41. The project was ______ easy, it took us nearly three years to fulfill it.

　　A. at least

　　B. on a large scale大規(guī)模地

　　C. anything but決不，根本不

　　D. nothing but只，僅僅

　　42. ______ you didn't have a key, I wouldn’t have locked the door.

　　A. If I know

　　B. If I knew

　　C. Had I known

　　D. Were I to know

　　43. The rain was so heavy ______ our picnic impossible.

　　A. to make

　　B. making

　　C. as to make so...as to如此…以至于

　　D. in order to make

　　44. Several of these washers and dryers are out of order and need ______.

　　A. to repair

　　B. to have repaired

　　C. repairing當(dāng)need/want/require表需要、要求時(shí)，可接doing，也可接to be done

　　D. being repaired

　　45. ______ of plastic, the machine is much lighter than those made of steel.

　　A. To make

　　B. To have made

　　C. Made

　　D. Making

　　II. Cloze (20 Points)

　　Choose the most appropriate answer to complete the following passage.

　　Animals and insects can communicate with others of 46 kind through signals or sounds. Bees, for example, use signals to communicate information to other bees. When a bee 47 food, it goes towards its hive. It " 48 " in the air to tell the other bees about its 49 . The 50 of the dance give information about the place where the food is, and about the 51 between that place to the hive.

　　Some animals make 52 to communicate their feelings, or to pass information to each other. For example, a dog barks when it is angry, or excited. Birds make different kinds of sounds to signal, for example, danger or 53 . 54, however, have something that no animal has. Human beings have the ability to express their action, feelings and ideas through 55 . They can also write words down, in order to communicate past events and to 56 message to people far away.

　　Even though some birds have learned to 57 words , they do not understand the 58 of the words, and therefore they cannot 59 them to communicate ideas.

　　How did man first learn to 60 ? Perhaps we shall never know. However, we do know 61 as man’s knowledge increased he 62 use more sounds in order to express a greater number of feelings and ideas. It became necessary for him to communicate about a greater number of things. He began to make 63 different sounds, and gradually he put these sounds together to form first words 64 groups of words, and then 65 . In different parts of the world, people developed their own systems of sounds and words. Today we call these systems "languages".

　　46. A. different B. the different C. same D. the same

　　47. A. has found B. had found C. has looked D. finds

　　48. A. walks B. steps C. dances D. shouts

　　49. A. enemy B. discovery C. discover D. friend

　　50. A. movements B. dress C. meaning D. language

　　51. A. way B. road C. distance D. path

　　52. A. sounds B. voice C. sound D. noise

　　53. A. friend B. friendship C. friends D. friendly

　　54. A. Human beings B. People

　　C. Persons D. Beasts

　　55. A. words B. worms C. world D. work

　　56. A. set B. sad C. send D. sent

　　57. A. sing B. repeat C. cry D. call

　　58. A. spelling B. meaning C. function D. part of speech

　　59. A. use B. do C. force D. make

　　60. A. tell B. talk C. say D. speak

　　61. A. that B. which C. when D. where

　　62. A. needs B. needs to C. needed to D. needed

　　63. A. less and less B. much and much

　　C. more and more D. little and little

　　64. A. at last B. finally C. in the end D. then

　　65. A. paragraphs B. languages C. letters D. sentences

　　III. Reading Comprehension (50 Points)

　　In this section there are 5 passages, and each passage is followed by a number of comprehension questions. Read the passage carefully and answer the questions.

　　Questions 66 to 70 are based on the following passage:

　　In the 1900's, American townspeople usually washed and brushed their teeth and combed their hair in the kitchen. Or they kept a water pitcher(大水罐) and a wash basin in their rooms and took care of these things there.

　　The bathtub was a wash tub(澡盆) filled with water from the stove. If you were small enough you could sit down by drawing your knees to your chest. Otherwise, you washed yourself standing up. Often all the women and girls in the family bathed together. Then the men and boys did. In most families this was Saturday night because Sundays they went to church.

　　A small number of families did have running water. But that depended on whether there was a water system where they lived and on whether they could afford the plumbing. Some people had bathtubs in their homes as early as 1895. But many others did not have their first bath in a bathtub until 1910 or later when they were fifteen or sixteen years old.

　　66. In the first paragraph, "took care of" means "______".

　　A. kept

　　B. looked after

　　C. used

　　D. kept and used

　　67. In order to use the water from the stove, there ______ be a pipe connecting the tub with the stove.

　　A. must

　　B. seemed to

　　C. needn't

　　D. should

　　68. Which of the following statements is true?

　　A. Males and females in the family took turns using the bathtub.

　　B. Some bathtubs were big enough for many people to bathe in at the same time.

　　C. All the women and girls of a family could bathe together standing up in the tub.

　　D. When several family members bathed together, they did not use the bathtub.

　　69. ______ Americans owned a bathtub as early as 1895.

　　A. Many

　　B. Not all

　　C. All

　　D. Few

　　70. We can infer (推斷) that the plumbing ______ at that time.

　　A. cost little

　　C. was more expensive than a water system

　　C. was too expensive for every family to afford

　　D. was not necessary

　　Questions 71 to 75 are based on the following passage:

　　There are some special traditions (傳統(tǒng)) in Hawaii. People are very friendly and always welcome visitors. They give visitors a lei, a long necklace of beautiful fresh flowers. Men wear bright flowered shirts, and women often wear long flowered dresses. There are traditional Chinese, Japanese and Philippine holidays and all the holidays from the United States.

　　They call Hawaii the Aloha State. Aloha means both hello and goodbye. It also means ''I love you".

　　Usually when people from different countries, races and traditions live together, there are serious problems. There are a few problems in Hawaii but, in general, people have learned to live together in peace.

　　Hawaiians get most of their money from visitors, and most of the visitors come from the mainland and from Japan. There are so many people living in Hawaii now that there are residential areas(住宅區(qū)) where there used to be farms. Some of the big sugar and apple companies have moved to the Philippine, where they do not have to pay workers as much money. The families of the first people who came from the U. S. mainland own the important banks and companies. Japanese are also buying or starting businesses.

　　71. A good title for this article might be ______.

　　A. Hawaii the Aloha State

　　B. Living in Peace Together

　　C. The Flowers of Hawaii

　　D. The Problems of Hawaii

　　72. The author wants to show that ______.

　　A. we should all go to Hawaii

　　B. it is possible to learn to live together in peace

　　C. it is not possible to live together in peace

　　D. Hawaii is the only place where there is peace

　　73. A lei is a ______.

　　A. group of flowers

　　B. bright flowered shirt

　　C. way to say hello and goodbye

　　D. necklace of flowers

　　74. Why have the people of Hawaii come to live in peace?

　　A. Because they have a beach.

　　B. Because they are in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

　　C. They really don't live in peace.

　　D. Because they learned that it was the best.

　　75. ______ plays an important part in the development of Hawaii.

　　A. Modern industry

　　B. Agriculture

　　C. The airline

　　D. Business in travel

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