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QUESTION BOOKLETTEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (M03)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.We can conclude that Kate thinks quiz programs _.A are nonsenseB appeal to viewers vulgar tastesC lack instructive valueD influence unintelligent viewers2.Kate thinks that violence on television _.A is a way of lifeB will do harm to peopleC will not do nay real harm to viewersD should be prohibited3.According to the talk, how many people have been influenced by television fantasies?A Throngs of people.B Some people.C Few people.D None.4.What is untrue about the people who run TV?A They are people of limited intelligence.B They are sensitive.C They know their own business.D They have sound judgment.5.The interviewees reaction to violence on TV is _.A radicalB objectiveC live-and-let-liveD emotionalSECTION 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.We learn that the Yugoslavia peace talks _.A are going to be postponedB will begin as plannedC are to be canceledD will begin in September7.Absent from the talks will be _.A US military commandersB the UN High Commissioner for RefugeesC the EC foreign ministersD delegations from the former Yugoslavia8.Which of the following companies does not have cable television?A CBS.B ABC.C QVC.D NBC.9.CBS plans to have a merger deal with QVC because _.A it knows the dollar has fallen to its lowest levelB it wants to bring about significant changes in TVC its entire banking system is to go bankruptD it wants to make its stocks rise sharply in price10.The head of the QVC is _.A a big shot of sports TV networkB a Wall Street well-known analystC a renowned entrepreneurD the biggest shareholder of Paramount PicturesPART 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.RICH IN LOVEWhen I say I was not normal, I dont just mean I had the usual adolescent delusions of being different from everyone else. My upper lip had failed to fuse during a critical embryonic stage, and I had been born with a split there. Not a full-fledged harelip, but a small, neat slice not quite all the way through. When I was three, the lip had been repaired, and now, they said, it was hardly noticeable.Well: Does “hardly noticeable” mean “noticeable” or “not noticeable”?But I wasnt one to set store by looks. In fact, my scar had taught me a thing or two. It had put me into a different sphere. I sometimes felt as if I were a member of a third gender or secret species. On occasion, I saw people in the street who for one reason or another struck a chord in mea man with a rocking limp, a boy with one side of his face stained redand I would say to myself, “Theres one.”For a long time I felt guilty about my lip, and I had an urge to apologize to my mother for it. However, I later found out that I had no need to apologize. It was more likely that she needed to apologize to me. I accepted the seam, ran my finger over its shiny ridge whenever I was in deep thought and went on with my life.11.From the passage we can tell that the speakers scar has caused her to _.A feel like a deformed freakB be obsessed with her appearanceC think she is a unique individualD feel sorry for herself12.The speaker is probably _.A looking back on her teenage yearsB too concerned about the opinion of other peopleC estranged from and angry with her motherD carefree and thoughtlessly lightheartedGILMORE PRIZE KEEPS TOP PIANISTS GUESSINGA music professor at academies in Helsinki and Hamburg, Ralf Gothoni is best known for his work in chamber music and lieder.“Gothoni is busy as an accompanist because he doesnt play a lot of solo recitals. Hes been pigeonholed as a collaborator, and he hasnt been able to show hes an all-around great pianist. We hope to launch him as a solo player.” said David Pocock, artistic director of the Junina S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival.Gothonis performance will be the centerpiece of this years Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, which opens Saturday in Kalamazoo, Mich.At the opening, Gothoni will play Beethovens Piano Concerto in C minor. In addition to playing the solo sections, he will conduct the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra from the keyboard.“Usually, theres an orchestra, a conductor, and a soloist,” Gothoni says. “In this arrangement, the conductor cannot really communicate with the soloist.”Playing with his back to the audience on a grand piano, Gothoni conducts the orchestra with his eyes or single hand “during tuttis, when sometimes I have one free.”On the following evening, he will perform a solo concert of sonatas by Liszt and Schubert.“The first time I heard Ralf he was playing in a voice rehearsal with American soprano Barbara Hendricks,” Pocock says. “It was the finest vocal accompaniment Ive ever heard. The next time was a concerto with an orchestra, and it was musically perfect.What makes Gothoni special?“His playing is polished, intricately felt, and always controlled,” Pocock says. “There are no memory lapses or campiness, just serious, musical piano and beautiful sound. He has an incredible sense of architecture and balance.”While Gothoni says the Gilmore award has already boosted his solo career, his ambition is not fame as much as the opportunity to travel, play the piano, and “do my best.”“I think music is something else than an instrument to becoming famous,” he says. “It is a chance to study lifeall aspects of itand these aspects I hope we are able to give to the audience. My goal is to come as close as possible to the moment the work was created, to identify myself as closely as possible with the composer.”“They say if you are in chamber music you are not as valuable as a so-called soloist. The business aspect of music today is much too strong. In my opinion, there are no chamber musicians and no soloists. Everything is music.”At the announcement ceremony in Nashville, Tenn., Gothoni reacted to the award with amazing self-containment.“Oh thats fine,” the pianist said after the award was explained to him. “I think that should be fine.”13.If someone is “pigeonholed” he is _.A categorizedB bird brainedC mismatchedD distracted14.Gothoni prefers to _.A conduct chamber orchestrasB star as a soloistC travel with singersD perform while conducting15.According to Pocock, Gothonis music is _.A sometimes erraticB always affected and sentimentalC on occasion sloppyD always masterful16.Gothoni is most concerned about _.A becoming a world renowned soloistB attaining fame as a conductor and soloistC empathizing with the composers intentionsD making the money he deservesCLAY SCULPTURES INSPIRED BY MAN AND NATUREAvra Leodas of Santa Fe, N.M., makes objects in clayweighty, solid, mysterious, elegant sculptures. Her simple forms may at first glance appear to spring form nature, but many have been inspired by man- made objects. The surface textures sometimes resemble stone and sometimes steel, echoing the balance she achieves between nature-made and human-made inspiration. But the surfaces of these archetypal shapes also suggest ancient civilizationsan evocation of the history of human life on earth.In fact, the artist herself says that they remind her of artifacts found in an archaeological dig. The analogy becomes clear when looking at her current installation at the Robischon Gallery in Denver. As single items, the shapes are marvelous small sculptures. But placed in relationship to each other, the metaphors they evoke are endlessdepending only on the imagination of the viewer. The fact that the objects remind us of tools as much as they do of organic and aesthetic objects reinforces the archaeological metaphor.“This work is a tremendous departure from what Ive been doing for the last 17 years,” Leodas says. “There are a lot of connections, but the transitions are really important to me. I was doing these large vessels up to three feet in diameter. There are some similarities between the old and the new work in what the forms are aboutclassic, simple, elegant, unadorned work. The vessels, though, are intensely glazed in jewel-like tones.“People like to make reference to my Aegean heritagethe deep underwater blue and green. For me, it was a process of refinement, trying to make the perfect one. I worked with only six or seven forms, and I dealt with balance and proportion. For example, if I was working with an oval shape, I would do it tall and narrow or wide and shortplaying with proportion that way.”There came a point, however, when she reached the end of her experiments with vessels, when she had done everything she needed to do with the application of her medium.“I knew I had to change what I was doing, but I had no idea how. After the buildup of my reputation, it was just like being a baby.“These new forms are all closedas opposed to a vessel, where I am thinking about inside-outside, containing space. This body of work was a tremendous outpouring I did not plan at all. I did not plan or think about how one was leading to the next one. I just made them.”Leodas says these objects have been influenced by her love of tools. “When I was thinking about the new work, I went to a blacksmith friends shop, pulled out his tools, and photographed them. There is just something about the well-made tool that really does its job.” There is a piece that ended up looking like a tire rib, another that resembles a blacksmiths hammerhead, and another whose form derives from the disc between the vertebrae of a whale.In the end, she believes that the forms are both very personal and at the same time universal. The artists passion for clay is as plain as her exquisite formal achievements, her sense of fun as apparent as her expertise in the medium.17.The term “archaeological metaphor” in the second paragraph suggests that the sculptures _.A appear both antiquated and modernB are refined and unornamentedC resemble prehistoric implementsD are incomparable and artless18.The artists new work resembles the of her previous work _.A size and shapeB austerity and refinementC polished, vibrantly-colored exteriorsD symmetry and magnitude19.Leodas states in the fifth paragraph that “it was just like being a baby.,” indicating that she _.A once again felt like a neophyteB was brashly confident about her workC thought her fame was undeservedD was helpless and in need20.Form details in the passage we can infer that the artist _.A was born somewhere in the MediterraneanB lacks inspiration and humorC approaches her work mechanicallyD is disciplined and reflective21.Apparently the author of the passage _.A is unfamiliar with sculptural termsB relies too heavily on other art criticsC researches her subject matter before writingD finds Leodas work mundane and lifelessBERGMAN TURNS TO SCREENWRITING IN SUNDAYS CHILDRENJust over 10 years ago, Ingmar Bergman announced that the widely acclaimed Fanny and Alexander would mark his last hurrah as a filmmaker. Although some critics had written him off as earnest but ponderous, others were saddened by the departure of an artist who had explored cinematic moodsfrom high tragedy to low comedyduring his four-decade career.What nobody foresaw was that Bergman would find a variety of ways to circumvent his own retirementdirecting television movies, staging theater productions, and writing screenplays for other filmmakers to direct. His latest enterprise as a screenwriter, Sundays Children, completes a trilogy of family-oriented movies that began with Fanny and Alexcander and continued with The Best Intentions written by Bergman and directed by Danish filmmaker Bille August.Besides dealing with members of Bergmans family in bygone timesit begins a few years after The Best Intentions leaves offthe new picture was directed by Daniel Bergman, his youngest son. Although it lacks the urgency and originality of the elder Bergmans greatest achievements, such as The Silence and Persona, it has enough visual and emotional interest to make a worthy addition to his body of work.Set in rural Sweden during the late 1920s, the story centers on a young boy named Pu, clearly modeled on Ingmar Bergman himself. Pus father is a country clergyman whose duties include traveling to the capital and ministering to the royal family. While this is an enviable position, it doesnt assuage problems in the pastors marriage. Pu is young enough to be fairly oblivious to such difficulties, but his awareness grows with the passage of time. So do the subtle tensions that mar Pus own relationship with his father, whose desire to show affection and compassion is hampered by a certain stiffness in his demeanor and chilliness in his emotions.The films most resonant passages take place when Pu learns to see his father with new clarity while accompanying him on a cross-country trip to another parish. In a remarkable change of tone, this portion of the story is punctuated with flash-forwards to a time 40 years in the future, showing the relationship between parent and child to be dramatically reversed. The father is now cared for by the son, and desires a forgiveness for past shortcomings that the younger man resolutely refuses to grant.Brief and abrupt though they are, these scenes make a pungent contrast with the sunny landscapes and comic interludes in the early part of the movie.Sundays Children is a film of many levels, and all are skillfully handled by Daniel Bergman in his directional debut. Gentle scenes of domestic contentment are sensitively interwoven with intimations of underlying malaise. While the more nostalgic sequences are photographed with an eye-dazzling beauty that occasionally threatens to become cloying, any such result is foreclosed by the jagged interruptions of the flash-forward sequencesan intrusive device that few filmmakers are agile enough to handle successfully, but that is put to impressive use by the Bergman team.Henrik Linnros gives a smartly turned performance as young Pu, and Thommy Berggrenbwho starred in the popular Elvira Madigan years agois steadily convincing as his father. Top honors go to the screenplay, though, which carries the crowded canvas of Fanny and Alexander and the emotional ambiguity of The Best Intentions into fresh and sometimes fascinating territory.22.Over the years critical views of Bergmans work haveA without exception been positive.B deplored his seriousness.C often been antithetical.D usually focused on his personality.23.The subject matter of Sundays ChildrenA is presented chronologically.B takes place in the 19th century.C occurs all in one locale.D is derived from reminiscences.24.From the passage we can infer that Pus father is portrayed as a A demonstrative and caring parent.B reserved and reticent man.C compassionate and sentimental spouse.D spontaneous and dynamic minister.25.The reviewer thinks that the “flash forward” technique isA seldom handled skillfully.B responsible for the films success.C too disruptive for ordinary filmgoers.D best left to amateur experimentation.26.In the reviewers opinion, Sundays ChildrenA is a cinematic first. B has an original and interesting script.C is visually and emotionally depressing.D surpasses Bergmans previous work.PROJECT HALO SCIENTISTS GEAR UP FOR NEXT WEEKS SOLAR ECLIPSEFor some 300 million people across North America,. Tuesday (May 10) is a special day. Its the only opportunity until Aug. 21, 2017 when most of the continent will have a grandstand view of a nearly complete solar eclipse.Moreover, its not the ordinary type of eclipse where the moons disc covers the sun, and the solar corona (atmosphere) shines forth. Its an annular eclipse where the moon covers 88 percent of the sun, leaving a bright ring, or annulus, surrounding the eclipsed center. You wont see the corona with 12 percent of the sun still shining.That makes it uninteresting for solar astronomers. But as geophysicist Froest M. Mims III of Sun Photometry in Sequin, Texas, notes, next weeks annular eclipse “is a very important event for the atmospheric people.” They can use that 12 percent sunshine to help monitor what happens in the atmosphere as solar heating is diminished and then brought back to full strength. Observers can monitor changes in the absorption of selected wavelengths of sunlight to track changes in the ozone, oxygen, or water-vapor content of the at