Part I Listening Comprehension(20 minutes)

Section A

1. D) Dr. Holden is the best person for the chairmanship.

2. A) They’ll keep in touch during the summer vacation

3. B) Peaches are not at their best now.

4. C) They work on the assignment together.

5. A) She admires Jean’s straightforwardness

6. A) He liked writing when he was a child

7. D) He does not study hard enough

8. C) It will be very difficult for them to find John

9. A) Its rapid growth is beneficial to the world

10. B) Most students can’t afford to live in the new apartments

Section B

Passage One

11. C) The need for greater cultural diversity in the school curriculum

12. D) He believed the speaker was a foreigner

13. A) The US population doesn’t consist of white European descendants only

Passage Two

14. A) By making laws

15. B) It should be raised quickly by hand

16. D) It should be carried high up in the air

17. C) There are precise regulations and customs to be followed

Passage Three

18. C) Truancy

19. D) Students with good attendance records

20. B) Rewarding schools that have decreased the destruction

Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)

Passage one

21. D) To discourage people from insisting on having grandchildren.

22. B) draw attention to the troubles and difficulties grandchildren may cause

23. A) they find it hard to resist the carrot-and-stick approach of their parents

24. A) her parents kept pressuring her to have a child

25. C) It is troublesome but rewarding.

Passage Two

26. D) People can fully enjoy individual freedom.

27. A) the more diligent one is, the bigger his returns

28. C) became wealthy after starting life very poor

29. B) Americans wish to succeed in every aspect of life

30. D) What Americans strive after often contradicts their beliefs.

Passage Three

31. B) The reduction of public expenditure.

32. C) obtain funding from the government

33. A) They think they work in an environment hostile to the free pursuit of knowledge.

34. D) they could be influenced by their association with the project concerned

35. B) People would not believe scientists even when they tell the truth.

Passage Four

36. D) the globalization of economy

37. B) Information technology has removed the restrictions of time and space in business transactions

38. C) it should not overlook the importance of information, services, support, and distribution

39. A) can eliminate an entire business segment

40. D) businesses have to meet individual customers’ specific needs in order to succeed

Part III Vocabulary (20 minutes)

41. C) absurd

42. B) designated

43. D) flushed

44. C) abolished

45. B) out of stock

46. C) luminous

47. A) comply

48. D) erase

49. C) scrutiny

50. A) ascribed

51. B) decent

52. C) finite

53. C) defy

54. A) suppress

55. D) rectify

56. C) irritated

57. D) handicap

58. B) impose

59. D) stimulus

60. D) cherish

61. B) vacant

62. A) tucked

63. B) obscure

64. A) by analogy