College English Achievement Test
I DH2002.sample
Paper One
Part I Listening Comprehension ( 10 points, 10 minutes) Section A (10 points)
Directions: In this section you will hear ten short conversations. After each conversation, you will
hear a question. Listen carefully and choose the best answer from the four choices
given. Then, mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.
1 a. ￡155.
b. ￡150.
c. ￡170.
d. ￡175.
2 a. Whether to rent the house or not.
b. How to arrange the furniture in a new house. c. What size the room is. d. Whether to buy a new bed. 3 a. Join the students' Union herself. b. Attend the next union meeting.
c. Persuade other union members not to quit. d. Help the man find someone to fill the vacancy. 4 a. To reach it, you have to go to the end of a corridor. b. It's on the first floor. c. It's to the right of the elevator. d. It's downstairs.
5 a. Employee member. b. Quality. 6 a. In a restaurant. c. In a classroom. 7 a. Teacher and student. c. Driver and passenger. 8 a. She didn't buy the coat. b. She bought the coat on sale.
c. She was glad that the coat fitted her so well. d. She thought the coat was too expensive. 9 a. A secretary.
b. A tailor.
c. A nurse.
d. A housewife.
10 a. The woman is satisfied that the book has been returned.
c. Color number. b. In an office. d. In a hotel. b. Nurse and patient. d. Employee and employer.
d. Quantity.
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b. The woman will not lend books to anyone.
c. The man is too embarrassed to borrow a book from the woman. d. The man can't find the book he borrowed from the woman.
Part II Reading Comprehension ( 30 points, 30 minutes)
Directions: In this section there are some passages. Each passage is followed by some
comprehension questions. Read the passages and answer the questions. Then, mark
your answer on the Answer Sheet.
England is not a big country: from north to south and from east to west it is only about three hundred miles across. But for a small country it has a surprising range of climate. People who have never visited England, or who have visited only one part of it, often make the mistake of thinking that it is a cold and wet country. Except for the summer months of June to September, this is probably true of the north of England and the Midlands. In the south, however, the climate is much more pleasant. One result is that when people retire from a job in the north they often prefer to move down to the milder south.
Perhaps the warmest part of the country is the south-west, which consists of the counties of Devon and Cornwall. The warm Gulf Stream flows across the North Atlantic Ocean from the Gulf of Mexico (墨西哥湾) and makes the coastal regions of the south-west quite warm. Palm trees, bamboo and many semi-tropical plants grow well in the south-west of England. Flowers and vegetables ripen as much as a month earlier than those elsewhere. Farmers in the area obtain a higher price for their vegetables and flowers because they are ready earlier. In winter there may be several feet of snow in other parts of England but there will probably be no snow at all in the south-west. This may be one of the reasons why the south-west is one of England?s most popular holiday areas.
11 The distance from the center of England to the south coast is about _________.
a. one hundred miles c. one hundred and fifty miles 12 England is a country _________.
a. with a cold and wet climate c. with a pleasant climate
13 According to the passage, ________.
b. three hundred miles d. six hundred miles b. with a surprising climate d. with a variety of climates
a. flowers and vegetables from Devon are on the market one month earlier
b. farmers in the south-west grow as many vegetables and flowers as farmers elsewhere c. people in the south-west have to pay a higher price for vegetables and flowers
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d. vegetables in Cornwall ripen as mush as a month earlier than flowers 14 In the north of England and the Midlands, _______.
a. it is cold and wet all the year round c. it is warm most of the time in a year a. seldom see snow
c. may have several feet of snow
b. the climate is pleasant as a whole d. only the summer is not cold and wet b. never see any snow d. often see snow
15 In winter, people in Devon and Cornwall _______.
I hated almost every day of my time at boarding school and, in any case, my first term was a disaster. I found it very difficult to settle down, and my unhappiness was made worse because I was also unhappy at home. A happy home life gives you a base from which you can go into the world with confidence. But if life at home is difficult, life away at boarding-school is almost impossible. Apart from having to keep a great many rules and customs, many of which seemed to me stupid, we were never allowed to be alone. You had to be with another boy at all times. I am extremely dependent on being alone part of every day, so daily life at school was very hard for me, though the other boys managed fairly well.
In the middle of the first term I developed a cough. The school nurse said it was a ?stomach-cough?, whatever that may be, and gave me some pills. However, afterwards, playing football in a snowstorm, I suddenly could not breathe properly and was taken to the hospital ill with bronchitis(支气管炎) and pneumonia(肺炎). Almost at once I was put into a small room with another boy who was also very ill. He died and I nearly did. My main memory of my stay at the hospital was that the night-nurses used to get together in my room and play cards and chat. Keeping the light on and keeping me awake when I was seriously ill didn?t bother them. When I had recovered I was sent home for a few weeks and missed a term.
When I returned to school, I was sent to bed early because of my illness, and so managed to get a brief period alone every day. Later on, when I went into the Senior part of the school, I was allowed to go to the school library by myself, which was a great improvement.
The day I left the school, the headmaster said good-bye and asked whether it was a sad day for me. I replied that it was the happiest day of my life. He said I would come to think of my time at the school very differently. I said that I was sure that I would not. Though I have had happy days since that day, I have found that my conclusions then---that nothing afterwards could ever be so bad as boarding school---have been proved true. 16 The author's illness during the first term was ________.
a. so serious he nearly died
b. caused by getting cold when playing games c. not so bad as he had feared
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d. not treated by the school nurse 17 In the hospital he ________.
a. felt very sorry for the other patients
b. was afraid to bother the nurses
c. didn?t notice whether it was night or day d. found the nurses? behavior disturbed him 18 The result of his illness was that he _______.
a. was away from school for a year c. had some private time for himself a. realize how good school life had been c. be thankful to be leaving school a. to be left alone
c. to behave well like the other boys
b. was taught in the school library d. had to do his homework in bed b. be happy after he left school d. regret his last day at school b. to live at home d. to be happy
19 When the author was leaving school, the headmaster believed that the author would _____.
20 In the boarding school, he longed __________.
Time spent in a bookshop can be most enjoyable, whether you are a book-lover or merely there to buy a book as a present. You may even have entered the shop just to find shelter from a sudden shower. Whatever the reason, you can soon become totally unaware of your surroundings. The desire to pick up a book with an attractive dust-jacket (护封) is irresistible, although this method of selection ought not to be followed, as you might end up with a rather dull book. You soon become engrossed (全神贯注) in some book or other, and usually it is not much later that you realize you have spent far too much time there and must dash off to keep some forgotten appointment --- without buying a book, of course.
This opportunity to escape the realities of everyday life is, I think, the main attraction of a bookshop. There are not many places where it is possible to do this. A music shop is very much like a bookshop. You can wander round such places to your heart?s content. If it is a good shop, no assistant will approach you with the inevitable greeting: “Can I help you, sir?” You needn?t buy anything you don?t want. In a bookshop an assistant should remain in the background until you have finished browsing (浏览). Then, and only then, are his services necessary. Of course, you may want to find out where a particular section is, but when he has led you there, the assistant should retire discreetly (谨慎地) and look as if he is not interested in selling a single book. 21 According to the writer, one of the reasons for you to enter a bookshop may be ________.
a. to look for a lover of books c. to avoid a rain
b. to wait for a shower d. to get aware of the surrounding
22 Which of the following is described by the writer as a bad way of choosing and buying
books?
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a. To have an irresistible desire . c. To be attracted only by the dust-jacket. 23 In a good bookshop _______.
a. nobody would come up to disturb you
b. To buy dull books.
d. To be engrossed in some books.
b. the assistant would greet you by saying “ Can I help you?” c. you feel that your heart is filled with contents d. you feel as if you were in a music shop 24 If you enter a music shop, you will ________.
a. wonder what the place is like c. not be approached by shop assistants
b. feel delighted and satisfied d. not buying anything
25 Which of the following is not suggested in the passage?
a. The assistant should not be interested in selling only one book. b. The assistant should behave politely at your service. c. The assistant should not seem troublesome to you.
d. The assistant should help you find the place where you?ll choose your book by yourself.
Part III Vocabulary & Structure ( 15 points, 20 minutes)
Directions: Each of the following sentences is followed by four choices. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. Then, mark your answer on the Answer Sheet. 26 Let's hang up some paintings on these _____ walls.
a. bare a. more talented a. end a. work at a. encounter a. dread
b. empty b. better b. conclusion b. work on b. face with b. bother
c. blank c. greater c. division c. work out c. overcome c. stimulate
d. vacant d. superior d. judgment d. work over d. handle d. stir
27 They have developed technicians which are ______ to those used in most factories.
28 They discussed the problem three or four times, but could come to no ______.
29 It took Jane a whole hour to _______ this algebra problem.
30 If you undertake this project you are bound to ______ many difficulties.
31 Don't _______ your dad. He's got a lot on his mind.
32 The new medicine the doctor ______ for the pain in my stomach is imported and quite
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