Part I Listening Comprehension(20 minutes)
Section A
1. D) Dr. Holden is the best person for the chairmanship.
2. A) They’ll keep in touch during the summer vacation
3. B) Peaches are not at their best now.
4. C) They work on the assignment together.
5. A) She admires Jean’s straightforwardness
6. A) He liked writing when he was a child
7. D) He does not study hard enough
8. C) It will be very difficult for them to find John
9. A) Its rapid growth is beneficial to the world
10. B) Most students can’t afford to live in the new apartments
Section B
Passage One
11. C) The need for greater cultural diversity in the school curriculum
12. D) He believed the speaker was a foreigner
13. A) The US population doesn’t consist of white European descendants only
Passage Two
14. A) By making laws
15. B) It should be raised quickly by hand
16. D) It should be carried high up in the air
17. C) There are precise regulations and customs to be followed
Passage Three
18. C) Truancy
19. D) Students with good attendance records
20. B) Rewarding schools that have decreased the destruction
Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Passage one
21. D) To discourage people from insisting on having grandchildren.
22. B) draw attention to the troubles and difficulties grandchildren may cause
23. A) they find it hard to resist the carrot-and-stick approach of their parents
24. A) her parents kept pressuring her to have a child
25. C) It is troublesome but rewarding.
Passage Two
26. D) People can fully enjoy individual freedom.
27. A) the more diligent one is, the bigger his returns
28. C) became wealthy after starting life very poor
29. B) Americans wish to succeed in every aspect of life
30. D) What Americans strive after often contradicts their beliefs.
Passage Three
31. B) The reduction of public expenditure.
32. C) obtain funding from the government
33. A) They think they work in an environment hostile to the free pursuit of knowledge.
34. D) they could be influenced by their association with the project concerned
35. B) People would not believe scientists even when they tell the truth.
Passage Four
36. D) the globalization of economy
37. B) Information technology has removed the restrictions of time and space in business transactions
38. C) it should not overlook the importance of information, services, support, and distribution
39. A) can eliminate an entire business segment
40. D) businesses have to meet individual customers’ specific needs in order to succeed
Part III Vocabulary (20 minutes)
41. C) absurd
42. C) entitled
43. D) flushed
44. C) abolished
45. B) out of stock
46. C) luminous
47. A) comply
48. D) erase
49. C) scrutiny
50. A) ascribed
51. B) decent
52. C) finite
53. C) defy
54. A) suppress
55. D) rectify
56. C) irritated
57. C) deficit
58. B) impose
59. D) stimulus
60. D) cherish
61. C) blank
62. A) tucked
63. B) obscure
64. A) by analogy
65. B) hinged upon
66. C) by means of
67. D) exclusive
68. D) abnormal
69. C) recession
70. C) deafened
Part IV Error Correction (15 minutes)
S1. in first 改 in the first
S2．ultimate 改ultimately
S3. acceptance 改unacceptance
S4.avoid end 改 ending
S5.stand out 改 upon
S6.pick up改 pick out
S7.listing改 list
S8.keep up改 keep
S9.taking 改 taken
Section A
1. D) Dr. Holden is the best person for the chairmanship.
2. A) They’ll keep in touch during the summer vacation
3. B) Peaches are not at their best now.
4. C) They work on the assignment together.
5. A) She admires Jean’s straightforwardness
6. A) He liked writing when he was a child
7. D) He does not study hard enough
8. C) It will be very difficult for them to find John
9. A) Its rapid growth is beneficial to the world
10. B) Most students can’t afford to live in the new apartments
Section B
Passage One
11. C) The need for greater cultural diversity in the school curriculum
12. D) He believed the speaker was a foreigner
13. A) The US population doesn’t consist of white European descendants only
Passage Two
14. A) By making laws
15. B) It should be raised quickly by hand
16. D) It should be carried high up in the air
17. C) There are precise regulations and customs to be followed
Passage Three
18. C) Truancy
19. D) Students with good attendance records
20. B) Rewarding schools that have decreased the destruction
Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Passage one
21. D) To discourage people from insisting on having grandchildren.
22. B) draw attention to the troubles and difficulties grandchildren may cause
23. A) they find it hard to resist the carrot-and-stick approach of their parents
24. A) her parents kept pressuring her to have a child
25. C) It is troublesome but rewarding.
Passage Two
26. D) People can fully enjoy individual freedom.
27. A) the more diligent one is, the bigger his returns
28. C) became wealthy after starting life very poor
29. B) Americans wish to succeed in every aspect of life
30. D) What Americans strive after often contradicts their beliefs.
Passage Three
31. B) The reduction of public expenditure.
32. C) obtain funding from the government
33. A) They think they work in an environment hostile to the free pursuit of knowledge.
34. D) they could be influenced by their association with the project concerned
35. B) People would not believe scientists even when they tell the truth.
Passage Four
36. D) the globalization of economy
37. B) Information technology has removed the restrictions of time and space in business transactions
38. C) it should not overlook the importance of information, services, support, and distribution
39. A) can eliminate an entire business segment
40. D) businesses have to meet individual customers’ specific needs in order to succeed
Part III Vocabulary (20 minutes)
41. C) absurd
42. C) entitled
43. D) flushed
44. C) abolished
45. B) out of stock
46. C) luminous
47. A) comply
48. D) erase
49. C) scrutiny
50. A) ascribed
51. B) decent
52. C) finite
53. C) defy
54. A) suppress
55. D) rectify
56. C) irritated
57. C) deficit
58. B) impose
59. D) stimulus
60. D) cherish
61. C) blank
62. A) tucked
63. B) obscure
64. A) by analogy
65. B) hinged upon
66. C) by means of
67. D) exclusive
68. D) abnormal
69. C) recession
70. C) deafened
Part IV Error Correction (15 minutes)
S1. in first 改 in the first
S2．ultimate 改ultimately
S3. acceptance 改unacceptance
S4.avoid end 改 ending
S5.stand out 改 upon
S6.pick up改 pick out
S7.listing改 list
S8.keep up改 keep
S9.taking 改 taken