Part IV Error Correction (15 minutes) (共10小题;满分10分) Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put an insertion mark (^) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a word, cross it out and put a slash (/) in the blank.
Example:
Television is rapidly becoming the literature of our periods. 1. time/times/period
Many of the arguments having used for the study of literature 2. /
as a school subject are valid for ^ study of television 3. the
A great many cities are experiencing difficulties which are
nothing new in the history of cities, except in their scale. Some
cities have lost their original purpose and have not found new 71. ________
one. And any large or rich city is going to attract poor
immigrants, who flood in, filling with hopes of prosperity which 72. ________
are then often disappointing. There are backward towns on the
edge of Bombay or Brasilia, just as though there were on the edge 73. ________
of seventeenth-century London or early nineteenth-century
Paris. This is new is the scale. Descriptions written by 74. ______
eighteenth-century travelers of the poor of Mexico City, and the
enormous contrasts that was to be found there, are very 75. ________
dissimilar to descriptions of Mexico City today – the poor can still 76. ________
be numbered in millions.
The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosperity,
but behind it lies two myths: the myth of the city as a promised 77. ________
land, that attracts immigrants from rural poverty and brings 78. ________
it flooding into city centers, and the myth of the country as a 79. ________
Garden of Eden, which, a few generations late, sends them 80. ________
flooding out again to the suburbs.
Part V Writing (30 minutes) (共15分) Directions:For this part, you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic Student Use of Computers. You should write at least 150 words, and base your composition on the chart and the outline given below: Hours/week图略 1.上图所示为 1990年、1995年、2000年某校大学生使用计算机的情况,请描述其变化; 2.请说明发生这些变化的原因(可从计算机的用途、价格或社会发展等方面加以说明): 3.你认为目前大学生在计算机使用中有什么困难或问题。
81、Student Use of Computers