A. We cannot obtain sugar in our modern life. B. For at least 300 years sugar is part of our life.
C. Sugar is so widely used in our life that we seldom think about it. D. For some reason we can live without sugar. 57. What is sugar according to the chemists?
A. The sweet material we put into coffee or cakes. B. A material hardly found in name. C. A chemical discovered in coffee.
D. A material which may take many different forms. 58. Which of the following statements is true?
A. 10% of the sugar produced is not used for food. B. About 90% of sugar is used in industry.
C. Making plastics is now a common use for sugar.
D. In the future we will use more sugar as highly concentrated energy food. 59. What does “potential uses” refer to? A. Making plastics
B. Producing highly concentrate energy food C. Being used as the basis of chemicals D. Being used in food production
60. Where does this passage seem to be taken from? A. A text book B. A paper for entertainment C. A medical paper D. A popular science magazine
Paper two I. Fill in the blanks with proper words: 5%
Some people seem to have a gift for l___1___ languages. They can pick up new words, master rules or grammar, and learn to write in the new language more quickly than others. They do not seem to be any more intelligent than others, so what makes language learning so much easier for them? Perhaps if we take a c___2___ look at these successful language learners we may discover a few of the techniques which make language learning easier for them.
First of all, successful language learners are i___3___ learners. They do not depend on the book or the teacher; they discover their o___4___ way to learn the language. Instead of waiting for the teacher to explain, they try to find the patterns and the rules for themselves. They are good guessers who look for clues and form their own conclusions. When they guess wrong, they try to learn form their m___5___.
Successful language learning is active learning. Therefore, successful learners do not wait for a chance to use the language; they look for such chances. They find people who speak the language and they ask these people to c___6___ them when they make a mistake. They will try anything to communicate. They are not a___7___ to repeat what they hear or to say strange things; they’re willing to make mistakes and try again. It is more important for them to learn to think in the language than to know the meaning of every word.
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F___8___, successful language learners are learners with a purpose. They want to learn the language because they are i___9___ in the language and the people who speak it. It is necessary for them to learn the language in order to c___10___ with these people and to learn from them. They find it easy to practice using the language regularly because they want to learn with it. II. Word transformation: 10% unknown, suggest, record, cooking, difficult, hopeful, arrive, explanation, surprised, lucky, An old friend from New York, who was going to spend a few days with me, called from the airport to tell me that he had arrived. I was not able to leave the office, but I had prepared for his ___1___. After ___2___ where my new house was, I told him that I had left the key under the door-mat. Since I ___3___ it would be quite late before I could get back, I gave him a ___4___ that he make himself at home and help himself to anything that was in the refrigerator.
Two hours later my friend phoned me from the house. At the moment, he said, he was listening to some of my ___5___ after having a nice meal. He had found the pan and ___6___ some meat in the refrigerator. Now, he said, he was drinking a glass of orange juice and he ___7___ that I would join him soon. When I asked him if he had any ___8___ finding the house, he answered that the only problem was that he had not been able to find the key under the door-mat, but ___9___; the living room window by the apple tree had been left open and he had climbed in through the window. I listened to all this in great ___10___. There is no apple tree outside my window, but there is one by the living-room of my next-door neighbour’s house!
III. Tense: 10% preserve know tell live memorize call say help return register In Banjuh, the capital of Gambia, I met with a group of Gambians. They ___1___ me how for centuries the history of Africa ___2___. In the older villages of the back country, there are old men ___3___ griots, who are in effect ___4___ records. Such men ___5___ and, on special occasions, recite the histories of clans（部族） or families or villages as those histories have long been told. Since my forefather ___6___ his name was Kin-tay (properly spelled Kinte), and since the Kinte clan ___7___ in Gambia, the group of Gambians would see what they could do ___8___ me. I was back in New York when a ___9___ letter arrived from Gambia.
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Word had been passed in the back country, and a griot of the Kinte clan had, indeed, been found. His name, the letter said, was Kebba Kanga Fofana. I ___10___ to Gambia and organized a safari to locate him.
IV. Sentence transformation: 5%
1. We all know that William Tell was a great hero.
__________ __________ well known that William Tell was a great hero.
2. In order to make a special study of foreign trade, Mr. Lane went abroad.（用so
that同意改写）
3. It seemed that he had had supper when I asked him to eat out.（用不定式改写句
子，意思不变）
4. The bus broke down. We waited for another bus for thirty minutes.（用虚拟语气
合并句子）
5. “Don’t touch that wire!” father shouted.（用间接引语改写句子） V. Read and answer the questions: 5%
There was a time in the early history of man when the days had no names! The reason was quite simple: Men had not invented the week.
In those days, the only division of times was the month, and there were too many days in the month for each of them to have a separate name. But when men began to build cities, they wanted to have a special day on which to trade, a market day. Sometimes these market days were fixed at every tenth day, sometimes every seventh or every fifth day. The Babylonians decided that it should be every seventh day. On this day they didn’t work, but met for trade and religious services.
The Jews followed their example, but kept every seventh day for religious purposes. In this way the week came into existence. It was the space between market days. The Jews gave each of the seven days a name, but it was really a number after the Sabbath day (Which was Saturday). For example, Wednesday was called the fourth day (four days after Saturday).
When the Egyptians adopted the seven-day week, they named the days after five planets, the sun, and the moon. The Romans used the Egyptian names for their days of the week: the day of the sun, of the moon, of the planet Mars, of Mercury, of Jupiter, of Venus, and of Saturn.
We get our names for the days not from the Romans but from the Anglo-Saxons, who called most of the days after their own gods, which were about the same as the gods of the Romans. The day of the sun became Sannandage, or Sunday. The day of the moon was called Monandage, or Monday. The day Mars became the day of Tiw, who was their god of war. This became Tiwesdage, or Tuesday. Instead of Mercury’s name, that of the god Woden was given to Wednesday. The Roman day of Jupiter,t eh thunder, became the day of the thunder god Thor, and this became Thursday. The next day was named for Frigg, the wife of their god Odin, and so we have Friday. The day of Saturn became Saeterndage, a translation from the Roman, and then Saturday.
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Answer the following questions:
1. There were no names for the days in the early days, were there?
2. What was the smallest unit of time in those days when weeks hadn’t been invented?
3. Who decided to keep every seventh day for religious purpose, the Babylonians or the Jews?
4. How did the Egyptians name the days in the seven-day week? 5. What is the passage mainly talking about? VI. Translation: 10%
1. 进化论直到近代科学产生二百多年后才建立起来。(in existence)
2. 如果你没有及时打电话报警，警察不会在这么短的时间里抓到了逃犯。(if) 3. 她震惊的发现一条蛇在卧室地板上爬。(shock)
VII. Writing: 10%
Read the following passage and then write a short paragraph 100 – 120 words according to the instructions.
Do you know what a \maybe even a part of the American culture! In America, many people often spend their free time sitting on a couch watching TV. As there are many channels to choose, the TV can be quite interesting. One may sit and watch TV for hours and hours without a stop. The people who do nothing except watching TV all day are called couch potatoes.
Instructions:
1. What do you think of a couch potato?
2. Do you want to be a couch potato? Why or why not?
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