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Internet-based College English Test Band 4(IB-CET4)The test consists of 3 sections with different types of tasks to test your abilities of English listening, speaking, writing, and reading. It will take approximately 2 hours to complete.Section A Listening Comprehension(Questions 118; 2530 minutes)Directions: This section contains 18 multiple choice questions based on four audio and one video clips. You should select the best answer to each question. All audio and video clips will be played twice. When they are played for the first time, you should pay attention to the main idea and answer some general comprehension questions. When they are played for the second time, you should focus on the important details and answer some specific comprehension questions. Question 1 will be based on the following news item.Glossary1) dread 可怕的2) mock 模拟的3) gondola 狭长小船4) coffin 棺材5) mourn 哀悼6) demographic 人口的Question 1What is the news mainly talking about?(A) Venetians want to make Venice a Disneyland.(B) Venice is losing its residents and becoming only a tourist destination.(C) Officials are taking measures to develop tourism in Venice.(D) Venetians organize a funeral to attract the tourists.Now listen to the item again and answer Question 2.Glossary1) dread 可怕的2) mock 模拟的3) gondola 狭长小船4) coffin 棺材5) mourn 哀悼6) demographic 人口的Question 2Which of the following is not true according to the news?(A) The population in Venice is now below 60,000.(B) The real Venetians have become rare now.(C) A group of Venetian residents organized a mock funeral.(D) There are twenty billion tourists visiting Venice every year.Question 3 will be based on the following news item.Glossary1) Latino 拉丁美洲人2) dedicate 致力于3) symposium 讨论会Question 3Whats the main topic of the news?(A) Young Latinos get a push for education.(B) Information is provided for the college students by the HCF.(C) The HCF supplies a scholarship to the students.(D) Students can get a double degree at university.Now listen to the item again and answer Question 4.Glossary1) Latino 拉丁美洲人2) dedicate 致力于3) symposium 讨论会Question 4What are the two subjects of Karen Guzmans double degree? (A) Computer science and mathematics.(B) Psychology and biology.(C) Computer science and psychology.(D) Biology and computer science. Question 5 will be based on the following news item.Glossary1) sniffer 嗅探器2) patrol 巡逻3) surveillance 监视4) heritage 遗产5) terrorist 恐怖分子6) vigilant 警戒的7) militant 激进的8) copycat 盲目的模仿者Questions 5What is this news item mainly about?(A) There are more armed officers patrolling subway stations in New York.(B) All New Yorkers express their deepest sympathy to the victims of the Moscow train bombings.(C) Two bomb attacks occurred in Moscow and many people were hurt badly.(D) New York mass transit boosts security following Moscow attacks.Now listen to the item again and answer Question 6.Glossary1) sniffer 嗅探器2) patrol 巡逻3) surveillance 监视4) heritage 遗产5) terrorist 恐怖分子6) vigilant 警戒的7) militant 激进的8) copycat 盲目的模仿者Question 6Which of the following statements is not true about the bombings in Moscow?(A) The bombings occurred during Mondays busy morning rush to work.(B) The bombings were carried out by two women.(C) Two bomb attacks occurred in Moscow during night.(D) The attacks spurred transit officials in New York City to tighten security.Questions 7 to 8 will be based on the following conversation.Glossary1) initiate 开始2) interpret 解释3) insensitive 不敏感的Question 7What is the interview mainly about?(A) Color of our dreams.(B) Meaning of our dreams.(C) The times that we make dreams during one night.(D) Ways to remember our dreams.Question 8 Which of the following statements cant be known from the conversation?(A) Most people dream in black and white color.(B) People who dont remember their dreams well will probably not remember the color that was in their dreams.(C) Theres still a lot of argument about where the brains working hardest during dreams.(D) If people dream that they hit the ground, they will encounter something bad.Now listen to the conversation again and answer Questions 9 to 12.Glossary1) initiate 开始2) interpret 解释3) insensitive 不敏感的Question 9What is not true about the interviewee?(A) She is the founding President of the International Association for the Study of Dreams .(B) She is the author of All About Dreams.(C) She does research on dreams.(D) She is a psychologist to solve peoples dream problems.Question 10How many dreams do we certainly have during a night?(A) Four or five times.(B) Twenty times.(C) Five or six times.(D) Three or five times.Question 11Why will artists talk about their dreams with vivid color?(A) They have a good memory about their dreams.(B) They are so smart.(C) They are more sensitive to color.(D) They like to describe their dreams with drawings.Question 12What is true when people dream their teeth fall out?(A) Most people dreaming this have pretty teeth.(B) Most people feel that though they lose teeth in their dreams, they dont look bad.(C) People dreaming this must have done something wrong before sleeping.(D) Most people will lose teeth after having this dream.Questions 13 to 14 will be based on the following video clip.Glossary1) commentator 解说员2) matchmaking 缔缘3) legitimate 合法的Question 13What is the main topic of this video clip?(A) American matchmaking companies.(B) Online dating.(C) Statistics on online dating websites.(D) Peoples abuses of the Internet.Question 14Which of the following statements is not true according to the video clip?(A) There are over 1700 legitimate online dating sites in the US.(B) Internet dating is successful despite of peoples abuses of the system.(C) Ten years ago, cyber romance was almost nonexistent.(D) Online dating has become an less important way to meet people nowadays.Now watch the video again and answer Questions 15 to 18.Glossary1) commentator 解说员2) matchmaking 缔缘3) legitimate 合法的Question 15Why did not Mike expect any service in return at the beginning?(A) He thought he was lack of intelligence.(B) He was not confident in his appearance.(C) He did not pay for the service.(D) He did not believe in the Internet dating service.Question 16What is not true about Nikki according to the video clip?(A) She was looking for someone different ten years after her divorce. (B) She had a teenage son.(C) She played games during the one hour break.(D) She got married with Mike in 2003.Question 17Which of the followings is not the focus of the most popular matchmaking companies?(A) Study background.(B) Age, sex and race.(C) Religion and hobbies.(D) Age and politics.Question 18What was the most difficult test for Russ?(A) Talking with Candy.(B) Having dinner with Candys parents.(C) Introducing Candy to his parents.(D) Meeting Candys mother.Section B Listening-based Integrated Tasks(Questions 1944; 4550 minutes)Directions: In this section, youre going to complete a number of tasks based on the audio clips you listened to or the video clip you watched in section A.Task 1 Listening and Dictation (Questions 1933)Directions: In this task, part of the video clip will be replayed twice and you are to fill in the blanks numbered 19 to 33 with the exact words you ve heard from the clip. At the end of the task, there will be a pause for you to check what youve written.If all those millions of love-seekers (19)_ too good to be true, they are. With the success of Internet (20)_ have come a lot of businesses and individuals that are interested in lust, not love. Do a Google (21)_ for “Internet dating”, and you get over 16 million (22)_. “Internet dating 11 200 000 sites, well this is just in Yahoo”.Dr. Ronald Goodstein is a (23)_ of Marketing in Georgetown University.“The number one (24)_ we have is that 10 percent of the people on online dating sites are (25)_. So that gives you a scent of the percentage of people trying to (26)_ the system.” But apart from peoples fantasies and (27)_ of the system, overall, Internet dating has been a success. Today, its a lot more than the (28)_. People of all (29)_ are meeting their match on the Web. “Thats the picture that I took with my cell phone (30)_.” Candy and Russ are (31)_ now. They are young, (32)_ and very active. They met through “hot or ”, a Web site (33)_ meeting friends and having fun. He paid $5 a month as a member, she was in for free. Task 2 Listening and Repeating(Questions 3443)Directions: In this task, youre going to listen to 10 sentences taken from Section A. You will hear each sentence twice. After hearing the sound of a bell, you are to repeat the sentence exactly as you hear it. In case youre not satisfied with your first recording, you can click the RE-RECORD button and redo it once. If you dont click the RE-RECORD button within five seconds, your recording is automatically submitted.Question 34 Question 35 Question 36 Question 37 Question 38 Question 39 Question 40 Question 41Question 42 Question 43 Task 3 Listening and Writing（Question 44）Directions: In this task, you are to write an essay of no less than 120 words based on one of the items youve heard in Section A. Now listen to the item again before you start writing.1. Write a short summary of the video clip. 2. Give your comments on the theme of online dating.Section C Reading Comprehension(Questions 4574; 45 minutes)Directions: In this section, youre going to read one long passage and three short passages, and answer a number of questions.Task 1 Skimming and Scanning(Questions 4554; 15 minutes)Directions: In this task, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answerquestions 4554. For questions 4551, 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 5254, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.If you finish the task before the time limit, you can click the SUBMIT button and move on to the next task.Types of TestPlacementA placement test is designed to sort new students into teaching groups, so that they can start a course at approximately the same level as the other students in the class. It is concerned with the students present standing, and so relates to general ability rather than specific points of learning. As a rule the results are needed quickly so that teaching may begin. A variety of tests is necessary because a range of different activities is more likely to give an accurate overall picture of a students level than a single assessment. Sometimes one member of staff sees each student individually before the final class allocation is made. This procedure has several advantages. It helps to complete the assessment for each individual student by disclosing factors which are not revealed by the written tests, either positive ones such as a friendly, outgoing character or a higher level of production than a writing test suggests, or negative ones such as a slight stammer(口吃) or more than average shyness. Perhaps the greatest advantage of the interview is that there is now the opportunity to assess both oral production (the ability to make English sounds) and fluency (the ability to sound English in a social situation) at one and the same time. DiagnosticA diagnostic test (sometimes called a formative or progress test) checks on students progress in learning particular elements of the course. It is used for example at the end of a unit in the course book or after a lesson designed to teach one particular point. These tests can take the form of an extension of the lesson from a practice phase into an assessment phase. They can provide information about progress which may be used systematically for remedial(补救的) work. The diagnostic test tries to answer the question “How well have the students learned this particular material?” If his learning has been successful, the results will give a considerable lift to the students moral and he is likely to approach the next learning tasks with fresh enthusiasm. If he finds he has not mastered the point at issue, the test should give him clear indications of how he falls short, so that he can do some useful revision. AchievementAn achievement test (also called an attainment test) looks back over a longer period of learning than the diagnostic test, for example a years work, or a whole course, or even a variety of different courses. It is intended to show the standard which the students have now reached in relation to other students at the same stage. This standard may be established for a country, as with school-leaving certificates; or it may relate to an individual school or group of schools which issues certificates to students attending courses. But the important point which is common to all these situations is that the standard remains constant as far as possible from course to course and from year to year and is external to the individual class or textbook. ProficiencyThe aim of a proficiency test is to assess the students ability to apply in actual situations what he has learnt. It seeks to answer the question: “Having learnt this much, what can the student do with it?” This type of test is not usually related to any particular course because it is concerned with the students current standing in relation to his future needs. Efforts must be made to use in the tests the kind of language which actually occurs in the situations the student will meet. For example, a test which sets out to assess the proficiency of a student hoping to follow a university course in an English-speaking country would need to take into account not only his level of skills in listening to lectures, but also his ability to take notes, to make full use of what is written on the blackboard or projected, and finally to use the information he has gained from the lecture in his subsequent writing. An important element in proficiency testing is to assess in some way the students ability to repair breakdowns in communication, by asking for a repetition or an explanation, for example, or by rephrasing(改述) what he has just tried to say. A rather typical example of a standardized proficiency test is the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). It is used by nearly 1 000 institutions of higher education in the United States as an indicator of a prospective students ability to undertake academic work in English. The TOEFL consists of the following sections:Listening Comprehension measures the ability to understand English as it is spoken in the United States. Structure and Written Expression measures mastery of important structural and grammatical points in standard written English. Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension tests the ability to understand the meanings and uses of words in written English as well as the ability to understand a variety of reading materials.Proficiency tests sometimes add sections that involve free writing and/or oral production. This division of tests into separate categories is clearly rather arbitrary(武断的), and though it is convenient to say that the purpose of any test can be defined in this way, there are in practice several different purposes for every test. For example, it has been argued above that an achievement test assesses the learning that has gone before, and is therefore concerned with the past, but a student taking this kind of test usually does so because he needs the qualification to convince someone else of his future potential, either as a student in a more advanced course or as an employee. In the same way, although a proficiency test is not in theory concerned with how the students present stage of competence has been arrived at, he may well have prepared for it by taking a course designed to help him to pass. 45. Placement test can provide information about students specific points of learning. 46. The interview has an advantage of reducing the workload of faculty members. 47. A diagnostic test checks on students ability to communicate. 48. A test for school leaving certificates can be regarded as an achievement test. 49. A proficiency test aims to assess students ability to apply in actual situation what they have learned. 50. The author chooses the TOEFL as an example of proficiency tests because it is a well-known test. 51. An important element in proficiency testing is to assess in some way the examinees ability to continue a broken down communication by asking for a repetition or an explanation.52. To see each student individually helps to find the positive factors not revealed in a written test, such as a _ than a writing test suggests. 53. Diagnostic tests can take the form of an extension of the lesson from a practice phase into _. 54. There is an argumentation that an achievement test is designed to be involved the knowledge of the past, but the aim of an examinee is to get the qualification to _. Task 2 In-depth Reading (Questions 5564; 20 minutes)Directions: There are 2 passages in this task. Each passage is followed by five questions. You should read carefully the four choices following each question and decide on the b