Part I. Writing (10 points) Directions: For this part, you are allowed to write a composition based on the following
requirements, entitled My study and Life at College. You should write 100-120 words. Write down your composition on Answer Sheet 2. 1. My biggest gain in the first half semester. 2. My greatest difficulty at present.
My Study and Life at College
Part II. Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
(1 point each, 10 points)
Directions:? In this part, you have to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions.
Then mark the corresponding letter (A—Y; B—N; C—NG) on Answer Sheet 1 Y(for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage. N (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage. NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage.
Broken Wing
Maybe you’ve heard the saying, “A bird with a broken wing will never fly as high.” I am sure that Ware was made to feel this way almost every day in school.
By high school, Ware was the most celebrated troublemaker in his town. He wasn’t very talkative, didn’t answer questions and got into lots of fights. He had failed in almost every class. I met Ware for the first time at a weekend training program, which was designed to have students become more involved in their communities. Ware was one of 405 students who signed up for the program. When I showed up to lead them, the communities leaders gave me this overview(概况) of the attending students: “We have different kinds of students today, from the student body president to T. J. Ware, the boy with the longest arrest record in the history of town.” Somehow, I knew that I wasn’t the first to hear about Ware’s dark side as the first words of introduction.
At the start of the program, Ware was literally standing outside the circle of students, against the back wall. He didn’t readily join the discussion groups and seemed to have little to say. But slowly, the interactive（互动式的） games drew him in. The ice really melted when the groups started building a list of positive and negative things that had occurred at school that year. Ware had some definite thoughts on those situations. The other students in Ware’s group welcomed his comments. All of a sudden Ware felt like a part of the group, and before long he was being treated like a leader. He was saying things that made a lot of sense, and everyone was listening. Ware was a smart guy and had some great ideas. The next day, Ware was very active in all the sessions. By the end of the program, he had joined the Homeless Project team. He knew something about poverty, hunger and hopelessness. Impressed with his passionate(热情的)concern and ideas, the other students on the team elected Ware chairman of the team.
Two weeks later, Ware led the team to collect food for needy families. In just two hours they collected 2,854 cans of food, which could support the poor family in the area for 75 days. The local newspaper covered the event with a full-page article the next day. That newspaper story and Ware’s picture were posted on the main bulletin board at school. Every day he was reminded about what he did. He was being acknowledged as leadership material. Then Ware started showing up at school every day and answered questions from teachers for the first time.
Ware’s story reminds us that a bird with a broken wing only needs mending. But once it has
healed(痊愈), it can fly higher than the rest.
( ) 1. By high school, T. J. Ware wasn’t very talkative, didn’t answer questions and got into lots of fights.
( ) 2. T. J. Ware was one of 408 students who signed up for the program.
( ) 3.The author was the first to hear about Ware’s dark side as the first words of introduction.
( ) 4. At the beginning of the training program, T. J. Ware was reluctant to join the students in their activities.
( ) 5. Through the program, T. J. Ware demonstrated potential as a leader. ( ) 6. It was getting warmer when the students carried out their program.
( ) 7. T. J. Ware had joined the Homeless Project team by the end of the program. ( ) 8. T. J. Ware was always devoted to aiding those in need.
( ) 9. Encouragement from the teacher helped T. J. Ware to reform himself. ( ) 10. The weekend training program lasted for two weeks.
Part III. Listening Comprehension (20 points)
Section A (0.5 point each, 5 points) Directions: In this section, you’ll hear ten short conversations. After each conversation, a question
will be asked about what was said. The conversations and questions will be read only once. Listen carefully and choose the best answer to each question. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the center. 11. A. What do you do? B. Fine thanks. C. I’ m a college student. D. I do well in my studies. 12. A. She is very kind. B. She is very well. C. She is still very young. D. She is doing her homework now. 13. A. By taking a course. B. Very well. C. In the library. D. In the morning. 14. A. She looks very well. B. She likes parties a lot. C. She likes her father. D. She is like a model, tall and pretty. 15. A. I bought it at a sale. B. It’s very nice. C. It’s my sister’s. D. My sister likes it. 16. A. At 9:00 B. At 9:15. C. At 9:30. D. At 9:50. 17. A. 5 dollars. B. 10 dollars. C. 20 dollars. D. 15 dollars. 18. A. One. B. Two C: Three D. Four 19. A. It’s beside a hotel. B. It’s beside a busy road. C. It’s next to a hotel. D. It’s opposite a hotel on a busy road. 20. A. He often teaches English in his free time. B. He’s an English teacher. C. He often teaches English for nothing. D. He gives three English lessons each week.
Section B (1 points each, 10 points) Directions: In this section you will hear two long conversations and a passage. The
conversations and passage will be read only once. Listen carefully and choose the best answer to
each question. Mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the center.
Conversation One
21. A. The differences between languages.
B. The importance of foreign language learning. C. What languages they speak.
D. The major difficulties in foreign language learning.
22. A. Both Mrs. Brown and Mr. Green are foreign language teachers. B. Both Mrs. Brown and Mr. Green speak several languages.
C. Neither Mrs. Brown nor Mr. Green is a native speaker of English. D. Neither Mrs. Brown nor Mr. Green speaks Japanese. 23. A. Mr. Brown speaks Japanese better than Mrs. Brown.
B. Spelling is the most difficult part in foreign language learning. C. French is often spoken by English-speaking people.
D. Mr. Green often makes business trips to the Middle East.
Conversation Two
24. A. In the morning. B. In the afternoon. C. In the evening. D. At night. 25. A. The mother. B. The father. C Keith.
D. Everybody shares. 26. A. Happy. B. Sad. C. Angry D. Surprised.
Passage
27. A. He is a bus driver. B. He is a repairman. C. He is an engineer. D. He is a mechanic.
28. A. He came back home very late and very angry. B. He came back home very early and very angry. C. He came back home very early and very happy. D. He came back home very late and very happy. 29. A. He takes a bus.
B. He walks to his factory but takes a bus to get home after work. C. He always walks.
D. He takes a bus to get to his factory and walks home after work. 30. A. Bill prefers walking to taking a bus. B. Bill tries to save money when he can. C. Bill thinks of nothing but monkey.
D. Bill has saved a lot of money.
Section C (0.5 point each, 5 points) Directions: In this section you will hear a passage three times. You are required to fill in the
blanks. Then write down your answers on Answer Sheet 2.
Our words –spoken or written—can become deeds of kindness that build hope, ease pains even change lives. Here is a story of how kind words helped an old lady on her life __31___.
When Mrs. Law learned that her 25-year-old daughter, Julia, was killed in a car accident, she was ___32____. Following the ___33____, Mrs. Law went to her daughter‘s office to clean out her desk. ____34____, several of Julia’s fellow workers came by to express their sympathy. All ___35____ ended with, “If there is anything I can do…..” Mrs. Law responded by asking them to write down their __36_____ about her daughter and mail them to her. “I told them that receiving their notes would ___37____ me with a glimpse of Julia’s life that I didn’t know about.”
Over the next few weeks, Mrs. Law received ___38____ of letters from Julia’s fellow workers. “When I begin to feel blue, I read those letters ___39____ and am comforted,” Mrs. Law says. “There are no words to express how much those letters have ___40____ to me.”
Part IV. Reading Comprehension (reading in depth) (30 points) Section A (1 point each, 10 points) Directions:?In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one
word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please write down the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
Do not treat all new words in exactly the same way. Have you ever complained___41___ your memory because you find it simply __42_____to memorize all the new words you are learning? But in fact, it is not your___43___that is at fault. If you cram your head with too many new words at a time, some of them are ___44____ to be crowded out. What you need to do is to deal with new words in different ways according to ___45___frequently they occur in every use. ___46____ active words demand ___47___practice and useful words must be ___48____to memory, words that do not often occur in everyday situations require just a nodding acquaintance. You will find concentrating ___49___ active and useful words the most ___50___route to enlarging your vocabulary. A: on D: While G: in J: committed M: constant
B: bound E: impossible H: how K: about N: at C: effective F: memory I: when L: from O: active Section B (2 points each, 20 points) Directions:?There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions.
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 Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the center.
Passage One
When Berenice Belizaire arrived in New York from Haiti with her mother and sister in 1987, she wasn’t very happy. She spoke no English. The family had to live in a small and crowded Brooklyn apartment, a far cry from the comfortable house they’d had in Haiti. Her mother, a nurse, worked long hours. School was torture(折磨). Berenice had always been a good student, but now she was learning a new language while enduring constant taunts(嘲笑)from the
Americans. They cursed(咒骂)her in the cafeteria and threw food at her. Someone hit her sister in the head with a book. “Why can’t we go home?” Berenice asked her mother.
Because home was dangerous. The schools weren’t always open anymore, and education---her mother insisted---was the most important thing. Her mother had always pushed her: memorize everything, she ordered. “I have a pretty good memory,” Berenice admitted last week. Indeed, the other kids at school began to notice that Berenice always, somehow, knew the answers.” They started coming to me for help,” she says. “They never called me a nerd(书呆子).”
Within two years Berenice was speaking English, though not well enough to get into one of New York’s elite(精英)public high school. She had to settle for a neighborhood school, James Madison, a school with a history of unlikely success stories. “I didn’t realize what we had in Berenice at first,” says math teacher Judith Khan. “She was good at math, but she was quiet. And the things she didn’t know. She applied for a summer program in Buffalo and asked me how to get there on the subway. But she always seemed to ask the right questions. She understood the big ideas. She could think on her feet. She could explain difficult problems so the other kids could understand them. Eventually I realized she wasn’t just pushing for grades, she was hungry for knowledge… And you know it never occurred to me that she also was doing well in English and history, all these subjects that had to be much tougher for her than math.”
51. Berenice and her family came to the United States so that_________________________. A. She could get a good education B. They could live a comfortable life C. They could learn to speak perfect English
D. she would enjoy school together with her sister
52. How did the American students treat Berenice and her sister when they first came to New York?
A. They tried to help them.
B. They looked down upon them. C. They tried to make friends with them. D. They kept a distance from them.
53. How was it that the American children never called Berenice a nerd? A. They came to know she had a pretty good memory. B. She spoke English as if she were a native American, C. She could help them with their schoolwork. D.They knew she had always been a good student. 54. Why didn’t Berenice get into an elite public school? A. Her family couldn’t afford the cost. B. Her English wasn’t good enough. C. It was too far away from where her family lived.
D.The neighborhood school she went to had a history of unlikely success stories.
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