Part Ⅳ Cloze (10 points)

 Directions: In this part, there is a passage with the blanks. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the best answer for each blank and mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.

 

 How many people can live on the face of the earth? No one knows the answer. It depends on how much food people can grow   46   destroying the environment.  

 More people now exist than ever before, and the population   47   growing. Every 15 seconds, about 100 babies are born. Before the end of this century, the earth may   48   10 billion people!

 To feed everyone, farmers must grow more food. They are trying to do so. World food production has gradually   49   over the years. In some parts of the world,   50   , the population is growing faster than the food supply. Some experts fear the world will not be able to produce enough food for a   51   that never stops increasing.

 To grow more crops on the same  52  of land, farmers use fertilizers and pesticides（杀虫剂）. Some plant new kinds of grains that produce more food. These things help—   53   they don’t provide perfect solutions. The chemicals in fertilizers and pesticides can pollute water supplies. The new seeds developed by scientists have reached the   54   of what they can produce.

 When hungry people can get no more out of    55    field, they clear trees from hills and forests for new farmland, and in doing so they expose the soil. Then rain and floods may strip the topsoil from fields. This process is called erosion. Each year erosion steals billions of tons of topsoil from farmers.

 

46.     A. without   B.  by        C. against   D. for

47.     A. ceases    B. keeps     C. stops     D. stays

48.     A. maintain   B. retain    C. hold      D. produce

49.     A. exhausted   B. declined   C. arisen   D. risen

50.     A. however   B. somehow     C. anyway    D. furthermore

51.     A. country   B. nation    C. population  D. community

52.     A. range   B. amount  C. number   D. level

53.     A. hence  B. when     C. but         D. and

54.     A. conclusion    B. restriction    C. goal      D. limit

55.     A. growing     B. surviving     C. remaining    D. existing

 

 

Part Ⅴ Test Completion (20 points)

 Directions: In this part, there are three incomplete texts with 20 questions. Above each text there are three or four items to be completed. First, use the choices provided in the box to complete the items. Second, use the completed items to fill in the blanks of the text. Mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.

 

Text One

Phrases:

A.           you watched   56   eating it

B.           send nerve   57   to your brain

C.           our noses and our brain are very   58   connected

D.           59   us remember things

 

 For years, scientists have been studying the special power of smells. It seems that   60  . When you smell something, the odor goes up your nose to the smelling zones. From here, sense cells   61   telling it what you smelled.

 More than our other four senses, our sense of smell changes our mood and  62  . If you were told to think about popcorn, you’d probably recall its smell. And then you might remember the movie  63  . Our sense of smell also makes us aware of danger-like the smell of smoke.

 

Text Two

Phrases:

A.          how to help poor people with all sorts of   64   

B.           all the speeches are   65   to their websites

C.           66   on a variety of topics

 

 TED is a set of conference, held in various cities around the world every year. With speakers—also from various parts of the globe-- 67  , for everyone to see.

       TED conferences invite speakers to   68   . The different speakers are usually experts in their field and talk about new ideas and recent developments that are important to their work. The speakers are often also well known, with people such as Microsoft giant Bill Gates and world-renowned chimpanzee expert, Jane Goodall, having given talks. There are many talks on environmentalism, for example, and on international development, aid work, and   69  . While the talks cover a wide variety of topics, all speakers have a strict time limit-each presentation must last no longer than 18 minutes.

 

Text Three

Phrases:

A.  Good at  70  information

B.  71   their brains work

C.  72  their imagination

 

 The time spent with technology doesn’t just give kids new ways of doing things, it changes 73  . For example, an article says that while video games may condition the brain to pay attention to multiple stimuli, they can lead to distraction and decreased memory. Children who always use search engines may become very  74  ----but not very good at remembering it. In addition, the article said, children who use too much technology may not have enough opportunities  75  or to read and think deeply about the material.

 

 

英语试卷二

Paper two

（50 minutes）

Part Ⅵ  Translation（10points）

       Directions: Translate the following passage into Chinese . Write your answer on the Answer Sheet.

 

 When it comes to personal finance, we are all looking for ways to save more money. Our household budgets are filled with both big and small expenses that we imagine can be cut out to save loads of cash or, at the very least, spent better elsewhere. One of the things you have surely considered is using public transportation rather than your own vehicle. It would be easy to assume that public transportation is cheaper, because bus fare is far less expensive than gas, but those are not the only costs to consider. Take a step back to your high school economics class and try to remember the lesson about opportunity costs. These, as you might recall if you were awake for that class, are the things you give up when you choose one option over other options. Although they are not measured in dollars and cents, they still have to be considered whenever you make a financial decision.

 

Part Ⅶ Writing (15points)

              Directions: Write a composition in no less than 150 words on the topic: What makes happy couples happy?

You could write according to the hints given below. Write your composition on the Answer Sheet.

 

 Happy couples know what is essential to maintain a happy relationship. For instance, daily habits are extremely helpful in making their relationship work.