Part One Text-related Part

I. The following Paragraphs are taken from the textbooks, followed by a list of words or expressions each of the sentences. One word or expression for each blank only.
l Oh, how 1 it was! How she enjoyed it! How she loved sitting here, watching it all! It was like a play. It was 2 like a play. Who could believe the sky at the back wasn’t 3 ? But it wasn’t till a little brown dog trotted on 4 and then slowly trotted off, like a little “ 5 ”dog, a little dog that had been drugged, that Miss Brill 6 what it was that made it so exciting. They were all 7 . They weren’t only the audience, not only 8 ; they were acting. Even she had a part and came every Sunday. No 9 somebody would have noticed if she hadn’t been there; she was part of the performance, 10 . How strange she’d never thought of it like that before! And yet it 11 why she made such a point of starting from home at just the same time each week—so as not to be late for the 12 --and it also explained why she had quite a queer, shy feeling at telling her English pupils how she spent her Sunday afternoons.

l I have tired often to search behind the 13 of years for the 14 I so easily found in those gifts. The essence escapes but its 15 remains. To be 16 , no, invited, into the 17 lives of 18 , and to share their 19 , was a chance to 20 the Southern bitter 21 for a cup of 22 with Beowulf or a hot cup of tea and milk with Oliver Twist. When I said aloud, “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done…” 23 filled my eyes at my 24 .

A. fascinating B. after all C. meat D. enchantment
E. wormwood F. aura G. exactly H. joys and fears
I. on the stage J. explained K. private L. tears of love
M. exchange N. solemnly O. doubt P. sophistication
Q. selflessness R. allowed S. strangers T. looking on
U. discovered V. painted W. theatre X. performance

II. There are 15 sentences with a blank in each, followed by a list of words or expressions marked A to X. Choose the one that best completes each of the sentences. One word or expression for each blank only.
25. And still ______ singing, still with what trembling smile, Miss Brill prepared to listen.
26. But he shook his head, lighted a cigarette, slowly breathed a great deep puff into her face and, even while she was still talking and laughing, _____ the match away and walked on.
27. But even the band seemed to know what she was feeling and played more softly, played ______, and the drum beat “The Brute! The Brute!” over and over.
28. For although the band played all the year round on Sundays, ______ it was never the same.
29.…and now and again a leaf came ______ ---from no where, from the sky.
30. She thought of the old ______ gentleman to whom she read the newspaper four afternoons a week while he slept in the garden.
31. A beautiful woman came along and dropped her bunch of ______, and a little boy ran after to hand them to her, and she took them and threw them away as if they’d been poisoned.
32. For nearly a year, I sopped around the house, the Store, the school and the church, like an old biscuit, dirty and ______.
33. That in those ______ was touched the collective wisdom of generations.
34. There must have been an outhouse, too, but my mind never ______ it.
35. But today she passed the baker’s by, climbed the stairs, went into the little dark room---her room like a cupboard---and sat down on the red ______.
36. It takes the human voice to ______ them with the shades of deeper meaning.
37. I ______ in the separate unasked and unanswerable questions.
38. She said that I must always ______ ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.
39. My imagination ______ at the punishment I would deserve if in fact I did abuse a book of Mrs. Flowers’.

A. ruffle B. recorded C. aura D. be intolerant of
E. drifting F. invalid G. snag H. homely sayings
I. odor J. inedible K. pinch L. eiderdown
M. infuse N. tenderly O. clasp P. soundlessly
Q. hobble R. boggled S. flicked T. hung back
U. tingle V. violets W. trot X. out of reason

III. Each of the following sentences is given two choices of words or expressions. Choose the right one to complete the sentences and marked the corresponding letter.
40. The kitchen floor has to be (A. scrubbed， B. scraped) every other day.
41. The teacher told the boy first to (A. pour， B. splash) some water on the floor before mopping it.
42. Please stay (A. still， B. silent) while I take your photograph.
43. It is (A. queer， B. odd) that I cannot remember your address.
44. She was (A. slim， B. slender) and had long dark hair.
45. There’s quite a (A. chill， B. cold) in the air this morning.
46. She wanted to become a doctor, but her mother didn’t think it was a (A. respectable， B. respectful) profession.
47. Students of English are required to (A. remember， B. memorize) the listed 2,000 words.
48. The virus can only be transmitted through (A. familiar， B. intimate) contact.
49. The technical innovation will (A. save， B. rescue) as much time and labor.
50. He (A. made a plan， B. made a point of) thanking his hostess before leaving.
51. The captain (A. infused， B. filled) his own courage into his soldiers.
52. The wind (A. drifted， B. swooped) the snow into high banks.
53. Do you (A. divide， B. separate) your hair at the side or in the middle?
54. The house was the (A. common， B. ordinary) property of the three brothers.

IV. Translate the following into English.
55. 在圆形大厅后面是垂着黄叶的细长的树木，穿过黄叶可见一线大海，此处便是漂浮着镶有金色纹脉的白云的蓝天。
56. 她觉得自己已经很擅长看似没听可实际在听别人讲话，擅长利用别人在她周围谈话的那一小会儿来了解人家的生活。
57. 有一点是不会错的，那就是她以自己的本来面目使我为自己是个黑人而骄傲。
58. 可是你得记住，语言是人与人进行交流的方式，而且是语言使人区别于低等动物。
59. 如果有杏仁，那就像带回家中一个小小的礼物--- 一件意外—-- 一件本来可能没有在那儿的东西。在买到有杏仁蛋糕的那些周日，她总是急急忙忙赶回家，精神抖擞地划火柴点火烧开水。

V. Translate the following into Chinese.
60. Now everything, her hair, her face, even her eyes, was the same color as the shabby ermine, and her hand, in its cleaned glove, lifted to dab her lips, was a tiny yellowish paw.
61. And what they played was warm, sunny, yet there was just a faint chill—a something, what was it? –not sadness--no, not sadness—a something that made you want to sing.
62. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors.
63. Mrs. Bertha Flowers was the aristocrat of Black Stamps. She had the grace of control to appear warm in the coldest weather, and on the Arkansas summer days it seemed she had a private breeze which swirled around, cooling her.
64. She was one of the few gentlewomen I have ever known, and has remained throughout my life the measure of what a human being can be.

VI. Answer the following questions in English.
65. How did Miss Bill feel towards these sitting on the benches and green chair?
66. What did Miss Bill enjoy doing in the park on Sunday afternoon?
67. Why and how did Mrs. Flowers try to make Marguerite talk?
68. What special feeling did she have that particular Sunday afternoon?
69. What did she mean when Mrs. Flowers told Marguerite to be always intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy?

Part Two Proficiency Part

Read the following passage and answer the questions;
Challenges for a Webbed Society
(1) There are subtle, complex changes taking place in human communication, thought, and relationship within online communication and information communities. The Web is part of these changes, enabling new forms of communication and information delivery, and bringing up new associations among people. One challenge for our society is to find a solution to the questions raised by these changes. How might our culture, society, and communication patterns change as a result of widespread Web use?
(2) Vannevar Bush, in an article called “As We May Think” In the July 1945 issue of The Atlantic Monthly, described his vision of a device for helping the human mind cope with information. Bush observed that previous inventions expanded human abilities to deal with the physical world, but not floods of information and knowledge. Bush’s vision was for a system of information which could link documents in “trails” that could be saved and shared with others.
(3) The Web fulfills Bush’s dream in many respects. It can link information in useful ways, giving rise to new insights—a transformation of information to knowledge that Bush described in terms of applications in law, medicine, chemistry, and history.
(4) In addition to fulfilling many needs identified by Bush for human intellectual activity, and Web also fills a “media gap” identified by Tetsuro Tomita. In his essay, “The new Electronic Media and Their Place in the Information Market of the Future,” Tomita observed a pattern in the way traditional communications methods were used to reach audiences. Methods such as letters, telegrams, and conversation reach a very small audience in amounts of time ranging from immediate (telephone) to several days (a letter). Mass media such as radio and television, newspapers, books and movies reach very large audiences in times ranging from immediate (radio, television) to weeks (magazines) to months (books). But the middle range—audiences of 10 to 10,000 people reached within times ranging from immediate to a day—is a gap filled by few traditional media. This is too small an audience for mass media and too large an audience for personally controlled (traditional) media. Yet this is the audience and time delay gap that many forms of computer-mediated communication fill, including the Web.
(5) The Web offers immediate delivery of information to specialized audiences. Before the invention of computer networks, an individual could not easily seek out several hundred others interested in a specialized hobby or area of interest, when those people were spread worldwide. No traditional media offered a personally available means to accomplish this. But the Web does fill this “media gap” and this feature is certainly a contributor to the Web’s popularity and growth.
(6) Associative linking promotes relationships among people in addition to relationships among information. Experts in a particular field create pools of knowledge on their home page. When other people link into these pages, groups of experts form. These groups might be based on information or no hobbies, interests, culture, or political leanings. The result is that “electronic tribes” can form that gather people in associations that could not be possible any other way.
(7) As the Web alters communication and information patterns, the resulting change raises issues our society must face for individual, group, and societal responsibility. Moral and legal issues will arise in the areas of individual behavior, societal responsibility for issues of access and information literacy, and the new relationships, communication, and thought patterns the Web promotes.
(8) If network activity becomes a major form of human communication, people may associate more freely online because they are not slowed by geographical or time limits. How will our institutions (government, education, religion) change to adapt to these new associations? Traditional institutions often act as a force to help people achieve a group identity, but what will happen to those institutions whose power and influence are taken over by groups performing the same function online?
(9) Eventually, the communication possibilities offered by the Web can’t help but change human relationships. People no longer might identify with a physical neighborhood for companionship or advice; they can turn to a cyberspace neighborhood, based on mutual interests and association, as a source for support and information.
(10) Despite the rapid growth of Web traffic and activity, however, the significance of the impact of the Web on our society remains unknown. There are several characteristics of the Web that may indicate its power to change our lives. Our society is just beginning to face issues that may have more serious impacts if Web use becomes more widespread. Individual and societal responsibilities for Web use, access, and training have not been defined, and the way Web-based communication alters human relationships has not yet been examined in detail. In the long term, human interaction online can’t be planned or predicated any more than the growth of vibrating, exciting cities. Our society is only beginning to identify the changes the Web may have already brought to communication.
Adapted from: The World Wide Web Unleashed
Vannevar Bush: 凡勒瓦.布什
The Atlantic Monthly: 《亚特兰大月报》
Tetsuro Tomita: 特楚罗. 托米塔
Cyberspace: 网上空间

VII. There are 10 incomplete statements, followed by four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer.
70. What was Bush’s vision more than 50 years ago?
A. An invention to expand human abilities to deal with the physical world.
B. A device to help human mind cope with information.
C. Documents in trails that could be saved and shared with others.
D. Floods of information and knowledge.
71. According to the passage, mass media includes ______.
A. radio, television, movies, newspapers, etc.
B. books, newspapers, letters, the Web, etc.
C. television, telephone, radio, magazines, etc.
D. telegrams, conversation, telephone, letters, etc.
72. An “electronic tribe” may consist of ______.
A. home pages created by experts
B. people in different associations
C. pools of knowledge
D. people sharing the same interest
73. How will human relationships change because of the Web?
A. People turn to institutions to achieve a group identity.
B. Groups of people take over institutions’ power and influence.
C. People no longer have a physical neighborhood.
D. People can identify with a cyberspace neighborhood.
74. Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A. The growth of vibrating, exciting cities can be planned and predicted.
B. A physical neighborhood must be based on mutual interests and association.
C. Not many people have realized the significance of the Web’s impact on our society.
D. Vannevar Bush designed a device to help human mind cope with information
75. The Web fulfill Bush’s dream in many respects including ______.
A. a transformation of information to knowledge
B. people may associate more freely online
C. previous inventions expanded human abilities to deal with the physical world
D. bringing up new associations among people
76. In addition to fulfilling many needs identified by Bush for human intellectual activity, the Web also fills ______.
A. an “electronic tribe” formed by a group of experts
B. a “media gap” identified by Tetsuro Tomita
C. pools of knowledge online
D. a transformation of knowledge
77. Why may people contact each other more freely online? Because ______.
A. associative linking develops relationship among information
B. it has a variety of applications in law, medicine and so on
C. it can gather people in associations that could not be possible any other way
D. they are not slowed by geographical or time limits
78. What is the function of a cyberspace neighborhood?
A. People can help each other and exchange information.
B. People might identify with neighborhood for companionship or advice.
C. People can share with each other.
D. It can help people achieve a group identity.
79. What is the function of “page home”?
A. It is pools of knowledge.
B. It offers information in the station and helps people to gain information needed.
C. It help human beings connect with each other.
D. It offers a great deal of pleasure and it is helpful.

VIII. There is one underlined part in each of the following sentences, followed by four choices A, B, C and D. Choose the one that is the closest in meaning to the underlined part.
80. How might our culture, society, and communication patterns change as a result of widespread Web use?
A. with widespread Web use
B. because of widespread Web use
C. since widespread use
D. it becomes the result of widespread Web use
81. Vannevar Bush, in and article called “As We May Think” in the July 1945 issue of The Atlantic Monthly, described his vision of a device for helping the human mind cope with information.
A. his imagination of a thing to help people deal with information.
B. he invented a machine to help people solve information problem
C. he used a special method to manage the information for people
D. he dreamed of a way of helping human beings to solve information problem
82. But the Web does fill this “media gap,” and this feature is certainly a contributor to the Web’s popularity and growth.
A….and this is surely a reason to the Web’s welcomed and growing
B….and this trait contributes a lot to the Web’s widespread and growth
C….and this quality certainly becomes a great contributor to the Web’s growth and popularity
D….and certainly this distinct characteristic helps to cause the Web’s to become popular and grow
83. Associative linking promotes relationships among people in addition to relationships among information.
A. Associative linking discourages relationships among people and relationships among information.
B. Associative linking can help the progress of relationships among people as well as relationships among information.
C. Associative linking supports relationships among people but it can’t support relationships among information.
D. Associative linking not only reduces relationships among people but also reduces relationships among information.
84. Eventually, the communication possibilities offered by the Web can’t help but change human relationships.
A. can’t stand
B. is unable to bear
C. can only
D. have to

IX. Translation the following sentences into Chinese.
85. Bush observed that previous inventions expanded human abilities to deal with the physical world, but not floods of information and knowledge.
86. Mass media such as radio and television, newspapers, books and movies reach very large audiences in times ranging from immediate (radio, television) to weeks (magazines) to months (books)
87. Before the invention of computer networks, an individual could not easily seek out several hundred others interested in a specialized hobby or area of interest, when those people were spread worldwide.
88. As the Web alters communication and information patterns, the resulting change raises issues our society must face for individual, groups, and societal responsibility.
89. People no longer might identify with a physical neighborhood for companionship or advice; they can turn to a cyberspace neighborhood, based on mutual interests and association, as a source for support and information.

X. Answer the following essay question in English with 80—100 words.
What changes has the Web brought up to our society?

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