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TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2017)

—GRADE FOUR—

TIME LIMIT: 130 MIN

PART I

DICTATION [10 MIN]

Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the

first reading, which will be done at normal speed, listen and try to understand the meaning. For the

second and third readings, the passage will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with

intervals of 15 seconds. The last reading will be done at normal speed again and during this time

you should check your work. You will then be given 2 minutes to check through your work once

more.

Please write the whole passage on ANSWER SHEET ONE.

PART II

LISTENING COMPREHENSION

SECTION A TALK

In this section you will hear a talk. You will hear the talk ONCE ONLY. While listening, you may

look at the task on the ANSWER SHEETONE and write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for

each gap. Make sure what you fill in is 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 talk. When it is over, you will be given TWO minutes to check your work.

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CTION B CONVERSATIONS

SECTION B

In this section, you will hear two conversations. At the end of the conversion, five questions will

be asked about what was said. Both the conversation 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 questions.

Now, listen to the conversations.

CONVERSATION ONE

1. A. It can’ｔ read data from the flash drive.

B. It has wiped the data from the flash drive

C. The files stored in it have got lost D. The files in it can't be opened

2. A. Get a total refund

B. Get a partial refund

C. Get a new computer

D. Get a new hard disk.

3. A. Indifferent. B. Surprised

B. After 8: 30 tomorrow morning

C. At 8: 30 this evenin

D. Anytime tomorrow

5.A.65743205 B.6547-2305 C.6457-2035. D.6475302

CONVERSATION TWO

6. A. Hold a party at home.

B. Introduce ourselves first.

C. Avoid meeting them

D. Wait for them to visit us

7. A. Do nothing about it.

B. Tell him to stop.

C. Give him a reason to stop

D. Call the police immediately.

8.A. don't answer their questions

B. don't appear to be friendly.

C. Try to be sympathetic

D. Try to be patient.

9. A. No more than five minutes.

B. Five to ten minutes

C. About half an hour.

D. About an hour.

10. A. Family Circle Magazine

B. Morning radio programs

C. betty's website

D. CBS news website.

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C. Anxious D. Dissatisfied

4. A By 8: 30 tomorrow morming

Part III. Language ueage

11. ______ combination of techniques authors use, all stories---from the briefest anecdotes to the

longest novels ----have a plot.

A. Regarding B. Whatever. C. In so far as D. No matter

12. She followed the receptionist down a luxurious corridor to a closed door, ________ the

women gave a quick knock before opening it..

A. wherein B. on which C. but when D. then

13. Ms Ennab is one of the first Palestinian ________ with seven years’ racing experience.

A. woman drivers B. women driver C. women drivers D. woman driver

_. 14. “I wondered if I could have a word with you.” The past tense in the sentence refers to a _

A. past event for exact time reference

C. present event for uncertainty

15. “If I were you, I wouldn

used to ________.

A. alleviate hostility

C. indicate uncertainty

B. express unfavorable feelings

D. make a suggestion

B. present event for tentativeness

D. past event for politeness

’t wait to propose to her.” The subjunctive mood in the sentence is

16. “It’s a shame that the city official should have gone back on his word.

SHOULD express __ ____.

A obligation B disappointment C future in the past

” The modal auxiliary

D. tentativeness

17. Timothy Ray Brown, the first man cured of HIV, initially opted against the stem cell

transplantation that _______ history.

A. could have later made

C. might make later

B. should have made later

D. would later make

18. Some Martian rock structures look strikingly like structures on Earth that are known ____by

microbes.

A. having been created B. being created C. to have been created D. to be created

19. At that moment, with the crowd watching me, I was not afraid in the ordinary sense, as ______

if I _________alone.

A. would have been …had been

C. could be … were

20. You must fire _

A. the B. an

B. should be … had been

D. might have been… were

__ incompetent assistant of yours

C. that D. whichever

21. Some narratives seem more like plays, heavy with dialogue by which writers allow their

_____to reveal themselves.

A. characters B. characteristics C. charisma D characterizations

22. If you intend to melt the snow for drinking water, you can ___ _____ extra purity by running it

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through a coffee filter.

A. assure B. insure C. reassure D. ensure

23. The daisy-like flowers of chamomile have been used for centuries to __ ____anxiety and

insomnia.

A. decline B. relieve C quench D suppress

24. Despite concern about the disappearance of the album in popular music, 2014 delivered a great

crop of album ___ _____.

A. publications B appearances C. releases D. presentations

25. The party’s reduced vote in the general election was _______of lack of support for its

policies.

A. revealing B. confirming C. indicative D. evident

’s _ ______ to analyze 26. He closed his eyes and held the two versions of La Mappa to his mind

their differences.

A. vision B eye C. view D. sight

27. Twelve pupils were killed and five _______injured after gunmen attacked the school during

lunchtime.

A. critically B. enormously C. greatly D. hard

28. A 15-year-old girl has been arrested _____ accusations of using Instagram to anonymously

threaten her high-school.

A. over B. with C. on D. for

29. It was reported that a 73-year-old man died on an Etihad flight __ _____to Germany from Abu

Dhabi.

A. bounded B. binded C. boundary D. bound

30. It’s ____ ___ the case in the region; a story always sounds clear enough at a distanced, but the

nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes.

A. unchangeably B. invariably C. unalterably D. immovably

Part IV. Close

A. always

I. naturally

B. barely C. demise D. emergence E. gained F. implications

L. online M. rising N. single O. value

G. leaf H. lost

J. object K. one

MILLIONS of people now rent their movies the Netflix way. They fill out a wish list from

the 50,000 titles on the company's Web site and receive the first few DVD's in the mail; when they

mail each one back, the next one on the list is sent. The Netflix model has been exhaustively

analyzed for its disruptive, new-economy（31）

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What will it mean for video stores like

Blockbuster, which has, in fact, started a similar service? What will it mean for movie studios and

theaters? What does it show about "long tail" businesses -- ones that combine many niche markets,

like those for Dutch movies or classic musicals, into a (32)

major implication has (33)

large audience? But one other

been mentioned: what this and similar Internet-based businesses

mean for that stalwart of the old economy, the United States Postal Service.

Every day, some two million Netflix envelopes come and go as first-class mail. They are

joined by millions of other shipments from （34）pharmacies, eBay vendors,

and other businesses that did not exist before the Internet.

The（35）of "snail mail" in the age of instant electronic communication has been

predicted at least as often as the coming of the paperless office. But the consumption of paper

keeps （36）. It has roughly doubled since 1980. On average, an American household receives

twice as many pieces of mail a day as it did in the 1970's.

The harmful side of the Internet's impact is obvious but statistically less important than many

would guess. People (37) write fewer letters when they can send e-mail messages. To (38)

in this shift: the through a box of old paper correspondence is to know what has been _(39)

pretty stamps, the varying look and feel of handwritten and typed correspondence, the tangible (40)

that was once in the sender's hands.

V. Reading comprehension

Section A

Passage one

（1）When I was a young girl living in Ireland, I was always pleased when it rained, because that

meant I could go treasure hunting. What’s the connection between a wet day and a search for

buried treasure? Well, it’s quite simple. Ireland, as some of you may already know, is the home of

Leprechauns – little men who possess magic powers and, perhaps more interestingly, pots of gold.

（2）Now, although Leprechauns are interesting characters, I have to admit that I was more

intrigued by the stories of their treasure hoard. This, as all of Ireland knows, they hide at the end

of the rainbow. Leprechauns can be fearsome folk but if you can discover the end of the rainbow,

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they have to unwillingly surrender their gold to you. So whenever it rained, I would look up in the

sky and follow the curve of the rainbow to see where it ended. I never did unearth any treasure,

but I did spend many happy, showery days dreaming of what I could do with the fortune if I found

it.

（3）As I got older, and started working, rainy days came to be just another nuisance and my

childhood dreams of finding treasure faded. But for some people the dream of striking it lucky

never fades, and for a fortunate few, the dream even comes true! Such is the case of Mel Fisher.

His dream of finding treasure also began in childhood, while reading the great literature classics

“Treasure Island” and “Moby Dick”. However, unlike myself, he chased his dream and in the end

managed to become one of the most famous professional treasure hunters of all time, and for good

reason. In 1985, he fished up the priceless cargo of the sunken Spanish ship Atocha, which netted

him an incredible $400 million dollars!

（4）After the ship sank in 1622 off the coast of Florida, its murky waters became a treasure

trove of precious stones, gold bars and silver coins known as “pieces of eight-named ”. The aptly

Fisher, who ran a commercial salvaging operation, had been trying to locate the underwater

treasure for over 16 years when he finally hit the jackpot! His dreams had come true but finding

and keeping the treasure wasn’all t plain sailing. After battling with hostile conditions at sea,

Fisher then had to battle in the courts. In fact, the State of Florida took Fisher to court over

ownership of the find and the Federal government soon followed suit. After more than 200

hearings, Fisher agreed to donate 20% of his yearly findings for public display, and so now there

is a museum in Florida which displays hundreds of the objects which were salvaged from the

Atocha.

（5）This true story seems like a modern-day fairytale: a man pursues his dream through

adversity and in the end, he triumphs over the difficulties - they all live happily ever after, right?

Well, not exactly. Archaeologists object to the fact that with commercial salvaging operations like

Fisher’the s, objects are sold and dispersed and UNESCO are worried about protecting our

underwater heritage from what it describes as “pillaging”．

（6）The counter-argument is that in professional, well-run operations such as Fisher’s, each

piece is accurately and minutely recorded and that it is this information which is more important

than the actual object, and that such operations help increase our wealth of archaeological

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