Part Ⅴ Cloze (15 minutes)

Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A), B), C)and D) on the right side of the paper. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.

注意:此部分試題請(qǐng)?jiān)诖痤}卡2上作答

Some historians say that the most important contribution of Dwight Eisenhower's presidency (總統(tǒng)任期) in the 1950s was the U.S. interstate highway system. It was a??? 62??? project, easily surpassing the scale of such previous human??? 63?? ?as the Panama Canal. Eisenhower's interstate highways????64????the nation together in new ways and??? 65??? major economic growth by making commerce less??? 66?? . Today, an information superhighway has been built-an electronic network that??? 67?? ?libraries, corporations, government agencies and??? 68?? . This electronic superhighway is called the Internet,??? 69??? it is the backbone (主干) of the World Wide Web.

The Internet had its??? 70??? in a 1969 U.S. Defense Department computer network called ARPAnet, which??? 71??? Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. The Pentagon built the network for military contractors and universities doing military research to ??72??? information. In 1983 the National Science Foundation (NSF),??? 73??? mission is to promote science, took over.

This new NSF network??? 74??? more and more institutional users, many of??? 75??? had their own internal networks. For example, most universities that??? 76?? ?the NSF network had intracampus computer networks. The NSF network ?? 77?? ?became a connector for thousands of other networks. ?? 78?? ?a backbone system that interconnects networks, internet was a name that fit.

So we can see that the Internet is the wired infrastructure (基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施) on which web ?? 79?? ?move. It began as a military communication system, which expanded into a government-funded ?? 80?? ?research network.

Today, the Internet is a user-financed system tying institutions of many sorts together ?? 81?? ?an "information superhighway."

62. A) concise?????????????? B) radical?????????????? C) massive?????????????? D) trivial

63. A) behaviors??????????? B) endeavors?????????C) inventions?????????? ?D) elements

64. A) packed??????????????? B) stuck????????????????C) suppressed????????? D) bound

65. A) facilitated??????????? B) modified??????????? ?C) mobilized???????????? D) terminated

66. A) competitive???????? B)comparative?????????C) exclusive????????????? D) expensive

67. A) merges?????????????? B) connects????????????C) relays???????????? ????? D) unifies

68. A) figures????????? ????? B) personalities???????C) individuals??????????? D) humans

69. A) and????????????????? ? B) yet????????????????? ?? C) or???????????????? ????? D) while

70. A) samples????????????? B) sources??????????????C) origins???????????????? D) precedents

71. A) stood by???????????? B) stood for??????????? C) stood against???????D) stood over

72. A) exchange????????????B) bypass?????????????? C) switch????????????????? D) interact

73. A) their??????????????????? B) that????????????????? C) when????????????????????D) whose

74. A) expanded????????????B) contracted?????????C) attracted?????????????? D) extended

75. A) what?????????????????? B) which???????????????? C) these??????????????????? D) them

76. A) joined???????????????? B) attached?????????????C) participated???????????D) involved

77. A) moreover????????????B) however?????????????C) likewise????????????????? D) then

78. A) With???????????????????B) By???????????????????? C) In????????????????????????? D) As

79. A) contexts?????????????B) signs????????????????? C) messages??????????????D) leaflets

80. A) citizen????????????????B) civilian?????????????????C) amateur??????????????? D) resident

81. A) into?????????????????? B) amid??????????????????? C) over??????????????????????D) toward

Part Ⅵ Translation (5 minutes)

Directions: Complete the sentences by translating into English the Chinese given in brackets. Please write your translation on Answer Sheet 2.

注意:此部分試題請(qǐng)?jiān)诖痤}卡2上作答,只需寫(xiě)出譯文部分。

82. With the oil prices ever rising, she tried to talk ________________(說(shuō)服他不買(mǎi)車(chē)).

83. ____________________(保持幽默感有助于) reduce stress and promote creative thinking in today's competitive society.

84. When confronted with the evidence, ____________________(他不得不坦白自己的罪行).

85. When people say, "I can feel my ears burning," it means they think _____________________(一定有人在說(shuō)他們的壞話(huà)).

86. She has decided to go on a diet, but finds __________________(很難抵制冰淇淋的誘惑).

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