letter combinations marked A, B, C and D. Compare the underlined parts and identify the one that is different from the others in pronunciation. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. 1. A. tight B. sight C. sign D. signature 2. A. design B. resign C. signal D. preside 3. A. path B. smooth C. bath D. breath 4. A. existence B. example C. exact D. extreme 5. A. subtle B. castle C. hasten D. wrestle II. Situational Dialogues (15 points)
Section A
Directions: In this section there are 5 short dialogues. For each dialogue, there are 4 choices marked A,B,C and D. You are required to choose the ONE that best fits into the dialogue. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. 6. - I’m sorry for having troubled you with so many questions. - ______________ .
A. How considerate of you to say so B. It doesn’t matter. C. Nothing serious D. You are joking. 7. - Lovely day, isn’t it? - ____________ .
A. So are you B. Right. So it was yesterday C. You’re right. So is it today D. Yes. So was it yesterday 8. – Hello. Can I speak to Albert? - __________________
A. What a pity! B. Oh, I’m sorry he is out. C. Unlucky, he is fully engaged now. D. Hold on please. He is busy now. 9. -Hello. Is that you, Cindy? - ______________________ A. Yes, she is. B. Anything wrong? C. What do you want?
D. I’m sorry. Cindy is not home right now. 10. -____________
- Sorry, but nobody by that name lives here. A. Hello, is that Tom? B. Hi, is your name Tom? C. Tom, do you hear me? D. Hello, is that you Tom?
Section B
Directions: In this section there is a long conversation with 5 missing sentences. At the end of the conversation, there is a list of given choices. You are required to select the ONE that best fits into the conversation. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. Note that there are two additional choices and you can not use any of the choices in the list more than once.
Sarah: What’s the matter, Peter? You don’t look very happy today. Peter: I’m not, Sarah. I’m worried about my English. Sarah: What’s the problem? Peter: 11 Sarah: Why not?
Peter: Well, I seldom have a chance to meet English people. Sarah: 12 Peter: Where should I go?
Sarah: Maybe you should go to pubs or take a class. Peter: But…English people never speak to me. Sarah: Ah! 13 Peter: What can I talk about?
Sarah: The weather! English people are always interested in the weather.
Peter: But I can’t be talk about the weather all the time. What else can I talk about?
Sarah: Well, you can talk about sports. A lot of English people play sports. Football, swimming, tennis…
Peter: But I don’t know anything about sports. 14 Sarah: Then you can talk about the places you’ve been to. English people love traveling and sightseeing.
Peter: Really? Then I can tell them about my trip to the Lake District.
Sarah: Why not? That’ll give you very good chances to practice your English. And you’ll make some friends too, I’m sure.
Peter: 15 I’ll think about it. A. You should speak first. B. What can I do for you? C. That sounds good.
D. May I take your order now? E. I’m not practicing enough. F. All I’m interested in is sightseeing. G. You should go out more.
III. Vocabulary and Structure (20 points)
Directions: There are 20 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You are required to choose the ONE that best fits into the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
16. This kind of medicine has the power to _______poison. A. splash B. resist C. adopt D. occupy
17. He is easily _______ so I do not like to talk with him. A. defended B. afforded C. created D. offended
18.I am _______ to believe that he won’t come back to see his wife again. A. inclined B. puzzled C. accompanied D. performed
19.Before you mail this letter, you should check again whether you have _______ it or not.
A. sunk B. sighed C. sought D. sealed
20.After talking for nearly ten hours, he _______ to the government’s pressure at last. A. expressed B. yielded C. decreased D. approved
21.My hands and feet were ________ with cold as I waited for the bus. A. cliff B. still C. stiff D. stick
22.This problem is beyond his ability and he can not ________ it. A. slip B. pack C. gain D. solve
23.When you buy the spare parts for your car, try to get the _______ ones from the authorized dealer.
A. genuine B. generous C. genius D. gentle
24.If you use _______, you can get a higher quality picture. A. wax B. shame C. goose D. slides
25.Who _______ this country, the people or the president? This question is not easy to answer. A. frightens B. differs C. displays D. governs
26.It was eleven years ago _________Mrs. Smith, a professor of dancing, came to China.
A. that B. when C. since D. which
27. The noise of desks _________ could be heard out in the street. A. to be opened and closed B. opening and closing C. being opened and closed D. opened and closed
28. Though he was _____, he went to bed very late. A. tired B. tiring C. pleased D. pleasing
29. You’ve made just ______ many mistakes as I have. A. so B. as C. too D. very
30. John’s had an _____: he's been knocked down by a car. A. incident B. affair C. accident D. event
31. It is no use _____ with him when he is irrational. A. argue B. to argue C. argued D. arguing
32. I suppose that when I come back in 10 years' time, all these old buildings _____ . A. are pulled down B. pull down
C. will have been pulled down D. will have pulled down
33. The roof of the building _____, and three people were killed. A. collapsed B. collected C. cracked D. creaked
34. Without your help, we _____ so much.
A. will not achieve B. will not have achieved C. would not achieve D. would not have achieved
35. Mrs. Turner _____ the room _____ they began to gossip about her. A. no sooner left ... than
B. had no sooner left ... than C. no sooner left ... when D. had no sooner left ... when
IV. Reading Comprehension (40 points)
Directions: There are 4 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 are required to choose the ONE that best answers the question or fits into the statement.. Mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
Passage 1
Questions 36—40 are based on the following passage:
Distance education has been called the wave of the future. Our society’s urge to hurry progress has brought this future to the present. The explosive growth in technology has increased our drove to create and design newer technology and has forced the public to demand their institutions keep up.
The push to implement distance education may due to the public’s perception that technology is capable of such a program. Proper distance education would require equipment and video are essential for traditional education and should be essential for it’s online counterpart. The technology is available for this two-way communication, but it is extremely expensive and the cost increases by the thousands for every extra mile between the source and the receiver of the signal. The most affordable and available technology today is effective to maximum distance of between 15-20 kilometers. If all of the course participants are required to the within a 15-20 kilometer radius of the information source the distance in distance education is not very far.
The futuristic communication technologies would be ideal for proper distance education. It is a screen with two-way communication capabilities of both video and audio. This, and other science fiction technologies, may have infiltrated societies consciousness and thus been accepted as truth just as UFOs. Science fiction has been identified as the best way to predict the future and indeed companies have introduced prototype models at trade shows that we may see on the mass market in the future.
Distance education is another victim of science fiction taken as reality. Has technology advanced to a point where distance education is a viable alternative to traditional education? The technology for rudimentary distance education may be available in industrialized metropolitan areas, but as if yet it is not viable in most areas. Calgary is considered a large metropolitan Canadian city, yet high-speed Internet connections via cable lines are not available to homes located on or near the cities boundary. Until access to high-speed connections is available at a reasonable price, school boards and governing bodies should suspend the push to distance education and begin to prepare for its inevitable future.
36. The key difference between distance education and traditional education lies in ______. A. distance education is the wave of the future
B. traditional education have no enough technology to back up
C. distance education has no limitation on both time and distance of the receiver D. traditional education required a two-way communication 37. The futuristic communication refers to _______. A. two-way real time audio and video
B. a screen with two-way communication capacities C. high-speed internet connections D. both B and C
38. The disadvantage of traditional education is that ______. A. it requires a two-way real time audio and video
B. its cost would increase for every extra receiver admitted
C. it could not catch the pace of the highly-developed technology
D. it would not be available for receivers beyond the distance of 20 kilometers
39. The problem that would probably prevent distance education from a quick development is that ______.
A. the technology supporting distance education is not available to all areas B. the distance education has a high requirements on language skills
C. school board could not accept the fact that distance education should replace traditional education
D. those areas outside big cities find traditional education more effective than distance education 40. It can be inferred from the passage that _______.
A. science fiction indirectly promote the development of distance education B. distance education is totally copied from sciences fictions
C. distance education, like UFO, is something existed only in science fictions D. the public learn about distance education only through science fictions
Passage 2
Questions 41—45 are based on the following passage:
The destruction of our natural resources and contamination of our food supply continue to occur, largely because of extreme difficulty in affixing legal responsibility on those who continue to treat our environment with reckless abandon. Attempts to prevent pollution by legislation, economic incentives and friendly persuasion have been met by lawsuits, personal and industrial denial and long delays –not only in accepting responsibility, but more importantly, in doing something about it.
It seems that only when government decides it can afford tax incentives or production sacrifices is there any initiative for change. Where are industry and our recognition that protecting mankind’s great treasure is the single most important responsibility? If ever there will be time for environmental health professionals to come to the frontlines and provide leadership to solve environmental problems, that time is now.
We are being asked, and in fact, the public is demanding that we take positive action. It is our responsibility as professionals in environmental health to make the difference. Yes, the ecologists, the environmental activists and the conservationists serve to communicate, stimulate thinking and promote behavioral change. However, it is those of us who are paid to make the decisions to develop, improve and enforce environmental standards, I submit, who must lead the charge.
We must recognize that environmental health issues do not stop at city limits, county lines, state