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I. Fill in the blanks in the following sentences with the words given below.

（答案填写单词前的⼤写字母编号。每空１分，共14分）1. After listening to the speaker for three hours, the audience became K .

2. Having studied business at college and knowing two foreign languages, my secretary is perfectly

D for her job.

3. When Brand F his way to the center of the crowd, he pushed with all the strength of his body.

4. There are A supplies of firewood in mountain areas, which is obviously not true of city areas.

5. Last year the government N a war against crime and disease. As a result, citizens have a better environment to live in.

6. I firmly believe that this agreement will be for our J benefit.

7. For years the girl G resentment against her stepmother.

8. The girl found it difficult to B to new customs when she first came to Shanghai.

9. He has a good of French and German, which enables him to work in these two countries successfully.

10. Most of what is said about his great men of history has already been said, and what has not is

irrelevant to our discussion.

11. He is over 50 but he is so L that losing weight is not a problem for him.

12. Martin Luther King Jr. was C the 1964 Nobel Prize for advocating the nonviolence policy in the movement for citizenrights.

13. Although you have graduated from the university, a first degree in English does not

you to teach English.

14. The unemployed engineer wrote a dozen H for jobs but got nothing.

I. Cloze. Choose the best one of the three answers given to fill in each blank. (每空１分，共20分)

This writer describes ways names can make a difference. One woman didn’t like her former name 1 it 2 suit her appearanceor 3 manner and made her 4 she could be a 5 . When she used her 6 name for her first, she 7 more comfortable with 8 , otherpeople started to 9 her more seriously and gave her

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confidence. So some social scientists say that what you’re called can 11 your life. One prominent magazine 12 refused toprint the 13 name because his name 14

him more qualified to 15 a baseball player 16 an art critic. Other names 17

have been printed completely. 18 a party, another woman was ill 19 ease because the man 20 she wanted the writer tointroduce her to was the same person she had turned down for a blind date because of his name. 第⼀页

1. A. whereas B. because C. while

2. A. didn’t B. doesn’t C. won’t

3. A. element B. elderly C. elegant4. A. thought B. thinking C. think

5. A. cookie B. cook C. cooking

6. A. middle B. last C. mid

7. A. believed B. thought C. felt

8. A others B. her C. herself

9. A. consider B. take C. cope

10 A. added B. addition C. adding

11. A. affect B. effect C. associate

12. A. constituting B. considerable C. consistently

13. A. writers’ B. writer’s C. writer

14. A. make B. making C. made

15. A. be B. being C. becoming

16. A. then B. than that C. than

17. A. should B. would C. shall

18. A. In B. By C. At

19. A. at B. with C. for

20. A. who B. whoever C. whom

IV. Reading Comprehension. Choose the best answer from the four choices.

(每题１分，共10分)

Passage 1

“Yes, I'll be ready at nine in the morning. Goodbye, dear, and thanks again.” It had not been an easy telephone call for Mrs.Robinson to make. Her daughter had been very kind, of course, and had immediately agreed to pick her up and drive her tothe station, but Mrs. Robinson hated to admit that she needed help. Since her husband had died ten years before, she hadprided herself on her independence. She had continued to live in their little house, alone.

On this evening, however, she was standing at her living-room window, staring out at the

SOLD notice in the small front garden. Her feelings were mixed. Of course, she was sad at the thought of leaving the house,as it was full of so many memories. But at the same time she was looking forward to spending her last years near the sea,back in the little seaside town where she had been born．With the money from the sale of the house, she had bought a littleflat there. She turned from the living room window, and looked round at the room. One or two pieces of furnitureremained，covered with sheets. All her pictures had been taken from the walls. There was a small fish tank(鱼缸), with twogoldfish in it. When asked why, her husband used to say:“It’s nice to have something alive in the room.” Since he had passedaway, she had always kept some goldfish，had always had “something alive in the room”.

The next morning, as her train was pulling out of the station，Mrs. Robinson called to her daughter “Kate, you won’t forget tocollect the goldfish, will you? The children will 1ove them．It’s…’’

“I know，”Kate interrupted gently．“It’s nice to have something alive in the room.” But in the little house，the two goldfishhad stopped their circling. They were floating on the water, in the room with empty walls．