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TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS(2011)

-GRADE EIGHT-

TIME LIMIT: 115 MIN

PART ⅠLISTENING COMPREHENSION（25 MIN）

SECTION A MINI-LECTURE

In this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening to the

mini-lecture, please complete the gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE and write NO MORE THAN

THREE WORDS for each gap. Make sure the word(s) you fill in is(are) both grammatically and semantically

acceptable. You may use the blank sheet for note-taking.

You have THIRTY seconds to preview the gap-filling task.

Now listen to the mini-lecture. When it is over, you will be given THREE minutes to check your work.

SECTION B INTERVIEW

In this section you will hear ONE interview. The interview will be divided into TWO parts. At the end of

each part, five questions will be asked about what was said. Both the interview and the questions will be spoken

ONCE ONLY. After each question there will be a ten-second pause. During the pause, you should read the four

choices of [A], [B], [C], and [D], and mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO.

You have THIRTY seconds to preview the choices.

Now, listen to Part One of the interview.

1. [A] An applied linguist. [B] A social linguist.

[C] A psychological. [D] A neuro linguist.

2. [A] Differences between two languages. [B] Declining capacity to learn syntax.

[C] Lack of time available. [D] Absence of motivation.

3. [A] Old men and adults. [B] Teenagers and adults.

[C] Old children and adults. [D] Old men and children.

4. [A] It’s natural for language learners to make errors.

[B] Differences between languages cause difficulty.

[C] There exist differences between English and Czech.

[D] Difficulty stems from either difference or similarity.

5. [A] The traditional method. [B] The audiolingual method.

[C] The immersion method. [D] The direct method.

Now, listen to Part Two of the interview.

6. [A] Speaking and listening before reading and writing.

[B] Conversational skills and all second-language teaching.

[C] Teaching through the second language.

[D] Going to the target foreign country.

7. [A] Michael Halliday. [B] Stephen Krashen.

[C] Ferdinand de Saussure. [D] Leonard Bloomfield.

8. [A] The acquisition and learning distinction hypothesis.

[B] The comprehensible input hypothesis.

[C] The monitor hypothesis.

[D] The active filter hypothesis.

9. [A] It is the acquisition and learning distinction hypothesis.

[B] It is the natural order in acquisition hypo thesis.

[C] It holds that the learner must understand the language input.

[D] It emphasizes the attitude and emotional factors.

10. [A] Causes of language learning difficulties.

[B] Differences between mother tongue and a second language.

[C] Theoretical conceptualization of second language learning.

[D] Pedagogical implementation of second language teaching in the future.

PART ⅡREADING COMPREHENSION（45 MIN）

SECTION A MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS

In this section there are several passages followed by fourteen multiple choice questions. For each multiple

choice question, there are four suggested answers marked [A], [B], [C] and [D]. Choose the one that you think is

the best answer and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO.

PASSAGE ONE

Whenever we could, Joan and I took refuge in the streets of Gibraltar. The Englishman’s home is his castle

because he has no much choice. There is nowhere to sit in the streets of England, not even, after twilight, in the

public gardens. The climate, very often, does not even permit him to walk outside. Naturally, he stays indoors and

creates a cocoon of comfort. That was the way we lived in Leeds.

These southern people, on the other hand, look outwards. The Gibraltarian home is, typically, a small and

crowded apartment up several flights of dark and dirty stairs. In it, one, two or even three old people share a few

ill-lit rooms with the young family. Once he has eaten, changed his clothes, embraced his wife, kissed his children

and his parents, there is nothing to keep the southern man at home. He hurries out, taking even his breakfast coffee

at his local bar. He comes home late for his afternoon meal after an appetitive hour at his café. He sleeps for an

hour, dresses, goes out again and stays out until late at night. His wife does not miss him, for she is out, too — at

the market in the morning and in the afternoon sitting with other mothers, baby-minding in the sun.

The usual Gibraltarian home has no sitting-room, living-room or lounge. The parlour of our working-class

houses would be an intolerable waste of space. Easy-chairs, sofas and such-like furniture are unknown. There are

no bookshelves, because there are no books. Talking and drinking, as well as eating, are done on hard chairs round

the dining-table, between a sideboard decorated with the best glasses and an inevitable display cabinet full of

family treasures, photographs and souvenirs. The elaborate chandelier over this table proclaims it as the hub of the

household and of the family. “Hearth and home” makes very little sense in Gibraltar. One’s home is one’s town or

village, and one’s hearth is the sunshine.

Our northern towns are dormitories with cubicles, by comparison. When we congregate — in the churches it

used to be, now in the cinema, say, impersonally, or at public meetings, formally — we are scarcely ever man to

man. Only in our pubs can you find the truly gregarious and communal spirit surviving, and in England even the

pubs are divided along class lines.

Along this Mediterranean coast, home is only a refuge and a retreat. The people live together in the open air

— in the street, market-place. Down here, there is a far stronger feeling of community than we had ever known. In

crowded and circumscribed Gibraltar, with its complicated inter-marriages, its identity of interests, its surviving

sense of siege, one can see and feel an integrated society.

To live in a tiny town with all the organization of a state, with Viceroy (总督), Premier, Parliament, Press and

Pentagon, all in miniature, all within arm’s reach, is an intensive course in civics. In such an environment, nothing

can be hidden, for better or for worse. One’s successes are seen and recognized; one’s failures are immediately

exposed. Social consciousness is at its strongest, with the result that there is a constant and firm pressure towards

good social behaviour, towards courtesy and kindness. Gibraltar, with all its faults, is the friendliest and most

tolerant of places. Straight from the cynical anonymity of a big city, we luxuriated in its happy personalism. We

look back on it, like all its exiled sons and daughters, with true affection.

11. Which of the following best explains the differences in ways of living between the English and the

Gibraltarians?

[A] The family structure. [B] Religious belief.

[C] The climate. [D] Eating habit.

12.The italicized part in the third paragraph implies that ____________.

[A] English working-class homes are similar to Gibraltarian ones

[B] English working-class homes have spacious sitting-rooms

[C] English working-class homes waste a lot of space

[D] the English working-class parlour is intolerable in Gibraltar

13. We learn from the description of the Gibraltarian home that it is _________.

[A] modern [B] luxurious [C] stark [D] simple

14. According to the passage people in Gibraltar tend to be well-behaved because of the following EXCEPT

_______.

[A] the entirety of the state structure [B] constant pressure from the state

[C] the small size of the town [D] transparency of occurrences

PASSAGE TWO

For office innovators, the unrealized dream of the “paperless” office is a classic example of high-tech hubris

(傲慢). Today’s office drone is drowning in more paper than ever before.

But after decades of hype, American offices may finally be losing their paper obsession. The demand for paper

used to outstrip the growth of the US economy, but the past two or three years have seen a marked slowdown in

sales — despite a healthy economic scene.

Analysts attribute the decline to such factors as advances in digital databases and communication systems.

Escaping our craving for paper, however, will be anything but an easy affair.

“Old habits are hard to break,” says Merilyn Dunn, a communications supplies director. “There are some

functions that paper serves where a screen display doesn’t work. Those functions are both its strength and its

weakness.”

In the early to mid-’90s, a booming economy and improved desktop printers helped boost paper sales by 6 to 7

percent each year. The convenience of desktop printing allowed office workers to indulge in printing anything and

everything at very little effort or cost.

But now, the growth rate of paper sales in the United States is flattening by about half a percent each year.

Between 2004 and 2005, Ms. Dunn says, plain white office paper will see less than a 4 percent growth rate, despite

the strong overall economy. A primary reason for the change, says Dunn, is that for the first time ever, some 47

percent of the workforce entered the job market after computers had already been introduced to offices.

“We’re finally seeing a reduction in the amount of paper being used per worker in the workplace,” says John

Maine, vice president of a pulp and paper economic consulting firm. “More information is being transmitted

electronically, and more and more people are comfortable with the information residing only in electronic form

without printing multiple backups.”

In addition, Mr. Maine points to the lackluster employment market for white-collar workers — the primary

driver of office paper consumption—for the shift in paper usage.

The real paradigm shift may be in the way paper is used. Since the advent of advanced and reliable

office-network systems, data storage has moved away from paper archives. The secretarial art of “filing” is

disappearing from job descriptions. Much of today’s data may never leave its original digital format.

The changing attitudes toward paper have finally caught the attention of paper companies, says Richard

Harper, a researcher at Microsoft. “All of a sudden, the paper industry has started thinking, ‘We need to learn more

about the behavioural aspects of paper use,’” he says. “They had never asked, they’d just assumed that 70 million

sheets would be bought per year as a literal function of economic growth.”

To reduce paper use, some companies are working to combine digital and paper capabilities. For example,

Xerox Corp. is developing electronic paper: thin digital displays that respond to a stylus, like a pen on paper.

Notations can be erased or saved digitally.

Another idea, intelligent paper, comes from Anoto Group. It would allow notations made with a stylus on a

page printed with a special magnetic ink to simultaneously appear on a computer screen.

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