第一部分：完形填空（共18小题；每小题2分，满分36分） A Have you ever felt that you were just studying to pass a test? Today, many 1 and companies around the world use standardized tests such as TOEFL to 2 students’ abilities. Thousands of people every year take these kinds of tests in order to enter or graduate from a school, or get a better job. In many educational systems throughout the world, students take regular multiple-choice (多项选择的) achievement tests. They have to 3 these tests in order to move to a higher level, or graduate from an educational institution. Many supporters of this type of traditional evaluation (评估) believe that students learn best and 4 their knowledge by memorizing facts and information. Many 5 of this way of learning also believe that teaching students to pass a test means teaching them to do lots of exercises. Educational reformers, however, believe that standardized tests are 6 and can only measure some of a student’s ability. They think that many students, though intelligent, are not 7 good at taking tests, or at memorization. This makes it harder for them to achieve passing grades, get into good schools, or get the right jobs. In addition, factors such as how a person feels on the day of a test can also 8 his or her score. Using only a multiple-choice style of test to evaluate students’ abilities cannot always tell us 9 they have learned, or how they may do in the future.
To use standardized tests or not to -- the debate 10 . Meanwhile, many students’ futures are still decided based on their test results. 1. A. schools B. factories C. teachers D. bosses 2. A. develop B. learn C. know D. measure 3. A. understand B. fail C. pass D. have 4. A. explain B. increase C. remember D. recite 5. A. experts B. parents C. students D. supporters 6. A. limited B. excellent C. terrible D. perfect 7. A. never B. always C. sometimes D. even 8. A. add B. lower C. affect D. keep 9. A. why B. that C. how D. what 10. A. begins B. ends C. continues D. stops B With the improved social developments, more and more Chinese families are beginning to afford private cars. Yet opinions of 11 we’d develop private car ownership or not differ person 12 to person. In some people’s eyes, private cars offered 13 great convenience and mobility. People no have 14 to depend on public transportation and they can go 15 they want. However, opponents of this idea think that private cars make the situation of city traffic even worse. There are already so many traffic jams. What’s more, so many private cars greatly pollute the 16 . As far as I’m concerned, 17 increasing number of private cars is a symbol of modernization of our country, but we should try to carry out some relative policies to put the use of private cars 18 firm control.
第二部分 阅读技能 （共8小题；每小题3分，满分24分） A The wheel was one of man’s first inventions and yet it has also proved one of the most useful. So wide and varied are the uses of the wheels, in machines and vehicles of all kinds, that it is difficult to imagine what the world would be like without them. It is surprising to hear it said, therefore, that the wheel’s importance will perhaps be greatly reduced by the end of the century by an invention so new as to be still unnamed. The invention is a machine that floats above any surface on a cushion of air. The cushion is formed when air is blown into this saucer, the machine rises to a height that may vary from a few inches to a few feet. Industry is already using one form of the inversion to deal with heavy loads. It can lift them. with ease and since there are no wheels, and therefore no friction, they can be put into motion with the touch of a finger. The new invention, however, is having a great effect on transport. Not only does it make expensive road systems unnecessary, but it enables vehicles to travel well over land or water. This unique to reach most destinations has given rise to the prediction that wheeled vehicles may be uncommon at the end the century as aeroplanes were at the beginning. 19. The first paragraph tells us that ______. A. the wheel was man’s earliest invention. B. the wheel’s usefulness has yet to be proved. C. wide wheels have a variety of important uses. D. a new invention may make wheels less important. 20. The phrase “with the touch of a finger” in the third paragraph means ______. A. without difficulty B. by electricity C. without friction D. by hand. 21. The passage tells us that the new invention __________. A. is more important for industry than for transport. B. will one day be used instead of aeroplanes. C. makes it possible to travel without using roads. D. will replace wheeled vehicles using roads. 22. According to the passage, the new invention _______. A. will soon get a name B.&
