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TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS

GRADE EIGHT

                                                                                                                   TIME LIMIT: 195 MIN

测试听力原文

PART I  LISTENING COMPREHENSION [35 MIN]

SECTION A  MINI-LECTURE

In this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening, take notes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but you will need them to complete a gap-filling task after a mini-lecture. When the lecture is over, you will be given two minutes to check your note, and another ten minutes to check your notes, and another ten minutes to complete the gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE. Use the blank sheet for note-taking.

SECTION B  INTERVIEW

In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct answer to each question on you colored answer sheet.

Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview.

1.      What were the things in Britain that Dr. Mathew found most strange when he first arrived?

A.     Drivers in Britain always broke the traffic rules.

B.     Foot passengers did not look before they crossed the road.

C.     People in Britain drive on the other side of the road.

D.    It is dangerous to cross the road in Britain.

2.      What is the main reason that someone said Britain and the United States are divided by a common language?

A.     British English and America English use different words and expressions to refer to the same thing.

B.     Britain and America are different in many aspects, though they speak the same language.

C.     British people and American people like different foods.

D.    Britain and America are separated by the Atlantic Ocean.

3.      What word do British people use to refer to potato chips?

A. chips                   B. crisps                          C. French fries                    D. fries

4.      The reasons why Dr. Mathew says younger people in Britain are radical do NOT include _______.

A.     younger people in Britain dress different from those in America

B.     many young men in Britain wear earrings in one of their ears

C.     most younger people in Britain have more political awareness than those in America

D.    many young men in Britain are fans of Madonna

5.      According to Dr. Mathew, what is the main reason that many young people in Britain know a lot about America?

A.     Because American policies are good examples to follow.

B.     Because British polices have no effect on Americans.

C.     Because they have good chance to travel a lot.

D.    Because they can know a lot from reading newspapers.

SECTION C  NEWS BROADCAST

In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct answer to each question on your colored answer sheet.

Questions 6 and 7 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the two questions. Now listen to the news.

6. According to the news, Chechnya has all of the following geographic features EXCEPT______.

A. lowlands              B. valleys                         C. rivers                             D. forests

7. The ecological disaster of Chechnya is caused by ______.

A.     thriving and planned oil industry

B.     years of separatist warfare

C.     pollution of major rivers

D.    growing number of babies born

Question 8 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question. Now listen to the news.

8. It is ______ who direct many Cosa Nostra's activities in Palermo.

A. Bernardo Provenzano                                    B. Antonino Cina

C. Salvatore Riina                                             D. Antonino Rotolo

Questions 9 and 10 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the two questions. Now listen to the news.

9. The news is mainly about ______.

A.    the disadvantages and advantages of nighttime flights

B.    the environmental benefit caused by daytime flights

C.    the environmental damage caused by nighttime flights

D.    the impact of sunlight in the formation of vapor trails of aircrafts

10. What effect will the trails of aircrafts produce in the nighttime?

A.     They will act like tiny clouds.

B.     They will decrease temperatures.

C.     They will account for greenhouse effect.

D.    They will increase precipitation.

PART II  READING COMPREHENSION [30 MIN]

In this section there are several reading passage followed by a total of twenty multiple-choice questions. Read the passage and then mark your answers on your answer sheet.

TEXT A

Given Shakespeare's popularity as an actor and a playwright and his conspicuous financial success, it was not surprising that jealous rivals began to snipe at his work. In later centuries, a common charge was that Shakespeare did not invent many of his plots but took his basic stories from well-known English history and old legends instead.

It is quite true that these sources have been used by many English dramatists. But what Shakespeare did to the common facts is wholly remarkable: he invented new characters, transformed old ones, created a gallery of kings, maidens, courtiers, warriors and clowns of startling psychological depth. He rearranged familiar tales with an extraordinary gift for drama, comedy and fantasy. And over all this work, so rich with soaring language and glistening poetry, he cast an unprecedented mood of grandeur and glory. Never had the theatre been showered with such lyricism and passion, such insight and profundity.

But how could a man of so little education produce such masterful works? Did Shakespeare, in fact, write the plays? Through the centuries, some have suggested Francis Bacon was the "real" Shakespeare. But the mystery-author theorists conveniently ignore- an indisputable fact: numerous contemporaries stated that William Shakespeare of Stratford and London was the author of all but a few plays in the present canon. Ben Jonson knew him well, as did theatre owners, and the actors who signed the validating foreword to the definitive First Folio (1623) edition of his work.

That Shakespeare was not "educated" means only that he had not endured the dry curriculum of Oxford or Cambridge in those days. Shakespeare was. in fact, a wide render with an inquisitive mind and a confidence in his own perceptions. John Deyden observed: "He was naturally learn'd, " And Shakespeare certainly "read" the nature of human behaviour- male and female, monarchs and jesters, peasants and buffoons. It was his imaginative range, his jewelled language, his skill as a storyteller¨Crather than his erudition¨C that made him the wonder of the world.

In one revolutionary step, the dramatist from Avon broke away from the stereotyped morality plays that dominated the English stage. He preached no sermons; he offered no pious warnings; he treated good, evil, virtue and sin as would a psychologist, not a priest. His cool objectivity in rendering human passions has incurred the wrath of many a righteous soul, and even the great Samuel Johnson chastised Shakespeare for writing "without any moral purpose".

It was precisely this aspect of Shakespeare, this relentless analytic stance, embroidered with poetry of luminous beauty that ushered in what can. Without exaggeration, be called the modern theatre.

Shakespeare destroyed the reigning, stultifying over-simplifications of Elizabethan drama. He dared to show heroes with flaws and doubts and unheroic impulses; heroines whose chastity was at war with their carnality; petty a nd fearful kings; queens who were monsters, and princes who were charlatans; villains overwhelmed by guilt or even tempted by virtue in short, a parade of characters caught, as men and women truly are, in the conflict of emotions and the paradoxes of human dilemmas.

11. What distinguishes Shakespeare from the other English dramatists who also used well known English history and old legends as sources?

A. His recreation of familiar tales.

B. His competence in foreign languages.

C. His own experience as an actor.

D. His poetic passion.

12. Who might testify that it was Shakespeare who wrote the plays?

A. The mystery-author theorists.

B. Francis Bacon.

C. Theatre owners.

D. Theatergoers and the actors.

13. All of the following statements are true EXCEPT

A. Shakespeare received little formal higher education.

B. Shakespeare could remain objective when interpreting human passions.

C. Shakespeare hat! a thorough understanding of the nature of human behaviour.

D. Shakespeare's drama was spoken highly of by Samuel Johnson.

14. What is common among the characters in Shakespeare's drama?

A. They reflect the people in reality as well as in his dreams.

B. They often have to make hard choices as to what to do.

C. They are caught in the conflict of emotions and feel ashamed of themselves.

D. All of the above.