Placement Test (2007)
I. Listening Comprehension 听力理解
听力分两部分，共20题，每题1分，共20分。
Part A 第一部分：本部分为十组对话，每组对话后有一个问题。对话读两遍。问题读一遍，每听完一个问题后，从答题纸上的A）、B）、C）、D）四个选择中选出最合适的答案，并涂黑。 Part A
1. A) At a travel agency. C) In a restaurant. 2. A) One dollar. C) Three dollars. 3. A) Last May. C) Last July.
B) At a bank. D) In a hotel B) Two dollars. D) Five dollars. B) Last June. D) Last August.
4. A) The woman intends to work out of doors. B) The woman’s clothes are warm enough. C) The air quality is rather poor outside. D) The temperature outside is quite low. 5. A) He plans to apply for a scholarship. B) He plans to make a special TV program. C) He will study at Oxford next year. D) He will go to Britain this year.
6. A) He actually has little interest in classical music.
B) He only enjoys certain kinds of classical music.
C) He prefers to collect classical music rather than listen to it. D) He likes others kinds of music apart from classical music. 7. A) He wants to rent his apartment out. B) He wants to read the ads in the paper.
C) He wants to reserve a room before departure. . D) He wants to ask about the cost of studying abroad. 8. A) The woman and James. C) James and Bill.
B) The woman and Bill.
D) The woman, James and Bill. B) He liked the lecture very much.
D) He wished the lecture had been shorter. B) He has to learn it all over again.
D) He studied French while in college.
9. A) He found the lecture very dull. C) He only enjoyed part of it.
10. A) He will take a French course.
C) He can’t speak it as well as before.
第二部分：本部分为短文听力测试，共三篇。每篇读两遍，问题读一遍。听完后，请回答问题，从答题纸上的A）、B）、C）、D）四个选项中选出最合适的答案，并涂黑。 Part B Passage One
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard. 11. A) It is a place in the center of the car park.. B) It is an area marked with white lines. C) It is a garage specially built for her.
D) It is in a corner with a fence round it. 12. A) Ask the young man to move his car away.
B) Insist that the young man leave the college at once. C) Park her car beside the young man’s car and go to bed. D) Punish the girl for dating the young man so late at night.
13. A) Because she found herself caught in the middle of an appointment. B) Because she didn’t recognize Miss Baker in the darkness.
C) Because she didn’t know they had been in Miss Baker’s parking area. D) Because she thought Miss Baker wanted to sit next to her boyfriend.
Passage Two
Questions 14 to 17 are based on passage you have just heard. 14. A) People in ancient Egypt.
B) People in ancient Rome.
D) People in the 19th century.
C) People in the Middle Ages.
15. A) They cost too much money and labor. B) They made the Romans overly fond of luxury. C) They forbade early Christians to bathe in them. D They resulted in the spread of diseases. 16. A) They went to public baths or swimming pools. B) They took regular baths in private bathrooms. C) They put a lot of roses into their bath water.
D) They wrote make-up to cover their dirty bodies. 17. A) River bath.
B) Mud bath. D) Shower
C) Powder bath.
Passage Three
Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard. 18. A) South Asia. C) East Asia.
B) Southeast Asia.
D）North Asia.
19. A) Because government policies encourage childbirth. B) Because their religion discourages birth control.
C) Because economic development stimulates population growth. D) Because the education level of the Arab people remains low. 20. A) More than forty percent. C) Less than one percent.
B) More than three percent.
D) Nearly half of a percent.
II． Reading Comprehension 阅读理解
本部分共4篇文章，20个问题，每题2分，共40分。
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“Good morning”, the easiest of daily greetings, is now out of style.
According to most manner experts, “good morning” is vanishing from our speech and taking good manners along with it.
Nowadays people are most likely to greet each other in the morning with a “Hi”, “Hey,” “ What’s up?” or “ How’s it going?” Certainly no one waits for answers to these
greetings.
The loss of “Good morning” is the most visible example of the general decline in how we address each other. “How people talk to each other has declined,” said manner authority Letitia Baldrige. “We need to be warmer to each other.” Baldrige said she mourns the loss of “Good morning.”
“It’s the nicest, cheeriest, brightest thing to say. It makes people feel good,” she said. “You are almost forced to smile with it. When you say ‘good morning’, your face is inclined to light up.”
Manner expert Judith Ri said there are a number of factors contributing to the loss of this greeting: a workplace that doesn’t encourage social interaction, neighborhoods that have abandoned community togetherness, and a home environment where parents are lazy in encouraging manners and where TV and computer games win out over gathering for the family dinner.
“We are simply not as formal as we used to be,” said Judith Ri with a sigh.
根据上面文章内容，从每题下面四个选项中选出一个最合适的答案，并在答题纸上将所选的编号字母涂黑。
21．When we see something is “out of style”, we mean _______D____. A) it is dull and boring
B) it is easy and informal
C) it is not in very good taste D) it is no longer in much use
22. When you greet people with a “How’s it going?” in the morning, ____C______. A) you wait for a definite answer such as “Everything is OK” B) they will stop and tell you how they are getting along
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