College English Test 1

Part Ⅰ Writing（30 minutes）

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic Shopping on the Internet. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 180 words following the outline given below in Chinese.

1．网上购物逐渐兴起；

2．阐述其利弊。

注意：此部分试题写在答题卡1上。

Part Ⅱ Listening Comprehension（25 minutes）

Section A

Directions: In this section, you will hear three news reports. At the end ofeach news report, you will hear two or three questions．Both the news report 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 Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。

Questions 1 and 2 will be based on the following news item.

1．A）From the central government.

B）From the local government.

C）Both A and B.

D）Neither A nor B.

2．A）51,000.

B）30,000.

C）15,000.

D）13,000.

Questions 3 and 4 will be based on the following news item.

3．A）A volcano.

B）A famous mountain.

C）A famous scenic spot.

D）An earthquake area.

4．A）It blew a thousand feet off the top of the mountain.

B）It killed dozens of people.

C）It killed thousands of animals.

D）All of the above.

Questions 5 to 7 will be based on the following news item.

5．A）It is going through a sort of exodus.

B）It has its own government.

C）It isn't subject to U.S. federal laws.

D）Its residents don't have to pay some U.S. federal taxes.

6．A）Its living standard is too high.

B）Its living standard is too low.

C）Its climate is uncomfortable for living.

D）It has been in a recession, a period of economic decline for 10 years.

7．A）They are leaving in search of better opportunities in the United States.

B）They like the climate there.

C）They like the environment there.

D）They disagree with the policy in Puerto Rico.

Section B

Directions: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, you will hear four questions．Both the conversation 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 Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。

Conversation One

Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you've just heard.

8．A）A landscape artist.

B）A teacher.

C）A student.

D）A school registrar.

9．A）Write a book.

B）Attend an afternoon meeting.

C）Enroll in another class.

D）Go to the art museum.

10．A）A textbook.

B）Some paintbrushes.

C）A bunch of flowers.

D）Some drawings.

11．A）Encouraged.

B）Annoyed.

C）Surprised.

D）Confused.

Conversation Two

Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you've just heard.

12．A）The right time for jogging.

B）The best season for doing sports.

C）Various kinds of sports.

D）Ways of staying healthy.

13．A）Twice a week.

B）Four times a week.

C）Every other day.

D）Never.

14．A）He also has a hard time running in the mornings in winter.

B）He wants to go boating with the woman someday.

C）He agrees with the woman that boating is good for health.

D）He agrees with the woman that it's too cold to go boating in winter.

15．A）Fish.

B）Pork.

C）Junk food.

D）Cake and potato chips.

Section C

Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end ofeach passage, you will hear some questions．Both the passages 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 Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the center.

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。

Passage One

Questions 16 to 19 are based on the passage you have just heard.

16．A）They lead an interesting life.

B）They disappear during the night.

C）They fail to reach the top.

D）They earn a lot of money.

17．A）Because he is important to them.

B）Because he buys their clothes.

C）Because he looks after the money.

D）Because he carries instruments for them.

18．A）Traveling.

B）Enjoying themselves.

C）Paying taxes.

D）Buying the things they need.

19．A）To sleep in.

B）To travel around the country.

C）To carry their clothes.

D）To take their instruments.

Passage Two

Questions 20 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.

20．A）1860.

B）1973.

C）1869.

D）1643.

21．A）The number of its shops, supermarkets and garages.

B）The number of its employees.

C）The special and unique food.

D）The quality and the price.

22．A）A kind of bacon called “Tendersweet”.

B）A cheese section.

C）Clothes.

D）A wine department.

Passage Three

Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.

23．A）A young girl.

B）Smokey the Bear.

C）Burning trees.

D）A young boy.

24．A）The damage of only one house.

B）The death of Smokey the Bear.

C）Many injured fire fighters.

D）Loss of land and homes.

25．A）Because they wanted to.

B）Because the court ordered it.

C）Because no one else could.

D）Because the child asked them to.

Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension（40 minutes）

Section A

Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list ofchoices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.You may not use any ofthe words in the bank more than once.

Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.

Despite a cooling of the economy, high-technology companies are still crying out for skilled workers. The Information Technology Association of America projects that more than 800,000 technology jobs will go unfilled next year. The lack of 26 workers poses a huge threat to the U.S. economy.

The most commonly cited reason for this state of 27 is that the country's agrarian-age（农村时代）education system fails to prepare students in the primary and secondary grades for twenty-first-century work. Yet an 28 and outmoded education system is only part of the problem．A less tangible but equally powerful cause is an antique classification system that divides the 29 into two camps:white-collar knowledge workers and blue-collar manual laborers.

Blue-collar workers 30 in the United States during the Industrial Age as workers migrated from farms to factories. 31 office workers became a significant class in the twentieth century, outnumbering the blue-collar workers by mid-century．Corporations increasingly require a new layer of knowledge worker:a highly skilled multi-disciplined talent, who combines the mind of the white-collar worker with a solid grounding in 32 and science（physics, chemistry, and biology）. These “gold-collar” workers—so named for their 33 to their companies and to the economy as well as for their personal earning ability-apply that knowledge to technology.

The gold-collar worker already exists in a wide range of jobs. The maintenance 34 who tests and repairs aircraft systems at American Airlines; the network 35 who manages systems and network operations at Procter&Gamble; the engineering technologist who assists scientists at Sandia National Laboratories; and the advanced-manufacturing technician at Intel can all be regarded as gold-collar workers.

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

A）technician

B）mathematics

C）contributions

D）affairs

E）exist

F）administrator

G）wealthy

H）magnified

I）emerged

J）workforce

K）qualified

L）White-collar

M）inadequate

N）conception

O）reducing

Section B

Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one ofthe paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Aswer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.

Protect Your Privacy When Job-hunting Online

A）Identity theft and identity fraud are terms used to refer to all types of crime in which someone wrongfully obtains and uses another person's personal data in some way that involves fraud or deception, typically for economic gain.

B）The numbers associated with identity theft are beginning to add up fast these days．A recent General Accounting Office report estimates that as many as 750,000 Americans are victims of identity theft every year. And that number may be low, as many people choose not to report the crime even if they know they have been victimized.

C）Identity theft is “an absolute epidemic”, states Robert Ellis Smith, a respected author and advocate of privacy, “It's certainly picked up in the last four or five years. It's worldwide. It affects everybody, and there's very little you can do to prevent it and, worst of all, you can't detect it until it's probably too late.”

D）Unlike your fingerprints, which are unique to you and cannot be given to someone else for their use, your personal data, especially your social security number, your bank account or credit card number, your telephone calling card number, and other valuable identifying data, can be used, if they fall into the wrong hands, to personally profit at your expense. In the United States and Canada, for example, many people have reported that unauthorized persons have taken funds out of their bank or financial accounts, or; in the worst cases, taken over their identities altogether, running up vast debts and committing crimes while using the victims' names. In many cases, a victim's losses may include not only out-of-pocket financial losses, but substantial additional financial costs associated with trying to restore his reputation in the community and correcting erroneous information for which the criminal is responsible.

E）According to the FBI, identity theft is the number one fraud committed on the Internet. So how do job seekers protect themselves while continuing to circulate their resumes online? The key to a successful online job search is learning to manage the risks. Here are some tips for staying safe while conducting a job search on the Internet.

F）Check for a privacy policy. If you are considering posting your resume online, make sure the job search site you are considering has a privacy policy, like CareerBuilder.com. The policy should spell out how your information will be used, stored and whether or not it will be shared. You may want to think twice about posting your resume on a site that automatically shares your information with others. You could be opening yourself up to unwanted calls from solicitors（推销员）. When reviewing the site's privacy policy, you'll be able to delete your resume just as easily as you posted it. You won't necessarily want your resume to remain out there on the Internet once you land a job. Remember, the longer your resume remains posted on a job board, the more exposure, both positive and not-so-positive, it will receive.

G）Take advantages of site features. Lawful job search sites offer levels of privacy protection. Before posting your resume, carefully consider your job search objectives and the level of risk you are willing to assume．CareerBuilder.com, for example, offers three levels of privacy from which job seekers can choose. The first is standard posting. This option gives job seekers who post their resumes the most visibility to the broadest employer audience possible. The second is anonymous（匮名的）posting. This allows job seekers the same visibility as those in the standard posting category without any of their contact information being displayed. Job seekers who wish to remain anonymous but want to share some other information may choose which pieces of contact information to display. The third is private posting. This option allows a job seeker to post a resume without having it searched by employers. Private posting allows job seekers to quickly and easily apply for jobs that appear on CareerBuilder.com without retyping their information.

H）Safeguard your identity．Career experts say that one of the ways job seekers can stay safe while using the internet to search out jobs is to conceal their identities. Replace your name on your resume with a generic（泛指的）identifier, such as “Intranet Developer Candidate”, or “Experienced Marketing Representative”. You should also consider eliminating the name and location of your current employer．Depending on your title, it may not be all that difficult to determine who you are once the name of your company is provided. Use a general description of the company such as “Major auto manufacturer,” or “International packaged goods supplier.” If your job title is unique, consider using the generic equivalent instead of the exact title assigned by your employer.

I）Establish an email address for your search．Another way to protect your privacy while seeking employment online is to open up an email account specifically for your online job search. This will safeguard your existing email box in the event someone you don't know gets hold of your email address and shares it with others. Using an email address specifically for your job search also eliminates the possibility that you will receive unwelcome emails in your primary mailbox. When naming your new email address, be sure that it doesn't contain references to your name or other information that will give away your identity. The best solution is an email address that is relevant to the job you are seeking such as salesmgr2004@provider.com.

J）Protect your references. If your resume contains a section with the names and contact information of your references, take it out. There's no sense in safeguarding your information while sharing private contact information of your references.

K）Keep confidential（机密的）information confidential．Do not, under any circumstances, share your social security, driver's license, and bank account numbers or other personal information, such as race or eye color. Honest employers do not need this information with an initial application．Don't provide this even if they say they need it in order to conduct a background check. This is one of the oldest tricks in the book—don't fall for it.

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

36．Those who post their resumes online for a long time will run an increased risk of becoming victims of identity theft.

37．Robert Ellis Smith says that identity theft is spreading around the world and hard to detect beforehand.

38．Victims of identity theft may suffer additional financial losses in order to restore their reputation and correct wrong information.

39．In the US,750,000 people are estimated to become victims of identity theft each year.

40．It is a safer way to find a job online when you use an email account specifically.

41．One is supposed to learn how to manage the risks if he or she is going to seek jobs online safely.

42．Standard posting allows fullest potential audience to browse through the resumes posted online.

43．Honest employers will not ask their initial job applicants to reveal their social security account, driver's license or bank account numbers.

44．Make sure that your email address will not be named in a way that could let out your personal information.

45．Job seekers are advised to describe the company they are serving right now in a general way instead of giving an exact name.

Section C

Directions: there are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements For each ofthem there are four choices marked A）, B）, C）and D）. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.

Passage One

Questions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.

In times of economic crisis, Americans turn to their families for support. If the Great Depression is any guide, we may see a drop in our sky-high divorce rate．But this won't necessarily represent an increase in happy marriages. In the long run, the Depression weakened American families, and the current crisis will probably do the same.

We tend to think of the Depression as a time when families pulled together to survive huge job losses．By 1932, when nearly one-quarter of the workforce was unemployed, the divorce rate had declined by around 25% from 1929．But this doesn't mean people were suddenly happier with their marriages. Rather, with incomes decreasing and insecure jobs, unhappy couples often couldn't afford to divorce. They feared neither spouse could manage alone.

Today, given the job losses of the past year, fewer unhappy couples will risk starting separate households; Furthermore, the housing market meltdown will make it more difficult for them to finance their separations by selling their homes.

After financial disasters family members also tend to do whatever they can to help each other and their communities．A 1940 book, The Unemployed Man and His Family, described a family in which the husband initially reacted to losing his job “with tireless search for work.” He was always active, looking for odd jobs to do.

The problem is that such an impulse is hard to sustain．Across the country, many similar families were unable to maintain the initial boost in morale（士气）．For some, the hardships of life without steady work eventually overwhelmed their attempts to keep their families together. The divorce rate rose again during the rest of the decade as the recovery took hold.

Millions of American families may now be in the initial stage of their responses to the current crisis, working together and supporting one another through the early months of unemployment.

Today's economic crisis could well generate a similar number of couples whose relationships have been irreparably（无法弥补地）ruined. So it's only when the economy is healthy again that we'll begin to see just how many broken families have been created.

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

46．In the initial stage, the current economic crisis is likely to __________.

A）tear many troubled families apart

B）contribute to enduring family ties

C）bring about a drop in the divorce rate

D）cause a lot of conflicts in the family

47．In the Great Depression many unhappy couples chose to stick together because__________ .

A）starting a new family would be hard

B）they expected things would turn better

C）they wanted to better protect their kids

D）living separately would be too costly

48．In addition to job losses, what stands in the way of unhappy couples getting a divorce?

A）Mounting family debts

B）A sense of insecurity

C）Difficulty in getting a loan

D）Falling housing prices

49．What will the current economic crisis eventually do to some married couples?

A）It will force them to pull their efforts together

B）It will undermine their mutual understanding

C）It will help strengthen their emotional bonds

D）It will irreparably damage their relationship

50．What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

A）The economic recovery will see a higher divorce rate

B）Few couples can stand the test of economic hardships

C）A stable family is the best protection against poverty.

D）Money is the foundation of many a happy marriage

Passage Two

Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage：

Some people believe that international sport creates goodwill between the nations and that if countries play games together they will learn to live together. Others say that the opposite is true:that international contests encourage false national pride and lead to misunderstanding and hatred. There is probably some truth in both arguments, but in recent years the Olympic Games have done little to support the view that sports encourage international brotherhood. Not only was there the tragic incident involving the murder of athletes, but the Games were also ruined by lesser incidents caused principally by minor national contests.

One country received its second—place medals with visible indignation after the hockey final. There had been noisy scenes at the end of the hockey match as, the losers objecting to the final decisions. They were convinced that one of their goals should not have been disallowed and that their opponents'victory was unfair. Their manager was in a rage when he said:” This wasn't hockey. Hockey and the International Hockey Federation are finished.” The president of the Federation said later that such behavior could result in the suspension of the team for at least three years.

The American basketball team announced that they would not yield first place to Russia, after a disputable end to their contest. The game had ended in disturbance. It was thought at first that the United States had won, by a single point, but it was announced that there were three seconds still to play．A Russian player then threw the ball from one end of the court to the other, and another player popped it into the basket. It was the first time the USA had ever lost an Olympic basketball match．An appeal jury debated the matter for four and a half hours before announcing that the result would stand. The American players then voted not to receive the silver medals. Incidents of this kind will continue as long as sport is played competitively rather than for the love of the game. The suggestion that athletes should compete as individuals, or in non-national terms, might be too much to hope for．But in the present organization of the Olympics there is far too much that encourages aggressive patriotism.

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

51．According to the author, recent Olympic Games have__________ .

A）created goodwill between the nations

B）bred only false national pride

C）hardly showed any international friendship

D）led to more and more misunderstanding and hatred

52．What did the manager mean by saying, “... Hockey and the International Hockey Federation are finished”?

A）His team would no longer take part in international games.

B）Hockey and the Federation are 60th ruined by the unfair decisions.

C）There should be no more hockey matches organized by the Federation.

D）The Federation should be dissolved.

53．The basketball example implied that __________.

A）too much patriotism was displayed in the incident

B）the announcement to prolong the match was wrong

C）the appeal jury was too hesitant in making the decision

D）the American team was right in receiving the silver medals

54．The author gives the two examples in paragraph 2 and 3 to show __________.

A）how false national pride led to undesirable incidents in international games

B）that sportsmen have been more obedient than they used to be

C）that competitiveness in the games discourages international friendship

D）that unfair decisions are common in Olympic Games

55．What conclusion can be drawn from the passage?

A）The organization of the Olympic Games must be improved.

B）Athletes should compete as individuals in the Olympic Games.

C）Sport should be played competitively rather than for the love of the game.

D）International contests are liable for misunderstanding between nations.

Part Ⅳ Translation（30 minutes）

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English. You should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2.

北京有无数的胡同（hutong）。平民百姓在胡同里的生活给古都北京带来了无穷的魅力。北京的胡同不仅仅是平民百姓的生活环境，而且还是一门建筑艺术。通常，胡同内有一个大杂院，房间够4到10个家庭的差不多20口人住。所以，胡同里的生活充满了友善和人情味。如今，随着社会和经济的飞速发展，很多胡同被新的高楼大厦所取代。但愿胡同可以保留下来。

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

答题卡1（Answer Sheet 1）

Part Ⅰ Writing（30 minutes）

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答题卡1（Answer Sheet 1）

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Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension（25 minutes）

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答题卡2（Answer Sheet 2）

Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension（40 minutes）

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答题卡2（Answer Sheet 2）

Part Ⅳ Translation（30 minutes）

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