I. GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY
Complete each of the following 15 sentences with the most likely answer. Write the letter corresponding to your choice on the answer sheet. (1 point each, 15 points in all)
1. It is strange that such a thing ________in your company.
A. happen B. happens
C. happened D. has happened
2. She considered________ important that everything should be finished by ten.
A. that B. what
C. it D. which
3. I was surprised that no one ________them of the danger.
A. warns B. warned
C. has warned D. had warned
4. Alice is going to the photographer’s this afternoon ________.
A. to have taken her photograph B. to have her photograph taken
C. to have her photograph being taken D. to have her photograph been taken
5. The professor, ________whether anyone would come to help him, had to prepare for the experiment by himself.
A. did not know B. having not known
C. had not known D. not knowing
6. It was not until she arrived at the airport ________she realized she had forgotten her passport.
A. and B. when
C. where D. that
7. The promise of finding long-term technological solution ________the problem of world food safety seems difficult to fulfill.
A. to B. for
C. of D. at
8. It is difficult to predict what his ________to the result will be.
A. opinion B. reaction
C. view D. impression
9. To telephone him, you will have to ________his number in your phone book.
A. look to B. look up
C. look through D. look at
10. At the level of primary education, the most important task is to________ children’s interest in nature.
A. stimulate B. enlarge
C. strengthen D. expand
11. By the time the fire-engine arrived, the fire had been put ________by the inhabitants.
A. away B. off
C. down D. out
12. You are not allowed to make any changes to the book without the author’s________.
A. order B. trust
C. permission D. authority
13. A good education should, among other things, ________you to think for yourself.
A. force B. make
C. tell D. train
14. Because agriculture is so important to a nation’s well-being, governments have always been ________with it.
A. compared B. concerned
C. connected D. correlated
15. The ________progress of science and technology in the 20th century has brought enormous benefits to humankind.
A. magnificent B. remarkable
C. grand D. brilliant
II. CLOZE
Fill in each of the 15 blanks in the passage with the most likely answer. Write the letter corresponding to your choice on the answer sheet. (1 point each, 15 points in all)
There are currently three living species of elephants: the African Bush Elephant, the African Forest Elephant and the Asian Elephant or Indian Elephant. Other species such as the mammoths (猛犸象) 16 before the last ice age but are now 17 .
Elephants live in a structured social order. 18 females spend their entire lives in tight-knit family groups 19 mothers, daughters, sisters and aunts, males live mostly solitary lives. Elephants 20 live for 50 to 70 years. The elephant’s pregnant period is 22 months, the longest of 21 land animal. Newborn elephant calves weigh 22 260 pounds.
Elephants spend about 16 hours a day finding and eating food. Their diet consists 23 grasses, leaves, bamboo, twigs, bark, roots and small amounts of fruits, seeds and flowers. Interestingly, elephants only digest 40% of 24 they eat; an adult elephant can consume 300-600 lb of food a day.
Elephant skin is thick, grey and wrinkled. The wrinkles help elephants stay cool 25 water gets trapped inside the wrinkles and evaporates slowly. Their hearing is 26 and they can detect noise from miles away.
One of the most distinct 27 attributes of elephants is their tusks. Elephants use their tusks to dig for food, mark their 28 and perform other tasks. Elephants’ tusks are made of ivory. The 29 elephant ivory is one of the major reasons people hunt elephants and thus have significantly 30 the world’s elephant population. For this reason and many others, many people around the world are working hard to protect the species from further extinction.
16. A. remained B. stayed C. existed D. appeared
17. A. rare B. extinct C. plentiful D. common
18. A. When B. While C. As D. Since
19. A. made up of B. tied to C. dependent on D. filled with
