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TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2015)

-GRADE FOUR-

PART I DICTATION [15 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 ANSWERE SHEET ONE.

PART II LISTENING COMPREHENSION [20 MIN]

In Sections A, B and C you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the best answer to each question on Answer Sheet Two.

SECTION A CONVERSATIONS

In this section you will hear several conversations. Listen to the conversations carefully and then answer the questions that follow.

Questions 1 to 3 are based on the following conversation. At the end of the conversation, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the conversation.

1. Why is the trip to Mars a one-Way trip?

A. The return trip is too expensive. B. There is no technology to get people back.

C. People don't want to return. D. The return trip is too risky.

2. According to the man, what is more important for those recruits?

A. Intelligence. B. Health. C. Calmness. D. Skills.

3. What is the last part of the conversation about?

A. The kind of people suitable for the trip.

B. Interests and hobbies of the speakers.

C. Recruitment of people for the trip.

D. Preparation for the trip to Mars.

Questions 4 to 7 are based on the following conversation. At the end of the conversation, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the conversation.

4. What is showrooming?

A. Going to the high street. B. Visiting everyday shops.

C. Visiting shops and buying online. D. Buying things like electrical goods.

5. According to the conversation, the man had bought all the following things online EXCEPT ______.

A. CDs B. shoes C. camera n. food

6. According to the conversation, the percentage of people who showroomed while Christmas shopping was ______.

A. 3% B. 33% C. 42% D. 24%

7. One reason for people to showroom is that they ______.

A. want to see the real thing first

B. want to know more about pricing

C. can return the product later

D. can bargain for a lower shop price

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Questions 8 to 10 are based on the following conversation. At the end of the conversation, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the conversation.

8. What is the conversation mainly about?

A. How to avoid clashes of exams.

B. How to schedule exams.

C. How to use the faculty lounge.

D. How to choose the courses.

9. What does the student have to do first in order to take the exams?

A. To draw up the final schedule.

B. To arrange an invigilator.

C. To choose a date on the draft schedule.

D. To find the information on the bulletin board.

10. According to the conversation, the Dean will _____.

A. sign the sheet in the faculty lounge

B. take care of the bulletin board

C. consult the students

D. finalize the exam schedule

SECTION B PASSAGES

In this section, you will hear several passages. Listen to the passages carefully and then answer the questions that follow.

Questions 11 to 13 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the passage.

26. What was Dewani accused of?

A. Killing his wife in the U.K.

B. Being involved in a taxi accident.

C. Hiring a crew of hit men.

D. Having his wife killed.

Question 27 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 5 seconds to answer the question, Now, listen to the news.

27. The U.N. new vote would allow all the following EXCEPT _____.

A. the suspension of an existing arms embargo

B. the use of force by European Union troops

C. the extension of U.N. peacekeeping mission

D. the ban on travel and freeze of assets

Question 28 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 5 seconds to answer the question. Now, listen to the news.

28. What is the news mainly about?

A. Behavior of alcoholics.

B. Causes of early death in Russia.

C. Causes of alcohol poisoning.

D. Number of death over 10 years.

Questions 29 and 30 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the news.

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29. The total investment in film-making in Britain in 2012 was ______.

A. £945 B. £1.07 billion C. £500,000 D.££87,000

30. Hollywood studios prefer to make films in Britain because ______.

A. the UK is a good film location

B. the cast usually comes from Britain

C. Hollywood emphasizes quality

D. production cost can be reduced

(49)_____ in case of emergency, they were just as confused and (50) ______ as anybody else.

49. A. stand aside B. stand down C. stand by D. stand in

50. A. aimless B. helpless C. unfocused D. undecided

58. If you explained the situation to your lawyer, he ______ able to advise you much better than I can.

A. will be B. would be C. was D. were

59. Which of the following is a stative verb(静态动词)?

A. Drink B. Close C. Rain D. Belong

60. Which of the following italicized parts indicates a subject-verb relation?

A. The man has a large family to support.

B. She had no wish to quarrel with her brother.

C. He was the last guest to leave.

D. Mary needs a friend to talk to.

61. The following are all correct responses to "Who told the news to the teacher?" EXCEPT ______.

A. Bob did that. B. Bob did so. C. Bob did this D. Bob did

62. Which of the following is INCORRECT?

A. A bit of flowers B. Few words

C. This work. D. Another two girls.

63. Which of the following italicized words does NOT indicate willingness?

A. What will you do when you graduate?

B. They will be home by now.

C. Who will go with me?

D. Why will you go there alone?

64. When one has good health, ______ should feel fortunate.

A. you B. She C. he D. we

65. There _____ nothing more for discussion, the meeting came to an end half an hour earlier.

A. to be B. to have been C. being D. be

66. Two of her brothers were _________ during the Second World War.

A. called on B. Called up C. called for D. called out

67. Bottles from this region sell _____ at about $50 a case.

A. wholesale B. totally C. entirely D. together

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PART V READING COMPREHENSION [25 MIN]

In this section there are four passages followed by questions of unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers marked A,B,C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer. Mark your answers on Answer Sheet Two.

TEXT A

Inundated by more information than we can possibly hold in our head, we're increasingly handing off the job of remembering to search engines and smart phones. Google is even reportedly working on eyeglasses that could one day recognize faces and supply details about whoever you're looking at. But new research shows that outsourcing our memory – and expecting that information will be continually and instantaneously available --is changing our cognitive habits.

Research conducted by Betsy Sparrow, an assistant professor of psychology at Columbia University, has identified three new realities about how we process information in the Internet age. First, her experiments showed that when we don't know the answer to a question, we now think about where we can find the nearest Web connection instead of the subject of the question itself. A second revelation is that when we expect to be able to find information again later on, we don't remember it as well as when we think it might become unavailable. And then there is the researchers' final observation: the expectation that we'll he able to locate inf orination down the line leads us to form a memory not of the fact itself but of where we'II be able to find it.

But this handoff comes with a downside. Skills like critical thinking and analysis must develop in the context of facts: we need something to think and reason about, after all. And these facts can't be Googled as we go;they need to be stored in the original hard drive, our long-term memory. Especially in the case of children, "factual knowledge must precede skill," says Daniel Willingham, a professor of psychology, at the University of Virginia -- meaning that the days of drilling the multiplication table and memorizing the names of the Presidents aren't over quite yet. Adults, too, need to recruit a supply of stored knowledge in order to situate and evaluate new information they encounter. You can't Google context.

Last, there's the possibility, increasingly terrifying to contemplate, that our machines fail us. As Sparrow puts it, "The experience of losing our Internet connection becomes more and more like losing a friend." If you're going to keep your memory on your smart phone, better make sure it's fully charged.

81. Google's eyeglasses are supposed to ____.

A. improve our memory B. function like memory.

C. help us see faces better. D. work like smart phones.

82. According to the passage, "cognitive habits" refers to ______.

A. how we deal with information. B. functions of human memory.

C. the amount of information. D. the availability of information.

83. which of the following statements about Sparrow's research is CORRECT?

A. We remember people and things as much as before.

B. We remember more Internet connections than before.

C. We pay equal attention to location and content of information.

D. We tend to remember location rather than the core of facts.

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84. What does the author mean by "context" ?

A. It refers to long-term memory.

B. It refers to a new situation.

C. It refers to a store of knowledge

D. It refers to the search engine

85. What is the implied message of the author?

A. Web connections aid our memory.

B. People differ in what to remember.

C. People need to exercise their memory.

D. People keep memory on smart phones.

TEXT B

I was a second-year medical student at the university, and was on my second day of rounds at a nearby hospital. My university's philosophy was to get students seeing patients early in their education. Nice idea,but it overlooked one detail:second-year students know next to nothing about medicine.

Assigned to my team that day was an attending - a senior faculty member who was there mostly to make patients feel they weren't in the hands of amateurs. Many attendings were researchers who didn't have much recent hospital experience. Mine was actually an arthritis specialist. Also along was a resident (the real boss, with a staggering mastery of medicine, at least to a rookie like myself). In addition there were two interns(住院实习医生). These guys were just as green as I was，but in a scarier way: they had recently graduated from the medical school, so they were technically MDs.

I began the day at 6:30 am. An intern and I did a quick check of our eight patients; later, we were to present our findings to the resident and then to the attending. I had three patients and the intern had the other five - piece of cake.

But when I arrived in the room of 71-year-old Mr. Adams，he was sitting up in bed,

sweating heavily and panting (喘气). He'd just had a hip operation and looked terrible. I listened to his lungs with my stethoscope, but they sounded clear. Next I checked the log

of his vital signs and saw that his respiration and heart rate had been climbing, but his temperature was steady. It didn't seem like heart failure, nor did it appear to be pneumonia. So I asked Mr. Adams what he thought was going on.

"It's really hot in here, Doc," he replied.

So I attributed his condition to the stuffy room and told him the rest of the team would return in a few hours. He smiled and feebly waved goodbye.

At 8:40 am., during our team meeting, "Code Blue Room 307!" blared from the loudspeaker. I froze.

That was Mr. Adams's room.

When we arrived, he was motionless.

The autopsy (尸体解剖) later found Mr. Adams had suffered a massive pulmonary embolism (肺部栓塞). A blood clot had formed in his leg, worked its way to his lungs, and cut his breathing capacity in half. His symptoms had been textbook: heavy perspiration and

shortness of breath despite clear lungs. The only thing was: I hadn't read that chapter in the textbook yet. And I was too scared, insecure, and proud to ask a real doctor for help.

This mistake has haunted me for nearly 30 years, but what's particularly frustrating is that the