论文部分内容阅读
第一部分：听力（满分30分）（略）
第二部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节单项填空（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分）
从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案。
21. ---I’m not too happy about the project. What shall we do next?
---________. Everything will be OK in the end.
A. Don’t worry
B. Anything as you like
C. I'm afraid not
D. I don’t think too much
22. ---________ is Mr. Black like?
---He is a very nice person, and is ______of the two engineers.
A. What; more patient
B. How; the most patient
C. What; the more patient
D. How; a patient
23. The Red Cross would have another million dollars _______ to buy medicine for the refugees（难民）in the Indian Ocean seaquake.
A. by that B. with that
C. for which D. with which
24. I’ve visited a lot of different places and stayed in a lot of different hotels, but nothing else _________ this on.
A. wins B. matches
C. makes D. takes
25. ---I wonder why Mr. Green looks quiet in class.
---I’m not sure, but he________ a small accident driving here.
A. could have B. might have
C. might have had D. must have had
26. As is known to us all, _______ life in _______ modern world is easier in some ways than _______ life our grandparents lived.
A. the; a ; the B. a; the; the
C. / ; the; the D. the; / ; the
27. There is honour too, for all the competitors, win or lose. That's the spirit of the Olympic to take part in ________ matters.
A. what B. it
C. that D. where
28. In no country _______ Britain, as has been said, ________ experience four seasons in the course of a single day.
A. other than; one can
B. rather than; one can
C. other than; can one
D. rather than; can one
29. Of the 9,500 drivers _______since the beginning of the year, 23% were found _______ in road knowledge.
A. tested; lacking
B. having been tested; to lack
C. tested; lacked
D. to have been tested; lack
30. ---Was it not until last week _____ he decided to give up smoking?
---No. He began _____he saw the news film last month.
A. when; as soon
B. that; immediately
C. did; that
D. that; till
31. ---What's wrong with him?
---The picture he came across ________ his memory of a sad story in his childhood.
A. put off B. took off
C. set off D. ran off
32. Every boy and every girl as well as some teachers who _______ to visit the museum ________ asked to be at school gate before 6:00 in the morning.
A. are; are B. is; is
C. is; are D. are; is
33. ---What's happened here?
---It seems oil _______ from this pipe for some time. We'll have to take the machine apart to put it right.
A. had leaked B. is leaking
C. leaked D. has been leaking
34. The company going from bad to worse, the workers ________ hardly enough to make a living.
A. are paid B. are paying
C. have paid D. paid
35. ---Mike said he was tired of studying English.
---It isn't like her _______ like that.
A. to say anything
B. to have said anything
C. have said something
D. say anything
第二节 完形填空 （共20小题，每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。
When I was a junior in college, I took a course in D.H. Lawrence. I know this sounds stupid, but I thought it was about Lawrence of Arabia, the eccentric（古怪的） British desert warrior（战士）. I’d seen the movie, and I wanted to _36__ him. I went to a used-book store to the required novels. I was surprised by the __37__: The rainbow, Sons and Lovers, and Lady Chatterley’s Lover. This was a __38__ of Lawrence of Arabia I didn't know about. The clerk explained. Bad news. But I had taken the _39__ and I needed the credits, so I was __40__. I went home to read.
Like a lot of college students, I bought__41__books hoping someone else would already have __42__ the important part. And the books I bought were __43__ underlined. When I started to read, I was __44__. This was hot stuff (materials)!
All the books had the same female name in the __45__. This girl really knew how to underline not only the juicy parts, but the beautiful passages about love. I __46__ in the phone book and she was __47__. I __48__ I'd call her, hoping for anything from a date to copies of the papers she might have written about the author. College guys play all the angles.
I called her, introduced myself, and told her what I wanted. She was not a college student, but a __49__ professor of English literature. These books had been copies she'd __50__ when she'd moved to a smaller apartment. She laughed and said she'd be glad to have a __51__ with me.
We liked each other right away. She lived alone, and her eyes were __52__. She proposed that if I’d drive her to the grocery store once a week, she’d tutor（辅导）me in Lawrence.
During that term, she woke me up about love, sexuality, and women. I'm a __53__ man because of her. A long time later, I told her that if she'd been 20 instead of 70, I'd have asked her to __54__ me. She'd have __55__ me. She's dead now. I still have her books, her wisdom, and her kind of love. I got an "A" in the course, too.
36.A. know B. like C. be D. learn
37.A. books B. names C. stores D. titles
38.A. side B. point C. story D. view
39.A. class B. lesson C. course D. work
40.A. kept B. stuck C. stopped D. delayed
41.A. used B. new C. many D. bad
42.A. read B. underlined C. written D. noticed
43.A. rarely B. never C. almost D. thoroughly
44.A. blown away B. knocked down C. put away D. thrown away
45.A. middle B. cover C. front D. back
46.A. found her out B. picked her out C. searched her out D. looked her up
47.A. numbered B. listed C. arranged D. included
48.A. figured B. wanted
C. knew D. realized
49.A. working B. kind C. retired D. strange
50.A. given B. sold C. collected D. stored
51.A. date B. talk C. meet D. appointment
52.A. falling B. failing C. dropping D. reducing
53.A. brave B. careful C. light D. better
54.A. teach B. help C. marry D. tutor
55.A. refused B. accepted C. loved D. promised
第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项中选出最佳答案。
A
A good modern newspaper is an extraordinary piece of reading. It is remarkable first for what it contains: the range of news from local crime to international politics, from sports to business to fashion to science, and the range of comment and special features as well, from editorial page to feature articles and interviews to criticism of books, art, theatre and music. A newspaper is even more remarkable for the way one reads it; never completely, never straight through, but always by jumping from here to there, in and out glancing at one piece, reading another article all the say through, reading just a few paragraphs of the next. A good modern newspaper offers a variety to attract many different readers, but far more than any one reader is interested in. What brings this variety together in one place is its topicality, its immediate relation to what is happening in your world and your locality now. But immediacy and speed of production that goes with it mean also that much of what appears in a newspaper has no more than transient value. For all these reasons, not two people really read the same paper: what each person does is to put together, out of the pages of that day's paper, his own selection and series, his own newspaper. For all these reasons, reading newspapers efficiently, which means getting what you want from them without missing things you need and without wasting time, demands skill and self-awareness as you modify and apply the techniques of reading.
56. A modern newspaper is remarkable for all the following except its____.
A. wide coverage
B. uniform style
C. speed in reporting news
D. popularity
57. According to the passage, the reason why not two people really read the "same newspaper" is that ___.
A. people scan for the news they are interested in
B. different people prefer different newspaper
C. people are rarely views about what a good newspaper is
D. people have different views about what a good newspaper is
58. It can concluded from the passage that newspaper readers____.
A. apply reading techniques skillfully
B. jump from one newspaper to another
C. appreciate the variety of a newspaper
D. usually read a newspaper selectively
59. The best title for this passage would be____.
A. The Importance of Newspaper Topicality
B. The Characteristics of a Good Newspaper
C. The Variety of a Good Newspaper
D. Some Suggestions on How to Read a Newspaper
B
Olaf Stapledon wrote a book called First and Last Men, in which he looked millions of years ahead. He told of different men and of strange civilizations(文明), broken up by long dark ages in between. In his view, what is called the present time is no more than a moment in human history and we are just the First Men. In 2,000 million years from now there will be the Eighteenth of Last Men.
However, most of our ideas about the future are really very shortsighted. Perhaps we can see some possibilities for the next fifty years. But the next hundred? The next million? Thats much more difficult.
When men and women lived by hunting 50,000 years ago, how could they even begin to picture modern life? Yet to men of 50,000 years from now, we may seem as primitive(原始的) in our ideas as the Stone Age hunters to do us. Perhaps they will spend their days goal locking to make new spindles, or struggling with their ballalators through the crab. These words, which I have just made up, have to stand for things and ideas that we simply can't think of.
So why bother even to try imagining life far in the future? Here are two reasons. First, unless we remember bow short our own lives are compared with the whole human history, we are likely to think our own interests are much more important than they really are. If we make the earth a poor place to live on because we are careless or greedy(贪婪) or quarrelsome, our grandchildren will nor bother to think of excuses for us. Second, by trying to escape from present interests and imagine life far in the future, we may arrive at quite fresh ideas that we can use ourselves. For example, if we imagine that in the future men may give up farming, we can think of trying it now. So set your imagination free when you think about the future.
60. A particular mention made of Stapledon's book in the opening paragraph____.
A. serves as a description of human history
B. serves as an introduction to the discussion
C. shows a disagreement of views
D. shows the popularity of the book
61. The text discusses men and women 50,000 years ago and 50,000 years from now in order to show that____.
A. human history is extremely long
B. life has an introduction to the discussion
C. it is useless to plan for the next 50 years
D. it is difficult to tell what will happen in the future
62. Spindles and ballalators are used in the text to refer to____.
A. tools used in farming
B. ideas about modern life
C. unknown things in the future
D. hunting skills in the Stone Age
63. According to the writer of the text, imaging the future will____.
A. serve the interests of the present and future generations
B. enable us to better understand human history
C. help us to improve farming
D. make life worth living
C
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C. selling books
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A. a course for training your English
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C. different kinds of free instructions
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66. We can learn from the text that____
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C. we can't telephone the university during the night
D. people can't be employed without finishing OU courses
D
The case for college has been accepted without question for more than a generation. All high school graduates ought to go, because college will help them earn more money, become "better people", and learn to be more responsible citizens than those who don't go.
But college has never been able to work its magic for everyone. And now that close to half our high school graduates are attending, those who don't fit the pattern are becoming more and more, and more obvious. College graduates are selling shoes and driving taxis; college students get in the way of each other's experiments and write false letters of recommendation（推荐）in the competition for admission to graduate school. Others find no interest in their studies, and drop out---often encouraged by college administrators（教导主任）.
Some observers say the fault is with the young people themselves---they are spoiled and they are expecting too much. But that is a condemnation（谴责）of the students as a whole, and does not explain all campus unhappiness. Others blame the state of the world, and they are partly right. We’ve been told that young people have to go to college because our economy cannot take in an army of untrained eighteen-year-old. But disappointed graduates are learning that it can no longer take in an army of trained twenty-year-old, either.
Some adventuresome educators and campus watchers have openly begun to suggest that college may not be the best, the proper, the only place for every young person after the completion of high school. We may have been looking at all those surveys（调查）upside down, it seems, and thinking of the rosy glow of our own remembered college experiences. Perhaps college does not make people intelligent, ambitious, happy, liberal, or quick to learn things---maybe it is just the other way round, and intelligent, ambitious, happy, liberal, or quick people are only the ones who have been attracted to college in the first place. And perhaps all those successful college graduates would have been successful whether they had gone to college or not. This is heresy（异端邪说）to those of us who have been brought up to believe that if a little schooling is good, more has to be much better. But opposite evidence is beginning to mount up.
67. According to the passage all the following statements are true EXCEPT that ___________.
A. about half of the high school graduates continue their studies in colleges
B. college graduates are believed to be able to earn more money
C. administrators often encourage college students to drop out
D. more and more young people are found unfit for college
68. Which of the following is one of some observers' opinions?
A. The students expect so much that they are not satisfied with the hard college life.
B. The economic situation is so discouraging that the youth have to attend college.
C. Colleges should improve because of so much campus unhappiness.
D. Colleges provide more chances of good jobs than anywhere else.
69. What does the underlined sentence in paragraph 4 mean?
A. Our college experiences prove that those surveys are incorrect.
B. The surveys may remind us of our beautiful college experiences.
C. The surveys should all be reexamined according to our college experiences.
D. Our college experiences may make us misunderstand the results of the surveys.
70. What is the main purpose of this passage?
A. To value young people's further education in college.
B. To put forward an idea that college should not be the first choice
C. To argue against the idea that college is the best place for all young people
D. To persuade young people into working after the completion of high school
E
The way people hold to the belief that fun-filled, pain-free life equals happiness actually reduces their chances of ever obtaining real happiness. If fun and pleasure are equal to happiness, then pain must be equal to unhappiness. But in fact, the opposite is true: more often than not things that lead to happiness contain some pain.
As a result, many people avoid the very attempts that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain inevitably(不可避免地) brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, religious commitment(义务), self-improvement.
Ask a bachelor why he resists(反对) marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying. If he is honest, he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment, for commitment is in fact quite painful. The single life is filled with fun, adventure and excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most distinguishing features.
Couples with infant children are lucky to get whole night's sleep of a three-day vacation. I don't know any parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children. But couples that decide not to have children ever know the joys of watching a child grow up or playing with a grandchild.
Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations. It liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can really increase our happiness. It liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing our happiness now seems pointless. And it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all those who always have so much fun actually may not be happy at all.
71. According to the author, a bachelor resists marriage chiefly because____
A. He is unwilling to take on family responsibilities.
B. He believes that life will be more cheerful if he remains single
C. He finds more fun in dating than in marriage
D. He fears it will put an end to all his fun, adventure and excitement
72. Raising children, in the author's opinion is____
A. a moral duty
B. a thankless job
C. a task worth doing
D. a source of inevitable pain
73. From the last paragraph, we learn that envy sometimes comes from____
A. hate
B. misunderstanding
C. happiness
D. lack of knowledge
74. To understand what true happiness is, one must____
A. have as much fun as possible in one's lifetime
B. make every effort to liberated oneself from pain
C. put up with pain in any situation
D. be able to tell happiness from fun
75. What is the author trying to tell us?
A. Happiness often goes hand in hand with pain.
B. One must know how to obtain happiness.
C. It is important to make commitment.
D. It is pain that leads to happiness.
第五部分：写作 （共两节，满分35分）
第一节：短文改错（共10小题：每小题1分，满分10分）
Sit here in my room, I often think of my childhood. We used to 1 _________
live on a small farm. It was far from the town that there was no 2. _________
electricity, so we had to use oil lamps. We often get up at six o'clock 3. _________
in the morning in order to catch a school bus. On cold winter mornings, 4. _________
I remember, we would jump out of bed to the bathroom, there we would 5. _________
wash our faces with cold water and get dressed as quickly as possible. 6._________
Mother would always prepare for hot food for breakfast which we liked 7. ________
to eat it before rushing out into the darkness outside. The school bus 8. _________
was usually waiting for us when we arrived. We would jump the 9. _________
bus with blue noses and freezing fingers. 10. ________
第二节 书面表达（满分25分）
印度洋海啸已造成16万多人死亡，在海啸中失踪的人数为27000人；因海啸而流离失所的人多达数百万人。请你以一名中国学生的名义给受灾灾民写一封信，内容包括以下几点：
1、我们中国人能体会到发生在印度洋沿岸人们身上的灾难有多么痛苦。
2、告诉他们，我们中国人自灾难发生的那一天起就一直在关注他们。
3、我国政府已派各类专家帮助他们重建家园。
4、我国全国上下都在捐款，为的是尽可能减轻灾难给他们带来的痛苦。
5、鼓励他们不要泄气，灾难马上就会过去，一定会有更美好的未来。
注意：
1、词数：120左右。
2、写信时间：2005, 1, 18
3、参考词汇：海啸 seaquake
灾区 disaster area
4、信的开头已给出，不计入总词数。 January 18, 2005
Dear Sir or Madam,
We are sorry to hear that you have had the greatest disaster in the Indian Ocean.
【答案与解析】
单项选择
21. A根据答句的后一句“一切都会好的”可以推测，前一句是表示安慰的用语。
22. C问某人的外表、个性品德，用What is sb. like? 比较级被of短语修饰，前面必须用定冠词修饰，事实上，该形容词已名词化了，后面省略了one一词。
23. Dwith which to buy…相当于with the money it could buy…
24. Bmatch为动词，为“比得上，与……相配”。
25. C根据上下文语境可知，答话人的意思是对过去事情的推测，由于不肯定的语气I’m not sure，所以应选might have had…意思为：很可能在他开车来这儿的时候，发生了一起小事故。
26. Clife in the modern world“当今世界的生活”，life为泛指，modern world应为特指；第三空“我们祖辈们过去的生活”为特指。
27. Awhat引导表语从句用作matter的主语。
28. Cother than意为“除……之外”，rather than“而不是”，根据句意，应选用other than；表示否定意义的in no country置于句首，主句要用部分倒装。
29. Atested为过去分词，用作后置定语；第二空driver与lack之间为主谓关系，find sb. doing/ done
30. B第一空为强调句，强调until引导的从句；第二空immediately相当于as soon as, the moment, directly, instantly等连接词。
31. Cset off“引起或激发某种情感”。
32. Dwho指teachers，故第一空用are；第二空主语为Every boy and every girl为单数形式，故用is。
33. D本题前一句讲油管一直在漏油，第二句说将采取措施阻止漏油。说明第一句中的动作一直进行到现在还在继续，故应选用现在完成进行时。
34. Abe paid“付给薪水”，意为“工人们的薪水几乎不够维持生活”。
35. BIt’s not like sb. to do sth.“某人不是……这个样子”为固定句型，分析句意可知，不定式动作已经完成，故应用不定式的完成式。
完形填空
36-40 CDACB 41-45 ABDAC
46-50 DBACB 51-55 ABDCB
阅读理解
56-60 BADBB 61-65 DCADC
66-70 ACBDC 71-75 ACBDA
填空题
1. 1948 2. support his family 3. Philadelphia 4. became a student 5. studied computers 6. 1987
短文改错
1.Sit改为Sitting。现在分词在此作状语，相当于时间状语从句When I sat in my room, …。
2.在far前面加上so，构成so…that结构。
3.get 改为 got。时态一致。
4.a改为the。这里表示特指“校车”。
5.there改为where构成非限制性定语从句，或在there前加上and构成并列句。
6.正确。
7.去掉prepare后面的for，意为“做饭”。
8.去掉it，与前面的关系代词重复。
9.在jump后加介词into。
10. freezing改为frozen。“freezing”意为“极冷的”，“动僵的”应用其过去分词frozen表达。
书面表达
January 18, 2005
Dear Sir or Madam,
We are sorry to hear that you have had the greatest disaster in the Indian Ocean. Because of the seaquake, more than 160,000 people lost their lives, 27,000 people have been missing and millions of people have lost their homes. So we know quite well how sad you are and what a miserable life you are living.
We Chinese people have always been paying attention to what has happened in the disaster area since it took place. Our government has sent all kinds of experts to help you to rebuild your hometown. Money is being collected all over the country in order to reduce your sadness that the seaquake has brought you. Don't lose heart. With the help of the people all over the world, I'm sure you will get rid of the sorrow and unhappiness caused by the disaster and have a better and brighter future.
Best wishes！
Yours,
A Chinese Student
第二部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节单项填空（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分）
从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案。
21. ---I’m not too happy about the project. What shall we do next?
---________. Everything will be OK in the end.
A. Don’t worry
B. Anything as you like
C. I'm afraid not
D. I don’t think too much
22. ---________ is Mr. Black like?
---He is a very nice person, and is ______of the two engineers.
A. What; more patient
B. How; the most patient
C. What; the more patient
D. How; a patient
23. The Red Cross would have another million dollars _______ to buy medicine for the refugees（难民）in the Indian Ocean seaquake.
A. by that B. with that
C. for which D. with which
24. I’ve visited a lot of different places and stayed in a lot of different hotels, but nothing else _________ this on.
A. wins B. matches
C. makes D. takes
25. ---I wonder why Mr. Green looks quiet in class.
---I’m not sure, but he________ a small accident driving here.
A. could have B. might have
C. might have had D. must have had
26. As is known to us all, _______ life in _______ modern world is easier in some ways than _______ life our grandparents lived.
A. the; a ; the B. a; the; the
C. / ; the; the D. the; / ; the
27. There is honour too, for all the competitors, win or lose. That's the spirit of the Olympic to take part in ________ matters.
A. what B. it
C. that D. where
28. In no country _______ Britain, as has been said, ________ experience four seasons in the course of a single day.
A. other than; one can
B. rather than; one can
C. other than; can one
D. rather than; can one
29. Of the 9,500 drivers _______since the beginning of the year, 23% were found _______ in road knowledge.
A. tested; lacking
B. having been tested; to lack
C. tested; lacked
D. to have been tested; lack
30. ---Was it not until last week _____ he decided to give up smoking?
---No. He began _____he saw the news film last month.
A. when; as soon
B. that; immediately
C. did; that
D. that; till
31. ---What's wrong with him?
---The picture he came across ________ his memory of a sad story in his childhood.
A. put off B. took off
C. set off D. ran off
32. Every boy and every girl as well as some teachers who _______ to visit the museum ________ asked to be at school gate before 6:00 in the morning.
A. are; are B. is; is
C. is; are D. are; is
33. ---What's happened here?
---It seems oil _______ from this pipe for some time. We'll have to take the machine apart to put it right.
A. had leaked B. is leaking
C. leaked D. has been leaking
34. The company going from bad to worse, the workers ________ hardly enough to make a living.
A. are paid B. are paying
C. have paid D. paid
35. ---Mike said he was tired of studying English.
---It isn't like her _______ like that.
A. to say anything
B. to have said anything
C. have said something
D. say anything
第二节 完形填空 （共20小题，每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。
When I was a junior in college, I took a course in D.H. Lawrence. I know this sounds stupid, but I thought it was about Lawrence of Arabia, the eccentric（古怪的） British desert warrior（战士）. I’d seen the movie, and I wanted to _36__ him. I went to a used-book store to the required novels. I was surprised by the __37__: The rainbow, Sons and Lovers, and Lady Chatterley’s Lover. This was a __38__ of Lawrence of Arabia I didn't know about. The clerk explained. Bad news. But I had taken the _39__ and I needed the credits, so I was __40__. I went home to read.
Like a lot of college students, I bought__41__books hoping someone else would already have __42__ the important part. And the books I bought were __43__ underlined. When I started to read, I was __44__. This was hot stuff (materials)!
All the books had the same female name in the __45__. This girl really knew how to underline not only the juicy parts, but the beautiful passages about love. I __46__ in the phone book and she was __47__. I __48__ I'd call her, hoping for anything from a date to copies of the papers she might have written about the author. College guys play all the angles.
I called her, introduced myself, and told her what I wanted. She was not a college student, but a __49__ professor of English literature. These books had been copies she'd __50__ when she'd moved to a smaller apartment. She laughed and said she'd be glad to have a __51__ with me.
We liked each other right away. She lived alone, and her eyes were __52__. She proposed that if I’d drive her to the grocery store once a week, she’d tutor（辅导）me in Lawrence.
During that term, she woke me up about love, sexuality, and women. I'm a __53__ man because of her. A long time later, I told her that if she'd been 20 instead of 70, I'd have asked her to __54__ me. She'd have __55__ me. She's dead now. I still have her books, her wisdom, and her kind of love. I got an "A" in the course, too.
36.A. know B. like C. be D. learn
37.A. books B. names C. stores D. titles
38.A. side B. point C. story D. view
39.A. class B. lesson C. course D. work
40.A. kept B. stuck C. stopped D. delayed
41.A. used B. new C. many D. bad
42.A. read B. underlined C. written D. noticed
43.A. rarely B. never C. almost D. thoroughly
44.A. blown away B. knocked down C. put away D. thrown away
45.A. middle B. cover C. front D. back
46.A. found her out B. picked her out C. searched her out D. looked her up
47.A. numbered B. listed C. arranged D. included
48.A. figured B. wanted
C. knew D. realized
49.A. working B. kind C. retired D. strange
50.A. given B. sold C. collected D. stored
51.A. date B. talk C. meet D. appointment
52.A. falling B. failing C. dropping D. reducing
53.A. brave B. careful C. light D. better
54.A. teach B. help C. marry D. tutor
55.A. refused B. accepted C. loved D. promised
第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项中选出最佳答案。
A
A good modern newspaper is an extraordinary piece of reading. It is remarkable first for what it contains: the range of news from local crime to international politics, from sports to business to fashion to science, and the range of comment and special features as well, from editorial page to feature articles and interviews to criticism of books, art, theatre and music. A newspaper is even more remarkable for the way one reads it; never completely, never straight through, but always by jumping from here to there, in and out glancing at one piece, reading another article all the say through, reading just a few paragraphs of the next. A good modern newspaper offers a variety to attract many different readers, but far more than any one reader is interested in. What brings this variety together in one place is its topicality, its immediate relation to what is happening in your world and your locality now. But immediacy and speed of production that goes with it mean also that much of what appears in a newspaper has no more than transient value. For all these reasons, not two people really read the same paper: what each person does is to put together, out of the pages of that day's paper, his own selection and series, his own newspaper. For all these reasons, reading newspapers efficiently, which means getting what you want from them without missing things you need and without wasting time, demands skill and self-awareness as you modify and apply the techniques of reading.
56. A modern newspaper is remarkable for all the following except its____.
A. wide coverage
B. uniform style
C. speed in reporting news
D. popularity
57. According to the passage, the reason why not two people really read the "same newspaper" is that ___.
A. people scan for the news they are interested in
B. different people prefer different newspaper
C. people are rarely views about what a good newspaper is
D. people have different views about what a good newspaper is
58. It can concluded from the passage that newspaper readers____.
A. apply reading techniques skillfully
B. jump from one newspaper to another
C. appreciate the variety of a newspaper
D. usually read a newspaper selectively
59. The best title for this passage would be____.
A. The Importance of Newspaper Topicality
B. The Characteristics of a Good Newspaper
C. The Variety of a Good Newspaper
D. Some Suggestions on How to Read a Newspaper
B
Olaf Stapledon wrote a book called First and Last Men, in which he looked millions of years ahead. He told of different men and of strange civilizations(文明), broken up by long dark ages in between. In his view, what is called the present time is no more than a moment in human history and we are just the First Men. In 2,000 million years from now there will be the Eighteenth of Last Men.
However, most of our ideas about the future are really very shortsighted. Perhaps we can see some possibilities for the next fifty years. But the next hundred? The next million? Thats much more difficult.
When men and women lived by hunting 50,000 years ago, how could they even begin to picture modern life? Yet to men of 50,000 years from now, we may seem as primitive(原始的) in our ideas as the Stone Age hunters to do us. Perhaps they will spend their days goal locking to make new spindles, or struggling with their ballalators through the crab. These words, which I have just made up, have to stand for things and ideas that we simply can't think of.
So why bother even to try imagining life far in the future? Here are two reasons. First, unless we remember bow short our own lives are compared with the whole human history, we are likely to think our own interests are much more important than they really are. If we make the earth a poor place to live on because we are careless or greedy(贪婪) or quarrelsome, our grandchildren will nor bother to think of excuses for us. Second, by trying to escape from present interests and imagine life far in the future, we may arrive at quite fresh ideas that we can use ourselves. For example, if we imagine that in the future men may give up farming, we can think of trying it now. So set your imagination free when you think about the future.
60. A particular mention made of Stapledon's book in the opening paragraph____.
A. serves as a description of human history
B. serves as an introduction to the discussion
C. shows a disagreement of views
D. shows the popularity of the book
61. The text discusses men and women 50,000 years ago and 50,000 years from now in order to show that____.
A. human history is extremely long
B. life has an introduction to the discussion
C. it is useless to plan for the next 50 years
D. it is difficult to tell what will happen in the future
62. Spindles and ballalators are used in the text to refer to____.
A. tools used in farming
B. ideas about modern life
C. unknown things in the future
D. hunting skills in the Stone Age
63. According to the writer of the text, imaging the future will____.
A. serve the interests of the present and future generations
B. enable us to better understand human history
C. help us to improve farming
D. make life worth living
C
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A. inquiring(调查) English learning
B. setting up Open University
C. selling books
D. attracting students
65. The Open University can supply you with
A. a course for training your English
B. a classroom and a library for study
C. different kinds of free instructions
D. different jobs to choose from
66. We can learn from the text that____
A. OU courses are popular in Britain
B. money for learning must be paid off at one time
C. we can't telephone the university during the night
D. people can't be employed without finishing OU courses
D
The case for college has been accepted without question for more than a generation. All high school graduates ought to go, because college will help them earn more money, become "better people", and learn to be more responsible citizens than those who don't go.
But college has never been able to work its magic for everyone. And now that close to half our high school graduates are attending, those who don't fit the pattern are becoming more and more, and more obvious. College graduates are selling shoes and driving taxis; college students get in the way of each other's experiments and write false letters of recommendation（推荐）in the competition for admission to graduate school. Others find no interest in their studies, and drop out---often encouraged by college administrators（教导主任）.
Some observers say the fault is with the young people themselves---they are spoiled and they are expecting too much. But that is a condemnation（谴责）of the students as a whole, and does not explain all campus unhappiness. Others blame the state of the world, and they are partly right. We’ve been told that young people have to go to college because our economy cannot take in an army of untrained eighteen-year-old. But disappointed graduates are learning that it can no longer take in an army of trained twenty-year-old, either.
Some adventuresome educators and campus watchers have openly begun to suggest that college may not be the best, the proper, the only place for every young person after the completion of high school. We may have been looking at all those surveys（调查）upside down, it seems, and thinking of the rosy glow of our own remembered college experiences. Perhaps college does not make people intelligent, ambitious, happy, liberal, or quick to learn things---maybe it is just the other way round, and intelligent, ambitious, happy, liberal, or quick people are only the ones who have been attracted to college in the first place. And perhaps all those successful college graduates would have been successful whether they had gone to college or not. This is heresy（异端邪说）to those of us who have been brought up to believe that if a little schooling is good, more has to be much better. But opposite evidence is beginning to mount up.
67. According to the passage all the following statements are true EXCEPT that ___________.
A. about half of the high school graduates continue their studies in colleges
B. college graduates are believed to be able to earn more money
C. administrators often encourage college students to drop out
D. more and more young people are found unfit for college
68. Which of the following is one of some observers' opinions?
A. The students expect so much that they are not satisfied with the hard college life.
B. The economic situation is so discouraging that the youth have to attend college.
C. Colleges should improve because of so much campus unhappiness.
D. Colleges provide more chances of good jobs than anywhere else.
69. What does the underlined sentence in paragraph 4 mean?
A. Our college experiences prove that those surveys are incorrect.
B. The surveys may remind us of our beautiful college experiences.
C. The surveys should all be reexamined according to our college experiences.
D. Our college experiences may make us misunderstand the results of the surveys.
70. What is the main purpose of this passage?
A. To value young people's further education in college.
B. To put forward an idea that college should not be the first choice
C. To argue against the idea that college is the best place for all young people
D. To persuade young people into working after the completion of high school
E
The way people hold to the belief that fun-filled, pain-free life equals happiness actually reduces their chances of ever obtaining real happiness. If fun and pleasure are equal to happiness, then pain must be equal to unhappiness. But in fact, the opposite is true: more often than not things that lead to happiness contain some pain.
As a result, many people avoid the very attempts that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain inevitably(不可避免地) brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, religious commitment(义务), self-improvement.
Ask a bachelor why he resists(反对) marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying. If he is honest, he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment, for commitment is in fact quite painful. The single life is filled with fun, adventure and excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most distinguishing features.
Couples with infant children are lucky to get whole night's sleep of a three-day vacation. I don't know any parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children. But couples that decide not to have children ever know the joys of watching a child grow up or playing with a grandchild.
Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations. It liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can really increase our happiness. It liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing our happiness now seems pointless. And it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all those who always have so much fun actually may not be happy at all.
71. According to the author, a bachelor resists marriage chiefly because____
A. He is unwilling to take on family responsibilities.
B. He believes that life will be more cheerful if he remains single
C. He finds more fun in dating than in marriage
D. He fears it will put an end to all his fun, adventure and excitement
72. Raising children, in the author's opinion is____
A. a moral duty
B. a thankless job
C. a task worth doing
D. a source of inevitable pain
73. From the last paragraph, we learn that envy sometimes comes from____
A. hate
B. misunderstanding
C. happiness
D. lack of knowledge
74. To understand what true happiness is, one must____
A. have as much fun as possible in one's lifetime
B. make every effort to liberated oneself from pain
C. put up with pain in any situation
D. be able to tell happiness from fun
75. What is the author trying to tell us?
A. Happiness often goes hand in hand with pain.
B. One must know how to obtain happiness.
C. It is important to make commitment.
D. It is pain that leads to happiness.
第五部分：写作 （共两节，满分35分）
第一节：短文改错（共10小题：每小题1分，满分10分）
Sit here in my room, I often think of my childhood. We used to 1 _________
live on a small farm. It was far from the town that there was no 2. _________
electricity, so we had to use oil lamps. We often get up at six o'clock 3. _________
in the morning in order to catch a school bus. On cold winter mornings, 4. _________
I remember, we would jump out of bed to the bathroom, there we would 5. _________
wash our faces with cold water and get dressed as quickly as possible. 6._________
Mother would always prepare for hot food for breakfast which we liked 7. ________
to eat it before rushing out into the darkness outside. The school bus 8. _________
was usually waiting for us when we arrived. We would jump the 9. _________
bus with blue noses and freezing fingers. 10. ________
第二节 书面表达（满分25分）
印度洋海啸已造成16万多人死亡，在海啸中失踪的人数为27000人；因海啸而流离失所的人多达数百万人。请你以一名中国学生的名义给受灾灾民写一封信，内容包括以下几点：
1、我们中国人能体会到发生在印度洋沿岸人们身上的灾难有多么痛苦。
2、告诉他们，我们中国人自灾难发生的那一天起就一直在关注他们。
3、我国政府已派各类专家帮助他们重建家园。
4、我国全国上下都在捐款，为的是尽可能减轻灾难给他们带来的痛苦。
5、鼓励他们不要泄气，灾难马上就会过去，一定会有更美好的未来。
注意：
1、词数：120左右。
2、写信时间：2005, 1, 18
3、参考词汇：海啸 seaquake
灾区 disaster area
4、信的开头已给出，不计入总词数。 January 18, 2005
Dear Sir or Madam,
We are sorry to hear that you have had the greatest disaster in the Indian Ocean.
【答案与解析】
单项选择
21. A根据答句的后一句“一切都会好的”可以推测，前一句是表示安慰的用语。
22. C问某人的外表、个性品德，用What is sb. like? 比较级被of短语修饰，前面必须用定冠词修饰，事实上，该形容词已名词化了，后面省略了one一词。
23. Dwith which to buy…相当于with the money it could buy…
24. Bmatch为动词，为“比得上，与……相配”。
25. C根据上下文语境可知，答话人的意思是对过去事情的推测，由于不肯定的语气I’m not sure，所以应选might have had…意思为：很可能在他开车来这儿的时候，发生了一起小事故。
26. Clife in the modern world“当今世界的生活”，life为泛指，modern world应为特指；第三空“我们祖辈们过去的生活”为特指。
27. Awhat引导表语从句用作matter的主语。
28. Cother than意为“除……之外”，rather than“而不是”，根据句意，应选用other than；表示否定意义的in no country置于句首，主句要用部分倒装。
29. Atested为过去分词，用作后置定语；第二空driver与lack之间为主谓关系，find sb. doing/ done
30. B第一空为强调句，强调until引导的从句；第二空immediately相当于as soon as, the moment, directly, instantly等连接词。
31. Cset off“引起或激发某种情感”。
32. Dwho指teachers，故第一空用are；第二空主语为Every boy and every girl为单数形式，故用is。
33. D本题前一句讲油管一直在漏油，第二句说将采取措施阻止漏油。说明第一句中的动作一直进行到现在还在继续，故应选用现在完成进行时。
34. Abe paid“付给薪水”，意为“工人们的薪水几乎不够维持生活”。
35. BIt’s not like sb. to do sth.“某人不是……这个样子”为固定句型，分析句意可知，不定式动作已经完成，故应用不定式的完成式。
完形填空
36-40 CDACB 41-45 ABDAC
46-50 DBACB 51-55 ABDCB
阅读理解
56-60 BADBB 61-65 DCADC
66-70 ACBDC 71-75 ACBDA
填空题
1. 1948 2. support his family 3. Philadelphia 4. became a student 5. studied computers 6. 1987
短文改错
1.Sit改为Sitting。现在分词在此作状语，相当于时间状语从句When I sat in my room, …。
2.在far前面加上so，构成so…that结构。
3.get 改为 got。时态一致。
4.a改为the。这里表示特指“校车”。
5.there改为where构成非限制性定语从句，或在there前加上and构成并列句。
6.正确。
7.去掉prepare后面的for，意为“做饭”。
8.去掉it，与前面的关系代词重复。
9.在jump后加介词into。
10. freezing改为frozen。“freezing”意为“极冷的”，“动僵的”应用其过去分词frozen表达。
书面表达
January 18, 2005
Dear Sir or Madam,
We are sorry to hear that you have had the greatest disaster in the Indian Ocean. Because of the seaquake, more than 160,000 people lost their lives, 27,000 people have been missing and millions of people have lost their homes. So we know quite well how sad you are and what a miserable life you are living.
We Chinese people have always been paying attention to what has happened in the disaster area since it took place. Our government has sent all kinds of experts to help you to rebuild your hometown. Money is being collected all over the country in order to reduce your sadness that the seaquake has brought you. Don't lose heart. With the help of the people all over the world, I'm sure you will get rid of the sorrow and unhappiness caused by the disaster and have a better and brighter future.
Best wishes！
Yours,
A Chinese Student