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Part I Sample Writing
An Eye-witness Account of a Traffic Accident
Yesterday afternoon, I happened to witness a terrible traffic accident on my way home from school. It was 5:30 p. m. , I was riding my favorite Giant back home. When I got to the last crossing on the Golden Lion Street, the red light was on. So I applied the brakes, along with a long queue of vehicles waiting to pass。
Just at that moment, a heavy-load truck with earth roared forward at my side and bumped against a private Accord of Honda traveling eastbound. As a result, the windshield of the lorry was broken into pieces and its driver got fatally wounded on the head on the steering wheel. The driver of the Accord and his girlfriend, the only passenger in the car, only got minor injuries, but his car lost its rear axel and two wheels and was totally dead。
As for the cause of the accident, I think the driver of the lorry should be held responsible: the light was red then; he should have stopped and waited. It was he who had broken the traffic regulations. In addition, the bad weather was part of the cause. It was drizzling then, and the road was quite slippery. Finally, drunk driving was probably an important factor. As the police discovered on the spot; there was a heavy alcoholic smell on the dead body of the lorry driver。
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
1. Y 2. N 3. NG 4. N
5. the hours of the night
6. maintaining accuracy
7. accurate and reliable
8. demands of modern technology
9. the atomic clock
10. natural means
Part Ⅲ Listening Comprehension
Section A
11--15 CDAAB 16--20 CCADD 21--25 CBDAB
Section B
26--30 DBCAB 31--35 CBCAD
Section C
36. president 37. twenty-one 38. delegates 39. election
40. banned 41. honesty 42. illegal 43. accusations
44. The American government charged five people in connection with these gifts
45. The new president has been active in the Olympics since he was a young man
46. Those games were highly successful
Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)
Section A
47. 30
48. underestimates
49. Any zoo that is a member of a zoo federation or association。
50. caliber/ criterion/ standard
51. Disbelieving. / Skeptical. /Doubtful。
Section B
52--56 CBAAD 57--61 CBCAD
Part V Cloze
62--66 ACDAA 67--71 BBDAC 72--76 ABBCD 77--81 BCDCA
Part Ⅵ Translation
82. one of the most effective means of absorbing knowledge from a book is to make intelligent notes in the margins
83. people are more mobile than ever before and perhaps this is why mobile phones have become so popular
84. a teacher may evaluate and grade an essay on the basis of his general impression rather than on a detailed analysis
85. virtually every child has dreamed of traveling in space and experiencing what it would be like to live in a gravity-free environment
86. because he managed to get an exclusive interview with the president and published as the front page headline
試題解答(4)
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
1. 由“Clocks”部分第一、二句“At best, historians know that 5,000 6,000 years ago, great civilizations in the Middle East and North Africa started to examine forms of clock-making instead of working with only the monthly and annual calendar.., but it has been suggested that the intention was to maximize time available to achieve more as the size of the population grew。” 可見中東和北非的一些民族在五六千年前就開始研制鐘表了。由于人口的增長，研制一定的時間段用于工作”是正確的。因此，答案為YES。
2. 由“Sun Clocks”部分最后一段“Another ancient Egyptian ‘shadow clock’ or ‘sundial’ has been discovered to have been in use around 1500 BC, which allowed the measuring of the passage of ‘hours’... For it to work successfully then at midday or noon, the device had to be
turned 180 degrees to measure the afternoon hours。”可見要想測量下午的時間，必須在正午將沒備旋轉(zhuǎn)180度。因此，我們可以斷定這種計時器還不能做到連續(xù)、自動測量時間，必須在中午時手動旋轉(zhuǎn)設(shè)備180度。故此題答案為NO。
3.由“Water Clocks”部分第一句“‘Water clocks’were among the earliest time keeping devices that didn't use the observation of the celestial bodies to calculate the passage O{time。”可見水鐘是不靠觀察天體來測量時間的最早的設(shè)備之一。但文章并沒有進(jìn)一步提供信息說它是否是第一個這樣的計時設(shè)備。因此信息不充分，本題判斷為NOT GIVEN。
4.由“Mechanical Clocks”部分第一段“In 1656，‘Christian Huygens'(Dutch scientist)， made the first ‘Pendulum clock’....‘Galileo Galilei' is credited，in most historical books，for inventing the pendulum as early as 1582，but his design was not built before his death。”可以看出，大多數(shù)歷史教科書認(rèn)為Galileo Galilei是第一位早在1582年就設(shè)計出擺鐘的人，但直到他去世也沒有制作出擺鐘。第一個擺鐘是荷蘭科學(xué)家Christian Huygens制作出來的。故此句答案為NO。
5.由“Water Clocks”部分第三句“Most of these clocks were used to determine the hours of the night，but may have also been used during daylight。”可見水鐘主要用于夜間計時。故本題答案為“the hours of the night”。
6.由“Mechanical Clocks”部分第三、四句“Huygens’clock，when built，had an error of‘less than only one minute a day.’This was a massive leap in the development of maintaining accuracy， as this had previously never been achieved。”可見這個鐘的誤差每天不到一分鐘。這在計時準(zhǔn)確性的發(fā)展史上，是巨大的飛躍。因此，本題的正確答案是“maintaining accuracy”。
7.由“Quartz Clocks”部分第二段第一句“Quartz clocks continue to dominate the market because of the accuracy and reliability of the performance，also being inexpensive to produce on mass scale。”可見由于其準(zhǔn)確和穩(wěn)定，也由于其成本低，適于大規(guī)模生產(chǎn)，石英鐘將繼續(xù)占有市場的主導(dǎo)地位。故此題正確答案為“accurate and reliable”。
8.由“Atomic Clocks”部分第四段第三、四句“Transportation，financial markets，communication， manufacturing，electric power and many other technologies have become dependent on super- accurate clocks.Scientific research and the demands of modern technology continue to drive our search for ever more accuracy。”可見是科學(xué)研究和現(xiàn)代技術(shù)的要求驅(qū)使我們不斷探尋日益精確的計時方法。故本題答案為“demands of modern technology”。
9.由“Atomic Clocks”部分第三段最后一句“From the‘Macrocosm’，or‘Planetary Alignment’， to the‘Microcosm’，or‘Atomic Frequency’，the cesium now maintains accuracy with a degree of error to about‘one-millionth of a second per year’。”可見隨著技術(shù)的發(fā)展，原子鐘已經(jīng)可以達(dá)到一年誤差大約一百萬分之一秒。比起前面的鐘表不知道精確了多少倍。故本題答案為“the atomic clock”。
10.由“Something to Remember”部分第一段“The only thing that should be remembered during all this technological development is that we should never lose the ability to tell the time approximately by natural means and the powers of deduction without requiring crutches to lean on”可見無論計時技術(shù)如何發(fā)展，我們不能失去通過自然手段判定大概時間的基本能力。故本題答案為“natural means”。
