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Beihang University College English
Proficiency Test (Sample)
Beihang
University College English
Proficiency
Test (BUCEPT)
(SAMPLE)
Part I
Listening
Comprehension (40 minutes; 40 points)
In this part, there are 4
sections: 2 long conversations in Section A, 2
passages in Section B, 2
lectures in
Section C and 2 news items in Section D. The whole
listening comprehension part will
take
about 40 minutes to finish.
Now let’s begin with
Section A.
Section A
Long Conversations
(10 points)
Directions:
In this section,
you will
hear 2 long conversations. Each conversation will
be read
only
once.
After
each
conversation,
there
will
be
a
one-and-a-half-minute
pause
.
During
the
pause,
you
must
read
the
four
choices
marked
A),
B),
C)
and
D),
and
decide which is the best
answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the
Answer
Sheet with a single line through
the center.
Conversation One
College
Majors
Glossary
1)
undeclared
未确定的
2)
tuition
学费
3)
sermon
说教
Questions 1 to 5 are based on the
conversation you have just heard.
1.
Where does the
conversation most likely take place?
A)
In a college
dormitory.
B)
In a university classroom.
C)
At
the school’s library.
D)
In the
professor’s office.
2.
What year is
the woman at college?
A)
The first year.
B) The second year.
C)
The third
year.
D) The fourth year.
3.
How many more credits does the woman
need to graduate?
A) One
B)
Nine
C) Ten
D)
Two
4.
Which of the following statements is
true of
the woman’s paying for
college?
A)
She has worked very hard part time.
B)
She is currently repaying student
loans.
C)
She
borrows money from her parents.
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D)
She has
received an internship this summer.
5.
What does the
woman say about her future job?
A)
She will work
in her father’s business after she
graduates.
B)
She hopes to find a job related to her
major.
C)
She has
landed some job interviews.
D)
She wants to
continue her study in a graduate school.
Conversation Two
Business Communication
Glossary
1)
brochure
小册子
2)
fax
传真
Questions 6 to 10 are based on the
conversation you have just heard.
6.
Why can’t Elaine Strong answer the
phone?
A) She’s in a
meeting.
B)
She’s out of the office.
C) She’s using the restroom.
D)
She’s talking
with
another customer.
7.
What does the caller want
the secretary to send?
A)
Information on after-sales service.
B)
Description of the newest laptop’s
performance.
C) Quotations
(
报价
) of the newest software
products.
D) Introduction of the
computer company.
8.
How should
the caller’s
name
be spelled?
A) Cordell.
B) Cordel.
C)
Kordel.
D)
Kordell.
9.
What
is the caller’s telephone number?
A) 560-2188.
B) 560-1828.
C) 560-1287.
D) 560-1278.
10.
What is the caller’s
fax
number?
A) 560-288.
B) 560-1-88.
C) 560-1287.
D) 560-1288.
Section B
Short Passages (10
points)
Directions:
In this
section, you will hear 2 short passages. Each
passage will be read only once.
After
each passage, there will be a
one-and-
a-half-minute pause
. During the pause,
you must read the four choices marked
A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best
answer.
Then mark
the
corresponding
letter
on
the
Answer
Sheet with
a
single
line
through the center.
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Passage One
Four Seasons
Glossary
1)
sledding
乘雪橇滑行
2)
hover
徘徊
3)
stroll
闲逛
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the
passage you have just heard.
11.
Which type of recording was this
presentation taken from?
A) A TV
weather program on seasonal changes.
B)
An informal discussion between friends.
C) An academic speech at school.
D) A scientific report on
weather.
12.
Which of the following statements is
true of the winter season?
A) The snow
averages about 30 inches only in January.
B) Winter temperatures hover below
freezing for a 3-month period.
C)
Sledding, skiing and snowshoeing are popular
outdoor activities during this season.
D) There are snow storms for most of
January.
13.
Which statement is NOT true about the
spring?
A)
Spring
usually begins at the end of March.
B)
Spring usually
begins in early March.
C)
People can take some outdoors
activities.
D)
Nighttime temperatures drop below 50
degrees.
14.
What can we learn about the climate of the city?
A)
It
’
cool and rainy in
autumn.
B) It
’
s hot and
humid in summer.
C)
It
’
s freezing and dry in
winter.
D) It
’
s warm and
windy in spring.
15.
What do people there like to do in the
fall?
A) Go and see the fall colors.
B)
Clean their houses.
C) Have a fall picnic.
D) Drive to see leaves falling.
Passage Two
New York Travel
Glossary
1)
itinerary
路线
2)
lobby
大厅
3)
musical
歌剧
Questions 13 to 16 are based on the
passage you have just heard.
16.
When will the plane take off?
A) 6:00 AM.
B) 7:30 AM.
C) 9:00 AM.
D) 3:00 PM.
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17.
How will the group get to the hotel
from the airport?
A) By
taxi.
B) By subway.
C)
By bus.
D) By car.
18. About what time does the hotel
restaurant open?
A) 5:00 AM
B)
6:00 AM
C) 7:00 AM
D) 8:00 AM
19.
What can the group do at Times Square?
A) They have about an hour for lunch.
B) They will have time to
do some shopping.
C) They will have a
tour of the area.
D) They
will visit the Statue of Liberty.
20.
What will
the group do after dinner?
A) They will
watch a Broadway musical.
B) They will enjoy an exciting movie.
C) They will attend a Broadway play.
D) They will go
to a Broadway concert.
Section C
Lectures (10
points)
Directions:
In
this
section,
you will
hear 2
lectures.
Each
lecture
will
be
read
only
once. After
each
lecture,
there
will
be
a
one-and-a-half-minute
pause.
During
the
pause,
you
must read the four choices marked A),
B), C) and D), and decide
which is the
best
answer.
Then mark
the
corresponding
letter
on
the
Answer
Sheet with
a
single
line
through the center.
Lecture One
Glossary
1) scout
bee
侦查蜂
2)
hive
蜂巢
3) forager
(bees)
搜寻食物的（蜜蜂）
5) oval
椭圆形
4) waggle
dance
摇尾舞
6)
vertical
垂直线
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the
lecture you have just heard.
21.
Which aspect of bee behavior does the
professor mainly discuss?
A)
Reproduction.
B) Hibernation.
C) Organization.
D) Communication.
22.
According to scientist
Von Frisch, what message is
NOT
conveyed by
the scout bee’s dance?
A) The quantity of the food it had
found.
B) The smell of the food it had
found.
C) The direction to fly to the
food site.
D) The distance of the food
site from the beehive.
23.
Why did the British scientists use a
new type of radar?
A) To explain how
bees know which way to fly.
B) To prove
that V
on Frisch’s theory was
correct.
C) To illustrate
problems with the waggle dance.
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D) To
confirm the accuracy of the round dance.
24.
According
to the professor, what does the waggle dance tell
forager bees?
A) The distance of the
food site from the hive.
B) The exact
location of the food site.
C) How much
food they will find at the site.
D) The
weather conditions at the food site.
25.
Which way should
forager bees fly if a scout bee flies up the side
of the beehive in a vertical
line?
A) Toward the west.
B)
Toward the south.
C) Toward the sun.
D) Away from the sun.
Lecture Two
Glossary
1)
reinterpret
重新解释
4) concede
承认
7)
dramatize
使戏剧化，
夸张
2) emergence
出现，出来
5) highlight
强调，突出
8) plight
困境
3) premise
前提
6)
emotionalism
感情主义
Questions 26 to 30 are
based on the lecture you have just heard.
26.
What is the main topic
of the lecture?
A) Women-centered
history.
B) The contribution approach.
C) The victim approach.
D) Historical
models.
27.
What
does the professor mean by saying “women have been
short
-
changed”?
A) Women always fail to get sufficient
change when buying things.
B) Women
roles are often neglected or underestimated.
C) There are fewer changes in women’s
d
aily life.
D) Women often
want to have temporary change.
28.
Why does the professor
mention Jane Addams?
A) To argue
against traditional US historical models.
B) To correct a misimpression about the
Nobel Peace Prize.
C) To illustrate
female roles in US history.
D) To
demonstrate his profound historical knowledge.
29.
W
hat’s
wrong with
the
“contribution approach”
,
according to the professor?
A) It makes
the plight of women seem overly dramatic.
B) It ignores the most outstanding
women.
C) It overemphasize
s
men’s oppression of women.
D) It neglects women’s social role in
family life.
30.
Which of the following describes the
“victim approach” to US history?
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A) It asks, “What have women
done?”
B) It asks, “How have
men oppressed women?”
C) It
asks, “How have
women helped
men?”
D) It asks,
“
What have men
done?
”
Section D
News (10 points)
Directions:
In
this
section,
you
will
hear
two
news
items.
Each
news
item
will
be
read
separately
for
three
times.
When
the
news
items
are
read
for
the
first
time,
you
should listen carefully
for their general ideas. When they are read for
the second
time, you are required to
fill in the blanks numbered from 31 to 36, and
from 39 to
44 with the exact words you
have just heard. For blanks numbered 37, 38 and 45
you are required to fill in the missing
information. For these blanks, you can either
use the exact words you have just heard
or write down the main points in your own
words. Finally, when the news items are
read for the third time, you should check
what you have written. You should put
your answers on
Answer Sheet Two.
News One
This is the VOA Special English
Development Report.
This Saturday night
at eight thirty, all the lights will be
(31)_________ at the Tokyo Tower
in
Japan. The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin and the
Eiffel Tower in Paris are also (32)_________off
to go dark. So is the Empire State
Building in New York and buildings in other cities
around the
world.
The
lights
will
stay
off
for
one
hour
for
an
event
called
Earth
Hour.
The
observance
is
organized by a (33)_____________ group,
the World Wide Fund for Nature, also known as the
World Wildlife Fund.
For the
fourth year, people are being (34)_________ to
turn off their lights for one hour to
call attention to the (35)________ of
climate change. The group says climate change is
one of the
greatest (36)_________
facing wildlife and nature.
(37)___________________________________
__________________________.
Organizers
said more than two thousand businesses
and two million people took part.
Since
then,
Earth
Hour
has
grown
into
an
international
event.
People
in
more
than
four
thousand cities in eighty-eight
countries took part last year.
(38)____
__________________________________________________
_________________.
This
will
be
the
first
Earth
Hour
for
countries
including
Kuwait,
Qatar,
Kosovo,
Madagascar,
Nepal, Cambodia and Panama.
News Two
On
April
twenty-second,
some
American
children
stayed
out
of
school
but
they
were
not
punished. They were with their parents.
As Faith Lapidus tells us, it was Take Our
Daughters and
Sons to Work Day.
FAITH
LAPIDUS:
The
Ms.
Foundation
for
Women
started
the
(39)_________
seventeen
years ago, in nineteen ninety-three. At
first it was just called Take Our Daughters to
Work.
Gloria Steinem and other
foundation leaders pointed to studies showing that
self-(40)______
suffers
as
girls
become
teenagers.
They
can
lose
trust
in
their
abilities
and
(41)____________,
especially
in areas like science, math and technology.
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So
the
Ms.
Foundation
planned
a
day
for
parents
in
New
York
City
to
show
girls
all
the
possibilities for them in the
(42)__________ world. But there was so much
interest, the organizers
decided to
make it (43)________.
At
first,
girls
mostly
followed
their
mom
or
dad
around
at
work
to
learn
about
their
jobs.
Later, employers and schools began to
offer (44)_________ activities.
(45)___
__________________________________________________
__________________
______________. So in
two thousand three the day was renamed Take Our
Daughters and Sons to
Work.
Part
Ⅱ
Reading
Comprehension
（
50 minutes;
45 points
）
Section 1:
True/False/Not Given and Multiple
Choice Questions (30 points)
Directions:
There
are
two
passages
in
this
part.
Each
passage
has
ten
questions
or
unfinished
statements.
The
first
five
statements
in
each
passage
are
True/False/Not
given
statements. You should mark
“A
)
”, for True,
“B
)
”, for False and
“C
)
” for Not
Given
;
the
next
five
questions
or
unfinished
statements
are
multiple
choices.
You
should
decide the correct
answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on
Answer Sheet One
with a
single line through the center.
Passage One
Questions 46 to
55 are based on the following passage.
Free and Easy? One Man's Experiment in
Living without Money
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For most of us it seems
that money makes the world go round.
2
But not for Mark Boyle, who has turned
his life into a radical experiment and
pledged
（发誓）
to live without
cash, credit cards, loans or any other form of
finance.
3
The British economics
graduate was inspired by Gandhi's call to be the
change you want to
see in the world.
After six years working as the manager of an
organic food company in Bristol,
UK, he
decided to strike out in a bold new direction.
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were trying to work out
which one to dedicate our lives to helping
solve,
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it
hit
me,
at
the
root
of
it
all
was
money,
which
creates
a
kind
of
disconnection
between us and our actions, whether
that's through sweatshops, industrial agriculture,
or war, and
so I decided to see if it
was possible to do without.
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Mark sold his
houseboat and set about preparing himself for his
new life. He posted an advert
on
Freecycle asking for a tent, a yurt
(
圆顶帐篷）
, a caravan
（可供居住的拖车）
or any
other
type of shelter and was
immediately rewarded by his first taste of human
kindness.
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Then a friend made him a
cheap wood-burning stove from an old gas can to
heat the caravan,
and with a few other
budget purchases, including solar panels
(
太阳能电池板
) and a trailer
(
拖车
)
for his
bike, he was ready to go.
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His food would
be cooked on a rocket stove made from two old
catering tins (
餐盒
), and he
would wash in a solar shower,
essentially a black plastic bag suspended from a
tree, and warmed
by the sun.
9
His
lavatory
would
be
a
hole
in
the
ground
screened
by
a
wooden
modesty
structure
to
protect the sensibilities
of any walkers using a nearby footpath.
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Then,
with
his
pockets
empty
--
he
didn't
even
carry
keys
as
he
decided
not
to
lock
his
caravan and start trusting the world a
bit more -- Mark was ready to go.
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Everything was about to change.
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Even breakfast on the first day would
be different, with morning coffee no longer an
option,
and
the
ingredients
for
his
breakfast
beverage
now
gathered
in
the
hedges
(
篱笆
)
around
his
caravan.
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荨麻与猪殃殃泡成的茶
) ,
sometimes with some fresh lemon
verbena
(
防臭木
) when I find
it,
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Although it hasn't always
been easy, and there have been many challenges and
sacrifices, 18
months
later,
Mark
is
still
living
this
way.
He
told
CNN
he
has
really
loved
it
and
never
been
happier or fitter.
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Mark's remarkable journey is relayed in
his new book,
with detailing the
practical challenges on the rocky road towards his
new world, also explains the
philosophy
that
drives
him
that
human
society
is
fairer,
happier
and
more
secure
when
relationships are not
mediated (
以
…
为媒介
) by money.
16
Any
profits
from
the
book
will
be
invested
in
buying
land
to
create
a
community
17
Public
interest
in
his
project
has
been
divided.
While
a
huge
number
of
people
are
very
supportive, there has been harsh
criticism of him, particularly on Internet forums.
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tend
to
be
either
very
positive
about
what
I'm
doing
or
very
negative;
I
think
it's
about 70 percent/30 percent. But I try
not to get too worked up about
it
; it’s early days and we
live
in a very money orientated
world.
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Of course not everyone can,
or is ready to, live like Mark -- a point he is
happy to concede.
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