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TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2017)

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GRADE FOUR

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TIME LIMIT: 130 MIN

PART I

DICTA

TION

[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 ONL

Y

. 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.

SE

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CTION 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

ONL

Y. 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 D. The files in it can't be opened

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

C. Anxious

D. Dissatisfied

4. A By 8: 30 tomorrow morming

B. After 8: 30 tomorrow morning

C. At 8: 30 this evenin

D. Anytime tomorrow

5.A.65743205 B.6547-2305 C.6457-2035. D.6475302

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.

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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

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

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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

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

mail

each

one

back,

the

next

one

on

the

list

is

sent.

The

Netflix

model

has

been

exhaustively

analyzed

for

its

disruptive,

new-economy

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）

What

will

it

mean

for

video

stores

like

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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

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35

）

of

mail

in

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

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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

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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 ma

y 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,

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they have to unwillingly surrender their gold to you. So whenever it rained, I would look up in the

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.

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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 a

s “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

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