雅思基础测试题

It seems somewhat __________ to expect anyone to drive 3 hours just for a 20-minute meeting. 

The girl’s face _______ with embarrassment during the interview when she couldn’t answer the tough question. 

High grades are supposed to _______ academic ability, but John's actual performance did not confirm this.

In spite of the ________ , it seemed that many of the invited guests would still show up. 

Coffee is the ________ of this district and brings local farmers a lot of money.

He said that ending the agreement would ________ the future of small or family-run shops, lead to fewer books being published and increase prices of all but a few bestsellers.

His illness first_________ itself as severe stomach pains and headaches.

The government ________ a heavy tax on tobacco, which aroused opposition from the tobacco industry.

These continual ________ in temperature make it impossible to decide what to wear. 

For many years the Japanese have _________  the car market.

We must learn to protect ourselves, as you know, people usually transmit HIV ____ body liquid or ______ receiving infected blood transfusions.

Scientists hope to ______ soon in their search for a cure for this type of cancer.

Our geography teacher told us that the population of China was much larger than _____ of Japan.

As long as people get better education, they will be able to build a better society _____ nature.

The most serious problem _____ our teachers is how to send more students to top universities.

From the _______ expression on her face, I learned that she didn’t understand what I was saying.

_____ with his daughter’s progress in her English learning, the father promised her a new MP3  the next week.

Only _____ as a head teacher ______ how important it is to manage a class.

You must pay more attention to your health,_______ important your work may be.

It is said that the police have ______ a lot of new information about the wanted man.

Section two: Reading (5 Questions 20%) Passage The orange towers of the Golden Gate Bridge--probably the most beautiful, certainly the most photographed bridge in the world--are visible from almost every point of elevation in San Francisco. The only crack in Northern California's 600-mile continental wall, for years this mile-wide strait was considered unbridgeable. As much an architectural as an engineering feat, the Golden Gate took only 52 months to design and build, and was opened in 1937. Designed by Joseph Strauss, it was the first really massive suspension bridge, with a span of 4,200ft, and until 1959 ranked as the world's longest. It connects the city at its northwesterly point on the peninsula to Marin County and Northern California, rendering the hitherto essential ferry crossing redundant, and was designed to withstand winds of up to a hundred miles an hour and to swing as much as 27 ft. Handsome on a clear day, the bridge takes on an eerie quality when the thick white fogs pour in and hide it almost completely. You can either drive or walk across. The drive is the more thrilling of the two options as you race under the bridge's towers, but the half-hour walk across it really gives you time to take in its enormous size and absorb the views of the city behind you and the headlands of Northern California straight ahead. Pause at the midway point and consider the seven or so suicides a month who choose this spot, 260 ft up, as their jumping-off spot. Monitors of such events speculate that victims always face the city before they leap. In 1995, when the suicide toll from the bridge had reached almost 1,000 police kept the figures quiet to avoid a rush of would-be suicides going for the dubious distinction of being the thousandth person to leap. Perhaps the best loved symbol of San Francisco, in 1987 the Golden Gate proved an auspicious place for a sunrise party when crowds gathered to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. Some quarter of a million people turned up (a third of the city's entire population); the winds were strong and huge numbers caused the bridge to buckle, but fortunately not to break.

What is TURE of the Golden Gate Bridge?

What do you know further about the Golden Gate Bridge?

Of the two exercises, the drive over the bridge is more ________.

Those who attempt to suicide often jump from the midway point of the bridge probably because_________.

What would be the best title for the text?