PART I Listening Comprehension (20%)
Directions:
This section is designed to test your ability to understand spoken English. You will hear a selection of recorded materials and you must answer the questions that accompany them. There are three parts in this section, Part A, Part B and Part C.
Remember, while you are doing the test, you should first put down your answers in your test booklet. At the end of the listening comprehension section, you will have 5 minutes to transfer all your answers from your test booklet to ANSWER SHEET 1.
If you have any questions, you may raise your hand NOW as you will not be allowed to speak once the test has started.
Now look at Part A in your test booklet.
Part A
Directions:
Listen to the part and fill out the table with the information you’ve heard for questions 1-5. Some of the information has been given to you in the table. Write only one word in each numbered box. You will hear the recording twice. You now have 25 seconds to read the table below.
Staying at an American Hotel
1 | The bellman gets $_____ to $1 per bag for taking your luggage to your room. |
2 | Maids usually don't expect a tip, but if you stay more than a few days or if your maid does something special for you, you’d better pay $____. |
3 | Electricity in |
4 | For long distance calls from your hotel room, you will often have to go through the hotel ________. |
5 | You will always find ______, towels and linen in hotel rooms in the U. S. |
Part B
Directions:
For questions 6-10, complete the sentences and answer the question while you listen. Use not more than 3 words for each answer. You will hear the recording twice. You now have 25 seconds to read the sentences and the question below.
6 | Slaves worked especially on ______ in the southern states. |
7 | The owners did not allow slaves to read, for fear that they would think about the injustice of the system and would learn to struggle for ________. |
8 | At the _______, black children were separated from their parents and never saw them again. |
9 | After ______, one free slave reported that his owner killed an older slave who was teaching him to read. |
10 | Opposition to slavery began very early in the history of the |
Part C
Directions:
You will hear three pieces of recorded materials. Before listening to each one, you will have time to read the questions related to it. While listening, answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. After listening, you will have time to check your answers. You will hear each piece once only.
Questions 11-13.
11. What does Jean McPherson do now?
A. She is a trading representative of the
B. She is a government official of the
C. She is the manager of an American bank in
D. She is the manager of a Japanese bank in
12. Where did she get a job after her graduation from university?
A. In a company in
B. In the accounting department in a university.
C. In a big bank in
D. In a big international company abroad.
13. Why did she ask for a transfer to the bank's international department?
A. She wants to have a promotion.
B. She hopes to earn more money.
C. She was more interested in international finance.
D. She was eager to learn more about international transactions.
Questions 14-16.
14. What are the most important raw materials of industry to businessmen?
A. Coal, oil and iron.
B. Oil, electricity and labor.
C. Materials and production.
D. Trained college graduates.
15. What does the lecturer suggest that industrial corporations do to get the manpower they need?
A. Provide the cash needed by college presidents.
B. Work more closely with colleges on capital shortage.
C. Help colleges to expand their facilities and improve their teaching.
D. Do away with those vague-minded and radical professors.
16. What is the main idea of this passage?
A. Industry and education have a clear mutuality of interest.
B. Businessmen and educators have a harmonious friendship.
C. Industry and training are inseparable.
D. Universities and corporation contributions are not regarded as supreme importance.
Questions 17-20.
17. Why are the old ways of predicting weather still important today?
A. Because there are still many people who believe in these old ways of predicting weather today.
B. Because city dwellers have no other ways of predicting weather.
C. Because it is based on long experience and observation and is therefore often accurate.
D. Because we have no other origins of foretelling weather to count on.
18. Why are human beings not as sensitive to the changes of weather as animals?
A. Because human beings are close to nature.
B. Because human beings depend too much on warnings from weather forecasting.
C. Because the senses of human beings are not as useful as that of animals.
D. Because human beings don't depend on their senses to learn about weather as much as animals do.
19. Which of the following is not a sign of an especially severe winter to come?
A. The dormouse may dig more deeply than usual.
B. The squirrels may be seen gathering their food supply of nuts earlier than usual.
C. The migrating birds may gather for their flight south earlier than usual.
D. The countrymen dress more than usual.
20. What is the passage mainly discussing?
A. Animals' extraordinary ability to predict weather.
B. Some old ways of weather predicting.
C. The wisdom of ancient people.
D. Why we should pay more respect to animals.
PART II Structure and Vocabulary (10%)
Directions: There are 20 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence. Then blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a pencil.
21. _____ ,one may be disturbed by strange thoughts and have difficulty in concentrating on one thing.
A. As often as B. As often as not
C. Every so often D. More often than not
22. Since they could not vote or take part in the government, they resented _____ to help pay most of the public costs.
A. be taxed B. to be taxed C. being taxed D. taxed
23. It is requested that an applicant whose undergraduate work is done at another institution _____ two copies of undergraduate transcripts and degrees directly to the dean of the graduate school.
A．must send B．send C．are to send D．need send
24. I would have passed the college entrance examinations _____ I misread some of the questions and gave the wrong answers.
A．but B．because C．as D．if
25. If we allow our imagination _____ by known research, our prophecies need not be sheer fantasy.
A. guided B. be guided C. to be guided D. being guided
26. _____ there can be little distinction of age, and certainly none of class.
A. In too a small company B. In very a small company
C. In such small a company D. In so small a company
27. The possibility of children′s _____ the exhibits must be taken into account.
A. damage B. damaging C. to damage D. damaged
28. The government has issued laws preventing agricultural land _____ to industries.
A. to sell B. to be sold C. from selling D. being sold
29. In a number of countries, __________, in a variety of forms, designed to limit the traditional independence of the central bank from the government.
A. institutional changes occurred there
B. changes institutional occurred there
C. there occurred institutional changes
D. there institutional changes occurred
30. Many of the world′s great novels are reported _____ into films last year.
A. being made B. having been made
C. to be made D. to have been made
31. The old man used to warn his children that ______ is a dangerous way of trying to make fortune.
A. inspection B. retrospection C. specification D. speculation
32. She _____ that it was a trick to get her involved in the matter, for she knew them too well.
A. doubted B. suspected C. conceived D. convinced
33. At opening of the century, with the exception of a crude plow, farmers could have carried _____ all of the existing agricultural implements on their backs.
A．practically B．virtuously C．eventually D．evenly
34. As regards the development of moral standards in the growing child, _____ is very important in parental teaching. To forbid a thing one day and excuse it the next is no foundation for morality.
A．persistence B．regularity C．consistency D．conformity
35. In this _______, some of the obligations of the prior contract were assigned to that company.
A. term B. clause C. subcontract D. contact
36. General Motors said Tuesday it has purchased a 20 percent _____ in Quantum Technologies, a
A. broke B. stake C. insurance D. loan
37.
A. going to B. entering C. potentially D. utterly
38. When I really _____ to take care of somebody, I usually do the job properly.
A. set out B. stand out C. set off D. set up
39. If people praise them or thank them in an especially courteous way, they may become embarrassed and not know what to say ________.
A. with reply B. in reply C. for reply D. to answer
40. A question that health-conscious consumers may ask when buying produce is whether they are _____ pesticides.
A. short of B. lacking C. lack in D. free of
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