1、TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2000)-GRADE EIGHT-PAPER ONETIME LIMIT: 95 MINPART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION 40 MIN.In Sections A, B and C you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct answer to each question on your Colored Answer Sheet.SEC
2、TION A TALKQuestions 1 to 5 refer to the talk in this section .At the end of the talk you w ill be given 15 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the talk. 1. The rules for the first private library in the US were drawn up by _.A) the legislature B) the librarian C) J
3、ohn Harvard D) the faculty members2. The earliest public library was also called a subscription library because books _.A) could be lent to everyoneB) could be lent by book storesC) were lent to students and the facultyD) were lent on a membership basis3. Which of the following is NOT stated as one
4、of the purposes of free public libraries? A) To provide readers with comfortable reading rooms.B) To provide adults with opportunities of further education.C) To serve the communitys cultural and recreational needs.D) To supply technical literature on specialized subjects.4. The major difference bet
5、ween modem private and public libraries lies in _.A) readership B) content C) service D) function5. The main purpose of the talk is _.A) to introduce categories of books in US librariesB) to demonstrate the importance of US librariesC) to explain the roles of different US librariesD) to define the c
6、irculation system of US librariesSECTION B INTERVIEWQuestions 6 to 10 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you wil l be given 15 seconds to answer each of the following five questions.Now listen to the interview.6. Nancy became a taxi driver because _.A) she owned a carB) she drove
7、 wellC) she liked drivers uniformsD) it was her childhood dream7. According to her, what was the most difficult about becoming a taxi dr iver?A) The right sense of direction.B) The sense of judgment.C) The skill of maneuvering.D) The size of vehicles.8. What does Nancy like best about her job?A) See
8、ing interesting buildings in the city.B) Being able to enjoy the world of nature.C) Driving in unsettled weather.D) Taking long drives outside the city.9. It can be inferred from the interview that Nancy in a (n) _ mother.A) uncaring B) strict C) affectionateD) permissive10. The people Nancy meets a
9、reA) rather difficult to pleaseB) rude to women driversC) talkative and generous with tipsD) different in personalitySECTION C NEWS BROADCASTQuestion 11 is based on the following news. At the end of the news i tem, you wil l be given 15 seconds to answer the question. Now listen to the news.11. The
10、primary purpose of the US anti-smoking legislation is _.A) to tighten control on tobacco advertisingB) to impose penalties on tobacco companiesC) to start a national anti-smoking campaignD)to ensure the health of American childrenQuestions 12 and 13 are based on the following news. At the end of the
11、 news item, you will be given 30 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the news.12. The French Presidents visit to Japan aims at _.A) making more investments in JapanB) stimulating Japanese businesses in FranceC) helping boost the Japanese economyD) launching a film festival in Japan13. Thi
12、s is Jacques Chiracs _ visit to Japan.A) second C) fortiethB) fourteenth D) forty-firstQuestions 14 and 15 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 30 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the news.14. Afghan people are suffering from starvation becaus
13、e _.A) melting snow begins to block the mountain pathsB) the Taliban have destroyed existing food stocksC) the Taliban are hindering food deliveriesD) an emergency air-lift of food was cancelled15. people in Afghanistan are facing starvation.A) 160,000 B) 16,000 C) 1,000,000 D) 100, 000SECTION D NOT
14、E-TAKING AND GAP-FILLINGIn this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will the lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening to the lecture, take notes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but you will need them to complete a 15-minute gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE after the mini-
15、lecture. Use the blank paper for note-taking.Part PROOFREADING its future in Europe will be as a broker, banker, and distributor of goods. You send your goods by container ship to Copenhagen, and these bright, young, English-speaking, utterly honest, highly disciplined people will get your goods aro
16、und to Scandinavia, the Baltic States, and Russia. Airports, seaports, highways, and rail lines are ultramodern and well-maintained.The orderliness of the society doesnt mean that Danish lives are less messy or lonely than yours or mine, and no Dane would tell you so. You can hear plenty about bitte
17、r family feuds and the sorrows of alcoholism and about perfectly sensible people who went off one day and killed themselves. An orderly society c an not exempt its members from the hazards of life.But there is a sense of entitlement and security that Danes grow up with. Certain things are yours by v
18、irtue of citizenship, and you shouldnt feel bad f o r taking what youre entitled to, youre as good as anyone else. The rules of the welfare system are clear to everyone, the benefits you get if you lose your job, the steps you take to get a new one; and the orderliness of the system makes it possibl
19、e for the country to weather high unemployment and social unrest without a sense of crisis.16. The author thinks that Danes adopt a _ attitude towards their country.A) boastful B) modest C) deprecating D) mysterious17. Which of the following is NOT a Danish characteristic cited in the passage? A) Fo
20、ndness of foreign culture. B) Equality in society.C) Linguistic tolerance. D) Persistent planning.18. The authors reaction to the statement by the Ministry of Business and Industry is _.A) disapproving B) approving C) noncommittal D) doubtful19. According to the passage, Danish orderliness _.A) sets
21、 the people apart from Germans and SwedesB) spares Danes social troubles besetting other peopleC) is considered economically essential to the countryD) prevents Danes from acknowledging existing troubles20. At the end of the passage the author states all the following EXCEPT that _.A) Danes are clea
22、rly informed of their social benefitsB) Danes take for granted what is given to themC) the open system helps to tide the country overD) orderliness has alleviated unemploymentTEXT BBut if language habits do not represent classes, a social stratification in to something as bygone as “aristocracy“ and
23、 “commons“, they do still of course serve to identify social groups. This is something that seems fundamental in the use of language. As we see in relation to political and national movements, language is used as a badge or a barrier depending on which way we look at it. The new boy at school feels
24、out of it at first because he does not know the fight words for things, and awe-inspiring pundits of six or seven look down on him for no t being aware that racksy means “dilapidated“, or hairy “out first ball“. The miner takes a certain pride in being “one up on the visitor or novice who calls the
25、cage a “lift“ or who thinks that men working in a warm seam are in their “underpants“ when anyone ought to know that the garments are called hoggers. The “insider“ is seldom displeased that his language distinguishes him from the “outsider“.Quite apart from specialized terms of this kind in groups,
26、trades and professions, there are all kinds of standards of correctness at which mast of us feel more or less obliged to aim, because we know that certain kinds of English invite irritation or downright condemnation. On the other hand, we know that other kinds convey some kind of prestige and bear a
27、 welcome cachet.In relation to the social aspects of language, it may well be suggested that English speakers fall into three categories: the assured, the anxious and the indifferent. At one end of this scale, we have the people who have “position“ and “status“, and who therefore do not feel they ne
28、ed worry much about their use of English. Their education and occupation make them confident of speaking an unimpeachable form of English: no fear of being criticized or corrected is likely t o cross their minds, and this gives their speech that characteristically unselfconscious and easy flow which
29、 is often envied. At the other end of the scale, we have an equally imperturbable band, speaking with a similar degree of careless ease, because even if they are aware that their English is condemned by others, they are supremely indifferent to the fact. The Mrs. Mops of this world have active and e
30、fficient tongues in their heads, and if we happened not to like the/r ways of saying things, well, we “can lump it “. That is their attitude. Curiously enough, writers are inclined to represent t he speech of both these extreme parties with -in for ing. On the one hand, “were goin huntin, my dear si
31、r“; on the other, “were goin racin, mate.“In between, according to this view, we have a far less fortunate group, the anxious. These actively try to suppress what they believe to be bad English and assiduously cultivate what they hope to be good English. They live their lives in some degree of nervo
32、usness over their grammar, their pronunciation, and their choice of words: sensitive, and fearful of betraying themselves. Keeping up with the Joneses is measured not only in houses, furniture, refrigerators, cars, and clothes, but also in speech.And the misfortune of the “anxious“ does not end with
33、 their inner anxiety. Their lot is also the open or veiled contempt of the “assured“ on one side of them and of the “indifferent“ on the other.It is all too easy to raise an unworthy laugh at the anxious. The people thus uncomfortably stilted on linguistic high heels so often form part of what is, i
34、n many ways, the most admirable section of any society: the ambitious, tense, inner-driven people, who are bent on“ going places and doing things“. The greater the pity, then, if a disproportionate amount of their energy goes into what Mr. Sharpless called“ this shabby obsession“ with variant forms
35、of English- especially if the net result is(as so often)merely to sound affected and ridiculous. “Here“, according to Bacon, “is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter . It seems to me that Pygmalions frenzy is a good emblem of this vanity: for words axe but the images
36、of matter; and except they have life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is to fall in love with a picture.“21. The attitude held by the assured towards language is _.A) critical B) anxious C) self-conscious D) nonchalant22. The anxious are considered a less fortunate group because _.
37、A) they feel they are socially looked down uponB) they suffer from internal anxiety and external attackC) they are inherently nervous and anxious peopleD) they are unable to meet standards of correctness23. The author thinks that the efforts made by the anxious to cultivate w hat they believe is goo
38、d English are _.A) worthwhile B) meaninglessC) praiseworthy D) irrationalTEXT CFred Cooke of Salford turned 90 two days ago and the world has been beating a path to his door. If you havent noticed, the backstreet boy educated at Blackpool grammar styles himself more grandly as Alastair Cooke, broadc
39、aster extraordinaire. An honorable KBE, he would be Sir Alastair if he had not taken American citizenship more than half a century ago.If it sounds snobbish to draw attention to his humble origins, it should be reflected that the real snob is Cooke himself, who has spent a lifetime disguising them.
40、But the fact that he opted to renounce his British passport in 1941 - just when his country needed all the wartime help it could get-is hardly a matter for congratulation.Cooke has made a fortune out of his love affair with America, entrancing listeners with a weekly monologue that has won Radio 4 m
41、any devoted adherents. Part of the pull is the developed drawl. This is the man who gave the world “midatlantic“, the language of the disc jockey and public relations man.He sounds American to us and English to them, while in reality he has for decades belonged to neither. Cookes world is an America
42、 that exists largely in the imagination. He took ages to acknowledge the disaster that was Vietnam and even longer to wake up to Watergate. His politics have drifted to the right with age, and most of his opinions have been acquired on the golf course with fellow celebrities.He chased after stars on
43、 arrival in America, Fixing up an interview with Charlie Chaplin and briefly becoming his friend. He told Cooke he could turn him into a fine light comedian; instead he is an impressionists dream.Cooke liked the sound of his first wifes name almost as much as he admired her good looks. But he found
44、bringing up baby difficult and left her for the wife of his landlord. Women listeners were unimpressed when, in 1996, he declared on air that the fact that 4% of women in the American armed forces were raped showed remarkable self-restraint on the part of Uncle Sams soldiers. His arrogance in not al
45、lowing BBC editors to see his script in advance worked, not for the first time, to his detriment. His defenders said he could not help living with the 1930s values he had acquired and somewhat dubiously went on to cite “gallantry“ as chief among them. Cookes raconteur style encouraged a whole genera
46、tion of BBC men to think of themselves as more important than the story. His treacly tones were the mo del for the regular World Service reports From Our Own Correspondent, known as FOOCs in the business. They may yet be his epitaph.24. At the beginning of the passage the writer sounds critical of _
47、.A) Cookes obscure originsB) Cookes broadcasting styleC) Cookes American citizenshipD) Cookes fondness of America25. The following adjectives can be suitably applied to Cooke EXCEPT _.A) old-fashioned B) sincere C) arrogant D) popular26. The writer comments on Cookes life and career in a slightly _
48、tone.A) ironic B) detached C) scathing D) indifferentTEXT DMr. Duffy raised his eyes from the paper and gazed out of his window on the cheerless evening landscape. The river lay quiet beside the empty distillery and from time to time a light appeared in some house on Lucan Road. What an end! The who
49、le narrative of her death revolted him and it revolted him to think that he had ever spoken to her of what he held sacred. The cautious words of a reporter won over to conceal the details of a commonplace vulgar death attacked his stomach. Not merely had she degraded herself, she had degraded him. His souls companion! He thought of the hobbling wretches whom he had seen carrying cans and b
