Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
Section A Directions: In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the question will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Example: You will hear: You will read: A) At the office.
B) In a waiting room.
C) At the airport.
D) In a restaurant.
From the conversation we know that the two were talking about some work they had to finish in the evening. This is most likely to have taken place at the office. Therefore, A) \"At the office\" is the best answer.
1.
A) The woman has to come next week for a better price.
B) All tickets for this week have been sold out.
C) Tickets for this week are more expensive.
D) The best price is US$360 for a round trip.
2.
A) The man is concerned about the worsening environment on earth.
B) The woman is looking forward to a better life in the next century.
C) The man and the woman differ in their opinion about the environment.
D) It is hard to tell what the future will look like.
3.
A) The woman likes to eat ice cream.
B) The place has changed beyond recognition.
C) The man used to run a candy shop.
D) The two speakers are going to a bank.
4.
A) He is the son of a fisherman.
B) He liked fishing when he was a boy.
C) He is very fond of his home village.
D) He wants to go back home after college.
5.
A) To go to a distant place.
B) To study career development.
C) To do abstract thinking.
D) To go to graduate school
6.
A) The unusual heat is the result of global warming.
B) 38 degrees is quite unusual at this time of the year.
C) 38 degrees is unbelievable at this time of the year.
D) It will go down if air-conditioners are available.
7.
A) She is looking for a job.
B) She is selling insurance door-to-door.
C) She is filling out an application form.
D) She is having an interview.
8.
A) He is a professional photographer.
B) He's just started to learn photography.
C) He is looking at some beautiful pictures.
D) He is learning art from a professional.
9.
A) Take care of her parents.
B) Encourage reading in the household.
C) Plan ahead.
D) Write books.
10.
A) He is a professor.
B) He is a tourist.
C) He is a tour manager.
D) He is scholar.
Section B Directions: In this section you will hear one long dialogue. At the end of the
dislogue, you will hear some questions. Both the dialogue and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D).
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the dialogue you have just heard.
11.
A) She is frustrated because nobody likes her songs.
B) She is angry at being laughed at by the producer.
C) She is afraid she might lose her job.
D) She is worried she can't deal with the job on hand.
12.
A) He is a successful painter.
B) He appreciates Maryanne's songs.
C) He is an English teacher.
D) He thinks there is always a way out.
13.
A) Comfort Maryanne.
B) Make a discovery.
C) Persuade Maryanne to go to college.
D) Urge Maryanne to prepare for the worst.
Section C Directions: In this section you will hear two short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D).
Questions 14 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14.
A) A girl with a sweet voice.
B) A telephone service.
C) A wonderful device.
D) A telephone company.
15.
A) He hurt his finger.
B) He got a call from Information Please.
C) He fell terribly ill.
D) He fell down the stairway.
16.
A) He got a terrible pain.
B) He felt frightened being left alone in the house.
C) He now had someone to give him sympathy.
D) He was in bad need of a friend.
17.
A) The boy was very clever.
B) The family was very rich.
C) The mother was rather careless.
D) Every household in the neighborhood had a telephone.
Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
18.
A) People find it difficult to talk about it.
B) People rush to comfort the patient.
C) People are scared out of their wits.
D) People find it hard to adjust to the disaster.
19.
A) She thought he was at a loss for words to express his love.
B) She thought he didn't care for her.
C) She thought he shouldn't have talked about the trivial matters.
D) She thought he shouldn't have left her alone in this time of crisis.
20.
A) The husband was a man of few words.
B) The husband had never before kissed his wife in public.
C) People needn't panic about breast cancer.
D) Moral support is essential to the recovery of cancer patients.
Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice.
Passage One
Questions 21-25 are based on the following passage:
In the early 1600's, a group known as the Separatists lived in England. They
were people who wanted to worship God, study the Bible and pray, but the English laws did not allow them to worship as they desired. They were hunted down, beaten, and locked up.
Eventually, they heard about freedom of religion in Holland, and planned to escape. After much hardship, they were allowed to leave England.
Now called Pilgrims, they lived in Holland for 12 years, but left because they couldn't stand the hard life, and couldn't work their own trades. They wanted to find a Kingdom of God for their posterity （后代） to practice religion freely. So they hired the Speedwell and the Mayflower to carry them across the Atlantic to a new land in America.
The Speedwell had many leaks and had to turn back. The Mayflower took in their passengers, making a total of over 100. They sailed two months and three days, cramped and hungry.
On November 11, 1620, the Mayflower spotted land. They landed in Province town, Massachusetts. For over a month, they sent men to find the perfect place for them to build their colony. When they finally found a place, they called it Plymouth.
Right away they started building homes, knowing winter was near.
Unfortunately, a violent storm hit when the houses were not yet finished. The
Pilgrims were forced to stay on the cramped (狭窄的) Mayflower for their first winter in the new world. When this winter was over, over half of them had died.
The Pilgrims eventually made a good friend who helped them. His name was Squanto. He showed them where fish swam, how to hunt deer, and how to plant corn.
Squanto was a Native American who was kidnapped (绑架) earlier in his life and taken to England. This is why he was able to communicate with the Pilgrims.
With the help of the Native Americans, there was plenty for everyone to eat that first summer, and also plenty to last for the next winter.
The Pilgrims had so much to be thankful for. They gave thanks for good friends, new homes, freedom of religion, and plenty of food in a three-day celebration with their Native American friends.
Today we continue the celebration of the Pilgrims and the Native Americans, and call it Thanksgiving.
21. The Separatists left England in pursuit of ______.
A) wealth
B) adventure
C) an easier life
D) religious freedom
22. The Pilgrims spend their first winter ______.
A) in their newly finished houses
B) on the ship that carried them across the Atlantic
C) celebrating their newly-won freedom
D) making friends with the native people
23. The Pilgrims learnt to adapt to the new environment ______.
A) with the help of the natives
B) by imitating the Native Americans
C) by trial and error
D) by learning from their earlier experience in Holland
24. How did the Pilgrims get along with the Native Americans?
A) They were hostile to each other.
B) They kept a distance from each other.
C) They were very friendly to each other.
D) They learned from each other.
25. What is the central idea of this passage?
A) The origin of Thanksgiving.
B) Religious Freedom.
C) Early English settlements in America.
D) Hardships experienced by the Pilgrims.
Passage Two
Questions 26-30 are based on the following passage:
Recently, one of my best friends Jennie, with whom I have shared just about everything since the first day of kindergarten, spent the weekend with me. Since I moved to a new town several years ago, we have both always looked forward to
the few times a year when we can see each other.
Over the weekend, we spent hours and hours, staying up late into the night, talking about the people she was hanging around with. She started telling me stories about her new boy friend, about how he experimented with drugs and was into other self-destructive behavior. I was blown away! She told me how she had been lying to her parents about where she was going and even stealing out to see this guy because they didn't want her around him. No matter how hard I tried to tell her that she deserved better, she didn't believe me. Her self-respect seemed to have disapperared.
I tried to convince her that she was ruining her future and heading for big trouble. I felt like I was getting nowhere. I just could't believe that she really thought it was acceptable to hang with a bunch of losers, especially her boy friend.
By the time she left, I was really worried about her and exhausted by the experience. It had been so frustrating that I had come close to telling her several times during the weekend that maybe we had just grown too far apart to continue our friendship, but I didn't. I put the power of friendship to the ultimate test. We'd been friends for far too long. I had to hope that she valued me enough to know that I was trying to save her from hurting herself. I wanted to believe that our friendship could conquer anything.
A few days later, she called to say that she had thought long and hard about our conversation, and then she told me that she had broken up with her boy friend.
I just listened on the other end of the phone with tears of joy running down my face. It was one of the truly rewarding moments in my life. Never had I been so proud of a friend.
26. What word best sums up Jennie's boy friend?
A) A drug user.
B) A loser.
C) A trouble maker.
D) A criminal.
27. What was the attitude of Jennie's parents towards her relationship with her boy friend?
A) They were rather tolerant.
B) They were indifferent to it.
C) They thought their daughter deserved a better friend.
D) They did not allow her to continue it.
28. How did the author react to Jennie's relationship with her boy friend?
A) She tried her best to dissuade Jennie from continuing it.
B) She threatened to break up with Jennie if her advice was ignored.
C) She was overcome with pride that Jennie told her about her boy friend.
D) She was very angry with Jennie for choosing such a friend.
29. How did the author feel when Jennie told her she had broken up with her boy friend?
A) She felt relieved.
B) She felt happy and proud.
C) She felt frustrated and angry.
D) She felt exhausted.
30. What message does the author try to convey in this passage?
A) The power of true friendhsip can conquer anything.
B) Young people should be careful in choosing their friends.
C) Parents should take good care of their children.
D) Drugs can destroy innocent young people.
Passage Three
Questions 31-35 are based on the following passage:
As a century of grand retailing comes to a close, the 94-year-old \"merchant prince of Texas\" -- who turned Neiman Marcus from a small specialty shop into one of the world's major retail stores -- says department stores today must recreate themselves if they are to survive.
Marcus is worried that customer service is being ignored. He considers home shopping networks \"a step above snake oil peddlers (沿街叫卖的小贩).\" And despite all the advantages he sees in selling over the Internet, he says it is no substitute for a good salesperson.
Today, as head of his own Dallas consultancy (咨询) firm, Marcus is moving into the next century advocating (提倡) the same philosophy he held throughout the 20th century: focus on quality and service, and sales will take care of themselves.
\"I've always believed that quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten,\" says Marcus, who still makes regular visits to the flagship Neiman Marcus store in downtown Dallas, where he looks over new fashion lines, examines the latest fine imported luggage and greets young salespeople eager to talk with him. \"The price of a great meal disappears from the memory, but the price of a bad one will be remembered for years. If you force a bad buy on a customer, he will never forgive you.\"
Marcus puts much of the blame on business schools for what he sees as a lack of quality -- and vitality -- in department stores. He says the schools are turning out graduates who are excellent money managers and cost cutters, but who lack the skills that helped make the great stores like Macy's, and his own, into retailing legends. The MBA programs do not teach principles of selling, principles of human understanding, principles of leadership speaking, which, he believes, is the most important thing.
\"I do not want 'trained' salespeople. The word training is the most terrible word. You train dogs and bears to do repetitive action. But with people, you educate them, because no amount of training takes the place of experience that enables them to answer all the questions that customers will ask.\"
31. What is the problem with department stores today?
A) Neglect of customer service.
B) Excessive running costs.
C) Fierce challenge from the home shopping network.
D) Uncompetitive prices.
32. In Marcus's view, good salespeople ______.
A) will soon be replaced by the Internet
B) can compete with peddlers
C) ensure the success of a retailing business
D) have recreated department stores
33. Which of the following is likely to be long remembered?
A) Good service.
B) The price of a bad buy.
C) The price of a good buy.
D) Good quality.
34. What is the problem with MBA programs?
A) Failure to teach principles of human understanding.
B) Too much emphasis on cost cutting.
C) Lack of vitality.
D) Neglect of strict training.
35. What is the major difference between training and educating according to Marcus?
A) Training is applied to animals while educating is applied to humans.
B) Training is a terrible word while educating is a wonderful one.
C) Training enables the trainee to imitate while educating enriches his
experience.
D) Training is aimed at action while educating is aimed at answering
questions.
Passage Four
Questions 36-40 are based on the following passage:
Several commentators and scientists have suggested that it might in some cases be ethically acceptable to clone existing people. One possibility is generating a replacement for a dying relative. All such possibilities, however, raise the concern that the clone would be treated as less than a complete individual, because he or she would likely be subjected to limitations and expectations based on the family's knowledge of the genetic \"twin.\" Those expectations might be false, because human personality is only partly determined by genes. The clone of an extrovert (性格外向的人) could have a quite different way of behavior. Clones of athletes, movie stars, entrepreneurs or scientists might well choose different careers because of chance events in early life.
Some people have also put forward the notion that couples in which one member is infertile might choose to make a copy of one or the other partner. But society ought to be concerned that a couple might not treat naturally a child who is a copy of just one of them. Because other methods are available for the treatment of all known types of infertility, conventional therapeutic avenues seem more appropriate. None of the suggested uses of cloning for making copies of existing people is ethically acceptable to my way of thinking, because they are not in the interests of the resulting child. It should go without saying that I am strongly opposed to allowing cloned human embryos to develop so that they can be tissue donors.
It nonetheless seems clear that cloning from cultured cells will offer important
medical opportunities. Predictions about new technologies are often wrong: societal attitudes change; unexpected developments occur. Time will tell. But biomedical researchers looking into the potential of cloning now have plenty to do.
36. What is the author's concern about cloning an existing person?
A) The clone created will have one defect or another.
B) The clone created will be mistreated.
C) The clone created is unlikely to fulfill your expectations.
D) The clone created is ethically unacceptable.
37. It can be inferred from the text that a clone will______.
A) choose the same career as the person it is created from
B) behave in the same way as the person it is created from
C) share the same characteristics with the person it is created from
D) be partially similar in personality to the person it is created from
38. According to the passage, one's personality is determined by ______.
A) their genes
B) the environment they live in
C) both their genes and the environment they live in
D) neither their genes nor the environment they live in
39. In the author's view, which of the following uses of cloning is justifiable?
A) To replace a lost relative.
B) To help childless couples to have a baby.
C) To develop tissue donors.
D) To culture cells for medical purposes.
40. What is the author's attitude towards cloning technology?
A) It should be condemned.
B) It has medical potential for scientists to explore.
C) It should wait till people's views change.
D) It was unethical from the very beginning.
Vocabulary and Structure (20 minutes)
Directions: There are 30 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.
41. This report offered the most ______ and accurate information on the possible defects resulting from cloning.
A) specific B) particular C) trivial D) wicked
42. The worsening of the country's economy could mean ______ public support for the ruling party.
A) crippled B) subtracted C) fluttered D) diminished
43. Henry stood by me when I most needed it. I'll always ______ that.
A) impress B) register C) pledge D) appreciate
44. Grandma always paid attention to the needs, wishes and feelings of those
around her. She was the most ______ woman I've ever known.
A) artificial B) merry C) considerate D) brilliant
45. Certainly in our society teachers don't enjoy the respect that is ______ to doctors and lawyers.
A) rewarded B) accorded C) designated D) transferred
46. The changes our city ______ in the past few years are little short of miraculous.
A) catalogued B) underwent C) inherited D) furnished
47. He _____ the problem _____ in his mind for a whole week before he did anything about it.
A) switched ... on B) kicked ... up C) turned ... over D) took ... on
48. Their heavy commitments do not allow them to ______ themselves______ current affairs as fully as they might wish.
A) put ... through B) immerse ...in C) switch ... on D) settle ...in
49. Japan's productivity has overtaken America's in some manufacturing
industries, but elsewhere the United States has ______ its lead.
A) taken up B) brought back C) rested on D) clung to
50. For convenience's sake, most couples in America have a ______ bank account instead of separate accounts.
A) twin B) handy C) dual D) joint
51. The woman is a ______ offender and has been arrested five times this year for shoplifting.
A) persistent B) inevitable C) blunt D) dreary
52. Any excitement you have at starting a new job is always ______ with a certain amount of fear.
A) mingled B) dotted C) joined D) scarred
53. The problem of poverty is particularly ______ in rural areas where one in three adults is unemployed.
A) offensive B) significant C) acute D) frail
54. If your monthly salary exceeds 10,000, you have to ______ 20% tax from the
sum you receive.
A) designate B) repay C) subtract D) snatch
55. We can do without carpets. I prefer ______ wooden floors throughout the house.
A) empty B) bare C) lean D) primitive
56. Three people were killed in the bomb explosion, but police have not yet identified the ______.
A) representatives B) statistics C) victims D) circumstances
57. He was ashamed. That feeling ______, and he was never comfortable in church after that.
A) lingered B) stalked C) saturated D) flourished
58. The increased volume of scheduled flights during the weeklong holidays is______ the air traffic control system.
A) tilting B) streaming C) straining D) abolishing
59. In some areas China is ______ the developed countries, but it will take some
years before we can catch up with them.
A) growing into B) whipping up C) gaining on D) heading for
60. I made ______ use of my spare time, mixing with a lot of different people and practicing my English.
A) mobile B) fierce C) profitable D) swift
61. The meeting was successful and ended with a ______ to step up cooperation between the six states of the region.
A) testimony B) pledge C) evolution D) signature
62. We think it is wrong to single out any______ of society for Aids testing.
A) spectrum B) section C) mixture D) locality
63. The chances of the disease being ______ to humans are extremely remote.
A) exposed B) commuted C) migrated D) transferred
64. The child has a(n) ______ disease which attacks the immune system.
A) imposed B) inherited C) disguised D) captured
65. It seems these creatures can ______ temperatures which would kill other species.
A) tolerate B) compromise C) mock D) undergo
66. History, ______ and modern, has taught these people an intense distrust of their neighbors.
A) primitive B) ancient C) religious D) urban
67. \"Hi, John, could you show me how to ______ graphics (图表) with text on the same screen?\"
A) fuse B) clone C) merge D) mingle
68. What they have done is ______ two different types of entertainment, the circus and the rock concert.
A) dispose B) accord C) adopt D) fuse
69. The school strives to treat pupils as individuals and to help each one to achieve their full ______.
A) curiosity B) genius C) advantage D) potential
70. The thought of dying slowly and painfully ______ me. I really can't understand why so many people are opposed to euthanasia (安乐死).
A) terrifies B) curses C) puzzles D) injures
Short Answer Questions (15 minutes)
Directions: In this part there is a short passage with five questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words (not exceeding 10 words).
You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give. -- Winston Churchill
We come by business naturally in our family. Each of the seven children in our family worked in our father's store. We started working by doing odd jobs like dusting, arranging shelves and wrapping, and later graduated to serving customers. As we worked and watched, we learned that work was about more than survival and making a sale.
One lesson stands out in my mind. It was shortly before Christmas. I was in the eighth grade and was working evenings, straightening the toy section. A little boy, five or six years old, came in. He was wearing a worn-out brown coat. His shoes were dirty and his one shoelace was torn. The little boy looked poor to me --
too poor to afford anything. He looked around the toy section, picked up this item and that, and then carefully put them back in their place.
Dad came down the stairs and walked over to the boy. His steel blue eyes smiled as he asked the boy what he could do for him. The boy said he was looking for a Christmas present to buy his brother. I was impressed that Dad treated him with the same respect as any adult. Dad told him to take his time and look around. He did.
After about 20 minutes, the little boy carefully picked up a toy plane, walked up to my dad and said, \"How much for this, Mister?\"
\"How much you got?\" Dad asked.
The little boy held out his hand and opened it. His hand was creased (使起折痕) with wet lines of dirt from clutching (紧抓) his money. In his hand lay two dimes, a nickel and two pennies -- 27 cents. The price on the toy plane he'd picked out was $3.98.
\"That'll just about do it,\" Dad said as he closed the sale. Dad's reply still rings in my ears. I thought about what I had seen as I wrapped the present. When the little boy walked out of the store, I didn't notice the worn coat or the single torn shoelace. What I saw was a radiant (喜气洋洋的) child with a treasure.
1. What did the boy try to do with the little money he had?
2. How did Dad in the story treat the little boy?
3. How did the boy feel when he left the store?
4. What did the author learn from his father's act?
5. What did Winston Churchill mean by saying \"You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give\"?
Writing (30 minutes)
Directions: For this part you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic Why People Work? You should write at least 140 words, and base your composition on the outline given below in Chinese.
1. 有些人认为工作是为了谋生
2. 但是，谋生并不是工作惟一的动力，工作还有更加重要的意义……
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