Part I   Listening Comprehension (30 minutes, 30 points)

Section A  Dialogues (10 points)

Directions: In this section, you will hear 10 short dialogues. At the end of each dialogue, a question will be asked about what was said. Both the dialogue and the question will be read 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 centre.

1. W: Do you know when the library closes?

   M: At eight o'clock, I think.

   W: I'd better hurry, then. I've only 15 minutes to return this book or I pay a fine.

   Q: Why will the woman go to the library?(A)

2. M: Where is the stockholder's meeting being held?

   W: In the executive suite on the eighth floor.

   M: I thought I was going to take a taxi over to the annex.

   Q: Where is the stockholder's meeting going to be held?(B)

3. M: Look! It's broken. I told you it wasn't working.

   W: Of course it won't work! See, the ink cartridge indicator is flashing. You have to replace it.

   M: I'm sorry; I didn't know what it meant.

   Q: What is wrong with the printer?(B)

4. M: They said that the eleven o'clock train was running late again, like before.

   W: We arrived at the station at 10:50. However, we've already been waiting for thirty minutes. What time did they say it would arrive?

   M: Well, we'll probably have to wait another quarter of an hour.

   Q: How late will the train most likely be?(C)

5. M: Did you hear that David won an award for his reporting?

   W: No. What was it?

   M: It's the Press Institute Award for clear writing in journalism.

   Q: For what did David win an award?(B)

6. M: Did you hear about the fire at the Department Store?

   W: Yes. It's reported the building is in ruins.

   M: That's right. It went up like a matchbox. There was nothing they could do to save it.

   Q: What happened to the Department Store? (C)

7. M: Excuse me. When does the next bus for Xi'an leave?

   W: Let's see... There's one leaving in fifteen minutes, and another one in an hour. Both will leave from Gate 5.

   M: I'd like two tickets on the earlier bus.

   W: OK. Here you are.

   Q: When will the man's bus leave?(C)

8.  W: Did I do something wrong?

    M: No, not you.

    W: I wondered what was wrong.

    M: Well, I just got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.

    Q: What does the man mean?(B)

9. M: What kind of work does your firm do?

   W: We're a general trading firm. Last year we were number two, but this year we slipped to
the fifth position.

   M: Selling on the world market is not an easy business.

   W: Yes. But we will do our best.

   Q: Which kind of firm does the woman work for?(A)

10. M: Next one!Your name is Tom Brown, 27 years old, worked as a secretary for 2 years. Will you please fill a few words in the" Job Application" section?

    W: OK. But what must be included in the applica  tion?

    M: A description of the skills, experience, and qualifications you have. You know these will be a great help for you to find a job.
 
    W: Yes. Is it necessary to write my educational achievements and provide the certificates?
  
    M: No, only if it has something to do with the position.

    W: When will you arrange the interview for me?

    M: We'll call you in a week.

    W: Thanks a lot. I am looking forward to your call on my mobile. Please remember it's 13043795885.

    M: Not a problem. See you later.

    W: See you then.

    Q: Besides skills and experience, what else should also be filled in the"Job Application" Section?(A)

Section B   News Items (10 points)

Directions: In this section, you will hear 10 pieces of short news from BBC or VOA. After each news and question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the three choices marked A, B and C, and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.

11. An explosion ripped apart a Moscow metro train car during this morning's rush hour, killing at least 30 people, according to the Ministry of Emergency Situations. At least 70 people were injured. Officials said the cause of the explosion was not immediately clear but that terrorism could not be ruled out.

   Question: How many people were injured in this explosion according to this report?(A)

12. The fish story Finding Nemo took top honors Saturday at the animation industry's 31st annual Annie Awards, earning nine awards, including best theatrical feature, best directing and best voice acting.

   Question: What kind of industry does "Annie Awards" belong to?(B)

13. Thousands of students  across  USA  plan  to wear  white  T-shirts  to  school  Friday, the  day before Valentine's Day, to publicly show their commitment to not having sex outside marriage. They're calling their effort the "Day  of  Purity", and they will distribute pro-abstinence pamphlets to their peers.

   Question: When did this campaign be held?(C)

14. An  astrophysicist  doubted  whether  $15  billion a  year for 10 years would be enough to set NASA on course to fulfill the moon-and-then-on-to-Mars vision put forth by Bush one month ago. The space agency's  annual   budget  has  been  around $15 billion in recent years.

   Question: How much will the commission take for 10 years?(A)

15. Snow  fell  over  parts  of  the Northeast and Texas early  Friday,  while  the  rest  of  the  country had mostly clear skies.

   Question: What does the weather like in the most parts of the USA Friday?(C)

16. Fred  Jones  figures  he  has  seen every slam dunk contest  since  the  NBA revived the event in 1984.  The Indiana guard  is  a dunking fan—and yet he wavered when asked to take on two-time champion Jason Richardson on Saturday.

   Question: How many times has Jason Richardson been the champion of slam dunk?(B)

17. Job growth in the education, health, professional and  business  service  industries,  meanwhile, is expected to exceed 30 percent. Other service industries projected to have a higher than average job growth include the information, transportation and warehousing, and leisure and hospitality industries.

   Question: Does the information industry have a higher job growth?(A)

18. The Lord of the Rings: The Return  of  the  King earned 11 Oscar nominations, including best picture, best director and best adapted screenplay.

   Question: What Oscar nominations did the picture earn?(B)

19. China's Ministry of Agriculture confirmed the bird flu  outbreaks  in  Shanghai,  the northern city of Tianjin near the capital Beijing, the  southwestern province of Yunnan and the southern province of Guangdong.

   Question: Where has the bird flu broken out according to this report?(B)

20. The South Korean parliament has approved sending 3,000 troops to Iraq to help with the reconstruction effort. The vote  in the National Assembly was 155  in  favor  of  the  deployment and 50 against, with seven members abstaining.

   Question: How many councilors voted for the deployment? (C)

Section C   Passages (10 points)

Directions: In this section, you will hear 2 passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear 5 questions. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.

Passage One

   The world's first completely automatic railway has been built under the busy streets of London. The railway is called the Victoria Line, and it is part of the complete London underground railway.

   The new Victoria Line was opened in 1969. This new line was very different from the others.
The stations on the other lines need a lot of workers to sell tickets, and to check and to collect them when people leave the trains. This is all different from the Victoria Line. Here a machine checks and collects the tic- kets, and there are no workers on the platforms.

   On the train, there is only one worker. If necessary, this man can drive the train. But usually he just starts it; it runs and stops by itself. The trains are controlled by electrical signals which are sent by the so-called "command spots". The command spots are the same distance apart. Each sends a certain signal. The train always moves at the speed that the command spots allow. If the command spot sends no signals, the train will stop.

   Most of the control work is done by computers. The computers also fix the train's speeds, and send the signals to the command spots.

   Other machines make sure that the trains are always a safe distance apart. If one train stays too long at a station, the other trains will then automatically move slower. So there is no danger of accidents on the line.

Questions 21 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.

21. What happened to the London underground railway about three decades ago?(B)

22. On the Victoria Line, who does all the checking and collecting of tickets?(D)

23. When was the new Victoria Line opened?(C)

24. What is the task of the one worker on the Victoria Line train?(B)

25. If no signal is sent from the command spot, what will happen to the train?(A)

Passage Two

   Alice Walker makes her living by writing; her poems, short stories, and novels have won her many awards and fellowships. She was born in Eatonton, Georgia. She went to public schools there, and then to Spelman College in Atlanta before going to New York to attend Sarah Lawrence College, from which she graduated in 1966. For a time she lived in Jackson, Mississippi with her lawyer husband and small daughter. About her first book, a children's book about the American poet Langston Hughes, she says, "After my first meeting with Langston Hughes I vowed I would write a book about him for children someday. Why? Because I, at 22, knew next to nothing of his work, and he didn't scold me; he just gave me a stack of his books. Also he was kind to me; I will always be grateful that in his absolute warmth and generosity he fulfilled my deepest dream of what a poet should be."

   "To me he is not dead at all. Hardly a day goes by that I don't think of him or speak of him. Once, just before he died, when he was sick with the flu, I took him a sack full of oranges. The joy I felt in giving that simple gift is undiminished by time. He said he liked oranges, too. "

Questions 26 to 30 are based on the passage you have just heard.

26. What is the main topic of the passage?(A)

27. In the passage, how does the author describe Alice  Walker ?(C)

28. What did you think of Langston Hughes?(D)

29. What do Alice Walker and the American poet have in common?(A)

30. What can we infer from the passage?(B)

Part II   Vocabulary and Structure (10 minutes, 20 points)

Section A   Multiple Choice (10 points)

31. A 32. D 33. B 34. C 35. D 36. D 37. A 38. B 39. D 40. C

Section B   Cloze-Test (10 points)

41. B 42. A 43. A 44. D 45. C 46. B 47. B 48. D 49. A 50. D

Part III   Word Guessing and IQ Test (5 minutes, 10 points)

Section A   Word Guessing (5 points)

  51.C  52. A  53. C  54.C  55.D

Section B   IQ Test (5 points)

  56. C  57. A  58. B  59. B  60. D

Part IV   Reading Comprehension (25 minutes, 30 points)

   61. 7 62. Airport taxes and security charges, guidebook. 63. 0870 443 4614. 64. Before November 18. 65. Friday; Sunday 66. Prague and Vienna. 67. ached; tired  68. a very serious form of arthritis(or:ankylosing spondylitis) 69. He wanted to fight the disease. 70. Watching funny movies and reading humorous books.  71. Eight days. 72. He was able to overcome his disease. 73. Egyptians and Babylonians. 74. Hogmanay  75. Only one. 76. Rose Bowl; Orange Bowl; Cotton Bowl; Sugar Bowl  77. They hope things will change for the better. 78. From 4,000 years ago to the present.(or: About 2,000 BC.) 79. electricity 80. upper; positive; lower; negative 81. Because their electric organs tire as muscles do. 82. The size of the fish. 83. defence; attack 84. Three. 85. a vet 86. When she was 17. 87. Stepmom 88. My Best Friend's Wedding. 89. Pretty Women 90. Five.

Part V   Error Correction (5 minutes,10 points)

   91. well-behaving→well-behaved 92. beat→beating 93. anything→nothing 94. on → on 95. do →did  96. concerning →concerns 97. mistake ∧ stupidity→for 98. later →ago 99. relation→relations 100. √

Part VI   Translation (15 minutes, 20 points)

Section A   English-Chinese Translation (10 points)

101. 奥克兰大学的一个研究生经市场调查研究后指出,中国中产阶级人口数量的增长为新西兰酒类出口商提供了一个酒类出口的良机.

102. 很少有造酒商注意到中国(这个市场),与之相比,他们更愿意努力把出口投向英美这样的传统市场.

103.她说:"中国对葡萄酒需求量的增长是由于经济的发展以及中国人乐于接触西方文化的愿望."

104. 谢(培)的研究发现,虽然中国的饮酒者会更多地选择国产酒而非进口酒,但在某些特殊场合他们还是对进口酒显示出一种强烈的偏爱.

105. 当人们购买进口酒时,在酒的多种重要品质中,造酒国家的历史和"品牌效应"是被人们首先考虑的.

Section B   Chinese-English Translation (10 points)

106. Living at college makes me have a sense of responsibility of depending on myself.

107. We can't judge what he really meant by doing so until we know all the circumstances.

108. Young people often wonder at the large number of employers who do not respond to their applications for jobs.

109. The origin of table tennis has never been exactly pinpointed, even though it's relatively young sport, younger than lawn tennis and not much older than basketball.

110. The Shenzhou V spaceship operates primarily on preset programming and its task is to observe and record the conditions of the orbiting spaceship for the ground control center.

Part VII   Writing (30 minutes, 30 points)

Writing Task I (10  points)

One possible version:

   With the development of society, more and more people in China go abroad for studying. Some may think that it is not necessary for young people to go abroad since there are many excellent universities in China. However, others believe that it is still worthwhile to go abroad for further studying. As for me, I am in favor of the latter idea.

   Studying abroad has many advantages. Firstly, China is still a developing country, and we lag behind in many areas, such as Agriculture, IT and the Service Industries. In order to catch up with the developed countries, we need more young talents in these areas. It's necessary for us young people to go out to learn about advanced science and technology from the developed countries.    Secondly, with China's entry into the WTO, the learning task becomes more and more urgent, we need to learn much from abroad. Finally, to be alone in a foreign country is a good chance to train yourself to be independent. The experience of studying abroad will give you permanent memories to cherish.

   Of course, there are some disadvantages of studying abroad. It will cost much money , and some young people will be influenced by violence or bad behavior. However, I think it is a worthwhile investment, because you will get your return after hard studying. And for the bad influences, we can also try to avoid them. So, if I have the chance to go abroad to study, I will do my best and return to serve my country.

Writing Task II (20 points)

One possible version:

   The chart shows that the percentage of British households with a range of consumer durables steadily increased from 1972 to 1983. The greatest increase was in telephone ownership, rising from 42% in 1972 to 77% in 1983. Next came central heating ownership, rising from 37% of households in 1972 to 64% in 1983. The percentage of households with a refrigerator rose 21% over the same period and of those with a washing machine by 14%. Households with vacuum-cleaners, televisions and dishwashers increased by 8%, 5% and 2% respectively. In 1983, the year of their introduction, 18% of households had a video recorder.

   The significant social changes reflected in the statistics are that over the period the proportion of British houses with central heating rose from one to two thirds, and of those with a phone from under a half to over three-quarters. Together with the big increases in the ownership of washing machines and refrigerators, they are evidence of both rising living standards and the trend to lifestyles based on comfort and convenience.