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Test 3Part I Writing (30 minutes)注意：正式考试时候，此部分试题在答题卡1上。Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write A Letter of Congratulations on your friends graduation from university and getting a good job. You should write at least 120 words and pay attention to the form of the letter. Your letter should include the following contents: 1表示祝贺 2相信并鼓励他在未来的工作中能做得更好 3送上祝福Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions l-7, mark Y (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 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.Click Women are beginning to experience that click! of recognition-that moment of truth that brings a gleam to our eyes and means the revolution has begun. Those clicks are coming faster, and women are getting angry. Not redneck-angry from screaming because we are so frustrated and unfulfilled, but clicking-things-into-place-angry. We have suddenly and shockingly seen the basic lack of order in what has been believed to be the natural order of things. One little click turns on a thousand others. In Houston, Texas, a friend of mine stood and watched her husband step over a pile of toys on the stairs, put there to be carried up. “Why cant you get this stuff put away?” he mumbled. Click! “You have two hands,” she said, turning away. Last summer I got a letter from a man who wrote: “I do not agree with your last article, and I am canceling my wifes subscription.” The next day I got a letter from his wife saying, “I am not canceling my subscription.” Click! On Fire Island, my weekend hostess and I had just finished cooking breakfast, lunch, and washing dishes for both. A male guest came wandering into the kitchen just as the last dish was being put away and said, “How about something to eat?” He sat down, expectantly, and started to read the paper. Click! “You work all week,” said the hostess, “and I work all week, and if you want something to eat, you can get it, and wash up after it yourself.” In New York last fall, my neighbors-named Jones - had a couple named Smith over for dinner. Mr. Smith kept telling his wife to get up and help Mrs. Jones. Click! Click! Two women radicalized at once. A woman I know in St. Louis, who had begun to enjoy a little success writing a grain company s newsletters, came home to tell her husband about lunch in the executive dining room. She had planned a funny little story about the deeply humorous pomposity (自以为是) of the executives, when she noticed her husband rocking with laughter. “Ho ho, my little wife in an executive dining room.” Click! Last August, I was on a boat leaving an island in Maine. Two families were with me, and the mothers were discussing the troubles of cleaning up after a rental summer. “Bob cleaned up the bathroom for me, didnt you, honey?” she confided, gratefully patting her husbands knee. “Well, what the hell, its vacation,” he said fondly. The two women looked at each other, and the queerest change came over their faces. “I got up at six this morning to make sandwiches for the trip home from this vacation,” the first said. “So I wonder why Ive thanked him at least six times for cleaning the bathroom?” Click! Click! In suburban Chicago, the party consisted of three couples. The women were a writer, a doctor, and a teacher. The men were all lawyers. As the last couple arrived, the host said, heartily, “With a roomful of lawyers, we ought to have a good evening.” Silence. Click! “What are wet asked the teacher. “Invisible?” In an office, a political columnist, male, was waiting to see the editor-in-chief. Leaning against a doorway, the columnist turned to the first woman he saw and said, “Listen, call Barry Brown and tell him Ill be late.” Click! It wasnt because she happened to be the chief editor herself that she refused to make the call. In the end, we are all housewives, the natural people to turn to when there is something unpleasant, inconvenient, or inconclusive to be done. It will not do for women who have jobs to pretend that societys ills will be cured if all women are gainfully employed. In Russia, 70 percent of doctors and 20 percent of construction workers are women, but women still do all the housework. Some revolution, as the Russian womens saying goes, simply freed them to do twice the work. They tell us we are being petty. The future improvement of civilization could not depend on who washes the dishes. Could it? Yes. The liberated society-with men, women, and children living as whole human beings, not halves divided by sex roles-depends on the steadfast search for new solutions to just such apparently unimportant problems, on new answers to tired old questions. Such questions as: Denise works as a waitress from 6 am to 3 pm. Her husband is a cabdriver, who moonlights on weekends as a doorman. They have four children. When her husband comes home at night, he asks, “Whats for dinner?”Jonathan and Joanne are both doctors. They have identical office hours. They come home in the evening to a dinner cooked by the housekeeper. When they go to bed, he drops his clothes on the floor and she picks them up. In the morning he asks, “Where is my pink and orange striped shirt?” In moments of suburban strife, Fred often asks his wife, Alice, “Why havent you mended my shirt and lubricated the car? What else have you got to do but sit around the house all day?”According to insurance companies, it would cost Fred $8,000-$9,000 a year to replace Alices services if she died. Alice, being an average ideal suburban housewife, works 99.6 hours a week-always feeling there is too much to be done and always guilty because it is never quite finished. Besides, her work doesnt seem important. After all, Fred is paid for doing whatever he does. Abstract statistics make no impact on Alice. “My situation is different,” she says. Of course it is. All situations are different. But sooner or later she will experience-in a blinding clicka moment of truth. She will remember that she once had other interests, vague hopes, and great plans. She will decide that the work in the house is less important than reordering that work so she can consider her own life.The problem is: What does she do then?注意：正式考试时候，此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答，810题在答题卡1上。1. Women are beginning to realize the unfairness of their being totally responsible for housework.2. Click! means womens recognition of a chore to be done.3. Last summer the author got a letter from a man asking to cancel his wifes subscription.4. The woman who wrote newsletters for a grain company was very successful.5. In a party in suburban Chicago, the three womens husbands had the same job as lawyer.6. The male political columnist did not expect the editor-in-chief to be a woman.7. Women should free themselves by getting rid of all the housework.8. The liberated society depends on the consistent search for new answers to _.9. Jonathan and Joanne neednt worry about cooking since they _.10. Insurance companies estimate that it would cost about _ annually to replace a housewife s services.Part III Listening Comprehension (35 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A ), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.注意：正式考试时候，此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。11. A) He feels very excited. B) He feels very upset. C) He feels very angry. D) He feels very sorry.12. A) Reading newspaper. B) Watching television. C) Discussing a sports programme. D) Listening to the music.13. A) At a railway station. B) At an airport. C) On an airplane. D) At a bus stop. 14. A) To go to the study. B) To play computer games. C) To ask for his father s permission. D) To be quiet and not to disturb his father. 15. A) A film. B) A book. C) A fencing match. D) A popular singer. 16. A) The woman is satisfied with the mans apologies. B) The woman forgives the mans negligence. C) The woman is not at all pleased with the mans apologies. D) The woman doesnt need the mans apologies. 17. A) The students will take an English exam tomorrow morning. B) The students will attend a meeting. C) The teacher postponed the meeting. D) There wont be an exam this afternoon.18. A) The woman doesnt want to pay for the room. B) The woman likes smoking. C) The woman wants to have a non-smoking room. D） Theres no more room in the hotel.Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.19. A) Teacher and student. B) Classmates. C) Ex-husband and wife. D) Colleagues.20. A) A new Chinese restaurant. B) The woman s new job. C) The days they spent together in school. D) The man s experience after graduation.21. A) Chinese food is very delicious. B) Cooking is a happy work for him now. C) Cooking can make a lot of money. D) His family didnt like the food he cooked before.22. A) Two years. B) Three years. C) Four years. D) Five years.Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.23. A) They show great respect to their parents. B) They always do what their parents ask them to do. C) They are very close to their parents. D) They often disregard their parents opinions.24. A) Because her parents do not force her to do what she doesnt want to do. B) Because her parents allow her to study in England. C) Because her parents support her financially. D) Because her parents allow her to live on her own. 25. A) He loves his family very much. B) He gets along well with his parents. C) His parents do not give him much freedom. D) He does not have much in common with his parents. Section B Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and 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 Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.注意：正式考试时候，此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。Passage OneQuestions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.26. A)In 1835. B) In 1853. C) In 1839. D) in 1847.27. A) Because he didnt like the job. B) Because the Civil War broke out. C) Because he found another job as a typesetter. D) Because his family asked him to do so.28. A) His stories were enriched by his travels. B) His travels prevented him from writing. C) lie traveled in order to relax from the pressures of writing. D) He traveled around to publish his writing.Passage TwoQuestions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.29. A) More than 500. B) More than 250. C) 193. D) One-third of Chinese cities. 30. A) Making reasonable development plans. B) Building effectively operated infrastructure. C) Continuing the improvement of the city environment. D) Treating industrial waste. 31. A) More and more cities appear. B) There are increasing complaints about environmental problems. C) More and more people pour into cities. D) One-third of industrial sewage in the cities went untreated. Passage Three Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard. 32. A) He gave her a camera. B) He occasionally gave her hand a squeeze. C) He gave her a warmest hug. D) His eyes welled up with tears. 33. A) Because she didnt dare to. B) Because no one wanted to tell her. C) Because she knew he had died. D) Because no one knew where he was.34. A) An angels bless. B) The nurses intensive care. C) The speakers voice and touch. D) His vital energies.35. A) The speaker was a qualified nurse. B) Mr. Gillespie was an optimistic person. C) He who helps others will feel happy too. D) Sick people need an angels help.Section CDirections: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.注意：正式考试时候，此部分试题在答题卡2上；请在答题卡2上作答。 The idea of television, transmitting pictures through the air or over wires, has been around sincethe late 19th (36) _. But it wasnt until 1925, when J. L. Baird, a Scottish (37) _became the first to electrically transmit moving pictures, that television became a (38) _.Baird s first television was a mechanical system consisting of several moving parts. It had a small (39) _ onto which pictures were transmitted 10 times per second at 30 lines of resolution (分辨率). With the help of a photoelectric cell (光电管), bright and dim light were (40) _ into an electrical signal and sent via radio waves. In June 1925, Baird transmitted the (41) of a human face, winking and smiling from one room of the laboratory to another, without the aid of (42) _or wires. Television truly came into its own in the 1930s with the advent of the cathode-ray tube (阴极射线管), which allowed for electronic line-by-line scanning of (43) _. With the help of the Radio Corporation of America and an improved cathode-ray tube, the first all-electronic TV was demonstrated in 1932. (44) _.As televisions evolution continues, high-definition (分辨率) digital TV is supposed to replace todays 625-1ine sets with 1,050 or more lines of resolution. (45) _. This trend has developed very fast. (46) _.Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with I0 blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.Oceanography has been defined as “the application of all sciences to the study of the sea”. Before the 19th century, scientists with an interest in the sea were few and far between. Certainly Newton considered some theoretical aspects of it in his writings, but he was 47 to go to sea to further his work. For most people the sea was _48 , and with the exception of early 49 travellers or others who earned a living from the sea, there was little reason to ask many questions about it, let 50 to ask what lay beneath the surface. The first time that the question “What is at the 51 of the oceans? had to be answered with any commercial 52 was when the laying of a telegraph cable from Europe to America was 53 . The engineers had to know the depth profile (起伏形状) of the route to the length of cable that had to be manufactured. It was to Maury of the U.S. Navy that the Atlantic Telegraph Company turned, in 1853, for 55 on this matter. In the 1840s, Maury had been 56 for encouraging voyages during which soundings (测深) were taken to investigate the depths of the North Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Later, some of his findings aroused much popular interest in his book The Physical Geography of the Sea.注意：正式考试时候，此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。A) physical I) information B) bottom J) intercontinental C) dived K) apart D) responsible L) remote E) consequence M) geology F) reluctant N) proposed G) measurable O) alone H) estimate Section BDirections: There are 2 pass