第一部分 词汇选项(1～15小题，每题1分，共15分)
本部分为15个句子，每个句子中均有1个词或短语划有底横线，要求应试者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。
1. The union representative put across her argument very effectively.
A. invented B. explained C. considered D. accepted
2. Singapore has become active in participating in clinical trials as the country takes biomedical science as one of its growth engines.
A. getting together B. taking part C. joining D acting
3. That government spoke-person's speech obviously distorted the truth about the event.
A. revealed B. twisted C. interpreted D. destroyed
4. This is how I do it. I want you to do likewise.
A. simply B. similarly C. sincerely D. singularly
5. He is liable for all the damage done by his workman.
A. possible B. reliable C. capable D. responsible
6. Meanwhile, ginkgo biloba, an herbal supplement derived from leaves of the ginkgo tree, reduced ovarian cancer by 60% in a clinical test.
A. Immediately B. Otherwise C. At the same time D. Though
7. Kindling a fire in forest may cause a forest disaster.
A. lighting up B. starting C. handling D. putting out
8. The National Library retains the right to a copy of every new book published in China.
A. receives B. enjoys C. exercises D. keeps
9. He says he' 11 go fishing provided you do too.
A. because B. if C. when D. unless
10. The European union has helped to reduce the historic antagonisms between the countries of Western Europe.
A. issues B. problems C. hatred D. crisis
11. Please check your bill before you leave the shop and make sure that it is correct.
A. pay off B. go over C. look up D. find out
12. It is necessary to examine this claim before we proceed any further.
A. propose B. inquire C. process D. continue
13. The middle-aged man was given a cordial reception because he was taken for an eminent writer.
A. known to be B. intended C. referred to as D. thought to be
14. They have been rather indiscreet about their affair.
A. strange B. rash C. rude D. cautious
15. He says it's the best musical equipment you can buy but I think that's open to dispute.
A. not certain B. impossible C. absurd D. not possible
第二部分 阅读判断(16～22题，每题1分，共7分)
本部分为l篇300～450词的短文，根据短文列出7个句子，有的句子提供的是正确信息，有的句子提供的是错误信息，有的句子的信息在短文中并未直接或间接提及。应试者根据短文的内容对每个句子做出判断。
Why does the Foundation concentrate its support on basic rather than applied research? Basic research is the very heart of science, and its cumulative product is the capital of scientific progress, a capital that must be constantly increased as the demands upon it rise. The goal of basic research is understanding for its own sake. Understanding of the structure of the atom or the nerve cell, the explosion of a spiral nebula (螺旋星) or the distribution of cosmic dust, the causes of earthquakes and droughts, or of man as a behaving creature and of the social forces that are created whenever two of more human beings come into contact with one another—the scope is staggering, but the commitment to truth is the same. If the commitment were to a particular result, conflicting evidence might be overlooked or, with the best will in the world, simply not appreciated. Moreover, the practical applications of basic research frequently cannot be anticipated. When Roentgen, the physicist, discovered Xrays,he had no idea of their usefulness to medicine.
Applied research, undertaken to solve specific practical problems, has an immediate attractiveness because the results can be seen and enjoyed. For practical reasons, the sums spent on applied research in any country always far exceed those for basic research, and the proportions are more unequal in the less developed countries. Leaving aside the funds devoted to research by industry—which is naturally far more concerned with applied aspects because these profits quickly—the funds the U. S. Government allots to basic research currently amount to about seven percent of its overall research and developments funds. Unless adequate safeguards are provided, applied research invariably tends to drive out basic. Then, so Dr. Waterman has pointed out, development will inevitably be undertaken prematurely (过早的), career incentives will gravitate strongly toward applied science, and the opportunities for making major scientific discoveries will be lost. Unfortunately, pressures to emphasize new developments, without corresponding emphasis upon pure science. Tend to degrade the quality of the nation's technology in the long run, rather than to improve it.
16. X-rays used in medical researches belong to the scope of basic research.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
17. Industry is primarily concerned with applied researches because it can bring immediate profits.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
18. The United States Government currently concentrates its support on applied rather than on basic research.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
19. The Foundation devotes most of its funds to applied research.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
20. When Roentgen discovered X-rays he didn't mean to use them in medical researches.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
21. Dr. Waterman is a strong advocate of applied research.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
22. Many scientists think basic research is more important than applied research.
A. Right B. Wrong C. Not mentioned
第三部分 概括大意与完成句子(第23～30题，每题1分，共8分)
本部分为1篇300~450词的短文，有两项测试任务：(1)短文后有6个段落小标题，应试者根据文章的内容为其中指定的4个段落各选择一个正确的小标题；(2)短文后有4个不完整的句子，应试者在所提供的6个选项中选择4个正确选项分别完成句子。
1. Large companies need a way to reach the savings of the public at large. The same problem on a smaller scale, faces practically every company to develop new products and create new jobs.
2. There can be little prospect of raising the sort of sums needed from friends and people we know, and while banks may agree to provide short-term finance, they are generally unwilling to provide money on a permanent basis for long-term projects. So companies turn to the public, inviting people to lend them money, or take a share in the business in exchange for a share in future profits. This they do by issuing stocks and shares in the business through The Stock Exchange. By doing so they can put into circulation the savings of individuals and institutions, both at home and overseas.
3. When the saver needs his money back, he does not have to go to the company with whom he originally placed it. Instead, he sells his shares through a stockbroker to some other saver who is seeking to invest his money.
4. Many of the services needed both by industry and by each of us are provided by the Government or by local authorities. Without hospitals, roads, electricity, telephones, railways, this country could not function. All these require continuous spending on new equipment and new development if they are to serve us properly, requiring more money than is raised through taxes alone. The Government, local authorities, andnationalized industries therefore frequently need to borrow money to finance major capital spending, and they, too, come to The Stock Exchange.
5. There is hardly a man or woman in this country whose job or whose standard of living does not depend on the ability of his/her employers to raise money to finance new development. In one way or another, this new money must come from the savings of the country. The Stock Exchange exists to provide a channel through which these savings can reach those who need finance.
23. Paragraph 2_________.
24. Paragraph 3_________.
25. Paragraph 4_________.
26. Paragraph 5_________.
A. The way companies reaching the savings
B. Why stock exchange comes into being
C. The function of stock exchange
D. How the savers take their money back
E. Another factor which affects stock exchange
F. How to use stock
27. Almost all companies involved in new production and development must depend on________.
28. The money which enables these companies to go ahead with their projects is raised_________.
29. All the essential services on which we depend are_________.
30. The stock exchange makes it possible for the Government, local authorities and nationalized industries to raise_________.
A. a more successful company
B. in constant need of financial support
C. as much money as they wish
D. the population as a whole for finance
E. by the selling of shares in the companies
F. to finance new development
第四部分 阅读理解(31～45题，每题3分，共45分)
阅读三篇短文。每篇短文后面有五个问题，每个问题都有四个备选答案，应试者根据短文的内容从四个备选答案中选择一个最佳答案。
第一篇
Sign has become a scientific hot button. Only in the past 20 years have specialists in language study realized that signed languages are unique—a speech of the hand. They offer a new way to probe how the brain generates and understands language, and throw new light on an old scientific controversy: whether language, complete with grammar, is something that we are born with, or whether it is a learned behavior. The current interest in sign language has roots in the pioneering work of one rebel teacher at Gallaudet University in Washington, D. C., the world's only liberal arts university for deaf people.
When Bill Stokoe went to Gallaudet to teach English, the school enrolled him in a course in signing. But Stokoe noticed something odd; among themselves, students signed differently from his classroom teacher.
Stokoe had been taught a sort of gestural code, each movement of the hands representing a word in English. At the time, American Sign Language (ASL) was thought to be no more than a form of pidgin English (混杂英语). But Stokoe believed the "hand talk" his students used looked richer. He wondered: Might deaf people actually have a genuine language? And could that language be unlike any other on Earth? It was 1955, when even deaf people dismissed their signing as "substandard". Stokoe's idea was academic heresy (异端邪说).
It is 37 years later. Stokoe—now devoting his time to writing and editing books and journals and to producing video materials on ASL and the deaf culture—is having lunch at a cafe near the Gallaudet campus and explaining how he started a revolution. For decades educators fought his idea that signed languages are natural languages like English, French and Japanese. They assumed language must be based on speech the modulation (调节)of sound. But sign language is based on the movement of hands, the modulation of space. "What I said," Stokoe explains, "is that language is not mouth stuff—it's brain stuff.”
31.The study of sign language is thought to be________.
A.a new way to look at the learning of language
B. a challenge to traditional views on the nature of language
C. an approach to simplifying the grammatical structure of a language
D. an attempt to clarify misunderstanding about the origin of language
32. The present growing interest in sign language was stimulated by________.
A. a famous scholar in the study of the human brain
B. a leading specialist in the study of liberal arts
C. an English teacher in a university for the deaf
D. some senior experts in American Sign Language
33. According to Stokoe, sign language is_________.
A. a substandard language
B. a genuine language
C. an artificial language
D. an international language
34. Most educators objected to Stokoe's idea because they thought_________.
A. sign language was not extensively used even by deaf people
B. sign language was too artificial to be widely accepted
C. a language should be easy to use and understand
D. a language could only exist in the form of speech sounds
35. Stokoe’s argument is based on his belief that________.
35. Stokoe’s argument is based on his belief that________.
A. sign language is as efficient as any other language
B. sign language is derived from natural language
C. language is a system of meaningful codes
D. language is a product of the brain
第二篇
Certain animals and plants develop characteristics that they cope with their environment better than others of their kind. This natural biological process is called adaptation. Among the superior characteristics developed through adaptation are those that may help in getting food or shelter,in protection,and in producing and protecting the young. That results in the evolution of more and more organisms that are better fitted to their environments.
Each living things is adapted to its way of life in a general way, but each is adapted especially to its owndistinct class. A plant,for example,depends upon its roots to fix itself firmly and to absorb water andinorganic chemicals. These ate general adaptations, common to most plants. In addition, there are special adaptations that only certain kinds of plants have.
Many animals have adaptations that help them escape from their enemies. Some insects are hidden by body color or shape,and many look like a leaf or a little branch. The coasts of deer are colored to mix with surroundings. Many animals have the ability to remain completely still when an enemy is near.
Organisms have a great variety of ways of adapting. They may adapt in their structure, functions, and genetics;in their development and production of the young;and in other respects. An organism may create its own environment,as do warm-blooded mammals,which have the ability to adjust body heat exactly to maintain their ideal temperature despite changing weather. Usually adaptations are an advantage, but sometimes an organism is so well adapted to a particular environment that, if conditions change, it is difficult or impossible to readapt to new conditions.
36. Some plants and animals develop superior characteristics so they may_________.
A.help other of their kind get food,shelter and other things needed
B. survive even in extremely severe conditions
C. become better adapted to the environments than others of their kind
D. result in the evolution and production of more intelligent organisms
37. In the first paragraph, the word"environments"could best be replaced by________.
A. contexts B. surroundings C. neighbor’s D. enemies
38. It can be inferred from this passage that the feathers of a bird are colored _______.
A. to frighten its enemies B. to attract its enemies
C. to adjust its body heat D. to match its environment
39. Which to the following is not directly mentioned? ___________.
A.A living thing may adapt in its structure
B.An organism may adapt in its function
C.A living creature may adapt in genetics
D.A living organism may adapt in its sleeping habit
40. The author cites the behavior of warm-blooded mammals in order to illustrate which of the following? __________.
A.A living thing may have the ability to create an environment of its own
B.A living creature may have the ability to find shelter for them
C.A living creature may have the ability to make food from inorganic chemicals
D.A living creature may have the ability to change the color of its skin
第三篇
"Congratulations, Mr. Jones, it's a girl.”
Fatherhood is going to have a different meaning and bring forthe different response from every man who hears these words. Some feel pride, when they receive the news, while others worry, wondering whether they will be good fathers. Although there are some men who like children and may have had considerableexperience with them, others do not particularly care for children and spend little time with them. Many fathers and mothers have been planning and looking forward to children for some time. For other couples, pregnancy was an accident that both husband and wife have accepted willingly or unwillingly.
Whatever the reaction to the birth of a child, it is obvious that the shift from the role of husband to that of father is a difficult task. Yet, unfortunately, few attempts have been made to educate fathers in this resocialization process. Although numerous books have been written about American mothers, only recently has literature focused on the role of a father.
It is argued by some writers that the transition to the father's role, although difficult, is not nearly as great as the transition the wife must make to the mother's role. The mother's role seems to require complete transformation in daily routine and highly innovative adaptation; on the other hand, the father’s role is less demanding and immediate. However, even though we mentioned the fact that growing number of women are working outside the home, the father is still thought by many as the breadwinner in the household.
41. According to the author, being a father_________.
A.brings a feeling of excitement to some men
B.has a different meaning for those who have daughters
C.makes some men feel proud and others uneasy
D.means nothing but more responsibilities
42. It is stated in the passage that__________.
A.some parents are not prepared to have a child
B.young couples do not like children at all
C.do not have much time to take care of their children
D.many parents look forward to having a boy as their first child
43. In the second paragraph, the author__________.
A. criticizes fathers for not taking enough responsibilities in bringing up their children
B.excuses the American writers for ignoring the difficulties of being a father
C.supports the idea that the chief role of a father is to earn money for the family
D.criticizes that few literature has focused on the role of a father
44. The transition to the mother's role requires that the wife__________.
A.change her lifestyle in a highly innovative way
B.make a complete change in her everyday life to deal with the new situation
C.stay at home to take care of the baby
D.help her husband in his resocialization process
45. Some writers argue that with respect to the change of roles, fathers, compared with mothers, ___________.
A. have to shoulder more burdens B. have to make more difficult adaptations
C. have an easier job to do D. can usually do a better job
第五部分 补全短文（第46～50题，每题2分，共10分）
阅读短文，文中有处空白，文章后面有组文字，其中5组取自文章本身。应试者根据文章内容选择5组文字，将其放回相应位置，以恢复文章原貌。
Crime has its own cycles, a magazine reported some years ago. Police records that were studied for five years from over 2,400 cities and towns show a surprising link between changes in the season and crime patterns.
The pattern of crime has varied very little over a long period of years. Murder reaches its high during July and August, as do rape and other violent attacks. Murder, moreover, is more than seasonal; it is a weekend crime. 46
Unlike the summer high in crimes of bodily harm, burglary has a different cycle. You are most likely to be robbed between 6 p. m. and 2 a. m. On a Saturday night in December, January or February. Themost uncriminal month of all? 47 More dog bites are reported in this month than in any other month of the year.
48 Professor Huntington, of the Foundation for the Study of Cycles, made extensive studies to discover the seasons when people read serious books, attend scientific meetings, make the highest scores on examinations, and propose the most changes to patents. In all instances, he found a spring peak and an autumn peak separated by a summer low. On the other hand, Professor Huntington's studies indicated that June is the peak month for suicides and admissions to mental hospitals. 49
48 Professor Huntington, of the Foundation for the Study of Cycles, made extensive studies to discover the seasons when people read serious books, attend scientific meetings, make the highest scores on examinations, and propose the most changes to patents. In all instances, he found a spring peak and an autumn peak separated by a summer low. On the other hand, Professor Huntington's studies indicated that June is the peak month for suicides and admissions to mental hospitals. 49
Possibly, soaring thermometers and high humidity bring on our strange and terrifying summer actions, but police officials are not sure. "There is, of course, no proof of a connection between humidity and murder," they say. 50 .
A. It is also a nighttime crime; 62 percent of murders are committed between 6 p: m. and 6 a. m.
B. Because they are surprised that so many people get married in June.
C. May—except for one strange statistic.
D. "Why murder's high time should come in the summertime we really don't know."
E. June is also a peak monty for marriages!
F. Apparently our intellectual seasonal cycles are completely different from our criminal tendencies.
第六部分 完形填空（第51～65题，每题1分，共15分）
阅读一篇短文，文中有15处空白，每个空白处给出了四个选项。应试者根据短文的内容从四个选项中选择一个最佳答案。
For some time now, nobody 51 to have a solution for inflation. Not one that is 52 to everybody. But 53 the administration of President Ford he offered one on national television. He used the phrase, "to bite the bullet ". The words were not new, but they spread 54 the country.
Mr. Ford called 55 Americans "to bite the bullet" and make personal sacrifices. This, he said, would help to withdraw inflation.
He urged them to eat less, use less gasoline, to spend less and save more. He appealed 56 them to do whatever was 57 to fight inflation, no matter how unpleasant.
Such is the meaning of "to bite the bullet" to do something quickly, 58 further delay, no matter how awful the action may be.
But what does biting the bullet have to do 59 all this? A reasonable question. This is the explanation; 60 we all know, people in great pain sometimes tighten their fists, or clench their teeth, or bite down hard on a finger. It seems to ease their pain. Years ago, 61 the battlefield, one did not 62 pain-killing drugs. And it is said that during 63 operations, soldiers would bite a bullet, to ease their suffering. This old phrase came back to life in the I960's. Former president Nixon used it in 1968. He asked Congress "to bite the bullet" and 64 his proposal for a tax increase, a ten-percent surcharge (额外费) 65 income taxes.
词汇：inflation n. 通货膨胀 gasoline n. 汽油
administration n. 管理，行政 surcharge n.负荷
51. A. seems B. happens C. likes D. /
52. A. pleasant B. exact C. satisfactory D. /
53. A. before B. at C. for D. /
54. A. out B. through C. across D. along
55. A. on B. in C. for D. forth
56. A. in B. of C. for D. to
57. A. objective B. necessary C. important D. /
58. A. by B. with C. under D. /
59. A. about B. with C. except for D. /
60. A. Because B. Since C. As D. Though
61. A. in B. on C. around D. across
62. A. find B. invent C. use D. /
63. A. surgery B. emergency C. temporary D. /
64. A. approve B. approve of C. carry out D. /
65. A. with B. to C. by D. on
参考答案
第一部分 词汇选项(1～15小题，每题1分，共15分)
1. B 2. C 3. B 4. B 5. D 6. C 7. A 8. D 9. B 10. C
11.B 12. B 13.D 14.B 15. A
第二部分 阅读判断(16～22题，每题1分，共7分)
16. B 17. A 18. A 19. B 20. A 21. B 22. C
第三部分 概括大意与完成句子(第23～30题，每题1分，共8分)
23．B 24．D 25．E 26．C 27．B 28．E 29．B 30．F
第四部分阅读理解(15小题，每小题3分，共45分)
第一篇
31. B 32. C 33. B 34. D 35. D
第二篇
36. C 37. B 38. D 39. D 40. A
第三篇
41. C 42. A 43. A 44. B 45. C
第五部分 补全短文(第46～50题，每题2分，共10分)
46．A 47．C 48．F 49．E 50．D
第六部分 完形填空(第51～65题，每题1分，共15分)
51. A 52. C 53. D 54. C 55. A 56. D 57. C 58. B 59. B 60. D
61. B 62. A 63. B 64. A 65. D