第 1 部分：词汇选项（第 1~15 题, 每题 1 分, 共 15 分）
下面共有 15 个句子．每个句子中均有 1 个词或短语划有底横线．请从每个句子后面所给的 4 个选项中选择 1 个与划线部分意义最相近的词或短语。答案一律涂在答题卡相应的位置上。

1.One of the city’s greatest problems is providing adequate water to meet the needs of its expanding population.

A  unpolluted                     B  suitable                  C  sufficient                      D  effective

2.New duties were imposed on wines and spirits.

A  removed                       B  cut                        C  charged                 D  checked

3. He looked at her with contempt.

A  doubt                           B  disgust                  C  suspicion               D  respect

4. He achieved success through hard work.

A  reached                        B reaped                     C took                        D attained

5.The story was touching.

A inspiring                          B boring                      C moving                    D frightening

6.To skim a book is an important study skill.

A scan                               B summarize               C outline                     D paraphrase

7. Please help me to figure out my income tax.

A pay                                 B collect                     C introduce                 D calculate

8.If you fail three times, you are not entitled to try any more.

A supposed                        B qualified                   C asked                      D required

9. We want to know his family background.

A relationships                    B members                  C troubles                   D income

10. The young man asked his parents not to worry because he was full of optimism about his career.

A motivation                       B imagination               C confidence               D resolution

11. But the old man had already turned his attention to a more likely client.

A tourist                             B guest                       C visitor                      D customer

12. Dr. Brown has been studying the human brain for nearly 20 years.

A more than                              B less than                  C almost                     D probably

13 Many traditional skills had almost become extinct.

A impossible                       B lost                          C modernized              D commonplace

14. Many studies have explored the link between violence on television and aggression among children.

A distance                          B similarity                  C difference                       D connection

15. Bats use echoes to locate objects and determine their exact position.

A find                                B identity                    C choose                    D pursue

第 2 部分：阅读判断（第 16 ~22 题，每题 1 分，共 7 分）
阅读下面这篇短文，短文后列出了 7 个句子，请根据短文的内容对每个句子做出判断。如果该句提供的是正确信息，请在答题卡上把 A 涂黑：如果该句提供的是错误信息．请在答题卡上把 B 涂黑；如果该句的信息文章中没有提及，请在答题卡上把 C 涂黑。

Changes in Museums
Museums have changed. They are no longer places that one “should” visit. They are places to enjoy and learn.
At a science museum in Ontario, Canada, you can feel your hair stand on end as harmless electricity passes through your body. At the Metropolitan(大城市) Museum of Art in New York City, you can look at the seventeenth century instruments while listening to their music. At New York’ s American Museum of Natural History recently, you can help make a bone-by-bone reproduction of the museum’ s dinosaur (恐龙), a beast that lived 200 million years ago.
More and more museum directors are realizing that people learn best when they can somehow become part of what they are seeing. In many science museums, for example, there are no guided tours. The visitor is encouraged to touch, listen, operate, and experiment so as to discover scientific principles for himself. The purpose is not only to provide fun but also to help people feel at home in the world of science. The theory is that people who do not understand science will probably fear it, and those who fear science will not use it to best advantage.
One cause of all these changes is the increase in wealth and leisure time. Another cause is the rising percentage (百分比) of young people in the population. Many of these young people are college students or college graduates. Leon F. Twiggs, a young black professor of art once said, “They see things in a new and different way. They are not satisfied to stand and look at works of art; they want art they can participate (参加) in.” The same is true of science and history.
16. When visiting museums nowadays, people can take part in many activities.
A Right     B Wrong     C Not mentioned
17 .New York’s American Museum of Natural History is opened recently.
A Right     B Wrong     C Not mentioned
18 In science museums nowadays visitors are not allowed to touch or operate the objects on display.
A Right      B Wrong     C Not mentioned
19. In science museums today, people no longer feel strange in the world of science but gain scientific knowledge by themselves.
A Right     B Wrong     C Not mentioned
20. In America today, all science museums are open to the public and free.
A Right     B Wrong     C Not mentioned
21 People can afford to got the modem museums since they have more time now.
A Right     B Wrong     C Not mentioned
22 Young people who are well-educated like the art they can participate in.
A Right     B Wrong     C Not mentioned

第 3 部分：概括大意与完成句子（第 23 ~ 30 题，每题 1 分，共 8 分）
阅读下面这篇短文，短文后有 2 项测试任务： ( 1 )第 23 ~ 26 题要求从所给的 6 个选项中为第 1 ~ 4 段每段选择 1 个正确的小标题： ( 2 )第 27 ~ 30 题要求从所给的 6 个??将答案涂在答题卡相应的位置上。
A Baby’s Growth
1   To describe a baby’ s growth, the old saying “one thing leads to another” should really read. “one thing leads to an explosion.” The perfection of vision and the ability to hold his head up allow appreciation of visual space. The evolution of increasingly efficient reaching also lets the baby appreciate and participate in his three-dimensional world.
2   You may notice that your baby can grab toys with either hand. This is partly because the baby has learned to grasp an object even if it touches his hand lightly or his eyes are averted. By the end of the fourth month, he can probably alternate hands to grab the toys or transfer a toy from one hand to the other. He may even wave it briskly, then transfer it and repeat the waving, shuttling it back and forth between hands. In imitating the behavior of one hand with the other, the baby may be becoming aware that he can do the same thing with each arm and that each hand is distinct from the other. This awareness is important to his receiving information about space. The baby also begins to see himself act when he repeatedly reaches for and grasps things. He starts to distinguish himself from the outer world.
3   If you would like another sign of this growth process, try one of Gesell’s measures of mental growth, the behavior of a baby before a mirror. According to Gesell, a baby will smile at his image at around twenty weeks of age. Hold your baby up to a mirror and watch him examine the faces there. He will probably attend most to his own image and perhaps smile at it. As his image returns the smile, he may become active and vocalize. He may also look back and forth between your image and you as if the duplication puzzles him. A baby who knows his mother’s face cannot understand two of them. Calling softly to your baby, as he looks at your confusing double, complicates mailers even further.3 His turning back to the real you shows that a baby four months old is likely to have the ability of preference in discrimination.
4   An early attachment to one object — a toy or a stuffed animal — is another index of discrimination, as well as self-development, for the baby’s interests are going beyond himself. Most babies do not prefer one toy this early, but some will. After exploring each toy, your baby may start reaching and playing with one special one. In the months to come, the toy or anything else the baby identifies with himself by wearing or carrying may become a “lovey”. A “lovey” will be slept with, chewed. hugged, loved, and ‘talked to. These 9oveies” give the baby a way of coping with the necessary separations from the mother.7 A friendly and familiar toy bear may just make him easier on himself. Rather than feeling threatened, a mother should be flattered by her baby’s extension of affection elsewhere. A baby with the heart to find a “lovey” is showing early mental resourcefulness and flexibility.
23 Paragraph 1…………………. (       )
24 Paragraph 2 ………………….(       )
25 Paragraph 3 ………………….(       )
26 Paragraph 4…………………. (       )
A  Gesell’s measure of the baby’s mental growth
B  Growth of the baby through playing with toys
C  The baby’s confusion in front of a mirror
D  Significance of each stage of development in a baby’s life
E  The baby’s love for “Loveies” indicates early mental resourcefulness and flexibility
F  The functions of a “lovey”

27  The baby’s ability to sense the visual space owes to…….. (     )
28  In imitating the behavior of one hand with the other, the baby is able to……….(     )
29  A baby will smile at his image at……………..(     )
30  The baby’s extension of affection should make the mother (     )
A  around twenty weeks of age
B  feel flattered
C  tell one hand from the other
D  the perfection of vision and the ability to hold his head up
E  has preference among his toys F explore his toys

第 4 部分：阅读理解（第 31 ~ 45 题，每题 3 分，共 45 分）
下面有 3 篇短文，每篇短文后有 5 道题，每道题后面有 4 个选项。请根据文章的内容，从每题所给的 4 个选项中选择 1 个最佳答案，涂在答题卡相应的位置上。

第一篇                        New Foods and the New World
In the last 500 years, nothing about people — not their clothes, ideas, or languages--has changed as much as what they eat. The original chocolate drink was made from the seeds of the cocoa tree (可可树) by South American Indians. The Spanish introduced it to the rest of the world during the 1500’s. And although it was very expensive, it quickly became fashionable. In London, shops where chocolate drinks were served became important meeting places. Some still exist today.
The potato is also from the New World. Around 1600, the Spanish brought it from Peru to Europe, where it soon was widely grown. Ireland became so dependent on it that thousands of Irish people starved when the crop failed during the ‘Potato Famine (饥荒)“ of 1845— 1846, and thousands more were forced to leave their homeland and move to America
There are many other foods that have traveled from South America to the Old World. But some others went in the opposite direction. Brazil is now the world’s largest grower of coffee, and coffee is an important crop in Colombia and other South American countries. But it is native to Ethiopia, a country in Africa. It was first made into a drink by Arabs during the 1400’s.
According to an Arabic legend. coffee was discovered when a person named Kaldi noticed that his goats were attracted to the red berries on a coffee bush. He tried one and experienced the ‘wide-awake” feeling that one-third of the worlds population now starts the day with.
31 According to the passage, which of the following has changed the most in the last 500 years?
A  Food.   B  Clothing.   C  Ideology.   D  Language.
32 “Some in the last sentence of the first paragraph refers to
A  some cocoa trees.     B  some chocolate drinks.
C  some shops.      D  some South American Indians.
33 Thousands of Irish people starved during the “Potato Famine” because
A  hey were so dependent on potatoes that they refused to eat anything else.
B  they were forced to leave their homeland and move to America.
C  the weather conditions in Ireland were not suitable for growing potatoes.
D  the potato harvest was bad.
34 Which country is the largest coffee producer?
A  Brazil.  B  Colombia.   C  Ethiopia.   D  Egypt.

35 Which of the following statements is according to the passage?
A  One third of the world’s population drinks coffee.  
B  Coffee is native to Colombia.
C  Coffee can keep one awake.      
D  Coffee drinks were first made

第二篇                             Endangered Species
Endangered species are plants and animals that are in immediate danger of extinction. Extinction is actually a normal process in the course of evolution. Since the formation of the earth, many more species have become extinct than those exist today. These species slowly disappeared because of changes of climate and their failure to adapt to such conditions as competition and predation (捕食). Since the 1600s, however, the process of extinction has greatly accelerated as a result of both human population growth and technological encroachment (侵犯) on natural ecology systems. Today the majority of the world’s environments are changing faster than the ability of most species to adapt to such changes through natural selection.
Species become extinct or endangered for a number of reasons, but the primary cause is the destruction of natural habitats (栖息地). Drainage of wetlands (沼泽地), cutting and clearing of forests, growth of cities, and highway and dam construction have seriously reduced available natural habitats. As the various surroundings become fragments, the remaining animal populations crowd into smaller areas, causing further destruction of natural surroundings. Species in these small islands” lose contact with other populations of their own kind, thus reducing their genetic variation and making them less adaptable to environment changes.
Since the 1600s, commercial exploitation of animals for food and other products has caused many species to become extinct or endangered. Introduced diseases and parasites have also greatly reduced some species. Pollution is another important cause of their extinction.
Some private and governmental efforts have been organized to save declining species. Laws were made in some countries in the early 1900s to protect wild animals from commercial trade and killing. International endeavors are shown in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. approved by 51 nations. Its purpose is to restrict exploitation of wild animals and plants by regulating and restricting trade in certain species. How effective such laws will be in various countries, however, depends on enforcement (实施 ) and support by the people and the courts. Because of a lack of law enforcement, the willingness of some segments of society to trade in endangered species, the activities of people who catch and kill animals illegally and dealers who supply the trade, the future of many species is in doubt in spite of legal protection. 36  According to the passage, which of the following is the most important factor causing the rapid extinction of
man species since the 17th century?
A  Human beings are not aware of the importance of preserving endangered species.
B  Some endangered species have already reached the end of their life span in evolution.
C  The development of human society has greatly affected natural ecology systems.
D  The world’s climate has changed so greatly that most species cannot survive.
37  In the last sentence of the second paragraph, the word islands refers to
A  the lands that are completely surrounded by water.
B  the wild animals’ breeding grounds protected by law
C  the pieces of land separated by modern buildings and roads.
D  the small and isolated areas inhabited by certain species.
38 This passage mentions all of the following reasons that cause the extinction of man species except
A  natural selection of species.    
B  various natural disasters.
C  commercial trade and killing.    
D  destruction of natural surroundings.
39  According to the passage, which of the following is most important in saving declining species?
A  Governments should make some laws to protect endangered species.
B  People should pay more attention to the protection of natural surroundings.
C  Relevant laws must be made and enforced with the support of the people.
D  Some organizations should warn people not to trade in endangered animals.
40  How does the author feel about the prospect of protecting endangered species from being extinct?
A  Worried.  B  Optimistic.  C  Indifferent.  D  Confident.

第三篇                                  Weather Map
A weather map is an important tool for geographers. A succession of three or four maps presents a continuous picture of weather changes. Weather forecasters are able to determine the speed of air masses and fronts; to determine whether an individual pressure area is deepening or becoming shallow and whether a front is increasing or decreasing in intensity. They are also able to determine whether an air mass is retaining its original characteristics or taking on those of the surface over which it is moving. Thus, a most significant function of the map is to reveal a synoptic picture of conditions in the atmosphere at a given time.
All students of geography should be able to interpret a weather map accurately. Weather maps contain an enormous amount of information about weather conditions existing at the time of observation over a larger geographical area. They reveal in a few minutes what otherwise would take hours to describe. The United States Weather Bureau issues information about approaching storms, floods, frosts, droughts, and all climatic conditions in general. Twice a month it issues a 30-day “outlook” which is a rough guide to weather conditions likely to occur over broad areas of the United States. These 30-day outlooks are based upon an analysis of the upper air levels which often set the stage for the development of air masses, fronts, and storms.
Considerable effort is being exerted today to achieve more accurate weather predictions. With the use of electronic instruments and earth satellites, enormous gains have taken place recently in identifying and tracking storms. Extensive experiments are also in progress for weather modification studies. But the limitations of weather modification have prevented meteorological results except in the seeding of supercooled, upslope mountainous winds which have produced additional orographic precipitation on the windward side of mountain ranges. Nevertheless, they have provided a clearer understanding of the fundamentals of weather elements.
41  One characteristic of weather maps not mentioned by the author in this passage.
A wind speed   B fronts   C thermal changes.   D frost
42  The thirty-day forecast is determined by examining
A  daily weather maps.       B upper air levels.  
C  satellite reports.       D changing fronts.
43  The observation of weather conditions by satellites is advantageous because it
A  is modern.      
B  uses electronic instruments.
C  makes weather prediction easier. 
D  gives the scientist information not obtained readily otherwise.
44  At the present time, experiments are being conducted in
A  manipulating weather.   
B  determining density of pressure groups.
C  satellites.      
D  30-day “outlooks.
45  Artificial rainmaking has been most successful in the
A  lake area.      B  eastern slope of mountains.
C  western slope of mountains.  
D  windward side of mountains.

第 5 部分：补全短文（第 46 ~50 题，每题 2 分，共 10 分）
阅读下面的短文，文章中有 5 处空白，文章后面有 6 组文字，请根据文章的内容选择 5 组文字，将其分别放回文章原有位置，以恢复/p>

Visitors From Space
The appearance of Halley’s Comet ( 彗星) 1986 recalled interest in comets. People asked, “What are these recurring visitors from outer space?           (46) Why do they return? Why do some comets take longer to come back than others?”
One astronomer called a comet “a dirty snowball.” According to his theory, a comet consists of a huge ball of gases that have been frozen into ice-like solids at very low temperatures.__________(47)
Far out in some parts of space, temperatures are close to absolute zero. There the ball stays frozen. But as the comet moves closer to the sun, it begins to warm up. The icy solids begin to turn into gas.             (48)
The comet glitters, because all these substances reflect sunlight.
As the comet gets closer to the sun, its outer layer of haze ( 烟雾 ) increases in depth. A stream of particles from the sun, called the “solar wind”, forces some of the comet’s haze into a “tail.” which always points away from the sun.
Comets are held in orbit (运行轨道) by the sun’s gravitation. Some have small orbits, bringing them back every few years. __________ (49) The most famous comet of all, Halley’s Comet, returns about every 76 years.
Comets get smaller on each return sweep. They lose some of their volume each time. _______(50) Someday it will not be visible without a telescope. Eventually, it may not return at all.
A  At best, the comet will be visible to us naked-eye types for only a few more weeks.
B  Why do they swing around the sun?
C  Halley’s Comet, for example, is smaller than it was a thousand years ago.
D  Some of the solid particles of “dirt” are liberated and float within the hazy, gaseous, outer space.
E  The snowball is “dirty” because bits of dust and gravel (i), made up of rock and metal, are frozen into the ball.
F  Others have long orbits, keeping them out in space for thousands of years.
第 6 部分：完形填空（第 51 ~ 65 题，每题 1 分，共巧分）
阅读下面的短文，文中有 15 处空白，每处空白给出了 4 个选项，请根据短文的内容从 4 个选项中选择 1 个最佳答案，涂在答题卡相应的位置上。

The Great Newspaper War
Up until about 100 years ago, newspapers in the United States appealed only to the most serious readers. They used no illustrations and the articles were __________ (51) politics or business.
Two men ____________ (52) that — Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World and Wlliam Randolph Hearst of the New York Morning Journal. Pulitzer         (53) the New York World in 1883 He changed it from a traditional newspaper into a very         (54) one overnight (一夜之间). He ___________ (55) lots of illustrations and cartoons. And he told his reporters to write articles on ___________ (56) crime or scandal they could find And they did. One of them even pretended she was crazy and then she was _________ (57) to a mental hospital. She then wrote a series of articles about the poor __________ (58) of patients in those hospitals.
In 1895, Hearst _________ (59) to New York from California. He wanted the New York Morning Journal to be more sensational ( 轰动的 ) and more exciting __________(60) the New York World. He also wanted it to be cheaper, so he ______________ (61) the price by a penny. Hearst attracted attention because his headlines were bigger than __________ (62). He often said, Big print makes big news.”
Pulitzer and Hearst did anything they        (63)to sell newspapers. For example, Hearst sent Frederic Remington, the famous illustrator (插图画家), to  ____________ (64) pictures of the Spanish-American War. When he got there, he told Hearst that no fighting was __________ (65). Hearst answered, “You furnish (提供) the pictures. I’ll furnish the war.
51  A about   B in     C with    D of
52  A accepted   B developed   C started    D changed
53  A published   B bought   C issued     D printed
54  A boring   B practical   C exciting    D natural
55  A cancelled   B approved   C solved    D added
56  A every    B all    C both    D many
57  A invited   B admitted   C accepted    D called
58  A treatment   B reputation   C work     D results
59  A arrived   B reached  C changed   D came
60  A  than    B as    C in     D for
61  A  increased   B reduced   C fixed     D offered
62  A anyone   C anyone’s  C anyone else    D anyone else’s
63  A may   B might    C must     D could
64  A get    B keep   C draw     D make
65  A going    B lasting    C going on    D taking on