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Paper One Part I Listening Comprehension (15 minutes 15 %) Section A (10%) Directions: In this section you will hear ten shortconversations. At the end of each conversation, a questionwill be asked about what was said. Both the conversationand the question will be spoken only once. After eachquestion there will be a pause. During the pause you mustread the four choices marked A, B, C and D, and decidewhich is the best answer. Then mark the correspondingletter on your Answer Sheet with a single line through thecenter. 1. A. Once a week. B. Twice a week. C. Three times a week. D. Four times a week. 2. A. He left his notes at home. B. He doesnt know where his notes are. C. He doesnt want to lend his notes to the woman. D. He agrees to lend her his notes. 3. A. He will go in spite of the cold weather. B. He wont go since he is not feeling well. C. He will go when he feels better. D. He wont go as he hasnt finished his work. 4. A. Check the timetable. B. Go to the railway station earlier. C. Travel on a later train. D. Cancel the trip earlier. 5. A. In New York. B. In Boston. C. In Newport. D. In Washington. 6. A. He does not understand it. B. He is used to it. C. He neednt take it. D. He does not like it. 7. A. Skating B. Swimming C. Boating and swimming D. Boating and skating 8. A. The woman doesnt want to spend Christmas with the man. B. The woman is going home for Christmas. C. The woman has not been invited to the Christmas party. D. The woman is going to spend Christmas abroad. 9. A. The ideas of the are not convincing. paper B. Some parts of the paper are not well written. C. The handwriting of the paper is not good. D. The paper is not complete. 10. A. Failing in school. B. Failing to make the team. C. Failing several courses. D. Being a dropout. Section B (5%) Directions: In this section, you will hear one dialogue and one short passage. At the end of the dialogue and the passage, you will hear some questions. The dialogue and the passage as well as 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. Questions 1112 are based on the following dialogue. 11. A. Boss and secretary. B. Husband and wife. C. Classmates. D. Mother and child. 12. A. They have different opinions on what to buy. B. The shop is closed. C. They dont have enough money. D. The things are too expensive. Questions 1315 are based on the following passage. 13. A. Through schools. B. Through magazines and books. C. Through radio, TV, and newspaper. D. All of the above. 14. A. The law lowering the speed limit for cars. 13. Laws against littering. C. Laws against making the air and water dirty. D. Laws helping people to save resources. 15. A. Atomic power and solar energy. B. Chemical energy. C. Light energy from the sun. ID. Electric energy produced by coal. Part R Reading Comprehension (30 minutes 30%) Directions: In this part there are four passages. Eachpassage is followed by some questions or incompletestatements. For each of them there are four choices markedA, B, Cand D. You are required to choose the best answerfrom the .four choices. Then mark the corresponding letteron the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre. Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage. Auctions () are public sales of goods, conductedby an officially approved auctioneer. He asked the crowd togather in the auction room to bid (10t) for the variousitems on sale. He encourages buyers to hid higher figures,and finally names the highest bidder as the buyer of thegoods. This is called knocking down the goods, for thebidding ends when the auctioneer bangs a small hammer on araised platform. The ancient Romans probably invented sales byauction, and the English word comes from the Latinauction, meaning increase. The Romans usually sold inthis way the spoils taken in war these sales were calledsub hasta, meaning under the spear, a spear beingstuck in the ground as a signal for a crowd to gather. InEngland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries goodswere often sold by the candle a short candle was lit bythe auctioneer, and bids could be made while it wasburning. Practically all goods can be sold by auction. Amongthese are coffee, skins, wool, tea, cocoa, furs, fruit,vegetables and wines. Auction sales are also usual for landand property, antique furniture, pictures, rare books, oldchina and works of art. The auction rooms at Christies andSothebys in London and New York are world-famous. An auction is usually advertised beforehand with fullparticulars of the articles to be sold and where and when they can be viewed by the buyers. If the advertisementcannot give full details, catalogues ( ) are printed, andeach group of goods to be sold together, called a lot, isusually given a number. The auctioneer need not begin withLot One and continue the numerical order; he may wait untilhe notices the fact that certain buyers are in the room andthen produce the lots they are likely to be interested in. theauctioneers services are paid for in the form of a percentageof the price the goods are sold for. The auctioneer thereforehas a direct interest in pushing up the bidding. 16. Auction goods are sold A. for the highest price offered B. at fixed prices C. at prices lower than their true value D. at prices offered by the auctioneer 17. The end of the bidding is called knocking down because A. the auctioneer knocks on the table B. the auctioneer names the highest bidder as the buyer of the goods C. the goods are knocked down onto the table D. the auctioneer bangs the table with a hammer 18. The italicized word spoils in the second paragraph probably means A. useless goods B. spears C. various kinds of food D. property taken from the enemy 19. In England a candle is used to burn at auction sales A. because the auction sales took place at night B. as a signal for the crowd to gather C. to keep the auction room warm D. to limit the time when offers of prices could be made 20. An auction catalogue gives buyers A. the current market values of the goods 13. details of the goods to be sold C. the order in which goods are to be sold D. free admission to the auction sale Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage. One of the good things for men in womens liberation isthat men no longer have to pay women the old-fashioned courtesies. In an article on the new manners, Ms Holmens says that a perfectly able woman no longer has to act helplessly in public as if she were a model. For example, she doesnt need help getting in and out of cars. Women get in and out of cars twenty times a day with babies and dogs. Surely they can get out themselves at night just as easily. She also says there is no reason why a man should walkon the outside of a woman on the sidewalk. Historically,the man walked on the inside so he caught the garbagethrown out of a window. Today a man is supposed to walkon the outside. A man should walk where he wants to, soshould a woman. If, out of love and respect, he actuallywants to take the blows, he should walk on the insidebecause thats where attacters are hiding these days. As far as manners are concerned, I suppose I havealways been a supporter of womens liberation. Over theyears, out of a sense of respect, I imagine, I have refused totrouble women with outdated courtesies. It is usually easier to follow rules of social behaviorthan to depend on ones own taste. But rules may be safelybroken, of course, by those of us with the gift of naturalgrace. For example, when a man and a woman are led totheir table in a restaurant and the waiter pulls out a chair,the woman is expected to sit in the chair. That is accordingto Ms Ann Clark. I have always done it the other way,according to my wife. It came up only the other night. I followed the hostessto the table, and when she pulled the chair out I sat on it,quite naturally, since it happened to be the chair I wanted tosit in. Well, my wife said, when the hostess had gone, you did it again. Did what? I asked, utterly confused. Took the chair. Actually, since Id walked through the restaurant aheadof my wife, it would have been awkward, I should think,not to have taken the chair, I had got there first, after all. Also, it has always been my custom to get in a carfirst, and let the woman get in by herself. This is a courtesyI insist on as the stronger sex, out of love and respect. Intimes like these, there might be attackers hidden about. Itwould be unsuitable to put a woman in a car and then shutthe door on her, leaving her at the mercy of some bad fellowwho might be hiding in the back seat. 21. It can be concluded from the passage that A. men should walk on the inside of a sidewalk B. women are becoming more capable than before C. in womens liberation men are not liberated D. it is safe to break the rules of social behavior 22. The author took the chair because A. he happened to like the seat B. his wife told him to C. the hostess wanted him to sit there D. he did not know where to sit 23. The author always gets in a car before a woman because he A. wants to protect her B. doesnt need to help her C. chooses to be impolite to her D. fears attacks on himself 24. The author is the whole question of manners and womens liberation. A. joking about B. reporting on C. explicitly criticizing D. seriously discussing 25. Which of the following best states the main idea of the passage? A. Manners ought to be thrown away altogether. B. In manners one should follow ones own judgment. C. Women no longer need to be helped in public. D. Men are not expected to be courteous to women. Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage. One lunchtime, May Ward was going round the localsupermarket in Parkside Road, Liverpool, doing hershopping, when she suddenly slipped and fell. She wasbadly shaken and bruised but fortunately nothing seriousresulted. It turned out that she had slipped on some ice cream which had been split on the floor. Two weeks latershe wrote to the firm to claim compensation to make up for the pain and inconvenience she had suffered. She asserted that they had been negligent and careless in not keeping the floor clean. The firm denied that they had been negligentand maintained that they had a proper system for keeping the floor clean. They had given instructions that when amember of staff found a spillage, he or she was to stand by it, and call someone else to clear up the mess. Since Mrs Ward felt that she was entitled to compensation, she sued the finn in the Law Courts. Here the firm claimed that it did not follow, just because someone had slipped onthe floor, that they must have been negligent carrying out their duties. They said that unless the customer could prove how the ice cream came to be on the floor, and how long it had been left there before the accident happened, she had not made out a proper case against them. But the judge took a different view. He said that, on the face of it, the accident would not have happened at all if the firm had taken reasonable care. It was something which in the ordinary course of events does not happen if floors are kept clean and spillages are dealt with as soon as they occur. It was up to the firm, he said, to provide evidence, if they could, that the accident did not arise from any negligence on their part. They would obviously be in a better position than the customer to establish how long the ice cream had been split and explain the circumstances to the Court. The final result was that Mrs. Wang won her case andreceived 137 pounds and 10 pence as a payment for thedamages. 26. May Ward firmly believed that A. the firm should be held responsible for her fall B. she was able to produce the necessary evidence C. the Law Court would be on her side D. the firm was telling a lie 27. The firm didnt think that May Ward was entitled to any compensation because A. nothing serious had happened B. she did not have to pay for any medical treatment C. another customer had split the ice cream D. they had taken all reasonable precautions 28. May Ward decided to take her case to a Law Court when A. she discovered the cause of her accident B. she had been off work for two weeks C. the firm refused to pay her any money D. the firm ignored her letter 29. In court, the firm argued that A. May Ward was making up a story B. May Ward had not provided enough evidence C. the ice cream had only been there a short time D. the accident had not been at all serious 30. What was the judges view of the case? A. The firm had to prove that they had taken proper care, B. The firm was responsible for any accident in their shop. C. The supermarkets floor was not taken clean. D. The firm had not observed the regulations. Questions 31 to 3S are based on the following passage. Statuses are marvelous human inventions that enable usto get along with one another and to determine where wefit in society. As we go about our everyday lives, we mayattempt to place people in terms of their statuses. Forexample, we must judge whether person in the library is areader or a librarian, whether the telephone caller is a friendor a salesman, whether the unfamiliar person on ourproperty is a thief or a meter reader, and so on. The statuses we assume often vary with the people weencounter, and change throughout life. Most of us can, atqery high speed, assume the statuses that various situationsrequire. Much of social interaction consists of identifyingand selecting among appropriate statuses and allowing otherople to assume their statuses in relation to us. This meanswe fit our actions to those of other people based on aconstant mental process of appraisal and interpretation.Although some of us find the task more difficult thanothers, most of us form it rather effortlessly. A status has been compared to ready-made clothes.Within certain limits the buyer can choose style and fabric. But an American is not free to choose the costume(.) ofa Chinese peasant or that of a Hindu prince. We mustchoose from among the clothing present by our society.Furthermore, our choice is limited to a size that will fit, aswell as by pocketbook(t0_,). Having made a choice withinthese limits we can have certain alterations made, but apartfrom minor adjustments, we tend to be limited to what thestores have on their racks. Statuses, too, come ready made,and the range of choice among them is limited. 31. In the first paragraph, the writer tells us that statuses can help us A. determine whether a person is fit for a certain job B. behave appropriately in relation to other people C. protect ourselves in unfamiliar situations D. make friends with other people 32. According to the writer, people often assume different statuses A. in order to identify themselves with others B. in order to better identify others C. as their mental processes changei D. as the situation changes! 33. The word appraisal (Para 2, Line 8) most probably means . A. involvement B. appreciation C. assessment D. presentationi 34. tn the last sentence of the second paragraph, the pronoun it refers to A. fitting our actions to those of other people appropriately B. identi