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Part I Listening
Comprehension (20 minutes)
Section A
1.
A) A new house cost
thirty thousand dollars.
B)
Bob
?
s house cost him sixty
thousand dollars.
C) Bob
didn
?
t want to buy an old
house.
D) Bob decided to buy an old
house.
2.
A) Yes, but he
needs to have the approval of his professor.
B) Yes, he can study there if he is
writing a research paper.
C) Yes,
because he is a senior student.
D) No,
it
?
s open only to teachers
and postgraduates.
3.
A) He
doesn
?
t like seafood any
more.
B) A seafood dinner is too
expensive.
C) He
doesn
?
t have enough money.
D) He likes seafood very much.
4.
A) He went to the
hospital to take his wife home.
B) He
stayed in the hospital until very late.
He tried to call the woman several
times.
He went to the hospital at
midnight yesterday.
5.
Her
errors were mainly in the reading part.
B) It wasn
?
t very
challenging to her.
C) It was more
difficult than she had expected.
D) She
made very few grammatical mistakes in her test.
6.
A) 6 hours.
B)
4 hours.
C) 12 hours.
D) 18
hours.
7.
A)
It
?
s dirty.
B)
It
?
s faded.
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C)
It
?
s dyed.
D)
It
?
s torn.
8.
A) Sixteen dollars.
B) Eight
dollars.
C) Ten dollars.
D)
Twelve dollars.
9.
A) His
watch will be fixed no later than next Monday.
B) His watch needs to be repaired.
C) He may come again for his watch at
the weekend.
D) The woman
won
?
t repair his watch until
next Monday.
10.
A) The
things to do on Monday morning.
B) The
weather on Monday morning.
C) The time
to see John.
D) The place John should
go to.
Section B
Passage One
Questions 11 to 14 are based on the
passage you have just heard.
11.
A) The number of its readers.
B) Its unusual location.
C)
Its comfortable chairs.
D) Its spacious
rooms.
12.
A) The latest
version of the Bible.
B) A book written
by Columbus.
C) A map of the New World.
D) One of the earliest copies of
Shakespeare
?
s work.
13.
A) It has too few
employees.
B) It lacks money to cover
its expenses.
C) It is over crowded.
D) It is growing too rapidly.
14.
A) From Monday to
Friday.
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B) From Monday to Saturday.
C) Every day.
D) On
Saturdays and Sundays.
Passage Two
Questions 15 to 17 are based on the
passage you have just heard.
15.
A) They would train the children to be
happy street cleaners.
B) They would
make the children great scholars.
C)
They intended to train the children as adults were
trained.
D) They would give the
children freedom to fully develop themselves.
16.
A) Some children are
good, some are not.
B) Children are
good by nature.
C) Most children are
nervous.
D) Children are not as brave
as adults.
17.
A) He thinks
a scholar is more respectable than a street
cleaner.
B) He thinks highly of
teaching as a profession.
C) He thinks
all jobs are equally good so long as people like
them.
D) He thinks a street cleaner is
happier than a scholar.
Passage Three
Questions 18 to 20 are based on the
passage you have just heard.
18.
A) The daughter of a prison guard.
B) The Emperor of Rome.
C) A
Christian couple.
D) A Christian named
Valentine.
19.
A) To propose
marriage.
B) To celebrate
Valentine
?
s birthday.
C) To express their respect for each
other.
D) To show their love.
20.
A) It is an American
folktale.
B) It is something recorded
in Roman history.
C) It is one of the
possible origins of this holiday.
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D) It is a
story from the Bible.
Part II Reading
Comprehension (35 minutes)
Passage One
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the
following passage.
One
day
in
January
1913.
G
.
H.
Hardy,
a
famous
Cambridge
University
mathematician received a letter from an
Indian named Srinivasa Ramanujan asking him
for
his
opinion
of
120
mathematical
theorems
(
定理
)
that
Ramanujan
said
he
had
discovered. To Hardy, many of the
theorems made no sense. Of the others, one or two
were already well-known. Ramanujan must
be some kind of trickplayer, Hardy decided,
and put the letter aside. But all that
day the letter kept hanging round Hardy. Might
there
be something in those wild-
looking theorems?
That
evening
Hardy
invited
another
brilliant
Cambridge
mathematician,
J.
E.
Littlewood,
and
the
two
men
set
out
to
assess
the
Indian
?
s
worth.
That
incident
was
a
turning point in the history of
mathematics.
At the time, Ramanujan was
an obscure Madras Port Trust clerk. A little more
than a
year later, he was at Cambridge
University, and beginning to be recognized as one
of the
most amazing mathematicians the
world has ever known. Though he died in 1920, much
of his work was so far in advance of
his time that only in recent years is it beginning
to
be properly understood.
Indeed,
his
results
are
helping
solve
today
?
s
problems
in
computer
science
and
physics, problems that
he could have had no notion of.
For
Indians,
moreover,
Ramanujan
has
a
special
significance.
Ramanujan,
though
born in poor and ill-paid
accountant
?
s family 100
years ago, has inspired many Indians to
adopt mathematics as career.
Much of
Ramanujan
?
s work is in
number theory, a branch of mathematics that deals
with
the
subtle
(
难
< br>以
捉
摸
的
)
laws
and
relationships
that
govern
numbers.
Mathematicians
describe
his
results
as
elegant
and
beautiful
but
they
are
much
too
complex to be
appreciated by laymen.
His life,
though, is full of drama and sorrow. It is one of
the great romantic stories of
mathematics,
a
distressing
reminder
that
genius
can
surface
and
rise
in
the
most
unpromising circumstances.
21.
When Hardy received the
120 theorems from Ramanujan, his attitude at first
might
be best described as ________.
A) uninterested
B)
unsympathetic
C) suspicious
D) curious
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22.
Ramanujan
?
s
position in Cambridge University owed much to
________.
A) the judgement of his work
by Hardy and Littlewood
B) his letter
of application accepted by Hardy
C) his
work as a clerk at Madras Port Trust
D)
his being recognized by the world as a famous
mathematician
23.
It may be
inferred from the passage that the author
________.
A) feels sorry for
Ramanujan
?
s early death
B) is dissatisfied with the slow
development of computer science
C) is
puzzled about the complexity of
Ramanujan
?
s theorems
D) greatly appreciates
Ramanujan
?
s mathematical
genius
24.
In the last
paragraph, the author points out that ________.
A)
Ramanujan
?
s
mathematical
theorems
were
not
appreciated
by
other
mathematicians
B) extremely talented people can prove
their worth despite difficult circumstances
C) Ramanujan also wrote a number of
stories about mathematics
D)
Ramanujan
had
worked
out
an
elegant
but
complicated
method
of
solving
problems
25.
The
word “laymen” (Last Para, Lind 6) most probably
means ________.
A) people
who do not specialize in mathematical science
B) people who are careless
C) people who are not interested in
mathematics
D) people who
don
?
t like to solve
complicated problems
Passage Two
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the
following passage.
Even
if
all
the
technical
and
intellectual
problems
can
be
solved,
there
are
major
social problems
inherent in the computer revolution. The most
obvious is unemployment,
since
the
basic
purpose
of
commercial
computerization
is
to
get
more
work
done
by
fewer people. One
British
study predicts that “automation induced
unemployment” in Western Europe
could
reach
16~, 6 in the next decade, but
most analyses are more optimistic. The general
rule
seems to be that new technology
eventually creates as many jobs as it destroys,
and often
more.
“People
who
put
in
computers
usually
increase
their
staffs
as
well”
says
CPT?
s
Scheff. “Of course,” he
adds,
“one industry may kill
another industry. That?
s tough on
some people.”
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Theoretically, all unemployed workers
can be retrained, but retraining programs are
not high on the
nation
?
s
agenda
(
议事日程
). Many new
jobs, moreover, will require an
ability
in using computers, and the retraining needed to
use them will have to be repeated
as
the technology keeps improving. Says a chilling
report by the Congressional Office of
Technology Assessment:
“Lifelong retraining is expected to
become the standard for many people. “There is
a already considerable evidence that
the school children now being educated in the use
of
computers
are
generally
the
children
of
the
white
middle
class.
Young
blacks,
whose
unemployment rate stands today at 50
96, will find another barrier in front of them.
Such social problems are not the fault
of the computer, of course, but a consequence
of the way the American society might
use the computer. “Even in the days of the Big,
main-
frame
computers,
when
they
were
a
machine
for
the
few.”
says
Katherine
Davis
Fishman, author of
The
Computer Establishment, “it was a tool to help the
rich get richer. It still is to a
large
extent.
One
of
the
great
values
of
the
personal
computer
is
that
smaller
firms,
smaller organizations can now have some
of the advantages of the bigger
organizations.”
26.
The closest restatement of “one
industry may kill another industry” (Para.
1 Line 11)
is that ________.
A) industries tend to compete with one
another
B) one industry might be driven
out of business by another industry
C)
one industry may increase its staff at the expense
of another
D) industries tend to
combine into bigger ones
27.
The word “chilling” (Para. 2, Line 5)
most probably means ________
.
A) misleading
B) convincing
C) discouraging
D)
interesting
28.
Which of the
following is NOT mentioned in the passage?
A) Computers are efficient in
retraining unemployed workers.
B)
Computers may offer more working opportunities
than they destroy.
C) Computers will
increase the unemployment rate of young blacks.
D) Computers can help smaller
organizations to function more effectively.
29.
From the passage it can
be inferred that ________.
A) all
school children are offered a course in the use of
computers
B) all unemployed workers are
being retrained
C) retraining
programmes are considered very important by the
government
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D) in reality only a
certain portion of unemployed workers will be
retrained
30.
The major
problem discussed in the passage is ________.
A) the importance of lifelong
retraining of the unemployed workers
B)
the social consequences of the widespread use of
computers in the United States
C) the
barrier to the employment of young people
D) the general rule of the advancement
of technology
Passage Three
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the
following passage.
Mobility
of
individual
members
and
family
groups
tends
to
split
up
family
relationships.
Occasionally
the movement of a family away from a situation
which has been the
source
of
friction
results
in
greater
family
organization,
but
on
the
whole
mobility
is
disorganizing.
Individuals
and families are involved in three types of
mobility: movement in space,
movement
up
or
down
in
social
status,
and
the
movement
of
ideas.
These
are
termed
respectively spatial, vertical, and
ideational mobility.
A great increase
in spatial mobility has gone along with
improvements in rail and
water
transportation,
the
invention
and
use
of
the
automobile,
and
the
availability
of
airplane passenger
service. Spatial mobility results in a decline in
the importance of the
traditional home
with its emphasis on family continuity and
stability. It also means that
when
individual family members or the family as a whole
move away from a community,
the
person
or
the
family
is
removed
from
the
pressures
of
relatives,
friends,
and
community institutions
for conventionality and stability. Even more
important is the fact
that
spatial
mobility
permits
some
members
of
a
family
to
come
in
contact
with
and
possibly adopt
attitudes, values, and ways of thinking different
from those held by other
family
members. The presence of different attitudes,
values, and ways of thinking with in
a
family
may,
and
often
does,
result
in
conflict
and
family
disorganization.
Potential
disorganization is
present in those families in which the husband,
wife, and children are
spatially
separated
over
a
long
period,
or
are
living
together
but
see
each
other
only
briefly because of different work
schedules.
One index of the increase in
vertical mobility is the great increase in the
proportion
of sons, and to some extent
daughters, who engage in occupations other than
those of the
parents.
Another
index
of
vertical
mobility
is
the
degree
of
intermarriage
between
racial
classes. This occurs almost exclusively
between classes which are adjacent to each other.
Engaging in a different occupation, or
intermarriage, like spatial mobility, allows one
to
come in
contact
with
ways of behavior
different from
those of the parental
home, and
tends to separate parents and
their children.
The increase in
ideational mobility is measured by the increase in
publications, such
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as newspapers,
periodicals, and books, the increase in the
percentage of the population
owning
radios, and the increase in television sets. All
these tend to introduce new ideas
into
the home.
When
individual
family
members
are
exposed
to
and
adopt
the
new
ideas,
the
tendency
is
for
conflict
to
arise
and
for
those
in
conflict
to
become
psychologically
separated from each other.
31.
What the passage tells
us can be summarized by the statement:
A) social development results in a
decline in the importance of traditional families
B) potential disorganization is present
in the American family
C) family
disorganization is more or less the result of
mobility
D) the movement of a family is
one of the factors in raising its social status
32.
According to the
passage, those who live in a traditional family
________.
A) are less likely to quarrel
with others because of conventionality and
stability
B) have to depend on their
relatives and friends if they do not move away
from it
C) can get more help from their
family members if they are in trouble
D) will have more freedom of action and
thought if they move away from it
33.
Potential disorganization exists in
those families in which ________.
A)
the husband, wife, and children work too hard
B) the husband, wife, and children
seldom get together
C) both parents
have to work full time
D) the family
members are subject to social pressures
34.
Intermarriage
and
different
occupations
play
an
important
role
in
family
disorganization because ________.
A) they enable the children to travel
around without their
parents
?
permission
B) they allow one to find a good job
and improve one
?
s social
status
C)
they
enable
the
children
to
better
understand
the
ways
of
behavior
of
their
parents
D)
they
permit
one
to
come
into
contact
with
different
ways
of
behavior
and
thinking
35.
This
passage
suggests
that
a
well-organized
family
is
a
family
whose
members
________.
A) are not
psychologically withdrawn from one another
B) never quarrel with each other even
when they disagree
C) often help each
other with true love and affection