paper one
part i listening comprehension (30 minutes)
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 each question there will be a pause. during the pause, you must read the four choices marked a., b., c. and d., and decide which is the best answer. then mark the corresponding letter on the answer sheet with a single line through the center.
1. a. french b. british c. american d. canadian
2. a. he is going to professor jackson's home.
b. he is going to the movies with the woman.
c. he is going to a class.
d. he is going to the library to write his thesis.
3. a. 7:30 b. 8:30 c. 8:15 d. 8:00
4. a. the man forgot to go to the party last night because he was busy.
b. the woman is upset about the man's absence at the party.
c. the man showed up very late at the party last night.
d. the man doesn't have a habit of being punctual.
5. a. because his doctor said he was ill.
b. because he doesn't want to put on more weight.
c. because the ice-cream doesn't taste very good.
d. because he doesn't like ice-cream.
6. a. she will gladly lend her car to her brother.
b. she will have to think about her brother's request.
c. it's impossible for her brother to borrow her car for the weekend.
d. she doesn't understand her brother's question.
7. a. she wonders when did her son learned the time of the flight.
b. she doesn't know when her son can catch the next flight.
c. she wants to know when her son can learn the time of the next flight.
d. she is upset about her son's carelessness.
8. a. give the woman an extension on her paper.
b. get angry at the woman's request.
c. delay the deadline of the paper for all the students.
d. drop the requirement of a paper.
9. a. she recommends the french restaurant to the man.
b. she doesn't know if there is a french restaurant on lincoln street.
c. she doesn't know if the man has been to the french restaurant on lincoln street.
d. she wonders if the man can find the french restaurant on lincoln street himself.
10. a. 7:35 b. 7:45 c. 7:55 d. 7:25
section b
directions: in this section, you will hear 3 short passages. at the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. both the passage and the question will be spoken only once. after you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked a., b., c. and d., and decide which is the best answer. then mark the corresponding letter on the answer sheet with a single line through the center.
passage one
questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. a. they built tunnels. b. they ran a commercial firm.
c. they made bicycles. d. they flew gliders.
12. a. 1902 b. 1909 c. 1912 d. 1903
13. a. 14 seconds b. 13 seconds c. 12 seconds d. 11 seconds
passage two
questions 14 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14. a. more than 1/3 b. more than 1/5
c. more than 1/4 d. a little less than 1/4
15. a. 1991 b. 1990 c. 1992 d. 1993
16. a. because 98 per cent of illiterates live in third world countries.
b. because illiterates in third world countries don't know how important is the ability to read and write.
c. because high rate of illiteracy is setting back the national development programs
d. because many adults in third world countries are too ashamed to admit they can't read and write
17. a. large funds put into educational programs
b. cultural communications
c. popularization of advanced education for eligible citizens.
d. political will of governments to provide equal opportunities in education.
passage three
questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
18. a. 17th century b. 15th century
c. 16th century d. 18th century
19. a. he designed what is considered to be the first christmas card.
b. he was the first to send greeting card to mark the beginning of new year.
c. he was called the father of the american christmas card.
d. he offered prizes to the most attractive christmas card design by the year 1870.
20. a. from japan
b. from within the united states
c. from scandinavian countries
d. from europe
section c (compound dictation)略
questions 21 to 24 are based on the following passage:
over60 million persons in the united states own a credit card. for thesemillions of americans a credit card is coined freedom. it has hadeffect of increasing consumption possibilities for households byallowing them to purchase thousands of dollars of merchandise, rankingfrom autos, clothing, to electrical appliances. the widespread use ofcredit card nowadays staggers the imagination to the point where onewonders whether the total amount of consumption spending each yearwould be the same if this plastic money were not around. credit cardshave also been of significant importance to the national economy.businessmen have been encouraged to expand plant and equipment and hireadditional personnel to meet the heavy demand for their products. thetendency of employment and income would rise significantly.
unfortunately,the ease with which buyers can increase their purchase with creditcards have caused them to overlook the additional costs. purchase oncredit cards are postponed payments. buy now，pay-later encouragesbuyers to use credit cards extensively. since the buyer is in effectborrowing money for a special purpose, he must expect to pay aninterest charge. interest is the price of using money over a longperiod of time. a close analysis of the use for credit cards for heavypurchases will show that the buyer has added to the cost of makingthese purchases. it must also be kept in mind that unpaid monthlybalances means added interest charges. furthermore, the use of creditcards will add to the cost of the product since the shopkeeper does notreceive the money at the time of the purchase. shopkeepers might add onthe cost of handing credit cards to the bill. one of the argumentsagainst the use of credit cards has been that those who do pay cash atthe time if purchase finance the use of a credit card by anotherperson. this is so, the argument runs, because the price of a productwill include the cost of another person's use of a credit card.
21. which of the following is not true about credit cards?
a. it can encourage great sums of consumption.
b. shopkeepers, among others, object to the use of credit cards because they add on the cost of the merchandise.
c. credit card holders actually pay for their shopping goods after the purchase has been completed.
d. the national economy enjoys extensive growth because of the use of credit cards.
22. what is the main topic of the passage?
a. advantages and disadvantages of credit cards.
b. economic growth backed up by the use of credit cards.
c. arguments against the use of credit cards.
d. credit cards make life easier.
23. what does the word “stagger” in the first paragraph mean?
a. shock b. exceed c. create d. trigger
24. what are the arguments against the use of credit cards?
a. it may lead to the overgrowth of the national economy.
b. the delay in the payment of shopping goods may bring damage to shopkeepers' profits.
c. some people may intentionally purchase goods that they cannot possibly afford.
d.those who pay by cash at the purchase will have to pay for the costadded tot he product as the interest charge of credit cards.
questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage:
it isa favorable thing to look back at some of the reforms which have longbeen an accepted part of our life, and to examine the opposition,usually bitter and very strange, sometimes dishonest but all too oftenhonest, which had to be countered by the restless advocates of“grandmotherly" legislation. the reforms treated in this book are notthe well-known measures—like the abolishment of slavery, the reform ofparliament, the vote of women—which are recorded in the standardhistory books. here are some of the less familiar struggles which, withone or two exceptions, social historians have tended to dismissbriefly. yet these old controversies give no less revealing an insightinto the minds of our grandfathers than do the major issues of the lastcentury. the pulse of a generation can be taken just as effectively byconsidering its attitudes to the marrying of deceased wives' sisters,to the fetching of father's beer or even to the sweeping of chimneys.what some of the reforms dealt with were carried out within livingmemory; none is older than the nineteenth century. they have beenselected for the variety of their background and for the fertility(state of being fertile) and stimulus of the opposition leveled againstthem.
misguided and complete unreasonable though some of thisopposition now appears, it is doubtful whether it will seem any morepeculiar, one hundred years hence, than some of the reasons we producetoday for continual hardship and injustice. our ancestors thought itabsurd that wives should wish to keep their own earnings; ourdescendants may be astonished at our system which forces a man tomaintain a woman, sometimes for life, after a hopeless marriage hasbeen disrupted. it is likely that our descendants will derive as muchheartless fun from consideration of our divorce laws, and the reasonswe use to defend them, as from the arguments we put forward to excusethe disfigurement of the countryside. they may also think that theindifference of the nineteenth century to death and suffering in themills was fully matched by that of the twentieth century to death andsuffering on the highways.
31. what is the main idea of the passage?
a. we can benefit from a careful reflection on the past reform which have become a natural component of our life.
b. some of the opposition to reforms in the past has been very unreasonable.
c. social historians tend to dismiss reforms o a small scale as insignificant.
d. some of the social reforms in the past did not survive the living memory because of their insignificance.
32.if this passage is taken from the foreword to a book, which of thefollowing will most probably be discussed extensively in the book?
a. the abolishment of slavery in the united states in the 19th century
b. the reform of parliament in britain in the 17th century
c. the first national constitution against polygamy (一夫多妻制)
d. the approval of marriage between a woman and her deceased husband's brother
33. what does the author say about opposition to reforms in the past?
a. it was mostly well-intentioned and meant for the public good.
b. it was mostly dishonest and aimed only at personal gains.
c. it was mostly accepted by the authorities.
d. it was mostly unreasonable and misguided.
34. how does the author suggest that our descendants will probably treat our current legal system and social customs?
a. they will carry on with our current legal system and social customs with due respect.
b. they may consider them unreasonable in most of the cases and discard them totally.
c. they may wonder at some of the rules that we take for granted today.
d. they may thing our current legal system and social customs are better than those in the 19th century.
35. what does the word “absurd" in the fourth line of the last paragraph mean?
a. intolerable b. ridiculous c. unbelievable d. unreasonable
questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage:
publicgeneral hospital originated in the almshouse (救济院) infirmariesestablished as early as colonial times by local governments to care forthe poor. later, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries,the infirmary separated from the almshouse and became an independentinstitution supported by local tax money. at the same time, privatecharity hospitals began to develop. both private and public hospitalsprovided mainly food and shelter for the impoverished sick, since therewas little that medicine could actually do to cure illness, and themiddle class was treated at home by private physicians.
latein the nineteenth century, the private charity hospital began trying toattract middle-class patients. although the depression of 1890stimulated the growth of charitable institutions and an expanding urbanpopulation became dependent on assistance, there was a decline inprivate contributions to these organizations, which forced them to lookto local government for financial support. since private institutionshad also lost benefactors, they began to charge patients. in order toattract middle-class patients, private institutions provided servicesand amenities that distinguished between paying and non-paying patientsand made the hospital a desirable place for private physicians to treattheir own patients. as paying patients became more necessary to thesurvival of the private hospital, the public hospitals slowly becamethe only place for the poor to get treatment. by the end of thenineteenth century, cities were reimbursing private hospitals for theircare of indigent patients and the public hospitals remained dependenton the tax dollars.
the advent of private hospital healthinsurance, which provided middle-class patients with the purchasingpower to pay for private hospital services, guaranteed the privatehospital a regular source of income. private hospitals restrictedthemselves to revenue-generating patients, leaving the public hospitalsto care for the poor. although public hospitals continued to provideservices for patients with communicable (传染性的) diseases and outpatients(门诊病人) and emergency services, the blue cross plans developed aroundthe needs of the private hospitals and the inpatients (住院病人) theyserved. thus, reimbursement for ambulatory(流动的、非固定的) care has beenminimal under most blue cross plans, and provision of outpatient carehas not been a major function of the private hospital, in part becauseprivate patients can afford to pay for the services of privatephysicians. additionally, since world war ii, there has been atremendous influx of federal money into private medical schools and thehospitals associated with them. further, large private medical centerswith expensive research equipment and programs have attracted the bestadministrators, physicians, and researchers. as a result of the greaterresources available to the private medical centers, public hospitalshave increasing problems attracting highly qualified research andmedical personnel. with the mainstream of health care firmlyestablished in the private medical sector, the public hospital hasbecome a dumping ground.
36. what does the passage mainly discuss?
a. how did the public general hospitals originate?
b. why private hospitals are more attractive to middle class patients?
c. the difference between private and public hospitals.
d. the development of private hospitals.
37.according to the passage, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenthcenturies, hospitals provided mainly food and shelter because _____.
a. the middle-class was treated at home by private physicians
b. all patients were poor
c. hospitals had little effective medicine to care for the sick
d. there was no medicine in both private and public hospitals
38. which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
a. the depression of the mid-eighteenth century stimulated the growth of charitable institutions.
b. the public hospitals began to charge patients because they lost benefactors.
c. the appearance of health insurance gave the private hospital a steady financial source.
d. both private and public hospitals depended on the tax dollars during the colonial times.
39. according to the passage, the private hospitals have all of the following advantages except _____.
a. highly qualified research staff
b. more patients
c. expensive equipment
d. highly qualified medical personnel
40. why the public hospital has become a dumping ground?
a. it is because private hospitals have become predominantly the leading force in the medical profession.
b. it is because the government has concentrated its resources on the funding of private hospitals.
c. it is because the public hospitals don't provide medical insurance to patients.
d.it is because public hospitals only provide services for patients withcommunicable diseases and outpatients and emergency services.
part iii vocabulary and structure (20 minutes)
directions:there are 30 incomplete sentences in this part. for each sentence thereare four choices marked a., b., c. and d. choose the one that bestcompletes the sentence. then mark the corresponding letter on theanswer sheet with a single line through the center.
41. nowhere but in the remotest region of the country _____find a place to settle down.
a. can he b. he can c. he d. for him to
42. it is rather bad _____to introduce a new hot-pot product in summer.
a. schedule b. time c. scheme d. timing
43. most arabian countries have _____supplies of crude oil.
a. numerous b. suitable c. abundant d. proper
44. we've got to hurry up because the deadline is only two days away. there's no time to _____.
a. lose b. delay c. lessen d. lag
45.the young flower girl has been in town for only several months, but sheseems to be _____with everyone who comes to the store.
a. admitted b. accepted c. admired d. acquainted
46. he does not _____as an english professor because his english pronunciation is terrible.
a. match b. deserve c. equal d. qualify
47. with one leg broken in that car accident, he cannot even walk, _____ run.
a. let alone b. that's to say c. not to speak d. not to mention
48. it has been decided that the time was not _____for a challenge to the power of the government.
a. practical b. ready c. ripe d. reasonable
49. he certainly had no _____to hurt you although you might not like his way of putting things.
a. intention b. ambition c. willingness d. tendency
50. during the recession a lot of employees were laid _____.
a. off b. over c. away d. down
51. we have _____attitudes toward this matter.
a. likely b. likable c. like d. alike
52. in _____, the two leaders of the two tribes have agreed on an immediate cease fire.
a. mediation b. meditation c. medication d. meditate
53. he has _____an impressive collection of coins and stamps through these years.
a. saved b. gathered c. accumulated d. concluded
54. when the wealthy man died his illegitimate son _____half of his legacy.
a. retreated b. displayed c. declared d. claimed
55. _____, she led a life of complete seclusion.
a. being disgraced b. disgraced c. disgracing d. she was disgraced
56. the three-story department building was _____by the newly constructed ten?story office building on its side.
a. sneered b. belittled c. snuffed d. dwarfed
57. he felt very upset, but nobody knew because he managed to _____his feelings.
a. conceal b. keep c. hide d. hold
58. they played a joke _____their sister by putting a plastic snake on her bed.
a. on b. with c. for d. about
59. the buses are always _____with passengers during the rush hour.
a. charged b. squeezed c. overstuffed d. jammed
60. i enjoy listening to music records because i find them are often _____, if not better than, any live performance.
a. good as b. as good as c. good d. as good
61. he had a lot of trouble _____a job because of his criminal record.
a. finding b. to find c. in order to find d. while finding
62. she was working on her book report day in and day out so she didn't feel like to the movies with them.
a. to be going b. to go c. going d. to going
63. they demanded forty thousand dollars for their house, but at last they had to _____only half that amount.
a. compromise b. settle with c. agree to d. settle for
64. miss thompson can sing very well. _____, she can play the piano.
a. somehow b. in addition c. in a way d. more or less
65. our country is very rich in natural _____.
a. minerals b. treasures c. resources d. property
66. while _____dinner, they discussed the financial crisis in south-east asian countries in 1998.
a. having b. had c. having had d. they had
67. _____one celled organism, nearly all animals have a nervous system of some kind.
a. except b. except for c. beside d. despite
68. scholars have been able to unearth some _____as to the true authorship of these plays.
a. deposition b. evidence c. testimony d. proof
69. _____, she found that her son could walk without crutches after one month's stay in hospital.
a. in her great joy b. her joy was great c. for her great joy d. to her great joy
70. all of the plants now farmed on a large scale were developed from plants _____ wild.
a. that once grew b. once they grew c. they once grew d. once grew
paper two
part i error correction (15 minutes)
directions:this part consists of a short passage. in this passage, there arealtogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. you may have to adda word, cross out a word, or change a word. if you add a word, put aninsertion mark (∧) in the right place and write the missing word in theblank. if you cross out a word, put a slash (/) in the blank. if youchange a word, cross it out and write the correct word in thecorresponding blank.
one of strangest things about dispute over advertising 77._____
is that the greater the fuss the more of a mystery the
industry itself seem to become. advertising is a 72_____
passionate area. it seems to affect those who attack it and those
who defend it in remarkable similar ways. 73. _____
before long both are exhibiting the same compulsive urge
to overstate their case to that it is difficult to believe that
the critics and the defenders of advertising
are even arguing for the same thing. 74. _____
but just as it seemed sensible to us to regard advertising
without go to either extreme, so it also seemed logical 75. _____
to try and find, as cold-bloodedly as we could, what advertising
in the britain of the sixties really was.
we knew that it consumes around $950 million a year, 76. _____
or roughly 2 per cent of the national income. we knew that it employed
something over 200,000 individuals, the majority of which 77. _____
were paid salaries considerably above the national average.
and we knew that it was supposedly run in accordance to 78. _____
certain rather vague and often complex rules and professional orders.
but once we tried finding out exactly what all this money
went on, what these highly paid individuals did for it (and with it),
and how the rules and orders influenced them, a curious thing happened.
this strange animal called advertising, so dislike by its 79. _____
critics and so beloved by its defenders, began to disappear.
in its place was advertising men and advertising 80. _____
agencies—all working in different ways and to different
rules and all showing quit startling differences of competence,
taste and effectiveness.
part ii translation from english to chinese (15 minutes)
directions:in this part, there are five items, which you should translate intochinese, each item consists of one or two sentence. these sentences areall taken from the reading passages you have just read in the secondpart of the test paper.
you are allowed 15 minutes to do thetranslation. you can refer back to the passages so as to identify theirmeanings in the context.
81. (lines 2?5, para.1, passage 1)
ithas had effect of increasing consumption possibilities for householdsby allowing them to purchase thousands of dollars of merchandise,ranking from autos, clothing, to electrical appliances.
82. (lines 8?12, para.2, passage 1)
itmust also be kept in mind that unpaid monthly balances means addedinterest charges. furthermore, the use of credit cards will add to thecost of the product since the shopkeeper does not receive the money atthe time of the purchase.
83. (lines 10?14, para. 1, passage 2)
insome places it is a habit to burn waste material lying about, but suchburning destroys the organic matter in the dead plants. although theashes that are left are valuable when put on the land, a betterpractice is to bury the waste, so that it decays and increases thehumus in the soil.
84. (lines 9?11, para.1, passage 3)
yetthese old controversies give no less revealing an insight into theminds of our grandfathers than do the major issues of the last century.
85. (lines 1?3, para.3, passage 4)
theadvent of private hospital health insurance, which providedmiddle?class patients with the purchasing power to pay for privatehospital services, guaranteed the private hospital a regular source ofincome.
part iii short answer questions (15 minutes)
directions:in this part, there is a short passage with five questions orincomplete statements. read the passage carefully. then answer thequestions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words (notexceeding 10 words).
with the prospect of coal and petroleumsupplies being depleted and with air pollution becoming an increasingconcern, the major countries of the world are seeking alternate sourcesof energy. if a means to obtain energy from water, especially from theocean, can be effected economically, it would furnish a never?endingsupply of energy, since 70% of the earth's surface is ocean and another10% is fresh water in rivers and lakes.
from the beginning oftime man has used water power as a source of work energy—waterfalls anddams—but these are fresh water sources and are landlocked. the seashave contributed little or nothing in the way of power.
theuse of temperature variation between currents is one area ofexploration. ocean water is heated by the sun near the equator anddrawn by the rotation of the earth toward the equator. the differentialbetween the two currents is 35 degrees to 45 degrees fahrenheit and touse it the scientists must find the places where they run near land andare not too far away from each other. one area that meets theserequirements is the caribbean sea.
in the united states thenational space administration and the energy research and developmentadministration have been working on another kind of thermal sea energyproposal. one plan would somewhat resemble the operation of arefrigerator on a vast scale. warm water would be the heat source, coldwater the heat sink. a component such as freon (氟利昂) would be liquid ata cold temperature and turn to gas as it warmed.
oceans alsooffer wave power, tides, and the chemical substances of salt water aspotential sources of energy. all these uses are theoretically possible.
britain's department of energy is interested in wave power,using a string of tear drop devices that depend on very active waveareas and 100 foot depths. in addition to this, the british are workingon a method that the japanese have already put into practical use on asmall scale for their navigational marks. this method is called awaving water column and rides the waves with a series of cylindershaving one?way air valves (空气阀). wave movement produces air underpressure that has only one escape way—to a turbine (涡轮机) that powers agenerator.
questions:
86. according to the author, themajor countries of the world seek other sources of energy because thecoal and petroleum supplies are being depleted and_______________________________________________________.
87. list one of the major ways of using water as a source of energy suggested in this passage:
88.scientists believe the energy obtained from water would be an endlesssupply of energy because_______________________________________________________.
89.scientists can utilize the temperature variation between ocean currentsonly when they can find the places where the warm ocean currents andcold ocean currents run near land and____________________________________________________________.
90.it is suggested in the passage that oceans also offer as_____________________________________________potential sources of energy
part iv writing (30 minutes)