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.
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time. You should listen carefully for its general idea. Then listen to the passage again. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 11 to 18 with the exact words you hare just heard. For blanks numbered 19 to 20 you are required to fill in missing information. You can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
Fire can help people in many ways. But it can also be very 11). Fire can heat water, 12) your houses, give light and cook food. But fire can burn things, too. It can burn trees, houses, animals or people. Sometimes big fires can burn 13). Nobody knows for 14) how people began to use fire. But there are many 15), old stories about the first time a man or woman 16) a fire. One story form Australia tells about a man a very long time ago. He went up to the sun by a 17) and brought fire down. Today people know how to make a fire with 18). Children sometimes like to play with them. But matches can be very dangerous. 19)19_0. Fire kill many people every year. So you must be very careful with matches. You should also learn to put out fires. Fires need oxygen. Without oxygen they die. there is oxygen in the air. 20).
Directions: There are 4 reading 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).
Passage One Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage: It is plain that in the year 2000 everyone will have at his elbow several times more mechanical energy than he has today. There will be advances in biological knowledge as far-reaching as those that have been made in physics. We are only beginning to learn that we can control our biological environment as well as our physical one. Starvation has been predicted twice to a growing world population: by Malthus in about 1800, by Crookes in about 1900. It was headed off the first time by taking agriculture to America and the second time by using the new fertilizers. In the year 2000, starvation will be headed off by the control of the diseases and the heredity of plants and animals by shaping our own biological environment. Now I come back to the haunting theme of automation. The most common species in the factory today is the man who works or minds a simple machine the operator. By the year 2000, the repetitive tasks of industry will be taken over by the machines, as the heavy tasks were taken over long ago; and the mental tedium will go the way of physical exhaustion. Today we still distinguish, even among repetitive jobs, between the skilled and the unskilled; but in the year 2000 all repetition will be unskilled. We simply waste our time if we oppose this change; it is as inevitable as the year 2000 itself.
21. The article was written to _____.
22. Advances in biological knowledge were _____.
23. According to the passage, starvation _____.
24. Repetitive tasks in industry lead to _____.
25. If the predictions of this writer are realized, the demand for the unskilled workers in the twenty-first century will be _____.
Passage Two Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage: In these days of technological triumphs, it is well to remind ourselves from time to time that living mechanisms are often incomparably more efficient than their artificial imitations. There is no better illustration of this idea than the sonar system of bats. Ounce for ounce and watt for watt, it is billions of times more efficient and more sensitive than the radars and sonars designed by man. Of course, the bats have had some 50 million years of evolution to refine their sonar. Their physiological mechanisms for echo location, based on all this accumulated experience, therefore our merit thorough study and analysis. To appreciate the precision of the bats echo location, we must first consider the degree of their reliance upon it. Thanks to sonar, an insect-eating bat can get along perfectly well without eyesight. This was brilliantly demonstrated by an experiment performed in the late eighteenth century by the Italian naturalist Lazure Spallanzani. He caught some bats in a bell tower, blinded them, and released them outdoors. Four of these blind bats were recaptured after they had found their way back to the bell tower, and on examining their stomachs contents, Spallanzani found that they had been able to capture and fill themselves with flying insects. We know from experiments that bats easily find insects in the dark of night, even when the insects emit no sound that can be heard by human ears. A bat will catch hundreds of soft-bodied, silent-flying moths in a single hour. It will even detect and chase pebbles tossed into the air.
26. The passage is mainly about _____.
27. Which of the following statements is true?
28. Lazzoro Spallanzani demonstrated that a bat can get along well without eyesight through _____.
29. Bats find insects in the dark of night with the help of _____.
30. It is implied but not stated that _____.
Passage Three Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage: Representatives of Callahan Media Associates (CMA) announced today that the news agency would attempt to buy the National Broadcasting System (NBS), the second largest television and radio network in the United States. Ronald Callahan, son of Jessica Callahan, who started CMA, told reporters that he expects his companys offering price to be high enough to win out over other offers. He indicated that NBS executives had already discussed reorganization plans that might result from a CMA takeover. A native of the United Kingdom, Jessica Callahan began to buy newspapers, magazines, and radio stations in the United States eight years ago, and CMA now owns or controls more than fifteen news organizations here. Before she became a leader in media in this country, she had established her family-owned company as one of the most important forces in British TV and newspapers. Callahan started her news career more than twenty-five years ago, and she had worked as a reporter on three different papers when she took the job of editor of Englands Birmingham Herald, a newspaper that had been experiencing financial difficulties for several years. Her success in raising the news reporting standards as well as making the Herald into a profitable business gained Callahan the attention and respect of the British news establishment. By the time she was 35, she had become a publisher and started CMA, which is now one of the largest media organizations in the world. Callahan had never visited the United States before she came to Miami and became the publisher of the Miami Journal almost eight years ago, but she had been reading the newspaper for several years, and she said that she liked the papers style. After she had owned the Journal for just over a year, she bought a small radio station in Georgia, and in the next five years she went on to acquire news organizations in several different parts of the country. If CMA becomes the owner of NBS, for the first time it will have control over a nationwide TV network. In an interview last week, Philip Rosen, the president of NBS, said that he was not very happy about the purchase. He agreed that Callahan and CMA had done a lot to help American newspapers become more financially secure, but he expressed fears that the new management was going to make news coverage on NBS irresponsible. He stated that he hoped he could remain with NBS but said that this might not be possible.
31. The writer thinks that CMA's offer to buy the National Broadcasting System is probably _____.
32. Jessica Callahan captured the confidence of the press after she became the editor of Birmingham Herald because _____.
33. Jessica Callahan has never _____.
34. The attitude of NBS top executive to the CMA takeover was that _____.
35. Which of the following can be the best title for this passage?
Passage Four Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage: The agricultural revolution in the nineteenth century involved two things--the invention of labor-saving machinery and the development of scientific agriculture. Labor-saving machinery naturally appeared first where labor was scarce. "In Europe", said Thomas Jefferson, "the object is to make the most of their land, labor being abundant; here it is to make the most of our labor, lard being abundant". It was in America, therefore, that the great advances in nineteenth-century agricultural machinery first came. At the opening of the century, with the exception of a crude plow, farmers could have carried practically all of the existing agricultural implements on their backs: by 1860, most of the machinery in use today had been designed in an early form. The most important of the early inventions was the iron plow. As early as 1990 Charles Newbold of New Jersey had been working on the idea of a cast-iron plow and spent his entire fortune in introducing his invention. The farmers, however, would home none of it, claiming that the iron poisoned the soil and made the weeds grow. Nevertheless many people devoted their attention to the plow, until in 1869, James Oliver of South Bend, Indiana, turned out the first chilled-steel plow.
36. The word "here" (para 1,line 4) refers to _____.
37. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE?
38. The passage is mainly about _____.
39. At the opening of the nineteenth-century, farmers in America _____.
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.
41. The bridge was named _____ the hero who gave his life for cause of the people.
42. My sole object was to get shelter _____ the snow, to get myself covered and warm.
43. Then the speaker _____ the various factors leading to the present economic crisis.
44. In the experiment we kept a watchful eye _____ the developments and recorded every detail.
45. What do you suppose _____ if the director knew you left that day.
46. _____ today, she would get there by Saturday.
47. Even if I had known her address, I _____ time to write to her.
48. My cat would not have bitten the toy fish _____ it was made of rubber.
49. _____ for your laziness, you could have finished the assignment by now.
50. How I wish I _____ a pilot at that moment!
51. He didn't go to the party, but he does wish he _____ there.
52. He wish he _____ with you tomorrow.
53. We desire that the tour leader _____ us immediately of any change in plans.
54. He suggested _____ to tomorrow's exhibition together.
55. It was essential that the application forms _____ back before the deadline.
56. It's necessary _____ the dictionary immediately.
57. It was proposed that the matter _____ discussed at the next meeting.
58. Look at the terrible situation I am in! If only I _____ your advice.
59. Pupils _____ will be promoted to the next grade.
60. Not long ago, a person _____ very well was involved in an accident.
61. The residents,_____ had been damaged by the flood, were given help by the Red Cross.
62. He spoke confidently,_____ impressed me most.
63. There are certain occasions _____ people who are in the middle of doing something.
64. Mr. Smith drove slowly on the way home until he reached the highway _____ the speed limit was 60 miles an hour.
65. He explained the reason _____ they behaved like that.
66. An investigation was made into the accident,_____ fifth people were killed.
67. Helen was much kinder to her younger child than she was to the others, _____, of course, made the others jealous.
68. She's a good dancer,_____ she sing much better.
69. I had barely left my room _____ it began to rain.
70. _____ I do my work, the boss doesn't mind what time I arrive at my office.
Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D) on the right side of the paper. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage.
Most young people enjoy some form of physical activity. It may be walking, bicycling, or swimming, or in winter, skating or skiing. It may be a game of some 71)_____ -- football, hockey, golf or tennis. It may be mountaineering. Those who have a passion for 72)_____ high and difficult mountains are often 73)_____ with astonishment. Why are men and women willing to 74)____ cold and hardship, and to take risks on high mountains? This astonishment is caused, 75)_____, by the difference between mountaineering and other forms of activity to 76)_____ men give their leisure. Mountaineering is a sport and 77)_____ a game. There are no man-made rules, 78)_____ there are for such games as golf and football. There, 79)_____, rules of a different kind which it would be dangerous to 80)_____, but it is this freedom from man-made rules that makes mountaineering 81)_____ to many people. Those who climb mountains are 82)_____ to use their own methods. If we compare mountaineering and other more 83)_____ sports, we might think that one big difference is that 84)_____ is not a "team game". We should be mistaken 85)_____ this. There are, it is true, no "matches" between "team" of climbers, but when climbers are on a rock face 86)_____ by a rope on which their lives may depend, there is 87)_____ teamwork. The mountain climber knows that he may 88)_____ fight forces that are stronger and more powerful than man. He has to fight the forces of 89)_____. His sport requires high mental and physical 90)_____.