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ENGLISH FOOD
Foreign visitors to England often ask (1) _______ on a good restaurant but when their
hosts suggest (2) _______ it is usually Italian or French. “But I mean a typically English
restaurant,” they say. (3) _______ disappoint them, the host answers as best he can. (4)
_______ that English people enjoy their own cooking at home but (5) _______ it in
public. Even the experts who writes articles on food (6) _______ to use the French word
“cuisine”, (7) _______ suggests that “cooking” is inferior.
In fact, English cooking is not (8) _______ bad as people think. The trouble with it,
(9) _______ that the most appetizing typical dishes do not go with the wine. At home,
English people usually drink either water or beer or even ((10) _______ seem) tea with
their meals; in restaurant, they sometimes think they (11) _______ order wine for the (12)
_______ of appearances.
(13) _______ a number of exclusive restaurants in Britain are trying to develop a
“national cuisine”. But their main criterion (14) _______ appears to be to search (15)
_______ in ancient cookery books and give the results names like “Mutton Winchester” it’s amazing (16) _______ in the imitation French name, with the adjective after the
noun. Why (17) _______ have called it “Winchester Mutton”? At (18) _______ of the
scale, there are restaurants in London where you can have regional working-class
specialities. Personally I (19) _______ avoid the two extremes and go to a pub. Most
pubs serve food that goes well with beer and, (20) _______, who could ask for anything
better?
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

A. advices to people
C. people for advices

A. one them
B. them one
A. Not to
B. In order not
A. It is the truth
C. What is true it’s
A. are often ashamed of
C. often are ashamed of
A. like better
B. prefer
A. which
B. what

B. advice to people
D. people for advice
C. one to them
D. to them one
C. To not
D. So as not to
B. The truth is
D. What the truth is
B. are often ashamed with
D. often are ashamed with
C. would rather
D. are in favour
C. that
D. and


8.

9.

A. so much
B. nearly so
C. as much.
D. nearly so much
A. in my opinion, is
B. in my opinion, it is
C. for my opinion, is
D. for my opinion, it is
10. A. however strange it may
B. however strange it can
C. whatever strange it may
D. whatever strange it can
11. A. had better
B. had better to C. would better
D. would better to
12. A. good
B. reason
C. sake
D. need
13. A. In this moment
B. In this time
C. At present
D. Presently
14. A. on doing like this
B. in doing like this
C. on doing so
D. in doing so
15. A. receipts

B. recipes
C. for receipts
D. for recipes
16. A. the snobbery survival
B. the snobbery surviving
C. how survives snobbery
D. how snobbery survives
17. A. can’t they
B. couldn’t they C. they can’t
D. they couldn’t
18. A. another end
B. another side
C. the other end
D. the other side
19. A. would rather
B. had rather
C. would rather to D. had rather to
20. A. being English beer what is it
B. being English beer what it is
C. English beer being what is it
D. English beer being what it is
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RUDYARD KIPLING
Intellectuals still feel uncomfortable about Kipling. His name (1) _______ identified
with imperialism since the beginning of the century, so he is a writer they would rather
you (2) _______ talk about. It is true that George Orwell, who had (3) _______
colonialism himself and hated it, said “(4) _______ that Kipling’s view of life can be
accepted by any civilized person.’’ But he added that no one who (5) _______ a Fascist
(6) _______ have read and understood him. (7) _______ a racist, as Kim shows, though
he certainly believed the British has a responsibility to administer India for the (8)

_______ of law and order. What he does not seem (9) _______, as Orwell points out,
(10) _______ “an empire is primarily a money-making concern.”
Kim is not popular in India. But how often do the people of any country accept a
foreigner’s picture of them (11) _______ accurate? Yet (12) _______ that Kim is about
love, the affection between Kim, the Irish orphan, and his two substitute “fathers”, the
Tibetan lama and the Muslim horse-trader. (13) come out of the book far better than the
English. Kipling admired men of action, (14) _______ ones with a daily responsibility to


carry out. His ideal is the Roman centurion in Puck of Pook’s Hill, defending Hadrian’s
wall against the barbarians. The centurion knows how (15) _______ but (16) _______ he
gets any thanks or not, he does his job.
Like all conservatives, Kipling was a pessimist (17) _______ heart. We know (18)
_______ history that the centurion’s effort was in vain. But there is no reason for (19)
_______ enjoyed The Jungle Book when we were young, (20) _______ it is not a Fascist
tract.
1.
2
3.

A. is
B. has been
C. was
D. had been
A. don’t
B. didn’t
C. not
D. not to
A. experimented
B. experimented the

C. experienced
D. experienced the
4. A. It is no use pretending
B. It is no point pretending
C. There is no use to pretend
D. There is no use to pretend
5. A. accused Kipling to be
B. accused Kipling of being
C. charged Kipling to be
D. charged Kipling of being
6. A. may
B. might
C. can
D. could
7. A. Neither he was
B. Nor he was
C. Nor was he
D. He wasn’t, either
8. A. sake
B. reason
C. need
D. necessity
9. A. he had realized
B. that he realized
C. to be realizing
D. to have realized
10. A. is
B. is that
C. it is
D. it is that

11. A. as
B. for
C. being
D. to be
12. A. is the fact
B. it is the fact
C. the fact of the matter is
D. the fact of the matter it’s
13. A. The both
B. The both of them
C. Both they
D. They both
14. A. especially the
B. especially those
C. specially the
D. specially those
15. A. corrupt is the Empire
B. corrupt the Empire is
C. much corrupt is the Empire
D. much corrupt the Empire is
16. A. even
B. though
C. if
D. whether
17. A. at
B. by
C. in
D. to
18. A. from
B. from the

C. of
D. of the
19. A. being ashamed of being
B. being ashamed to have
C. being ashamed of having
D. being ashamed to have
20. A. as seem to be some critics
B. like seem to be some critics
C. as some critics seem to be
D. like some critics seem to be
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VISIONS OF THE FUTURE: HUXLEY AND ORWELL
Visions of the future in modern fiction are seldom optimistic. What (1) _______
makes them so depressing? Are most creative artists pessimists (2) _______ heart or is it
simply that they see (3) _______ in technical progress? I (4) _______ to favour the
second alternative if it were not for the fact that earlier writers like Jules Verne and
H.G.Wells do not seem (5) _______ their misgivings.
The (6) _______ books of this kind in English are Aldous Huxley’s Brave New
World and 1984, by George Orwell. Although there are superficial resemblances between
them, they are not really very much (7) _______ Huxley’s Britain in 2500 is a wellorganized sensual paradise but it offers (8) _______. Human beings are conditioned from
their artificial birth to fulfill a social role. Only on an Indian reservation in New Mexico
(9) _______ unchanged. They thought it was not worth (10) _______ the trouble to
educate the Indians in the new methods.
Orwell’s book carries the message that once the world becomes divided between
dictatorships, human beings can be made (11) _______ they are told to. Children are
instructed (12) _______ their parents. Adults like the hero, Winston Smith, are employed
to rewrite history (13) _______ that the dictatorship was right. There is no escape. Any
attempt to express (14) _______ an individual is discovered and the person is

brainwashed. At (15) _______ time when Orwell wrote 1984, it was fashionable (16)
_______ Stalinist Russia. They thought (17) _______ the opposite of Nazi Germany. Not
long before his death, Orwell published this warning to (18) _______ realize that all
dictatorships are basically the same. The (19) _______ c rime in the world of 1984 is to
think for oneself, instead of accepting what (20) _______ by the state.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

A. it is
A. at
A. little to approve
C. little to approve of
A. will incline
A. to have shared
C. sharing
A. better-known

B. is that
B. by
B. will be inclined
B. best-known

C. is it that
C. in
B. a little to approve
D. a little to approve of

C. would incline
B. be shared
D. that they shared
C. more known

D. it is that
D. with
D. would be inclined
D. most known


7.
8.

A. alike
B. like
A. very little scope the individual

C. similar

D different

B. to the individual very little scope
C. a very little scope to the individual
D. to the individual a very little scope
9. A. life remains
B. the life remains
C does life remain
D. does the life remain
10. A. to make

B. making
C. to take
D. taking
11. A. do however
B. do whatever
C. to do however
D. to do whatever
12. A. to spy at
B. to spy on
C. spying at
D. spying on
13. A. for to show always
B. for always showing
C. so that it always will show
D. so that it will always show
14. A. one as
B. one like
C. oneself as
D. oneself like
15. A. a
B. the
C. that
D. this
16. A. for intellectual
Is to admire
B. that intellectuals
; admired
C. for intellectual
Is to marvel
D. that intellectual!

s marveled
17. A. it as
B. it being
C. of it as
D. of it to be
18. A. let people to
B. make people to
C. let people
D. make people 19. A. most dreadful
B. more dreadful
C. dreadfulest
D. dreadfuler
20. A. you are told
B. one is told
C. you are said
D. one is said
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VISIONS OF THE FUTURE: BOULLE AND WYNDHAM
Huxley and Orwell are not the only modern writers (1) _______ the future and seen
disaster. But neither in Brave New World (2) _______ in 1984 (3) _______. It plays a
major part, however, in The Planet of the Apes and its sequel (at least (4) _______ the
film versions taken from Pierre Boulle’s original book are concerned). In Boulle’s story
there was a planet where apes and men had changed (5) _______ in society. In the films,
however, this theme was linked to (6) _______, (7) _______ more topical. The astronauts
eventually realize that they have returned to Earth two thousand years later. If men have
resigned themselves (8) _______ the slaves of apes it is because of a nuclear catastrophe.
A more subtle treatment of the same theme occurs in John Wyndham’s novel, The
Chrysalids. The here is a boy growing up in a strict Puritanical community rather than
like a pioneering settlement in the American West. Only as a novel develops (9) _______
that the strange laws of the community, (10) _______ that babies born with any physical

abnormality are immediately killed, are hardly explicable in (11) _______.


What (12) _______ a community in Northern Canada (13) _______ of years after an
atomic war. Here the effects have been comparatively light but the boy’s uncle, who has
been a sailor, tells him of voyages south where (14) _______ but blackened ashes.
Wyndham, in spite of (15) _______ seem to you like total pessimism, has a message of
hope, too. The boy, (16) _______ his cousin, the girl he loves, and a few friends, (17)
_______ telepathic gifts. Their ability to read (18) _______ save them from his father’s
anger and they make mental contact with some people in a place called Seeland, which
has also escaped (19) _______ effects of the holocaust. When the children appeal for
help, the Seelanders rescue them. Seeland, (20) _______, is what we call New Zealand.
1.
2.
3.

4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.

A. to have looked to
B. which have looked to
C. to have looked into
D. which have looked into
A. either
B. or
C. neither
D. nor
A. was responsible the atomic bomb
B. was the atomic bomb responsible
C. the atomic bomb was responsible
D. the responsible was the atomic bomb
A. as far as
B. for so much as C. in that
D. in the extent that
A. places
B. the places
C. each other’s place
D. their place
A. the one that is of nuclear war
B. the nuclear war’s one
C. this of nuclear war
D. that of nuclear war
A. making them
B. making them to be
C. that made them
D. that made them to be
A. to become
B. to becoming
C. to grow

D. to growing
A. we begin to understand
B. we begin understanding
C. do we begin to understand
D. do we begin understanding
A. one of them is
B. one of them it is
C. one of which is
D. one of which it is
A. past terms
B. the past terms
C. the past’s terms
D. terms of the past
A. is describing Wyndham is
B. Wyndham is describing is
C. is describing Wyndham it is
D. Wyndham is describing it is
A. a few hundreds
B. a few hundred
C. some hundreds
D. some hundred
A. anything can be seen
B. nothing can be seen
C it can be seen, anything
D. it can be seen nothing
A. what can
B. that can
C. what may
D. that may
A. the same that

B. similar than1 C. also like
D. together with


17. A. has exceptional
B. has especial
C. have exceptional
D. have especial
18. A. themselves thoughts
B. each other’s thoughts
C. oneself’s thoughts
D. each others’ thoughts
19, A. from the worse
B. from the worst
C. out of the worse
D. out of the worst
20. A. it turns out
B. it turns up
C. that turns out
D. that turns up
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Investigators have long been amassing knowledge and technology for assessing the
driving population and designing vehicles that fit drivers. Researchers are helping auto
makers design cars that people of all sizes and ages can use safely and easily. Recently,
researchers (1) _______ some new seat designs.
What they discovered is that drivers don’t actually (2) _______ in their cars the way
the (3) _______ intended. Seats that have been touted (4) _______ ergonomically
designed to support the lower (5) _______ may be comfortable in the showroom, (6)
_______ two hours down the road, the supports (7) _______ actually cause more pain
than the traditional seats.

The new seats were (8) _______ in a laboratory driving simulator. This device allows
the researchers to configure seats any way they (9) _______ and use laboratory
instruments to (10) _______ measurements readily. Volunteers spend time (11) _______
the wheel, reacting to a movie of road (12) _______ depressing the accelerator pedal,
manipulating controls, and so forth.
(13) _______ researchers measured the spinal curvature of the (14) _______ and then
had each one sit in a seat. Physical impressions of the subject’s body in the seat (15)
_______ recorded. Then, the researchers (16) _______ the overall comfort of the seat,
cushion firmness, lumbar support, and backrest angle.
Then, over four days, the subjects evaluated each (17) _______ at half-hour intervals
during a three-(18) _______ driving simulation. The seat with, prominent lumbar support,
the most (19) _______ seat in the initial evaluation, was the least comfortable of the test
seats in the lower back area (20) _______ only one-and-one-half hours of driving.
1.

A. tested

B. discovered

C. announced

D. found


2.
A. put
B. sit
C. operate.
D. seat
3.

A. drivers
B. seats
C. designers
D. most
4.
A. are
B. and
C. for “
D. as
5.
A. back
B. seat
C. which
D. position
6. A. for
B. after
C. only
D. but
7.
A. which
B device
C:’may
D. don’t
8.
A. experimented B. tested
C. designed
D. discovered
9.
A. wish
B. make

C. take
D. have
10. A. help
B. have
C. obtain
D. meet
11. A. driving
B. on
C. designing
D. behind
12. A. scene
B. surface
C. conditions
D. driving
13. A. Recent
B. After
C. As
D. The
14. A. drivers
B. seat
C. road
D, tester
15. A. who
B. are
C. were
D. had
16. A. evaluated
B. decided
C. provided
D. made

17. A volunteer
B. individually C. time
D. seat
18. A. minute
B. different
C. hour
D. consecutive
19. A. comfortable
B. important
C. designed
D. common
20. A. after
B. for
C. by
D. took
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It may seem unlikely that monkeys or cats would be able to hear the subtleties in
human speech. After all, creatures (1) _______ than humans neither speak human
languages nor comprehend most of them. (2) _______ scientists who study hearing have
found that the auditory (3) _______ of animals and humans respond to speech sounds in
remarkably (4) _______ ways.
Scientists see hearing in humans and higher animals (5) _______ an act of computerlike processing (6) _______ which a sound enters the ear and is (7) _______ down into
components. These are transported in some coded (8) _______ through the nervous
system to the brain, (9) _______ they are put back together (10) _______ interpreted.
Scientists believe that, in large part, how speech is processed is (11) _______ on its
acoustical properties. Research with (12) _______ shows that they can (13) _______
among subtle nuances in speech. For (14) _______, our ears readily distinguish two
similar (15) _______ sounds, “ba” and “da”, on the (16) _______ of differing pitch
changes that (17) _______ in the first one-twentieth (18) _______ a second of sound.
During the 1970s, William Stebbins conducted (19) _______ using monkeys at the

University of Michigan Hearing Research Institute which showed that monkeys possess a
similar (20) _______ to put similar sounds into distinct categories.
1. A. less
2. A. Thus
3. A. ability
4. A. same
5. A. have
6. A. from
7. A. broken
8. A. form
9. A. which
10. A. for
11. A. based.
12. A. animals
13. A. communicate
14. A. them
15. A. wave ^
16. A. tone
17. A. distinguish
18. A. in
19. A. survey
20. A. ability

B. more
B. However
B. reaction
B. similar
B. by

B. data
B. tracked
B. digits
B. where
B. and
B. depend
B. experiments
B. discriminate
B. humans
B. kinds
B. speech
B. sound
B. of
B. methods
B. property

C. differ
C. Most
C. systems
C. variety
C. as
C. system
C. sent
C. sound
C. while
C. without
C. relied
C. evidence
C. hear
C. sure

C. speech
C. basis
C. change
C. fraction
C. by
C. language

D. other
D. Otherwise
D. hearing
D. all
D. are
D. in
D. put
D. area
D when
D. after
D. relying
D. sound
D. differ
D. example
D. different
D. scale
D. occur
D. century
D. experiments
D. hearing