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[单选题]<p><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><strong>Part II  Vocabulary and Structure</strong></span></p><p><strong>Directions: For each of the following items,there are four choices marked A),B),C),D).Decide which is the best answer and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.</strong></p><p>16. Would you please lend me your bike? Mine is not（    ）.</p>

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[单选题]<p>17. Without air, the candle will（    ）.</p>

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[单选题]<p>18. One of the most important problems is how to（    ）the interest in learning English.</p>

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[单选题]<p>19. When we face difficulties in our English learning, we will never（    ）.</p>

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[单选题]<p>20. Tony as well as his brothers and sisters（    ）from America.</p>

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[单选题]<p>21. Tomorrow I’m leaving for Ne York and I’ll stay there for（    ）.</p>

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[单选题]<p>22.How much did you（   ）on this new car?</p>

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[单选题]<p>23.When the police broke into the house, they found old man（    ）dead on the floor.</p>

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[单选题]<p>24. I’m not good at math. This problem is quite（    ）me.</p>

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[单选题]<p>25.（    ）our coming to see me, I would have been very lonely.</p>

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[单选题]<p>26. That is a hot tourist line. You should book the tickets（    ）.</p>

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[单选题]<p>27.We are quite（    ）to our parents and our teacher.</p>

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[单选题]<p>28.“Shall I help you with the washing up?” “Don't（    ）, I’ll do it later.”</p>

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[单选题]<p>29. Those who felt like（    ）the story again came over and added themselves to the audience.</p>

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[单选题]<p>30. Mary told me that Father would（    ）.</p>

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[单选题]<p>31. I can hardly hear what he's saying, and（    ）.</p>

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[单选题]<p>32.（    ）what you intended, I should not have wasted my time trying to explain matters to you.</p>

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[单选题]<p>33. I prefer clothes which are made out of natural materials,（    ）cotton and wool.</p>

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[单选题]<p>34. It was his doctor who advised that he（    ）a holiday away from the city.</p>

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[单选题]<p>35. I don't think（    ）necessary for Julie to make a fuss about that sort of thing.</p>

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[单选题]<p><strong><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Part III Reading Comprehension</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Section A</span></strong></p><p><strong>Directions: There are three passages in this part. For each of them are four choices marked A,B,C and D.Choose the one that you think is the best answer.Mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.</strong></p><p><strong>Task 1</strong></p><p>Telephone, television, radio, and telegraph all help people communicate with another. Because of these devices, ideas and news of events spread quickly all over the world. For example, within seconds,people can know the results of all election in another country. An international football match comes into the homes of everyone with a television set. News of a disaster such as an earthquake or flood can bring help from distant countries. Within hours, help is on the way. Because of modern technology like the satellites that travel around the world, information travel fast.</p><p>How has this speed of communication changed the world? To smaller. Of course this does not mean that the world is actually physically smaller. It means that the world seems smaller. Two hundred years ago, communication between the continents took a long time. All news was carried on ships that took weeks or even months to cross the oceans. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it took six weeks for news from Europe to reach Americas. This time difference influenced people's actions. For example, one battle, in the War of 1812 between England and the United States could have been avoided. A peace agreement had already been signed Peace was made in England, but the news of peace took six weeks to reach America. During these six weeks, the large and serious Battle Of New Orleans was fought. Many people lost their lives after a peace treaty had been signed. They would not have died if newshad come in time. In the past, Communication took much more time than it does now.</p><p><br/></p><p>36. News spreads fast because of(     )</p>

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[单选题]<p>37. According to this passage,（    ）is very important to people in a disaster Area.</p>

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[单选题]<p>38. Which of the following statements is TRUE?</p>

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[单选题]<p>39. Two hundred years ago, news between the continents was carried（    ）.</p>

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[单选题]<p>40. The New Orleans Battle could have been avoided if the peace agreement had been signed（    ）.</p>

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[单选题]<p><strong>Task 2</strong></p><p>When prices are low, people will buy more, and when prices are high they will buy less. Every shopkeeper knows this. But at the same time, producers want higher price for their goods when they make more goods. How can we find the best price for the goods? The Law of Supply and Demand is the economist's answer to this question</p><p>According to this law, changes in the prices of goods cause change in supply and demand. An increase in the price of the goods causes an increase in supply-the number of goods the producers make. Producers will make more goods when they can get higher prices for the goods. The producer makes more shoes as the price of shoes goes up. At the same time, an increase in the price of the goods causes a decrease in demand the number of goods the consumers buy. This is because people buy less hen the price is high. People buy fewer shoes as the price of shoes goes up. Conversely, a decrease in the price causes an increase in demand(people buy more shoes) and a decrease in supply(producers make fewer shoes).</p><p>Business firms look at both supply and demand when they make decisions about price and production. They look for the equilibrium point where supply equals demand. At this point, the number of shoes produced is 3000 and the price of the shoes is$30. $30 is the equilibrium price: at this price the consumers will buy all of the 3000 shoes which the producers make. If the producers increase the price of the shoes, or if they produce more than 3000 shoes, the consumers will not buy all of the shoes. The producers will have a surplus(过剩)--- more supply than demand---so they must decrease the price in order to sell all of the shoes. On the other hand, if they make fewer than 3000 shoes, there will be a shoes shortage---more demand than supply--and the price will go up.</p><p>According to the Law of Supply and Demand, the equilibrium price is the best price for the good. The consumers and the producers will agree on this price because it is the only price that helps them both equally.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>41. Why does an increase in price cause an increase in supply?</p>

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[单选题]<p>42. Why does a decrease in prices cause an increase in demand?</p>

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[单选题]<p>43. What do business firms look at when they make decisions about prices and production?</p>

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[单选题]<p>44. Why will consumers and producers agree on the equilibrium price?</p>

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[单选题]<p>45. When will producers have a surplus of goods?</p>

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[单选题]<p><strong>Task 3</strong></p><p>Money is used for buying or selling goods, for measuring value and for storing wealth. Almost every society now has a money economy based on coins and bills of one kind or another. However, this has not always been true. In primitive societies a system of barter was used. Barter was a system of direct exchange of goods. Somebody could exchange a sheep, for example, for anything in the market place that he or she considered to be of equal value. Barter, however, was a very unsatisfactory system because people's precise needs were seldom met. People needed a more practical system of exchange, and various money systems developed based on goods that the members of society recognized as having value. Cattle, grain, teeth, shells, feathers, salt, elephant tusks, and tobacco had all been used precious metals gradually took over because, when made into coins, they were portable, durable, recognizable, and divisible into larger and smaller units of value.</p><p>A coin is a piece of metal, usually disc-shaped, which bears words, designs or numbers showing its value. Until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, coins were given monetary worth based on the exact amount of metal contained in them, but most modern coins are based on face value the value that governments choose to give them, which doesn't show the actual metal content, Coins have been made of gold, silver, copper, aluminum (铝), nickel(镍) Icad, zinc(锌), plastic and in China even from tea leaves. Most governments now issue paper money in the form of bills, which are really “promise to pay”. Paper money is obviously easier to handle and much more convenient in the modern world. Checks and credit cards are being used increasingly, and it is possible to imagine a world where “money”in the form of coins and paper currency will no longer be used. Even today, in the United States, many places, especially filling stations will not accept cash at night for security reasons.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>46. Barter here means（    ）.</p>

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[单选题]<p>47. Why were precious metals gradually used for making coins?</p>

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[单选题]<p>48. Coins were given value according to the exact amount of metals contained in them（    ）.</p>

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[单选题]<p>49. Promises to pay means（    ）.</p>

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[单选题]<p>50. A world without any money is（    ）.</p>