College English Test （3）
Part I Listening Comprehension (20 points)
Section A
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. You will hear the conversation and the question 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:
Man: Hello, Mary. This is John Smith at the office. Is Bill feeling any better today?
Woman: Oh, yes, John. He‟s feeling much better now. But the doctor says he‟ll have to stay in bed until Monday.
Question: Where is Bill now?
You will read:
A) At the office.B) On his way to work. C) Home in bed. D) A way on vacation.
From the conversation, we know that Bill has to stay in bed until Monday. Therefore, C) “Home in bed” is the best answer. You should choose answer [C] on the Answer Sheet and mark it with a single line through the centre.
1. A) US$25. B) US$30. C) US$40. D) US$50.
2. A) The man himself. B) The man‟s housekeeper. C) The man‟s brother. D) The man and his brother.
3. A) Have a big dinner. B) Stay at home. C) See a Chinese friend. D) Try a new restaurant.
4. A) He is going to change his job. B) He has lost his job.
C) He is doing pretty well now. D) He has found a fine job.
5. A) The weather. B) The sun. C) The subway. D) The sky.
6. A) By plane. B) By ship. C) By train. D) By car.
7. A) Few people take it. B) Most people do well on it.
C) Nobody wants to take it. D) Most people find it difficult.
8. A) He is upset. B) He is angry. C) He is bored. D) He is confident.
9. A) She hasn‟t read the novel yet. B) She has finished reading the novel.
C) She chose a different novel. D) She couldn‟t understand the novel.
10. A) Go shopping. B) Attend a party. C) Wear a new dress. D) Make a silk dress.
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages or conversations. At the end of each passage
or conversation, you will hear some questions. The passage or the conversation will be read twice. Af ter
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 center. Questions 11-13 are based on the following passage.
11. A) How to make the best use of maps. B) How to use online maps.
C) How to get directions from maps. D) How to draw online maps.
12. A) The button that says: “Best Route”. B) The button that says: “Best map”.
C) The button that says: “Get maps”. D) The button that says: “Get Directions”.
13. A) The locations of gas stations. B) The step-by-step directions.
C) The changes in traffic rules. D) The report on road conditions.
Questions 14-16 are based on the following passage.
14. A) Forty-five years old. B) Forty-six years old. C) Forty-eight years old. D) Forty-nine years old.
15. A) She drove to the photographer‟s home. B) She drove to the photographer‟s studio.
C) She called the photographer and told him she wouldn‟t pay.
D) She called the photographer and asked him to come to her house.
16. A) Because she was unhappy with the photos. B) Because her husband didn‟t like the photos.
C) Because the photographer had spoiled the photos.
D) Because the photographer said she married the wrong man.
Questions 17 to 20 are based on the following conversation.
17. A) In the 1920s. B) In the 1930s. C) In the 1940s. D) In the 1950s.
18. A) Chemical. B) V apor. C) Water. D) Gas.
19. A) By passing steam over dry ice. B) By turning ordinary ice into steam.
C) By melting dry ice. D) By mixing dry ice with ordinary ice.
20. A) It is not so cold as ordinary ice. B) It is light and easy to carry.
C) It is cleaner to use than ordinary ice. D) It takes longer time to melt.
Part II Vocabulary (10 points)
Directions: There are 20 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.
21. For day-to-day mission operations the _______ can use jeans and T-shirts or any clothing that they would
wear on Earth.
A) cast B) staff C) crew D) committee
22. He didn‟t know anyone at the wedding _______ than the bride and groom.
A) except B) other C) more D) rather
23. Harding has been _______ to Albany prison, where he will complete his sentence.
A) transformed B) transferred C) transmitted D) translated
24. Some teachers devote too much time to helping their slower students and _______ the brighter ones.
A) ignore B) miss C) overlook D) neglect
25. Global warming and youth crime are the key _______ in the election campaign.
A) issues B) questions C) stuffs D) matters
26. I‟d almost given up hope of finding a house I liked, and then suddenly this one _______.
A) turned up B) turned over C) turned out D) turned away
27. The _______ services in this area simply couldn‟t cope if there were a major accident or terrorist attack.
A) urgency B) strain C) emergency D) pressure
28. The musical triangle _______ a clear, beautiful note when struck.
A) keeps out B) reaches out C) gives out D) figures out
29. All members are _______ to ￡500 free insurance cover on their instruments and equipment against damage
and loss.
A) given B) granted C) entitled D) credited
30. Meetings were held to update employees as soon as new information became _______.
A) advisable B) available C) approachable D) acceptable
31 The new law has been welcomed by the Attorney General, who believes that it is a step towards __
_____ better
moral and ethical standards.
A) rising B) promoting C) heightening D) increasing
32. Among her many _______ are loyalty, courage, and truthfulness.
A) virtues B) properties C) features D) characteristics
33. It has to be _______ that, in a complex industrialized society such as ours, some wastes are unavoidable.
A) appreciated B) approved C) appealed D) applied
34. The patient is still in a critical condition but doctors say they are cautiously _______ that he will make a full
recovery.
A) optimistic B) obvious C) obedient D) optional
35. He rarely talked about his own work, and was _______ to listen to the experiences of others.
A) careful B) content C) confident D) creative
36. The committee is due to _______ its report on Gingrich by the end of this year.
A) retain B) relieve C) relate D) release
37. Companies with under 20 employees were outside the _______ of our survey.
A) field B) limit C) extent D) range
38. Running your own business usually _______ working long hours.
A) includes B) involves C) contains D) comprises
39. The terrorists have been _______ and arrested abroad according to the spokesman.
A) tracked down B) traced off C) warned off D) stood by
40. Some confusion has _______ about who can join the club.
A) risen B) raised C) arisen D) aroused
Part III Structure (10 points)
Directions: There are 20 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. Two men have denied _______ a woman at a remote picnic spot.
A) to murder B) of murdering C) murdering D) to have murdered
42. We request that all cell phones and pagers _______ for the duration of the performance.
A) are turned off B) turn off C) were turned off D) be turned off
43. In fact, _______ is clearly illustrated by the data, inequalities are relatively consistent throughout childhood.
A) as B) that C) it D) what
44. The mad man was put in the soft-padded cell lest he _______ himself.
A) injure B) had injured C) injured D) would injure
45. If I hadn‟t stood under the ladder to catch you when you fell, you _______ now.
A) didn‟t smile B) couldn‟t have smiled C) won‟t smile D) wouldn‟t be smiling
46. _______ the button, and you will have your meal _______.
A) Pressing, prepared B) Press, preparing C) Pressing, preparing D) Press, prepared
47. It is vital that he _______ accurate records.
A) may keep B) keep C) must keep D) keeps
48. Settlers of the western United States had a sense of equality in face of hardship, _______ democratic political
practices.
A) which led to B) was leading to C) they had led D) led to
49. _______ have spread to virtually every country around the world.
A) Fast food chains B) When fast food chains C) Fast food chains which D) Now that fast food chains
50. In the eastern part of Massachusetts _______ an important university town.
A) lies the city of Cambridge C) around the city of Cambridge lies
B) there the city of Cambridge D) lies the city of Cambridge around there
51. When we reached the train station, the train had not arrived yet; so we_______.
A) needed not to hurry B) needn‟t have hurried C) didn‟t need to hurry D) had not needed to hurry
52. “Y ou missed a golden opportunity.”“Y es, I _______ that job when it was offered.”
A) shall take B) shall have taken C) should take D) should have taken
53. Many of the world‟s great novels are reported _______ into films last year.
A) to have been made B) to have made C) to make D) to be making
54. If the work _______ by the end of the month is delayed, the construction company will be fined.
A) has been completed B) will be completed C) to be completed D) being completed
55. Excuse _______ sir, but can you tell me where the nearest hospital is?
A) I interrupt B) my interrupting C) me to interrupt D) me interrupting
56. If I _______ run out of ink, I would have finished writing the paper.
A) didn‟t B) shouldn‟t C) haven‟t D) hadn‟t
57. She wishes that we _______ her the candy yesterday because she‟s on a diet.
A) not sent B) didn‟t send C) hadn‟t sent D) wouldn‟t send
58. _______ we have finished the course, we shall start doing more revision work.
A) From now B) Now that C) Since that D) By now
59. _______ the smallest mistake, the successful launching of the spacecraft would have been impossible.
A) If there was B) If there had been C) Were there to be D) If there would have been
60. When people speak of solar energy, they only think of sun‟s rays heating a home or _______ electricity from
the sun.
A) derive B) to derive C) deriving D) of deriving
Part IV Reading Comprehension (30 points)
Directions: There are 3 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 shouM decide on
the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the
center.
Passage 1
Questions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage:
The failed Skylab will come screaming home to earth in disappointment sometime next month, but it will fall we know not where. That precise information is beyond even the calculations of scientists and their computers. The best they can tell us is that the space station, weighing 77 tons and as high as a 12-story building, will break into hundreds of pieces that will be scattered across a track 100 miles wide and 4,000 miles long. We are again exposed to one of those unexpected adventures, or misadventures, of science that attracts our attention from the boring routines of daily existence and encourages us to think a lot about man‟s future.
What worries Richard Smith, the Skylab‟s director, is the …big pieces‟ that will come through the atmosphere. Two lumps, weighing 2 tons each, and ten, weighing at least 1,000 pounds each, will come in at speeds of hundreds of miles an hour, and if they crash on land they will dig holes up to 100 feet deep.
What worries us, with our lack of scientific knowledge and our quick imagination, is both the big and little pieces, although project officials say there is a very small chance that anyone will be injured by th
em. That‟s good to know, but it doesn‟t remove the doubts of the millions who still remember the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island. That accident took place in I979 in spite of what scientists had assured us as to the safety of the nuclear reactor.
61. We can conclude from the passage that where the Skylab will fall_______.
A) is still kept secret B) will be announced soonC) is predicted by computers D) can‟t be predicted at present
62. The broken Skylab will be_______.
A) falling with the force of a 12-story building B) in two lumps, weighing more than 1,000 pounds each
C) an attractive scientific adventure to millions of people
D) scattered across a track I00 miles wide and 4,000 miles long
63. It can be inferred from the passage that_______.
A) the danger of the Skylab‟s fall has been overestimated
B) the danger of the Skylab‟s fall has been underestimated
C) it‟s useless to worry over things you can‟t do anything about
D) computers can solve the problem caused by the broken Skylab
64. Three Mile Island was mentioned _______.
A) because the author is afraid of nuclear accident there
B) because the author doesn‟t believe in the officials‟ words
C) because the broken Skylab was as safe as the nuclear reactor
D) because the author fears that the Skylab may strike a nuclear power plant
65. The author expresses his _______.
A) willingness to give his advice B) doubtful attitude toward scientists
C) interest in the failure of the Skylab D) eagerness to see more new scientific discoveries Passage 2
Questions 66 to 70 are based on the following passage:
Children are a relatively modem invention. Until a few hundred years ago they looked like adults, wearing grown-up clothes and grown-up expressions, performing grown-up tasks in Renaissance (文艺复兴时期) paintings. Children did not exist because the family as we know it had not evolved.
Children today not only exist; they have taken over, in no place more than in America, and at no time more than now. It is always Kid‟s Country here. Our civilization is child-centered, child-obsessed. A kid‟s body is our physical ideal. In Kid‟s Country we do not permit middle-aged. Thirty is promoted over 50, but 30 knows that soon his time to be overtaken will come.
We are the first society in which parents expect to learn from their children. Such a topsy-turvy (颠三倒四的) situation has come into being at least in part because, unlike the rest of the world, ours is an immigrant (移民) society, and for immigrants the only hope is in the kids. In the Old Country, that is, Europe, hope was in the father, and how much wealth he could accumulate and pass along to his children. In the growth pattern of America and its ever-expanding frontier, the young man was ever advised to GO WEST; the father was ever inheriting from his son. Kid‟s Country may be the inevitable result.
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Kid‟s Country is not all bad. America is the greatest country in the world to grow up in because it is Kid‟s
Country. We not only wear kids‟ clothes and eat kids‟ food; we dream kids‟ dreams and make them come true. It was, after all, a boys‟ game to go to the moon.
If in the old days children did not exist, it seems equally true today that adults, as a class, have begun to disappear, forcing all of us to remain boys and girls forever, jogging and doing push-ups against eternity.
66. The Renaissance paintings are cited to show that _______.
A) children looked and acted like adults at that time
B) children paid much more respect to adults then than they do now
C) children were not permitted to appear in other paintings at that time
D) children were smaller and thinner at that time, but they still had lots of work to do
67. The difference between “the Old Country” and America lies mainly in _______.
A) the geography B) the family size
C) the attitudes towards family relations D) the economic relations between generations
68. Going to the moon is an example of _______.
A) why America hasn‟t grown up B) America‟s dreams and creativity
B) America‟s childish and their strange behaviorD) why America is considered the greatest country in the world
69. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?
A) The majority of the American population is children.
B) It is very difficult for the middle-aged to live in America.
C) America is more of Kid‟s Country than any other countries in the world.
D) Kid‟s Country was taking shape in America when immigrants poured into the country.
70. By saying “forcing all of us to remain boys and girls forever, jogging and doing push-ups against eternity”, the
author means that _______.
A) people shouldn‟t be so concerned about physical fitness
B) Americans are too old and tired to do such hard exercise
C) American society is overemphasizing youth and physical appearance
D) what happened to children centuries ago may happen to adults in America soon
Passage 3
Questions 71 to 75 are based on the following passage:
In the late 1960‟s, many people in North America turned their attention to environmental problems, and new steel-and-glass skyscrapers were widely criticized. Ecologists pointed out that a cluster of tall buildings in a city often overburdens public transportation and parking lot capacities.
Skyscrapers are also lavish (过分大方地) consumers, and wasters, of electric power. In one recent year, the addition of 17 million square feet of skyscraper office space in New Y ork City raised the peak daily demand for electricity by 120,000 kilowatts—enough to supply the entire city of Albany, New Y ork, for a day.
Glass-walled skyscrapers can be especially wasteful. The heat loss or gain through a wall of half-inch plate glass is more than ten times that through a typical masonry (石造建筑) wall filled with insulation (绝缘) board. To lessen the strain on heating and air-conditioning equipment, builders of skyscrapers have begun to use double-glazed panels of glass, and reflective glasses coated with silver or gold mirror films that reduce glare as well as heat gain. However, mirror-walled skyscrapers raise the temperature of the surrounding air and affect neighboring buildings.
Skyscrapers put a severe strain on a city‟s sanitation (公共卫生) facilities, too. Skyscrapers also interfere with television reception, block bird flyways, and obstruct air traffic. In Boston in the late 1960‟s, some people even feared that shadows from skyscrapers would kill the grass on Boston Common.
Still, people continue to build skyscrapers for all the reasons that they have always built them—person
al ambition, civic pride, and the desire of owners to have the largest possible amount of rentable space.
71. What‟s the main purpose of the passage?
A) To compare skyscrapers with other modem structures.
B) To illustrate some architectural designs of skyscrapers.
C) To describe skyscrapers and their effect on the environment.
D) To support the use of masonry in the construction of skyscrapers.
72. According to the passage, what is one disadvantage of skyscrapers that have mirrored walls?
A) The exterior surrounding air is heated. B) Extra air-conditioning equipment is needed.
C) The construction time and cost are increased.D) They produce more glare for those inside the skyscrapers.
73. According to the passage, in the late 1960‟s which aspect of skyscrapers were some residents of
Boston
concerned with?.
A) The noise from their construction. B) The harmful effects on the city‟s grass.
C) The high cost of rentable office space. D) The removal of trees from building sites.
74. Which of the following groups would be most concerned with the issues that the author raises?
A) Gardeners. B) Manufacturers. C) Electricians. D) Environmentalists.
75. What is one of the reasons that people continue to build skyscrapers?
A) To gain more profits. B) To save parking lot capacities.
C) To save more energy. D) To improve a city‟s sanitation facilities.
Part V Translation from English into Chinese (15 points)