English Examination for Master Students
（2010年6月26日 9：00—11：00 AM）
Part one：Listening comprehension（15%）
Section A：Compound Dictation (10points)
In this part, you will hear a passage three times. Listen carefully and fill in the missing words. For the first time, listen carefully and try your best to understand. For the cond time, write down what you hear on the tape. For the third time, check your answer. (10 points)
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President Bush says this cond trip to the continent is meant to demonstrate America's commitment to improving the lives and (1) ______ of Africans.
"I am here to really confirm to the people of Benin and the people on the continent of Africa that the United States (2) _____ helping improve peoples' lives," he said.
The Bush administration is (3) ______ primary education and family health projects in Benin including a program to provide anti-malarial bed nets to every family.
President Yayi says his country's cotton-bad economy is also helped by lower (4) _____ under the U.S. African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA).
"My country is also benefiting from the president's Millennium Challenge Account initiative as well as the AGOA who (5) _______ is to create the conditions favorable to economic growth in a (6) _______ manner in order to reduce poverty and build an emerging nation," he said.
President Yayi, who is the former director of the West African Development Bank, says he and President Bush discusd diversifying Benin's economy away from its dependence on cotton, which (7) ______ 40 percent of Gross Domestic Product and roughly 80 percent of official exports.
One-third of Benin's nearly ven million people live in poverty. Building on reforms which
began in the 1990's, Benin signed a $307-million (8) _____ with the U.S. Millennium Challenge Account in 2006.
Tho funds are meant to improve property rights by reducing the time and cost of obtaining a land title. The program also intends to (9) _____ access to financial rvices, train more members of the judicial system, and boost imports and exports through the port of Cotonou.
U.S. officials say the compact is expected to (10) _____ nearly a 250,000 Beninois out of poverty by 2015.
After Benin, President Bush spends two days in Tanzania before visiting Rwanda, Ghana, and Liberia.
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Section B：Note taking (5 points)
In this part, you will hear a passage twice. After the first time, there will be a pau of 30 conds. Plea try your best to write down the main idea and 4 details of the passage. Then listen again and check your answer.
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Part Two：Reading comprehension（消耗品20%）
狼人杀是什么In this part, you will read two passages. The first passage is followed by 5 questions. You are required to choo the best answer to each question according to the passage. For the cond passage, you are required to answer each question with no more than 12 words.
东北那旮瘩Passage one
If we look at education in our own society， we e two sharply different factors. First of all， there is the overwhelming majority of teachers， principals， curriculum planners，
school superintendents， who are devoted to passing on the knowledge that children need in order to live in our industrialized society. Their chief concern is with efficiency， that is， with implanting the greatest number of facts into the greatest possible number of children， with a minimum of time， expen， and effort.
鳝鱼汤 后悔的成语怎么洗掉墨水Classroom learning often has as its unspoken goal the reward of pleasing the teacher. Children in the usual classroom learn very quickly that creativity is punished， while repeating a memorized respon is rewarded， and concentrate on what the teacher wants them to say， rather than understanding the problem.
The difference between the intrinsic and the extrinsic aspects of a college education is illustrated by the following story about Upton Sinclair. When Sinclair was a young man， he found that he was unable to rai the tuition money needed to attend college. Upon careful reading of the college catalogue， however， he found that if a student failed a cour， he received no credit for the cour， but was obliged to take another cour in its place. The college did not charge the student for the cond cour， reasoning that h
e had already paid once for his credit. Sinclair took advantage of this policy and not a free education by deliberately failing all his cours.
