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The man traveling in the back of the ambulance which thrust its way through the streets of Baltimore that morning in 1967 had no business to be alive. By everything that was reasonable, and there were plenty of precedents, he should have been very dead indeed. But he wasn’t. As the people in the hospital pointed out after they had examined him, he was only slightly bruised. Yet he has just fallen 150 feet down a hotel lift shaft!

Unknown to the man, two things had occurred which were to affect his life that day. On the thirteenth floor of the hotel, somebody had carelessly left the lift gate open. Down in the basement, a pipe had burst and, before anyone could check the rush of water, it had flooded the bottom of the lift shaft to a depth of two feet.

Modern lifts have all sorts of fail-safe mechanisms to prevent accidents, but this was an ancient contraption(奇妙的装置)— unreliable, creaking, slow, hazardous(dangerous), and suitable material for any scrap dealer who cared to take it away.

The man had plenty of things to occupy his mind that morning. He had overslept. The hotel had forgotten to call him and now he was late for an important business appointment. He dressed quickly, shaved hurriedly, grabbed his briefcase and hurried off down the hotel corridor.

Good! The lift gate was open. The lift must be there. He need not press the button and wait while the large, clumsy(badly-made)lift hauled its way upwards. Without looking or thinking he stepped out into space The lift cage was, in fact, one floor above him on the fourteenth. The world into which he had walked was a narrow space of not very fresh air, ending 150 feet below in two feet of dirty water.

The man descended(dropped), making his journey to the ground at a speed he had never dreamed of. Confused patterns, whirling shapes, a rush of air, time enough to be afraid, split-second thoughts of death, then — crash.

Perhaps this gave him the record for some sort of high-diving act. No doubt in future he always looked before he leap. Certainly he learnt that this was no way to save time. The experts said that those two feet of water had saved his life.

72. How do we know that the story is true?

A. We are told the place and time. B. We are given plenty of details.

C. Lifts often go wrong. D. The man won a high-diving record.

73. By ‘had no business to be alive’ the writer means that the man ____.

A. had missed his business appointment. B. was only just alive.

C. had done very little business. D. was alive and this was very surprising.

74. The word “precedents” in paragraph 1 refers to ____.

A. other people who had had similar accidents. B. rulers of countries.

C. the height which the man fell. D. the man’s injuries.

75. Which of the following did NOT help to cause the accident?

A. Someone left the lift door open. B. A pipe burst.

C. The man overslept. D. He was late for an appointment.

第二卷(共35分)

第四部分：智力检测与写作(共两节，满分45分)

第一节 智力题 请把答案填入题后的括号内，或写在题后的Answer后。(10分)

1. Which of the four is least like the other three?

A. brain B. light C. philosophy D. metal ( )

2. What a scientific worker needs is the down-to-earth attitude instead of talking. The underlined word means ____.

A. honest B. practical C. hard-working D. thoughtful ( )

3. I don’t believe such a minor matter will make you down. Pull up your socks! What does the underlined phrase mean? A ( )

A. Keep up your spirit. B. Stand up. C. Your socks are a bit lower. D. Straighten up.

4. Which word does not go with the others?

A. yellow B. dark C. red D. blue ( )

5. Maria’s gift in literature soon found favour in her teacher’s eyes. What does the underlined phrase mean?

A. was discovered by her teacher B. came from her teacher’s help

C. was good at describing her teacher’s eyes D. much attracted her teacher ( )

6. It goes without saying that a person must behave himself. What does the underlined phrase mean?

A. 直言不讳 B. 不言而喻 C. 不值一提 D. 不辞而别 ( )

7. The following picture is made with matches. How to turn it into one with only three squares by taking away two matches from it?

Answer:

8. What number should replace the question number?

Answer:

9. Suppose it rains at midnight, can it be expected to clear up after 72 hours?

Answer:

10. Divide 45 into 4 parts this way: after you add 2 to the first part, take 2 away from the second part, multiply(乘)the third part by 2 and make the fourth part divided by 2, all the results are the same. Can you divide it?

第二节 短文改错(共10小题;每小题1分，满分10分)

此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一题作出判断：若无错误，在改行右边横线上画一个勾(∨);若有错误(每行只有一个错误)，请按下列情况改正：

该行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线()划掉，在改行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。

该行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏词符号(∧)，在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

该行错一个词：在错的词下面划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

注意：原行没有错的不要改。

The local newspaper reported that a man found that his mobile phone 76. ______

had been stolen right before getting on a bus. He asked for help from 77. ______

the passenger but got no response. At that moment, a little boy stood up 78. ______

pointing at a man and shouted “He is the thief.” The thief was finally 79. ______

taken to the police station. But nobody knew about who the brave boy 80. ______

was. His parents took him off the bus immediately after the accident. 81. ______

Maybe they were afraid of the thief’s friends would look for revenge. 82. ______

In fact, many adults’ blindness in the face of evil deeds come exactly 83. ______

from this fear. So the boy acted a symbol of justice in the bus. 84. ______

Adults are physical stronger than the boy. Why do we not stand up to 85. ______

keep our society safer?

第三节 书面表达(满分25分)

一个加拿大贸易投资团来你的家乡滨海市(Binhai City)参观考察。假如你是他们的导

游，请口头向客人介绍你的家乡。

总体 美丽而自然资源丰富

人口 300多万，其中35%是工人、教师、机关工作人员等，其余的从事农业、渔业等生产;这里盛产优质苹果

教育 中学32所，小学586所，约有20%的人受过高等教育

经济 改革开放以来发展迅速，工业发展最快，已建好一个拥有近十万人口的开发区。人民的生活大大改善

交通 一个火车站、一个港口和一个国际机场，连接国内外主要大城市

注意：1、要求语言流畅，内容连贯;

2、字数100—120 ;

3、开头以为你写好。

Welcome to our hometown for an inspection. …

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