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1、TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS(2015)TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS(2015)-GRADE FOUR-GRADE FOUR-TIME LIMIT:130 MINTIME LIMIT:130 MINPART I DICTATIONPART I DICTATION10 MIN10 MINListen to the following passage.Altogether the passage will be read to you four times.During thefirst reading,which will be done at normal

2、speed,listen and try to understand the meaning.For thesecond and third readings,the passage will be read sentence by sentence,or phrase by phrase,withintervals of 15 seconds.The last reading will be done at normal speed again and during this time youshould check your work.You will then be given 1 mi

3、nute to check through your work once more.Please write the whole passage on ANSWER SHEET ONE.PART II LISTENING COMPREHENSIONPART II LISTENING COMPREHENSION20 MIN20 MINSECTION A TALKSECTION A TALKIn this section you will hear a talk.You will hear the talk ONCEONLY.While listening,you maylook at the t

4、ask on ANSWER SHEET ONE and write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each gap.Make sure what you fill in isboth grammatically and semantically acceptable.You may use the blanksheet for note-taking.You have THIRTY seconds to preview the gap-filling task.Now listen to the talk.When it is over,you will be gi

5、ven TWO minutes to complete your work.SECTION B CONVERSATIONSSECTION B CONVERSATIONSIn this section you will hear two conversations.At the end of each conversation,five questions willbe asked about what was said.Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken ONCE ONLY.Aftereach question ther

6、e will be a ten-second pause.During the pause,you should read the four choices of A,B,C and D,and mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO.You have thirty seconds to preview the questions.Now,listen to the conversations.CONVERSATION ONECONVERSATION ONE1.A.The return trip is too expe

7、nsive.B.There is no technology to get people back.C.People dont want to return.D.The return trip is too risky.2.A.Intelligence.B.Health.C.Calmness.D.Skills.3.A.He cant calmly cope with problems.B.He is not smart and healthy.C.He belongs to people with specific skills.D.He is too shy to sign up for t

8、he trip.4.A.The Olympics audience.B.The whole world.C.The participants themselves.D.People watching the mission on television.5.A.Curiosity and hobbies of the speakers.B.Interest in watching the mission on TV.2015-TEM4-1C.The kind of people suitable for the trip.D.Recruitment of people for the trip.

9、CONVERSATION TWOCONVERSATION TWO6.A.Going to the high street.C.Visiting shops and buying online.7.A.Shoes.B.Electrical products.8.A.3%.B.33%.9.A They want to see the real thing first.C.They can return the product later.10.A.Increase prices.C.Offer discount vouchers.B.Visiting everyday shops.D.Buying

10、 things like electrical goods.C.Smartphones.D.Newspapers.C.42%.D.24%.B.They want to know more about pricing.D.They can bargain for a lower shop price.B.Sell more products.D.Reduce costs.PART III LANGUAGE USAGEPART III LANGUAGE USAGE10 MIN10 MINThere are twenty sentences in this section.Beneath each

11、sentence thereare four words,phrases orstatements marked A,B,C and D.Choose one word,phrase or statement that best completes thesentence.Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO.11.When you have finished with that book,dont forget to put it back on the shelf,_?A.will youB.do youC.dont youD.wont you12.W

12、hich of the following statements is INCORRECT?A.Five miles seem like a long walk to me.B.Ten dollars was stolen from the cash register.C.Either my sister or my brother is coming.D.Only one out of six were present at the meeting.13.It is not so much the language _ the cultural background that makes t

13、he film difficult to understand.A.butB.norC.likeD.as14.There is no doubt _ the committee has made the right decision on the housing project.A.whyB.thatC.whetherD.when15.If you explained the situation to your lawyer,he _ able to advise you much better than I can.A.will beB.would beC.wasD.were16.Which

14、 of the following is a stative verb(静态动词)?A.Drink.B.Close.C.Rain.D.Belong.17.Which of the following italicized parts indicates a subject-verb relation?A.The man has a large family to support.B.She had no wish to quarrel with her brother.C.He was the last guest to leave.D.Mary needs a friend to talk

15、to.18.Which of the following is INCORRECT?A.A bit of flowers.B.Few words.C.This work.D.Another two girls.19.When one has good health,_ should feel fortunate.A.youB.sheC.heD.we20.There _ nothing more for discussion,the meeting came to an end half an hour earlier.A.to beB.to have beenC.beingD.be21.Bot

16、tles from this region sell _ at about$50 a case.A.wholesaleB.totallyC.entirelyD.together22.The product contains no _ colours,flavours,or preservatives.A.fakeB.falseC.artificialD.wrong23._ and business leaders were delighted at the decision to hold the national motor fair in the city.2015-TEM4-2A.Civ

17、ilB.CivilizedC.CivilianD.Civic24.The city council is planning a huge road-building programme to ease congestion.The underlined partmeans _.A.calmB.relieveC.comfortD.still25.His unfortunate appearance was offset by an attractive personality.The underlined part means all thefollowing EXCEPT _.A.improv

18、edB.made up forC.balancedD.compensated for26.The doctor said that the gash in his cheek required ten stitches.The underlined part means _.A.lumpB.depressionC.swellingD.cat27.During the economic crisis,they had to cut back production and _ workers.A.lay intoB.lay offC.lay downD.lay aside28.To mark it

19、s one hundredth anniversary,the university held a series of activities including conferences,film shows,etc.The underlined part means _.A.celebrateB.signifyC.symbolizeD.suggest29.His fertile mind keeps turning out new ideas.The underlined part means _.A.abundantB.unbelievableC.productiveD.generative

20、30.These issues were discussed at length during the meeting.The underlined part means _.A.eventuallyB.subsequentlyC.lastlyD.fullyPART IV CLOZEPART IV CLOZE10 MIN10 MINDecide which of the words given in the box below would best complete the passage if inserted in thecorresponding blanks.The words can

21、 be used ONCE ONLY.Mark the letter for each word on ANSWERSHEET TWO.A.asB.aimlessC.botherD.fastE.flightsF.helplessG.labor-savingH.levelsI.money-savingJ.pauseK.quiteL.stand byM.standstillN.trafficO.trappedElectricity is such a part of our everyday lives and so much taken for granted nowadays that wer

22、arely think twice when we switch on the light or turn on the TV set.At night,roads are brightly lit,enabling people and(31)_ to move freely.Neon lighting used in advertising has become part of thecharacter of every modern city.In the home,many(32)_ devices are powered by electricity.Evenwhen we turn

23、 off the bedside lamp and are(33)_ asleep,electricity is working for us,driving ourrefrigerators,heating our water,or keeping our rooms air-conditioned.Every day,trains,buses andsubways take us to and from work.We rarely(34)_ to consider why or how they rununtilsomething goes wrong.In the summer of

24、1959,something did go wrong with the power-plant thatprovided New York with electricity.For a great many hours,life came almost to a(35)_.Trainsrefused to move and the people in them sat in the dark,powerless to do anything;lifts stopped working,so that even if you were lucky enough not to be(36)_ b

25、etween two floors,you had the unpleasanttask of finding your way down(37)_ of stairs.Famous streets like Broadway and Fifth Avenue inan instant became as gloomy and uninviting(38)_ the most remote back streets.People were afraidto leave their houses,for although the police had been ordered to(39)_ i

26、n case of emergency,theywere just as confused and(40)_ as anybody else.PART V READING COMPREHENSIONPART V READING COMPREHENSION35 MIN35 MIN2015-TEM4-3SECTION A MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONSSECTION A MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONSIn this section there are three passages followed by ten multiple-choice questio

27、ns.For each question,there are four suggested answers marked A,B,C and D.Choose the one that you think is the best answerand mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO.PASSAGE ONEPASSAGE ONE(1)Inundated by more information than we can possibly hold in our heads,were increasinglyhanding off the job of rem

28、embering to search engines and smart phones.Google is even reportedlyworking on eyeglasses that could one day recognize faces and supply details about whoever,yourelooking at.But new research shows that outsourcing our memoryand expecting that information will becontinually and instantaneously avail

29、ableis changing ourcognitive habitscognitive habits.(2)Research conducted by Betsy Sparrow,an assistant professor of psychology at ColumbiaUniversity,has identified three new realities about how we process information in the Internet age.First,her experiments showed that when we don t know the answe

30、r to a question,we now thinkabout wherewe can find the nearest Web connection instead of the subject of the question itself.A second revelation isthat when we expect to be able to find information again later on,we don t remember it as well as whenwe think it might become unavailable.Sparrow s subje

31、cts were asked to type facts into a computer forexample,“The space shuttle Columbia disintegrated during re-entry.over Texas in February 2003.”Halfwere told that their work would be saved;the rest were told that their words would be erased.Those whobelieved that the computer would store the informat

32、ion recalled details less well on their own.Sparrowcompares their situation to one we all experience in the hyperconnected real world:“Since search enginesare continually available to us,we may often be in a state of not feeling we need to encode theinformation internally.When we need it,we will loo

33、k it up.”Sound familiar?(3)And then there is the researchers final observation:the expectation that well be able to locate information down the line leads us to form a memory not of the fact itself but of where we ll be able to findit.“We are learning what the computer knows and when we should atten

34、d to where we have storedinformation in our computer-based memories,”Sparrow and her colleagues concluded in their report.“We are becoming symbiotic with ourcomputer tools.“Before you grow nervous about turning into acyborg,however,you should know that this new symbiosis with our digital devices is

35、really just a variantof a much more familiar phenomenon,what psychologists call transactive memory.This is the unspokenarrangement by which groups of people dole out memory tasks to each individual,with information to beshared when needed.In a marriage,one spouse might remember the kids after school

36、 appointments whilethe other keeps track of the recycling-pickup schedule.In a workplace team,one member may be thedesignated number cruncher.while a colleague is charged with remembering client preferences.The waywe delegate to our computers is simply an extension of this principle an instance of t

37、ransactive memorycarried out on a very grand scale.(4)But this handoff comes with a downside.Skills like critical thinking and analysis must develop inthe context of facts:we need something to think and reasonabout,after all.A And these facts can t beGoogled as we go;they need to be.stored in the or

38、iginal hard drive,our long-term memory.Especially inthe case of children,“factual knowledge must precede skill,”says Daniel Willingham,a professor ofpsychology,at the University of Virginia meaning that the days of drilling the multiplication table andmemorizing the names of the Presidents arent ove

39、r quite yet.Adults,too,need to recruit a supply ofstored knowledge in order to situate and evaluate new information they encounter.You cant Googlecontextcontext.2015-TEM4-4(5)Last,theres the possibility,increasingly terrifying to contemplate,that our machines will fail us.As Sparrow puts it,“The exp

40、erience of losing our Internet connection becomes more and more like losingfriend.”If youre going to keep your memory on your smart phone,better make sure its fully charged.41.Googles eyeglasses are supposed to _.A.improve our memoryB.function like memoryC.help us see faces betterD.work like smart p

41、hones42.Which of the following statements about Sparrows research is CORRECT?A.We remember people and things as much as before.B.We remember more Internet connections than before.C.We pay equal attention to location and content of information.D.We tend to remember location rather than the core of fa

42、cts.43.What does the author mean by“context”?A.It refers to long-term memory.B.It refers to a new situation.C.It refers to a store of knowledge.D.It refers to the search engine.44.What is the implied message of the author?A.Web connections aid our memory.B.People differ in what to remember.C.People

43、need to exercise their memory.D.People keep memory on smart phones.PASSAGE TWO(1)I was a second-year medical student at the university,and was on my second day of rounds at anearby hospital.My university s philosophy was to get students seeing patients early in their education.Nice idea,but it overl

44、ooked one detail:second-year students know next to nothing about medicine.(2)Assigned to my team that day was an attending a senior faculty member who was there mostlyto make patients feel they werent in the hands of amateurs.Many attendings were researchers who didnthave much recent hospital experi

45、ence.Mine was actually an arthritis specialist.Also along was a resident(the real boss,with a staggering mastery of medicine,at least to a rookie like myself).In addition,therewere two interns(住院实习医生).These guys were just as green as I was,but in a scarier way:they hadrecently graduated from the med

46、ical school,so they were technically MDs.(3)I began the day at 6:30 am.An intern and I did a quick check of our eight patients;later,we wereto present our findings to the resident and then to the attending.I had three patients and the intern had theother fivepiece of cake.(4)But when I arrived in th

47、e room of 71-year-old Mr.Adams,he was sitting up in bed,sweatingheavily and panting(喘气).Hed just had a hip operation and looked terrible.I listened to his lungs withmy stethoscope,but they sounded clear.Next I checked the log of his vital signs and saw that hisrespiration and heart rate had been cli

48、mbing,but his temperature was steady.It didnt seem like heartfailure,nor did it appear to be pneumonia.So I asked Mr.Adams what he thought was going on.(5)“Its really hot in here,Doc,”he replied.(6)So I attributed his condition to the stuffy room and told him the rest of the team would return in afe

49、w hours.He smiled and feebly waved goodbye.(7)At 8:40 am,during our team meeting,“Code Blue Room 307!”blared from the loudspeaker.(8)I froze.(9)That was Mr.Adamss room.(10)When we arrived,he was motionless.2015-TEM4-5(11)The autopsy(尸体解剖)later found Mr.Adams had suffered a massivepulmonary embolism(

50、肺部栓塞).A blood clot had formed in his leg,worked its way to his lungs,and cat his breathingcapacity in half.His symptomsHis symptoms hadhad been textbookbeen textbook:heavy perspiration and shortness of breath despiteclear lungs.The only thing was:I.hadnt read that chapter in the textbook yet.And I w