Section One: Listening Test

　　Part A: Spot Dictation

　　Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear a passage and read the same passage with blanks in it. Fill in each of the blanks with the word or wor

ds you have heard on the tape. Write your answer in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. Remember you will hear the passage ONLY ONCE.

　　Now let us begin Part A with Spot Dictation.

　　British people are far more sophisticated about beverages than they were 50 years ago. Witness the Starbucks revolution, and you’ll know where the trend goes. However, spurred on by recent studies suggesting that it can cut the risk of cancer and heart disease, and retard the aging process, tea is enjoying a similar and a reviving jolt.

　　Although tea is available in more places than ever, it remains to be a long tradition of a typical British family. If you’re invited to an English home at five o’clock in the morning, you get a cup of tea. It is either brought in by a heartily smiling hostess, or an almost malevolently silent maid. When you are disturbed in your sweetest morning sleep, you must not say: “Go away! You deserve to be shot!” On the contrary, you have to declare with your best 5 o’clock smile, “Thank you very much! I do adore a cup of tea, especially in the morning!” If they leave you alone with the liquid, you may pour it down the wash basin.

　　Then, you have tea for a breakfast. Then, you have tea at 11 o’clock in the morning. Then, after lunch. Then, you have tea for tea. Then, after supper. And again, at 11 o’clock at night. You must not refuse any additional cups of tea under the following circumstances. If it is hot. If it is cold. If you are exhausted. If you are nervous. If you are watching TV. Before you go out. If you have just returned home. If you feel like it. If you do not feel like it. If you have had no tea for some time. If you have just had a cup. You definitely must not follow my example. I sleep at 5 o’clock in the morning. I have coffee for breakfast. I drink innumerable cups of black coffee during the day. I have the most unusual drinks even at tea time.

　　李天畅点评：这篇文章的头1/3 出自于2005年3月笔试的某篇阅读篇章，这个部分其实恰恰是最难的部分。文章整体难度一般，较之以往有稳中有降，出现了个别难词，如jolt, malevolently等。这些词出现在高口考试中，也是可以杀伤绝大部分考生的。当然，如果不出现在需填的空格中，不会影响上下文的理解。另一些词，如beverages, retard the aging process, heartily smiling, wash basin, under the following circumstances, 以及一连串的if排比，更可能成为考察的重点和难点。

　　Part B: Listening Comprehension

　　1. STATEMENTS

　　Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear several short statements. These statements will be spoken ONLY ONCE, and you will not find them written on the paper; so you must listen carefully. When you hear a statement, read the answer choices and decide which one is closest in meaning to the statement you have heard. Then write the letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.

　　1. I used to watch a lot of TV, but now I can’t stand it. Too many commercials made me sick. They are everywhere in every program and every channel.

　　2. The flight was due at 7:30 but it was delayed one and a half hours, so I have to put off our meeting until 10:00.

　　3. As to this agreement, no questions come to my mind right now, but I’d like to read it through again before signing it.

　　4. To the chairperson’s surprise, better than half of the committee was absent, which accounted for her decision to call off the meeting this morning.

　　5. Grocery stores and supermarkets in the inner city and the suburbs may sometimes be run by the same company, but there are often differences in prices for the same product.

　　6. Getting their children into college used to be the goal of millions of Americans. Nowadays, with the increasing costs of higher education, it has become an even bigger challenge.

　　7. Because of the unfavorable economic situation, many liberal arts graduates will have difficulty in finding employment unless they are willing to accept work outside their major interests.

　　8. Good business negotiators ask a lot of questions to check understanding and they often restate what other persons have said.

　　9. To avoid misunderstanding and legal problems in the future, spoken promises are usually not enough for such an important business transaction.

　　10. I really appreciate what you said and I believe you have a lot more to say on that topic. Let’s explore the subject over lunch one of these days.

　　2. Talks and Conversations

　　Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear several short talks and conversations. After each of these, you will hear a few questions. Listen carefully because you will hear the talk or conversation and questions ONLY ONCE. When you hear a question, read the four answer choices and choose the best answer to that question. Then write the letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.

　　Questions 11 to 14 are based on the following conversation:

　　W: In Britain, there are four main types of secondary school, aren’t there?

　　M: Ah, basically, yes. There’re grammar schools, vocational or technical schools and secondary modern schools and then there are comprehensive schools. In England, however, secondary schools are sometimes divided into 3 main types (Question 11): Comprehensive schools which are open to all children; grammar schools which are selective and require an entrance examination; and then single-sex high schools.

　　W: I must say I find your educational system rather complicated. And to make matters worse, you call your private schools public schools.

　　M: Well, I suppose it is all rather confusing especially in England and Wales. The term public school is used for non-profit-making independent schools (Question 12), and the term private schools for those that are run to make a profit. But like so many other things in Britain, our educational system is deeply rooted in tradition and yet it’s changing all the time.

　　W: Really? In what ways is it changing?

　　M: Well, in nearly every way. For instance, there is a very strong movement now towards comprehensive schools. (Question 13)Will all children go for their secondary education no matter what their ability or background? There are already many of these state schools and many children are no longer tested by examination to be placed in schools according to academic ability. And then again public schools will probably become part of the state’s system someday. (Question 14)

　　W: But will the wealthy always be in a privileged position? They are always able to send their children to the best private schools in the country.

　　M: Not necessarily. If independent schools join the state’s system and we do away with the idea of grammar schools for the clever. Then every child should have an equal opportunity to do well and go on to higher education. (Question 14)

　　Question 11: According to the conversation, how many types of secondary schools are there in Britain?

　　Question12: What is a public schools in England and Wales?

　　Question13. Which of the following reflects the way in which the British secondary education is changing?

　　Question14. According to the man, what is the benefit if independent schools join the state system?

　　大意：关于英国中学教育系统的介绍及变化趋势介绍。这是中口Talks and Conversation第四次提到关于教育的话题(英国牛津剑桥教育体系的独特之处/英国的开放式教育/对体罚的看法/美国的教育系统)所以，正如在考前讲评中提到的教育的词汇和相关背景非常重要。

　　Questions 15 to 18 are based on the following talk.

　　People often use the phrase the dictionary. There are many different kinds of dictionaries. Some general and some specialized. General dictionaries are all-purpose dictionaries that contain a broad range of words and common usage(Question 15). The first general dictionary that you used was probably a school dictionary.(Question 16) These dictionaries contain relatively few words and emphasize common words that you are most likely to encounter in your school years. Later, most people acquire a college dictionary. There dictionaries have more than 150, 000 entries with detailed definitions that are sufficient for most college students as well as general users. They also separately list abbreviations, biographical and geographical names, foreign words and phrases and tables of measures. The Random House Websters College Dictionary and the American Heritage Dictionary are well-known college dictionaries. For scholars or researchers, an abridged dictionary provides as many as 500, 000 entries that have detailed definitions and extensive word histories. You will find these dictionaries primarily in libraries and they often spend several volumes. Specialized dictionaries such as the drinking water dictionary or dictionary of legal terms are also very useful for scholars or researchers. (Question 18)

　　Question 15

　　What is an all-purpose dictionary?

　　Question 16

　　Which dictionary are you most likely to use in your university days?

　　Question 17

　　Which of the following is true about the college dictionary?

　　Question 18

　　According to the talk, what dictionary is especially useful for scholars and researchers?

　　大意：本文主要介绍了字典的分类和用途。总体来说，字典可以分为普通字典和专业字典两种。 本文内容较简单。

　　Questions 19 to 22 are based on the following conversation:

　　Man: Hi, Helen. Any phone call for me while I’m away?

　　Woman: No, Bill. What did you get from your lunch-break shopping?

　　Man: I’ve got this new pullover, but I’m not sure if it really suits me. What do you think of it, Helen?

　　Woman: Well, it’s very nice as far as I can see, but put it on first. Then I’ll tell you if it suits you. No hurry. We still have about half an hour to go before our office time.

　　Man: I tried on about a dozen. This one isn’t what I wanted really.

　　Woman: Why did you buy it then?

　　Man: The salesman sold it to me before I realized what had happened. He just never stopped talking and he told some story about the latest fashion and special reductions. Before I could say anything, he’d wrapped it up and taken my money.

　　Woman: Well, it doesn’t look too bad. But haven’t you put it on inside out and back to front?

　　Man: Inside out and back to front? Well, I can’t tell the back from the front with these high-neck pullovers. I really wanted one with a V-neck.

　　Woman: It’s a good thing it’s got sleeves at the top or you’d have put it on upside down now as well. Still, I think it suits you quite well.

　　Man: I went out to get a blue pullover with a V-neck, short sleeves and a pattern and I came back with a white one with a high neck, long sleeves and no pattern.

　　Woman: You must be too easy to take in. You’ve got to learn to stand up to these high pressure salesmen. They’ll sell you all sorts of things you don’t want if you don’t watch out.

　　Man: Next time, I’ll send my wife. She’ll probably sell something to the salesman.

　　Q19: What has the man just done during his lunch break?

　　Q20: Which of the following is not a salesman’s strategy for selling a product?

　　Q21: How had the man put on his pullover according to the woman?

　　Q22: What did the man originally want to buy when he went shopping?

　　大意：此对话为同事Bill和Helen之间的对话，关于Bill在午休时因推销员的极力推荐而买下的套头衫。对话的语言十分生活化，难度较低，且问题的答案也十分明确的在对话中以原句形式出现。

　　Questions 23 to 26 are based on the following talk.

　　Questions 23-26

　　We may engage ourselves with music as a creator, that is a composer, or as a recreator, that is a performer, but most of us engaged ourselves with music as a receiver(Question 23). That is a listener. As a listener, we respond to music with different levels of receptivity. We may be very causal and careless about the way we hear music, paying almost no attention to it. Elevator or telephone music, for example, is not meant to be listened to intently. We have all used music as background sound to create a pleasant atmosphere for our own quiet thought. On the other hand, especially when we are on the road, an easy listening station can create a dream-like haze and we may deliberately turn out the music so as to concentrate on the driving(Question 24). However, there are other times when music is the center of our focus. And we give it our full attention. This could be in a church, at a special event or at a concert(Question 25). But how are we supposed to listen and what are we supposed to listen for. Basically, there are two ways to experience music. Some people let the sounds wash over them like a sauna bath and a emotional flood. This is the sensuous level. Over listeners respond on a perceptive or analytical level, paying attention to various aspects of the music as they unfold. They listen for musical events. The first level of attending to music is purely emotive. The second analytical. Ideally, we learn to listen more perceptively in order to increase the emotional impact. As a result, the second way of perceptive or analytical listening reveals the expressive power of the music composition so that we can enjoy it more fully (Question 26).

　　Question 23

　　What role do most of us play when we engage ourselves in listening to music?

　　Question 24

　　Why do we sometimes deliberately turn out the music when we are on the road?

　　Question 25

　　According to the talk, where is music likely to become the center of our focus?

　　Question 26

　　How can we enjoy the music composition more fully?

　　大意：本文主要介绍了音乐欣赏。有的音乐会认真听，有的只是随意听，有的人听音乐停留在感官的层面，有些会分析感受。本文稍有难度。

　　Questions 27 to 30 are based on the following conversation:

　　W: Chris, when you are only in the fourth grade, you decided to dedicate your life to studying dinosaurs. Many forth-graders are fascinated with dinosaurs, but they grow up to be police officers, doctors or lawyers. What inspired you at such an early age to choose the study of dinosaurs as your life career.

　　M: Actually it was a magazine, the September 7th, 1963 issue of Life magazine with dinosaurs on the cover. (Question 27) I still have the magazine today. I was visiting my grandfather’s house and this magazine was sitting on the porch table. I opened it up and found not just fantastic pictures of dinosaurs, early reptiles and sea monster, but an article entitled the Pageant of Life. It was the story of how evolution works. It was wonderful. What got me was not just that dinosaurs were near and grotesque but that they were part of a much bigger history, a Greek historical story. So in the fourth grade, in 1964 I announced to my parents that I spend the rest of my life studying dinosaurs. And my parents nodded their heads and said “That’s nice dear. It’s a stage. You’ll grow out of it.”

　　W: But you didn’t grow out of that stage, did you?

　　M: NO, I often wonder why most people cannot maintain their first love with nature, with dinosaurs or elephants or whales. You take any kids to a zoo or museums, and they’ll be captivated by what they see. But that captivation dies away in high school, why? Think part of is that the adult world tells kids, “Hey, to like zoos or museums is childish thing. (Question 28)You shouldn’t like them. Be interested in dating and cars or making money.” So they have lost their sense of wonder at nature. Nevertheless, you’ll find a lot of adults enjoying taking their kids to museums to look at dinosaurs.

　　W: You’re involved with many aspects of education and educational programs, and you lecture to groups of students all over the country. What are the most common questions the students ask you?

　　M: They often ask about the Loch Ness monster in Scotland. They ask “Is there any possibility of their still being a living dinosaur? (Question 29)No, for the following reason. You could hide one monster in Lock Ness. It’s a deep enough lake. But you could not hide a breeding population of monsters. If you want to preserve a species, you need a minimum of 500 so that they can breed every generation and can have enough diversity in their genes so that they can keep on going. You can’t hide 500 or 600 monsters because there’ll always be death. (Question 30) Dead animals float to the surface of lakes or swamps, they get washed up onshore. And someone is going to find them.

　　27. According to the man, what inspired him to dedicate his life to studying dinosaurs?

　　28. Which of the following is considered childish by the adult world?

　　29. What mistaken idea do many people have about the L monster in Scotland?

　　30. What reason does the man give to deny the existence of a living monster in Lock Ness?

　　大意：采访类对话，主要问了一个

　　Part C: Listening and Translation

　　1. Sentence Translation

　　Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear 5 sentences in English. You will hear the sentences ONLY ONCE. After you have heard each sentence, translate it into Chinese and write your version in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.

　　Now let us begin Part C with sentence translation:

　　Sentence No. 1: We had a great time yesterday. We went to the Darling Harbor where we had lunch, and then we drove around Sydney and saw a bit of the city.

　　昨天我们过的很愉快。我们先去了情人港(达令港)吃午饭，然后开车在悉尼市内兜风，看了看这个城市。

　　Roy点评：较容易抓住首句，故写出大意不难。Darling Harbor是本句的难点，索性音译为达令港倒也能算对，关键是要了解悉尼有那么个情人港。

　　Sentence No. 2: Most experts on investment are very optimistic about China’s economy next year, which is predicted to have a growth rate of over 8%.

　　Roy点评：只要抓住关键词optimistic，8%就大概可以把大意写出来了，加上investment，next year等细节就可以轻松拿高分了。

　　Sentence No. 3: Despite the pressures of overcrowding and long working hours, the Japanese men can live for as long as 75 years, while women reach an average age of 81 years .

　　尽管身边环境过于拥挤，且工作时间过长，带来很大压力，但日本的男性普遍寿命都达到75岁，而女性平均寿命达81岁。

　　Roy点评：其实后面两句的事实信息，包括数字，都不难掌握，难度在第一句中的两个细节overcrowding，long working hours，实战中可以充分利用好despite一词，合理推断，第一句应该是表示“不利于长寿”的因素。

　　Sentence No. 4: Although the engineers could not be certain that the new plan would work, it seemed like a good solution to the problem, at least on paper.

　　虽然工程师们无法确定，新计划是否会有效，但它看起来是解决问题的好方法，至少书面上看起来是这样。

　　Roy点评：与句子翻译第三句一样，充分利用好although连接两个部分，并抓住a good solution to the problem这个中心信息，配合前面的not certain，组句不难。

　　Sentence No. 5: Many US high school students cheat in examinations. In our recent survey of 8000 students, 70% admitted cheating on at least one test in the current school year.

　　Roy点评：关键词cheat必须抓住，否则会出现全句大意错误。后面的调查数字还是证明cheating这一现象在美国高中的普遍存在，注意记下细节数字8000和70%即可。美音中current的发音可能带来听力理解困难，但不构成组句重大困难。

　　II. Passage Translation

　　Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear 2 passages in English. You will hear the passages only once. After you have heard each passage, translate it into Chinese and write your version in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. You may take notes while you are listening.

　　Now let us begin passage translation with the first passage.

　　Passage One:

　　Since my parents divorce, I have changed from a spoiled child to a reasonably normal college student. Before the divorce, I expected my mother to wait on me. She did my laundry, cooked, and cleaned up after meals, and even made my bed. My father left when I was 15, and things changed. When Mom got a fulltime job to support us, I was the one with the free time to do housework. Also, I got a part-time job on weekends to earn my own spending money. It was hard, but I am glad not be that spoiled kid anymore.

　　自从我父母

　　Roy点评：本段的关键还是在于抓住第一句并合理利用结构。首句开宗明义，“父母离婚后，我发生了很大变化”，下文自然要进行父母离婚前后的情况对比。接下来无非是一些细节的记录，比如洗衣服，做饭，洗碗等。中间以My father left when I was 15, and things changed一句作为前后过渡，引出下面的改变。注意最后一句也可以利用好but一词，前面说it was hard，but引出与hard相反的意思，I am glad…，写出大意也就顺理成章了。

　　Passage Two:

　　American companies under government contract are often faced with the choice of buying American-made goods, which are expensive, and foreign-made goods, which are cheap. If the company buys American goods, it may anger taxpayers by failing to keep prices low. But if it buys foreign goods, it may endanger the jobs of American workers. Recently, Congress has passed a law compelling American companies with government contracts to give preference to domestic goods and services.

　　与政府存在合约关系的美国公司经常面临这样的选择，究竟购买价格昂贵的美国产的产品，还是价格低廉的外国出产的产品。如果某公司选择购买美国产品，可能会因为未能把价格压低而激怒纳税人。但如果购买外国产品，则可能让美国工人面临失去工作的危险。最近，美国国会通过法律，勒令与政府签过合同的美国公司优先考虑本国产品和服务。

　　Roy点评：本段难度较大，除了taxpayer，Congress，compelling，preference等难词之外，更是因为话题可能对于学生来说不是很熟悉。首句中不妨不纠缠under government contract为何意，把重点放在究竟是什么choice上，就很容易理清楚本段的结构了，“购买本国产品和外国产品的各自利弊”。it may anger taxpayers一句中有一个读音的难点，即by failing to keep prices low，学生很容易会把failing听成feeling，造成理解错误，主要原因还是因为对fail to这个结构的实际运用不够熟练。末句可以联系上文，并抓住law, give preference to等关键词，得出“要求优先照顾本国产品”的意思。

　　This is the end of SECTION 1, listening test.

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