a. History. b. Math. c. French. d. Chemistry. Conversation 3 27. What is Larry doing when he meets the woman?
a. On his way home.
b. Waiting to see Prof. Jamison. c. Waiting for a bus. d. Doing his homework.
28. Why was the woman able to give Larry so much information about the job?
a. Because she is Professor Jamison’s daughter.
b. Because she works part-time as Professor Jamison’s secretary. c. Because she used to do the job herself.
d. Because she just came out of an interview for the job. 29. What does Prof. Jamison’s assistant do?
a. Make up homework problems. b. Do research in the library.
c. Teach an introductory economics course. d. Grade homework sets.
30. What is Larry’s main concern about the job?
a. He wonders if he’ll have enough time to do the job. b. She is afraid he won’t know enough to do the job well. c. He fears that the job may be too boring.
d. He thinks Professor Jamison has someone else in mind. Part IV
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Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. The passages will be read twice. After each passage, you will hear the questions. After hearing the questions, 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 (20%, 2 points for each). Passage 1 31. According to the passage, where was Althea born?
a. In New York City. b. In Harlem.
c. In Silver, South Carolina. d. In California.
32. Why did the black musician buy Althea a real tennnis racket?
a. He was a close friend of her family. b. He fell in love with her. c. He realized she was so good. d. He wanted her to play for his music. 33. What happened between 1942 and 1946?
a. Althea became a star. b. Althea won many medals.
c. There was no contests because of the war.
d. Althea went on winning the games in spite of the war. Passage 2 34. What made Jane Austen’s mother anxious?
a. Jane Austen’s father’s health b. Jane Austen’s health c. Jane Austen’s silliness.
d. The financial situation of the family.
35. Why did Jane Austen listen very carefully to people’s conversations in the parties? a. Because she was very excited at being invited to the dancing parties. b. Because she was interested in knowing how her neighbors got rich.
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c. Because she had nothing to talk with them.
d. Because she wanted to collect more materials for her novel. 36. What do we learn from the passage?
a. Novel writing was very popular at Jane Austen’s times.
b. It was very easy for a woman to publish her novel at Jane Austen’s times. c. Pride and Prejudice was published two years before Sense and Sensibility. d. Jane Austen’s best-known and best-loved work is Pride and Prejudice Passage 3 37. What best describes the first English dictionary?
a. It defined easy words as well as hard ones. b. Nothing more than a list of difficult words.
c. It presented good sentences to show how each word was actually used in speech and in writing. d. It was the greatest improvement in the quality of dictionaries. 38. What can we conclude from the passage?
a. All dictionaries before 1750 were not valuable.
b. In the Oxford Dictionary, its word histories are the most important parts. c. Every author after Robert Cadre benefited from the previous authors’ experience. d. The value of a dictionary lied in the number of words collected in it. 39. What was the most interesting feature of the Oxford Dictionary?
a. A complete list of difficult words.
b. Contained sentences showing meanings of words. c. 20-volume work. d. Showing word histories. 40. What is the passage mainly about?
a. The history of English dictionaries. b. The features of different dictionaries. c. How to compile English dictionaries. d. The difficulties during compiling dictionaries.
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Part V
Directions: In this section, you will hear 1 long passage. The passage will be spoken twice. After hearing the passage, read the following 10 statements and mark A for True or B for False on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center (20%, 2 points for each).
41. One state, Michigan, now requires most students to have an online learning experience before they finish high school.
42. Even the idea of a school has changed since the rise of the Internet in 1990.
43. A new report from the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy at Indiana University says 18 states have full-time virtual schools..
44. Florida started the first statewide public virtual school in the United States in 1997. 45. Today, the Florida Virtual School offers more than 19 courses 46. Florida Virtual School has now opened the Florida Global School.
47. Janet Heiking says they are taking her Advanced Placement class to prepare for attending an American college.
48. Students at Florida Virtual School earned higher grades than those taking the same courses the traditional way.
49. Students also find that virtual schools may not save much in operating costs.
50. Education experts say schools of education need to train more teachers to work in both physical and virtual classrooms.
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