ng water of niagara can be heard 61 a distance of 25 kilometers. imagine 62

of water flowing over a cliff 90 feet high and you will get an idea of that terrible noise.

and 63 tremendous power the niagara river has! it moves big rocks about and throws them into the boiling water below.

64 ago an old ship without a single person on board was put in mid-stream. it sailed down the river 65 a toy boat with great speed. having reached the fall, the ship dropped into the boiling water, never 66 again.

there were some people who wanted to become famous 67 swimming across the most dangerous part of the niagara river. one of them was captain webb. 68

that he would try to swim across the niagara drew crowds of people. on the evening of july 21st, 1893, captain webb came up to the river and 69 a plunge. his having jumped into the water 70 many people with horror. soon, he appeared in the middle of the river. a loud shout went up from the crowd, but a moment later there was

71 silence. the man had disappeared under the water. thousands of eyes 72

on the river, but the man was drowned.

in 1902, a certain miss taylor decided to go over the falls in a barrel. there were different kinds of pillows inside the barrel to prevent her 73 . having examined the barrel carefully, miss taylor got in. the barrel was closed and then 74 into the water. having reached the falls, it overturned and was shot down by the terrible 75

of the water. when the barrel was finally caught and opened, miss taylor came out alive

76 with a frightened look in her eyes.

once a crowd of visitors saw a rope 77 over them from one bank of the river to the other. then they saw a man 78 the rope. the man was an actor, blondin

79 . he managed to cross niagara falls on a tight rope. the people on the bank were surprised at his 80 it so well.

61. a) within b) inside c) at d) on

62. a) much b) a great number c) mass d) a mass

63. a) how much b) what c) so d) how

64. a) sometimes b) many times c) much time d) some time

65. a) as b) as if c) like d) likely

66. a) to appear b) appearing c) appeared d) appear

67. a) for b) by c) through d) from

68. a) he said b) his having said c) he says d) he had said

69. a) gave b) made c) did d) took

70. a) filling b) full c) filled d) was filled

71. a) dead b) dying c) died d) death

72. a) being stopped b) were fixing c) were fixed d) fixed

73. a) being hurt b) having hurt c) hurting d) hurt

74. a) being thrown b) throwing c) thrown d) threw

75. a) power b) strength c) force d) capacity

76. a) therefore b) however c) so d) but

77. a) being put b) put c) having put d) putting

78. a) step across b) step out onto c) step along d) step on

79. a) under the name of b) with the name of

c) by name d) to the name of

80. a) done b) having done c) having been done d) being done

试卷二

section b compound dictation

directions: in this section, you will hear a passage three times. when the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. when the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from s1 to s7 with the exact words you have just heard. for blanks numbered from s8 to s10 you are required to fill in the missing information. you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.

among the most powerful engines of modern economic growth have been technological changes that raise output (s1) to inputs. but compared with those of the nineteenth century, (s2) changes remained minor and sporadic in the colonial period. it preceded the era of the cotton gin, steam power, and the many metallurgical advances that vastly increased the tools (s3) to workers. in iron production, learning by doing and (s4) remained the key source of labor and fuel savings in the late colonial period—learning to (s5) the fuel input to minimal levels saved on labor needed to gather charcoal and work the forges. technology remained static and forges sizes constant, however. the (s6) in agriculture also indicates no (s7)

leaps in technology—(s8)

in shipping, the same conclusion is reached. (s9)

, and both ship material and the power source of ships remained unchanged. even increasingly complex sails and rigs and the alterations of hull shapes failed to increase ship speed and, in any case, (s10) .

part v writing (30 minutes)

directions: for this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition