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TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2013)
-GRADE EIGHT-

TIME LIMIT: 195 MIN


PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION (35 MIN)

SECTION A MINI-LECTURE

In 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, using no more than three words in each gap. Make sure the word(s)
you fill in is (are) both grammatically and semantically acceptable. You may refer to your notes
while completing the task. Use the blank sheet for note-taking.
Now, listen to the mini-lecture.

What Do Active Learners Do?
There are difference between active learning and passive learning.
Characteristics of active learners:
I. Reading with purposes










A. Before reading: setting goals
B. While reading: (1) __________
i.e. information processing, e.g.
– Connections between the known and the new information
– Identification of (3) __________ concepts
– Judgment on the value of (4) __________
A. Ways of note- taking: (5) __________
B. Before note-taking: listening and thinking
A. Reason 1: knowing comprehension problems because of (6) __________
B. Reason 2: being able to predict study difficulties
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II. (2) __________ and critical in thinking
III. Active in listening
IV. Being able to get assistance
V. Being able to question information
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A. Question what they read or hear
B. Evaluate and (7) __________
A. Attitude toward responsibility




– Active learners: accept
– Passive learners: (8) __________
– Active learners: evaluate and change behaviour
– Passive learners: no change in approach
VI. Last characteristic
B. Attitude toward (9) __________
Relationship between skill and will: will is more important in (10) __________
Lack of will leads to difficulty in college learning.

SECTION B INTERVIEW

In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the
questions that follow. Mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO.

Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10
seconds to answer each of the following five questions.

Now listen to the interview.

1. According to the interviewer, which of the following best indicates the relationship between
choice and mobility?
A. Better education → more choices → greater mobility.
B. Better education → greater mobility → more choices.
C. Greater mobility → better education → more choices.
D. Greater mobility → more choices → better education.
2. According to the interview, which of the following details about the first poll is
INCORRECT?
A. Job security came second according to the poll results.
B. Chances for advancement might have been favoured by young people.
C. High income failed to come on top for being most important.
D. Shorter work hours was least chosen for being most important.
3. According to the interviewee, which is the main difference between the first and the second
poll?
A. The type of respondents who were invited.
B. The way in which the questions were designed.
C. The content area of the questions.
D. The number of poll questions.
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4. What can we learn from the respondents’ answers to items 2, 4 and 7 in the second poll?
A. Recognition from colleagues should be given less importance.
B. Workers are always willing and ready to learn more new skills.
C. Work will have to be made interesting to raise efficiency.
D. Psychological reward is more important than material one.
5. According to the interviewee, which of the following can offer both psychological and
monetary benefits?
A. Contact with many people.
B. Appreciation from coworkers.
C. Chances for advancement.
D. Chances to learn new skills.
SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST

In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the
questions that follow. Mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO.

Questions 6 and 7 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be
given 20 seconds to answer the questions.

Now listen to the news.

6. According to the news item, “sleepboxes” are designed to solve the problems of
A. airports.
B. passengers.
C. architects.
D. companies.
7. Which of the following is NOT true with reference to the news?
A. Renters can take a shower inside the box.
B. Renters of normal height can stand up inside.
C. Bedding can be automatically changed.
D. Sleepboxes can be rented for different lengths of time.
Question 8 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10
seconds to answer the question.

Now listen to the news.

8. What is the news item mainly about?
A. London’s preparations for the Notting Hill Carnival.
B. Main features of the Notting Hill Carnival.
C. Police’s preventive measures for the carnival.
D. Police participation in the carnival.
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Questions 9 and 10 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be
given 20 seconds to answer the questions.

Now listen to the news.

9. The news item reports on a research finding about
A. early malnutrition and heart health.
B. the Dutch famine and the Dutch women.
C. the causes of death during the famine.
D. nutrition in childhood and adolescence.
10. When did the research team carry out the study?
A. At the end of World War II.
B. Between 1944 and 1945.
C. In the 1950s.
D. In 2007.
PART II READING COMPREHENSION (30 MIN)

In this section there are four reading passages followed by a total of 20 multiple-choice
questions. Read the passages and then mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER
SHEET TWO.

TEXT A

Three hundred years ago news travelled by word of mouth or letter, and circulated in taverns
and coffee houses in the form of pamphlets and newsletters. “The Coffee houses particularly are
very roomy for a free conversation, and for reading at an easier rate all manner of printed news,”
noted one observer. Everything changed in 1833 when the first mass-audience newspaper, The
New York Sun, pioneered the use of advertising to reduce the cost of news, thus giving advertisers
access to a wider audience. The penny press, followed by radio and television, turned news from a
two-way conversation into a one-way broadcast, with a relatively small number of firms
controlling the media.
Now, the news industry is returning to something closer to the coffee house. The internet is
making news more participatory, social and diverse, reviving the discursive characteristics of the
era before mass media. That will have profound effects on society and politics. In much of the
world, the mass media are flourishing. Newspaper circulation rose globally by 6% between 2005
and 2009. But those global figures mask a sharp decline in readership in rich countries.
Over the past decade, throughout the Western world, people have been giving up newspapers
and TV news and keeping up with events in profoundly different ways. Most strikingly, ordinary
people are increasingly involved in compiling, sharing, filtering, discussing and distributing news.
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Twitter lets people anywhere report what they are seeing. Classified documents are published in
their thousands online. Mobile-phone footage of Arab uprisings and American tornadoes is posted
on social- networking sites and shown on television newscasts. Social-networking sites help people
find, discuss and share news with their friends.
And it is not just readers who are challenging the media elite. Technology firms including
Google, Facebook and Twitter have become important conduits of news. Celebrities and world
leaders publish updates directly via social networks; many countries now make raw data available
through “open government” initiatives. The internet lets people read newspapers or watch
television channels from around the world. The web has allowed new providers of news, from
individual bloggers to sites, to rise to prominence in a very short space of time. And it has made
possible entirely new approaches to journalism, such as that practised by WikiLeaks, which
provides an anonymous way for whistleblowers to publish documents. The news agenda is no
longer controlled by a few press barons and state outlets.
In principle, every liberal should celebrate this. A more participatory and social news
environment, with a remarkable diversity and range of news sources, is a good thing. The
transformation of the news business is unstoppable, and attempts to reverse it are doomed to
failure. As producers of new journalism, individuals can be scrupulous with facts and transparent
with their sources. As consumers, they can be general in their tastes and demanding in their
standards. And although this transformation does raise concerns, there is much to celebrate in the
noisy, diverse, vociferous, argumentative and stridently alive environment of the news business in
the ages of the internet. The coffee house is back. Enjoy it.

11. According to the passage, what initiated the transformation of coffee-house news to
mass- media news?
A. The emergence of big mass media firms.
B. The popularity of radio and television.
C. The increasing number of newspaper readers.
D. The appearance of advertising in newspapers.
12. Which of the following statements best supports “Now, the news industry is returning to
something closer to the coffee house”?
A. Newspaper circulation rose globally by 6% between 2005 and 2009.
B. People in the Western world are giving up newspapers and TV news.
C. More people are involved in finding, discussing and distributing news.
D. Classified documents are published in their thousands online.
13. According to the passage, which is NOT a role player by information technology?
A. Challenging the traditional media.
B. Planning the return to coffee-house news.
C. Providing people with access to classified files.
D. Giving ordinary people the chance to provide news.
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14. The author’s tone in the last paragraph towards new journalism is
A. doubtful and reserved.
B. supportive and skeptical.
C. optimistic and cautious.
D. ambiguous and cautious.
15. In “The coffee house is back”, coffee house best symbolizes
A. the participatory nature of news.
B. the more varied sources of news.
C. the changing characteristics of news audience.
D. the more diversified means of news distribution.
TEXT B

Paris is like pornography. You respond even if you don’t want to. You turn a corner and see a
vista, and your imagination bolts away. Suddenly you are thinking about what it would be like to
live in Paris, and then you think about all the lives you have not lived. Sometimes, though, when
you are lucky, you only think about how many pleasures the day ahead holds. Then, you feel
privileged.
The lobby of the hotel is decorated in red and gold. It gives off a whiff of 19th century
decadence. Probably as much as any hotel in Paris, this hotel is sexy. I was standing facing the
revolving doors and the driveway beyond. A car with a woman in the back seat — a woman in a
short skirt and black — leather jacket — pulled up before the hotel door. She swung off and she
was wearing high heels. Normally, my mind would have leaped and imagined a story for this
woman. Now it didn’t I stood there and told myself. Cheer up. You’re in Paris.
In many ways, Paris is best visited in winter. The tourist crowds are at a minimum, and one is
not being jammed off the narrow sidewalks along the Rue Dauphine. More than this. Paris is like
many other European cities in that the season of blockbuster cultural events tends to begin in mid
to late fall and so, by the time of winter, most of the cultural treasures of the city are laid out to be
admired.
The other great reason why Paris in winter is so much better than Paris in spring and fall is
that after the end of the August holidays and the return of chic Parisian women to their city, the
restaurant-opening season truly begins hopping. By winter, many of the new restaurants have
worked out their kinks (不足；困难) and, once the hype has died down, it is possible to see which
restaurants are actually good and which are merely noisy and crowded.
Most people are about as happy as they set their mind to being, Lincoln said. In Paris it
doesn’t take much to be happy. Outside the hotel, the sky was pale and felt very high up. I walked
the few blocks to the Seine and began running along the blue-green river toward the Eiffel Tower.
The tower in the distance was black, and felt strange and beautiful the way that many things built
for the joy of building do. As I ran toward it, because of its lattice structure, the tower seemed
obviously delicate. Seeing it, I felt a sense of protectiveness.
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I think it was this moment of protectiveness that marked the change in my mood and my
slowly becoming thrilled with being in Paris.
During winter evenings, Paris’s streetlamps have a halo and resemble dandelions. In winter,
when one leaves the Paris street and enters a cafe or restaurant, the light and temperature change
suddenly and dramatically, there is the sense of having discovered something secret. In winter,
because the days are short, there is an urgency to the choices one makes. There is the sense that
life is short and so let us decide on what matters.

16. According to the passage, once in Paris one might experience all the following feelings
EXCEPT
A. regret.
B. condescension.
C. expectation.
D. impulse.
17. Winter is the best season to visit Paris. Which of the following does NOT support this
statement?
A. Fashionable Parisian women return to Paris.
B. More entertainment activities are staged.
C. There are more good restaurants to choose from.
D. There are fewer tourists in Paris.
18. “Most people are about as happy as they set their mind to being.” This statement means that
most people
A. expect to be happy.
B. hope to be as happy as others.
C. would be happier if they wanted.
D. can be happy if they want.
19. In the eyes of the author, winter in Paris is significant because of
A. the atmosphere of its evenings.
B. its implications for life.
C. the contrast it brings.
D. the discovery one makes.
20. At the end of the passage, the author found himself in a mood of
A. excitement.
B. thoughtfulness.
C. loneliness.
D. joyfulness.
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TEXT C

If you want to know why Denmark is the world’s leader in wind power, start with a
three-hour car trip from the capital Copenhagen — mind the bicyclists — to the small town of
Lem on the far west coast of Jutland. You’ll feel it as you cross the 6.8 km- long Great Belt Bridge:
Denmark’s bountiful wind, so fierce even on a calm summer’s day that it threatens to shove your
car into the waves below. But wind itself is only part of the reason. In Lem, workers in factories
the size of aircraft hangars build the wind turbines sold by Vestas, the Danish company that has
emerged as the industry’s top manufacturer around the globe. The work is both gross and fine;
employees weld together massive curved sheets of steel to make central shafts as tall as a 14-story
building, and assemble engine housings (机器外罩) that hold some 18,000 separate parts. Most
impressive are the turbine’s blades, which scoop the wind with each sweeping revolution. As
smooth as an Olympic swimsuit and honed to aerodynamic perfection, each blade weighs in at
7,000 kg, and they’re what help make Vestas’ turbines the best in the world. “The blade is where
the secret is,” says Erik Therkelsen, a Vestas executive. “If we can make a turbine, it’s sold.”
But technology, like the wind itself, is just one more part of the reason for Denmark’s
dominance. In the end, it happened because Denmark had the political and public will to decide
that it wanted to be a leader — and to follow through. Beginning in 1979, the government began a
determined program of subsidies and loan guarantees to build up its wind industry. Copenhagen
covered 30% of investment costs, and guaranteed loans for large turbine exporters such as Vestas.
It also mandated that utilities purchase wind energy at a preferential price — thus guaranteeing
investors a customer base. Energy taxes were channeled into research centers, where engineers
crafted designs that would eventually produce cutting-edge giants like Vestas’ 3-magawatt (MW)
V90 turbine.
As a result, wind turbines now dot Denmark. The country gets more than 19% of its
electricity from the breeze (Spain and Portugal, the next highest countries, get about 10%) and
Danish companies control one-third of the global wind market, earning billions in exports and
creating a national champion from scratch. “They were out early in driving renewables, and that
gave them the chance to be a technology leader and a job-creation leader,” says Jake Schmidt,
international climate policy director for the New York City-based Natural Resources Defense
Council. “They have always been one or two steps ahead of others.”
The challenge now for Denmark is to help the rest of the world catch up. Beyond wind, the
country (pop. 5.5 million) is a world leader in energy efficiency, getting more GDP per watt than
any other member of the E.U. Carbon emissions are down 13.3% from 1990 levels and total
energy consumption has barely moved, even as Denmark’s economy continued to grow at a
healthy clip. With Copenhagen set to host all- important U.N. climate change talks in December —
where the world hopes for a successor to the expiring Kyoto Protocol — and the global recession
beginning to hit environmental plans in capitals everywhere, Denmark’s example couldn’t be
more timely. “We’ll try to make Denmark a showroom,” says Prime Minister Anders Fogh
Rasmussen. “You can reduce energy use and carbon emissions, and achieve economic growth.”

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