Part I Listening Comprehension

　　Section A

　　1. A) Dr. Holden is the best person for the chairmanship.

　　2. D) They will keep in touch during the summer vacation.

　　3. C) Peaches are not at their best now.

　　4. B) They work on the assignment together.

　　5. D) She admires Jean’s straightforwardness.

　　6. A) He liked writing when he was a child.

　　7. B) He does not study hard enough.

　　8. D) It will be very difficult for them to find John.

　　9. B) Its rapid growth is beneficial to the world.

　　10. C) Most students can’t afford to live in the new apartments.

　　Section B

　　11. A) The need for greater cultural diversity in the school curriculum.

　　12. A) He believed the speaker was a foreigner.

　　13. D) The US population doesn’t consist of white European descendants only.

　　14. C) By making laws.

　　15. B) It should be raised quickly by hand.

　　16. C) It should be carried high up in the air.

　　17. A) There are precise regulations and customs to be followed.

　　18. B) Truancy.

　　19. C) Students with good attendance records.

　　20. D) Rewarding schools that have decreased the destruction.

　　Part II Reading Comprehension

　　Passage One

　　21. C) People can fully enjoy individual freedom.

　　22. D) the more diligent one is, the bigger his returns.

　　23. B) became wealthy after starting life very poor.

　　24. A) Americans wish to succeed in every aspect of life.

　　25. D) What Americans strive after often contradicts their beliefs.

　　Passage Two

　　26. C) the globalization of the economy

　　27. B) Information technology has removed the restrictions of time and space in business transactions.

　　28. A) it should not overlook the importance of information, services, support, and distribution.

　　29. B) can eliminate an entire business segment.

　　30. D) businesses have to meet individual customers’ specific needs in order to succeed.

　　Passage Three

　　31. A) To discourage people from insisting on having grandchildren.

　　32. B) draw attention to the troubles and difficulties grandchildren may cause.

　　33. D) they find it hard to resist the carrot-and-stick approach of their parents

　　34. B) her parents kept pressuring her to have a child.

　　35. C) It is troublesome but rewarding

　　Passage Four

　　36. A) Quick economic returns

　　37. B) obtain funding from the government

　　38. C) They think they work in an environment hostile to the free pursuit of knowledge.

　　39. D) they could be influenced by their association with the project concerned.

　　40. C) People would not believe scientists even when they tell the truth.

　　Part III Vocabulary

　　41. A) defy

　　42. D) decent

　　43. B) scrutiny

　　44. A) impose

　　45. C) obscure

　　46. D) culminated in

　　47. B) abnormal

　　48. A) drowned

　　49. D) flushed

　　50. C) out of stock

　　51. D) absurd

　　52. A) cherish

　　53. C) stimulus

　　54. B) by analogy with

　　55. C) handicap

　　56. A) recession

　　57. D) ambiguous

　　58. C) designated

　　59. B) luminous

　　60. D) erase

　　61. B) suppress

　　62. C) in relation to

　　63. A) abolished

　　64. A) comply

　　65. D) finite

　　66. B) irritated

　　67. C) vacant

　　68. B) rectify

　　69. A) ascribed

　　70. B) tucked

　　Part IV Error Correction

　　1. in first paragraph > in the first paragraph

　　2. ultimate > ultimately

　　3. acceptance > unacceptance / rejection

　　4. end > ending

　　5. upon > for

　　6. will pick up > will not pick up

　　7. listing > list

　　8. Keep up > Keep

　　9. taking > taken

　　10. find > found