Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)

　　Section A

　　Directions: In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations. At the end of each conversation, there will be a question. Each conversation and question will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four suggested answers marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

　　1. A) He didn't expect there would be so many books.

　　B) Four books are a lot to borrow from the library.

　　C) He isn't sure she counted all her books.

　　D) He would like to return books for her.

　　2. A) He has arranged to take the exam next year.

　　B) He is pleased, since the woman offered to help him.

　　C) He has reason to be happy, despite the exam.

　　D) He actually did very well in the exam.

　　3. A) At a service station. B) On a hill.

　　C) In an emergency room. D) In a parking lot.

　　4. A) Tom applied for a job.

　　B) Tom was preferred to others.

　　C) Tom wanted other jobs.

　　D) Tom was so unlucky.

　　5. A) To clean the yard. B) To weed the garden.

　　C) To hire a gardener.

　　D) To work in the flower beds.

　　6. A) 12 dollars. B) 36 dollars.

　　C) 24 dollars. D) 16 dollars.

　　7. A) Happy. B) Afraid. C) Surprised. D) Optimistic.

　　8. A) A month ago.

　　B) Just before he talked to the woman.

　　C) Yesterday.

　　D) A week ago.

　　9. A) Because the show is not clear enough.

　　B) Because the show is too complicated for her to understand.

　　C) Because the room is lack of air, she can't breathe freely.

　　D) Because the room is full of appreciators.

　　10. A) Have a snack. B) Go on a diet.

　　C) Lose some weight. D) Stop screaming.

　　Section B Compound Dictation

　　Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. You are required to fill in the blanks numbered from S1 to S7 with the exact words and the blanks numbered from S8 to S10 with sentences. You can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words.

　　On the area (S1)________ map, most (S2)________ in southern Michigan are still (S3)_______sunny skies. It's seventy-nine (S4)________ at Detroit, seventy-three degrees at Lansing. Chicago is reporting light (S5)________. South Bend is cloudy as the (S6)________ moves in from the (S7)________.

　　The temperature at Ann Arbor airport in degrees Celsius is twenty-three point three. That's seventy-four degrees on the Fahrenheit scale. (S8)________. The relative, humidity is fifty-five percent and (S9)________.

　　And now for the external forecast. (S10)________.

　　Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)

　　Directions: In this part there are 4 passages. Each passage is followed by a number of comprehension questions. 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 1

　　Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage:

　　When a person commits a crime, he is not always sent to prison. If he has committed some minor offense, he may be released from detention and allowed to remain in the community. This type of punishment is usually administered to juveniles. It is young people who usually commit the less serious crimes. For this reason they are given less punishment. Although the individual is not in jail, he is under the supervision of special police officers. These officers watch his actions very closely. This type of punishment is called probation.

　　The conditions of the probation are decided in a meeting during which a judge hears the offender's case. After this meeting, the judge issues an order of probation. This order can only be made with the offender's consent. If the offender does not wish to be placed on probation, he must go to jail.

　　Once on probation, the offender can't disobey the probation order. He must report to the police at least once a week. During the whole period of probation, the offender must live according to the conditions ordered by the court. If there is a breach of the probation order, the offender may be taken off probation and placed in jail.

　　21. Detention means ________.

　　A) imprisonment B) release

　　C) punishment D) offense

　　22. The word "juveniles" in Paragraph 1 refers to________.

　　A) criminals B) young people

　　C) offenders D) jury

　　23. Why are young people usually less punished?

　　A) Because they are young.

　　B) Because they never commit serious crimes.

　　C) Because they are reformable.

　　D) Because they usually make minor offenses.

　　24. A probation order can be given when ________.

　　A) the judge decides to give one

　　B) the offense is not very serious

　　C) the criminal agrees to take it

　　D) all of the above

　　25. A criminal on probation ________.

　　A) stays in jail for a long time

　　B) stays in jail for a short time

　　C) is supervised outside prison

　　D) all of the above

　　Passage 2

　　Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage:

　　To an economist, labor is the supply of human resources which can be used in the production of goods and services. Labor can be classified into three types: skilled, semiskilled and unskilled. Each of these types has certain characteristics which distinguish it from the other two. These distinguishing characteristics are the degree of skill and training required of the worker and the specificity of the task performed.

　　Skilled labor is labor which either has expertise in particular skill, like tool making or printing, or which has received professional training, such as doctors, teachers and lawyers.

　　A semiskilled is a person who has reached a very high degree of skill over a limited range of activities. Such labor can be trained very quickly. A welder in a motor vehicle assembly plant is an example. Similarly, one manufacturer of business machines believes that an operator can be fully trained in two days.

　　Unskilled labor, as its name implies, requires little specialized training. Skills can be acquired on the job itself, and as the laborers grow used to the work they become more efficient. For example, when the canals were built in Britain, and later when the railways were laid, the entrepreneurs who built them found that it took a full year for strong healthy farm boys to become diggers. These young men had to learn to use their energy economically so that they could work long hours without feeling tired. Although a great deal of specialized training was not necessary, the strong body and character that the job required were not produced in a single day.

　　The idea of specificity is also important in classifying labor. Generally speaking, skilled labor tends to be more specific than semiskilled or unskilled labor: skilled laborers usually perform only those tasks for which they have special skill or training. For instance, a dentist must be employed in dentistry in order to use his or her special skills. For a dentist to work in the fields planting corn would be a waste of these skills. Of course, it may do the dentist a world of good to find out about the life of a farmer, but this would not substitute for the efficient use of the dentists' service in caring for people's teeth. A welder in an automobile factory is a less specific type of labor. This laborer might be equally useful repairing cars or welding steel framework of a new building.

　　26. According to the author's classification, someone working on the assembly line is a (an) ________ laborer.

　　A) extremely skilled B) skilled

　　C) semiskilled D) unskilled

　　27. Which of the following does the passage NOT mention as a factor to be considered in classifying labor?

　　A) The degree of skills required of the worker.

　　B) The environment in which the job is done.

　　C) The training that the worker receives.

　　D) The specificity of the task.

　　28. What is said about the unskilled labor in this passage?

　　A) Unskilled workers have to receive specified training.

　　B) Unskilled labor, as its name implies, requires no skills at all.

　　C) In some cases, it takes a long time to make a person an unskilled worker.

　　D) Only the strong-bodied can become an unskilled laborer.

　　29. Which of the following is the least specific type of labor?

　　A) A welder B) A digger

　　C) A dentist D) A lawyer

　　30. "...it may do a world of good to the dentist to find out about the life of a farmer"(Para.5) implies that .

　　A) a farmer's life has something to do with the dentist's job

　　B) most farmers have dental problems

　　C) knowledge about his patient's background may substitute for the dentist's skills

　　D) some general information about his patient may help the dentist in his job

　　Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage:

　　I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time; to be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating, and I never found a companion so companionable as solitude.

　　We are for the most part lonely when we go abroad than we stay in our chambers, for solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.

　　The farmer, who can work alone all day without feeling lonesome, but must recreate with others at night wonders how the students can sit alone at night; he does not realize that the student, though in his house, is actually at work in his field and chopping his wood as the farmer was in his.

　　Society is commonly too cheap: We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other; we meet at meals three times a day and give each other a new taste of that musty old cheese that we are; we live thick and in each other's way, and I think that we thus lose some respect for one another.

　　We have had to agree on a certain set of rules, called etiquette and politeness, to make this frequent meeting tolerable; certainly less frequency would suffice for all important and hearty communications between men.

　　It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live, for as the value of a man is not in his skin, we need not touch him.

　　31. A person can be more lonely among men than by himself at home because ________.

　　A) loneliness is a state of mind

　　B) loneliness is not the same as being alone

　　C) solitude is not measured in miles

　　D) all of the above

　　32. The example of the farmer and the student shows that ________.

　　A) work satisfies man's need for solitude

　　B) men are not lonely when they are working

　　C) solitude is a necessary condition of work

　　D) men need recreation with men after work

　　33. Through this example, the author implies that .

　　A) loneliness is a necessity for men

　　B) recreation with other men is valueless

　　C) loneliness can't be equated with solitude

　　D) work is man's means of escape from loneliness

　　34. Frequent meetings prevent us from ________.

　　A) refreshing ourselves

　　B) acquiring new values for each other

　　C) appreciating the values of solitude

　　D) feeling lonely between meeting

　　35. The author thinks that value of man can be .

　　A) discovered through superficial contacts

　　B) found in his external appearance

　　C) discovered without physical contact

　　D) discovered only through frequent meetings

　　Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage:

　　This is a scientific age. Our material prosperity, the conveniences of life, and often life itself rests upon the development of our science. Although the practical fruits of science are not to be ignored, its true significance is subtler. The study of science has profoundly influenced the way men think. Science has created devices, but it has also given man confidence in his intelligent superiority over nature and has provided the method of approach to all problems requiring a conclusion from observed facts. The science of physics, which provides the tools for the chemist, geologist, engineer and astronomer, has also originated the scientific method.

　　A science is a body of organized knowledge. The steps in the origin and development of a science are observation, recording, analysis, prediction and verification. Accurate observation under controlled conditions is the first step in understanding nature. Records provide for the transmission of knowledge and aid its continued growth. Analysis proceeds from conjecture(推测) of the causes or relationships of certain observations, and, when the hypotheses have been tested, erects a theory that relates a large number of phenomena. The theory usually predicts certain as yet unsuspected phenomena or relationships. Verification of these predictions by experiment supports the theory and may lead to formulation of a law or principle. Failure to obtain experimental verification of predictions may not overthrow a theory, but causes its modification and often enriches it. The principal aspects of the scientific method are selective analysis, accurate measurement, and mathematical treatment. These techniques originated and received their fullest development in the field of physics. Other fields of knowledge, by common consent, are considered scientific to just the extent that their ideas are subject to analysis, measurement, and mathematical treatment.

　　36. The passage indicates that the practical fruits of science ________.

　　A) are worthless

　　B) are overestimated by the public

　　C) are underestimated by the public

　　D) are valuable, but its true significance is hard to comprehend

　　37. A new theory tends to predict something ________.

　　A) doubtful

　　B) beyond suspicion

　　C) that has not yet been recognized

　　D) well-known to all

　　38. The failure to verify predictions leads to ________.

　　A) the doom of the theory concerned

　　B) strong objections among colleagues

　　C) improvement of the hypothesis

　　D) no changes

　　39. There are ________ stages in the development of a science.

　　A) 5 B)2 C) 3 D) 4

　　40. Accurate measurement ________.

　　A) creates science

　　B) depends on due preparation

　　C) originates from a new theory

　　D) is one of the basic methods in scientific research

　　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 answer that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

　　41. Motorists who intend to take their cars with them from Britain to the Continent are advised to make early ________.

　　A) arrangements B) appointments

　　C) preparations D) reservations

　　42. If a person talks about his weak points, his listener is expected to say something in the way of ________.

　　A) assurance B) encouragement

　　C) persuasion D) confirmation

　　43. When the soldiers were on the march, there was one man who was always ________ with the rest.

　　A) out of condition B) out of order

　　C) out of step D) out of sight

　　44. If you are a member of a club, you must ________ to the rules of that club.

　　A) consent B) comply C) approve D) conform

　　45. Because the company was doing more business, it was necessary to ________ the factory.

　　A) extend B) amplify C) broaden D) magnify

　　46. To avoid the various foolish opinions to which mankind is ________, no superhuman genius is required.

　　A) acceptable B) available

　　C) liable D) applicable

　　47. John Smith is a person who can always advise you best. ________, he is coming here tomorrow.

　　A) In effect B) As a matter of fact

　　C) Even so D) In practice

　　48. He appears to be ________ in the sports news on the back page of his paper and ignores the hurrying crowd.

　　A) absorbed B) involved

　　C) participated D) trapped

　　49. What he told us about the affair simply does not make any ________.

　　A) sense B) meaning

　　C) idea D) significance

　　50. I hope that you will be more careful in typing the letter. Don't ________ anything.

　　A) leak B) omit C) withdraw D) drop

　　51. Mr. Smith wanted a 25% rise in pay, but after talking to his boss, he decided that a 5% rise would have to ________.

　　A) sufficeB) surge

　　C) subtle D) strap

　　52. John made ________ keys for the house; one for his wife and one for himself.

　　A) deviate B) duplicate

　　C) dozen D) deliberate

　　53. There is a probable ________ between smoking and cancer.

　　A) consideration B) correlation

　　C) estimation D) compensation

　　54. Drink coffee when you are sleepy; It's a good________ and will help keep you awake.

　　A) stimulant B) attachment

　　C) source D) liquid

　　55. Jim's running time in the trial was not fast enough to ________ him for the final race.

　　A) qualify B) modify

　　C) warrant D) discount

　　56. When two people feel the same way about each other, their feelings are ________.

　　A) liable B) mutual

　　C) depended D) typical

　　57. I can't undo the ________in the piece of string.

　　A) bunch B) lock C) spot D) knot

　　58. He wrote the textbook in ________ with his brother.

　　A) harmony B) collaboration

　　C) union D) connection

　　59. The table was very large and heavy; in fact it was so ________ that it could not be moved.

　　A) extraordinary B) massive

　　C) plentiful D) excessive

　　60. The workmen made so much ________ that Mrs. Walker had to spend three days cleaning up afterwards.

　　A) damageB) mess C) nuisance D) destruction

　　61. They did considerable work to ________ the masses of the United States with the elementary problems of Latin America.

　　A) instruct B) acquaintC) impartD) dictate

　　62. She is a ________ observer of slight differences in things.

　　A) commonplace B) peculiar

　　C) subtle D) plentiful

　　63. There is a(n) ________ of a week between Christmas and New Year's Day.

　　A) interruption B) decade

　　C) interval D) gap

　　64. The chairman made a(n)________ statement before beginning the main business of the meeting.

　　A) intensive B) intermediate

　　C) preliminary D) operational

　　65. A foreign firm has bought the shares in his company and ________.

　　A) got over it B) overtaken it

　　C) taken it over D) overcome it

　　66. If you divide 7 by 3, you have 1 ________.

　　A) left over B) left out

　　C) left off D) left about

　　67. This ticket ________ you to a free meal in our new restaurant.

　　A) permits B) entitles

　　C) grants D) credits

　　68. The Indian wars greatly ________ the dangers of frontier life.

　　A) accumulated B) challenged

　　C) multiplied D) enriched

　　69. I feel rather at a ________ talking to her, because she's so clever.

　　A) mistake B) fault

　　C) disadvantage D) defect

　　70. The eight turbine generators will have a ________ of 6000 million kilowatt hours.

　　A) quantity B) capability

　　C) capacity D) reservation

　　Part IV Short Answer Questions (15 minutes)

　　Directions: In this part there is a short passage with 5 questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words.

　　One of the most difficult issues to decide is the time when life begins. There are arguments about this. Many religious people say that life begins as soon as the sperm and the ovum have joined, whether this happens inside the women's body or in a laboratory. Some scientists say human life begins as soon as the fetus develops a brain. Other people claim life begins only after the baby has been born.

　　The question of when life begins and ends is most important in case of what is called embryo experimentation. In recent years, medical researchers have found that tissue from human embryos can provide cures for many adult diseases. They have used tissues from aborted fetuses and from babies born without brains to help adults who have Pakinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.

　　Every year, in the United States, there are hundreds of babies born without brains, or with only part of a brain stem. Normally such babies die within a few days.

　　It is possible, however, to keep them alive artificially, so their organs (such as the heart and the liver) can be transplanted into other babies. Is it right to keep these babies alive and then "kill" them when their organs are needed?

　　If tissue from aborted fetuses is useful in many medical cases, is it possible that women will begin to conceive and abort on purpose so they can earn money by selling the fetuses? If this is wrong, then is it acceptable to use tissue from fetuses that have been aborted through a natural miscarriage?

　　Many, many problems have come up since science has offered us options with human birth. Only a few of these problems are discussed here. England has already passed laws dealing with some of these things. America is still trying to decide whether this is something that can be handled by law. It is up to all of us to consider these problems so that if we are asked to vote on them, we will have sound opinions on which to base our decisions.

　　Questions:

　　S1. What are some scientists' views on the time when life begins?

　　S2. What does "embryo experimentation" mean?

　　S3. What is the author's concern since tissue from aborted fetuses may be used for medical purposes?

　　S4. What will probably happen to a baby born with only part of a brain stem?

　　S5. The passage mentions two kinds of diseases which people have used tissues from aborted fetuses to deal with. They are ________.

　　Part V. Writing (30 minutes)

　　Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic Is Work the Source of Pressure or Happiness. You should write at least 120 words and you should base your composition on the outline (given in Chinese) below:

　　1. 一些人认为工作是压力的源泉。

　　2. 另一些人则认为通过努力工作可以实现自我价值,使生活多姿多彩。

　　3. 你的看法。

　　参考答案：

　　Part I Listening Comprehension

　　Section A

　　Directions: In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations. At the end of each conversation, there will be a question. Each conversation and question will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four suggested answers marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

　　1. W: Thanks a lot for offering to return these books to the library for me.

　　M: Four books! But I have four of my own to take back too!

　　Q: What does the man mean?(A)

　　2. W: You're looking pleased. Did your exam go well?

　　M: No, actually. But I just had a job offer for next year.

　　Q: What does the man imply?(C)

　　3. M: Good morning. What can I do for you?

　　W: I'd like an estimate for repairing my emergency brake. The car rolls when I park it on a hill.

　　Q: Where is the woman?(A)

　　4. W: How Tom got the job which so many others applied is something I just don't understand.

　　M: It must be beginner's luck.

　　Q: Why is the woman puzzled?(B)

　　5. M: Your yard is always so beautiful, Cathy. You must have a gardener.

　　W: Oh, no. It would cost at least $50 a month to hire someone to do the work, so I do most of it myself. I enjoy taking care of the flowers, but I have to force myself to do the weeding and cut the grass.

　　Q: What does Cathy like to do?(D)

　　6. M: Tickets are eight dollars for adults. Children's tickets are half price.

　　W: Okay. I'd like two adults' and two children's tickets, please.

　　Q: How much did the woman pay for the tickets? (C)

　　7. W: Will you look at the price of steak! It's gone up again-it's 12 cents higher than it was a week ago. I can't afford to get it for my family.

　　M: I know. That's why I'm buying hamburger. If it gets any worse, we'll have to become vegetarians!

　　Q: How did the woman feel?(D)

　　8. M: I'm awfully sorry you couldn't come to dinner with us at that new Chinese restaurant last week. The food was wonderful, the atmosphere was interesting, and we all agreed that you should have been there, too.

　　W: I'm sorry, too. But I just didn't feel up to it. I had a terrible cold and I thought I'd be better off just staying at home in bed.

　　Q: When did the man go to dinner?(D)

　　9. W: This room is so crowded. I can hardly breathe and I can't see a thing.

　　M: I don't understand why they didn't have the show in a bigger theatre, do you?

　　Q: Why is the woman complaining?(D)

　　10.M: Why don't we stop for some ice-cream after the play?

　　W: I'd love to, but I'm on a diet.

　　Q: What does the man ask the woman to do?(A)

　　Section B Compound Dictation

　　Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. You are required to fill in the blanks numbered from S1 to S7 with the exact words and the blanks numbered from S8 to S10 with sentences. You can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words.

　　On the area (S1) weather map, most (S2) stations in southern Michigan are still (S3) reporting sunny skies. It's seventy-nine (S4) degrees at Detroit, seventy-three degrees at Lansing. Chicago is reporting light (S5) showers. South Bend is cloudy as the (S6) cloudiness moves in from the (S7) southwest.

　　The temperature at Ann Arbor airport in degrees Celsius is twenty-three point three. That's seventy-four degrees on the Fahrenheit scale. (S8) Sixty-six degrees is the water temperature of the lake with winds gusting at twenty knots. The relative, humidity is fifty-five percent and (S9) the barometric pressure is thirty point eleven inches of mercury and falling.

　　And now for the external forecast. (S10) For tonight, we expect partly cloudy conditions and mild temperatures with tonight's low about sixty degrees and only a twenty percent chance of any showers this evening.

　　Part II Reading Comprehension

　　21-25 ABDDC 26-30 CBCBD

　　31-35 ABCDA 36-40 DCCAD

　　Part III Vocabulary

　　41-45 DBCDA 46-50 CBAAB 51-55 ABBAC

　　56-60 BDBBB 61-65 BCCCC 66-70 ABCCC

　　Part IV Short Answer Questions

　　S1. Human life begins as soon as the fetus develops a brain.

　　S2. It means using tissues from human embryos to cure many adult diseases.

　　S3. Some women may conceive and abort on purpose to earn money by selling the fetuses.

　　S4. It will die soon.

　　S5. Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease

　　Part V Writing

　　Is Work the Source of Pressure or Happiness?

　　Different people have different attitudes toward work. Some people believe that work is the source of pressure. They claim that in such a competitive society you have to work hard to seize the little chances of promotion, to solve the housing problems, and to support your families and so on. Therefore, work has brought about so much pressure and other problems.

　　Some people, on the other hand, think differently. They say that work of any kind offers many rewards. Work is more than a necessity for most of us. If we have no work to do, only spending every day idly, we'll begin to lose interest in everything and our life will become meaningless. In other words, happiness is dependent upon work. Sometimes we may complain that we have too much work and fail to realize that it is the work that keeps us growing and helps us become successful and happy.

　　Although everything has both positive and negative sides, I would like to agree that true happiness originates from work. No matter what we do and no matter how much pressure we have to cope with, we must try our best to work and keep one thing in our mind that happiness is always waiting for us in the end.

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