s rode to Earth on a meteorite( 损石 ) from Mars. A more conclusive answer about life on Mars, past or present, would give researchers invaluable data about the range of conditions under which a planet can generate the complex chemistry that leads to life. If it could be established that life arose independently on Mars and Earth, the finding would provide the first concrete clues in one of the deepest mysteries in all of science: the prevalence of life in the universe.
36. According to the passage, the chief purpose of explorers in going to unknown places in the past was ____.
A) to display their country ' s military might
B) to accomplish some significant science
C) to find new areas for colonization
D) to pursue commercial and state interests
37. At present, a probable inducement for countries to initiate large-scale space ventures is ____.
A) international cooperation
B) nationalistic reasons
C) scientific research
D) long-term profits
38. What is the main goal of sending human missions to Mars?
A) To find out if life ever existed there.
B) To see if humans could survive there.
C) To prove the feasibility of large-scale space ventures.
D) To show the leading role of science in space exploration.
39. By saying “ With Mars the scientific stakes are arguably higher than
they have ever been ” (Line 1 ,Para 3), the author means that ____.
A) with Mars the risks involved are much greater than any previous space ventures
B) in the case of Mars ,the rewards of scientific exploration can be very high
C) in the case of Mars, much more research funds are needed than ever before
D) with Mars scientists argue, the fundamental interests of science are at issue
40. The passage tells us that proof of life on Mars would ____.
A) make clear the complex chemistry in the development of life
B) confirm the suggestion that bacterial fossils travelled to Earth on a meteorite
C) reveal the kind of conditions under which life originates
D) provide an explanation why life is common in the universe
Part Ⅲ
Vocabulary (20 minutes)
Directions:There are 30 incomplete sentences in the part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A), B ), C) and D). Choose the ONE answer that best completes the Sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
41. If you want this painkiller, you ' ll have to ask the doctor for a.
A) transaction B) permit C) settlement D) prescription
42. The ____ from childhood to adulthood is always critical time for everybody.
A) conversionB) transition
C) turnoverD) transformation
43. It is hard to tell whether we are going to have a boom in the economy era ____.
A) concessionB) recession
C) submissionD) transmission
44. His use of color, light and form quickly departed from the conventional style of his, as ____, he developed technique.
A) descendantsB) predecessors C)successorsD) ancestors
45. Failure in a required subject may result in the ____ of a diploma.
A) refusalB) betrayal C) denialD) burial
46. To help students understand how we see, teachers often draw an between an eye and a camera.
A) imageB) analogy C) denialD) axis
47. A 1994 World Bank report concluded that ____ girls in school was probably the single most effective anti-poverty policy in the developing world today.
A) assigningB) admitting
C) involvingD) enrolling
48. The authority of report is well ____ with the problems in the hospital because he has been working there for many years.
A) acquaintedB) informed
C) accustomedD) know
49. When the farmers visited the city the first time, they were ____ by its complicated traffic system.
A) precludesB) bewildered
C) divertedD) expires
50. If Japan ____ its relation with that country it will have to find another supplier of raw materials.
A) precludesB) terminates
C) partitionsD) expires
51. They were ____ in their scientific research, not knowing what happened just outside their lab.
A) submergedB) drowned
C) immersedD) dipped
52. You should ____ to one or more weekly magazines such as Time, or Newsweek.
A) ascribeB) order
C) reclaimD) subscribe
53. The automatic doors in supermarkets ____ the entry and exit of customers with shopping carts.
A) furnishB) induce
C) facilitateD) allocate
54. Each workday, the workers followed the same schedules and rarely from this routine.
A) deviatedB) disconnected
C) detachedD) distorted
55. The little girl was ____ by the death of her dog since her affection for the pet had been real and deep.
A) grievedB) suppressed
C) oppressedD) sustained
56. A visitor to a museum today would notice ____ changes in the way museums are operated.
A) cognitiveB) rigorous
C) conspicuousD) exclusive
57. Most people tend to think they are so efficient at their job that they are ____.
A) inaccessibleB) irreversible
C) immovableD) irreplaceable
58. Being impatient is ____ with being a good teacher.
A) intrinsicB) ingenious
C) incompatibleD) inherent
59. For a particular reason, he wanted the information to be treated as ____.
A) assuredB) reserved
C) intimateD) confidential
60. Fortune-tellers are good at marking ____ statements such as “ Your sorrows will change. ”
A) philosophicalB) ambiguous
C) literalD) invalid
61. The tenant mush be prepared to decorate the house ____ the term of the contract.
A) in the vicinity ofB) in quest of
C) in accordance withD) in collaboration with
62. The winners of the football championship ran off the field carrying the silver cup ____.
A) turbulentlyB) tremendiouly
C) triumphantlyD) tentatively
63. He said that they had ____ been obliged to give up the scheme for lack of support.
A) gravelyB) regrettably
C) forciblyD) graciously
64. The law on drinking and driving is ____ stated.
A) extravagantlyB) empirically
C) exceptionallyD) explicitly
65. The accounts to damages have not been convincingly ____ stated.
A) refutedB) overwhelmed
C) repressedD) intimidated
66. Please don ' t ____ too much on the painful memories. Everything will be all right.
A) hesitateB) linger
C) retainD) dwell
67. The jobs of wildlife technicians and biologists seemed ____ to him, but one day he discovered their difference.
A) identicalB) vertical
C) parallelD) specific
68. Mary became ____ homesick and critical of the United States , so she fled from her home in west Bloomfield to her hometown in Austria.
A) completelyB) sincerely
C) absolutelyD) increasingly
69. Despite almost universal ____ of the vital importance of women ' t literacy, education remains a dream for far many women in far too many countries of the world.
A) identification
B) compliment
C) confession
D) acknowledgement
70. In today ' s medical, little agreement exists on the ____ for defining mental illness.
A) legislationB) requirement
C) criteriaD) measures
试卷二
Part Ⅳ
Error Correction (15 mimutes)
Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put an insertion mark in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a word, cross it out and put a slash in the blank.
Example ：
Television is rapidly becoming the literature of our periods .Many of the arguments havingused for the study of literature as a school subject are valid for study of television.
1. ____Time/times/period____
2.____/____
3.____the____
More people die of tuberculosis ( 结核病 )than of any other disease caused by a single agent. This has probably been the case in quite a while. During the early stages of the industrial revolution, perhaps one in every seventh deaths in Europe ' s crowded cities were caused by the disease. From now on, though. western eyes, missing the global picture, saw the trouble going into decline. With occasional breaks for war, the rates of death and infection in the Europe and America dropped steadily through the 19th and 20th centuries. In the 1950s, the introduction of antibiotics ( 抗菌素 ) strengthened the trend in rich countries, and the antibiotics were allowed to be imported to poor countries. Medical researchers declared victory and withdrew. They are wrong. In the Mid-1980s the frequency of infections and deaths started to pick up again around the world. Where tuberculosis vanished, it came back; in many places where it had never been away, it grew better. The World Health Organization estimates that 1.7 billion people (a third of the earth ' s population) suffer from tuberculosis. Even when the infection rate was falling population growth kept the num
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