The passage suggests that the early shops for making tools were ______.
A．not very sophisticated
B．known for doing very quick Work
C．dependent on imported materials
D．frequented only by fashionable people
Directions：Write a letter to your university library, making suggestions for improving its service.
You should write about 100 words on ANSWER SHEET 2.
Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use “Li Ming” instead.
Do not write the address. （10 points）
January 20th, 2007
Dear Sir or Madam,
I’m a student in the university and a loyal reader of this library. I’m writing to tell some of my ideas, which I hope to be helpful for you.
I notice that many magazines in our library are out of date. It would be beneficial to us students if they could be updated in time. And I suggest introducing some new journals so as to bring new fresh air to the library. Furthermore, since we have a huge number of books, it is not easy to find the right one easily. However, if we can introduce some new searching means, such as implementing new information management system that would be useful.
Thank you for taking time reading this letter and I’m looking forward to seeing some new changes soon.
Sincerely Yours,
Li Ming
Ⅳ. Reading Comprehension (60 points)
Directions: There are five reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by four questions. For each question there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose one best answer and blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
Passage One
There was a nasty (肮脏的，卑鄙的) accident in our town not long ago, and I saw it happen. I was standing near a road which was under repair, not doing anything special—just watching the men at work. It was not far from the new motorway (高速公路) that runs past the town. It was an old road that used to be very busy—and dangerous before the motorway was built. Today, most cars use the new "superhighway" and the old road is pretty quiet, although cars do often come off the motorway into the town faster than they should.
Anyway, the men were repairing part of the road and there were signs up for at least 200 meters, telling everybody that the road was narrower than usual. Most of the drivers in both directions saw the signs and slowed down.
Then three cars came along close together, the third one moving at a very high speed. The first one pas sed the workmen and wanted to turn left. Meanwhile the third car came flying past the second one. The sec and car stopped. I think the driver knew something was going to happen. It did. The third car had no chance of stopping. Its driver braked (刹车) and pulled over to miss the first car and went right off the road.
There were four people in that car: a man, two women and a child. The child was a boy of nine. I read later that they were going shopping—just shopping, nothing more important than that. The driver was badly hurt. The little bay was hurt too. Both the women were killed immediately. One of them was the driver's wife and the other was the mother of the little boy. They never got to the shops.
36. The old road ______.
A. was very busy though there was a new motorway
B. was never very busy
C. was always very busy and dangerous
D. was very busy and dangerous before the construction of the new motorway
36．答案为D 根据文章第1段第4句It was an old road that used to be very busy—and danger Otis—before the motorway was built，我们可以断定D正确。
听力原文：A cheque is never accepted by the bank on which it is drawn. Hence, the rules relating to acceptance of bills do not apply to cheques.
(9)
A．A cheque can be accepted by the bank on which it is drawn.
B．A bill can not be accepted by the bank on which it is drawn.
C．The rules relating to acceptance of bills are not applicable to cheques.
D．The rules relating to acceptance of bills are applicable to cheques.
对话理解
听力原文：M: The paper money required little effort to carry. If you need large amount of money, you can use a check or credit card to make the payment.
W: This nature of money is called portability and it provides convenience in settling transactions.
Q: What does the word portability mean?
(11)
A．It means being convenient to be carried.
B．It means being readily to be divided.
C．It means being easily identified.
D．It means being carried in a big basket.
11987 年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题Section I Close TestFor each numbered blank in the following passage there are four choices labeledA ,B ,CandD .Choose the best one and put your choice in the ANSWER SHEET. Read the whole passage before making yourchoice. (10 points)Cheques have1replaced money as a means of exchange for they are widely accepted everywhere. Though this is very convenient for both buyer and seller, it should not be forgotten that cheques are not real money:they are quite valueless in themselves. A shop-keeper always runs a certain2when he accepts a chequeand he is quite3his rights if on occasion, he refuses to do so.People do not always know this and are shocked if their good faith is called4. An old and verywealthy friend of mine told me he had an extremely unpleasant experience. He went to a famous jewelry shopwhich keeps a large5of precious stones and asked to be shown some pearl necklaces. After examiningseveral trays, he decided to buy a particularly fine string of pearls and asked if he could pay by Cheques. Theassistant said that this was quite6but the moment my friend signed his name, he was invited into themanagers office.The manager was very polite, but he explained that someone with exactly the same name had presentedthem with a worthless Cheque not long ago. My friend got very angry when he heard this and said he would buya necklace somewhere else. 11When he got up to go, the manager told him that the police would arrive at anymoment and he had better stay7he wanted to get into serious trouble. 128, the police arrived soonafterwards. 13They apologized to my friend for the9, but explained that a person who had used the samename as his was responsible for a number of recent robberies. 14Then the police asked my friend to copy out a notewhich had been used by the thief in a number of shops. 15The note10: “I have a gun in my pocket. Ask noquestions and give me all the money in the safe.” 16Fortunately, my friends handwriting was quite unlike thethiefs. 17He was not only allowed to go without further delay, but to take the string of pearls with him. 356words1. A exactlyB reallyC largelyD thoroughly2. A dangerB chanceC riskD opportunity3. A withinB beyondC withoutD out of4. A in difficultyB in doubtC in earnestD in question5. A amountB stockC numberD store6. A in orderB in needC in useD in common7. A whetherB ifC otherwiseD unless8. A ReallyB Sure enoughC CertainlyD However9. A treatmentB mannerC inconvenienceD behaviour10.A readB toldC wroteD informedSection IIReading ComprehensionEach of the two passages below is followed by five questions. For each question there are four answers. Readthe passages carefully and choose the best answer to each of the questions. Put your choice in the brackets on theleft. (10 points)全国硕士研究生入学考试英语（二）真题第 1 页，共 7 页2Text 1For centuries men dreamed of achieving vertical flight. In 400 A.D. Chinese children played with afan-like toy that spun upwards and fell back to earth as rotation ceased. Leonardo da Vinci conceive the firstmechanical apparatus, called a “Helix,” which could carry man straight up, but was only a design and was nevertested.The ancient-dream was finally realized in 1940 when a Russian engineer piloted a strange looking craft ofsteel tubing with a rotating fan on top. It rose awkwardly and vertically into the air from a standing start,hovered a few feet above the ground, went sideways and backwards, and then settled back to earth. The vehiclewas called a helicopter.Imaginations were fired. Men dreamed of going to work in their own personal helicopters. Peopleanticipate that vertical flight transports would carry millions of passengers as do the airliners of today. Suchfantastic expectations were not fulfilled.The helicopter has now become an extremely useful machine. It excels in military missions, carryingtroops, guns and strategic instruments where other aircraft cannot go. Corporations use them as airborne offices,many metropolitan areas use them in police work, construction and logging companies employ them in variousadvantageous ways, engineers use them for site selection and surveying, and oil companies use them as the bestway to make offshore and remote work stations accessible to crews and supplies. Any urgent mission to ahard-to-get-to place is a likely task for a helicopter. Among their other multitude of uses: deliver people acrosstown, fly to and from airports, assist in rescue work, and aid in the search for missing or wanted pers、ons.11. People expect that _.A the airliners of today would eventually be replaced by helicoptersB helicopters would someday be able to transport large number of people from place to placeas airliners are now doingC the imaginations fired by the Russian engineers invention would become a reality in thefutureD their fantastic expectations about helicopters could be fulfilled by airliners of today12. Helicopters work with the aid of _.A a combination of rotating devices in front and on topB a rota
A、price fixing B. C. D.
B、money laundering
C、tax fraud
D、counterfeit
根据文章内容进行判断，正确写“T”错误写“F”。
Beads, stones, seashells, paper, precious metals such as gold and silver, base metals such as iron have all been used as money. Today, money is printed on paper. A lot of countries use their own currency, with names such as dollar, pound, franc, ruble, Yuan and so on. Since 2002, 18 of the EU members have replaced their national currencies by Euro notes and coins.
If you want to pay for something in another currency, you have to change your money into the other money. If you want to travel outside your native country,you need to change your own country's money for the money of the country you are visiting. Most large banks sell foreign currencies. You can exchange money at a bank or at an office of a tourist agency.
Wherever you go, exchanging money puts you in touch with international finance, which is concerned with exchange rates between different currencies. Deciding the rate for the international exchange of money is one of the most complex aspects of international banking.
()26. This best title for this passage is “The history of money”
()27. Euro is available in all EU member countries.
()28. Foreign exchange rates have significant impact on the economy of a country.
()29. Currency means money in the form. of paper.
()30. Banks are a good option to get your money exchanged.
参考答案：26-30：F F T F T
Every year a flood of farmers arrive in shenzhen for the money——making jobs they Before leaving their hometowns.
A.promised
B.were promised
C.have promised
D.have been promised
We can infer from the passage that______.
A. the write want his children to be very rich
B. life in the dirty street is not shameful
C. the writer believes money means happiness
D. a good person may not necessarily be rich
44．答案为D 从短文第三段可得知A、B、C选项都不符合作者的观点。Miss Jackson虽然不富有，却善解人意，令人尊重。