Section 1: Vocabulary and Grammar (25 points)

　　This section consists of 3 parts. Read the directions for each part before answering the questions. The time for this section is 25 minutes.

　　Part 1 Vocabulary Selection

　　In this part, there are 20 incomplete sentences. Below each sentence, there are 4 choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C and D. Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence. There is only ONE right answer. Blacken the corresponding letter as required on your Machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.

　　1. We have had to raise the prices of our products because of the increase in the cost of ______ materials.

　　A. primitive B. rough

　　C. original D. raw

　　2. With an eighty-hour week and little enjoyment, life must have been very______ for the students.

　　A. hostile B. anxious

　　C. tedious D. obscure

　　3. Whenever the government increases public services,______ because more workers are needed to carry out these services.

　　A. employment to rise B. employment rises

　　C. which rising employment D. the rise of employment

　　4. Our flight to Guangzhou was ______ by a bad fog and we had to stay much longer in the hotel than we had expected.

　　A. delayed B. adjourned

　　C. cancelled D. preserved

　　5. Container-grown plants can be planted at any time of the year, but ______ in winter.

　　A. should be B. would be

　　C. preferred D. preferably

　　6. Both longitude and latitude ______ in degrees, minutes and seconds.

　　A. measuring B. measured

　　C. are measured D. being measured

　　7. Most comets have two kinds of tails, one made up of dust, ______ made up of electrically charged particles called plasma.

　　A. one another B. the other

　　C. other ones D. each other

　　8. Good pencil erasers are soft enough not ______ paper but hard enough so that they crumble gradually when used.

　　A. by damaging B. so that they damage

　　C. to damage D. damaging

　　9. The magician picked several persons ______ from the audience and asked them to help him with the performance.

　　A. by accident B. at random

　　C. on occasion D. on average

　　10. On turning the comer, they saw the path ______ steeply.

　　A. departing B. descending

　　C. decreasing D. degenerating

　　11. English language publications in China are growing in volume and ______.

　　A. circulation B. rotation

　　C. circumstance D. appreciation

　　121. Hydroponics ______ the cultivation of plants without soil.

　　A. does B. is

　　C. do D. are

　　13. To impose computer technology ______ teachers is to create an environment that is not conducive to learning.

　　A. with B. to

　　C. in D. on

　　14. Marketing is ______ just distributing goods from the manufacturer to the final customer.

　　A. rather than B. other than

　　C. bigger than D. more than

　　15. ______ a language family is a group of languages with a common origin and similar vocabulary, grammar, and sound system.

　　A. What linguists call B. It is called by linguists

　　C. Linguists call it D. What do linguists call

　　16. In the eighteenth century, the town of Bennington, Vermont, was famous for ______ pottery.

　　A. it made B. its

　　C. the making D. where its

　　17. ______ get older, the games they play become increasingly complex.

　　A. Children B. Children, when they

　　C. As children D. For children to

　　18. ______ of his childhood home in Hannibal, Missouri, provided Mark Twain with the inspiration for two of his most popular novels.

　　A. Remembering B. Memories

　　C. It was the memories D. He remembered

　　19. Dust storms most often occur in areas where the ground has little vegetation to protect ______ of the wind.

　　A. from the effects B. it the effects

　　C. it from the effects D. the effects from it

　　20. Most nurses are women, but in the higher ranks of the medical profession women are a ______.

　　A. scarcity B. minority

　　C. minimum D. shortage