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40. How long did Alex Harper work as an engineering writer? [A] Less than eight years. [B] More than eight years.
[C] For exactly eight years. [D] From 1983 to the present. - ? 41. What is his present academic field of interest? [A] Business administration. [B] Electronics. [C] Engineering. [D] Communication.
Now scan the TEXT Below and answer questions 40 and 41. ALEX M. HARPER
938 Middle Street Age: 34
- El Segundo, California 90245 Ht: 6 - 2 wt: 190 (213) 238-9-265 Married, two children
EXPERIENCE
Department Supervisor, TRM Systems, Manufacturing Engineering and Processes Department, Redondo Beach. California, May 1993 to the present. Responsible for obtaining, scheduling and overseeing work assignments of 30 engineering, planning and administrative support personnel. Also responsible for reconciling Department budgets. Engineering Writer, TRM Systems, Integrated Logistics Department, Redondo Beach, California, May 1985 to April 1993. Responsible for writing and updating technical manuals. On classified spacecraft and military projects was granted \
Engineering Writer, Stromberg-carlson, Technical Publications Group, El Segundo, California, August 1984 to May 1985. Responsible for writing and updating Air Force Technical Orders and the Launch Enabling and Communications Systems on the TITAN IV project. EDUCATION
El Redondo Junior College, Torrance, California, Graduated in June 1981. Associate of Arts Degree in Electronics, and Radio Technician' s Certificate. California State University at Long Beach. Electronics major, from September 1981 to June 1982.
California State College, Domingguez Hills. Part-time night student since March 1990. Will be graduated with a B. S. in Business Administration in Spring 1996. (Plan to continue study as a part-time night M.B. A Degree. ) PERSONAL INTERESTS
President of investment club; basketball and softball player, coach in the Bobbysox Softball League. MILITARY SERVICE
Served two years active duty in the United States Air Force, March Air Force Base, Riverside, California, September 1982 to August t984. Member of the Air Force Reserve, September 1984 to March 1988. Honorable Discharge, March 1988. REFERENCES
Will gladly be provided upon request TEXT L
First read the following questions.
\[A] .A CADILLAC Seville ELS. [B] A HONDA Accord EX.
IC] A MERCEDES-BENZ C280. [D] A CHEVROLET S-BLAZER. 43. Which of the following cars has a built-in safety seat for a child? [A] LINCOLN Town Can [B] DODGE Intrepid. [C] PONTIAC Firebird Formula. [D] GEO Prizm LSi
Now scan the TEXT Below and answers questions 42 and 43. MERCEDES-BENZ C280 24-valve v-6; emergency tension retractors for the front seat belts, front and rear crumple zones, dual air bags 32-valve v-8; dual air bags; sequential multi-point electronic fuel LINCOLN Town Car injection; four- wheel disc anti-lock brakes; six-way power driver and passenger seats; remote illuminated keyless entry system 24-valve v-6 214hp; driver & passenger air bags; anti-lock brakes & DODGE Intrepid traction con- trol; integrated child safety seat; speed sensitive CADILLAC Servilte 32-valve v-8 270hp; dual air bags; road - sensing suspension; PONTIAC Firebird 32-valve v-8 275hp; driver and passenger air bags; anti-lock brakes; 6-speed trans- mission; safety cage construction; theft-deterrent key Formula 16-valve v-4 145hp; driver' s and front passenger' s air bags, HONDA Accord EX system 32-valve v-8; driver' s side air' bag; four-wheel anti-lock brakes; four-wheel drive system; side-guard door beams 16-valve v-4; dual air bag; bumper-to-bumper warranty;24-hour GEO Primz LSi 32-valve v-8; driver side air bag; automatic transmission; air FORD F-series conditioning; rear antilock brakes; speed control; power door locks and CHEVROLET S-Blazer 24-valve v-6 200hp; electronic automatic transmission; push-button 4WD; aluminum wheels; power windows and locks JEEP Grand Cherokee
First read the following questions.
44. Which of the following is considered to be Otmar Nussio' s masterpiece? [A] Quo Vadis. [B] Suite ticinese. [C] Rubensiana. [D] Esapades musicales. 45. Which of the following composers was born and later died in the same city? [A] Nucius. [B] Nunn. [C] Nystedt. [D] Nuitter. Now scan the TEXT Below and answer questions 44 and 45.
Societies in Berlin; from 1909, director of the Musical Society and conductor of the symph, concerts in Cracow; also conductor of the Warsaw Philharmonic Orch.; 1914, returned to Berlin, where he lived during the war; 1920-27; prof. of organ and church music at the State Cons. in Poznan. In 1935 he won the Polish State Music Prize. The oratorio Quo Vadis (after Sienkiewi.vicz) is his best-known work. Also wrote operas, orchestral works, organ pieces, oratorios, choruses, songs, etc.
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MUCIUS (NUCIS), JOHANNES, German composer and theorist; b. Gorlitz, c. 1556; d. Himmelwetz, March 25, 1620. In 1591 he became a Cistercian monk in the monastery of Rauden; from 1609, abbot of the monastery of Himmelwitz in Silesia. He publ. d Modulationes sacrae, 5-6 voices (1591), and 2 books of Sacrae Cantiones (1609); 2 of his Masses are in MS. Also publ. a theoretical work, Musices poeticae sive de com-positione cantum praeceptiones uhissimae (1613). - cf. S. Widmann, Johannes Mucius, Abt yon Himmelwitz (Bregenz, 1921); E. Kirsch, Vonder Personlichkeit and dem Stil des... Johannes Mucius (1926). Nuitter, Charles. Louis Etienne, French writer of music; b. Paris, April 24, 1828; d. there, Feb. 24, 1899. He was a lawyer by profession; then became interested in the theater, was custodian of the archives of the Paris Opera. He changed his real name, Trainer., to Nuitter by anagrammatic transposition of letters, and under that name Wrote librettos for many operas and operettas, including some by Offenbach; also translated librettos of operas by Weber, Mozart, Wagner, and verdi; wrote scenarios for Delibes (Coppelia) and others. He publ. le Nouvel Opera (1875); les Origins del' opera Francois (1886; with Thoinan); many articles in music magazines.
Nunn, Edward Cuthbert, English organist, conductor, and composer; b. Bristol, Feb. 23, 1868; d. London, Nov. 26, 1914. Hestudied at the royal Academy of Music; then served as organist at various churches, and conducted opera. He composed a ballet suite, Fete Champetre; a cantana, Everyman; the children' s operas: Kamar-al-zaman, The Fairy Slipper, The Garden of Shepherds and the Sweep, The Garden of Paradise, The Wooden Bowl.
Nano, Jaime, Spanish bandmaster; composer of the Mexican national anthem: b. San Juan de las Abadesas, Sept. 8, 1824; d. Auburndale, N. Y., July 18, 1908. He studied with Mercadante in Italy; in 1851 went to Cuba, and in 1853 to Mexico, where he was appointed chief of military bands; was commissioned to write a national anthem for Mexico; it was sung for the first time on Sept. 15, 1854. Subsequently he was active as impresario for Italian opera companies in Cuba, Mexico and the U.S. In 1870 he settled in.Buffalo as organist and teacher; composed a number of sacred works.
Nussio, Otmar, composer; b. Grosseto, Italy, Oct. 23, 1902. He was a student of Respighi in Rome; then went to Switzerland, taught flute at the Zurich Cons.; in 938 became music director of Radio Monte Ceneri. He has conducted a number of concerts of light music; composed numerous orchestral suites: Suite ticinese (his best), Esapades musicales, dann di Mallorca; a flute concerto; also a piano concerto, a violin concerto; also a children' s opera, Hans in Marchenland. His suite for harpsichord, flute, violin solo, and strings, Rubenciana, was performed for the first time in the Rubens Hoase in Antweep, on May 21, 1950.
Nyiregyhazi (ni-reh-zh-hah-ze), Erwin, Hungarian pianist; b. Budapest, Jan. 19, 1903. He studied with Dohnanyi, Thoman, and Szekely; also with Lamond in Berlin. From early infancy he showed n phenomenal musical ability, so that his sense of pitch and other faculties were made the subject of study, publ. in a volume by G. Revesz, Erwin NYiregyhazi. Psychologische Analyse eines Musikalisch hervorragenden Kindes (Leipzig, 1916; in English as The Psychology of a Musical Prodigy, 1925). In 1930 he came to the U. S., and settled in Hollywood as a film studio pianist. Nysted, Knut, Norwegian composer; b. Oslo, Sept. 3, 1915. He studied organ with A. Sandvold in Oslo and with E. White in N. Y.; composition with B. Brustad in Oslo, and Aaron Copland in America. Works: Norge mitt land, for chorus and orch. (1946); Spennigens Land (The Land of suspense), symph, fantasy (Oslo, Sept. 29, 1948); violin sonata (1942); Introduzione e Passacaglia for organ (1944); vocal pieces. PART IV TRANSLATION (60 MIN. ) SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH
Translate the following UNDERLINED PART of the TEXT into English. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET THREE. . 简·奥斯丁的小说写的都是三五户人家居家度日，婚恋嫁娶的小事。因此不少中国读者不理解她何以在西方享有那么高的声誉。但一部小说开掘得深不深，艺术和思想是否有过人之处，的确不在题材大小。有人把奥斯丁的作品比作越嚼越有味道的橄榄。这不仅因为她的语言精彩，并曾对小说艺术的发展有创造性贡献，也因为她的轻快活泼的叙述实际上并不那么浅白，那么透明。史密斯夫人说过，女作家常常试图修正现存的价值秩序，改变人们对“重要”和“不重要”的看法。也许奥斯丁的小说能教我们学会转换眼光和角度，明察到“小事”的叙述所涉及的那些不小的问题。 SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE
`Translate the following UNDERLINED PART of the TEXT into Chinese. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET :77LREE
I, by comparison, living in my overpriced city apartment, walking to work past putrid sacks of street garbage, paying usurious taxes to local and state governments I generally abhor, I am rated middle class. This causes me to wonder, do the measurements make sense? Are we measuring only that which is easily measured - the numbers on the money chart - and ignoring values more central to good life?
For my sons there is of course the rural county of fresh-grown vegetables, line-caught fish and the shared riches of 'neighbors' orchards and gardens. There is the unpaid baby-sitter for whose children my daughter-in-law baby-sits in return, and neighbors who barter their skills and labor. But more than that, how do you measure serenity? Sense of self? I don' t want to idealize life in small places. There are times when the outside would intrudes brutally, as when the cost of gasoline goes up or developers cast their eyes on untouched farmland. There are cruelties, there is intolerance, there are all the many vices and meannesses in small places that exist in large cities. Furthermore, it is harder to ignore them when they cannot be banished psychologically to another part of town or excused as the whims of alien groups - when they have to be acknowledged as \
Nor do I want to belittle the opportunities for small decencies in cities - the eruptions of one-stranger-to-another caring that always surprise and delight. But these are, sadly, more exceptions than rules and are often overwhelmed by the awful corruptions and dangers that surround us. PART V WRITING
At present, there is a heated discussion on whether the young should take care of their parents when they grow old; or should it be the responsibility of the state.
You are to write a letter of approximately 300 words on this issue to an editor of an evening paper.
In the first part of your letter you should present your thesis statement, and in the second part you should support the thesis statement with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion with a summary. Marks will be awarded for correct content, organization, grammar and appropriacy. Write your response on ANWER SHEET FOUR.
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TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (1996)
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PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION [40 MIN.]
In Sections A, B and C you will hear everything once only. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct response for each question on your Colored Answer Sheet. SECTION A TALK
Questions 1 to 5 refer to the talk in this section. At the end of the talk you will be given 15 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the talk. 1. The speaker thinks that
[A] car causes pollution only in some cities,
[B] 60% of the cities are affected by car pollution. [C] 90% of the city residents suffer from car pollution. [D] car is the main contributing factor in polluting air.
2. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a cause of car pollution? [A] Car tyres. [B] Car engines. [C] Car horns. [D] Car brakes.
3. Which of the following is NOT cited as a means to reduce the number of cars? [A] To pass laws to control the use of cars. [B] To improve public transport systems. [C] To increase car tax and car price.
[D] To construct effective subway systems.
4. One of the mechanical solutions to car pollution is [A] to change the chemical structure of fuel. [B] to improve on the exhaust pipe. [C] to experiment with new engines. [D] to monitor the amount of chemicals.
5. According to the speaker, a sensible way to solve car pollution is that we should [A] focus on one method only.
[B] explore some other alternatives. [C] improve one of the four methods. [D] integrate all of the four methods. SECTION B INTERVIEW
Questions 6 to 10 are based on an interview with an architect. At the end of the interview you will be given 13 seconds to answer each of the following five questions.
Now listen to the interview.
6. The interviewee' s first job was with [A] a newspaper. [B] the government.
[C] a construction firm. [D] a private company.
7. The interviewee is not self-employed mainly because [A] his wife likes him to work for a firm. TEM8-96-1
[B] he prefers working for the government.
[C] self-employed work is very demanding. [D] self-employed work is sometimes insecure. 8. To study architecture in a university one must [A] be interested in arts. [B] study pure science first. [C] get good exam results. [D] be good at drawing. 9. On the subject of drawing, the interviewee says that [A] technically speaking artists draw very well.
[B] an artist' s drawing differs little from an architect' s. [C] precision is a vital skill for the architect. [D] architects must be natural artists.
10. The interviewee says that the job of an architect is [A] more theoretical than practical.
[B] to produce sturdy, well-designed buildings. [C] more practical than theoretical.
[D] to produce attractive, interesting buildings. SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST
Questions 11 and 12 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 30 seconds to answer the two questions. Now listen to the news.
11. The man was convicted for [A] dishonesty. [B] manslaughter. [C] murder. [D] having a gun. 12. Which of the following is TRUE?
[A] Mark Eastwood had a license for a revolver. [B] Mark Eastwood loved to go to noisy parties.
[C] Mark Eastwood smashed the windows of a house.
[D] Mark Eastwood had a record. Questions 13 to 15 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 45 seconds to answer the three questions. Now listen to the news.
13. How many missing American servicemen have been positively confirmed dead in Vietnam so far?
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[A] 67. [B] 280. [C] 84. [D] 1648.
14. According to the search operation commander, the recovery of the missing Americans is slowed down because [A] the weather conditions are unfavorable. [B]'thenecessary documents are unavailable. [C] the sites are inaccessible. [D] some local people are greedy.
15. According to the news, Vietnam may be.willing to help America mainly because of [A] its changed policy towards America. [B] recent international pressure.
[C] its desire to have the US trade embargo lifted. [D] the impending visit by a senior US military officer. SECTION D NOTE-TAKING & GAP-FILLING
In this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening to the lecture, take notes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but you will need them to complete a 15-minute gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE after the minilecture. Use the blank paper for note taking. ANSWER SHEET
SECTION D NOTE-TAKING AND GAP-FILLING (15 MIN. )
Fill in each of the gaps with ONE suitable word. You may refer to your notes. Make sure the word you fill in is both grammatically and semantically acceptable. LAND USE
A problem related to the competition for land use is whether crops
should be used to produce food or fuel. (1) areas will be examined (1) in this respect. Firstly, the problem should be viewed in its (2) (2) perspective. When oil prices rose sharply in the 1970s, countries had to look for alternatives to solve the resulting crisis.
In developing countries, one of the possible answers to it is to produce
alcohol from (3) material. This has led to a lot of research in this area (3) particularly in the use of (4) . The use of this material resulted from (4) two economic reasons: a (5) in its price and low (5)
( 6 ) costs. There are other starchy plants that can be used to produce (6) alcohol, like the sweet (7) or the cassava plant in tropical regions, and (7) (8) and sugar beet in non-tropical regions. The problem with (8)
these plants is that they are also the people' s staple food in many poor countries. Therefore, farmers there are faced with a choice: crops for food or for fuel.
And farmers naturally go for what is more (9) . As a result, the problems (9) involved are economic in nature, rather than technological. This is my second area under consideration.
Finally, there have already been practical applications of rasing alcohol for fuel.
Basically, they come in two forms of use: pure alcohol as is the case in (10) (10) and a combination of alcohol and gasoline known as gasohol in Germany. PART II PROOFREADING AND ERROR CORRECTION (20 MINS)
The following passage contains TEN errors. Each line contains a maximum of one error and three are free from error. In each case, only one word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way.
For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line. For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a \blank provided at the end of the line. For an unnecessary word, cross the unnecessary word with a slash \line. EXAMPLE
When ∧ art museum wants a new exhibit, (1) an It never ╱ buys things in finished form and hangs (2) never them on the wall. When a natural history museum
wants an exhibition, it must often build it. (3) exhibit WATER
The second most important constituent of the biosphere is liquid water. This can only exist in a very narrow range of temperatures, since water freezes at 0癈 and boils at 100℃. This is only
a tiny range compared with the low temperatures of some other planets and the hot interior of the earth, let the temperature of the sun. (1)
As we know, life would only be possible on the face (2) of a planet had temperatures somewhere within this range. (3)
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The earth' s supply of water probably remains quite fairly (4) constant in quantity. A certain number of hydrogen atoms, which are one of the main constituents of water, are lost by escaping from the atmosphere to
out space, but they are probably just about replaced by (5) new water rising away from the depths of the earth during (6) volcanic action. The total quantity of water is not known, and it is about enough to cover the surface of the globe (7) to a depth of about two and three-quarter kms
Most of it - 97 % - is in the form of the salt waters of the oceans. The rest is fresh, but three quarter of this is (8) in the form of ice at the Pole arid on mountains,
and cannot be used by living systems when melted. Of the (9) remaining fraction, which is somewhat fewer than 1 % of the (10) whole, there is 10 - 20 times as much stored as underground water as is actually on the surface. There is also a minor, but extremely important, fraction of the water supply which is present as water vapor in the atmosphere.
PART III READING COMPREHENSION (40 MIN. ) SECTION A READING COMPREHENSION (30 MIN. )
In this section there are five reading passages followed by a total of fifteen multiple-choice questions. Read the passages and then mark your answers on your Colored Answer Sheet. TEXT A
Staying Healthy On Holiday
Do people who choose to go on exotic, far-flung holidays deserve free health advice before they travel? And even if they pay, who ensures that they get good, up-to-date information? Who, for that matter, should collect that information in the first place? For a variety of reasons, travel medicine in Britain is a responsibility nobody wants. As a result, many travelers go abroad ill prepared to avoid serious disease.
Why is travel medicine so unloved? Partly there' s an identity problem. Because it takes an interest in anything that impinges on the health of travelers, this emerging medical specialism invariably cuts across the traditional disciplines. It delves into everything from seasickness, jet lag and the hazards of camels to malaria and plague. But travel medicine has a more serious obstacle to overcome. Travel clinics are meant to tell people how to avoid ending up dead or in a tropical diseases hospital when they come home, but it is notoriously difficult to get anybody pay out money for keeping people healthy.
Travel medicine has also been colonized by commercial interests; the vast majority of travel clinics in Britain are run by airlines or travel companies. And while travel concerns are happy to sell profitable injections, they may be less keen to spread bad news about travelers' diarrhea in Turkey, or to take the time to spell out preventive measures travelers could take. \travel and tropical medicine and director of the travel clinic of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in London. \paid for? It' s a gray area, and opinion is split. No one seems to have any responsibility for defining its role,\
To compound its low status in the medical hierarchy, travel medicine has to rely on statistics that are patchy at best. In most cases we just don' t know how many Britons contract diseases when abroad. And even if a disease is linked to travel there is rarely any information about where those afflicted went, what they ate, how they behaved, or which vaccinations they had. This shortage of hard facts and figures makes it difficult to give detailed advice to people, information that might even save their lives.
A recent leader in the British Medical Journal argued. \relative benefits of public health interventions are well defined in terms of their relative occurrence, distribution and control.\wasted by poor travel advice. The real figure is anybody' s guess, but it could easily run into millions. Behrens gives one example. Britain spends more than 1 million each year just on cholera vaccines that often don' t work and so give people a false sense of security. \of all forms of diarrhea would be a better priority\16. Travel medicine in Britain is
[A] not something anyone wants to run. [B] the responsibility of the government. [C] administered by private doctors. [D] handled adequately by travel agents.
17. The main interest of travel companies dealing with travel medicine is to [A] prevent people from falling ill. [B] make money out of it.
[C] give advice on specific countries. [D] get the government to pay for it.
18. In Behren' s opinion the question of who should run travel medicine [A] is for the government to decide. [B] should be left to specialist hospitals. [C] can be left to travel companies. [D] has no clear and simple answer.
19. People will only think better of travel medicine if [A] it is given more resources by the government.
[B] more accurate information on its value is available. [C] the government takes over responsibility from the NHS. [D] travelers pay more attention to the advice they get. TEXT B
The Historical Background Of Social Psychology