2014年GCT考试《英语应用能力测试》专家预测试卷(二)

Phone call.

Daughter: OK, Dad. Nice talking to you and glad everything's all right. ______.

Dad: All right. Good-bye.

Daughter: Good-bye, Dad.

Jane: Hello Sally. Fancy meeting you here!

Sally: Hello, Jane. Haven't Seen you for a long time. You've got married, haven't you?

Jane: Yes, I have. I got married four years ago.

Sally: ______.

Clerk: Good morning. Can I help you?

Mr. Smith: Yes, I'd like a ticket to New York 9: 15 tomorrow morning.

Clerk: ______?

Mr. Smith: Single, please.

Ted: Hi, Christine. ______?

Christine: Hi, Ted. I just bought a new camping tent. I can't wait to use it.

Wang: I've got an appointment. I'm going to meet a friend in London at 3 p. m. It's already a quarter past 2. ______.

David: I'm going to London. I can give you a lift if you like.

Wang: Could you really? That would be great.

At a party.

Salesgirl: Good morning, miss. Can I help you?

Mary: Yes, I'd like half a kilo oranges, please.

Salesgirl: ______. Anything else?

Mary: No, thank you.

Li: Hello. I'm ringing about the flat advertised in today's STAR. ______?

Mrs. Green: Yes, it is. Two or three people have rung up about it, but nobody's been to see it yet.

Customer: Excuse me!

Clerk: Yes, ma'am? What can I do for you?

Customer: I have a problem with this coffee maker, and I want my money back.

Clerk: ______?

Customer: The problem is that it doesn't work! I've only used it three times.

Jane: Carol, you look very well.

Carol: Thank you, Jane. You look wonderful too. Your weekend tennis must have done you good.

Jane: ______.

Which of the following is NOT tree according to the advertisement?

  Senility refers to great losses of intellectual capacity that occurs in old age and is associated with the widespread loss of nerve cells and the shrinkage of brain tissue. Senility is a great decline from a previous intellectual (31) in an aging person. Memory is the mental capacity most often affected. The memory loss may first show itself clearly in simple absentmindedness or a tendency to forget or (32) things and repeat oneself in conversation. As the senility progresses, the loss of memory (33) in scope until the patient can no longer remember basic social and (34) skills or function independently. There may also be declines in the person's language skills, spatial or temporal orientation, (35) or other cognitive capacities and personality changes may also be (36) to see. Senility usually has a slow, gradual onset and is most common in persons over age 75.

  The most common cause of the syndrome is Alzheimer's disease, which (37) for about 50 percent of all elderly persons with unbalanced mind and is hard to restore a former state. The second most common cause is vascular senility which arises from hypertension (high blood pressure) or some other vascular condition. In this type, a series of small strokes progressively destroy small (38) of the brain, eventually leading to senility. There is no (39) for Alzheimer's disease, but vascular senility can sometimes be prevented or its (40) slowed by treatment of the underlying systemic vascular disorder. Among other significant causes of senility in the elderly are Huntington's chorea, Parkinson's disease, and multiple sclerosis.

The Holiday Cottages are located in ______.

Which of the following is tree?

The following items are mentioned in the advertisement except ______.

On what does the efficiency of a nation depend?

            IN THE GROUNDS OF A REGENCY MANSION

  Luxury Self-catering Holiday Cottages in the heart of the Devonshire countryside.

  Individually styled and color coordinated, these cottages, forming a courtyard round the old thatched pump house, offer elegant and spacious accommodation--situated in the beautiful grounds of one of the largest privately-owned country estates in the West County. Guests have full use of the owner's private club.

  Widworthy Court Sports and Leisure Club's facilities include tennis court, squash court, heated outdoor swimming pool, pool-side restaurant, indoor leisure spa complex comprising swimming pool, Jacuzzi, sun, steam room, solarium and bars.

  Children and pets welcome

  ENJOY THE DIFFERENCE

  Please write or telephone for our full color brochure.

  The Manager, The Estate Office, Bridwell Park Estate Uffculme, Devon EX15 3BU Telephone (0883) 744783

It is an advertisement for ______.

What may contribute to the unfair use of concentrated power and wealth by some people?

The conservation mentioned in the passage includes the following EXCEPT ______.

The passage suggests that the benefit from natural resources is mainly enjoyed by ______.

Which of the following has nothing to do with the meeting chaired by Premier Wen?

   This country, as Lincoln said, belongs to the people. So do the natural resources which make it rich. They supply the basis of our prosperity now and hereafter. In preserving them, which is a national duty, we must not forget that monopoly is based on the control of natural resources and natural advantages, and that it will help the people little to conserve our natural wealth unless the benefits which it can yield are given back to the people.

  Let us remember, also, that conservation does not stop with the natural resources. The principle of making the best use of all we have requires that we stop the waste of human life in industry and prevent the waste of human welfare which flows from the unfair use of concentrated power and wealth in the hands of men whose eagerness for profit blinds them to the cost of what they do. We have no higher duty than to promote the efficiency of the individual. There is no surer road to the efficiency of the nation.

What plays an essential role in making the nation prosperous according to this passage?

In the building of the rail lines, ______.

It can be inferred that ______.

  The development of rapid transit rail lines in cities should parallel local economic development and blind construction of such lines should be avoided, a State Council conference said yesterday.

  The meeting, chaired by Premier Wen Jiabao, said the building of rapid-transit rail lines in cities should be carried out according to strict guidelines and management systems of such lines should be improved. It stressed that the amount of domestically made equipment used in such infrastructure projects needs to be increased.

  The meeting also deliberated on the draft amendments for laws governing the People's Bank of China and commercial banks. Also discussed were the draft law on the supervision and management of banking sector and draft regulations on the management of central food reserves. It was agreed at the meeting that the laws governing the People's Bank of China and commercial banks need to be amended so that the roles and responsibilities of the two are made clear.

The rapid-transit rail lines should ______.

The management system of the rapid transit rail lines ______.

Children are rulers ______.

LOGO is unique because ______.

The best title for this passage would be ______.

LOGO is ______.

  Imagine a world in which children would be the rulers and could decide not only the outcome of each and every occurrence, but also dictate the very structure and form. of the environment. In this world, a child's wildest thoughts would become reality, limited only by the extent of his or her imagination.

  While such a world might sound both fantastic and frightening, at least from a logical, adult perspective, it does exist. What's more, it has been in existence for some time and is populated by hundreds of thousands of children who spend hours within its boundaries experimenting and learning. This world is not real, at least not in the traditional sense, but exists within a computer and is generated by an educational programming language called LOGO. Unlike other computer languages and programs that are designed to test children and provide applications that formally dispense information, LOGO allows children, even preschool children, to be in total control. Children teach the computer to think and as a result develop and sharpen their own reasoning abilities.

In the imagined world ______ would restrict children's wildest thoughts.

 ______ , follow the directions on the bottle carefully.

Williamsburg has now been restored so that it looks as it ______ during the 18th century.

He liked the painting very much, which cost him $1, 000. However, he would gladly have paid ______ for it.

Were it not for their support and help, we ______ able to finish the task ahead of time.

The old man is in the habit of going for a walk along the river every morning except ______ it rains.

He kept a ______ hold on her hand as he helped her over the fence.

In the effort to fire a Civil Service employee, his or her manager may have to' spend up ______ $100, 000 of tax money to do so.

A long time ago, at a .national conference on biology, he cautiously ______ his new theory on life.

Some old people don't like pop songs because they can't ______ so much noise.

Mary is as vain as peacock and always wants to be the ______ of attention.