1978年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试英语试卷

一、选择法填空（划出各句中所需要的词或词组）（本题满分为30分，每空1分）

1. There ______ no water in the glass.

A. has                 B. are               C. is

2. This pen was given me by my mother. It’s ______.

A. my                B. mine             C. to me

3. ______ tractors helpful to the commune members?

A. Is this            B. Are these     C. Are theirs

4. Which subject do you like ______, Physics or chemistry?

A. the most         B. the best      C. better

5. The Yellow River is the second ______ river in China.

A. long               B. longer        C. longest

6. The boat is passing ______ the bridge.

A. under             B. through       C. across

7. He went to Nanking ______ October, 1977.

A. in                  B. on               C. at

8. Taiwan is ______  the east of Fukien.

A. in                  B. at               C. to

9. His “Selected Poems”  ______ first published in 1965.

A. were             B. was           C. has been

10. Did you ______ to his talk yesterday?

A. hear              B. heard         C. listen

11. Who is ______ of you three?

A. older             B. oldest        C. the oldest

12. My aunt ______ to see us. She’ll be here soon.

A. comes           B. is coming     C. had come

13. Mathematics ______ the language of science.

A. is                 B. are going to be      C. are

14. ______ people attended the meeting last night.

A. A hundred of   B. Hundred       C. Hundreds of

15. What do you usually do ______?

A. in an evening B. in the evening    C. on the evening

16. When I got to the top of the mountain, the sun ______.

A. was shining   B. shone         C. has shone

17. He is very old, ______ he still works very hard.

A. but           B. if            C. when

18. He has already worked for ______ hour.

A. the           B. an            C. a

19. My brother is very good ______ ping-pong.

A. in            B. for           C. at

20. The poor peasants all had a ______ life before liberation.

A. suffered      B. cruel         C. bitter

21. I’ve heard him ______ about you often.

A. spoke         B. speaks        C. speak

22. When did you ______ my letter?

A. receive       B. accept        C. got

23. I need a day or two ______.

A. to think it over B. to think over it  C. of thinking

24. We must ______ the importance of the four modernizations.

A. learn by heart   B. keep in mind   C. know by heart

25. We ______ a spare-time study group last week.

A. set up        B. put up        C. have established

26. My father ______ me to become a doctor.

A. thinks        B. says          C. hopes

27. He is ______ thin.

A. fairly        B. rather        C. little

28. We waited ______ for the bus.

A. for long time    B. a long time   C. some long time

29. In this factory, it’s hard to tell cadres ______ workers.

A. from          B. to            C. about

30. I ______ Hsiao Li since she was a little girl.

A. knew          B. know          C. have known

二、句型转换：（本题满分为10分，每小题2分）

A. 就划线部分提问：

1. This is my dictionary.

2. She often carries water for Granny Wang.

B. 改成否定句：

3. I think he’ll go there tomorrow.

C. 改成被动语态：

4. We chose Chang Hua League secretary.

5. Our teacher always takes good care of us.

三、汉译英：（本题满分为20分，其中1—5句每句3分，第6句5分）

1. 他已到了参军年龄。

2. 冬天北方比南方冷。

3. 张同志进来时，我正在看报。

4. 文化大革命以来，我们公社里建造了一个水库和一所发电站。

5. 以华主席为首的党中央，正在领导我们进行新的长征。

6. 科学家们受到了全国人民的赞扬，因为他们对科学的发展作出了重要的贡献。

四、在下面短文的每一空格中填入一个在意义上和语法上都正确的词：（本题满分为10分，每空1分）

Premier Chou came to ______ my grandmother the first time he ______ Tachai. I shouted into Granny’s ______, “Granny, the Premier’s here. He’s come all the ______ from Peking to see you!”

“How ______ we are to meet you, Premier Chou!” said Granny. “How did you get here and how ______ are you going to stay?”

The Premier said, “I came by ______, so the journey took me only a few hours. I ______ think I can stay in Tachai very long, because I’ve got a ______ of work to do in Peking. I_____ be back today.”

 
五、阅读下面短文，短文后面每题有A、B、C、D、四个答案供选择, 其中只有一个是正确的。在你认为是正确的那一个答案下面划一横线：（本题满分为20分，每小题5分）

The Gold in the Orchard*

There was once a farmer who had a fine orchard. He worked very hard all his life and the orchard always did well. But he knew that his three sons looked down upon farm-work, and were only interested in getting rich quickly.

When the farmer was old and knew he was going to die, he called his three sons to him and said, “My sons, there’s a lot of gold hidden in the orchard. Dig for it, if you want to have it.”

The sons tried to get him to tell them the exact place where the gold was hidden, but he said nothing more.

After the farmer was dead, the sons went to look for the gold. Since they didn’t know where the hiding-place was, they decided to begin digging all over the orchard. They dug and dug, but no gold was found. Finally they had to give up the attempt.

The next summer, the fruit crop was the biggest they had ever had. This was because of the thorough digging the orchard had got.

When the three sons saw the great amount of money they got after they sold the fruit, they suddenly understood what their wise father had meant when he said. “There’s gold hidden in the orchard. Dig for it.”

*orchard 果园

1. When the old farmer was living, ______

A. the orchard gave rich crops each year.

B. the orchard gave rich crops only when the weather conditions were good.

C. the orchard had an average crop.

D. the fruit crop was usually poor.

2. Say which of the following statements is true:

A. The farmer’s sons were lazy and had never worked on the farm.

B. The farmer’s sons did a lot of buying and selling in town so as to get rich quickly.

C. The farmer’s sons loved farm work, because their father, who was hardworking all his life, had told them to work hard.

D. The farmer’s sons considered farm work worthless.

3. When the sons asked their father to tell them the exact place where the gold was hidden , he told them nothing, because

A. he was dying.

B. he thought they understood what he meant.

C. he wanted them to dig the orchard all over.

D. the gold could easily be found.

4. No gold was found because ________

A. the farmer’s sons hadn’t dug the orchard deep enough.

B. the gold had been stolen.

C. the farmer’s sons didn’t know in what part of the orchard the gold was hidden.

D. there was no gold hidden in the orchard.

六、英译汉：（本题满分为10分）

A few stars are known which are hardly bigger than the earth , but the majority1 are so large that hundreds of thousands of earths could be packed2inside each and leave room to spare; here and there we come upon a giant star. A few stars are known whicr large enough to contain millions of millions of earths. And the total number of stars in the universe is probably something like the total number of grains of sand on all the seashores of the world. Such is the littleness of our home in space when measured up against the total substance of the universe.

1. the majority 大多数  2. pack 装入   3. universe 宇宙