A Level 入学英语测验.doc

ENGLISH AS A FOREIGNLANGUAGEFor sixth form applicantsYour answers to these questions will help us assess your level of English.Try to answer as many questions as you can within one and a quarter hours.ENGLISH ASSESSMENTNAME _PART 1Choose the answer which best fits each space and circle the correct letter A, B, C or D.1. Where does George live? He _ in London. A. livedB. liveC. livesD. does live2. Jim usually drinks Coca Cola, but now hes _ Pepsi Cola.A. drinkingB. drinksC. drankD. drink3. He _ got two brothers.A. doesB. isC. hasD. have4.“Whos pen is this?”“Its _A. JohnB. herC. blueD. hers5.“I like this shirt, but I dont know if I have enough money to buy it._?”A. How much costs it? B. How many does it cost?C. How much does it cost? D. How much do it cost?6. _ play tennis this weekend?”“Yes I hope so.”A. Do you goB. Are you goingC. Are you going toD. Will you going7. _ did you return from your holiday in America?A. Before how longB. How long beforeC. How long agoD. Before how many days8. You must speak _ because I cant understand what youre saying.A. clearB. more clearlyC. more clearD. more clearer9. . “George is a bad student.”“Yes, but his sister is even_.”A. worstB. the worstC. worseD. more worse10. Christine was _ girl at the party.A. the prettierB. the prettiestC. prettiestD. prettier11.If _ my exams, Ill be very happy.A. Ill passB. Ive passedC. Im passingD. I pass12No, Im sorry you cant speak to them now. My parents _out for the evening.A. had just goneB. just goneC. have just goneC. just going13.By the time we reached the station the train_.A. has already leftB. had already leftC. have already leftD. would have already left14.“Im going to stay with my grandmother,” she said. She _A. .said she was going to stay with her grandmotherB. said shes going to stay with her grandmotherC. said shell stay with her grandmotherD. said Im going to stay with my grandmother15.“Are you coming to the cinema?, were going now!”“No, because I _my homework yet.A. not finishedB. will not have finishedC. havent finished D. dont finish16.If I _first prize in the competition, Id buy a sports car.A. winB. wonC. will winD. would win17.“When_? “I dont know. Last year, I think.”A. were that new theatre builtB. did that new theatre buildC. was that new theatre builtD. was that new theatre been built18.“Do you like apples?”He asked me _A. do I like applesC. if I do like applesC. if I liked applesD. I like apples19.The teacher _ the noisy student to be quiet.A. toldB. saidC. explainedD. made20.Hes the student _ bicycle was stolen.A. whoseB. thatC. whoD. whichPART 2There are 10 mistakes in the following sentences. Can you find and correct them? theExample. Did you enjoy film?_1. I like to go to shopping every weekend _2. My birthday is on January. _3. I am living in England since November 2002. _4. I did a mistake in my homework. _5. I really enjoy to play football. _6. Yesterday, Johns car has stolen. _7. When I was little I cant swim very well. _8. I think my car is more worser than yours. _9. I dont read newspapers because I think the news are very boring. _10. If Id known you were in England, I telephone you. _PART 3Read these extracts A K and match them to their source 1-11 below:AThe motel is on the outskirts of Belton Falls and IPedalled quickly to the place.B Put onion and garlic in a small pan With oil, lower and cook very gentlyCThe average energyintakes recommended bythe DHSS in 1979 wereabout 2,150K cal a day forwomen, 2600 for men.D Good time must love, and must hate ill, for ill is ill and good is good stillE Clean the illustrated portionsF Jones M.E G., 1 Ashfield Terrace. Little Brympton 476with a cotton swabmoistened with cleaning fluidor denatured alcoholGTwo minutes of the match remained whenWhite scored his secondHThe British Foreign Secretary travels Goal.to Moscow this week to sign a memorandum of understanding for a wide-ranging joint effort to combat drug smuggling.ISTOP! Dont buy anyReplacement windows or aJHow are you? Were all fineNew conservatory until youdown here in our new ruralCheck out the fantasticsurroundings it seems to suit Savings availablethe children fine. K3.00 Film: The People wed love to meet. John Runbin directs.1 An advertisement5 An instructional manual9 A health information for hi fi equipment booklet 2 A telephone directory6 A novel10 A poem 3 A.T.V. Guide7 A recipe book11 A newspaper report 4 A letter8 A sports reportPART 4READING 20 MINUTESREAD THE TEXT AND THEN ANSWER THE QUESTIONS FOLLOWING THE TEXTWhat are the advantages and disadvantages of *monolingual and * bilingual dictionaries?*Monolingual = using one language e.g. an English-English dictionary*Bilingual = using two languages e.g. an English-Chinese dictionaryBoth monolingual and bilingual dictionaries help in understanding a foreign language but there can be little doubt that a bilingual dictionary makes fewer demands on the user. With a monolingual dictionary, the student is forced to use the language in order to understand it and there is of course no guarantee that either the definitions or the examples will be understood. The bilingual dictionary, however, will give the student a similar word, or words in his own language. A good bilingual dictionary should supply enough information to allow the students to translate from one language to another reasonably well. A bad bilingual dictionary should at least help them part of the way. When students are trying to express themselves in the second language, when writing a letter or an essay for example, a monolingual dictionary will be of little help. Users of the monolingual dictionary can access the material in it only by means of the foreign language headword (the word in darker print, which heads the dictionary explanation). It may be that the headword is the word they do not know. If that is the case there is no way out of their difficulty.Consequently, there can be little surprise at the reluctance of most students to reach for a monolingual dictionary if there is a bilingual at hand. Yet, while students prefer bilingual dictionaries, their teachers are trying to encourage them to use monolinguals. The teachers feel that monolinguals are good for you and bilinguals are not, rather like brown bread and green vegetables being good for you, while sugar and fatty foods are not, although you may like them better. Perhaps this simile is more apt than it seems. Students like bilingual dictionaries because they bring instant satisfaction while teachers prefer monolingual dictionaries for their long term benefits.One further point on this subject; there is, in the English-speaking world a fairly rigid distinction between monolingual and bilingual learners dictionaries. This is not the case in other areas, in Italy for example, hybrid dictionaries, in other words dictionaries with both bilingual and monolingual features, are considered normal.This is perhaps the direction in which English learners dictionaries should be moving. If the best features of the monolingual and bilingual dictionaries could be combined it would produce a much more flexible learning aid, which could be produced in book form as well as being electronically accessible.There are many ways in which these types of dictionary could be combined. Monolingual dictionaries, for example could include some explanation written in the learners own language. Bilingual dictionaries might benefit from several examples and possible even grammatical explanations not written in the learners own language. With the technology of todays dictionaries, more advanced users might be able to switch from bilingual to monolingual explanations within the same dictionary.In my view, the main question we should be asking is what we want the dictionary to do for us. It is not, after all, a language learning course book. You dont expect to open a dictionary and proceed to learn the language from cold. However, a good monolingual must do more than simply convey to the users the meaning of the words they come across in their reading and a good bilingual dictionary must do more than just make translation easy.How much then is it reasonable to expect of a dictionary? Clearly, it must be accurate in what it includes and give full definitions and explanations of the words it chooses to include. The book itself must be easy to read and reasonable priced. In addition, it must do as much as possible to provide users not only with what they know they want, but with what they dont know they want as well. A learners dictionary, which offers a student a word without telling them how to use it, is a dangerous thing in a classroom.Above all, a good dictionary must be honest in its presentation of the language. Presenting facts in a way which might be misleading to the learner must be avoided at all times even if this means a reduction in the range of vocabulary the dictionary can cover. Many lexicographers* have tried to include as much information as they can in every line of the dictionary. This often results in an entry so dense as to be incomprehensible. Generations of dictionary users have felt that they are to blame when their struggles to understand the dictionary entry are unsuccessful. Lets get it clear: if students use their dictionary carefully and intelligently, and still make mistakes, then there is nothing wrong with the students. There is a great deal wrong with the dictionary.*Lexicographers = writers of dictionaries.Questions: Part OneAccording to the text, are the following statements true (T) or false (F)?Write T or F in the blank beside each statement.ExampleBilingual dictionaries use only one languageF1. Students dont always understand monolingual definitions.2. Bilingual dictionaries are a great help in translation.3. Teachers dislike their students using monolingual dictionaries.4. The writer compares bilingual dictionaries with brown bread and vegetables5. Hybrid dictionaries can only be found in Italy.6. Hybrid dictionaries could only be electronically accessed.7. You can learn a language through studying a dictionary.8. All dictionaries are useful.9. Too much information about a word can confuse the learner.10. The dictionary must include as many words as possible.Questions: Part TwoComplete each of the sentences with one word only taken from the text.A. Users find that even a 1 _ bilingual dictionary will be of some use when translating from one lan