2005GCT入学资格考试英语能力综合模拟测试一
（50题，每题2分，满分100分，考试时 间45分钟）
Part One Vocabulary and Structure
Directions: There are ten incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that that best completes the sentence. Mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center:
1． As a result of careless washing the jacket _______to a child’s size.
A. compressed
B. shrank
C. dropped
D. decreased

2． All flights _______because of the snowstorm, many passengers could do nothing but take the train.
A. had been canceled
B. have been canceled
C. were canceled
D. having been canceled

3． It was very kind of you to do the washing-up, but you ________it.
A. mustn’t have done
B. wouldn’t have done
C. mightn’t have done
D. didn’t have to do

4． The newcomers found it impossible to ________themselves to the climate sufficiently to make permanent homes in the new country.
A. suit
B. adapt
C. adopt
D. coordinate

5． __________ she realized it was too late to go home.
A. No sooner it grew dark than
B. Hardly did it grow dark that
C. Scarcely had it grown dark than
D. Ii was not until dark that

6． In no country ________Britain, it has been said, can one experience four seasons in the course of a single day.
A. other than
B. more than
C. better than
D. rather than

7． I didn’ t______to take a taxi but I had to as I was late.
A. assume
B. suppose
C. mean
D. hope

8． We’ll visit Europe next year _______we have enough money.
A. lest
B. until
C. unless
D. provided

9． By 1929, Mickey Mouse was as popular _______children as Coca-Cola.
A. for
B. in
C. to
D. with

10．American football and baseball are becoming known to the Britain public through televised _______from the United States.
A. transfer
B. deliveries
C. transportation
D. transmission

Part Two Reading Comprehension
Directions：There are three passages and two advertisements in this part．Each passage and the two ads are followed by five questions or unfinished statements．For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D．Choose the best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center.
Passage One
Honeybees cannot live alone. Their body structure and instincts equip them for life in a colony of community, where they have a complex social organization and the various duties are divided among the individuals according to physical fitness and age. An individual worker bee cannot reproduce itself. While it may continue to live if forcibly isolated from its mates, it fails to care for itself adequately, and soon dies. Most insects have the ability to hibernate die, it must have the ability to make its own environment, so far as temperature is concerned. This makes a colony necessary to the bees in winter, so that they may collectively warm each other. Efficiency if not necessity, demands that the work of the colony be divided, and such a division of labor tends to enhance the need to maintain the colony. The physical structure of the honeybee is further suited for the defense of the entire colony rather than for its own defense. The bee’s barbed sting is used only once and is made more effective by the fact that it is left behind in the victim. With the loss of the sting, however, the bee dies. This kind of defensive weapon is not of service to the individual, but to the community.
11. According to the passage, bees are fitted for communal life by virtue of their __________.
A. flexibility and initiative
B. intelligence and sensitivity
C. independence and endurance
D. instincts and form

12. It can be inferred from the passage that at one time bees had the ability to __________.
A. increase their activity in lower temperatures
B. leave cold climates during winter
C. remain dormant (休眠的) through periods of cold weather
D. construct insulated hives

13. The passage states that bees differ from most other communities of insects in their need to _______.
A. reproduce in large numbers
B. control the temperature where they live
C. divide the work of their colonies
D. have a complex defense system

14. The honeybee’s sting is particularly effective e because it _________.
A. has many potential uses
B. can kill several victims at once
C. is located in the rear of the bee’s body
D. remains with the bee’s victim

15. Which of the following is the most appropriate title for the passage?
A. The Communal Life of Bees
B. The Structure of the Bees
C. The Organization of Insect Colonies
D. The Life of Social Insects