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TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2009)

-GRADE EIGHT-

TIME LIMIT: 195 MIN

PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION (35 MIN)

SECTION A MINI-LECTURE

In this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the lecture ONCE ONLY While

listening, take notes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but you will need

them to complete a gap-filling task after the mini-lecture. When the lecture is over, you will be

given two minutes to check your notes, and another ten minutes to complete the gap-filling

task on ANSWER SHEET ONE. Use the blank sheet for note-taking.

Writing Experimental Reports

I.Content of an experimental report, e.g.

--- study subject/ area

--- study purpose

--- ____1____

II.Presentation of an experimental report

--- providing details

--- regarding readers as _____2_____

III.Structure of an experimental report

--- feature: highly structured and ____3____

--- sections and their content:

INTRODUCTION ____4____; why you did it

METHOD how you did it

RESULT what you found out

____5____ what you think it shows

IV. Sense of readership

--- ____6____: reader is the marker

--- ____7____: reader is an idealized, hypothetical, intelligent person with little knowledge of your study --- tasks to fulfill in an experimental report:

 introduction to relevant area

 necessary background information

 development of clear arguments

 definition of technical terms

 precise description of data ____8____

V. Demands and expectations in report writing

--- early stage:

 understanding of study subject/area and its implications

 basic grasp of the report's format

--- later stage:

 ____9____ on research significance

--- things to avoid in writing INTRODUCTION:

 inadequate material

 ____10____ of research justification for the study

SECTION B INTERVIEW

In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the

questions that follow. Mark the correct answer to each question on your coloured answer sheet.

Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10

seconds to answer each of the following five questions.

Now listen to the interview.

1. Which of the following statements is CORRECT?

A. Toastmasters was originally set up to train speaking skills.

B. Toastmasters only accepts prospective professional speakers.

C. Toastmasters accepts members from the general public.

D. Toastmasters is an exclusive club for professional speakers.

2. The following are job benefits by joining Toastmasters EXCEPT

A. becoming familiar with various means of communication.

B. learning how to deliver messages in an organized way.

C. becoming aware of audience expectations.

D. learning how to get along with friends.

3. Toastmasters' general approach to training can be summarized as

A. practice plus overall training.

B. practice plus lectures.

C. practice plus voice training.

D. practice plus speech writing.

4. Toastmasters aims to train people to be all the following EXCEPT

A. public speakers.

B. grammar teachers.

C. masters of ceremonies.

D. evaluators.

5. The interview mainly focuses on

A. the background information.

B. the description of training courses.

C. the requirements of public speaking.

D. the overall personal growth.

SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST

In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the

questions that follow. Mark the correct answer to each question on your coloured answer sheet.

Questions 6 and 7 are'based on the foUowing news. At the end of the news item, you will be

given 20 seconds to answer the questions.

Now listen to the news.

6. Which of the following is the main cause of global warming?

A. Fossil fuel.

B. Greenhouse gases.

C. Increased dryness.

D. Violent storm patterns.

7. The news item implies that ______ in the last report.

A. there were fewer studies done

B. there were fewer policy proposals

C. there was less agreement

D. there were fewer objectives

Questions 8 and 9 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be

given 20 seconds to answer the questions.

Now listen to the news.

8. The cause of the Indian train accident was

A. terrorist sabotage.

B. yet to be determined.

C. lack of communications.

D. bad weather.

9. Which of the following statements is CORRECT?

A. The accident occurred on a bridge.

B. The accident occurred in New Delhi.

C. There were about 600 casualties.

D. Victims were rescued immediately.

Question 10 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10

seconds to answer the question.

Now listen to the news.

10. What is the main message of the news item?

A. Young people should seek careers advice.

B. Careers service needs to be improved.

C. Businesses are not getting talented people.

D. Careers advice is not offered on the Intemet.

PART II READING COMPREHENSION (30 MIN)

In this section there are four reading passages followed by a total of 20 multiple-choice questions.

Read the passages and then mark your answers on your coloured answer sheet.

TEXT A

We had been wanting to expand our children's horizons by taking them to a place that was unlike anything we'd been exposed to during our travels in Europe and the United States. In thinking about what was possible from Geneva, where we are based, we decided on a trip to

Istanbul, a two-hour plane ride from Zurich.

We envisioned the trip as a prelude to more exotic ones, perhaps to New Delhi or Bangkok later this year, but thought our 11- and 13-year-olds needed a first step away from manicured boulevards and pristine monuments.

What we didn't foresee was the reaction of friends, who warned that we were putting our children "in danger," referring vaguely, and most incorrectly, to disease, terrorism or just the unknown. To help us get acquainted with the peculiarities of Istanbul and to give our children a chance to choose what they were particularly interested in seeing, we bought an excellent

guidebook and read it thoroughly before leaving.

Friendly warnings didn't change our planning, although we might have more prudently checked with the U.S. State Department's list of troublespots. We didn't see a lot of children among the foreign visitors during our six-day stay in Istanbul, but we found the tourist areas quite safe, very interesting and varied enough even to suit our son, whose oft-repeated request is that we not see "every single" church and museum in a given city.

Vaccinations weren't needed for the city, but we were concemed about adapting to the water for a short stay. So we used bottled water for drinking and brushing our teeth, a precaution that may seem excessive, but we all stayed healthy.

Taking the advice of a friend, we booked a hotel a 20-minute walk from most of Istanbul's major tourist sites. This not only got us some morning exercise, strolling over the Karakoy Bridge, but took us past a colorful assortment of fishermen, vendors and shoe shiners.

From a teenager and pre-teen's view, Istanbul street life is fascinating since almost everything can be bought outdoors. They were at a good age to spend time wandering the labyrinth of the Spice Bazaar, where shops display mounds of pungent herbs in sacks. Doing this

with younger children would be harder simply because the streets are so packed with people; it

would be easy to get lost.

For our two, whose buying experience consisted of department stores and shopping mall boutiques, it was amazing to discover that you could bargain over price and perhaps end up with two of something for the price of one. They also learned to figure out the relative value of the Turkish lira, not a small matter with its many zeros.

Being exposed to Islam was an important part of our trip. Visiting the mosques, especially the enormous Blue Mosque, was our first glimpse into how this major religion is practiced. Our children's curiosity already had been piqued by the five daily calls to prayer over loudspeakers in every corner of the city, and the scarves covering the heads of many women.

Navigating meals can be troublesome with children, but a kebab, bought on the street or in restaurants, was unfailingly popular. Since we had decided this trip was not for gourmets, kebabs spared us the agony of trying to find a restaurant each day that would suit the adults' desire to try something new amid children's insistence that the food be served immediately. Gradually, we

branched out to try some other Turkish specialties.

Although our son had studied Islam briefly, it is impossible to be prepared for every awkward question that might come up, such as during our visits to the Topkapi Sarayi, the Ottoman Sultans' palace. No guides were available so it was do-it-yourself, using our guidebook,

which cheated us of a lot of interesting history and anecdotes that a professional guide could provide. Next time, we

resolved to make such arrangements in advance.

On this trip, we wandered through the magnificent complex, with its imperial treasures, its courtyards and its harem. The last required a bit of explanation that we would have happily lef~to a learned third party.

11. The couple chose Istanbul as their holiday destination mainly because

A. the city is not too far away from where they lived.

B. the city is not on the list of the U.S. State Department.

C. the city is between the familiar and the exotic.

D. the city is more familiar than exotic.

12. Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?

A. The family found the city was exactly what they had expected.

B. Their friends were opposed to their holiday plan.

C. They could have been more cautious about bringing kids along.

D. They were a bit cautious about the quality of water in the city.

13. We learn from the couple's shopping experience back home that

A. they were used to bargaining over price.

B. they preferred to buy things outdoors.

C. street markets were their favourite.

D. they preferred fashion and brand names.

14. The last two paragraphs suggest that to visit places of interest in Istanbul

A. guidebooks are very useful.

B. a professional guide is a must.

C. one has to be prepared for questions.

D. one has to make arrangements in advance.

15. The family have seen or visited all the following in Istanbul EXCEPT

A. religious prayers.

B. historical buildings.

C. local-style markets.

D. shopping mall boutiques.

TEXT B

Last month the first baby-boomers turned 60. The bulky generation born between 1946 and

1964 is heading towards retirement. The looming "demographic cliff" will see vast numbers of

skilled workers dispatched from the labour force.

The workforce is ageing across the rich world. Within the EU the number of workers aged

between 50 and 64 will increase by 25% over the next two decades, while those aged 20-29 will

decrease by 20%. In Japan almost 20% of the population is already over 65, the highest share in

the world. And in the United States the number of workers aged 55-64 will have increased by

more than half in this decade, at the same time as the 35- to 44-year-olds decline by 10%.

Given that most societies are geared to retirement at around 65, companies have a looming

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TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2011)

GRADE EIGHT TIME LIMIT: 195 MIN

PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION

SECTION A MINI-LECTURE

In this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening, take notes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but you will need them to complete a gap-filling task after the mini-lecture. When the lecture is over, you will be given two minutes to check your notes, and another ten minutes to complete the gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE. Some of the gaps may require a maximum of THREE words. Make sure the word(s) you fill in is (are) both grammatically and semantically acceptable. You may refer to your notes while completing the task. Use the blank sheet for note-taking.

Now, listen to the mini-lecture.

Classifications of Cultures

According to Edward Hall, different cultures result in different ideas about the world. Hall is an anthropologist. He is interested in relations between cultures.

I. High-context culture

A. feature

- context: more important than the message

- meaning: (1)__________

i.e. more attention paid to (2) ___________ than to the message itself

B. examples

- personal space

- preference for (3)__________

- less respect for privacy / personal space

- attention to (4)___________

- concept of time

- belief in (5)____________ interpretation of time

- no concern for punctuality

- no control over time

II. Low-context culture

A. feature

- message: separate from context

- meaning: (6)___________

B. examples

- personal space

- desire / respect for individuality / privacy

- less attention to body language

- more concern for (7)___________

- attitude toward time

- concept of time: (8)____________

- dislike of (9)_____________

- time seen as commodity

III. Conclusion

Awareness of different cultural assumptions

- relevance in work and life

e.g. business, negotiation, etc.

- (10)_____________ in successful communication

参考答案：

(1) context of message

(2) what's happening / the context

(3) closeness to people

(4) body language

(5) poly-chronic

(6) message itself

(7) the message

(8) mono-chronic

(9) lateness

(10) great influence / significance

TIPS：

(1) 根据原文中一句“A high-context culture is a culture in which the context of the message, or the action, or an event carries a large part of its meaning and significance.”可知答案。

(2) 根据原文“What this means is that in a high-context culture, more attention is paid to what's happening in and around the message than to the message itself.”可知答案。

(3) 根据原文“Generally speaking, in a high-context culture, because this greater dependency on group thinking, people lean towards heavier sense of involvement or closeness to people.”可得出答案。

(4) 根据原文“And also people from a high-context culture pay attention to body language.”可得出答案。

(5) 根据原文“People in high-context cultures, are considered to have, what is called a poly-chronic attitude toward time.”可得出答案。

(6) 根据原文“A low-context culture is one in which the message, the event or the action is a separate entity, having meaning onto itself, regardless of the surroundings or the context.”可得出答案。

(7) 根据原文“And you'll also see that people might pay less attention to body language, because as I said, the message is, the message is everything.”可得出答案。

(8) 原文提到在low-context culture中，人们对时间的态度可称为mono-chronic。

(9) 根据原文“People in a low-context culture would be much more upset with lateness, because they feel that everyone should follow the same time.”可得出答案。

(10) 根据文章末尾部分“If you're in business, negotiations, interpersonal relations, if you're

dealing with people from different cultures in any way, it's going to affect every part of your life. In any multi-cultural situation, these assumptions need to be taken into account for successful interactions.”可知，在商务活动、谈判、人际交往中，与来自不同文化的人打交道时，这些想法对成功的交际起着非常重要的作用。

script:

Classifications of Cultures

Good morning, everyone! Today, we'll look at culture or rather classifications of cultures. Usually, when we deal with different people, we deal with them as if we were all members of the same culture. However, it's possible that people from different cultures have different assumptions about the world. We got in such important and basic ideas as time, personal space. And this is the view of Edward Hall. And Edward Hall is an anthropologist who spent a large part of his life studying American Indians, their culture, their language. But he was different from a lot of other anthropologists who just study one culture. He was interested in the relations between cultures, how cultures interact. What Hall believes is that cultures can be classified by placing them on a continuum, ranging from what he called high-context to low-context.

OK, what is a high-context culture? A high-context culture is a culture in which the context of the message, or the action, or an event carries a large part of its meaning and significance. What this means is that in a high-context culture, more attention is paid to what's happening in and around the message than to the message itself.

Now, let me give you examples. First, in terms of personal space. Generally speaking, in a high-context culture, because this greater dependency on group thinking, people lean towards heavier sense of involvement or closeness to people. And they have less respect for privacy, for personal space. If you go into that culture, people might stand closer when they're talking to you. They might touch more. And if they're jostled in a crowd, they won't feel violated. And also people from a high-context culture pay attention to body language. Because remember what I said, the definition of a high-context culture is that more attention is paid to the context of the message than to the message itself. And part of the context is body language.

Second, in terms of time. People in high-context cultures, are considered to have, what is called a poly-chronic attitude toward time. Here, "poly" means multiple and "chronic" means time. What this means is that they believe people, things, events have their own time. And there can't be a standard system of time for everything. What this leads them to believe is that you can't emphasize punctuality. Things happen when they are supposed to happen. So, there's a different attitude toward time; there's no set standard of time; you can't control time; everything has its own sense of time. So it's a culture that pays little attention to time, to clock time.

Now, let's move on to low-context culture. A low-context culture is just the opposite. A low-context culture is one in which the message, the event or the action is a separate entity, having meaning onto itself, regardless of the surroundings or the context. That the message, the event, the action has meaning in itself. So what this means in a low-context culture, is that people pay more attention to the event itself rather than to the context which surrounds the event or the message. For example, in terms of personal space again, there's more emphasis on individuality. So the concept of privacy is very, very important. Whereas before, as I said, in a high-context culture, they might not even be concerned with privacy or personal space. But in a low-context culture,

there's a feeling that we each have our own personal space. If you get too close, if you don't knock on doors before entering, that's an invasion of privacy. People feel violated. There's a respect and a desire for privacy. And you'll also see that people might pay less attention to body language, because as I said, the message is, the message is everything. They are not going to worry about all the details around it. What you say is the important thing, or what you do is the important thing. Another example of a low-context culture is people's attitude towards time. In terms of time, I said before, there was a poly-chronic sense of time in a high-context culture. What do you think there would be in a low-context culture? Mono-chronic? Right! A mono-chronic sense of time and by that we mean that there's one time. And that concept means that people in a low-context culture believe that there's one standard of time. And that should be for everything. And so I am not willing to hear "Oh, the traffic was heavy. That's why I'm late" or "Oh, I slept late". People in a low-context culture would be much more upset with lateness, because they feel that everyone should follow the same time. There shouldn't be all this flexibility with time and they expect punctuality. And they look at time as almost a commodity that they use expressions like "use time, to waste time, to spend time or time is money". All of these expressions reinforce the concept that time is actually something you can hold on to.

So, what this is all about is that, Hall stresses that people need to be aware of these different assumptions or concepts about reality. And he thinks that this has all kinds of relevance no matter what you're doing. If you're in business, negotiations, interpersonal relations, if you're dealing with people from different cultures in any way, it's going to affect every part of your life. In any multi-cultural situation, these assumptions need to be taken into account for successful interactions.

OK, today we've taken a brief look at Edward Hall's view of culture, mainly his classification of high- or low-context culture with some examples. Next week, we'll look at some more examples of cultures on a continuum between high-context and low-context cultures.

SECTION B INTERVIEW/CONVERSATIONIn this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO.

Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions.

Now, listen to the interview.

1. According to Dr. Harley, what makes language learning more difficult after a certain age?

A. Differences between two languages.

B. Declining capacity to learn syntax.

C. Lack of time available.

D. Absence of motivation.

参考答案： B

TIP：答案选B。Harley博士提到有研究表明，语言特别是句法方面的学习在12岁以后更难。

2. What does the example of Czech speakers show?

A. It's natural for language learners to make errors.

B. Differences between languages cause difficulty.

C. There exist differences between English and Czech.

D. Difficulty stems from either difference or similarity.

参考答案： D

TIP：答案选D。Harley博士提到有研究发现学习英语的捷克人会在相同的捷克语和英语句法上犯错，因此证明了语言学习者的困难也可能来自相似性。

3. Which of the following methods does NOT advocate speaking?

A. The traditional method.

B. The audiolingual method.

C. The immersion method.

D. The direct method.

参考答案： A

TIP：答案选A。因为其他三种方法都要求或强调口语，而传统方法强调语法教学。

4. Which hypothesis deals with the role of language knowledge in the learning process?

A. The acquisition and learning distinction hypothesis.

B. The comprehensible input hypothesis.

C. The monitor hypothesis.

D. The active filter hypothesis.

参考答案： C

TIP：答案选C。当Harley博士在解释monitor hypothesis时，他提到monitor会使用语法规则，电台主持人向他确认是否这意味着学习者运用语言知识确保所说和所写的正确无误，Harley博士的回答是肯定的。

5. Which of the following topics is NOT discussed during the interview?

A. Causes of language learning difficulties.

B. Differences between mother tongue and a second language.

C. Theoretical conceptualization of second language learning.

D. Pedagogical implementation of second language teaching.

参考答案： B

TIP：答案选B。其他三项在对话中均有提及，D项没有提及。

script:

Woman: Good morning, Dr. Harley! Thank you very much for coming on our radio talk. We know that you're an applied linguist specializing in second language acquisition.

Dr. Harley: Right!

Woman: So, today, um, we'll look at this issue. Now, first, Dr. Harley, could you please tell us

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ISTENING COMPREHENSIONSECTION A MINI-LECTUREIn this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening, take notes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but you will need them to complete a gap-filling task after the mini-lecture. When the lecture is over, you will be given two minutes to check your notes, and another ten minutes to complete the gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE. Some of the gaps may reuire a maximum of THREE words. Make sure the word(s) you fill in is (are) both grammatically and semantically acceptable. You may refer to your notes while completing the task. Use the blank sheet for note-taking.Now, listen to the mini-lecture.Classifications of CulturesAccording to Edward Hall, different cultures result in different ideas about the world. Hall is an anthropologist. He is interested in relations between cultures.I. High-context cultureA. feature- context: more important than the message- meaning: (1)__________i.e. more attention paid to (2) ___________ than to the message itselfB. examples- personal space- preference for (3)__________- less respect for privacy / personal space- attention to (4)___________- concept of time- belief in (5)____________ interpretation of time- no concern for punctuality- no control over timeII. Low-context cultureA. feature- message: separate from context- meaning: (6)___________B. examples- personal spac

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TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2010)

-GRADE EIGHT-

PART I

SECTION A LISTENING COMPREHENSION (35 MIN) MINI-LECTURE

In this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening, take notes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but you will need them to complete a gap-filling task after the mini-lecture. When the lecture is over, you will be given two minutes to check your notes, and another ten minutes to complete the gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE. Use the blank sheet for note-taking.

Complete the gap-filling task. Some of the gaps below may require a maximum of THREE words. Make sure the word(s) you fill in is (are) both grammatically & semantically acceptable. You may refer to your notes.

Paralinguistic Features of Language

In face-to-face communication speakers often alter their tomes of voice or change their physical postures in order to convey messages. These means are called paralinguistic features of language, which fall into two categories. First category: vocal paralinguistic features

A. (1)__________: to express attitude or intention (1)__________

B. Examples

1. whispering: need for secrecy

2. breathiness: deep emotion

3. (2)_________: unimportance (2)__________

4. nasality: anxiety

5. extra lip-rounding: greater intimacy

Second category: physical paralinguistic features

A. facial expressions

1. (3)_______ (3)__________

----- smiling: signal of pleasure or welcome

2. less common expressions

----- eye brow raising: surprise or interest

----- lip biting: (4)________ (4)_________

B. gesture

gestures are related to culture.

1. British culture

----- shrugging shoulders: (5) ________ (5)__________

----- scratching head: puzzlement

2. other cultures

----- placing hand upon heart:(6)_______ (6)__________

----- pointing at nose: secret

C. proximity, posture and echoing

1. proximity: physical distance between speakers

----- closeness: intimacy or threat

----- (7)_______: formality or absence of interest (7)_________

Proximity is person-, culture- and (8)________ -specific. (8)_________

2. posture

----- hunched shoulders or a hanging head: to indicate(9)_____ (9)________

----- direct level eye contact: to express an open or challenging attitude

3. echoing

----- definition: imitation of similar posture

----- (10)______: aid in communication (10)___________

----- conscious imitation: mockery

SECTION B INTERVIEW

In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO.

Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions.

Now listen to the interview.

1. According to Dr Johnson, diversity means

A. merging of different cultural identities.

B. more emphasis on homogeneity.

C. embracing of more ethnic differences.

D. acceptance of more branches of Christianity.

2. According to the interview, which of the following statements in CORRECT?

A. Some places are more diverse than others.

B. Towns are less diverse than large cities.

C. Diversity can be seen everywhere.

D. American is a truly diverse country.

3. According to Dr Johnson, which place will witness a radical change in its racial makeup by 2025?

A. Maine

B. Selinsgrove

C. Philadelphia

D. California

4. During the interview Dr Johnson indicates that

A. greater racial diversity exists among younger populations.

B. both older and younger populations are racially diverse.

C. age diversity could lead to pension problems.

D. older populations are more racially diverse.

5. According to the interview, religious diversity

A. was most evident between 1990 and 2000.

B. exists among Muslim immigrants.

C. is restricted to certain places in the US.

D. is spreading to more parts of the country.

SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST

In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct answer to each question on your coloured answer sheet.

Question 6 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question.

Now listen to the news.

6. What is the main idea of the news item?

A. Sony developed a computer chip for cell phones.

B. Japan will market its wallet phone abroad.

C. The wallet phone is one of the wireless innovations.

D. Reader devices are available at stores and stations.

Question 7 and 8 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions.

Now listen to the news.

7. Which of the following is mentioned as the government’s measure to control inflation?

A. Foreign investment.

B. Donor support.

C. Price control.

D. Bank prediction.

8. According to Kingdom Bank, what is the current inflation rate in Zimbabwe?

A. 20 million percent.

B. 2.2 million percent.

C. 11.2 million percent.

D. Over 11.2 million percent.

Question 9 and 10 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the question.

Now listen to the news.

9. Which of the following is CORRECT?

A. A big fire erupted on the Nile River.

B. Helicopters were used to evacuate people.

C. Five people were taken to hospital for burns.

D. A big fire took place on two floors.

10. The likely cause of the big fire is

A. electrical short-cut.

B. lack of fire-satefy measures.

C. terrorism.

D. not known.

PART II READING COMPREHENSION (30 MIN)

In this section there are four reading passages followed by a total of 20 multiple-choice questions. Read the passages and then mark your answers on your coloured answer sheet.

TEXT A

Still, the image of any city has a half-life of many years. (So does its name, officially changed in 2001 from Calcutta to Kolkata, which is closer to what the word sounds like in Bengali. Conversing in English, I never heard anyone call the city anything but Calcutta.) To Westerners, the conveyance most identified with Kolkata is not its modern subway—a facility whose spacious stations have art on the walls and cricket matches on television monitors—but the hand-pulled rickshaw. Stories and films celebrate a primitive-looking cart with high wooden wheels, pulled by someone who looks close to needing the succor of Mother Teresa. For years the government has been talking about eliminating hand-pulled rickshaws on what it calls humanitarian grounds—principally on the ground that, as the mayor of Kolkata has often said, it is offensive to see “one man sweating and straining to pull another man.” But these days politicians also lament the impact of 6,000 hand-pulled rickshaws on a modern city’s traffic and, particularly, on its image. “Westerners try to associate beggars and these rickshaws with the Calcutta landscape, but this is not what Calcutta stands for,” the chief minister of West Bengal, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, said in a press conference in 2006. “Our city stands for prosperity and development.” The chief minister—the

equivalent of a state governor—went on to announce that hand-pulled rickshaws soon would be banned from the streets of Kolkata.

Rickshaws are not there to haul around tourists. (Actually, I saw almost no tourists in Kolkata, apart from the young backpackers on Sudder Street, in what used to be a red-light district and is now said to be the single place in the city where the services a rickshaw puller offers may include providing female company to a gentleman for the evening.) It’s the people in the lanes who most regularly use rickshaws—not the poor but people who are just a notch above the poor. They are people who tend to travel short distances, through lanes that are sometimes inaccessible to even the most daring taxi driver. An older woman with marketing to do, for instance, can arrive in a rickshaw, have the rickshaw puller wait until she comes back from various stalls to load her purchases, and then be taken home. People in the lanes use rickshaws as a 24-hour ambulance service. Proprietors of cafés or corner stores send rickshaws to collect their supplies. (One morning I saw a rickshaw puller take on a load of live chickens—tied in pairs by the feet so they could be draped over the shafts and the folded back canopy and even the axle. By the time he trotted off, he was carrying about a hundred upside-down chickens.) The rickshaw pullers told me their steadiest customers are schoolchildren. Middle-class families contract with a puller to take a child to school and pick him up; the puller essentially becomes a family retainer.

From June to September Kolkata can get torrential rains, and its drainage system doesn’t need torrential rain to begin backing up. Residents who favor a touch of hyperbole say that in Kolkata “if a stray cat pees, there’s a flood.” During my stay it once rained for about 48 hours. Entire neighborhoods couldn’t be reached by motorized vehicles, and the newspapers showed pictures of rickshaws being pulled through water that was up to the pullers’ waists. When it’s raining, the normal customer base for rickshaw pullers expands greatly, as does the price of a journey. A writer in Kolkata told me, “When it rains, even the governor takes rickshaws.”

While I was in Kolkata, a magazine called India Today published its annual ranking of Indian states, according to such measurements as prosperity and infrastructure. Among India’s 20 largest states, Bihar finished dead last, as it has for four of the past five years. Bihar, a couple hundred miles north of Kolkata, is where the vast majority of rickshaw pullers come from. Once in Kolkata, they sleep on the street or in their rickshaws or in a dera—a combination garage and repair shop and dormitory managed by someone called a sardar. For sleeping privileges in a dera, pullers pay 100 rupees (about $2.50) a month, which sounds like a pretty good deal until you’ve visited a dera. They gross between 100 and 150 rupees a day, out of which they have to pay 20 rupees for the use of the rickshaw and an occasional 75 or more for a payoff if a policeman stops them for, say, crossing a street where rickshaws are prohibited. A 2003 study found that rickshaw pullers are near the bottom of Kolkata occupations in income, doing better than only the ragpickers and the beggars. For someone without land or education, that still beats trying to make a living in Bihar.

There are people in Kolkata, particularly educated and politically aware people, who will not ride in a rickshaw, because they are offended by the idea of being pulled by another human being or because they consider it not the sort of thing people of their station do or because they regard the hand-pulled rickshaw as a relic of colonialism. Ironically, some of those people are not enthusiastic about banning rickshaws. The editor of the editorial pages of Kolkata’s Telegraph—Rudrangshu Mukherjee, a former academic who still writes history books—told me, for instance, that he sees humanitarian considerations as coming down on the side of keeping hand-pulled rickshaws on the road. “I refuse to be carried by another human being myself,” he said, “but I question whether we have the right to take away their livelihood.” Rickshaw supporters point out that when it comes to demeaning occupations, rickshaw pullers are hardly unique in Kolkata.

When I asked one rickshaw puller if he thought the government’s plan to rid the city of rickshaws was based on a genuine interest in his welfare, he smiled, with a quick shake of his head—a gesture I interpreted to mean, “If

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TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (1998)GRADE EIGHT

PAPER ONE

PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION (40 MIN) In sections A , B and C, you will hear everything ONCE ONLY, listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct response for each question on your Colored Answer Sheet.

SECTION A TALK Questions 1 to 5 refer to the talk in this section. At the end of the talk you will be given 15 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the talk.

1. According to the talk, compulsive gambling and alcoholic addiction share similarities because _________ .

A. no actual figure of addicts has been reported

B. no scientific studies have yielded effective solutions

C. both affect all sectors of society

D. both cause serious mental health problems

2. The development of the gambling compulsion can be described as being _____ .

A. gradual B. slow C. periodic D. radical

3. G. A. mentioned in the talk is believed to be a(n) _____ .

A. anonymous group B. charity organization

C. gamblers' club D. treatment center

4. At the end of the talk, the speaker's attitude towards the cure of gambling addiction is

A. unclear B. uncertain C. optimistic D. pessimistic

5. Throughout the talk, the speaker examines the issue of gambling in a ___ way.

A. balanced B. biased C. detached . D. lengthy

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SECTION B INTERVIEW

Questions 6 to 10 are based on an interview with an architect. At the end of the interview you will be given 13 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to the interview.

6. What strikes the woman most about the male robber is his ______ .

A. clothes B. age C. physique D. appearance

7. The most detailed information about the woman robber is her _____ .

A. manners B. talkativeness C. height D. jewelry

8. The interview is believed to be a bank _____ .

A. receptionist B. manager C. customer D. cashier

9. Which of the following about the two robbers is NOT true?

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A. Both were wearing dark sweaters. B. Neither was wearing glasses.

C. Both were about the same age. D. One of them was marked by a scar.

10. After the incident the interviewee sounded______ .

A. calm and quiet B. nervous and numb

C. timid and confused D. shocked and angry

SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST

Questions 11 to 12 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 30 seconds to answer the two questions. Now listen to the news. 11. According to the news, the enormous food shortage in Iraq has the most

damaging effect on its ____ .

A. national economy B. adult population

C. young children D. national currency

12. The WFP is appealing to donor nations to _____ .

A. double last year's food-aid

B. raise $122 million for Iraqi people

C. provide each Iraqi family with $26 a month

D. help Iraq's 12 million population Question 13 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the question. Now listen to the news.

13. As s result of the agreement, the two countries' arsenals are to be ____ .

A. upgraded in reliability and safety

B. reduced in size and number

C. dismantled partly later this year

D. maintained in their present conditions

Questions 14 to 15 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 30 seconds to answer the two questions. Now listen to the news. 14. We can infer from the news that _____ of teenagers under survey in 1993 were drug users.

A. 28% B. 22% C. 25% D. 21%

15. Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?

A. Parents are asked to join in the anti-drug efforts.

B. The use of both cocaine and LSD are on the increase.

C. Teenagers hold a different view of drugs today.

D. Marijuana is as powerful as it used to be.

SECTION D NOTE-TAKING AND GAP-FILLING

In this section you will hear a mini-lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening to the lecture, take notes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but you will need them to complete a 15-minute gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE after the mini-lecture. Use the blank paper for note-taking. Fill in each of the gaps with one word. You may refer to your notes. Make sure the word you fill

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in is both grammatically and semantically acceptable.

The Rise of RP Historical reasons

Received Pronunciation (RP) was originally associated with a (1) ___ spoken in the region between central England and London, including Oxford and Cambridge.

Its survival was due to its use by the (2) ______ in the 14th century and by university students in the (3) ______ Ages.

Its rise in importance resulted from its application in government and official documents.

The prestige of its (4)______ pattern of pronunciation came about with its use in (5)_____ schools in the 19th century.

As a result, its ( 6 ) ______ is accepted by television and the radio, the professions and teaching English as a foreign language. Three characteristics of RP

1) its speakers don't regard themselves as connected with any geographical region;

2) RP is largely used in England;

3) RP is a "class" accent, associated with (7) _____ social classes.

Its present status

Decline in the prestige of RP is the result of a) loss of monopoly of education by the privileged; b) (8) ___ of high education in the post-war period.

However, it still retains its eminence among certain professional people. There is a rise in the status of all (9) _____ accents.

We are moving towards the (10) ______ position: general acceptance of all regional accents and absence of a class accent that transcends all regions.

(1) ______ (2) ______ (3) ______ (4) ______ ( 5 ) ______

(6) ______ (7) ______ (8) ______ (9) ______ (10) ______

PART II PROOFREADING AND ERROR CORRECTION (15 MIN)

The following passage contains TEN errors. Each line contains a maximum of one error and three are free from error. In each case, only one word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way.

For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line.

For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a “∧” sign and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line. For an unnecessary word, cross out the unnecessary word with a slash “／” and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the line.

If the line is correct, place a V in the blank provided at the end of the line

PART II PROOFREADING AND ERROR CORRECTION (15 MIN)

The following passage contains TEN errors. Each line contains a maximum of one error and three are free from error. In each case, only one word is involved. You

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should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way.

For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line.

For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a “∧” sign and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line. For an unnecessary word, cross out the unnecessary word with a slash “／” and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the line.

If the line is correct, place a V in the blank provided at the end of the line.

When a human infant is born into any community in any part

of the world it has two things in common with any infant, provided (1)_____ neither of them have been damaged in any way either before (2)_____ or during birth. Firstly, and most obviously, new born children

are completely helpless. Apart from a powerful capacity to

pay attention to their helplessness lay using sound, there is nothing (3)_____ the new born child can do to ensure his own survival. Without

care from some other human being or beings, be it mother,

grandmother, or human group, a child is very unlikely to survive.

This helplessness of human infants is in marked contrast

with the capacity of many new born animals to get on their feet (4)______ within minutes of birth and run with the herd within a few

hours. Although young animals are certainly in risk, sometimes (5)______ for weeks or even months after birth, compared with the human

infant they very quickly develop the capacity to fend for them. (6)______ It is during this very long period in which the human infant

is totally dependent on the others that it reveals the second feature (7) ______ which it shares with all other undamaged human infants, a

capacity to learn language. For this reason, biologists now suggest

that language be "species specific" to the human race, that is (8) ______ to say, they consider the human infant to be genetic programmed (9) ______ in such way that it can acquire language. This suggestion implies (10) ______ that just as human beings are designed to see three-dimensionally

and in colour, and just as they are designed to stand upright

rather than to move on all fours, so they are designed to learn

and use language as part of their normal developments as

well-formed human beings.

PART III READING COMPREHENSION (40 MIN)

SECTION A READING COMPREHENSION (30 MIN)

In this section there are four reading passages followed by a total of fifteen multiple-choice questions. Read the passages carefully and then mark your answers on your Colored Answer Sheet.

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TEXT A On Society

Low self-esteem pops up regularly in academic reports as an explanation for all sorts of violence, from hate crimes and street crimes to terrorism. But despite the popularity of the explanation, not much evidence backs it up. In a recent issue of Psychological Review, three researchers examine this literature at length and conclude that a much stronger link connects high self-esteem to violence. "It is difficult to maintain belief in the low self-esteem view after seeing that the more violent groups are generally the ones with higher self-esteem," write Roy Baumeister of Case Western Reserve University and Laura Smart and Joseph Boden of the University of Virginia.

The conventional view is that people without self-esteem try to gain it by hurting others. The researchers find that violence is much more often the work of people with unrealistically high self-esteem attacking others who challenge their

self-image. Under this umbrella come bullies, rapists, psychopaths and members of street gangs and organized crime.

The study concludes: "Certain forms of high self-esteem seem to increase one's proneness to violence. An uncritical endorsement of the cultural value of self-esteem may therefore be counterproductive and even dangerous. ... The societal pursuit of high self-esteem for everyone may literally end up doing considerable harm. "

As for prison programs intended to make violent convicts feel better about themselves, "perhaps it would be better to try instilling modesty and humility," the researchers write.

In an interview with the Boston Globe, Baumeister said he believes the "self-promoting establishment is starting to crumble. "What would work better for the country is to forget about self-esteem and concentrate on self-control," he said.

In the schools, this would mean turning away from psychic boosterism and emphasizing self-esteem as a by-product of real achievement, not as an end in itself. The self-esteem movement, still entrenched in schools of education, is deeply implicated in the dumbing down of our schools, and in the spurious equality behind the idea that it is a terrible psychic blow if one student does any better or any worse than another. Let's hope it is indeed crumbling.

16. The researchers find that there are stronger connections between _____ .

A. low self-esteem and violence B. low self-control and violence

C. high self-image and violence D. high self-control and violence

17. The researchers would most probably agree with the following EXCEPT _____ .

A. self-esteem should be promoted and encouraged

B. schools should change their concept of self-esteem

C. the traditional view is beginning to lose ground

D. prisons should change their present practice

TEXT B

Social change is more likely to occur in heterogeneous societies than in

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TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2012)

-GRADE EIGHT-

PART II READING COMPREHENSION (30 MIN)

In this section there are four reading passages followed by a total of 20 multiple-choice questions. Read the passages and then mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO.

TEXT A

I used to look at my closet and see clothes. These days, whenever I cast my eyes upon the stacks of shoes and hangers of shirts, sweaters and jackets, I see water.

It takes 569 gallons to manufacture a T-shirt, from its start in the cotton fields to its appearance on store shelves. A pair of running shoes? 1,247 gallons.

Until last fall, I'd been oblivious to my "water footprint", which is defined as the total volume of freshwater that is used to produce goods and services, according to the Water Footprint Network. The Dutch nonprofit has been working to raise awareness of freshwater scarcity since 2008, but it was through the "Green Blue Book" by Thomas M. Kostigen that I was able to see how my own actions factored in.

I've installed gray-water systems to reuse the wastewater from my laundry, machine and bathtub and reroute it to my landscape - systems that save, on average, 50 gallons of water per day. I've set up rain barrels and infiltration pits to collect thousands of gallons of storm water cascading from my roof. I've even entered the last bastion of greendom -installing a composting toilet.

Suffice to say, I've been feeling pretty satisfied with myself for all the drinking water I've saved with these big-ticket projects.

Now I realize that my daily consumption choices could have an even larger effect –not only on the local water supply but also globally: 1.1 billion people have no access to freshwater, and, in the future, those who do have access will have less of it. To see how much virtual water 1 was using, I logged on to the "Green Blue Book" website and used its water footprint calculator, entering my daily consumption habits. Tallying up the water footprint of my breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks, as well as my daily dose of over-the-counter uppers and downers - coffee, wine and beer- I'm using 512 gallons of virtual water each day just to feed myself.

In a word: alarming.

Even more alarming was how much hidden water I was using to get dressed. I'm hardly a clotheshorse, but the few new items I buy once again trumped the amount of water flowing from my faucets each day. If I'm serious about saving water, I realized I could make some simple lifestyle shifts. Looking more closely at the areas in my life that use the most virtual water, it was food and clothes, specifically meat, coffee and, oddly, blue jeans and leather jackets.

Being a motorcyclist, I own an unusually large amount of leather - boots and jackets in particular. All of it is enormously water intensive. It takes 7,996 gallons to make a leather.jacket, leather being a byproduct of beef. It takes 2,866 gallons of water to make a single pair of blue jeans, because they're made from water-hogging cotton.

Crunching the numbers for the amount of clothes I buy every year, it looks a lot like my friend's swimming pool. My entire closet is borderline Olympic.

Gulp.

My late resolution is to buy some items used. Underwear and socks are, of course, exempt from this strategy, but 1 have no problem shopping less and also shopping at Goodwill. In fact, I'd been doing that for the past year to save money. My clothes' outrageous water footprint just reintbrced it for me.

More conscious living and substitution, rather than sacrifice, are the prevailing ideas with the water footprint. It's one I'm trying, and that's had an unusual upside. I had a hamburger recently, and I enjoyed it a lot more since it is now an occasional treat rather than a weekly habit.

(One gallon =3.8 litres)

11. According to the passage, the Water Footprint Network

A. made the author aware of freshwater shortage.

B. helped the author get to know the Green Blue Book.

C. worked for freshwater conservation for nonprofit purposes.

D. collaborated with the Green Blue Book in freshwater conservation.

12. Which of the following reasons can best explain the author's feeling of self-satisfaction?

A. He made contribution to drinking water conservation in his own way.

B. Money spent on upgrading his household facilities was worthwhile.

C. His house was equipped with advanced water-saving facilities.

D. He could have made even greater contribution by changing his lifestyle.

13. According to the context, "...how mv own actions factored in" means

A. how I could contribute to water conservation.

B. what efforts I should make to save fresh water.

C. what behaviour could be counted as freshwater-saving.

D. how much of what I did contributed to freshwater shortage.

14. According to the passage, the author was more alarmed by the fact that

A. he was having more meat and coffee.

B. his clothes used even more virtual water.

C. globally there will be less fresh water.

D. his lifestyle was too extravagant.

15. "My entire closet is borderline Olympic" is an example of

A. exaggeration. B. analogy.

C. understatement. D. euphemism.

16. What is the tone of the author in the last paragraph'?

A. Sarcastic. B. Ironic. C. Critical. D. Humorous.

TEXT B

In her novel of "Reunion, American Style", Rona Jaffe suggests that a class reunion "is more than a sentimental journey. It is also a way of answering the question that lies at the back of nearly all our minds. Did they do better than I?"

Jaffe's observation may be misplaced but not completely lost. According to a study conducted by social psychologist Jack Sparacino, the overwhelming majority who attend reunions aren't there invidiously to compare their recent accomplishments with those of their former classmates. Instead, they hope, primarily, to relive their earlier successes.

Certainly, a few return to show their former classmates how well they have done; others enjoy observing the changes that have occurred in their classmates (not always in themselves, of course). But the majority who attend their class reunions do so to relive the good times they remember having when they were younger. In his study, Sparacino found that, as high school students, attendees had been more popular, more often regarded as attractive, and more involved in extracurricular activities than those classmates who chose not to attend. For those who turned up at their reunions, then, the old times were also the good times!

It would appear that Americans have a special fondness for reunions, judging by their prevalence. Major league baseball players, fraternity members, veterans groups, high school and college graduates, and former Boy Scouts all hold reunions on a regular basis. In addition, family reunions frequently attract blood relatives from faraway places who spend considerable money and time to reunite.

Actually, in their affection for reuniting with friends, family or colleagues, Americans are probably no different from any other people, except that Americans have created a mind-boggling number and variety of institutionalized forms of gatherings to facilitate the satisfaction of this desire. Indeed, reunions have increasingly become formal events that are organized on a regular basis and, in the process, they have also become big business.

Shell Norris of Class Reunion, Inc., says that Chicago alone has 1,500 high school reunions each year. A conservative estimate on the national level would be 10,000 annually. At one time, all high school reunions were organized by volunteers, usually female homemakers. In the last few years, however, as more and more women have entered the labour force, alumni reunions are increasingly being planned by specialized companies rather than by part-time volunteers.

The first college reunion was held by the alumni of Yale University in 1792. Graduates of Pennsylvania, Princeton, Stanford, and Brown followed suit. And by the end of the 19th century,

most 4-year institutions were holding alumni reunions.

The variety of college reunions is impressive. At Princeton, alumni parade through the town wearing their class uniforms and singing their alma mater. At Marietta College, they gather for a dinner-dance on a steamship cruising the Ohio River.

Clearly, the thought of cruising on a steamship or marching through the streets is usually not, by itself, sufficient reason for large numbers of alumni to return to campus. Alumni who decide to attend their reunions share a common identity based on the years they spent together as undergraduates. For this reason, universities that somehow establish a common bond – for example, because they are relatively small or especially prestigious - tend to draw substantial numbers of their alumni to reunions. In an effort to enhance this common identity, larger colleges and universities frequently build their class reunions on participation in smaller units, such as departments or schools. Or they encourage "affinity reunions" for groups of former cheerleaders, editors, fraternity members, musicians, members of military organizations on campus, and the like.

Of course, not every alumnus is fond of his or her alma mater. Students who graduated during the late 1960s may be especially reluctant to get involved in alumni events. They were part of the generation that conducted sit-ins and teach-ins directed at university administrators, protested military recruitment on campus and marched against "establishment politics." If this generation has a common identity, it may fall outside of their university ties - or even be hostile to them. Even as they enter their middle years, alumni who continue to hold unpleasant memories of college during this period may not wish to attend class reunions.

17. According to the passage, Sparacino's study

A. provided strong evidence for Jaffe's statement.

B. showed that attendees tended to excel in high school study.

C. found that interest in reunions was linked with school experience.

D. found evidence for attendees' intense desire for showing off success.

18. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a distinct feature of U.S. class reunions?

A. U.S. class reunions are usually occasions to show off one's recent success.

B. Reunions are regular and formal events organized by professional agencies.

C. Class reunions have become a profitable business.

D. Class reunions have brought about a variety of activities.

19. What mainly attracts many people to return to campus for reunion?

A. The variety of activities for class reunion.

B. The special status their university enjoys.

C. Shared experience beyond the campus.

D. Shared undergraduate experience on campus.

20. The rhetorical function of the first paragraph is to

A. introduce Rona Jeffe's novel.

B. present the author's counterargument.

C. serve as prelude to the author's argument.

D. bring into focus contrasting opinions.

21. What is the passage mainly about?

A. Reasons for popularity and (non)attendance for alumni reunions.

B. A historical perspective for alumni reunions in the United States.

C. Alumni reunions and American university traditions.

D. Alumni reunion and its social and economic implications.

TEXT C

One time while on his walk George met Mr. Cattanzara coming home very late from work. He wondered if he was drunk but then could tell he wasn't. Mr. Cattanzara, a stocky, bald-headed man who worked in a change booth on an IRT station, lived on the next block after George's, above a shoe repair store. Nights, during the hot weather, he sat on his stoop in an undershirt, reading the New York Times in the light of the shoemaker's window. He read it from the first page to the last, then went up to sleep. And all the time he was reading the paper, his wife, a fat woman with a white face, leaned out of the window, gazing into the street, her thick white arms folded under her loose breast, on the window ledge.

Once in a while Mr. Cattanzara came home drunk, but it was a quiet drunk. He never made any trouble, only walked stiffly up the street and slowly climbed the stairs into the hall. Though drunk he looked the same as always, except for his tight walk, the quietness, and that his eyes were wet. George liked Mr. Cattanzara because he remembered him giving him nickels to buy lemon ice with when he was a squirt. Mr. Cattanzara was a different type than those in the neighbourhood. He asked different questions than the others when he met you, and he seemed to know what went on in all the newspapers. He read them, as his fat sick wife watched from the window.

"What are you doing with yourself this summer, George?" Mr. Cattanzara asked. "l see you walkin' around at night." George felt embarrassed. "I like to walk."

"What are you doin' in the day now?"

"Nothing much just now. I'm waiting for a job." Since it shamed him to admit that he wasn't working, George said, "I'm reading a lot to pick up my education."

"What are you readin'?"

George hesitated, then said, "I got a list of books in the library once and now I'm gonna read them this summer." He felt strange and a little unhappy saying this, but he wanted Mr. Cattanzara to respect him.

"How many books are there on it?"

"I never counted them. Maybe around a hundred."

Mr. Cattanzara whistled through his teeth.

"I figure if l did that," George went on earnestly, "it would help me in my education. 1 don't mean the kind they give you in high school. I want to know different things than they learn there, if you know what I mean."

The change maker nodded. "Still and all, one hundred books is a pretty big load for one

summer."

"It might take longer."

"After you're finished with some, maybe you and I can shoot the breeze about them?" said Mr. Cattanzara.

"When I'm finished," George answered.

Mr. Cattanzara went home and George continued on his walk. After that, though he had the urge to, George did nothing different from usual. He still took his walks at night, ending up in the little park. But one evening the shoemaker on the next block stopped George to say he was a good boy, and George figured that Mr. Cattanzara had told him all about the books he was reading. From the shoemaker it must have gone down the street, because George saw a couple of people smiling kindly at him, though nobody spoke to him personally. He felt a little better around the neighbourhood and liked it more, though not so much he would want to live in it forever. He had never exactly disliked the people in it, yet he had never liked them very much either. It was the fault of the neighbourhood. To his surprise, George found out that his father and his sister Sophie knew about his reading too. His father was too shy to say anything about it - he was never much of a talker in his whole life -- but Sophie was softer to George, and she showed him in other ways she was proud of him.

22. In the excerpt, Mr. Cattanzara was described as a man who

A. was fond of drinking. B. showed a wide interest.

C. often worked overtime. D. liked to gossip after work.

23. It can be inferred from the passage that

A. Mr. Cattanzara was surprised at George's reading plan.

B. Mr. Cannazara was doubtful about George throughout.

C. George was forced to tell a lie and then regretted.

D. George lied at the beginning and then became serious.

24. After the street conversation with Mr. Cattanzara, George

A. remained the same as usual.

B. became more friendly with Mr. Cattanzara.

C. began to like his neighbours more than ever.

D. continued to read the books from the list.

25. We can tell from the excerpt that George

A. had a neither close nor distant relationship with his father.

B. was dissatisfied with his life and surroundings.

C. found that his sister remained skeptical about him.

D. found his neighbours liked to poke their nose into him.

TEXT D

Abraham Lincoln turns 200 this year, and he's beginning to show his age. When his birthday arrives, on February 12, Congress will hold a special joint session in the Capitol's National Statuary Hall, a wreath will be laid at the great memorial in Washington, and a webcast will link school classrooms for a "teach-in" honouring his memory.

Admirable as they are, though, the events will strike many of us Lincoln fans as inadequate, even halfhearted -- and another sign that our appreciation for the 16th president and his towering achievements is slipping away. And you don't have to be a Lincoln enthusiast to believe that this is something we can't afford to lose.

Compare this year's celebration with the Lincoln centennial, in 1909. That year, Lincoln's likeness made its debut on the penny, thanks to approval from the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. Communities and civic associations in every comer of the country erupted in parades, concerts, balls, lectures, and military displays. We still feel the effects today: The momentum unloosed in 1909 led to the Lincoln Memorial, opened in 1922, and the Lincoln Highway, the first paved transcontinental thoroughfare.

The celebrants in 1909 had a few inspirations we lack today. Lincoln's presidency was still a living memory for countless Americans. In 2009 we are farther in time from the end of the Second World War than they were from the Civil War; families still felt the loss of loved ones from that awful national trauma.

But Americans in 1909 had something more: an unembarrassed appreciation for heroes and an acute sense of the way that even long-dead historical figures press in on the present and make us who we are.

One story will illustrate what l'm talking about.

In 2003 a group of local citizens arranged to place a statue of Lincoln in Richmond, Virginia, former capital of the Confederacy. The idea touched off a firestorm of controversy. The Sons of Confederate Veterans held a public conference of carefully selected scholars to "reassess" the legacy of Lincoln. The verdict - no surprise - was negative: Lincoln was labeled everything from a racist totalitarian to a teller of dirty jokes.

I covered the conference as a reporter, but what really unnerved me was a counter-conference of scholars to refute the earlier one. These scholars drew a picture of Lincoln that only our touchy-feely age could conjure up. The man who oversaw the most savage war in our history was described - by his admirers, remember - as "nonjudgmental," "unmoralistic," "comfortable with ambiguity."

I felt the way a friend of mine felt as we later watched the unveiling of the Richmond statue in a subdued ceremony: "But he's so small!"

The statue in Richmond was indeed small; like nearly every Lincoln statue put up in the past half century, it was life-size and was placed at ground level, a conscious rejection of the heroic - approachable and human, yes, but not something to look up to.

The Richmond episode taught me that Americans have lost the language to explain Lincoln's greatness even to ourselves. Earlier generations said they wanted their children to be like Lincoln: principled, kind, compassionate, resolute. Today we

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TESTFORENGLISHMAJORS(2015)

SECTIONAMINI-LECTURE

Inthissectionyouwillhearamini-lecture.YouwillhearthelectureONCEONLY.Whilelistening,takenotesontheimportantpoints.Yournoteswillnotbemarked,butyouwillneedthemtocompleteagap-fillingtaskafterthemini-lecture.Whenthelectureisover,youwillbegiventwominutestocheckyournotes,andanothertenminutestocompletethegap-fillingtaskonANSWERSHEETONE,usingnomorethanthreewordsineachgap.Makesuretheword(s)youfillinis(are)bothgrammaticallyandsemanticallyacceptable.Youmayrefertoyournoteswhilecompletingthetask.Usetheblanksheetfornote-taking.

Now,listentothemini-lecture.

UnderstandingAcademicLectures

Listeningtoacademiclecturesisanimportanttaskforuniversitystudents.Then,howcanwecomprehendalectureefficiently?

I.Understandingall(1)____

A.words

B.(2)____

-stress

-intonation

-(3)____

II.Addinginformation

A.lecturers:sharinginformationwithaudience

B.listeners:(4)____

C.sourcesofinformation-knowledgeof(5)____

-(6)____oftheworld

D.listeninginvolvingthreesteps:-hearing

-(7)____

-adding

III.(8)____

A.reasons:

-overcomenoise

-savetime

B.(9)____

-content

-organization

IV.Evaluatingwhilelistening

A.helpstodecidethe(10)____ofnotes

B.helpstorememberinformation

InthissectionyouwillheareverythingONCEONLY.Listencarefullyandthenanswerthequestionsthatfollow.MarkthebestanswertoeachquestiononANSWERSHEETTWO.

Questions1to5arebasedonaninterview.Attheendoftheinterviewyouwillbegiven10secondstoanswereachofthefollowingfivequestions.Nowlistentotheinterview.

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A.doingwhattheyhavepromisedtoschools

B.creatingopportunitiesforleadinguniversities

C.consideringremovingbarriersforstateschoolpupils

D.reducingopportunitiesforstateschoolpupilsA.Universitiesarenotworkinghardtoacceptstateschoolpupils.

B.ThenumberofstatepupilsapplyingtoOxfordfailstoincrease.

C.Thegovernmenthasloweredstatepupils’expectations.

A.begivenmorefundingfromeducationauthorities

B.begivenallthemoneyanddecidehowtospendit

C.begrantedgreaterpowertorunthemselves

D.begivenmoreopportunitiesandchoices

正确答案：B本题解析：选[B]。注意题干的关键词schoolfreedom，问题是问“学校自由”的含义，听音时需注意对话双方就该问题所谈论的内容。特蕾莎在谈到学校的自由问题时指出，“我们”（特蕾莎所在的党派）由衷地希望学校能够能根据实际情况来自主决定所有资金的使用权，学校应该拥有这些资金而且也有决定如何花费的权利，由此可知答案为

[B]。特蕾莎在进一步回答“学校自由”这个问题时提到，当前教育资金的一部分流向当地教育主管部门（goestolocaleducationauthorities），可见学校资金（funding）并非来源于教育主管部门，故排除[A]。[C]项中只说出了“学校自由”中的一个方面，叙述

A.Localeducationauthoritiesandthecentralgovernment.

B.Localeducationauthoritiesandsecondaryschoolstogether.

C.Localeducationauthoritiesonly.A.askingforclarification

B.challengingtheinterviewee

C.supportingtheinterviewee

D.initiatingtopics

正确答案：C本题解析：选[C]。题干中的关键词interviewer提示本题考查采访者在整个采访中的行为，因此需要根据通篇采访所使用的语调以及主要探讨问题的内容进行综合考虑，然后逐一排除。听音时需注意采访者在提问时的语气和用词，从中体会其意图。采访者在采访交流过程中多次使用重复语句和反问句式，如Allofit?Doesitmean,Irepeatthequestion…,willit?Imean…straightforwardquestion,isn’tit?等，由此可见采访者一直在要求特蕾莎将相关问题澄清，故排除[A]。采访者几次在特蕾莎回答完提问时紧接着以but开头的转折句式进行回应，表现出对特蕾莎的说法的某种质疑，故排除

[B]。整个采访过程中都是采访者在主动提出问题，故排除[D]。采访者提到特蕾莎就国家教育系统正在发生的改变所做的演讲，并指出从演讲中他看不出特蕾莎描绘的路线与当前政府的举措有什么不同之处，由此可见，他并不支持被采访者，故答案为[C]。SECTIONCNEWSBROADCAST

InthissectionyouwillheareverythingONCEONLY.Listencarefullyandthenanswerthequestionsthatfollow.MarkthebestanswertoeachquestiononANSWERSHEETTWO.

Question6isbasedonthefollowingnews.Attheendofthenewsitem,youwillbegiven10secondstoanswerthequestion.Nowlistentothenews.

A.

B.

C.

D.FewerpeoplewatchTVonceaweek.SmartphonesandtabletshavereplacedTV.Newtechnologyhasledtomorefamilytime.BiggerTVsetshaveattractedmorepeople.

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正确答案：C本题解析：选[C]。新闻一开头便提到，与2002年相比，英国成年人看电视节目的比例增加。智能手机和平板电脑的流行也让青少年走出自己的卧室，回归到家庭的活动室里。接着说，智能手机和平板电脑这些新科技不但没有把家庭成员分开，反而把他们聚在一起，大家又到同一个大屏幕前看电视。新闻最后分析了为什么新科技会让家庭成员重新聚到一起。由此可知，这篇新闻主要讲的是新科技增加了家庭成员在一起的时间，故答案为[C]。[A]与新闻内容相反。智能手机和平板电脑并没有取代电视，故排除[B]。[D]只是新闻中提到的一个细节，不能概括整篇新闻的主旨，故排除。

Questions7and8arebasedonthefollowingnews.Attheendofthenewsitem,youwillbegiven20secondstoanswerthequestions.Nowlistentothenews.

A.50.B.12.C.46.D.18.

A.boughtbypeopleunder18

B.madeavailabletodrugaddicts

C.providedbythegovernment

D.boughtindrugstores

正确答案：D本题解析：选[D]。新闻中提到，乌拉圭总统说过他支持大麻合法化法案，该法案将允许药店销售大麻。由此可知，法案的通过意味着大麻可以在药店中购买，故答案为[D]。[D]中的drugstores与新闻中提到的pharmacies同义，均指“药店”。新闻中提到，只有18岁以上的成年人才能购买大麻，故排除[A]。法案规定购买大麻要登记，由此可推断大麻应该是不允许毒品上瘾者购买的，故排除[B]。新闻中未提及大麻由政府提供，故排除[C]。

Questions9and10arebasedonthefollowingnews.Attheendofthenewsitem,youwillbegiven20secondstoanswerthequestions.Nowlistentothenews.

A.Diarrheaisacommondisease.

B.Goodsanitationledtoincreaseinheight.

C.Thereweremanyproblemsofpoorsanitation.

D.Africanchildrenliveinworsesanitaryconditions.

A.examinelinksbetweensanitationanddeathfromillness

B.lookintofactorsaffectingthegrowthofchildren

C.investigatehowtotacklesymptomslikediarrhea

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2012年3月专八英译汉真题及答案

PART V TRANSLATION (60 MIN)

SECTION B ENGLISH TO CHINESE

Translate the underlined part of the following text into Chines~ Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET THREE.

In some cases, intelligent people implementing intelligent policies are responsible for producing a "boomerang effect"; they actually create more of whatever it is they seek to reduce in the first place.

The boomerang effect has been achieved many times in recent years by men and women of

goodwill. State legislatures around the nation have recently raised the drinking age back to 21 in an effort to reduce the prevalence of violent deaths among our young people.

But such policies seem instead to have created the conditions for even more campus violence. Some college students who previously drank in bars and lounges under the watchful

supervision of bouncers(夜总会,酒吧等保安人员) (not to mention owners ea~er to keep their liquor licenses) now retreat to the sanctuary of their fraternity houses and apartments, where they no longer control their behaviour - or their drinking. The boomerang effect has also played a role in attempts to reduce the availability of illicit drugs. During recent years, the federal government has been quite successful in reducing the supply of street drugs. As fields are burned and contraband (违禁品）confiscated, the price of street drugs has

skyrocketed to a point where cheap altematives have begun to compete in the marketplace. Unfortunately, the cheap alternatives are even more harmful than the illicit drugs they replace.

boomerang: a curved flat piece of wood that can be thrown so as to retum to the thrower 回飞镖 参考译文：

然而上述政策反而引发了更多的校园暴力。一些大学生先前在夜总会的酒吧买醉，处于保安人员严密的监控之下(酒吧老板们为了保住自己卖酒的牌照也不会允许过激的事情发生)。现在，大学生们躲到他们互助会会所和公寓中酗酒，对自己饮酒的数量或行为都不再控制。政府在打击非法毒品方面采取的措施同样适得其反。近年来，联邦政府已经有效地抑制了街头毒品买卖。警方捣毁了很多毒品种植地，没收了违禁品，导致毒品的价格暴涨，那些便宜的替代品因此也有了竞争力。糟糕的是，那些便宜的替换品带来的危害甚至比他们所替代的毒品更大。 2012年3月专八汉译英真题及答案

PART V TRANSLATION (60 MIN)

SECTION A CHINESE TO ENGLISH

Translate the underlined part of the following text into English. Write your translation on ANSWER SHEET THREE.

2012年英语专八汉译英选自台湾作家蔡素芬的新书《烛光盛宴》，浓缩了台湾近六十年的历史，可谓是十年磨一剑之作。加粗的为2012年英语专八汉译英部分选段。

《烛光盛宴》原文：

泊珍看他第一眼，彷似一声雷劈头而来，令她晕头涨脑，这一岁的孩子脸型长相如此熟悉，她心里的第一道声音是，不能带回去！

痛苦纠聚心中，眉心发烫发热，胸口郁闷难展，胃里一股气冲喉而上。院长说这孩子发育迟缓时，她更是心头无绪，她在育生所待的房里来回踱步，这房里还有其他小孩，每人一张围着栅栏的床，整个房间只有一扇窗，窗外树影婆娑，就让这孩子留下来吧，这里有善心的神父和修女，这里将来会扩充为有医疗作用的看护中心，这是留住孩子最好的地方。这孩子是她的秘密，她将秘密留在这树林掩映的建筑里。

她将秘密留在心头。

她专心做生意，她觉得人生剩下的只有不断地赚钱养育孩子，和对往日某些美好时光的眷恋，即使这些时光如此短暂，但也因为短暂而弥足珍贵，她家乡的好山好水、她和桂花的姐妹情谊、留在心中的曾有过的感情，这些美好的部分就够安慰她的余生。她心里也惦念留在家乡的那些人，她的两个孩子、她的父亲，他们都不再有音讯，他们随着时光的流逝，成为心里一个遥远的山水风景，成为眼里模糊的泪水。

参考答案：

Tortured by the pains gathering in her heart, she felt something was burning between her

eyebrows. Her chest was brimmed with depression which was likely to run out of her throat at any moment. She could not think clearly any longer when the headmaster told her that the child suffered from developmental retardation. She strode up and down in the room where her child stayed with other pals. There was only one window in the room, out of which some shady trees were whispering. “Just leave it here”， she told herself, “This is the best choice by far, for there are kind priests and nuns in this place which may also be renovated into a Medicare center”. The child was her secret which would be kept in the buildings behind the woods.

2012年3月专八改错部分真题及答案

PART IV PROOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTION (15 MIN)

The passage contains TEN errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. You should proof-read the passage and correct it in the following way:

For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line.

For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a "L" sign and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line.

For an unnecessary word, cross the unnecessary word with a slash "/" and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the line.

EXAMPLE

When A art museum wants a new exhibit, (1) an

it never buys things in finished form and hangs (2) never

them on the wall. When a natural history museum

wants an exhibition, it must often build it. (3) exhibit

Proofread the given passage on ANSWER SHEET TWO as instructed.

The central problem of translating has always been whether to translate literally or freely. The argument has been going since at least the first (1) ______

century B.C. Up to the beginning of the 19th century, many writers

favoured certain kind of “free” translation: the spirit, not the letter; the (2) _______ sense not the word; the message rather the form; the matter not (3) _______

the manner. This is the often revolutionary slogan of writers who (4) _______

wanted the truth to be read and understood. Then in the turn of 19th (5) _______ century, when the study of cultural anthropology suggested that

the linguistic barriers were insuperable and that the language (6) _______

was entirely the product of culture, the view translation was impossible (7) _______ gained some currency, and with it that, if was attempted at all, it must be as (8) _______ literal as possible. This view culminated the statement of the (9) _______

extreme “literalists” Walter Benjamin and Vladimir Nobokov.

The argument was theoretical: the purpose of the translation, the

nature of the readership, the type of the text, was not discussed. Too

often, writer, translator and reader were implicitly identified with

each other. Now, the context has changed, and the basic problem remains. (10) _____ 参考答案：

1. going后加on

2. certain改为a certain

3. rather改为not

4. is 改为was

5. in 改为 at

6. 去掉第二个the

7. view后面加that

8. 去掉 was

9. culminated后面加in

10. and 改为but

2012年3月专八人文部分真题及答案

PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10 MIN)

There are ten multiple-choice questions in this section. Mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO.

31. The Maori people are natives of

A. Australia. B. Canada. C. Ireland. D. New Zealand.

32. The British monarch is the Head of

A. Parliament. B. State. C. Government. D. Cabinet.

33. Americans celebrate Independence Day on

A. July 4th. B. October 11th. C. May 31st. D. September 6th.

34. Canada is bounded on the north by

A. the Pacific Ocean. B. the Atlantic Ocean.

C. the Arctic Ocean. D. the Great Lakes.

35. Who is the author of The Waste Land?

A. George Bernard Shaw. B. W.B. Yeats.

C. Dylan Thomas. D. T.S. Eliot.

36. Which of the following novelists wrote The Sound and the Fury?

A. William Faulkner. B. Ernest Hemingway.

C. Scott Fitzgerald. D. John Steinbeck.

37. "The lettuce was lonely without tomatoes and cucumbers for company" is an example of

A. exaggeration. B. understatement.

C. personification. D. synecdoche.

38. In English ifa word begins with a [l] or a [r], then the next sound must be a vowel. This is a (n)

A. assimilation rule. B. sequential rule. C.deletion rule. D. grammar rule.

39. Which of the following is an example of clipping?

A.APEC. B.Motel. C.Xerox. D.Disco.

40. The type of language which is selected as appropriate to a particular type of" situation is called

A. register. B. dialect. C. slang. D. variety.

参考答案：

31~35 D B A C D

36~40 A C B D A

2012年3月专八阅读部分真题及答案

PART II READING COMPREHENSION (30 MIN)

In this section there are four reading passages followed by a total of 20 multiple-choice questions. Read the passages and then mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO. TEXT A

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Part Ⅰ Listening Comprehension (40 min)

In Sections A,B and C you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct answer to each question on your coloured answer sheet.

SECTION A TALK

Questions 1 to 5 refer to the talk in this section. At the end of the talk you will be given 75 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the talk.

1.The parallel between waltzing and language use lies in ____. A.the coordination based on individual actions B.the number of individual participants C.the necessity of individual actions D.the requirements for participants

2.In the talk the speaker thinks that language use is a(n) ____ process. A.individual

B.combined C.distinct D.social

3.The main difference between personal and nonpersonal settings is in ____. A.the manner of language use B.the topic and content of speech

C.the interactions between speaker and audience D.the relationship between speaker and audience 4.In fictional settings, speakers ____. A.hide their real intentions B.voice others’ intentions

C.play double roles on and off stage D.only imitate other people in life

5.Compared with other types of settings, the main feature of private setting is ____. A.the absence of spontaneity

B.the presence of individual actions C.the lack of real intentions D.the absence of audience SECTION B INTERVIEW

Questions 6 to 10 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 75 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the interview.

6.What was education like in Professor Wang’s days? A.Students worked very hard.

B.Students felt they needed a second degree. C.Education was not careeroriented. D.There were many specialized subjects.

7.According to Professor Wang, what is the purpose of the presentday education? A.To turn out an adequate number of elite for the society. B.To prepare students for their future career.

C.To offer practical and utilitarian courses in each programme. D.To set up as many technical institutions as possible. 8.In Professor Wang’s opinion, technical skills ____. A.require good education B.are secondary to education C.don’t call for good education D.don’t conflict with education

9.What does Professor Wang suggest to cope with the situation caused by increasing numbers of feepaying students? A.Shifting from one programme to another. B.Working out ways to reduce student number. C.Emphasizing better quality of education. D.Setting up stricter examination standards.

10.Future education needs to produce graduates of all the following categories EXCEPT

____.

A.those who can adapt to different professions B.those who have a high flexibility of mind

C.those who are thinkers, historians and philosophers D.those who possess only highly specialized skills SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST

Questions 11 to 13 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 45 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the news.

11.Which of the following regions in the world will witness the sharpest drop in life expectancy? A.Latin America.

B.SubSaharan Africa. C.Asia.

D.The Caribbean.

12.According to the news, which country will experience small life expectancy drop? A.Burma. B.Botswana. C.Cambodia. D.Thailand.

13.The countries that are predicted to experience negative population growth are mainly in ____

A.Asia. B.Africa.

C.Latin America.D.The Caribbean.

Questions 14 and 15 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 30 seconds to answer the questions. Now listen to the news.

14.The trade dispute between the European Union and the US was caused by ____. A.US refusal to accept arbitration by WTO B.US imposing tariffs on European steel C.US refusal to pay compensation to EU

D.US refusal to lower import duties on EU products

15.Who will be consulted first before the EU list is submitted to WTO? A.EU member states. B.The United States. C.WTO.

D.The steel corporations.

SECTION D NOTE-TAKING AND GAP-FILLING

In this section you will hear a minilecture. You will hear the lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening to the lecture, take notes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but you will need them to complete a 15minute gapfilling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE after the minilecture. Use the blank sheet for notetaking. Conversation Skills

People who usually make us feel comfortable in conversations are good talkers. And they have something in common, i.e. skills to put people at ease.

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