北京市2007年高职升本科招生统一考试英语考生注意：1. 答案必须写在答题纸上。

2. 本试卷共8页，满分为100分，考试时间为120分钟。

Part I Vocabulary and StructureDirections:There are 15 incomplete sentences in this part. You are required to complete each one by deciding on the most appropriate word or words from the 4 choices marked A., B.,C. andD. Then you should write the letter in the corresponding space on the AnswerSheet.1. —How long has this Japanese fast-food chain been in business?—________ 1988.A. FromB. ByC. InD. Since2. Nobody fails to find that his two nephews are much ________.A. alikeB. sameC. exactD. resembled3. No sooner had the ship pulled away from the dock ________ it had to return to pick up morepassengers.A. whenB. thanC. thenD. that4. I was surprised when I saw the farm. I had imagined it ________ much bigger.A. beB. beingC. to beD. having been5. It was a decision, I ________, that he will later regret.A. detectB. doubtC. claimD. suspect6. We ________ this visit for months—you can’t cancel it now.A. plannedB. have plannedC. have been planningD. had planned7. Had Mark coached the women football team instead of George, we ________ more games.A. would winB. would have wonC. had wonD. will win8. A tall building has been set up in ________ was a wasteland ten years ago.A. whatB. whereC. whichD. that9. Does the method be put forward ________ the problem make any sense?A. settleB. settlingC. to settleD. settled10. I don’t like him because he always ________ when other people are talking.A. cuts downB. cuts outC. cuts acrossD. cuts in11. He didn’t keep on asking me for a ride any longer as he had already got his own car ________.A. repairB. repairedC. repairingD. to repair12. I am playing golf this afternoon, weather ________.A. permitsB. permittedC. permittingD. to permit13. I thought I was going to fail the exam, but I passed ________.A. above allB. after allC. at allD. in all14. ________ seemed strange to us was that he came back with nothing that day.A. ItB. ThatC. WhatD. Which15. There ________ have been ten of them, all hiding in the attic.A. couldB. shouldC. wouldD. mustPart II Reading ComprehensionDirections:There are 5 reading passages in this part. After reading each passage, you will find some questions or unfinished statements. For each question or statement there are 4choices marked A., B., C. and D. You should choose the most appropriate answer andwrite the letter in the corresponding space on the Answer Sheet.Questions 16 to 19 are based on the following time table.16. How many buses can take you to Sunshine Beach from Katella?A. 6B. 8C. 11.D. 1517. Which bus stop has the most buses stopping there?A. KatellaB. Zoo South EntranceC. Beachside StreetD. Sunshine Beach18. If you miss the bus at Mall of Star at 11:10, when is the next bus to Sunshine Beach?A.12:08B.13:08C.14:08D.15:0819. If you take the 10:10 bus at Mall of Star, how many stops are there to Beachside Street?A.4B.3C.2D.1Questions 20 to 24 are based on the following passage.Modern American music is rich in its variety of forms, styles, and instruments. A complete encyclopedia (百科全书) of American music is a small library! By just looking at a few types of American music, we can see much diversity.Blues music, which goes back to the 1860s, has African American roots. Blues singers often sing of sad themes: feelings of loneliness or hunger, or being far away from home. The banjo and the washboard were common instruments in early blues music. The harmonica, guitar, and piano are some of the many other instruments used in blues.Jazz has its beginning in the 1890s in New Orleans. The musical contributions of people from many parts of the world came together in this port on the Mississippi River to create the early versions of jazz. Now jazz comes in many forms and is popular in the United States and many other countries.The fiddle is a common instrument in early country music, but today we hear many kinds of instruments in country music, especially the guitar. Cowboy movies in the 1930s and 1940s helped to make country music very popular.Rap music has its origins in New York in the early 1970s. Rap uses a lot of rhyming. Rhymes are words that sound the same. Many young people like the beat in rap music.Like all music, modern American music causes people to sing, dance, smile, and cry. American music is sometimes controversial (有争议的)，but it shows us the diversity of American culture.20. Which of the following is a musical instrument?A. Blues.B. Harmonica.C. Jazz.D. Rap21. According to the passage jazz initially started in the 1890s in ________.A. AfricaB. South AmericaC. New YorkD. New Orleans22. Which of the following contributed to the popularity of country music?A. Cowboy movies in the 1930s and 1940s.B. Various kinds of musical instruments.C. The encyclopedia of American music.D. People from many parts of the world.23. What feature of rap music is enjoyed most by many young people?A. Its sound.B. Its origins.C. Its beat.D. Its instruments.24. The word “diversity” (Para.1 and 6) most probably means ________.A. backgroundB. influenceC. varietyD. significanceQuestions 25 to 28 are based on the following passage.What is the Writing Lab and why should I use it?The Writing Lab is a free service where all students at Purdue University can receiveassistance and feedback on any writing-related task. Specially trained consultants work with graduate students, undergraduates, students learning English as a second language, and students working on resumes and applications.What happens during a consultation?Consultations last 30 minutes and allow you to work one-on-one with a consultant whose job is to help you become a better writer. The consultant will ask you about your writing task and what you want to focus on during the session. You can ask for help on starting an assignment or improving the paper; you can get feedback on whether the paper meets the requirements of the assignment; you can also work on revising and polishing your work.Do I have to make an appointment to use the Writing Lab?You are not required to make an appointment for a consultation, but it is highly recommended. Appointments guarantee that you will meet with a consultant on a specific day and time. However, each day a certain number of drop-in slots are available. These times are given away beginning at 8:30 a.m. each day, so you can call to receive a same-day appointment.25. The purpose of the Writing Lab is to ________.A. assist students with difficultiesB. offer consultation to native speakersC. give free service in English learningD. provide help with tasks concerning writing26. What a consultant in the Writing Lab does is to ________.A. tell how to focus on your workB. revise and polish your workingC. make you become a better writerD. collect the feedback on your courses27. During consultation students can not ________.A. be given help on improving a paperB. be guaranteed a high markC. ask for help on starting an assignmentD. work on revising and polishing a paper28. Making an appointment beforehand will ensure you to ________.A. have a consultant many times a dayB. talk with a consultant on your favorite topicsC. meet with a consultant at your desired timeD. set up time with a certain consultantQuestions 29 to 32 are based on the following passage.What makes a man spend 22 hours in freezing water or 14 days alone in a hot-air balloon? Adventurer Steve Fossett knows. His taste for adventure has driven him to set dozens of world records in both aviation(航空) and sailing. For him, it’s the thrill of doing things that have never been done before. He also enjoys testing his own endurance and skills.Altogether, Fossett has 115 world records and world firsts to his name. His most recent success came in February 2006 when he broke the world’s flight distance record. He traveled morethan 26,000 miles in 76 hours.Surprisingly, 62-year-old Fossett is not strong or athletic, but he is very persistent. His efforts to complete the first solo hot-air balloon ride round the world show his determination. He made six attempts over five years and finally succeeded in 2002.Fossett developed his appetite for adventure early. At the age of 11, he started rock climbing. While he was a student at Stanford University, he spent his summers climbing mountains and doing endurance swims throughout Europe.After graduating from Stanford, Fossett earned a master’s degree in business from Washington University in St. Louis. In 1968, he began making his fortune as a stock trader in Chicago. By the late 1980s, he had become a millionaire. But, he spent his free time participating in endurance sports. In 1990, he finally decided to become a full-time adventurer and a part-time businessman.Fossett participated in numerous endurance competitions, including skiing, biking, swimming and car racing. But in the mid-1990s, Fossett began to change his focus. Instead of simply finishing races, he wanted to set word records.Fossett focused on sailing and aviation. He has set 23 official world records in sailing. In April 2004, after 58 days at sea, he and his crew of 12 set the world record for the fastest round-the-world sailing. In aviation, he has established more than 60 world records.29. According to the passage, Fossett likes ________.A. doing things freshB. spending 22 hours in freezing waterC. testing his strengthD. staying 14 days in a hot-air balloon30. Of Steve Fossett’s 115 world records and world firsts, about half of them go to ________.A. hot-air balloon rideB. endurance swimC. flyingD. sailing31. Steve Fossett has done everything except ________.A. completing the first solo hot-air balloon rideB. sailing 26, 000 miles in 76 hoursC. setting the world record for the fastest round-the-world sailingD. succeeding in the stock market in Chicago32. What is probably the best title for this passage?A. Hobbies in Spare TimeB. Life of Steve FossettC. Hunger for AdventureD. A Strange MillionaireQuestions 33 to 35 are based on the following passage.A supersonic airliner like Concorde flies at twice the speed of sound. A passenger can leave London at noon and arrive in New York at ten o’clock that same morning! There is a five-hour time difference between the two cities and Concorde can fly the Atlantic in only three hours. That evening the passenger will feel it is time to go to bed when it is only six o’clock. The evening will only just be beginning. Airline pilots suffer from this very much. It may be in the middle of the night in Hong Kong but their stomachs are still on London time, where it is dinner time. Pilots and other airline crew have to adjust to constant changes in time. That is why they often look fiftyyears old when they are only forty. This adjustment to sudden changes causes all sorts of problems.Air travel is getting faster all the time. Engineers say that soon people will be “shot” to their destinations in huge rockets. These rockets will be shot high above the earth’s atmosphere and land on the other side of the earth forty-five minutes after take-off. They will be able to cross the Pacific Ocean in only eighteen minutes.But, of course, passengers will face the same problems on the ground that they face at present. We shall still spend hours getting to the airport. Today, the shortest part of the journey and the least difficult is in the air. The worst and longest part is on the roads leading from the center of town to the airport. The roads become more and more crowded while our planes become faster and faster.33. In a plane like Concorde you can ________.A. arrive in New York 5 hours earlier than the time you leave LondonB. forget all about the time difference between citiesC. adjust to time changes without problemsD. get across the Atlantic in three hours34. Pilots often look older than they really are because ________.A. they eat dinner in the middle of the nightB. they suffer a lot from the changes in timeC. they have to work at the weekendD. they live far away from the airport35. According to the passage, we can see that ________.A. the speed of sound is only half that of a ConcordeB. the rocket is the fastest and least difficult means of travelC. a supersonic plane can fly the Pacific in only eighteen minutesD. people will spend less time on the ground as air travel is getting fasterPart ⅢClozeDirections:There is a passage in this part with 10 blanks in it. Read the passage carefully and then choose the most appropriate answer from the 4 choices marked A., B., C. and D.Then you should write the letter in the corresponding space on the Answer Sheet.Mary changes are taking place in “food style”in the United States. The United States is traditionally famous 36 its very solid and unchanging diet of meat and potatoes. Now we have many 37 alternatives to choose from various ethnic (民族特色的) food, health food, and fast food, in addition to the traditional home-cooked meal.Ethnic restaurants and supermarkets are commonplace in the United States. Since the United States is a country of immigrants, there is a great variety. Any large American city is filled with restaurants 38 international cooking. Many cities even have ethnic sections: Chinatown, Little Italy, or Germantown. With this vast ethnic choice, we can 39 food from all over the world. This is pleasant for those who come here to travel or to work; they can usually find their40 specialties.Health food gained popularity when people began to think more seriously about their physical well-being. Health food is fresh, natural, unprocessed food. It does not 41 preservatives to make it last longer or chemicals to make it taste or look 42 . Some health food enthusiasts are vegetarians: They eat no meat; they prefer to get their 43 proteins from other sources, such as beans and rice, cheese and eggs. More and more people are eating healthy food and trying to eat less fat and red meat.America’s 44 toward meals is changing, too. The traditional big breakfast and dinner at 6:00 p. m. are losing popularity. People are rediscovering the social importance of food. Dinner with family or friends is again becoming a very 45 way of enjoying and sharing. Like so many people in other cultures, many Americans are taking time to relax and enjoy the finer tastes at dinner, even if they still rush through lunch at a hamburger stand.36. A. at B. in C. for D. to37. A. same B. pleasant C. interesting D. different38. A. producing B. processing C. selling D. serving39. A. enjoy B. spare C. judge D. receive40. A. enjoyable B. feasible C. native D. pleasing41. A. contain B. supply C. offer D. resist42. A. heavier B. better C. brighter D. safer43. A. additional B. essential C. unique D. unusual44. A. attitude B. expectation C. fashion D. principle45. A. national B. artificial C. similar D. specialPart IV Word FormsDirections: there are 10 incomplete sentences in this part. You should fill in each blank with the proper form of the word given in the brackets. Write the word in the correspondingspace on the Answer Sheet.46. Every child looks forward to Children’s Day with great________ (eager).47. If you use the chemical to clean the tablecloth, the stain will________ (appear) at once.48. The book is a__________ (humor) account of a young man’s travels in Asia.49. We asked a local__________ (art) to come and show her work to the students.50. A good way to__________ (large) your vocabulary is to read a daily newspaper.51. It’s important to realize how________ (quick) this disease can spread.52. One of the women I work with is getting________ (marry) this weekend.53. The matter didn’t seem important, and I hardly__________ (give) it a second thought.54. It was very________ (care) of you to leave your purse lying on the desk.55. He is the_________ (honor) chairman of the Writers’ Union.Part V Translation-English into ChineseDirections:This part is to test your ability to translate English into Chinese. There are 5 sentences in this part. Write your translation in the corresponding space on theAnswer Sheet.56. In real life, there are two kinds of people: those who create opportunities and who make use ofopportunities.57. Improvement in packing will contribute to competitiveness of our exports on the worldmarket.58. It does prove to be a problem which is difficult for the local government to solve.59. He was not only surprised, but also extremely suspicious, as he had every reason to be.60. We are looking for a reliable agent in the computer industry to represent our company inShanghai.Part VI WritingDirections: This part is to test your ability to do practical writing. You are required to write a letter of application. You can refer to the following information in Chinese. Youshould write about 100 words on the Answer Sheet.假设你是李明，即将从北京黄海大学毕业。