Janet is very modest, always __________ her success.




A.keeping down
B.turning around
C.playing down
D.pushing back

(8)




A.gorge
B.gorgeously
C.gorgeousness
D.gorgeous

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
No sooner had the first intrepid male aviators safely returned to Earth than it seemed that women, too, had been smitten by an urge to fly. From mere spectators, they became willing passengers and finally pilots in their own right, plotting their skills and daring line against the hazards of the air and the skepticism of their male counterparts. In doing so they enlarged the traditional bounds of a women's world, won for their sex a new sense of competence and achievement, and contributed handsomely to the progress of aviation.
But recognition of their abilities did not come easily. "Men do not believe us capable." The famed aviator Amelia Earhart once remarked to a friend. "Because we are women, seldom are we trusted to do an efficient job." Indeed old attitudes died hard: when Charles Lindbergh visited the Soviet Union in 1938 with his wife, Anne-herself a pilot and gifted proponent of aviation - he was astonished to discover both men and women flying in the Soviet Air Force.
Such conventional wisdom made it difficult for women to raise money for the up - to - date equipment they needed to compete on an equal basis with men. Yet they did compete, and often they triumphed finally despite the odds.
Ruth Law, whose 590 - mile flight from Chicago to Hornell, New York, set a new nonstop distance record in 1916, exemplified the resourcefulness and grit demanded of any woman who wanted to fly. And when she addressed the Aero Club of America after completing her historic journey, her plainspoken words testified to a universal human motivation that was unaffected by gender: "My flight was done with no expectation of reward," she declared, "just purely for the love of accomplishment."
Which of the following is the best title for this passage?




A.A Long Flight
B.Women in Aviation History
C.Dangers Faced by Pilots
D.Women Spectators

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
Amy Tan was born on February 19, 1952 in Oakland, California. Tan grew up in Northern California, (25) _______ when her father and older brother both died from brain tumors in 1966, she moved with her mother and younger brother to Europe, where she attended high school in Montreux, Switzerland. She returned to the United States for college. After college, Tan worked as a language development consultant and as a corporate freelance writer. In 1985, she wrote the story "Rules of the Game" for a writing workshop, which laid the early (26) _______ for her first novel The Joy Luck Club. Published in 1989, the book explored the (27) _______ between Chinese women and their Chinese-American daughters, and became the longest-running New York Times bestseller for that year. The Joy Luck Club received numerous awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book Award. It has been translated into 25 languages, including Chinese, and was made into a major motion picture for (28) _______ Tan co-wrote the screenplay. Tan's other works have also been (29) ______ into several different forms of media.
(25)




A.however
B.moreover
C.so
D.but

Mark the Letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined word(s) in each of the following questions.
Some operations may have to be halted unless more blood donors come forward to help.




A.offer
B.claim
C.attempt
D.refuse

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Eager to be able to discuss my work _____ in French, I hired a tutor to help polish my language skills.




A.expressively
B.articulately
C.ambiguously
D.understandably

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Your hair needs _______. You’d better have it done tomorrow.




A.cut
B.to cut
C.being cut
D.cutting

You may be very intelligent, but you should be more careful about this.




A.No matter how intelligent you may be, you should be more careful about this.
B.No matter whatever intelligent you may be, you should be more careful about this.
C.No matter what intelligent you may be, you should be more careful about this.
D.No matter why intelligent you may be, you should be more careful about this.

That’s the car the engine __________ needs __________.




A.of which/ repairing
B.that/ to be repairing
C.which/ repaired
D.whose/ to be repaired

Neither the director nor the assistant __________ yet.




A.hasn’t come
B.haven’t come
C.has come
D.have come