Part Ⅰ
Listening Comprehension(20 minutes)
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. Both the conversation and the question will be spoken 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.
1. A) At the department store.
B) At the office.
C) In the restaurant.
D) In the drug store.
2. A) He is upset.
B) He is disappointed.
C) He is confident.
D) He is worried.
3. A) It’s too high.
B) It’s acceptable.
C) It’s cheap indeed.
D) The woman should have bargained for it.
4. A) At two o’clock.
B) At three o’clock.
C) At four o’clock.
D) At five o’clock.
5. A) Shop assistant and customer.
B) Post clerk and customer.
C) Store keeper and customer.
D) Waitress and customer.
6. A) To park the car.
B) To take pictures.
C) To take her to the park.
D) To have a look at the sight.
7. A) His girlfriend complained of his going to the party without her.
B) He was together with her girlfriend yesterday.
C) He has been busy dating his girlfriend these days.
D) He brought his girlfriend to the party.
8. A) She regretted having bought the second-hand car.
B) It is unnecessary to rent another house.
C) They should sell their second-hand car and buy a new one.
D) They can afford a second-hand car.
9. A) She loves the film too.
B) She doesn’t think much of the film.
C) She asks the man to repeat his words.
D) It’s not as good as she expected.
10. A) Go outing with his wife.
B) Work for extra hours.
C) Stay at home with his wife.
D) Go outing with his boss.
Section B
Compound Dictation
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. Then listen to the passage again. When the passage is read for the second time,
you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from S1 to S7 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered S8 to S10 you are required to fill in missing information. You can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
The lack of persistence is the reason most people fail in attaining their goals. Many organizational analysts and (S1) ____ consultants consider persistence to be the (S2) ____ key to success at both the organizational and (S3) ____ level.
Success (S4) ____ comes easily on the first try. What (S5) ____ the successful from the unsuccessful is persistence. Successful people also fail (S6) ____ but they do not let their failures (S7) ____ their spirit. (S8) __________. And again. And again. Until they succeed. (S9)_______, usually passing the blame on to someone or something else, and learn nothing from their experience other than perfecting their scapegoating techniques. Successful people expect periodic defeats, learn what went wrong and why, don’t waste time looking f
or someone to blame, make necessary adjustments, and try again. (S10) _______. If you are not persistent, you will almost certainly fail.
Part Ⅱ
Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Directions: There are four reading 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 should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
Passage One
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
Classified advertising is that advertising which is grouped in certain sections of the paper and is thus distinguished from display advertising. Such groupings as “Help Wanted”, “Real Estate”, “Lost and Found” are made, the rate charged being less than for display advertising. Classified advertisements are a convenience to the reader and a saving to the advertiser. The reader who is interested in a particular kind of advertisement finds all advertisements of that type grouped for him.
The advertisers may, on this account, use a very small advertisement that would be lost if it were placed among larger advertisements in the paper. It is evident that the reader approaches the classified advertisement in a different frame of mind from that in which he approaches the other advertisements in the paper. He turns to a page of classified advertisements to search for the particular advertisement that will meet his needs. As his attention is voluntary, the advertiser does not need to rely too much extent on display type to get the reader’s attention. Formerly all classified advertisements were of the same size and did not have display type. With the increase in the number of such advertisements, however, each advertiser within a certain group is competing with others in the same group for the reader’s attention. In many cases,the result has been an increase in the size of the space used and the addition of headlines and pictures. In that way,the classified advertisement has in reality become a display advertisement. This is particularly true of real estate advertising.
21. All of the following facts are advantages of classified advertisement
for advertisers EXCEPT that ____.
A) classified advertisement charges less money
B) it is easier to attract the attention of the target consumers
C) it provides more information for the readers
D) it does not have to rely too much on display type
22. One of the examples given of types of classified advertisement is ____.
A) houses for sale
B) people who are asking for help
C) people who are lost
D) job vacancies
23．What sort of attitude do people have when they look at classified advertisement, according to the writer?
A) They are in the frame of mind to buy anything.
B) They are looking for something they need.
C) They feel lost because there are so many advertisements.
D) They feel the same as when they look at display advertisements.
24．According to the passage, in which way have the classified advertisements changed nowadays?
A) They depend more on display type.
B) More money is charged for them.
C) They are divided into more groups.
D) They are less formal.
25．Why have classified advertisements changed in appearance?
A) Because people no longer want headlines and pictures.
B) Because real estate advertising is particularly truthful now.
C) Because the increase in the number of such advertisements means they have to be small now.
D) Because there are more advertisements now and more competition among advertisers.
Passage Two
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
Psychologists now believe that noise has a considerable effect on people’s attitudes and behaviors. Experiments have proved that in noisy situations (even temporary ones), people behave more irritably and less cooperatively; in more permanent noisy situations, many people can not work hard, and they suffer from severe anxiety as well as other psychological problems. However, psychologists distinguish between “sound” and “noise”. “Sound” is measured physically in decibels. “Noise” cannot be measured in the same way because it refers to the psychological effect of sound and its level of “intensity” depends on the situation. Thus, for passengers at an airport who expect to hear airplanes taking off and landing, there may be a lot of sound, but not much noise (that is, they are not bothered by the noise). By contrast, if you are at a concert and two people behind you are whispering, you feel they are talking noisily even if there is not much sound. You notice the noise because it affects you psychologically. Both sound and noise can have negative effects, but what is most important is if the person has control over the sound. People walking down the street with earphones, listening to music that they enjoy, are receiving a lot of decibels of sound, but they are probably happy hearing sounds which they control. On the other hand, people in the street without earphones must tolerate a lot of noise which they have no control over. It is noise pollution that we need to control in order to help people live more happily.
26．According to the passage, people ____
A) can not work in a noisy situation
B) will suffer from complete deafness because of noise pollution
C) can be psychologically affected by working in very noisy factories
D) may cooperate well in a noisy surrounding
27．“Sound”, as defined by the psychologists, ____.
A) can be measured in the same way that “noise” is measured
B) may be extremely harmful to health
C) is not at all different from “noise”
D) can be measured by machines
28．The intensity of noise can be measured by ____.
A) its effect on people’s hearing
B) its decibel
C) how much it affects people psychologically
D) how long it lasts
29．According to the passage, which of the following is sound rather than
noise?
A) A couple’s whisper behind you in the cinema.
B) The snore of your roommate.
C) The loud motor-horn in the street.
D) The sound of airplanes taking off and landing when you are waiting to board plane.
30．We can conclude from the passage that we need to control noise pollution if ____.
A) we want to stay both psychologically and physically healthy
B) we want to have better control over ourselves
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