from the 50s
B. include premieres of most Westerns
C. be the second held outside China
D. be co-supported by the Chinese
答案：26.C 27 C 28 D 29 B 30 D
Text 3
Nobody ever went into academic circles to make a fast fortune. Professor, especially those in medical- and technology-related fields, typically earn a fraction of what their colleagues in industry do. But suddenly, big money is starting to flow into the ivory tower, as university administrators wake up to the commercial potential of academic research. And the institutions are wrestling with a whole new set of issues.
The profits are impressive: the Association of University Technology Managers surveyed 132 universities and found that they earned a combined $576 million from patent royalties in 1998, a number that promises to keep rising dramatically. Schools like Columbia University in New York have aggressively marketed their inventions to corporations, particularly pharmaceutical and high-tech companies.
Now Columbia is going retail-on the Web. It plans to go beyond the typical “dot. edu” model, free sites listing courses and professors’ research interests. Instead, it will offer the expertise of its faculty on a new for-profit site which will be spun off as an independent company. The site will provide free access to educational and research content, say administrators, as well as advanced features that are already available to Columbia students, such as a simulation of the construction and architecture of a French cathedral and interactive 3-D models of organic chemicals. Free pages will feed into profit-generating areas, such as online courses and seminars, and related books and tapes. Columbia executive vice president Michael Crow imagines “millions of visitors” to the new site, including retirees and students willing to pay to tap into this educational resource. “We can offer the best of what’s thought and written and research,” says Ann Kirschner, who heads the project. Columbia also is anxious not be beaten by some of the other for-profit “knowledge sites,” such as About.com and Hungry Minds. “If they capture this space,” says Crow, “they’ll begin to cherry-pick our best faculty.”
Profits from the sale of patents typically have been divided between the researcher, the department and the university, and Web profits would work the same way, so many faculty members are delighted. But others find the trend worrisome: is a professor who stands to profit from his or her research as credible as one who doesn’t? will universities provide more support to researchers working in profitable fields than to scholars toiling in more musty areas?
“If there’s the perception that we might be making money from our efforts, the authority of the university could be diminished,” worries Herve Varenne, a cultural anthropology professor at Columbia’s education school. Says Kirschner: “We would never compromise the integrity of the university .” Whether the new site can add to the growing profits from patents remains to be seen, but one thing is clear. It’s going to take the best minds on camps to find a new balance between profit and purity.
31.In the past, professors ______.
A. could earn as much as doctors
B. were able to earn more than engineers
C. were not good at earning money
D. did not intend to earn money easily
32.Excellent sums of money are beginning to pour into academic circle because university administrators ______.
A. have seized the chance to put theories in practice
B. have come to realize what the great worthy ideas can bring them
C. are mostly from commercial circles
D. are keen on turning research results into dollars
33.According to the survey, $576 million earned by 132 universities came from ______.
A. the patent office
B. their publications
C. payments for the use of the patent rights
D. the support by high-tech companies
34.Columbia’s Web site can provide free ______.
A. expertise of its professors
B. listing of courses and professors’ research interests
C. online courses and seminars
D. books and tapes related to the courses
35.Many of Columbia’s faculty members are delighted with ______.
A. the way profits are divided
B. the trend of the new Internet adventure
C. the university’s support to researchers in profitable fields
D. the impressive profits for the university
E.
答案：31.D 32.B 33.C 34.B 35.A
Text 4
For decades, arms-control talks centered on nuclear weapons. This is hardly surprising, since a single nuclear bomb can destroy a city. Yet, unlike smaller arms, these powerful weapons have not been used in war in over 50 years.
A military historian John Keegan writes:” Nuclear weapons have, since August 9, 1945, killed no one. The 50,000 who have died in war since that date have for the most part, been killed by cheap weapons and small ammunition, costing little more than the transistor radios and dry-cell batteries . Because small weapons have disrupted life very little in the advanced world, outside the restricted localities where drug-dealing and political terrorism flourish, the populations of the rich states have been slow to recognize the horror that this pollution has brought in its train. ”
No one knows how many small arms and light weapons are in circulation, but experts estimates that military-style firearms may number about 500million. In addition, tens of millions of civilian-type rifles and pistols are owned by private citizens. What is more, new weapons are produced each year.
Why have small arms become the weapons of choice in recent wars? Part of the reason lies in the relationship between conflict and poverty. Most of the wars fought during the 1990’s took place in countries that are poor---too poor to buy sophisticated weapons systems. Small arms and light weapons are a bargain. For example, 50 million dollars, which is nearly the cost of a single modern jet fighter, can equip an army with 200,000 assault rifles.
Another reason why small weapons are so popular is that they are lethal. A single rapid-fire assault rifle can fire hundreds of rounds a minute. They are also easy to use and maintain. A child of ten can be taught to strip and reassemble a assault rifle.
The global traffic of guns is complex. Huge supplies of guns pass legally from nation to nation. After the cold war, armies in both the East and the West were reduced, and governments gave or sold excess equipment to friends. According to the estimate since 1995 the United States has given away more than 300,000 rifles, pistols, and grenade launchers. It is reasoned that giving weapons away is cheaper than storing them.
The illegal trade, however, may be much larger. Black-market weapons usually have to be purchased. In some African wars, paramilitary groups have bought millions of dollars’ of small arms and light weapons., not with money, but with diamonds.
Weapons are also linked to the illegal trade in drugs. It is not unusual for criminals to use the same routs to smuggle drugs on direction as they use exchange to smuggle guns in the other.
36.It is implied in the passage that__________.
A small arms control is even more important than the control of nuclear arms control
B it is hardly surprising that the nuclear arms control talks have not reached an agreement
C nuclear weapon’s power to kill people has been exaggerated
D nuclear weapons are not as powerful as small weapons
37.Which one of the following is NOT the reason for the neglect of the problems of the small weapons?
A Major attention was put on the problems of drug-dealing and political terrorism in the advanced world.
B The developed world has no such problems as caused by small weapons
C The developed countries have not recognized the seriousness of the problem in time.
D The countries suffering from small arms problems face more important problems such as pollution.
38.All of the following are the reason why small weapons have become the choice in the recent wars except______.
A small arms are cheap
B small arms are powerful antipersonnel weapons
C small arms are easier to use
D small arms are easier to get
39.Why did US government gave away a large number of small arms?
A Because it wants to arm their friends and allies
B Because it is less expensive than keeping them
C Because it wants to save the resources
D Because it is better to store and guard them in other countries
40.We can conclude from the passage that______.
A small arms are not expensive in the black-market
B it is unfair to exchange small arms for diamond
C criminals use the same passage to smuggle drugs and small arms
D where there are drugs, there are small arms.
答案：36A 37.C 38.D 39.B 40.C
Part B
Directions:
In the following text, some sentences have been removed. For questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list A-G to fit into each of the numbered blank. There are two extra choices, which do not fit in any of the gaps. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)
“Dull, but reliable, will make a good parent” – so said a head teacher’s reference which I was once sent for a school-leaver. It amused me at the time, but said more about the referee than the candidate. Most references are unreliable, although recruiters usually ask for them. Few ask for character references today, as these have proved useless.
41
However, these cannot always be trusted. A few may be biased.
42
This can also occur if there has been friction between boss and subordinate over personal or business matters.
On the other hand, there can also be positive bias. An employer who wants to get rid of someone may fail to mention any relevant failings or even give a glowing report to help the individual to go quickly.
43
But if they, the law in Britain says they owe a duty of care to both the employer to whom it is supplied and to the individual to whom it refers.
Most written references are unreliable because they are not specific enough. So how do you, and a potential employer, ensure that any references given on your behalf is genuinely helpful?
44
Employers normally expect two: one, your immediate superior in your current or most recent job; the other, the boss in the post before, so long as it was in the last five years or so. For a senior post, mare may be required.
For their part, no prospective employer could approach your employer until you have an offer” subject to references” and you have given permission.
45
Once you get the offer, and before giving permission to make contact, and tell your boss and explain that the prospective employer will be asking for a reference. Do this face-to-face and during the meeting describe the job for which you have applied. If you can provide a job description or the relevant job advertisements,even better.
Even if your referee does express some doubts about your fitness for the post, don’t worry, employers often back their own judgement.
A
It would also be wrong for anyone to contact your penultimate firm before then because world may reach your current employer on the grapevine.
B
In fact, employers do not have to give references at all.
C
These might include your boss’s immediate senior and someone at the same level as your boss who is familiar with your work.
D
Your boss can then match the reference needs to the needs of the job.
E
What they seek are references from previous employers.
F
Some managers think it an act of disloyalty if an employee applies for a job elsewhere and will give poor references or only weak praise.
G
Firstly, as an employee, make sure your choose the right referees.
答案: 41.E 42.F 43B 44.G 45.A
Part C
Directions:
Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2. (10 points)
It is a problem that vexes some of China’s brightest minds: why is China so far behind the world in math? After all, this is a country with a long intellectual tradition, one that invented the abacus and may have come un with the Pythagorean theorem before it dawned on Pythagoras. (46) Sure, Chinese high-school students consistently dazzle the world with sky-high standardized-test scores and gold medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad. But high school seems to be where they peak.
Only one Chinese-born mathematician has won the Fields Medal, the Noel Prize of math, in its70-year history. And that man, Yau Shingtung, is among the most worried.(47) Now a professor at Harvard, he was stunned after recently interviewing a faculty candidate at a prominent Chinese university. “A student at that level, I wouldn’t even give a master’s degree,” he said. “I’m not pessimistic, but the problems are there.”
Many of China’s leading minds believe the problem rests in the country’s competitive, test-driven education system. (48) Primary and secondary schools stress rote memorization, and they can be brutally unforgiving of creative mavericks – one bad test early in life can ruin a student’s chances for college. At the doctoral level, this has resulted in low-risk, derivative research. Chinese universities simply tally the number of papers someone has published when it comes time to decide promotions. The result is that many Chinese scholars publish more mediocre papers and less groundbreaking work. Many of the greatest innovations come from people in laboratories doing pure research. Sure, a country full of high-school-math whizzes can offer the world millions of qualified computer programmers. (49) But if China truly wants to become a high-tech player, then its students must be able to create cutting-edge technology – not simply serve it.
China’s mathematicians may still be able to solve for these variables. People are fighting to change the rules for promoting professors. At some academy, for example, the three-person evaluation panels now must include two overseas experts. (50) Perhaps even more promising, Chinese universities are going beyond the elite city colleges and into the impoverished countryside in search of future Chinese Newtons and Nashes. Harvard’s Yau helped establish a mathematics institute in Hong Kong where, he says, some of the students producing the most creative work are the ones from the countryside or the poorest mainland schools.
答案：
46.当然,在国际数学奥林匹克竞赛上,中国中学生的高分和金牌让全市赞叹不已.
47.丘成桐目前是哈佛大学教授,最近在对中国一所知名大学的教师候选人进行面试以后,他目瞪口呆.
48.小学和中学强调死记硬背,无情地压制创造性的独立思维 —一 一次糟糕的考试成绩就可能会过早地断送学生上大学的机会.
49.可是,如果中国真的想要成为高技术的竞争者,中国学生就必须创造尖端技术,而不是单纯使用这种技术.
50更给人以希望的是,中国的大学已经把眼光超出了城市里的重点学校,到贫困地区去寻找中国未来的牛顿和纳什.
Section III Writing
Part A
51. Directions:
You have worked as a teacher for several years. Now you’re planning to go back to college and upgrade your knowledge. It’s a Master’s degree in your pursuit. Write a letter of 100-120 words to the staff at a university:
A offering all the materials required;
B asking them to contact you if they have any questions
Write your letter with no less than 100 words. Write it neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2. Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter; use “Liming” instead. You do not need to write the address. (10 points)
Part B
Directions:
Write one or more paragraphs of approximately 160-200 words according to the topic given below.
TOPIC; A proverb says: “ Travel east and west, a man’s own house is still the best.” Do you agree with it? Why or why not? Give at least three reasons to support your ideas.
Part B
52. Directions.
Study the following drawing carefully and write an essay in which you should
1) describe the drawing,
2) interpret its meaning and implications, and
3) give your comments.
You should write 160--200 words neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2. (20 points)