第一节：语音知识（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）
从每小题的A.B.C.D四个选项中，找出所给单词的正确读音，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
1. status A. [′steitəs] B. [sti:təs] C: [′steites] D [stei′təs]
2. convenient A. [kən′vi:njənt] B. [kən′vinjənt] C. [kæn′vi:njənt] D. [kɔnvi:njənt]
3. hire A. [′heiə] B. [′hæə] C. [hai′ə] D. [′haiə]
4. majority A. [mi′dʒɔriti] B. [mi: ′dʒɔrəti] C. [mə′dʒɔrəti] D. [mæ′dʒɔriti]
5. nephew A. [′næfju:] B. [′nəfju:] C. [′ni:fju:] D. [′nefju:]
As the prisoner had been ______from the outside world for twenty years, he had no idea what the outside world was like.
| A．cut off | B．cut away |
| C．cut out | D．cut short |
It makes little _____now to tell our children that their grandparents once boiled leather shoes to stop their hunger on their way to the northeast.
| A．idea | B．meaning |
| C．sense | D．use |
If you don’t know that _____ is the mother of success, you are sure to be _____ in life.
| A．failure; failure | B．a failure; a failure |
| C．a failure; failure | D．failure; a failure |
Don’t be too ______ about what you eat, or you are likely to develop an unbalanced diet, which is harmful to your health.
| A．special | B．particular |
| C．concerned | D．worried |
Thanks to the Party’s opening and reform policy, people in China are ______ than they were thirty years ago.
| A．well off | B．much better off |
| C．more better off | D．quite better off |