Part I Listening Comprehension(20 minutes)

Section A

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

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

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

4. B) They work on the assignment together.

5. D) She admires Jean’s straightforwardness

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

7. B) He does not study hard enough

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

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

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

Section B

Passage One

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

12. A) He believed the speaker was a foreigner

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

Passage Two

14. C) By making laws

15. B) It should be raised quickly by hand

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

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

Passage Three

18. B) Truancy

19. D) Students with good attendance records

20. D) Rewarding schools that have decreased the destruction

Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)

Passage one

21. C) People can fully enjoy individual freedom.

22. D) the more diligent one is, the bigger his returns

23. B) became wealthy after starting life very poor

24. A) Americans wish to succeed in every aspect of life

25. D) What Americans strive after often contradicts their beliefs.
Passage two

26. C) the globalization of economy

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

28. A) it should not overlook the importance of information, services, support, and distribution

29. B) can eliminate an entire business segment

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

Passage Three

31．A) To discourage people from insisting on having grandchildren.

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

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

34. B) her parents kept pressuring her to have a child

35. C) It is troublesome but rewarding.

Passage four

36. D) The reduction of public expenditure.

37. B) obtain funding from the government

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

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

40. C) People would not believe scientists even when they tell the truth.

Part III Vocabulary (20 minutes)

41. A) defy

42. D) decent

43. B) scrutiny

44. A) impose

45. C) obscure

46. B) hinged upon

47. B) abnormal

48. A) drowned

49. D) flushed

50. C) out of stock

51. D) absurd

52. A) cherish

53. C) stimulus

54. B) by analogy with

55. C) handicap

56. A) recession

57. D) ambiguous

58. C) designated

59. B) luminous

60. D) erase

61. B) suppress

62. C) in relation to

63. A) abolished