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English Test
I. Understanding Short Conversations
Directions: In this ction you'll hear some short conversations. Listen carefully and choo the best answer to the questions you hear. (10 points)
1. A. She had paid more attention to her pronunciation.
B. She doesn’t make mistakes in her pronunciation.
C. She didn’t pay more attention to her pronunciation.
D. She sometimes makes mistakes in her pronunciation.
2. A. The man doesn’t like laughing.
B. The man is trying to slow down.
C. The man is running too slowly.
D. The man is running too fast.
3. A. $8.82.
B. $9.20.
C. $10.12.
D. $11.00.
4. A. In a post office.
B. In a bank.
C. In a shop.
D. In a school.
5. A. It’s no u saying sorry now.
B. He should turn up for the match.
C. She doesn’t want him to come here.
D. She doesn’t want him to turn up for the match.
6. A. In Seattle.
B. In Los Angeles.
C. In Chicago.
D. In Detroit.
7. A. There are no Christians in the US.
B. All Christians go to church regularly.
C. The US is not a Christian country.
D. Religion in the US is not very official.
8. A. 25 pounds.
B. 50 pounds.
C. 30 pounds.
D. 20 pounds.
9. A. How to t goals.
B. How to become a teacher.
C. How to understand values.
D. How to develop thinking skills.
10. A. 60%.
B. 30%.
C. 70%.
D. 50%.
II. Understanding Long Conversations
Directions: In this ction you'll hear a long conversation or conversations. Listen carefully and choo the best answer to the questions you hear. (10 points)
Conversation 1
11. A. The man’s flights in space.
B. The man’s discoveries in space.
C. America’s space program.
D. America’s disasters.
12. A. 30.
B. 3.
C. 27.
D. 2.
13. A. The man lost faith in the space program.
B. The man reduced the number of space flights.
C. The space program has had many accidents.
D. The Challenger is the name of a spacecraft.
14. A. Space flights were stopped for two years.
B. The space program wasn’t the same.
C. The space program was reduced.
D. People lost faith.
15. A. It should be stopped.
B. It should be reduced.
C. It costs too much.
D. It has a good future.
Conversation 2
16. A. To make students study more.
B. To help students be more successful.
C. To e if class are being taught well.
D. To make changes to education.
17. A. To check if changes should be made.
B. To understand more about tests.
C. To compare them with results in other countries.
D. To e if their child is making any progress.
18. A. 70%.
B. 73%.
C. 85%.
D. 87%.
19. A. Different countries and their teaching methods.
B. Help for students in getting good grades.
C. Improvements made possible through tests.
D. The purpo of tests and interpretation of grades.
20. A. Parent and child.
B. Psychologist and patient.
C. Teacher and student.
D. Employer and employee.
III. Compound Dictation
Directions: In this ction you will hear a passage or passages three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the cond time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the information you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written. (10 points)
Passage 1
There are two main things that make aircraft engineering difficult: the need to make every (21)__________ as reliable as possible and the need to build everything as light as possible. The
plane is up in the air, and cannot stop if anything (22)__________ wrong. It is a matter of life or death that its (23)__________ is absolutely dependable. The(24)__________ of an aircraft is also connected with its total weight, which should be carefully calculated.
Given a certain power of engine, and conquently a certain fuel (25)__________, there is a practical limit to the total weight of an aircraft that can be made to fly. Out of that weight as much as possible is needed for (26)__________, radio navigational instruments, pasnger ats, and, of cour, the pasngers or cargo. So the structure of the aircraft has to be as small and light as safety and (27)__________ will allow.
(28)________________________________________________. This specialist is called the “stress man”. (29)_____________________________________________ as a precaution against errors in manufacture, accidental damage, etc.
