Part II Vocabulary check Section A Choose the correct answer to fill in the blank in each sentence. The strategy was to sell the company’s own __________ roasted coffee.

Choose the appropriate time signals to fill in the blanks. (choose only one correct answer) (), he received a film camera as his birthday present. (), he became increasingly interested in cinematography. After 13 years of relentless pursuit of his beloved cause, he won himself a seven-year contract with Universal Studios where he strove hard and produced numerous notable movies. (), he revealed that his lifelong conviction was to “Make sure you are right and go on!”, which has immensely inspired the young with the dream of film.

A、When Steven was eight years old;As the renowned movie director; Since then

B、When Steven was eight years old; Since then; As the renowned movie director

C、Since then; As the renowned movie director; When Steven was eight years old

D、 As the renowned movie director; Since then; When Steven was eight years old

Read the article below about time management. Choose the correct word to fill each gap from A, B or C on the opposite page. For each question (1-12), mark one letter (A, B or C) on your Answer Sheet. Time Management Until recently, books on how to manage your time at work were seen as a bit of a joke in the business world. Many were enjoyable to read (1) ............werent taken seriously. (2) ............told their readers to dress well, be positive, decide (3) ............they were going and then use (4) ............valuable minute to make sure they got there. One very successful book, first published twenty years (5) ............and still available in bookshops, is The One-Minute Manager. It tells the story of a keen young man who wants to learn (6) ............about how to be a top-performing executive. The authors believe that most people (7) ............the day putting (8) ............problems, or when they do try to solve (9) ............, they dont do enough. According (10) ............ the authors, having achievable targets should be a managers aim. Managers everywhere should read (11) ............book carefully, in order to benefit from (12)............sensible advice.

Many were enjoyable to read (1) ............

A.but

B.or

C.even

?Read the article below about a company.

?Choose the correct word to fill each gap from A, B, C or D.

?For each question (21-20), mark one letter (A, B, C or D) on your Answer Sheet.

Miele, the German domestic appliance manufacturer, has been in the UK (21) thirty years.

The company started (22) a small office in central London, a staff of five and a turnover (23) the first 16 months of ￡53,000. Today it has a modern headquarters at Abingdon, near Oxford, employs about 200 people and has a turnover of￡18 million. The British company, (24) the other overseas subsidiaries, is a sales operation. Aangdon is an ideal town (25) the UK headquarters. It is very central as a distribution point and only five miles north (26) the "inland port" of Milton.

The Miele group employs 13,500 people worldwide. (27) it is still a family concern. "There is regular contact (28) headquarters in Gutersloh, Germany," says Herr Wedekind, chief executive of the British subsidiary.

The group sells (29) products to up-market customers in shops like Harrods and advertises in publications like The Sunday Times magazine. "We sell our products to people (30) want quality, want the best, good after-sale service and trouble-free appliances," says Herr Wedekind.

(21)

A．about

B．lasted

C．for

D．until

Fill in the blank with one word. The first letter is given already. 在横线上填上合适的单子，单词首字母已给出。注意所填单词前后两个句子之间的联系。(答案请给出完整单词，注意拼写和大小写) Overseas study has certainly brought about many benefits for young people. To begin with, studying abroad gives students a better chance to develop their foreign language skills. F______, studying abroad can widen young people’s vision since they are exposed to a new culture and new people. As a result, they would learn to view the world from a global perspective, In addition, studying abroad encourages independence. Students need to face life challenges by themselves. During the process, their maturity, confidence as well as elf-reliance gradually build up.

Read the email below about advertising. Choose the correct word to fill each gap from A, Read the email below about advertising. Choose the correct word to fill each gap from A, B or C on the opposite page. For each question （）

A．By

B．During

C．Within

Read the advertisement below about a consultant vacancy. Choose the correct word to fill Read the advertisement below about a consultant vacancy. Choose the correct word to fill each gap, from A, B, or C on the opposite page. For each question 29-40, mark one letter （）

A．in

B．over

C．on

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.

The view over a valley of a ting village with thatched roof cottages around a church; a drive through a narrow village street lined with thatched cottages painted pink or white; the sight over the rolling hills of a pretty collection of thatched farm buildings—these are still common sights in parts of England. Most people will agree that the thatched roof is an essential part of the attraction of the English countryside.

Thatching is in fact the oldest of all the building crafts practised on the British Isles(英伦诸岛). Although thatch has always been used for cottage and farm buildings, it was once used for castles and churches, too.

Thatching is a solitary (独自的) craft, which often runs in families. The craft of thatching as it is practised today has changed very little since the Middle Ages. Over 800 full-time thatchers are employed in England and Wales today, maintaining and renewing the old roofs as well as thatching newer houses. Many property owners choose thatch not only for its beauty but because they know it will keep them cool in summer and warm in winter.

In fact, if we look at developing countries, over half the world lives under thatch, but they all do it in different ways. People in developing countries are often reluctant to go back to traditional materials and would prefer modern buildings. However, they may lack the money to allow them to import the necessary materials. Their temporary mud huts with thatched roofs of wild grasses often only last six months. Thatch which has been done the British way lasts from twenty to sixty years, and is an effective defence against the heat.

Which of the following remains a unique feature of the English countryside?

A．Narrow streets lined with pink or white houses.

B．Rolling hills with pretty farm buildings.

C．Cottages with thatched roofs.

D．Churches with cottages around them.

Part A

Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. (40 points)

The discovery of life beyond Earth would transform. not only our science but also our religions, our belief systems and our entire world-view. For in a sense, the search for extraterrestrial life is really a search for ourselves—who we are and what our place is in the grand sweep of the cosmos.

Contrary to popular belief, speculation that we are not alone in the universe is as old as philosophy itself. The essential steps in the reasoning were based on the atomic theory of the ancient Greek philosopher Democritus. Yet philosophy is one thing, filling in the physical details is another. Although astronomers increasingly suspect that biofriendly planets may be abundant in the universe, the chemical steps leading to life remain largely mysterious.

Traditionally, biologists believed that life is a freak—the result of a zillion-to-one accidental concatenation of molecules. It follows that the likelihood of its happening again elsewhere in the cosmos is infinitesimal. This viewpoint derives from the second law of thermodynamics, which predicts that the universe is dying—slowly and inexorably degenerating toward a state of total chaos. And similar reasoning applies to evolution. According to the orthodox view, Darwinian selection is utterly blind. Any impression that the transition from microbes to man represents progress is pure chauvinism of our part. The path of evolution is merely a random walk through the realm of possibilities.

If this is right, there can be no directionality, no innate drive forward; in particular, no push toward consciousness and intelligence. Should Earth be struck by an asteroid, destroying all higher life-forms, intelligent beings would almost certainly not arise next time around. There is, however, a contrary view—one that is gaining strength and directly challenges orthodox biology. It is that complexity can emerge spontaneously through a process of self-organization. If matter and energy have an inbuilt tendency to amplify and channel organized complexity, the odds against the formation of life and the subsequent evolution of intelligence could be drastically shortened.

Historically, Bertrand Russell argued that a universe under a death sentence from the second law of thermodynamics rendered human life ultimately futile. All our achievements, all our struggles, "all the noonday brightness of human genius", as he put it, would, in the final analysis, count for nothing if the very cosmos itself is doomed. But what if, in spite of the second law of thermodynamics, there can be systematic progress alongside decay? For those who hope for a deeper meaning or purpose beneath physical existence, the presence of extraterrestrial life-forms would provide a spectacular boost, implying that we live in a universe that is in some sense getting better and better rather than worse and worse.

The writer organizes his ideas in the text mainly by

A．justifying popular beliefs.

B．making comparisons.

C．looking back on history.

D．posing sharp contrasts.

Directions： Fill in the blanks in the following passage by selecting suitable words from the word bank. Each word can be used only once. A) spoiled B) crippled C) hindered D) surrounded E) legal F) permissive G) catalog H) ongoing I) appetites J) outline K) submitted L) profile M) committed N) echoed O) responded The idea for the book Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone came to J. K. Rowling in 1990. It took her five years to finish writing it. In accordance with her 1) ________, during those seven years she had a number of jobs, including one job as an English teacher in Portugal. Rowling 2) _________ the book to four publishers before one of them bought it. She was very happy to sell her book because it was her life’s dream to be a published writer. Before she sold her book, Rowling was financially 3) ________, living in a small apartment with her daughter without heat in the winter. Harry Potter became very successful with children and adults in England since it satisfied their 4) _______. The book also became very popular overseas. For example, once it came to the United States, it was immediately 5) ________ by many crazy readers. Her second and third books 6) ________ this popularity as well. The three books soon filled the top three places on many newspapers’ 7) _________ of best-sellers. Then the books were made into movies, which were undoubtedly in 8) _______ demand. Rowling’s life had changed significantly, in just three years. Not being 9) _________, Harry Potter soon sold more than 30 million books around the world and was translated into more than thirty-five languages. In 1997, she earned ￡70 a week. By the end of 2001, her 10) ________ income had mounted over ￡150 million, making her one of the most successful female writers of all time.

Directions： Fill in the blanks in the following passage by selecting suitable words from the word bank. Each word can be used only once. A) spoiled B) crippled C) hindered D) surrounded E) legal F) permissive G) catalog H) ongoing I) appetites J) outline K) submitted L) profile M) committed N) echoed O) responded The idea for the book Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone came to J. K. Rowling in 1990. It took her five years to finish writing it. In accordance with her 1) ________, during those seven years she had a number of jobs, including one job as an English teacher in Portugal. Rowling 2) _________ the book to four publishers before one of them bought it. She was very happy to sell her book because it was her life’s dream to be a published writer. Before she sold her book, Rowling was financially 3) ________, living in a small apartment with her daughter without heat in the winter. Harry Potter became very successful with children and adults in England since it satisfied their 4) _______. The book also became very popular overseas. For example, once it came to the United States, it was immediately 5) ________ by many crazy readers. Her second and third books 6) ________ this popularity as well. The three books soon filled the top three places on many newspapers’ 7) _________ of best-sellers. Then the books were made into movies, which were undoubtedly in 8) _______ demand. Rowling’s life had changed significantly, in just three years. Not being 9) _________, Harry Potter soon sold more than 30 million books around the world and was translated into more than thirty-five languages. In 1997, she earned ￡70 a week. By the end of 2001, her 10) ________ income had mounted over ￡150 million, making her one of the most successful female writers of all time.