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TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2019)

-GRADE EIGHT-

TIME LIMIT: 150 MIN

PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION

(25 MIN]

SECTION A MINI-LECTURE

In this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the mini- lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening to the

mini-lecture, please complete the gap- filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE 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 mini-lecture. When it is over, you will be given THREE minutes to check your work.

SECTION B INTERVIEW

In this section you will hear TWO interviews. At the end of each interview, five questions will be asked about what

was

said. Both the interviews 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 ANSWERSHEET TWO.

You have THIRTY seconds to preview the choices.

Now, listen to the first interview. Questions 1 to 5 are based on the first interview.

1. A. Environmental issues.

ered species.

warming.

vation.

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2. A. It is thoroughly proved.

B. it is definitely very serious.

C. It is just a temporary variation.

D. It is changing our ways of living.

3. A. Protection of endangered animals* habitats.

B. Negative human impact on the environment.

C. Frequent abnormal phenomena on the earth.

D.

The woman’s indifferent attitude to the

earth.

4. A. Nature should take its course.

B. People take things for granted.

C. Humans are damaging the earth.

D. Animals should stay away from zoos.

5. A. Objective.

B. Pessimistic.

C. Skeptical.

D. Subjective.

Now, listen to the second interview. Questions 6 to 10 are based on the second interview.

6.

A. Teachers’ resistance to

change.

B.

Students’ inadequate ability to

read.

C.

Teachers’ misunderstanding of such

literacy.

D.

Students ’ indifference to the new

method.

7.A. Abilities to complete challenging tasks.

B.

Abilities to learn subject matter knowledge.

C.

Abilities to perform better in schoolwork.

D.

Abilities to perform disciplinary work.

8.A. Recalling specific information.

B. Understanding particular details.

C. Examining sources of information.

D. Retelling a historical event.

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9. A. Engaging literacy and disciplinary experts in the program.

B. Helping teachers understand what disciplinary literacy is.

C. Teaching disciplinary discourse practices by literacy teachers.

D. Designing learning strategies with experts from both sides.

10. A. To argue for a case.

B. To discuss a dispute.

C. To explain a problem.

D. To present details.

PART II READING COMPREHENSION

[45 MIN]

SECTION A MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

In this section there are three passages followed by fourteen 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 and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO.

PASSAGE ONE

(1)When it came to concealing his troubles, Tommy Wilhelm was not less capable than die next

fellow. So at least he thought, and there was a certain amount of

evidence

to back him up. He had once

been an actor^ no, not quite, an extra

—

and he knew what acting should be. Also, he was smoking a cigar,

and when a man is smoking a cigar, wearing a hat, he has an advantage; it is harder to find out how he

feels. He came from the twenty-third floor down to the lobby on the mezzanine to collect his mail before

breakfast, and he believed^ he hoped

—

that he looked passably well: doing all right. It was a matter of

sheer hope, because there was not much that he could add to his present effort. On the fourteenth floor he

looked for his father to enter the elevator; they often met at this hour, on the way to breakfast. If he

worried

about

his

appearance

it

was

mainly

for

his

old

father’s

sake.

But

there

was

no

stop

on

the

fourteenth, and the elevator sank and sank. Then the smooth door opened and the great dark-red uneven

carpet that covered the lobby billowed toward Wilhelm’s feet. In the foreground

the lobby was dark,

sleepy. French drapes like sails kept out the sun, but three high, narrow windows were open, and in the

blue air Wilhelm saw a pigeon about to light on the great chain that supported the marquee of the movie

house directly underneath the lobby. For one moment he heard the wings beating strongly.

(2)Most of the guests at the Hotel Gloriana were past the age of retirement. Along Broadway in the

Seventies, Eighties, and Nineties, a great part of New York’s vast population of old men and women

lives. Unless the weather is too cold or wet they fill the benches about the tiny railed parks and along the

subway gratings from Verdi Square to Columbia University, they crowd the shops and cafeterias, the

dime stores, the tearooms, the bakeries, the beauty parlors, the reading rooms and club rooms. Among

these old people at the Gloriana, Wilhelm felt out of

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place. He was comparatively young, in his middle forties, large and blond, with big shoulders; his

back

was

heavy

and

strong,

if

already

a

little

stooped

or

thickened.

After

breakfast

the

old

guests

sat

down on the green leather armchairs and sofas in the lobby and began to gossip and look into

they had nothing to do but wait out the day. But Wilhelm was used to an active life and liked to go out

energetically in the morning. And for

several

months,

because

he

had

no

position,

he

had

kept

up

his

morale by rising early; he was shaved and in the lobby by eight o'clock. He bought the paper and some

cigars and drank a Coca- Cola or two before he went in to

breakfast with his father. After breakfast

一

out, out, out to attend to business. The getting out had in

itself

become the chief business. But he had realized that he could not keep this up much longer, and today

he was afraid. He was aware that his routine was about to break up and he sensed that a huge trouble long

presaged (

预感

)but till now formless was due. Before evening, he'd know.

(3)Nevertheless he followed his daily course and crossed the lobby.

(4)Rubin, the man at the newsstand, had poor eyes. They may not have been actually weak but they

were

poor

in expression, with

lacy lids that

furled down

at the

comers.

He

dressed well. It didn't seem

necessary

一

he was behind the counter most of the time

—

but he dressed very well. He had on a rich

brown suit; the cuffs embarrassed the hairs on his small hands. He wore a Countess Mara painted necktie. As

Wilhelm approached, Rubin did not see him; he was looking out dreamily at the Hotel Ansonia, which was

visible from his comer, several blocks away. The Ansonia, the neighborhood^ great landmark, was built by

Stanford White. It looks like a baroque palace from Prague or Munich enlarged a hundred times, with towers,

domes, huge

swells

and

bubbles

of metal gone

green from exposure, iron fretwork and

festoons.

Black

television antennae are densely planted on its round summits. Under the changes of weather it may look like

marble or like sea water, black as slate in the fog, white as tufa in sunlight. This morning it looked like the

image of itself reflected in deep water, white and cumulous above, with cavernous distortions underneath.

Together, the two men gazed at it.

(5)Then Rubin .said

，

“Your dad is in to breakfast already, the old

gentleman.”

“Oh

，

yes? Ahead of me today?”

‘nat’s a real knocked

-out shirt you got on

，

’’ said Rubin. “Where’s it from

，

Saks?”

“No, it’s a Jack Fagman —

Chicago.”

(6)Even when his spirits were low, Wilhelm could still wrinkle his forehead in a pleasing way. Some of

the slow

，

silent movements of his face were very attractive. He went back a step, as if to stand away from

himself and get a better look at his shirt. His glance was comic, a comment upon his untidiness. He liked to

wear good clothes, but once he had put it on each article appeared to go its own way. Wilhelm, laughing

，

panted a little; his teeth were small; his cheeks when he laughed and puffed grew round, and he looked much

younger than his years. In the old days when he was a college freshman and wore a beanie (

无檐小帽）

on

his large blonde head his father used to say that

，

big as he was

，

he could charm a bird out of a tree. Wilhelm

had great charm still.

(7)

“I

like this dove-gray

color,”

he said in his sociable

，

good- natured way.

“It

isn’t

washable. You

have to send it to the cleaner. It never smells as good as washed. But it

，

s a nice shirt. It cost sixteen, eighteen

bucks.*'

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m

hoped he looked all right on his way to the lobby because he wanted to _

A.

leave a good impression

B.

give his father a surprise

C.

show his acting potential

D.

disguise his low spirit

m had something in common with the old guests in that

they all

.

A.

lived a luxurious life

B.

liked to swap gossips

C.

idled their time away

D.

liked to get up early

did Wilhelm feel when he was crossing the lobby (Para. 2)?

A.

He felt something ominous was coming.

B.

He was worried that his father was late.

C.

He was feeling at ease among the old.

D.

He was excited about a possible job offer.

14.

Which part of Rubin’s clothes made him look particularly awkward (Para.

4)?

A.

The necktie.

B.

The cuffs.

C.

The suit.

D.

The shirt.

15.

What can we learn from the author’s description of Wilhelm’s

clothes?

A.

His shirt made him look better.

B.

C.

D.

.

He cared much about his clothes.

He looked like a comedian in his shirt.

The clothes he wore never quite matched.

PASSAGE TWO

(1)By the 1840s New York was the leading commercial city of the United States. It had long since

outpaced

Philadelphia

as

the

largest

city

in

the

country,

and

even

though

Boston

continued

to

be

venerated as the cultural capital of the nation, its image had become somewhat languid; it had not kept up

with the implications of the newly industrialized economy, of a diversified ethnic population, or of the

rapidly rising middle class. New York was the place where the “new” America was coming into being, so

it is hardly surprising that the modem newspaper had its birth there.

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(2)The penny paper had found its first success in New York. By the mid-1830s Ben Day s

Sun

was

drawing readers from all walks of life. On the other hand, the

Sun

was a scanty sheet providing little more

than minor diversions; few today would call it a newspaper at all. Day himself was an editor of limited

vision, and he did not possess the ability or the imagination to climb the slopes to loftier heights. If real

newspapers were to emerge from the public's demand for more and better coverage, it would have to come

from

a

youthful

generation

of

editors

for

whom

journalism

was

a

totally

absorbing profession, an exacting

vocational ideal rather than a mere offshoot of job printing.

(3)By the 1840s two giants burst into the field, editors who would revolutionize journalism, would

bring the newspaper into the modem age, and show how it could be influential in the national life. These two

giants, neither of whom has been treated kindly by history, were James Gordon Bennett and Horace Greeley.

Bennett founded his New York

Herald

in 1835, less than two years after the appearance of the

Sun.

Horace

Greeley founded his

Tribune

in 1841. Bennett and Greeley were the most innovative editors in New York

until after the

Civil War. Their newspapers

were the leading American papers of the day, although for

completely different reasons. The two men despised each other, although not in the ways that newspaper

editors had despised one another a few years before. Neither was a political hack bonded to a political party.

Greeley fancied himself a public intellectual. He had strong political views, and he wanted to run for office

himself,

but

party

factotum

he

could

never be; he

bristled

with ideals

and

causes

of

his

own

devising.

Officially he was a Whig (and later a Republican),

but he seldom gave comfort to his chosen party.

Bennett, on

the

other

hand,

had

long

since

cut

his

political ties, and

although

his

paper

covered

local

and

national

politics fully and he went after politicians with hammer and tongs, Bennett was a cynic, a distruster of all

settled values. He did not regard himself as an intellectual, although in fact he was better educated than

Greeley. He thought himself only a hard-boiled newspaperman. Greeley was interested in ideas and in what

was happening to the country. Bennett was only interested in his newspaper. He wanted to find out what the

news was, what people wanted to read. And when he found out he gave it to them.

(4)As different as Bennett and Greeley were from each other they were also curiously alike. Both stood

outside the circle of polite society, even when they became prosperous, and in Bennett’s case, wealthy. Both

were incurable eccentrics. Neither was a gentleman. Neither conjured up the picture of a successful editor.

Greeley was unkempt, always looking like an unmade bed. Even when he was nationally famous in the

1850s he resembled a clerk in a third-rate brokerage house, with slips of paper

—

marked-up proofs perhaps

—

hanging out of his pockets or stuck in his hat. He became fat, was always nearsighted, always peering

over spectacles. He spoke in a high- pitched whine Not a few people suggested that he looked exactly like

the illustrations of Charles Dickens’s Mr. Pickwick. Greeley provided a humorous description of himself,

written under the pretense that it had been the work of his long-time adversary James Fenimore Cooper. The

editor was, according to the description, a half-bald, long- legged,

slouching individual “so rocking

in gait

that he walks down both sides of

the street at once.”

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(5)The appearance of Bennett was somewhat different but hardly more reassuring. A shrewd,

wiry Scotsman, who seemed to repel intimacy, Bennett looked around at the world with a squinty

glare

of

suspicion.

His

eyes

did

not

focus

right.

They

seemed

to

fix

themselves

on

nothing

and

everything at the same time. He was as solitary as an oyster, the classic loner. He seldom made close

friendships and few people trusted him, although nobody who had dealings with him, however brief,

doubted

his

abilities.

He,

too,

could

have

come

out of

a

book

of

Dickensian

eccentrics, although

perhaps

Ebenezer

Scrooge

or

Thomas

Gradgrind

comes

to

mind

rather

than

the

kindly

old

Mr.

Pickwick. Greeley was laughed at but admired; Bennett was seldom laughed at but never admired; on

the other hand, he had a hard professional competence and an encyclopedic knowledge of his adopted

country, an in-depth learning uncorrupted by vague idealisms. All of this perfectly suited him for the

journalism of this confusing age.

(6)Both Greeley and Bennett had served long, humiliating and disappointing apprenticeships in

the newspaper business. They took a long time getting to the top, the only reward for the long years of

waiting being that when they had their own newspapers, both knew what they wanted and firmly set

about getting it. When Greeley founded the

Tribune

in 1841 he had the strong support of the Whig

party and had already had a short period of modest success as an editor. Bennett, older by sixteen years,

found solid commercial success first, but he had no one behind him except himself when he started up

the

Herald

in 1835 in a dingy cellar room at 20 Wall Street. Fortunately this turned out to be quite

enough.

16.

Which of the following is NOT the author’s opinion on Ben Day and

his

Sun

(Para. 2)7

A.

B.

C.

D.

Sun

had once been a popular newspaper.

Sun

failed to be a high- quality newspaper.

Ben Day lacked innovation and imagination.

Ben Day had striven for better coverage.

of the following statements is CORRECT about

Greeley’s

or

Bennett’s

political

stance (Para. 3)7

A.

B.

C.

D.

Greeley and Bennett were both strong supporters of their party.

Greeley, as a Whig member, believed in his party’s

ideals.

Bennett, as an independent, loathed established values.

Greeley and Bennett possessed different political values.

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18.

Which of the following figures of speech was used to describe Greeley’s manner of walking (Para.

4)?

A.

B.

C.

D.

Exaggeration.

Paradox.

Analogy.

Personification.

Para. 5 Bennett was depicted as a man who

A.

B.

C.

D.

had stronger capabilities than Greeley

possessed a great aptitude for journalism

was in pursuit of idealism in journalism

was knowledgeable about his home country

was Greeley different from Bennett according to Para. 6?

A.

B.

C.

D.

He had achieved business success first.

He started his career earlier than Bennett.

He got initial support from a political party.

He had a more humiliating apprenticeship.

PASSAGE THREE

(1)Why make a film about Ned Kelly? More ingenious crimes than those committed by the reckless

Australian bandit are reported every day. What is there in Ned Kelly to justify dragging the mesmeric Mick

Jagger so far into the Australian bush and away from his natural haunts? The answer is that the film makers

know we always fall for a bandit, and Jagger is set to do for

bold

Ned Kelly what Brando once did for the

arrogant Emiliano Zapata.

(2) A bandit inhabits a special realm of

legend

where his deeds are embroidered by others; where his

death rather than his life is considered beyond belief; where the men who bring him to

“justice”

are afflicted

with doubts about their role.

(3)The bandits had a role to play as definite as that of the authorities who condemned them. These were

men in conflict with authority, and, in the absence of strong law or the idea of loyal opposition, they took to the

hills. Even there, however, many of them obeyed certain unwritten rules

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(4)These robbers, who

claimed

to be something more than mere thieves, had in common, firstly, a sense

of

loyalty

and

identity with the peasants they came from. They didn't steal the peasant’s harvest; they did

steal the lord’s.

(5)And certain characteristics seem to apply to “social bandits’’ whether they were in Sicily or Peru.

They were generally young men under the age of marriage, predictably the best age for dissidence. Some

were

simply

the

surplus

male

population

who

had

to

look

for

another

source

of

income;

others

were

runaway

serfs

or ex-soldiers;

a

minority,

though

the most

interesting,

were

outstanding

men

who

were

unwilling to accept the meek and passive role of peasant.

(6)They usually operated in bands between ten and twenty strong and relied for survival on difficult

terrain and bad transport. And bandits prospered best where authority was merely local

—

over the next

hill

and

they

were

free.

Unlike

the

general

run

of

peasantry

they

had

a

taste

for

flamboyant

dress

and

gesture; but they usually shared the peasants’ religious beliefs and superstition

s.

(7)The first sign of a man caught up in the Robin Hood syndrome was when he started out, forced

into outlawry as a victim of injustice; and when he then set out to “right wrongs”, first his own and then

other people’s. The classic bandit then “takes from the rich and gives to the poor” in

conformity

with his

own sense of social injustice; he never kills except in self-defense or justifiable revenge; he stays within

his community and even returns to it if he can to take up an honorable place; his people admire and help to

protect him; he dies through the treason of one of them; he behaves as if invisible and invulnerable; he is a

“loyalist”, never the enemy of the king but only of the local oppressors.

(8)None of die bandits lived up fully to this image of

the “noble robber” and for many the claim of

larger motives was often a delusion.

(9)Yet

amazingly

, many of these violent men did behave at least half the time in accordance with this

idealist

pattern.

Pancho

Villa

in

Mexico

and

Salvatore

Giuliano

in

Italy

began

their

careers

harshly

victimized

. Many of their charitable acts later became legends.

(10)Far from being defeated in death, bandits’ reputation for invincibility was often strengthened by

the manner of their dying. The “dirty little coward” who sho

t Jesse James in the back is in every ballad

about him, and the implication is that nothing else could have brought Jesse down. Even when the police

claimed the credit, as they tried to do at first with Giuliano’s death, the local people refused to believe

it.

And not just the bandit’s vitality prompts the people to refuse to believe that their hero has died; his death

would be in some way the death of

hope

.

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