Part I Vocabulary and Structure(35%)
1.The machine operators are so to the noise that they don't even notice it.
A.associatedB.sensitiveC.accustomedD.familiar
2.He doesn't work but he gets a good from his investments.
A.wageB.incomeC.earningD.salary
3.The result must be accurate,because all the calculations have been done by an computer.
A.electricB.electricalC.electronD.electronic
4.Mary is a conscientious student;she works very hard and is to her teachers.
A.respected B.respectableC.respectfulD.respecting
5.The newmachine is a great help in the production of this factory.
A.adequateB.sufficientC.efficientD.effective
6.The new regulation does notuntil the first of March.
A.take into account B.go into effect C.carry into practice D.put into operation
7.The TV advertising against the destruction of the rainforests in South America has drawn attention from millions of people-2J25WL
A.act B.campaign,c.conduct2 p.movement
8.The bushas gone up another nickel.
9.Do you mind if Iwith my work while you are getting tea ready?.
A.get throughB.carry outC.turn toD.carry on
10.Following two days of shooting along their borders,the two countries havediplomatic relations.
A.broken down B.put downC.broken offD.put off
11.I don't know how you the severe winters in your part of the world.
A.stand up toB.stand forC.stand outD.stand up
12.Al the people in this village have black hair.They alleach other.
A.resemble asB.resemble with C.resembleD.resemble from
13.One requirement for this job is that you must beto work on weekends.
A.availableB.acceptableC.capableD.accessible
14.She alwaysthe smell of fresh bread with her grandmother,who loved bakiag.
A.attributedB.exemplified C.remembered D.associated
15.Nio one really knows who composed this piece of music,but it has beento Bach.
A.identifiedB.associatedC.referredD.atuributed
16.The children willnot be allowed to come with us if they don'tthemselves beter.
A.directB.declareC.actD.behave
17.It is said that those people can the plastic sheet into money,but Idon't believe it at all.
A.contrastB.contributeC.convertD.convince
18.Don't put too much pressure on the children,because anxiety can with their performance at school.
A.interfereB.interpretC.interruptD.interview
19.Please ask him to come in and wait here.We simply can'tto offend such an important person to our company.
A.adoptB.adapt C.afford.D.offer
20.Before he fell into the river,he took hold of a small tree on the bank by .
A.inspirationB.instanceC.instinctD.instruction
21.I have got a loaf of bread;now I'm looking for a knife
A.to cut it with B.to cut with it C.with it to cutD.with it cutting
22.If the United States had built more homes for poor people in 1955,the housing problems now in some parts of the country so serious.
A.wouldn't be B.wouldn't have been C.will not be D.would have not been
23.Physics is the present-day equivalent of used to be called natural philosophy,from which most of present-day sciences arose.
24.Some companies have introduced flexible working time with less emphasis on pressure.
A.than more on efficiencyB.and more efficiencyC.but more on eficiency -D.than eficiene)0l
25.The British are so familiar with different cultures and other ways of doing things,is often the cassinohercountis,tLD://Www.StuGD.Com
26.from the outer space,the earth looks like a blue ball.
A.SeeD.Seen
27.X-rays are able to pass through objects and thus make details that are otherwise impossible to observe.
A.it visibleB.them visibleC.visibleD.they are visible
28.There is no pointto remember all those names and addresses.The most important thing is to understand the events associated with them.
A.to tryB.to be tryingC.tryingD.be trying
29.,the story of Snow White appeals to many adut readers,too.
A.Though it written for children B.Though written for childrenC.Though for children written D.It was written for children
30.This factory turns out as they did a decade ago.
A.twice as many motorbikesB.twice motorbikes as manyC.twice motorbikes as much D.motorbikes as twice much
31.As it turned out to be a small house party,we so formally.
A.need not have dressed upB.must not have dressed upC.did not need to dress upD.must not dress up
32.He is very rich,so he.
A.must make a fortuneB.should have made a fortuneC.must have made a fortuneD.should make a fortune
33.,she failed again in the tst and felt very depressed.
A.As she worked hardB.Hard as she workedC.Since she worked hard D.Hard since she worked
34.I'm going to get my letters tomoow aftermoon ifl can get them ready today.
A.ypeB.totypeC.yped D.iyping
35.Mostof us agree that swimming is more enjoyable in such a fine day than novels unde th tre.
A.readingB.to redC.being reading D.to be reading
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(40%）
Passage One
Abou: 70 milion Americans are trying to lose weight.That is almost I out ofevery 3 people in he
Unied States Some people go in diet.This imeans they eat less of certain foods,especially fats and sugars
Other people exercise with special equipment,take dict pill,or even have surgery.Losing weight is hard
work,and it can also cost a lot of money.So why do so many people in the United States want to lose weight?
Many people in the United States worry about not looking young and attractive.For many peopie,
looking good also means being thin.Other people wory about their health.Many doctors say being
overweight is not healthy.But are Americans realy fat?
Almost 30 million Americans weigh at least 20 percent more than their ifdeal weight.In fact,the
United States is the most overweight country in tie world."The stored fat of adulit Americans weighs2.3
rilion（兆）pounds,"says University of Massachisdus autbropelogis. (人類學家）George Amelagos.He
says burning off that stored enersy would produce enough power for 900,000 cars to go 12.000 miles.
Losing weight is hard work,but most people want to find a fast and easy way to take of fat.
Bookstores sell lots of diet books.These books tel readers how to lose weight.Each year,dozens of new
books like these are written.Each one promises to get rid of fat.
·36.Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a way of losing weight?
A.To eat less fats and sugars.
B.To have surgery.
C.To take much exercise.
37.Many Americans are trying to lose weight because
A.they want to look atractive B.ihey only want to look youngC.they are misled by doctors D.they are laughed at by others
38.What do the figures given in the third paragraph tellus?
A.Americans are dependent on cars.B.Cars consume a lot of energy.C.Americans need to lose weight.D.Excess of fat can be a source of energy.
39.What is implied in the last paragraph?
A.Dict books are aot always helpful.B.Diet books are usually helpfu.C.There are lots of ways of losing weight.D.Bookstores are keeping their promises.
40.What can be concluded from the passage?
A.People think too much of their apearance.B.There is aot a sure way of losing weight as yet.
C.Surgery is the fastest way oflosing weight.D.Going on diet is a safe way oflosing weight.
Passage Two
Instead of being playthings,early kites were used for military purposes.Historical records say they
were large in size;some were powerful enough to carry men up in the air to observe enemy movements,
and others were used to seatter some information over hostile forces.
During the Tang Dynasty (618-907),people began to fix on kites some bamboo(竹子）strips which,
when high in the air,would ring in the wind like a zheng (a traditional Chinese musical instrument).Since
then,the popular Chinese name for the kite has become fengzheng.The kites made today in some places
are fixed with silk strings or rubber bands to give out pleasant ringing in the wind.
It was also believed,for instance,during the Qing Dynasty(1644-1911),that flying a kite and then
leting it go,apart from the pleasure in itself,might send off one's bad luck and illness.Consequeatly it
would bring him bad luch if one should pick up a kite lost by other people,This may be regarded as
superstition(迷信)but may not be altogether without reason:think of the good it will do to a person,iland
depresed allthe time,if he or she could go out into the fields and fresh air to fly a kite.
Chinese kites fall into two major types:those with wings that can be taken apart and those with wings
that are fixed.The former can be taken apart and packed in boxcs.Easy to carry about,they make good
presents.The second type refers to those with fixed structure;they fly better and higher,given a steady
wind,Classified by designs and other standards,there are no less than 300 varieties,including human
figures,fish,insects,birds,animals and wriuen Chinese characters.In size,they range from 304 meters to
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41.What is the use of silk strings or rubber bands fixed to the kites?
A.To make the kites look more pleasant.B.To make the kites have strong structures.
C.To make the kites produce pleasant sounds.D.To make the kites fly faster in the wind.
42.Which of the following is true?
A.Flying kites can bring people more fun than any other activity.
B.Flying kites can cure many diseases.
C.Flying kites lost by other people will definitely bring people bad luck.
D.Flying kites in the fresh air can be good to people's health.
43.Which of the following is NOT believed to be the function of kites?
A.Bringing people much fun.B.Helping people to enjoy wonderful music.
C.Helping people to get rid of bad luck.D.Helping armies to observe enemies.
44.In the past,a person might fly a kite and then let it go because he.
A.wanted it to fly higherB.wanted it to give pleasure to other people
C.wanted to get rid of bad luckD.wanted to let his enemies get it
45.What kind of kites can fly better and higher?
A.The kites whose wings can be taken apart.
B.The kites whose wings can not be taken apart.
C.The kites with large wings that can fly like birds.
D.The kites that have large sizes and peculiar structures.
Passage three
One of Britain's few distinctive contributions to world culture may come to an end,according to a
survey that suggests holiday postcards are more and more given up because of emails and instant messages
in mobile phones.
More than half of the 1000 holiday-makers interviewed said they had decided to send fewer cards,
turning instead to their electronic rivals.A quarter of the respondents(受調(diào)查者）regard postcards as old-
fashioned and slow to arrive,A further 14% admited that thinking of something to fill the space was too
chalenging,compared with a call home.
Although oficially invented by a Hungarian,Emanuel Hermann,in 1869,the idea of illustrated
cards was taken up with most enthusiasm in Victorian Britain,joining Gothic architecture and landscape
gardening as fields for which the country was famous.
“If the British postcard did disappear,we would lose for ever something of great importance to the
nation,”said Chris Motershead of Thomson Holidays,which did the survey.ie was backed by Marie
Angelou of Sussex University,who has investigated the importance of sending and receiving postcards.
“Postcards are nothing like phone calls,instant messages and direct photo shots via the mobile,"she said.
“All these are useful,practical devices,but postcards offer something else,something additional that is not
simply functional,but imaginative and personal.They can create the real atmosphere of your holiday in a
way that nothing else can do.They are also for more than a moment-with some people adding them to
collections built up over years and years."
46.Who first got the idea of illustrated cards?
A.Emanuel Herrmann.-—B.Victorian Britain.
C.Chris Mottershead.721D.Marie Angelou.
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C.diff飾cultD.dishonest
48.The reason why some people refuse to give up postcards is that.
A.it is not convenient for people to use emails now
B.it is not convenient for people to use instant messages
C.sending postcards can be more fashionable
D.sending postcards can create a holiday atmosphere
49.We can iearn from the last paragraph that.
A.it is necessary for people to use phone calls,instant messages and direct photo shots via the mobile
B.unlike phone calls,instant messages and direct photo shots via the mobile,postcards are not functional
C.it is necessary for people to use postcards in spite of the convenience provided by other devices
D.postcards are completely the same as phone calls,instant messages and others
50.We can infer from the passage that
A.postcards will disappear in a few years because of other devices of comumunication
B.people's happiness in sending and receiving postcards can only last a moment-
C.postcard collecting might be one af the reasons why some people still like the postcards
D.without postcards,people will have less communication with others
Passage four
Despite a cooling of the economy,high-technology companies are still drying out for skilled workers.
The Information Technology Asociation of America projects that more than 800,000 technology jobs wil
go unfilled next year.The lack of qualified workers poses a huge threat to the U.S.economy.
The most commonly cited reason for this state of affairs is that the country's agrarian-age(農(nóng)村時代）
education system fails to prepare students in the primary and secondary grades for the 21st century work.
Yet an inadequate and outmoded education system is only part of the problem.A less tangible(明確的）but
equally powerful cause is an antique(過時的）clasification system that divides the workforce into two
camps:white-colar knowledge workers and blue-collar manual laborers.
Blue-collar workers emerged in the United States during the Industrial Age as work moved from
farms to.factories.White-collar office workers became a significant class in the twentieth century,
outnumbering(多于）the blue-collar workers by mid-century.Corporations increasingly require a new
layer of knowleige worker:a highly skilled multi-disciplined talent,who combines the mind of the white-
collar worker with a soid grounding in mathematics and science(physics,chemistry,and biology )These
goid-collar'”workers-so named for their contributions to their companies and to the economy as well
as for their personal earning ability-apply their knowledge to technology.
The gold-colar worker already exists in a wide range of jobs.The maintenance technician who tests
and repairs aircraft systems at American Airlines;the network administrator who manages systems and
network operations at Procter &Gamble（寶潔公司）；the enginering technologist who assists scientists
at Sandia National Laboratories;and the advanced-manufacturing technician at Intel can all be regarded as
oldcolrworkes.iSTL）
51.What does the word“projects”in the first paragraph mean?
A.Throwsttp:7/B.Predicts
52.What is a gold-collar worker's advantage over that of a blue-collar worker?
A.A gold-collar worker is more skillful in technology.
B.A gole-collar worker has received higher education.
C.A gold-collar worker used to be a white-collar worker.
D.A gold-collar worker learnt more in high school.
53.How can a person be qualified as a gold-collar worker?
A.He must continue to learn and work hard in his career.
B.He must have the knowledge of more than one subject.
C.He can make a skillful use of his wisdom and his knowledge.
D.He can earn more than a blue-collar worker does.
54.It can be inferred from the passage that the first group of blue-collar workers were most likely to be.
A.migrantsB.educators
C.servantsD.farmers
55.What has contributed muclh to America's lack of qualified skiled workers?
A.The outdated education'system.
B.The current new classification of workforce.
C.The fact that most American workers are illiterates.
D.The fact that the blue-collar workers are not used to the factory work.
Part III Cloze(10%)
The person who can see a ship without some feeling of excitement must have very litle imagination.
Even the idea of leaving the solid land 56 most of us were borm and brought 57,and going out on to the
ever-moving waters must arouse 58 some feelings of strangeness.We may remember stories of terible
storms,with waves 59 mountains,and of people from ships which have sunk 60.weeks in small boats
hundreds of miles from land.But we have also 61 joy of traveling on calm seas under biue 62,and of
the 63excitement of coming to a new beautiful land which we have seen only in pictures before.
4ships are not,of course,made chiefly for pleasure:their biggest use is in catrying goods from
country to country.65,ships can carry more goods than 66means of transport,and can 67..so more
cheaply.If ships 68,the British govermment would not be able to feed 69 people.
Ships also have made 70 to discover more and more distant parts of our world.Z1is known to all.
Columbus used a ship to discover America about 500 years ago.And 72,ships are used for exploring the
Antarctic.73would,in fact,not be 74 to say that ships have for thousands of years 75 one of the most
important parts in shaping society.
56.A.by whichB.from which C.on which D.for which
57.A.forth
B.up
D.about
58.A.us all
B.all of usCin us allD.for us all
59.A.as high
B.as higher asC.higher as
D.as high as
60.A.spending
B.to spend=C.spend--D.spent
61.A.heard with B.heard of3c.heard byD.heard from
62.A.waters
B.covers
C.skies
D.levels
63.A.unbelievableB.uncountable ,ll,C.uncoumfortable .D.unforgetabie
64.A.Moreover B.Instead//
C.Thus?
D.But
65.A.In fact
B.As a result
C.Above all
D.By the way
66.A.the other
B.another C.any other
D.any
67.A.carry
B.make
C.take
D.do
68.A.do not exist
B.did not exist C.haven't existed D.had not existed
69.A.its
B.their
C.his
D.those
70.A.us possible
B.it possible
C.us impossibleD.it impossible
B1-
71.A.Which
C.This
D.As
72.A.not long agoB.in the future C.even now D.before long
73.A.We
C.This
D.You
74.A.too much
B.safe
C.possibleD.able
Part IV Writing(15%）
Directions:This part is to test your ability in practical writing.Now you are reguired to write a leuer
according to the information given in Chinese.Your writing shoule contain over 100 words and you should
wzite it on the Composition Sheet.
你在英國參加了一次夏令營（summer camp），住在一位當?shù)鼐用馪rofessor Wilson家里。他們一
家人對你很好，Professor Wilson還帶你參觀了許多英國著名的地方，使你對英圈有了更多的了解。
回國后請寫一封信給Professor Wilson，感謝他對你的照顏，并邀請他有機會來中國玩。
寫信人：張華
地址：廣州市中山路102號
寫信日期：2004年9月19日
廣東省普通高等學校本科插班生考試《英語》答案
1.C2.B3.D4.C5.C6.B7.B8.D9.D10.c
11.A12.C13.A14.D15.D16.D17.C18.A19.C20.C
21.A22.A23.D24.C25.A26.D27.C28.C29.B30.A
31.A32.C33.B34.C35.A36.D37.A38.C39.A40.B
41.C42.D43.B44.C45.B46.A47.C48.D49.C50.c
51.B52.A53.C54.D55.A56.C57.B58.C59.D60.A
61.B62.C63.D64.D65.A66.C67.D68.B69.A 70.B
71.D72.C73.B74.A75.C
寫作（15分）。評分標準：寫作評分標準分為五個檔次，2分、5分、8分、11分和14分。
首先根據(jù)考生作文總體確定檔次，然后根據(jù)內(nèi)容和語言表達在本檔次內(nèi)正下浮動，評定成績。
2分：文不對題；或者只有幾個語句，語富支高破碎，不知所去。
5分：基本切題，符合書信格式內(nèi)容營本清楚但有簧多拼寫和語法錯誤，且字數(shù)少于80
8分：切題，符合書信格式，內(nèi)容較清楚，但是有一些拼寫和語法錯誤，且字數(shù)不少于80
11分：切題，符合書信格式，內(nèi)容完整，表達連貫，但有少量拼寫、語法錯誤，且字數(shù)不少
于100字。
14分：切題，符合書信格式，內(nèi)容完整，條理清楚，行文流暢，只有個別錯誤，字數(shù)在100字以上。