For each blank in the following passage, choose the most suitable word from the Word Bank provided. Each word can be used once only and there are FOUR extra words in the bank. Write the LETTER before the word you choose in the corresponding blank on the Answer Sheet. (Don’t write the word!)33623 037

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Word Bank

A. if       B. village    C. as       D. sight          E. down        F. like     G. must       H. on

I. joked  J. it      K. But  L. necessary       M. to             N. couldn’t        O. show336260 37

P. And    Q. about  R. or    S. anything       T. ambulance U. determined    V. didn’t

W. known         X. exceptional           济

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Almost exactly a year ago, in a small village in Northern India, Andrea Milliner was bitten on the leg by a dog. “It ___1___ have fancied your nice white flesh”, ___2___ the doctor ___3___ he dressed the wound. Andrea and her husband Nigel were ___4___ not to let ___5___ spoil their holiday, and thought no more ___6___ the dog, which had meanwhile quietly disappeared from the ___7___.200092

       “We didn’t realize there was ___8___ wrong with it”, says Nigel. “It was such a small, likeable dog that rabies ___9___ enter my mined.”48号

       ___10___, six weeks later, 23-year-old Andrea was dead. The dog had been rabid. No one had thought it ___11___ to give her anti-rabies treatment. When, back home in England, she began to ___12___ the classic symptoms – unable to drink, catching her breath – her own doctor put it ___13___ to hysteria. Even when she was loaded into an ___14___, hallucinating, recoiling in terror at the sight of water, she was directed ___15___ the nearest mental hospital.48号

       But ___16___ her symptoms received little attention in life, in death they achieved a publicity close to hysteria. Cases ___17___ Andrea are rare, but rabies is still one of the most feared diseases ___18___ to man. The disease is transmitted by a bite ___19___ a lick from an infected animal. It can, in very ___20___ circumstances, be inhaled – two scientists died of it after inhaling bat dung in a cave in Texas.

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In this section there are four texts followed by a total of 15 test items. Each item takes the form of either a question or an incomplete statement. Read the texts and then choose the option in each item that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write the LETTER before each option you choose in the corresponding blank on the Answer Sheet.共济网

Every animal is a living radiator – heat formed in its cells is given off through its skin. Warm-blooded animals maintain a steady temperature by constantly replacing lost surface heat; smaller animals, which have more skin for every once of body weight, must produce heat faster than bigger ones. Because smaller animals burn fuel faster, scientists say they live faster.济

       The speed at which an animal lives is determined by measuring the rate at which it uses oxygen. A chicken, for example, uses one-half cubic centimeter of oxygen every hour for each gram it weighs. The tiny shrew uses four cubic centimeters of oxygen every hour for each gram it weighs. Because it uses oxygen eight times as fast, it is said that the mouse-like shrew is living eight times as fast as the chicken. The smallest of the warm-blooded creatures, the hummingbird, lives a hundred times as fast as an elephant.辅导

       There is a limit to how small a warm-blooded animal can be. A mammal or bird that weighed only two and a half grams would starve to death. It would burn up its food too rapidly and would not be able to eat fast enough to supply more fuel.

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21. Every animal is a living radiator because it

A.     produces heat in its body cells.

B.     burns fuel to produce heat.

C.     sends out heat during the day.

D.     requires oxygen to produce heat.

 

22. The amount of oxygen an animal uses depends on

A.     how much it weighs.

B.     what food it eats.

C.     what it is like.

D.     how long it lives.

 

23. What is implied but not stated in the passage?

A.     There is no limit as to how large a warm-blooded animal can be.

B.     The hummingbird lives faster than any other warm-blooded creature.

C.     Small animals have less skin for their body weight than large ones.

D.     The hummingbird is the smallest of the warm-blooded animals.

 

“Had a good flight?” the Chief asked.

“A bit bumpy over the Azores,” Hawthorne said. On this occasion he had not had time to change from his pale grey tropical suit; the summons had come to him urgently in Kingston and a car had met him at London Airport. He sat as close to the steam radiator as he could, but sometimes he couldn’t help a shiver.

       “What’s that odd flower you’re wearing?”

       Hawthorne had quite forgotten it. He put his hand up to his lapel.

“It looks as though it had once been an orchid,” the Chief said with disapproval.

“Pan American gave it us with our dinner last night,” Hawthorne explained. He took out the limp mauve rag and put it in the ash-tray. “With your dinner” What an odd thing to do, the Chief said, “It can hardly have improved the meal. Personally I detest orchids. Decadent things. There was someone, wasn’t there, who wore green ones?”

“I only put it in my button-hole so as to clear the dinner-tray. There was so little room, what with the hot-cakes and champagne and the sweet salad and the tomato soup and the chicken Maryland and ice-cream…”

“What a terrible mixture. You should travel BOAC”.

“You didn’t give me enough time, sir, to get a booking.”

“Well, the matter is rather urgent. You know our man in Havana has been turning out some pretty disquieting stuff lately.”

“He’s a good man,” Hawthorne said.

“I don’t deny it. I wish we had more like him. What I can’t understand is how the Americans have not tumbled to anything there.”

“Have you asked them, sir?”

“Of course not. I don’t trust their discretion.”

“Perhaps they don’t trust ours.”

 

24. It seems that Hawthorne

A.     has had a fairly comfortable voyage.

B.     found his seat uncomfortable while over the sea.

C.     had run into turbulence above the Azores.

D.     was blown slightly off course while over the sea.

 

25. The limp mauve rag is

A.     Hawthorne’s handkerchief.

B.     the menu from the airline dinner.

C.     an orchid

D.     an empty cigarette packet.

 

26. The Chief recommends that Hawthorne travel by BOAC because

A.     the food is badly cooked on Pan American planes.

B.     the menu Hawthorne describes is not well-chosen.

C.     orchids do not improve the taste of a meal.

D.     BOAC planes fly more smoothly.

 

Not long ago, it seemed that there would come a day quite soon when science would reveal that every food would be toxic and every practice lethal. Or, at any rate, that is how things appear to many ordinary people.

       The supposition was based on half-digested and partially understood scientific reports. As a code of belief it still has its disciples – only the other day I found myself sitting at dinner between women who, to hear them talk, seemed to imagine that every article in the supermarket was deadly. But I am pleased to report that, at long last, I detect the first signs that my fellow citizens are beginning to emerge from the gloomy depression in which it has been fashionable to hide for the past 20 years or so.

       There are now a handful of daring souls who are prepared once again to eat the odd spoonful of strawberry jam and take the consequences. They have noticed, perhaps, that for all the talk about refined sugar the strawberry jam mortality rate is somewhat lower than they had previously been led to expect.

       The loss of nerve, from which the ordinary person seems to be recovering, was caused by several factors. First, he was told b y various professional watchdogs, public analysts and medical officers of health that it would be a good thing if he knew the contents of all the foods he bought. But when he saw the lists of ingredients dutifully printed on the sides of packets and bottles, he trembled and feared for his safety.

       The second thing which once frightened the timid but which, I do believe, is now frightening them less, was the remarkable scientific advance which, all unremarked by the general public and its legislators, has been revolutionizing analytical chemistry. What this galloping advance in analytical acuity means is that scientists can now isolate the tiniest amounts of harmful substances in foods which, hitherto, have always been considered safe, or in some cases beneficial.

       Now there are sophisticated tests which can detect poisons in the tiniest amount – not even enough to kill a mouse. Over the years the general public has been bombarded with half-correct newspaper reports of the increasing number of foods which detailed investigation has proved contain harmful substances in some degree. And so it came to pass that few foods could face the charge of toxicity with equanimity.

       Gradually, I do believe, a still small voice has come to be heard amid the hubbub – the voice of common sense. Surprisingly, it was first heard in the United States. Prolonged tests on mice had shown that saccharin was – even to a minuscule degree – carcinogenic. A few years ago, such a finding would have led to public turmoil and the exclusion of all saccharin from the American scene. This time, however, there was a pause for reflection. If even a huge intake of saccharin could only be expected to give you cancer 70 or 80 years hence, did it really matter? Or should one insist on the government protecting one from being poisoned, not merely during one’s lifetime, but after one’s death as well?

       Nitrosamines will undoubtedly poison you – if you take a poisonous dose. But when it was found recently that tiny traces can be detected in whisky, people kept their nerve and reckoned that, just as the minute amounts of gold found in seawater which every schoolboy knows do no one any good, so the picograms of nitrosamines did them no harm. I salute the dawn of common sense.

      

 

 

 

 

27. Not long ago people were under the impression that

A.     no food in the world was edible.

B.     half-digested food could be lethal.

C.     little was understood about poisons in our food.

D.     science would prove all foods to be unsuitable for humans.

 

28. The food phobia from which the ordinary person suffered was caused by

A.     an official insistence that people should be wary of what they were consuming.

B.     an awareness that all foods contain substantial amounts of harmful substances.

C.     an inability on the part of scientists to identify which substances were harmful and which were not.

D.     ignorance on the part of the general public and its legislators as to the real nature of toxic ingredients.

 

29. It is a scientific fact that

A.     safe foods can contain minute amounts of toxic substances.

B.     foods hitherto considered safe are in fact lethal.

C.     even the smallest amount of poison can kill an animal.

D.     the food we eat contain many toxic substances.

 

30. The author is optimistic that we are now beginning to realize that

A.     harmless substances, if taken in relatively small quantities, can be fatal.

B.     substances like saccharin should be excluded from our diets

C.     even schoolchildren can be the innocent victims of undetected poisoning.

D.     the quantities of poisonous substances found in food do not seriously endanger our health.

 

Many times George Orwell referred to the torments of his childhood. Most people writing about him have accepted that he had an unhappy childhood, and some have built upon it. The posthumously published account of his prep school days, “Such, Such Were the Joys”, is so unhappy and so horrific a picture of institutional despotism that some have seen it, rather than the political events in Europe of the 1930s and 1940s, as the origins of Nineteen Eighty-Four.

      Entry to all the careers, the Church, the Army, and the Civil Service, and of course the professions, depended on having had a “good education”, to the end of school at 18, though at that time not necessarily university. It was “school” that counted, and school was the private secondary institution from the ages of 13 or 14 to 18. To get boys into the “right school” was the business of preparatory schools. Under the competitive pressure of the children of the growing professional classes, the so-called public schools had in the last decades of the nineteenth century raised their entrance standards appreciably, as if to bring status and achievement somewhat more into alignment. Even the sons of the landed aristocracy now commonly had to go through a prep school. So these preparatory schools were recent foundations; and even though they aped the ways of the more ancient foundations which they sought to supply, they were frankly utilitarian in character. They tried to be useful and their recruitment of fee-paying boys depended on their success (“reputation” was the customary word) in getting their little charges into “good schools”.

      George was taken on by St Cyprian’s, one of the newest but most successful preparatory schools. His mother must have made the application in the spring of 1911, interviewing and being interviewed by the headmaster and owner of the school, Mr Vaughan Wilkes, and the real power behind the throne, Mrs Wilkes.

      The school was only twelve years old and already had a reputation for getting scholarships and places at Harrow or other leading publish schools. The fee of £180 a year were high, yet with only about a hundred boys in the school, spread over four or five years, with ten teaching staff as well as a matron, a drill sergeant and the Wilkes themselves, both of whom taught, value for money was plainly given in terms of very small classes and intensive teaching. However mechanical the teaching, and it was very mechanical, small numbers made up for a lot.

       His real prep school days, though he disliked the experience and detested such a broiler-house of a school, may have been less terrible and have had less lasting effect on his character than long afterwards he made out. The English upper classes tend to exaggerate the effect of their school-days, whether for better or for worse. And they did not fill his whole life. The experience was of an autocratic, not of a total, institution. This distinction became very important to the mature man. Letters home, for instance were important, and if necessary the censorship could be avoided simply by posting a letter in town.

 

31. Most writers on Orwell believe

A.     he was a sad man.

B.     He was always unhappy as a boy.

C.     European history did not make him pessimistic.

D.     His prep school was the main cause of his problems.

 

32. The main function of the “public” schools was to

       A. provide an alternative to universities.

       B. provide follow-up education after prep school.

       C. preserve old traditions.

D.     give a good start in life.

 

33. A feature of the preparatory schools was that they

       A. were for the benefit of the aristocracy.

       B. were very difficult to get in.

       C. arose from practical need.

D. represented materialist values.

 

34. According to the text St Cyprian’s

A. was not a good school.

       B. provided effective teaching.

       C. had royal connections.

       D. was not worth what it charged.

 

35. What, as an adult, did Orwell feel about St Cyprian’s?

       A. It changed him permanently.

       B. He realized it was not all bad.

       C. The rules could be broken easily.

E.      It was better than other pre schools.

 

 

 

 

Read the following text carefully and make a summary of it in not more than 50   words. Write your summary on the Answer Sheet

 

Sailors, and fishermen in particular, have always been extremely superstitious. This is hardly surprising when one considers the changeable nature of the sea where, even today with sophisticated weather-forecasting techniques, a sudden storm can blow up quite unexpectedly. In the days before radio and engines, where there could be no long-distance communication with another ship or land, and when sails were the only means of movement, it was only natural for the sailor to take every precaution to avoid offending the gods who controlled the sea.

One way of pleasing these gods was to make an annual offering. This custom survives in the ceremony of blessing the sea, which can still been seen once a year in some fishing ports.

Next to pleasing the sea-gods, the most important thing for the sailor was to know that his boat was free from evil influences. The time to make sure of this was at the launching ceremony. It is clear that the well-known custom of launching a ship by breaking a bottle of champagne against the side goes back a very long way. The purpose of it is to keep away evil spirits rather than to ask for the sea-god’s protection.

Starting on a new voyage or fishing trip was a dangerous business at the best of times. Once the fishermen had set out for his ship, he dared not, on any account, look back. It was bad luck even to call after him, so if he had forgotten anything, someone had to run after him and put the object into his hands.

Bad luck could also result from some chance meeting on the way to the boats. In some countries it was considered particularly unlucky to meet a priest, a rabbit or a woman. In such an event, the only thing to do was to turn back and sail next day.

Some researchers are investigating the impact of testing on teaching. Please write an essay (about 300 words) commenting on the impact of College English Test (CET) on your own teaching, or on English teaching at university in general if your students do not take the test.

 

 

Match each of the terms in Column A with its corresponding definition in Column B. Circle the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet Four.

 

Judge whether the following statements are true or false. Write T (for true) or F (for false) on Answer Sheet Four, as appropriate.

11.   In the view of functionalists, there exists an arbitrary relationship between the sound of a morpheme and its meaning.

12.   All languages are the same when it comes to the selection of contrastive sounds.

13.   One can easily distinguish between open-class and closed-class words: the former referring to those whose memberships are fixed or limited, while the latter, to those whose memberships are in principle infinite or unlimited.

14.   The fact that in English a book is called a /buk/, and a pen, a /pen/ illustrates the arbitrary relationship between the sound of a morpheme and its meaning.

15.   All the phones in complementary distribution are considered to be allophones of the same phoneme.

16.   The criterion for classifying affixes is their position with reference to the root or stem of the word.

17.   All affixes are bound morphemes.

18.   A root is actually equivalent to a stem, because only a root can serve as a stem.

19.   An illocutionary act is the act performed in saying something; its force is identical with the speaker’s intention.

20.   Notional-functional syllabus is concerned with what the learner communicates through the language – not with what the grammatical structure is, or when or where he used the language.

 

Complete the following statements by filling in appropriate words or expressions, one word for one space. Write your answer on Answer Sheet Four.

(A) All cardinal vowels are (21)_______ and their quality (22)_______ (23)______ (24)_______ during their production.

(B) Two words in a language which differ from each other by only one distinctive sound and which also differ in meaning are called ________ (25)

(C) (26)_________ is the lexeme of the following set of words: teach, teaches, taught, teaching, taught.

(D) The fact that the English word chairman cannot be rearranged as *manchair illustrates the (27)__________ feature of words.

(E) Human language owes its creativity to its _______ (28) and to its _______ (29).

(F) English words such as since, when, seldom, through are called (30)__________ (31)_______ because they do not have inflective endings.

(G) Words which have meaning when used alone are referred to as (32)__________ (33)________, and those which have little meaning on their own, but which show grammatical relationships in and between sentences are referred to as (34)__________ (35)__________.

 

Point out the way in which each of the following words is recreated. Write your answer on Answer Sheet Four.

Example: Kodak              invention

(36) smog             ________

(37) plane             ________

(38) Aids              ________

(39) enthuse             ________

(40) beseeched                ________

Develop the following topic into a 200-300 word essay. Write your answer on Answer Sheet Four.

 

What is your understanding of the role of grammar in language learning?

 

1.______       2.______       3.______       4.______       5. ______

6.______       7.______       8.______       9.______       10. _____

11._____       12._____       13._____       14.______     15. _____

16.______       17.______       18.______       19.______     20. _____

 

 

21.______       22.______       23.______       24.______     25. _____

26.______       27.______       28.______       29.______     30. _____

31.______       32.______       33.______       34.______     35. _____

 

The following passage has fifteen indicated lines. Some of these lines contain errors and others do not. For those lines that contain errors, only ONE error exists in each line and only ONE word is involved. You should proof-read the passage and correct it in the following way:

 

For a wrong word:            underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the

                      blank provided at the end of the line.

 

For a missing word:            mark the position of the missing word with a “∧” sign

and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line.

 

For an unnecessary word:     cross the unnecessary word with a slash “/” and put the

word in the blank provided at the end of the line.

 

For a correct line:        make no corrections but put a “∨”in the blank provided at

the end of the line.

 

EXAMPLE

When ∧ art museum wants a new exhibit,               1) _____an____

it never buys things in finished form and hangs                 2) ___never____

them on the wall. When a natural history museum                3) _____√_____

wants an exhibition, it must often build it.            4) ___exhibit____

 

Millions of people all over the world have a difficulty in      1 __________

falling asleep and stay asleep. They turn to drugs – both            2 __________

over-the-counter drugs and prescription drugs because they        3 __________

believe that in order to be health we must have eight hours of        4 __________

sleep a night; or that if they sleep poorly over a period of time, 5 __________

we’ll get lines in our faces, bag under our eyes, a worn look,     6 __________

and worst of all, be able to perform our daily tasks efficiently.     7 __________

“Untrue,” says Dr. Schwarts, “ You may look awfully to             8 __________

yourself, but except for the first hour or so in the morning when     9 __________

you probably will puffy-eyed due to depletion of a certain          10 _________

hormone that is the result of lack sleep, you’ll soon look like        11 _________

your usual self or perform normally. If you did feel worn, the 12 __________

cause is stress, not lack of sleep. Also, there are no set number 13 __________

of hours you must sleep to maintain for good health. Some people       14 __________

get along beautifully on four hour, others sleep nine hours. Any-      15 __________

where within that range is normal.

 

Write not more than 50 words.

 

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