A．It is because the cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris had many bell-towers and could tell time to people that the writer regards it as an engine of mass communication．

B．From cathedrals to books to computers the technology of communication has become more convenient, reliable and fast．

C．Every time when a new communication means triumphed over the old, it divided mankind into two groups．


D．Computer industry has been trying bard to make people accept computers．
37．The printed book is more progressive than the cathedral as a communication means, because______．

A．it could sit on your table and did no longer tell time

B．it was more reliable and did not tell the stories of saints and demons

C．it was small, yet contained more information

D．it did not flatter religious and political power


38．The word “awesome” in the passage means______．
A．frightening B．causing fear and respect

C．amazingly new D．awful


39．People who feel miserable with computers are those______．
A．who love reading hooks and writing with a pen or a typewriter

B．who possess the wrong aptitudes of disliking and fearing new things

C．who have not been trained to use computers

D．who are born with a temperament that does not respond to computers



40．Melinda French designed Microsoft Bob which was to ease the misery of computer users by______．

A．making users feel that they are not dealing with machines

B．making the program more convenient and cartoon-like

C．adding home pictures to the program design




D．renaming the computer tasks in a folksy style Directions: Read the following passage carefully and then paraphrase the numbered and underlined parts.(“Paraphrase” means to explain the meaning in your own English.) (15%)
Charm is the ultimate weapon, the supreme seduction, against which there are few defenses. If you've got it, you need almost nothing else, neither money, looks, nor pedigree.(41) It is a gift-only given to give away, and the more used the more there is. It is also a climate of behavior set for perpetual summer and controlled by taste and tact．
Real charm is dynamic, an enveloping spell which mysteriously enslaves the senses. It is an inner light, fed on reservoirs of benevolence which well up like a thermal spring. It is unconscious, often nothing but the wish to please, and cannot be turned on and off at will．
(42) You recognize charm by the feeling you get in its presence. You know who has it. But can you get it too? Probably, you can't, because it's a quickness of spirit, an originality of touch you have to be born with. Or it's something that grows naturally out of another quality, like the simple desire to make people happy. Certainly, charm is not a question of learning tricks, like wrinkling your nose, or having a laugh in your voice, or gaily tossing your hair out of your dancing eyes.(43) Such signs, to the nervous, are ominous warnings which may well send him streaking for cover. On the other hand, there is an antenna, a built-in awareness of others, which most people have, and which care can nourish．
But in a study of charm, what else does one look for? Apart from the ability to listen rarest of all human virtues and most difficult to sustain without vagueness apart from warmth, sensitivity, and the power to please, what else is there visible?(44) A generosity, I suppose, which makes no demands, a transaction which strikes no bargains, which doesn't hold itself back till you've filled up a test-card making it dear that you're worth the trouble. Charm can't withhold, but spends itself willingly on young and old alike, on the poor, the ugly, the dim, the boring, on the last fat man in the comer.(45)It reveals itself also in a sense of ease, in casual but perfect manners, and often in a physical grace which springs less from an accident of youth than from a confident serenity of mind. Any person with this is more than just a popular fellow, he is also a social healer．
Part Ⅳ Cloze Test Directions: Fill in each numbered blank in the following passage with ONE suitable word to complete the passage. Put your answers in the ANSWER SHEET.(10%)
One way of improving one's writing is to get into the habit of keeping a record of your observations, of storing 46 in a notebook or journal. You should make note on your experiences and on your 47 of everyday life so that they are preserved. Itissad 48 to be able to retrieve a lost idea that seemed brilliant when it flashed across your 49 , or a forgotten fact that you need to make a point in an argument or to illustrate a conclusion.
The journal habit has still 50 value. Just 51 you need to record observations-he material for writing, you need to practice putting thoughts on paper. Learning to write is more like learning to ski 52 it is like studying calculus or anthropology. Practice helps you discover ways to improve. Writing down ideas for your own use forces you to examine them. Putting thoughts on paper for someone else to read 53 you to evaluate not 54 the content what you say but also the expression 55 you say it. Many raters have benefited from this habit．

Part Ⅴ Proofreading
Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 20 mistakes, one in each underlined sentence or part of a sentence. You may have to change a word, add a word or just delete a word. If you change a word, cross it out with a slash (□ and write the correct word.If you add a word,write the missing word between the words (in bracket) immediately before and after it. If you delete a word, cross it out with a slash (□ Put your answers in the ANSWER SHEET.(20 %)
Examples:
eg. 1.(56) The meeting begun 2 hours ago．
Correction in the ANSWER SHEET:(56) begun→began
eg. 2.(57) Scarcely they settled themselves in their seats in the theatre when the curtain went up．
Correction in the ANSWER SHEET:(57)(Scarcely) had (they)
eg. 3.(58) Never will I not do it again
Correction in the ANSWER SHEET:(58) not
(56)“Humanism” has used to mean too many thing, to be a very satisfactory term.
(57)
Nevertheless, and in the lack of a better word,(58) I shall use it here to explain for the complex of attitudes which this discussion has undertaken to defend．

(59)
In this sense a humanist is anyone who reiects the attempt to describe or account of man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry, and animal behavior.(60) He is anyone who believes that will, reason, and purpose are real and significant: that value and justice are aspects of a reality called good and evil and rests upon some foundation other than custom;

(61)
that consciousness is so far from a mere epiphenomenon that it is the most tremendous of actualities;(62) that the unmeasured, may be significant; or to sum it all up;(63) that those human realities which sometimes seem to exist only in human mind are the perceptions of the mind．


(64) He is, in other words, anyone who says that there are more things in heaven and earth than those dreamed of in the positivist philosophy．
(65)
Originally, to be sure, the term humanist meant simply anyone who thought the study of ancient literature his chief concern. Obviously it means, as I use it, very much more.(66) But there remains nevertheless a certain connection between the aboriginal meaning and that I am attempting to give it,(67) because those whom I describe as humanists usually recognize that literature and the arts have been pretty consistently “on its side” and (68) because it is often literature that they turn to renew their faith in the whole class of truths which the modem world has so consistently tended, to dismiss as the mere figments of a wishful thinking imagination．

(69)
Insofar as this modern world gives less and less attention to its literary past, insofar as it dismisses that past as something outgrow and (70) to be discarded as much as the imperfect technology contemporary with it has been discarded,(71) just to that extent it facilitate the surrender of humanism to technology.(72) The literature is to be found, directly expressed or (73) more often indirectly implied, the most effective correction to the views now most prevalent among the thinking and unthinking．

(74)
The great imaginative writers present a picture of human nature and of human life which carries conviction and thus giving the lie to all attempts to reduce man to a mechanism. Novels and poems, and dramas are so persistently concerned with the values which relativism rejects that one might even define literature as the attempt to pass value judgments upon representations of human life.(75) More often than not those of its imaginative persons who fail to achieve power and wealth are more successful than those who do not-by standards which the imaginative writer persuades us to accept as valid．


Part Ⅵ Writing Directions: Write a short composition of about 250 to 300 words on the topic given below. (15%) Topic: What is the most urgent issue facing the world people in the 21st century? State your reasons．


参考答案
Part Ⅱ Structure & Written Expression
1．C2. D3. B4. A5. D6. D7. C8. C9. C 10. C 11. B 12. B
13. D 14. B 15. A 16. B 17. B 18. D 19. C 20. A 21. D 22. A 23. C 24.
A     25. C Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension