A. turned in B. turned on C. turned up D. turned out
9. They did their best to ______ the significance of their enemy’s victory.
A. reduce B. belittle C. minimize D. diminish
A. disaster B. crack C. fledge D. bombardment
12. This isfor real.
A. reality B. real C .indeed D. ok
13. Well, that isCaliforniaall over.
A. at aals D. reverie
A. drastic B. primal C. loathsome D. increasingly
16. She is ______ with those who speak the local dialect.
A. clouded B. profuse C. comfortable D. responsible
A. surprised B. puzzled C. surprising D. puzzling
4. The handsome young man is a down-to- ______ person.
A. earth B. dirt C. mud D. soil
5. Before taking actions, you must consider the ______sufficiently.
II. Reading Comprehension (40’)
Section 1 Multiple Choice Questions (30’)
Directions:In this section, there are reading passages followed by multiple-choice questions. Read the passages and then mark your answers on your answer sheet.
A. weighed B. weight C. to weigh D. attaching
3. As the Chinese table-tennis players are the best in the world, it was not ______ that they took away most of the cups.
A. outcome B. results C. effect D. consequences
6. He had no ______ sufficiently good enough for the refusal of the post.
A. cause B. source C. why D. reason
1. The Smiths decided to buy that house with a garage ______.
A. attach B. attached C. to attach D. attaching
2. The unsuccessful operation ______ heavily on the young surgeon’s mind.
A. sentimental B. cynical C. sarcastic D. ironic
29. The police arespeculatingthat the suicide bombers may be linked to a terrorist organization.
A. confirming B. contemplating C. guessing D. subsiding
30. If he does guess what you want to buy correctly, he will price the item high, andyieldlittle in the bargaining.
A. produce B. resign C. defer D. give in
28. Mark Twain had become a very _______ man during his later life, which was reflected in his writings. He believed that the world was wrong, where people achieved nothing.
14. Jealousy, a(n) _______ motive, usually invites abnormal psychological behavior in a person’s
mind.
A. vast B. cosmic C. original D. initial
15. A large quantity of foreign food aid has led to a(n) ________ reduction in the number of people dying of starvation.
Passage A
We sometimes think humans are uniquely vulnerable to anxiety, but stress seems to affect the immune defenses of lower animals too. In one experiment, for example, behavioral immunologist(免疫学家)Mark Laudenslager, at the University of Denver, gave mild electric shocks to 24 rats. Half the animals could switch off the current by turning a wheel in their enclosure, while the other half could not. The rats in the two groups were paired so that each time one rat turned the wheel it protected both itself and its helpless partner from the shock. Laudenslager found that the immune response was depressed below normal in the helpless rats but not in those that could turn off the electricity. What he has demonstrated, he believes, is that lack of control over an event, not the experience itself, is what weakens the immune system.
A. on word of B. at the thought of C. at the request of D. upon hearing of
20. Theglaringof the sun makes all stars invisible.
A. coldness B. darkness C. brightness D. hotness
7. A ______ sentence has one or more clauses besides the main clause.
A. simple B. simplistic C. complex D. complicated
8. I am glad that things have ______ so well.
25. Large areas of land have beencontaminatedby the leakage from the nuclear reactor.
A. corrupted B. discolored C. polluted D. decayed
26. This is the _________ lawyer who is likely to win the whole nation’s attention.
21. The weatherman said, “It will bechillythis afternoon.”
A. hot B. wet C. turbid D. cold
22. Shakespeare was one of the mostprolificwriters inEngland.
18. He won the election by anoverwhelmingmajority of votes.
A. large B. scarce C. slim D. sparse
19.Marinaseemed extremely nervousat the prospect ofher turn to make the presentation.
10. She ______ that her stay was not welcomed by the hostess.
A. sensed B. felt C. was conscious of D. was aware of
11. I thought thatHiroshimastill felt the impact of the atomiccataclysm.
A. clever B. intelligent C. remarkable D. brilliant