第一部分：听力 (共两节，满分32.5分) 略 第二部分：单项选择：（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分） 21.After the meeting, I ________ to write a report on our next term’s work. A. set about B. made off with C. set out D. set off 22.______ of the truth of the report, he told his colleagues about it. A. Convinced B. Convincing C. To convince D. Having convinced 23. The students of the music school study________. A. music but also some other subjects B. some other subjects as well as music C. no subjects but music D. neither music nor some other subjects 24.---The boy said he could lift the heavy stone. --- ______ is no doubt about that. A. There B. It C. This D. What 25.That was so serious a matter that I had no choice but _______the police. A. called in B. calling in C. call in D. to call in 26. The information you give in the application form is too ________. You should focus on something special about yourself. A. common B. original C. ordinary D. general 27. With more forests being destroyed, huge quantities of good earth ______ each year. A. is being washing away B. is being washed away C. are washing away D. are being washed away 28.______ ice on the road, I told the driver to slow down. A. There was B. There to be C. There being D. Being 29. She _______ go away when her old friend came to see her. A. was going to B. would C. was about to D. was to
30. It took her ten years to ______ her publishing business. A. take up B. put up C. build up D. bring up 31. When he left, he ______ a dark shirt. A. had on B. put on C. in D. was dressing 32. Last year the number of death increased by 2%-5% _______the year before last. A. comparing to B. comparing with C. to compare with D. compared with 33. That’s an unpleasant thing to say about your father after _____ he’s done for you. A. something B. anything C. all D. that 34. The winner of the Grand Slams said that he had owed his success to many people, his parents________. A. after all B. by chance C. on purpose D. in particular 35. I have always been honest and straight forward, and it doesn’t matter ______ I’m talking to. A. who is it B. who it is C. it is who D. it is whom
第三部分：完形填空（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分） 阅读下面短文, 掌握其大意，然后从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 Who won the World Cup 1998 football game? What happened at the United Nations? How did the critics like the new play? 36 an event takes place, newspapers are on the streets giving the details. Wherever anything happens in the world, reporters are on the spot to gather the news. Newspapers have one basic 37 , to get the news as quickly as possible from its source, from those who make it to those who want to 38 it. Radio, telegraph, television, and 39 inventions brought competition for newspapers. So did the development of magazines and other means of communication. 40 , this competition merely spurred the newspapers on. They quickly make use of the newer and faster means of communication to improve the 41 and thus the efficiency of their own operations. Today more newspapers are 42 and read than ever before. Competition also led newspapers to branch out into many other fields. Besides keeping readers 43 of the latest news, today's newspapers educate and influence readers about politics and other important and serious matters. Newspapers influence readers' economic choices 44 advertising. Most newspapers depend on advertising for their very 45 . Newspapers are sold at a price that 46 even a small fraction of the cost of production. The main 47 of income for most newspapers is commercial advertising. The success in selling advertising depends on a newspaper's value to advertisers. This 48 in terms of circulation. How many people read the newspaper? Circulation depends somewhat on the work of the circulation department and on the services or entertainment 49 in a newspaper's pages. But for the most part, circulation depends on a newspaper's value to readers as source of information 50 the community, city, country, state, nation and world and even outer space. 36. A. Just when B. While C. Soon after D. Before 37. A. reason B. cause C. problem D. purpose 38. A. make B. publish C. know D. write 39. A. another B. other C. one another D. the other 40. A. However B. And C. Therefore D. So 41. A. value B. ratio C. rate D. speed 42. A. spread B. passed C. printed D. completed 43. A. inform B. be informed C. to be informed D. informed 44. A. on B. through C. with D. of 45.A. forms B. existence C. contents D. purpose 46. A. tries to cover B. manages to cover C. fails to cover D. succeeds in 47.A. source B. origin C. course D. finance 48. A. measures B. measured C. is measured D. was measured 49. A. offering B. offered C. which offered D. to be offered 50.A. by B. with C. at D. about
第四部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，共40分） 第一节：阅读下列短文，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A，B,C，D）中，选出最佳选项。 A Room doctors and medical groups around the world last weekend reacted with strong opposition to the news that an Italian specialist is on the brisk of cloning the first human baby. Dr. Severino Antinori, who is head of a hospital in Rome, has been referred to in an Arab newspaper claiming that one of his parents is eight weeks pregnant(怀孕) with a cloned baby. Antinori refused to comment on the reports, but in March 2001 he said he hoped to produce a cloned embryo(胎儿) for
