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ISS1 Foundation English Monthly Test
(Period: 100 mins)
Part 1: Listening (1’*20) Part 2: Grammar and Vocabulary
Section 1: Fill in the gaps with verbs from the box in the past simple. (1’*13)
allow be be be invent increase lay mean own receive replace ride take walk The pace of change in the world of technology is amazing. It 1.
wasn’t (not) long ago that the postal service 2. ______ our
only way to communicate over any distance. It 3. _______ days and sometimes weeks to receive letters from within the same country. As a result, the news in the letters 4. ______ already out of date when people 5. ______ them. In the workplace, this 6. _____ that business was mostly conducted locally, over relatively short distances.
When Alexander Graham Bell 7. ______ the telephone in 1876 it 8. _____ the foundation for the communication systems we have today. The telephone 9. ______ two people to communicate instantly across a great distance. Eventually computers 10. ____ typewriters and dramatically 11. ____ the speed of our
daily work life. Nowadays the Internet is an essential part of every business.
However, it is not just communications that have changed. Only 50 years ago most people 12. ______ (not) a car. People 13. _____ to work or 14. _____ bicycles. Changes in travel as well as the increased speed of communications have led to the global business world that we have today.
Section 2: Fill in the gaps with amount, number, few, little, many, much. (1’*10)
How much sleep do we need
The 1. amount of sleep each person needs depends on 2. _____ factors, including age. Infants generally require about 16 hours a day. For most adults, seven to eight hours a night appears to be the ideal 3. ______ of sleep, although a 4. _____ people may need as 5. ______ as five hours’ sleep or as 6. ______ as ten hours’ sleep each day. Getting too 7. ______ sleep creates a sleep debt, and eventually, your body will demand that the debt be repaid.
A large 8. ______ of people over 65 have frequent sleeping problems, such as insomnia, and deep sleep stages in 9. ______ elderly people often become very short or stop completely. Microsleeps, or very brief episodes of sleep in an otherwise
awake person, are another mark of sleep deprivation. In 10. _____ cases, people are not aware that they are experiencing microsleeps. The widespread practice of burning the candle at both ends in western industrialized societies has created so 11. _____ sleep deprivation that what is really abnormal sleepiness is now almost the norm. Section 3: Vocabulary (1’*13)
1. 个人背景 (n.) _______
2. 童年 (n.) ________ 3. 学位 (n.)
_______
4. 比赛 (n.) _______ 5. 移民 (n.) ______ 6. 证书
(n.)________
7. 财产；所有物 (n.) _______
8. 宴会 (n.) ________
11. 标语(n.)
9. 报刊亭 (n.) _______ 10. 行人 (n.) _______
_______ 12. 观光 (v.) ______ 13. 乐园；乐土(n.) _________
Section 4: Translation (2’*2) 1. 你知道最近的中餐馆在哪里吗？
2. 你能告诉我CX525航班是什么时候达到香港的吗？ Part 3: Reading (1’*20) Section 1 Questions 1-5
Look at the information on the following page about the use of vehicles in the University grounds. In boxes 1-5 on your answer sheet write. TRUE FALSE
if the statement is true if the statement is false
NOT GIVEN if the information is not given in the passage
Example Answer The campus roads are not open to general members of the public. TRUE 1. University employees do not need to pay for their parking permits.
2. Parking in Halls of Residence is handled by the Wardens of the Halls.
3. Having a University permit does not allow staff to park at Halls.
4. Parking permits cost ￡20 a year.
5. Students living in Hall do not need permission to park in Hall car parks.
USE OF UNIVERSITY GROUNDS BY VEHICULAR TRAFFIC The University grounds are private. The University authorities only allow authorised members of the University, visitors and drivers of vehicles servicing the University to enter the grounds. Members of staff who have paid the requisite fee and display the appropriate permit may bring a vehicle into the grounds. A University permits does not entitle them to park in Hall car parks however, unless authorised by the Warden of the Hall concerned.
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