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}^G'oR1LF Directions: In this section, you will hearfive short talks. At the end of each talk, you will hear some questions. Boththe talks 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 the ANSWER SHEET with a single linethrough the centre.
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A. They are looking for thenews in that journal.
L"zOa90ig B. They do notunderstand the news.
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ZT8. r0 2. A.She has changed her major to economics.
w|Zq5|[ B.she majors in business administration now.
N<Bi.\XC C.She has studied business administration for three years.
4}580mBc D.she does not want to major in business administration.
XT>e/x9' 3. A.She bought a carpet and a cleaner.
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&>I8^i C.Ann purchased a product for cleaning her carpet.
:KX/` D.The carpet was cleaned at the supermarket.
v8*ZwF 4. A.Mr. Brown was at home.
i=o>Bl@f B.Mr. Brown was in the office.
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C+5^[V 5. A.Hardly anybody here speaks frankly.
D:n0dfPU B.Take a different route to get where you are going.
q6j]j~JxB C.We have asked everyone to form a straight line.
M*c\=( D.The questions are complicated, but there is only one right answer.
H:[z#f|t CdZ;ZR Section B
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~ Directions: In this section, you will hearthree short talks. At the end of each talk, you will hear some questions. Boththe talks and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear aquestion, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, Cand D. Then mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a singleline through the centre.
Qs%f6rL Question 6-8 are based on the talk you havejust heard.
JAB]kNvI 6. On what occasions should you say “Congratulations!”?
rEAPlO.Yp A.When somebody offers apologies to you.
E\V>3rse B.When someone tells an exciting story to you.
U#F(#3/ C.When somebody is in an extremely happy occasion.
H>DJ-lG( D.When people have completed something successfully.
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R.S.V.P .in an invitation mean?
v(: VUo]H A.Response very promptly.
ZgXh[UHQy B.Response very punctually.
Ix *KL=MG C.Response, please.
7#g C(&\A D.Response very politely.
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W_DO8nX A.To express one’s sympathy and regret to someone.
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C.To express one’s opinion to someone.
T.1z<l"" D.To express one’s anger to someone.
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Soylent Green about?
*|=&MU*+ A.The population of New York Cityin the year 2022.
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uj:w^t ][ C.The ocean plant-soylent.
!^m5by D.The food and housing problems in the future.
tNUcmiY 10. What is the soylent yellow and red madeof?
w}(xs)`num A.Ocean plants.
lo(Ht=d B.Crackers.
FF_$)%YUp C.Soybeans.
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w{r->Phe 11. What might be the main reason of this “scaringreality” according to the speaker?
C>MoR 3] A.The gap between the rich and the poor.
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B.The housing shortage in big cities like New York.
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sEj:%`l| A.240 B. 250 C. 214 D. 213
KC]Jbm{y 13. What does the guest want to borrow?
D!<$uAT A.Ten dollars.
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'qP^MdoE%~ D.The newspaper.
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14. What is particularly wrong with theair-conditioner?
#0P<#S^7 A.It bothers the guest.
?ykZY0{B B.It makes the room too cool to stay in.
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'LOqGpmVc D.It doesn’t cool the room very much.
$%E9^F 15. Where can the hotel guest get a foreignnewspaper?
2lSM`cw A.In the reception.
?dmMGm0T9 B.In the housekeeping office.
I[`2MKh C.In the gift shop of the lobby.
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II. Reading Comprehension (25 points)
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B6X Directions: There are five passages in thispart. Each of the passages is followed by five questions or unfinishedstatements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choosethe best one and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET with a single linethrough the center.
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There is a newtype of small advertisement becoming increasingly common in newspaperclassified columns. It is sometimes placed among “situations vacant”, althoughit does not offer anyone a job; and sometimes it appears among “situationswanted”, although it is not placed by someone looking for a job either. What itdoes is to offer help in applying for a job.
vX/A9Qi,U. “Contact usbefore writing application”, or “Make use of our long experience in preparingyour curriculum vitae, or job history”, is how it is usually expressed. Thegrowth and apparent success of such a specialized service is , of course, areflection on the current high levels of unemployment. It is also, anindication of growing importance of the curriculum vitae.(or job history), withthe suggestion that it may now qualify as an art form in its own right.
ygW@[^g There was a timewhen job seekers simply wrote letters of application. “Just put down your name,address, age and whether you have passed any exams”, was about the averagelevel of advice offered to young people applying for their first jobs when Ileft school. The letter was really just for openers, it was explained. Everythingelse could and should be saved for the interview. And in those days of fullemployment the technique worked. The letter proved that you could write andwere available for work. Your eager face and intelligent replies did the rest.
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PpIl Later, as youmoved up the ladder, something slightly more sophisticated was called for. Theadvice then was to put something in the letter which would distinguish you fromthe rest. It might be the aggressive approach.” your search is over. I am theperson you are looking for,” was a widely used trick that occasionallysucceeded. Or it might be some special feature special feature speciallydesigned for the job in view.
(XwLKkw0n There is nodoubt, however, that it is the increasing number of applicants with universityeducation at all points in the process of engaging staff that has led to thegreater importance of the curriculum vitae.
^sOm7S { 16. The new type of advertisement which isappearing in newspaper columns
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PJYA5"}W A. informs job hunters of the opportunitiesavailable
M$W#Q\<*#r B. promises useful advice to those lookingfor employment
D{4hNO C. divides available jobs into varioustypes
L@4zuzmlb D. informs employers that people areavailable for work.
Yq?I> 17. Nowadays a demand for this specializedtype of service has been created because
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A]+h<Y~} A. there is lack of jobs available forartistic people
IeB6r+4| B. there are so many top-level jobsavailable
U>+~.|'V9 C. there are so many people out of work
Crhi+D D. the job history is considered to be awork of art .
?R]y}6P$ 18. In the past it was expected thatfirst-job hunters would
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@."o:K B. pass some exams before applying for ajob
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_0*>I1F~ 19. Later, as one went on to apply moreimportant jobs, one was advised to include in the letter
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something that would attract attentionto one’s application
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a personal opinion about theorganization one was trying to join
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something that would offeredthat person reading it
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a lie that one could easily getwith telling
H~|%vjH 20. The job history has become such animportant document because
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p$nK@t} C. jobs are becoming much more complicatednowadays
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Pitythose who aspire to put the initials PhD after their names. After 16 years ofclosely supervised education, prospective doctors of philosophy are left moreor less alone to write the equivalent of a large book. Most social-sciencepostgraduates have still not completed their theses by the time their grantruns out after three years. They must then get a job and finish in their sparetime, which can often take a further three years. By then , most new doctorsare sick to death of the narrowly defined subject which has blighted theirholidays and ruined their evenings.
Ejms)JK+ TheEconomic and Social Research Council, which gives grants to postgraduate socialscientists, wants to get better value for money by cutting short this agony. Itwould like to see faster completion rates: until recently, only about 25% ofPhD candidates were finishing within four years. The ESRC’s response has beento stop PhD grants to all institutions where the proportion taking less thanfour years is below 10%; in the first year of this policy the national averageshot up to 39%. The ESRC feels vindicated in its toughness, and willprogressively raise the threshold to 40% in two years. Unless completion ratesimprove further, this would exclude 55 out of 73 universities andpolytechnics-including Oxford University, the London School of Economics andthe London Business School.
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!ub Predictably,howls of protest have come from the universities, who view the blacklisting ofwhole institutions as arbitrary and negative. They point out that many of thebest students go quickly into jobs where they can apply their research skills,but consequently take longer to finis their theses. Polytechnics with as few astwo PhD candidates complain that they are penalized by random fluctuations instudent performance. The colleges say there is no hard evidence to prove thatfaster completion rates result from greater efficiency rather than lowerstandards or less ambitious doctoral topics.
F[kW:-ne@Z TheESRC thinks it might not be a bad thing if PhD students were more modest intheir aims. It would prefer to see more systematic teaching of research skillsand fewer unrealistic expectations placed on young men and women who areundertaking their first piece of serious research. So in future its grants willbe given only where it is convinced that students are being trained asresearchers, rather than carrying out purely knowledge-based studies.
],F}}pv TheESRC can not dictate the standard of thesis required by external examiners, orforce departments to give graduates more teaching time. The most it can do isto try to persuade universities to change their ways. Recalcitrant professorsshould note that students want more research training and a less elaboratestyle of thesis, too.
So=nB} b[? 21. By time new doctors get a job and tryto finish their theses in spare time,
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%A62xnX B. their holidays and evenings have beenruined by their jobs
DMQNr(w{!2 C. most of them are completely tired of thenarrowly defined subject
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rMHQzQ0% 22. Oxford University would be excluded outof those universities that receive PhD grants from ESRC, because the completionrate of its PhD students’ theses within four years is lower than
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t0% A. all the institutions on the blacklistare arbitrary and negative
~`2&'8 B. there is no hard evidence to prove thatfaster completion rates result from greater efficiency rather than lowerstandards or less ambitious doctoral topics.
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