37. English is _______ interesting to us.

　　A. much B. very C. very much D. more

　　38. Grammar books here _______ well.

　　A. are sold B. sell C. sells D. have been sold

　　39. If everybody is _______, let’s begin our class.

　　A. sat B. seated C. seat D. sitted

　　40. He must have been there before, ________?

　　A. hasn’t he B. haven’t he C. doesn’t he D. isn’t he

　　41. He had to give up ___ the football match because he had his leg injured in the accident.

　　A. taking part in B. took part in C. to take part in D. take part in

　　42. The young people felt that they needed no help from anyone. They were very _____.

　　A. unexpected B. independent C. resistant D. separate

　　43. I hope my teacher will take my recent illness into _____ when judging my examination.

　　A. regard B. counting C. account D. observation

　　44. The letters PTO _______ parent-teacher organization.

　　A. stand for B. call for C. heard for D. care for

　　45. Something always _______ wrong when we try this recipe.

　　A. has gone B. have gone C. go D. goes

　　46. My watch ______ three o’clock.

　　A. tells B. speaks C. talks D. says

　　47. When I took his temperature, it was two degrees above _______.

　　A. average B. ordinary C. regular D. normal

　　48. I’d rather you _______ anything about it for the time being.

　　A. do B. don’t have C. didn’t have D. didn’t do

　　49. I don’t think we can take it ______, some problems still remains.

　　A. on hand B. by chance C. for granted D. at will

　　50. She walked across immense room _______ every one looking at her.

　　A. with B. as C. while D. when

　�、�. Cloze (20 points)

　　Directions:

　　For each blank in the following passage, there are four choices given below and marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that is most suitable and mark your answer by blackening the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

　　The death of a child, _51_ one’s own child, is something the mind can hardly comprehend. It seems to go _52_ nature. The end of a life that is still forming _53_ has just begun is an almost unthinkable cruelty.

　　But it happens. Parents sometimes must witness the illness and death of the children _54_ whom they gave birth. And _55_ will ever fill the empty place that the dead child leaves behind. Parents _56_ to die before their children, which is the natural order of life events. When the situation is reversed and a child dies _57_ the parents it seems wrong.

　　Yet we never know why one person dies and another lives. But we do know _58_ a child is gone, the parents still have a future, as grey and worthless as it may at first seem. Death may take the child, but the love never _59_.

　　The sorrow after a child’s death is one of the longest and hardest type of _60_ to live with. And it takes long to deal with the parents’ own emotions.

　　51.A. especially B. special C. especial D. most

　　52.A. with B. against C. beyond D. above

　　53.A. and B. or C. but D. so

　　54.A. at B. with C. to D. for

　　55.A. everything B. other thing C. something D. nothing

　　56.A. think B. expect C. like D. surely

　　57.A. before B. after C. in front of D. as

　　58.A. as if B. as though C. even if D. that

　　59.A. gives up B. goes away C. goes back D. goes through

　　60.A. loss B. losses C. losing D. lost

　�、�. Reading Comprehension (60 points)

　　Directions:

　　There are four reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by five questions. For each question there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose one best answer and blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.

　　Passage One

　　In the old days, divers used to go down into the sea looking for ships that had sunk, because they hoped to find gold and jewels. Now divers still search for valuable things in sunken ships, but they also try to bring to the surface the ships themselves, or parts of them. The value of different kinds of metals has increased greatly over the last twenty or thirty years and even though a ship has been under the sea for many years, it may be worth a great deal.

　　One famous sunken ship is the “Lusitania”, which sank off the southern coast of Ireland in 1915 with a loss of nearly, 1,500 lives. It has four huge propellers made of an expensive metal. Today each of those propellers is worth $ 300,000 or more. The ship lying on the sea-bed has been brought by a man called John Light. He paid about $ 1,200,000 for the whole ship. He hopes to bring up those propellers and sell them. He also hopes to sell other parts of the ship, when he has brought them to the surface, for about $ 600,000.

　　61. Divers today try to bring to the surface _______.

　　A. gold and jewels B. parts of ships

　　C. whole ships D. all of the above

　　62. Diver try to bring up metals because ________.

　　they have been in the sea for a long time

　　gold and jewels are not valuable things

　　some kinds of metals are worth a lot of money

　　it is easy to bring up metals

　　63. The word “surface” in the passage means the ______.

　　A. market B. air C. top of a liquid D. sea

　　64. John Light hopes that he may be able to sell all the parts of the “Lusitania” for about _____.

　　A. $12,000 B. $300,000 C. $1,200,000 D. $1,800,000

　　65. John Light bought the “Lusitania” _______.

　　A. before 1915 B. before it sank

　　C. after it sank D. after they had brought up the propellers

　　Passage Two

　　Man’s first real invention, and one of the most important inventions in history, was the wheel. All transportation and every machine in the world depend on it. The wheel is the simplest yet perhaps the most remarkable of all inventions, because there are no wheels in nature-no living thing was ever created with wheels. How, then, did man come to invent the wheel? Perhaps some early hunters found that they could roll the carcass of a heavy animal through the forest on logs more easily than they could carry it. However, the logs themselves weighed a lot.

　　It must have taken a great prehistoric thinker to imagine two thin slices of log connected, at their centers by a string stick. This would roll along just as the logs did, yet be much lighter and easier to handle. Thus the wheel and axle came into being and with them the first carts.