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1、上海交大水平测试样题上海交通大学英语水平考试样题学生姓名：_ 年级：_学号： _班级代号：_考试地点: 授课教师： Part I Listening （40）Section 1 Long Conversations （10） Directions: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, you will hear five questions. Both the conversations and the questions will be spoken O

2、NLY ONCE. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices. (注意：请把答案写在答题卷上,否则以零分处理)Conversation 1 1. A) It is exaggerated.B) It is self-important.C) It is a move toward the concepts she teaches.D) It doesnt give a clear idea of what the department does.2. A) She didnt

3、 agree with him.B) It illustrates one of her basic ideas.C) The man was an expert on people management.D) It shows how some people do not understand people management.3. A) Worrying can cause needless stress.B) It is important to remember other things as well.C) They can stop you thinking about more

4、 basic things.D) We cant solve them, so theres no point in worrying.4. A) Completely.B) In no way at all.C) With respect to relationships.D) With respect to professional questions.5. A) By giving them a written warning.B) By sacking people who break the rules.C) By following organizational procedure

5、s.D) By understanding the employees personal circumstances.Conversation 2 6. A) Sarcastic.B) Humorous.C) Indifferent.D) Matter-of-fact.7. A) She was talking about suicide literally.B) She was talking about smoking literally.C) She wanted to be left alone by saying so.D) She was talking about both sm

6、oking and her life.8. A) None of them helped her positively.B) Her mother was too busy to be around her.C) Her father was the role model she followed.D) Her friends always cheered her up when she was feeling down.9. A) She feels less hopeless.B) She feels she has many dreams.C) She feels she is not

7、part of this world any more.D) She feels that her life took the wrong way in the past, but now she wants to make a change for the better.10. A) He is a psychiatrist.B) He is a school teacher.C) He is a policeman in disguise.D) He is a stranger she just ran into by chance.Section 2 Compound Dictation

8、 （10） Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage twice. You have its script in the following, but with eleven blanks in it. You are required to fill in the first eight blanks with the exact words you have just heard. For the last three blanks, you can either use the exact words you have ju

9、st heard or write down the main points in your own words. Remember, there will be a pause for the last three blanks in the second reading. (注意：请把答案写在答题卷上,否则以零分处理)注意：在样题的听力音频中，此部分播放了三遍，但正式考试时只播放两遍，特此提醒各位同学注意。（听力的其它三部分都只播放一遍）The medical center at New York University is one of the clinical sites for th

10、e study.Thirty-nine-year-old Denise Harris is helping researchers gain a better understanding of the brain. She suffers from epilepsy, and doctors are monitoring her seizures in the hope of performing an operation to minimize them. Her head is 1) _. Wires protruding from the side are attached to ele

11、ctrodes implanted in her brain. Harris says doctors are monitoring her to see whether she is a good candidate for surgery.Ive been on many medications throughout my life and after a while, they dont work, said Denise Harris. I still get seizures. So now, when they remove the part that the seizure is

12、 2) _ from, its supposed to stop.But while Harris is in the hospital, she is also helping scientists understand how the brain comprehends and uses language. For the study, researchers are monitoring the implanted 3)_ on a part of the frontal lobe called Brocas area, named after 19th century French p

13、hysician Pierre Paul Broca. He was the first doctor to recognize the major role of that area in language.Through the implant process, called Intra-cranial Electrophysiology, or ICE, the researchers have found that Brocas area processes three different language functions in 4) _ within a quarter of a

14、 second. It is the first time the technique has been used to document how the brain processes grammar and produces words.Eric Halgren of the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, is one of the 5) _ investigators of the study.What we were able to find was that within a centimeter,

15、around less than an inch, certainly, and probably half an inch, there were different regions - perhaps they 6) _ some but they were doing, at different times, different processes, all within this small area.The first function deals with recognizing a word, the second with understanding the words con

16、text in a sentence, and the third lets us 7) _ the word by speaking.Harvard University brain expert Steven Pinker is another of the studys authors. Ned Sahin, a 8) _ fellow at Harvard and the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine was the first author of the paper outlining the work

17、, which was published in the journal Science.According to Sahin, 9)_ _ _.Nearly every introductory textbook as well as people practicing in the field in speech pathology, for instance, teach and believe that 10) _ _ _ Brocas area and Wernickes area, where Brocas area is responsible for producing, fo

18、r speaking, and Wernickes for comprehending, said Sahin.This study shows that Brocas area is involved in both speaking and comprehension, illustrating that parts of the brain perform more than one task.Heres an example of one relatively small part of the brain thats doing three very different things

19、 at three different times, but all within the space of a quarter of a second.But Eric Halgren points out that despite our growing knowledge, much about the human brain remains unknown.How does this hunk of flesh, which is not much different from a muscle its just a bowl of porridge how does it produ

20、ce the mind? Its a total mystery.He says 11) _ _.Section 3 Short-answer Questions （10） Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage ONLY ONCE. In the following you have five questions. You are required to answer these questions with as few words as possible, in any case, no more than 25 word

21、s. (注意：请把答案写在答题卷上,否则以零分处理)1) What is the basic idea about intercultural competence?2) What is listed as one of the most important criteria for intercultural competence?3) What is considered as offensive in the Arab countries according to the woman?4) What mistake did the woman make when conducting b

22、usiness in Russia?5) What is the advice the woman gave in the end?Section 4: Listening and Translating （10） Directions: In this section you are going to hear five short passages. You will hear them ONLY ONCE. In each of these passages some of the sentences are already printed. You are required to tr

23、anslate the missing parts into Chinese. After each of the passages there will be a pause lasting one and a half minutes. The pause is intended for you to do the translation. (注意：请把答案写在答题卷上,否则以零分处理)1) Our development agenda will also focus on women as drivers of economic growth and social stability.

24、Women have long comprised the majority of the worlds unhealthy, unschooled, and underfed. They are also the bulk of the worlds poor. _2) About 80 percent of Australians live in coastal areas. There are fears that some low-lying communities may have to be abandoned in years to come because of floodin

25、g and erosion. And with higher sea levels, heavy rains and massive tides known as storm surges, which often accompany tropical storms, can do unexpected damage. _ _3) It is no coincidence that the relationship between our countries has accompanied a period of positive change. _ _4) And yet the success of that engagement depends upon understanding - on sustaining an open dialogue, and learning about one another and from one another. For just as that American table tennis player pointed out, we share much in common as human beings, but our countries are different in certain ways._