(恩波英语版)

作者：恩波英语 庆学先

Part I Listening Comprehension

Section A

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

2. A) They will keep in touch during the summer vacation.

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

4. C) They work on the assignment together.

5. A) She admires Jean’s straightforwardness.

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

7. D) He does not study hard enough.

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

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

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

Section B

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

12. D) He believed the speaker was a foreigner.

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

14. A) By making laws.

15. B) It should be raised quickly by hand.

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

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

18. C) Truancy.

19. D) Students with good attendance records.

20. B) Rewarding schools that have decreased the destruction.

Part II Reading Comprehension

Passage One

21. D) To discourage people from insisting on having grandchildren.

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

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

24. A) her parents kept pressuring her to have a child.

25. C) It is troublesome but rewarding

Passage Two

26. D) People can fully enjoy individual freedom.

27. A) the more diligent one is, the bigger his returns.

28. C) became wealthy after starting life very poor.

29. B) Americans wish to succeed in every aspect of life.

30. D) What Americans strive after often contradicts their beliefs.

Passage Three

31. B) Quick economic returns

32. C) obtain funding from the government

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

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

35. B) People would not believe scientists even when they tell the truth.

Passage Four

36. D) the globalization of the economy

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

38. C) it should not overlook the importance of information, services, support, and distribution.

39. A) can eliminate an entire business segment.

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

Part III Vocabulary

41. C) absurd

42. B) designated

43. D) flushed

44. C) abolished

45. B) out of stock

46. C) luminous

47. A) comply

48. D) erase

49. C) scrutiny

50. A) ascribed

51. B) decent

52. C) finite

53. C) defy

54. A) suppress

55. D) rectify

56. C) irritated

57. D) handicap

58. B) impose

59. D) stimulus

60. D) cherish

61. B) vacant

62. A) tucked

63. B) obscure

64. A) by analogy with

65. D) culminated in

66. A) in relation to

67. C) ambiguous

68. D) abnormal

69. C) recession

70. B) drowned

Part IV Error Correction

1. in first > in the first

2. ultimate > ultimately

3. acceptance > rejection

4. end > ending

5. upon > for

6. will pick up > will not pick up

7. listing > list

8. Keep up > Keep

9. taking > taken

10. find > found