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附：TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2016)

-GRADE EIGHT-

TIME LIIMIT: 150 MIN

 

 

 

PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION

 SECTION A MINI-LECTURE            [25 MIN]

In this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the mini-lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening to the mini-lecture, please complete the gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE and write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each gap. Make sure the word(s) you fill in is (are) both grammatically and semantically acceptable. You may use the blank sheet for note-taking. 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.

 

Models for Arguments

I.  Three models for arguments

   A. The first model for arguing is called (1)      : 

      —arguments are treated as war

      —there is much winning and losing

     —it is a (2)         model for arguing 

   B. the second model for arguing is arguments as proofs:

     —warranted  (3)         

      —valid inferences and conclusions

     —no (4)        in the adversarial sense 

   C. the third model for arguing is (5)       : 

     —the audience is (6)       in the argument 

     —arguments must (7)         the audience 

II.  Traits of the argument as war

   A. very dominant: it can shape (8)       

   B. strong arguments are needed

   C. negative effects include:

     —(9)      are emphasized

      —winning is the only purpose

     —this type of arguments prevent(10)      

     —the worst thing is (11)        

   D. implication from arguments as war:(12)      

     —e.g. , one providing reasons and the other raising (13)      

     —the other one is finally persuaded

 

III.  Suggestions on new ways to(14)   of arguments 

   A. think of new kinds of arguments

   B. change roles in arguments

   C.(15)      

 

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 question 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 questions.

Now listening to Part One of the interview. Questions 1 to 5 are based on Part One of the interview.

 

1. A. Maggie’s university life.

B. Her mom’s life on farmland.

C. Maggie’s view on studying with Mom.

D. Maggie’s opinion on her mom’s major.

 

2. A. They take exams in the same weeks.

B. They have similar lecture notes.

C. They apply for the same internship.

D. They follow the same fashion.

 

3. A. Having roommates.

B. Practicing court trials.

C. Studying together.

D. Taking notes by hand.

 

4. A. Protection.

B. Imagination.

C. Excitement.

D. Encouragement.

 

5. A. Thinking of ways to comfort Mom.

B. Occasional interference from Mom.

C. Untimely calls when Maggie is busy.

D. Frequent check on Maggie’s grades.

 

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

6. A. Because parents need to be ready for new jobs.

B. Because parents love to return to college.

C. Because kids require them to do so.

D. Because kids find it hard to adapt to college life.

 

7. A. Real estate agent.

B. Financier.

C. Lawyer.

D. Teacher.

 

8. A. Delighted.

B. Excited.

C. Bored.

D. Frustrated.

 

9. A. How to make a cake.

B. How to make omelets.

C. To accept what is taught.

D. To plan a future career.

 

10. A. Unsuccessful.

B. Gradual.

C. Frustrating.

D. Passionate.

 

PART II READING COMPREHENSION

SECTION A    MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS                      [45 MIN]

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.

 

PASSAGE ONE

(1) There was music from my neighbor’s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes (滑水板) over cataracts of foam. On weekends Mr. Gatsby’s Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before.

(2) Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York — every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves. There was a machine in the kitchen which could extract the juice of two hundred oranges in half an hour if a little button was pressed two hundred times by a butler’s thumb.

(3) At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby’s enormous garden. On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors-d’oeuvre (冷盘), spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold. In the main hall a bar with a real brass rail was set up, and stocked with gins and liquors and with cordials (加香甜酒) so long forgotten that most of his female guests were too young to know one from another.

(4) By seven o’clock the orchestra has arrived -- no thin five-piece affair, but a whole pitful of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos, and low and high drums. The last swimmers have come in from the beach now and are dressing upstairs; the cars from New York are parked five deep in the drive, and already the halls and salons and verandas are gaudy with primary colors and hair shorn in strange new ways, and shawls beyond the dreams of Castile. The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside until the air is alive with chatter and laughter and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other’s names.

(5) The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun, and now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music, and the opera of voices pitches a key higher. Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.

(6) The groups change more swiftly, swell with new arrivals, dissolve and form in the same breath -- already there are wanderers, confident girls who weave here and there among the stouter and more stable, become for a sharp joyous moment the centre of a group, and then, excited with triumph, glide on through the sea-change of faces and voices and color under the constantly changing light.

(7) Suddenly one of the gypsies, in trembling opal, seizes a cocktail out of the air, dumps it down for courage and, moving her hands like Frisco, dances out alone on the canvas platform. A momentary hush; the orchestra leader varies his rhythm obligingly for her, and there is a burst of chatter as the erroneous news goes around that she is Gilda Gray’s understudy from the Follies. The party has begun.

(8) I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby’s house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited — they went there. They got into automobiles which bore them out to Long Island, and somehow they ended up at Gatsby’s door. Once there they were introduced by somebody who knew Gatsby, and after that they conducted themselves according to the rules of behavior associated with amusement parks. Sometimes they came and went without having met Gatsby at all, came for the party with a simplicity of heart that was its own ticket of admission.

(9) I had been actually invited. A chauffeur in a uniform crossed my lawn early that Saturday morning with a surprisingly formal note from his employer -- the honor would be entirely Gatsby’s, it said, if I would attend his “little party” that night. He had seen me several times and had intended to call on me long before but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it — signed Jay Gatsby, in a majestic hand.

(10) Dressed up in white flannels I went over to his lawn a little after seven and wandered around rather ill-at-ease among swirls and eddies of people I didn’t know — though here and there was a face I had noticed on the commuting train. I was immediately struck by the number of young Englishmen dotted about; all well dressed, all looking a little hungry and all talking in low earnest voices to solid and prosperous Americans. I was sure that they were all selling something: bonds or insurance or automobiles. They were, at least, agonizingly aware of the easy money in the vicinity and convinced that it was theirs for a few words in the right key.

(11) As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently any knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table — the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.

 

11. It can be learned from Para. 1 that Mr. Gatsby ________ through the summer.

  A. entertained guests from everywhere every weekend

  B. invited his guests to ride in his Rolls-Royce at weekends

  C. liked to show off by letting guests ride in his vehicles

  D. indulged himself in parties with people from everywhere

12. In Para. 4, the word “permeate” probably means ________.

  A. perish         B. push       C. penetrate           D. perpetrate

13. It can be inferred from Para. 8 that ________.

  A. guests need to know Gatsby in order to attend his parties

  B. people somehow ended up in Gatsby’s house as guests

  C. Gatsby usually held garden parties for invited guests

  D. guests behaved themselves in a rather formal manner

14. According to Para. 10, the author felt ________ at Gatsby’s party.

  A. dizzy         B. dreadful       C. furious          D. awkward

15. What can be concluded from Para. 11 about Gatsby?

  A. He was not expected to be present at the parties.

  B. He was busy receiving and entertaining guests.

  C. He was usually out of the house at the weekend.

  D. He was unwilling to meet some of the guests.

 

PASSAGE TWO（略） 

PASSAGE THREE（略） 

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 10 words in the space provided on ANSWER SHEET TWO. 

PASSAGE ONE

25. From the description of the party preparation, what words can you use to depict Gatsby’s party?

26. How do you summarize the party scene described in Para. 6?

PASSAGE TWO

27. What do the case of Target, Adobe and eBay in Para. 3 show?

28. Why does the author say that the task is becoming harder in Para. 7?

29. What is the conclusion of the whole passage?

PASSAGE THREE

30. What does the author mean by saying “Their case is weak.” in Para. 2?

31. What does “grade inflation” in Para. 3 mean?

32. What does the author mean when he quotes Richard Huber in Para. 5?

 

PART III LANGUAGE USAGE           [15 MIN]

The passage contains TEN errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. You should proof-read the passage and correct it in the following way:

For a wrong word,underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line.

For a missing word,mark the position of the missing word with a “∧” sign and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line.

For an unnecessary word, cross the unnecessary word with a slash “/” and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the line.

    Proofread the given passage on ANSWER SHEET THREE as instructed.

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PART IV TRANSLATION          [20 MIN]

Translate the underlined part of the following text into English. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET THREE. 

“流逝”表现了南国人对时间最早的感觉。子在川上曰：“逝者如斯夫。”他们发现无论是潺潺小溪，还是浩荡大河，都一去不复返，流逝之际青年变成了老翁而绿草转眼就枯黄，很自然有错阴的紧迫感。流逝也许是缓慢的，但无论如何缓慢，对流逝的恐惧使人们必须用“流逝”这个词来时时警戒后人，必须急匆匆地行动，给这个词灌注一种紧张感。

 

PART V WRITING        [45 MIN]

 

The following two excerpts are about Ice Bucket Challenge, an activity initiated to raise money and awareness for the disease ALS (渐冻症). From the excerpts, you can find that the activity seems to have achieved much success, but there have also been doubt can criticism.

    Write an article of NO LESS THAN 300 words, in which you should:

1. Summarize the development if the ice bucket challenge activity, and then

2. Express your opinion towards the activity, especially whether the problems found with this kind of activity will finally undermine its original purpose.

Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.

Write your article on ANSWER SHEET FOUR. 

Excerpt 1

ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Takes U.S. By Storm In the last two weeks, the Ice Bucket ChallengeTM has quite literally “soaked” the nation. Everyone from Ethel Kennedy to Justin Timberlake has poured a bucket of ice water over his or her head and challenged others to do the same or make a donation to fight ALS within twenty-four hours. Between July 29 and today, August 12, the ALS Association and its 38 chapters have received an astonishing $4 million in donations compared with $1.12 million during the same time period last year. The ALS Association is incredibly grateful for the outpouring of support from those people who have been doused, made a donation, or both. “We have never seen anything like this in the history of the disease,” said Barbara Newhouse, President and CEO of the ALS Association. With only about half of the general public knowledgeable about amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the Ice Bucket Challenge is making a profound difference, since July 29, the Association has welcome more than 70,000 new donors to the cause. “While the monetary donations are absolutely incredible,” said Newhouse, “”the visibility that this disease is getting as a result of the challenge is truly invaluable. People who have never before heard of ALS are now engaged in the fight to find treatments and a cure for ALS.”

 Excerpt 2 

Ice bucket challenge: who’s pouring cold water on the idea? The ice bucket challenge has certainly raised awareness. Whether that’s primarily of the disease for which it is raising funds or the speed at which images of swimsuit-clad celebrities will go viral is a long-term question. More pertinent right now is whether or not the craze has reached a tipping point. As it lived by social media, so the ice bucket challenge could die by it. The state of California is currently experiencing one of the worst drought on record. So gestures such as companies dousing their staff en mass in hundreds of gallons of ice water, come across more as wasteful PR exercises than charitable gestures- and are being called out as such on Twitter. There has been a similar reaction in China. Last week, people in drought-stricken Henan province raised empty red buckets over their heads, accompanied by the slogan “Henan, please say no to the ice bucket challenge”. China’s ministry for civil affairs, while broadly supportive, has warned citizens against the practice’s “entertainment and commercial tendencies”. But the real dampener could be the risk of bodily harm. Doctors around the world have warmed of risks to elderly people, expectant mothers and people with heart conditions.

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