一、单选题（共 15 道试题，共 15 分。）V 1. The news slowly __________ through to everyone in the office; finally everybody felt worried about the uncertainty of the future.
A. melted
B. froze
C. filtered
D. flowed
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2. He changed his name, ____that nobody would find out what he had done before.
A. thought
B. to think
C. thinks
D. thinking
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3. In his book the author explains in details the ten most important ______ of economics and illustrates their application in some fields
A. progress
B. principles
C. proposals
D. procedures
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4. Coal can be ______ into gas with the help of the modern technology.
A. yield
B. converted
C. overcame
D. reverted
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5. He____the maths examination if he had worked hard enough, but he didn't.
A. would pass
B. had passed
C. would have passed
D. passed
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6. The king blamed （ ） and taxes for high oil prices and suggested setting up a program of 1 billion U.S. dollars similar to those that OPEC set up before to solve the oil crisis
A. peculiarity
B. speculation
C. spectacular
D. inspect
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7. We’ve worked out a method by which our production can be raised on a large ______
A. quantity
B. scale
C. quality
D. proportion
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8. Due to the limited seating _____ of the hall, merely about 700 journalists were present for the press conference.
A. capacity
B. capability
C. possibility
D. probability
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9. Before you started to （ ）, make sure the road is clear ahead of you; otherwise it might lead to an accident
A. overwork
B. overtake
C. overhear
D. oversee
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10. Having taken our seats,______.
A. the professor began the lecture
B. the lecture began in no time
C. we were attracted by the lecturer immediately
D. the bell announced the beginning of the lecture
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11. We’ve worked out a method by which our production can be raised on a large ______.
A. quantity
B. scale
C. quality
D. proportion
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12. If it_____tomorrow, we will stay indoors to have our training class.
A. rains
B. rained
C. will rain
D. is raining
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13. Joint ventures may （ ） labor contracts with the employees according to their needs in production and management operations
A. signal
B. write
C. sign
D. draw
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14. Every country tries to maintain a(n) ______ balance of trade, which assures it of the means to buy necessary imports.
A. organic
B. favorite
C. compound
D. favorable
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15. The opposing political party is getting ready to （ ） a powerful attack on the government
A. intend
B. imprint
C. cast
D. mount
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二、阅读理解（共 1 道试题，共 10 分。）V 1.
Many people would agree that, although our age exceeds all previous ages in knowledge, there has been no corresponding increase in wisdom. But agreement ceases as soon as we attempt to define “wisdom” and consider means of promoting it.
There are several factors that contribute to wisdom. Of course I should put first a sense of proportion; the capacity to take account of all the important factors in a problem and to attach to each its due weight. This has become more difficult than it used to be owing to the extent and complexity of the special knowledge required of various kinds of technicians. Suppose, for example, that you are engaged in research in scientific medicine. The work is difficult and is likely to absorb the whole of your mind. You have not time to consider the effect which your discoveries or inventions may have outside the field of medicine. You succeed (let us say), as modern medicine has succeeded, in enormously lowering the infant death-rate, not only in Europe and America, but also in Asia and Africa. This has the entirely unintended result of making the food supply inadequate and lowering the standard of life in the parts of the world that have the greatest populations. To take an even more dramatic example, which is in everybody’s mind at the present time; you study the makeup of the atom from a disinterested desire for knowledge, and by chance place in the hands of a powerful mad man the means of destroying the human race.
Therefore with every increase of knowledge and skill, wisdom becomes more necessary, for every such increase augments (增加) our capacity for realizing our purposes, and therefore augments our capacity for evil, if our purposes are unwise.
1). Disagreement arises when people try to decide ______.
A. how much more wisdom we have now than before
B. what wisdom is and how to develop it
C. if there is a great increase of wisdom in our age
D. Whether wisdom can be developed or not
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2). According to the author, “wisdom” is the ability to ______.
A. carefully consider the bad effects of any kind of research work
B. give each important problem some careful consideration
C. acquire a great deal of complex and special knowledge
D. give suitable consideration to all the possible elements in a problem
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3). Lowering the infant death-rate may ______.
A. prove to be helpful everywhere in the world
B. give rise to an increase in population in Europe
C. cause food shortages in Asia and Africa
D. raise the living standard of the people in Africa
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4). The author uses the examples in the passage to illustrate his point that _____.
A. it’s extremely difficult to consider all the important elements in a problem
B. success in medical research has its negative effects
C. scientists may unknowingly cause destruction to the human race.
D. it’s unwise to be totally absorbed in research in scientific medicine
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5). What is the main idea of the passage?
A. It is unwise to place the results of scientific research in the hands of a powerful mad man.
B. The more knowledge one has, the wiser one becomes.
C. Any increase of knowledge could lead to disastrous results without the guidance of wisdom.
D. wisdom increases in proportion to one’s age.
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