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21SFLEP College English (New Edition) Achievement Test (Band 4)College English Test (New Ed.) (Band 4)BPart I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay entitled To get along with your roommates. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given below in Chinese.1. 室友之间的冲突在校园里时常发生。2. 冲突的主要原因。3. 室友之间如何和睦相处。To get along with your roommates_Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)Directions:In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1.For questions 1-7, markY (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.For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.The port provides a fascinating and rich understanding of the movement of people and goods around the world. We understand a port as a center of land-sea exchange, and as a major source of livelihood and a major force for cultural mixing. But do ports all produce a range of common urban characteristics which justify classifying port cities together under a single generic label? Do they have enough in common to warrant distinguishing them from other kinds of cities? A port must be distinguished from a harbor. They are two very different things. Most ports have poor harbors, and many fine harbor see few ships. Harbors is a physical concept, a shelter for ships; port is an economic concept, a center of land-sea exchange which requires good access to hinterland(内地) even more than a sea-linked foreland前陆(与内地相对而言). It is landward access, which is productive of goods for export and which demands imports, that is critical. Poor harbors can be improved with breakwaters(防浪堤), and dredging(挖泥)if there is a demand for port. Madras and Colombo are examples of harbors expensively improved by enlarging, dredging and building breakwaters. Port cities become industrial, financial and service centers and political capitals because of their water connections and the urban concentration which arises there and later draws to its railways, highways and air routes. Water transport means cheap access, the chief basis of all port cities. Many of the worlds biggest cities, for example, London, New York, Shanghai, Istanbul, Buenos Aires, Tokyo, Jakarta, Calcutta, Philadelphia and San Francisco began as ports that is, with land-sea exchange as their major function but they have since grown disproportionately in other respects so that their port functions are no longer dominant. They remain different kinds of places from non-port cities and their port functions account for that difference. Port functions, more than anything else, make a city cosmopolitan. A port city is open to the world. In it races, cultures, and ideas, as well as goods from a variety of places, mix and enrich each other and the life of the city. The smell of the sea and the harbor, the sound of the boat whistles or the moving tides are symbols of their multiple links with a wide world samples of which are present in microcosm(微观世界) within their own urban areas. Sea ports have been transformed by the advent of powered vessels, whose size and draught have increased. Many formerly important ports have become economically and physically less accessible as a result. By passed by most of their former enriching flow of exchange, they have become cultural and economic backwaters or have acquired the character of museums of the past. Much domestic port trade has not been recorded. What evidence we have suggests that domestic trade was greater at all periods than external trade. Shanghai, for example, did most of its trade with other Chinese ports and inland cities. Calcutta traded mainly with other parts of India and so on. Most of any citys population is engaged in providing goods and services for the city itself. Trade outside the city is its basic function. But each basic worker requires food, housing, clothing and other services. Estimates of the ratio of basic workers to service ones range from 1:4 to 1:8. No city can be simply a port but must be involved in a variety of other activities. The port function of the city draws to it raw materials and distributes them in many other forms. Ports take advantage of the need for breaking up the bulk material where water and land transport meet and where loading and unloading costs can be minimized by refining raw materials or turning them into finished goods. The major examples here are oil refining and ore refining which are commonly located at ports. It is not easy to draw a line around what is and is not a port function. All ports handle, unload, sort, alter, process, repack and reship most of what they receive. A city may still be regarded as a port city when it becomes involved in a range of functions not immediately involved with ships or docks. Cities which began as ports retain the chief commercial and administrative center of the city close to the waterfront. The center of New York is in lower Manhattan between two river mouths, the City of London is on the Thames, Shanghai along the Bund. This proximity to water is also true of Boston, Philadelphia, Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, Singapore, Bangkok and Hong Kong, where the commercial, financial, and administrative centers are still grouped around their harbors even though each city has expanded into a metropolis. Even a casual visitor cannot mistake them as anything but port cities.1. A port is different from a harbor in that harbor is a physical concept, while port is an economic concept.2. Madras and Colombo were originally poor harbors to be improved later on with breakwaters and dredging.3. Shanghai is as important a port city to China as New York to the United States.4. Many formerly important ports have been rendered economically and financially less accessible simply because more sea routes have been discovered.5. The majority of any citys population deals with manufacturing and farming, while the majority of the population in those ports are engaged in transportation.6. The port functions including separating the bulk material where water and land transport meet and then refining those raw materials to minimize the loading or unloading costs.7. A city may not still be regarded as a port city if it is engaged in a series of functions not closely related to transportation, loading and unloading.1.YNNG 2.YNNG 3. YNNG4.YNNG 5.YNNG 6. YNNG7.YNNG8. Many of the world famous ports have developed their industrial or commercial functions faster than their original functions so that their _. 9. The port function of the city attracts _ and sends them out by other different modes of transportation.10. Cities like New York, London and Shanghai, which began as ports still maintain their positions as the leading _ centers close to the waterfront.Part III Listening Comprehension (35 minutes)Section ADirections:In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions 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 Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.11.A) Passenger and bus conductor.B) Doctor and patient.C) Shopkeeper and customer.D) Daughter and father.12. A) The man knows the committee well.B) The man and the woman are friends.C) The woman would like to work there.D) The man thinks the woman should work on this committee.13.A) Its interesting.B) It turned out to be easyC) Its hard to judgeD) Its quite difficult14. A) The woman went to Spensers yesterday.B) The womans aunt is called Spenser.C) The woman had been in the big sale.D) The woman would like to go to the big sales.15. A) She doesnt understand how Judy got her job.B) Shes surprised Judy is working in management.C) She thinks Judy never should have taken a computer course.D) She wonders how Judy does so many things.16.A) No, its open only to teachers and postgraduates.B) Yes, but he needs the approval of his professor.C) Yes, because he is a senior student.D) Yes, he can study there if he is writing a research paper.17.A) Their parents cut back the loan.B) They cant pay the rent this month.C) The woman doesnt want Frank to take another English course.D) The womans boss refused to give her a rise.18.A) The man mistook her for someone else.B) The man must have got wrong information.C) The man got the news from someone else.D) She is still waiting to hear good news from the man.Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.19. A) The speed of light.B) The speed of telecommunications.C) Astronauts landing on the moon.D) The United States.20.A) Telecommunications.B) Soccer.C) War.D) Watching television.21.A) Its right.B) Its wrong.C) Its awful.D) Its a fact.22.A) Mary is troubled.B) Mary based her opinions on facts.C) Mary looks at the facts.D) Mary only sees what she wants to see.Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.23.A) Because she wanted a job as a waitress.B) Because King Hotel dining-room was closing down.C) Because she wanted more time to study.D) Because her pay was too low.24.A) At weekends.B) On weekdays.C) Late in the week.D) On Thursdays.25. A) The manager would contact her on May 1st.B) Linda Brown got the job.C) The manager promised her a pay rise.D) She was able to enter the university.Section BDirections: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 Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.26.A) Better land. B) Quick Wealth.C) Modern equipment.D) Stricter laws.27.A) Industrialized.B) Lawless.C) Religious.D) Traditional.28.A) Saving peoples lives.B) Teaching survival some skills.C) Showing people how to hunt for gold.D) Selling some mining tools and supplies. Passage TwoQuestions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.29.A) To do as much as you can.B) To do only what is necessary.C) To act only what is necessary.D) To do what is necessary as carefully and quickly as possible.30.A) Leave him lying where he is.B) Do as much as you can to save them.C) Put his arms and legs in place.D) Roll him up in a blanket.31.A) Stop the flow of blood if the person is bleeding.B) Perform the operation whenever necessary.C) Do artificial respiration if the person has stopped breathing.D) Do the best you can until a doctor arrivesPassage ThreeQuestions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.32. A) Dates and names that cannot be verified.B) Unusual works of art.C) Articles written by previous historians.D) Significant events and influential people.33.A) They are few in number.B) They depict important historical events C) They provide a lot of information about ordinary people.D) They have clues about the social role of artists.34.A) Their playthingsB) Some moneyC) Their relatives hands.D) Their shoes.35.A) The location of the house.B) The social and economic status of the family.C) The types of games children played.D) The profession of the owner of the houseSection CDirections: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.In most cases, technology has not saved time, but enabled us to do more things. In the home, washing machines (36) to free women from having to toil over the laundry. In reality, they (37) us to change our clothes daily instead of weekly, creating seven times as much washing and ironing. Similarly, the weekly bath has been (38) by the daily shower, multiplying the hours spent on personal grooming.Meanwhile, technology has not only allowed work to spread into our leisure time the laptop-on-the-beach syndrome but (39) the new burden of dealing with faxes, e-mails and voicemails. It has also provided us with the (40) to spend hours fixing software glitches on our personal computers or filling our heads with useless (41) from the Internet. Technology apart, the Internet points the way to a second reason why we feel so time-pressed: the Information explosion. There is another reason for our increased time (42) _ levels, too: rising prosperity. As ever-larger quantities of goods and services are produced, they have to be (43) _. Driven on by advertising, we do our best to oblige: (44) _. So we suffer from what Wilson calls (45)_. In fact, not everyone is overstressed. It is a convenient short-hand to say we are all time-starved, but we have to remember that it only applies to half the population. (46) _. Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)Section ADirections: 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 follow- ing the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the center. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.As a bicycle kingdom gearing up to become an automobile society, China, the worlds third largest car manufacturing base, is facing a serious problem of automobile-related pollution and soaring levels of petrol 47 .China already 48 third among the worlds automobile manufacturing countries, with a voracious(饥渴的) domestic demand that has attracted all major automobile manufacturers to 49 . Statistics from the State Environmental Protection Administration show that China will have 33 million automobiles by 2005 and over 131 million by 2020. As the market 50, so are serious pollution problems. Vehicles have become the biggest carbon monoxide(一氧化碳) and nitrogen oxide(亚硝酰氯) emitters in big cities like Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou. In Chinas 14 largest cities, air pollution takes its 51 on 50,000 newborn babies and causes 400,000 cases of respiratory(呼吸的) illness every year, according to the Ministry of Science and Technology. Not only do vehicles create stress on the environment and human health, a growing automobile society also threatens to 52 Chinas oil resources. In 2000, vehicles in China consumed 65.6 million tons of oil, one-third of total demand. This expected to rise to 138 million tons annually by 2010 and 53 for 43 per cent of the nations total oil demand. This figure projected to rise further to 256 million tons by 2020, accounting for 57 per cent of total demandAs a result, China will depend ever more heavily on oil imports since the countrys domestic oil reserves are quite limited the nations energy security will be greatly affected and the economical development seriously 54. Chinas overall