TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2017)
-GRADE FOUR-
TIME LIMIT: 130 MIN PART I DICTATION  [10 MIN] Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be done at normal speed, listen and try to understand the meaning. For the second and third readings, the passage will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with intervals of 15 seconds. The last reading will be done at normal speed again and during this time you should check your work. You will then be given 1 minute to check through your work once more.
Please write the whole passage on ANSWER SHEET ONE.
PART II LISTENING COMPREHENSION [20 MIN] SECTION A TALK
In this section you will hear a talk. You will hear the talk ONCE ONLY. While listening, you may look at ANSWER SHEET ONE and write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each gap. Make sure what you fill in is both grammatically and semantically acceptable. You may use the blank sheet for note-taking.
You have THIRTY seconds to preview the gap-filling task.
Now, listen to the talk. When it is over, you will be given TWO minutes to check your work. SECTION B CONVERSATIONS
In this section you will hear two conversations. At the end of each conversation, five questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken ONCE ONLY. After each question there will be a ten-second pause. During the pause, you should read the four choices of A, B, C, and D, and mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO.
You have THIRTY seconds to preview the questions.
Now, listen to the conversations.
CONVERSATION ONE
Questions 1 to 5 are based on Conversation One.
1. A. It has wiped the data from the flash drive.    B. It can’t read data from the flash drive.
C. The files stored in it have got lost.
D. The files in it can’t be opened.
2. A. Get a total refund.    B. Get a partial refund.
C. Get a new computer.
D. Get a new hard disk.
3. A. Indifferent.    B. Surprised.    C. Anxious.    D. Dissatisfied.
4. A. By 8:30 tomorrow morning.    B. After 8:30 tomorrow morning.
C. At 8:30 this evening.
D. Anytime tomorrow.
5. A. 6574-3205.    B. 6547-2305.    C. 6457-2035.    D. 6475-3025.
CONVERSATION TWO
Questions 6 to 10 are based on Conversation Two.
6. A. Hold a party at home.    B. Introduce ourselves first.
C. Avoid meeting them.
D. Wait for them to visit us.
7. A. Do nothing about it.    B. Tell him to stop.
C. Give him a reason to stop.
D. Call the police immediately.
8. A. Try to be patient.    B. Try to be sympathetic.
C. Don’t appear to be friendly.
D. Don’t answer their questions.
9. A No more than five minutes.    B. Five to ten minutes.
C. About half an hour.
D. About an hour.
10. A. Family Circle Magazine.    B. Moring radio programs.
C. Betty’s website.
D. CBS news website.
PART III LANGUAGE USAGE [10 MIN] There are twenty sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C, and D. Choose one word or phrases that best completes the sentence.
Mark you answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO.
11. _____ combination of techniques authors use, all stories——from the briefest anecdotes to the
longest novels——have a plot.
A. Regarding
B. Whatever
C. In so far as
D. No matter
12. S he followed the receptionist down a luxurious corridor to a closed door ___________ the women
gave a quick knock before opening it.
A. on which
B. but when
C. wherein
D. then
13. M s. Ennab is one of the first Palestinian ___________ with seven years racing exper1ence.
A. woman drives
B. women driver
C. women drivers
D. woman driver
14. “I wondered if I could have a word with you.” The past tense in the sentence refers to a _________.
A. past event for exact time reference
B. present event for tentativeness
C. present event for uncertainty
D. past event for politeness
15. “If I were you, I wouldn’t want to propose to her.” The subjunctive mood in the sentence is used to
_________.
A. alleviate hostility
B. express unfavorable feelings
C. indicate uncertainty
D. make a suggestion
16. “Tt’s a shame that the city official should have gone back on his word.”The modal auxiliary
SHOULD express ___________.
A. obligation
B. disappointment
C. future in the past
D. tentativeness
17. T imothy Ray Brown, the first man cured of HIV, initially opted against the stem cell transplantation
that ___________ history.
A. could have later made
B. should have made later
C. might have later
D. would later make
18. S ome martian rock structures look strikingly like structures on Earth that are known __ by microbes.
A. having been created
B. being created
C. to have been created
D. to be created
19. A t that moment, with the crowd watching me, I was not afraid in the ordinary sense, as ________ if I
________ alone.
A. would have been; had been
B. should be; had been
C. could be; were
D. might have been; were
20. Y ou must fire ___________ incompetent assistant of yours.
A. the
B. an
C. that
D. whichever
21. S ome narratives seem more like plays, heavy with dialogue by which writers allow their ______ to
reveal themselves.
A. charisma
B. characters
C. characteristics
D. characterizations
22. I f you intend to melt the snow for drinking water, you can ______ extra purity by running it through
a coffee filter.
A. assure
B. insure
C. reassure
D. ensure
23. T he daisy-like flowers of chamomile have been used for centuries to ______ anxiety and insomnia.
A. decline
B. relieve
C. quench
D. suppress
24. D espite concern about the disappearance of the album in popular music, 2014 delivered a great crop
of album ___________.
A. releases
B. appearances
C. publications
D. presentations
25. T he party’s reduced vote in the general election was ___________ of lack of support for its policies.
A. revealing
B. confirming
C. indicative
D. evident
26. H e closed his eyes and held the two versions of La Mappa to his mind’s __________ to analyze their
differences.
A. vision
B. eye
C. view
D. sight
27. T welve pupils killed and five _________ injured after gunmen attacked the school during lunchtime.
A. critically
B. enormously
C. greatly
D. hard
28. A 15-year-old girl has been arrested ______ accusations of using Instagram to anonymously threaten
her high-school.
A. over
B. with
C. on
D. for
29. I t was reported that a 73-year-old man died on an Etihad flight ______ to Germany from Abu Dhabi.英语专四报名入口
A. bounded
B. binded
C. boundary
D. bound
30. I t’s _________ the case in the region; a story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer
you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes.
A. invariably
B. immovably
C. unalterably
D. unchangeably PART IV CLOZE [10 MIN] Decide which of the words given in the box below would complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks. The words can be used ONCE ONLY. Mark the letter for each word on ANSWER SHEET TWO.
Millions of people now rent their movies the Netflix way. They fill out a wish list from the 50,000 titles on the company’s Web site and receive the first few DVD’s in the mail; when they mail each one back, the next one on the list is sent. The Netflix model has been exhaustively analyzed for its disruptive, new-economy (31) ______. What will it mean for video stores like Blockbuster, which has, in fact, started a similar service? What will it mean for movie studios and theaters? What does it show about “long tail”
businesses—ones that combine many markets into a (32) ______ target audience? But one other major implication has (33) ______ been mentioned: what this and similar Internet-based businesses mean for the United States Postal Service.
Every day, some two million Netflix envelopes come and go as first-class mail. They are joined by millions of other shipments from (34) ______ pharmacies, eBay vendors, Amazon and other businesses that did not exist before the Internet.
The (35) ______ of “snail mail’ in the age of electronic communication has been predicted at least as often as the coming of the paperless office. But the consumption of paper keeps (36) ______. It has roughly doubled since 1980. On average, an American household receives twice as many pieces of mail a day as it did in the 1970’s.
The harmful side of the Internet’s impact is obvious but statistically less important than many would guess. People (37) ______ write fewer letters when they can send e-mail messages. To (38) ______ through a box of old paper correspondence is to know what has been (39) ______ in this shift: the pretty stamps, the varying look and feel of handwritten and typed correspondence, the tangible (40) ______ that was once in the sender’s hands.
PART V READING COMPREHENSION  [35 MIN] SECTION A MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS
In this section there are three passages followed by ten multiple-choice questions. For each multiple choice question, there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one you think is the best answer and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO.
PASSAGE ONE
(1) When I was a young girl living in Ireland, I was always pleased when it rained, because that meant I could go treasure hunting. What’s the connection between a wet day and a search for buried treasure? Well, it’s quite simple. Ireland, as some of you may already know, is the home of Leprechauns —little men who possess magic powers and, perhaps more interestingly, pots of gold.
(2) Now, although Leprechauns are intriguing characters, I have to admit that I was more intrigued by the stories of their treasure hoard. This, as all of Ireland knows, they hide at the end of the rainbow. Leprechauns can be fearsome folk but if you can discover the end of the rainbow, they have to unwillingly surrender their gold to you. So whenever it rained, I would look up in the sky and follow the curve of the rainbow to see where it ended. I never did unearth any treasure, but I did spend many happy, showery days dreaming of what I could do with the fortune if I found it.
(3) As I got older, and started working, rainy days came to be just another nuisance and my childhood dreams of finding treasure faded. But for some people the dream of striking it lucky never fades, and for a fortunate few, the dream even comes true! Such is the case of Mel Fisher. His dream of finding treasure also began in childhood, while reading the great literature classics “Treasure Island” and “Moby Dick”. However, unlike me, he chased his dream and in the end managed to become one of the most famous professional treasure hunters of all time, and for good reason. In 1985, he fished up the priceless cargo of the sunken Spanish galleon Atocha, which netted him an incredible 400 million dollars!
(4) After the ship sank in 1622 off the coast of Florida, its murky waters became a treasure-trove (埋藏的宝藏) of precious stones, gold bars and silver coins known as “pieces of eight”. The aptly-named Fisher, who ran a commerc1al salvaging operation, had been trying to locate the underwater treasure for over 16 years when he finally hit the jackpot! His dreams had come true but finding and keeping the
treasure wasn’t all plain sailing. After battling with hostile conditions at sea, Fisher then had to battle in the courts. In fact, the State of Florida took Fisher to court over ownership of the find and the Federal government soon followed suit. After more than 200 hearings, Fisher agreed to donate 20%
of his yearly findings for public display, and so now there is a museum in Florida which displays hundreds of the objects which were salvaged from the Atocha.
(5) This true story seems like a modern-day fairytale: a man pursues his dream through adversity and in the end, he triumphs over the difficulties—they all live happily ever after, right? Well, not exactly. Archaeologists object to the fact that with commercial salvaging operations like Fisher’s, the objects are sold and dispersed, and UNESCO are also worried about protecting our underwater heritage from what it describes as “pillaging” (抢劫、掠夺).
(6) The counter-argument is that in professional, well-run operations such as Fisher’s, each piece is accurately and minutely recorded and that it is this information which is more important than the actual artefact, and that such operations help increase our wealth of archaeological knowledge. Indeed, as in Fisher’s case, they make history more accessible to people through museum donations and information on web sites.
(7) The distinction of whether these treasure hunters are salvaging or pillaging our underwater heritage may not be clear, but what is clear is that treasure hunting is not just innocent child’s play anymore but profitable big business. I have learnt that the end of the rainbow is beyond my reach, bu
t in consolation, with just a click of the mouse, I too can have a share in the riches that the Atocha has revealed. As Friedrich Nietzsche so wisely said: “Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge.”
41. I n Para. 4, the phrase “hit the jackpot” means ____________ according to the context.
A. discovered the jackpot
B. found the treasure
C. broke one of the objects
D. ran a salvaging operation
42. I t can be concluded from Paras. 5 and 6 that ____________.
A. people hold entirely different views on the issue
B. UNESCO’s view is different from archaeologists’
C. all salvaging operations should be prohibited
D. attention should be paid to the find’s educational value
43. H ow did the author feel about the treasure from the Atocha (Para. 7)?
A. She was unconcerned about where the treasure came from.
B. She was sad that she was unable to discover and salvage treasure.
C. She was angry that treasure hunters were pillaging heritage.
D. She was glad that people can have a chance to see the treasure.
PASSAGE TWO
(1) Paul was dissatisfied with himself and with everything. The deepest of his love belonged to his mother. When he felt he had hurt her, or wounded his love for her, he could not bear it. Now it was spring, and there was battle between him and Miriam. This year he had a good deal against her. She was vaguely aware of it. The old feeling that she was to be a sacrifice to this love, which she had had when she prayed, was mingled in all her emotions. She did not at the bottom believe she ever would have him. She did not believe in herself primarily: doubted whether she could ever be what he would
demand of her. Certainly she never saw herself living happily through a lifetime with him. She saw tragedy, sorrow, and sacrifice ahead. And in sacrifice she was proud, in renunciation she was strong, for she did not trust herself to