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西安交通大学英语水平考试Xian Jiaotong University English Proficiency Test for Non-English MajorsPart I Listening Comprehension （30%）Section A(10%)（请做在答题卡客观题部分1-10上）Directions: In this section you will hear 10 short conversations. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the question will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C), and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.1. A) Wife-Husband.B) Shop assistant-Customer.C) Waitress-Customer. D) Secretary-Boss.2. A) They were too large.B) They were too tight.C) They were too short.D) She didnt like the style.3. A) Try a new ribbon.B) Help her type the paper.C) Get another typewriter.D) Change the paper.4. A) The man shouldnt expect her to go along.B) She doesnt think she has enough money.C) Shell go even though the movie is bad. D) The man should count the number of people going. .5. A) In his office. B) In the waiting room.C) On an airplane. D) At home.6. A) 7:30.B) 8:00. C) 8:30. D) 7:00.7. A) Maria likes to talk on the phone with her friends. B) Maria doesnt like to talk on the phone with her friends.C) Marias friends dont call her very often. D) Maria doesnt have any friends.8. A) The man sits in the park in spring at weekend.B) The man does some odd jobs in winter at weekend.C) The man goes for long walks in autumn at weekend.D) The man likes to paint his house in summer at weekend. 9. A) They are talking about the quality. B) The man is showing his commodity to the woman.C) They are discussing the price. D) The woman is paying the man.10. A) She feels small parties are very impersonal.B) She feels big parties are very personal.C) She feels she had to pay much money to hold parties.D) She dislikes many people at home at the same time.Section B (10%)（请做在答题卡客观题部分11-20上）Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.Passage OneQuestions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.11. A) Experience and skill. B) A sense of responsibility.C) Some basic mechanical knowledge. D) Good eye-sight.12. A) Both drivers and pedestrians should be really careful. B) Facilities and laws should be established to indicate where pedestrians must cross the roads.C) All the drivers should have both skills and the right attitude.D) Drivers should drive more slowly and keep a good distance from other vehicles.13. A) Traffic accident. B) Qualifications of a good driver.C) Motorway madness phenomenon. D) Britain pedestrians.Passage TwoQuestions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.14. A) Under 18.B) Under 16.C) Over 19. D) Under 17.15. A) In a registry office. B) In a church.C) By a public announcement.D) Secretly with the company of two passers-by.16. A) Look carefully before one jumps.B) Think carefully before one makes any decision.C) Think carefully before they make the decision to get married.D) Take longer time to make up ones mind to divorce.Passage ThreeQuestions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.17. A) By bike. B) By bus. C) By car.D) On foot.18. A) She was running behind a dog. B) She was beating a dog.C) She was feeding a cat. D) She was looking for a cat.19. A) The small child. B) A car coming from front.C) A car coming from behind. D) A tree beside the road.20. A) Damage a car. B) Injure a young child.C) Neither. D) Both.Section C Compound Dictation (10%)（请做在答题卡主观题部分A1-A10上）Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time at normal speed, you should listen carefully for its general idea. Then listen to the passage again at slower speed. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from A1 to A7 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from A8 to A10 you are required to fill in the missing information. You can use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read again for the third time at normal speed, you should check what you have written. One night in April 1912, a huge new A1 liner, the Titanic, was A2 the Atlantic. She was just about the most A3 ship that had ever been built. She was going very fast, which was A4 because there were icebergs around and it was very dark that night. The passengers were all having a good time when the ship suddenly A5 one of the icebergs.The ship began to A6 and the passengers tried to A7 , but there were not enough lifeboats since nobody thought they would ever be necessary. Eight white rockets were fired into the air in order to get help. Another ship, the Californian, was passing nearby. An officer and another sailor on it saw the rockets. A8 and were just firing the rockets in fun. Anyway they did wake the captain. But the captain was too sleepy to understand and the Californian just went on sailing away, in another direction.When the Titanic finally went down, A9 . They were trying to keep the passengers calm. Two thirds of the passengers were drowned. A10 .Part II Reading Comprehension (40%)Directions: There are three passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. 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 the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.Section A (20%) （请做在答题卡客观题部分21-30上）Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage:About ten men in every hundred suffer from color blindness in some way; women are luckier，only about one in two hundred is affected in this manner. There are different forms of color blindness. A man may not be able to see deep red. He may think that red, orange and yellow are all shades of green. Sometimes a person cannot tell the difference between blue and green. In rare cases an unlucky man may see everything in shades of greena strange world indeed.In certain occupations color blindness can be dangerous and candidates are tested most carefully. For example, when fighting at night, soldiers use lights of flares to signal to each other. A green light may mean Advance and a red light may mean Danger! Keep back! You can see what will happen if somebody thinks that red is green! Color blindness in human beings is a strange thing to explain. In a single eye there are millions of very small things called cones, these help to see in a bright light and to tell the difference between colors. There are also millions of rods but these are used for seeing when it is nearly dark. They show us shape but not color. Wait until it is dark tonight, and then go outside. Look round you and try to see what colors you can recognize.Birds and animals which hunt at night have eyes which contain few or no cones at all, so they cannot see colors. As far as we know, bats and adult owls cannot see colors at all. What they can see are only light and dark shapes. Similarly cats and dogs cannot see colors as well as we can. Insects can see ultra-violet rays which are invisible to us, and some of them can even see X rays. The wings of a moth may seem grey and dull to us, but to insects they may appear beautiful, showing colors which we cannot see. Scientists know that there are other colors around us which insects can see but which we cannot see. Some insects have favorite colors. Mosquitoes like blue, but do not like yellow. A red light will not attract insects but a blue lamp will.21. Among people who suffer from color blindness, _.A) some may see everything in shades of greenB) few can tell the difference between blue and greenC) few may think that red, orange and yellow are all shades of greenD) very few may think that everything in the world is in green22. When millions of rods in our eyes are at work in darkness we can see_.A) colors onlyB) shapes and colorsC) shapes onlyD) darkness only23. According to the passage, bats and adult owls cannot see colors_.A) because they hunt at nightB) because they cannot see lightC) because they have no cones and rodsD) because they have no cones24. According to the passage, dogs and cats_.A) as well as human beings can not see some colorsB) have fewer cones than human beingsC) have less rods than human beingsD) can see colors as well as human beings25. Which of the following is not true about insects?A) Insects can see more colors than human beings.B) Insects can see ultra-violet rays which are invisible to men.C) All insects have their favorite colors.D) The world is more colorful to insects than to human beings.Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage:A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as rule, to have it retold in identically the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as sacred texts. It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce what, in the actual circumstances of the time and the individual child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better.A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or arousing his sadistic impulses. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often guilty of cruelty than those who had not. Aggressive, destructive, sadistic impulses every child has and, on the whole, their symbolic verbal discharge seems to be rather a safety valve than an incitement to overt action. As to fears, there are, I think, well-authenticated cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy stories. Often, however, this arises from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true, that giants, witches, two-headed dragons, magic carpets, etc., do not exist; and that, instead of indulging his fantasies in fairy tales, the child should be taught how to adapt to reality by studying history and mechanics. I find such people, I must confess, so unsympathetic and peculiar that I do not know how to argue with them. If their case were sound, the world should be full of madmen attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a broomstick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their enchanted girl friend.No fairy story ever claimed to be a description of the external world and no sane child had ever believed that it was.26. In the writers opinion, a fairy tale _.A) cannot be read to children without variation because they find no pleasure in itB) will be more effective if it is adapted by parentsC) must be made easy so that children can read it on their ownD) is no longer needed in developing childrens power of memory27. According to the passage, some people who are openly against fairy tales argue that _.A) fairy tales are harmful to children in that they show the primitive cruelty in childrenB) fairy tales are harmful to children unless they have been adapted by their parentC) fairy tales increase a tendency to sadism in childrenD) children who have read fairy stories pay little attention to the study of history and mechanics28. In the writers opinion to rid children of fears, fairy stories should be_.A) told only onceB) repeated many timesC) told in a realistic settingD) presented vividly29. In the writers opinion, fairy stories _.A) have a very bad effect on childrenB) have advantages in cultivating childrens imaginationC) help children to come to terms with fearsD) harm children greatly30. According to the passage, which of the following statements is not true about fairy stories?A) If children indulged his fantasies in fairy tales instead of being taught how to adapt to reality by studying history and mechanics the world should be full of madmen.B) Children can often be greatly terrified when the fairy story is heard for the first time.C) Fairy tales may beneficially direct childrens aggressive, destructive and sadistic impulses.D) Fairy tales are no more than stories about imaginary figures with magical powers which have nothing to do with external world.Section B Fast Reading (10%) （请做在答题卡客观题部分31-35上）Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage:Across the United States, scientists are mounting what may become the most innovative agricultural research drive since the 1920s, when hybrid corn was developed. Surprisingly, the new genetic revolution is not taking place in Americas fields. Instead, it is occurring in biology laboratories, for it involves the deliberate manipulation in test tubes of the genes of crop plants. This genetic engineering may prove the biggest boon to agriculture since plant breeding began.The new concepts grew out of the bioengineering of bacteria for the production of such things as human hormones and vaccines for viral diseases. Plant cells, however, are far more complex than bacteria, and it will probably take many years for todays encouraging laboratory results to have a major impact on the farm. In fact the payoff may not come until the next century.But although bio-technologists are still in the earliest phases of this new field of science, they are already actively exploring ways to redesign plants so they will use sunlight more efficiently, resist viruses and other pests, grow in hot or dry areas, in saline soils or in the presence of pesticides, and perhaps even make their own fertilizer out of nitrogen in the air. In addition, scientists have had early success in making wholly new plants that are unavailable by conventional plant breedinga potato-tomato combination, for example.The new technology holds the promise of virtually limitless horizons in food production. Only imagination sets the limits: frost-resistant wheat, tropical potatoes, saltwater rice, a plant producing a combination of a pea and a carrotall may be with us one day.31. Vaccines for viral diseases are often produced from _.A) plant cellsB) human hormonesC) crop plantsD) bacteria32. What will be one effect of the new biotechnology on plants?A) They will grow anywhere in the world.B) Some will be able to grow in salty soils.C) They will become poisonous to pests.D) Using nitrogen from the air they will be able to cross-fertilize.33. From the passage we understand that conventional plant breeding produced _.A) a potato-tomato hybridB) new plant technologyC) self-fertilizingD) less dramatic results than the new technology34. The word boon at the end of paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to _.A) successB) accomplishmentC) dreamD) benefit35. The overall effect of this passage is likely to make the reader feel _.A) enthusiastic about biotechnologyB) very worry about genetic engineeringC) reluctant to try new plant combinationsD) alarmed about limitless experimentSection C (10%) （请做在答题卡主观题部分B1-B10上）Directions: First read the following passage and then complete the summary of the passage with proper words（one word for each blank）. Write your answer on the Answer Sheet correspondingly.Not long ago I received an alumni bulletin from my college. It included a brief item about a former classmate: Kate L. teaches part-time at the University of Oklahoma and is assistant principal at County High School. In her spare time she is finishing her doctoral dissertation and the final drafts of two books, and she still has time for tennis and horse riding with her daughters. Four words in that description undid me: in her spare time. A friend said that if I believed everything in the report, she had a bridge in Brooklyn shed like to sell me. My friends joke hit home. What an idiot Id been! I resolved to stop thinking about Kates incredible accomplishments and to be suitably skeptical of such stories in the future.But like a dieter who devours a whole box of cookies in a moment of weakness, I found my resolve slipping occasionally. In weak moments Id comb the pages of newspapers and magazines and consume success stories by the pound. My favorite superwomen included a politicians daughter who cared for her two-year-old and a newborn while finishing law school and managing a company; a practicing pediatrician with ten children of her own; and a television anchorwoman, mother of two preschoolers, who was studyi