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……………Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes) 密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. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with …a single line through the centre. …1. A) $3.45 B) $2.45 C) $1.45 D) $1.00 封2. A) The woman likes smoking. B) The man doesn’t want to smoke. … C) The man wants to smoke less than before. D) The woman doesn’t smoke. …3. A) It’s cool inside. B) It’s noisy outside. … C) The windows are okey. D) The curtains need some care. …4. A) At the post office. B) At the bank. … C) At the railway station. D) In a restaurant. …5. A) Her job is now done by a machine. … B) She will operate an automatic machine. 线 C) Her job has been given to another person.

… D) She has been transmitted to a new production line. …6. A) To start a new program at the college. … B) To go abroad to study in autumn.

… C) To move to a better dormitory to live in. … D) To continue her study at a different college. …7. A) It’s hard to say if it’s difficult.

… B) He doesn’t believe it’s hard for everybody. C) It’s even harder than people say it is. D) It’s not as hard as he thought, actually.

8. A) She fell down in the village store last night. B) She broke her leg in an accident.

C) She drove on the wet slipper road. D) She spent a whole night in the rain.

9. A) He appreciates Jason’s speaking manner. B) He has a negative opinion of Jason. C) He feels envy at Jason’s dress. D) He doesn’t like Jason at all.

10. A) Both biology and chemistry became easy for him to study. B) Biology was more difficult than chemistry. C) Chemistry was more difficult than biology. D) Biology became easier than chemistry. Part II 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 and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre. Passage One

Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:

Crime has its own cycles, a magazine reported some years ago. Police records that were studied for five years from over 2,400 cities and towns show a surprising link between changes in the season and time patterns.

The pattern of crime has varied very little over a long period of years. Murder reaches its high during July and August, as do rape(强奸案) and other violent attacks. Murder, moreover, is more than seasonal: it is a weekend crime. It is also a nighttime crime: 62 percent of murders are committed between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m.

Unlike the summer high in crimes of bodily harm, burglar had a different cycle. You are most likely to be robbed between 6 p.m. and 2 a.m. on a Saturday night in December, January, or February. The most uncriminal month of all? May － except for one strange statistic. More dog bites are reported in this month than in any other month of the year.

Apparently our intellectual seasonal cycles are completely different from our criminal tendencies. Professor Huntington, of the foundation for the Study of Cycles, made extensive studies to discover the seasons when people read serious books, attend scientific meetings, make the highest scores on examinations and propose the most changes to patents. In all instances, he found a spring peak and an autumn peak separated by a summer low. On the other hand, Professor Huntington’s studies indicated that June is the peak month for suicides and admission to mental hospitals. June is also a peak month for marriage!

Possibly, soaring thermometer and high humidity bring on you strange and

terrifying summer actions, but police officials are not sure. “There is, of course, no proof of a connection between humidity and murder,” they say. “Why murder’s high …time should come in the summer time we really don’t know.” …11. A murder would most likely occur ______. … A) on a weekend night in winter B) on a weekday afternoon in summer … C) on a weekend night in summer D) on a weekday night in summer …12. In paragraph 4, sentence 2 gives examples of _____. … A) criminal tendencies B) the summer low … C) intellectual activities D) the spring peak

密13. Why is there an exclamation point(感叹号) after the last sentence in paragraph 4? A) Because the author is surprised that the marriage peak occurs in June.

… B) Because the author is surprised that the marriage peak occurs in the same month

…as the suicides and mental hospital admission peak.

… C) Because the author doesn’t understand why the peak for suicides and marriage

…is in the same month.

… D) Because the author thinks suicides and marriage are close onnected with each

…other.

…14. The information in the last paragraph says _____.

封 A) there may be a connection between murder and hot weather … B) there is a definite connection between murder and hot weather …C) there is no connection between murder and hot weather

…D) police officials are sure of the connection between humidity and murder …15. A good title for this article would be ______. … A) A Time for Murder B) Summer Crimes … C) Crime Cycles throughout the Year D) Intellectual Seasonal Cycles …Passage Two

线Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage:

…Ambition is such a kind of words: define it and you instantly reveal a great deal …about yourself. Even that most neutral of words, Webster’s, in its Seventh New …Collegiate Edition, gives itself away, defines ambition first and foremost as “an ardent …desire for rank, fame, and power.” Ardent immediately assumes a hear incomparable …with good sense and stability, and rank, fame, and power have come under fairly heavy …attack for at least a century. One can, after all, be ambitious for the public good, for the …alleviation(减轻) of suffering, for the enlightenment of mankind, though there are some who say that these are precisely the ambitious people most to be distrusted.

Surely ambition is behind dreams of glory, of wealth, of love, of distinction, of accomplishment, of pleasure, of goodness. What life does with our dreams and expectations cannot, of course, be predicted. Some dreams, begin in selflessness, end in hatred; other dreams, begin in selfishness, end in large-heartedness. The unpredictability of the outcome of dreams is no reason to cease dreaming.

To be sure, ambition, the sheer thing unalloyed by some larger purpose than merely clambering up (攀爬), is never a pretty prospect to consider. As drunks have done to alcohol, the single-minded have done to ambition － given it a bad name. Like a taste for alcohol, too, ambition does not always allow for easy satisfaction. Some people cannot handle it; it has brought grief to others, and not merely the ambitious alone. Still, none of these seems a sufficient cause for driving ambition under the counter.

16. According to the author, ambitious people _______. A) cannot be trusted

B) can fight for good cause

C) never consider other people’s interests

D) are those who have a strong desire for rank, fame, or power 17. The word “ardent” (Line 3, Para. 1) in the context means _____. A) full of warm emotion and enthusiasm B) hardworking C) indifferent D) superstitious 18. It can be concluded from the second paragraph that ______.

A) one’s dream of glory, wealth, love, distinction and so on is the source of his

ambition

B) one’s dream never changes throughout his life

C) selfless people are more likely to realize their dreams D) only ambitious people can predict their fortunes

19. The author uses the example “drunks” to illustrate that ______. A) ambitious people are selfish B) ambition is unfairly treated

C) ambition causes people to feel suffered

D) ambitions people do not want others to give them bad names 20. According to the passage, the author believes that _____. A) defining ambition is hardly an objective job B) ambitious people are not easy to be satisfied C) ambitious people seldom realize their dreams

D) many people stick to their dreams because they can foretell the outcome of their

dreams

Passage Three

Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage:

“Women’s language” is that pleasant, euphemistic(委婉的), never-aggressive way of talking we learned as little girls. Cultural bias was built into the language we were

allowed to speak, the subjects we were allowed to speak about, and the ways we were spoken of. Having learned our linguistic lesson well, we go out in the world, only to …discover that we are communicative cripples(跛子)－ damned if we do, and damned …if we don’t.

…If we refuse to talk “like a lady,” we are ridiculed and criticized for being …unfeminine. (she thinks like a man’ is, at best, al left-handed compliment) If we do …learn all the fuzzy-headed, unassertive(不武断的) language of our sex, we are …ridiculed for being unable to think clearly, unable to take part in a serious discussion, …and therefore unfit to hold a position of power.

It doesn’t take much of this for a woman to begin feeling she deserves such 密treatment because of inadequacies in her own intelligence and education.

…“Women’s language” shows up in all levels of English. For example, women are …encouraged and allowed to make far more precise discriminations in naming colors …than men do. Words like mauve(淡紫色), beign(灰棕色), and so on, are unremarkable …in a woman’s active vocabulary, but largely absent from that of most men. It is simply …that fine discriminations of this sort are relevant to women’s vocabularies, but not to …men’s; to men, who control most of the interesting affairs of the world, such …distinctions are trivial －irrelevant.

封21. According to this passage, we know that “women’s language” ______. … A) exists in almost every aspect of life … B) is inherited

… C) is superior to men’s language in vocabulary

… D) is often ridiculed and criticized as left-handed compliment

…22. Women can make far more precise discriminations in naming colors than men do …because _____.

… A) women are more intelligent than men

线 B) women see a wider range of colors than men do

… C) women are encouraged and supposed to pay more attention to fine

…discriminations of names than men do

… D) women intentionally learn more of this kind of knowledge to show they are

…equal to men in intelligence

…23. The expression “a left-handed compliment” (Line 2, Para. 2) means ______ … A) a hearted compliment B) a neutral comment … C) an insincere compliment D) a criticism 24. The third paragraph suggests that ______.

A) most women are reluctant to learn “women’s language”

B) to learn “women’s language” doesn’t take much of women’s time

C) most women feel unfairly treated just because of inadequacies in their intelligence and education

D) many women have accepted the treatment of being thought as “unfit to hold a

position of power”

25. The author’s attitude towards the phenomenon of “women’s language” is ______. A) supportive B) critical

C) compromising D) worried Passage Four

Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage:

What exactly is Information Technology (infotech)? 85% of people polled (民意测验) recently had not a clue what it meant, although 53% of those polled said they thought it sounded pretty important. They were right. It is. So what is it? Well, put simply, it is the “marrying-up” of products from several key industries: computers, telephones, television, satellites. It means using microelectronics, telecommunication networks, and fibre optics to help produce, store, obtain and send information by way of words, numbers, pictures and sound more quickly and efficiently than ever before.

The impact infotech is having and is going to have on our lives and work is tremendous. It is already linking the space industry with those of cable television so programrnes can be beamed directly into our homes from all over the world. Armies of “steel collar” workers, the robots, will soon be working in factories doing the boring, complex and unpleasant jobs which are at present still done by man. In some areas such as the car industry this has already started. Television will also be used to enable customers to shop from the comfort of their homes by simply ordering via the TV screen, payment being made by direct debit (记人借方的款项) of their cards. Home banking and the automatic booking of tickets will also be done through the television screen. Cable television which in many countries now gives a choice of dozens of channels will soon be used to protect our homes by operating burglar and alarms linked to police and fire stations. Computers will run our homes, controlling the heating, air conditioning and cooking systems while robots will cope with the housework. The friendly postman will be a thing of the past as the postal service and letters disappear with the electronic mail received via viewdata screens. 26. Which of the following does NOT result from information technology? A) Postmen are not needed any longer. B) People spend little time on housework.

C) TV programmes of other countries are available. D) People may call police for help to catch burglars.

27. According to this passage, information technology ______. A) is not as important as many people thought

B) develops through joint efforts of many different important industries

C) may help us to link the skills of the space industry with those of cable television

in the near future

… D) makes robots useless in car industry because jobs of this sort are boring,

…complex, unpleasant

…28. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage? … A) People will be freed from jobs in car industry.

… B) People dislike electronic mail because it is not as friendly as postmen. … C) People may do more housework by themselves with the help of robots. … D) People may go to banks less frequently than before. 密29. The passage is meant to explain ______. A) how infotech develops B) how robots are invented … C) what infotech is D) what impact infotech has on our work …30. In some areas such as the car industry “this” (Line 5, Para. 2) refers to ______. … A) invention of advanced robots

… B) replacing workers with army-men in certain jobs … C) replacing workers with robots in certain jobs … D) replacing robots with workers in certain jobs …Part III Vocabulary and Structure (20 minutes)

封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. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line …through the centre.

…31. Human population is not ______ trees seriously and they will die if it does not …change its attitude to them. … A) seeing B) thinking C) taking D) coming …32. The fantastic Sydney Olympic site is ______ by bus, train or ferries. 线 A) acceptable B) attractive C) attendant D) accessible …33. I am quite tired; this is the third time tonight he ______ me. … A) telephones B) telephoned C) should telephone D) has telephoned …34. Anna said in her letter that she’d appreciate ______ from you. … A) to hear B) hearing C) having heard D) to have heard …35. For developing countries, growth in output has followed a/an ______ pattern. … A) similar B) familiar C) alike D) likely

…36. John Dewey believed that education should be a preparation for life, that a person learns by doing, and that teaching must ______ the curiosity and creativity of children. A) stimulate B) seek C) shape D) secure

37. I see a young man out in the audience who is is the first American ______ a law student in China. A) being B)been C) to be D) is being

38. In 10 to 20 years, you’ll see garbage ______ in every major city of this country. A) studying B) being studied C) to be studied D) to study 39. We see to it that our plan ______ the development of the situation. A) keeps pace with B) keeps to C) keeps a hold on D) keeps in mind

40. Jean doesn’t want to work right away because she thinks that if she ______ a job

she probably wouldn’t be able to see her friends very often. A) has to get B) had got C) could have got D) were to get 41. He was absent at the meeting because he has ______ the flu. A) suffered with B) come down with C) caught up with D) broken with

42. We left for the airport at 7 a. m. yesterday, but we missed the plane, we ______

earlier.

A) should leave B) could leave C) ought to have left D) needn’t have left

43. The offence ______ which he is going to be charged carries a heavy penalty. A) at B) with C) of D) on 44. Walking is the most ______ exercise for the greatest number of people. A) acceptable B) accessible C) accurate D) accidental

45. With supply of fresh water ______ greater difficulties, groundwater is becoming

more and more important. A) presents B) presented C) presenting D) is presenting 46. ______ from the tenth floor when the policeman pointed his pistol at him. A) Jumped down the burglar B) Down the burglar jumped C) The burglar down jumped D) Down jumped the burglar

47. Any studemt who ______ his homework is unlikely to pass his examination. A) practices B) neglects C) misses D) omits

48. This novel is so badly written that I can hardly ______ what the writer is trying to say.

A) fill out B) find out C) think out D) figure out

49. The drama differs from the novel ______ the story is not told directly by the author

but is acted on a stage by actors before an audience. A) in that B) in which C) in what D) in how 50. His strange behavior aroused the ______ of the police. A) suspicion B) doubt C) misbelief D) disbelief

51. Burning all that coal and oil without pollution protection could have drastic

______ on the environment. A) affects B)effects C) results D) consequences …52. John Stuart, English economist and philosopher, is estimated to have had the …incredible intelligence quotient of 200, we can’t help but ______ him. … A) respect B) respecting C) to respect D)having respected …53. Although we still have some problems to face, ______ our work has been …successful. … A) on the run B) on end C) by all means D) by and large …54. Don’t be so disappointed at the failure. The task, ______ is difficult to all of us. 密 A) above all B) all but C) after all D) all along

55. ______ the food has profound effects on our health, perhaps eighty percent of all …human illnesses are related to diet. … A) As much B) Much as C) Even so much D) That much

…56. When we make a decision, we should first consider whether it is ______ the …fundamental interests of the people. … A) in advance of B) in agreement with … C) in honor of D) in accord with

…57. I have given up trying to convince her; there is no point ______ with her. 封 A) in arguing B) for arguing C) to argue D) argue …58. Bob missed five days of classes because of ______. … A) his eyes were operated B) his eyes was operated … C) having his eyes operated on D) operating on his eyes

…59. Ireland is about as big, ______ manpower, as a good-sited American city – Boston. … A) in case of B) at the cost of … C) in terms of D) at the request of

…60. Whatever changes are ______, movies will always remain an important art form. 线 A) brought around B) brought about … C) brought down D) brought to …Part IV Cloze (15 minutes)

…Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are …four choices marked A, B, C and D. on the right side of the paper. You should choose …the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on the …Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.

…For the past two years, I have been studying cancer survivors at UCED, trying to find out why it is that some people respond much better their treatment than others do. At first I thought that some patients did well because their illnesses were not as severe as the illnesses of others. On closer however, I discovered that of the illness was only one of a number of factors that accounted the difference between those who get well and those who don’t. The patients I am talking about here received diagnosis whatever treatments － medication, radiation, surgery － their individual cases demanded. the response to such treatments was hardly uniform. Some patients much better in their therapies(治疗) than others.

What was it, then, that was different? Was there any one thing that all survivors had common? Yes. I have found that the major characteristics of these survivors were very similar. Among the are: they all had a strong will to live; they were not about their illness; they had confidence their ability to persevere(坚持不懈)； 72 all the forecasts 73 the contrary, they believed they could make it; they were capable of joyous response; they were convinced that their treatment would work.

One woman with whom I worked closely is perhaps symbolic the entire group. Let’s call her Annie. Her illness was diagnosed cancer of the liver. An exploratory operation convinced the surgeons that the disease was too far to be treated by any known means. But Annie, from being discouraged or depressed by this verdict(定论), was absolutely determined to overcome her illness. She decided to fight with all of her powers of mind and . Her family physician was so impressed her spirit that he felt the dismal prediction of the specialists ought not to preclude further efforts. Very supportive, he encouraged Annie to see a surgeon in Hovetone who had a high of success with patients who had a strong will to live and a confident attitude. His name was John Smith. 61. A) by B) to C) with D) on 62. A) exams B) looks C) scrutiny D) watch 63. A) severity B) serious C) attack D) corruption 64. A) on B) by C) for D) in 65. A) through B) upon C) by D) with 66. A) So B) Therefore C) Despite D) Yet 67. A) go B) get C) are D) fared 68. A) in B) a C) the D) within 69. A) similarity B) difference C) similarities D) patients 70. A) panicky B) noisy C) peaceful D) troublesome 71. A) on B) in C) about D) with 72. A) besides B) knowing C) despite D) concerning 73. A) on B) to C) about D) in 74. A) among B) within C) on D) of 75. A) for B) as C) with D) about 76. A) away B) out C) along D) beyond 77. A) without B) not C) instead D) far

78. A) body B) hand C) head D) might 79. A) through B) with C) on D) to …80. A) point B) degrees C) record D) rates …Part I Section B Compound Dictation

…Directions: In this section you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is …read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. Then listen to the …passage again. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in …the blanks numbered from S1 to S7 with the exact words you have just heard. For …blanks numbered from S8 to S10 you are required to fill in the missing information. 密You can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should …check what you have written.

…Our factory makes domestic and office furniture － the sort of very modern, …steel and canvas articles you see in new flats all over the country. I never use them …myself, because, being (S1) ___________, I am rather old-fashioned and prefer the …solid, comfortable and (S2) _________ furniture of a rapidly passing age. Visitors are …(S3) _________ astonished to see heavy oak desks and (S4) ____________, …comfortable old armchairs and a Turkish carpet in the offices of so modern a factory. 封(S5) _______________ when I retire the whole (S6) _________ of the place will be …changed; but, while I am still here, I see no reason to (S7) _________ my habits of …years.

…People sometimes ask whether the fact that I do not make use of the products of …our factory does not discourage prospective buyers. My argument against this view is …simple: all my heavy oak furniture was made at least a century ago by handworkers …now long dead. (S8) _________. Besides, to fit in with them, one would have to have a …suitably decorated office, expensive carpets and curtains, and so on. Then there is the 线question of cleaning: a heavy carved and ornamented table takes a long time to clean …properly, and (S9) _________. I am prepared to pay for all these things out of my …pocket; but is everybody?

…No.1 usually find that my visitors leave my office regretting (S10) _________, …but glad that, in our steel tables, chairs, cupboards, etc., they can find something cheap, …clean, strong and at the same time attractive in a modern, efficient way. …S1

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Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic “What are the important characteristics for a person to be successful in life?”. You should write at last 100 words and base your composition on the outline below.

1. Important characteristics of succeeding in life. 2. How can we be successful in life?

Key to Test Seventeen

…

……Part Ⅰ: Listening Comprehension ……Section A

……1~10

C C B B A

D C B A D

密…Section B Compound Dictation

…S1. middle-aged S2. impressive S3. invariably

……S4. cupboards

S5. Probably

S6. appearance

…S7. alter

……S8. To buy such pieces nowadays, one would have to pay an enormous price 封S9. it has to be kept polished if it is to look its best

……S10. they cannot work in such beautiful surroundings as I do

…Part Ⅱ: Reading Comprehension

……11~20 C C B A C D A A B A …21~30

A C C D B

D B D C C

…线Part Ⅲ: Vocabulary and Structure

……31~40 C D D B A A C B A D …41~50 B C B A C D B D A A ……51~60

B A D C B

D A C C B

……Part Ⅳ: Cloze

61~70 B C A C B D D A C A 71~80

B C B D B

C D A B C

Part Ⅴ: Writing (For Reference)

What are the important characteristics for a person to be successful in life?

Everybody wants to be successful in life. Then what are the important characteristics for a person to make it come true. Honesty, diligence and optimism are three important characteristics of success in life.

To begin with, honesty is the first prerequisite. A famous proverb says “Honesty

is the best policy.” Whoever you are and whatever you do, if you want to make friends, to be honest to others is what you have to do first and foremost. If you are not frank to others, you’ll never make true friends; you’ll live a lonely life and be disagreeable everywhere.

Then, diligence is important as well. We all know “No pains, no gains”. No matter how humble a person’s beginning is, if he tricks his best, he will be successful in life. When you’ve decided to do something, your goal can be reached only though

your hard work.

Finally, to succeed one should be optimistic. There are twists and turns in life. Facing adversities, we should be an optimist rather than a pessimist. Just as the

proverb says “An optimist sees the rose; a pessimist the thorn.”

In a word, in order to be successful in life, you have to keep in mind the important characteristics of succeeding in life. With the characteristics of honesty, diligence and optimism, you will always succeed.