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　　Part I   Sample Writing

　　An Eye-witness Account of a Traffic Accident

　　Yesterday afternoon, I happened to witness a terrible traffic accident on my way home from school. It was 5:30 p. m. , I was riding my favorite Giant back home. When I got to the last crossing on the Golden Lion Street, the red light was on. So I applied the brakes, along with a long queue of vehicles waiting to pass。

　　Just at that moment, a heavy-load truck with earth roared forward at my side and bumped against a private Accord of Honda traveling eastbound. As a result, the windshield of the lorry was broken into pieces and its driver got fatally wounded on the head on the steering wheel. The driver of the Accord and his girlfriend, the only passenger in the car, only got minor injuries, but his car lost its rear axel and two wheels and was totally dead。

　　As for the cause of the accident, I think the driver of the lorry should be held responsible: the light was red then; he should have stopped and waited. It was he who had broken the traffic regulations. In addition, the bad weather was part of the cause. It was drizzling then, and the road was quite slippery. Finally, drunk driving was probably an important factor. As the police discovered on the spot; there was a heavy alcoholic smell on the dead body of the lorry driver。

　　Part Ⅱ  Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

　　1. Y     2. N     3. NG     4. N

　　5. the hours of the night

　　6. maintaining accuracy

　　7. accurate and reliable

　　8. demands of modern technology

　　9. the atomic clock

　　10. natural means

　　Part Ⅲ  Listening Comprehension

　　Section A

　　11--15    CDAAB     16--20    CCADD       21--25    CBDAB

　　Section B

　　26--30    DBCAB      31--35    CBCAD

　　Section C

　　36. president            37. twenty-one       38. delegates         39. election

　　40. banned             41. honesty          42. illegal           43. accusations

　　44. The American government charged five people in connection with these gifts

　　45. The new president has been active in the Olympics since he was a young man

　　46. Those games were highly successful

　　Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)

　　Section A

　　47. 30

　　48. underestimates

　　49. Any zoo that is a member of a zoo federation or association。

　　50. caliber/ criterion/ standard

　　51. Disbelieving. / Skeptical. /Doubtful。

　　Section B

　　52--56     CBAAD     57--61     CBCAD

　　Part V Cloze

　　62--66    ACDAA     67--71    BBDAC   72--76    ABBCD   77--81    BCDCA

　　Part Ⅵ  Translation

　　82. one of the most effective means of absorbing knowledge from a book is to make intelligent notes in the margins

　　83. people are more mobile than ever before and perhaps this is why mobile phones have become so popular

　　84. a teacher may evaluate and grade an essay on the basis of his general impression rather than on a detailed analysis

　　85. virtually every child has dreamed of traveling in space and experiencing what it would be like to live in a gravity-free environment

　　86. because he managed to get an exclusive interview with the president and published as the front page headline

　　试题解答(4)

　　Part Ⅱ  Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)

　　1. 由“Clocks”部分第一、二句“At best, historians know that 5,000 6,000 years ago, great civilizations in the Middle East and North Africa started to examine forms of clock-making instead of working with only the monthly and annual calendar.., but it has been suggested that the intention was to maximize time available to achieve more as the size of the population grew。” 可见中东和北非的一些民族在五六千年前就开始研制钟表了。由于人口的增长，研制一定的时间段用于工作”是正确的。因此，答案为YES。

　　2. 由“Sun Clocks”部分最后一段“Another ancient Egyptian ‘shadow clock’ or ‘sundial’ has been discovered to have been in use around 1500 BC, which allowed the measuring of the passage of ‘hours’... For it to work successfully then at midday or noon, the device had to be

　　turned 180 degrees to measure the afternoon hours。”可见要想测量下午的时间，必须在正午将没备旋转180度。因此，我们可以断定这种计时器还不能做到连续、自动测量时间，必须在中午时手动旋转设备180度。故此题答案为NO。

　　3.由“Water Clocks”部分第一句“‘Water clocks’were among the earliest time keeping devices that didn't use the observation of the celestial bodies to calculate the passage O{time。”可见水钟是不靠观察天体来测量时间的最早的设备之一。但文章并没有进一步提供信息说它是否是第一个这样的计时设备。因此信息不充分，本题判断为NOT GIVEN。

　　4.由“Mechanical Clocks”部分第一段“In 1656，‘Christian Huygens'(Dutch scientist)， made the first ‘Pendulum clock’....‘Galileo Galilei' is credited，in most historical books，for inventing the pendulum as early as 1582，but his design was not built before his death。”可以看出，大多数历史教科书认为Galileo Galilei是第一位早在1582年就设计出摆钟的人，但直到他去世也没有制作出摆钟。第一个摆钟是荷兰科学家Christian Huygens制作出来的。故此句答案为NO。

　　5.由“Water Clocks”部分第三句“Most of these clocks were used to determine the hours of the night，but may have also been used during daylight。”可见水钟主要用于夜间计时。故本题答案为“the hours of the night”。

　　6.由“Mechanical Clocks”部分第三、四句“Huygens’clock，when built，had an error of‘less than only one minute a day.’This was a massive leap in the development of maintaining accuracy， as this had previously never been achieved。”可见这个钟的误差每天不到一分钟。这在计时准确性的发展史上，是巨大的飞跃。因此，本题的正确答案是“maintaining accuracy”。

　　7.由“Quartz Clocks”部分第二段第一句“Quartz clocks continue to dominate the market because of the accuracy and reliability of the performance，also being inexpensive to produce on mass scale。”可见由于其准确和稳定，也由于其成本低，适于大规模生产，石英钟将继续占有市场的主导地位。故此题正确答案为“accurate and reliable”。

　　8.由“Atomic Clocks”部分第四段第三、四句“Transportation，financial markets，communication， manufacturing，electric power and many other technologies have become dependent on super- accurate clocks.Scientific research and the demands of modern technology continue to drive our search for ever more accuracy。”可见是科学研究和现代技术的要求驱使我们不断探寻日益精确的计时方法。故本题答案为“demands of modern technology”。

　　9.由“Atomic Clocks”部分第三段最后一句“From the‘Macrocosm’，or‘Planetary Alignment’， to the‘Microcosm’，or‘Atomic Frequency’，the cesium now maintains accuracy with a degree of error to about‘one-millionth of a second per year’。”可见随着技术的发展，原子钟已经可以达到一年误差大约一百万分之一秒。比起前面的钟表不知道精确了多少倍。故本题答案为“the atomic clock”。

　　10.由“Something to Remember”部分第一段“The only thing that should be remembered during all this technological development is that we should never lose the ability to tell the time approximately by natural means and the powers of deduction without requiring crutches to lean on”可见无论计时技术如何发展，我们不能失去通过自然手段判定大概时间的基本能力。故本题答案为“natural means”。

　　Part Ⅲ Listening Comprehension (听力原文在光盘中)

　　Tape Script of Listening Comprehension

　　Section A

　　Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. 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. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the center。

　　11.   M: I think the whole class is going on the field trip next Friday。

　　W: I'm not so sure, not everyone has paid the transportation fee。

　　Q: What does the woman imply?

　　12.   W: I'm taking John to that fancy new restaurant tonight。

　　M: You can't go like that. You'd better change。

　　Q: What does the man advice?

　　13.    M: How did your talk with Harry go?

　　W: It never really got off the ground。

　　Q: What does the woman imply?

　　14.   M: Helen, don't forget to take out your umbrella。

　　W: Oh, it's just overcast。

　　Q: What does Helen mean?

　　15.   M: Have you seen this postcard from Rohm? He's in Florida。

　　W: Oh, so he was able to get time off from work。

　　Q: What had the woman assumed about Rohm?

　　16.   M: Darling, how do you feel about moving to San Francisco? It’s so cold here。

　　W: I couldn’t agree with you more. And the children will have more fun。

　　Q: What are they discussing?

　　17.    W: Paul, we haven’t gone out for over a month. Let’s go somewhere this evening。

　　M: Fine. Where would you like to go? Look in the newspaper to get information about the movies or the theater。

　　Q: What does the man ask the woman to do?

　　18.     W: I’ve been studying all the time, but I still can’t see any improvement in my grades。

　　M: Maybe instead of studying in your dorm, you’d better go to some place where there are fewer distractions。

　　Q: What does the man advise the woman to do?

　　Now you’ll hear two long conversations。

　　Conversation One

　　W:     Good morning. Can I help you?

　　M:     Yes please. I would like to have some information about the .. erm.. the course at Swan School。

　　W:     Is that a summer course you’re interested in?

　　M:     Yes, please。

　　W:     OK. Well, we have…erm…short intensive full-time courses during the summer。

　　M:     mm-mm. I would want to know the length of one course。

　　W:     Yes. Each course lasts for three weeks。

　　M:     How many hours per week, please?

　　W:     Well, it’s about twenty-three hours a week. Usually four and a half days each week。

　　M:     You must have a lot of students in the class, haven’t you?

　　W:     We have a lot of students in the school but in the classes only about between 12 and 14 students。

　　M:     12 and 14. Could you please give me the dates of the first and the second course?

　　W:     Yes, certainly. The first course begins on 3 July and lasts until 20 July and the second course is from 24 July until 10 August。

　　M:     What about the fees per course?

　　W:     Yes, each …each course costs ￡150 plus VAT, which is 15 percent, and a ￡5 registration fee。

　　M:     And deposit, please?

　　W:     Yes, for each course we need a deposit of ￡20 and the ￡5 registration fee。

　　M:     Oh thank you. Do we have to find our...our own accommodation?

　　W:     No, we can do that for you. We have a lady who arranges the accommodation for you with Oxford families。

　　M:     How much does it cost?

　　W:     Well, you can choose to have bed and breakfast only which is ￡20 a week, or bed, breakfast and dinner which is about ￡27 a week。

　　M:     ￡27. Thank you very much。

　　W:     You’re welcome。

　　Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard。

　　19.    Where did the conversation take place?

　　20.    How long is the course?

　　21.    When will the second course start?

　　22. What kind of accommodation is available?

　　Conversation Two

　　W:    Hi, Scott, have you heard about Diana recently?

　　M:    No, I haven't talked to her for a couple of months. How are things going with her?

　　W:    Well, she is OK. She only had a little accident last week in her new car。

　　M:    Oh, It’s too bad! Was anybody hurt? Was there much damage?

　　W:    No, it was really a small accident and everybody was fine. It was the other driver's fault。

　　M:    Well, that's good. By the way, is she still going out with David?

　　W:    Haven't you heard yet? They're getting married!

　　M:    You are kidding!

　　W:    She said he gave her a ring on her birthday。

　　M:    My! How romantic! When is the big day?

　　W:    This October。

　　M:    Will it be a church wedding or a civil one?

　　W:    Diana is a catholic. So, there will be a church wedding。

　　M:    Good. No doubt, she will be very beautiful in her wedding gown。

　　W:    Surely, and she’s invited me to be her maid of honor。

　　M:    Did you promise her?

　　W:    Yes, I did. It'll be my first time。

　　M:    Whom did David ask to be his best man?

　　W:    He told me that you would be his best choice。

　　M:    Me? My God! It’s also my first time。

　　W:    You don’t want to do that?

　　M:    Yes. I do. Now, I must have a talk with him. See you。

　　Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard。

　　23. What happened to Diana last week?

　　24. What happened on Diana’s birthday?

　　25. Why will Diana’s wedding be a church one?

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