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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
malnourished.
But
we
also
don
’
t
want
to
subsidize
the
indolence
of
people
who
are
too
lazy
to
work.
The
first
impulse leads us to provide housing,
food stamps, medical care and a cash stipend for
families in need. The second
gets us to
think about
“
workforce
”
.
(4)
We
’
ve
been
thinking
about
it
for
two
reasons:
the
“
nanny
”
problems
of
two
high-ranking
government
officials
(who
hired
undocumented
foreigners
as
household
helpers,
presumably
because
they
couldn
’
t
find
Americans to do the
work) and President
Clinton
’
s proposal to put a
two-year limit on welfare.
(5)
Maybe
something useful will come of
Clinton
’
s idea, but
I
’
m not all that hopeful. It
looks to me like one
more example of
trying to manipulate people into taking care of
themselves.
(6)
On
the
criminal
justice
side,
we
hope
to
make
punishment
tough
enough
to
discourage
crime
but
not
so
tough as to clog our prisons with
relatively minor offenders. Too short a sentence,
we fear, will create contempt for
the
law. Too long a sentence will take up costly space
better used for the violent and unremorseful.
(7)
Not only can
we never find the
“
perfect
”
punishment, our search for
optimum penalties is complicated by
our
desire for fairness: to let the punishment fit the
crime. The problem is that almost any punishment
--- even the
disgrace of being charged
with a crime --- is sufficient to deter the middle
class, while for members of the underclass,
probation may be translated as
“
I beat
it
”
.
(8)
So
how
can
you
use
the
system
---
welfare
or
criminal
justice
---
to
produce
the behavior
we
want? The
answer, I suspect
is: You can
’
t.
(9)
We keep
trying to use welfare and prison to
change
people --- to make
them think and behave the way we do
---
when the truth is the incentives work only for
those who already think the way we do: who view
today
’
s action
with an eye on the future.
(10)
We will take
lowly work (if that is all
that
’
s available) because we
believe we can make bad jobs work for
us. We avoid crime not because we are
better people but because we see getting caught as
a future-wrecking disaster.
We are
guided by a belief that good things will happen
for us in the future if we take proper care of the
present. Even
under the worst of
circumstances, we believe we are in control of our
lives.
(11)
And
we have trouble understanding that not everybody
believes as we believe. The welfare rolls, the
prison
and the mean street of our
cities are full of people who have given up on
their future. Without hope for the future,
hard
work
at
a
low-paid
job
makes
no
sense.
Working
hard
in
school,
or
pleasing
a
boss,
or
avoiding
pregnancy
makes no sense.
The deadly disease is hopelessness. The
lawlessness and poverty are only the obvious
symptoms.
(12)
I
’
m not
advocating that we stop looking for incentives to
move poor people toward self-sufficiency or that
we stop punishing people for criminal
behavior. There will always be some people who
need help and some who
deserve to be in
jail.