Model Test Five
Part I Writing (30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Education Pays based on the statistics provided in the chart below (Weekly earnings in 2010). Please give a brief description of the chart first and then make comments on it. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.
Education Pays
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Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions 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 Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.
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1. A) $38. B) $25.80. C) $32. D) $34. 2. A) Manager and clerk. B) Director and secretary. C) Doctor and nurse. D) Professor and student.
3. A) The woman is afraid of thunderstorms. B) The man works for a roofing company.
C) The roof of the woman's house needs repairing. D) The man’s roof is leaking. 4. A) London. B) Cardiff. C) Manchester. D) Edinburgh. 5. A) She found it interesting. B) She found it boring. C) She found it informative. D) She found it enjoyable. 6. A) By bus. B) By subway. C) In their own car. D) By taxi. 7. A) She hasn't handed in her photos yet. B) She has to choose a picture for the office. C) Her camera was broken. D) She will get her student's card tomorrow. 8. A) It is quite romantic. B) It looks nice. C) It doesn't look very delicious. D) It's a pity he can't see what he's eating.
Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 9. A) She was returning home from a party. B) She was taking her time in the street. C) She just got off work when she saw the UFO. D) She was driving home from a restaurant. 10. A) A giant deer. B) A huge animal. C) A strange man. D) A hairy creature. 11. A) She walked to a flying saucer. B) She followed the animal to a plane. C) She was carried to a spaceship. D) She Left the car to go toward the spaceship. 12. A) The woman should have a thorough rest. B) The woman should seek medical treatment. C) The woman should call the fire department. D) The woman should contact the newspaper.
Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 13. A) Pay the entrance fee. B) Take off your shoes. C) Put your clothes in a locker. D) Change clothes 14. A) A swimming suit. B) Shorts. C) A long robe. D) Nothing. 15. A) Watch videos. B) Drink something, like tea. C) Play Japanese chess with friends. D) Play cards. Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. Then mark the corresponding Letter on Answer Sheet I with a single line through the centre. 注意:此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。 Passage One
Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard. 16. A) Lung cancer and breathing diseases. B) Cancer of lips, mouth, throat. C) Spontaneous abortion. D) Gum disease 17. A) Smoking is not related to higher rates of health problems. B) Many other kinds of health problems are less well known. C) The smoker doesn't breathe in. D) The smoker will have no smoke related health worries. 18. A) Stomachache. B) Gum disease. C) Tooth loss. D) Cough. Passage Two
Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard. 19. A) Because they were driven by steam power. B ) Because they did the work that animals used to do. C) Because they pulled cars full of coal. D) Because they were made of iron. 20. A) He wanted the railroad to be successful. B) He wanted to have a more powerful steam engine. C) He wanted to own the land near the railroad. D) He wanted to build his own railroads. 21. A) The horse won over the train. B) The horse lost the race. C) The engine broke down and the train stopped. D) The engine broke into several parts. Passage Three
Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard. 22. A) More people having jobs. B) Fewer people having jobs. C) Keeping the same repeatedly. D) People don't like their jobs. 23. A) One and three quarter million more than five years ago. B) One and three quarter million more than one year ago. C) One and three quarter million fewer than five years ago. D) One and three quarter million fewer than one year ago. 24. A) Tax cuts during his first term and the short depression.
B) Tax cut and some government spending programmes. C) The short depression and some government spending programmes. D) Tax cuts, the short depression and some government spending programmes. 25. A) A little less than six hundred billion dollars. B) Six hundred billion dollars. C) More than six hundred billion dollars. D) About six hundred billion dollars. Section C
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. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 26 to 35, you required to fill in the missing information. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written. 注意:此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。
There is no doubt that hard work (26) _ to success. Yet a person can work awfully hard and still (27) _ very little. In order to bring about success, hard work had to be directed by clear goals and the knowledge of how to reach them. Moreover, imagination, intelligence, and persistence can equally important to success.
(28)_ success is measured by the extent to which one reaches important personal goals. And it takes careful planning to set goals and discover the best means of realizing them. Before hard work even begins, therefore, (29) _ time and effort should be spent on planning.
Intelligence and imagination play important roles in planning. Imagination helps one to envision new (30) _ to problems, and new means by which to achieve goals. Intelligence helps one research and critically (31) _ the possibilities that imagination had provided. Together, imagination and intelligence can even help one avoid certain kinds of hard work, by producing more (32) __ ways to accomplish goals.
Finally, persistence is (33) _ to success. Sometimes rewards do not come quickly-even when one has carefully set goals, (34) _ planned ways to achieve them, and worked hard according to plan. Tradition has it, for example, that Thomas Edison made thousands of attempts to create a lightbulb before he was finally successful. In the face countless failures, he refused to quit. In fact, he considered each failure a successful discovery of what not to dot
In conclusion, it is true that there is no substitute for hard work. But hard work is an ingredient of success, and not the key. Hard work can produce real accomplishment only if it is directed by a plan (35) some idea of one's goals and the means to them. And a good plan, as well as its successful implementation, requires imagination, intelligence, and persistence.
Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with 10 blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. 注意:此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.
The ordinary family in colonial North America was primarily 36 with sheer physical survival and beyond that its own economic 37 . Thus, children were valued in terms of their productivity, and they assumed the ro1e of producer quite early. Until they fulfilled this role, their position in the structure of the family was one of subordination and their psychological needs and capacities received little 38 . As the society became more complex, the 39 of children in the family and in the society became more important. In the complex, technological society that the United States has become, each member must fulfill a number of personal and occupational roles and be in constant contact with a great many of other members. 40 , viewing children as potentially acceptable and necessarily multifaceted members of society means that they are regarded more as people in their own right than as utilitarian organisms. This acceptance of children as equal participants in the contemporary family is reflected in the variety of statutes 41 the rights of children and in the social and public welfare programs devoted exclusively to their well-being.
This new 42 of children and the increasing contact between the members of society has also resulted in a surge (猛增) of interest in child 43 techniques. People today spend a 44 portion of their time conferring (探讨) on the proper way to bring up children. It is now possible to influence the details of the socialization of another person's child by spreading the gospel of current and fashionable theories and methods of child rearing.
The socialization of the 45 child in the United States is a two-way communication between parent and child rather than a one-way parent to child training program. As a consequence, socializing children and living with them over a long period of time is for parents a mixture of pleasure，satisfaction，and problems. A) prosperity B) status C) protecting D) rearing E) contemporary F) reveal G) curiosity H) concerned I) consideration J) consequently K) view L) considerable M) stimulated N) consistently O) reversing Section B
Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2. Is There a Perfectly Safe Place to Live In?
A) Challenging the premise that sparsely settled outer suburbs are safer than cities, a University
of Virginia professor has concluded that persons living in rural areas like Fayette County have a higher risk of dying in a traffic accident or being murdered by a stranger than residents of a metropolitan area like Pittsburgh, William H. Lucy, professor of urban and environmental