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TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2018)

-GRADE EIGHT-

TIME LIMIIT：150 MIN

PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION [25 MIN]

SECTION A MINI-LECTURE

You have THIRTY seconds to preview the gap-filling task.

Now listen to the mini-lecture. When it is over, you will be given THREE minutes

to check your work.

SECTION B INTERVIEW

In this section you will hear ONE interview. The interview will be divided into

TWO parts. At the end of each part, five questions will be asked about what was said.

Both the interview and the questions will be spoken ONCE ONLY. After each question

there will be a ten-second pause. During the pause, you should read the

four choices

of A), B), C) and D), and mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET

TWO.

You have THIRTY seconds to preview the choices.

Now, listen to the first interview. Questions 1 to 5 are based on Part One of the

interview.

Now listen to the interview.

A. Announcement of results.

B. Lack of a time schedule.

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C. Slowness in ballots counting.

D. Direction of the electoral events.

A. Other voices within Afghanistan wanted so.

B. The date had been set previously.

C. All the ballots had been counted.

D. The UN advised them to do so.

A. To calm the voters.

B. To speed up the process.

C. To stick to the election rules.

A. Unacceptable.

B. Unreasonable.

C. Insensible.

D. Ill considered.

A. Supportive.

B. Ambivalent.

C. Opposed.

D. Neutral.

Now listening to Part Two of the interview. Questions 6 to 10 are based on Part

Two of the interview.

A. Ensure the government includes all parties.

B. Discuss who is going to be the winner.

C. Supervise the counting of votes.

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D. Seek support from important sectors.

A. 36%-24%.

B. 46%-34%.

C. 56%-44%.

D. 66%-54%.

A. Both candidates.

B. Electoral institutions.

C. The United Nations.

D. Not specified.

A. It was unheard of.

B. It was on a small scale.

C. It was insignificant.

D. It occurred elsewhere.

A. Problems in the electoral process.

B. Formation of a new government.

C. Premature announcement of results.

D. Democracy in Afghanistan.

PART ⅡREADING COMPREHENSION [25 MIN]

SECTION A MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

In this section there are three passages followed by fourteen multiple choice

questions. For each multiple choice question, there are four suggested answers

marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer and mark

your answer on ANSWER SHEET TWO.

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PASSAGE ONE

(1) “Britain's best export,”I was told by the Department of Immigration in

Canberra, “is people.”Close on 100,000 people have applied for assisted passages in

the first five months of the year, and half of these are eventually expected to migrate

to Australia.

(2) The Australian are delighted. They are keenly ware that without a strong flow

of immigrants into the workforce the development of the Australian economy is

unlikely to proceed at the ambitious pace currently envisaged. The new mineral

discoveries promise a splendid future, and the injection of huge amounts of

American and British capital should help to ensure that they are properly exploited,

but with unemployment in Australia down to less than 1.3 per cent, the government

is understandably anxious to attract more skilled labor.

(3) Australia is roughly the same size as the continental United States, but has

only twelve million inhabitants. Migration has accounted for half the population

increase in the last four years, and has contributed greatly to the country's

impressive economic development. Britain has always been the principal source –

ninety per cent of Australians are of British descent, and Britain has provided one

million migrants since the Second World War.

(4) Australia has also given great attention to recruiting people elsewhere.

Australians decided they had an excellent potential source of applicants among the

so-called “guest workers”who have crossed their own frontiers to work in other arts

of Europe. There were estimated to be more than four million of them, and a large

number were offered subsidized passages and guaranteed jobs in Australia. Italy has

for some years been the second biggest source of migrants, and the

Australians have

also managed to attract a large number of Greeks and Germans.

(9) Most British migrants miss council housing the National Health scheme, and

their relatives and former neighbor. Loneliness is a big factor, especially among

housewives. The men soon make new friends at work, but wives tend to find it much

harder to get used to a different way of life. Many are housebound because of

inadequate public transport in most outlying suburbs, and regular correspondence

with their old friends at home only serves to increase their discontent. One

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housewife was quoted recently as saying: “I even find I miss the people I used to hate

at home.”

(10) Rent are high, and there are long waiting lists for Housing Commission

homes. Sickness can be an expensive business and the climate can be

unexpectedly

rough. The gap between Australian and British wage packets is no longer big, and

people are generally expected to work harder here than they do at home.

Professional men over forty often have difficulty in finding a decent job. Above all,

perhaps, skilled immigrants often finds a considerable reluctance to accept their

qualifications.

(11) According to the journal Australian Manufacturer, the attitude of many

employers and fellow workers is anything but friendly. “We Australians,”it stated in a

recent issue, “are just too fond of painting the rosy picture of the big, warm-hearted

Aussie. As a matter of fact, we are so busy blowing our own trumpets

that we have

not not time to be warm-hearted and considerate. Go down

“heart-break alley”

among some of the migrants and find out just how expansive the Aussie

is to his

immigrants.”

The Australians want a strong flow of immigrants because . Immigrants speed up economic expansion

unemployment is down to a low figure

immigrants attract foreign capital

Australia is as large as the United States

Australia prefers immigrants from Britain because .

they are selected carefully before entry

they are likely to form national groups

they are fond of living in small towns

In explaining why some migrants return to Europe the author .

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stresses their economic motives

emphasizes the variety of their motives

stresses loneliness and homesickness

emphasizes the difficulties of men over forty

which of the following words is used literally, not metaphorically? “flow”(Para. 2).

“injection”(Para. 2).

“gravitate”(Para. 5).

“selective”(Para. 6).

Para. 11 pictures the Australians as .

unsympathetic

ungenerous

undemonstrative

unreliable

PASSAGE TWO

(1) Some of the advantages of bilingualism include better performance at tasks

involving “executive function”(which involves the brain's ability to plan and

prioritize), better defense against dementia in old age and—the obvious —the ability

to speak a second language. One purported advantage was not mentioned, though.

Many multilinguals report different personalities, or even different worldviews, when

they speak their different languages.

(2) It's an exciting notion, the idea that one's very self could be broadened by

the mastery of two or more languages. In obvious ways (exposure to new friends,

literature and so forth) the self really is broadened. Yet it is different to

claim—as

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many people do—to have a different personality when using a different language. A

former Economist colleague, for example, reported being ruder in Hebrew than in

English. So what is going on here?

(3) Benjamin Lee Whorf, an American linguist who died in 1941, held that each

language encodes a worldview that significantly influences its speakers. Often called

“Whorfianism”, this idea has its sceptics, but there are still good reasons to believe

language shapes thought.

(4) This influence is not necessarily linked to the vocabulary or grammar of a

second language. Significantly, most people are not symmetrically bilingual. Many

have learned one language at home from parents, and another later in life, usually at

school. So bilinguals usually have different strengths and weaknesses in

their

different languages—and they are not always best in their first language. For

example, when tested in a foreign language, people are less likely to fall into a

cognitive trap (answering a test question with an obvious-seeming but wrong

answer) than when tested in their native language. In part this is because working in

a second language slows down the thinking. No wonder people feel different when

speaking them. And no wonder they feel looser, more spontaneous, perhaps more

assertive or funnier or blunter, in the language they were reared in from childhood.

(6) Many bilinguals are not bicultural. But some are. And of those bicultural

bilinguals, we should be little surprised that they feel different in their two languages.

Experiments in psychology have shown the power of “priming”—small unnoticed

factors that can affect behavior in big ways. Asking people to tell a happy

story, for

example, will put them in a better mood. The choice between two languages is a

huge prime. Speaking Spanish rather than English, for a bilingual and bicultural

Puerto Rican in New York, might conjure feelings of family and home. Switching to

English might prime the same person to think of school and work.

(7) So there are two very good reasons (asymmetrical ability, and priming) that

make people feel different speaking their different languages. We are

still left with a

third kind of argument, though. An economist recently interviewed here at Prospero,

Athanasia Chalari, said for example that:

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Greeks are very loud and they interrupt each other very often. The reason for

that is the Greek grammar and syntax. When Greeks talk they begin their sentences

with verbs and the form of the verb includes a lot of information so you

already know

what they are talking about after the first word and can interrupt more easily.

(8) Is there something intrinsic to the Greek language that encourages Greeks to

interrupt? People seem to enjoy telling tales about their languages' inherent

properties, and how they influence their speakers. A group of French intellectual

worthies once proposed, rather self-flatteringly, that French be the sole legal

language of the EU, because of its supposedly unmatchable rigor and precision. Some

Germans believe that frequently putting the verb at the end of a sentence makes the

language especially logical. But language myths are not always

self-flattering: many

speakers think their languages are unusually illogical or difficult—witness the

plethora of books along the lines of Only in English do you park on a driveway and

drive on a parkway; English must be the craziest language in the world!

We also see

some unsurprising overlap with national stereotypes and

self-stereotypes: French,

rigorous; German, logical; English, playful. Of course.

A. Personality improvement.

B. Better task performance.

C. Change of worldviews.

D. Avoidance of old-age disease.

17. According to the passage, that language influences thought may be related

to .

A. the vocabulary of a second language

B. the grammar of a second language

C. the improved test performance in a second language

D. the slowdown of thinking in a second language

18. What is the author's response to the question at the beginning of Para. 8?

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A. It's just one of the popular tales of national stereotypes.

B. Some properties inherent can make a language logical.

C. German and French are good examples of Whorfianism.

D. There is adequate evidence to support a positive answer.

19. Which of the following statements concerning Para. 9 is correct?

A. Ms. Chalari's theory about the Greek language is well grounded.

B. Speakers of many other languages are also prone to interrupting.

C. Grammar is unnecessarily a condition for change in personality.

D. Many unrelated languages don't have the same features as Greek.

20. In discussing the issue, the author's attitude is .

A. satirical

B. objective

C. critical

D. ambivalent

PASSAGE THREE

(4) Well, young lady, observed the old gentleman, looking at her somewhat

kindly, what is it you wish?

(5) I am, that is, do you--I mean, do you need any help? she stammered.

(6) Not just at present, he answered smiling. Not just at present. Come in some time next week. Occasionally we need some one.

(7) She received the answer in silence and backed awkwardly out. The pleasant

nature of her reception rather astonished her. She had expected that it would be

more difficult, that something cold and harsh would be said--she knew not what.

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That she had not been put to shame and made to feel her unfortunate position,

seemed remarkable. She did not realize that it was just this which made her

experience easy, but the result was the same. She felt greatly relieved.

(9) An office boy approached her.

(10) Who is it you wish to see? he asked.

(11) I want to see the manager, she returned.

(12) He ran away and spoke to one of a group of three men who were conferring

together. One of these came towards her.

(13) Well? he said coldly. The greeting drove all courage from her at once.

(14) Do you need any help? she stammered.

(15) No, he replied abruptly, and turned upon his heel.

(16) She went foolishly out, the office boy deferentially swinging the door for

her, and gladly sank into the obscuring crowd. It was a severe setback to

her recently

pleased mental state.

21. She quickened her steps because she .

A. was afraid of being seen as a stranger

B. was in a hurry to leave the district

C. wanted to look like someone working there

D. wanted to apply at more factories that day

22. Why didn't she enter Storm and King the first time?

A. She was too timid to enter the building

B. Two men stopped her at the entrance

C. Several pedestrians had found her strange

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D. The messenger had closed the door behind him

23. What does “every foot of her progress being a satisfactory portion of a flight

which she gladly made”mean according to the context (Para.2)?

A. She thought she was making progress in job search.

B. She was glad that she was looking for a job.

C. She found her experience satisfactory.

D. She just wanted to leave the place.

24. Why did she feel greatly relieved (Para.7)?

A. She eventually managed to enter the building.

B. She was kindly received by the clerk.

C. She had the courage to make an inquiry.

D. She was promised a work position.

SECTION B SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS

In this section there are eight short answer questions based on the passages in

SECTION A. Answer each question in NO MORE THAN TEN WORDS in the space

provided on ANSWER SHEET TWO.

PASSAGE ONE

25. What do “promise”and “should”in Para. 2 imply about author's vision of

Australia's

economy？

26. Explain the meaning of “the growth of national groups”according to the

context (Para. 7).

PASSAGE TWO

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27. Explain the meaning of “The choice between two languages is a

huge

prime.”according to

the context (Para. 6)

28. What reasons does the author give to explain why people feel different

when speaking different languages？

29. What does the author focus on in the passage?

PASSAGE THREE

30. Select and write down at least THREE words or phrases in Para. 1 describing

the girl's inner feelings while walking in the streets looking for a job. 31. Explain the meaning of “So severe a defeat told sadly upon her nerves.”

according to the context (Para. 2).

32. In “It was a severe setback to her recently pleased mental state.”(Para. 16),

what does “her recently pleased mental state”refer to according to the context?

PART III LANGUAGE USAGE [15 MIN]

The passage contains TEN errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of

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