Part I Cloze Test
Directions
For each numbered blank in the following passage, there are four choices marked
[ A] , [ B]
[C] and [D]. Choose the best one and mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET 1 by blackening the
corresponding letter in the brackets. (10 points)
Vitamins are organic compounds necessary in small amounts in the diet for the normal growth and maintenance of life of animals, including man.
They do not provide energy, 1 do they construct or build any part of the body. They are needed for 2 foods into energy and body maintenance. There are thirteen or more of them, and if 3 is missing a deficiency disease becomes 4 .
Vitamins are similar because they are made of the same elements
— usually carbon, hydrogen,
oxygen, and 5 nitrogen. They are different 6 their elements are arranged differently, and each vitamin 7 one or more specific functions in the body.
8 enough vitamins is essential to life, although the body has no nutritional use for 9
vitamins. Manypeople, 10 , believe in being on the “ safe side ” and thus take extra vitamins. However, a well balanced diet will usually meet all the body
's vitamin needs.
[C] nor
1. [A] either 2. :A] shifting 3. :A] any 4. :A] serious 5. :A] mostly 6. :A] in that 7. :A] undertakes 8. :A] Supplying 10
[B] so [D] never [D] transforming
[B] transferring [B] some
[C] altering [C] anything
[ D] somethin
[B] apparent [B] so that
[C] severe [C] sometimes [C] such that [C] plays [C] Providing
[C] excess
[D] fatal
[D] rarely
[B] partially
[D] except that
[D] Furnishing
[B] holds
[D] performs
[B] Getting
9. :A] exceptional [B] exceeding
:A] nevertheless
[D] external
[B] therefore
Part n Reading
[C] moreover
[D] meanwhile
Directions:
Each of the passages below is followed by some questions. For each questions there are four answers marked
[ A] , [ B] , [ C] and [ D] . Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer
to each of the questions. Then mark your answer on ANSWERHEET1 by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets with a pencil. (40 points)
Passage 1
Tight lipped elders used to say, “It 's not what you want in this world, but what you get. ” Psychology teaches that you do get what you want if you know what you want and want the right things.
You can make a mental blueprint of a desire as you would make a blueprint of a house, and each of us is continually making these blueprints in the general routine of everyday living. If
we intend to have friends to dinner, we plan the menu, make a shopping list, decide which food to cook first, and such planning is an essential for any type of meal to be served.
Likewise, if you want to find a job, take a sheet of paper, and write a brief account of yourself. In making a blueprint for a job, begin with yourself, for when you know exactly what you have to offer, you can intelligently plan where to sell your services.
This account of yourself is actually a sketch of your working life and should include education, experience and references. Such an account is valuable. It can be referred to in filling out standard application blanks and is extremely helpful in personal interviews. While talking to you, your could be employer is deciding whether your education, your experience, and other qualification s will pay him to employ you and your and abilities must be displayed in
an orderly and reasonably connected manner.
Whenyou have carefully prepared a blueprint of your abilities and desires, you have something tangible to sell. Then you are ready to hunt for a job. Get all the possible information about your could be job. Make inquiries as to the details regarding the job and the firm. Keep your eyes and ears open, and use your own judgment. Spend a certain amount of time each day seeking the employment you wish for, and keep in mind: Securing a job is your job now.
11. What do the elders mean when they say, you get. ”
“wares”
“It 's not what you want in this world, but what
[A Yoi/ ll certainly get what you want. [B] It 's no use dreaming.
[C] You should be dissatisfied with what you have. [D] It 's essential to set a goal for yourself.
12. as
A blueprint made before inviting a friend to dinner is used in this passage
.
[A] an illustration of how to write an application for a job
[B] an indication of how to secure a good job [C] a guideline for job description [D] a principle for job evaluation
13. According to the passage, one must write an account of himself before starting to find a job because ____________________ .
[A] that is the first step to please the employer [B] that is the requirement of the employer [C] it enables him to know when to sell his services [D] it forces him to become clearly aware of himself
14. When you have carefully prepared a blueprint of your abilities and desires, you have somethi ng _________________ .
[A]
definite to offer
[ B] imaginary to provide [ D] desirable to present
Passage 2
[C] practical to supply
With the start of BBC World Service Television, millions of viewers in Asia and America can now watch the Corporation 's news coverage, as we ll as listen to it.
And of course in Britain listeners and viewers can tune in to two BBC television channels,
five BBCnational radio services and dozens of local radio stations. They are brought sport, comedy, drama, music, news and current affairs, education, religion, parliamentary coverage, children s programmes and films for an annual licence fee of
It is a remarkable record, stretching back over 70 years doubt. The Corporation will survive as a publicly
￡ 83 per household.
'
— yet the BBC 's future is now in
funded broadcasting organization, at least
for the time being, but its role, its size and its programmes are now the subject of a nation wide debate in Britain.
The debate was launched by the Government, which invited anyone with an opinion of the BBC
—including ordinary listeners and viewers — to say what was good or bad about the Corporation, and even
whether they thought it was worth keeping. The reason for its inquiry is that the BBC s royal charter runs out in 1996 and it must decide whether to keep the organization as it is, or to make changes.
Defenders of the Corporation — of whom there are many — are fond of quoting the American slogan “If it ain
't broke, don 't fix it. ” The BBC “ain 't broke ” , they say, by which they
'broke', meaning having no money), so why
mean it is not broken (as d istinct from the word bother to change it
Yet the BBC will have to change, because the broadcasting world around it is changing. The commercial TV channels ------------------- ITV and Channel 4 ------- were required by the Thatcher Gov
ernment's
Broadcasting Act to becomemore commercial, competing with each other for advertisers, and cutting costs and jobs. But it is the arrival of new satellite channels
— funded partly by advertising
and partly by viewers 'subscriptions —— which will bring about the biggest changes in the long term.
15. The world famous BBC now faces
[A] the problem of news coverage [C] inquiries by the general public
.
[ B] an uncertain prospect [ D] shrinkage of audience
16. In the passage, which of the following about the BBC is not mentioned as the key issue
[A] Extension of its TV service to Far East.
[B] Programmes as the subject of a nation-wide debate. [C] Potentials for further international co-operations. [D] Its existence as a broadcasting organization.
17. The BBC's “royal charter ” (Line 4, Paragraph 4) stands for
[A] the financial support from the royal family. [B] the privileges granted by the Queen. [C] a contract with the Queen.
[D] a unique relationship with the royal family.
___________________ .
18. The foremost reason why the BBChas to readjust itself is no other than ___________________________ .
[A] the emergence of commercial TV channels.
[B] the enforcement of Broadcasting Act by the government. [C] the urgent necessity to reduce costs and jobs. [D] the challenge of new satellite channels.
Passage 3
In the last half of the nineteenth century
acapital ” and “labour ” were enlarging and
perfecting their rival organizations on modern lines. Many an old firm was replaced by a limited liability company with a bureaucracy of salaried managers. The change met the technical requirements of the new age by engaging a large professional element and prevented the decline in efficiency that so commonly spoiled the fortunes of family firms in the second and third generation after the energetic founders. It was moreover a step away from individual initiative, towards collectivism and municipal and state-owned business. The railway companies, though still private business managed for the benefit of shareholders, were very unlike old family business.
At the same time the great municipalities went into business to supply lighting, trams and other services to
the taxpayers.
The growth of the limited liability
company and municipal business had important consequences.
Such large, impersonal manipulation of capital and industry greatly increased the numbers and importance of shareholders as a class, an element in national life representing irresponsible wealth detached from the land and the duties of the landowners; and almost equally detached from the responsible managementof business. All through the nineteenth century, America, Africa, India, Australia and parts of Europe were being developed by British capital, and British shareholders were thus enriched by the world 's movement towards industriali zation. Towns like Bournemouth and Eastbourne sprang up to house large acomfortable ” classes who had retired on their incomes, and who had no relation to the rest of the community except that of drawing dividends and occasionally attending a shareholders 'meeting to dictate their orders to the management. On the other hand “shareholding ” meant leisure and freedom which was used by many of the later Victorians for the highest purpose of a great civilization.
The “shareholders ” as such had no knowledge of the lives, thoughts or needs of the workmen employed by the company in which he held shares, and his influence on the relations of capital and labor was not good. The paid manager acting for the company was in more direct relation with the men and their demands, but even he had seldom that familiar personal knowledge of the workmen which the employer had often had under the more patriarchal system of the old family business now passing away. Indeed the mere size of operations and the numbers of workmen involved
rendered
such personal relations impossible. Fortunately, however, the increasing power and organization of the trade unions, at least in all skilled trades, enabled the workmen to meet on equal terms the managers of the companies who employed them. The cruel discipline of the strike and lockout taught the two parties to respect each negotiation.
19. It 's true of the old family firms that
__________________ .
other 's strength and understand the value of fair
[A] they were spoiled by the younger generations [B] they failed for lack of individual initiative
[C] they lacked efficiency compared with modern companies [D] they could supply adequate services to the taxpayers
20. The growth of limited liability companies resulted in
__________________ .
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