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TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2016)
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GRADE
FOUR
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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.
SECTION B
CONVERSATIONS
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
Questions 1
to 5 are based on Conversation One.
1.
A. To tell
the man that he has been shortlisted for
interview.
B. To ask the man a few
questions about his interview.
C. To
tell the man the procedure of the interview.
D. To explain to the man how to make a
presentation.
2.
A. Questions related to the
job.
B. General questions about
himself.
C. Specific questions about
his CV.
D. Questions about his future
plan.
3.
A. Questions from the interviewers.
B. Questions from the interviewee.
C. Presentation from the interviewee.
D. Requests from the interviewee.
4.
A. Educational and professional
background.
B. Problems he has faced
and solved.
C. Major successes in his
career so far.
D. Company future and
his contribution.
5.
A. 11 a.m., next Tuesday.
B. 11 a.m., next Thursday.
C. 9 a.m., this Tuesday.
D.
9 a.m., this Thursday.
Conversation Two
Questions 6
to 10 are based on Conversation Two.
6.
A. How
college students pay for their education.
B. How to handle the problem of college
loans.
C. The disadvantage of college
loans.
D. Government financing in
college education.
7.
A. It has increased by 6 to
8%.
B. It has increased by 8 to 10%.
C. It has decreased by 6 to 8%.
D. It has decreased by 8 to 10%.
8.
A. Student
’
s
family income.
B. First year salary
after graduation.
C. A fixed amount of
30, 000 dollars.
D. Payment in the next
ten years.
9.
A. Students can borrow money first.
B. Students pay no tax on savings.
C. Students pay less tax after
graduation.
D. Students withdraw
without paying tax.
10.
A. Giving up charitable or
volunteer work.
B. Neglecting their
study at college.
C. Giving up further
education.
D. Neglecting high salary in
job-seeking.
PART III
LANGUAGE USAGE
[10 MIN]
There are twenty sentences in this
section. Beneath each sentence there are four
words or phrases marked A, B,
C and D.
Choose one word or phrase that best completes the
sentence. Mark your answers on Answer Sheet Two.
11.
How can I concentrate if you __________
continually __________ me with silly questions?
A. have
…
interrupted
B.
had
…
interrupted
C. are
…
interrupting
D.
were
…
interrupting
12.
Among the four sentences below,
Sentence __________ express the highest degree of
possibility.
A. It may take a long time
to find a solution to the problem.
B. It might take a long
time to find a solution to the problem.
C.
It could take a long time to find a solution to
the problem.
D. It should take a long time to find a
solution to the problem.
13.
She is a
better speaker than __________ in the class.
A. all the girls
B. the
other boys
C. other any girl
D. any boy
14.
Nobody heard him sing,
__________?
A. did they
B.
did he
C. didn
’
t
they
D. did one
15.
I
can
’
t put up with
__________.
A. that friend of you
B. that friend of yours
C. the friend
of you
D. the friend of yours
16.
There has
been an increasing number of __________ in primary
schools in past few years.
A. man
teacher
B. men teacher
C.
man teachers
D. men teachers
17.
This is one
of the issues that deserve __________.
A. mentioning
B. being
mentioned
C. to mention
D.
for mention
18.
The audience __________ excited on
seeing__________ favorite star glide onto the
stage.
A. were
…
its
B. were
…
their
C. was
…
their
D. was
…
one
’
s
19.
__________ your advice,
I would have made the wrong decision.
A. Hadn
’
t it been
for
B. Had it not been for
C. Had it been for
D. Had
not it been for
20. The
sentence
I wish I had been more careful
in spending money
express the
speaker
’
s __________.
A. hope
B. joy
C. regret
D. relief
21.
The
Attorney
General
ordered
a
federal
autopsy
of
Brown
’
s
body,
seeking
to
__________
the
family
and
community there would be a thorough
investigation into his death.
A. ensure
B. assure
C. insure
D. ascertain
22.
The
police
department
came
under
strong
criticism
for
both
the
death
of
an
unarmed
and
its
handling
of
the
__________.
A. consequence
B. outcome
C. result
D. aftermath
23.
The Foreign Secretary tried
to __________ doubts about his handling of the
crisis.
A. dispel
B. expel
C. repel
D. quell
24.
Mutual
funds
are
thus
best
for
investors
who
don
’
t
want
to
take
the
time
to
study
stocks
in
detail
or
who
__________ the resources to build a
portfolio.
A. deprive
B.
lack
C. yearn
D. attain
25.
Chris
ran
__________
John
at
a
sporting-goods
trade
show
and
the
two
quickly
struck
__________
an
easy
rapport.
A. into
…
up
B.
on
…
into
C.
across
…
on
D.
against
…
into
26.
“
I
’
m
leaving the country soon,
”
he told a __________ convened group of reporters.
A. especially
B. particularly
C. specially
D. specifically
27.
Israel and
Hamas had reached a deal on extending the
__________ ceasefire by an extra 24 hours until
Tuesday
at midnight.
A.
contemporary
B. makeshift
C.
spontaneous
D. temporary
28.
__________ to unplugging the alarm clock and
trusting your ability to wake on time on your own,
you should
probably ease yourself into
the new arrangement by keeping a very regular
schedule for several weeks.
A. Due
B. Prior
C. Related
D.
Thanks
29.
If
you are an athlete, strong abdominal muscles help
you ensure a strong back and freedom from injury
during
__________upper-body movement.
A. valiant
B. variable
C.
vigorous
D.
vigilant
30.
Finning is a cruel __________ in which the
shark
’
s fins are lopped off,
and the live shark is thrown back to sea.
A. reality
B. truth
C.
skill
D. practice
PART
IV
CLOZE
[10
MIN]
Decide
which
of
the
words
given
in
the
box
below
would
best
complete
the
passage
if
inserted
in
the
corresponding blank. The words can be
used ONCE ONLY. Mark the letter for each word on
ANSWER SHEET TWO.
A. ample
B.
combinations
C. directly
D. disseminated
E. generations
F. genuinely
G.
instead
H.
lists
I. promulgated
J.
publicized
K. scant
L. shaped
M. sophisticated
N.
transplanted
O. virtual
Imagine
a
world
without
writing.
Obviously
there
would
be
no
books:
no
novels,
no
encyclopedias,
no
cookbooks, no textbooks,
no telephone books, no scriptures, no diaries, no
travel guides. There would be no
ball-
points, no typeswriters, no
computers, no Internet, no magazines, no movie
credits, no shopping lists, no newspapers,
no tax returns. But such __________
(31) of subjects almost miss the point. The world
we live in has been indelibly
marked by
the written word, __________ (32) by the
technology of writing over thousands of years.
Ancient kings
proclaimed their
authority and __________ (33) their laws in
writing. Scribes administered great empires by
writing,
their
knowledge
of
recording
and
retrieving
information
essential
to
governing
complex
societies.
Religious
traditions
were
passed
on
through
__________
(34),
and
spread
to
others,
in
writing.
Scientific
and
technological
progress was achieved and __________
(35) through writing. Accounts in trade and
commerce could be kept because
of
writing. Nearly every step of civilization has
been mediated through writing. A world without
writing would bear
__________ (36)
resemblance to the one we now live
in.
Writing is a
__________ (37) necessity
to the societies
anthropologists call
civilizations. A civilization is distinguished
from other societies by the complexity of its
social
organization,
by
its
construction
of
cities
and
large
public
buildings,
and
by
the
economic
specialization
of
its
members, many of whom
are not __________ (38) involved in food
procurement or production. A civilization, with
its taxation and tribute systems, its
trade, and its public works, requires a __________
(39) system of record keeping.
And
so
the
early
civilizations
of
Egypt,
China,
and
(probably)
India
all
developed
a
system
of
writing.
Only
the
Peruvian civilization of the Incas and
their predecessors did not use writing but
__________ (40) invented a system
of
keeping records on knotted color-coded strings
known as
quipu
.
PART V
READING COMPREHENSION
[35 MIN]
SECTION A MUTIPLE CHOICE
QUESTIONS
In
this
section
there
are
three
passages
followed
by
ten
multiple
choice
questions.
For
each
multiple
choice
question, there are
four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D.
Choose the one that you think is the best answer.
Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO.
PASSAGE ONE
(1)
When I was
twenty-seven years old, I was a mining-
broker
’
s clerk in San
Francisco, and an expert in all the
details of stock traffic, I was alone
in the world, and had nothing to depend upon but
my wits and a clean reputation;
but
these were setting my feet in the road to eventual
fortune, and I was content with the prospect. My
time was my
own after the afternoon
board, Saturdays, and I was accustomed to putting
it in on a little sail-boat on the bay. One
day I ventured too far, and was carried
out to sea. Just at nightfall, when hope was about
gone, I was picked up by a
small
ship
which
was
bound
for
London.
It
was
a
long
and
stormy
voyage,
and
they
made
me
work
my
passage
without pay, as a common sailor. When I
stepped ashore in London my clothes were ragged
and shabby, and I had
only a dollar in
my pocket. This money fed and sheltered me twenty-
four hours. During the next twenty-four I went
without food and shelter.
(2)
About ten
o
’
clock on the following
morning, dirty and hungry, I was dragging myself
along Portland Place,
when a child that
was passing, towed by a nurse-maid, tossed a big
pear
——
minus one
bite
——
into the gutter.
I
stopped,
of
course,
and
fastened
my
desiring
eye
on
that
muddy
treasure.
My
mouth
watered
for
it,
my
stomach
craved
it,
my
whole
being
begged
for
it.
But
every
time
I
made
a
move
to
get
it
some
passing
eye
detected
my
purpose, and of course I straightened
up then, and looked indifferent and pretended that
I hadn
’
t been thinking about
the pear at all. This same thing kept
happening and happening, and I
couldn
’
t get the pear.
(3)
I
was just getting desperate enough to brave all the
shame, and to seize it, when a window behind me
was
raised, and a gentleman spoke out
of it, saying:
“
Step in
here, please.
”
(4)
I was
admitted by a man servant, and shown into a
sumptuous room where a couple of elderly gentlemen
were sitting. They sent away the
servant, and made me sit down. They had just
finished their breakfast, and the sight
of the remains of it almost overpowered
me. I could hardly keep my wits together in the
presence of that food, but as
I was not
asked to sample it, I had to bear my trouble as
best as I could.
(5)
Now, something had been happening there
a little before, which I did not know anything
about until a good
many days
afterwards, but I will tell you about it now.
Those two old brothers had been having a pretty
hot argument
a
couple
of
days
before,
and
had
ended
by
agreeing
to
decide
it
by
a
bet,
which
is
the
English
way
of
settling
everything.
(6)
You will remember that the Bank of
England once issued two notes of a million pounds
each, to be used for
a special purpose
connected with some public transaction with a
foreign country. For some reason or other only one
of these had been used and canceled;
the other still lay in the vaults of the Bank.
Well, the brothers, chatting along,
happened to get to wondering what might
be the fate of a perfectly honest and intelligent
stranger who should be
turned
adrift
in
London
without
a
friend,
and
with
no
money
but
that
million-pound
bank-note,
and
no
way
to
account
for
his
being
in
possession
of
it.
Brother
A
said
he
would
starve
to
death;
Brother
B
said
he
wouldn
’
t.
Brother A said he
couldn
’
t offer it at a bank
or anywhere else, because he would be arrested on
the spot. So they went
on disputing
till Brother B said he would bet twenty thousand
pounds that the man would live thirty days,
anyway, on
that million, and keep out
of jail, too. Brother A took him up. Brother B
went down to the Bank and bought that note.
Then he dictated a letter, which one of
his clerks wrote out in a beautiful round hand,
and then the two brothers sat at
the
window a whole day watching for the right man to
give it to.
(7)
I
finally became the pick of it.
41.
In Para. 1,
the phrase
“
set my
feet
”
probably means
__________.
A. put me aside
B. start my journey
C.
prepare me
D. let me walk
42.
It can be
concluded from Para. 2 that __________.
A. the man wanted to maintain dignity
though starved
B. the man
could not get a proper chance to eat the pear
C. The man did not really want the pear
since it was dirty
D. it
was very difficult for the man to get the pear
43.
Compared with Brother A, Brother B was
more __________ towards the effect of the
one-million-
pound bank-note on a total strange.
A.
neutral
B. negative
C.
reserved
D. positive
PASSAGE TWO
(1)
The concept of peace is a very
important one in cultures all over the world.
Think about how we greet people.
In
some language, the phrases for greetings contain
the word for peace. In some cultures we greet
people by shaking
hands or with another
gesture to show that we are not carrying weapons
--- that we come in peace. And there are
certain symbols which people in very
different cultures recognize as representing
peace. Let
’
s look at a few
of them.
The dove
(2)
The dove has
been a symbol of peace and innocence for thousands
of years in many different cultures. In
ancient Greek mythology it was a symbol
of love and the renewal of life. In ancient Japan
a dove carrying a sword
symbolized the
end of war.
(3)
There was a tradition in Europe that if
dove flew around a house where someone was dying
then their soul
would be at peace. And
there are legends which say that devil can turn
himself into any bird except for a dove. In
Christian art, the dove was used to
symbolized the Holy Ghost and was often painted
above Christ
’
s head.
(4)
But it was
Pablo Picasso who made the dove a modern symbol of
peace when he used it on a poster for the
World Peace Congress in 1949.
The rainbow
(5)
The
rainbow
is
another
ancient
and
universal
symbol,
often
representing
the
connection
between
human
beings and their gods.
In Greek mythology it was associated with Iris,
the goddess who brought messages from the
gods on Mount Olympus. In Scandinavian
mythology the rainbow was a bridge between the
gods and the earth. In
the Bible a
rainbow showed Noah that the Biblical flood was
finally over, and that God had forgiven his
people. In
the Chinese tradition, the
rainbow is a common symbol for marriage because
the colours represent the union of yin
and yang. Nowadays the rainbow is used
by many popular movements for peace and the
environment, representing
the
possibility of a better world in the future and
promising sunshine after rain.
Mistletoe
(6)
This
plant
was
sacred
in
many
cultures,
generally
representing
peace
and
love.
Most
people
know
of
the
tradition of kissing
under the mistletoe at Christmas time, which
probably comes from Scandinavian mythology. The
goddess
Freya
’
s
son
was
killed
by
an
arrow
made
of
mistletoe,
so,
in
honour
of
him,
she
declared
that
it
would
always
be a symbol of peace. It was often hung in
doorways as a sign of friendship.
(7)
The
ancient
Druids
believed
that
hanging
mistletoe
in
your
doorway
could
protect
you
from
evil
spirits.
Tribes would stop
fighting for a period of time if they found a tree
with mistletoe. But you will never see mistletoe
in
a Christian church - it is banned
because of its associations with pagan religion
and superstition.
The olive branch
(8)
The olive
tree has always been a valuable source of food and
oil. In Greek mythology, the goddess Athena
gave
the
olive
tree
to
the
people
of Athens,
who
showed
their
gratitude
by
naming
the
city
after
her.
But
no one
knows for sure when
or why it began to symbolize peace. There is
probably a connection with ancient Greece. Wars
between states were suspended during
the Olympics Games, and the winners were given
crowns of olive branches.
The symbolism
may come from the fact that the olive tree takes a
long time to produce fruit, so olives could only
be
cultivated successfully
in long periods of peace. Whatever the
history,
the olive branch is a part of
many
modern
flags
symbolizing peace and unity. One well-known
example is the United Nations symbol.
The ankh
(9)
The ankh is an ancient symbol which was
adopted by the hippie movement in the 1960s to
represent peace
and love. It was found
in many Asian cultures, but is generally
associated with ancient Egypt. It represented life
and
immortality. Egyptians were buried
with an ankh, so that they could continue to live
in the
“
afterworld
”
. The symbol
was also
found along the sides of the Nile, which gave life
to the people. They believed that the ankh could
control
the flow of the river and make
sure that there was always enough water.
44.
Which of the following is the best
title for the passage?
A. Concept of
Peace.
B. Origin of Peace Symbols.
C. Popular Peace Symbols.
D.
Cultural Difference of Peace.
45.
The rainbow
represents the connection between human beings and
their gods in all the
following countries EXCEPT __________.
A. Sweden
B. Greece
C. Finland
D. China
46.
In North Europe mistletoe was often
hung in doorways to indicate __________.
A. friendship
B. love
C. kinship
D. honour
47.
The origin of the ankh can date back to
__________.
A. the Nile
B.
the
“
afterword
”
C. the hippie movement
D. ancient Egypt
PASSAGE THREE
(1)
Two
sides
almost
never
change:
That
you
can
manipulate
people
into
self-sufficiency
and
that
you
can
punish them into good
citizenship.
(2)
The first manifests itself in our
tireless search for the magical level at which
welfare grants are big enough to
meet
basic
needs
but
small
enough
to
make
low-paid
work
attractive.
The
second
has
us
looking
to
the
criminal
justice system to cure behavior that is
as much as anything the result of despair.
(3)
The welfare
example is well known. We
don
’
t want poor people to
live in squalor or their children to be
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