中国名校六级密卷（一）
分类: 大学四六级英语
时间: 2023-11-24 15:27:12
北京大学外语学院 钱清
PartⅠ
Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
SectionA
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.
Example:You will hear: ?
M: When shall we start our work, Jane??
W: Tomorrow at 9 o’clock. But we must work quickly, for we have to finish everything
before 2 in the afternoon.?
Q: For how long can they work??
You will read:
A) 2 hours.
B) 3 hours.
C) 4 hours.
D) 5 hours.?
From the conversation we know that the two are talking about some work they
will start at 9 o’clock in the morning and have to finish at 2 in the afternoon.
Therefore, D)“5 hours” is the correct answer. You should choose ［D］ on the Answer
Sheet and mark it with a single line through the center.
Sample Answer ［A］ ［B］［C］ ［D］?
1.A) The man should try to be more understanding.
B) The man’s wife should be more understanding.
C) The man’s negative attitude may be derived from his childhood.
D) The pessimism of man’s wife may be the result of her past experiences.
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2.A) A snowstorm.B) An earthquake.?
C) A traffic accident.D) A hurricane.?
3.A) The two speakers are classmates.
B) The man is majoring in elementary education.
C) The woman is majoring in elementary education.
D) The two speakers got to know each other in a class.?
4.A) She’s got a stomachache.?B) She feels perfectly fine.
C) She’s going to get married.?D) She’s going to have a baby.?
5.A) It is the best city he’s ever visited.?
B) It was worse than he had expected.
C) It is difficult to get around in the city.?
D) The hotel service is terrible in the city.?
6.A) To encourage them.?
B) To stop them immediately.
C) To give some explanation.?
D) To leave them alone.?
7.A) Unemployment.B) Family breakup.?
C) Mental problems.D) Drinking.
8.A) The woman is the man’s boss.?
B) The man is the woman’s husband.
C) The woman is the headmaster of a school.?
D) The woman wants to know something about a student.?
9.A) They are attending a concert.?
B) They are negotiating about a price.
C) They are planning to go for a date.?
D) They are buying something for their firm.?
10.A) The man is a football fan.?
B) The man needs the woman’s help.
C) The man didn’t watch TV last night.?
D) The man often has power failure at home.??
SectionB
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 S1 to S7 with the exact words you have just heard. For
blanks numbered from S8 to S10 you are required to fill in the missing information.
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./;
Shyness is the cause of much unhappiness for a great many people. Shy people
are anxious and (11)____; that is, they are excessively concerned with their
own appearance and actions. (12)____ thoughts are constantly occurring in their
minds: What kind of impression am I making? Do they like me? Do I sound stupid?
Am I wearing (13)____ clothes?/;
It is obvious that such uncomfortable feelings must affect people (14)____.
A person’s self?concept is (15)____ in the way he or she behaves, and the way
a person behaves affects other people’s (16)____. In general, the way people
think about themselves has a (17)____ effect on all areas of their lives./;
Shy people are very sensitive to criticism; they feel it confirms their inferiority.
(18)____. A shy person may respond to a compliment with a statement like this
one:“you’re just saying that to make me feel good. I know it’s not true.”(19)____./;
Can shyness be completely eliminated, or at least reduced? (20)____. People’s
expectations of themselves must be realistic. Living on the impossible leads
to a sense of inadequacy.
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Part Ⅱ
Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Directions:There are 4 reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed
by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four
choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark
the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the
center.
Passage One?
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage:?
When Kathie Gifford’s face was splashed across the newspapers in 1996 after
her lucrative line of Wal?mart clothing was exposed as the work of underpaid
laborers in New York City’s Chinatown, the Department of Labor and the White
House teamed up to condemn such practices. With much fanfare, President Clinton’s
administration launched the “No Sweat” campaign, which pressured retailers and
manufacturers to submit to periodic independent inspection of their workplace
conditions./;
This campaign urged manufacturers to sign the Workplace Code of Conduct, a promise
to self?regulate that has since been adopted by a handful of retailers and many
of the nation’s largest manufacturers, including Nike and L.L. Bean. However,
the Department of Defense, which has a $ 1 billion garment business that would
make it the country’s 14th largest retail apparel outlet, has not signed the
Code of Conduct. In addition, it has not agreed to demand that its contractors
submit to periodic inspections./;
Because the Department of Defense has not agreed to adhere to the code, the
job of stopping public?sector sweatshops falls to the Department of Labor. Federal
contractors that persist in violating wage laws or safety and health codes can
lose their lucrative taxpayer?financed contracts. But Suzanne Seiden, a deputy
administrator at the Department of Labor, says that to her knowledge, the department
has never applied that rule to government apparel manufacturers. “I just assume
that they are adhering to safety and health requirements,” she says. According
to records obtained by Mother Jones, through a Freedom of Information Act request,
the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Lion 32 times for
safety and health violations in the past 12 years.
21.What is this passgage mainly concerned with?
A)The functions of the Department of Labor in America.
B)A serious problem threatening American economy.
C)The successful attempt of regulating sweatshops in America.
D)The seriousness of the problem of sweatshops in America.?
22.According to the passage, Kathie Gifford ____.
A) was one of the underpaid laborers in New York City’s Chinatown
B) was one of the well?paid laborers in New York City’s Chinatown
C) made much money from cheap laborers in New York City’s Chinatown
D) wrote a newspaper article exposing the practice of employing cheap laborers
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23.The underlined phrase “to submit to” is closest in meaning to ____.
A) to accept unwillingly?
B) to refuse coldly
C) to welcome warm?heartedly?
D) to blame strongly?
24.Which of the following statements about the Department of Defense is true?
A) It will become the country’s 14th largest retail apparel manufacturer.
B) It hasn’t acted according to the Workplace Code of Conduct.
C) It has demanded its contractors to sign the Workplace Code of Conduct.
D) It has teamed up with the Department of Labor to launch a campaign.?
25.What was the purpose of President Clinton’s administration launching the
“No Sweat” campaign?
A) To urge manufacturers to obey the Workplace Code of Conduct.
B) To remind the manufacturers of the Workplace Code of Conduct.
C) To urge the Department of Labor to take its responsibility.
D) To urge the Department of Defense to inspect manufacturers.?
Passage Two?
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage:?
The term investment portfolio conjures up visions of the truly rich-the Rockefellers,
the Wal?Mart Waltons, Bill Gates. But today, everyone-from the Philadelphia
firefighter, his part?time receptionist wife and their three children, to the
single Los Angeles lawyer starting out on his own-needs a portfolio./;
A portfolio is simply a collection of financial assets. It may include real
estate, rare stamps and coins, precious metals and even artworks. But those
are for people with expertise. What most of us need to know about are stocks,
bonds and cash (including such cash equivalents as money?market funds)./;
How do you decide what part of your portfolio should go to each of the big three?
Begin by understanding that stocks pay higher returns but are more risky; bonds
and cash pay lower returns but are less risky./;
Research by Ibbotson Associates, for example, shows that large?company stocks,
on average, have returned 11.2 percent annually since 1926. Over the same period,
by comparison, bonds have returned an annual average of 5.3 percent and cash,
3.8 percent./;
But short?term risk is another matter. In 1974, a one?year $1000 investment
in the stock market would have declined to $735./;
With bonds, there are two kinds of risk: that the borrower won’t pay you back
and that the money you’ll get won’t be worth very much. The U.S. government
stands behind treasury bonds, so the credit risk is almost nil. But the inflation
risk remains. Say you buy a $1000 bond maturing in ten years. If inflation averages
about seven percent over that time, then the $1000 you receive at maturity can
only buy $500 worth of today’s goods./;
With cash, the inflation risk is lower, since over a long period you can keep
rolling over your CDs every year (or more often). If inflation rises, interest
rates rise to compensate./;
As a result, the single most imortant rule in building a portfolio is this:
If you don’t need the money for a long time, then put it into stocks. If you
need it soon, put it into bonds and cash.
26.This passage is intended to give advice on ____.
A) how to avoid inflation risks?
B) what kinds of bonds to buy
C) how to get rich by investing in stock market?
D) how to become richer by spreading the risk?
27.The author mentions such millionaires as the Rockefellers and Bill Gates
to show that ____.
A) they are examples for us on our road to wealth
B) a portfolio is essential to financial success
C) they are really rich people
D) they started out on their own?
28.Which of the following statements will the author support?
A) Everybody can get rich with some financial assets.
B) The credit risk for treasury bonds is extremely high.
C) It’s no use trying to know the advantages of stocks, bonds and cash.
D) Everybody should realize the importance of distribution of their financial
assets.?
29.The word “returns” in paragraph three can be best replaced by “____.”?
A) returning journeys?
B) profits?
C) savings?
D) investments?
30.The author of the passage points out that ____.
A) keeping cash is the only way to avoid risks
B) the longer you own a stock, the more you lost
C) the high rate of profit and high rate of risk coexist in stocks
D) the best way to accumulate wealth is by investing in stocks?
Passage Three?
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage:?
There were two widely divergent influences on the early development of statistical
methods. Statistics had a mother who was dedicated to keeping orderly records
of governmental units (state and statistics come from the same Latin root, status)
and a gentlemanly gambling father who relied on mathematics to increase his
skill at playing the odds in games of chance. The influence of the mother on
the offspring, statistics, is represented by counting, measuring, describing,
tabulating, ordering, and the taking of censuses—all of which led to modern
descriptive statistics. From the influence of the father came modern inferential
statistics, which is based squarely on theories of probability./;
Descriptive statistics involves tabulating, depicting, and describing collections
of data. These data may be either quantitative, such as measures of height,
intelligence, or grade level—variables that are characterized by an underlying
continuum—or the data many represent qualitative variables, such as sex, college
major, or personality type. Large masses of data must generally undergo a process
of summarization or reducing to comprehensibly form the properties of an otherwise
unwieldy mass of data./;
Inferential statistics is a formalized body of methods for solving another class
of problems that present great difficulties for the unaided human mind. This
general class of problems characteristically involves attempts to make predictions
using a sample of observations. For example, a school superintendent wishes
to determine the proportion of children in a large school system who come to
school without breakfast, have been vaccinated for flu, or whatever. Having
a little knowledge of statistics, the superintendent would know that it is unnecessary
and inefficiency to question each child; the proportion for the entire district
could be estimated fairly accurately from a sample of as few as 100 children.
Thus, the purpose of inferential statistics is to predict or estimate characteristics
of a population from a knowledge of the characteristics of only a sample of
the population.
31.What is the passage mainly concerned with?
A) Development and application of statistics.
B) Origin of descriptive statistics.
C) Limitations of inferential statistics.
D) Importance of statistics.?
32.Describing and tabulating are associated with ____.
A) inferential statistics?
B) descriptive statistics
C) theories of probability?
D) inefficiency of counting?
33.Which of the following statements is true about descriptive statistics?
A) It combines quantitative variables and qualitative variables.
B) It can be used to deal with only quantitative variables.
C) It helps to summarize properties of a group of data.
D) It helps to make predictions using a sample of observations.?
34.The word “unwieldy” in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to ____.
A) difficult to collect B) difficult to tackle?
C) incomprehensiveD) uncontrollable?
35.A sample of a population is often examined for the following purposes except
____.
A) to make a more accurate prediction of trend
B) to improve efficiency and avoid unnecessary work
C) to save the trouble of approaching every members
D) to predict characteristics of the entire population?
Passage Four?
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage:?
The Japanese are fascinated by automata and new inventions. Japanese children
are used to friendly robots in their comics, in toys, and in TV animated cartoons.
When as adults they join the workforce,robots mean that there is no need to
import cheap foreign labor, as happens in many other parts of the world. There
is no need for humans to put up with dirty, mind?deadening mechanical work the
robot does it all without complaint, around the clock. Robots don’t go on strike
over tea breaks they don’t have tea, or any other kind of breaks:they work,
day and night, without having to be paid overtime, without making mistakes.
Human tasks are subject to human error: robot error seldom or never occurs except
as a result of human error!/;
In Japan, robots are almost respected for their virtues. When a new robot is
introduced to a small suburban factory, a Shinto priest is invited to inaugurate
it. He inaugurates the robot with words along the lines of “Welcome to our co?worker,
we hope you’ll help him settle in.” No one laughs./;
FANUC demonstrates the Japanese tendency to conform particularly strikingly.
The founder of FANUC, Dr. Inaba, has created an army that makes no distinction
between blue?collar, white?collar and steel?collar worker: everyone, including
the warlord himself, is dressed in yellow clothing issued free by the company.
Perh
aps to make up for the boring nature of the work, there are a number of other
company perks. Company benefits, including pay, are much higher than in similar
companies in Japan. Travel to and from work is provided free in the company’s
yellow buses. However, workers are expected to put in demanding unpaid “overtime.”
There is a clock in the product development laboratory set to run at ten times
the normal speed, the remind everyone that the company is on a war footing./;
As we watched Dr. Inaba’s yellow helicopter soar away to Narita airport, we
couldn’t help thinking that his dream of world domination in robotics and allied
applications might be more elegantly achieved if he had also thought to program
his robots to whistle while they work.
36.According to the author, which of the following is not true to the Japanese?
A) Robots mean there is no need to import cheap foreign labor.
B) Robots mean that humans needn’t do dirty and noisy work.
C) Robots mean there are no strikes nor overtimes.
D) Robots mean there is no mistake in any form.?
37.What can be inferred form the words “He inaugurates the robot with words
along the lines of ‘Welcome to our co?worker, we hope you’ll help him settle
in.’No one laughs.”?
A) The Japanese has no sense of humor while at work.
B) The Japanese does not understand the words of the Shinto priest.
C) The Japanese shows a true respect for robots.
D) The Japanese goes too far in their respect for robots.?
38.Which of the following is not true about FANUC?
A) Workers receive higher pay for working overtime.
B) Workers enjoy free travel to and from work.
C) Workers are doing boring, sometimes demanding work.
D) Workers are reminded of being on a war footing.?
39.What is not implied in the following works “we couldn’t help thinking that
his dream of world domination in robotics and allied applications might be more
elegantly achieved if he had also thought to program his robots to whistle while
they work.”?
A) Our technology is not yet up to the needs of Dr. Inaba’s dream.
B) Dr. Inaba’s dream of world domination in robotics lacks humanity.
C) Dr. Inaba’s dream of allied applications is too practical.
D) The author is in favor of Dr. Inaba’s dream.?
40.What does “our co?worker” refer to in the sentence “Welcome to our co?worker,
we hope you’ll help him settle in?”
A) Japanese workers who attend the inauguration.?
B) The introduced robot.
C) The people who have invented the robot.?
D) Japanese workers in general.
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Part Ⅲ
Vocabulary (20 minutes)
Directions:There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence
there are four choices marked. A), B), C) and D). Choose the ONE that best completes
the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a
single line through the center.
41.Since the most commonly accepted test is the TOEFL exam, most institutions
will expect a ____ TOEFL score for admission.
A) minimal B) maximal?
C) mimimumD) maximum?
42.It was believed that his death ____ with the robbery of the bank downtown.
A) accompaniedB) coincided?
C) correlatedD) conformed?
43.Does Emerson find his career full and ____ as a basketball player?
A) conflictingB) charming? C) rewardingD) awarding?
44.The local government gave the first ____ to education after the war.
A) projectionB) protection? C） professionD) priority?
45.The professor ____ his habit of getting up early in the morning to do writing
all his life.
A) projectionB) retained? C） retailedD) revitalized?
46.The news of our team winning the match was really ____, and millions
of people came out to celebrate the victory.
A) overwhelmingB) accelerating? C） promptingD) preceding?
47.What the government should do urgently is to take actions to ____ the economy.
A) brookB) blush? C） boostD) brood?
48.The explosion in the mine was ____ by a careless miner who lit a match.
A) triggeredB) claimed? C） hamperedD) protested?
49.The mass newspaper depended significantly more on advertising ____ than did
their predecessors.
A) revenuesB) incomes? C） avenuesD) outcomes?
50.Some minerals are quite common, others are regionally ____, and still others
are rare on the earth.
A) attributedB) distributed? C） contributedD) scattered?
51.The most successful way to solve the language problem while a foreign
play is being performed is ____ translation.
A) instantaneousB) spontaneous? C） simultaneousD) homogeneous?
52.The hostess ____ in the contract that the rent should be paid in cash at
the beginning of each month.
A) assumedB) submitted? C） exposedD) specified?
53.This year, the number of accidents has ____ that of last year.
A) overtakenB) overweighed? C） overcomeD) overshadowed?
54.You must ____ yourself or they will continue to bully you, so you will go
on living in disgrace.
A) assessB) assert? C） maintainD) promote?
55.While both plans were perfectly sensible, only one seemed ____ in China’s
particular situation.
A) availableB) feasible? C）resolvableD) presumable?
56.A good teacher must know how to ____ his ideas to the students, as generally
agreed by educational experts.
A) transmitB) transfer? C） conveyD) communicate?
57.If you keep on taking on more work than you can do, your health will ____.
A) declineB) degrade? C） degenerateD) deteriorate?
58.The director tried to wave aside these issues as ____ details that would
be settled later.
A) preliminaryB) primary? C） trivialD) alternative?
59.As one of the youngest professors in the university, Miss King is certainly
on the ____ of a brilliant career.
A) endB) edge? C） thresholdD) course?
60.During the famine of 1943, millions of peasants ____ to the cities because
they could not make a living in the countryside.
A) immigratedB) emigrated? C） migratedD) generated?
61.I’m sorry to inform you that you application has been declined. Our manager
thought you were not ____ for the post.
A) legibleB) eligible? C） validD) literate?
62.Visitors to Britain are sometimes surprised to learn that newspapers there
have such a large ____.
A) issueB) distribution? C） coverageD) circulation?
63.This line was carrying equal number of eastbound and westbound trains, and
they ____ regularly.
A) alteredB) alternated? C) switchedD) exchanged?
64.The three astronauts have splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, only six
miles from the aircraft carrier that was ____ for the recovery mission.
A) dispatchedB) deposited? C) deployedD) delivered?
65.Pubs have fanciful names like “The Red Lion” or “The Pig and Whistle” and
they often have picutre on a signboard outside to ____ the name.
A) justifyB) illustrate? C) modifyD) clarify?
66.There are two main requirements before the fifth?generation computer can
become a reality and it is these that scientists are ____.
A) anticipatingB) tackling? C) manipulatingD) speculating?
67.College students in this city have set up “the Cleaner Air Society”
to help urban citizens become aware of the ____ to our environment.
A) conditionsB) situations ? C) dangersD) threats?
68.When you get a minor burn, pour some cold water on it, which will help
____ the pain of the burn.
A) relieveB) relax? C) revealD) release?
69.The library published a colletion of books recently made ____ to the public.
A) acceptableB) accessible? C) accommodableD) accountable?
70.For 14 years after her spouse’s death, she saw the ____ meaning of her life
as nourishing her son and safeguarding her husband’s works.
A) dueB) lone? C) soleD) keen
Part Ⅳ
Error Correction (15 minutes)
Directions:This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are
altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a
word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections
in the blanks provided. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct
word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put an insertion mark (∧)
in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a
word, cross it out and put a slash (/) in the blank.?
Example:?
Television is rapidly becoming the literatures of our periods.Many of
1.time?
the arguments having used for the study of literature as a school subject
2.?
are valid for ∧ study of television. 3.the
Poverty exists because our society is an unequal one, and there are powerful
political pressures to keep it that way. Any attempt to redistributing wealth
and in? 71.____
come in the United States will inevitably be opposed by powerful middle and
upper
class interests. People can be relatively rich only if you are relatively poor,
and as 72.____
power is mainly in the hands of the rich, public policies reflect their interests
than 73.____
those of the poor.
As Mr. Herbert Gans has pointed out, poverty is actually functional from the
point of view of the non?poor. Poverty ensures that dirty work gets doing. If
there 74.____
were no poor poeple to scrub floors and empty bedpans, there jobs will have
to be 75.____
rewarded with high incomes before anyone would touch them. Poverty creates jobs
for many of the non?poor, such as police officers, welfare workers, and government
bureaucrats. Poverty makes life easier for the rich by providing them with cookers,
76.____
gardeners, and other workers to perform basic chores when their employers enjoy
77.____
more pleasurable activities. Poverty provides a market for more inferior goods
and 78.____
service, such as day?old bread, run?down automobiles, or the advice of competent
79.____
physicians and lawyers. Poverty also provides a group that can be made to absorb
the costs of change. It is just that poverty is an inevitable outcome of the
American
economic system, in which the poor are politically powerless to influence or
change. 80.____
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Part Ⅴ
Writing (30 minutes)
Directions:For this part you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition
on the topic: How to Cope with Personal Crisis.?
You should write at least 150 words and base your composition on the outline
given in Chinese below:
How to Deal with Personal Crisis?
1.造成个人危机的起因。?
2.应对个人危机的方法。
北京大学外语学院 钱清
PartⅠ
Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
SectionA
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.
Example:You will hear: ?
M: When shall we start our work, Jane??
W: Tomorrow at 9 o’clock. But we must work quickly, for we have to finish everything
before 2 in the afternoon.?
Q: For how long can they work??
You will read:
A) 2 hours.
B) 3 hours.
C) 4 hours.
D) 5 hours.?
From the conversation we know that the two are talking about some work they
will start at 9 o’clock in the morning and have to finish at 2 in the afternoon.
Therefore, D)“5 hours” is the correct answer. You should choose ［D］ on the Answer
Sheet and mark it with a single line through the center.
Sample Answer ［A］ ［B］［C］ ［D］?
1.A) The man should try to be more understanding.
B) The man’s wife should be more understanding.
C) The man’s negative attitude may be derived from his childhood.
D) The pessimism of man’s wife may be the result of her past experiences.
?
2.A) A snowstorm.B) An earthquake.?
C) A traffic accident.D) A hurricane.?
3.A) The two speakers are classmates.
B) The man is majoring in elementary education.
C) The woman is majoring in elementary education.
D) The two speakers got to know each other in a class.?
4.A) She’s got a stomachache.?B) She feels perfectly fine.
C) She’s going to get married.?D) She’s going to have a baby.?
5.A) It is the best city he’s ever visited.?
B) It was worse than he had expected.
C) It is difficult to get around in the city.?
D) The hotel service is terrible in the city.?
6.A) To encourage them.?
B) To stop them immediately.
C) To give some explanation.?
D) To leave them alone.?
7.A) Unemployment.B) Family breakup.?
C) Mental problems.D) Drinking.
8.A) The woman is the man’s boss.?
B) The man is the woman’s husband.
C) The woman is the headmaster of a school.?
D) The woman wants to know something about a student.?
9.A) They are attending a concert.?
B) They are negotiating about a price.
C) They are planning to go for a date.?
D) They are buying something for their firm.?
10.A) The man is a football fan.?
B) The man needs the woman’s help.
C) The man didn’t watch TV last night.?
D) The man often has power failure at home.??
SectionB
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 S1 to S7 with the exact words you have just heard. For
blanks numbered from S8 to S10 you are required to fill in the missing information.
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./;
Shyness is the cause of much unhappiness for a great many people. Shy people
are anxious and (11)____; that is, they are excessively concerned with their
own appearance and actions. (12)____ thoughts are constantly occurring in their
minds: What kind of impression am I making? Do they like me? Do I sound stupid?
Am I wearing (13)____ clothes?/;
It is obvious that such uncomfortable feelings must affect people (14)____.
A person’s self?concept is (15)____ in the way he or she behaves, and the way
a person behaves affects other people’s (16)____. In general, the way people
think about themselves has a (17)____ effect on all areas of their lives./;
Shy people are very sensitive to criticism; they feel it confirms their inferiority.
(18)____. A shy person may respond to a compliment with a statement like this
one:“you’re just saying that to make me feel good. I know it’s not true.”(19)____./;
Can shyness be completely eliminated, or at least reduced? (20)____. People’s
expectations of themselves must be realistic. Living on the impossible leads
to a sense of inadequacy.
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Part Ⅱ
Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Directions:There are 4 reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed
by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four
choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark
the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the
center.
Passage One?
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage:?
When Kathie Gifford’s face was splashed across the newspapers in 1996 after
her lucrative line of Wal?mart clothing was exposed as the work of underpaid
laborers in New York City’s Chinatown, the Department of Labor and the White
House teamed up to condemn such practices. With much fanfare, President Clinton’s
administration launched the “No Sweat” campaign, which pressured retailers and
manufacturers to submit to periodic independent inspection of their workplace
conditions./;
This campaign urged manufacturers to sign the Workplace Code of Conduct, a promise
to self?regulate that has since been adopted by a handful of retailers and many
of the nation’s largest manufacturers, including Nike and L.L. Bean. However,
the Department of Defense, which has a $ 1 billion garment business that would
make it the country’s 14th largest retail apparel outlet, has not signed the
Code of Conduct. In addition, it has not agreed to demand that its contractors
submit to periodic inspections./;
Because the Department of Defense has not agreed to adhere to the code, the
job of stopping public?sector sweatshops falls to the Department of Labor. Federal
contractors that persist in violating wage laws or safety and health codes can
lose their lucrative taxpayer?financed contracts. But Suzanne Seiden, a deputy
administrator at the Department of Labor, says that to her knowledge, the department
has never applied that rule to government apparel manufacturers. “I just assume
that they are adhering to safety and health requirements,” she says. According
to records obtained by Mother Jones, through a Freedom of Information Act request,
the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Lion 32 times for
safety and health violations in the past 12 years.
21.What is this passgage mainly concerned with?
A)The functions of the Department of Labor in America.
B)A serious problem threatening American economy.
C)The successful attempt of regulating sweatshops in America.
D)The seriousness of the problem of sweatshops in America.?
22.According to the passage, Kathie Gifford ____.
A) was one of the underpaid laborers in New York City’s Chinatown
B) was one of the well?paid laborers in New York City’s Chinatown
C) made much money from cheap laborers in New York City’s Chinatown
D) wrote a newspaper article exposing the practice of employing cheap laborers
?
23.The underlined phrase “to submit to” is closest in meaning to ____.
A) to accept unwillingly?
B) to refuse coldly
C) to welcome warm?heartedly?
D) to blame strongly?
24.Which of the following statements about the Department of Defense is true?
A) It will become the country’s 14th largest retail apparel manufacturer.
B) It hasn’t acted according to the Workplace Code of Conduct.
C) It has demanded its contractors to sign the Workplace Code of Conduct.
D) It has teamed up with the Department of Labor to launch a campaign.?
25.What was the purpose of President Clinton’s administration launching the
“No Sweat” campaign?
A) To urge manufacturers to obey the Workplace Code of Conduct.
B) To remind the manufacturers of the Workplace Code of Conduct.
C) To urge the Department of Labor to take its responsibility.
D) To urge the Department of Defense to inspect manufacturers.?
Passage Two?
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage:?
The term investment portfolio conjures up visions of the truly rich-the Rockefellers,
the Wal?Mart Waltons, Bill Gates. But today, everyone-from the Philadelphia
firefighter, his part?time receptionist wife and their three children, to the
single Los Angeles lawyer starting out on his own-needs a portfolio./;
A portfolio is simply a collection of financial assets. It may include real
estate, rare stamps and coins, precious metals and even artworks. But those
are for people with expertise. What most of us need to know about are stocks,
bonds and cash (including such cash equivalents as money?market funds)./;
How do you decide what part of your portfolio should go to each of the big three?
Begin by understanding that stocks pay higher returns but are more risky; bonds
and cash pay lower returns but are less risky./;
Research by Ibbotson Associates, for example, shows that large?company stocks,
on average, have returned 11.2 percent annually since 1926. Over the same period,
by comparison, bonds have returned an annual average of 5.3 percent and cash,
3.8 percent./;
But short?term risk is another matter. In 1974, a one?year $1000 investment
in the stock market would have declined to $735./;
With bonds, there are two kinds of risk: that the borrower won’t pay you back
and that the money you’ll get won’t be worth very much. The U.S. government
stands behind treasury bonds, so the credit risk is almost nil. But the inflation
risk remains. Say you buy a $1000 bond maturing in ten years. If inflation averages
about seven percent over that time, then the $1000 you receive at maturity can
only buy $500 worth of today’s goods./;
With cash, the inflation risk is lower, since over a long period you can keep
rolling over your CDs every year (or more often). If inflation rises, interest
rates rise to compensate./;
As a result, the single most imortant rule in building a portfolio is this:
If you don’t need the money for a long time, then put it into stocks. If you
need it soon, put it into bonds and cash.
26.This passage is intended to give advice on ____.
A) how to avoid inflation risks?
B) what kinds of bonds to buy
C) how to get rich by investing in stock market?
D) how to become richer by spreading the risk?
27.The author mentions such millionaires as the Rockefellers and Bill Gates
to show that ____.
A) they are examples for us on our road to wealth
B) a portfolio is essential to financial success
C) they are really rich people
D) they started out on their own?
28.Which of the following statements will the author support?
A) Everybody can get rich with some financial assets.
B) The credit risk for treasury bonds is extremely high.
C) It’s no use trying to know the advantages of stocks, bonds and cash.
D) Everybody should realize the importance of distribution of their financial
assets.?
29.The word “returns” in paragraph three can be best replaced by “____.”?
A) returning journeys?
B) profits?
C) savings?
D) investments?
30.The author of the passage points out that ____.
A) keeping cash is the only way to avoid risks
B) the longer you own a stock, the more you lost
C) the high rate of profit and high rate of risk coexist in stocks
D) the best way to accumulate wealth is by investing in stocks?
Passage Three?
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage:?
There were two widely divergent influences on the early development of statistical
methods. Statistics had a mother who was dedicated to keeping orderly records
of governmental units (state and statistics come from the same Latin root, status)
and a gentlemanly gambling father who relied on mathematics to increase his
skill at playing the odds in games of chance. The influence of the mother on
the offspring, statistics, is represented by counting, measuring, describing,
tabulating, ordering, and the taking of censuses—all of which led to modern
descriptive statistics. From the influence of the father came modern inferential
statistics, which is based squarely on theories of probability./;
Descriptive statistics involves tabulating, depicting, and describing collections
of data. These data may be either quantitative, such as measures of height,
intelligence, or grade level—variables that are characterized by an underlying
continuum—or the data many represent qualitative variables, such as sex, college
major, or personality type. Large masses of data must generally undergo a process
of summarization or reducing to comprehensibly form the properties of an otherwise
unwieldy mass of data./;
Inferential statistics is a formalized body of methods for solving another class
of problems that present great difficulties for the unaided human mind. This
general class of problems characteristically involves attempts to make predictions
using a sample of observations. For example, a school superintendent wishes
to determine the proportion of children in a large school system who come to
school without breakfast, have been vaccinated for flu, or whatever. Having
a little knowledge of statistics, the superintendent would know that it is unnecessary
and inefficiency to question each child; the proportion for the entire district
could be estimated fairly accurately from a sample of as few as 100 children.
Thus, the purpose of inferential statistics is to predict or estimate characteristics
of a population from a knowledge of the characteristics of only a sample of
the population.
31.What is the passage mainly concerned with?
A) Development and application of statistics.
B) Origin of descriptive statistics.
C) Limitations of inferential statistics.
D) Importance of statistics.?
32.Describing and tabulating are associated with ____.
A) inferential statistics?
B) descriptive statistics
C) theories of probability?
D) inefficiency of counting?
33.Which of the following statements is true about descriptive statistics?
A) It combines quantitative variables and qualitative variables.
B) It can be used to deal with only quantitative variables.
C) It helps to summarize properties of a group of data.
D) It helps to make predictions using a sample of observations.?
34.The word “unwieldy” in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to ____.
A) difficult to collect B) difficult to tackle?
C) incomprehensiveD) uncontrollable?
35.A sample of a population is often examined for the following purposes except
____.
A) to make a more accurate prediction of trend
B) to improve efficiency and avoid unnecessary work
C) to save the trouble of approaching every members
D) to predict characteristics of the entire population?
Passage Four?
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage:?
The Japanese are fascinated by automata and new inventions. Japanese children
are used to friendly robots in their comics, in toys, and in TV animated cartoons.
When as adults they join the workforce,robots mean that there is no need to
import cheap foreign labor, as happens in many other parts of the world. There
is no need for humans to put up with dirty, mind?deadening mechanical work the
robot does it all without complaint, around the clock. Robots don’t go on strike
over tea breaks they don’t have tea, or any other kind of breaks:they work,
day and night, without having to be paid overtime, without making mistakes.
Human tasks are subject to human error: robot error seldom or never occurs except
as a result of human error!/;
In Japan, robots are almost respected for their virtues. When a new robot is
introduced to a small suburban factory, a Shinto priest is invited to inaugurate
it. He inaugurates the robot with words along the lines of “Welcome to our co?worker,
we hope you’ll help him settle in.” No one laughs./;
FANUC demonstrates the Japanese tendency to conform particularly strikingly.
The founder of FANUC, Dr. Inaba, has created an army that makes no distinction
between blue?collar, white?collar and steel?collar worker: everyone, including
the warlord himself, is dressed in yellow clothing issued free by the company.
Perh
aps to make up for the boring nature of the work, there are a number of other
company perks. Company benefits, including pay, are much higher than in similar
companies in Japan. Travel to and from work is provided free in the company’s
yellow buses. However, workers are expected to put in demanding unpaid “overtime.”
There is a clock in the product development laboratory set to run at ten times
the normal speed, the remind everyone that the company is on a war footing./;
As we watched Dr. Inaba’s yellow helicopter soar away to Narita airport, we
couldn’t help thinking that his dream of world domination in robotics and allied
applications might be more elegantly achieved if he had also thought to program
his robots to whistle while they work.
36.According to the author, which of the following is not true to the Japanese?
A) Robots mean there is no need to import cheap foreign labor.
B) Robots mean that humans needn’t do dirty and noisy work.
C) Robots mean there are no strikes nor overtimes.
D) Robots mean there is no mistake in any form.?
37.What can be inferred form the words “He inaugurates the robot with words
along the lines of ‘Welcome to our co?worker, we hope you’ll help him settle
in.’No one laughs.”?
A) The Japanese has no sense of humor while at work.
B) The Japanese does not understand the words of the Shinto priest.
C) The Japanese shows a true respect for robots.
D) The Japanese goes too far in their respect for robots.?
38.Which of the following is not true about FANUC?
A) Workers receive higher pay for working overtime.
B) Workers enjoy free travel to and from work.
C) Workers are doing boring, sometimes demanding work.
D) Workers are reminded of being on a war footing.?
39.What is not implied in the following works “we couldn’t help thinking that
his dream of world domination in robotics and allied applications might be more
elegantly achieved if he had also thought to program his robots to whistle while
they work.”?
A) Our technology is not yet up to the needs of Dr. Inaba’s dream.
B) Dr. Inaba’s dream of world domination in robotics lacks humanity.
C) Dr. Inaba’s dream of allied applications is too practical.
D) The author is in favor of Dr. Inaba’s dream.?
40.What does “our co?worker” refer to in the sentence “Welcome to our co?worker,
we hope you’ll help him settle in?”
A) Japanese workers who attend the inauguration.?
B) The introduced robot.
C) The people who have invented the robot.?
D) Japanese workers in general.
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Part Ⅲ
Vocabulary (20 minutes)
Directions:There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence
there are four choices marked. A), B), C) and D). Choose the ONE that best completes
the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a
single line through the center.
41.Since the most commonly accepted test is the TOEFL exam, most institutions
will expect a ____ TOEFL score for admission.
A) minimal B) maximal?
C) mimimumD) maximum?
42.It was believed that his death ____ with the robbery of the bank downtown.
A) accompaniedB) coincided?
C) correlatedD) conformed?
43.Does Emerson find his career full and ____ as a basketball player?
A) conflictingB) charming? C) rewardingD) awarding?
44.The local government gave the first ____ to education after the war.
A) projectionB) protection? C） professionD) priority?
45.The professor ____ his habit of getting up early in the morning to do writing
all his life.
A) projectionB) retained? C） retailedD) revitalized?
46.The news of our team winning the match was really ____, and millions
of people came out to celebrate the victory.
A) overwhelmingB) accelerating? C） promptingD) preceding?
47.What the government should do urgently is to take actions to ____ the economy.
A) brookB) blush? C） boostD) brood?
48.The explosion in the mine was ____ by a careless miner who lit a match.
A) triggeredB) claimed? C） hamperedD) protested?
49.The mass newspaper depended significantly more on advertising ____ than did
their predecessors.
A) revenuesB) incomes? C） avenuesD) outcomes?
50.Some minerals are quite common, others are regionally ____, and still others
are rare on the earth.
A) attributedB) distributed? C） contributedD) scattered?
51.The most successful way to solve the language problem while a foreign
play is being performed is ____ translation.
A) instantaneousB) spontaneous? C） simultaneousD) homogeneous?
52.The hostess ____ in the contract that the rent should be paid in cash at
the beginning of each month.
A) assumedB) submitted? C） exposedD) specified?
53.This year, the number of accidents has ____ that of last year.
A) overtakenB) overweighed? C） overcomeD) overshadowed?
54.You must ____ yourself or they will continue to bully you, so you will go
on living in disgrace.
A) assessB) assert? C） maintainD) promote?
55.While both plans were perfectly sensible, only one seemed ____ in China’s
particular situation.
A) availableB) feasible? C）resolvableD) presumable?
56.A good teacher must know how to ____ his ideas to the students, as generally
agreed by educational experts.
A) transmitB) transfer? C） conveyD) communicate?
57.If you keep on taking on more work than you can do, your health will ____.
A) declineB) degrade? C） degenerateD) deteriorate?
58.The director tried to wave aside these issues as ____ details that would
be settled later.
A) preliminaryB) primary? C） trivialD) alternative?
59.As one of the youngest professors in the university, Miss King is certainly
on the ____ of a brilliant career.
A) endB) edge? C） thresholdD) course?
60.During the famine of 1943, millions of peasants ____ to the cities because
they could not make a living in the countryside.
A) immigratedB) emigrated? C） migratedD) generated?
61.I’m sorry to inform you that you application has been declined. Our manager
thought you were not ____ for the post.
A) legibleB) eligible? C） validD) literate?
62.Visitors to Britain are sometimes surprised to learn that newspapers there
have such a large ____.
A) issueB) distribution? C） coverageD) circulation?
63.This line was carrying equal number of eastbound and westbound trains, and
they ____ regularly.
A) alteredB) alternated? C) switchedD) exchanged?
64.The three astronauts have splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, only six
miles from the aircraft carrier that was ____ for the recovery mission.
A) dispatchedB) deposited? C) deployedD) delivered?
65.Pubs have fanciful names like “The Red Lion” or “The Pig and Whistle” and
they often have picutre on a signboard outside to ____ the name.
A) justifyB) illustrate? C) modifyD) clarify?
66.There are two main requirements before the fifth?generation computer can
become a reality and it is these that scientists are ____.
A) anticipatingB) tackling? C) manipulatingD) speculating?
67.College students in this city have set up “the Cleaner Air Society”
to help urban citizens become aware of the ____ to our environment.
A) conditionsB) situations ? C) dangersD) threats?
68.When you get a minor burn, pour some cold water on it, which will help
____ the pain of the burn.
A) relieveB) relax? C) revealD) release?
69.The library published a colletion of books recently made ____ to the public.
A) acceptableB) accessible? C) accommodableD) accountable?
70.For 14 years after her spouse’s death, she saw the ____ meaning of her life
as nourishing her son and safeguarding her husband’s works.
A) dueB) lone? C) soleD) keen
Part Ⅳ
Error Correction (15 minutes)
Directions:This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are
altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a
word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections
in the blanks provided. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct
word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put an insertion mark (∧)
in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a
word, cross it out and put a slash (/) in the blank.?
Example:?
Television is rapidly becoming the literatures of our periods.Many of
1.time?
the arguments having used for the study of literature as a school subject
2.?
are valid for ∧ study of television. 3.the
Poverty exists because our society is an unequal one, and there are powerful
political pressures to keep it that way. Any attempt to redistributing wealth
and in? 71.____
come in the United States will inevitably be opposed by powerful middle and
upper
class interests. People can be relatively rich only if you are relatively poor,
and as 72.____
power is mainly in the hands of the rich, public policies reflect their interests
than 73.____
those of the poor.
As Mr. Herbert Gans has pointed out, poverty is actually functional from the
point of view of the non?poor. Poverty ensures that dirty work gets doing. If
there 74.____
were no poor poeple to scrub floors and empty bedpans, there jobs will have
to be 75.____
rewarded with high incomes before anyone would touch them. Poverty creates jobs
for many of the non?poor, such as police officers, welfare workers, and government
bureaucrats. Poverty makes life easier for the rich by providing them with cookers,
76.____
gardeners, and other workers to perform basic chores when their employers enjoy
77.____
more pleasurable activities. Poverty provides a market for more inferior goods
and 78.____
service, such as day?old bread, run?down automobiles, or the advice of competent
79.____
physicians and lawyers. Poverty also provides a group that can be made to absorb
the costs of change. It is just that poverty is an inevitable outcome of the
American
economic system, in which the poor are politically powerless to influence or
change. 80.____
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Part Ⅴ
Writing (30 minutes)
Directions:For this part you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition
on the topic: How to Cope with Personal Crisis.?
You should write at least 150 words and base your composition on the outline
given in Chinese below:
How to Deal with Personal Crisis?
1.造成个人危机的起因。?
2.应对个人危机的方法。
答案部分
听力原文?
Section A?
1.M:I couldn’t put up with my wife any longer. I don’t know why she usually
wants to look at everything in such a negative way.?
W:Maybe you should try to get to know something about her childhood.?
Q:What does the woman mean??
2.M:Lucy, could you describe what you were doing at the moment??
W:Well, I was still sleeping at 6 o’clock. Then there was this horrible sound
and the floor was just bouncing and rolling like waves, all at the same time.?
Q:What are the speakers talking about??
3.W:Hi, Peter. I was surprised to see you in the class in ?children’s ? literature
yesterday. Are you also majoring in elementary education??
M:No, I’m not. But as a psychology major I can use this to fulfill the requirement
in developmental psychology.?
Q:What do you learn from the conversation??
4.W:Dr. Cassidy. I’m actually fine. It’s just that I’ve been a little tired
the last few days, and my stomach is kind of upset.?
M:Well, that doesn’t surprise me. I have some news that you might find exciting.
You’re pregnant.?
Q:What do you know about the woman??
5.W:Mike, how did you enjoy your trip? What did you think
PartⅠ
Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
SectionA
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.
Example:You will hear: ?
M: When shall we start our work, Jane??
W: Tomorrow at 9 o’clock. But we must work quickly, for we have to finish everything
before 2 in the afternoon.?
Q: For how long can they work??
You will read:
A) 2 hours.
B) 3 hours.
C) 4 hours.
D) 5 hours.?
From the conversation we know that the two are talking about some work they
will start at 9 o’clock in the morning and have to finish at 2 in the afternoon.
Therefore, D)“5 hours” is the correct answer. You should choose ［D］ on the Answer
Sheet and mark it with a single line through the center.
Sample Answer ［A］ ［B］［C］ ［D］?
1.A) The man should try to be more understanding.
B) The man’s wife should be more understanding.
C) The man’s negative attitude may be derived from his childhood.
D) The pessimism of man’s wife may be the result of her past experiences.
?
2.A) A snowstorm.B) An earthquake.?
C) A traffic accident.D) A hurricane.?
3.A) The two speakers are classmates.
B) The man is majoring in elementary education.
C) The woman is majoring in elementary education.
D) The two speakers got to know each other in a class.?
4.A) She’s got a stomachache.?B) She feels perfectly fine.
C) She’s going to get married.?D) She’s going to have a baby.?
5.A) It is the best city he’s ever visited.?
B) It was worse than he had expected.
C) It is difficult to get around in the city.?
D) The hotel service is terrible in the city.?
6.A) To encourage them.?
B) To stop them immediately.
C) To give some explanation.?
D) To leave them alone.?
7.A) Unemployment.B) Family breakup.?
C) Mental problems.D) Drinking.
8.A) The woman is the man’s boss.?
B) The man is the woman’s husband.
C) The woman is the headmaster of a school.?
D) The woman wants to know something about a student.?
9.A) They are attending a concert.?
B) They are negotiating about a price.
C) They are planning to go for a date.?
D) They are buying something for their firm.?
10.A) The man is a football fan.?
B) The man needs the woman’s help.
C) The man didn’t watch TV last night.?
D) The man often has power failure at home.??
SectionB
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 S1 to S7 with the exact words you have just heard. For
blanks numbered from S8 to S10 you are required to fill in the missing information.
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./;
Shyness is the cause of much unhappiness for a great many people. Shy people
are anxious and (11)____; that is, they are excessively concerned with their
own appearance and actions. (12)____ thoughts are constantly occurring in their
minds: What kind of impression am I making? Do they like me? Do I sound stupid?
Am I wearing (13)____ clothes?/;
It is obvious that such uncomfortable feelings must affect people (14)____.
A person’s self?concept is (15)____ in the way he or she behaves, and the way
a person behaves affects other people’s (16)____. In general, the way people
think about themselves has a (17)____ effect on all areas of their lives./;
Shy people are very sensitive to criticism; they feel it confirms their inferiority.
(18)____. A shy person may respond to a compliment with a statement like this
one:“you’re just saying that to make me feel good. I know it’s not true.”(19)____./;
Can shyness be completely eliminated, or at least reduced? (20)____. People’s
expectations of themselves must be realistic. Living on the impossible leads
to a sense of inadequacy.
?
Part Ⅱ
Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Directions:There are 4 reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed
by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four
choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark
the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the
center.
Passage One?
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage:?
When Kathie Gifford’s face was splashed across the newspapers in 1996 after
her lucrative line of Wal?mart clothing was exposed as the work of underpaid
laborers in New York City’s Chinatown, the Department of Labor and the White
House teamed up to condemn such practices. With much fanfare, President Clinton’s
administration launched the “No Sweat” campaign, which pressured retailers and
manufacturers to submit to periodic independent inspection of their workplace
conditions./;
This campaign urged manufacturers to sign the Workplace Code of Conduct, a promise
to self?regulate that has since been adopted by a handful of retailers and many
of the nation’s largest manufacturers, including Nike and L.L. Bean. However,
the Department of Defense, which has a $ 1 billion garment business that would
make it the country’s 14th largest retail apparel outlet, has not signed the
Code of Conduct. In addition, it has not agreed to demand that its contractors
submit to periodic inspections./;
Because the Department of Defense has not agreed to adhere to the code, the
job of stopping public?sector sweatshops falls to the Department of Labor. Federal
contractors that persist in violating wage laws or safety and health codes can
lose their lucrative taxpayer?financed contracts. But Suzanne Seiden, a deputy
administrator at the Department of Labor, says that to her knowledge, the department
has never applied that rule to government apparel manufacturers. “I just assume
that they are adhering to safety and health requirements,” she says. According
to records obtained by Mother Jones, through a Freedom of Information Act request,
the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Lion 32 times for
safety and health violations in the past 12 years.
21.What is this passgage mainly concerned with?
A)The functions of the Department of Labor in America.
B)A serious problem threatening American economy.
C)The successful attempt of regulating sweatshops in America.
D)The seriousness of the problem of sweatshops in America.?
22.According to the passage, Kathie Gifford ____.
A) was one of the underpaid laborers in New York City’s Chinatown
B) was one of the well?paid laborers in New York City’s Chinatown
C) made much money from cheap laborers in New York City’s Chinatown
D) wrote a newspaper article exposing the practice of employing cheap laborers
?
23.The underlined phrase “to submit to” is closest in meaning to ____.
A) to accept unwillingly?
B) to refuse coldly
C) to welcome warm?heartedly?
D) to blame strongly?
24.Which of the following statements about the Department of Defense is true?
A) It will become the country’s 14th largest retail apparel manufacturer.
B) It hasn’t acted according to the Workplace Code of Conduct.
C) It has demanded its contractors to sign the Workplace Code of Conduct.
D) It has teamed up with the Department of Labor to launch a campaign.?
25.What was the purpose of President Clinton’s administration launching the
“No Sweat” campaign?
A) To urge manufacturers to obey the Workplace Code of Conduct.
B) To remind the manufacturers of the Workplace Code of Conduct.
C) To urge the Department of Labor to take its responsibility.
D) To urge the Department of Defense to inspect manufacturers.?
Passage Two?
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage:?
The term investment portfolio conjures up visions of the truly rich-the Rockefellers,
the Wal?Mart Waltons, Bill Gates. But today, everyone-from the Philadelphia
firefighter, his part?time receptionist wife and their three children, to the
single Los Angeles lawyer starting out on his own-needs a portfolio./;
A portfolio is simply a collection of financial assets. It may include real
estate, rare stamps and coins, precious metals and even artworks. But those
are for people with expertise. What most of us need to know about are stocks,
bonds and cash (including such cash equivalents as money?market funds)./;
How do you decide what part of your portfolio should go to each of the big three?
Begin by understanding that stocks pay higher returns but are more risky; bonds
and cash pay lower returns but are less risky./;
Research by Ibbotson Associates, for example, shows that large?company stocks,
on average, have returned 11.2 percent annually since 1926. Over the same period,
by comparison, bonds have returned an annual average of 5.3 percent and cash,
3.8 percent./;
But short?term risk is another matter. In 1974, a one?year $1000 investment
in the stock market would have declined to $735./;
With bonds, there are two kinds of risk: that the borrower won’t pay you back
and that the money you’ll get won’t be worth very much. The U.S. government
stands behind treasury bonds, so the credit risk is almost nil. But the inflation
risk remains. Say you buy a $1000 bond maturing in ten years. If inflation averages
about seven percent over that time, then the $1000 you receive at maturity can
only buy $500 worth of today’s goods./;
With cash, the inflation risk is lower, since over a long period you can keep
rolling over your CDs every year (or more often). If inflation rises, interest
rates rise to compensate./;
As a result, the single most imortant rule in building a portfolio is this:
If you don’t need the money for a long time, then put it into stocks. If you
need it soon, put it into bonds and cash.
26.This passage is intended to give advice on ____.
A) how to avoid inflation risks?
B) what kinds of bonds to buy
C) how to get rich by investing in stock market?
D) how to become richer by spreading the risk?
27.The author mentions such millionaires as the Rockefellers and Bill Gates
to show that ____.
A) they are examples for us on our road to wealth
B) a portfolio is essential to financial success
C) they are really rich people
D) they started out on their own?
28.Which of the following statements will the author support?
A) Everybody can get rich with some financial assets.
B) The credit risk for treasury bonds is extremely high.
C) It’s no use trying to know the advantages of stocks, bonds and cash.
D) Everybody should realize the importance of distribution of their financial
assets.?
29.The word “returns” in paragraph three can be best replaced by “____.”?
A) returning journeys?
B) profits?
C) savings?
D) investments?
30.The author of the passage points out that ____.
A) keeping cash is the only way to avoid risks
B) the longer you own a stock, the more you lost
C) the high rate of profit and high rate of risk coexist in stocks
D) the best way to accumulate wealth is by investing in stocks?
Passage Three?
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage:?
There were two widely divergent influences on the early development of statistical
methods. Statistics had a mother who was dedicated to keeping orderly records
of governmental units (state and statistics come from the same Latin root, status)
and a gentlemanly gambling father who relied on mathematics to increase his
skill at playing the odds in games of chance. The influence of the mother on
the offspring, statistics, is represented by counting, measuring, describing,
tabulating, ordering, and the taking of censuses—all of which led to modern
descriptive statistics. From the influence of the father came modern inferential
statistics, which is based squarely on theories of probability./;
Descriptive statistics involves tabulating, depicting, and describing collections
of data. These data may be either quantitative, such as measures of height,
intelligence, or grade level—variables that are characterized by an underlying
continuum—or the data many represent qualitative variables, such as sex, college
major, or personality type. Large masses of data must generally undergo a process
of summarization or reducing to comprehensibly form the properties of an otherwise
unwieldy mass of data./;
Inferential statistics is a formalized body of methods for solving another class
of problems that present great difficulties for the unaided human mind. This
general class of problems characteristically involves attempts to make predictions
using a sample of observations. For example, a school superintendent wishes
to determine the proportion of children in a large school system who come to
school without breakfast, have been vaccinated for flu, or whatever. Having
a little knowledge of statistics, the superintendent would know that it is unnecessary
and inefficiency to question each child; the proportion for the entire district
could be estimated fairly accurately from a sample of as few as 100 children.
Thus, the purpose of inferential statistics is to predict or estimate characteristics
of a population from a knowledge of the characteristics of only a sample of
the population.
31.What is the passage mainly concerned with?
A) Development and application of statistics.
B) Origin of descriptive statistics.
C) Limitations of inferential statistics.
D) Importance of statistics.?
32.Describing and tabulating are associated with ____.
A) inferential statistics?
B) descriptive statistics
C) theories of probability?
D) inefficiency of counting?
33.Which of the following statements is true about descriptive statistics?
A) It combines quantitative variables and qualitative variables.
B) It can be used to deal with only quantitative variables.
C) It helps to summarize properties of a group of data.
D) It helps to make predictions using a sample of observations.?
34.The word “unwieldy” in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to ____.
A) difficult to collect B) difficult to tackle?
C) incomprehensiveD) uncontrollable?
35.A sample of a population is often examined for the following purposes except
____.
A) to make a more accurate prediction of trend
B) to improve efficiency and avoid unnecessary work
C) to save the trouble of approaching every members
D) to predict characteristics of the entire population?
Passage Four?
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage:?
The Japanese are fascinated by automata and new inventions. Japanese children
are used to friendly robots in their comics, in toys, and in TV animated cartoons.
When as adults they join the workforce,robots mean that there is no need to
import cheap foreign labor, as happens in many other parts of the world. There
is no need for humans to put up with dirty, mind?deadening mechanical work the
robot does it all without complaint, around the clock. Robots don’t go on strike
over tea breaks they don’t have tea, or any other kind of breaks:they work,
day and night, without having to be paid overtime, without making mistakes.
Human tasks are subject to human error: robot error seldom or never occurs except
as a result of human error!/;
In Japan, robots are almost respected for their virtues. When a new robot is
introduced to a small suburban factory, a Shinto priest is invited to inaugurate
it. He inaugurates the robot with words along the lines of “Welcome to our co?worker,
we hope you’ll help him settle in.” No one laughs./;
FANUC demonstrates the Japanese tendency to conform particularly strikingly.
The founder of FANUC, Dr. Inaba, has created an army that makes no distinction
between blue?collar, white?collar and steel?collar worker: everyone, including
the warlord himself, is dressed in yellow clothing issued free by the company.
Perh
aps to make up for the boring nature of the work, there are a number of other
company perks. Company benefits, including pay, are much higher than in similar
companies in Japan. Travel to and from work is provided free in the company’s
yellow buses. However, workers are expected to put in demanding unpaid “overtime.”
There is a clock in the product development laboratory set to run at ten times
the normal speed, the remind everyone that the company is on a war footing./;
As we watched Dr. Inaba’s yellow helicopter soar away to Narita airport, we
couldn’t help thinking that his dream of world domination in robotics and allied
applications might be more elegantly achieved if he had also thought to program
his robots to whistle while they work.
36.According to the author, which of the following is not true to the Japanese?
A) Robots mean there is no need to import cheap foreign labor.
B) Robots mean that humans needn’t do dirty and noisy work.
C) Robots mean there are no strikes nor overtimes.
D) Robots mean there is no mistake in any form.?
37.What can be inferred form the words “He inaugurates the robot with words
along the lines of ‘Welcome to our co?worker, we hope you’ll help him settle
in.’No one laughs.”?
A) The Japanese has no sense of humor while at work.
B) The Japanese does not understand the words of the Shinto priest.
C) The Japanese shows a true respect for robots.
D) The Japanese goes too far in their respect for robots.?
38.Which of the following is not true about FANUC?
A) Workers receive higher pay for working overtime.
B) Workers enjoy free travel to and from work.
C) Workers are doing boring, sometimes demanding work.
D) Workers are reminded of being on a war footing.?
39.What is not implied in the following works “we couldn’t help thinking that
his dream of world domination in robotics and allied applications might be more
elegantly achieved if he had also thought to program his robots to whistle while
they work.”?
A) Our technology is not yet up to the needs of Dr. Inaba’s dream.
B) Dr. Inaba’s dream of world domination in robotics lacks humanity.
C) Dr. Inaba’s dream of allied applications is too practical.
D) The author is in favor of Dr. Inaba’s dream.?
40.What does “our co?worker” refer to in the sentence “Welcome to our co?worker,
we hope you’ll help him settle in?”
A) Japanese workers who attend the inauguration.?
B) The introduced robot.
C) The people who have invented the robot.?
D) Japanese workers in general.
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Part Ⅲ
Vocabulary (20 minutes)
Directions:There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence
there are four choices marked. A), B), C) and D). Choose the ONE that best completes
the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a
single line through the center.
41.Since the most commonly accepted test is the TOEFL exam, most institutions
will expect a ____ TOEFL score for admission.
A) minimal B) maximal?
C) mimimumD) maximum?
42.It was believed that his death ____ with the robbery of the bank downtown.
A) accompaniedB) coincided?
C) correlatedD) conformed?
43.Does Emerson find his career full and ____ as a basketball player?
A) conflictingB) charming? C) rewardingD) awarding?
44.The local government gave the first ____ to education after the war.
A) projectionB) protection? C） professionD) priority?
45.The professor ____ his habit of getting up early in the morning to do writing
all his life.
A) projectionB) retained? C） retailedD) revitalized?
46.The news of our team winning the match was really ____, and millions
of people came out to celebrate the victory.
A) overwhelmingB) accelerating? C） promptingD) preceding?
47.What the government should do urgently is to take actions to ____ the economy.
A) brookB) blush? C） boostD) brood?
48.The explosion in the mine was ____ by a careless miner who lit a match.
A) triggeredB) claimed? C） hamperedD) protested?
49.The mass newspaper depended significantly more on advertising ____ than did
their predecessors.
A) revenuesB) incomes? C） avenuesD) outcomes?
50.Some minerals are quite common, others are regionally ____, and still others
are rare on the earth.
A) attributedB) distributed? C） contributedD) scattered?
51.The most successful way to solve the language problem while a foreign
play is being performed is ____ translation.
A) instantaneousB) spontaneous? C） simultaneousD) homogeneous?
52.The hostess ____ in the contract that the rent should be paid in cash at
the beginning of each month.
A) assumedB) submitted? C） exposedD) specified?
53.This year, the number of accidents has ____ that of last year.
A) overtakenB) overweighed? C） overcomeD) overshadowed?
54.You must ____ yourself or they will continue to bully you, so you will go
on living in disgrace.
A) assessB) assert? C） maintainD) promote?
55.While both plans were perfectly sensible, only one seemed ____ in China’s
particular situation.
A) availableB) feasible? C）resolvableD) presumable?
56.A good teacher must know how to ____ his ideas to the students, as generally
agreed by educational experts.
A) transmitB) transfer? C） conveyD) communicate?
57.If you keep on taking on more work than you can do, your health will ____.
A) declineB) degrade? C） degenerateD) deteriorate?
58.The director tried to wave aside these issues as ____ details that would
be settled later.
A) preliminaryB) primary? C） trivialD) alternative?
59.As one of the youngest professors in the university, Miss King is certainly
on the ____ of a brilliant career.
A) endB) edge? C） thresholdD) course?
60.During the famine of 1943, millions of peasants ____ to the cities because
they could not make a living in the countryside.
A) immigratedB) emigrated? C） migratedD) generated?
61.I’m sorry to inform you that you application has been declined. Our manager
thought you were not ____ for the post.
A) legibleB) eligible? C） validD) literate?
62.Visitors to Britain are sometimes surprised to learn that newspapers there
have such a large ____.
A) issueB) distribution? C） coverageD) circulation?
63.This line was carrying equal number of eastbound and westbound trains, and
they ____ regularly.
A) alteredB) alternated? C) switchedD) exchanged?
64.The three astronauts have splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, only six
miles from the aircraft carrier that was ____ for the recovery mission.
A) dispatchedB) deposited? C) deployedD) delivered?
65.Pubs have fanciful names like “The Red Lion” or “The Pig and Whistle” and
they often have picutre on a signboard outside to ____ the name.
A) justifyB) illustrate? C) modifyD) clarify?
66.There are two main requirements before the fifth?generation computer can
become a reality and it is these that scientists are ____.
A) anticipatingB) tackling? C) manipulatingD) speculating?
67.College students in this city have set up “the Cleaner Air Society”
to help urban citizens become aware of the ____ to our environment.
A) conditionsB) situations ? C) dangersD) threats?
68.When you get a minor burn, pour some cold water on it, which will help
____ the pain of the burn.
A) relieveB) relax? C) revealD) release?
69.The library published a colletion of books recently made ____ to the public.
A) acceptableB) accessible? C) accommodableD) accountable?
70.For 14 years after her spouse’s death, she saw the ____ meaning of her life
as nourishing her son and safeguarding her husband’s works.
A) dueB) lone? C) soleD) keen
Part Ⅳ
Error Correction (15 minutes)
Directions:This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are
altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a
word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections
in the blanks provided. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct
word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put an insertion mark (∧)
in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a
word, cross it out and put a slash (/) in the blank.?
Example:?
Television is rapidly becoming the literatures of our periods.Many of
1.time?
the arguments having used for the study of literature as a school subject
2.?
are valid for ∧ study of television. 3.the
Poverty exists because our society is an unequal one, and there are powerful
political pressures to keep it that way. Any attempt to redistributing wealth
and in? 71.____
come in the United States will inevitably be opposed by powerful middle and
upper
class interests. People can be relatively rich only if you are relatively poor,
and as 72.____
power is mainly in the hands of the rich, public policies reflect their interests
than 73.____
those of the poor.
As Mr. Herbert Gans has pointed out, poverty is actually functional from the
point of view of the non?poor. Poverty ensures that dirty work gets doing. If
there 74.____
were no poor poeple to scrub floors and empty bedpans, there jobs will have
to be 75.____
rewarded with high incomes before anyone would touch them. Poverty creates jobs
for many of the non?poor, such as police officers, welfare workers, and government
bureaucrats. Poverty makes life easier for the rich by providing them with cookers,
76.____
gardeners, and other workers to perform basic chores when their employers enjoy
77.____
more pleasurable activities. Poverty provides a market for more inferior goods
and 78.____
service, such as day?old bread, run?down automobiles, or the advice of competent
79.____
physicians and lawyers. Poverty also provides a group that can be made to absorb
the costs of change. It is just that poverty is an inevitable outcome of the
American
economic system, in which the poor are politically powerless to influence or
change. 80.____
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Part Ⅴ
Writing (30 minutes)
Directions:For this part you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition
on the topic: How to Cope with Personal Crisis.?
You should write at least 150 words and base your composition on the outline
given in Chinese below:
How to Deal with Personal Crisis?
1.造成个人危机的起因。?
2.应对个人危机的方法。
北京大学外语学院 钱清
PartⅠ
Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
SectionA
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.
Example:You will hear: ?
M: When shall we start our work, Jane??
W: Tomorrow at 9 o’clock. But we must work quickly, for we have to finish everything
before 2 in the afternoon.?
Q: For how long can they work??
You will read:
A) 2 hours.
B) 3 hours.
C) 4 hours.
D) 5 hours.?
From the conversation we know that the two are talking about some work they
will start at 9 o’clock in the morning and have to finish at 2 in the afternoon.
Therefore, D)“5 hours” is the correct answer. You should choose ［D］ on the Answer
Sheet and mark it with a single line through the center.
Sample Answer ［A］ ［B］［C］ ［D］?
1.A) The man should try to be more understanding.
B) The man’s wife should be more understanding.
C) The man’s negative attitude may be derived from his childhood.
D) The pessimism of man’s wife may be the result of her past experiences.
?
2.A) A snowstorm.B) An earthquake.?
C) A traffic accident.D) A hurricane.?
3.A) The two speakers are classmates.
B) The man is majoring in elementary education.
C) The woman is majoring in elementary education.
D) The two speakers got to know each other in a class.?
4.A) She’s got a stomachache.?B) She feels perfectly fine.
C) She’s going to get married.?D) She’s going to have a baby.?
5.A) It is the best city he’s ever visited.?
B) It was worse than he had expected.
C) It is difficult to get around in the city.?
D) The hotel service is terrible in the city.?
6.A) To encourage them.?
B) To stop them immediately.
C) To give some explanation.?
D) To leave them alone.?
7.A) Unemployment.B) Family breakup.?
C) Mental problems.D) Drinking.
8.A) The woman is the man’s boss.?
B) The man is the woman’s husband.
C) The woman is the headmaster of a school.?
D) The woman wants to know something about a student.?
9.A) They are attending a concert.?
B) They are negotiating about a price.
C) They are planning to go for a date.?
D) They are buying something for their firm.?
10.A) The man is a football fan.?
B) The man needs the woman’s help.
C) The man didn’t watch TV last night.?
D) The man often has power failure at home.??
SectionB
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 S1 to S7 with the exact words you have just heard. For
blanks numbered from S8 to S10 you are required to fill in the missing information.
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./;
Shyness is the cause of much unhappiness for a great many people. Shy people
are anxious and (11)____; that is, they are excessively concerned with their
own appearance and actions. (12)____ thoughts are constantly occurring in their
minds: What kind of impression am I making? Do they like me? Do I sound stupid?
Am I wearing (13)____ clothes?/;
It is obvious that such uncomfortable feelings must affect people (14)____.
A person’s self?concept is (15)____ in the way he or she behaves, and the way
a person behaves affects other people’s (16)____. In general, the way people
think about themselves has a (17)____ effect on all areas of their lives./;
Shy people are very sensitive to criticism; they feel it confirms their inferiority.
(18)____. A shy person may respond to a compliment with a statement like this
one:“you’re just saying that to make me feel good. I know it’s not true.”(19)____./;
Can shyness be completely eliminated, or at least reduced? (20)____. People’s
expectations of themselves must be realistic. Living on the impossible leads
to a sense of inadequacy.
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Part Ⅱ
Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Directions:There are 4 reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed
by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four
choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark
the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the
center.
Passage One?
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage:?
When Kathie Gifford’s face was splashed across the newspapers in 1996 after
her lucrative line of Wal?mart clothing was exposed as the work of underpaid
laborers in New York City’s Chinatown, the Department of Labor and the White
House teamed up to condemn such practices. With much fanfare, President Clinton’s
administration launched the “No Sweat” campaign, which pressured retailers and
manufacturers to submit to periodic independent inspection of their workplace
conditions./;
This campaign urged manufacturers to sign the Workplace Code of Conduct, a promise
to self?regulate that has since been adopted by a handful of retailers and many
of the nation’s largest manufacturers, including Nike and L.L. Bean. However,
the Department of Defense, which has a $ 1 billion garment business that would
make it the country’s 14th largest retail apparel outlet, has not signed the
Code of Conduct. In addition, it has not agreed to demand that its contractors
submit to periodic inspections./;
Because the Department of Defense has not agreed to adhere to the code, the
job of stopping public?sector sweatshops falls to the Department of Labor. Federal
contractors that persist in violating wage laws or safety and health codes can
lose their lucrative taxpayer?financed contracts. But Suzanne Seiden, a deputy
administrator at the Department of Labor, says that to her knowledge, the department
has never applied that rule to government apparel manufacturers. “I just assume
that they are adhering to safety and health requirements,” she says. According
to records obtained by Mother Jones, through a Freedom of Information Act request,
the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Lion 32 times for
safety and health violations in the past 12 years.
21.What is this passgage mainly concerned with?
A)The functions of the Department of Labor in America.
B)A serious problem threatening American economy.
C)The successful attempt of regulating sweatshops in America.
D)The seriousness of the problem of sweatshops in America.?
22.According to the passage, Kathie Gifford ____.
A) was one of the underpaid laborers in New York City’s Chinatown
B) was one of the well?paid laborers in New York City’s Chinatown
C) made much money from cheap laborers in New York City’s Chinatown
D) wrote a newspaper article exposing the practice of employing cheap laborers
?
23.The underlined phrase “to submit to” is closest in meaning to ____.
A) to accept unwillingly?
B) to refuse coldly
C) to welcome warm?heartedly?
D) to blame strongly?
24.Which of the following statements about the Department of Defense is true?
A) It will become the country’s 14th largest retail apparel manufacturer.
B) It hasn’t acted according to the Workplace Code of Conduct.
C) It has demanded its contractors to sign the Workplace Code of Conduct.
D) It has teamed up with the Department of Labor to launch a campaign.?
25.What was the purpose of President Clinton’s administration launching the
“No Sweat” campaign?
A) To urge manufacturers to obey the Workplace Code of Conduct.
B) To remind the manufacturers of the Workplace Code of Conduct.
C) To urge the Department of Labor to take its responsibility.
D) To urge the Department of Defense to inspect manufacturers.?
Passage Two?
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage:?
The term investment portfolio conjures up visions of the truly rich-the Rockefellers,
the Wal?Mart Waltons, Bill Gates. But today, everyone-from the Philadelphia
firefighter, his part?time receptionist wife and their three children, to the
single Los Angeles lawyer starting out on his own-needs a portfolio./;
A portfolio is simply a collection of financial assets. It may include real
estate, rare stamps and coins, precious metals and even artworks. But those
are for people with expertise. What most of us need to know about are stocks,
bonds and cash (including such cash equivalents as money?market funds)./;
How do you decide what part of your portfolio should go to each of the big three?
Begin by understanding that stocks pay higher returns but are more risky; bonds
and cash pay lower returns but are less risky./;
Research by Ibbotson Associates, for example, shows that large?company stocks,
on average, have returned 11.2 percent annually since 1926. Over the same period,
by comparison, bonds have returned an annual average of 5.3 percent and cash,
3.8 percent./;
But short?term risk is another matter. In 1974, a one?year $1000 investment
in the stock market would have declined to $735./;
With bonds, there are two kinds of risk: that the borrower won’t pay you back
and that the money you’ll get won’t be worth very much. The U.S. government
stands behind treasury bonds, so the credit risk is almost nil. But the inflation
risk remains. Say you buy a $1000 bond maturing in ten years. If inflation averages
about seven percent over that time, then the $1000 you receive at maturity can
only buy $500 worth of today’s goods./;
With cash, the inflation risk is lower, since over a long period you can keep
rolling over your CDs every year (or more often). If inflation rises, interest
rates rise to compensate./;
As a result, the single most imortant rule in building a portfolio is this:
If you don’t need the money for a long time, then put it into stocks. If you
need it soon, put it into bonds and cash.
26.This passage is intended to give advice on ____.
A) how to avoid inflation risks?
B) what kinds of bonds to buy
C) how to get rich by investing in stock market?
D) how to become richer by spreading the risk?
27.The author mentions such millionaires as the Rockefellers and Bill Gates
to show that ____.
A) they are examples for us on our road to wealth
B) a portfolio is essential to financial success
C) they are really rich people
D) they started out on their own?
28.Which of the following statements will the author support?
A) Everybody can get rich with some financial assets.
B) The credit risk for treasury bonds is extremely high.
C) It’s no use trying to know the advantages of stocks, bonds and cash.
D) Everybody should realize the importance of distribution of their financial
assets.?
29.The word “returns” in paragraph three can be best replaced by “____.”?
A) returning journeys?
B) profits?
C) savings?
D) investments?
30.The author of the passage points out that ____.
A) keeping cash is the only way to avoid risks
B) the longer you own a stock, the more you lost
C) the high rate of profit and high rate of risk coexist in stocks
D) the best way to accumulate wealth is by investing in stocks?
Passage Three?
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage:?
There were two widely divergent influences on the early development of statistical
methods. Statistics had a mother who was dedicated to keeping orderly records
of governmental units (state and statistics come from the same Latin root, status)
and a gentlemanly gambling father who relied on mathematics to increase his
skill at playing the odds in games of chance. The influence of the mother on
the offspring, statistics, is represented by counting, measuring, describing,
tabulating, ordering, and the taking of censuses—all of which led to modern
descriptive statistics. From the influence of the father came modern inferential
statistics, which is based squarely on theories of probability./;
Descriptive statistics involves tabulating, depicting, and describing collections
of data. These data may be either quantitative, such as measures of height,
intelligence, or grade level—variables that are characterized by an underlying
continuum—or the data many represent qualitative variables, such as sex, college
major, or personality type. Large masses of data must generally undergo a process
of summarization or reducing to comprehensibly form the properties of an otherwise
unwieldy mass of data./;
Inferential statistics is a formalized body of methods for solving another class
of problems that present great difficulties for the unaided human mind. This
general class of problems characteristically involves attempts to make predictions
using a sample of observations. For example, a school superintendent wishes
to determine the proportion of children in a large school system who come to
school without breakfast, have been vaccinated for flu, or whatever. Having
a little knowledge of statistics, the superintendent would know that it is unnecessary
and inefficiency to question each child; the proportion for the entire district
could be estimated fairly accurately from a sample of as few as 100 children.
Thus, the purpose of inferential statistics is to predict or estimate characteristics
of a population from a knowledge of the characteristics of only a sample of
the population.
31.What is the passage mainly concerned with?
A) Development and application of statistics.
B) Origin of descriptive statistics.
C) Limitations of inferential statistics.
D) Importance of statistics.?
32.Describing and tabulating are associated with ____.
A) inferential statistics?
B) descriptive statistics
C) theories of probability?
D) inefficiency of counting?
33.Which of the following statements is true about descriptive statistics?
A) It combines quantitative variables and qualitative variables.
B) It can be used to deal with only quantitative variables.
C) It helps to summarize properties of a group of data.
D) It helps to make predictions using a sample of observations.?
34.The word “unwieldy” in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to ____.
A) difficult to collect B) difficult to tackle?
C) incomprehensiveD) uncontrollable?
35.A sample of a population is often examined for the following purposes except
____.
A) to make a more accurate prediction of trend
B) to improve efficiency and avoid unnecessary work
C) to save the trouble of approaching every members
D) to predict characteristics of the entire population?
Passage Four?
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage:?
The Japanese are fascinated by automata and new inventions. Japanese children
are used to friendly robots in their comics, in toys, and in TV animated cartoons.
When as adults they join the workforce,robots mean that there is no need to
import cheap foreign labor, as happens in many other parts of the world. There
is no need for humans to put up with dirty, mind?deadening mechanical work the
robot does it all without complaint, around the clock. Robots don’t go on strike
over tea breaks they don’t have tea, or any other kind of breaks:they work,
day and night, without having to be paid overtime, without making mistakes.
Human tasks are subject to human error: robot error seldom or never occurs except
as a result of human error!/;
In Japan, robots are almost respected for their virtues. When a new robot is
introduced to a small suburban factory, a Shinto priest is invited to inaugurate
it. He inaugurates the robot with words along the lines of “Welcome to our co?worker,
we hope you’ll help him settle in.” No one laughs./;
FANUC demonstrates the Japanese tendency to conform particularly strikingly.
The founder of FANUC, Dr. Inaba, has created an army that makes no distinction
between blue?collar, white?collar and steel?collar worker: everyone, including
the warlord himself, is dressed in yellow clothing issued free by the company.
Perh
aps to make up for the boring nature of the work, there are a number of other
company perks. Company benefits, including pay, are much higher than in similar
companies in Japan. Travel to and from work is provided free in the company’s
yellow buses. However, workers are expected to put in demanding unpaid “overtime.”
There is a clock in the product development laboratory set to run at ten times
the normal speed, the remind everyone that the company is on a war footing./;
As we watched Dr. Inaba’s yellow helicopter soar away to Narita airport, we
couldn’t help thinking that his dream of world domination in robotics and allied
applications might be more elegantly achieved if he had also thought to program
his robots to whistle while they work.
36.According to the author, which of the following is not true to the Japanese?
A) Robots mean there is no need to import cheap foreign labor.
B) Robots mean that humans needn’t do dirty and noisy work.
C) Robots mean there are no strikes nor overtimes.
D) Robots mean there is no mistake in any form.?
37.What can be inferred form the words “He inaugurates the robot with words
along the lines of ‘Welcome to our co?worker, we hope you’ll help him settle
in.’No one laughs.”?
A) The Japanese has no sense of humor while at work.
B) The Japanese does not understand the words of the Shinto priest.
C) The Japanese shows a true respect for robots.
D) The Japanese goes too far in their respect for robots.?
38.Which of the following is not true about FANUC?
A) Workers receive higher pay for working overtime.
B) Workers enjoy free travel to and from work.
C) Workers are doing boring, sometimes demanding work.
D) Workers are reminded of being on a war footing.?
39.What is not implied in the following works “we couldn’t help thinking that
his dream of world domination in robotics and allied applications might be more
elegantly achieved if he had also thought to program his robots to whistle while
they work.”?
A) Our technology is not yet up to the needs of Dr. Inaba’s dream.
B) Dr. Inaba’s dream of world domination in robotics lacks humanity.
C) Dr. Inaba’s dream of allied applications is too practical.
D) The author is in favor of Dr. Inaba’s dream.?
40.What does “our co?worker” refer to in the sentence “Welcome to our co?worker,
we hope you’ll help him settle in?”
A) Japanese workers who attend the inauguration.?
B) The introduced robot.
C) The people who have invented the robot.?
D) Japanese workers in general.
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Part Ⅲ
Vocabulary (20 minutes)
Directions:There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence
there are four choices marked. A), B), C) and D). Choose the ONE that best completes
the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a
single line through the center.
41.Since the most commonly accepted test is the TOEFL exam, most institutions
will expect a ____ TOEFL score for admission.
A) minimal B) maximal?
C) mimimumD) maximum?
42.It was believed that his death ____ with the robbery of the bank downtown.
A) accompaniedB) coincided?
C) correlatedD) conformed?
43.Does Emerson find his career full and ____ as a basketball player?
A) conflictingB) charming? C) rewardingD) awarding?
44.The local government gave the first ____ to education after the war.
A) projectionB) protection? C） professionD) priority?
45.The professor ____ his habit of getting up early in the morning to do writing
all his life.
A) projectionB) retained? C） retailedD) revitalized?
46.The news of our team winning the match was really ____, and millions
of people came out to celebrate the victory.
A) overwhelmingB) accelerating? C） promptingD) preceding?
47.What the government should do urgently is to take actions to ____ the economy.
A) brookB) blush? C） boostD) brood?
48.The explosion in the mine was ____ by a careless miner who lit a match.
A) triggeredB) claimed? C） hamperedD) protested?
49.The mass newspaper depended significantly more on advertising ____ than did
their predecessors.
A) revenuesB) incomes? C） avenuesD) outcomes?
50.Some minerals are quite common, others are regionally ____, and still others
are rare on the earth.
A) attributedB) distributed? C） contributedD) scattered?
51.The most successful way to solve the language problem while a foreign
play is being performed is ____ translation.
A) instantaneousB) spontaneous? C） simultaneousD) homogeneous?
52.The hostess ____ in the contract that the rent should be paid in cash at
the beginning of each month.
A) assumedB) submitted? C） exposedD) specified?
53.This year, the number of accidents has ____ that of last year.
A) overtakenB) overweighed? C） overcomeD) overshadowed?
54.You must ____ yourself or they will continue to bully you, so you will go
on living in disgrace.
A) assessB) assert? C） maintainD) promote?
55.While both plans were perfectly sensible, only one seemed ____ in China’s
particular situation.
A) availableB) feasible? C）resolvableD) presumable?
56.A good teacher must know how to ____ his ideas to the students, as generally
agreed by educational experts.
A) transmitB) transfer? C） conveyD) communicate?
57.If you keep on taking on more work than you can do, your health will ____.
A) declineB) degrade? C） degenerateD) deteriorate?
58.The director tried to wave aside these issues as ____ details that would
be settled later.
A) preliminaryB) primary? C） trivialD) alternative?
59.As one of the youngest professors in the university, Miss King is certainly
on the ____ of a brilliant career.
A) endB) edge? C） thresholdD) course?
60.During the famine of 1943, millions of peasants ____ to the cities because
they could not make a living in the countryside.
A) immigratedB) emigrated? C） migratedD) generated?
61.I’m sorry to inform you that you application has been declined. Our manager
thought you were not ____ for the post.
A) legibleB) eligible? C） validD) literate?
62.Visitors to Britain are sometimes surprised to learn that newspapers there
have such a large ____.
A) issueB) distribution? C） coverageD) circulation?
63.This line was carrying equal number of eastbound and westbound trains, and
they ____ regularly.
A) alteredB) alternated? C) switchedD) exchanged?
64.The three astronauts have splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, only six
miles from the aircraft carrier that was ____ for the recovery mission.
A) dispatchedB) deposited? C) deployedD) delivered?
65.Pubs have fanciful names like “The Red Lion” or “The Pig and Whistle” and
they often have picutre on a signboard outside to ____ the name.
A) justifyB) illustrate? C) modifyD) clarify?
66.There are two main requirements before the fifth?generation computer can
become a reality and it is these that scientists are ____.
A) anticipatingB) tackling? C) manipulatingD) speculating?
67.College students in this city have set up “the Cleaner Air Society”
to help urban citizens become aware of the ____ to our environment.
A) conditionsB) situations ? C) dangersD) threats?
68.When you get a minor burn, pour some cold water on it, which will help
____ the pain of the burn.
A) relieveB) relax? C) revealD) release?
69.The library published a colletion of books recently made ____ to the public.
A) acceptableB) accessible? C) accommodableD) accountable?
70.For 14 years after her spouse’s death, she saw the ____ meaning of her life
as nourishing her son and safeguarding her husband’s works.
A) dueB) lone? C) soleD) keen
Part Ⅳ
Error Correction (15 minutes)
Directions:This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are
altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a
word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections
in the blanks provided. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct
word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put an insertion mark (∧)
in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a
word, cross it out and put a slash (/) in the blank.?
Example:?
Television is rapidly becoming the literatures of our periods.Many of
1.time?
the arguments having used for the study of literature as a school subject
2.?
are valid for ∧ study of television. 3.the
Poverty exists because our society is an unequal one, and there are powerful
political pressures to keep it that way. Any attempt to redistributing wealth
and in? 71.____
come in the United States will inevitably be opposed by powerful middle and
upper
class interests. People can be relatively rich only if you are relatively poor,
and as 72.____
power is mainly in the hands of the rich, public policies reflect their interests
than 73.____
those of the poor.
As Mr. Herbert Gans has pointed out, poverty is actually functional from the
point of view of the non?poor. Poverty ensures that dirty work gets doing. If
there 74.____
were no poor poeple to scrub floors and empty bedpans, there jobs will have
to be 75.____
rewarded with high incomes before anyone would touch them. Poverty creates jobs
for many of the non?poor, such as police officers, welfare workers, and government
bureaucrats. Poverty makes life easier for the rich by providing them with cookers,
76.____
gardeners, and other workers to perform basic chores when their employers enjoy
77.____
more pleasurable activities. Poverty provides a market for more inferior goods
and 78.____
service, such as day?old bread, run?down automobiles, or the advice of competent
79.____
physicians and lawyers. Poverty also provides a group that can be made to absorb
the costs of change. It is just that poverty is an inevitable outcome of the
American
economic system, in which the poor are politically powerless to influence or
change. 80.____
?
Part Ⅴ
Writing (30 minutes)
Directions:For this part you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition
on the topic: How to Cope with Personal Crisis.?
You should write at least 150 words and base your composition on the outline
given in Chinese below:
How to Deal with Personal Crisis?
1.造成个人危机的起因。?
2.应对个人危机的方法。
答案部分
听力原文?
Section A?
1.M:I couldn’t put up with my wife any longer. I don’t know why she usually
wants to look at everything in such a negative way.?
W:Maybe you should try to get to know something about her childhood.?
Q:What does the woman mean??
2.M:Lucy, could you describe what you were doing at the moment??
W:Well, I was still sleeping at 6 o’clock. Then there was this horrible sound
and the floor was just bouncing and rolling like waves, all at the same time.?
Q:What are the speakers talking about??
3.W:Hi, Peter. I was surprised to see you in the class in ?children’s ? literature
yesterday. Are you also majoring in elementary education??
M:No, I’m not. But as a psychology major I can use this to fulfill the requirement
in developmental psychology.?
Q:What do you learn from the conversation??
4.W:Dr. Cassidy. I’m actually fine. It’s just that I’ve been a little tired
the last few days, and my stomach is kind of upset.?
M:Well, that doesn’t surprise me. I have some news that you might find exciting.
You’re pregnant.?
Q:What do you know about the woman??
5.W:Mike, how did you enjoy your trip? What did you think