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), and 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 was the traditional role of a married woman in American society 150 years ago?
12. What was Not True about the position of women in the U.S. 150 years ago?
13. When were women in the U.S. given the right to vote in a national election?
14. What is the main topic of the talk?
15. What was the first great invention?
16. What was an important invention in the 19th century?
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.
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage: Amelia Earhart, the famous pioneer pilot, can serve as an excellent model for both contemporary young women and young men. This is the story of her courage and daring and illustrates how a person can realize nearly any dream if he or she has enough determination. Amelia was born in Atchinson, Kansas, in 1898, and demonstrated a daring and adventuresome spirit even in her childhood by always being the first to try any new adventure and never seeming to fear anything. During World War I Amelia became a nurses aid at a military hospital in Canada because this was the contribution that she wanted to make. After the war was over, Amelia went to California to visit her parents. Who had moved there earlier. While she was there, she went to an air show with her father and watched the brave pilots fly their airplanes in many exciting ways. She then realized that she wanted to learn to be a pilot. However, she did not have the thousand dollars that was required to take flying lessons so she obtained a job in the telephone company office to earn money for the lessons. Amelia took flying lessons when she was able to afford them from another woman pilot. With money borrowed from her mother, she later was able to buy herself a small yellow airplane called a Canary. Because of her flying ability, Amelia was asked to become the first woman passenger on a transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to Wales in 1928. Because of this daring adventure, she became famous both in Europe and the United States. Amelias fame as a woman flier began to spread and in 1932. She became the first woman to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean from Newfoundland to the Irish coastline. After this flight, Amelia became even more famous, and in 1937 she and a copilot attempted to fly around the world near the equator but were lost over the Pacific Ocean after completing most of their flight. However, Amelia Earhart proved that women are able to accomplish most of the things that men are able to do.
21. What does the passage mainly discuss?
22. It can be inferred from the passage that ______.
23. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?
24. What quality did Amelia have as a girl that probably, helped her to become a famous pilot?
25. Which of the following is true according to the passage?
Passage Two Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage: Bionics is a recently developed branch of science, which has tremendous potential for improving the life of mankind in our contemporary society. Bionics can be described as the study of systems in living creatures and the application of the knowledge gained from this study to the improvement of various kinds of man-made systems. The term bionics was coined around 1960, and much of what is known about the science of bionics has been discovered since about 1970. Some researchers recently have studied the eyes of the common frogs and have: discovered that a frogs eyes only find moving things such as insect-shaped objects and large, threatening objects. As a result of studying the eyes Of frogs, scientists have constructed a simple electronic model of a frogs eyes which can track airplanes circling above an airport and then provide information to computer-run air traffic control systems. Someday such electronic eyes may provide the means to automatically guide automobiles by providing information about objects moving toward the automobile. Other scientists have studied the compound eyes of some insects and crabs and have built a seeing machine that is a simple model of the horseshoe crab eye. The hearing of a number of creatures also has been studied extensively so that hearing machines can be developed. Bats have unusual hearing which can extend into the ultrasonic range. The dolphin also has been studied extensively, and dolphins are able to navigate through water extremely effectively. Radar and sonar systems which are used to help ships and planes navigate have been based on the sonar systems of both bats and dolphins.
26. Which of the following could be the best title?
27. What type of eyes are found in the crab?
28. Upon what creatures is the man-made sonar system based?
29. Scientists are interested in the eyes of frogs because ______.
30. Which of the following is true?
Passage Three Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage: You want something you cant get by behaving within the rules, and you want it badly enough youll do it regardless of any guilt or deep regret, and youre willing to run the risk of being caught. Thats how Ladd Wheeler, psychology professor at the University of Rochester in New York, defines cheating. Many experts believe cheating is on the rise. "Were suffering a moral breakdown," Pinkard says. "Were seeing more of the kind of person who regards the world as a series of things to be dealt with. Whether to cheat depends on whether its in the persons interest." He does, however, see less cheating among the youngest students. Richard Dienstbier, psychology professor at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, believes that societys attitudes account for much of the upsurge in cheating. "Twenty years ago if a person cheated in college, society said: That is extremely serious, you will be dropped for a semester if not kicked out permanently," he says. "Nowadays, at the University of Nebraska, for example, it is the stated policy of the College of Arts and Sciences that if a student cheats in an exam, the student must receive an "F" on what he cheated in. Thats nothing. If youre going to flunk anyway, why not cheat?" Cheating is most likely in situations where the vital interests are high and the chances of getting caught are low, says social psychologist Lynn Kahle of the University of Oregon in Eugene.
31. The passage centers on ______.
32. Cheating tends to occur in all the following situations except when ______.
33. Which of the following is true according to the passage?
34. What can be inferred from the passage?
35. Which of the following could best replace the word "flunk" (Para. 5, Line 3)?
Passage Four Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage: Anyone who has ever ridden on a railroad train knows how rapidly another train flashes by when it is traveling in the opposite direction and conversely how it may look almost motionless when it is moving in the same direction. A variation of this effect can be very deceptive in an enclosed, station like Grand Central Terminal in New York. Once in a while a train gets under way so gently that passengers feel no recoil whatever. Then if they happened to look out the window and see another train slide past on the next track, they have no way of knowing which train is in motion and which is at rest nor can they tell how fast either one is moving or in which direction. The only way they can judge their situation is by looking out the other side of the car for some fixed body of reference like the station platform or a signal light. Sir Isaac Newton was aware of these tricks of motion, only he thought in terms of ships. He knew that on a calm day at sea a sailor can shave himself or drink soup as comfortably as when his ship is lying motionless in harbor. The water in his basin, the soup in his bowl, will remain stationary whether the ship is making 5 knots, 15 knots, or 25 knots. So unless he peers out at the sea it will be impossible for him to know how fast his ship is moving or indeed if it is moving at all. Of course, if the sea should get rough or the ship change course abruptly, then he will sense his state of motion. But granted the idealized conditions of a glass-calm sea and a silent ship, nothing that happens below decks -- no amount of observation or mechanical experiment performed inside the ship -- will disclose its velocity through the sea. The physical principle suggested by these considerations was formulated by Newton in 1687. "The motions of bodies included in a given space," he wrote, "are the same among themselves whether that space is at rest or moves uniformly forward in a straight line." This is known as the Newtonian or Galilean Relativity Principle. It can also be phrased in more general terms: mechanical laws which are valid in one place are equally valid in any other place which moves uniformly relative to the first.
36. Traveling on a train you would find another fast moving train almost motionless when ______.
37. Once in a while a train gets under way so gently that passengers feel no recoil whatever. Here the word 'recoil' means ______.
38. Which of the following statements is true according to the article?
39. Which of the following statements, in Not True according to the article?
40. The best title for this article would be ______.
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. Some eighty years ago three-quarters of American production ______ family farms or from businesses employing fewer than five people.
42. Business, in one form or another, has been ______ for centuries.
43. Next to air, water is the element ______ necessary for survival.
44. The mind cannot hang on to two thought processes ______.
45. Nothing helps success more than ______ what you're doing.
46. In area Berlin is one of the largest cities in Europe with the Western part ______ for 185 square miles.
47. Common sense means the ability to render sound, practical judgments ______ everyday affairs.
48. Among the serious problems that ______ science-fiction writers is the increasing specialization in science.
49. The simplest animals do things in the most ______ way.
50. The Chinese cooking is enjoyed all ______ the world.
51. Almost ______ that man can do, nature has already done better.
52. No memories of his past life flashed ______ him.
53. Young babies can use ______ hand equally well.
54. The hours ______ and the miles passed behind them.
55. The speed at which an animal lives is determined by ______ the rate at which it uses oxygen.
56. Luck is a matter of preparation ______ opportunity.
57. The period ______ dance classes increases gradually from two or three hours a day to five or six.
58. Whatever is there ______ to write about.
59. While the Romans accomplished practical wonders, they ______ very little theoretical scientific thinking.
60. Man can never send a rocket to Mars ______ he knows the exact distance to the planet.
61. Harry wanted Ivy to ______ him as soon as she graduated from the college.
62. At ______ the wounded on the battlefield were begging for help and crying for water.
63. Rather than ______ me, she simply got up early to test the car herself.
64. He drank ______ and was 50 pounds overweight.
65. To save time and money, food is cooked ______ and reheated.
66. Two or three times a week she received a customer ______ she began to take an interest.
67. Cool weather is much more favorable for creative thinking than ______.
68. After a few generations they will consider themselves citizens of ______.
69. Computers can already do a lot of surprising things, which ______ predicting the weather.
70. In China hundreds of different dialects are spoken; people of some villages ______ the time of day with the inhabitants of the next town.
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.
We often hear people talking about a generation gap. The name is new, but the 71)______ is old. Young people and their 72)______ dont understand each other. The world 73)______ changing. It has always kept changing. 74)______ the second century after Christ a(n) 75)______ man said: "Bury me on my face 76)______ in a little while everything 77)______ turned upside down." There has always been a gap 78)______ generations, but more people talk about 79)______ now. Old Mr. Ellis thinks he 80)______ what has happened: "When I was a(n) 81)______, I thought the world was a 82)______ place. My life was very pleasant. 83)______ when I was older, I learned 84)______ people who were treated badly, people 85)______ didnt have enough to eat. I 86)______ to help them, and I married 87)______ girl who wanted to help them, 88)______. We went to meetings and talked a lot, but it didnt 89)______ to make much difference." "Our children 90)______ up in a world at war. They didnt want to think about the future. They thought nothing could be done about it."
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition about "Leisure Time" in three paragraphs. You are given the following hints in Chinese and are required to write no less than 100 words.