Section 1: Vocabulary and Grammar (25 Points)
　　This section consists of three parts. Read the directions for each part before answering the questions. The time for this section is 25 minutes.

　　Part 1 Vocabulary Selection
　　In this part, there are 20 incomplete sentences. Below each sentence, there are four words or phrases respectively marked by letters A, B, C, D. Choose the word or phrase which best completes each sentence. There is only one right answer. Then mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your Machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.

　　1. The streets of the Dual Springs neighborhood, a migrant-worker hub in northern Beijing, are ______. That's no surprise; more than 13,000 people have been quarantined in China's capital to halt the insidious spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
　　A. deserted B. vacated C. unlived in D. removed

　　2. In many ______ a lack of direction prompted the Republican Guard to call it a day.
　　A. occasions B. cases C. events D. days

　　3. They did considerable work to ______ the masses of the United States with the elementary problems of Latin America.
　　A. allow B. acquaint C. notify D. propagate

　　4. My mother says a teaching machine has to be _____ to fit the mind of each boy and girl it teaches and that each kid has to be taught differently.
　　A. modified B. considered C. adjusted D. remanufactured

　　5. The big retailers are starting to think small, too. Sainsbury's and Tesco have launched convenience-store chains, called Local and Express, respectively - that have fast become _____ in British towns.
　　A. ubiquitous B. established C. frequented D. known

　　6. The solidarity among the young, especially the 386 Generation, is so strong that it's helping to _____ the country's deep-rooted regional divide.
　　A. enhance B. dissolve C. weaken D. move

　　7. The Wright brothers continued their flying in France and _____ all who saw them.
　　A. saddened B. frightened C. astonished D. alarmed

　　8. We are will aware of the responsibilities that necessarily _____ to our office.
　　A. attach B. confronts C. given D. face

　　9. People say that what we are all _____ is a meaning for life, but I don't think that's what we all look for.
　　A. seeing B. seeking C. watching D. looking

　　10. When Joe was left to live with those people, he found that they were so ____ of life that he couldn't stay with them
　　A. painful B. disdainful C. meaningful D. fruitful

　　11. When you make the sacrifice in marriage, the psychologists say, you're sacrificing not to each other but to ______ in a relationship.
　　A. unity B. utility C. fraternity D. reality

　　12. The constant changes in fashion, _____ with a view to higher sales, made greater demands on women as a class.
　　A. predicted B. dictated C. stated D. related

　　13. It is easy to see why many little girls prefer to _____ with the male role, but the girl who does find the male role more attractive is faced with a dilemma.
　　A. beautify B. modify C. identify D. justify

　　14. If we can _____ any kind of killing in the name of religion, the door is opened for all kinds of other justifications.
　　A. purify B. satisfy C. justify D. verify

　　15. I could easily perceive that his heart burnt to relieve his starving kids, but he seemed ashamed to ______ his inability to me.
　　A. discover B. recover C. demonstrate D. impress

　　16. It is a dangerous thing nowadays if you do not _____ others at arm's length, for they may hit you below the belt any time.
　　A. bake B. keep C. take D. make

　　17. I will never _____ the experiences of the four years at Howard University, though there were unhappy encounters.
　　A. discharge B. recharge C. discard D. dispose

　　18. We should not _____ the West, nor should we praise it to the skies and think great of everything that belongs to the West.
　　A. forgive B. forsake C. forlorn D. forage

　　19. Bill Gates is one of those who are said to be _______, able to rack huge profits at every turn.
　　A. on the ship B. on the plane C. on the gravy train D. on the rocks

　　20. He aimed at finding some workable _____ with a man who was a celebrity not only in the inward-reflecting world of Oxford but in the larger world outside.
　　A. neighborhood B. workmanship C. relationship D. craftsmanship

　　Part 2 Vocabulary Replacement
　　This part consists of 15 sentences in which one word or phrase is underlined. Below each sentence, there are four choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C, D. You are to select the ONE choice that can replace the underlined word without causing any grammatical error or changing the principal meaning of the sentence. There is only one right answer. Then mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your Machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.

　　21. It wasn't long before Franks was a marked man. After he served in Desert Storm, directing helicopter and ground units, the Army's high command gave him the job of remaking the service for the post-cold war world.
　　A. a person whose conduct is watched with suspicion or hostility
　　B. a man destined to succeed
　　C. a remarkable person
　　D. a notable person

　　22. The most notorious expression of that change was last year's bootleg publication of "The Japan That Can Say No" - the book written by right-wing politician Shintaro Ishihara and Sony chairman Akio Morita.
　　A. free publication B. pirate publication
　　C. lawful publication D. commercial publication

　　23. "No," Kojima said, "the point is, he spoke out, he stood up to America. Japan is just getting tired of being pushed around."
　　A. he stood up and spoke to the American audience
　　B. he faced America boldly
　　C. he challenged America
　　D. he met the Americans' challenge proudly

　　24. Traffic with criminals is dangerous.
　　A. dealing with criminals B. tracking the criminals
　　C. fighting the criminals D. transporting criminals

　　25. Some - such as liquid oxygen - are so cold that they embrittle many constructional materials and evaporate continuously if not refrigerated.
　　A. weaken B. strengthen
　　C. reduce D. cause … to become brittle

　　26. A "Backgrounder" permits newspapermen to publish information given them though without attribution to the source.
　　A. a person who remains behind the scene
　　B. a person providing the background knowledge
　　C. a press conference
　　D. a news agency

　　27. Is it possible that the entire tale is but a garbled account of that voyage and Biarni another name for Leif?
　　A. detailed B. plausible C. distorted D. eye-witness

　　28. Isolated cases of disaffection - or harbingers of a mass cross-border movement that threatens Europe's economic stability? The question is pressing.
　　A. sign B. forerunner C. messenger D. vanguard

　　29. The man we met this morning grows many kinds of plants in his garden, most of which are flowers including succulents and cacti.
　　A. rises B. raises C. plants D. plows

　　30. The scientist contested the assumption of previous scientists that the fate of human beings could not be predicated.
　　A. respected B. supposed C. suspected D. assumed

　　31. One's knowledge of the world, according to humanists, is largely derived by observation, experience and their analysis of the things they observe and experience.
　　A. come from B. determined C. resulted in D. resulted from

　　32. In the last 10 years we have all witnessed an impressive growth in our knowledge about the environments.
　　A. imperative B. observable C. sustainable D. expressive

　　33. In our culture and in our eyes success all too often means simply outdoing other people by virtue of achievement judged by some single scale - income or honors - and coming out at "the top".
　　A. outfitting B. outbidding C. outraging D. outshining

　　34. Social taboos remained strong. Gambling was virtually prohibited except on the racecourses, and drinking of alcohol was discouraged by the closing of hotels at six o'clock and by the shortage of bottle beer.
　　A. factually B. eventually C. consequently D. significantly

　　35. Everyone must be responsible for their own behavior, and most of the young people today are interested, as far as I can perceive, in taking their knocks, just as adults must take theirs.
　　A. taking their jobs B. sharing their ideas
　　C. assuming their responsibilities D. shaking off their responsibilities

　　Part 3 Correcting Grammatical Errors
　　This part consists of 15 sentences in which there is an underlined part that indicates a grammatical error. Below each sentence, there are four choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C, D. You are to select the ONE choice and replace the underlined element(s) so that the error is erased and corrected. There is only one right answer. Then mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your Machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.

　　36. A survey asked British mums who work outside the home what they would most like for Mother's Day. And what did they reply? "Flowers? Chocolates? Dinner in Paris? " No, what 72% wanted was this: a little bit of time for mother.
　　A. to myself B. to mom C. for mom D. by myself

　　37. Of course, nobody ever thought the prime minister's job shall be easy.
　　A. would B. could C. will D. should

　　38. Downing Street is fighting fiercely for something it hopes it shall control: its reputation. "[The BBC] is now saying, 'Nobody ever said the prime minister told a lie,' but that's exactly what they're saying," Alastair Campbell, Blair's director of communications, told Newsweek. "That's pretty heavy."
　　A. could B. would C. can D. will

　　39. The made-in-America idea of the global brand has built a name that people will buy on faith, and the pioneer was Coca-Cola.
　　A. is building B. is to build C. was to build D. was building

　　40. For the least, American roots are no longer an easy selling point. Through much of the postwar period, US brands could play off this cachet; Levi's ad campaigns used wholesome themes of boy-meets-girl in a heartland American setting until the early 1990s.
　　A. At least B. At the least C. At most D. At the most

　　41. For me and my other classmates, trying to fathom what happened to our old school friend, we may never know if we really would grow up with a future terrorist.
　　A. grow up B. are growing up
　　C. grew up D. shall grow up

　　42. When I was an editor, I always preferred to apologise promptly, what the merits of the case, rather than face the expense and, importantly, the time consuming complexities and debilitating worry of litigation, libel being one of the least satisfactory branches of the law.
　　A. whichever, more importantly B. whatever, more important
　　C. whichever, more important C. whatever, more importantly

　　43. One morning my patience was growing thin during Mark talked once too often, and then I made a novice-teacher's mistake.
　　A. when B. as C. while D. whenever

　　44. One of the key features of CBI is the use of authentic "input" - in other words, "real" reading but listening material: magazine and newspaper articles, poems, short stories, brochures, excerpts from textbooks written for native speakers of English, radio interviews, lectures, and advertisements.
　　A. and B. or C. and/or D. Nil

　　45. In each person's life there are three stages. When one was young, people said, "He will do something." As he grew older and did nothing, they said, "He could do something if he found himself." When he was white-haired, people said of him, "He might do something if he could try anything."
　　A. He should have done something if he has tried something
　　B. He would have done something if he should have tried anything
　　C. He might do something if he would try something.
　　D. He might have done something if he had tried anything

　　46. China not only will endeavor to curb its population growth, but will also upgrade the education of its citizens.
　　A. will not only … but also will B. will not only … but also will
　　C. will not only … but also D. not only … but will also

　　47. Of course, the notion suspects that while people work 50 weeks a year, their output is greater than they work 46 or 47 weeks.
　　A. predicts … even if B. assumes … if
　　C. assumes … when D. predicts … when

　　48. If they will not be able to reach agreement before the conference, they shall lose a good opportunity of involving themselves to do the project.
　　A. will be unable … to involving B. are unable … to involve
　　C. are not be able … to involve D. will be able … to involving

　　49. I was standing behind him and I did see Sandra handing the letter to Joe.
　　A. hand B. has handed C. handed D. was handing

　　50. The President was talking to all the department heads while a group of unexpected important clients had arrived for a talk with him.
　　A. when … were arriving B. as … had arrived
　　C. when … arriving D. when … arrived