II. Cloze (20 Points)
Choose the most appropriate answer to complete the following passage.
Animals and insects can communicate with others of 46 kind through signals or sounds. Bees, for example, use signals to communicate information to other bees. When a bee 47 food, it goes towards its hive. It " 48 " in the air to tell the other bees about its 49 . The 50 of the dance give information about the place where the food is, and about the 51 between that place to the hive.
Some animals make 52 to communicate their feelings, or to pass information to each other. For example, a dog barks when it is angry, or excited. Birds make different kinds of sounds to signal, for example, danger or 53 . 54, however, have something that no animal has. Human beings have the ability to express their action, feelings and ideas through 55 . They can also write words down, in order to communicate past events and to 56 message to people far away.
Even though some birds have learned to 57 words , they do not understand the 58 of the words, and therefore they cannot 59 them to communicate ideas.
How did man first learn to 60 ? Perhaps we shall never know. However, we do know 61 as man’s knowledge increased he 62 use more sounds in order to express a greater number of feelings and ideas. It became necessary for him to communicate about a greater number of things. He began to make 63 different sounds, and gradually he put these sounds together to form first words 64 groups of words, and then 65 . In different parts of the world, people developed their own systems of sounds and words. Today we call these systems "languages".
46. A. different B. the different C. same D. the same
47. A. has found B. had found C. has looked D. finds
48. A. walks B. steps C. dances D. shouts
49. A. enemy B. discovery C. discover D. friend
50. A. movements B. dress C. meaning D. language
51. A. way B. road C. distance D. path
52. A. sounds B. voice C. sound D. noise
53. A. friend B. friendship C. friends D. friendly
54. A. Human beings B. People
C. Persons D. Beasts
55. A. words B. worms C. world D. work
56. A. set B. sad C. send D. sent
57. A. sing B. repeat C. cry D. call
58. A. spelling B. meaning C. function D. part of speech
59. A. use B. do C. force D. make
60. A. tell B. talk C. say D. speak
61. A. that B. which C. when D. where
62. A. needs B. needs to C. needed to D. needed
63. A. less and less B. much and much
C. more and more D. little and little
64. A. at last B. finally C. in the end D. then
65. A. paragraphs B. languages C. letters D. sentences
III. Reading Comprehension (50 Points)
In this section there are 5 passages, and each passage is followed by a number of comprehension questions. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions.
Questions 66 to 70 are based on the following passage:
In the 1900's, American townspeople usually washed and brushed their teeth and combed their hair in the kitchen. Or they kept a water pitcher(大水罐) and a wash basin in their rooms and took care of these things there.
The bathtub was a wash tub(澡盆) filled with water from the stove. If you were small enough you could sit down by drawing your knees to your chest. Otherwise, you washed yourself standing up. Often all the women and girls in the family bathed together. Then the men and boys did. In most families this was Saturday night because Sundays they went to church.
A small number of families did have running water. But that depended on whether there was a water system where they lived and on whether they could afford the plumbing. Some people had bathtubs in their homes as early as 1895. But many others did not have their first bath in a bathtub until 1910 or later when they were fifteen or sixteen years old.
66. In the first paragraph, "took care of" means "______".
A. kept
B. looked after
C. used
D. kept and used
67. In order to use the water from the stove, there ______ be a pipe connecting the tub with the stove.
A. must
B. seemed to
C. needn't
D. should
68. Which of the following statements is true?
A. Males and females in the family took turns using the bathtub.
B. Some bathtubs were big enough for many people to bathe in at the same time.
C. All the women and girls of a family could bathe together standing up in the tub.
D. When several family members bathed together, they did not use the bathtub.
69. ______ Americans owned a bathtub as early as 1895.
A. Many
B. Not all
C. All
D. Few
70. We can infer (推断) that the plumbing ______ at that time.
A. cost little
C. was more expensive than a water system
C. was too expensive for every family to afford
D. was not necessary
Questions 71 to 75 are based on the following passage:
There are some special traditions (传统) in Hawaii. People are very friendly and always welcome visitors. They give visitors a lei, a long necklace of beautiful fresh flowers. Men wear bright flowered shirts, and women often wear long flowered dresses. There are traditional Chinese, Japanese and Philippine holidays and all the holidays from the United States.
They call Hawaii the Aloha State. Aloha means both hello and goodbye. It also means ''I love you".
Usually when people from different countries, races and traditions live together, there are serious problems. There are a few problems in Hawaii but, in general, people have learned to live together in peace.
Hawaiians get most of their money from visitors, and most of the visitors come from the mainland and from Japan. There are so many people living in Hawaii now that there are residential areas(住宅区) where there used to be farms. Some of the big sugar and apple companies have moved to the Philippine, where they do not have to pay workers as much money. The families of the first people who came from the U. S. mainland own the important banks and companies. Japanese are also buying or starting businesses.
71. A good title for this article might be ______.
A. Hawaii the Aloha State
B. Living in Peace Together
C. The Flowers of Hawaii
D. The Problems of Hawaii
72. The author wants to show that ______.
A. we should all go to Hawaii
B. it is possible to learn to live together in peace
C. it is not possible to live together in peace
D. Hawaii is the only place where there is peace
73. A lei is a ______.
A. group of flowers
B. bright flowered shirt
C. way to say hello and goodbye
D. necklace of flowers
74. Why have the people of Hawaii come to live in peace?
A. Because they have a beach.
B. Because they are in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
C. They really don't live in peace.
D. Because they learned that it was the best.
75. ______ plays an important part in the development of Hawaii.
A. Modern industry
B. Agriculture
C. The airline
D. Business in travel
Questions 76 to 80 are based on the following passage:
In the morning of May 5th, 1975, the astronaut named Harry Jackson was given very careful medical examination. Then he was sent to the launching (v.发射) position, where the spaceship Astra was waiting to be launched. After Harry Jackson put on his special space suit, a lift took him up to the rocket (火箭), which was 65 feet above the ground.
The count-down started, "six, five, four, three, two, one, zero, lift off," and the rocket immediately left the earth at very high speed.
After two and a half minutes, the rocket was moving at 5,000 miles an hour. When the Astra was 425 miles above the earth, it stopped for 20 minutes. Then Harry Jackson left his spaceship and swam around in space. He was fixed by a life-line that would help him return to the spaceship.
As he moved about in space, he kept taking photos with his specially-made camera of what he did and saw. Afterwards he used the life-line to pull himself back to the spaceship. Then the Astra began to fall back. Forty-eight hours after the flight had started, Harry Jackson and his spaceship fell down in the Atlantic, where a waiting helicopter (n. 直升飞机) picked him up.
The flight was carried out exactly as it was planned and was really a great success. When the results of the trip was announced, the whole nation cheered for it with great joy.
76. The best title (n.题目) of this passage is ______.
A. The First Space Walker
B. A Successful Flight
C. A Great Success
D. Harry Jackson—First Space-Swimmer
77. The Astra was ______.
A. a rocket
B. an ordinary jet plane
C. a spaceship launched by a rocket
D. a rocket operated by Harry Jackson
78. The whole flight took ______ to complete.
A. nearly fifty hours
B. twenty minutes
C. two and a half minutes
D. several days
79. When the Astra was ______ the earth, it stopped for twenty minutes so that the astronaut ______.
A. 65 feet above, could walk in space
B. 5 000 miles above, could swim in space
C. 425 miles away from, could carry out the plan which had been arranged
D. very far away from, could take photos of what he did and saw
80. The life-line was used ______.
A. to keep the astronaut from floating away from the Astra
B. to help Harry Jackson to take photos
C. to keep in touch with the launching centre on the earth
D. not leave the Astra for a moment