Part IV Cloze Test (15 minutes, 5 points)
Directions: For each numbered blank in the following passage, there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.
   
Is language, like food, a basic human need without which a child at a critical period of life can be starved and damaged? Judging from the experiment of Fredrick II in the thirteenth century, it  51. Hoping to discover what language a child would  52  if he heard no mother tongue, he told the nurses to keep silent.
   All the babies died before  53  first year. Without good mothering, in the first year of life, especially, the  54  to survive is seriously influenced.
   Today no such severe lack exists as  55  ordered by Fredrick II. Nevertheless, some children are still  56  in speaking. Most often the  57  for this is that the mother is insensitive to the signals of the baby,  58   brain is made to learn language rapidly. If these sensitive periods are neglected, the ideal time for  59  skills passes and they might never be learned so easily again. A bird learns to sing and to fly rapidly at the 60  time, but the process is slow and hard once the critical stage has passed.
   Experts suggest that speech stages are reached in a fixed order and at a constant age, but there are cases where speech has started late in a child who eventually turns out to be clever.
 51. A. must be B. may be C. should be D. ought to be
 52. A. speak  B. say  C. talk  D. discuss
 53. A. a  B. an  C. the  D. this
 54. A. power B. opportunity C. imagination D. ability
 55. A. that  B. what  C. which  D. those
 56. A. advanced B. good  C. clever  D. backward
 57. A. cause  B. reason  C. problem  D. way
 58. A. whose B. which  C. where  D. its
 59. A. having B. acquiring  C. taking  D. studying
 60. A. on  B. just   C. right  D. necessary
 
Part V   Translation (30 minutes, 15 points)
Directions: Translate the following passage into English and put your translation on the ANSWER SHEET.
 
With the orange we do live year in and year out .That speaks well for the orange .The fact is that there is an honesty about the orange which appeals to all of us .If it is going to be bad －for the best of us are bad sometimes －it begins to be bad from the outside, not from the inside. How many a pear which presents a blooming face to the world is rotten at the core. How many an innocent-looking apple is harboring a worm in the bud. but the orange has no secret faults. Its out side is a mirror of its inside, and if you are quick you can tell the shopman so before he slips it into the bag.
 
Part V  Writing (30 minutes, 15 points)
Directions: For this  part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic: Reading selectively or extensively? You should write at least 120 words and base your composition on the outline below. 
 1. 有人认为读书要有选择；
 2. 有人认为应当博览群书；
 3. 我的看法。
联考英语模拟试题参考答案
 
IV．Cloze:
51-60 CACDA 61-65 DBABC
V. Translation 
我们年复一年地吃着柑橘生活，这就证明了柑橘的好处。事实上，是柑橘诚实的品质令我们所有的人羡慕不已。如果它开始变坏的话即使我们中间最优秀者也会变坏它是从外表而不是从内里开始的。有多少梨子，在向人们展现容光焕发的笑容时，内里已经隐藏瑕疵。它的外表就是它的内心的写照。假如你反应快，不等售货员把坏橘子放进纸袋儿，你就能把它指出来。
VI. Writing: 
Directions: For this  part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic: Reading selectively or extensively? You should write at least 120 words and base your composition on the outline below. 
 4. 有人认为读书要有选择；
 5. 有人认为应当博览群书；

3． 我的看法。
  As we know, reading plays a particularly important role in developing our knowledge. And, everybody, if he or she wants to improve themselves, has to do sufficient reading. 
 However, there have been existing two ways of reading: Reading selectively or reading extensively. If I were asked to answer this question, I would like to answer the question this way: Try to read more but choose what we read selectively.
 The reason for my answer is that we are living in a time with the information and knowledge explosion. What we can read, however much it may be, is just a part of it. And what we read is just the part that interests us and has something to do with our current studies or jobs. It is only through careful selection that it will be possible for us to cover the useful and interesting part of knowledge or skill-development-oriented information Nevertheless, I should also keep an open-minded attitude to the different opinions of others if they are really useful to me.