I.  Cloze (30%)

Fill in the blanks with the words given in the box. Each word can be used only once. Mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.

Marianne Montgomery was timid and unadventurous, her vitality consumed by physical  activity and longing, her intelligence __1__ indecisiveness, but this had less to do with the __2__ characteristics of the weaker sex (as her father, Creighton Montgomery, called it ) than __3__ the enfeebling circumstances of her upbringing. Creighton Montgomery, had enough money __4__      mould his daughters       __5__ to his misconceptions: girls were not __6__ to fend for themselves, so he protected them from life, which is to say that Marianne Montgomery grew up without making any vital __7__ for herself. Prevented __8__ acquiring the habits of freedom and strength of character __9__ grow from decision-making, very rich girls, __10__ parents have the means to protect them in such a crippling fashion, are the last representatives __11__ Victorian womanhood. __12__they may have the boldest manners and most up-to-date ideas, they share their great-grandmothers' humble dependence.

Most parents these days have to rely __13__their force of personality and whatever love and respect they inspire to __14__ influence over their children at all, but there is still an awful lot of parental authority that big money can buy. Multi-millionaires have more of everything __15__ ordinary mortals, including more parent power, and their sons and __16__ have about as __17__ opportunity to develop according to their own inclinations as they would have had in the age of absolute monarch.

II.  Proof-reading and Error Correction (30%)

The following passage contains FIFTEEN errors. Each line contains a maximum of one error. In each case, only one word is involved. You should correct it in the following way. Mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.

When a art museum wants a new exhibit,                                                 [1] an

It never buys things in finished form and hangs them                            [2]never

on the wall.

When a natural history museum wants an exhibition,                           [3]exhibit

it must often build it.

It is often said that learning is a two-ways street. The teacher                 [1]_____

can teach all day, but there is no response on the part of the                     [2]_____

student then no learning will take place. In the traditional

procession, but on the computer it is not. It is indeed no                        [3]_____

incident that the premier computer education system in                            [4]_____

the world is named as PLATO after that famous teacher                        [5]_____

who believed in drawing learning out for the student                                 [6]_____

through dialogue. Not only the student learn through                       [7]_____

computer dialogue, but the instructor, in writing a computer

dialogue, learns similarly more than the student uses                             [8]_____

it. In the process of building a dialogue, the instructor                            [9]_____

must visualize the lesson from the student’s eye and                              [10]____

must think about program responses to all possible wrong

answers as well as responses to all right answers. In the                           [11]____

fact, in writing a good dialogue, the instructor will likely                            [12]____

spend more time dealing with wrong answers than right                      [13]____

ones. This can be a really learning experiences even                                   [14]____

so an instructor who is an “expert”.                                                  [15]____

III. Gap-filling(30%)

   Fill in the following blanks with the CORRECT WORDS or CORRECT FORMS of the words given according to the MEANINGS of the sentences. Mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.

1.      fancy, fantasy, reverie, dream

No one moved in the bushes; it was only your imagination. Was it fact or ______?

2.      continue, endure, survive, persist, last

His _______ efforts to better himself from his first job as an office-boy to his eventual position as managing director are admired by every one in our company.

3.      inner, interior, internal, inward

Last year we bought the house, but we did not move in because we haven’t finished decorating the _______ of the house.

4.      accomplishment, achievement, attainment, involvement

Professor Johnson is a famous pianist who is able to ______ the difficult passages in the sonata with ease and brilliance.

5.      capable, possible, likely, probable

Xiao Chen has been studying English for two years, but she is still _______ of misspelling longer words.

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IV. Reading Comprehension   (60%)

In this section, there are six reading passages followed by a total of thirty multiple-choice questions. Read the passages carefully and then mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.

Text A

Population  groups can be distinguished from one another biologically, but some of the old "racial traits" do not stand up to scientific testing. Perhaps the most notorious of these is skin color. There are too many non-biological factors that may account for the color of a person's skin to make it standard of much  use in distinguishing between populations. Other traits, like hair type, physical measurement, the form of the eyes, nose, etc. do have more validity as such standards. But here, too, external factors may modify basic biological tendencies. Scientists need something more precise upon which to base their conclusions. One answer to this need can be found in genetics. Anyone's physical appearance is, after all, partly the result of genetic determination. What we see is called a phenotype, and the genetic constitution that lies behind it is called a genotype. Genetic biologist seek to know the genotypes associated with racial differences, because the genes are the actual location of whatever differences we think we can see in phenotypes.

1. Phenotype is another word for ______ .

A. physical appearance

B. genetic constitution

C. racial traits

D. biological tendencies

2. It may be inferred from the passage that the author _______ .

A.       judges people by their phenotypes

B.       believes skin color is a valid basis for determining race

C.       believes basic biological tendencies don't change

D.       would not judge on the basis of phenotypes

3. The shape of the eyes, nose, the type of hair, etc_______ .

A.       are not influenced by outside factors

B. are a precise means of differentiating between races

C.       can be standards in distinguishing between populations

D.       are determined completely by genetics

4. The passage deals mainly with ________.

A.       the difference between phenotypes and genotypes

B. the drawbacks of phenotypes    u

C.       the advantages of phenotypes

D.       the measurements of phenotypes

5. This passage would most likely be found in a book on ______ .

A.       psychology

B.       medicine

C.       anthropology

D.       criminology

8. The dentist had to _______ the tooth as it was badly decayed.

a. pull off             b. release             c. extract               d. alleviate

9. Children and old people do not like having their daily _______upset.

a. habit                b. practice           c. routine               d. custom

10. ________when she started complaining.

a. Not until he arrived                          b. No sooner had he arrived

c. Hardly had he arrived                        d. Scarcely did he arrive