Part II Cloze Test (20 points)

Directions: Read the passage below carefully and choose the best answer from those given. Write your choice on the answer sheet by marking the corresponding letter in each case.

The tuberculosis situation in China is worsening again. It cannot be 1 unless the current situation which China has Four Highs and One Low is changed. The Four Highs and the One Low means a high infection rate, a high drug 2 rate, a high death rate, a high__3 of infection, and a low rate of decline changes.

Experts say that China is one of the twenty-two countries in the world with the highest tuberculosis 4 China ranks second in the world in the 5 number of the people who have TB. Over 500 million Chinese have been 6 to the TB bacillus, six million have active TB and two million are 7 carriers of the disease. Over two hundred and fifty thousand Chinese die each year from TB. This is twice as many as those who die 8 all of China' s other contagious diseases 9

The rate of TB in the Chinese countryside is 2.4 times 10 in the city. In China, as in other countries, at lease half of the 11 active TB cases, and deaths are in women.

Children are the most 12 to infection of all. 13 statistics, the TB death rate among children aged 0-4 are 0.8 per 100,000 and 0.5 per 100,000. A 14 found that about half of the TB 15 people have not been found and registered. For 16 reasons, about 65.9 per cent of the people with TB symptoms are not 17 having TB. Experts warn that no disease compares with TB in the damage it 18 on families and the harm it does to China’s economic development. Seventy-five percent of the people with active TB cases 19 in the 15-34 age group, the most 20 age group. This means that China loses 360 million working days each year to TB.

1. A. beaten B. conquered C. overcome D. defeated

2. A. resistance B. injection C. inferior D. resistable

3. A. incidence B. incident C. accident D. accidence

4. A. burden B. load C. cargo D. freight 来源：考试大

5. A. whole B. large C. imaginary D. total

6. A. revealed B. revealing C. exposed D. exposing

7. A. contagious B. conscientious C. continuous D. consecutive

8. A. away B. down C. off D. from

9. A. joined B. added C. united D. combined

10. A. that B. than C as D. less

11. A. infections B. infectious C. affection D. infectants

12. A. fragile B. vulnerable C. feeble D. crisp

13. A. On the contrary B. According to C. With respect to D. In addition to

14. A. research B. inspect C. survey D. study来源：考试大

15. A. opposite B. negative C. opponent D. positive

16. A. disparate B. desperate C. various D. distinct

17. A. diagnosed as B. diagnosed to C. diagnosed about D. diagnosed with

18. A. inflicts B. affiliates C. afflicts D. conflicts

19. A. is B. are C. have D. has

20. A. prospective B. productive C. predictable D. prudent

Part III Reading Comprehension (40 points)

Section A (30 points) 来源：考试大

Directions: There are 4 reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are some choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet

Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage.

The decline of traditional religion in the West has not removed the need for men and women to find a deeper meaning behind existence. Why is the world the way it is and how do we, as conscious individuals, fit into the great scheme?

There is a growing feeling that science, especially what is known as the new physics, can provide answers where religion remains vague and faltering. Many people in search of a meaning to their lives are finding enlightenment in the revolutionary developments at the frontiers of science. Much to the bewilderment of professional scientists, quasi-religious cults are being formed around such unlikely topics as quantum physics, space-time relativity, black holes and the big bang.

How can physics, with its reputation for cold precision and objective materialism, provide such fertile soil for the mystical? The truth is that the spirit of scientific inquiry has undergone a remarkable transformation over the past 50 years. The twin revolutions of the theory of relativity, with its space-warps and time-warps, and the quantum theory, which reveals the shadowy and unsubstantial nature of atoms, have demolished the classical image of a clockwork universe slavishly unfolding along a predetermined pathway. Replacing this sterile mechanism is a world full of shifting indeterminism and subtle interactions that have no counterpart in daily experience,

To study the new physics is to embark on a journey of wonderment and paradox, to glimpse the universe in a novel perspective, in which subject and object, mind and matter, force and field, become intertwined. Even the creation of the universe itself has fallen within the province of scientific inquiry.

The new cosmology provides, for the first time, a consistent picture of how all physical structures, including space and time, came to exist out of nothing. We are moving towards an understanding in which matter, force, order and creation are unified into a single descriptive theme.

Many of us who work in fundamental physics are deeply impressed by the harmony and order which pervades the physical world. To me laws of the universe, from quarks to quasars, dovetail together so felicitously that the impression there is something behind it all seems overwhelming. The laws of physics are so remarkably clever they can surely only be a manifestation of genius.

l. The author says people nowadays find that traditional religion is

A. a form of reassurance

B. inadequate to their needs

C. responding to scientific progress

D. developing in strange ways

2. Scientists find the new cults bewildering because they are

A. too reactionary

B. based on false evidence

C. derived from inappropriate sources

D. too subjective

3. Which phrase in paragraph 3 suggests that the universe is like a machine?

A. Cold precision and objective materialism.

B. The shadowy and unsubstantial nature of atoms.

C. Slavishly unfolding along a predetermined pathway.

D. Shifting Indeterminism and subtle interactions.

4. The new physics is exciting because it

A. offers a comprehensive explanation of the universe

B. proves the existence of a ruling intelligence

C. incorporates the work of men of genius

D. makes scientific theories easier to understand

5. The author of this passage is

A. a minister of religion

B. a research scientist

C. science fiction writer

D. a journalist