CET6-Practice 1

CET6-Practice 1

Listening Comprehension

Section A

Questions 1 to 2 will be based on the following news item. 0次播放机会

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   A) The role of tourism in Chinese economy.
   B) The most popular places for Chinese tourists.
   C) Rapid growth in foreign tourists to China.
   D) China as the No. 1 source of global tourists.

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   A) They hope to see much of the world.
   B) They are expanding business abroad.
   C) They are a free-thinking generation.
   D) They know a lot about other cultures.

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   A) Stealing passwords and other bank details.
   B) Stealing and transferring money online.
   C) Organized online attacks on some banks.
   D) Sending out fake online ads and emails.

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   A) Changing their online bank accounts very frequently.
   B) Getting teenagers to aid them in making quick money.
   C) Having computer consultants working behind for them.
   D) Finding new ways of getting around anti-virus software.

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   A) Strong evidence of creatures.
   B) Evidence of plants.
   C) Strong evidence of salt water.
   D) There was more water on Mars than on Earth.

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   A) Mars was a planet full of life four billion years ago.
   B) All life on Mars disappeared four billion years ago.
   C) Mars was a planet full of water four billion years ago.
   D) All water on Mars evaporated into space four billion years ago.

Section B

Passage One 0次播放机会
Questions 7 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.

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   A) Helpful.
   B) Successful.
   C) Casual.
   D) Unimportant.

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   A) People have difficulty talking to each other.
   B) People use body language to communicate with each other.
   C) People are engaged in small talks.
   D) People cannot make new friends.

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   A) Politics.
   B) Family.
   C) Work.
   D) Hobbies.

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    A) They can establish both good friendships and valuable business contacts.
    B) They can establish good friendships but cannot establish valuable business contacts.
    C) They cannot establish good friendships but can establish valuable business contacts.
    D) They can establish neither good friendships nor valuable business contacts.

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    A) Because no one is serious about it.
    B) Because only friends have small talks.
    C) Because people are usually in good spirit and make good impressions.
    D) Because business contracts are signed during small talks.

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Questions 12 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.

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    A) Money.
    B) Energy.
    C) Good manners.
    D) Time.

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    A) Using words.
    B) Not using words.
    C) Making much effort.
    D) Sharing with others.

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    A) Lovely.
    B) Safe.
    C) Friendly.
    D) Family.

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    A) Pay respect to them.
    B) Understand their decision.
    C) Recognize their value.
    D) Talk to them.

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    A) By understanding their need.
    B) By understanding their difficulty.
    C) By understanding their change.
    D) By understanding their feeling.

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Questions 17 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.

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    A) Writing a book.
    B) Making a video.
    C) Hunting.
    D) Exercising.

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    A) He was sent back home.
    B) He was sent to a hospital.
    C) He was unable to see his family.
    D) He was saved by a doctor near the woods.

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    A) He was missing them.
    B) He was playing with them.
    C) He was proud of them.
    D) He was sorry for them.

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    A) Meaningless.
    B) Changing.
    C) Complete.
    D) Valuable.

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    A) Relationships with people.
    B) Staying with family.
    C) Successful work.
    D) Helping people.

Section C

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    A) Julian’s school was the first art school in Paris to offer women-only classes.
    B) Julian viewed himself as a social reformer.
    C) Julian wanted to encourage the distinctive style of women in Paris.
    D) Julian possessed outstanding business skills.

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    A) Women artists played a greater role in the Salon exhibitions.
    B) More schools were established by women artists.
    C) Women and men took art classes together.
    D) Fewer women artists were traveling to Paris.

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    A) Women made progress in their artistic abilities.
    B) Women were able to sell their paintings for large amounts of money.
    C) Women became instructors in private art studios.
    D) Women created new styles of painting.

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    A) It has not increased since 2006.
    B) It reaches a total of about 9.1 million.
    C) It has increased by 9.1 million since 2006.
    D) It has decreased by 9.1 percent since 2009.

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    A) It is strong again after an Internet bubble.
    B) It is the most reliable way to buy goods.
    C) It is more important than household use.
    D) It remains at a lower level of development.

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    A) People don’t have enough time to do things online.
    B) People don’t have enough time for rest or leisure.
    C) There isn’t enough time for people to finish their work.
    D) There isn’t enough time for people to read many books.

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    A) Social rules and regulations.
    B) An element of a normal society.
    C) A component of economic growth.
    D) Shared values and social cooperation.

Writing

Section A

Directions: Write a composition on the following topic with the hints given below.
For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay entitled Competition: A Good Thing or a Bad Thing by commenting on the statement, “Competition is useful to a certain point, but it should not be carried too far.” You should write at least150 words but no more than200 words. Write your essay onAnswer Sheet 1.

In my opinion, competition is important in our dairy life which includes work, 
study and compete. So, I think competition is a good thing to us. If without 
competition, people will feel bored and to be lazy. Than we will have no progress
 and cant not make more effort to be more perfect. However, everything has limit, 
 so appropriate competition is the best. 
 
Just as Darwin put forward the law of nature, "the best is slightly eliminated, and the 
natural selection is competitive."  For example, in the animal world, two tigers need 
to constantly improve their predation ability and institutional quality, compete for 
food to maintain their life, and tigers that fail in the competition will be eliminated, 
which may be cruel to individual tigers, but it is very beneficial to tiger races, 
because only in this way, tigers that survive through competition will make the 
species stronger and become the king of the forest. 

155 个单词 得分：9分

评语：文中词汇表达灵活多样，能较灵活地使用一些学术词汇，拼写做得很棒；把握下长难句在的分布；层次不够分明，缺少组织，需注意整体的组织结构

Reading Comprehension

Section A
Questions 30 to 34 are based on the following passage.

As I was reading a recent story in Slate on 20-somethings complaining about how the economy was ruining their life plans, I couldn’t help but think the 20-somethings quoted【引用】 in the article sounded like a bunch of spoiled brats 【乳臭未干的小孩】 who grew up expecting everything to be easy for them. As a 20-something myself, I certainly share their frustration【失望】: my husband and I probably won’t be able to buy a house until we’re in our 40s, and we too are burdened by student loans【学生贷款】. But why should it be any different? Isn’t part of being a young person in America about embracing all of the challenges and opportunities that this country offers?
Consider some of these perspectives【前景】 shared in the Slate story: Jennifer, 29, owner of a two-bedroom apartment with her husband, worries that she won’t be able to have children for at least a decade because they can’t afford to buy a house yet. I read that and I thought: what planet is she living on where you need to own a house in order to have kids? Has she ever visited a developing country or even downtown areas in this one? Home ownership is a *luxury【奢侈】*, not a fertility【生】 requirement.
A 26-year-old in the story complains bitterly【愤恨地】 that she can’t afford to get a Ph.D. in literature and women’s studies to study Margaret Atwood’s work. Well, that sounds a bit like expressing disappointment that no one will pay you to write poetry on the beach in Thailand for five years. If you want to be able to feed and clothe yourself, you have to find work that people are willing to pay you to do.
Yes, it’s sad that these young people feel so lost. But I think the problem is their extremely high expectations, not economic reality. Beth Kobliner, author of “Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties” says that she thinks people’s expectations are slowly adjusting, but today’s 20-somethings grew up at a time when everyone’s wealth appeared to be expanding. Their parents probably saw their home values rise along with their investments. “So you have people who have grown up in an environment where people had great expectations of what living well means,” says Kobliner.
This recession will certainly play a role in forcing those expectations into more realistic alignment 【行列】. In the meantime, it seems a lot better for our mental health to focus on being grateful – for our one-bedroom apartments, for living in modern cities, or perhaps just for being able to eat three meals a day – than on lusting【渴望】 after some kind of mythical luxe life【奢侈的生活】.

30. Why did the 20-somethings quoted in the magazine sound like “a bunch of spoilt brats”?
    A) They used money in an unplanned way.
    B) They didn’t consider other people’s feelings.
    C) They felt sad about the bad economy.
    D) They didn’t want to work hard to earn a good life.
31. What does the author mean by the underlined sentence of the first paragraph?
    A) 20-somethings should stop complaining and work harder.
    B) 20-somethings should not worry about their future.
    C) 20-somethings are not different from the 40-somethings.
    D) America is a country full of opportunities.
32. What worries the 26-year-old in the story?
    A) She cannot afford to further her study.
    B) She doesn’t have interests in her work.
    C) She doesn’t have interests in her study.
    D) She cannot afford Margaret Atwood’s work.
33. What of the following information about the author CANNOT be inferred from the passage?
    A) She is in her twenties too.
    B) She thinks the economic recession is hopeless.
    C) She thinks it important to be thankful for what we’ve already got.
    D) She and her husband can’t afford a house until they are in their 40s.
34. Which of the following is the best title for this passage?
    A) Get A Job That Can Feed You
    B) Crave for A Larger House
    C) When Young People’s High Hopes Create Despair
    D) Young People in Old People’s Eyes

Passage Two
Questions 35 to 39 are based on the following passage.

Thailand this month hosted the first Asian Martial Arts Games【亚洲武术运动会】 with the aim of raising interest and national pride in the Asian fighting sports. Some of the participating countries, such as Iraq, have struggled against real and deadly fighting back home to promote the sports. But, the Olympic Council of Asia has decided these will also be the last martial arts games. The first Asian Martial Arts Games open in Thailand, bringing together hundreds of athletes from 40 Asian countries to test their fighting skills. The competitions range from well-known martial arts such as kung fu and karate to the more exotic【异域情调】.
Iraq’s National Olympic Committee managed to send a team of athletes, despite past struggles against funding problems 【资金问题】and political interference【政治干预】. As the bus takes them to Bangkok’s National Stadium, the excited Iraqis dance and sing. “This kind of sport is developing slowly,” an Iraqi athlete said. “It will develop more in the future. The situation in Iraq right now is stable, so all kinds of sports will develop more. People can go to the clubs and develop sports, especially the martial arts. The Iraqi people like sports, especially martial arts.” Iraqis are starting to see government support for martial arts and other sports after years of neglect from【忽视】 war and political infighting. Samir Sadiq al-Moussawi, the head of Iraq’s judo federation【柔道联盟会】 says martial arts are a good way to keep young Iraqis off the streets and out of trouble. “This started last year when the government started supporting martial arts because they wanted all the youth to be part of this kind of sport.” he said.
However, the First Asian Martial Arts Games will also be the last. Even before the games began, the Olympic Council of Asia decided, for efficiency, to incorporate【收录】 them into the Asian Indoor Games. Sasithara Pichaichannarong is permanent secretary to Thailand’s Ministry of Tourism and Sports – the organizer of the games. “I feel that it’s a little bit upset for us,” she said. “I would like to have the second time, third time, the fourth time, only concentrated on martial arts games.” The games have also been troubled by complaints of poor organization and very few viewers. Organizers brought in students to fill the empty seats, and many, unlike this student, do not stay long. “I’m here because I love Thailand. The rest, they went home. But, I’m still here because I really love Thai boxing,” said the student.

35. Which of following is true according to the first paragraph?
    A) Iraq eagerly promotes martial arts in order to win the fight back home.
    B) Iraq will participate in order to promote its sports.
    C) The Olympic Council of Asia is reluctant to hold this game.
    D) Few Asian countries participated in the Games.
36. Which of the following statements shows Iraq’s attitude towards the game?
    A) The Iraqis are indifferent to the promotion of martial arts.
    B) Iraq’s National Olympic Committee sends athletes to Thailand willingly.
    C) The political problems have been solved in Iraq.
    D) Iraq government doesn’t support martial arts because of war.
37. The head of Iraq’s judo federation says martial arts ______.
    A) can get young people out of trouble
    B) will focus people’s attention on fighting
    C) should be practiced by all the young people
    D) is not part of the government’s concern
38. Why will the first Asian Martial Arts Games be the last?
    A) There won’t be enough funding.
    B) The Olympic Council will put it into Asian Indoor Games.
    C) Only students participate in the game.
    D) The reason is lack of audience.
39. From the passage, we can see that ______.
    A) martial arts sports games will never be held in the future
    B) martial arts need more attention from the western countries
    C) people who practice martial arts will be disappointed
    D) the first Asian Martial Arts Games is not that popular among students

Passage Three
Questions 40 to 44 are based on the following passage.

In managing information resources, the medium may be the key to an effective system. The medium is a vehicle, a tool, or a container for holding information; the information itself is the thing of value.
Three popular categories of information media are paper, film, and electronic storage devices. The media choice must not be viewed as a choice among these three, however; it must be viewed as an opportunity to select from a multitude of media possibilities in combinations that build effective systems. In many instances the person responsible for information-resource management is not the person who determines the medium in which information will be created. In such a case, the manager of a firm’s information resources faces a challenge in making a significant contribution to the organization’s objectives.
For effective management of information resources, media conversion may be necessary. Examples include keying or scanning paper documents to convert them to electronic media. Other processes convert electronic media from one format to another. For example, disk files created on one system may not be compatible with another system. Various hardware and software combinations can be used to convert files to formats that equipment will accept. For information generated within organizations, this necessity of making systems compatible may be eliminated by cooperative planning. However, very little control can be exercised over the media used to generate information that comes to your organization from the outside.
The medium for information may be selected to satisfy a need that exists when information is created and communicated. For example, a paper record may be created because of its portability and because no special equipment is necessary for later references to that information; electronic transmission may be selected because it is the fastest means of communicating information. A firm may use electronic mail because a network already exists for online computer communication. The additional application may cost less than postage to mail paper memos.

40. Which of the following can best sum up the passage?
    A) Media Selection in Managing Information Resources.
    B) Three Categories of Information Media.
    C) The Importance and Necessity of Media Conversion.
    D) Various Means of Communicating Information.
41. The first paragraph aims to tell the reader ____________.
    A) the great variety of media for holding information
    B) the importance of information-resource management
    C) the relationship between the medium and information
    D) the numerous resources of information
42. According to the author, ___________.
    A) paper is the best storage device
    B) it is better to let the person responsible for information resource management determine the medium
    C) people have a choice of different information media
    D) the manager should build an effective system by selecting a good combination of different media
43. For effective management of information resources, the manager should ___________.
    A) control the media used to generate information both inside and outside his organization
    B) make media conversion when necessary
    C) convert all paper documents to electronic media
    D) use one format in processing information
44. The main idea of the last paragraph is that ___________.
    A) electronic mail costs less than postage to mail paper memos
    B) different media for information may be selected for different purposes
    C) paper record is the most convenient medium for later reference
    D) by using different media, a firm can create various information for its objectives

Section B

A The Marlboro Man has found greener pastures. The cigarette hawking (兜售香烟的) cowboy may be under siege back home in the United States from lawmakers and health advocates determined to put him out of business, but half a world away, in Asia, he is prospering, his craggy (毛糙的) all American mug slapped up on billboards and flickering across television screens. And Marlboro cigarettes have never been more popular on the continent that is home to 60 percent of the world‘s population. For the world’s cigarette makers, Asia is the future. And it is probably their savior.

B Industry critics who hope that the multinational tobacco companies are headed for extinction owe themselves a stroll down the tobacco-scented streets of almost any city in Asia. Almost everywhere here the air is thick with the swirling gray haze of cigarette smoke, the evidence of a booming Asian growth market that promises vast profits for the tobacco industry and a death toll measured in the tens of millions. At lunchtime in Seoul, throngs of fashionably dressed young Korean women gather in a fast food restaurant to enjoy a last cigarette before returning to work, a scene that draws distressed stares from older Koreans who remember a time when it would have been scandalous for women from respectable homes to smoke. In Hong Kong, China, shoppers flock into the Salem Attitudes boutique (时装商店), picking from among the racks of trendy sports clothes stamped with the logo of Salem cigarettes. In Phnom Penh (金边), the war-shattered capital of Cambodia, visitors leaving an audience with King Sihanouk are greeted with a giant billboard planted right across the street from his ornate (装饰华丽的) gold-roofed palace. It advertises Lucky Strikes.

C According to tobacco industry projections cited by the World Health Organization, the Asian cigarette market should grow by more than a third during the 1990s, with much of the bounty going to multinational tobacco giants eager for an alternative to the shrinking market in the United States.

D American cigarette sales are expected to decline by about 15 percent by the end of the decade, a reflection of the move to ban public smoking in most of the United States. Sales in Western Europe and other industrialized countries are also expected to drop. But no matter how bad the news is in the West, the tobacco companies can find comfort in Asia and throughout the Third World, markets so huge and so promising that they make the once all important American market seem insignificant. Beyond Asia, cigarette consumption is also expected to grow in Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe and in the nations of the former Soviet Union.

E Status appears to matter far more than taste. “There is not a great deal of evidence to suggest that smokers can taste any difference between the more expensive foreign brands and the indigenous (本地产的) cigarettes,” said Simon Chapman, a specialist in community medicine at the University of Sydney. “The difference appears to be in the packaging, the advertising.” He said that researchers had been unable to determine whether the foreign tobacco companies had adjusted the levels of tar, nicotine and other chemicals for cigarettes sold in the Asian market. “The tobacco industry fights tooth and nail to keep consumers away from that kind of information,” he said.

F Most governments in Asia have launched anti-smoking campaigns, but their efforts tend to be overwhelmed by the Madison Avenue glitz (浮华) unleashed by the cigarette giants. With 1.2 billion people and the world’s fastest growing economy, China is the most coveted (极想得到的) target of the multinational tobacco companies. Cigarette consumption, calculated as the number of cigarettes smoked per adult, has increased by 7 percent each year over the last decade in China. There are 300 million smokers in China, more people than the entire population of the United States, and they buy 1.6 trillion cigarettes a year.

G Competing in many cases with domestically produced brands, the multinational tobacco companies are moving quickly to get their cigarettes into China and emerging markets in the rest of the developing world. Their campaign has been bolstered (支撑) by the efforts of American government trade negotiators to force open tobacco markets overseas. Since the mid-1980s, Japan, South Korea, and Thailand have all succumbed (屈从) to pressure from Washington and allowed the sale of foreign brand cigarettes. Foreign cigarettes, shut out of Japan in 1980, now make up nearly 20 percent of the market.

H “Worldwide, hundreds of millions of smokers prefer American-blend cigarettes,” James W. Johnston, chairman of Reynolds Tobacco Worldwide, wrote in his company’s 1993 annual report. “Today, Reynolds has access to 90 percent of the world’s markets; a decade ago, only 40 percent. Opportunities have never been better.” Last year, Philip Morris, the company behind the Marlboro Man, signed an agreement with the government controlled China National Tobacco Corp. to make Marlboros and other Philip Morris brands in China. The company’s foreign markets grew last year by more than 16 percent, with foreign operating profits up nearly 17 percent. Operating profits in the domestic American market fell by nearly half.

I Physicians say the health implications of the tobacco boom in Asia are nothing less than terrifying. Richard Peto, an Oxford University epidemiologist (流行病学家), has estimated that because of increasing tobacco consumption in Asia, the annual worldwide death toll from tobacco-related illnesses will more than triple over the next two decades, from about 3 million a year to 10 million a year, a fifth of them in China. His calculations suggest that 50 million Chinese children alive today will eventually die from diseases linked to cigarette smoking. “If you look at the number of deaths, the tobacco problem in Asia is going to dwarf tuberculosis, it’s going to dwarf malaria and it’s going to dwarf AIDS, yet it’s being totally ignored,” said Judith Mackay, a British physician who is a consultant to the Chinese government in developing an anti-smoking program.

J The explosion of the Asian tobacco market is a result both of the increasing prosperity of large Asian nations — suddenly, tens of millions of Asians can afford cigarettes, once a luxury — and a shift in social customs. In many Asian countries, smoking was once taboo for women. Now, it is seen as a sign of their emancipation.

45. The death rate from cigarette smoking in Asia will someday surpass that from tuberculosis and AIDS.
    答案：I
46. The U.S. government has exerted great pressure on many Asian nations to keep their markets open to foreign cigarettes.
    答案：G
47. Marlboro cigarettes have become more popular in Asia.
    答案：A
48. China becomes the most desirous market for foreign cigarette manufacturers because its population is so big and smoking is so popular there.
    答案：F
49. Cigarette sales in America and Western Europe are expected to decline, while in Asia, and throughout the Third World cigarette consumption is expected to grow.
    答案：D
50. The major reason for the explosion of the Asian cigarette market is the increasing prosperity of large Asian countries.
    答案：J
51. Many Asian consumers consider foreign brand name cigarettes preferable to domestically produced ones because of the status they represent, rather than their taste.
    答案：E
52. Asia is becoming a booming cigarette market for multinational tobacco giants.
    答案：B
53. The effectiveness of advertising and the exotic packaging are factors that make smoking foreign brand name cigarettes a fashion in Asia.
    答案：E
54. American foreign tobacco markets are growing whereas its domestic markets are shrinking.
    答案：H

Vocabulary and Structure

Section A

55. The French pianist who had been praised very highly _________ to be a great disappointment.
    A) turned in
    B) turned up
    C) turned out
    D) turned down
56. New words are constantly added to our vocabulary while some old words go _________.
    A) out of date
    B) out of work
    C) out of sight
    D) out of touch
57. The picture _______ my school days to my mind.
    A) reminded
    B) recollected
    C) remembered
    D) recalled
58. Mr. Smith had an unusual _________: He was first an office clerk, then a sailor, and ended up as a school teacher.
    A) occupation
    B) position
    C) profession
    D) career
59. People could hardly ________ their anger when they found millions of dollars of public funds had been used to build luxurious houses for city officials.
    A) draw back
    B) hold back
    C) keep back
    D) hold up
60. It is not considered ________ to litter in public.
    A) respectful
    B) respectable
    C) respected
    D) respective
61. He seemed to have come to a deadlock in solving the puzzles, so he simply ________ whatever came into his head.
    A) put away
    B) put aside
    C) put down
    D) put back
62. In children’s minds the Spring Festival is _________ with nice food and presents.
    A) connected
    B) combined
    C) joined
    D) associated
63. The history professors were dealing with these in historical ________.
    A) sequence
    B) succession
    C) series
    D) success
64. I need one of you to ________ the examination papers to the class for me.
    A) attribute
    B) distribute
    C) contribute
    D) tribute
65. He tried to _______ relations with his former wife but he failed.
    A) shelter
    B) maintain
    C) measure
    D) reply
66. The international situation is very _______ in the Middle East.
    A) delicious
    B) delicate
    C) perfect
    D) percent
67. Mary is too weak to ________ the piano across the room.
    A) attract
    B) apply
    C) appeal
    D) drag
68. With the ________ of Mary, all the girl students are eager to go to the party.
    A) exhibition
    B) except
    C) exception
    D) reception
69. His opinion _________ that of the minority.
    A) retains
    B) reports
    C) represents
    D) requires
70. It is essential that he ________ in extracurricular activities.
    A) participate
    B) participates
    C) will participate
    D) shall participate
71. Dream of the Red Chamber (《红楼梦》) is said __________ into dozen of languages in the last decade.
    A) to have been translated
    B) to translate
    C) to be translated
    D) to have translated
72. ________ might be expected, the response to the question was very mixed.
    A) That
    B) It
    C) What
    D) As
73. He talked as if he ________ the incident.
    A) witness
    B) witnessed
    C) had witnessed
    D) have witnessed
74. _________ table tennis was accepted as a regular part of the Olympic Games.
    A) Not until 1986
    B) It was in 1986 when
    C) It was not until 1986 that
    D) It was until 1986 that

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