2014年GCT考试《英语应用能力测试》专家预测试卷(三)

Wang (guest): That was a delicious dinner.

Mrs. Willis (hostess) ______. Would you like to go to the living room now? It's more comfortable there.

Wendy: Have you been to the new bakery on the comer?

Joe: We haven't got together for a longtime. How about lunch next week?

Nancy: I'm pretty tied up all next week. How about we plan on two weeks from today?

Joe: OK. Wednesday in two weeks.

Martin: Can you cover for me on Sunday? I'm supposed to teach the high school class.

Lisa: Sure. ____?

Martin: We're going to the beach for the weekend.

Lisa: Well, don't worry. I'll take good care of Sunday school.

Jim: I have a pair of tickets for an opera Saturday night. Would you like to go?

Cindy: I don't think so.

Michael: The Johnsons are moving next week. We are going to have a going-away party for them Saturday.

Tracy: I didn't realize they were m6ving so soon.

Michael: Yes, but we'll have one last chance to get together. We're planning a barbecue.

Connie: Are you doing pottery? It looks like fun!

Frank: ______

Connie: Boy, would I? Thanks.

Guest: Oh, I hadn't realized how late it was. I'm afraid I'll have to be going.

Host: Oh, not yet. I'm just going to make some coffee.

Guest: ______ , though I'd really love to stay. I've got to be up by six tomorrow morning, unfortunately. Thank you for a wonderful party.

Mary: What are you working on?

Susan: I'm doing some embroidery.

Mary: ______

Susan: I don't do very much, just for very special occasions.

Tom: You are playing guitar well. Can you read music?

Charles: No, I don't. I just listen to songs on the radio and then play them until they sound right.

Tom: ______

Charles: No, really.

Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

  Change, or the ability to (31) oneself to a changing environment is essential (32) evolution. The farmer whose land is required for housing or industry must adapt himself: he can transfer to another place and master the problems (33) to it; he can change his occupation, perhaps (34) a period of training; or he can starve to death. A nation which can't adapt its trade or defense requirements to (35) world conditions faces an economic and military disaster. Nothing is fixed and permanently stable. (36) must be movement forward, which is progress of a sort, and movement backward, which is decay and deterioration.

  In a changing world, tradition can be a force for good or for evil. (37) long as it offers a guide, it helps the ignorant and the uninformed to take a step (38) and, thereby adapt themselves to (39) circumstances. But if we make an idol of tradition, it ceases to be a guide. It becomes an obstacle (40) on the path of course. Man is to accept the help which tradition can give but to be well aware of its limitations in a changing world.

What is the passage mainly about?

What does the word "domestic" mean in Para. 2?

What can we infer from Zhang Yashan's statement in Para. 2?

Which of the following can be inferred about what sixteenth and seventeenth-century artists thought of watercolor painting in comparison to oil painting?

  The Xinhua bookstore chain, China's largest official publishing enterprise, has become a surprising flash point for interest among foreign venture capital investors.

  "We are actively promoting the process of shareholding reform. Everyday, we receive lots of offers from domestic and foreign investors interested in getting involved and may pick one or two to do so in the next two to three months," Zhang Yashan, the leading cadre of the head store's office said.

In fresco painting to what is the paint applied?

According to the passage, where did the first colors for painting come from?

Who were the first watercolor artists?

  In this part there are four passages followed by questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers. Choose the one that you think is the best answer. Mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET by drawing with a pencil a short bar across the corresponding letter in the brackets.

  Watercolor is the oldest painting medium known. It dates back to the early cave dwellers who discovered they could add lifelike qualities to drawings of animals and other figures on the wails of caves by mixing the natural colors found in the earth with water.

  Fresco, one of the greatest of all art forms, is done with watercolor. It is created by mixing pigments and water and applying these to wet plaster. Of the thousands of people who stand under Michlangelo's heroic ceiling in the Sistine Chapel, very few are aware that they are looking at perhaps the greatest watercolor painting in the world.

  The invention of oil painting by the Flemish masters in the fifteenth century led to a decline in fresco painting, and for the next several centuries watercolor was used mainly as a medium for doing preliminary sketches or as a tool for study. It was not until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that English painters reinstated watercolor as a serious art form. The English have a notorious love for the outdoors and also a great fondness for small, intimate pictures. The subdued tones of watercolor had a remarkably strong appeal for them.

What is the main theme of the passage?

Adecco is an organization which employs people ______.

About the job of bookkeeping, all of the following information is clear except ______.

The qualified applicant should ______.

Which of the following is NOT included in the work of a bookkeeper?

What is the advertised job?

What can be concluded when the current tide of knowledge revolution ebbs?

What is the concept most people have on population growth?

How many significant demographic changes ever occurred in the past one million years?

What is found to have close relationship with rapid increase in population?

  The growth of population during the past few centuries is no proof that population will continue to grow straight upward' toward infinity and doom. On the contrary, demographic history offers evidence that population growth has not been at all constant. According to paleo-ecologist Edward Deevey, the past million years show three momentous changes. The first, a rapid increase in population around one million B. C. , followed the innovations of tool-making and tool-using. But when the new power from the use of tools had been exploited, the rate of world population growth fell and became almost stable.

  The next rapid jump in population started perhaps 10,000 years ago, when men began to keep herds, plow and plant the earth. Once again when initial productivity gains had been absorbed, the rate of population growth abated.

  These two episodes suggest that the third great change, the present rapid growth, which began in the West between 250 and 350 years ago, may also slow down when, or if technology begins to yield fewer innovations. Of course, the current knowledge revolution may continue without foreseeable end. Either 'way contrary to popular belief in constant geometric growth--population can be expected in the long run to adjust to productivity.

Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage?

 ______ for your laziness, you could have finished the assignment by now.

Don't put off till tomorrow ______ you can do today.

______ from the hilltop, the lake scenery is beyond description.

This book ______ me twenty dollars.

Mr. Wright was the ______ president of Ace Construction Company.

With regarding to this model of color TV sets, the home-made ones are by no means those made in Japan.

Even a child would not be ______ by such an obvious lie.

Could you ______ reasons and examples for your answer?

The ______ care of the body requires an understanding of its needs, allowing for variations resulting from climate, age or occupation.

It is the business of the police to prevent and detect crime and of the law courts to punish ______.