26．There are all sorts of ways that employees can be successful_________obtaining the better office environment.

A. in    B．On    C．about     D．For

29．If we had taken such effective measures much earlier, the fiver__________so seriously now.

    A．is not polluted                                  B．would not be polluted

C．had not been polluted                          D．would not have been polluted

32.What kind of mistakes do you want to avoid ____full marks in your test?

A.to get      B.get      C.getting      D.will get

二、完形填空(每小题1.5分，共30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。

The famous scientist Albert Einstein died in 1955.His___36__ now is in the central state of Kansas of the U.S. It belongs to a retired (退休的) ___37__ doctor, Thomas Harvey. ___38__ did this happen? And why?

  In the 1950s,Albert Einstein and Thomas　Harvey __39__ each other when they both lived in Princeton, New Jersey. Einstein was working at Princeton University____40__ Doctor Harvey was working at Princeton Hospital. When Einstein died, Doctor Harvey was __41__ to examine his body. It was then that he started to study __42__ has become a long time examination of Einstein's brain. His goal was to __43__ some physical evidence(证据)of the scientist's genius(才华)。

  Doctor Harvey, ___44__, did not tell Einstein's family that he __45__ the great man's brain. It was only later ___46__ the family learned of Doctor Harvey's work. They did not ___47__ the idea at first. After Doctor Harvey explained his idea to them, they agreed to __48__ him to study the brain Doctor Harvey then asked __49__ scientists to help. They cut the brain __50__ three pieces. They marked each piece before placing it in containers __51__ chemical formaldehyde(甲醛)to protect it. Doctor Harvey has been ___52_ Einstein's brain since then. He has carried it with him as he moved from place to place. He has also lent parts of the brain to other scientists ___53__ study.

  Only one researcher has found something ___54__. A doctor at the University of California found that the left part of Einstein's brain has more certain cells(细胞)than __55__. Such cells are known to feed brain. She this may mean that the cells could affect intelligence.

36．A. body              B. heart                 C. brain                 D. head

37．A. actual            B. chemical           C. natural                     D. medical

38．A. What             B. How                 C. Who                 D. Which

39．A. realized             B. recognized         C. learned              D. knew

40．A. as                     B. because             C. while                D. since

41．A. called on        B. called at            C. sent up                  D. sent off

42．A. which               B. how                  C. that                   D. what

43．Ａ. Invent              B. discover            C. prove                D. examine

44．Ａperhaps              B. therefore           C. thus                  D. however

45．A. bought                  B. sold                  C. kept                  D. made

46．A. that                  B. when                C. before               D. after

47．A. hear of                  B. like                   C. suggest              D. offer

48．A promise              B. let                    C. have                 D. permit

49．A. other two          B. two other          C. more two          D. two another

50．A. off                   B. by                    C. into                  D. about

51．A. for                   B. about                C. of                         D. with

52．A. learning            B. studying            C. searching           D. selling

53．A. for                   B. on                    C. into                  D. about

54．A. easy                  B. difficult            C. particular          D. common

55．A. ever                  B. enough              C. usual                 D. Normal

16.The shopping center in the city was ____ as a result of a cigarette， which shocked the whole country.

A. burned down            B. turned down        C. turned up    D. taken in

E

We might be surprised at the progress made in every field of study, but the methods of testing a person’s knowledge and ability remain as primitive as ever they were. It really is extraordinary that after all these years, educationists have still failed to design anything more efficient and reliable than examinations. For the claim that examinations test what you know, it is common knowledge that they more often do the exact opposite. They may be a good means of testing memory, or the knack(窍门 ) of working rapidly under extreme pressure, but they can tell you nothing about a person’s true ability and attitude.

As anxiety-makers, examinations are second to none. That is because so much depends on them. They are the marks of success or failure in our society. Your whole future may be decided in one fateful day. It doesn’t matter that you weren’t feeling very well, or that your mother died. Little things like that don’t count: the exam goes on. No one can give his best when he is in mortal terror, or after a sleepless night, yet this is precisely what the examination system expects him to do. The moment a child begins school, he enters a world of various competitions where success and failure are clearly defined and measured. Can we wonder at the increasing number of ‘drop-outs’: young people who are written off as failures before they have even started a career? Can we be surprised at the suicide rate among students?

A good education should, among other things, train you to think for yourself. The examination system does anything but that. What has to be learnt is rigidly laid down by a syllabus(教学大纲), so the student is encouraged to memorize. Examinations do not motivate a student to read widely, but to restrict his reading; they do not enable him to seek more and more knowledge, but induce cramming. They lower the standards of teaching, for they deprive(剥夺) the teacher of all freedoms. Teachers themselves are often judged by examination results and instead of teaching their subjects, they are reduced to training their students in exam techniques. The most successful candidates are not always the best educated; they are the best trained in the technique of working under pressure.

The results on which so much depends are often nothing more than a subjective assessment by some anonymous examiner. Examiners are only human. They get tired and hungry; they make mistakes. Yet they have to mark piles of hastily scrawled (潦草的)

scripts in a limited amount of time. They work under the same sort of pressure as the candidates. And their word carries weight. After a judge’s decision you have the right of appeal, but not after an examiner’s. There must surely be many simpler and more effective ways of assessing a person’s true abilities.

56.The main idea of this passage is _______.

A. examinations produce a harmful influence on education

B. examinations are ineffective

C. examinations are important to students’ development

D. examinations are a burden on students

57.The author’s attitude toward examinations is _______.

A. supportive       B. neutral          C. critical         D. indifferent

58.The fate of students is decided by _______.

A. education        B. examiners       C. examinations    D. students themselves

59.According to the author, the most important of a good education is _______.

A. to encourage students to read widely        B. to train students to think on their own

C. to teach students how to deal with exams        D. to master his fate

60.What does the author mean by saying “After a judge’s decision you have the right of appeal, but not after an examiner’s”(Para 4, Line 6) ?

A. Judges are not important.

B. The examiner has the final say concerning the result of the examination.

C. Prisoners are more powerful than students.

D. The court decisions are often inaccurate.

6. Some of the exercises appear to be _____ ones that you have done, but after taking _____ second look, you will find that they are different.

   A. /; the           B. the; the             C. the; a              D. the, /

34．--- I think I’ll give Bob aring.

    --- You______you haven’t been in touch with him for ages.

       A．will        B．May           C．have to         D．Should

三、阅读理解（共两节，40分）

第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，共30分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

A

       One warm May day, two eighteen – year – old students from San Francisco State College decided to cool off with a swim at Bakers’ Beach. The two students were named Robert Kogler and Shirley O’Neill. They headed out to sea for a distance of 50 metres. Robert was in front.

       “Suddenly, I heard him scream,” Shirley recalls. “I looked round and saw this great grey thing going up in the air. The water seemed to be alive.”

       Robert sereamed again. “It’s a shark! Get out of here!”

       An eye – witness, Army Sergeant Leo P. Day was on guard at the nearby army post. He saw exactly what happened next. “I could see this boy struggling with the shark in the water,” he said. “The sea was red with blood. He was shouting and signalling someone to go back, go back. Then I saw the girl. She was swimming towards him. She completely ignored his warning.”

       Shirley reached Robert, and tried to take his hand.

       “When I pulled, all I could see was his arm, handing by a thread,” she said.

       So she put her arm about Robert’s back, and started to swim towards the shore. She kept praying “Don't’ let it attack again!” That journey to the shore seemed to last for hours. At last, as they neared the shore, a fisherman threw them a line, and pulled them both the rest of the way.

       The young man had lost a lot of blood, and died two and a half hours later, From the teeth marks, experts identified the attacker as a Great White Shark.

       For what Sergeant Day called “the greatest exhibition of bravery I have ever seen,” the President of the US gave Shirley a medal for bravery.

56．When Albert was attacked by a shark Shirley         .

       A．was swimming in the sea

       B．was watching him on the shore

       C．was on guard at the nearby army post

       D．was shouting and struggling with a shark, too

57．Choose the right time order of the following events in the story.

       a. Army Sergeant saw the girl swimming to the boy.

       b. Shirley saw a great grey thing.

       c. They headed out to sea.

       d. Robert died.

       e. A fisherman threw them a line.

       f. He saw a boy struggling with a shark.

       A．b,c,e,d,f,a B．c,a,f,d,e,b C．b,c,f,a,d,e D．c,b,f,a,e,d

58．We can learn from the passage that          .

       A．the two students were brave and considerate

       B．the fisherman was adventurous and helpful

       C．the experts didn’t do much research on sharks

       D．the Sergeant cared too much about his own life

D

       The recent, apparently successful, prediction by mathematical models of an appearance of El Nino—the warm ocean How that periodically develops along the Pacific coast of South America has excited researchers．Jacob Bjerknes pointed out years ago how winds might create either abnormally warm or abnormally cold water in the eastern equatorial （赤道附近的） Pacific．Nevertheless, before the creation of the models, no one could explain why conditions should regularly change between appearances of the warm El Nino and the so-called anti-El Nino．The answer, at least if the current model that links the behavior of the ocean to that of the atmosphere is correct, is to be found in the ocean．

       It has long been known that during an El Nino, two conditions exist: unusually warm water extends along the eastern Pacific and winds blow from the west into the warmer air rising over the warm water in the east．The contribution of the model is to show that the winds of an El Nino, which raise sea level in the east, send a signal to the west lowering sea level at the same time．According to the model, that signal is created as a negative （负的） Rossby wave, a wave of lower sea level, that moves westward parallel to the equator at 25 to 85 kilometers per day．Taking months to move across the Pacific, Rossby waves march to the western boundary of the Pacific basin, which is modeled as a smootli wall but in reality consists of quite irregular island chains．

       When the waves meet the western boundary, they are reflected, and the model predicts that Rossby waves will be broken into many coastal Kelvin waves carrying the same negative sea-level signal．These eventually shoot toward the equator, and then head eastward along the equator drove by the earth at a．speed of about．250 kilometers per day．When enough Kelvin waves of adequate amplitude （振幅） arrive from the western Pacific, their negative sea-level signal overcomes the feedback mechanism, raising the sea level, and they begin to drive the system into the opposite cold mode．This produces a gradual change in winds, one that will eventually send positive sea-level Rossby waves westward, waves that will eventually return as cold cycle—ending positive Kelvin waves beginning another warming cycle．

67．What is the passage mainly about?

       A．How Rossby waves are found．

       B．Where El Nino is formed．

       C．What the models predict．

       D．How the models work．

68．Where does El Nino often appear?

       A．Along the western coast of the USA .

       B．In the Pacific in the south, of the equator．

       C．In the Pacific in the north of the equator．

       D．Along the southern coast of South America．

69．What is right according to the passage?

       A．Rossby waves and Kelvin waves move in opposite directions along the equator．

       B．People could explain El Nino before the creation of the mathematical models．

       C．Adequate sea-level waves can produce westward positive cold cycle．

       D．The speed of Rossby waves is faster than that of Kelvin waves．

70．What does the underlined word "waves" in Paragraph 3 refer to?

       A．Kelvin waves．       B．Sea-level signals．   C．Coastal waves．   D．Rossby waves．