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Non-English Major Graduate Student English Qualifying TestDecember, 2000 PAPER ONEPART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION (15 minutes, 15 points) Section A ( 1 point each )Directions: In this section, you will hear nine short conversations between two speakers. At theend of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said The questions and theconversations will be spoken only once. Choose the best answer from the four choices given bymarking the corresponding letter A, B, C, or D on your Answer Sheet.1. A. Work is more important. B. He does not want to see the movie. C. He wants her to go first. D. That movie isnt very interesting.2. A. She quit her job. B. She went on a vacation. C. She went home on leave. D. She was dismissed from her job.3. A. He didnt sleep a wink last night. B. He is worried about his grades. C. He has had a bad cough lately. D. He has just had an interview today.4. A. He is sorry to hear her problem. B. He offers to help her out. C. He invites her to eat out. D. He has talked to the teacher.5. A. Listening to the radio. B. Watching a contest. C. Repairing a recording machine. D. Speaking at a conference.6. A. She is a demanding person. B. She is sympathetic to the man. C. She got out of the course. D. She found nothing wrong with the course.7. A. An art exhibition. B. A publishing house. C. A bookstore. D. An airport.8. A. The man shouldnt attend the exam. B. She doesnt know what the man should do. C. Only a doctor can tell him what to do. D. The instructor is not going to watch the students in the exam.9. A. He likes to sing old songs. B. To start singing at his age is unusual. C. He wanted to see the stager. D. The rumors about him are unbelievable.Section B (I point each)Directions: In this section, you will hear two short passages. At the end of each passage, therewill be some questions. Both the passages and the questions will be read to you only once.After each question, there will be a pause. During the pause, you must choose the best answerfrom the four choices given by marking the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on your Answer Sheet10. A. President of the University. B. The head of the International Student Association. C. Director of International Student Affairs. D. Chairperson of the program committees.11. A. Dancing and singing. B. Arriving at the dinner. C. Serving themselves dinner. D. Drinking coffee and tea.12. A. Listen to music. B. Stay to dance. C. Sing some traditional songs. D. Meet chairpersons of the committees.13. A. Customers. B. Advertisers. C. Managers. D. Manufacturers.14. A. Italians are more friendly than the British. B. Different cultures have different ways of communicating. C. Advertising agencies are important in business communication. D. The British do not like to talk with Italians.15. A. Unforgettable and implicit. B. Informative and instructional. C. Open and straightforward. D. Ironical and superficial.PART II VOCABULARY ( 10 minutes, 10 points)Section A (0.5point each)Directions: There are ten sentences in this section. Each sentence has one word underlined.Below the sentence are four words marked A, B, C and D. Choose the word that is closest inmeaning to the underlined one. Mark the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. 16. It is obvious that computers are playing a very important part in the complex business affairs of our modem world. A. evident B, understandable C. incredible D. wonderful 17. Environmental protection is a struggle between short-term greed and ignorance and a long-term vision of building communities that are dignified and enriching. A. respectable B. inspiring C. wealthy D. superior 18. Health experts say that walking briskly strengthens the heart and lungs. A. regularly B. gracefully C. energetically D. daily 19. He said that Britain would not rejoin the ERM until there is much greater symmetry between our economy and other European economies. A. similarity B. symbolism C. communication D. malformation 20. Leaves are not distributed randomly on a plant stem, but are arranged in a very precise way that assures them the maximum light. A. out of line B. at length C. by chance D. as a rule 21. Bodies with like electrical charges repel each other, and those with unlike charges attract each other. A. replicate B. resist c. repay D. restore 22. Deserts, arid areas with virtually no vegetation, cover more than one-third of the Earths land surfaces. A. specially B. typically C. certainly D. practically 23. Alexander Hamilton was accused of being involved in a scheme to establish a separate nation in the western part of the United States. A. plot B. patch C. port D. pace 24. The history of the exploration of Antarctica recounts many tales of perseverance and suffering. A. weariness B. endurance C. tiredness D. disturbance 25. He has an illness of the mind in which he thinks that everyone is persecuting him. A. perplexing B. stimulating C. maltreating D. sustaining Section B (0.5 point each) Directions: There are ten sentences in this section. Each sentence has something omitted Choose the word from the four choices given to best complete each sentence. Mark the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. 26. Language, culture and personality may be considered of each other in thought, but they are inseparable in fact. A. indistinctly B. indefeasibly C. irrelevantly D. independently 27. As soon as Henry found the gem to be_ , he went back to the shop and had his money back. A. scattered B. synthetic C. identical D. conspicuous28. The letter is from an person, but I guess it is from Jack. A. anonymous B. illiterate C. eligible D. optimistic29. When Beethoven published his first musical composition, he it to one of his patrons who not only gave him financial help but even personal friendship. A. dedicated B. submerged C. promoted D. reassured30. Biologists have _ that specialized cells convert chemical energy into mechanical energy. A. assessed B. acclaimed C. pretended D. hypothesized31. In times of economic difficulty, corporate budgets for research development are often before any others. A. shifted B. examined C. slashed D. presented32. While the bank keeps the original loan contract, a _ copy of the file will be retained by your lawyer. A. legible B. resembled C. forged D. duplicate33. The government promised to a new system to control financial loan institutions. A. implement B. complement C. supplement D. compliment34 If you say that something is , you are emphasizing that it cannot be justified or tolerated because it is extremely bad. A. inevitable B. ineffective C. inexcusable D. inexplicable35. We called up three economists to ask how to eliminate the deficit and they with answers that helped us a lot. A. objected B. obliged C. excused D. compoundedPART III CLOZE TEST (10 minutes, 15 points)Directions: Read the passage through. Then go back and choose one suitable word marked A,B, C or D for each blank in the passage. Mark the corresponding letter of the word you havechosen with a single bar across the square brackets on your Machine-scoring Answer Sheet. Much of many managers time is taken up with meetings. There are meetings with 36 to report and to discuss future policies. There are meetings with subordinates andcolleagues. Many would say that there are 37 too many meetings; some would be evenless polite. There can, however, be no 38 that meetings are part of every managers life.He should 39 know how to cope with them. He should know the techniques ofcommunication in meetings. He should know how to use these techniques 40 his ownadvantage. It is sometimes 41 that when a manager cant think what to do, he holds a meeting.But meetings 42 themselves are not an end product, no matter what some may think. Theyare merely one of many 43 of management communication. It may well be that a problemcan be solved by a one-to-one discussion, face to face, or even by telephone. If the 44 canbe met without a meeting, so 45 it. Let us therefore define a meeting, in the management _46, as the gathering together ofa group of people for a 47 discussion, with a specific purpose. Each of those attending themeeting has a need to be there and both discussion and its result would not be so well achievedin any other way. It is often 48 to calculate the cost of a meeting. A simple meeting of afew people of middle-executive salaries can soon run into three-figure costs for wages alone.Do not, therefore, have 49 people sitting in at meetings and do 50 that all meetingsare both efficient and effective.36. A. superiors B. tutors C. advisors D. assistants37. A. far B. so C. still D. such38. A. matter B. problem C. request D. doubt39. A. therefore B. meanwhile C. however D. also40. A. for B. over C. with D. to41. A. created B. suggested C. illustrated D. concluded42. A. about B. of C. on D. in43. A. means B. meetings C. mediums D. processes44. A. necessity B. solution C. need D. possibility45. A. do B. be C. make D. have46. A. way B. idea C. approach D. sense47. A. monitored B. conditioned C. limited D. controlled45. A. definitive B. imperative C. advisable D. permissible49. A. impotent B. unnecessary. C. insufficient D. unofficial50. A. assure B. ensure C. assume D. insurePART IV READING COMPREHENSION (45 minutes, 30 points)Directions: In this part of the test, there are five passages for you to read. Read each passagecarefully, and then do the questions that follow. Choose the best answer A, B, C, or D, andmark the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet. (1) The Timber rattlesnake, once widespread throughout the eastern United States, is now onthe endangered species list and is extinct in two eastern states in which it once thrived.Compared to its western cousins, the Timber rattlesnake may be especially vulnerable becauseof certain behaviors adapted for coping with the cold climate in which it lives. Rattlesnakes are generally found in warm climates because, like all reptiles, they cannotgenerate or regulate their own body temperature internally and must rely on the suns warmthfor heat. But Timber rattlesnakes migrated into colder northern areas about 8,000 years agowhen glaciers (冰川) retreated. In these northern regions, the snakes developed a number ofadaptive strategies to survive, but ultimately these behaviors make them more vulnerable tohuman predation, their main threat. One survival strategy the snakes have developed is hibernation. For approximately eightmonths of the year, the rattlers remain motionless in deep frost-free crevices, with their bodytemperature dropping as low as 40 degrees. In the spring when they emerge, they must warmtheir chilled bodies by sunning themselves for three or four days on rocks in the open. Thisbehavior, coupled with the fact that Timber rattlesnakes tend to concentrate in large numbers attheir wintering sites, makes them easy prey. Gestating females are particularly vulnerablebecause they spend much of their time basking in the sun in order to produce live young fromeggs. In addition, females have very long interbirth intervals, producing live young only everythree to five years. If a frost or cold spell comes late in the year, the entire litter of six to twelveyoung may die. Efforts are under way to protect the Timber rattlesnake and its habitat from further humandepredation, but in many states it is already too late.51. What is the main topic of the passage? A. Why Timber rattlesnakes hibernate B. How Timber rattlesnakes are surviving C. How Timber rattlesnakes adapted to northern climates D. Why Timber rattlesnakes are endangered52. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the word vulnerable in line 3 ? A. unprotected B. unyielding C. insensitive D. deprived53. Which of the following is true about Timber rattlesnakes? A. They migrated to eastern states. B. They migrated northward during a warming period. C. They migrated to escape a cold climate. D. They migrated to the South to seek a warmer climate.54. The phrase easy prey in line 16 could best be replaced by which of the following? A. relaxed B. protective C. victims D. sociable55. According to the passage, which of the following does NOT contribute to the rattlesnake being an endangered animal? A. hibernating for eight months B. basking in the sun C. congregating together D. having long intervals between births.56. What is thc authors attitude toward the topic ? A. accusative B. romantic C. regretful D. humorous (2) In colonial America, people generally covered their beds with decorative quiltsresembling those of the lands from which the quilters had come. Wealthy and sociallyprominent settlers made quilts of the English type, cut from large lengths of cloth of the samecolor and texture rather than stitched together from smaller pieces. They made these until theadvent of the Revolutionary War in 1775, when everything English came to be frowned upon. Among the whole-cloth quilts made by these wealthy settlers during the early period arethose now called linsey-woolseys. This term was usually applied to a fabric of wool and linenused in heavy clothing and quilted petticoats worn in the wintertime. Despite the name, linsey-woolsey bedcovers did not often contain linen. Rather, they were made of a top layer of woolenor glazed worsted wool fabric, consisting of smooth, compact yarn from long wool fibers, dyeddark blue, green, or brown with a bottom layer of a coarser woolen material, either natural or ashade of yellow. The filling was a soft layer of wool which had been cleaned and separated andthe three layers were held together with decorative stitching done with homespun linen thread.Later cotton thread was used for this purpose. The design of the stitching was often a simpleone composed of interlocking circles or crossed diagonal lines giving a diamond pattern. This type of heavy, warm, quilted bedcover was so large that it hung to the floor. Thecomers were cut out at the foot of the cover so that the quilt fit snugly around the tall four-poster beds of the 1700s, which differed from those of today in that they were shorter andwider; they were short because people slept in a semi-sitting position with many bolsters orpillows, and wide because each bed often slept three or more. The linsey-woolsey coveringwas found in the colder regions of the country because of the warmth it afforded. There was nocentral heating and most bedrooms did not have fireplaces.57. What does this passage mainly discuss? A. The processing of wool B. Linsey-woolsey bedcovers C. Sleeping habits of colonial Americans D. Quilts made in England58. The word prominent in line 3 is closest in meaning to A. isolated. B. concerned. C. generous. D. distinguished.59. The author mentions the Revolutionary War as a time period when A. quilts were supplied to the army. B. more immigrants arrived from England. C. quilts imported from England became harder to find. D. peoples attitudes toward England changed.60. The term linsey-woolsey originally meant fabric used primarily in A. quilts. B. sheets. C. clothing. D. pillows.61. The quilts described in the second and third paragraphs were made primarily of A. wool. B. linen. C. cotton. D. a mixture of fabrics.62. It can be inferred from the third paragraph that the sleeping habits of most Americans have changed since the 1700s in all the following ways EXCEPT A. the position in which people sleep. B. the numbers of bolsters or pillows people sleep on. C. the length of time people sleep. D. the number of people who sleep in one bed. (3) One of the good things for men in womens liberation is that men no longer have to pay wo