2000英语专八语法真题

2000英语专八语法真题

　　Part ⅤGRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY [15 MIN.]

　　There are twenty-five sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Choose one word or phrase that best completes the sentence. Mark your answers on your answer sheet.

　　41. Acute hearing helps most animals sense the approach of thunderstorm s long before people___.

　　A. do

　　B. hear

　　C. do them

　　D. hearing it

　　42. This is an illness that can result in total blindness ___ left u ntreated.

　　A. after

　　B. if

　　C. since

　　D.unless

　　43. The central provinces have floods in some years, and ___.

　　A. drought in others

　　B. droughts are others

　　C. while other droughts

　　D. others in drought

　　44. Do help yourself to some fruit,___ you?

　　A. can’t

　　B. don’t

　　C. wouldn’t

　　D. won’t

　　45. There___ nothing more for discussion, the meeting came to an e nd half an hour earlier.

　　A. to be

　　B. to have been

　　C. being

　　D. be

　　46. My mother can’t get ___ because she has rheumatism (风湿病).

　　A. about

　　B.on

　　C. through

　　D. in

　　47. I was very much put ___ by Mark’s rude behavior; it really annoyed me.

　　A.over

　　B.off

　　C.up

　　D.by

　　48. You ___ Jim anything about it. It was none of his business.

　　A. needn’t have told

　　B. needn’t tell

　　C. mustn’t have told

　　D. mustn’t tell

　　49. All of us would have enjoyed the party much more if there___ quite such a crowd of people there.

　　A. weren’t

　　B. hasn’t been

　　C. hadn’t been

　　D. wouldn’t be

　　50. Firms that use computers have found that the number of staff ___ quality control can be substantially reduced

　　A. whose

　　B.as

　　C. what

　　D. that

　　51. ___ at in this way, the present economic situation doesn’t seem so gloomy.

　　A. Looking

　　B. Looked

　　C. Having looked

　　D. To look

　　52. Many people are ___ to insect bites, and some even have to go to hospital.

　　A. insensitive

　　B. allergic

　　C. sensible

　　D. infected

　　53. When you’re driving on a motorway, you must obey the signs telling you to get into the right ___.

　　A.way

　　B.track

　　C.road

　　D.lane

　　54. The motorist had to ___to avoid knocking the old woman down in the middle of the road.

　　A. swerve

　　B. twist

　　C. depart

　　D. swing

　　55. In winter drivers have trouble stopping their cars from ___ on icy roads.

　　A. skating

　　B. skidding

　　C. sliding

　　D. slipping

　　56. This project would ___ a huge increase in defense spending.

　　A. result

　　B. assure

　　C. entail

　　D. accomplish

　　57. The chances of a repetition of these unfortunate events are ___ indeed.

　　A. distant

　　B. slim

　　C. unlikely

　　D. narrow

　　58. We should make a clear ___ between “competent” and “proficient” for the purposes of our discussion.

　　A. separation

　　B. division

　　C. distinction

　　D. difference

　　59. In the present economic ___ we can make even greater progress than previously.

　　A. air

　　B. mood

　　C. area

　　D. climate

　　60. Rite of Passage is a good novel by any standards;___, it shoul d rank high on any list of science fiction.

　　A. consistently

　　B. consequently

　　C. invariably

　　D. fortunately

　　61. The diversity of tropical plants in the region represents a seeming ly___ source of raw materials, of which only a few have been utilized.

　　A. exploited

　　B. controversial

　　C. inexhaustible

　　D. remarkable

　　62. While he was in Beijing, he spent all his time ___ some import ant museums and buildings.

　　A. visiting

　　B. traveling

　　C. watching

　　D. touring

　　63. You must let me have the annual report without ___ by ten o’cl ock tomorrow morning.

　　A. failure

　　B. hesitation

　　C. trouble

　　D. fail

　　64. As the director can’t come to the reception, I’m representing the c ompany

　　A. on his account

　　B. on his behalf

　　C. for his part

　　D. in his interest

　　65. Dreams are___ in themselves, but when combined with other data, they can tell us much about the dreamer.

　　A. uninformative

　　B. startling

　　C. harmless

　　D. uncontrollable

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