Error Correction (占总分的10%) 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 0delete 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 0delete a word, cross it out and put a slash(/)in the blank. Example: Television is rapidly becoming the literature of our periods. 1._time Many of the arguments having used for the study of literature 2.______ as a school subject are valid for∧study of television. 3.___the Whether China’s housing reform can be carried out successfully will have a profound bearing on the future of the reform of State-owned enterprises.
Although China’s housing reform registered impressive 54. ______ Progress in the past 10 years, it has still been fettered by its old-fashioned housing distribution system. Under this system ,most employees of state enterprises can still get apartments to their employers, and this practice has 55. ______ turned to be a heavy burden uponthe State firms and a obstacle to56. _____ heir reform. To clear the runway of the reform, those enterprises should establish a special shareholding firm in the charge of housing. 57.______ This firm would be held responsible at its own gains and losses. 58.______ Second ,State-own enterprises must draw a clear line 59._______ between housing investment and production investment. In other words, enterprises should replace the old housing distribution system to generous housing subsidies under a system 60._______ which encourages employees to buy a home in the market. Besides, China should beef its efforts to improve its social 61.______ security system and establish public funds for housing as a way to address urban residents’ housing problems. The government has options to provide houses with those 62.______ who cannot afford a home. One of them is to take a part of the pubic funds to build a batch of cheap houses. the other is redistributing the old houses. 63.______
Short Answer Questions (占总分的5%)
Directions: In the part there is a short passage with five questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words (not exceeding 10 words).
Icebergs are among nature’s most spectacular creations, and yet most people have never seen one. A vague air of mystery envelops them. They come into being-somewhere-in faraway, frigid waters, amid thunderous noise and splashing turbulence, which in most cases no one hears or sees. They exist only a short time and then slowly waste away just as unnoticed. Objects of sheerest beauty, they have been called. Appearing in an endless variety of shapes, they may be dazzlingly white, or they may be glassy blue, green or purple, tinted faintly or in darker hues. They are graceful, stately, inspiring in calm, sunlit seas. But they are also called frightening and dangerous, and that they are-in the night, in the fog, and in storms. Even in clear weather one is wise to stay a safe distance away from them. Most of their bulk is hidden below the water, so their underwater parts may extend out far beyond the visible top. Also, they may roll over unexpectedly, churning the waters around them. Icebergs are parts of glaciers that break off, drift into the water, float about awhile, and finally melt. Icebergs afloat today are made of snowflakes that have fallen over long ages of time. They embody snows that drifted down hundreds, or many thousands, or in some cases maybe a million years ago. The snows fell in polar regions and on cold mountains, where they melted only a little or not at all, and so collected to great depths over the years and centuries. As each year’s snow accumulation lay on the surface, evaporation and melting caused the snowflakes slowly to lose their feathery points and become tiny grains of ice. When new snow fell on top of the old, it too turned to icy grains. So blankets of snow and ice grains mounted layer upon layer and were of such great thickness that the weight of the upper layers compressed the lower ones. With time and pressure from above, the many small ice grains joined and changed to larger crystals, and eventually the deeper crystals merged into a solid mass of ice. Questions: S1.Which is the main idea of this passage? _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ S2.Why does the author state that icebergs are rarely seen? _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ S3.According to the passage, why icebergs are dangerous? _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ S4.How can we account for the formation of an iceberg? _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ S5.What is the author’s attitude toward icebergs? _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______ _______
Part Ⅳ Writing(占总分的15%) Directions: For this part, you are required to write a composition on the topic Let’s Go in for Sports. You should write at least 150 words, and base your composition on the outline given below. 1.当今世界上，有越来越多的人对体育运动感兴趣； 2.但有些人仍然不了解运动的重要性； 3.体育运动有很高的价值。