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Test 24
Part I Situational Conversations (10%)
Directions: In this part, there are ten short incomplete dialogues between two speakers, each
followed by four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that most appropriately suits the conversational context and best completes the dialogue. Mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center of the corresponding letter．
1. Vivian: You are most beautiful in that red sweater! Speaker B: ______________________
A. Oh, no．It’s just an old one, and I have had it for years. B. Yes．I think it goes nicely with my pants.
C. Thank you．My mom knitted it for me some years ago. D. Oh, but I’m not sure if it suits me.
2. Speaker A: I'm afraid I failed the math exam.
Speaker B: ________. It’ll be fine if you could do well in the next that really sets the deal. A. Never mind B. No wonder C. Oh, yeah D. No good
3. Sabina: There’ll be an issue next month introducing your newly published book and I’d like
to have an interview with you, if possible.
Stone: An interview? I’d like to, but I’m afraid my schedule is all full. Sabina: It won’t take you long, Mr. Stone. __________.
A. One hour and a quarter will help B. One hour and a quarter will go C. One hour and a quarter will satisfy D. One hour and a quarter will do 4. Policeman: May I see your driving license and vehicle registration card, please? Driver: ______________
A. Sorry, don’t write me a ticket. B. OK．But I was driving at 65 miles per hour. C. Sure．Did I do anything wrong? D. Yes．But I don’t think I’m a bad driver. 5. Michael: You haven’t been around much lately, have you? Catherine: __________.
Michael: Oh? Where were you?
Catherine: Palm Springs. I’ve got a cousin there.
A. No, I’ve been away on vacation. B. Yes, I have been here all the time C. Yes, I’ve been away on vacation D. No, I have been here all the time 6. Speaker A: May I see the dentist now? Speaker B: ____________
A. Do you have an appointment? B. Is it a real emergency?
C. I’ll talk to the dentist and squeeze you in. D. In that case, you’ll have to wait. 7. Hidey: Are you thirsty? There are some bottles of Sprite in the fridge. Jackson: ____________
Hidey: Oh, my God. They are lying over there. A. Some bottles of Sprite in the fridge? It's terrific. B. You must be kidding. There is nothing in the fridge. C. I don't mind I'm thirsty.
D. Some bottles of Sprite in the fridge? It's terrible. 8. Kate: I'm taking the train downtown to go shopping. Betty: ____________
A. Well, you'd better keep an eye on your wallet. B. Why don't you stay at home and watch your baby? C. By the way, what about your plan to visit your parents? D. Take the train? You're a fool.
9. Speaker A: I'm anxious to get started on our project. Can we meet sometime before the weekend?
Speaker B: ____________
A. Never mind. Shall we meet on Sunday?
B. Your project? I have no time studying your project.
C. What about Friday morning? Then I'll have time to go to the library that afternoon. D. OK. Library is the best place for us to meet. 10. Larry: What did you think of the movie? Peter: ____________
A. Sorry, I didn't have time to go to the movies. B. The movie was made in India.
C. The ticket of the movie was inexpensive.
D. It was worth neither the time nor the money.
Part II Reading Comprehension (40%) Section A
Directions: There are 3 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 should decide on the best choice and write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.(30%)
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Passage One
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:
Age has its privileges in America, and one of the more prominent of them is the senior citizen discount. Anyone who has reached a certain age — in some cases as low as 55 — is
automatically entitled to dazzling array of price reductions at nearly every level of commercial life. Eligibility is determined not by one’s need but by the date on one’s birth certificate. Practically unheard of a generation ago, the discounts have become a routine part of many businesses — as common as color televisions in motel rooms and free coffee on airliners.
People with gray hair often are given the discounts without even asking for them; yet,
millions of Americans above age 60 are healthy and solvent（有支付能力的）. Businesses that would never dare offer discounts to college students or anyone under 30 freely offer them to older Americans. The practice is acceptable because of the widespread belief that “elderly” and “needy” are synonymous（同义的）. Perhaps that once was true, but today elderly Americans as a group have a lower poverty rate than the rest of the population. To be sure, there is economic diversity within the elderly, and many older Americans are poor. But most of them aren’t.
It is impossible to determine the impact of the discounts on individual companies. For many firms, they are a stimulus to revenue. But in other cases the discounts are given at the expense, directly or indirectly, of younger Americans. Moreover, they are a direct irritant in what some politicians and scholars see as a coming conflict between the generations.
Generational tensions are being fueled by continuing debate over Social Security benefit, which mostly involves a transfer of resources from the young to the old. Employment is another sore point. Buoyed（受到支持的）by laws and court decisions, more and more older Americans are declining the retirement dinner in favor of staying on the job — thereby lessening employment and promotion opportunities for younger workers.
Far from a kind of charity they once were, senior citizen discounts have become a formidable economic privilege to a group with millions of members who don’t need them.
It no longer makes sense to treat the elderly as a single group whose economic needs deserve priority over those of others. Senior citizen discounts only enhance the myth that older people can’t take care of themselves and need special treatment; and they threaten the creation of a new myth, that the elderly are ungrateful and taking for themselves at the expense of children and other age groups. Senior citizen discounts are the essence of the very thing older Americans are fighting against — discrimination by age.
11. We learn from the first paragraph that _______.
A ) offering senior citizens discounts has become routine commercial practice B ) senior citizen discounts have enabled many old people to live a decent life
C ) giving senior citizens discounts has boosted the market for the elderly D ) senior citizens have to show their birth certificates to get a discount 12. What assumption lies behind the practice of senior citizen discounts?
A ) Businesses, having made a lot of profits, should do something for society in return. B ) Old people are entitled to special treatment for the contribution they made to society. C ) The elderly, being financially underprivileged, need humane help from society.
D ) Senior citizen discounts can make up for the inadequacy of the Social Security system. 13. According to some politicians and scholars, senior citizen discounts will _____.
A ) make old people even more dependent on society B ) intensify conflicts between the young and the old C ) have adverse financial impact on business companies D ) bring a marked increase in the companies’ revenues 14. How does the author view the Social Security system?
A ) It encourages elderly people to retire in time.
B ) It opens up broad career prospects for young people. C ) It benefits the old at the expense of the young.
D ) It should be reinforced by laws and court decisions.
15. Which of the following best summarizes the author’s main argument?
A ) Senior citizens should fight hard against age discrimination. B ) The elderly are selfish and taking senior discounts for granted. C ) Priority should be given to the economic needs of senior citizens. D ) Senior citizen discounts may well be a type of age discrimination Passage Two
Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage:
The biographer has to dance between two shaky positions with respect to the subject. Too close a relation, and the writer may lose objectivity. Not close enough, and the writer may lack the sympathy necessary to any effort to portray a mind, a soul — the quality of life. Who should write the biography of a family, for example? Because of their closeness to the subject, family members may have special information, but by the same token, they may not have the distance that would allow them to be fair. Similarly, a king's servant might not be the best one to write a biography of that king. But a foreigner might not have the knowledge and sympathy necessary to write the king's biography — not for a readership from within the kingdom, at any rate.
There is no ideal position for such a task. The biographer has to work with the position he or she has in the world, adjusting that position as necessary to deal with the subject. Every position has strengths and weaknesses: to thrive, a writer must try to become aware of these, evaluate them in terms of the subject, and select a position accordingly.
When their subjects are heroes or famous figures, biographies often reveal a democratic motive: they attempt to show that their subjects are only human, no better than anyone else. Other biographies are meant to change us, to invite us to become better than we are. The biographies of Jesus (耶稣) found in the Bible are in this class.
Biographers may claim that their account is the \In advancing this claim, they are helped if the biography is \by the subject; this presumably allows the biographer special access to private information, \biographies also have their appeal, however, since they can suggest an independence of mind in the biographer. In book
promotions, the \the subject had hoped to suppress. A subject might have several biographies, even several \ones. We sense intuitively that no one is in a position to tell \story of a life, perhaps not even the subject, and this has been proved by the history of biography. 16. According to the author, an ideal biographer would be one who ________.
A) knows the subject very well and yet maintains a proper distance from him B) is close to the subject and knows the techniques of biography writing C) is independent and treats the subject with fairness and objectivity
D) possesses special private information and is sympathetic toward the subject
17. The author cites the biographies of Jesus in the Bible in order to show that ________.
A) the best biographies are meant to transform their readers B) biographies are authentic accounts of their subjects' lives C) the best biographies are those of heroes and famous figures D) biographies can serve different purposes
18. Which of the following statements is TRUE, according to the passage? A) An authentic biography seldom appeals to its readers. B) An authentic biography is one authorized by the subject C) No one can write a perfect biography.
D) Authorized biographies have a wider readership.
19. An unauthorized biography is likely to attract more readers because ______
A) it portrays the subject both faithfully and vividly
B) it contains interesting information about the subject's private life C) it reveals a lot of accurate details unknown to outsiders
D) it usually gives a sympathetic description of the subject's character 20. In this passage, the author focuses on ____.
A) the difficulty of a biographer in finding the proper perspective to do his job B) the secret of a biographer to win more readers
C) the techniques required of a biographer to write a good biography D) the characteristics of different kinds of biographies
Passage Three
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage:
What is the importance of the Afro-American history to all Americans? How could Afro- Americans contribute anything to American history when they were just slaves and servants? This is the image which many of us are taught when we go to school. This is the image many Afro-Americans have of themselves also. The Afro-Americans need to remake their real historical image so that it is known and accepted in its truthfulness by themselves and the rest of the world. Men and women of darker color are human beings entitled to respect and acceptance in history. When we think of famous scientists and inventors we immediately think of men such as Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison and Jonas E. Salk. This is because we associate famous people with the Anglo-Saxon race. But what about the Afro-American inventors and scientists? How many men during World War I owed their lives to Garrett Morgan who invented the gas mask? Garrett Morgan also invented the traffic light which saves numerous lives on our streets. Daniel Hale Williams was the first successful heart surgeon. Charles Drew saved hundreds of thousands of lives during World War II by his discovery of the ways and means of preserving blood plasma.