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TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2017)
—GRADE FOUR—
TIME LIMIT: 130 MIN
PART I
DICTATION [10 MIN]
Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the
first reading, which will be done at normal speed, listen and try to understand the meaning. For
the second and third readings, the passage will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by
phrase, with intervals of 15 seconds. The last reading will be done at normal speed again and
during this time you should check your work. You will then be given 2 minutes to check through
your work once more.
Please write the whole passage on ANSWER SHEET ONE.
PART II
LISTENING COMPREHENSION [20 MIN]
SECTION A TALK
In this section you will hear a talk. You will hear the talk ONCE ONLY. While listening, you may
look at the task on the ANSWER SHEETONE and write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each
gap. Make sure what you fill in is both grammatically and semantically acceptable. You may use
the blank sheet for note-taking.
You have THIRTY seconds to preview the gap-filling task.
Now, listen to the talk. When it is over, you will be given TWO minutes to check your work.
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TION B CONVERSATIONS
SECTION B
In this section, you will hear two conversations. At the end of the conversion, five questions will
be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken ONCE
ONLY. After each question there will be a ten-second pause. During the pause, you should read
the four choices of A, B, C and D, and mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET
TWO.
You have THIRTY seconds to preview the questions.
Now, listen to the conversations.
CONVERSATION ONE
1. A. It can’t read data from the flash drive.
B. It has wiped the data from the flash drive
C. The files stored in it have got lost
2. A. Get a total refund
B. Get a partial refund
C. Get a new computer
D. Get a new hard disk.
3. A. Indifferent. B. Surprised
4. A By 8: 30 tomorrow morming
D. The files in it can't be opened
C. Anxious D. Dissatisfied
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B. After 8: 30 tomorrow morning
C. At 8: 30 this evenin
D. Anytime tomorrow
5.A.65743205 B.6547-2305
CONVERSATION TWO
6. A. Hold a party at home.
B. Introduce ourselves first.
C. Avoid meeting them
D. Wait for them to visit us
7. A. Do nothing about it.
B. Tell him to stop.
C. Give him a reason to stop
D. Call the police immediately.
8.A. don't answer their questions
B. don't appear to be friendly.
C. Try to be sympathetic
D. Try to be patient.
9. A. No more than five minutes.
B. Five to ten minutes
C. About half an hour.
D. About an hour.
10. A. Family Circle Magazine
B. Morning radio programs
C. betty's website
D. CBS news website.
Part III. Language ueage
11. ______ combination of techniques authors use, all stories---from the briefest anecdotes to
the longest novels ----have a plot.
A. Regarding B. Whatever. C. In so far as D. No matter
12. She followed the receptionist down a luxurious corridor to a closed door, ________ the
women gave a quick knock before opening it..
A. wherein B. on which C. but when D. then
13. Ms Ennab is one of the first Palestinian ________ with seven years’ racing experience.
A. woman drivers B. women driver C. women drivers D. woman driver
C.6457-2035. D.6475302
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14. “I wondered if I could have a word with you.” The past tense in the sentence refers to a _ _.
A. past event for exact time reference B. present event for tentativeness
C. present event for uncertainty D. past event for politeness
15. “If I were you, I wouldn’t wait to propose to her.” The subjunctive mood in the sentence is
used to ________.
A. alleviate hostility B. express unfavorable feelings
C. indicate uncertainty D. make a suggestion
16. “It’s a shame that the city official should have gone back on his word.” The modal auxiliary
SHOULD express __ ____.
A obligation B disappointment C future in the past D. tentativeness
17. Timothy Ray Brown, the first man cured of HIV, initially opted against the stem cell
transplantation that _______ history.
A. could have later made B. should have made later
C. might make later D. would later make
18. Some Martian rock structures look strikingly like structures on Earth that are known ____by
microbes.
A. having been created B. being created C. to have been created D. to be created
19. At that moment, with the crowd watching me, I was not afraid in the ordinary sense, as
______ if I _________alone.
A. would have been …had been B. should be … had been
C. could be … were D. might have been… were
20. You must fire _ __ incompetent assistant of yours
A. the B. an C. that D. whichever
21. Some narratives seem more like plays, heavy with dialogue by which writers allow their
_____to reveal themselves.
A. characters B. characteristics C. charisma D characterizations
22. If you intend to melt the snow for drinking water, you can ___ _____ extra purity by running it
through a coffee filter.
A. assure B. insure C. reassure D. ensure
23. The daisy-like flowers of chamomile have been used for centuries to __ ____anxiety and
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insomnia.
A. decline B. relieve C quench D suppress
24. Despite concern about the disappearance of the album in popular music, 2014 delivered a
great crop of album ___ _____.
A. publications B appearances C. releases D. presentations
25. The party’s reduced vote in the general election was _______of lack of support for its policies.
A. revealing B. confirming C. indicative D. evident
26. He closed his eyes and held the two versions of La Mappa to his mind’s _ ______ to analyze
their differences.
A. vision B eye C. view D. sight
27. Twelve pupils were killed and five _______injured after gunmen attacked the school during
lunchtime.
A. critically B. enormously C. greatly D. hard
28. A 15-year-old girl has been arrested _____ accusations of using Instagram to anonymously
threaten her high-school.
A. over B. with C. on D. for
29. It was reported that a 73-year-old man died on an Etihad flight __ _____to Germany from Abu
Dhabi.
A. bounded B. binded C. boundary D. bound
30. It’s ____ ___ the case in the region; a story always sounds clear enough at a distanced, but
the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes.
A. unchangeably B. invariably C. unalterably D. immovably

Part IV. Close

A. always B. barely C. demise D. emergence E. gained F. implications G. leaf H. lost I. naturally
J. object K. one L. online M. rising N. single O. value

MILLIONS of people now rent their movies the Netflix way. They fill out a wish list from
the 50,000 titles on the company's Web site and receive the first few DVD's in the mail; when they
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mail each one back, the next one on the list is sent. The Netflix model has been exhaustively
analyzed for its disruptive, new-economy（31） What will it mean for video stores like
Blockbuster, which has, in fact, started a similar service? What will it mean for movie studios and
theaters? What does it show about
like those for Dutch movies or classic musicals, into a (32) large audience? But one other major
implication has (33) been mentioned: what this and similar Internet-based businesses mean for
that stalwart of the old economy, the United States Postal Service.
Every day, some two million Netflix envelopes come and go as first-class mail. They are
joined by millions of other shipments from （34） pharmacies, eBay vendors, and
other businesses that did not exist before the Internet.
The（35） of mailin the age of instant electronic communication has been
predicted at least as often as the coming of the paperless office. But the consumption of paper
keeps （36） . It has roughly doubled since 1980. On average, an American household receives
twice as many pieces of mail a day as it did in the 1970's.
The harmful side of the Internet's impact is obvious but statistically less important than many
would guess. People (37) write fewer letters when they can send e-mail messages. To (38)
through a box of old paper correspondence is to know what has been _(39) in this shift: the
pretty stamps, the varying look and feel of handwritten and typed correspondence, the tangible (40)
that was once in the sender's hands.

V. Reading comprehension
Section A
Passage one
（1）When I was a young girl living in Ireland, I was always pleased when it rained, because
that meant I could go treasure hunting. What’s the connection between a wet day and a search for
buried treasure? Well, it’s quite simple. Ireland, as some of you may already know, is the home of
Leprechauns – little men who possess magic powers and, perhaps more interestingly, pots of gold.
（2）Now, although Leprechauns are interesting characters, I have to admit that I was more
intrigued by the stories of their treasure hoard. This, as all of Ireland knows, they hide at the end
of the rainbow. Leprechauns can be fearsome folk but if you can discover the end of the rainbow,
they have to unwillingly surrender their gold to you. So whenever it rained, I would look up in the
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sky and follow the curve of the rainbow to see where it ended. I never did unearth any treasure,
but I did spend many happy, showery days dreaming of what I could do with the fortune if I found
it.
（3）As I got older, and started working, rainy days came to be just another nuisance and my
childhood dreams of finding treasure faded. But for some people the dream of striking it lucky
never fades, and for a fortunate few, the dream even comes true! Such is the case of Mel Fisher.
His dream of finding treasure also began in childhood, while reading the great literature classics
“Treasure Island” and “Moby Dick”. However, unlike myself, he chased his dream and in the end
managed to become one of the most famous professional treasure hunters of all time, and for good
reason. In 1985, he fished up the priceless cargo of the sunken Spanish ship Atocha, which netted
him an incredible $$400 million dollars!
（4）After the ship sank in 1622 off the coast of Florida, its murky waters became a treasure
trove of precious stones, gold bars and silver coins known as “pieces of eight”. The aptly-named
Fisher, who ran a commercial salvaging operation, had been trying to locate the underwater
treasure for over 16 years when he finally hit the jackpot! His dreams had come true but finding
and keeping the treasure wasn’t all plain sailing. After battling with hostile conditions at sea,
Fisher then had to battle in the courts. In fact, the State of Florida took Fisher to court over
ownership of the find and the Federal government soon followed suit. After more than 200
hearings, Fisher agreed to donate 20% of his yearly findings for public display, and so now there
is a museum in Florida which displays hundreds of the objects which were salvaged from the
Atocha.
（5）This true story seems like a modern-day fairytale: a man pursues his dream through
adversity and in the end, he triumphs over the difficulties - they all live happily ever after, right?
Well, not exactly. Archaeologists object to the fact that with commercial salvaging operations like
Fisher’s, the objects are sold and dispersed and UNESCO are worried about protecting our
underwater heritage from what it describes as “pillaging”.
（6）The counter- argument is that in professional, well-run operations such as Fisher’s, each
piece is accurately and minutely recorded and that it is this information which is more important
than the actual object, and that such operations help increase our wealth of archaeological
knowledge. Indeed, as in Fisher’s case, they make history more accessible to people through
museum donations and information on web sites.
（7）The distinction of whether these treasure hunters are salvaging or pillaging our underwater
heritage may not be clear, but what is clear is that treasure hunting is not just innocent child’s play
anymore but profitable big business. I have learnt that the end of the rainbow is beyond my reach,
but in consolation, with just a click of the mouse, I too can have a share in the riches that the
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