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1、practice Test 3LISTENINGSECTION 1 Questions 1-12Questions 1-4circle the appropriate letterExampleHow does the woman travel every day?A by carB by busC on footD by train1 what are the parking regulations on campus?A undergraduate parking allowedB postgraduate parking allowedC staff parking only allow

2、edD no student parking allowed2 The administration office is inA Block B.B Block D.C Block E.D Block G.3 If you do not have a parking sticker, the following action will be taken:A wheel clamp your car.B fine only.C tow away your car and fine.D tow away your car only.54Listening4 which picture shows

3、the correct location of the Administration office?Questions 5-10complete the application orm using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDSApplication or parking stickerName (5) .Address (6) Flat 13 .suburb (7) .Faculty (8) .Registration number (9) .Make of car (10) .Questions 11-1211 cashier,s office opens at A 12

4、.15 B 2.00 C 2.15 D 4.3012 where must the sticker be displayed? 55practice Test 3SECTION 2 Questions 13-23complete the notes below using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDSor each answer.Date the museum was opened(13)The museum consists of a building and(14)Handicapped toilet door showsExample: d wee/chdirThe

5、Education centre is signposted by(15)If you lose your friends, meet at the(16)warning about The vampire(17)How often are the tours of The vampire?(18)person featured in todays video(19)The Leisure Gallery shows how Australian culture is influenced by(20)(21)The picture Gallery contains pictures byco

6、st of family membership of the museum(22)“passengers and the sea” includes a collection of(23)56ListeningSECTION 3 Questions 24-32Questions 24-27click the correct answer24 Mark is going to talk briefly aboutA marketing new products.B pricing strategies.C managing large companies.D setting sales targ

7、ets.25 According to susan, air fares are lowest when theyA include weekend travel.B are booked well in advance.C are non-refundable.D are for business travel only.26 Mark thinks revenue management isA interesting.B complicated.C time-consuming.D reasonable.27 The airline companies want toA increase

8、profits.B benefit the passenger.C sell cheap seats.D improve the service.Questions 28-32complete the notes using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDSor each answerTwo reasons for the new approach to pricing are:(28) . and(29) . .In future people will be able to book airline tickets (30) . .Also being marketed m

9、 this way are (31) . and(32) . .57practice Test 3SECTION 4 Questions 33-42Questions 33-37complete the table write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDSor each answer3PAC旦 別ANA旦別旦N了RESEARCH METHODINFORMATION PROVIDEDQuestionnaireswhat customers think about(33) .(34) .how customers move around supermarket aislesEy

10、e movement(35) .the most eye-catching areas of the shopcomputer programse.g. (36) .the best (37) .for an article in the shop58EXITCheckout - often used to sell(42) .Gondola end often find(41) .displayed here.AISLEProducts placed here sell well particularly if they are placed(39) .These areas areknow

11、n as(40) .ListeningQuestions 38-42Label the cliagiam wiiteNO MORE THAN THREE WORDSor each anmerA SUPERMARKET AISLEENTRANCEFirst shelves -customersusually(38) .these.Gondola end -primeposition:used to launch launch new products59practice Test 3READINGREADING PASSAGE 1You should spend about 20 minutes

12、 on Questions 1-12 which are based on Reading passage 2 below.SPOKEN CORPUS COMES TO LIFEA The compiling of dictionaries has been historically the provenance of studious professorial types - usually bespectacled - who love to pore over weighty tomes and make pronouncements on the finer nuances of me

13、aning. They were probably good at crosswords and definitely knew a lot of words, but the image was always rather dry and dusty. The latest technology, and simple technology at that, is revolutionising the content of dictionaries and the way they are put together.B For the first time, dictionary publ

14、ishers are incorporating real, spoken English into their data. It gives lexicographers (people who write dictionaries) access to a more vibrant, up-to-date vernacular language which has never really been studied before. In one project, 150 volunteers each agreed to discreetly tie a walkman recorder

15、to their waist and leave it running for anything up to two weeks. Every conversation they had was recorded. when the data was collected, the length of tapes was 35 times the depth of the Atlantic ocean. Teams of audio typists transcribed the tapes to produce a computerised database often million wor

16、ds.C This has been the basis - along with an existing written corpus - for the Language Activator dictionary, described by lexicographer professor Randolph Quirk as “the book the world has been waiting for”. It shows advanced foreign learners of English how the language is really used. In the dictio

17、nary, key words such as “eat” are followed by related phrases such as “wolf down” or “be a picky eater”, allowing the student to choose the appropriate phrase. D “This kind of research would be impossible without computers,” said Delia summers, a director of dictionaries. “It has transformed the way

18、 lexicographers work. If you look at the word “like”, you may intuitively think that the first and most frequent meaning is the verb, as in “Ilike swimming”. It is not. It is the preposition, as in: “she walked like a duck”. Just because a word or phrase is60Readingused doesnt mean it ends up in a d

19、ictionary. The sifting out process is as vital as ever. But the database does allow lexicographers to search for a word and find out how frequently it is used - something that could only be guessed at intuitively before.E Researchers have found that written English works in a very different way to s

20、poken English. The phrase “say what you like” literally means “feel free to say anything you want”, but in reality it is used, evidence shows, by someone to prevent the other person voicing disagreement. The phrase “it”s a question of crops up on the database over and over again. It has nothing to d

21、o with enquiry, but its one of the most frequent English phrases which has never been in a language learners dictionary before: it is now.F The spoken corpus computer showshow inventive and humorous people are when they are using language by twisting familiar phrases for effect. It also reveals the

22、power of the pauses and noises we use to play for time, convey emotion, doubt and irony.G For the moment, those benefiting most from the spoken corpus are foreign learners. “computers allow lexicographers to search quickly through more examples of real English,” said professor Geoffrey Leech of Lanc

23、aster university. “They allow dictionaries to be more accurate and give a feel for how language is being used.” The spoken corpus is part of the larger British National corpus, an initiative carried out by several groups involved in the production of language learning materials: publishers, universi

24、ties and the British Library.61practice Test 3Questions 1-6Reading passage 1 has seven paragraphs (A-G). choose the most suitable headingor each paragraph rom the list o headings below. write the appropriate numbers (i-xi) in boxes 1-6 on your answer sheet. paragraph chas been done or you as an exam

25、ple.NB There are more headings than paragraphs so you will not use all o them. You may use any heading more than once.List of Headingsi Grammar is correctedii New method of researchiii Technology learns from dictionariesiv Non-verbal contentv The first study of spoken languagevi Traditional lexicogr

26、aphical methodsvii written English tells the truthviii New phrases enter dictionaryix A cooperative research projectx Accurate word frequency countsxi Alternative expressions provided1 paragraph A2 paragraph BExample Answerparagraph C Xi3 paragraph D4 paragraph E5 paragraph F6 paragraph G62The portr

27、ayal of feelings through. (11) .spoken corpus computerDifferences between written and. (10) . useMost frequentlyused . (9) . ofwords.RreadingQuestions 7-11The diagram below illustrates the inormation provided in paragraphs B-F o Readingpassage 1 complete the labels on the diagram with an appropriate

28、 word or words use NO MORE THAN THREE WORDSor each space write your answers in boxes 7 11 on your answer sheetExamplecurrent, real-life datacollected duringData from. (7) .written corpusLANGUAGEACTIVATORkey wordsand. (8) .choose the appropriate letter A-D and write it in box 12 on your answer sheet1

29、2 why was this article written?A To give an example of a current dictionary.B To announce a new approach to dictionary writing.C To show how dictionaries have progressed over the years.D To compare the content of different dictionaries63practice Test 3READING PASSAGE 2You should spend about 20 minut

30、es on Questions 13-26 which are based on Reading passage 2 below.MoIes happy as homes go undergroundA The first anybody knew about Dutchman Frank siegmund and his family waswhen workmen tramping through a field found a narrow steel chimney protruding through the grass. closer inspectionrevealed a ch

31、ink of sky-light windowamong the thistles, and when amazedinvestigators moved down the side of the hill they came across a pine doorcomplete with leaded diamond glass and a brass knocker set into an underground building. The siegmunds had managed to live undetected for six years outsidethe border to

32、wn of Breda, in Holland. They are the latest in a clutch ofindividualistic homemakers who have burrowed underground in search of tranquillity.B Most,falling foul of strict buildingregulations, have been forced todismantle their individualistic homes and return to more conventional lifestyles.But sub

33、terranean suburbia, Dutch-style, is about to become respectable andchic. seven luxury homes cossetedaway inside a high earth-covered noise embankment next to the main Tilburgcity road recently went on the market for $296,500 each. The foundations had yet to be dug, but customers queued up to buy the

34、 unusual part-submergedhouses, whose back wall consists of a grassy mound and whose front is a long glass gallery.c The Dutch are not the only would-bemoles. Growing numbers of Europeans are burrowing below ground to createhouses, offices, discos and shoppingmalls. It is already proving a way of lif

35、e in extreme climates; in winter months inMontreal, canada, for instance, citizens can escape the cold in an underground complex complete with shops and even health clinics. In Tokyo builders areplanning a massive underground city to be begun in the next decade, andunderground shopping malls are alr

36、eady common in Japan, where 90 percent of the population is squeezed into 20percent of the landspace.D Building big commercial buildingsunderground can be a way to avoiddisfiguring or threatening a beautiful or “environmentally sensitive” landscape. Indeed many of the buildings whichconsume most lan

37、d -such as cinemas, supermarkets, theatres, warehouses or libraries -have no need to be on thesurface since they do not need windows.E There are big advantages, too, when itcomes to private homes. A development of 194 houses which would take up 14hectares of land aboveground wouldoccupy 2.7 hectares

38、 below it, while the number of roads would be halved. under several metres of earth, noise is minimal and insulation is excellent. “we get 40 to 50 enquiries a week,” says petercarpenter, secretary of the British Earth sheltering Association, which builds64Readingsimilar homes in Britain. ”people se

39、e this as a way of building for the future.”Anunderground dweller himself, carpenter has never paid a heating bill, thanks to solar panels and natural insulation.F In Europe the obstacle has beenconservative local authorities anddevelopers who prefer to ensure quicksales with conventional mass produ

40、ced housing. But the Dutch development was greeted with undisguised relief by south Limburg planners because of Holland，schronic shortage of land. It was theTilburg architect Jo Hurkmans who hit on the idea of making use of noiseembankments on main roads. His two-floored, four-bedroomed, two-bathroomed detached homes are nowtaking shape. ”They are not so muchbelow the earth as in it,”he says. ”All the light will come throug