Questions 14-23
   ·Look at the ten statements for this part.
   · You will hear a passage about "Inflation" You will listen to it twice.
   ·Decide whetheryou think each statement is right(R), wrong(W) or not mentioned(NM).
   ·Markyour answers on the Answer Sheet.

14. 
The passage states that inflation is a situation in which money keeps losing its value.

A Right

B Wrong

C Not Mentioned

15. 
There have been higher and higher rates of inflation in the US over the years.

A Right

B Wrong

C Not Mentioned

16. 
People have become used to high rates of inflation in recent years.

A Right

B Wrong

C Not Mentioned

17. 
Over the years our incomes have been increasing, and we are actually no better in our financial condition.

A Right

B Wrong

C Not Mentioned

18. 
The present rate of inflation will fall if the government takes some effective measures.

A Right

B Wrong

C Not Mentioned

19. 
According to the author, if incomes and prices rise together, inflation poses no problem.

A Right

B Wrong

C Not Mentioned

20. 
When money loses its value, it is no longer stable.

A Right

B Wrong

C Not Mentioned

21. 
During inflation money becomes a suitable standard of deferred payments.

A Right

B Wrong

C Not Mentioned

22. 
In a period of inflation, people are likely to save money instead of spending money.

A Right

B Wrong

C Not Mentioned

23. 
Inflation urges consumer spending and discourages saving.

A Right

B Wrong

C Not Mentioned

Questions 24-30
   ·Look at the questions for this part.
   ·You will hear a passage about "Health and Fitness ". You will listen to it twice.
   ·For Questions 24-30, indicate which of the alternatives A, B, or C is the most appropriate response.
   ·Mark one letter A, B, or C on the Answer Sheet.

24. 
Many Americans are getting fatter ______.

A because of their poor eating habits and sedentary lifestyle

B because of their ignorance about what is good for them

C because of their strong dislike for physical exercises

25. 
What percentage of Americans don't exercise in their leisure time according to some studies?

A Exactly half.

B More than half.

C Less than hal

26. 
What percentage of Americans are reported to be at least 20 percent over their desirable weight in the 1990s?

A One fifth.

B One fourth.

C One thir

27. 
Which of the following mass media is NOT mentioned as a carrier of information on nutrition and proper diet?

A Radio.

B Television.

C Newspapers.

28. 
Why has the government required uniform labeling of food since 1994?

A Because it wants to help consumers compare the fat and calories in the food they buy.

B Because food with uniform labels is not likely to cause disease.

C Because uniform labeling will result in low-fat or fat-free foo

29. 
Which of the following is NOT a reason why Americans are consuming more and more fast food at restaurants?

A Fast food is often the cheapest.

B Fast food is believed to be nutritious.

C Americans simply like fast foo

30. 
When Americans eat so much restaurant and packaged food, they ______.

A can limit fat and calories

B can limit fat but not calories

C can't limit fat or calories

Part 1
   ·Read the following passages, eight sentences have been removed from the article.
   ·Choose.from the sentences A-H the one which fits each gap.
   ·For each gap (1-8) mark one letter (A-H) on the Answer Sheet.
   ·Do not mark any letter twice.
   Today's career assumptions are you can get a lot of development, challenge and job satisfaction and not necessarily be in a management role.
   A new malady is running rampantly in corporate America: management phobi

• a.  (1)  
     " I hated all the meetings," says a 10-year award-winning manager, "and I found the more you did for people who worked for you, the more they expected."    (2)  
     With technology changing in a wink, you can never slack off these days if you're on the technical side.  (3)  
     In addition, the Dilbert factor is at work. With Scott Adams's popular cartoon character— as well as many television sitcoms — routinely portraying managers as morons or enemies, they just don't get much respect anymore.
     Supervising others was always a tough task, but in the past that stress was offset by hopes for career mobility and financial rewards.  (4)  
     But in today's global, more competitive arena, a manager sits on an insecure perch.  (5)   There are far fewer rungs on the corporate ladder for managers to clim
• b. In addition, managerial jobs demand more hours and headaches than ever before but offer slim, if any, financial paybacks and perks.
     Furthermore, managers now must supervise many people who are spread over different locations, even over different continents.  (6)  
     In an age of entrepreneurship, when the most praised people in business are those launching something new, management seems like an invisible, thankless role.  (7)  
     Management layoffs have done much to erode interest in managerial jobs, of course.  (8)  A. Many people don't want to be a manager — and many people who are managers are, frankly, itching to jump off the management track — or have already.B. It's a rare person who can manage to keep up on the technical side and handle a management job, too.C. Restructuring have eliminated layer after layer of management as companies came to view their organizations as collections of competencies rather than hierarchies.D. They must manage across functions with, say, design, finance, marketing and technical people reporting to them.E. I was a counselor, motivator, financial adviser and psychologist.F. Employers are looking for people who can do things, not for people who make other people do things.G. American Management Association surveys say three middle managers are laid off for every one being hired.H. Along with a sizable pay raise, people chosen as managers would begin a nearly automatic climb up the career ladder to lucrative executive perks: stock options, company cars, club memberships, plus the key to the executive washroom.

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3. 

4. 

5. 

6. 

7. 

8. 

Part 2
   Questions 9-18
   ·Read the following passage and answer questions 9-18.
   1. From Dr. R. S. Scorer of Britain's Imperial Collage of the Science comes the latest theory about the lighting flashes. Dr. Scorer believes the cause is haft failing through super cooled clouds. Ice particles bouncing off the falling hail acquire a positive charge and rise to the top of the cloud while the hail carries a negative charge to the bottom of the cloud.
   2. According to Dr. Scorer, Benjamin Franklin first proved thunderclouds are charged with electricity. Later investigations showed that the tops of the clouds have a great positive charge and the bottoms have great negative charge.
   3. When the charges became great enough to break the insulating properties of the air, lighting flashes carry the electricity within the cloud, or from cloud to cloud, or from cloud to earth. But the question remained: How do the charges develop within the cloud.
   4. To seek the cause, Dr. Scorer and his colleagues at the college first duplicated thundercloud current in a liquid tank. They found the mixture takes place only in the tops of the clouds.
   5. Next a study of thunderclouds over the North Atlantic showed that the lighting occurs only when the temperature around cloud is below freezing. Particles at the top of the clouds begin to freeze but those in the remainder of the cloud stay unfrozen although below freezing temperature. In the laboratory, S.E. Reynolds whirled a refrigerated rod through ice particles and found that the particles bounced offthe rod acquired a positive charge. This was a missing link. Without hail and super cooled clouds, he concluded, there could be no lighting.
   Questions 9-13
   ·For questions 9-13, choose the best title for each paragraph from below.
   ·For each numbered paragraph (1-5), mark one letter (A-G) on the Answer Sheet.
   ·Do not mark any letter twice.
   9. Paragraph 1:______

• A. How the lightning flashes come about.
     10. Paragraph 2:______
• B. To measure moisture, scientist did the experiment.
     11. Paragraph 3:______
• C. Two discoveries based on Dr. Scorer's theory.
     12. Paragraph 4:______
• D. Significance of Benjamin Franklin's discovery.
     13. Paragraph 5:______
• E. Experiments were done to find the cause of lightning.
• F. Dr. Scorer found the cause of lightning flashes.
• G. The continuing study of lightning flashes.

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10. 

11. 

12. 

13. 

Questions 14-18
   ·Using the information in the text, complete each sentence 14-18, with a word or phrase from the list below.
   ·For each sentence (14-18), mark one letter (A-G) on the Answer Sheet.
   ·Do not mark any letter twice.
   14. According to Dr. Score, lightning is caused by hail falling through ______.
   15. The refrigerated rod served the same functions as ______.
   16. Ice particles bouncing off hail falling through a cloud acquire ______.
   17. In the paragraph four the word "duplicated" means ______.
   18. According to S.E. Regnolds, there could be no lightning without ______.

• A. copy
• B. a positive charge
• C. a negative charge
• D. super cooled clouds
• E. falling hail clouds
• F. hail and super cooled clouds
• G. moisture particles

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15. 

16. 

17. 

18. 

Part 3
   Questions 19-25
   ·Read the following passage and answer questions 19-25.
   ·For questions 19-25, choose the correct answer A, B, C and D.
   ·Markyour answers on the Answer Sheet.
   In my early childhood I received no formal religious education. I did, of course, receive the ethical and moral training that moral and conscientious parents give their children. When I was about ten years old, my parents decided that it would be good for me to receive some formal religious instruction and to study the Bible, if for no other reason than that a knowledge of both is essential to the understanding of literature and culture.
   As lapsed Catholics, they sought a group which had as little doctrine and dogma as possible, but what they considered good moral and ethical values. After some searching, they joined the local Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Although my parents did not attend Meetings for Worship very often, I went to First Day School there regularly, eventually completing the course and receiving an inscribed Bible.
   At the Quaker school, I learned about the concept of the "inner light" and it has stayed with me. I was, however, unable to accept the idea of Jesus Christ being any more divine than, say, Buddha. As a result, I became estranged form the Quakes who, though believing in substantially the same moral and ethical values as I do, and even the same religious concept of the inner light, had arrived at these conclusions from a premise which I could not accept. I admit that my religion is the poorer for having no revealed word and no supreme prophet, but my inherited aversion to dogmatism limits my faith to a Supreme Being and the goodness of man.
   Later, at another Meeting for Worship, I found that some Quakers had similar though not so strong reservations about the Christian aspects of their belief. I made some attempt to rejoin an organized religious group, I did not wish to become one again. I do attend Meeting for Worship on occasion, but it is for the help in deep contemplation which it brings rather than any lingering desire to rejoin the fold.
   I do believe in a "Supreme Being" (or ground of our Being, as Tillich would call it). This Being is ineffable and not to be fully understood by humans. He is not cut off from the world and we can know him somewhat through the knowledge which we are limited to the world. He is interested and concerned for humankind, but on man himself falls the burden of his own life. To me the message of the great prophets, especially Jesus, is that good is its own reward, and indeed the only possible rewards are intrinsic in the actions themselves. The relationship between each human and supreme Being is an entirely personal one.
   It is my faith that each person has this unique relationship with the Supreme Being. To me that is the meaning of the inner light. The purpose of life, insofar as a human can grasp it, is to understand and increase this lifeline to the Supreme Being, this piece of divinity that every human has. Thus, the taking of any life by choice is the closing of some connection to God, and unconscionable. Killing anyone not only denies them their purpose, but corrupts the purpose of all men.

19. 
The author of the preceding passage is most probably writing in order to ______.

A persuade a friend to convert to Quakerism

B reassure a Friend that he has not become immoral

C explain the roots of his pacifism

D analyze the meaning of the "inner light"

20. 
If offered a reward for doing a good deed, the author would ______.

A spurn the reward indignantly

B accept it only as a token of the other person's feelings of gratitude

C neither take nor refuse the reward

D explain to the offered that rewards are blasphemous

21. 
We can learn from the passage that the Quakers ______.

A are the group he wishes to become a member of again

B are Christians, but only in a weak sense

C share basic religious thought with the author

D are relatively dogmatic and doctrinaire

22. 
Which of the following would the author likely see as most divine?

A Jesus Christ.

B Buddha.

C Moses.

D They would be seen as equally divin

23. 
It can be inferred from the passage that ______.

A the author views the inner light as uniquely an attribute of Quakers

B the Catholics are not concerned with killing

C the author's parents found Catholic religious views unsuitable or inadequate

D Buddhist belief is as congenial to the author as Quaker belief

24. 
The author supports which of the following statements?

A We must seek greater comprehension of our own inner lights.

B Humans must always seek to increase the number of inner lights, hence, population increase is desirable.

C The unique relationship between each person and his inner light makes him more divine than those without an inner light.

D Only a person without an inner light could kill.

25. 
The author rejected which of the following aspects of religious thought?

A The existence of God.

B The divine nature of human beings.

C The value of sharing religious experiences.

D The revealed word of Go

Part 4
   Questions 26-45
   ·Read the following passage and decide which answer best fits each space.
   ·Forquestions26-45, markoneletterA, B, C or D on the Answer Sheet.
   Both  (26)   and zoology are parts of a more general field of science, biology. The two are studies of  (27)   things, which share certain characteristics,  (28)   they are plants or animals. Botany deals with plants, whose organisms that can  (29)   their own food by the use of sunlight. Zoology on  (30)   hand, deals with animals, those organisms that cannot manufacture their own food and are thus dependent  (31)   plants for their food.
     (32)   plants and animals share many abilities, the extent  (33)   which plants can exercise some of those abilities is  (34)  . For example, both plants and animals need food, water, and warmth for growth,  (35)   plants can move to  (36)   those needs only by the slow extraction of their leaves and roots, while animals can move relatively  (37)   distances in relatively little time. When an animal is hurt with needle, the animal will  (38)   the part of the body  (39)  . This ability to draw back  (40)   pain or irritation, called irritability, is found only to a very limited extent in plants.
   If plants  (41)   the same  (42)   as animals, animals would have had a more difficult time finding food. If animals were as limited as plants, they might  (43)   a means of manufacturing their own food, as plants do now. The world would be a very different place  (44)   it is if the characteristics of plants and animals were  (45)  

26. 

A biology

B botany

C chemistry

D mathematics

27. 

A livable

B alive

C living

D lively

28. 

A whether

B and

C both

D all

29. 

A sustain

B waste

C consume

D manufacture

30. 

A other

B the other

C another

D each other

31. 

A on

B in

C at

D with

32. 

A But

B Although

C And

D Furthermore

33. 

A in

B to

C with

D on

34. 

A definite

B indefinite

C limited

D unlimited

35. 

A because

B therefore

C but

D and

36. 

A acquire

B require

C admit

D constitute

37. 

A many

B little

C large

D small

38. 

A share

B achieve

C extend

D withdraw

39. 

A been hurt

B hurt

C being hurt

D have hurt

40. 

A out

B from

C in

D to

41. 

A have

B would have

C will have

D had

42. 

A mobility

B approach

C stake

D organ

43. 

A evolve

B have evolved

C be evolved

D be evolving

44. 

A than

B what

C which

D that

45. 

A re-examined

B revised

C reversed

D reviewed

Part 1
   ·You are a regional manager for an international company. You have been asked to go to a meeting at your company's head office. You cannot go, so somebody else will go in your place. Write a letter to Eric Young who is organizing the meeting.
   ☆ Explaining why you cannot go.
   ☆ Saying who will go.
   ·Write 50-60 words.

Part 2
   ·Your manager is keen to introduce new practices into your company. He has asked you to write a report which includes details of two practices .from another company which you would suggest adopting in your own company.
   ☆ Write the report for your manager, including the following information.
   ☆ What you admire about the other company.
   ☆ Which two of its practices you would adopt.
   ☆ Why your company would benefit from them.
   ·Write in your own words; do not copy what you read here.

Part 1: Self-introduction
   ·The interlocutor will ask you and your partner questions about yourselves. You may be asked about things like "your hometown ", "your interests ", "your career plans", etc.
   Part 2: Presentation
   ·The interlocutor gives you two photographs and asks you to talk about them. for about one minute. The examiner then asks your partner a question about your photographs and your partner responds briefly. Then the interlocutor gives your partner two photographs. Your partner talks about these pictures for about one minute. This time the interlocutor asks you a question about your partner's photographs and you respond briefly.
   Part 3: Collaboration
   ·The interlocutor gives you andyour partner a list of topics. Both of you need to choose one to discuss together. The interlocutor may join in the conversation and ask you questions, but you and your partner are expected to develop the conversation.
   Topic 1: What Makes a Perfect Gift?
   Topic 2: Student-teacher Relationships
   Topic 3: Advantages and Disadvantages of Working in China or Abroad
   Topic 4: Pressure of Modern Life
   Topic 5: A Healthy Diet