Directions: In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the question will be spoken only once. After each question there will be, a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), anal decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
11. What is one of the good reasons for owning a car?
12. What is one of the good reasons against owning a car?
13. How much can a simple repair cost?
14. What is mainly discussed in the talk?
15. What was the man doing when the woman approached him?
16. Why has the woman come to talk to the man?
17. What seems to be the mans problem?
18. What is true about cigarette smoking before the 20th century?
19. What reduced the price of cigarettes?
20. What is NOT mentioned as a factor in determining a persons smoking habit?
Directions: There are 4 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 mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
Passage One Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage: The idea of test-tube babies may make you starry-eyed with delight at the wonders of modern medicine or bleary-eyed with considering the moral/legal implications of starting life in a laboratory. But if youve ever been pregnant yourself, one thing is certain: You wonder what its like to carry, a test tube baby. Are these pregnancies normal? Are the babies normal? The earliest answers came from Australia, where a group of medical experts at the Queen Victoria Medical Center in Melbourne took a look at the continents first nine successful test-tube pregnancies. The Australians report that the pregnancies themselves seemed to proceed according to the plan, but at birth some unusual trends did show up. Seven of the nine babies turned out to be girls. Six of the nine were delivered by Caesarean section. And one baby, a twin, was born with a serious heart defect and a few days later developed life-threatening abdominal problems. What does it all mean? Even the doctors dont know for sure because the numbers are so small. The proportion of girls to boys is high, but until there are many more test-tube babies no one will know whether thats pure coincidence or something special. The same thing is true of the single heart defects it usually shows up in only 15 out of 60,000 births in that part of Australia, but the fact that it occurred in one out of nine test-tube babies does not necessarily mean that they are at special risk. One thing the doctors can explain is the high number of Caesareans. The Australian researchers report that they are quite encouraged. All the babies are now making normal progress -- even the twin with the birth defects.
21. Which of the following would be the most appropriate title for the passage?
22. The passage implies that the first test-tube babies were born in ______.
23. Which of the following statements best describes the organization of the passage?
24. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT mentioned?
25. Where did the passage most probably appear?
Passage Two Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage. Auctions are public sales of goods, conducted by an officially approved auctioneer. He asks the crowd assembled in the auction-room to make offers, or, "bids", for the various items on sale. He encourages buyers to bid higher figures, and finally names the highest bidder as the buyer of the goods. This is called "knocking down" the goods, for the bidding ends when the auctioneer bangs a small hammer on a table at which he stands. This is often set on a raised platform called a rostrum. Practically all goods whose qualities vary are sold by auction. Among these are coffee, hides, skins, wool, tea, cocoa, furs, spices, fruit and vegetables and wines. Auction sales are also usual for land and property, antique furniture, pictures, rare books, old china and similar works of art. The auction-rooms at Christies and Sothebys in London and New York are world-famous. An auction is usually advertised beforehand with full particulars of the articles to be sold and where and when they can be viewed by prospective buyers. If the advertisement cannot give full details, catalogues are printed, and each group of goods to be sold together, called a "lot", is usually given a number. The auctioneer need not begin with Lot 1 and continue in numerical orders he may wait until he registers the fact that certain dealers are in the room and then produce the lots they are likely to be interested in. The auctioneers services are paid for in the form of a percentage of the price the goods are sold for. The auctioneer therefore has a direct interest in pushing up the bidding as high as possible. The auctioneer must know fairly accurately the current market values of the goods he is selling, and he should be. acquainted with regular buyers of such goods. He will not waste time by starting the bidding too low. He will also play on the rivalries among his buyers and succeed in getting a high price by encouraging two business competitors to bid against each other. It is largely on his advice that a seller will fix a "reserve" price, that is, a price below which the goods cannot be sold. Even the best auctioneers, however, find it difficult to stop a "knock-out" whereby dealers illegally arrange beforehand not to bid against each other, but nominate one of themselves as the only bidder, in the hope of buying goods at extremely low prices. If such a "knock-out" comes off, the real auction sale takes place privately afterwards among the dealers.
26. Auctioned goods are sold ______.
27. The end of the bidding is called "knocking down" because ______.
28. An auction catalogue gives prospective buyers ______.
29. An auctioneer likes to get high prices for the goods he sells because ______.
30. A "knock-out" is arranged ______.
Passage Three Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage: Like most July days, it was hot. I stepped into a tiny ice-cream shop to cool off with a chocolate ice-cream. It was an old-time store, just recently restored -- with white oak woodwork, little round tables and chairs. As I entered, I caught a glimpse of a very old woman bent over a table near the door. Her back was so badly twisted by some misfortune that her face nearly touched the tabletop. I sat down facing her a couple of tables away. "Poor woman," I thought, "what does she get out of life? Why does God let people live so long past their prime?" As I thought, another aged lady entered the shop and sat down with her. Soon the two of them were chatting about childhood days. They talked of how little the shop had changed in 70 years. In minutes, the two of them were trembling with laughter. I looked again at the first woman, then in the mirror on a nearby wall, catching a picture of myself. I was wearing a dirty shirt. She was dressed stylishly in white, her face carefully made up, her hands sparkling with gold rings. I was gloomy. She was laughing, smiling. I was swallowing my ice-cream like an animal. She was getting miles of sweet pleasure from hers. I was still putting the pieces of my life together. She had a million of delicious memories to recall. I sat alone. She was sharing the day with a good friend. I was worried about all the work, I had to do in the next few hours. She was free from deadlines and rush-hour traffic. I was secretly worried about getting old. She was old, and it wasnt hurting her. As I left the shop, I thought of my foolish question about God letting people live beyond their prime. Why, that woman was more alive, more sensitive to life, than I was. So what if age had bent her spine? It had not bent her spirit.
31. Which of the following is the purpose of the passage?
32. Which of the following is true of the ice-cream shop?
33. The writer implies all of the following EXCEPT ______.
34. Which of the following is the conclusion the writer made about the old lady?
35. Which of the following could best replace the word "prime" in Para. 3?
Passage Four Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage: Stanford University, famous as one of northern Californias several institutions of higher learning, is sometimes called "the Harvard of the West." Its reputation is based on its location, its intelligent, students, its distinguished faculty, its growth opportunities offered to students, its overseas programs, its substantial endowment, and its recent extensive growth. The closeness of Stanford to San Francisco, a city thirty-two miles to the north, gives the University a decidedly cosmopolitan flavor. Equally cosmopolitan is the student body. Students enroll principally from the western United States. But most of the fifty states send students to Stanford, and many foreign students study here, as well. And standards for admission remain high. Young men and women are selected to enter the university from the upper fifteen percent of their high school classes. Not only because of the high quality of its students but also because of the desirable location and climate, Stanford has attracted to its faculty some of the worlds most respected scholars. The university staff has included such Nobel Prize winners as Dr. Felix Bloch, Dr. Robert Hofstadter, and Dr. William Shockley in physics, Dr. Author Kornberg and Dr. Joshua Lederberg in medicine, and Dr. Paul J. Flory and Dr. Linus Pauling in chemistry. The Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has been in residence. Stanfords undergraduate school of engineering and its graduate schools of business, law, and medicine are especially welt-regarded. Founded only in 1891, Stanford is now generally considered comparable in quality to such other longer-established, major American universities as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia. In the past decade, it has given young Americans increasing reason to follow Horace Greeleys advice: "Go West, young man."
36. Stanford University is situated ______.
37. The university has possessed a cosmopolitan flavor because ______.
38. Stanford has attracted to its faculty some of the world's most respected scholars because of ______.
39. Stanford has a history of ______.
40. Horace Greelay's advice "Go west, young man" encourages young people ______.
Directions: There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
41. These days, marrying a serviceman in that country can require as ______ courage as love.
42. More quickly than anyone could have imagined, East Germany is being ______ in the Western market economy.
43. We tend to ______ more direct in another tongue and say the things we would not say at home.
44. The Hubble Space Telescope can still do work from space that ______ telescope can do from the space.
45. Relaxing, he took his time ______ a smoke.
46. Evolution has won ______ acceptance as a scientific law.
47. The little boy ______ his foot several times in anger.
48. The animal with the biggest head ______ its body is the ant.
49. He would carry a gun on his shoulder ______ hours.
50. They ______ everything with a sharp and watchful eye.
51. Children ______ educational toys.
52. It is not certain ______ football was first played in England.
53. His failure to study ______ him to fail the course.
54. Americans in general do not ______ to be considered inferior.
55. I want to make an ______ about something I've lost.
56. What happened in that class probably reflects what is happening in society ______.
57. Margaret Thatcher, the British Prime Minister, once ______ herself as "Genghis Khan," the famous Chinese emperor.
58. You have to read "between the lines" to get the most out of ______.
59. Pasteur did not ______ himself with what recognition he had gained.
60. Several sufferers ______ him as soon as they saw him.
61. A given event will be seen in several different ways by ______ many witnesses.
62. They had no idea what an intercultural marriage ______ mean.
63. Manila, though largely undamaged by the earthquake, ______.
64. A considerable number of young people devote many hours to ______ English.
65. He felt relieved when he learned he had ______ the test.
66. Neither of these alternatives ______.
67. The champion waved to the ______ crowd.
68. The word "peasant" is not used in England, except as an insult ______ as a joke.
69. If reading is to accomplish anything more than passing time, it ______ be active.
70. ______ skill in a sport requires determination and persistence.
Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D) below the passage. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
The road from the castle to the royal palace of Hollywood house use is known as "The Royal Mile". It is a very old street 71)______ through the oldest part of the city 72)______ there are many historic houses and narrow lanes 73)______ "close". The newer part of the city 74)______ north of Princes Street, the widest and 75)______ impressive of the many wide streets. The trains 76)______ visitors to Edinburgh run right into 77)______ heart of the city. Climbing 78)______ the steps from Waverley Station, the visitor is 79)______ by a blaze of color in Princes Street Gardens 80)______ a splendid view down the mile-long 81)______ of Princes Street itself. The grey 82)______ buildings that line one side of Princes Street have been 83)______ as "a series of palaces"; they are, 84)______, department stores and shops. 85)______ some shops you can see beautiful displays 86)______ Scottish tartans and woolens, and 87)______ arrangements of shortbread, Edinburgh rock and, of 88)______, Scotch wine. About half way 89)______ Princes street is the tallest tower in the city -- a monument to Sir Walter Scott -- and a 90)______ farther on is the Floral Clock. This unique clock, made entirely of growing flowers, is always in full bloom during the Edinburgh Festival.
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition in three paragraphs. The title of the composition is "Books and Teenagers". You are given the first sentence of each paragraph. Your composition should be about 100 words, not including the words given. Remember to write clearly.
Books and Teenagers 1. Different books are intended for different people. 2. Teenagers are not supposed to read all kinds of books. 3. Instructions and advice are helpful for young people.
