health-food stores and one natural-food restaurant in the last five blocks. I can't even remember what was there before.

F: I know. Health foods, vitamins and natural cures have become very popular recently. And look at the increase in the number of joggers over the last few years. Everyone is concerned about his health these days.

Q: What can we infer from the conversation?

9. F: I must say I'm a bit surprised at how few people in Japan speak English. Even the hotel staff seems to have only a basic grasp of the language. M: Yes, there's a great need to improve people's speaking ability. That's my business. My company produces English language programs with cassette tapes for home study. Q: What is the man's profession? Section B

Passage One (for Q's 10-12)

M: With regard to your plan to have an exibition in town, there are several points I'd like to discuss with you. Would Friday be convenient for you? F: Let me see. I have a meeting on Friday, Prrofessor Li. I wonder if we could meet some time early next week.

M: I'm afraid I can't make it before next Wednesday. I'm going to be out of town for a few days. Would Wednesday morning be all right for you? F: I'm very sorry. Wednesday morning is my lecture time. M: What about Wednesday afternoon then? F: Wednesday afternoon will be O.K. M: Good. Shall we make it three o'clock?

F: Yes, that will be fine. Then suppose I come over to your office Wednesday afternoon at three?

M: O.K. I'll be expecting you then. Question 10: What are the speakers doing?

Question 11: Why are the speakers planning to meet? Question 12: When are the speakers to meet? Passage Two (for Q's 13-15)

Liberia, the oldest independent Negro state in West Africa, has been struggling for survival ever since its foundation in 1822. Progress has been hampered by constant hostility between the American Negroes whose families returned there in the early nineteenth century and the West Africans whose ancestors never left the continent. Though the two groups are of the same race, they are divided by language and outlook and regard each other with deep suspicion, creating a conflict which was not foreseen by Liberia's founders.

In addition, neighboring states, native tribes, disease, and poverty have made life dangerous and difficult. The government has tried desperately, through loans and a trickle of trade, to make ends meet. Anxiety about finan- cial matters lessened somewhat when, in 1910, the United States accepted responsibility for Liberia's survival. However, not until Harvey Firestone, the American rubber magnate, decided that the United States must produce its own rubber--with Liberia as the site of the rubber plantations--did Liberia have much hope of paying its debts and balancing its budget.

The rubber industry, founded in the 1920's, and the activity that followed it, brought both progress and profit to Liberia. Before that time Liberia had no roads, no mechanical transport, and no good port; its people had little education and few tools. For this reason the recent discovery of iron ore is important. Liberian leaders are trying to moderate the power of the rubber industry and to establish the country's political and economic independence. Question 13: According to the passage, what has marked the history of Liberia? Question 14: What has been the greatest problem of the Liberian government? Question 15: What can we infer from the passage about the establishment of rubber industry?

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PAPER ONE PART I

PART II VOCABULARY ( 10 minutes,10 points) Section A (0.5 point each)

Directions: There are ten sentences in this section. Each sentence has one word or a set of words underlined. Below the sentence are four words or phrases marked A,B,C, and D. Choose the word or phrase that is closest in meaning to the underlined one, mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your Answer Sheet.

16.The last census of the country's population growth is discouraging. A. count B. statement C. agreement D. estimate 17.My library cad will cease to be effective in this December.

A. extol B. expound C. expire D. explore

18.Because of a long drought, the farmer was doubtful about the prospect of a good yield.

A. positive B .definite C. dubious D. grateful 19.Even as a child he had a very curious mind; at the age of three he performed his first experiment.

A. delicate B. indignant C. incidental D. inquisitive 20.The other members of the Cabinet made fun of the Secretary of Interior when he purchased Alaska because it was not considered valuable at that time. A. decried B. derided C. deterred D. depressed 21.City taxes are based on an estimate of the value of one's property. A. an appraisal B. a forecast C. a diagnosis D. an outline

22.Although recognized as one of the most brilliant scientists in his field, professor Lee cannot seem to make his ideas understood in class. A. get his ideas down B. get his ideas across C. get his ideas up D. get his ideas at home

23.They were hesitant to move because they could not get a good price for their old house.

A. incessant B. reluctant C. negligent D. exorbitant 24.Having dialed their number all day only to hear a busy signal, she became

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impatient and called the operator for assistance.

A. integrated B. exasperated C. alleviated D. eradicated 25.Some species of bacteria and fungi thrive on simple compounds such as alcohol. A. mix with B. do well on C. exist in D. float on Section B (0.5 point each)

Directions: There are ten sentences in this section. Each sentence has something omitted. Choose the word or words from the four choices given to best complete each sentence.

26.Finally,the long years of poverty and hard work ______ him. He was down with TB and never recovered.

A. tore up B. caught up with C. had their revenge on D. took a hand in 27.To make the students see the importance of speaking, the English teachers are ready to ______ .

A. go to any length B. do them good C. take them to task D. bring them out

28.People who refuse to ______ with the law will be punished.

A. obey B. conceal C. consent D. comply 29.The reason why the company is successful is due to the fact that they produce ______ materials.

A. superior B. expensive C quality D. worthless 30.Comparison and contrast are often used ______ in advertisements. A. extensive B. effectively C .intentional D. haphazard 31.Current hiring policies in the United States seek to ______ equal employment opportunities for women and minority groups.

A. provide B. demanded C. confirmed D. continue 32.There is no easy solution to Japan's labor ______ .

A. decline B. rarity C. vacancy D. shortage 33.I left for the office earlier than usual this morning ______ traffic jam. A. in line with B. in case of C. for the sake of D. at the risk of

34.The new washing machines are ______ at the rate of fifty a day. A. turned up B. turned out C. turned down D. turned in 35.On turning the corner, we saw the road ______ steeply.

A. departing B. decreasing C. descending D. depressing PART III CLOZE TEST (10 MINUTES,15 POINTS)

Directions: Read the passage through. Then go back and choose one item of the most suitable word(s) marked A,B,C,or D for each blank in the passage. Mark the corresponding letter of the word(s) you have chosen with a single bar across the square brackets on your Answer Sheet.

I am always (36) amused and annoyed when I hear (37) people criticize English food. %unimaginative, \say. \(38) ,it's tasteless, it's chips with everything and totally over-cooked vegetables.\\say the French,\(39) you do is roasts with jam.\(40) really shocking, but then the French are easily shocked by (41) that aren't French. (42) I ask these visitors where they have experienced English cooking, I am (43) by their reply. \(44) say. I have (45) my case. Their (46) are inexcusable. I have a (47) about

English cooking, and I was interested to read that several (48) cookery writers agree with me. It is this. Our basic ingredients, when fresh, are so full of (49) that we haven't had to (50) sauces and complex recipes to disguise their natural taste. 36.A. so B. either C. all D. both 37.A.strange B. foreign C. every D. abroad 38. A .boring B. interesting C. nice lazy 39. A. what B. that C. all D. only 40.A.sense B .find C. feel D. see 41.A.things B. people C. events D. articles 42.A.On B. When C. However D. Perhaps 43.A.told B. terrified C. astonished D. left 44 .A. together B. never C. often D. rarely 45. A .lost B. shown C. closed D. won 46.A.conclusions B. friends C. concerns D. meanings 47.A.idea B. thought C. theory D. news 48.A.large B. some C. high D. famous 49.A.favour B. flavor C. flour D. fog 50.A.invent B. omit C. admit D. invest PART IV READING COMPREHENSION ( 45 MINUTES,30 POINTS) Directions: In this part of the test, there are five passages for you to read. Read each passage carefully, and then do the questions that follow. Choose the best answer A,B,C,or D, and mark the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. (1)

Many people seem to think that science fiction is typified by the cover of some of the old pulp magazines: the Bug-eyed Monster, embodying every trait and feature that most people find repulsive, is about to grab, and presumably ravish, a sweet, blonde, curvaceous, scantily-clad Earth girl. This is unfortunate because it demeans and degrades a worthwhile and even important literary endeavor. In contrast to this unwarranted stereotype, science fiction rarely emphasizes sex, and when it does, it is more discreet than other contemporary fiction. Instead, the basic interest of science fiction lies in the relation between man and his technology and between man and the universe. Science fiction is a literature of change and a literature of the future, and while it would be foolish to claim that science fiction is a major literary genre at this time, the aspects of human life that it considers make it well worth reading and studying -- for no other literary form does quite the same things. The question is :what is science fiction? And the answer must be, unfortunately, that there have been few attempts to consider this question at any length or with much seriousness; it may well be that science fiction will resist any comprehensive definition of its characteristics. To say this, however, does not mean that there are no ways of defining it nor that various facets of its totality cannot be clarified. To begin with, the following definition should be helpful: science fiction is a literary sub-genre which postulates a change (for human beings ) from conditions as we know them and follows the implications of these changes to a conclusion. Although this definition will necessarily be modified and expanded, and probably changed, in the course of this exploration, it covers much of the basic groundwork and provides a point of departure. The first point--that science fiction is a literary sub-genre is a very important one, but one which is often overlooked or ignored in most discussions of science fiction. Specifically, science fiction is either

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a short story or a novel. There are only a few dramas which could be called science fiction, with Karel Capek's RUR ( Rossum's Universal Robots) being the only one that is well known; the body of poetry that might be labeled science fiction is only slightly larger. To say that science fiction is a sub-genre of prose fiction is to say that it has all the basic characteristics and serves the same basic functions in much the same way as prose fiction in general -- that is, it shares a great deal with all other novels and short stories. Everything that can be said about prose fiction, in general, applies to science fiction. Every piece of science fiction whether short story or novel, must have a narrator, a story, a plot, a setting, characters, language, and theme. And like any prose, the themes of science fiction are concerned with interpreting man's nature and experience in relation to the world around him. Themes in science fiction are constructed and presented in exactly the same ways that themes are dealt with in any other kind of fiction. They are the result of a particular combination of narrator, story, plot, character, setting, and language. In short, the reasons for reading and enjoying science fiction, and the ways of studying and analyzing it, are basically the same as they would be for any other story or novel.

51.Science fiction is called a literary sub-genre because ______. A. it is not important enough to be a literary genre B .it can not be made into a dramatic presentation C it has its limits

D. it shares characteristics with other types of prose fiction

52.Which of the following does NOT usually contribute to the theme in a piece of science fiction ______?

A. character B. rhyme C. plot D. setting

53.The view of science fiction encouraged by pulp magazines, while wrong, is nevertheless ______.

A. popular B. elegant C. fashionable D. accurate 54.An appropriate title for this passage would be_______ A. On the Inaccuracies of Pulp Magazines B. Man and the Universe

C. Toward a Definition of Science Fiction D.A Type of Prose Fiction

55.The author's definition suggests that all science fiction deals with ______. A .monsters

B. the same topics addressed by novels and short stories C. the unfamiliar or unusual

D. the conflict between science and fiction

56.One implication of the final sentence in the passage is that ______.

A. those who can read and analyze fiction can also do so with science fiction B. there is no reason for any reader not to like science fiction C. all fiction consists of six basic elements D. there are reasons for enjoying science fiction (2)

Cans, beer cans, shining on the edges of a million of roadways, lying in scrub, grass,dirt,leaves,sand,mud,butneveridden.Piels,Rheingold,Ballanitine,Schaefer,Schlitz,shining in the sun or picked by moon or the beams of headlights at night washed by rain or flattened by wheels, but never dulled, never buried, never destroyed.

Here is the mark of savages, the testament of wasters, the stain of prosperity. Who are these men who defile the grassy borders of our roads and lanes, who pollute our ponds, who spoil the purity of our ocean beaches with the empty vessels of their thirst? Who are the men who make these vessels in millions and then say, \of metal and to make of wild and fruitful land a garbage heal? What manner of men and women need thirty feet of steel and two hundred horsepower to take them, singly, to their small destinations? Who demand that what they eat is wrapped so that forests are cut down to make the paper that is thrown away, and what they smoke and chew is sealed so that sealers can be tossed onto grass and caught in twigs? What kind of man afford to make the streets of their towns and cities ugly with neon at night, and their roadways hideous with signs by day, wasting beauty? Who leave the wrecks of cars to rot in heals? Who pour their trash into valleys and make smoking mountains of garbage for the towns' rats? What manner of men choke off the life in rivers, streams and lakes with the waste of their produce, making poison of water ? Who is as rich as that? Slowly the wasters and despoilers are impoverishing our land, our nature and our beauty, so that there will not be one beach, one hill, one lane, one meadow, one forest free from the debris of man and ruins of his shameful destruction. Who is so rich that he can waste forever the wealth of earth and water for trivial needs of vanity and foolish and uncontrollable demands of greed, or so prosperous in land that he can sacrifice nature for unnatural desires? The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will in the end take their revenge, for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future. And what will we leave behind us when we are long dead? Temples? Gardens? works of arts? Or mountains of twisted and rusted steel, canyons of plastic containers and a million miles of shores decorated not with lovely sea plants, but with the cans, bottles, light-bulbs and boxes of a people who conserved their convenience at the expense of their heritage, and whose short-lived prosperity was built on waste? 57.The word \ A. a land that is wasted

B. a land that is covered by waste C. a land that is inhabited by wasters D. all of the above

58.In Para.1,\ likely to be ______.

A. names of imaginary tourists B. cans of different brands of beer

C. names of those roadways covered by waste

D. names of the people who have left cans on the edges of roadways 59.In Para.2,\ A. used-up drink containers B. broken frames of cars C. empty cups D. empty garbage cans

60.In Para.3,\ simply means ______.

A. a lot of energy B. a pile of cans C. an automobile D. a lot of waste

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61.In the passage, the author mentions all these kinds of waste EXCEPT ______. A. waste of natural beauty B. waste of natural resources C. waste of man power D. waste of land

62.What is the main purpose of the passage? A. To find out who are the wasters and despoilers

B. To suggest the ways of solving problems of pollution and wasting C. To find out who are rich enough to waste forever

D. To make people aware of the consequences of the abuse of the earth and the nature by man

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From the U.S. Supreme Court now comes an extraordinary decision permitting inquiries into the \of mind\of journalists and the editorial process of news organizations. This is perhaps the most alarming evidence so far of a determination by the nation's highest court to weaken the protection of the First Amendment for those who gather and report the news. The court last year upheld the right of police to invade news-paper offices in search of evidence, and reporters in other cases have gone to jail to protect the confidentiality of their notebooks. Under the recent 6-3 ruling in a libel case, they now face a challenge to the privacy of their minds. Few would argue that the First Amendment guarantees absolute freedom of speech or freedom of the press. Slander and libel laws stand to the contrary as a protection of an individual's reputation against the irresponsible spread of falsehoods. The effect of this latest decision, however, is to make the libel suit, or the threat of one ,a clear invasion by the courts into the private decision-making that constitutes news and editorial judgement. In landmark decisions of 1964 and 1967,the Supreme Court established that public officials or public figures ringing libel actions must prove that a damaging falsehood was published with \that is, with knowledge that the statements were false, or with reckless disregard of whether they were true or not. Justice Byron R. White, writing for the new majority in the new ruling, says it is not enough to examine all the circumstances of publication that would indicate whether there was malicious intent or not. It is proper and constitutional, he says ,for \The court is thus ordering a CBS television producer to answer questions about the thought processes that went into the preparation and airing of a segment of \Minutes.\First Amendment is frightening. The novelist George Orwell may have been mistaken only in the timing of his vision of a Big Brother government practicing mind-control.

63.The passage deals principally with ______. A. the U. S. Supreme Court's new decision

B. explaining the First Amendment to the Constitution C .an attack on the freedom of the press D. slander and libel laws

64.The writer's attitude toward the U. S. Supreme Court's new decision is that of _____

A. approval B .disapproval C. doubt D .indifference 65.From the context, it may be inferred that slander and libel laws are _______.

A. in fact the same thing as the First Amendment

B. contrary to the protection of individual's reputation against lies C. laws protecting the freedom of the press

D. laws protecting individual's reputation against lies 66.In Line 16,\ A. the warning of a libel suit B. threatening an individual C. the threat of a decision D. the threat of an invasion

67.What does \ A. knowledge that the statement is false

B. reckless disregard of whether the statement is true or false C. both A and B D. libel

68.What does the writer mainly argue against in this passage? A. the absolute freedom of the press

B. invasion into the privacy of the journalist's mind C. malicious intent of the journalist D. the slander and libel laws (4)

During the nineteenth century, the mechanization of farming and the fencing of range land opened the agricultural heart of North America to intensive development. As the natural geographic center of this region, Chicago became the crossroads of a vast transportation network. The great waterway systems of the Mississippi valley and the Great Lakes were linked in Chicago in 1847, when the Illinois-Michigan Canal was opened to traffic. Within the next year, rail lines began to operate trains to and from the city. The rise of agricultural activity demanded facilities for the storage and milling of grain, the slaughtering of cattle, and the processing and shipment of meat. The manufacture of farm machinery branched out into the basic metal-fabricating and woodworking industries. This soon attracted banks and other financial institutions. Four years after the end of the Civil War, Chicago was already established as the focal point of the largest system of inland waterways in the world and the hub of a rail network that extended to the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts. The productive potential of the city was unparalleled, and the pace of its industrial expansion reached explosive proportions. 69.What is the main topic of the passage?

A. The effects of the Civic War on the development of Chicago B. The effects of intensive farming in North America C. The evolution of Chicago as an industrial center D. The impact of agriculture on industrial development 70.In the nineteenth century, the farming area around Chicago developed rapidly because ______. A. new irrigation waterways were built

B. men who had been soldiers provided a plentiful work force C. new machinery permitted farming on a large scale

D. the slaughtering of cattle turned much range land into farmland 71.Why did Chicago initially begin to grow?

A. It was located in the middle of a productive area

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