考试形式、考试内容与试卷结构

（一）考试形式

考试形式为笔试。考试时间为180分钟。满分为100分。

试卷分试题册和答题卡（1、2）两部分。考生应将1~45题的答案按要求填涂在答题卡1上，将46~52题的答案写在答题卡2上。

（二）考试内容与试卷结构

试题分三部分，共52题，包括英语知识运用、阅读理解和写作。



第一部分 英语知识运用（完型填空多项选择题，四选一，20题共10分）


该部分不仅考查考生对不同语境中规范的语言要素（包括词汇、表达方式和结构）的掌握程度，而且还考查考生对语段特征（如连贯性和一致性等）的辨识能力等。共20小题，每小题0.5分，共10分。

在一篇240~280词的文章中留出20个空白，要求考生从每题给出的4个选项中选出最佳答案，使补全后的文章意思通顺、前后连贯、结构完整。考生在答题卡1上作答。

第二部分 阅读理解

该部分由A、B、C三节组成，考查考生理解书面英语的能力。共30小题，每小题2分，共60分。

A节（多项选择题，四选一，20题共40分）：主要考查考生理解主旨要义、具体信息、概念性含义，进行有关的判断、推理和引申，根据上下文推测生词的词义等能力。要求考生根据所提供的四篇（总长度约为1600词）文章的内容，从每题所给出的4个选项中选出最佳答案。考生在答题卡1上作答。

B节（选择搭配题，5题共10分）：主要考查考生对诸如连贯性、一致性等语段特征以及文章结构的理解。本部分有三种备选题型。每次考试从这三种备选题型中选择一种进行考查。考生在答题卡1上作答。

备选题型有：

1） 本部分的内容是一篇总长度为500~600词的文章，其中有5段空白，文章后有6-7段文字，要求考生根据文章内容从这6-7段文字中选择能分别放进文章中5个空白处的5段

2） 在一篇长度约500－600词的文章中，各段落的原有顺序已经被打乱，要求考生根据文章内容和结构将所列段落（7-8个）重新排序。其中有2-3个段落在文章中的位置已经给出。

3） 在一篇长度为500词的文章的前或后有6-7段文字或6-7个概括句或小标题，这些文字或标题分别是对文章中某一部分的概括、阐述或举例。要求考生根据文章内容，从这6-7个选项中选出最恰当的5段文字或5个标题填入文章的空白处。



C节（英译汉，5题共10分）：主要考察考生准确理解内容或结构较复杂的英语材料的能力。要求考生阅读一篇约400词的文章，并将其中5个划线部分（约150词）译成汉语，要求疑问准确、完整、通顺。考生在答题卡2上作答。

第三部分 写作

该部分由A、B两节组成，考查考生的书面表达能力。总分30分。

A节：考生根据所给情景写出一篇约100词（标点符号不计算在内）的应用性短文，包括私人和公务信函、备忘录、摘要、报告等。考生在答题卡2上作答。满分10分。

B节：考生根据提示信息写出一篇160~200词的短文（标点符号不计算在内）。提示信息的形式有主题句、写作提纲、规定情景、图、表等。考生在答题卡2上作答。满分20分。





附录I样题

Section Ⅰ Use of English

Directions:

Read the following text. Choose the best word （s） for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. （10 points）

The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent cases 1 the trial of Rosemary West.

In a significant 2 of legal controls over the press, Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, will introduce a 3 bill that will propose making payments to witnesses 4 and will strictly control the amount of 5 that can be given to a case 6 a trial begins.

In a letter to Gerald Kaufman, chairman of the House of Commons Media Select Committee, Lord Irvine said he 7 with a committee report this year which said that self regulation did not 8 sufficient control.

9 of the letter came two days after Lord Irvine caused a 10 of media protest when he said the 11 of privacy controls contained in European legislation would be left to judges 12 to Parliament.

The Lord Chancellor said introduction of the Human Rights Bill, which 13 the European Convention on Human Rights legally 14 in Britain, laid down that everybody was 15 to privacy and that public figures could go to court to protect themselves and their families.

“Press freedoms will be in safe hands 16 our British judges,” he said.

Witness payments became an 17 after West was sentenced to 10 life sentences in 1995. Up to 19 witnesses were 18 to have received payments for telling their stories to newspapers. Concerns were raised 19 witnesses might be encouraged to exaggerate their stories in court to 50 guilty verdicts.

1. [A] as to [B] for instance

[C] in particular [D] such as

2. [A] tightening [B] intensifying

[C] focusing [D] fastening

3. [A] sketch [B] rough

[C] preliminary [D] draft

4. [A] illogical [B] illegal

[C] improbable [D] improper

5. [A] publicity [B] penalty

[C] popularity [D] peculiarity

6. [A] since [B] if

[C] before [D] as

7. [A] sided [B] shared

[C] complied [D] agreed

8. [A] present [B] offer

[C] manifest [D] indicate

9. [A] Release [B] Publication

[C] Printing [D] Exposure

10. [A] storm [B] rage

[C] flare [D] flash

11. [A] translation [B] interpretation

[C] exhibition [D] demonstration

12. [A] better than [B] other than

[C] rather than [D] sooner than

13. [A] changes [B] makes

[C] sets [D] turns

14. [A] binding [B] convincing

[C] restraining [D] sustaining

15. [A] authorized [B] credited

[C] entitled [D] qualified

16. [A] with [B] to

[C] from [D] by

17. [A] impact [B] incident

[C] inference [D] issue

18. [A] stated [B] remarked

[C] said [D] told

19. [A] what [B] when

[C] which [D] that

20. [A] assure [B] confide

[C] ensure [D] guarantee



Section II Reading Comprehension

Directions:

Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C, or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points)

Text 1

It was 3:45 in the morning when the vote was finally taken. After six months of arguing and final 16 hours of hot parliamentary debates, Australia's Northern Territory became the first legal authority in the world to allow doctors to take the lives of incurably ill patients who wish to die. The measure passed by the convincing vote of 15 to 10. Almost immediately word flashed on the Internet and was picked up, half a world away, by John Hofsess, executive director of the Right to Die Society of Canada. He sent it on via the group's on-line service, Death NET. Says Hofsess: "We posted bulletins all day long, because of course this isn't just something that happened in Australia. It's world history."

　　The full import may take a while to sink in. The NT Rights of the Terminally Ill law has left physicians and xing to deal with its moral and practical implications. Some have breathed sighs of relief, others, including churches, right-to-life groups and the Australian Medical Association, bitterly attacked the bill and the haste of its passage. But the tide is unlikely to turn back. In Australia — where an aging population, life-extending technology and changing community attitudes have all played their part — other states are going to consider making a similar law to deal with euthanasia. In the US and Canada, where the right-to-die movement is gathering strength, observers are waiting for the dominoes to start falling.

　　Under the new Northern Territory law, an adult patient can request death — probably by a deadly injection or pill — to put an end to suffering. The patient must be diagnosed as terminally ill by two doctors. After a "cooling off" period of seven days, the patient can sign a certificate of request. After 48 hours the wish for death can be met. For Lloyd Nickson, a 54-year-old Darwin resident suffering from lung cancer, the NT Rights of Terminally Ill law means he can get on with living without the haunting fear of his suffering: a terrifying death from his breathing condition. "I'm not afraid of dying from a spiritual point of view, but what I was afraid of was how I'd go, because I've watched people die in the hospital fighting for oxygen and clawing at their masks," he says.

51. From the second paragraph we learn that ________.
　　[A] the objection to euthanasia is slow to come in other countries
　　[B] physicians and citizens share the same view on euthanasia
　　[C] changing technology is chiefly responsible for the hasty passage of the law
　　[D] it takes time to realize the significance of the law's passage

52. When the author says that observers are waiting for the dominoes to start falling, he means ________.
　　[A] observers are taking a wait-and-see attitude towards the future of euthanasia
　　[B] similar bills are likely to be passed in the US, Canada and other countries
　　[C] observers are waiting to see the result of the game of dominoes
　　[D] the effect-taking process of the passed bill may finally come to a stop

53. When Lloyd Nickson dies, he will ________.
　　[A] face his death with calm characteristic of euthanasia
　　[B] experience the suffering of a lung cancer patient
　　[C] have an intense fear of terrible suffering
　　[D] undergo a cooling off period of seven days

54. The author's attitude towards euthanasia seems to be that of ________.
　　[A] opposition
　　[B] suspicion
　　[C] approval
　　[D] indifference



TEXT 2

Much of the language used to describe monetary policy, such as "steering the economy to a soft landing" or "a touch on the brakes", makes it sound like a precise science. Nothing could be further from the truth. The link between interest rates and inflation is uncertain. And there are long, variable lags before policy changes have any effect on the economy. Hence the analogy that likens the conduct of monetary policy to driving a car with a blackened windscreen, a cracked rearview mirror and a faulty steering wheel.

　　Givegogoeem to have had much to boast about of late. Average inflation in the big seven industrial economies fell to a mere 2.3% last year, close to its lowest level in 30 years, before rising slightly to 2.5% this July. This is a long way below the double-digit rates which many countries experienced in the 1970s and early 1980s.

　　It is also less than most forecasters had predicted. In late 1994 the panel of economists which The Economist polls each month said that America's inflation rate would average 3.5% in 1995. In fact, it fell to 2.6% in August, and is expected to average only about 3% for the year as a whole. In Britain and Japan inflation is running half a percentage point below the rate predicted at the end of last year. This is no flash in the pan; over the past couple of years, inflation has been consistently lower than expected in Britain and America.

　　Economists have been particularly surprised by favourable inflation figures in Britain and the United States, since conventional measures suggest that both economies, and especially America's, have little productive slack. America's capacity utilisation, for example, hit historically high levels earlier this year, and its jobless rate (5.6% in August) has fallen below most estimates of the natural rate of unemployment — the rate below which inflation has taken off in the past.

　　Why has inflation proved so mild? The most thrilling explanation is, unfortunately, a little defective. Some economists argue that powerful structural changes in the world have upended the old economic models that were based upon the historical link between growth and inflation.

67. From the passage we learn that ________.
　　[A] there is a definite relationship between inflation and interest rates
　　[B] economy will always follow certain models
　　[C] the economic situation is better than expected
　　[D] economists had foreseen the present economic situation

68. According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?
　　[A] Making monetary policies is comparable to driving a car.
　　[B] An extremely low jobless rate will lead to inflation.
　　[C] A high unemployment rate will result from inflation.
　　[D] Interest rates have an immediate effect on the economy.

69. The sentence "This is no flash in the pan" (line 4, paragraph 3) means that ________.
　　[A] the low inflation rate will last for some time
　　[B] the inflation rate will soon rise
　　[C] the inflation will disappear quickly
　　[D] there is no inflation at present

70. The passage shows that the author is ________ the present situation.
　　[A] critical of
　　[B] puzzled by
　　[C] disappointed at
　　[D] amazed at
In the first year or so of Web business, most of the action has revolved around efforts to tap the consumer market. More recently, as the Web proved to be more than a fashion, companies have started to buy and sell products and services with one another. Such business-to-business sales make sense because business people typically know what product they're looking for.

　　Nonetheless, many companies still hesitate to use the Web because of doubts about its reliability. "Businesses need to feel they can trust the pathway between them and the supplier," says senior analyst Blane Erwin of Forrester Research. Some companies are limiting