College English Test 1

PartⅠ Writing（30 minutes）

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Increasing Weight, Decreasing Health. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 180 words following the outline given below in Chinese.

1．人均体重在增长，然而健康却在降低；

2．导致这种现象的原因；

3．总结。

注意：此部分试题写在答题卡1上。

Part Ⅱ Listening Comprehension（25 minutes）

Section A

Directions: In this section, you will hear three news reports. At the end ofeach news report, you will hear two or three questions. Both the news report 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 1 with a single line through the centre.

Questions 1 and 2 will be based on the following news item.

1．A）Christmas-time attacks made by Somali rebels.

B）An explosion at a bus station in central Nairobi.

C）The killing of more than 70 Ugandans in Kampala.

D）Blasts set off by a Somali group in Uganda's capital.

2．A）On Christmas Eve.

B）Just before midnight.

C）During a security check.

D）In the small hours of the morning.

Questions 3 and 4 will be based on the following news item.

3．A）It is likely to close many of its stores.

B）It is known for the quality of its goods.

C）It remains competitive in the recession.

D）It will expand its online retail business.

4．A）Expand its business beyond groceries.

B）Fire 25,000 of its current employees.

C）Cut its DVD publishing business.

D）Sell the business for one pound.

Questions 5 to 7 will be based on the following news item.

5．A）All taxis began to use meters.

B）All taxis got air conditioning.

C）Advertisements were allowed on taxis.

D）Old taxis were replaced with new cabs.

6．A）A low interest loan scheme.

B）Environmentalists' protests.

C）Taxi passengers' complaints.

D）Permission for car advertising.

7．A）There are no more irregular practices.

B）All new cabs provide air-conditioning.

C）New cabs are all equipped with meters.

D）New legislation protects consumer rights.

Section B

Directions: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, you will hear four questions. Both the conversation 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 1 with a single line through the centre.

Conversation One

Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

8．A）It has a partnership with LCP.

B）It is headquartered in London.

C）It specializes in safety from leaks.

D）It has a chemical processing plant.

9．A）He is a chemist.

B）He is a salesman.

C）He is a safety inspector.

D）He is Mr. Grand's friend.

10．A）The public relations officer.

B）Mr. Grand's personal assistant.

C）Director of the safety department.

D）Head of the personnel department.

11．A）Wait for Mr. Grand to call back.

B）Leave a message for Mr. Grand.

C）Provide details of their products and services.

D）Send a comprehensive description of their work.

Conversation Two

Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

12．A）Teacher.

B）Journalist.

C）Editor.

D）Typist.

13．A）Some newly discovered scenic spot.

B）Big changes in the Amazon valley.

C）A new railway under construction.

D）The beautiful Amazon rainforests.

14．A）In news weeklies.

B）In a local evening paper.

C）In newspapers' Sunday editions.

D）In overseas editions of U. S.magazines.

15．A）To become a professional writer.

B）To be employed by a newspaper.

C）To get her life story published soon.

D）To sell her articles to a news service.

Section C

Directions: In this section, you will hear three passages. At the end ofeach 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 1 with a single line through the centre.

Passage One

Questions 16 to 18 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

16．A）She is both a popular and a highly respected author.

B）She is the first writer to focus on the fate of slaves.

C）She is the most loved African novelist of all times.

D）She is the most influential author since the 1930's.

17．A）The Book Critics Circle Award.

B）The Nobel Prize for literature.

C）The Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

D）The National Book Award.

18．A）She is a relative of Morrison's.

B）She is a slave from Africa.

C）She is a skilled storyteller.

D）She is a black woman.

Passage Two

Questions 19 to 21 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

19．A）They are very generous in giving gifts.

B）They refuse gifts when doing business.

C）They regard gifts as a token of friendship.

D）They give gifts only on special occasions.

20．A）They enjoy giving gifts to other people.

B）They spend a lot of time choosing gifts.

C）They have to follow many specific rules.

D）They pay attention to the quality of gifts.

21．A）Gift-giving plays an important role in human relationships.

B）We must be aware of cultural differences in giving gifts.

C）We must learn how to give gifts before going abroad.

D）Reading extensively can make one a better gift-giver.

Passage Three

Questions 22 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

22．A）She tenderly looked after her sick mother.

B）She developed a strong interest in finance.

C）She learned to write for financial newspapers.

D）She invested in stocks and shares on Wall Street.

23．A）She inherited a big fortune from her father.

B）She sold her restaurant with a substantial profit.

C）She got 7.5 million dollars from her ex-husband.

D）She made a wise investment in real estate.

24．A）She was dishonest in business dealings.

B）She frequently ill-treated her employees.

C）She abused animals including her pet dog.

D）She was extremely mean with her money.

25．A）She carried on her family's tradition.

B）She made huge donations to charities.

C）She built a hospital with her mother's money.

D）She made a big fortune from wise investments.

Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension（40 minutes）

Section A

Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list ofchoices 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 ofthe words in the bank more than once. Questions 26 to 35 are based on the following passage.

For many environmentalists, the world seems to be getting worse. They have developed a hit-list of our main fears:natural resources are 26 out; the population is ever growing, leaving less and less to eat; species are becoming 27 in vast numbers, and the planet's air and water are becoming ever more polluted.

But a quick look at the facts shows a different picture. First, energy and other natural resources have become more 28 , not less so, since the book‘The Limits to Growth'was published in 1972 by a group of scientists. Second, more food is now produced per 29 of the world's population than at any time in history. Fewer people are 30. Third, although species are indeed becoming extinct, only about 0.7% of them are expected to disappear in the next 50 years, not 25%～50%, as has so often been 31. And finally, most forms of environmental pollution either appear to have been 32 , or are transient — associated with the early stages of industrialization and therefore best cured not by restricting economic growth, but by 33 it. One form of pollution — the release of greenhouse gases that causes global warming — does appear to be a phenomenon that is going to extend well into our future, but its total impact is unlikely to 34 a devastating（令人心神不安的）problem. A bigger problem may well turn out to be an inappropriate response to it.

Yet opinion polls suggest that many people nurture the belief that environmental standards are declining and some factors seem to cause this disjunction between 35 and reality.

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

Section B

Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one ofthe paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.

Universities Branch Out

A）As never before in their long history, universities have become instruments of national competition as well as instruments of peace. They are the place of the scientific discoveries that move economies forward, and the primary means of educating the talent required to obtain and maintain competitive advantage. But at the same time, the opening of national borders to the flow of goods, services, information and especially people has made universities a powerful force for global integration, mutual understanding and geopolitical stability.

B）In response to the same forces that have driven the world economy, universities have become more self-consciously global:seeking students from around the world who represent the entire range of cultures and values, sending their own students abroad to prepare them for global careers, offering courses of study that address the challenges of an interconnected world and collaborative（合作的）research programs to advance science for the benefit of all humanity.

C）Of the forces shaping higher education none is more sweeping than the movement across borders. Over the past three decades the number of students leaving home each year to study abroad has grown at an annual rate of 3.9 percent, from 800,000 in 1975 to 2.5 million in 2004. Most travel from one developed nation to another, but the flow from developing to developed countries is growing rapidly. The reverse flow, from developed to developing countries, is on the rise, too. Today foreign students earn 30 percent of the doctoral degrees awarded in the United States and 38 percent of those in the United Kingdom. And the number crossing borders for undergraduate study is growing as well, to 8 percent of the undergraduates at America's best institutions and 10 percent of all undergraduates in the U. K. In the United States, 20 percent of the newly hired professors in science and engineering are foreign-born, and in China many newly hired faculty members at the top research universities received their graduate education abroad.

D）Universities are also encouraging students to spend some of their undergraduate years in another country. In Europe, more than 140,000 students participate in the Erasmus program each year, taking courses for credit in one of 2,200 participating institutions across the continent. And in the United States, institutions are helping place students in summer internships（实习）abroad to prepare them for global careers. Yale and Harvard have led the way, offering every undergraduate at least one international study or internship opportunity — and providing the financial resources to make it possible.

E）Globalization is also reshaping the way research is done. One new trend involves sourcing portions of a research program to another country. Yale professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Tian Xu directs a research center focused on the genetics of human disease at Shanghai's Fudan University, in collaboration with faculty colleagues from both schools. The Shanghai center has 95 employees and graduate students working in a 4,300-square-meter laboratory facility. Yale faculty, post-doctors and graduate students visit regularly and attend videoconference seminars with scientists from both campuses. The arrangement benefits both countries; Xu's Yale lab is more productive, thanks to the lower costs of conducting research in China, and Chinese graduate students, post-doctors and faculty get on-the-job training from a world-class scientist and his U. S.team.

F）As a result of its strength in science, the United States has consistently led the world in the commercialization of major new technologies, from the mainframe computer and the integrated circuit of the 1960s to the Internet infrastructure（基础设施）and applications software of the 1990s. The link between university-based science and industrial application is often indirect but sometimes highly visible: Silicon Valley was intentionally created by Stanford University, and Route 128 outside Boston has long housed companies spun off from MIT and Harvard. Around the world, governments have encouraged copying of this model, perhaps most successfully in Cambridge, England, where Microsoft and scores of other leading software and biotechnology companies have set up shops around the university.

G）For all its success, the United States remains deeply hesitant about sustaining the research-university model. Most politicians recognize the link between investment in science and national economic strength, but support for research funding has been unsteady. The budget of the National Institutes of Health doubled between 1998 and 2003, but has risen more slowly than inflation since then. Support for the physical sciences and engineering barely kept pace with inflation during that same period. The attempt to make up lost ground is welcome, but the nation would be better served by steady, predictable increases in science funding at the rate of long-term GDP growth, which is on the order of inflation plus 3 percent per year.

H）American politicians have great difficulty recognizing that admitting more foreign students can greatly promote the national interest by increasing international understanding. Adjusted for inflation, public funding for international exchanges and foreign-language study is well below the levels of 40 years ago. In the wake of September 11, changes in the visa process caused a dramatic decline in the number of foreign students seeking admission to U. S. universities, and a corresponding surge in enrollments in Australia, Singapore and the U. K. Objections from American university and business leaders led to improvements in the process and a reversal of the decline, but the United States is still seen by many as unwelcoming to international students.

I）Most Americans recognize that universities contribute to the nation's well-being through their scientific research, but many fear that foreign students threaten American competitiveness by taking their knowledge and skills back home. They fail to grasp that welcoming foreign students to the United States has two important positive effects:first, the very best of them stay in the States and — like immigrants throughout history — strengthen the nation; and second, foreign students who study in the United States become ambassadors for many of its most cherished（珍视）values when they return home. Or at least they understand them better. In America as elsewhere, few instruments of foreign policy are as effective in promoting peace and stability as welcoming international university students.

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

36．American universities prepare their undergraduates for global careers by giving them chances for international study or internship.

37．Since the mid-1970s, the enrollment of overseas students has increased at an annual rate of 3.9 percent.

38．The enrollment of international students will have a positive impact on America rather than threaten its competitiveness.

39．The way research is carried out in universities has changed as a result of globalization.

40．Of the newly hired professors in science and engineering in the United States, twenty percent come from foreign countries.

41．The number of foreign students applying to U. S.universities decreased sharply after September 11 due to changes in the visa process.

42．The U. S.federal funding for research has been unsteady for years.

43．Around the world, governments encourage the model of linking university-based science and industrial application.

44．Present-day universities have become a powerful force for global integration.

45．When foreign students leave America, they will bring American values back to their home countries.

Section C

Directions:There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each ofthem there are four choices marked A）, B）, C）and D）. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.

Passage One

Questions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.

For some time past it has been widely accepted that babies—and other creatures—learn to do things because certain acts lead to “rewards”; and there is no reason to doubt that this is true. But it used also to be widely believed that effective rewards, at least in the early stages, had to be directly related to such basic physiological（生理的）“drives” as thirst or hunger. In other words, a baby would learn if he got food or drink or some sort of physical comfort, not otherwise.

It is now clear that this is not so. Babies will learn to behave in ways that produce results in the world with no reward except the successful outcome.

Papousek began his studies by using milk in the normal way to “reward” the babies and so teach them to carry out some simple movements, such as turning the head to one side or the other. Then he noticed that a baby who had had enough to drink would refuse the milk but would still go on making the learned response with clear signs of pleasure. So he began to study the children's responses in situations where no milk was provided. He quickly found that children as young as four months would learn to turn their heads to right or left if the movement “switched on” a display of lights — and indeed that they were capable of learning quite complex turns to bring about this result, for instance, two left or two right, or even to make as many as three turns to one side.

Papousek's light display was placed directly in front of the babies and he made the interesting observation that sometimes they would not turn back to watch the lights closely although they would “smile and bubble” when the display came on. Papousek concluded that it was not primarily the sight of the lights which pleased them, it was the success they were achieving in solving the problem, in mastering the skill, and that there exists a fundamental human urge to make sense of the world and bring it under intentional control.

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

46．According to the author, babies learn to do things which ________.

A）are directly related to pleasure

B）will meet their physical needs

C）will bring them a feeling of success

D）will satisfy their curiosity

47．Papousek noticed in his studies that a baby ________.

A）would make learned responses when it saw the milk

B）would carry out learned movements when it had enough to drink

C）would continue the simple movements without being given milk

D）would turn its head to right or left when it had enough to drink

48．In Papousek's experiment babies make learned movements of the head in order to ________.

A）have the lights turned on

B）be rewarded with milk

C）please their parents

D）be praised

49．The babies would “smile and bubble” at the lights because ________.

A）the lights were directly related to some basic “drives”

B）the sight of the lights was interesting

C）they need not turn back to watch the lights

D）they succeeded in “switching on” the lights

50．According to Papousek, the pleasure babies get in achieving something is a reflection of ________.

A）a basic human desire to understand and control the world

B）the satisfaction of certain physiological needs

C）their strong desire to solve complex problems

D）a fundamental human urge to display their learned skills

Passage Two

Questions 51 to 55 are based in the following passage.

Is there enough oil beneath the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge（保护区）（ANWR）to help secure America's energy future? President Bush certainly thinks so. He has argued that tapping ANWR's oil would help ease California's electricity crisis and provide a major boost to the country's energy independence. But no one knows for sure how much crude oil lies buried beneath the frozen earth, with the last government survey, conducted in 1998, projecting output anywhere from 3 billion to 16 billion barrels.

The oil industry goes with the high end of the range, which could equal as much as 10% of U. S.consumption for as long as six years. By pumping more than 1 million barrels a day from the reserve for the next two to three decades, lobbyists claim, the nation could cut back on imports equivalent to all shipments to the U. S.from Saudi Arabia. Sounds good. An oil boom would also mean a multibillion-dollar windfall（意外之财）in tax revenues, royalties（开采权使用费）and leasing fees for Alaska and the Federal Government. Best of all, advocates of drilling say, damage to the environment would be insignificant. “We've never had a documented case of an oil rig chasing deer out onto the pack ice,” say Alaska State Representative Scott Ogan.

Not so fast, say environmentalists. Sticking to the low end of government estimates the National Resources Defends Council says there may be no more than 3.2 billion barrels of economically recoverable oil in the coastal plain of ANWR, a drop in the bucket that would do virtually nothing to ease America's energy problems. And consumers would wait up to a decade to gain any benefits, because drilling could begin only after mush bargaining over leases，environmental permits and regulatory review. As for ANWR's impact on the California power crisis, environmentalists point out that oil is responsible for only 1% of the Golden State's electricity output— and just 3% of the nation's.

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

51．What does President Bush think of tapping oil in ANWR？

A）It will increase America's energy consumption.

B）It will exhaust the nation's oil reserves.

C）It will help reduce the nation's oil imports.

D）It will help secure the future of ANWR.

52．We learn from the second paragraph that the American oil industry ________.

A）shows little interest tapping oil in ANWR

B）expect to stop oil imports from Saudi Arabia

C）tend to exaggerate America's reliance on foreign oil

D）believes that drilling for ANWR will produce high yields

53．Those against oil drilling ANWR argue that ________.

A）it will drain the oil reserves in the Alaskan region

B）it can do little to solve U. S.energy problem

C）it can cause serious damage to the environment

D）it will not have much commercial value

54．What do the environmentalists mean by saying “Not so fast”（Line 1, Para.3）？

A）Don't be too optimistic.

B）Don't expect fast returns.

C）The oil drilling should be delayed.

D）Oil exploitation takes a long time.

55．It can be learned from the passage that oil exploitation beneath ANWR's frozen earth ________.

A）involves a lot of technological problems

B）remains a controversial issue

C）is expected to get under way soon

D）will enable the U. S.to be oil independent

Part Ⅳ Translation（30 minutes）

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English. You should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2.

剪纸（paper cutting）是中国最为流行的传统民间艺术形式之一。中国剪纸有一千五百多年的历史，在明朝和清朝时期（the Ming and Qing Dynasties）特别流行。人们常用剪纸美化居家环境。特别是在春节和婚庆期间，剪纸被用来装饰门窗和房间，以增加喜庆的气氛。剪纸最常用的颜色是红色，象征健康和兴旺。中国剪纸在世界各地很受欢迎，经常被用作馈赠外国友人的礼物。

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

答题卡1（Answer Sheet 1）

PartⅠ Writing（30 minutes）

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答题卡1（Answer Sheet 1）

Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension（25 minutes）

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答题卡2（Answer Sheet 2）

Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension（40 minutes）

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42．［A］［B］［C］［D］［E］［F］［G］［H］［I］［J］［K］［L］［M］［N］［O］［P］［Q］［R］［S］

43．［A］［B］［C］［D］［E］［F］［G］［H］［I］［J］［K］［L］［M］［N］［O］［P］［Q］［R］［S］

44．［A］［B］［C］［D］［E］［F］［G］［H］［I］［J］［K］［L］［M］［N］［O］［P］［Q］［R］［S］

45．［A］［B］［C］［D］［E］［F］［G］［H］［I］［J］［K］［L］［M］［N］［O］［P］［Q］［R］［S］

46．［A］［B］［C］［D］

51．［A］［B］［C］［D］

47．［A］［B］［C］［D］

52．［A］［B］［C］［D］

48．［A］［B］［C］［D］

53．［A］［B］［C］［D］

49．［A］［B］［C］［D］

54．［A］［B］［C］［D］

50．［A］［B］［C］［D］

55．［A］［B］［C］［D］

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Part Ⅳ Translation（30 minutes）

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