Section 1: Vocabulary and Grammar (25 Points)
This section consists of three parts. Read the directions for each part before
answering the questions. The time for this section is 25 minutes.
Part 1 Vocabulary Selection
In this part, there are 20 incomplete sentences. Below each sentence, there are
four words or phrases respectively marked by letters A, B, C, D. Choose the word or
phrase which best completes each sentence. There is only one right answer. Then
mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your
Machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.
1. The streets of the Dual Springs neighborhood, a migrant-worker hub in
northern Beijing, are ______. That's no surprise; more than 13,000 people have been
quarantined in China's capital to halt the insidious spread of severe acute
respiratory syndrome (SARS).
A. deserted B. vacated C. unlived in D. removed
2. In many ______ a lack of direction prompted the Republican Guard to call it
a day.
A. occasions B. cases C. events D. days
3. They did considerable work to ______ the masses of the United States with
the elementary problems of Latin America.
A. allow B. acquaint C. notify D. propagate
4. My mother says a teaching machine has to be _____ to fit the mind of each
boy and girl it teaches and that each kid has to be taught differently.
A. modified B. considered C. adjusted D. remanufactured
5. The big retailers are starting to think small, too. Sainsbury's and Tesco
have launched convenience-store chains, called Local and Express, respectively -
that have fast become _____ in British towns.
A. ubiquitous B. established C. frequented D. known
6. The solidarity among the young, especially the 386 Generation, is so strong
that it's helping to _____ the country's deep-rooted regional divide.
A. enhance B. dissolve C. weaken D. move
7. The Wright brothers continued their flying in France and _____ all who saw
them.
A. saddened B. frightened C. astonished D. alarmed
8. We are will aware of the responsibilities that necessarily _____ to our
office.
A. attach B. confronts C. given D. face
9. People say that what we are all _____ is a meaning for life, but I don't think
that's what we all look for.
A. seeing B. seeking C. watching D. looking
10. When Joe was left to live with those people, he found that they were so
____ of life that he couldn't stay with them
A. painful B. disdainful C. meaningful D. fruitful
11. When you make the sacrifice in marriage, the psychologists say, you're
sacrificing not to each other but to ______ in a relationship.
A. unity B. utility C. fraternity D. reality
12. The constant changes in fashion, _____ with a view to higher sales, made
greater demands on women as a class.
A. predicted B. dictated C. stated D. related
13. It is easy to see why many little girls prefer to _____ with the male role,
but the girl who does find the male role more attractive is faced with a dilemma.
A. beautify B. modify C. identify D. justify
14. If we can _____ any kind of killing in the name of religion, the door is
opened for all kinds of other justifications.
A. purify B. satisfy C. justify D. verify
15. I could easily perceive that his heart burnt to relieve his starving kids,
but he seemed ashamed to ______ his inability to me.
A. discover B. recover C. demonstrate D. impress
16. It is a dangerous thing nowadays if you do not _____ others at arm's
length, for they may hit you below the belt any time.
A. bake B. keep C. take D. make
17. I will never _____ the experiences of the four years at Howard University,
though there were unhappy encounters.
A. discharge B. recharge C. discard D. dispose
18. We should not _____ the West, nor should we praise it to the skies and
think great of everything that belongs to the West.
A. forgive B. forsake C. forlorn D. forage
19. Bill Gates is one of those who are said to be _______, able to rack huge
profits at every turn.
A. on the ship B. on the plane C. on the gravy train D. on the rocks
20. He aimed at finding some workable _____ with a man who was a celebrity not
only in the inward-reflecting world of Oxford but in the larger world outside.
A. neighborhood B. workmanship C. relationship D. craftsmanship
Part 2 Vocabulary Replacement
This part consists of 15 sentences in which one word or phrase is underlined.
Below each sentence, there are four choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C,
D. You are to select the ONE choice that can replace the underlined word without
causing any grammatical error or changing the principal meaning of the sentence.
There is only one right answer. Then mark the corresponding letter with a single
bar across the square brackets on your Machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.
21. It wasn't long before Franks was a marked man. After he served in Desert
Storm, directing helicopter and ground units, the Army's high command gave him the
job of remaking the service for the post-cold war world.
A. a person whose conduct is watched with suspicion or hostility
B. a man destined to succeed
C. a remarkable person
D. a notable person
22. The most notorious expression of that change was last year's bootleg
publication of "The Japan That Can Say No" - the book written by right-wing
politician Shintaro Ishihara and Sony chairman Akio Morita.
A. free publication B. pirate publication
C. lawful publication D. commercial publication
23. "No," Kojima said, "the point is, he spoke out, he stood up to America.
Japan is just getting tired of being pushed around."
A. he stood up and spoke to the American audience
B. he faced America boldly
C. he challenged America
D. he met the Americans' challenge proudly
24. Traffic with criminals is dangerous.
A. dealing with criminals B. tracking the criminals
C. fighting the criminals D. transporting criminals
25. Some - such as liquid oxygen - are so cold that they embrittle many
constructional materials and evaporate continuously if not refrigerated.
A. weaken B. strengthen
C. reduce D. cause … to become brittle
26. A "Backgrounder" permits newspapermen to publish information given them
though without attribution to the source.
A. a person who remains behind the scene
B. a person providing the background knowledge
C. a press conference
D. a news agency
27. Is it possible that the entire tale is but a garbled account of that voyage
and Biarni another name for Leif?
A. detailed B. plausible C. distorted D. eye-witness
28. Isolated cases of disaffection - or harbingers of a mass cross-border
movement that threatens Europe's economic stability? The question is pressing.
A. sign B. forerunner C. messenger D. vanguard
29. The man we met this morning grows many kinds of plants in his garden, most
of which are flowers including succulents and cacti.
A. rises B. raises C. plants D. plows
30. The scientist contested the assumption of previous scientists that the fate
of human beings could not be predicated.
A. respected B. supposed C. suspected D. assumed
31. One's knowledge of the world, according to humanists, is largely derived by
observation, experience and their analysis of the things they observe and
experience.
A. come from B. determined C. resulted in D. resulted from
32. In the last 10 years we have all witnessed an impressive growth in our
knowledge about the environments.
A. imperative B. observable C. sustainable D. expressive
33. In our culture and in our eyes success all too often means simply outdoing
other people by virtue of achievement judged by some single scale - income or
honors - and coming out at "the top".
A. outfitting B. outbidding C. outraging D. outshining
34. Social taboos remained strong. Gambling was virtually prohibited except on
the racecourses, and drinking of alcohol was discouraged by the closing of hotels
at six o'clock and by the shortage of bottle beer.
A. factually B. eventually C. consequently D. significantly
35. Everyone must be responsible for their own behavior, and most of the young
people today are interested, as far as I can perceive, in taking their knocks, just
as adults must take theirs.
A. taking their jobs B. sharing their ideas
C. assuming their responsibilities D. shaking off their responsibilities
Part 3 Correcting Grammatical Errors
This part consists of 15 sentences in which there is an underlined part that
indicates a grammatical error. Below each sentence, there are four choices
respectively marked by letters A, B, C, D. You are to select the ONE choice and
replace the underlined element(s) so that the error is erased and corrected. There
is only one right answer. Then mark the corresponding letter with a single bar
across the square brackets on your Machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.
36. A survey asked British mums who work outside the home what they would most
like for Mother's Day. And what did they reply? "Flowers? Chocolates? Dinner in
Paris? " No, what 72% wanted was this: a little bit of time for mother.
A. to myself B. to mom C. for mom D. by myself
37. Of course, nobody ever thought the prime minister's job shall be easy.
A. would B. could C. will D. should
38. Downing Street is fighting fiercely for something it hopes it shall
control: its reputation. "[The BBC] is now saying, 'Nobody ever said the prime
minister told a lie,' but that's exactly what they're saying," Alastair Campbell,
Blair's director of communications, told Newsweek. "That's pretty heavy."
A. could B. would C. can D. will
39. The made-in-America idea of the global brand has built a name that people
will buy on faith, and the pioneer was Coca-Cola.
A. is building B. is to build C. was to build D. was building
40. For the least, American roots are no longer an easy selling point. Through
much of the postwar period, US brands could play off this cachet; Levi's ad
campaigns used wholesome themes of boy-meets-girl in a heartland American setting
until the early 1990s.
A. At least B. At the least C. At most D. At the most
41. For me and my other classmates, trying to fathom what happened to our old
school friend, we may never know if we really would grow up with a future terrorist.
A. grow up B. are growing up
C. grew up D. shall grow up
42. When I was an editor, I always preferred to apologise promptly, what the
merits of the case, rather than face the expense and, importantly, the time
consuming complexities and debilitating worry of litigation, libel being one of the
least satisfactory branches of the law.
A. whichever, more importantly B. whatever, more important
C. whichever, more important C. whatever, more importantly
43. One morning my patience was growing thin during Mark talked once too often,
and then I made a novice-teacher's mistake.
A. when B. as C. while D. whenever
44. One of the key features of CBI is the use of authentic "input" - in other
words, "real" reading but listening material: magazine and newspaper articles,
poems, short stories, brochures, excerpts from textbooks written for native
speakers of English, radio interviews, lectures, and advertisements.
A. and B. or C. and/or D. Nil