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Test 2
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．Choo the one that most
appropriately suits the conversational context and best completes the dialogue.
Remenber to write the answer on the Answer Sheet.
1. Mark: Good afternoon. I’ve just joine d the library. How many books can I take out?
Jenny: You can take two books, and keep them for ten days. If you haven’t finished, you can renew them.
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Mark: How do I do that? ________________
Jenny: No, you can telephone. Tell us the titles of the books, and the date they are due for return. Mark: Splendid. I would like to borrow A Tale of Two Cities, or David Copperfield.
Jenny: Tho two books have already been borrowed.
A. Why can’t I keep them for a longer time?
B. Can I lend them to my friends?
C. Must I visit the library?
D. How much could I be fined?
2. Operator: Rervations．May I help you?
Customer: _______.
A．Ok, my name is David Johnson, my telephone number is 4210187．
B．I'd like to confirm a room for next Sunday．
C．I'm afraid you can't help me．Thank you any way．
D．Thank you．Could you put me through to 5210888?
3. Ro: Alan was really angry with Tom.
Bill: Was he? How could you tell?
Ro: ___________________________
Bill: Oh, really? I should have noticed that.
A. Well, could I try to tell him?
B. He said I should say so.
C. I told him to stay calm.
D. Didn't you e how red his face got?
4. Mary: So we’ll have a week off. Have a nice trip.
Ted: __________
A. Oh, I’ll stay home.
B. Are you going anywhere?
C. The same to you.
D. Yes. I’ll. How about you?
5. Guest: Have you a single room for tomorrow night and the night after tomorrow with a shower?
Clerk: We haven’t any rooms with a shower free just now, but there’s a bathroom available on each floor.
Guest: __________.
A. All right. That’ll do
B. All right. It does
C. How regretful! I give it up
D. Oh, sorry. Forget it
6. Guest: Oh, I hadn’t realized how late it was. I’m afraid I’ll have to be going.
Hostess: Oh, not yet. I’m just going to make some coffee.
Guest: __________, though I’d really love to stay. I’ve got to be up by six tomorrow morning, unfortunately. Thank you for a wonderful party.
A. It’s a pi ty, but no way out
B. Pardon me, but I should go
C. Excu me, but I have to go
D. I’m sorry, but I must
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7. Larry: Hi, mom. I’d like you to meet my girlfriend, Loral Lee. Loral, this is my mother. Loral: How do you do, Mrs. Miller.
Mother: How do you do, Loral. I’m glad you can join us. __________.
A. Feel all right here
B. Make yourlf at home
C. Plea feel natural
D. Take it easy
8. Speaker A: Are you Ms. Kely, the office manager?
Speaker B: _______________________
A. Yes, I am．What can I do for you?
B. Oh, yes．What’s your name, plea?
C. Yes．It’s nice to have you here with us.
D. Oh, yes．But I’m very busy now.
9. Richard: You don’t have to play that record so loud, do you?
Wilson: ________________________
A. Yes．I didn’t mean to disturb you.
B. Sorry, I don’t have to．I can turn it down a little.
C. Yes, sorry．Am I keeping you awake?
D. Sorry, I didn’t rea lize you were trying to sleep.
10. Roger: Wow! It's like an oven in here!
Judy: __________________________
Roger: That's a bit better.
A. Don't worry. Dinner will be ready soon.
B. Would you like me to clean the room?
C. Shall I open the window for you?
D. I'll move the furniture into the hall.poll
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%)
Passage One
Questions 11 to 15 are bad on the following passage:
Opinion poll surveys show that the public e scientists in a rather unflattering light. Commonly, the scientist is also en as being male. It is true that most scientists are male, but the picture of science as a male activity may be a major reason why fewer girls than boys opt for science, except when it comes to biology, which is en as “female”.
The image most people have of science and scientists comes from their own experience of school science, and from the mass media. Science teachers themlves e it as a problem that so many s
chool pupils find school science an unsatisfying experience, though over the last few years more and more pupils, including girls, have opted for science subjects.
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In spite of excellent documentaries, and some good popular science magazines, scientific stories in the media still usually alternate between miracle and scientific threat. The popular stereotype of science is like the magic of fairy tales: it has potential for enormous good or awful harm. Popular fiction is full of “good” scientists saving the world, and “mad” scientists trying to destroy it.
From all the many scientific stories which might be given media treatment, tho which are chon are usually tho which can be framed in terms of the usual news angles: novelty, threat, conflict or the bizarre. The routine and often tedious work of the scientist slips from view, to be replaced with a picture of scientists forever offending public moral nsibilities (as in embryo rearch), threatening public health (as in weapons rearch), or fighting it out with each other (in giving evidence at public enquiries such as tho held on the issues connected with nuclear power).
The mass media also tends to over-personalize scientific work, depicting it as the product of individual genius, while neglecting the social organization which makes scientific work possible.
A further effect of this is that science comes to be en as a thing in itlf: a kind of unpredictable for
ce; a tide of scientific progress.
It is no such thing, of cour. Science is what scientists do; what they do is what a particular kind of society facilitates, and what is done with their work depends very much on who has the power to turn their discoveries into technology, and what their interests are.
complaint11. According to the passage, ordinary people have a poor opinion of science and scientists partly
becau ____________.
A）of the misleading of the media
B). opinion polls are unflattering
C). scientists are shown negatively in the media
D). science is considered to be dangerous
12. Fewer girls than boys study science becau ______________.
A). they think that science is too difficult
B). they are often unsuccessful in science at school
C). science is en as a man's job
D). science is considered to be tedious
13. Media treatment of science tends to concentrate on ____________.
A). the routine, everyday work of scientists
B). discoveries that the public will understand
C). the more nsational aspects of science
D). the satisfactions of scientific work
14. According to the author, over-personalization of scientific work will lead science __________
A). isolation from the rest of the world
B). improvements on school system
C). association with "femaleness"
D). trouble in recruiting young talent
15. According to the author, what a scientist does ____________.
A). should be attributed to his individual genius
B). depends on the coordination of the society
C). shows his independent power
D). is unpredictable
Passage Two
Questions 16 to 20 are bad on the following passage：
The magnitude 7.9 quake struck Sichuan province on May 12 at around noontime, which may have incread the human death toll becau many people were at school, and the school buildings turned out to be especially vulnerable to collap becau of poor construction. More than 69,000 pe
ople have been confirmed dead so far, and more than 374,000 injured, with fears of further casualties becau veral lakes were created by rockfall dams may give way and cau sudden flooding.
Clark Burchfiel, Schlumberger Professor of Geology, and Leigh Royden, professor of geology and geophysics in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT, have been doing extensive rearch in that region of China and the Tibetan plateau for more than two decades, but had found no hints that suggested such a large earthquake might strike the area.
The team operated an array of 25 broadband ismograph stations in this region of western Sichuan for more than a year. “Nobody was thin king there would be a major earthquake in that area,” Royden says. “This earthquake was quite unusual, and may have involved a simultaneously vere break of two parate but neighboring faults (断层),” she continued.
The region is extremely unusual geologically, Royden says, becau of the very steep slopes at the boundary between the Sichuan Basin to the east and the Tibetan plateau to the west. The elevation ris sharply by about 3,500 meters (more than two miles) over a span of only about 50 kilometers (about 30 miles).
The area where the quake occurred is part of the boundary between two of the Earth’s structural plates, where the Indian and Asian plates meet in an ongoing collision that has created the Himalayan Mountains and the Tibetan plateau. But in central and eastern Tibet, unlike most other areas of continental collision, much of the movement of crust is hidden from view. Instead of thickening the entire crust by folding and faulting, the surface of the eastern Tibetan plateau is not deformed and is being lifted upward by thickening of a weak crustal layer more than 15 km below the surface.
16. Why did the school buildings collap in the earthquake, according to the passage?
A). They were crowded with students and teachers.
B). They were poorly built.
C). They had too long a history.
D). They were damaged by the earthquake.
17. Bad on Para. 1, why does the writer think that more people will be killed or injured after the
earthquake?
A). Becau there will be more aftershocks after the major quake.
B). Becau more school buildings will collap after the quake.
C). Becau destructive flooding caud by rockfall dams is likely to occur.
D). Becau there was not enough medical care for the injured in the area.
18. What can we infer from this passage?
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A). There was no prediction that such a large-scale quake might occur there.
B). Rearchers had done little rearch in that area before the earthquake struck it.
C). The 5.12 earthquake was the most destructive in the world.
D). If more rearch had been done, the destruction could have been avoided.
19. Which of the following can be inferred from this passage?
A). Earthquakes can never be predicted.
B). Earthquakes occur frequently.
C). Earthquakes are difficult to predict.
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D). Earthquakes can be avoided.
20. What does this passage mainly talk about?唯一的英文
A) The 5.12 earthquake caud great causalities.
B) The 5.12 earthquake was very frightening.
C) The caus of the earthquake are still unclear.
D) The 5.12 earthquake was extremely unusual.
Passage Three
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Questions 21 to 25 are bad on the following passage:
Four months before Crown Prince Felipe says “si” (“yes” in Spanish) to t elevision journalist Letizia Ortiz, royal wedding fever is gripping Spain.
Shops are offering the biggest variety of wedding souvenirs, from plates and bottle-openers to copies of the couple’s engagement ring.
The couple has made only a few carefully staged public appearances to reduce the scrutiny.
Spanish people waited for more than a decade for the 36-year-old son of King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia to find a suitable bride. And more important, the May 22 wedding will be a landmark event in other ways.
Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano, 31, is the daughter of a nur and a journalist. So, she will be the
