单选题All of the following four except ______ are the most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England. A. Francis Bacon B. Christopher Marlow C. William Shakespeare D. Ben Johnson

单选题Happily my parents always had a(n)______ attitude to my staying out late in the evening. A. long-suffering B. long-standing C. kind-hearted D. easy-going

单选题The fact is ______, after years of experimenting, the music industry still hasn't found a way of making significant money out of the Internet. A. when B. that C. because D. however

单选题{{B}}Section A{{/B}} Directions: In this section, you will hear 6 short conversations. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the question will be read only once. After each question, there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.

单选题My reading in later life has supplied me with some possible explanations of his ______.

单选题—What sort of poetry do you read? —Modern poetry especially. —Can you quote any? —______ The trouble is: I read them; I think "that's very good" and then I forget them.

单选题Whichdieisdifferentfromtheotherthree?

单选题The man we had arrested doesn't ______ your description of the thief.

单选题The 18th century England is known as the ______ in the history.

单选题Dry farming is a type of agriculture used in areas ______ less than 20 inches of rainfall. A. there are B. where there is C. in which is D. which has

单选题{{B}}Section B{{/B}} In, this section, there is one passage followed by a summary. Read the passage carefully and complete the summary below by choosing no more than three words from the passage. Remember to write the answers on the answer sheet. My mother started the San Francisco version of the Joy Luck Club in 1949, two years before I was born. This was the year my mother and father left China with one stiff leather trunk filled only with fancy silk dresses. There was no time to pack anything else, my mother had explained to my father after they boarded the boat. Still his hands swam frantically between the slippery silks, looking for his cotton shirts and wool pants. When they arrived in San Francisco, my father made her hide those shiny clothes. She wore the same brown-checked Chinese dress until the Refugee Welcome Society gave her two hand-me-down dresses, all too large in sizes for American women. The society was composed of a group of white-haired American missionary ladies from the First Chinese Baptist Church. And because of their gifts, my parents could not refuse their invitation to join the church. Nor could they ignore the old ladies' practical advice to improve their English through Bible study class on Wednesday nights and, later, through choir practice on Saturday mornings. This was how my parents met the Hus, the Jongs, and the St. Clairs. My mother could sense that the women of these families also had unspeakable tragedies they had left behind in China and hopes they couldn't begin to express in their fragile English. Or at least, my mother recognized the numbness in these women's faces. And she saw how quickly their eyes moved when she told them her idea for the Joy Luck Club. Joy Luck was an idea my mother remembered from the days of her first marriage in Kweilin, before the Japanese came. That's why I think of Joy Luck as her Kweilin story. It was the story she would always tell me when she was bored, when there was nothing to do, when every bowl had been washed and the Formica table had been wiped down twice, when my father sat reading the newspaper and smoking one Pall Mall cigarette after another, a warning not to disturb him. This is when my mother would take out a box of old ski sweaters sent to us by unseen relatives from Vancouver. She would snip the bottom of a sweater and pull out a kinky thread of yarn, anchoring it to a piece of cardboard. And as she began to roll with one sweeping rhythm, she would start her story. Over the years, she told me the same story, except for the ending, which grew darker, casting long shadows into her life, and eventually into mine. "I thought up Joy Luck on a summer night that was so hot even the moths fainted to the ground, their wings were so heavy with the damp heat. Every place was so crowded there was no room for fresh air. Unbearable smells from the sewers rose up to my second-story window and the stink had nowhere else to go but into my nose. At all hours of the night and day, I heard screaming sounds. I didn't know if it was a peasant slitting the throat of a runaway pig or an officer beating a half-dead peasant for lying in his way on the sidewalk. I didn't go to the window to find out. What use would it have been? And that's when I thought I needed something to do to help me move. " "My idea was to have a gathering of four women, one for each corner of my mah-jong table. I knew which women I wanted to ask. They were all young like me, with wishful faces. " "Each week one of us would host a party to raise money and to raise our spirits. The hostess had to serve special dyansyin foods to bring good fortune of all kinds—dumplings shaped like silver money ingots, long rice noodles for long life, boiled peanuts for conceiving sons, and of course, many good-luck oranges for a plentiful, sweet life. " "We decided to hold parties and pretend each week had become the new year. Each week we could forget past wrongs done to us. We weren't allowed to think a bad thought. We feasted, we laughed, we played games, lost and won, we told the best stories. And each week, we could hope to be lucky. That hope was our only joy. And that's how we came to call our little parties Joy Luck. " SUMMARY The San Francisco version of the Joy Luck Club was founded by my mother {{U}}(51) {{/U}} my birth. In 1949, my parents left China for the U. S., where my mother was forbidden to wear {{U}}(52) {{/U}} What she did wear was dresses offered by the {{U}}(53) {{/U}} , which was run by a group of old American missionary ladies. Later, my mother got acquainted with some families also of Chinese origin. The women from the families also had {{U}}(54) {{/U}} that they could not express. With these women, my mother started the Joy Luck Club to hold {{U}}(55) {{/U}} and to forget wrongs done to them.

单选题Anyone can borrow books from the library ______ he keeps them clean and returns then on time.

单选题—Tina, I hear you had a good journey to the Maldives last week, How was it? —I enjoyed the beautiful scenery, but the hotel was ______ satisfactory.

单选题 Directions: In this section, you will hear one long conversation. The conversation will be read only once. At the end of the conversation, there will be a one-minute pause. During the pause, you must read the four questions, each with three choices marked A, B and C, and decide which is the best answer.

单选题What does the man say motivates people to buy famous paintings?

单选题Which comes next? A, 1A, 111A, 311A,?

单选题They are looking for ______ man with ______ long dark hair. He is armed and dangerous. A. a; a B. the; a C. a; / D. /; the

单选题The recent literary representations of the North－East of England have been concerned with life after the death of______．

单选题______ and William Shakespeare are the best representatives of English Humanism.

单选题So sudden ______ that most residents at the foot of the mountain had no time to escape.