Part One Vocabulary and Structure

　　Directions：

　　There are ten incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A， B， C and D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.

　　1. Many newcomers complain of the rapid _________ of life in Hong Kong.

　　A. rate

　　B. pace

　　C. speed

　　D. growth

　　2. To one‘s boss， an employee should dress neatly， be ________ and show interest in the job.

　　A. instant

　　B. timely

　　C. punctual

　　D. quick

　　3. The girl will not become a nurse because she will faint at the __________ of blood.

　　A. vision

　　B. eyes

　　C. sight

　　D. view

　　4. The government_________ regulations that put this old city under protection.

　　A. published

　　B. issued

　　C. discharged

　　D. released

　　5. Unexpectedly the light __________ and we were left in darkness.

　　A. bum out

　　B. put out

　　C. turned out

　　D. went out

　　6. After a whole day’s heavy work， the old worker returned home，_________ 。

　　A. hungry and felt exhausting

　　B. hunger and exhausted

　　C. hungry and exhausted

　　D. hungry and having been exhausted

　　7. The last half of the nineteenth century __________ the steady improvement in the means of travel.

　　A. has witnessed

　　B. was witnessed

　　C. witnessed

　　D. is witnessed

　　8. She ___________ in the feet on her way home from work.

　　A. was hurting

　　B. is hurt

　　C. hurts

　　D. got hurt

　　9. Without computers， we ______ the tremendous medical advancement in the last few decades.

　　A. would not make

　　B. will not have made

　　C. could not make

　　D. couldn‘t have made

　　10. ___________ that Susan hadn’t dared to make a sound.

　　A. So was he absorbed

　　B. So absorbed he was

　　C. So absorbed was he

　　D. So he was absorbed

　　Part Two Reading Comprehension

　　Directions：

　　In this part there are four passages followed by questions or unfinished statements， each with four suggested answers. Choose the one that you think is the best answer. Mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET by drawing with a pencil a short bar across the corresponding letter in the brackets.

　　Questions 11—15 are based on the following passage：

　　Some psychologists maintain that mental acts such as thinking are not performed in the brain alone， but that one‘s muscles also participate. It may be said that we think with our muscles in somewhat the same way that we listen to music with our bodies.

　　You surely are not surprised to be told that you usually listen to music not only with your ears but with your whole body. Few people can listen to music that is more or less familiar without moving their body or more specifically， some part of their body. Often when one listens to a symphonic concert on the radio， he is tempted to direct the orchestra even though he knows there is a competent conductor on the job.

　　Strange as this behavior may be， there is a very good reason for it. One cannot derive all possible enjoyment from music unless he participates， so to speak， in its performance. The listener “feels” himself into the music with more or less noticeable motions of his body.

　　The muscles of the body actually participate in the mental process of thinking in the same way， but this participation is less obvious because it is less noticeable.

　　11. Some psychologists maintain that thinking is __________.

　　A. not a mental process

　　B. more of a physical process than a mental action

　　C. a process that involves our entire bodies

　　D. a process that involves the muscles as well as the brain

　　12. Few people are able to listen to familiar music without __________.

　　A. moving some part of their body

　　B. stopping what they are doing to listen

　　C. directing the orchestra playing it

　　D. wishing that they could conduct music properly

　　13. Body movements are necessary in order for the listener to _____________.

　　A. hear the music

　　B. appreciate the music

　　C. enjoy the music fully

　　D. completely understand the music

　　14. According to the selection， muscle participation in the process of thinking is ______.

　　A. deliberate

　　B. obvious

　　C. not readily apparent

　　D. very pronounced

　　15. The best title for this selection is ____________.

　　A. An Ear for Music

　　B. Music Appreciation

　　C. How Muscles Participate in Mental Acts

　　D. A Psychological Definition of the Thinking Process

　　Questions 16—20 are based on the following passage：

　　During the summer session there will be a revised schedule of services for the university community. Specific changes for intercampus bus services， summer hours for the cafeteria， the infirmary (校醫(yī)院) and recreational and athletic facilities will be posted on the bulletin board outside of the cafeteria. Weekly movie and concert schedules which are in the process of being arranged will be posted each Wednesday outside of the cafeteria.

　　Intercampus buses will leave the main hall every hour on the half hour and make all of the regular stops on their route around campus. The cafeteria will serve breakfast， lunch， and early dinner from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. during the week and from noon to 7 p.m. on weekends. The library will maintain regular hours during the week， but shorter hours on Saturdays and Sundays. The weekend hours are from noon to 7 p. m.

　　All students who want to use the library borrowing services and recreational athletic， and entertainment facilities must have a valid summer identification card. This announcement will also appear in the next issue of the student newspaper.

　　16. Which of the following is the main purpose of this announcement?

　　A. To tell campus personnel of the new library services.

　　B. To announce the new movies on campus this summer.

　　C. To notify university people of important schedule changes.

　　D. To remind the students to validate their identification cards.

　　17. Specific schedule revisions for which of the following facilities are listed in this announcement?

　　A. Athletic and recreational.

　　B. Food and transportation.

　　C. Bookstore and post office.

　　D. Medical and audio-visual.

　　18. Times for movies and concerts are not listed in this announcement because ______________.

　　A. film or concert occurs every Wednesday at 7 p. m.

　　B. the full list would be too long

　　C. films and concerts cannot be announced publicly

　　D. the full list is not ready yet

　　19. According to the announcement which of the following is true of special summer hours for the library?

　　A. It has them only on the weekends.

　　B. It has them both weekdays and weekends.

　　C. It has no special summer hours.

　　D. The information is not available.

　　20. According to the announcement， a validated identification card is required to __________.

　　A. ride on intercampus buses

　　B. read announcements in the cafeteria

　　C. make use of the infirmary

　　D. check books out of’ the library

　　Questions 21—25 are based on the following passage：

　　The economy in the United States is heavily dependent on aluminum， a material widely used in the construction of buildings and in making such diverse things as cars， airplanes， and food containers. In 1979 Americans used over five million tons of new aluminum， and one and a half million tons of recycled aluminum. Some ninety percent of the bauxite (礬土) ore from which new aluminum is normally derived had to be imported to meet the demand. Poorer ores are abundant in the United States， however， and researchers at Purdue University may recently have found a way to obtain aluminum magnetically from these.

　　Although aluminum is not attracted by ordinary magnets， under special conditions it becomes temporarily “paramagnetic”， or very weakly responsive to a magnetic field. This is achieved by immersing ore particles in water to which certain salts have been added and then filtering the ore through steel wool in the presence of a strong magnetic field. It is hoped that this technique will reduce the amount of high-grade aluminum the United States must import.

　　21. The passage focuses on _____________.

　　A. construction and manufacturing industry in the United States

　　B. new technique of obtaining aluminum from poor ores

　　C. consumption and production of aluminum in the United States

　　D. the annual import of high-grade aluminum into the United States

　　22. It is believed that a new technique to _________ will probably be found.

　　A. recycle old aluminum products

　　B. discover more bauxite ores

　　C. make aluminum by putting ore particles under water

　　D. take out aluminum magnetically from poorer ores

　　23. In the second paragraph the word “paramagnetic” means ___________.

　　A. slightly magnetic

　　B. a weak magnetic field

　　C. a strong magnetic substance

　　D. the under-water magnetic power

　　24. By immersing ore particles in water， ____________.

　　A. we can get ore particles of equal size

　　B. we can purify aluminum particles

　　C. we can filter out aluminum

　　D. we can improve the working conditions around

　　25. We understand from the passage that the United States ____________.

　　A. is rich in low-grade aluminum-beating ores

　　B. is short of aluminum-making techniques

　　C. has to import ninety percent of its annual need of aluminum

　　D. has to produce fifty percent of the world‘s supply to meet its annual aluminum demand

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