Part I Listening Comprehension

Section A Dialogues

1. W: Hi, Harry! It's great to see you again. I heard you've traveled a lot recently.

   M: Yeah. In the past three months I traveled to many countries in Africa.

   Q: When and where did the man travel? (D)

      A. America, three months.

      B. Africa, two months.

      C. America, two months.

      D. Africa, three months.

2. M: Did you see Mary today?

   W: Yes. But why does she have such a long face?

   M: I don't have the foggiest idea.

   W: I thought she'd be happy.

   M: Yeah, especially since she got a promotion recently.

   W: Maybe it's some kind of personal problem.

   Q: What's the probable reason why Mary is unhappy today according to the two speakers? (D)

      A. She is not satisfied with her countenance.

      B. The weather is too foggy to drive home.

      C. She didn't get a promotion.

      D. The speakers are not quite sure about that.

3. W: Wow, you look like a drowned rat!? Didn't you know there's a thunderstorm today?

   M: I knew there would be a shower, but I didn't realize it would rain cats and dogs today.

   W: Well, you'd better take a hot shower right now, or you'll catch a cold.

   M: I know. I don't want to get sick, especially during finals week.

   Q: What had happened to the man? (A)

      A. He was caught in the rain.

      B. He just had a shower.

      C. He was sick.

      D. He failed the exam.

Section B Neas Items

1. US space officials say astronaut Leroy Chiao inadvertently entered an unsafe zone outside the space station during a spacewalk he conducted three weeks ago with Russian cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov. He ventured too close to jet thrusters that help stabilize the station.

Russian mission controllers supervised the spacewalk. The chief U.S. flight director for the mission, Annette Hasbrook, says miscommunication caused the incident. She says the Russian controllers issued verbal warnings about the spacewalkers' location, but the crew did not understand them.

Question: What caused the incident according to the U.S. aspect? (B)

    A. The station is not stabilized.

    B. Russian mission controllers' miscommunication caused the incident.

    C. The us spacewalker cannot communicate with the Russian spacewalker.

2. Former Presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton have met Sri Lankan children who survived December's devastating tsunami. The former political rivals are assessing how the U.S. can help rebuild affected countries.

Young survivors of the deadly tsunami sang and performed dances during the visit by George Bush and Bill Clinton to a trauma center on Sri Lanka's southern coast. Others drew crayon pictures of their terrifying experiences to show to the former U.S. presidents.

Question: Who did the two former U.S. Presidents meet in the news?

    A. Sri Lankan children who survived the tsunami.

    B. Indonesian children who survived the earthquake.

    C. American children who survived the tornado.

3. The Super Bowl broadcast from Houston, Texas last year was the most watched television program ever in the United States with 144.4 million viewers. The 10 most-watched sports programs in U.S. television history have all been Super Bowls.

Question: How many viewers does the Super Bowl have at most? (C)

    A. 4 million. B. 10 million. C. 144.4 million.

Section C Passages

Passage One

Monopoly is one of the most popular games in the world. Its popularity is remarkable as it was invented more than 70 years ago, in 1933. That was the year that an unemployed heating engineer called Charles Darrow decided to make up a new game for his family and friends to play.

Darrow lived in Pennsylvania in the USA. In the 1930s, the whole country was in the grip of the Great Depression. Many people were unemployed and very poor. Darrow thought that people would enjoy forgetting about their difficult lives for a while. His game would give them a chance to buy and sell houses and hotels, railroad stations, and entire streets. Just for a few hours, even poor people could be millionaires (although with fake dollars, unfortunately).

Darrow made the first set of his game, which he called Monopoly, from simple materials. He taught his family to play, and they loved it. They played it with their friends, and their friends loved it too. Everyone who played the game thought it was really fun.

Darrow was sure that other people would enjoy Monopoly. He tried to sell the game to Parker Brothers, a large games manufacturer, but they weren't interested. So, he decided to sell Monopoly himself. It was an instant success, and Darrow sold all the 5,000 sets he had made. When Parker Brothers heard about this, they realized their mistake and began to manufacture the game. Over the next year, more than a million sets were sold, and Monopoly went on to become the biggest-selling game ever. Since then, Monopoly has sold around 100 million sets, and has been translated into 19 languages. One year in the USA, there was twice as much Monopoly money printed as real money!

And what about the inventor of this amazing game? Thanks to the success of his invention, Charles Darrow became a multimillionaire, with real dollars this time.

Questions 1—5 are based on the passage you have just heard.

1. When was monopoly invented? (A)

2. Why did Darrow think that people would enjoy Monopoly? (B)

3. Did Darrow's family like the game? (C)

4. Who made the very first Monopoly set? (C)

5. How many Monopoly sets were sold in the first year Parker Brothers made the game? (D)

1. A. In 1933. B. In 1960. C. 33 years ago. D. 60 years ago.

2. A. He thought that they would enjoy losing money.

   B. He thought that they would enjoy pretending to be millionaires.

   C. He thought that they would enjoy spending time with their families.

   D. He thought that they would enjoy buying and selling in the game.

3. A. No, they weren't interestsed in it.

   B. No, but his friends liked it.

   C. Yes, they loved it.

   D. Yes, they became millionaire by playing the game.

4. A. Parker Brothers.

   B. Charles Darrow's family.

   C. Charles Darrow.

   D. Charles Darrow's friends.

5. A. Over 100 million.  B. 5,000.    C. 19.    D. Over a million.

Passage Two

A hoax is a kind of trick. A hoaxer is a person who makes other people believe something, even though it is not true. Many hoaxes succeed because people want to believe what they are told. For example, in the 1930s, a French businessman was offered the chance to buy the Eiffel Tower. He did not ask why one of the most famous landmarks in the world was for sale. He wanted to believe that this great opportunity was real, so he did. He only realized that he had been tricked when the salesman, a famous hoaxer named Victor Lustig, disappeared with his money.

Many hoaxes involve forgeries-books, plays, or paintings which look like the work of famous people but have in fact been created by clever imitators. Over the years, millions of dollars have been spent on forgeries like The Hitler Diaries, plays by “Shakespeare”, and thousands of paintings said to be by famous artists.

One of the most famous forgers of all time was the British artist Tom Keating. When he first started painting, Keating soon became very angry with the way young artists were treated by art dealers and critics. He felt that only old, long-dead masters such as Rembrandt, Renoir, and Goya were given any respect. Keating decided to take revenge by tricking the art world, so over the course of 20 years, he produced around 2,500 forgeries. They were bought by museums, galleries, and art collectors all over the world. People were furious when they found out that the “masterpieces” they had paid for were simply worthless copies, but Keating just laughed. He thought that they deserved all they got.

In the end, Keating's forgeries turned out not to be so worthless after all. After his death in 1984, many of his paintings were sold. By then, he was famous as a forger, and people were very interested in his work. Several of his paintings sold for thousands of pounds. That would have made Tom Keating laugh even more.

Questions 6—10 are based on the passage you have just heard.

6. Did a businessman really buy the Eiffel Tower in the 1930s? (C)

7. Which of these has been forged in the past? (D)

8. What made Tom Keating angry? (A)

9. How many paintings did Keating forge? (B)

10. Were Keating's forgeries worth anything after he died? (D)

6. A. No it was not really for sale.

   B. No, Victor Lustig bought it.

   C. Yes, he really bought it.

   D. Yes, even though he didn't believe the opportunity was real.

7. A. Paintings by Shakespeare.

   B. Plays by Hitler.

   C. Plays by Keating.

   D. Plays by Shakespeare.

8. A. The way that youung painters were treated by art dealers and critics.

   B. The price of paintings.

   C. The fact that he was not a very good painter.

   D. The attitude people had toward the masterpieces that he hoaxed.

9. A. Only paintings by Rembrandt.

   B. More than 2,500.

   C. 20. D. About 1900.

10. A. No, they were destroied.

    B. No, they were all worthless.

    C. Yes, because people thought that they were real.

    D. Yes, after his death some of them sold for thousands of pounds.

Part II Vocabulary and Structure (5 minutes, 10 points)

1. My husband and I need to _________ our investments in order to plan for our retirement.

   A. elevate B. schedule C. coordinate D. prescribe

2. Though the movie purports to be a satirical examination of capitalism (as was the original 1974 version), its vague discussion of money and power _________ very little.

   A. adds up to B. comes up with  C. puts up with D. makes up for

3. For the DogMobile and the DogWalker it is imperative that you _________ to measure your dog properly, as these products are made specifically for your dog.

   A. should go it alone

   B. take the time

   C. must devote your energy

   D. shall be serious

Key: 1. C 2. A 3. B

Part III Situational Dialogues (5 minutes, 10 points)

1. Frank: You'll never believe what I saw on the train today!

   Peter: What?

   Frank: Some guy got on with an iguana on his shoulder!

   Peter: You're kidding! ____________

   Frank: He had it on a chain, but yeah, I think it is.

      A. I don't think so.

      B. That will be expensive.

      C. It should have been plastic.

      D. That's illegal, isn't it?

2. Kerry: Hi, Joann. How is it going?

   Joann: Terrible. I just found out I have a chemistry test tomorrow.

   Kerry: Your professor didn't tell you until now?

   Joann: He told us—I just didn't hear it.

   Kerry: What are you going to do?  ____________

   Joann: I'll have to, because I also have an exam in French tomorrow.

      A. Don't be nervous.

      B. Pull an all-nighter?

      C. Want to go bowling tonight?

      D. You look really out of it.

Key: 1． C 2. B

Part V Reading Comprehension

Passage One

Cyberspace（网络空间）, data superhighways, multi media—for those who have seen the future, the linking of computers, televisions and telephones will change our lives for ever. Yet for all the talk of a forthcoming technological utopia（乌托邦） little attention has been given to the implications of these developments for the poor. As with all new high technology, while the West concerns itself with the “how”, the question of “for whom” is put aside once again.

Economists are only now realizing the full extent to which the communications revolution has affected the world economy. Information technology allows the extension of trade across geographical and industrial boundaries, and transnational corporations take full advantage of it. Terms of trade, exchange and interest rates and money movements are more important than the production of goods. The electronic economy made possible by information technology allows the haves to increase their control on global markets—with destructive impact on the have-nots.

For them the result is instability. Developing countries which rely on the production of a small range of goods for export are made to feel like small parts in the international economic machine. As “futures”（期货） are traded on computer screens, developing countries simply have less and less control of their destinies.

So what are the options for regaining control? One alternative is for developing countries to buy in the latest computers and telecommunications themselves — so-called

“development communications modernization”. Yet this leads to long-term dependency and perhaps permanent constraints on developing countries' economies.

Communications technology is generally exported from the U.S., Europe or Japan; the patents, skills and ability to manufacture remain in the hands of a few industrialized countries. It is also expensive, and imported products and services must therefore be bought on credit—credit usually provided by the very countries whose companies stand to gain.

Furthermore, when new technology is introduced there is often too low a level of expertise to exploit it for native development. This means that while local elites, foreign communities and subsidiaries of transnational corporations may benefit, those whose lives depend on access to the information are denied it.

Questions:

1. From the passage we know that the deve- lopment of high technology is in the interests of _______ .

   A. the rich countries

   B. scientific development

   C. the elite

   D. the world economy

2. It can be inferred from the passage that _______ .

   A. international trade should be expanded

   B. the interests of the poor countries have not been given enough consideration

   C. the exports of the poor countries should be increased

   D. communications technology in the developing countries should be modernized

3. Why does the author say that the electronic economy may have a destructive impact on developing countries?

   A. Because it enables the developed countries to control the international market.

   B. Because it destroys the economic balance of the poor countries.

   C. Because it violates the national boundaries of the poor countries.

   D. Because it inhibits the industrial growth of developing countries.

4. The development of modern communications technology in developing countries may _______ .

   A. hinder their industrial production

   B. cause them to lose control of their trade

   C. force them to reduce their share of exports

   D. cost them their economic independence

5. The author's attitude toward the communications revolution is _______ .

   A. positive B. critical C. indifferent D. tolerant

Key to Passage One: 1. A 2. B 3. A 4. D 5. B

Passage Two

The nervous system of vertebrates is characterized by a hollow, dorsal nerve cord. Even in its most primitive form this cord and its attached nerves are the result of evolutionary specialization, and their further evolution from lower to higher vertebrate classes is a process that is far from fully understood. Nevertheless, the basic arrangements are similar in all vertebrates, and the study of lower animals gives insight into the form and structure of the nervous system of higher animals. Moreover, for any species, the study of the embryological （胚胎的） development of the nervous system is indispensable for （必要的） an understanding of adult morphology （结构研究）.

In any vertebrate two chief parts of the nervous system may be distinguished, these are the central nervous system (the nerve cord mentioned above), consisting of the brain and spinal cord, and the peripheral nervous system, consisting of the cranial, spinal, and peripheral nerves, together with their motor and sensory endings. The term “autonomic nervous system” refers to the parts of the central and peripheral systems that supply and regulate the activity of cardiac muscle, smooth muscle, and many glands.

The nervous system is composed of many millions of nerve and glial（神经胶质的）cells, together with blood vessels and a small amount of connective tissue. The nerve cells, or “neurons” are characterized by many processes and are specialized in that they exhibit to a great degree the phenomena of irritability and conductivity. The glial cells of the central nervous system are supporting cells collectively termed “neuroglia”. They are characterized by short processes that have special relationships to neurons, blood vessels, and connective tissue. The comparable cells in the peripheral nervous system are termed “neurilemmal” cells.

Questions:

1. What is the main idea of the passage?

   A. The features of nervous system.

   B. The development of embryo.

   C. The research on adult morphology.

   D. The nervous system of vertebrates.

2. What can be learned from the first paragraph?

   A. The study of embryological development of the nervous system is not related to that of adult morphology.

   B. All vertebrates have similar basic arrangements of the nervous system.

   C. There are many processes in nerve cells.

   D. Scientists are quite clear about the evolution of the nervous system.

3. What are the main parts of the nervous systems?

   A. Nerve and glial cells.

   B. The central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system.

   C. Blood vessels.

   D. Connective issues.

4. What's the function of the “autonomic nervous system”?

   A. To supply and control the activity of cardiac muscle, smooth muscle, and many glands.

   B. To show the phenomena of irritability and conductivity.

   C. To distinguish nervous system.

   D. To support cells.

5. What are the features of neurons?

   A. They have short processes.

   B. They are supporting cells.

   C. They have many processes and show irritability and conductivity.

   D. They have special relationships to vessels and connective tissue.

Key to Passage Two: 1. D 2. B 3. B 4. A 5. C

Passage Three

That's me in the photograph, 16 years old, in my swimsuit, standing in snow beside Scott Lake, high in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon. Snowballs, stopped in the air all these years by the camera's shutter (快门), fly toward me.

I dodged (躲避) the snowballs my siblings (兄弟) threw at me by running into the lake. The water was much warmer than I expected, late spring, when only snow shaded by north slope and dense stands of evergreens survived warm sunshine.

I should have stopped to think, but warm water and sunlight overpowered any cautionary thoughts I might have had. Snowballs splashed (飞溅) around me as I swam toward where my older brother, Gerrit, and his friend Dave paddled (用桨划) a slow and clumsy log raft (木排) near the center of the lake, not far away.

Only weeks before, I had convinced my physical education teacher that I couldn't float. I followed his instructions carefully and, time after time, sank to the bottom of the pool.

He insisted that I could float, but he was wrong. Some people do not float. They are built compactly (细密地), densely, and they sink unless they keep themselves on the surface by some effort. I was one of those people.

But I didn't think of that. Sun shone on the warm water. The day was pleasant. I was young and strong, and I would swim to the raft.

I swam out of snowball range and kept swimming toward the raft. I swam some more. I shifted to a side stroke. I swam on my back. I returned to a crawl, and I realized the raft was much farther from shore than I had first thought.

I grew tired. I swam.

I didn't seem to be getting any closer to the raft. I looked back at the shore. It was a long way away. I'd been foolish to start, to get so far from shore while still so far from the raft. I needed to rest, and there was no way I could stop swimming, because I would sink.

I was too young to die, especially as a result of a stupid decision, but it seemed I had no other choice but to sink. I've heard that your whole life flashes before you when you are close to death, but it didn't happen to me. I just had a strong sense of regret that I had been so foolish, that I had lived such a short time. Then I gave up and prepared to sink. I let my feet start down toward the bottom, out of my sight because of the slightly muddy water—and my feet stopped on the muddy bottom.

I stood shoulder deep in the center of the lake and laughed and breathed deeply. The water in the lake was so warm because it was so shallow, I thought. It warmed rapidly in the sun. I laughed again. I'd had no idea the lake was so shallow.

Life seemed sweet in warm sunshine, in warm water. The soft mud of the lake bed felt good to my feet. Ha! I had songs to sing yet, dances to dance, stories to tell. I might live many years yet.

I started walking slowly toward the raft. I didn't think I'd tell anyone why I laughed in the middle of Scott Lake. It could be a secret between me and Scott Lake why life, already sweet and full on a warm mountain day, seemed even sweeter to me, even more precious. I had many adventures ahead of me.

Questions:

1. There was still snow beside Scott Lake at that time because _______ .

   A. it had been snowing very hard that year for a long time

   B. it was in the shade of the mountains and evergreens

   C. the mountains are too high for the snow to melt in the sun

   D. the sunshine at that time was not warm enough to melt the snow

2. The boy ran into the lake mainly to _______ .

   A. avoid being hit by the snowballs

   B. try if he could swim by himself

   C. find the power of warm water and sunlight

   D. ask his brother to teach him how to swim

3. By saying “they sink unless they keep themselves on the surface by some effort”, the author means _______ .

   A. he didn't have the right stuff for swimming

   B. he would sink no matter how hard he tried

   C. he could float on water if he made an effort

   D. he was too young to swim to his brother

4. When the boy felt too tired to swim any more, _______ .

   A. he found his whole life flashing before his eyes

   B. he found himself shouting desperately for help in the water

   C. he found himself too light to sink to the bottom of the lake

   D. he decided to let himself sink to the bottom of the lake

5. By the author, the reason why he laughed in the middle of Scott Lake was that _______ .

   A. he survived the adventure and no one would know what had happened to him

   B. he succeeded in dodging the snowballs by floating on the water

   C. he got to know how sweet and precious life is to all of us

   D. he felt good on the soft mud of the lake bed and couldn't help laughing

Key to Passage Three: 1. B 2. A 3. C 4. D 5. A

    Questions:

1. When and where will the 38th IATEFL Conference be held according to this letter?

2. What should Mr. Peter Brown do firstly after his arrival?

3. When should a presenter report to the programmers if he or she wants to cancel the presentation?

4. The Pre-Conference Brochure contains the provisional Preview of Presentations, travel information, maps, ________ , and  ________ information.

5. Where can a delegate get a Certificate of Attendance?

Key to Passage Four:

1. 13-17 April 2004, Liverpool, UK

2. Collect conference pack, badge and programme from the Registration Desk.

3. At least two hours ahead of the presentation

4. times, evening activities

5. At the registration desk

Part VI Cloze (10 minutes, 10 points)

In the early days of the cinema, before sound was introduced, silent films were accompanied by a pianist, or even a small orchestra playing in the cinema itself. One r  　81 　 for this was to cover up the noise of the projector. H   　82 　  , a more important role was to provide support f   　83 　  what was going on in the film, and guide the audience through the story. Different kinds of music were associated w   　84 　  different situations, such as fights, chases, romantic scenes and so on. Music was also used to identify the geographical location or historical setting of the story. In a   　85 　  , individual characters often had their own tune, which could also indicate what sort of person they were.

Music added something e   　86 　  to what was happening on the flat screen. It could create atmosphere and i   　87 　  the involvement of the audience, one moment encouraging them to relax, the next developing a sense of tension. And all this was done without any words being spoken.

Audiences at that time would have been f   　88 　  with the musical language connected with the tradition of popular theatre, and many of these were t   　89 　  to the new medium of the cinema. Today, although the films produced may be technically very different from before, much of the musical history still r   　90 　  .

　　　Key: 81. reason 82. However 83. for 84. with 85. addition 86. extra 87. increase 88. familiar 89. transferred 90. remains

Part VII Translation

Section A English-Chinese Translation

1. Chinese have got a new thing to boast about. The language we are speaking is more difficult than English.

Understanding Chinese requires both sides of the brain, but English speakers listen with only half their minds on the job, UK scientists say.

Sophie Scott, a psychologist at a research-funding charity in the UK, and colleagues from hospitals in Oxford and London performed brain scans on volunteers as they listened to their native languages.

When English speakers heard the sound of their language, the left parts of their brains lit up the on screen. When Mandarin Chinese speakers heard their native tongue, there was an action in both the right and left sides.

“We were very surprised to discover that people who speak different sorts of languages use their brains to decode speech in different ways”, said Scott.

2. The left side is normally associated with piecing sounds together into words; the right with processing melody in music and speech, so this region “lights up” when English speakers hear music. The researchers do not yet know whether the right side is active in English speakers when they hear Mandarin.

In Mandarin, a different intonation delivers a different meaning: the syllable “ma”, for instance, can mean mother, scold, horse or hemp according to its musical sound.

“Speech really is a complex sound,” said Scott. “As well as understanding words, the brain uses the way in which words are spoken, such as intonation and melody, to turn spoken language into meaning. 3. This system has to be robust and flexible enough to deal with variations in speech sounds, such as regional accents.”

“We think Mandarin speakers interpret intonation and melody in the right sides of their brains to give correct meaning to the spoken words.”

4. It is not easy to test whether Mandarin speakers have other gifts that set them apart from English speakers, but there is evidence to suggest that it may relate to how thought processes operate, Scott said.

The study suggests that language itself might affect the way the brain develops in a young child.

It could explain why native speakers of English find it very extraordinarily hard to learn Mandarin. It might also help doctors understand what happens when people have to learn to understand speech all over again, for instance after a stroke, or after being fitted with an implant hearing aid.

5. “We live in a world of constant chatter. Speech, in the form of conversations, phone calls, songs, radio and TV fills our ears, yet we somehow manage to make sense of it all without even thinking about it. It is amazing how our brains are able to pick out words and meaning from this confusing muddle of sound so effortlessly,” said Scott.

答案：

1. 中国人有新东西可以自豪了：我们说的汉语要比英语难。

   英国科学家说，理解汉语需要大脑两侧的共同作用，而英语的操持者在听英语时只用大脑的一侧。

2. 大脑的左侧通常的任务是将语音串联成词语。而右侧的功能是处理音乐和言语中的音调。所以英语操持者在听音乐时，他的大脑右侧区域就会“发亮”。研究者们还不知道英语操持者在听汉语时大脑右侧是否也在活动。

3. 这个系统足够地健全、柔韧能够解决语音方面的变化，例如地区性方言。

4. Scott说，汉语操持者是否具有其它不同于英语操持者的天赋，要测出这一点并不容易。但有迹象表明，这可能与思维运作有关。

5. “我们生活在一个话语不断的世界中。会话、电话、歌唱、收音机、电视中各种言语形式充斥着我们的耳朵。然而我们不必思考都能设法听懂这些言语。令人吃惊的是，我们的大脑是如何能毫不费力地从混杂的声音中捕捉出词语及其含义的。”Scott如是说。

Section B Chinese-English Translation (10 points)

1. 数据是从50名年龄在16—65岁的男女间，通过在商业街中心进行面对面地回答面试问卷，而获得的。

2. 然而，这组年龄超过30岁的中只有10%喜欢流行音乐，而30%的表示更衷于古典音乐或戏剧。

答案：

1. Data was obtained from 50 men and women aged between 16 and 65, who responded to a questionnaire in a face-to-face interview in the shopping centre.

2. Amongst those questioned in the over-30 age group, however, only 10% are recorded was liking pop music, whereas 30% expressed a preference for classical music or opera.