Section A
Directions：You will hear 5 short conversations. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer.
1. A) She decided to stay home.
B) She had to fly out of town.
C) She was sick.
D) She said that she’d come later.
2. A) He’ll count the votes on proposal.
B) He’ll back out of the proposal.
C) He’ll make the proposal.
D) He’ll support the woman’s proposal.
3. A) To get a needle and some threads.
B) To get a needle and some buttons.
C) To get some buttons.
D) To get some threads and a button.
4. A) Come back from
B) Go to
C) Travel around
D) Try to visit Richard in
5. A) Helen was generous to a relative.
B) Helen found some money.
C) Helen was relatively generous.
D) Helen received money from a relative.
Section B
Directions: You will hear a short passage. At the end of the passage, you will hear some questions. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D).
1. A) They wanted to become wealthy.
B) They wanted to find better land.
C) They wanted to cheat and rob others.
D) They wanted to collect money to save people.
2. A)
B) Mining companies.
C) Followers of William Waldo.
D) Mountaineers.
3. A) Traditional. B) Industrialized.
C) Religious. D) Lawless.
4. A) Selling prospecting supplies.
B) Teaching survival tactics.
C) Saving people’s lives.
D) Showing people how to hunt for gold.
II. 词汇（习语）
Directions: Translate these sentences into Chinese.
1. I think you’re pulling my leg.
2. The coast is clear. Let’s go.
3. He put his wife out of the way in order to get the insurance money.
4. She seems to be in the pink.
5. He is always looking after number one.
6. He told me under the rose.
7. I’ll play my hand alone from now on.
8. I’ve been on the wagon for a long time.
9. Nothing much, just a storm in a teacup.
10. Tom got hot under the collar when his teacher punished him.
11. She bought the overcoat under the table.
12. I’m just a small potato and I can’t solve the hot potato.
13. In order to benefit himself, he sold many of his old friends down the river.
14. The bill was about to be defeated, but at the eleventh hour enough votes were found to pass it.
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16. There is no need for you to worry; if anything goes wrong it is I who will have to face the music.
17. John is moving heaven and earth to come home for Christmas.
18. His first appearance on the stage brought the house down.
19. He always thinks a GREat deal of himself, and that is what’s wrong with him.
20. He was accused of murdering his boss; if proved guilty, he would be sent to the chair.
21. Each believed that he knew just what the elephant looked like; and they call each other names because they could not aGREe.
22. He was a man of the world, and he knew a thing or two.
23. Mr. Smith made a killing in railway securities.
24. This man has been working on my farm for ten years. He is a man that eats no fish.
25. Just now the boss dressed him down for nothing, but he had to eat the leek.
III. 语法 (it的用法)
A． Directions: Rewrite the following sentences by using “it”.
1. These scientists are said to have been to
2. Five years has passed since we met last time.
3. My father seems to be in a bad mood.
4. They happened to wear the same clothes that day.
5. We are likely to go camping if the weather is fine this weekend.
B． Directions: Put the following sentences into English, paying attention to the use of “it”.
1. 较好地掌握一门外语是必要的。
2. 晚上开始下起雨来。
3. 争吵持续了好几个小时才结束。
4. 他感到奇怪，居然没有别的人来。
5. 碰巧天气特别寒冷。
IV. 阅读
Passage 1
The earliest films were short, lasting only one minute or less. People could, for one cent, see simple action films of trains, fire engines, parades, crowds on city streets, and similar subjects. Soon 20-minute pictures of news items were being shown in theaters at the end of the regular stage show. Later, films used a new method (putting the beginning of one scene upon the end of the scene before) for magical effects and to tie a story together. In
Before 1910 actors were employed in films without their names being given, because the producers were afraid that, if an actor became well known, he might demand more money. But later it became known that a film with a popular actor in it could be sold at a higher price to theater owners than could a film in which the actor was not known. Soon “movie stars” won fame wherever films were shown. By 1915 the more popular stars were earning as much as $
1. Pictures of parades shown in the earliest films went on for no more than ________ .
A. one minute B. 20 minutes
C. a whole hour D. about two minutes
2. It was not until 1903 that people began to make films ________ .
A. by using magical effects
B. by naturally joining the scenes together in a story
C. at a railroad station
D. by putting the beginning of one scene upon the end of another
3. The first successful film in which the pictures were taken at different places and times and then put together logically was about ________ .
A. a train accident B. the robbery of a train
C. a story of a train D. the capturing of the robbers
4. It was most likely that “movie stars” began to appear ________ .
A. as early as 1903 B. not until 1910
C. in 1915 D. after 1915
5. This passage is mainly about ________ .
A. modern movie development
B. early movie stars
C. various types of films in the early 20th century
D. history of film-making
Passage 2
For many young people, the late 1960s was a period of revolt against the moral values that had been the strength and pride of the past generations. They did not want to be hard-working and thrifty as their ancestors had been. They rejected the idea that duty must come before pleasure, and that individuals must take sacrifices when it is necessary for the good of their children or of their community. They condemned patriotism as the cause of wars, and rejected all forms of authority—whether in government, organized religion, school, or family. All these narrow ideas, they declared, were things of the past and had always been wrong anyway.
It was a distressing time for their elders. Previously happy parents found themselves scorned by their young rebels, who accused them of being too concerned with money and too anxious to impress the neighbors. “True success,” the young people explained, “is not a matter of money or position. It’s a matter of self-fulfillment. And self-fulfillment consists of reaching one’s goals and achieving happiness in one’s own way without paying attention to rules, duties, or the opinions of others. We do have a duty to ourselves that is more important than duty to others, even to our own children.”
Most parents found it hard to accept their children’s attitude. They themselves had been brought up to respect traditional values; they had also learned to respect money because it was scarce during their teenage years. They had married in the late 1930s or early 1940s, at a time when it was explained again and again that an unhappy childhood produces emotionally disturbed adults. A married couple’s first duty, therefore, was to think of their children’s happiness. On the other hand, while Mom and Dad were making sacrifices, they expected their children to obey the rules of “nice” behavior, and to grow up into adults that parents can be proud of. These were precisely the ideas that the young rebels of the 1960s rejected.
1. This passage mainly tells us something about the young ________ .
A. rebels of the late 1960s
B. parents of the late 1960s
C. generation of the late 1960s
D. revolutionists of the late 1960s
2. Young people in the late 1960s ________ .
A. accepted the moral values of their ancestors
B. aGREed to make sacrifices when necessary
C. were no longer strong and proud
D. thought that pleasure must go before duty
3. For the older generation, the 1960s was a period of ________ .
A. mental discomfort B. happiness
C. narrow and wrong ideas D. true success
4. According to the passage, self-fulfillment in the second paragraph means ________ .
A. to pay attention to rules and duties
B. to pay attention to money and position
C. to be anxious to achieve one’s own duty
D. to be concerned with duty to others
5. Most people married in the late 1930s ________ .
A. had an unhappy childhood because money was scarce then
B. have now become disturbed adults because of their unhappy childhood
C. are respectful to the rules of nice behavior
D. don’t like children
