中石油托福真题199905

1、1999.5 国内考试真题SECTION 1: LISTENING COMPREHENSION1.(A) The woman doesnt drive often.(B) Traffic is better than it used to be.(C) Taking public transportation saves time.(D) The subway is crowded.2.(A) Wear a heavy sweater to the game.(B) Exchange the tickets.(C) Take care of his cold.(D) Watch the gam

2、e at home.3.(A) He dropped out of Professor Johnsons class.(B) Hell probably take another class with Professor Johnson.(C) Professor Johnsons lectures were boring.(D) Students werent allowed to bring drinks into Professor Johnsons class.4.(A) She hasnt received any mail yet.(B) She doesnt know where

3、 the post office is.(C) She thinks the post office is nearby.(D) A new post office has just opened.5.(A) Someone else told him Fred had called.(B) The man looked for Fred at they gym.(C) It wasnt really Fred who called.(D) Fred probably 3borrowed someone elses sleeping bag.6.(A) She hasnt gone hikin

4、g in three years.(B) She plans to visit her relatives.(C) Her sisters children love to hike in the mountains.(D) Her sister may move back to Colorado someday.7.(A) Hes planning to move to a new house.(B) He hopes to change jobs.(C) He likes to keep his house clean.(D) Hes too busy to clean the house

5、.8.(A) Her coat is similar to the mans.(B) She needs to buy a new coat.(C) Her sweater is not warm enough.(D) The man should have worn a sweater.9.(A) Ask the people in the lounge to be quiet.(B) Try to find another place to study.(C) Move the party to the dining room.(D) Turn on another light.10.(A

6、) Pick up the package at the post office.(B) Deliver the package in person.(C) Ask to have the package delivered to his home.(D) Find out the hours the post office is open.11.(A) The committee is discussing it.(B) It received a low grade.(C) It hasnt been graded.(D) The woman hasnt submitted it.12.(

7、A) Hell see the doctor if hes not better soon.(B) He has had worse colds in the past.(C) Hell feel better once he sees the doctor.(D) His cold will go away by itself.13.(A) Get his shower fixed.(B) Find out when the gym is open.(C) Take a shower at the gym.(D) Ask to be moved to another building.14.

8、(A) Make sure the registration office didnt make a mistake.(B) Decide whether to drop the course next week.(C) Find out if a place opens up in the course later.(D) Take the course next year.15.(A) He doesnt think the room is too cold.(B) Hes already wearing a sweater.(C) He cant address the problem

9、right now.(D) Hell turn up the heat as soon as class is over.16.(A) Make a copy of the key for the woman.(B) Give the woman her key at her class.(C) Put the key in the womans mailbox.(D) Unlock the womans door.17.(A) He recently spent a month in Chicago.(B) He can recommend many things to do.(C) Chi

10、cago is an expensive place to have fun.(D) Hes going on the trip, too.18.(A) She likes the design of the car.(B) Someone famous is riding in the car.(C) She collects pictures of cars.(D) The car is in front of something interesting.19.(A) The bus is usually late when it snows.(B) Shes not sure where

11、 her schedule is.(C) She cant give the man a ride to work.(D) The times on her bus schedule may no longer be correct.20.(A) She has trouble concentrating.(B) Shell return the book if she doesnt like it.(C) She is a fast reader.(D) Shell lend the man the book when shes finished.21.(A) Pay the extra p

12、ostage.(B) Send the package third-class.(C) Wait a few days to mail the package.(D) Deliver the package himself.22.(A) Hes not very hungry.(B) He really wants to eat at the restaurant.(C) The restaurant is too expensive.(D) He knows a better place to go for a meal.23.(A) Speak to his professor about

13、 the condition of the lecture hall.(B) Organize a team of students to clean the lecture hall.(C) Find out who has been making the mess.(D) Wait to see if the problem goes away.24.(A) Shed like to go although she has little experience.(B) She doesnt enjoy camping.(C) Shed rather go swimming than hiki

14、ng.(D) She needs to buy a canoe before the trip.25.(A) She couldnt get a ticket for the exhibit.(B) She doesnt like crowded events.(C) She knows a lot of people who went to the exhibit.(D) She doesnt like modern art.26.(A) Arrive at the presentation after breakfast.(B) Talk to the dean before the pr

15、esentation.(C) Call the woman early in the morning.(D) Eat breakfast at the presentation.27.(A) Ruth earned the award.(B) Ruth helped plan the award ceremony.(C) Ruth should work more for the community.(D) Ruth served as chairperson of the committee.28.(A) She cannot go with the man to Smithville.(B

16、) There is a new art supply store downtown.(C) The stores location has changed.(D) The store went out of business.29.(A) She hopes the man can remember her phone number.(B) Shes willing to help the man solve the puzzle.(C) She hopes the man will call her when hes finished.(D) Shes going out of town

17、soon.30.(A) It is difficult getting an appointment with her.(B) She is a good doctor.(C) She used to be his doctor.(D) She is fairly old.31.(A) She attended one of their meetings.(B) Her roommate is a member.(C) She saw them protesting.(D) She read about them in the newspaper.32.(A) Secure more stud

18、ent parking spaces.(B) Preserve an open space on campus.(C) Get more funding for their group.(D) Schedule a meeting with college administrators.33.(A) Go to class.(B) Go on a picnic.(C) Attend a meeting.(D) Attend the rally.34.(A) Help the man plan a student rally.(B) Use the student parking lot.(C)

19、 Make a donation to support the group.(D) Sign a petition.35.(A) In the student recreation center.(B) In the campus dining hall.(C) In the university bookstore.(D) In a classroom.36.(A) Studying.(B) Preparing snacks.(C) Playing cards.(D) Learning how to play bridge.37.(A) Watch her partner.(B) Play

20、her cards in cooperation with her partner.(C) Quit the game.(D) Teach the man how to play bridge.38.(A) Miss her card game.(B) Stay up too late.(C) Take too heavy a work load next semester.(D) Neglect her studies to play bridge.39.(A) He already knows how to play.(B) He doesnt like to play games.(C)

21、 He doesnt have a partner.(D) He doesnt have enough free time.40.(A) To emphasize the hazards of wooden buildings.(B) To explain why certain building techniques started in Chicago.(C) To warn against building skyscrapers close together.(D) To explain how Chicagos early skyscrapers were destroyed.41.

22、(A) It was constructed without bricks.(B) It was the tallest early skyscraper.(C) It contained offices where victims of the fire could get help.(D) It had an internal metal skeleton.42.(A) It was the first skyscraper with walls of glass.(B) It did not have enough support for its height.(C) It was no

23、t built by an architect from Chicago.(D) It was the tallest skyscraper built in the 1800s.43.(A) The mass production of communications devices.(B) The early history of a major communication medium.(C) The life of a famous inventor.(D) The impact of radio broadcasting on the music industry.44.(A) Few

24、 people owned the necessary equipment.(B) The music selection was not very popular.(C) Few ships came into New York harbor.(D) The radio signal was too weak to reach a mass audience.45.(A) Military communications officers.(B) People who treated radio technology as a hobby.(C) People who lived in big

25、 cities.(D) People with an interest in music.46.(A) They would get smaller in size.(B) Their signals would travel further.(C) They would become less popular than television.(D) They would be common household items.47.(A) Differences between the planets in the solar system.(B) Methods of determining

26、the composition of Earth and the Moon.(C) Why Earth has an iron core.(D) The origin of the Moon.48.(A) The Moon has no water.(B) The Moon contains almost no iron.(C) Thy Moon is the largest moon in the solar system.(D) The Moon does not have a molten core.49.(A) Earths moon used to orbit Mars.(B) Ma

27、rs was captured by the gravitational field of the Sun.(C) A planet the size of Mars collided with Earth.(D) Mars is larger than Earth.50.(A) The Moon formed from pieces of Earths crust.(B) The Moon was struck by another planet.(C) The Moons composition resembles that of Mars.(D) The Moons mineral co

28、ntent has changed over time.Section Two: Structure and Written Expression1.Classical logic is characterized by a concern for the structure and elements of argument _that thought, language, and reality are interrelated.(A) based on the belief(B) on the belief based(C) belief based on the(D) the based

29、 belief on2.Adult fleas_ only blood and are external parasites of mammals and birds.(A) eat(B) having eaten(C) that eat(D) to eat3.Heat energy may be absorbed or released when_ while work is done on or by the system.(A) changes in the internal energy of a system(B) by changing the internal energy of

30、 a system(C) the internal energy of a system that changes(D) the internal energy of a system changes4.Methods of measuring mass, time, and distance are_ of human culture.(A) among the oldest skills(B) they are among the oldest skills(C) what among the oldest skills(D) the skills that among the oldes

31、t5._ they sometimes swim alone, dolphins usually congregate in large groups, often numbering in the hundreds.(A) Why(B) Although(C) Even(D) Nevertheless6._ plays an important part in commercial art, illustrating advertisements, textbooks, brochures, and articles in magazinesand periodicals.(A) Drawi

32、ng and(B) Because drawing(C) Drawing, which(D) Drawing7.Goldfinches build compact_ nests, which they line with soft vegetable down.(A) shaped like a cup(B) cup-shaped(C) cup shapes(D) shape of a cup8.Louisa May Alcott published her first book, Flower Fables_ of fairy tales, in 1854.(A) which a colle

33、ction(B) a collection was(C) a collection(D) in which a collection9._ understanding of weather and its variability, it has been difficult to prove that weather can be controlled.(A) Since incomplete(B) Because of incomplete(C) Incomplete(D) Why is incomplete10.Franklin Roosevelts New Deal program in

34、cluded_ designed to provide relief and counteract the effects of the economic depression that had begun in 1929.(A) measures were temporary(B) in temporary measures(C) temporary and measures(D) temporary measures11.Current health guidelines recommend that people restrict their consumption_ .(A) food

35、s of high in fat(B) of foods in fat high(C) of foods high in fat(D) in foods high of fat12.Walt Whitman originated a distinctive form of free verse that sets his work apart from_ of all other poets.(A) what(B) that(C) how(D) it13._ economic change by investigating the fluctuations in the relationshi

36、p between workers wages and their buying power.(A) Economists gauging(B) Economists gauge how(C) Economists gauge(D) Whenever economists gauge14.Although the many hours of summer sunshine in Canadas Klondike region produce good vegetable crops, the long winters rarely permit_ .(A) grain crops ripen(

37、B) grain crops are ripe(C) the ripening of grain crops(D) to ripen grain crops15.Tools, a workshop, and some storage space were_ for early experiments in aviation.(A) required all that(B) all that was required(C) all the requirements that(D) such that all the requirements16. A major railroad junctio

38、n in Illinois, Decatur has became an important commercial hub for A Bthe regions farm products and livestock. C D17. People use muscles to make various movements, such as walk, jumping, or throwing. A B C D18. Emily Dickinson unmistakably fixed her own highly individually and revolutionary personali

39、ty A B in her elliptical and provocative poems. C D19. The human skeleton is made up of 206 bones of difference sizes and shapes. A B C D20. One of the earliest strike in United States history occurred in 1740 when bakers refused A B Cto work until their wages were increased. D21. Count Basies disti

40、nctive piano style and band arrangements of the late 1930s earned his A B Can important place in jazz history. D22. The wide range of elevations in the southern Appalachian Mountains allows for the A B great diverse of plant life found there. C D23. Four huge shield volcanoes have been observed on M

41、ars, as well as a great number of A Bsmaller ones like found those on the Earth. C D24. The 1897 discover of gold in the Klondike hastened the commercial development of A BWashington State, as did the increasing trade with Pacific Islands. C D25. The Saint Lawrence River is young relatively by geolo

42、gical standards, as it was formed A B C Dduring the last ice age.26. With the ability produce and control fire, early humans could make heat and light and could A Bcook foods that were difficult to eat raw. C D27. Only the female and the worker wasps are equipped with a sting, which they use it to A

43、 B Cattack their prey or to protect themselves against enemies. D28. Compared with another breeds, quarter horses can start more quickly, turn more sharply, and A B run faster over short courses. C D29. Stars emit radio waves, which they may be detected and studied using radio telescopes. A B C D30.

44、 A glider is a type of aircraft resembling an airplane but often having not means of A B C Dpropulsion at all.31. A matrilineal extended family consists of core group of males, their wives, and their A B C Dunmarried daughters.32. Herons inhabit marshy areas or the shores along fresh or salt water,

45、which they find fishes, A B Cfrogs, crustaceans, and other aquatic animals to eat. D33. A computer program that communicates with the user solely by choices providing from interlined A B Cmenus is said to be menu-driven. D34. In the 1930s few major orchestras in the United States hired woman, so man

46、y chose to perform A B Cin amateur musical groups as an alternative. D35. Complex spacecraft are characterized by a various of supporting systems, including A Bcommunications, guidance and navigation, altitude control, and ,in some cases, life-support systems. C D36. When a piano keyboard is substit

47、uted for buttons on right side of an accordion, the instrument A B Cis known as a piano accordion. D37. Todays lunar and solar eclipses can be predicted to within seconds of its occurrence, and A B Cinterest in them is scientific as well as aesthetic. D38. The windowless inner rooms of the Pueblo Bo

48、nito in New Mexico served for the storage of Asupplies, while the brighter outer rooms were using for living quarters. B C D39. Ultrasonic is concerned with sound vibrates or waves of a frequency above 20,000 cycles per A Bsecond, the upper range audible to the human ear. C D40. Freesia plants reach

49、 a height of two and one-half feet and thrive best at temperature A B C Dof 50 degrees to 60 degrees Fahrenheit.Section Three: Reading ComprehensionQuestions 1-9The term "Hudson River school" was applied to the foremost representatives ofnineteenth-century North American landscape painting

50、. Apparently unknown duringthe golden days of the American landscape movement, which began around 1850 andlasted until the late 1860's, the Hudson River school seems to have emerged in the(5) 1870's as a direct result of the struggle between the old and the new generations ofartists, each to

51、 assert its own style as the representative American art. The olderpainters, most of whom were born before 1835, practiced in a mode often self-taughtand monopolized by landscape subject matter and were securely established in andfostered by the reigning American art organization, the National Academy of Design.(10) The younger painters return