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Section II Vocabulary and Structure (20%)
Part A
Directions: Questions 16-25 are incomplete sentences. Beneath each sentence you will see four words or phrases, marked A，B，C and D. Choose the one word or phrase that best completes the sentence. Then blacken your answer in the corresponding space on your answer sheet.
16. By 1863 the Northern war economy was _____ in high gear.
A. rumbling along B. passing away C. roaming D. blooming
【试题答案】A
17. Roman literature never ceased to _______ influence in the Middle Ages, and this influence became much greater in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries when more Roman works became known.
A. exert B. practice C. resist D. stage
【试题答案】A
18. The oil price is also a big risk, mainly because the Bush _______ appears determined to attack Iraq.
A. government B. administration C. cabinet D. registration
【试题答案】B
19. Watch a baby between six and nine months old, and you will ______ the basic concept of geometry being learned.
A. make B. believe C. understand D. observe
【试题答案】D
20. Some modem anthropologists hold that biological evolution _______ not only human morphology but also human behavior.
A. has related B. is related C. is shaped D. has shaped
【试题答案】D
21. Family disruption has been suggested as a central cause of many troublesome social problems. More than half of the dramatic increase in child poverty in the 1980’s _____ to it.
A. are contributed B. are contributable
C. is attributing D. is attributable
21. 【试题解析】
【试题答案】D
22. The arts and Craft movement in the United States are responsible for _______ change in attitudes toward the decorative arts, then considered the minor or household arts.
A. smashing B. sleeping C. sweeping D. switching
【试题答案】C
23. The dominant model of American legal education remains one in which students are taught how to argue aggressively, with no quarter given or taken, and how to fight an opposing viewpoint with _______ technical skill.
A. programmed B. un-programmed C. uncompromising D. promising
【试题答案】C
24. I am very concerned that our ____ as a great university could be ______ if our resources fall behind those of the leading American universities.
A. pose...altered B. state...changed
C. standing...jeopardized D. status...reversed
【试题答案】C
25. Cambridge is _______ the best university in Europe and among the world’s top ten.
A. in most cases B. on most counts
C. under most conditions D. with most prospects
【试题答案】C
Part B
Directions: For each blank for questions 26-35 in the following passage, choose the best answer from the choices given following the passage. Then blacken your answer in the corresponding space on your answer sheet.
This week in Japan, some 10, 000 26 from across the globe will meet to examine what, for many of the world’s poorest people, are issues of life and death. At sessions in Kyoto, Shiga and Osaka, the 3rd World Water Forum will 27 a crisis that currently forces more than one billion people to 28 sources contaminated with human waste, and leaves countless millions more with insufficient supplies to 29 their crops, or to spur industrial development. The meeting is the culmination of the International Year of Freshwater 2003, declared by the United Nations to 30 awareness of the worsening state of the world’s water resources.
31 that goal, the forum could hardly have been held at a less opportune moment. Events in Iraq may limit media 32 of the 3rd World Water Forum to mere footnote status. “Our discussions will have far more effect on humankind in the twenty-first century than the current crisis in the Middle East,” claims William Cosgrove, vice-president of the World Water Council, a think-tank dedicated to 33 water resources. But the forum’s organizers must know that there is little hope of gaining firm 34 from nations that are 35 war.
26. A. delegates B. dedicates C. dictators D. decision-makers
27. A. spotlight B. highlight C. brighten D. show
28. A. make use of B. eat with C. drink from D. grope for
29. A. plant B. cultivate C. transplant D. water
30. A. realize B. achieve C. gain D. raise
31. A. For B. But for C. Given D. Giving
32. A. cover B. covering C. coverage D. discover
33. A. improve B. improving C. promote D. promoting
34. A. commitmentsB. commitmentC. promises D. promise
35. A. focusing with B. focused with C. focusing on D. focused on
参考答案
26. A 27. B 28. C 29. D 30. D 31. C 32. C 33. B 34. A 35. D