(总分100,考试时间120分钟)
Part I. Vocabulary and Structure (10 points; 15 minutes) Directions: Each of the following sentences is provided with four choices. Choose the one that **pletes the sentence. Then blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
1. As preparations were **pleted in time, the conference had to be __________ till the next Tuesday.成人英语三级
A. put away B. cancelled
C. put aside D. postponed
2. ___________ with the size of the whole earth, the highest mountain does not seem high at all.
A. **pared B. Compare
C. **paring D. Comparing
3. It’s only a short way to the station, so we might as __________ walk.
A. good B. now
C. quick D. well
4. Liquids are like solids __________ they have a definite volume.
A. in that B. for that
C. with that D. at that
5. Since she can speak Japanese fluently, she has an advantage __________ other job applicants.
A. to B. in
C. over D. against
6. Yesterday’s English examination looked simple, but it turned out to be __________ easy.
A. nothing but B. everything but
C. something but D. anything but
7. It was raining hard, but by the time class was over, the rain __________.
A. stopped B. would stop
C. had stopped D. might have stopped
8. “Perhaps you should go home now.” “No, I __________ on staying here for a while longer.”
A. persist B. stick
C. sit D. insist
9. Hardly __________ to the bus stop when the bus suddenly pulled away.
A. did they get B. they had got
C. they got D. had they got
10. It is necessary that the plan __________ before Thursday.
A. were fulfilled B. was fulfilled
C. be fulfilled D. would be fulfilled
11. Not only __________ our money, but we were also in danger of losing our lives.
A. we lost B. lost we
C. did we lose D. we did lose
12. I __________ a doctor now, if I had studied medical science in my youth.
A. were B. should be
C. had been D. should have been
13. I knocked at the door several times __________ an elderly lady came to answer it.
A. before B. after
C. unless D. then
14. He seemed very young, but __________ he was older than all of us.
A. in nature B. in reality
C. by nature D. in origin
15. You may not have played very well today, but at least you’ve got through to the next round and __________.
A. tomorrow **es
B. tomorrow is another day
C. never put off till tomorrow
D. there is no tomorrow
16. It has been said that in no country __________ Britain can one experience four seasons in the course of a single day.
A. other than B. more than
C. better than D. rather than
17. __________ you are familiar with the author’s ideas, try to read all the sections as quickly as you possibly can.
A. Now that B. Ever since
C. So that D. As long as
18. -Tom is so worried about the test that he said he was going to study all night. -Tell him he should quit __________ and get some help. A. B.
A. to have worried B. to worry
C. worrying D. from worrying
19. The trees __________ in the storm have been moved off the road.
A. being blown down B. blown down
C. blowing down D. to blow down
20. The boy the teachers considered __________ failed in the final exam, __________ surprised them very much.
A. to be the best; which
B. as the best student; that
C. to have been studying well; it
D. such as a good student; which
Part II. Cloze Test (10 points；20 minutes) Directions: Read the passage through. Then,
go back and choose one suitable word or phrase marked A, B, C, or D for each blank in the passage. Blacken the corresponding letter of the word or phrase you have chosen on the Answer Sheet.
As it came near the corner, the taxi stopped suddenly. The driver got out looking very 21 . A big lorry which had been 22 the taxi stopped too. The taxi driver was now standing at the corner looking up at the sky 23 the lorry driver went to 24 him. A number of cars behind were 25 to stop as well and soon a large crowd of people 26 gathered at the corner The 27 of all this trouble was a very strange 28 . It sounded as if thousands and thousands of 29 were singing together. The noise was quite 30 and many people looked disturbed. The most extraordinary thing was that, apart from one or two pigeons, 31 was not a bird in sight. No one was able to solve the mystery 32 two policemen arrived. They noticed a large advertisement 33 a film high up on a wall nearby. 34 the noise seemed to be coming 35 this direction, they climbed up and found that a tape-recorder had been hidden 36 the advertisement. The noise made by birds singing was being broadcast over powerful loudspeakers so as to 37 the attention of passers-by. The police asked the 38 t
o take the recorder away because the advertisement had attracted 39 much attention that it was 40 for a great many cars and buses to move freely in the street.
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