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Test Paper for Comprehensive English Course
(Book 1)
Time limit
120mins
Class
Student No.
Name
Mark
Ⅰ
.Compound
dictation(10’=1’
Χ
10)
In
this
part
you
will
hear
a
passage
once,
you
are
required
to
fill
in
the
blanks
with
the
exact
words
you have just heard.
From childhood to
old age, we all use language as a means of
broadening our knowledge
of
ourselves
and
the
world
about
us.
When
humans
first
1
,
they
were
like
newborn
children,
unable
to
use
this
2
tool.
Yet
once
language
developed,
the
possibilities
for
human kind’s future
3
and cultural growth increased.
Many linguists believe that evolution
is 4
for our ability to
produce and use language.
They
5
that
our
highly
evolved
brain
provides
us
6
an
innate
language
ability
not
found
in lower
7
. Proponents of this innateness theory
say that our
8
for language is
inborn, but
that language itself develops gradually,
9 a function of the growth
of the brain
during childhood.
Therefore there are critical
10
times for
language development.
Ⅱ
.Grammar and structure.(15’
=1’
Χ
15
)
For
each
sentence
there
are
four
choices
marked
A,
B,
C
and
D.
Choose
the
one
that
best
completes the sentence.
1.
My
pain
_______
apparent
the
moment
I
walked
into
the
room,
for
the
first
man
I
met
asked sympathetically
:‖ Are
you feeling all right?‖
A.
must be
B.
had been
C. must have been
D. had to be
2.
Above
the
trees
are
the
hills,
____
magnificence
the
river
faithfully
reflects
on
the
surface.
?
A. where
B. of whose
C. whose
D. which
3. Do
you think it possible to have the work ____ within
3 days.
A. to do
B. done
C. to be done
D. being done
4. She would have been more agreeable
if she had changed a little bit, ____?
A. hadn’t she
B. hasn’t she
C.
wouldn’t she
D. didn’t she ?
5. Without electronic computers, much
of today’s advanced technology________.
A. will not have been achieved
B. have not been achieved
C. would not have been achieved
D. had not been
achieved
6. We started
burning some leaves in our yard, but the fire got
____and we had to call the fire
brigade
to put it out.
?
A. out of hand
B. out of order
C. out of place
D.
out of way
?
7.
Astronauts are ____ all kinds of tests before they
are actually sent up in a
spacecraft.
?
A.
inclined to
B. subjected to
C. prone to
D. bound to
?
8. The policeman ____ noted something
different about the fellow’s accent.?
A. undoubted
B. doubtless
C.
doubtful
D.
undoubting
?
9. In
his unhappiness he had come even to question his
____.
A. diversity
B. entity
C. prosperity
D.
minority
?
you
must have seen from my work, I’m perfectly ____of
him.?
A. indignant
B.
independent
C.
influential
D.
innocent
?
11. The
newly-elected President says the election was
____compliance with the
law.
?
A. spacious
B. sophisticated
C.
substantial
D.
steady
?
12. You
can’t be ____careful in making the decision as it
was such a critical case.
A.
very
B. quite
C. too
D. so
?
13. I don’t know if the story is true,
but I’ll try to
_
___it.
?
A. conform
B. identify
C.
fortify
D. verify
?
14. Every
society has its own peculiar customs and ____of
acting.
?
A. ways
B.
attitude
C. behavior
D. means
?
15.
When
Robert
discovered
that
the
company
was
engaged
in
dishonest
business,
he
immediately____ all
connections with it.
?
A. offset
B.
separated
C.
severed
D.
vanquished
?
Ⅲ
.Paraphrase(10=2’
Χ
5
)
In this part,
there are 5 sentences. Please explain them in
English in your own words.
1.
Human
being
for
the
most
part
live
wholly
on
the
surface
or
far
beyond
the
present
moment and that part
of the future which is quickly to follow
it.
2.
But it is the real bottom line in every
area of society.
3.
I want smiles
through tears, bittersweet moments of reminiscence
and the chance to offer
some last bits
of wisdom.
4.
People who lace genuine core values
rely on external factors.
5.
I think of
good manners as a sort of hidden beauty
secret.
Ⅳ
.Translation(20’=2’
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2
)
Section
A:
In
this
section
there
are
5
Chinese
sentences.
Please
translate
each
sentence
into
English.
1.
这座山峰高耸于群山之上，从山峰上可以看到一片美丽的景色。
2.
我们偶然想出来的那个计划也许不合逻辑，但它却行之有效。
3.
演员必须清晰地发音吐字，否则，观众听不清楚，不知所云。
4.
外贸部长与几个非洲国家就技术和贸易协定进行了谈判。
5.
大会主席宣布选举结果后，全场
沸腾起来，顿时成了欢乐的海洋。
Section
B:
In
this
section
there
are
2
English
paragraphs.
Please
translate
the
underlined
part
into Chinese.
6.
Coeducation is
the most desirable form education. It is an
integrated community where
students are
instructed without distinction of sex. They are
given the opportunity to know
each
other and compete with each other. Girls can ask
questions, protest and challenge
teachers.
Boys
can
be
seen
sitting
quietly,
listening
to
female
speakers.
With
the
full
spectrum
of
experience
offered,
life
is
an
open
possibility
for
man
as
well
as
woman.
Everyone is anxious to let their minds
flower into full blossom.
7.
For
prose
is
the
achievement
of
civilization,
of
people
who
have
learned
to
discuss
without blows or
invective(
抨击
), who know that
truth is hard to find and worth finding,
who do not begin by accusing an
opponent of wickedness, but elicit reason and
patience
by displaying them. You cannot
say in poetry what
the best prose says,
or accomplish
what
the
best
prose
accomplishes.
Civilization
may
not
surpass
a
primitive
society
in
heights of rapture or heroism, but it
is, if it be civilization, better for everyday
life, kinder,
more rational, more
sustained in effort; and this kindness and reason
and sustained effort
are expressed and
encouraged in the masterpieces of prose.
Ⅴ
.Cloze(10=1’
Χ
10
)
There are 10 blanks in the following
passage. For each blank there are 4 choices A, B,
C and D.
Choose the one that best fits
into the passage.
A language is a
signaling system which operates with symbolic
vocal sounds, and which is
used by a
group of people for the purpose of communication.
Let’s look at this
1 in more detail because it
is language, more than anything else, that
distinguishes man from the rest of the
2
world.
Other
animals,
it
is
true,
communicate
with
one
other
by
means
of
cries:
for
example,
many
birds
utter
3
calls
at
the
approach
of
danger;
monkeys
utter
4
cries,
such
as
expressions of anger, fear and
pleasure.
5
these various means of
communication differ
in
important
ways
in
human
language.
For
instance,
an
imals’
cries
do
not
6
thoughts
and
feelings
clearly.
This
means,
basically,
that
they
lack
structure.
They
lack
the
kind
of
structure that
7
us to divide a human
utterance into words.
We can change an
utterance by
8
one word in it with
another: a good illustration of
this is
a soldier who can say, e.g., ―tanks approaching
from the west‖; but a bird has a single
alarm cry, which means
―danger!‖
This is why the
number of
9
that an animal can make is very
limited: the great tit is a
case
in
point;
it
has
about
twenty
different
calls,
10
in
human
language
the
number
of
possible utterances is limitless. It
also explains why animal cries are very general in
meaning.
1.
A.
classification
B.
definition
C. function
D. perception
2.
A. that
B. it
C. as
D. what
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
A. mating
B.
exciting
C. warning
D. boring
A.
identical
B. similar
C. different
D. unfamiliar
A. But
B. Therefore
C. Afterwards
D.
Furthermore
A. infer
B. explain
C. interpret
D.
express
A. encourages
B. enables
C.
enforces
D. ensures
A. replacing
B.
spelling
C.
pronouncing
D. saying
A. signs
B. gestures
C.
signals
D. marks
A. whereas
B.
since
C. anyhow
D. somehow
Ⅵ
.Reading comprehension(20’=
2’
Χ
10
)
In this section there are five passages
followed by 10 questions or unfinished statements,
each with
four
suggested
answer
marked
A,
B,
C
and
D. Choose
the
one
that
you
think
is
the
correct
answer.
Text one
A
century
ago
in
the United
States,
when
an
individual brought
suit
against
a
company,
public
opinion
tended
to
protect
that
company. But
perhaps
this
phenomenon
was
most
striking
in the case of the railroads. Nearly half of all
negligence cases decided through 1896
involved railroads. And the railroads
usually won.
Most of the cases were
decided in state courts, when the railroads had
the climate of the
times
on
their
sides. Government
supported
the
railroad
industry;
the
progress
railroads
represented
was
not
to
be
slowed
down
by
requiring
them
often
to
pay
damages
to
those
unlucky enough to be hurt working for
them.
Court decisions always went
against railroad workers. A Mr. Farwell, an
engineer, lost his
right hand when a
switchman's negligence ran his engine off the
track. The court reasoned that
since
Farwell had taken the job of an engineer
voluntarily at good pay, he had accepted the
risk. Therefore the accident, though
avoidable had the switchmen acted carefully, was a
accident
effect
a
railroad
could
never
be
held
responsible
for
injury
to
one
employee
caused by the
mistake of another.
In one case where a
Pennsylvania Railroad worker had started a fire at
a warehouse and
the
fire
had
spread
several
blocks,
causing
widespread
damage,
a
jury
found
the
company
responsible for all the damage. But the
court overturned the jury's decision because it
argued
that
the
railroad's
negligence
was
the
immediate
cause
of
damage
only
to
the
nearest
buildings. Beyond
them the connection was too remote to consider.
As the century wore on, public
sentiment began to turn against the railroads --
against their
economic
and
political
power
and
high
fares
as
well
as
against
their
callousness
toward
individuals.
1. Which of the
following is NOT true in Farwell's case?
A. Farwell was injured because he
negligently ran his engine off the track.
B. Farwell would not have been injured
if the switchman had been more careful.
C. The court argued that the victim had
accepted the risk since he had willingly taken his
job.
D. The court decided
that the railroad should not be held responsible.
2. What must have happened after the
fire case was settled in court?
A. The
railroad compensated for the damage to the
immediate buildings.
B. The railroad
compensated for all the damage by the fire.
C. The railroad paid nothing for the
damaged building.
D. The railroad
worker paid for the property damage himself.
3. The following aroused public
resentment EXCEPT _____.
A. political
power
B. high fares
C.
economic loss
D. indifference
4. What does the passage mainly
discuss?
A. Railroad oppressing
individuals in the US.
B. History of
the US railroads.
C. Railroad workers'
working rights.
D. Law cases concerning
the railroads.
Text two
Hawaii's
native
minority
is
demanding
a
greater
degree
of
sovereignty
over
its
own
affairs.
But
much
of
the
archipelago's
political
establishment,
which
includes
the
White
Americans who
dominated until the second world war and people of
Japanese, Chinese and
Filipino origins,
is opposed to the idea.
The islands
were annexed by the US in 1898 and since then
Hawaii's native peoples have
fared
worse than any of its other ethnic groups. They
make up over 60 percent of the state's
homeless, suffer higher levels of
unemployment and their life span is five years
less than the
average
Hawaiians. They
are
the
only
major
US
native
group
without
some
degree
of
autonomy.
But
a
sovereignty
advisory
committee
set
up
by
Hawaii's
first
native
governor,
Joahn
Waihee,
has
given
the
natives'
cause
a
major
boost
by
recommending
that
the
Hawaiian
natives decide by themselves whether to
re-establish a sovereign Hawaiian nation.
However,
the Hawaiian
natives
are
not
united
in
their
demands. Some
just
want
greater
autonomy within the state -- as enjoyed
by many American Indian natives over matters such
as education. This is a position
supported by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA),
a state
agency
set
up
in
1978
to
represent
the
natives'
interests
and
which
has
now
become
the
moderate
face
of
the
native
sovereignty
movement. More
ambitious
is
the
Ka
Lahui
group,
which declared itself a new nation in
1987 and wants full, official independence from
the US.
But if Hawaiian natives are
given greater autonomy, it is far from clear how
many people this
will
apply
to. The
state
authorities
only
count
as
native
those
people
with
more
than
50
percent Hawaiian blood.
Native demands are not just based on
political grievances, though. They also want their
claim
on
660,000
hectares
of
Hawaiian
crown
land
to
be
accepted. It
is
on
this
issue
that
native
groups
are
facing
most
opposition from
the
state
authorities. In
1933,
the
state
government paid the OHA US' 136 million
in back rent on the crown land and many officials
say
that
by
accepting
this
payment
the
agency
has
given
up
its
claims
to
legally
own
the
land. The OHA has
vigorously disputed this.
5. Hawaii's native minority
refers to _____.
A. Hawaii's ethnic
groups
B. people of Filipino origin
C. the Ka Lahui group
D.
people with 50% Hawaiian blood
6. Which
of the following is NOT true of John Waihee?
A. He is Hawaii's first native
governor.
B. He has set up a
sovereignty advisory committee.
C. He
suggested the native people decide for themselves.
D. He is leading the local independence
movement.
7. Various native Hawaiians
demand all the following EXCEPT _____.
A. a greater autonomy within the state
B. more back rent on the crown land
C. a claim on the Hawaiian crown land
D. full independence from the US
Text three
The
worldwide consumption of bakery products is
increasing. Many populations that formerly
relied solely on rice or coarser grains
as their main source of carbohydrates show a
preference
for
compounded
bakery
products
as
new
industry
and
increased
incomes
make
them
more
widely
accessible. Japan
is
an
outstanding
example
of
countries
following
this
trend. The
United States has shown a steady
downward trend in per capita consumption of
cereal-based
foods for many years, and
the consumption of sweet bakery foods, such as
cakes or pastry, has
been increasingly
displacing bread consumption.
Probably 95% of
the white bread sold in the United States is
enriched with thiamin, niacin,
riboflavin,
and
iron,
and
about
30%
of
the
50
states
have
laws
requiring
white
bread
enrichment.
Formerly,
calcium and vitamin D were frequently added to
enriched bread, but
lack of consumer
demand and questionable nutritional benefit led to
gradual phasing out of
these
enrichments. India has attempted to encourage
consumption of protein-enriched bread,
with
some
success. Except
for
research
projects,
little
has
been
done
in
other
countries,
however. In areas
where bakery products comprise a large proportion
of the diet, they could
provide an
ideal vehicle for nutritional supplementation.
Then need for better quality protein
in
the
daily
diet
occurs
mostly
in
the
developing
countries,
where
carbohydrate
foods
--
usually
cereals
--
are
the
basic
components
of
the
diet
and
therefore
the
logical
protein
carriers.
8. Japan is used
in this passage to illustrate a fashion in many
countries to _____.
A. enrich bread
B. invest more in food industry
C. increase consumption of bakery foods
D. increase a reliance on rice and
grains
9. According to the passage,
popular cereals could be the best way in
developing countries
to _____.
A. supplement the diet
B.
displace rice consumption
C. increase
reliance on carbohydrates
D. phase out
necessary bread enrichments
10. From
the passage, we learn that there is a worldwide
trend towards _____.
A. enriching the
nutritional value of bread
B.
increasing the consumption of protein
C. using bakery products as a source of
carbohydrates
D. using grains, such as
rice, as a source of carbohydrates
Ⅶ
.Writing (15’)
Write a composition about 200 words on
the following topic:
Honesty
You are to write in three parts.
In the first part, state what your
suggested way(s) is (are).
In the
second part, state one or two advantages of your
suggestion.
In the last part, bring
what you have written to a natural conclusion.
Marks will be awarded for content,
organization grammar and appropriacy. Failure to
follow the
instructions may result in a
loss of marks.
Test Paper for Comprehensive English
Course (Book 2)
Time limit
120mins
Class
Student No.
Name
Mark
Ⅰ
.Compound dictation(10’=1’<
/p>
Χ
10
)
In
this
part
you
will
hear
a
passage
once,
you
are
required
to
fill
in
the
blanks
with
the
exact
words you have just
heard.
FORTUNE
Magazine
1
its
annual
list
of
the
―40
Richest
Americans
under
the
age
of
40‖ recently.
2
the list is Mechael Dell, 39, chairman
and founder of Dell Computer. With a
wealth of US$$17.95 billion, Dell has
held the No.1 spot since the list started in 1999.
Dell’s story
3
like a business fairy tale.
He was a college student with nothing more than
an idea to
4 the way computers were sold. Dell was
born in February 1965,in Texas, US. He
5
the
University
of
Texas.
His
Original
idea
was
to
go
to
medical
school
but
he
decided
to
become the dormitory
millionaire.
His first
business idea was to
take apart an
Apple computer in the bedroom of his parents’
Houston, Texas home. From there, he
went on 6
computers out of his dorm room. He 7
an
innovative
approach
to
doing
business:
sell
computers
8
to
the
consumer
without
going
through retailers. And in the process,
he decided to design and deliver a computer based
on the
consumer’s own
9
.
10 this there was absolutely no idea
about about customizing(changing
the
design for specific desires) a PC. And, in 1984,
he founded the Dell Computer Corporation
with US$$1,000.
Ⅱ
.Grammar and structure.(15’
=1’
Χ
15
)
For each sentence there are four
choices marked A,B,C and D. choose the one that
best completes
the sentence.
1. All things ______, the planned trip
will have to be called off.
A. considered
B. be considered
C. considering
D. having considered
2. Only when you have obtained
sufficient data ______ come to a sound conclusion.
A can you
B.
would you
C.
you will
D.
you can
3.
____,
a
man
who
expresses
himself
effectively
is
sure
to
succeed
more
rapidly
than
a
man
whose
command of language is poor.
A. Other things being equal
B. Were other
things equal
C. To be equal
to other things
D. Other things
to be equal
4. He insisted
on the windows _____ open while he was sleeping.
A. left
B. being left
C. leaving
D. be left
5.
The concerned mother thrilled at the news of his
son _________ to college.
A. had been admitted
B. admitted
C. having been admitted
D. having admitted
6. I have the ____ of
accepting all or part of the
money.
?
A.
orientation
B. option
C. optimum
D. ornament
?
7. There was nothing anywhere in ____.
?
A.
sight
B. glimpse
C. glance
D. seeing
?
8. He’s always
____ about his ability. ?
A.
coaxing
B.
rebuking
C. teasing
D. boasting
9. I am sure her decision will be fair
and just, for she has had a reputation for being
____.
?
A.
impartial
B.
imperative
C. impulsive
D. improper
?
10. You shouldn’t change jobs
constantly, or people will become
s
uspicious of your ability to ____
any job.
?
A. hold
B. sustain
C. engage
D. uphold
?
11. It was so dark outside that he was
just able to ____ the road in the
dark.
?
A. derive
B. discern
C. diminish
D. displace
?
12.
The
basketball
coach
asked
the
players
to
____
with
their
training
after
he
gave
some
instructions.
?
A. proceed
B. precede
C. precept
D.
process
?
13. The
water table fluctuated from season to season and
year
to
year because it
is affected by
climate ____.
A. difference
B. condition
C.
disturbance
?
D. variation
14. Although the false bank-notes
fooled many people, they did not _____ to close
examination.
A.
look up
B. pay up
C.
keep up
D. stand up
15. A hibernating animal needs hardly
any food all through the winter,_______?
A.
need it
B. needn’t it
C. does it
D.
doesn’t it
Ⅲ
.Paraphrase(10’=2’
Χ
5<
/p>
)
In
this
part,
there
are
5
sentences
or
short
paragraphs.
Please
explain
the
underlined
part
in
English
in your own words.
1.
…
a
graduate
relaxation
of
v
igilance
over
what
partners
reveal
to
each
other
about
themselves
2.
My children
have never been less lonely.
3.
As an Internet
search on global warming now attests, the subject
has become as rooted
in out public
consciousness as Madonna or microwave cooking
4.
…my father held up my mother as a model
of feminine behavior
5.
…much of
Europe is getting ready to shut down for
business.
Ⅳ
Translation(20’=2’
Χ
5 +
5
’
Χ
2
)<
/p>
Section
A:
In
this
section
there
are
5
Chinese
sentences.
Please
translate
each
sentence
into
English.
1.
这是我第一次来纽约，但我还是设法找到了那家小公司。
2.
我想那还是有几分正确性的，但情况并不那么简单。
3.
那家公司正出售他们的一些大楼以积攒资金。
4.
尽管警方不相信他的话，他仍然坚持说他说的是实话。
5.
周末期间估计有
50,000
人涌向伦敦观摩英联邦运动会的开幕式。
Section B:
In this section
there are 2 English paragraphs.. Please translate
the underlined part of
each paragraph
into Chinese.
6.
Most Americans blindly accept the idea
that newer is automatically better. Be a human
life contradicts this premise. There is
a great deal of happiness to be found as we grow
older.
My own parents, now in their
sixties, recently told me
that they are
happier now than they
ever
been.
They
would
not want
to
be
my
age.
Did
this
surprise
me?
At
first,
yes.
Then
it
gladdened
me. Their contentment holds out great promise for
me as I move into the next
–
perhaps even better
–
phrase of my life.
7.
But men seem
to have overlooked one great value in their fans:
therapy. Nothing is more
refreshing to
tired men , women and children than a breeze
across the face. Men discover this
when
they turn their faces to a breeze on a hilltop, a
cooling wind across a desert on a hot day,
or a rush of salty air across a ship’s
rolling deck. A breeze has power to ―blow the
cobwebs
away‖ , but it does
more
than that. It brings new heart,
new vigor, new courage. So, in a small
but important way, mankind’s fans have
helped him for thousands of years.
Ⅴ
.Cloze(10’=1’
Χ
10
)
There are 10 blanks in the following
passage. For each blank there are 4 choices A,B,C
and D.
Choose the one that best fits
into the passage.
Proper street
behavior in the United States requires a nice
balance of attention and inattention.
You are supposed to look at a
1
just enough to show that you’re
2
of his presence. If
you look too little, you appear haughty
or furtive, too much
3
you’re inquisitive. Usually
what happens is that people
4
each other until they are about eight
feet
5
, at which
point
both
cast
down
their
eyes.
Sociologist
Erving
Goffman
6
this
as
―a
kind
of
dimming
of lights.‖
Much of eye
behavior is so
7
that we react to it only on the
intuitive level. The next time
you have
a
8
with someone who makes you
feel liked, notice what he does with his eyes.
9
are he looks at you more often than is
usual with
10
a little longer than the
normal.
You interpret this as a
sign
—
a polite
one
—
that he is interested in
you as a person rather than
just
in
the
topic
of
conversation.
Probably
you
also
feel
that
he
is
both
self
confident
and
sincere.
1. A. friend
B. foreigner
C. passerby
D.
stranger
2. A. aware
B. curious
C.
ignorant
D. upset
3. A. so
B. or
C. and
D. but
4. A. peep
B. stare
C. gaze
D. eye
5. A. aside
B.
apart
C. away
D. adjacent
6. A.
demonstrates
B. describes
C. deduces
D. designates
7. A. vague
B. obscure
C. subtle
D.
uncertain
8. A. discussion
B. communication
C. greeting
D.
conversation
9. A. Chances
B. Possibilities
C. Opportunities
D. Expectations
10. A
.glances
B. touches
C. talks
D. sights
Ⅵ
.Reading comprehension(20’=
2’
Χ
10
)
In this section there are five passages
followed by 10 questions or unfinished statements,
each with
four
suggested
answer
marked
A,
B,
C
and
D. Choose
the
one
that
you
think
is
the
correct
answer.
Text one
The CBI
will this week announce a Think British campaign
aimed at cutting imports and
stimulating home industries. The man
behind the move is Sir Derek Ezra, chairman of the
National Coal Board, who has persuaded
the CBI's council that firms can buy British
supplies
without paying more for their
patriotism.
The target of a conference
the CBI is calling early in the New Year will be
the 50 biggest
manufacturing
companies
in
the
private
sector
and
16
leading
firms
in
distribution
who
together spend ?
35bn a year.
Sir Derek says
a
major
impact
in
stimulating
industrial
competitiveness
and
growth
industries have
already switched up to ?
100m worth of
their buying from foreign suppliers to
British firms in the past year.
In
a
paper
which
went
to
the
CBI
council
last
week,
Sir
Derek
produced
figures
to
demonstrate
how,
by
hunting
out
suppliers
who
were
prepared
to
co-operate
closely
in
developing equipment and
materials at the right quality and price, the
nationalized enterprises
have succeeded
in getting what they want and in boosting
Britain's exports.
The NCB itself,
at the same time as cutting back the import
content of its annual '1,000m
worth
of
purchases
to
2.6%,
has
helped
the
British
mining
equipment
industry
to
raise
its
exports from
?
26m to ?
129m in two years.
The public enterprises together, who spent up to
?
10bn on goods and services
each year, have cut the amount they buy abroad
from 4.3% to
3.4% over the past year.
Sir
Derek
emphasizes
that
this
has
not
been
done
by
sacrificing
profitability.
But,
Debenhams, one of the handful of
retail chains who have been pursing a similar
policy, says
that it has had to accept
the cut in its own margins so far to make it work.
The chain has
replaced
?
25m
worth
of
Italian
shirts
and
socks
by
British
products
during
the
past
nine
months.
1. One of the aims of Think British
campaign is to _____.
A. cut exports
B. stimulate imports
C.
develop new products
D. encourage
domestic industries
2. Which of the
following is true about nationalized industries?
A. They bought ?
100m of
British supplies in the past year.
B.
They bought ?
129m of foreign supplies
in the past year.
C. They bought
?
1,000m of British supplies in the past
year.
D. They bought ?
26m of
foreign supplies in the past year.
3.
The British mining equipment industry is _____.
A. privately owned
B
.
publicly owned
C. jointly owned
D.
internationally owned
4. The word
A. the public sector.
B. the
Think British campaign
C. the British
mining equipment industry
D. reduced
purchases of foreign goods
Text two
When
there
is
a
vacancy
in
a
company,
it
is
the
job
of
the
Personnel
Manager
and
his
department to manage the recruitment of
a new employee. One way an organization can
find
staff
for
job
vacancies
is
to
recruit
in
company. Management
can
inform
people
of
new
appointment by means of
the firm's notice board or news bulletin.
Another possibility is to
ask for
recommendations from departmental managers and
supervisors. If it is necessary to
recruit outside the company, the
personnel department may use commercial and
government
employment
offices
or
consultants. It
may
prefer
to
put
its
own
advertisement
in
a
newspaper or magazine.
It is usual for an advertisement to
give a short description of the job, conditions of
work
and
salary,
and
to
invite
introductory
letters
from
applicants. After
studying
these,
management decides who receives an
application form.
In order to
assess the applications, managers can work from a
personnel specification such
as
Rodger's
Seven-Point
Plan. They
do
not
choose
applicants
who
do
not
have
a
good
profile. For this
reason, it is important that the application form
requests clear information
about
such
things as
the
applicant's
age,
education,
qualifications
and
work
experience. It
must
also
ask
for
references
from
other
employers
or
people
who
know
the
applicant
well. This
information
helps
management
to
make
a
final
decision
on
the
number
of
applicants they can short-list for
interview.
The staff who hold an
interview together are called an interview
that they know what information they
need to get from the applicants. This comes
from a
careful
reading
of
job
descriptions,
personnel
specifications,
and
applications. To help
the
panel in their selection, some
companies use an interview assessment form.
This is used by
the
panel
during
the
interview
when each
applicant
is checked
under
the
same
point
of
the
form.
Many
employers
say
that
the
success
of
a
good
business
begins
in
the
Personnel
Manager's office.
5.
Which
of
the
following
means
it
NOT
mentioned
in
the
passage
when
recruiting
staff
outside the company?
A.
Consultants.
B. Written examinations.
C. Own advertisements.
D.
Government employment offices.
6. What
is Rodger's Seven-Point Plan?
A. A
recruitment advertisement.
B. A
personnel specification.
C. A short
description of the job.
D. A managerial
appointment.
7. According to the
passage, an interview assessment form is used by
the panel to _____.
A. inform people of
new appointments
B. ask for
recommendations from managers
C. study
the applicant's age and education
D.
judge an applicant's performance during interviews
Text three
For
the 1992 Winter Games, French organizers
constructed a new motorway, parking lots
and runs for skiing in the Alps.
Environmentalists screamed
Norwegians
have
adopted
advice
and
avoided
great
blots
on
the
landscape. The
speed-
skating rink was built to look like an overturned
ship, and placed so as not to disturb a
bird
sanctuary. Dug
into
a
mountainside,
the
hockey
arena
is
well
concealed
and
energy
efficient. The
bobsled
run
is
built
out
of
wood
not
metal
and
hidden
among
trees. No
wonder the
president of the International Olympic Committee
has called these the first
Games
Lillehammer's
opening
ceremonies
featured
a
giant
Olympic
Torch
burning
biogas
produced
by
rotting
vegetation.
During
construction,
builders
were
threatened
with
'7,500
fines
for
felling
trees
unnecessarily. Rare
trees
were
carefully
transplanted
from
hillsides. Food
is
being
served
on
potato-based
plates
that
will
be
fed,
in
turn,
to
pigs. Smoking has been
banned outdoors as well as in, with enforcement by
polite requests.
Environmentalists have
declared partial victory, though Coca-Cola's plan
to decorate the
town with banners has
been scaled back, there are still
too
many billboards for strict green
tastes. Perhaps, but after the
Games, athlete housing will be converted into
vacation homes
or
shipped
to
the
northlands
for
student
dormitories. Bullets
will
be
plucked
from
targets
and
recycled
to
keep
the
lead
from
poisoning
ground
water. And
these
tricks
won't
be
forgotten. Embarrassed by
environmental protests, the I.O.C. claims that
green awareness is
not entrenched --
along with sport and culture -- as a permanent
dimension of the Olympic
Charter.
Indeed, Sydney was successful in
becoming host for the 2000 Summer Games in part on
the
strength
of
its
endorsement
from
Greenpeace. Aspiring
host
cities
are
picking
up
the
code. Salt
Lake
City,
bidding
for
the
2002
Games,
may
opt
to
use
the
bobsled
run
that
Calgary
built
for
the
'00
Games. After
that,
who
could
deny
that
recycling
is
an
Olympic
movement?
8. Which
of the following countries has not paid enough
attention to the
A. Norway.
B. France.
C. America.
D. Australia.
9.
Which
of
the
following
describes
the
I.
O.
C's
attitude
towards
the
environmentalists'
protests?
A. Trying to commit themselves.
B. Showing indifference and contempt.
C. Arguing for practical difficulties.
D. Negotiating for gradual changes.
10. The 2002 Games might be held in
___.
A. Oslo
B. Calgary
C. Sydney
D. Salt Lake City
Ⅶ
.Writing(15’)
Write a composition about 200 words on
the following topic:
Why I Choose My
Major?
You are to write in three parts.
In the first part, state what your
suggested way(s) is (are).
In the
second part, state one or two advantages of your
suggestion.
In the last part , bring
what you have written to a natural conclusion.
Marks
will
be
awarded
for
the
content
,
organization
,
grammar
and
appropriacy .
Failure
to
follow the instructions
may result in a loss of marks .
Test Paper for
Comprehensive English Course (Book 3)
Time limit
120mins
Class
Student No.
Name
Mark
I.
Dictation (10’)
Direction:
Listen to the
following passage. Altogether the passage will be
read to you four times.
During
the
first
reading
which
will
be
read
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
read
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.
II. Vocabulary
and structure (15’=1’
╳
15)
Direction:
There
are
15
incomplete
sentences
in
this
part.
For
each
sentence
there
are
four
choices
marked A, B, C, D. Choose the ONE answer that best
completes the sentence. Then write
down
the corresponding letter on your ANSWER SHEET.
1. Emily
D
ickinson’s garden was a place _______
great inspiration for her poems.
A. that she drew
B. by drawing her
C. from which she drew
D. drawn from which
2. The
experiment requires more money than___.
A. have been put in
B. being put in
C. has been put in
D.
to be put in
3.______no real boundary to the part of
the ocean referred to as a
―deep‖
because of changing
wat
er levels and movement in the sea
floor.
A. It is B. To
be C. Being D. There are
4. Nebraska has floods in some years,
_________.
A. in others
drought B. droughts are others C. while
other droughts D. others in drought
5. There were many people
present and he appeared only for a few seconds, so
I only caught a
____ of him.
A glance
B glimpse
C look
D sight
6. I don't think it's wise of you to
_____your greater knowledge in front of the
director, for it may
offend him.
A show up
B show out
C show in
D show off
7. A thorough study of biology requires
_____with the properties of trees and plants, and
the
habit of birds and
beasts.
A acquisition
B
discrimination
C curiosity
D familiarity
8.
She worked hard at her task before she felt sure
that the results would ____ her long effort.
A justify B
testify
C
rectify
D
verify
9. Some journalists often
overstate the situation so that their news may
create a great ____.
A
explosion
B
sensation
C
exaggeration
D
stimulation
10. Please
____yourself from smoking and spitting in public
places, since the law forbids them.
A
restrain
B
hinder
C
restrict
D
prohibit
11. Without
telephone it would be impossible to carry on the
functions of ______ every business
operation in the whole country.
A
practically
B preferably
C
precisely
D
presumably
12.
Preliminary
estimation
puts
the
figure
at
around
billion,
____the
billion
the
President
is
struggling to get through the Congress.
A
in proportion
to
B
in reply to
C
in relation to
D
in contrast to
13. All
the off-shore
oil
explorers
were
in high
spirits
as
they
read
________
letters
from
their
families.
A
sentimental
B
affectionate
C
intimate
D
sensitive
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