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TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS(2008)&GRADE EIGHT
1、【 单选题 】
Mary doesn't seem to favour the idea of a new airport because [1分]
、 the existing airports are to be wasted
、 more people will be encouraged to travel.
、 more oil will be consumed.
、 more airplanes will be purchased.
答案:
2、【 单选题 】
Which of the following is NOT mentioned by Mary as a potential disadvantage? [1分]
、 More people in the area.
、 Noise and motorways.
、 Waste of land.
、 Unnecessary travel.
答案:
3、【 单选题 】
Freddy has cited the following advantages for a new airport EXCEPT [1分]
、 more job opportunities.
、 vitality to the local economy.
、 road construction,
、 presence of aircrew in the area.
答案:
4、【 单选题 】
Mary thinks that people dont need to do much travel nowadays as a result of [1分]
、 less emphasis on personal contact.
、 advances in modern telecommunications.
、 recent changes in peoples concepts.
、 more potential damage to the area
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5、【 单选题 】
We learn from the conversation that Freddy is Marys ideas, [1分]
、 strongly in favour of
、 mildly in favour of
、 strongly against
、 mildly against
答案:
6、【 单选题 】
What is the main idea of the news item? [1分]
、 A new government was formed after Sunday’s elections.
、 The new government intends to change the welfare system.
、 The Social Democratic Party founded the welfare system.
、 The Social Democratic Party was responsible for high unemployment.
答案:
7、【 单选题 】
The tapes of the Apollo-11 mission were first stored in [1分]
、 a U.S. government archives warehouse
、 a NASA ground tracking station
、 the Goddard Space Flight Centre
、 none of the above places
答案:
8、【 单选题 】
What does the news item say about Richard Nafzger? [1分]
、 He is assigned the task to look for the tapes.
、 He believes that the tapes are probably lost.
、 He works in a NASA ground receiving site.
、 He had asked for the tapes in the 1970s.
答案:
9、【 单选题 】
The example in the news item is cited mainly to show [1分]
、 those doctors are sometimes professionally incompetent
、 that in cases like that hospitals have to pay huge compensations
、 the language barriers might lower the quality of treatment.
、 that language barriers can result in fatal consequences.
答案:
10、【 单选题 】
According to Dr. Flores, hospitals and clinics [1分]
、 has seen the need for hiring trained interpreters.
、 has realized the problems of language barriers.
、 has begun training their staff to be bilinguals.
、 has taken steps to provide accurate diagnosis.
答案:
11、【 单选题 】
According to the passage, the new college-entrance system is designed to [2分]
、 requires students to sit for more college-entrance tests
、 reduce the weight of college-entrance tests
、 select students on their high school grades only
、 reduce the number of prospective college applicants
答案:
12、【 单选题 】
What seems to be the effect of introducing the new system? [2分]
、 The system has given equal opportunities to students.
、 The system has reduced the number of cram schools.
、 The system has intensified competition among schools.
、 The system has increased students study load.
答案:
13、【 单选题 】
According to critics, the popularity of private education is mainly the result of [2分]
、 the government’s egalitarian policy
、 insufficient number of schools
、 curriculums of average quality
、 low cost of private education
答案:
14、【 单选题 】
According to the passage, there seems to be disagreement over the adoption of the new system between the following groups EXCEPT [2分]
、 between universities and the government
、 between school experts and the government
、 between parents and schools
、 between parents and the government
答案:
15、【 单选题 】
Which of the following adjectives best describes the authors treatment of the topic? [2分]
、 Objective.
、 Positive.
、 Negative.
、 Biased.
答案:
16、【 单选题 】
Which of the following details of Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones is INCORRECT? [2分]
、 He was born and brought up in Birmingham.
、 He used to work in the television industry.
、 He is wealthy, adventurous and aspiring.
、 He is now selling his own quality foods.
答案:
17、【 单选题 】
Most importantly, people like Wilfred have brought to traditional British farming [2分]
、 knowledge of farming
、 knowledge of brand names
、 knowledge of lifestyle
、 knowledge of marketing
答案:
18、【 单选题 】
Which of the following does NOT contribute to the emergence of a new class of farmers? [2分]
、 Strong desire for country life.
、 Longing for greater wealth,
、 Influence of TV productions.
、 Enthusiasm for quality food business.
答案:
19、【 单选题 】
What is seen as their additional source of new income? [2分]
、 Modern tendency to buy natural foods.
、 Increase in the value of land property.
、 Raising and selling rare live stock. V
、 Publicity as a result of media coverage.
答案:
20、【 单选题 】
The sentence in the last paragraph “...Britain isn’t catching up with mainland Europe; its leading the way" implies that [2分]
、 Britain has taken a different path to boost economy.
、 more authentic foods are being produced in Britain.
、 the British are heading back to the countryside.
、 the Europeans are showing great interest in country life.
答案:
21、【 单选题 】
From the description in the passage, we learn that [2分]
、 all Catalonians can perform cast ells.
、 cast ells require performers to stand on each other.
、 people perform cast ells in different formations.
、 in cast ells people have to push and pull each other.
答案:
22、【 单选题 】
According to the passage, the4mplication of the performance is that [2分]
、 the Catalonians are insensible and noisy people.
、 the Catalonians show more sense than is expected.
、 the Catalonians display paradoxical characteristics.
、 the Catalonians think highly of team work.
答案:
23、【 单选题 】
The passage cites the following examples EXCEPT __________ to show seny at work. [2分]
、 development of a bank
、 dynamic role in economy
、 contribution to national economy
、 comparison with other regions
答案:
24、【 单选题 】
In the last but two paragraphs, the Ramblas is described as “a front-row seat for Barcelona’s longest running theatrical event”. What does it mean? [2分]
、 On the Ramblas people can see a greater variety of performances
、 the Ramblas provides many front seats for the performances
、 the Ramblas is preferred as an important venue for the events
、 Theatrical performers like to perform on the Ramblas
答案:
25、【 单选题 】
What is the main impression of the scenes on the Ramblas? [2分]
、 It is bizarre and Outlandish
、 It is of average quality
、 It is conventional and quiet
、 It is of professional standard
答案:
26、【 单选题 】
What happened to the four remaining lawyers after Patricks disappearance? [2分]
、 They all wanted to divorce their wives.
、 They were all heavily involved in debts.
、 They were all recovering from drinking.
、 They had bought new homes, yachts, etc.
答案:
27、【 单选题 】
Which of the following statements contains a metaphor? [2分]
、 His name came off the letterhead as the debts piled up.
、 …they could see it, almost touch it when their dead partner...
、 …, attached unwillingly at the hip by the bondage of mortgages...
、 …, and for this he had received no small amount of grief.
答案:
28、【 单选题 】
According to the passage, what is the main cause of Patrick stealing the money? [2分]
、 Patrick was made a partner of the firm.
、 The partners agreed to have the money transferred.
、 Patrick had access to all the files in the firm.
、 Bogan decided to hire Patrick nine years earlier.
答案:
29、【 单选题 】
The lawyers were described as being all the following EXCEPT [2分]
、 greedy.
、 extravagant
、 quarrelsome.
、 bad-tempered.
答案:
30、【 单选题 】
Which of the following implies a contrast? [2分]
、 …, and it would be impossible to hide that kind of money in Biloxi, population fifty thousand.
、 They had been joint defendants in several unwinnable lawsuits; thus the bankruptcy.
、 There had even been talk of a firm jet, a six-seater.
、 His name came off the letterhead as the debts piled up.
答案:
31、【 单选题 】
The largest city in Canada is [1分]
、 Vancouver.
、 Montreal.
、 Toronto
、 Ottawa.
答案:
32、【 单选题 】
According to the United States Constitution, the legislative power is invested in [1分]
、 the Federal Government.
、 the Supreme Court.
、 the Cabinet.
、 the Congress.
答案:
33、【 单选题 】
Which of the following is the oldest sport in the United States? [1分]
、 Baseball.
、 Tennis.
、 Basketball.
、 American football.
答案:
34、【 单选题 】
The head of the executive branch in New Zealand is [1分]
、 the President.
、 the Governor-General.
、 the British monarch,
、 the Prime Minister.
答案:
35、【 单选题 】
The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, is an important poetic work by [1分]
、 William Langland.
、 Geoffrey Chaucer.
、 William Shakespeare.
、 Alfred Tennyson.
答案:
36、【 单选题 】
Who wrote The American? [1分]
、 Herman Melville.
、 Nathaniel Hawthorne.
、 Henry James.
、 Theodore Dreiser.
答案:
37、【 单选题 】
All of the following are well-known female writers in 20th -century Britain EXCEPT [1分]
、 George Eliot.
、 Iris Jean Murdoch.
、 Doris Lessing.
、 Muriel Spark.
答案:
38、【 单选题 】
Which of the following is NOT a design feature of human language? [1分]
、 Arbitrariness.
、 Displacement.
、 Duality.
、 Diachronicity.
答案:
39、【 单选题 】
What type of sentence is “Mark likes fiction, but Tim is interested in poetry.”? [1分]
、 A simple sentence.
、 A coordinate sentence.
、 A complex sentence.
、 None of the above.
答案:
40、【 单选题 】
The phenomenon that words having different meanings have the same form is called [1分]
、 hyponymy.
、 synonymy.
、 polysemy.
、 homonymy.
答案:
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