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QUESTION BOOKLETTEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (M05)TIME LIMIT: 190 MINPART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION (30 MIN / 20%)SECTION A MINI-LECTUREIn this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening, take notes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but you will need them to complete a gap-filling task after the mini-lecture. When the lecture is over, you will be given two minutes to check your notes and another ten minutes to complete the gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE. Use the blank sheet for note-taking.SECTION B INTERVIEWIn this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct answer to each question on your colored answer sheet.1.Mr Brown is making inquiries about _.A full parking facilitiesB leaving his car in the UKC having his car servicedD hiring a car abroad2.The clerk informs the customer that he should pay _.A the minimum rate of 6.5 poundsB the list priceC a fixed chargeD Both A and C3.Mr Brown should deliver his car to Gatwick Parking Limited _.A at 11.00B at 11.10C at 11.20D at 11.304.Mr Browns reaction to the questions he has to answer is _.A completely indifferentB fairly relaxedC quite annoyedD rather impatient5.Mr Brown leaves in a hurry in order to avoid _.A losing his licenseB being finedC losing his parking spaceD being caught by the traffic wardenSECTION C NEWS BROADCASTIn this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct answer to each question on your colored answer sheet.6.The latest talks between Israel and the PLO are held in _.A PalestineB LiberiaC CairoD the UN headquarters7.The problems Israel and the PLO are trying to solve are about _.A the collapse of the bankB the prevention of the carrying out of the agreementC the warring factionsD the carrying out of the agreement on Palestinian self-rule8.The key to developing the oil industry in Venezuela is to attract _.A foreign aidB OPEC supportC private capitalD government efforts9.Venezuela will try hard to develop its oil industry because _.A it is still very backwardB oil is in greater demand than everC OPEC is going to raise petroleum pricesD it can better compete with other countries10.The report is based on news from _.A a conference held in LondonB the OPEC conferenceC a meeting in Exon CorporationD the Royal Dutch ShellPART II READING COMPREHENSION (30 MIN / 20%)In this section there are several reading passages followed by a total of 20 multiple-choice questions. Read the passage and then mark your answer on your colored answer sheet.LADY ORACLEIt was this memory that really set me off. I never learned to cry with style, silently, the pearl-shaped tear rolling down my cheeks from wide luminous eyes, as on the covers of True Love comics, leaving no smears or streaks. I wished I had; then I could have done it in front of people, instead of in bathrooms, darkened movie theaters, shrubberies and empty bedrooms, among the party coats on the bed. If you could cry silently people felt sorry for you. As it was I snorted, my eyes turned the color and shape of cooked tomatoes, my nose ran, I clenched my fists, I moaned, I was embarrassing,. finally I was amusing, a figure of fun. The grief was always real but it came out as a burlesque of grief, an overblown imitation like the neon rose on White rose Gasoline stations, gone forever now. Decorous weeping was another of those arts I never mastered, like putting on false eyelashes. I should have had a governess, I should have gone to finishing school and had a board strapped to my back and learned water-color painting and self-controlYou cant change the past, Aunt Lou used to say. Oh, but I wanted to; that was the one thing I really wanted to do. nostalgia convulsed me.11.The speaker in the passage makes it obvious that she _.A only cries surreptitiouslyB has a delicate and refined appearanceC wants to be the center of attentionD values solitude and quiet12.From the speakers personal revelations we can infer that she _.A is from an affluent familyB only reads the great classicsC has no aesthetic senseD is probably sensitive and thoughtfulIRONWEEDRiding up the winding road of Saint Agnes Cemetery in the back of the rattling old truck, Francis Phelan became aware that the dead, even more than the living, settled down in neighborhoods. The truck was suddenly surrounded by fields of monuments and cenotaphs of kindred design and striking size, all guarding the privileged dead. But the truck moved on and the limits of mere privilege became visible, for here now came the acres of truly prestigious death: illustrious men and women, captains of life without their diamonds, furs, carriages, and limousines, but buried in pomp and glory, vaulted in great tombs built like heavenly safe deposit boxes, or parts of the Acropolis. And ah yes, here too, inevitably, came the flowing masses, row upon row of them under simple headstones and simpler crosses. here was the neighborhood of the Phelans.Francis saw the pair of Phelan stones and tuned his eyes elsewhere, fearful that his infant son, Gerald, might be under one of them. He had not confronted Gerald directly since the day he let the child slip out of its diaper. he would not confront him now. he avoided the Phelan headstones on the presumptive grounds that they belonged to another family entirely. And he was correct.13.The tone of the passage is _.A ironicB comicC sardonicD tragic14.The primary purpose of the passage is to _.A describe the cemeteryB introduce Francis PhelanC comment on the importance of richesD compare the size of tombstones15.The passage implies _.A there are more rich than poor deadB Francis Phelan was a competent fatherC graves should have tombstonesD worldly riches are ephemeralRUSSIAS NEW REVOLUTION IN CONSERVATIONMurovyovka Nature Park, a private nature reserve, is the result of the vision and determination of one man, Sergei Smirensk. The Moscow University Professor has gained the support of international funds as well as local officials, businessmen and collective farms.Thanks to his efforts, the agricultural project is also under way to create an experimental farm to teach local farmers how to farm without the traditionally heavy use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers. Two Wisconsin farmers, Don and Ellen Padley, spent last summer preparing land in Tanbovka district, where the park is located, and they will return this summer to plant it.Specialists form the University of Utah also came to study the local cattle industry, looking to develop possibilities for beef exports to Japan.Separately, 10 New Jersey school teachers will spend the summer in the district running summer camps for the local children that will stress field trips and lectures on the nature around them.These programs, particularly the agricultural project, are getting some funding support from the United States, including from the MacArthur Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the US Agency for International Development. The Trust for Mutual Understanding and the Weeden Foundation are also supporting the International Crane Foundations work in creating the park.The World Bank is funding a small project to study the possibilities for ecotourism in the Amur basin region. Delta Dream Vacations, a Delta Airlines subsidiary, is looking into flights to Khabarovsk and Vladivostok for ecology tours, with some of the money going to support the zapovedniks (totally wild preserves used only for scientific research) in the region.But this money has also generated a jealous attempt by the local wildlife service to block the Murovyovka project.“They said, Give us their money, and well do it better,” Smirenski says. They went to the local court to get a court order to halt the contract. Although they were successful at that level, the Amur regional government, with encouragement from Moscow, has already moved to reverse the decision as illegal.“I dont pay attention to this negative side,” Smirenski says in characteristic optimistic fashion. “I decided we should continue to create.”Beyond Murovyovka, there are even vaster grasslands and wetlands in the Amur basin that are vital nesting areas for rare birds such as the eastern white stork, and the red-crowned, white-naped, and hooded cranes. A complex of 100,000 hectares, for example, lies largely unprotected in Zhuravalini (literally “a place for cranes”) downstream from Murovyovka. Creation of a national park, allowing for tourist use., has been proposed for this area.A key part of the conservation strategy is to gain the support of regional governments by getting them to see that such internationally backed nature projects can lead to business and other ties, particularly to countries like Japan and China. For example, the cranes that nest in Russia have been tracked by satellite to wintering grounds in Izumi, on Japans southern Kyushu Ialsnd. This linkage has proved useful in bringing regional officials from both countries together.Last summer, 100 Japanese school children from the Tama region outside of Tokyo came to Khabarovsk on the Amur to experience the kind of untouched nature that has disappeared from Japan. As part of the exchange, the Mayor of Tama donated 26 second-hand fire trucks to his counter-part.“After this, the mayor of Khabarovsk said Now I will listen to you, about your birds and all your problems,” recounts Smirenski. “Now the officials understand what cranes mean to them.”16.A probable goal of the agricultural project is to _.A reduce pollution in reserve farmlandsB induce Unite Nations cooperationC learn how local farms are operatedD import new breeds of farm animals17.Summer camps in the area will _.A be designed for foreign visitorsB be educationalC attract scientists and ecologistsD house field laborers and their families18.Projects connected with the development of the nature park are _.A self sustainingB narrow in scope and visionC attracting world-wide attentionD amassing scientific data19.The zapovedniks appear _.A eager to support the Nature ParkB opposed to outside fundingC envious of the Parks successD to have legal jurisdiction of the area20.The passage implies that projects like Murovyovka _.A face insurmountable financial problemsB take too much from local residentsC increase the need for fire enginesD can promote international cooperationINK-STAINED RICHES:Mencken, the Daddy of Bad-Boy PunditryIn his essay on H.L. Mencken entitled “Saving a Whale,” journalist Murray Kempton points out that “whales are the only mammals that the museums have never managed to stuff and mount in their original skins.” To Kempton, Mencken is a very great whale who, almost 40 years after his death, still defies critical taxonomy. That is putting it politely. Mencken in death provokes as much vitriol as he did while living. he has been called a racist, a humanitarian, an arch conservative and a great liberal, and the thorny fact is, he was all those things. Nobody knows what to make of a man who turned his diary into a manure pile of anti-Semitism at the same time he was working diligently to get Jews out of Hitlers Germany.Biographers have been struggling to take Menckens measure since the 1920s. Fred Hobsons Mencken.is the latest and best attempt. Hobson is the first of Menckens biographers to use all the posthumously published diaries, where the “Sage of Baltimore” vented his most odious bigotries and where he most clearly revealed the alienation and loneliness at the heart of his personality. Hobson does not try to resolve the contradictions in Menckens personality. Instead, he wisely uses this new material to portray Mencken as a man forever in conflict with himself, the carefree cutup coexisting with the control freak, the comic with the tragedian. Eventuallyat least a decade before the 1948 stroke that robbed him of the ability to read or writeMenckens darker angels took charge of his soul. In 1942, he wrote, “I have spent all of my 62 years here, but I still find it impossible to fit myself into the accepted patterns of American life and thought. After all these years, I remain a foreigner.”But as Hobson points out, the darkness was there all along, and the miracle is that out of this almost paralyzing bleakness, Mencken was once able to spin exuberant, lacerating prose that is as funny as it is essentially serious. At the peak of his powers, in the 20s and early 30s, he slaughtered every sacred cow in sight, from Prohibition to fundamentalism. But as hard as he could be on hillbillies and Klansmen, he was even harder on professors: “Of a thousand head of such dull drudges not ten, with their doctors dissertations behind them, ever contribute so much as a flyspeck to the sum of human knowledge.” Coining phrases like “the Bible belt” and aphorisms like “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard,” Mencken left his indecorous fingerprints all over American thought and speech.As a newspaper columnist, a magazine editor and a book writer, Mencken radically broadened the scope and raised the standards of American journalism. But most important, he proved that an intellectual could thrive in the popular press.Many have imitated Menckens style.But the sad fact is, Menckens disciples are not Mencken. Flaws and all, he was inimitable. As Hobson says, “He was our nay-saying Whitman, and.he sounded his own barbaric yap over the roofs of the timid and the fearful, the contented and the smug.” With his cheap cigars and his hicks haircut, and with his gaudy, orotund prose, he looks and sounds like an old-fashioned vaudevillian. As nice as it would be to stick this curmudgeonly, politically incorrect relic on a back shelf and forget about him, we need his rancor too much. Better than anyone, he still instructs us on the value of the loyal opposition. At his best, he made his readers think and he kept them honest. No journalist could want a better epitaph.21.Kempton thinks that Mencken was _.A a huge manB beyond reproachC larger than lifeD hard to classify22.Hobsons biography is atypical of previous books abut Mencken because it _.A sues samples of Menckens proseB creates a one-sided portraitC glosses over inconsistenciesD uses material Mencken never published23.Mencken is probably best characterized as a/an _.A optimistB pessimistC enthusiastD defeatist24.According to the author of the passage, Menckens prose is _.A pedanticB prosaicC pungentD poetic25.The reviewer believes that Menckens work should be appreciated because _.A it has historic valueB it reminds Americans of the importance of dissentC Mencken was an excellent reporterD Mencken cannot be copiedTHE DEATH OF A SPOUSEFor much of the world, the death of Richard Nixon was the end of a complex public life. But researchers who study bereavement wondered if it didnt also signify the end of a private grief. Had the former president merely run his allotted fourscore and one, or had he fallen victim to a pattern that seems to afflict longtime married couples: one spouse quickly following the other to the grave?Pat, Nixons wife of 53 years, died last June after a long illness. No one knows for sure whether her death contributed to his. After all, he was elderly and had a history of serious heart disease. Researchers have long observed that the death of a spouse particularly a wife is sometimes followed by the untimely death of the grieving survivor. Historian Will Durant died 13 days after his wife and collaborator, Ariel; Bickminster Fuller and his wife died just 36 hours apart. Is this more than coincidence?“Part of the story, I suspect, is that we men are so used to ladies feeding us and taking care of us,” says Knud Helsing, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, “that when we lose a wife we go to pieces. We dont know how to take care of ourselves.” In one of several studies Helsing has conducted on bereavement, he found that widowed men had higher mortality rates than married men in every age group. But, he found that widowers who remarried enjoyed the same lower mortality rate as men whod never been widowed.Womens health and resilience may also suffer after the loss of a spouse. In a 1987 study of widows, researchers form the University of California, Los Angeles, and UC, San Diego, found that they had a dramatic decline in levels of important immune-system cells that fight off disease. Earlier studies showed reduced immunity in widowers.For both men and women, the stress of losing a spouse can have a profound effect. “All sorts of potentially harmful medical problems can be worsened,” says Gerald Davison, professor of psychology at the University of Southern California. People with high blood pressure, for example, may see it rise. In Nixons case, Davison speculates, “the stroke, although not caused directly by the stress, was probably hastened by it.” Depression can affect the surviving spouses will to live; suicide rates are elevated in the bereaved, along with accidents not involving cars.Involvement in life helps prolong it.