TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2009)&-GRADE FOUR-

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数量 100 3
TIME LIMIT: 135 MIN
PART I  DICTATION
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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 2 minutes to check through your work once more.
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PART II  LISTENING COMPREHENSION
In Sections A, B and C you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow.

SECTION A  CONVERSATIONS
In this section you will hear several conversations. Listen to the conversations carefully and then answer the questions that follow.

Questions 1 to 3 are based on the following conversation. At the end of the  conversation, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions. Now,  listen to the conversation.
2.
Mark is unhappy because of _______.
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Which of the following is CORRECT?
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4.
Did Mark eventually take Linda’s advice?
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Questions 4 to 7 are based on the following conversation. At the end of the  conversation, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the conversation.
5.
About the scratch on the product, the shop assistant thinks that _______.
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6.
The customer was ______ when told he might not have worn the headphones
properly.
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7.
How many complaints did the customer make about the product altogether?
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8.
The shop could exchange the product if the customer _______.
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Questions 8 to 10 are based on the following conversation. At the end of the  conversation, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the conversation.
9.
Joe Smith telephoned Victoria for _______.
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10.
When will the lunch be held?
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11.
All the following information is new to Victoria EXCEPT _______.
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SECTION B  PASSAGES
In this section, you will hear several passages. Listen to the passages carefully and then answer the questions that follow.

Questions 11 to 13 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the passage.
12.
People choose London for post-Christmas shopping because _______.
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13.
We learn from the passage that _______.
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14.
Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?
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Questions 14 to 17 are based on the following passage. At the end of the  passage, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the passage.
15.
Ballroom dancing used to be associated with _______.
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16.
According to the passage, recent popularity of ballroom dancing is the result of _______.
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17.
Which of the following is NOT mentioned about the TV show?
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18.
According to the passage, the TV show has the greatest impact on _______.
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19.
According to New Zealand’s rules about naming children, which of the following names is NOT acceptable?
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20.
According to the passage, unusual names come from _______.
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21.
All of the following countries have strict rules about naming children
EXCEPT _______.
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Questions 21 to 23 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the news.
22.
Why were the fishing crew stranded on Oct. 10th?
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23.
How did they survive during those three months?
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24.
How were the crew rescued eventually?
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Questions 24 and 25 are based on the following news. At the end of the news  item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the news.
25.
Juan Carlos has been King of Spain _______.
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26.
What is the news item mainly about?
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Questions 26 and 27 are based on the following news. At the end of the news  item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the news.
27.
The three suicide bombings occurred in _______.
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28.
Did people die in the bombings?
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Questions 28 to 30 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions. Now, listen to the news.
29.
What is the purpose of the national survey?
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30.
According to the news item, efforts of environmental protection are
especially affected by _______.
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31.
Which of the following details is CORRECT according to the news item?
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PART III  CLOZE
Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks.
Scientists around the world are racing to learn how to rapidly diagnose,  treat and stop the spread of a new, deadly disease. SARS — Severe Acute  Respiratory Syndrome — was (31) for the first time in February 2003 in Hanoi,  (32) since then has infected more than 1,600 people in 15 countries, killing 63. At this (33) , there are more questions than answers surrounding the disease.
Symptoms start (34) a fever over 100.4 degrees F, chills, headache or body (35) . Within a week, the patient has a dry cough, which might (36) to shortness of breath. In 10% to 20% of cases, patients require (37) ventilation to breathe. About 3.5% die from the disease. Symptoms (38) begin in two to seven days, but some reports suggest it (39) take as long as 10 days. Scientists are close to (40) a lab test to diagnose SARS. In the meantime, it is diagnosed by its symptoms. There is no evidence (41) antibiotics or  anti-viral medicines help, (42) doctors can offer only supportive care.
Patients with SARS are kept in isolation to reduce the risk of (43) . Scientists aren’t sure yet, but some researchers think it’s a (44) discovered corona virus, the family of viruses that cause some common colds.
Most cases appear to have been passed (45) droplets expelled when infected patients cough or sneeze. Family members of infected people and medical workers who care (46) them have been most likely to (47) the illness. But recent developments in Hong Kong suggest that the (48) might spread through air, or that the virus might (49) for two to three hours on doorknobs or other (50) . Health experts say it is unlikely, though, that sharing an elevator briefly with an infected person would be enough to pass the virus.
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PART IV  GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY
There are thirty sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are  four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Choose one word or phrase that best completes the sentence.
52.
What a nice day! How about the three of us _____ a walk in the park nearby?
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53.
If there were no subjunctive mood, English _____ much easier to learn.
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54.
She _____ fifty or so when I first met her at a conference.
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55.
_____ the boss says, it is unreasonable to ask me to work overtime without
pay.
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56.
A new laptop costs about _____ of a second-hand one.
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57.
I was very interested in _____ she told me.
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58.
We consider ______ he should have left without telling anyone beforehand.
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59.
It is going to be fine tomorrow. _______.
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60.
Little _____ about her own safety, though she herself was in great danger.
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61.
The couple had no sooner got to the station _____ the coach left.
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62.
Aren’t you tired? I ____ you had done enough for today.
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63.
"It seems that she was there at the conference." The sentence means that _______.
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64.
Which of the following adverbs can NOT be used to complete “_____ everybody
came”?
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65.
In “How much do you think he earns?”, "how much” is ______ of the sentence.
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66.
"The man preparing the documents is the firm’s lawyer” has all the following possible meanings EXCEPT _______.
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67.
During the TV interview, the singer announced that he was going to _____ his new album soon.
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68.
After working for the firm for ten years, he finally _____ the rank of deputy director.
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69.
Winter is the _____ season at most hotels in this seaside town, because very
few tourists come to stay.
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70.
Come on, Jack, tell me the story. Don’t keep me in ______.
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71.
The football match was _______ because of the heavy rain.
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72.
We had a good time there, and the food was plentiful and _______.
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73.
It was strange that she would _____ such an absurd idea.
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74.
The scientists have made an _____ study of the viruses that cause the disease.
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75.
Do you own your apartment or are you a ______ ?
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76.
Representatives from the companies indicated that they should go on working
together in _____.
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77.
We all know that Mary has had a strict _____.
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78.
The drink was packaged in champagne bottles and was being _____ as the real stuff.
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79.
Last Sunday she came to visit us out of the blue. The italicized phrase
means _______.
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80.
The person he interviewed was _____ his former schoolmate.
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81.
The young employee has a(n) ______ quality — he is totally honest.
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PART V  READING COMPREHENSION
In this section there are four passages followed by questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the  one that you think is the best answer.

TEXT A
        Do you realize that every time you take a step, the bones in your hip are subjected to forces between four and five times your body weight? When you  are running, this force is increased further still. What happens if through disease a hip-joint ceases to be able to resist such forces? For many years hip-joints and other body joints have been replaceable either partially or completely. It is after all a simple ball and socket joint; it has certain loads imposed on it; it needs reliability over a defined life; it must contain materials suitable for the working environment. Any engineer will recognize  these as characteristic of a typical engineering problem, which doctors and engineers have worked together to solve, in order to bring a fresh lease of life to people who would otherwise be disabled.
        This typifies the way in which engineers work to help people and create a better quality of life. The fact that this country has the most efficient agricultural industry in the world is another good example. Mechanical engineers have worked with farmers and biologists to produce fertilizers, machinery and harvesting systems. This team effort has now produced crops uniformly waist high or less so that they are better suited to mechanical harvesting. Similar advances with other crops have released people from hard  and boring jobs for more creative work, whilst machines harvest crops more efficiently with less waste. Providing more food for the rapidly increasing population is yet another role for the mechanical engineer.
82.
According to the passage, when would most weight be imposed on hip-joints?
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83.
Engineers regard the replacement of hip-joints as a(n) ____ problem.
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84.
According to the passage, how do engineers contribute to increasing
efficiency of the agricultural industry?
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85.
According to the context, “This team effort” in Paragraph Two refers to
_______.
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TEXT B
        Nowadays, a cellphone service is available to everyone, everywhere.  Probably thousands of people have already been using it, but I just discovered  it, so I'm going to claim it and also name it: Fake Foning.
        The technology has been working well for me at the office, but there are  infinite applications. Virtually in any public space.
        Say you work at a big university with lots of talky faculty members  buzzing about. Now, say you need to use the restroom. The trip down the hall  will take approximately one hour, because a person can't walk into those talky  people without getting pulled aside for a question, a bit of gossip, a new  read on a certain line of Paradise Lost.
        So, a cellphone. Any cellphone. Just pick it up. Don't dial. Just hold that phone to your face and start talking. Walk confidently down the hall  engaged in fake conversation, making sure to tailor both the topic and content to the person standing before you whom you are trying to evade.
        For standard colleague avoidance, I suggest fake chatting about fake  business:
        "Yes, I'm glad you called, because we really need to hammer out the details. What's that? Yes, I read Page 12, but if you look at the bottom of 4, I think you can see the problem begins right there."
        Be animated. Be engaged in your fake fone conversation. Make eye contact  with the people passing, nod to them, gesture keen interest in talking to them at a later time, point to your phone, shrug and move on.
        Shoppers should consider fake foning anytime they spot a talky neighbor in the produce department pinching (用手捏) unripe peaches. Without your phone at your face, you'd be in for a 20-minute speech on how terrible the world is.
        One important caution about fake foning. The other day I was fake foning my way past a colleague, and he was actually following me to get my attention. I knew he wanted to ask about a project I had not yet finished. I was trying  to buy myself some time, so I continued fake foning with my doctor. "So I  don't need the operation? Oh, doctor, that is the best news."  And then: Brrrrrrng! Brrrrrmg! Brrrrrmg! My phone started ringing, right there while it was planted on my face. My colleague looked at me, and I looked at him, and naturally I gasped. "What is the matter with this thing?" I said,  pulling the phone away to look at it, and then putting it back to my ear.
        "Hello? Are you still there?"
        Oops.
86.
Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?
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87.
What is fake foning?
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88.
In the author’s opinion, in order to make fake foning look real one has to
_______.
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89.
What does the last example show?
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90.
After his phone suddenly began ringing, the author _______.
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91.
What is the tone of the passage?
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TEXT C
        It was late in the afternoon, and I was putting the final touch on a  piece of writing that I was feeling pretty good about. I wanted to save it,  but my cursor had frozen. I tried to shut the computer down, and it seized up  altogether. Unsure of what else to do, I yanked (用力猛拉) the battery out.
        Unfortunately, Windows had been in the midst of a delicate and crucial  undertaking. The next morning, when I turned my computer back on, it informed me that a file had been corrupted and Windows would not load. Then, it offered to repair itself by using the Windows Setup CD.
        I opened the special drawer where I keep CDs. But no Windows CD in there. I was forced to call the computer company's Global Support Centre. My call was answered by a woman in some unnamed, far-off land. I find it annoying
  to make small talk with someone when I don't know what continent they're standing on. Suppose I were to comment on the beautiful weather we've been having when there was a monsoon at the other end of the phone? So I got right to the point. "My computer is telling me a file is corrupted and it wants to fix itself, but I don't have the Windows Setup CD."
        "So you're having a problem with your Windows Setup CD." She has  apparently been dozing and, having come to just as the sentence ended, was  attempting to cover for her inattention. It quickly became clear that the woman was not a computer technician. Her job was to serve as a gatekeeper, a human shield for the technicians. Her sole duty, as far as I could tell, was to raise global stress levels.
        To make me disappear, the woman gave me the phone number for Windows'  creator, Microsoft. This is like giving someone the phone number for, I don't  know, North America. Besides, the CD worked; I just didn't have it. No matter how many times I repeated my story, we came back to the same place. She was calm and resolutely polite.
        When my voice hit a certain decibel (分贝), I was passed along, like a hot, irritable potato, to a technician.
        "You don't have the Windows Setup CD, ma'am, because you don't need it,"  he explained cheerfully.
        "Windows came preinstalled on your computer!"
        "But I do need it."
        "Yes, but you don't have it." We went on like this for a while. Finally, he offered to walk me through the use of a different CD, one that would erase my entire system. "Of course, you'd lose all your e-mail, your documents, your photos." It was like offering to drop a safe on my head to cure my headache. "You might be able to recover them, but it would be expensive." He sounded delighted. "And it's not covered by the warranty (产品保证书)!" The safe began to seem like a good idea, provided it was full.
        I hung up the phone and drove my computer to a small, friendly repair place I'd heard about. A smart, helpful man dug out a Windows CD and told me it wouldn't be a problem. An hour later, he called to let me know it was ready. I thanked him, and we chatted about the weather, which was the same outside my window as it was outside his.
92.
Why did the author shut down her computer abruptly?
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93.
Which of the following is the author’s opinion about the woman at the Global Support Centre?
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94.
According to the passage, the solution offered by the technician was
_______.
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95.
"It was like offering to drop a safe on my head to cure my headache” in the
last but one paragraph means that _______.
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96.
It can be inferred from the passage that the differences between the Global
Support Centre and the local repair shop lie in all the following EXCEPT
_______.
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TEXT D
        Not long ago, a mysterious Christmas card dropped through our mail slot.  The envelope was addressed to a man named Raoul, who, I was relatively certain, did not live with us. The envelope wasn't sealed, so I opened it. The inside of the card was blank. Ed, my husband, explained that the card was both from and to the newspaper deliveryman. His name was apparently Raoul, and Raoul wanted a holiday tip. We were meant to put a check inside the card and then drop the envelope in the mail. When your services are rendered at 4 a.m., you can't simply hang around, like a hotel bellboy expecting a tip. You have to be direct.
        So I wrote a nice holiday greeting to this man who, in my imagination, fires The New York Times from his bike aimed at our front door, causing more  noise with mere newsprint than most people manage with sophisticated black market fireworks.
        With a start, I realized that perhaps the reason for the 4 a.m. wake-up noise was not ordinary rudeness but carefully executed spite: I had not tipped Raoul in Christmases past. I honestly hadn't realized I was supposed to. This was the first time he'd used the card tactic. So I got out my checkbook. Somewhere along the line, holiday tipping went from an optional thank-you for a year of services to a Mafia-style protection racket (收取保护费的黑社会组织).
        Several days later, I was bringing our garbage bins back from the curb when I noticed an envelope taped to one of the lids. The outside of the envelope said MICKEY. It had to be another tip request, this time from our garbage collector. Unlike Raoul, Mickey hadn't enclosed his own Christmas card from me. In a way, I appreciated the directness. "I know you don't care how merry my Christmas is, and that's fine," the gesture said. "I want $30, or  I'll 'forget' to empty your garbage bin some hot summer day."
        I put a check in the envelope and taped it back to the bin. The next morning, Ed noticed that the envelope was gone, though the trash hadn't yet been picked up: "Someone stole Mickey's tip!" Ed was quite certain. He made me call the bank and cancel the check.
        But Ed had been wrong. Two weeks later, Mickey left a letter from the bank on our steps. The letter informed Mickey that the check, which he had tried to cash, had been cancelled. The following Tuesday morning, when Ed saw a truck outside, he ran out with his wallet. "Are you Mickey?"
        The man looked at him with scorn. "Mickey is the garbageman. I am the  recycling." Not only had Ed insulted this man by hinting that he was a garbageman, but he had obviously neglected to tip him. Ed ran back inside for more funds. Then he noticed that the driver of the truck had been watching the whole transaction. He peeled off another twenty and looked around, waving bills in the air. "Anyone else?"
        Had we consulted the website of the Emily Post Institute, this embarrassing breach of etiquette (礼节) could have been avoided. Under "trash / recycling collectors" in the institute's Holiday Tipping Guidelines, it says: "$10 to $30 each." You may or may not wish to know that your pet groomer, hairdresser, mailman and UPS guy all expect a holiday tip.
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The newspaper deliveryman put a blank card inside the envelope because
_______.
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98.
From the passage, we learn that the author _______.
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99.
According to the passage, the author felt ____ to give Raoul a holiday tip.
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100.
Which of the following is CORRECT about Mickey, the garbage collector?
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101.
Ed’s encounter with the recycling team shows that _______.
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PART VI  WRITING
SECTION A  COMPOSITION
102.
  Tourism is a booming business in China. However, some people worry that too many tourists may bring harm to the environment, while others don’t think so.
      As tourism has been experiencing a flourishing time recently in China, many people believe that tourism will accelerate economic growth and bring benefits to the dwellers of the city. So they hold the opinion that we should try our endeavors to promote tourism; however, those who see the other side of the picture utter a sonorous voice that tourism may bring about a disastrous impact on our environment. As far as I am concerned, my opinion is the same as the latter's for the following reasons:
      In the first place, with many travelers flocking to different destinations over the country, air travel, car travel and train travel are adding to the planet’s pollution crisis and this is becoming a serious problem. Tourism development must accompany a sharp rise in traffic; however, we have to admit that the scenes of packed vehicles around the tourist attractions are not a pleasant view, let alone the exhaust fumes emitted. Besides, in some mountainous areas, in order to attract the tourists, trees are cut down to build the roads and hotels to facilitate people’s exploration of scenic spots, which itself serves as the evidence of negative effects imposed on the local environment. In addition, some tourists’ lack of awareness of environmental protection leads to damage on a large scale, from the garbage spread around to the animals scared away or even killed by the tourists, which badly damages the balance of the natural environment.
      In short, to develop tourism at the cost of environment is proved wrong beyond doubt. Thus, we need to find a balance between satisfying the needs of tourists and reducing to a minimum the damage tourism causes.
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SECTION B  NOTE-WRITING

103.
Write a note of about 50-60 words based on the following situation:
        Lily, your roommate, is looking for a part-time job in the coming summer  vacation. You saw an ad for a private English tutor for a schoolboy. Write her a note, telling her what the job is and strongly recommending it to her.
  Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and  appropriateness.
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