A.the value of failure
B.how people would fail
C.famous failures
D.the cause of failure
22.The underlined phrase “made it ”means ________.
A.succeeded
B.failed
C.gave
D.got
23.The lesson the spider taught Robert Bruce seems _________.
A.productive
B.straight forward
C.sorrowful
D.deep
24.The author tells you to do all things except ________.
A.to think about the cause of your failure
B.to check out whether your goals are right for you
C.to consider failure as a part of life
D.to bear in mind that you will never fail in your life
25.Which of the following is NOT true?
A.Bruce and Edison were successful examples.
B.Failure may be regarded as a way toward success.
C.Edison learned a lot from the lesson the spider taught Robert Bruce.
D.One may often raise a question whether his goals are worth attempting
Passage Two
While the private schools may be charging too much，some of the publics are risking their futures by charging too little.Low tuition is fine，as the state assigns enough money to education，as has generally been the case in Texas and California.But for years，New Jersey's legendary resistance to taxes condemned Rutgers University to second-class status.“Of what real worth is a low-tuition policy，” wrote Rutgers' former president，the late Edward Bloustein，“If it dooms students to an education below the quality they want and require?”
New York State's students might ask themselves the same.A series of protests pressured Governor Maria Cuomo into canceling a $200 rise in tuition last year (prices haven't gone up since 1983).And what's the result? Greatly-reduced budgets，shabby campuses，course restrictions，limited library hors and various new student fees.
The irony of New York and other state systems is that the percentage of higher-income students they serve is increasing at a phenomenal rate，says Arthur Hauptman of the American Council on Education.Given this changing population，more states should start playing the Robin Hood game increasing their sticker price，discounting rates to low-income students and using the rest of the money to raise the quality of their schools.
The middle-class melt and the betterment of public universities are still in their very earliest stages.But these trends will intensify as the children of the burdened boomers reach college age.For the academics，it's a wake-up call.In the next century，they'll have to be affordable and good.
26.According to some critics，the low-tuition policy of public universities might lead to _________.
A.the middle-class melt
B.a credit crisis
C.a decline in the quality of education
D.the enrollment of second-class students
27.Public universities reduce the tuition because _________.
A.they yield to the pressure of protesters
B.they get contributions from the rich
C.they get enough money from the state
D.they try to give lower-income students an opportunity
28.It can be inferred from the passage that _________.
A.private universities will join in the thrice competition
B.public universities have to withdraw from the price competition
C.rich students find ways of paying less by taking the advantage of the policy
D.rich students should be entitled to equal opportunities as poor students
29.In order to maintain their high quality at the stone time of opening the floor to low-income students，public universities have to _________.
A.enlist their students for some voluntary jobs
B.exert long-term effort to improve themselves
C.count upon the financial support from the government
D.increase the proportion of rich students and charge more from them
30.This passage is mainly about _________.
A.the Robin Hood game
B.ways of paying less for college education
C.difficult situation of public universities
D.financial aid to lower—income students
Part IV ：Translation
Section A：Translate the following Chinese into English
31.我們得趕快，要不就會(huì)趕不上車了。
32.這支鋼筆花了我不到兩美元。
33.我每天需要20分鐘讀英語(yǔ)。
34.他已經(jīng)夠上學(xué)的年齡了。
35.中國(guó)決不會(huì)第一個(gè)使用核武器。
Section B：Translate the following English into Chinese
We have only to look behind us to get some sense of what may lie ahead.No one looking behind ahead 20 years possibly could have foreseen the ways in which a single invention，the chips would transform our world thanks to its applications in personal computers，digital communications and factory robots.Tomorrow's achievements in biotechnology，artificial intelligence or even some still unimagined technology could produce a similar wave of dramatic changes.But one thing is certain：information and knowledge will become even more vital，and the people who possess it，whether they work in manufacturing or services，will have the advantage and produce the wealth.If you cast your mind ahead 10 years，information services will be predominant.It will be the way you do your job.
【參考答案】
Part I：Vocabulary and Structure
1.A 2.D 3.A 4.C 5.C 6.C 7.A 8.B 9.C 10.A
Part II：Cloze
11.B 12.A 13.C 14.D 15.D 16.B 17.D 18.B 19.C 20.C
Part III：Reading Comprehension
21.A 22.A 23.D 24.D 25.D 26.C 27.C 28.B 29.D 30.D
Part IV ：Translation
Section A：Translate the following Chinese into English
31.Hurry up，or we won't catch the bus.
32.I paid less than 2 dollars for the pen/The pen costs me less than 2 dollars.
I spent 2 dollars on the pen.
33.It takes me twenty minutes to read English/I spend twenty minutes reading English.
34.He is old enough to go to school.
35.At no time will China be the first to use nuclear weapon.
Section B：Translate the following English into Chinese
我們只有分析過(guò)去才能展望未來(lái)。過(guò)去沒(méi)有一個(gè)人往前想20 年能夠預(yù)見(jiàn)到，由于在個(gè)人電腦、數(shù)碼通訊和工廠機(jī)器人中應(yīng)用芯片而使芯片這一項(xiàng)發(fā)明在許多方面改變了我們的世界。明天在生物工程、人工智能或甚至無(wú)法想象到的某項(xiàng)技術(shù)中所取得的成就會(huì)產(chǎn)生類似巨大變革的沖擊波。但是有一點(diǎn)可以肯定：信息和知識(shí)將變得更為重要。擁有信息和知識(shí)的人，不管他們?cè)谥圃鞓I(yè)工作還是在第三產(chǎn)業(yè)工作，將獨(dú)占鰲頭，創(chuàng)造財(cái)富。假如你展望十年以后，那時(shí)信息產(chǎn)業(yè)必將獨(dú)領(lǐng)風(fēng)騷，應(yīng)用信息處理問(wèn)題將成為你辦事的方法。