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English
Test
for
Primary School
Teachers
December, 2016
2
Hours
150 points
Name _____________
School _____________
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Note: Write all
your answers on the Answer Sheet.
Part I: Listening Test (30
points)
SECTION A
Directions:
In
this
section,
you
will
hear
10
short
conversations.
At
the
end
of
each
conversation,
a
question
will
be
asked
about
what
was
said.
Both
the
conversation
and
the
question
will be spoken only once. After you hear a passage
or a conversation, you must choose
the
best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C,
and D. Please write your answers on the
ANSWER SHEET.
1.
What will the woman do if she fails the
interview?
A. Stay at the
present job.
C. Work with
her father.
2. What can we
learn from the conversation?
A. Linda and Peter are good
friends.
C. Linda and Peter
live in the same house.
3.
What do we know about the city now?
A. It is seriously polluted.
C. There are few cars and
factories.
4. Where is Miss
Green most probably now?
A.
In the bank.
C. In the
hospital.
5. What does the
woman offer to do?
A. To fax
the report.
C. To copy the
report.
6. What does the
woman offer to do?
A. Clean
the bedroom.
B. Pack up for
traveling.
B. To write the report.
D. To email the report.
B.
In the office.
D. In the travel agency.
B. The air is very clear.
D.
It remains what it was ten years ago.
B. Linda and Peter want to work
together.
D. Linda and Peter work in
different offices.
B. Take another work
interview.
D. Start her own company.
C. Water
flowers.
D. Cook the
meal.
7. What does the woman
mean?
A. She doesn’t live
far away.
B. She won’t buy a
car this year.
C. She hasn’t
made up her mind.
D. She
doesn’t like to drive.
8.
What does the man ask the woman to do?
A. Travel on business.
B. Fly to New York.
C.
Prepare some documents.
D.
Have a holiday.
9. What does the woman
say about the banana pie?
A.
There is no more left.
B. It
doesn’t appeal to her.
C.
It’s incredibly
delicious.
D. She has already tasted
it.
10. What does the woman
imply?
A. She is
busy at the moment.
B. She
is Diana’s friend.
C. She has an appointment with
Diana.
D. She wants Diana to
do her hair.
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SECTION B
Directions:
In this section,
you will hear 3 short passages or conversations.
At the end of each
passage
or conversation, you will hear some questions. The
passage or conversation will be read
only once. After you hear a passage or
a conversation, you must choose the best answer
from
the four choices marked A, B, C,
and D. Please write your answers on the ANSWER
SHEET.
Passage
One
Questions 11 to 13 are
based on the passage you have just
heard.
11. When do people
have dreams?
A.
As soon as they fall asleep.
B. When they are in deep
sleep.
C. Right
before they wake up.
D.
After they sleep for about one hour.
12.
How long does
the first dream usually last?
A. Two
minutes.
B. Ten
minutes.
C.
Twenty minutes.
D. Thirty
minutes.
13. When is a
person likely to have more dreams?
A. When one is
troubled with questions.
B.
After one takes sleeping medicine.
C. If one is in a peaceful
state of mind.
D. Before one
falls into sound sleep.
Passage Two
Questions 14 to 16 are based on the
passage you have just heard.
14.
Why do
strange things happen to time when you travel?
A.
The earth is
divided into time zones.
B.
Some countries have days fewer than
twenty-four hours.
C.
Different country has different time
concept.
D.
Some
countries have weeks fewer than seven days.
15.
What can we
conclude about the Atlantic Ocean?
A.
It is in one
time zone.
B.
It
is divided into several time zones.
C.
It cannot be
crossed in a week.
D.
It is divided into twenty-four time
zones.
16.
What
is the International Date Line?
A.
The beginning
of any new time zone.
B.
The point where time changes by one
hour.
C.
The
point where a new day begins.
D.
The point
where a day only has twenty-three hours.
Passage Three
Questions 17 to 20 are based on the
passage you have just heard.
17. In the USA, if one makes a
telephone call late at night, what does this
mean?
A. It’s a long
distance call.
B. The matter
is somewhat important.
C.
It’s a matter of life and death.
D. It doesn’t necessarily
mean anything.
18. When is
suitable for an invitation to a dinner
party?
A. One or two days
before the dinner date.
B. A week before the dinner date.
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C. Three to six days before the dinner
date.
D. More than a week
before the dinner date.
19. If a person
is 5 minutes late, what should he do?
A. He should make a short
apology.
B. He should say a
few words of explanation.
C. He should
say nothing.
D. He should
promise not to be late again.
20. What
does the speaker convey in this
passage?
A. Time
talks.
B. Time should be
valued.
C. Time lost is never
regained.
D. Time is money.
SECTION C
COMPOUND DICTATION
Directions:
In this section
you will hear a passage three times. When the
passage is read for the
first
time,
you
should
listen
carefully
for
its
general
idea.
When
the
passage
is
read
for
the
second time, you are
required to fill in the blanks numbered from 21 to
27 with the exact words
you have just
heard. For blanks numbered from 28 to 30 you are
required to fill in the missing
information. For these blanks, you can
either use the exact words you have just heard or
write
down the main points in your own
words. Finally, when the passage is read for the
third time,
you should check what you
have written. Please write your answers on the
ANSWER SHEET.
In recent years, there have been an
unusually large number of divorces in the United
States.
In the past, when
two people
21
each other, they intended
to stay together for life. While
today, many people marry
22
that they can always get divorced if
the marriage does not
23
the idea of
divorce.
work out. In the
past, a large majority of the Americans
were
24 ,
many people believed that getting a
divorce was a luxury that only the rich
could
25.
Indeed,
getting a divorce is very
more
27
26
. However,
since so many people have begun to take
a
view of marriage, it is
interesting to know that the costs of getting a
divorce are
lower. In fact,
wherever you go in the United States
today,
28
.
Hollywood
has
always been known as the divorce capital of the
world. The divorce rate among movie stars
is
so high that it is
difficult to know who is married to
whom.
Today many movie
stars
30
29
.
Until marriage again becomes the
serious and important part of people’s
lives
.
Part II:
Reading Test (40 points)
Direction:
Read the passages
and answer the following questions. You get 30
minutes for this
part. There
are FOUR passages and 20 questions. Please write
your answers on the ANSWER
SHEET.
Passage
One
Only three years ago
41-year-old Lewis Winfield had a high-powered job
in an investment
bank, earning hundreds
of thousands a year. With two children at top
London schools and a house
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in
the
West
End,
he
and
his
wife
Jackie,
a
top
divorce
lawyer,
led
an
often
hectic
social
life
involving a great deal
of entertaining of clients and trips to the opera
and theatre. But the couple
did
not
live
beyond
their
means
and
from
the
outside
one
would
have
said
that
they
were
extremely
fortunate.
Surprisingly,
perhaps, the background of both Lewis and Jackie
was anything but privileged,
both
having been brought up on rough inner-city council
estates where most children could expect
to
end
up
unemployed.
But
despite
attending
a
dead-end
school,
Lewis
was
lucky
enough
to
encounter a maths teacher who,
recognizing his ability, gave him extra help,
enabling him to get a
scholarship to
Oxford, which set him on the road to
success.
However, even while
making a mint at the bank Lewis felt unable to
forget his background
and his less
fortunate childhood friends, who, most unusually
for someone in his position, he still
saw
from
time
to
time.
Today
he
describes
how
at
the
age
of
41
he
felt
so
haunted
by
life's
unfairness that he felt he could no
longer justify what he described as his
cheque”. Backed by Jackie, his
wife, Lewis applied for a post working
as the financial manager
for a well-
known charity that helped disadvantaged children.
After a series of lengthy interviews,
to
his
astonishment,
Lewis
was
offered
the
job
and
today
he
can
be
found
behind a
desk
in
an
office, which, while not dilapidated,
is nothing like the impressive surroundings he was
used to
working in.
“
I'm paid a fraction of what
I used to get, but it’s the best move I’ve ever
made in my life,”
Lewis
tells
anyone
willing
to
listen.
“Whereas
at
the
bank
I
always
had
the
uneasy
feeling
my
money
was completely undeserved, here I’m certain I’m
doing something worthwhile
--- I know
where every penny the charity brings in
goes, that’s my
job. We get reports on
the families we
help and the work we do
m
akes a real difference in children’s
lives. I feel comfortable with who I
am. It’s a huge relief.”
Asked what his regrets are for the life
he left behind, Lewis admits to missing the
excitement
that working in an
investment bank generates. “There was a definite
buzz around. But that’s it.
Nothing
else.
1.
What kind of life did Lewis and his
wife seem to have three years ago?
A.
A life in
which they spent more money than they had.
B.
A life which
was mostly spent with their family, when not
working.
C.
A
good life but with some problems at work.
D.
A privileged
life.
Why was it rather surprising that
Lewis had such a high-powered job?
A.
Because Lewis
did not do well at school.
B.
Because
although his school was good, Lewis did not do
well there.
C.
Because Lewis did not go to university.
D.
3.
Because Lewis was brought up in an area
where children did not receive a good
education.
Why did Lewis
change his job?
A.
Because he felt he had too much
responsibility.
B.
Because he wanted to help others who
were not as lucky as him.
C.
Because he wanted to help his childhood
friends.
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