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1、上海交通大學英語水平考試樣題學生姓名:_ 年級:_學號: _班級代號:_ 考試地點: 授課教師:Part I Listening (40%Section 1 Long Conversations (10%Directions: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, you will hear five questions. Both the conversations and the questions will be spoken ONLY ONCE. A

2、fter you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices.(注意:請把答案寫在答題卷上,否則以零分處理Conversation 11. A It is exaggerated.B It is self-important.C It is a move toward the concepts she teaches.D It doesnt give a clear idea of what the department does.2. A She didnt agree with him.B I

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

4、olve them, so theres no point in worrying.4. A Completely.B In no way at all.C With respect to relationships.D With respect to professional questions.5. A By giving them a written warning.B By sacking people who break the rules.C By following organizational procedures.D By understanding the employee

5、s personal circumstances.Conversation 26. A Sarcastic.B Humorous.C Indifferent.D Matter-of-fact.7. A She was talking about suicide literally.B She was talking about smoking literally.C She wanted to be left alone by saying so.D She was talking about both smoking and her life.8. A None of them helped

6、 her positively.B Her mother was too busy to be around her.C Her father was the role model she followed.D Her friends always cheered her up when she was feeling down.9. A She feels less hopeless.B She feels she has many dreams.C She feels she is not part of this world any more.D She feels that her l

7、ife took the wrong way in the past, but now she wants to make a change for the better.10. A He is a psychiatrist.B He is a school teacher.C He is a policeman in disguise.D He is a stranger she just ran into by chance.Section 2 Compound Dictation (10% Directions:script in the following, but with elev

8、en blanks in it. You are required to fill in the first eight blanks with the exact words you have just heard. For the last three blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Remember, there will be a pause for the last three blanks i

9、n the second reading. (注意:請把答案寫在答題卷上,否則以零分處理注意:在樣題的聽力音頻中,此部分播放了三遍,但正式考試時只播放兩遍,特此提醒各位同學注意。(聽力的其它三部分都只播放一遍The medical center at New York University is one of the clinical sites for the study.Thirty-nine-year-old Denise Harris is helping researchers gain a better understanding of the brain. She suffers

10、 from epilepsy, and doctors are monitoring her seizures in the hope of performing an operation to minimize them. Her head is 1 _. Wires protruding from the side are attached to electrodes implanted in her brain. Harris says doctors are monitoring her to see whether she is a good candidate for surger

11、y."I've been on many medications throughout my life and after a while, they don't work," said Denise Harris. "I still get seizures. So now, when they remove the part that the seizure is 2 _ from, it's supposed to stop."But while Harris is in the hospital, she is also

12、helping scientists understand how the brain comprehends and uses language. For the study, researchers are monitoring the implanted 3 _ on a part of the frontal lobe called Broca's area, named after 19th century French physician Pierre Paul Broca. He was the first doctor to recognize the major ro

13、le of that area in language.Through the implant process, called Intra-cranial Electrophysiology, or ICE, the researchers have found that Broca's area processes three different language functions in 4 _ within a quarter of a second. Itis the first time the technique has been used to document how

14、the brain processes grammar and produces words.Eric Halgren of the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, is one of the 5 _ investigators of the study."What we were able to find was that within a centimeter, around less than an inch, certainly, and probably half an inch, there

15、 were different regions - perhaps they 6 _ some but they were doing, at different times, different processes, all within this small area."The first function deals with recognizing a word, the second with understanding the word's context in a sentence, and the third lets us 7 _ the word by s

16、peaking.Harvard University brain expert Steven Pinker is another of the study's authors. Ned Sahin, a 8 _ fellow at Harvard and the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine was the first author of the paper outlining the work, which was published in the journal Science. According

17、to Sahin, 9_."Nearly every introductory textbook as well as people practicing in the field in speech pathology, for instance, teach and believe that 10_ Broca's area and Wernicke's area, where Broca's area is responsible for producing, for speaking, and Wernicke's for comprehend

18、ing," said Sahin.This study shows that Broca's area is involved in both speaking and comprehension, illustrating that parts of the brain perform more than one task."Here's an example of one relatively small part of the brain that's doing three very different things at three dif

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

20、roduce the mind? It's a total mystery".He says 11 _.Section 3 Short-answer Questions (10%Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage ONLY ONCE. In the following you have five questions. You are required to answer these questions with as few words as possible, in any case, no more t

21、han 25 words.(注意:請把答案寫在答題卷上,否則以零分處理1 What is the basic idea about intercultural competence?2 What is listed as one of the most important criteria for intercultural competence?3 What is considered as offensive in the Arab countries according to the woman?4 What mistake did the woman make when conduct

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

23、 translate the missing parts into Chinese. After each of the passages there will be a pause lasting one and a half minutes. The pause is intended for you to do the translation.(注意:請把答案寫在答題卷上,否則以零分處理1 Our development agenda will also focus on women as drivers of economic growth and social stability.

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

25、ooding and erosion. And with higher sea levels, heavy rains and massive tides known as storm surges, which often accompany tropical storms, can do unexpected damage._ _ _ _ _3 It is no coincidence that the relationship between our countries has accompanied a period of positivechange. _ _ _ _ _4 And

26、yet the success of that engagement depends upon understanding - on sustaining an open dialogue, and learning about one another and from one another. For just as that American table tennis player pointed out, we share much in common as human beings, but our countries are different in certainways. _5

27、For a variety of reasons, production of the H1N1 vaccine has lagged behind demand. The vaccine for the so-called swine flu is made in the same way as the seasonal flu vaccine - in chicken eggs. But the government's top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said the goal is to perfect new

28、 ways to make a vaccine. "What we really want to do is get away from that and get it to be 21st century technology - molecular biology, recombinant DNA technology, where you have very good control over the process. It's rapid, it's consistent, and it proves to be something that we can r

29、ely on."_Part II Integrated Reading (30%Section 1 Banked Cloze (10%Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before mak

30、ing your choices. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. Give your answers to the questions on your ANSWER SHEET. Attention: You need to change the forms of the words in the word bank where necessary.(注意:請把答案寫在答題卷上,否則以零分處理A name might tell you something about a person's bac

31、kground. Names can be1 _ of class and race. Data show African Americans are far more likely than other 2 _ groups to give their children uncommon names. White people tend to 3 _ more familiar names that were formerly popular with more affluent white people.The new study purports to show a link betwe

32、en name and outcome of life: The more 4 _ your name, the more likely you are to land in juvenile hall. That's because we know that boys with uncommon names are more likely to come from a socio-economically 5 _ background, which means that they also are more likely to get involved with crime. Eve

33、n the researchersreadily admit that it's not a name alone that 6_ a child's outcome, but rather the circumstance underlying the name.The researchers first assigned a popularity score to boys' names, based on how often they showed up in birth records in an undisclosed state from 1987 to 1

34、991. Michael, the No. 1 boy's name, had a Popular Name Index score of 100; names such as Malcolm and Preston had index scores of 1. The researchers then assessed names of young men born during that time who landed in the juvenile justice system. They found that only half had a rating higher than

35、 11. By 7 _, in the general population, half of the names scored higher than 20. "A 10% increase in the popularity of a name is associated with a 3.7% 8 _ in the number of juvenile delinquents who have that name."Still, the study theorizes that teenagers named Malcolm might also 9 _ becaus

36、e their peers treat them differently or they just don't like their names. And since the study's release last week, the name-crime 10 _ has been written or talked about in major media outlets. SectDirections: In this part, you will find 7 statements and 3 incomplete sentences followed by the

37、reading passage.For questions 1-7, markY (for YES if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage;N (for NO if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage;For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.Attention: For question

38、s 1-7, one more point will be deducted if you dont answereach one correctly.(注意: 1-7題中每答錯一題倒扣1分, 不答不得分,答對得1分; 請把答案寫在答題卷上,否則以零分處理Who are smarter, men or women? It's a topic of commonand often comic contemplation, but it has also become a serious policy issue forco lleges and students in the Unite

39、d States.After years of concentrated effort to raise the academic achievement of girls, who in previous decades had often received less attention in theclassroom and been steered away from college-prep courses, the nation can brag that female students have progressed tremendously. Though still under

40、represented in calculus and other advanced-level science and math courses in high school, women now outnumber men applying to and graduating from college so much so that it appears some colleges are giving male applicants an admissions boost. As a result, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is exami

41、ning whether colleges are engaging in widespread discrimination against women in an effort to balance their male and female populations.Consider some of the numbers at leading schools: At Vassar College in New York State, a formerly all-women's college that is still 60% female, more than two-thi

42、rds of the applicants last year were women. The college accepted 35% of the men who applied, compared with 20% of the women. Locally, elite Pomona College accepted 21% of male applicants for this year's freshman class, but only 13% of female applicants. At Virginia's College of William &

43、 Mary, 7,652 women applied for this year's freshman class, compared with 4,457 male applicants. Yet the numbers of each who gained admittance were nearly the same. That's because the college accepted 45% of the men and only 27% of the women.A 2007 analysis by U.S. News & World Report, ba

44、sed on the data sent by colleges for the magazine's annual rankings, found that the admissions rate for women averaged 13 percentage points lower than that for men. But percentages don't tell the whole story. It could be that the men were stronger candidates,or they might have applied in are

45、as of engineering and science where women's numbers are still lower. But such justifications, even if true, are unlikely to fully explain these numbers. At schools such as the University of California, where admissions rely overwhelmingly on statistical measures of academic achievement such as g

46、rades and test scores, the disparities don't appear. Far more women than men applied to UCLA the UC's most selective campus last year. The university accepted about the same percentage of each, with a slight edge to the women. As a result, the freshman class has close to 800 more women than

47、men.In recent years, several college leaders have admitted that their institutions give a boost to male applicants to maintain gender balance on campus. Most students of either sex, they point out, prefer such balance. If Vassar accepted equal percentages of each sex, women would outnumber men by mo

48、re than 2 to 1.Jennifer Delahunty Britz, the dean of admissions at Kenyon College in Ohio, a formerly all-male school, brought the matter to broad public attention in 2006 with an Op-Ed article for the New York Times describing the dilemma of her admissions office. "What messages are we sending

49、 young women that they must . . . be even more accomplished than men to gain admission to the nation's top colleges?" New York Times has long favored allowing colleges to use race as an admissions factor in order to diversify student populations.She also wrote that exposure to people of dif

50、ferent backgrounds and viewpoints better educates all students not just those given a leg up. We are not in favor of accepting underqualified or clearly inferior students for the sake of diversity. But most colleges are inundated with applications from students who more than meet their standards; th

51、e differences among many of them are slight. It makes sense for colleges to pick a balanced population from within this group. At the same time, admissions officers should avoid rigid notions of what constitutes enough men on campus. It's not harming UCLA, or destroying college social life, to a

52、dmit somewhat more women than men.Even if the Civil Rights Commission finds pervasive gender discrimination in admissions, there's little it could do about the situation. Such discrimination though not racial discrimination is legal for undergraduate admissions at private, nonprofit colleges, even those that receive federal funding. Commission documents on the inquiry suggest that colleges could find more "gender-neutral" ways of balancing their student numbers, perhaps by offering programs and ex