Now have 3 minutes to transfer your answerw from your test booklet to ANSWER SHEET 1.
That is the end of the listening comprehension section.
Section II Use of English (15 minutes)
Directions:
Read the following text. Choose the best word or phrase for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1.
Text
Generations of Americans have been brought _26_ to believe that a good breakfast is important for health. Eating breakfast at the _27_ of the day. We have al been _28_, is as necessary as putting gasoline in the family car _29_ starting a trip.
But for many people the thought of food first in the morning is by _30_ pleasures. So _31_ all the efforts, they still take no _32_ . Between 1978 and 1983, the latest years for which figures are _33_ , the number of people who didn’t have breakfast increased _34_ 33 percent—from 8.8 million to 11.7 million _35_ the Chinese-based Market Research Corporation of America.
For those who feel pain of _36_ about not having breakfast, _37_, there is some good news. Several studies in the last few years _38_ that, for abults especially, there may be nothing _39_ with omitting breakfast. “Going _40_ breakfast does not affect _41_. “Said Arnold E. Bendoer, former professor of nutrition at Queen Elizabeth College in London, _42_ does giving people breakfast improve performance.
_43_ evidence relating breakfast to better health or _44_ performances is surprisingly inadequate, and most of the recent work involves chidren，not _45_. “The literature,” says one researcher. Dr, Ernesto Pollitt at the University of Texa，“ispoor.”
26.[A] about [B] into [C] up [D] from
27.[A] start [B] end [C] morning [D] begin
28.[A] said [B] believed [C] reported [D]told
29.[A] after [B] before [C] when [D] as
30 [A] some [B] any [C] no [D] all
31.[A] despite [B] in spite [C] though [D] however
32. [A] brunch [B] breakfast [C] lunch [D] supper
33. [A] available [B] used [C] got [D] estimated
34. [A] with [B] at [C] by [D] from
35. [A] from [B] according to [C] through [D] out of
36. [A] guilt [B] happiness [C] sadness [D] eagerness
37. [A] however [B] therefore [C] whereas [D] but
38. [A] indicate [B] report [C] announce [D] declare
39. [A] wrong [B] right [C] correct [D] incorrect
40. [A] withoug [B] with [C] from [D] out of
41. [A] performance [B] health [C] heart [D] brain
42. [A] not [B] neither [C] either [D] nor
43. [A] Science [B] Scientist [C] Scicentific [D] Scvientists
44. [A] better [B] good [C] well [D] worse
45. [A] people [B] men [C] humans [D] adults
Section III Reading Comprehension ( 40 minutes)
Part A
Directions:
Read the following three texts. Answer the questions on each text by choosing A,B,C or D. mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.
Text
When 1 13-year-old Virginia girl started sneezing her parents thought is was merely a cokd. But when the sneezes contimued for hours, they called in a dotor. Nearly two months later the girl was still sneezing, thousands of times a day, and her case had attracted worldwide attention.
Hundreds o fsuggestions, ramgomg from “put a clothes pin on her nose” to have her stand on her head” poured in. But nothing did any good. Finally, she was taken to Johns HoPkins Hospital where Dr. leo Kanner, one of the world’s top authorities on sneezing, solved the baffling (难以理解的)problem with great speed.
He used neither drugs nor surgery, curiously enough, the clue for the treatment was found in an ancient superstition about the amazing bodily reaction we call the sneeze. It was all in her mind, he said, a view which Aristotle, some 3,000 years earlier, would have agreed with heartily.
Dr. Kanner simply gave a modern psychlogical interpretation to the ancient belief that too much sneezing was an indication that the spirti was troubled; and he began to treat the girl accordingly.
“Less than two days in a hospital room, a plan for better scholastic and vocational adjustment, and reassurance about her unreasonable fear of tuberculosis quickly changed her from a sneezer to an ex-sneezer,” he reported.
Sneezing has always been asubject of wonder, awe and puzzlement. Dr Kanner ahs collected thousands of superstitions concerning it. The most universal one is the custom of begging for the blessing of God when a person sneezes- a practice Dr. Kanner traces bck to the ancient belief that a sneeze was an indication that the sneezer was possessed of an evil spirit. Strangely, people over the world still continue the custom with the traditional, “God bless you” or its eqivalent.
When scientists look at the sneeze,they see a remarkable mechanism which, without any conscious help from you, takes on a job that has to be done. When you need to sneeze you sneeze, this being nature”s clever way of getting rid of an annoying object from the nose. The object may be just some dust in the nose which nature is striving to remove.
46. The girl sneezed contiuously because she ______.
[A] was ill [B] was mentally ill
[C] had heavy mental burden [D] had attracted world-wide attention
47. When the girl began to sneeze continuously , ______.
[A] a lot of people offererd their advice.
[B] she was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital/
[C] she was given a treatment found in ancient superstition.
[D] many doctors treated her in different ways.
48. Dr.pra Kanner cured the girl by ______.
[A] using Aristotle’s method
[B] giving her psychological treatment
[C] practicing superstition
[D] treaing her tuberculosis
49. When a person sneezes, we say”God bless you” because ______.
[A] it’s a tradition [B] the person is possessed of an evil spirit
[C] the person is ill [D] God will bless those who sneeze
50. According to scientists, people sneeze because ______.
[A] they are ill [B] to sneeze is human nature
[C] they do not need any conscious help
[D] there are unwante things in their noses
Text 2
There was one thought that air pollution affected only the area immediately around large cities with factories and heavy automobile traffic. At present, we realize that although these are the areas with the worst air pollution, the problem is literally worldwide. On several occasions over the past decade, a heavy cloud of air pollution has covered the east of the United States and brought health warnings in rural areas away from any major concentratopn of manufacturing and automobile traffic. In fact , the very climate of the entire earth may be infected by air pollution. Some scientists consider that the increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in the air resulting from the burning of fossil fuels (coal and oil) is creating a”greenhouse effect”—conserving heat reflected from the earth and raising the world’s average temperature. If this view is correct and the world’s temperature is raised only a few degrees, much of the polar ice cap will melt and cities such as New York, Boston, Miami, and New Orleans will be in water.
Another view, less widely held, is that increasing particular matter in the atmosphere is blocking sunlight and lowering the earth’s temperature—a result that would be equally disastrous. A drop of just a few degrees could create something close to a new ice age, and would make agriculture difficult or impossible in many of our top farming areas. Today we do not know for sure that either of these conditions will happen (though one recent government report drafted by experts in the field concluded that the greenhouse effect is very possible). Perhaps, if we are lucky enough, the two tendencies will offset each other and world’s temperature will stay about the same as it is now. Driven by economic profit, people neglect the damage on our environment causeed by the “advanced civilization”. Maybe the air pollution is the price the human beings have to pay for their development. But is it really worthwhile?
51. As pointee out at the beginning of the passage, people used to think that air pollution ______.
[A] caused widepread damage in the countryside
[B] affected the entire eastern half of the United States
[C] had damaged effect on health
[D] existe merely in urban and industries areas
52. As to the greenhouse effect, the author ______.
[A] shares the same view with the scientists [B] is uncertain of its occurrence
[C] rejects it as being ungrounded [D] thinks that it will destroy the world soon
53. The word “offset in the second paragraph could be replaced by ________.
[A] slip into [B] make up for [C] set up [D] catch up with
54. It can be concluded that ______.
[A] raisint the world’s temperature only a few degrees would not do much harm to life on earth
[B] lowhe world’s temperature merely a few degrees would lead many major farming areas to disaster
[C] almost no temperature variations have occurred over the past decade
[D] the world’s temperature will remain constant in the years to come
55. This passage is primarily about ______.
[A] the greehouse effect [B] the burning of fossil fuels
[C] the potential effectr if air pollution [D] the likelihood of a new ice age
