211 2000 年 08 月语法题 1. The gray scale, a progressive series of shades ranging from black to white, is used in computer graphics _____ detail to graphical images. (A) added (B) to add (C) are added (D) and add 2. By _____ excluding competition from an industry, governments have often created public service monopolies. (A) they adopt laws (B) laws are adopted (C) adopting laws (D) having laws adopt 3. _____ skeleton of an insect is on the outside of its body. (A) Its (B) That the (C) There is a (D) The 4. Lenses, _____, are used to correct imperfection in eyesight. (A) are the forms of glasses and contact lenses (B) in the form of glasses and contact lenses (C) glasses and contact lenses which form (D) glasses and contact lenses may be formed 5. In eighteenth-century North American, printed engravings provided____ rococo style. (A) the most manifestation widespread (B) manifestation widespread the most (C) the widespread manifestation most (D) the most widespread manifestation 6. In the Arctic tundra, ice fog may form under clear skies in winter, ____ coastal fogs or low stratus clouds are common in summer. (A) because of (B) whereas (C) despite (D) that 7. On attaining maximum size, ___ by drawing itself out and dividing into two daughter amoebas, each receiving identical nuclear materials. (A) the reproduction of the amoeba (B) the amoeba, which reproduces (C) reproducing the amoeba (D) the amoeba reproduced 8. For the advertiser, one of the greatest appeals of radio is ____ an audience all day long. (A) that it has 212 (B) that to have (C) to have it (D) having it 9. Charles Schulz‘s comic strip, ―Peanuts,‖ features children who make ____ about life. (A) funny, wise statement that (B) which funny, wise statements (C) statements are funny but wise (D) funny but wise statements 10. One of the major rivers of the western United States, ____ flows for some 1,5000 miles from Colorado to northwestern Mexico. (A) it is the Colorado River (B) the Colorado River which (C) and the Colorado River (D) the Colorado River 11. In art, the tendency of gouache colors to lighten on drying makes ___ a wide range of pearly or paste-like effects. (A) it is possible (B) possible (C) possible to be (D) it possible the 12. Isabel Bishop was one of many American artists ___ by the government during the Depression years on various federal art projects. (A) employed (B) whose employment (C) to employ (D) had been employed 13. Outbreaks of diseases in trees commonly occur _____ stressed because of drought or other environmental factors. (A) as forests that become (B) in forests become (C) that become forests (D) when forests become 14. To break thick ice, an icebreaker boat moves fast enough to ride up on the ice, ____ under its weight. (A) so then breaks (B) when breaks it (C) which then breaks (D) for which then breaks 15. Cholesterol is present in large quantities in the nervous system, where ____ compound of myelin. (A) it a (B) a 213 (C) being (D) it is a 16. Painters of the early twentieth century who were known primarily for they colorful landscapes, the Group of Seven changed is name to the Canadian Group of Painters in 1933. 17. Most animals have nervous systems, sense organs, and specialized modes of locomotion, and are capable of securing, ingesting, and to digest food. 18. The cork oak tree has a layer of cork several inches thickness that can be stripped every ten years. 19. Inflation, interest rates, and overall economic active can be governed by the United States Federal Reserve‘s decision to adjust the supply of money to the economy. 20. Free radicals of oxygen, which common by-products of metabolic processes in the body, are capable of causing tissue damage. 21. By 1830 the glass industry in the United States had become too well established that the country no longer needed to depend on imported glass. 22. Free land, cheaply transportation, and powerfully persuasive railroad advertising all helped flood the western part of the United States with farmers in the nineteenth century. 23. Coral formations have known as fringing reefs are located close to shore, separated from land only by shallow water. 24. For a seagoing, cargo-carrying sailing vessels, the clipper ship was remarkably fast. 25. Visibly only through large telescopes, Pluto has a yellowish color, which indicates that there is very little atmosphere. 26. Diamond is the hardest known substance, so diamonds can be cut only by another diamonds. 214 27. The International Monetary Fund was created in a effort to stabilize exchange rates without interfering with the healthy growth of trade. 28. Butterflies and moths undergo complete metamorphosis, them changing from caterpillar to adult via one intermediate stage, the pupa. 29. Thousands of meteorite hit Earth each year, but most fall into the sea or in remote areas and are never recovered. 30. Alaska become the forty-ninth state in 1959,and Hawaii became the fiftieth state lately that year. 31. A sponge feeds itself by drawing water through tiny pores on its surface, filtering out food particles, and then expel the water through larger vents. 32. Toward the end of his life, John Singer Sargent returned to the painting of landscapes and the use of watercolors, of which he excelled. 33. Pythons differ than most other snakes by having two well developed lungs rather than a much smaller left lung or no left lung at all. 34. Weighing among two to five kilograms in adults, the skin is the largest organ of the human body. 35. Rodents dwell in various habitat, some species being aquatic, some terrestrial. 36. The nectar of flowers are ingested by worker bees and converted to honey in special sacs in their digestive systems. 37. Lucid dreaming, the ability dreamers to become aware of and to control their dreams while dreaming, is the focus of some current psychological research. 38. The sensation of sound is produced how vibrations transmitted through the air strike the eardrum. 39. The musical tone of an electric guitar is created not by the resonance of the body of the guitar but by electronically amplification. 215 40. Considered one of the most beautiful of the fine art, ballet is a combination of dance and mime performed to music. 216 2000 年 10 月语法题 1． The role of the ear is ____ acoustic disturbances into neural signals suitable for transmission to the brain. (A) to code (B) so that coded (C) coded (D) it coding 2. The imagist movement in poetry arose during the second decade of the twentieth century ____against romanticism. (A) when a revolt (B) as a revolt (C) a revolt was (D) that a revolt 3. Virtually ____ species have biological clocks that regulate their metabolism over a 24-hour period. (A) all there are (B) all (C) all are (D) they all 4. According to United States criminal law, insanity may relieve a person from the usual legal consequences____. (A) what his or her acts have (B) of his or her acts are (c ) of his or her acts (D) what of his or her acts 5. In addition to ____a place where business deals are made, a stock exchange collects statistics, publishes prices quotations, and sets rules and standards for trading. (A) being (B) it is (C ) that which (D) where is 6. The first inhabitants of the territories ____Canada came across the Bering Strait and along the edge of the Arctic ice. (A) make up that now (B) make up now that (C ) that make up now (D) that now make up 7.____ need for new schools following the Second World War that provided the sustained thrust for the architectural program in Columbus, Indiana. (A) Since the (B) To be the (C ) The (D) It was the 8. The soybean contains vitamins, essential minerals, ____high percentage of protein. (A) a (B) and a (C ) since a (D) of which a 217 9. Hail is formed when a drop of rain is carried by an updraft to an altitude where ____ to freeze it. (A) is the air cold enough (B) the air cold enough (C ) the cold enough air (D) the air is cold enough 10. Geometrically, the hyperbolic functions are related to the hyperbola, ____ the trigonometric functions are related to the circle. (A) just as (B) same (c ) similar to (D) and similar 11. ____, Kilauea is one of the world‘s most active volcanoes, having erupted dozens of times since 1952. (A) The big island of Hawaii‘s location (B) Locates the big island of Hawaii (C ) Located on the big island of Hawaii (D) On the big island of Hawaii‘s location 12. Not until the eighteenth century ____ the complex chemistry of metallurgy. (A) when scientists began to appreciate (B) did scientists begin to appreciate (C )scientists who were beginning to appreciate (D) the appreciation of scientists began 13. ____ 1810, water-powered textile manufacturing arrived in New Hampshire with the founding of a company in Manchester that manufactured cotton and wool. (A) Early (B) In the early (C ) As early as (D) When early 14. The settings of Eudora Welty‘s stories may be rather limited, but ____about human nature is quite broad. (A) exposes (B) exposes that (C ) she exposes (D) what she exposes 15. Lichens grow extremely well in very cold parts of the world ____plants can survive. (A) where few other (B) few others (C ) where do few others (D) there are few others 16．The pear tree has simple, oval leaves that are smoother and shinier than them of the apple. 17．In the orbit of a planet around the Sun, the point closest to the Sun is called it the perihelion. 18．In the early 1900‘s, Roy Harris created and promoted a distinctly American style of classical music and greatly influenced a number of composer in the United States. 218 19．The eighteenth century witnessed the emergence of North American ports, particular Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, as major commercial centers within the British empire. 20．Guitarlike instruments have exist since ancient times, but the first written mention of the guitar itself is from the fourteenth century. 21．The law of biogenesis is the principle what all living organisms are derived from a parent or parents. 22．Onyx is a mineral that can be recognized its regular and straight parallel bands of white, black, or brown. 23．There are as many as 200 million insects for every human beings, and in fact their total number exceeds that of all other animals taken together. 24．Native to South America and cultivated there for thousands of years, the peanut is said to have introduced to North America by early explorers. 25．Originally canoes were made by the hollowing out of logs and used were for combat as well as transport. 26．Among the symptoms of measles, which takes about twelve days to incubate, are a high fever, swelling of glands in the neck, a cough, and sensitive to light. 27．Ice crystals in a glacier tends to melt and recrystallize within a brief moment of travel on a downhill glide. 28．Photograph was revolutionized in 1851 by the introduction of the collodion process for making glass negatives. 29．The piano is a stringed musical instrument in which the strings are strike by felt-covered hammers controlled by a board. 219 30．The sounds used in human languages to create meaning consist of small variation in air pressure can be sensed by the ear. 31．The mountains, especially the Rocky Mountains, formerly constituted a seriously barrier to east- west trade in British Columbia. 32．Telescope are frequently used in astronomy to collect light from a celestial object, bring the light into focus, and producing a magnified image. 33．Diamond is the hardest known substance, so diamond can be cut only by another diamonds. 34．There are about 350 species and subspecies of birds in danger of become extinct, with a large number of them, 117 in all, found on oceanic islands. 35．The nineteenth-century romantic movement in art was partially a reaction to what was perceived as overemphasis on reasonable and order in neoclassicism. 36．Like triglycerides, cholesterol is a type of fat that is both consumed in the diet but manufactured by the body. 37．Both the United States silver dollar and half-dollar, first minted in 1794, had a figure of Liberty on one side and a eagle on the reverse side. 38．For an advertisement to be effective, its production and placement must to be based on a knowledge of human nature and a skilled use of the media. 39．While photosynthesis in green plants, light energy is captured and used to convert water, carbon dioxide, and minerals into oxygen and energy-rich organic compounds. 40．The Democratic Party, the most oldest existing political party in the United States, has played a vital role in the nation‘s history. 220 2001 年 01 月语法题 1. A three-foot octopus can crawl through a hole ------ in diameter. (A) than one inch less (B) less than one inch (C) one less inch than (D) than less one inch 2. ------adopted the decimal system of coinage in 1867. (A) Canada (B) When Canada (C) Canada, which (D) There was Canada 3. Generally, the representatives ------ a legislature are constitutionally elected by a broad spectrum of the population. (A) who they compose (B) who compose (C) and compose (D) compose 4. The Actor‘s Studio, a professional actors‘ workshop in New York City, provides ------where actors can work together without the pressure of commercial production. (A) a place and (B) a place (C) so that a place (D) a place is 5. ------ that life began billions of years ago in the water. (A) It is believed (B) In the belief (C) The belief (D) Believing 6. By 1872 the United States had 70 engineering colleges, ------ astonishing expansion credited largely to the Morrill Act of 1862. (A) because (B) an (C) to which (D) was 7. The artist Romare Bcarden was ------ whose yellows, deep blues, and fuchsias contrasted strongly with photographic gray in his bright collages. (A) with a gift for color (B) a gifted colorist (C) a gift with colorful (D) gifted with coloring (A) with a gift for color 语义逻辑错误 8. The most important chemical catalyst on this planet is chlorophyll, -------carbon dioxide and water react to form carbohydrates. (A) whose presence (B) which is present (C) presenting (D) in the presence of which . 40．The Democratic Party, the most oldest existing political party in the United States, has played a vital role in the nation‘s history. 220 2001 年 01 月语法题. on imported glass. 22. Free land, cheaply transportation, and powerfully persuasive railroad advertising all helped flood the western part of the United