【正文】 themselves things will get better as time goes on。 they are 53 enough to find different ways to get to their goals. If hope for one goal 54 , they aim for another。 and they are able to break a 55 task into specific, manageable chunks. Snyder believes hope can be 56 . In an attempt to help children learn mental habit of hopefulness, he has made a videotape, showing interviews with students who are high on hope. He believes similar approaches might work to raise hopefulness among other groups, such as children in impoverished neighborhoods. A. attain B. performance C. necessarily D. considerable E. oute F. blurs G. formidable H. contributes I. motivated J. attributes K fades L. flexible M. nurtured N. precisely O frustration Part III Vocabulary and Structure (15%) Directions: For each of the following inplete sentences, there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. You should choose the best answer and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. 72. Though the longterm ________ cannot be predicted, the project has been approved by the mittee. A. affect B. effort C. effect D. afford 73. Petrol is refined from the ______ oil we take out of the ground. A. fresh B. original C. rude D. crude 74. Many people lost their jobs during the business _____. A. despair B. decrease C. desperation D. depression 75. Operations which left patients ______ and in need of long periods of recovery time now leave them feeling relaxed and fortable. A. exhausted B. abandoned C. injured D. deserted 76. Only a few people have _____ to the full facts of the incident. A. access B. resort C. contact D. path 77. The lawyer advised him to drop the _______, since he stands little chance to win. A. event B. incident C. case D. affair 78. He ______ to his customers and halved the price. A. leaked B. drew C. quoted D. yielded 79. He didn’t have time to read the report word for word: he just ________ it. A. skimmed B. observed C. overlooked D. glanced 80. Though he was born and brought up in America, he can speak ________ Chinese. A. smooth B. fluent C. fluid D. flowing 81. The doctor told Perky that too much __________ to the sun is bad for the skin. A. exposure B. extension C. exhibition D. expansion 82. Housewives who do not go out to work often feel they are not working to their full __________. A. capacity B. strength C. length D. possibility 83. We wele rain, but a(an) ________ large amount of rainfall will cause floods. A. extensively B. extremely C. specially D. constantly 84. I used to smoke ________ but I gave it up three years ago. A. seriously B. heavily C. badly D. severely 85. In Britain people _______ four million tons of potatoes every year. A. exhaust B. consume C. dispose D. swallow 86. Though _____in a big city, Peter always prefers to paint the primitive scenes of country life. A. grown B. tended C. raised D. cultivated Part IV Cloze (20%) Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre. More surprising, perhaps, than the current difficulties of traditional marriage is the fact that marriage itself is alive and 87 . As Skolinick notes, Americans are a marrying people： 88 to Europeans, more of us marry and we marry at a younger age. 89 , after a decline in the early 1970s, the 90 of marriage in the United States is now 91 . Even the divorce rate needs to be taken in this promarriage context： some 80 percent of 92 individuals remarry. 93 , marriage remains by far the preferred way of life for the vast majority of people in our remarry. What has changed more than marriage is the nuclear family. Twentyfive years ago, the 94 American family consisted of a husband, a wife, and two or three children. 95 , there are many marriages in which couples have decided not to have any children. And there are many marriages where at 96 some of the children are from the wife’s 97 marriage, or the husband’s, or both. Sometimes these children spend all of their time with one parent from the 98 marriage。 99 they are shared between the two former parents. Thus, one can find every type of family arrangement. There are marriages 100 children。 marriages with children from only the 101 marriage。 marriages with 102 ―full – time ‖ children from the present marriage and ―part – time ‖ children from former marriages . It is not all that 103 for a child to have four parents and eight grandparents! These are 104 changes from the traditional nuclear family. 105 even so, even in the midst of all this, 106 one constant： most Americans spend most of their adult lives married . 87. A. surviving B. thriving C. booming D. existing 88. A. general B. regular C. relative D. essential 89. A. Therefore B. Nevertheless C. However D. Moreover 90. A. gap B. length C. rate D. interval 91. A. improving B. increasing C. raising D. decreasing 92. A. divorced B. separated C. isolated D. broken 93. A. Again B. Whereas C. Then D. Thus 94. A. typical B. conservative C. traditional D. fashionable 95. A. Before B. Then C. So D. Now 96. A. least B. most C. best D. worst 97. A. primitive B. prior C. previous D. preliminary 98. A. last B. later C. latter D. former 99. A. usually B. sometimes C. rarely D. seldom 100. A. with B. except C. without D. besides 101. A. late B. past C. present D. future 102. A. affection B. happiness C. loves D. marriages 103. A. usual B. unusual C. normal D. mon 104. A. enormous B. considerable C. numerous D. giant 105. A. Or B. But C. And D. As 106. A