Part VII. Grammar and Structure (15 points)Directions: There are 15 incomplete sentences. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Please choose the best answer.(单选题 1分) People used to believe that dirt spontaneously ____ disease.()

_____ Hongkong is often regarded as _____ international centre for business, finance and tourism.A. /; anB. An ; /C. The ; /D. /; the

请阅读 Passage l,完成第 21~25小题。 Passage1 Homework has never been terribly popular with students and even manyparents, but in recently years it has been particularly scorned. Schooldistricts across the country, most recently Los Angeles Unified, are revisingtheir thinking on this educational ritual. Unfortunately, L.A.Unifiedhas produced an inflexible policy which mandates that with the exception ofsome advanced courses, homework may no longer count for more than 10% of astudent ' s academic grade. This rule is meant to addressthe difficulty that students from impoverished or chaotic homes might have incompleting their homework. But the policy is unclear and contradictory.Certainly, no homework should be assigned that students cannot complete ontheir own or that they cannot do without expensive equipment. But if the districtis essentially giving a pass to students who do not do their homework becauseof complicated family lives, it is going riskily close to the implication that standardsneed to be lowered for poor children. District administrators say that homework will still be a part ofschooling; teachers are allowed to assign as much of it as they want. But withhomework counting for no more than 10% of their grades, students can easilyskip half their homework and see very little difference ontheirreport cards. Some students might do well on state tests without completingtheir homework, but what about the students who performed well on the tests anddid their homework? It is quite possible that the homework helped. Yet ratherthan empowering teachers to find what works best for their students, the policyimposes a flat, across-the-board rule. At the same time, the policy addresses none of the truly thorny questionsabout homework. If the district finds homework to be unimportant to its students' academic achievement, it should move to reduce or eliminate the assignments,not make them count for almost nothing. Conversely, if homework matters, itshould account for a significant portion of the grade. Meanwhile, this policy doesnothing to ensure that the homework students receive is meaningful orappropriate to their age and the subject, or that teachers are not assigningmore than they are willing to review and correct. The homework rules should be put on holdwhile the school board, which is responsible for setting educational policy,looks into the matter and conducts public hearings. It is not too late for L.A.Unified to do homework right.A suitable title for this text could beA、Wrong Interpretations of an Educational PolicyB、A Welcomed Policy for Poor StudentsC、Thorny Questions about HomeworkD、A Faulty Approach to Homework

17 [单选题] Don't keep silence! The head teacher is ___ a lot about that.A. able to knowB. supposed to knowC. supposing to knowD. going to know

3.[单选题] I have an _ day. Many students kept looking up their Wechat in class. Two students are even playing video games on their phones.A. ordinaryB. awfulC. wonderfulD. terrific

单选题（共20题，20.0分） 题型说明：从四个选项中选出最佳答案。 2. (1.0分) Don't talk ___ you are eating.A. whileB. as soon asC. AsD. When

3 [单选题] ___ 35 years with the company, he retired at the age of 60.A. Having spentB. Being spentC. It wasD. There was

Part ADirections:Reading the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing [A], [B], C. or [D]. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points)Text 3The US3-million Fundamental physics prize is indeed an interesting experiment, as Alexander Polyakov said when he accepted this year’s award in March. And it is far from the only one of its type. As a News Feature article in Nature discusses, a string of lucrative awards for researchers have joined the Nobel Prizes in recent years. Many, like the Fundamental Physics Prize, are funded from the telephone-number-sized bank accounts of Internet entrepreneurs. These benefactors have succeeded in their chosen fields, they say, and they want to use their wealth to draw attention to those who have succeeded in science.What’s not to like? Quite a lot, according to a handful of scientists quoted in the News Feature. You cannot buy class, as the old saying goes, and these upstart entrepreneurs cannot buy their prizes the prestige of the Nobels. The new awards are an exercise in self-promotion for those behind them, say scientists. They could distort the achievement-based system of peer-review-led research. They could cement the status quo of peer-reviewed research. They do not fund peer-reviewed research. They perpetuate the myth of the lone genius.Text 1In order to “change lives for the better” and reduce “dependency,” George Osbome, Chancellor of the Exchequer, introduced the “upfront work search” scheme. Only if the jobless arrive at the job centre with a CV register for online job search, and start looking for work will they be eligible for benefit-and then they should report weekly rather than fortnightly. What could be more reasonable?More apparent reasonableness followed. There will now be a seven-day wait for the jobseeker’s allowance. “Those first few days should be spent looking for work, not looking to sign on.” he claimed. “We’re doing these things because we know they help people say off benefits and help those on benefits get into work faster” Help? Really? On first hearing, this was the socially concerned chancellor, trying to change lives for the better, complete with “reforms” to an obviously indulgent system that demands too little effort from the newly unemployed to find work, and subsides laziness. What motivated him, we were to understand, was his zeal for “fundamental fairness”-protecting the taxpayer, controlling spending and ensuring that only the most deserving claimants received their benefits.The goals of the prize-givers seem as scattered as the criticism. Some want to shock, others to draw people into science, or to better reward those who have made their careers in research.As Nature has pointed out before, there are some legitimate concerns about how science prizes—both new and old—are distributed. The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, launched this year, takes an unrepresentative view of what the life sciences include. But the Nobel Foundation’s limit of three recipients per prize, each of whom must still be living, has long been outgrown by the collaborative nature of modern research—as will be demonstrated by the inevitable row over who is ignored when it comes to acknowledging the discovery of the Higgs boson. The Nobels were, of course, themselves set up by a very rich individual who had decided what he wanted to do with his own money. Time, rather than intention, has given them legitimacy.As much as some scientists may complain about the new awards, two things seem clear. First, most researchers would accept such a prize if they were offered one. Second, it is surely a good thing that the money and attention come to science rather than go elsewhere, It is fair to criticize and question the mechanism—that is the culture of research, after all—but it is the prize-givers’ money to do with as they please. It is wise to take such gifts with gratitude and grace.第31题The Fundamental Physical Prize is seen asA. a symbol of the entrepreneurs’ wealth. B. a possible replacement of the Nobel Prize. C. an example of bankers’ investment. D. a handsome reward for researchers. E. 参考答案: A 您的答案: 未作答

4.(单选题) The ship's generator broke down, and the pumps had to be operated ( ) instead of mechanically.A. artificiallyB. manuallyC. automaticallyD. synthetically

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