Part III Vocabulary (20 minutes)

Directions: There are 30 incomplete sentences in this Part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer sheet with a single
line through the center.

4l. It was that the restaurant discriminated against black customers.
A) addicted C) assaulted
B) alleged D) ascribed

42. The medicine -- his pain but did not care his illness.
A) activated C) mediated
B) alleviated D) deteriorated

43. He is the only Person who can in this case, because the other witnesses were killed
mysterious1y
A) testify C) accuse
B) charge D) rectify

44. Professor Hawking is -- as one of the world’s greatest living physicists.
A) dignified C) acknowledged
B) clarified D) illustrated

45. The financial problem of this company is further -- by the rise in interest rates.
A) increased C) reinforced
C) strengthened D) aggravated

46. We shall probably never be able to -- the exact nature of these sub-atomic particles.
A) assert C) ascertain
B) impart D) notify

47. All the people in the stadium cheered up when they saw hundreds of colourful
balloons slowly into the sky.
A) ascending C) escalating
B) elevating D) lingering

48. Many years had -- before they returned to their original urban areas.
A) floated C) skipped
B) elapsed D) proceeded.

49. What you say now is not -- with what you said last week.
A) consistent. C) permanent
B) persistent D) insistent

50. Military orders are -- and cannot be disobeyed.
A) defective C) alternative
B) conservative D) imperative
5l. Some educators try to put students of similar abilities into the same class because they believe this kind of -- grouping is advisable.
A) homogeneous C) spontaneous
B) instantaneous D) anonymous

52. Even sensible men do -- things sometimes.
A) abrupt C) acute
B) absurd D) apt

53. The commission would find itself -- at every turn if its members couldn't reach an agreement.
A) collided C) crumbled
B) savaged D) hampered

54. Grain production in the word is -- but still millions go hungry.
A) staggering C) soaring
B) shrinking D) suspending

55. He developed a -- attitude after years of frustration in his career
A) sneaking C) drastic
B) disgusted D) cynical

56. They believed that this was not the -- of their campaign for equality but merely the beginning.
A) climax C) pitch
B) summit D) maximum

57. Several guests were waiting in the -- for the front door to open.
A) porch C) inlet
B) vent D) entry

58. As the mountains were covered with a of cloud, we couldn't see their tops.
A) coating C) veil
B) film D) shade

59. We couldn't really afford to buy a house so we got it on fore purchase and paid monthly
A) investments C) arrangements
B) requirements D) installment

60. The magician made us think he cut the girl into pieces but it was merely an
A) illusion C) image
B) impression D) illumination

6l. A good education is an you can fall back on for the rest of your life.
A) asset C) inventory
B) ethic D) obligation

62. Giving a gift can convey a wealth of meaning about your appreciation of their and the importance you place upon the relationship.
A) solidarity C) superiority
B) priority D) hospitality

63. The designer has applied for a -- for his new invention.
A) tariff C) version
B) discount D) patent

64. The toy maker produces a -- copy of the space station, exact in every detail.
A) minimal C) miniature
B) minimum D) minor

65. An energy tax would curb ordinary air pollution, limit oil imports and cut the budget .
A) disposition C) defect
B) discrepancy D) deficit

66. They have decided to w physical punishment in all local schools.
A) put away C) do away with
B) breakaway from D) pass away

67. Astronauts are -- all kinds of tests before they are actuaI1y sent up in a spacecraft.
A) inclined to C) prone to
B) subjected to D) bound to

68. Individual sports are run by over 370 independent governing bodies whose functions usually include -- rules, holding events, selecting national teams and promoting international links.
A) drawing on C) drawing up
B) drawing in D) drawing down

69. Up until that time. his interest had focused almost on fully mastering the skills and techniques of his craft.
A) restrictively C) inclusively
B) radically D) exclusively

70. All the ceremonies at the 2000 Olympic Games had a unique Australian flavor,
of their multicultural communities.
A) noticeable C) conspicuous
B) indicative D) implicit
Part IV Error Correction (15 minutes)

Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether i0 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blank provided If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the
corresponding blank If you and a word put an insertion mark (A) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a word cross it out and put a slash (/) in the blank.

Example:

Te1evision is rapidly becoming the literature 1. time/times/period of our periods. Many of the arguments having for the study 2.
of literature as a school subject are valid for study 3. the
of television.
A great many cities are experiencing difficulties
which are nothing new in the history of cities, except
in their scale. Some cities have lost their original
purpose and have not found new one. And any large or rich S1.
city is going to attract poor immigrants, who flood in, S2.
filling with hopes of prosperity which are then often
disappointing. There are backward towns on the edge of S3.
Bombay or Brasilia, just as though there were on the edge of
seventeenth-century London or early nineteenth-century S4.
Paris. This is new is the scale.
Descriptions written by eighteenth-century travelers of the poor S5.
of Mexico City, and the enormous contrasts that was to be found S6.
there, are very dissimilar to descriptions of Mexico City today -
the poor can still be numbered in millions.
The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosperity, but
behind it lies two myths: the myth of the city as a promised land, S7.
that attracts immigrants from rural poverty and brings it flooding S8.
into city centers, and the myth of the country as a Garden of Eden, S9.
which, a few generations late, sends them flooding out again to S10.
the suburbs.

Part V Writing （30 minutes）
Directions：For this part, you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic Student Use of Computers. You should write at least 150 words, and base your composition on the chart and the outline given below:

Hours/week圖略

1．上圖所示為 1990年、1995年、2000年某校大學(xué)生使用計算機(jī)的情況，請描述其變化；
2．請說明發(fā)生這些變化的原因（可從計算機(jī)的用途、價格或社會發(fā)展等方面加以說明）：
3．你認(rèn)為目前大學(xué)生在計算機(jī)使用中有什么困難或問題。

Student Use of Computers