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UNPOL Candidates Selection TestPart One: Listening Comprehension (20 minutes；20%)Directions: In section A, you will hear 10 short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked. Both the conversation and the question will be spoken only once. You must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D as quickly as possible. Then mark the corresponding letter properly on the answer sheet. In section B, you will hear 3 short passages. At each end of the passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passages and questions will be spoken only once. You must choose the best answer of each question from the four choices marked A, B, C and D as quickly as possible. Then mark the corresponding letter properly on the answer sheet. Section A1.A) On Thursday night. B)On Monday night. C) On Friday morning.D) On Thursday morning.2.A)Try to help him find rooms in another hotel.B)Check to see if there are any vacancies in her hotel.C) Let him move to a room with two single beds.D)Show him the way to Imperial Hotel.3.A)Robust. B)Brave. C)Generous. D)Dangerous.4.A)He loves his present job. B)He is going to open a store. C)He is about to retire. D)He works in a repair shop.5. A)She has confidence in him. B)She has also won a scholarship.C)She is surprised at the news. D)She is not interested in the news. 6.A)His only son is dying. B)His mother died some time ago.C)He didnt like after his sick wife. D)He hasnt taken good care of his son.7.A)At the airport. B)In a travel agency. C)In a hotel. D)At the reception desk.8. A)He is not equal to the job.B)He is not well paid for his work.C)He doesnt think the job is challenging enough.D)He cannot keep his mind on his work.9.A) The talks havent started yet.B)The talks havent achieved much.C)The talks have produced a general agreement.D)The talks broke down and could go no further.10.A)Help him to carry some luggage. B)Get some travel information. C)Tell him the way to the left-luggage office. D)Look after something for him.Section BPassage OneQuestions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard. 11.A) Crowded air traffic. B)The large size of airplanes. C)Mistakes by air traffic controllers. D)Bad weather.12. A) They bumped into each other over a swimming pool.B)They avoided each other by turning in different directions.C)They narrowly escaped crashing into each other.D)One plane climbed above the other at the critical moment.13. A)To show the key role played by air traffic controllers.B)To show the great responsibility shouldered by the pilots.C)To give an example of air disasters.D)to show that air travel is far safer than driving a car. Passage TwoQuestions 14 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.14.A)Her unique experience. B)Her future prospects. C)Her favorite job. D)Her lonely life.15. A) Authority. B)A good relationship. C)Good luck. D)Independence.16. A) She will live an empty life. B)She will work in a bookstore. C)She will remain single. D)She will earn a lot of money.17.A) She should find a good job. B)She should open a small restaurant.C)She should have more control over her life. D)She should get married. Passage Three Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.18.A)In day-care centers where little children were taken care of.B)In areas in Chicago poor people lived.C)In places where hot lunch was provided for factory workers.D)In schools where free classes were organized for young people.19. A) For young people and adults. B)For immigrants.C)For factory works. D)For poor city children.20.A)Jane Adams contributions to society.B)Jane Adams struggle for womens liberation.C)Jane Adams life story.D) Jane Adams responsibility for the poor.Part Two: Reading Comprehension (40 minutes; 20%)Directions: There are 4 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 properly on the answer sheet. Questions 21-25 are based on the following passage:People can be addicted to different thingse.g., alcohol, drugs, certain foods, or even television. People who have such an addiction are compulsive: they have a very powerful psychological need that they feel they must satisfy. According to psychologists, many people are compulsive spenders. They feel that they must spend money. This compulsion, like most others, is irrationalimpossible to explain reasonably. For compulsive spenders who buy on credit, charge accounts are even more exciting than money. In other words, compulsive spenders feel that with credit, they can do anything. Their pleasure in spending enormous amounts is actually greater than the pleasure that they get from the things they buy.There is even a special psychology of bargain hunting. To save money, of course, most people look for sales, low prices, and discounts. Compulsive bargain hunters, however, often buy things that they dont need just because they are cheap. They want to believe that they are helping their budgets, but they are really playing an exciting game. When they can buy something for less than other people, they feel that they are winning. Most people, experts claim, have two reasons for their behavior: a good reason for the things that they do and the real reason.It is not only scientists, of course, who understand the psychology of spending habits, but also business people. Stores, companies, and advertises use psychology to increase business. They consider peoples needs for love, power, or influence, their basic values, their beliefs and opinions, and so on in their advertising and sales methods.Psychologists often use a method called “behavior therapy” to help individuals solve their personality problems. In the same way, they can help people who feel that they have problems with money.21. According to the psychologists, a compulsive spender is one who spends large amounts of money_.A) and takes great pleasure from what he or she buysB) in order to satisfy his or her basic needs in lifeC) just to meet his or her strong psychological needD) entirely with an irrational eagerness22. According to the writer, compulsive bargain hunters are in constant search of the lowest possible prices_.A) because they want to save money to help their budgetsB) because they can openly boast of their triumph over others in getting things for less C) and will not have money problems if they can keep to their budgetsD) but they seldom admit they feel satisfied if they can get things for less than others23. Which of the following is true?A) All people spend money for exactly the same reason that they need to buy things.B) Business people and advertisers can use the psychology of money to increase sales.C) Business people understand the psychology of compulsive buying better than scientists do.D) Compulsive bargain hunters do not have problems with money.24. The article is mainly about_.A) the psychology of money-spending habitsB) the purchasing habits of compulsive spendersC) a special psychology of bargain hunting D) the use of the psychology of spending habits in business25. From the passage we may safely conclude that compulsive spenders or compulsive bargain hunters_.A) are really unreasonableB) need special treatmentC) are really beyond remediesD) can never get any help to solve their problems with moneyQuestions 26-30 are based on the following passage:Attention to detail is something everyone can and should doespecially in a tight job market. Bob Crossley, a human-resources expert, notices this in the job applications that come across his desk every day. “Its amazing how many candidates eliminate themselves,” he says.“Resumes arrive with stains. Some candidates dont bother to spell the companys name correctly. Once I see mistake, I eliminate the candidate,” Crossley concludes. “If they cannot take care of these details, why should we trust them with a job?”Can we pay too much attention to details? Absolutely. Perfectionists struggle over little things at the cost of something larger they work toward. “To keep from losing the forest for the trees,” says Charles Garfield, associate professor at the University of California, San Francisco, “we must constantly ask ourselves how the details were working on fit into the larger picture. If they dont, we should drop them and move to something else.”Garfield compares this process to his work as a computer scientist at NASA. “The Apollomoon launch was slightly off-course 90 percent of the time,” says Garfield. “But a successful landing was still likely because we knew the exact coordinates of our goal. This allowed us to make adjustments as necessary.” Knowing where we want to go helps us judge the importance of every task we undertake.Too often we believe what accounts for others success is some special secret or a lucky break. But rarely is success so mysterious. Again and again, we see that by doing little things within our grasp well, large rewards follow.26. What is the passage mainly about?A) It is not necessary to be a perfectionist.B) It is attention to details that helps realize major goals.C) It is of great importance to be adjustable.D) It is largely a matter of luck to get success.27. Decide which one of the following four statements is true according to the passage.A) Some job applicants were rejected because they failed to present details about their background.B) Some job applicants were rejected because they eliminated their names from the resume.C) Some job applicants were rejected because they presented a resume copy that was unclean.D) Some job applicants were rejected because they lacked education in spelling.28. The word “eliminate”(Para.1, line 3) in this passage means “_”.A) objectB) neglectC) get rid of D) catch up with29. The example of the Apollomoon launch is given to show that_.A) failure is the mother of successB) minor mistakes can be neglected in achieving major objectivesC) adjustments help avoid major mistakesD) a good understanding of the goal helps in deciding which details can be ignored30. We can infer from the passage that_.A) although too much attention to details may be costly, they should not be overlooked.B) careless applicants lose their jobsC) we should be aware of the importance of a task before carrying it outD) working on details that are of vital importance to the whole task then success is within reach Questions 31-35 are based on the following passage:Is language, like food, a basic human need? Judging from the drastic experiment of Frederickin the 13th century it may be. Hoping to discover what language a child would speak if he heard no mother tongue he told the nurses to keep silent.All the infants died before the first year. But clearly there was more than language deprivation here. What was missing was good mothering. Without good mothering, in the first year of life especially, the capacity to survive is seriously affected.Today no such drastic deprivation exists as that ordered by Frederick. Nevertheless, some children are still backward in speaking. Most often the reason for this is that the mother is insensitive to the cues and signals of the infant, whose brain is programmed to mop up language rapidly. There are critical times, it seems, when children learn more readily. If these sensitive periods are neglected, the ideal time for acquiring skills passes and they might never be learned so easily again.Linguists suggest that speech milestones are reached in a fixed sequence and at a constant age, but there are cases where speech has started late in a child who eventually turns out to be of high IQ( Intelligence Quotient).Recent evidence suggests that an infant is born with the capacity to speak. What is special about Mans brain, compared with that of the monkey, is the complex system which enables a child to connect the sight and feel of, say, a teddy-bear with the sound pattern “teddy-bear”.But speech has to be triggered, and this depends on interaction between the mother and the child, where the mother recognized the cues and signals in the childs babbling, clinging, grasping, crying, smiling, and responds to them. Insensitivity of the mother to these signals dulls the interaction because the child gets discouraged and sends out only the obvious signals. Sensitivity to the childs non-verbal cues is essential to the growth and development of language.31. Fredericks experiment was “drastic” because_.A) he wanted to prove children are born with ability to speakB) he ignored the importance of mothering to the infantC) he was unkind to the nursesD) he wanted his nurses to say no mother tongue32. The reason some children are backward in speaking today is that_.A) they do not listen carefully to their mothersB) their brains have to absorb too much language at onceC) their mothers do not respond to their attempts to speakD) their mothers are not intelligent enough to help them33. By “critical times” the author means_.A) difficult periods in the childs lifeB) moments when the child becomes critical towards its motherC) important stages in the childs developmentD) times when mothers often neglect their children34. Which of the following is not implied in the passage?A) The faculty of speech is inborn in man.B) Children do not need to be encouraged to speak.C) The childs brain is highly selective.D) Most children learn their language in definite stages.35. If the mother does not respond to her childs signals, _.A) the child will never be able to speak properlyB) the child will stop giving out signalsC) the child will invent a language of its ownD) the child will make little efforts to speakQuestions 36-40 are based on the following passage:In 1957, a doctor in Singapore noticed that hospitals were treating an unusual number of influenza like cases. Influenza is sometimes called “flu” or a “bad cold”. He took samples from the throats of patients and in his hospital was able to find the virus of this influenza.There are three main types of the influenza virus. The most important of these are type A and B, each of them having several subgroups. With the instruments at the hospital the doctor recognized that the outbreak was due to a virus in group A, but he did not know the subgroup. Then he reported the outbreak to the World Health Organization in Geneva. W.H.O. published the important news alongside reports of a similar outbreak in Hong Kong where about 1520% of the population had become ill.As soon as the London doctors received the package of throat samples, doctors began the standard tests. They found that by reproducing itself with very high speed, the virus had grown more than a million times within two days. Continuing their careful tests, the doctors checked the effect of drugs against all the known subgroups of virus type A. None of them gave any protection. This, then, was something new, a new influenza virus, against which the people of the world had no help whatever.Having found the virus they were working with, the two doctors now dropped it into the noses of some specially selected animals, which get influenza as much as human beings do. In a short time the usual signs of the disease appeared. These experiments proved that the new virus was easy to catch, but that it was not a killer. Scientists, like the general public, call it simply Asian flu.The first discovery of the virus, however, was made in China before the disease had appeared in other countries. Various reports showed that the influenza outbreak started in China, probably in February of 1957. By the middle of March it had spread all over China. The virus was found by Chinese doctors early in March. But China is not a member of the World Health Organization and therefore does not report outbreak of disease to it. Not until two months later, when travelers carried the virus into Hong Kong, from where it spread to Singapore, did the news of the outbreak reach the rest of the world. By this time it was well started on its way around the world.Thereafter, W.H.O.s Weekly Reports described the steady spread of this great virus outbreak, which within four months swept through every continent.36. Where did the influenza not occur?A) In Singapore.B) In Hong Kong.C) In Beijing.D) In London.37. The outbreak in Hong Kong was due to a virus in _.A) a new subgroup of Group AB) an old subgroup of Group AC) a new subgroup of Group BD) an old subgroup of Group B38. Why did the two doctors drop the flu into the noses of animals?A) To test the speed and effect of virus reproduction.B) To see how it can affect the animals.C) To find the channel of the virus spread.D) To decide on the virus name.39. Where was the flu first found?A) In Hong Kong.B) In Singapore.C) In China.D) Not mentioned.40. When did the virus reach the rest of the world?A) In February.B) Before March.C) In April.D) After May. Part Thr