大学新生入学英语分级考试.docx

1、大学新生入学英语分级考试Placement Test (2007)I. Listening Comprehension 听力理解听力分两部分，共20题，每题1分，共20分。Part A 第一部分：本部分为十组对话，每组对话后有一个问题。对话读两遍。问题读一遍，每听完一个问题后，从答题纸上的A）、B）、C）、D）四个选择中选出最合适的答案，并涂黑。Part A1. A) At a travel agency. B) At a bank. C) In a restaurant. D) In a hotel2. A) One dollar. B) Two dollars. C) Three doll

2、ars. D) Five dollars.3. A) Last May. B) Last June. C) Last July. D) Last August.4. A) The woman intends to work out of doors. B) The womans clothes are warm enough. C) The air quality is rather poor outside. D) The temperature outside is quite low.5. A) He plans to apply for a scholarship. B) He pla

3、ns to make a special TV program. C) He will study at Oxford next year. D) He will go to Britain this year.6. A) He actually has little interest in classical music. B) He only enjoys certain kinds of classical music. C) He prefers to collect classical music rather than listen to it. D) He likes other

4、s kinds of music apart from classical music.7. A) He wants to rent his apartment out. B) He wants to read the ads in the paper.C) He wants to reserve a room before departure. . D) He wants to ask about the cost of studying abroad.8. A) The woman and James. B) The woman and Bill. C) James and Bill. D

5、) The woman, James and Bill.9. A) He found the lecture very dull. B) He liked the lecture very much. C) He only enjoyed part of it. D) He wished the lecture had been shorter.10. A) He will take a French course. B) He has to learn it all over again.C) He cant speak it as well as before. D) He studied

6、 French while in college. 第二部分：本部分为短文听力测试，共三篇。每篇读两遍，问题读一遍。听完后，请回答问题，从答题纸上的A）、B）、C）、D）四个选项中选出最合适的答案，并涂黑。Part B Passage OneQuestions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.11. A) It is a place in the center of the car park.B) It is an area marked with white lines.C) It is a garage speci

7、ally built for her.D) It is in a corner with a fence round it.12. A) Ask the young man to move his car away. B) Insist that the young man leave the college at once. C) Park her car beside the young mans car and go to bed. D) Punish the girl for dating the young man so late at night.13. A) Because sh

8、e found herself caught in the middle of an appointment. B) Because she didnt recognize Miss Baker in the darkness. C) Because she didnt know they had been in Miss Bakers parking area. D) Because she thought Miss Baker wanted to sit next to her boyfriend.Passage TwoQuestions 14 to 17 are based on pas

9、sage you have just heard.14. A) People in ancient Egypt. B) People in ancient Rome. C) People in the Middle Ages. D) People in the 19th century.15. A) They cost too much money and labor. B) They made the Romans overly fond of luxury. C) They forbade early Christians to bathe in them. D They resulted

10、 in the spread of diseases.16. A) They went to public baths or swimming pools. B) They took regular baths in private bathrooms. C) They put a lot of roses into their bath water. D) They wrote make-up to cover their dirty bodies.17. A) River bath. B) Mud bath. C) Powder bath. D) ShowerPassage ThreeQu

11、estions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.18. A) South Asia. B) Southeast Asia. C) East Asia. D）North Asia.19. A) Because government policies encourage childbirth. B) Because their religion discourages birth control. C) Because economic development stimulates population growth. D

12、) Because the education level of the Arab people remains low.20. A) More than forty percent. B) More than three percent. C) Less than one percent. D) Nearly half of a percent. Reading Comprehension 阅读理解本部分共4篇文章，20个问题，每题2分，共40分。（A） “Good morning”, the easiest of daily greetings, is now out of style.

13、According to most manner experts, “good morning” is vanishing from our speech and taking good manners along with it.Nowadays people are most likely to greet each other in the morning with a “Hi”, “Hey,” “ Whats up?” or “ Hows it going?” Certainly no one waits for answers to these greetings.The loss

14、of “Good morning” is the most visible example of the general decline in how we address each other. “How people talk to each other has declined,” said manner authority Letitia Baldrige. “We need to be warmer to each other.” Baldrige said she mourns the loss of “Good morning.”“Its the nicest, cheeries

15、t, brightest thing to say. It makes people feel good,” she said.“You are almost forced to smile with it. When you say good morning, your face is inclined to light up.”Manner expert Judith Ri said there are a number of factors contributing to the loss of this greeting: a workplace that doesnt encoura

16、ge social interaction, neighborhoods that have abandoned community togetherness, and a home environment where parents are lazy in encouraging manners and where TV and computer games win out over gathering for the family dinner.“We are simply not as formal as we used to be,” said Judith Ri with a sig

17、h.根据上面文章内容，从每题下面四个选项中选出一个最合适的答案，并在答题纸上将所选的编号字母涂黑。21When we see something is “out of style”, we mean _D_. A) it is dull and boring B) it is easy and informal C) it is not in very good taste D) it is no longer in much use22. When you greet people with a “Hows it going?” in the morning, _. A) you wait

18、for a definite answer such as “Everything is OK” B) they will stop and tell you how they are getting along C) you just say it and do not expect an answer from them D) they will give you a bright and cheerful smile in return23. Most manner experts think when “Good Morning” is vanishing from our speec

19、h, _. A) good manners are gone with it B) brighter greetings take its place C) people become rude and impolite D) people treat each other as strangers24. The manner expert thinks that we have lost the greeting of “Good Morning” mainly because_. A) people do not want to talk as much as they used to d

20、o B) people are too busy to spend time on such traditional greetings C) modern way of life has set people apart from one another D) TV and computer games have taking the place of family entertainment25. What is the authors tone in this article? A) Matter of fact. B) Sad. C) Humorous. D) Ironic (B) D

21、rinking too much fluid when exercising vigorously-which is often recommended in training-can actually kill you, sports medicine expert Timothy Noakes has warned. He says that drinking too much is unnecessary and can be fatal. “Perhaps the best advice is that drinking according to the personal needs

22、of thirst seems to be safe and effective.” Noakes cites the example last year, when a woman in the Boston marathon died from a severe lack of salt in the blood because she drank too much sports drink before and during the race. Her death was not an isolated incident. Similar cases have occurred in a

23、thletes, army personnel and hikers. Conventional thinking has been that thirst is not a good indicator of how much fluid we need, and is actually a late signal of severe fluid loss. This has led to doctrines where athletes are encouraged to drink more than they want to. Now a new set of guidelines b

24、ased on evidence has been developed, and recently adopted by USA Track and Field.It says the average person should probably be drinking between 400 ml and 800 ml in an hour in most forms of recreational and competitive exercise.People gently exercising in a mild environment would probably need less,

25、 and professional athletes competing in warm environments at higher intensities would probably need more.Cool drinks are absorbed more readily by the exercising body than warm drinks, and those containing sodium, such as sports drinks, are also more quickly absorbed.根据上面文章内容，从每题下面四个选择中选出一个最合适的答案，并在答

26、题纸上把所选的编号字母涂黑。26. The word “fatal” in the second paragraph is nearest in meaning to_. A) useless B) harmful C) wasteful D) ineffective27. By giving the example of the womans death, the experts try to tell us that_. A) people need more salt than usual in their blood when they exercise hard B) people

27、will die for lack of salt in their blood when they run long distances C) drinking too much fluid while exercising vigorously may endanger ones life D) the marathon race is an unsafe sport during which sudden deaths may occur28. Athletes are actually encouraged to drink more than they really need bec

28、ause many people think that_. A) when you feel thirsty there is already a severe loss of fluid in your body B) athletes lose much more fluid in their body when they do sports C) when athletes are exercising vigorously they often forget their thirst D) athletes competing at higher intensities need mo

29、re water than ordinary people29. How much you should drink while exercising seems to have nothing to do with_. A) the kind of exercise you are doing B) the amount of salt in your blood C) the environment in which you are exercising D) the intensity of exercise you are taking30. The best title for th

30、is article would be_. A) New Ideas about Drinking During Sports B) Conventional Thinking about Drinking During Sports C) Drinking Too Much During Sports Can Be Fatal D) Athletes Should Be Careful about Drinking During Sports(C)For more than two days in September 1974, the people of Honduras shut the

31、ir windows, locked their doors and crouched(蹲伏)in their homes. Fifi was outside, and they were frightened.Fifi wasnt a pet dog as the name suggests. It was a hurricane, one of the most destructive natural phenomena in the world.Why do we give human names to hurricanes? Two hundred years ago, many hurricanes in the Caribbean were named after the saints day on which the storms occurred. Later, storms were known by the name of the city where they came ashore