大学英语入学考试样题

Beihang University College English Proficiency Test (BUCEPT)

(SAMPLE)

Part I Listening Comprehension (40 minutes; 40 points)

In this part, there are 4 sections: 2 long conversations in Section A, 2 passages in Section B, 2

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C) The third year. D) The fourth year.

3. How many more credits does the woman need to graduate?

A) One B) Nine

C) Ten D) Two

4. Which of the following statements is true of the woman’s paying for college?

A)She has worked very hard part time.

B)She is currently repaying student loans.

C)She borrows money from her parents.

D)She has received an internship this summer.

5. What does the woman say about her future job?

A)She will work in her father’s business after she graduates.

B)She hopes to find a job related to her major.

C)She has landed some job interviews.

D)She wants to continue her study in a graduate school.

Conversation Two

Business Communication

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C) 560-1287. D) 560-1288.

Section B Short Passages (10 points)

Directions: In this section, you will hear 2 short passages. Each passage will be read only once.

After each passage, there will be a one-and-a-half-minute pause. During the pause,

you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best

answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line

through the center.

Passage One

Four Seasons

Questions 11 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.

11. Which type of recording was this presentation taken from?

A) A TV weather program on seasonal changes.

B) An informal discussion between friends.

C) An academic speech at school.

D) A scientific report on weather.

12. Which of the following statements is true of the winter season?

A) The snow averages about 30 inches only in January.

B) Winter temperatures hover below freezing for a 3-month period.

C) Sledding, skiing and snowshoeing are popular outdoor activities during this season.

D) There are snow storms for most of January.

13. Which statement is NOT true about the spring?

A)Spring usually begins at the end of March.

B)Spring usually begins in early March.

C)People can take some outdoors activities.

D)Nighttime temperatures drop below 50 degrees.

14. What can we learn about the climate of the city?

A) It’ cool and rainy in autumn. B) It’s hot and humid in summer.

C) It’s freezing and dry in winter. D) It’s warm and windy in spring.

15. What do people there like to do in the fall?

A) Go and see the fall colors. B) Clean their houses.

C) Have a fall picnic. D) Drive to see leaves falling.

Passage Two

New York Travel

Questions 13 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.

16. When will the plane take off?

A) 6:00 AM. B) 7:30 AM.

C) 9:00 AM. D) 3:00 PM.

17. How will the group get to the hotel from the airport?

A) By taxi. B) By subway.

C) By bus. D) By car.

18. About what time does the hotel restaurant open?

A) 5:00 AM B) 6:00 AM

C) 7:00 AM D) 8:00 AM

19. What can the group do at Times Square?

A) They have about an hour for lunch. B) They will have time to do some shopping.

A) The quantity of the food it had found.

B) The smell of the food it had found.

C) The direction to fly to the food site.

D) The distance of the food site from the beehive.

23. Why did the British scientists use a new type of radar?

A) To explain how bees know which way to fly.

B) To prove that V on Frisch’s theory was correct.

C) To illustrate problems with the waggle dance.

D) To confirm the accuracy of the round dance.

24. According to the professor, what does the waggle dance tell forager bees?

A) The distance of the food site from the hive.

B) The exact location of the food site.

C) How much food they will find at the site.

D) The weather conditions at the food site.

25. Which way should forager bees fly if a scout bee flies up the side of the beehive in a vertical

line?

D) To demonstrate his profound historical knowledge.

29. W hat’s wrong with the “contribution approach”, according to the professor?

A) It makes the plight of women seem overly dramatic.

B) It ignores the most outstanding women.

C) It overemphasize s men’s oppression of women.

D) It neglects women’s social role in family life.

30. Which of the following describes the “victim approach” to US history?

A) It asks, “What have women done?”

B) It asks, “How have men oppressed women?”

C) It asks, “How have women helped men?”

D) It asks, “What have men done?”

Section D News (10 points)

Directions: In this section, you will hear two news items. Each news item will be read separately for three times. When the news items are read for the first time, you

should listen carefully for their general ideas. When they are read for the second

time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 31 to 36, and from 39 to

44 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered 37, 38 and 45

you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either

use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own

words. Finally, when the news items are read for the third time, you should check

what you have written. You should put your answers on Answer Sheet Two.

News One

This is the VOA Special English Development Report.

This Saturday night at eight thirty, all the lights will be (31)_________ at the Tokyo Tower in Japan. The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin and the Eiffel Tower in Paris are also (32)_________off to go dark. So is the Empire State Building in New York and buildings in other cities around the world.

The lights will stay off for one hour for an event called Earth Hour. The observance is organized by a (33)_____________ group, the World Wide Fund for Nature, also known as the World Wildlife Fund.

For the fourth year, people are being (34)_________ to turn off their lights for one hour to call attention to the (35)________ of climate change. The group says climate change is one of the greatest (36)_________ facing wildlife and nature.

(37)_____________________________________________________________. Organizers said more than two thousand businesses and two million people took part.

Since then, Earth Hour has grown into an international event. People in more than four thousand cities in eighty-eight countries took part last year.

(38)_______________________________________________________________________. This will be the first Earth Hour for countries including Kuwait, Qatar, Kosovo, Madagascar, Nepal, Cambodia and Panama.

News Two

On April twenty-second, some American children stayed out of school but they were not punished. They were with their parents. As Faith Lapidus tells us, it was Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day.

FAITH LAPIDUS: The Ms. Foundation for Women started the (39)_________ seventeen years ago, in nineteen ninety-three. At first it was just called Take Our Daughters to Work.

Gloria Steinem and other foundation leaders pointed to studies showing that self-(40)______ suffers as girls become teenagers. They can lose trust in their abilities and (41)____________, especially in areas like science, math and technology.

So the Ms. Foundation planned a day for parents in New York City to show girls all the possibilities for them in the (42)__________ world. But there was so much interest, the organizers decided to make it (43)________.

At first, girls mostly followed their mom or dad around at work to learn about their jobs. Later, employers and schools began to offer (44)_________ activities.

(45)_______________________________________________________________________ ______________. So in two thousand three the day was renamed Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work.

Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension （50 minutes; 45 points）

Section 1: True/False/Not Given and Multiple Choice Questions (30 points) Directions:There are two passages in this part. Each passage has ten questions or unfinished statements. The first five statements in each passage are True/False/Not given

statements. You should mark “A)”, for True, “B)”, for False and “C)” for Not Given;

the next five questions or unfinished statements are multiple choices. You should

decide the correct answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet One

with a single line through the center.

Passage One

Questions 46 to 55 are based on the following passage.

Free and Easy? One Man's Experiment in Living without Money

1 For most of us it seems that money makes the world go round.

2 But not for Mark Boyle, who has turned his life into a radical experiment and pledged（发誓）to live without cash, credit cards, loans or any other form of finance.

3 The British economics graduate was inspired by Gandhi's call to be the change you want to see in the world. After six years working as the manager of an organic food company in Bristol, UK, he decided to strike out in a bold new direction.

4 "I was sitting around with a friend one night in 2007 discussing the world's problems, and we were trying to work out which one to dedicate our lives to helping solve," he told CNN.

5 "Then it hit me, at the root of it all was money, which creates a kind of disconnection between us and our actions, whether that's through sweatshops, industrial agriculture, or war, and so I decided to see if it was possible to do without."

6 Mark sold his houseboat and set about preparing himself for his new life. He posted an advert on Freecycle asking for a tent, a yurt (圆顶帐篷）, a caravan （可供居住的拖车）or any other type of shelter and was immediately rewarded by his first taste of human kindness.

7 Then a friend made him a cheap wood-burning stove from an old gas can to heat the caravan, and with a few other budget purchases, including solar panels (太阳能电池板) and a trailer (拖车) for his bike, he was ready to go.

8 His food would be cooked on a rocket stove made from two old catering tins (餐盒), and he would wash in a solar shower, essentially a black plastic bag suspended from a tree, and warmed by the sun.

9 His lavatory would be a hole in the ground screened by a wooden modesty structure to protect the sensibilities of any walkers using a nearby footpath.

10 Then, with his pockets empty -- he didn't even carry keys as he decided not to lock his caravan and start trusting the world a bit more -- Mark was ready to go.

11 Everything was about to change.

12 Even breakfast on the first day would be different, with morning coffee no longer an option, and the ingredients for his breakfast beverage now gathered in the hedges (篱笆) around his caravan.

13 "I drink nettle and cleaver tea (荨麻与猪殃殃泡成的茶) , sometimes with some fresh lemon verbena (防臭木) when I find it," he says.

14 Although it hasn't always been easy, and there have been many challenges and sacrifices, 18 months later, Mark is still living this way. He told CNN he has really loved it and never been happier or fitter.

15 Mark's remarkable journey is relayed in his new book, "The Moneyless Man", which along with detailing the practical challenges on the rocky road towards his new world, also explains the philosophy that drives him that human society is fairer, happier and more secure when relationships are not mediated (以…为媒介) by money.

16 Any profits from the book will be invested in buying land to create a "Freeconomy community", where people can experiment living together without money.

17 Public interest in his project has been divided. While a huge number of people are very supportive, there has been harsh criticism of him, particularly on Internet forums.

18 "People tend to be either very positive about what I'm doing or very negative; I think it's about 70 percent/30 percent. But I try not to get too worked up about it; it’s early days and we live in a very money orientated world."

19 Of course not everyone can, or is ready to, live like Mark -- a point he is happy to concede.

But he does believe people can live more like him, and be happier as a result.

20 "There's no one solution for everyone, and everyone has different needs," says Mark.

21 "It's about reducing your consumption however that is appropriate for you, and there are lots of small ways people can do that which will benefit themselves and the environment, like car sharing."

22 With this in mind, he put the money from the sale of his houseboat towards setting up https://www.docsj.com/doc/cf10142633.html,, a social networking Web site that aims to help reconnect people in their local communities through the simple act of sharing.

23 So far Mark's adventure without money has taught him a lot, and he has inspired many others along the way, but he remains philosophical about his success.

24 "I just get up each morning and try and say if it happens, it happens," he says.

25 "I'm just trying to take life as it comes and enjoy it along the way."

(803 words)

For questions 46-50, choose

A) (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage;

B) (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage;

C) (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage.

46. Economics graduate Mark Boyle has lived for over 3 years without money.

47. To encourage others to shun (避开，躲避) money bounds, Mark has set up a freeconomy

community.

48. Mark says he feels freer, fitter and happier than ever before.

49. Mark has more critics than supporters of his project.

50. Mark believes everyone can live like himself--- live without money.

For questions 51-55, choose the one that best completes the sentence or answers the question.

51. Which of the following best illustrates “a kind of disconnection between us and our actions” (Para. 5)?

A) Art for art’s sake

B) Farming for one’s living

C) Work for money’s sake

D) War for freedom

52. From Mark’s design of lavatory, we can infer that any choice of lifestyle __________.

A) should be protected from other people’s observation

B) should show due respect for other people’s way of life

C) should solely be the business of the individual involved

D) should protect other people’s sensibilities

53. The word “it” in Paragraph 18 refers to_________.

A) public’s interest in his project

B) public’s criticism of him

C) public’s support to him

D) public’s ex treme attitude toward his project

54. The author mentions “car sharing” in Paragraph 21 as an example of _________.

A) environmental protection

B) the eco benefits of living without money

C) saving money

D) reducing consumption

55. The tone of the passage can best be described as _________.

A) admiring

B) critical

C) ironic

D) partial

Passage Two

Questions 56 to 65 are based on the following passage.

1 Hemingway was working on A Farewell (永别，再见) to Arms, and they were traveling a great deal--fishing on the rented Anita and then on Hemingway's beloved boat the Pilar from Havana, Bimini, and Key West; sporting vacations in Montana and Wyoming; family visits to Oak Park and Pauline's family home in Piggott, Arkansas. It was also a family time. In June 1928 their son Patrick was born in Kansas City. After a visit to Oak Park, Hemingway worried about his father's health. Clarence was very depressed, and just before Christmas, he shot himself. A hurting Hemingway finished A Farewell to Arms, and it was successful. Again he had turned his experiences into powerful fiction. "If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them," Lt. Frederic Henry reflects. "This is one of the most beautiful pages in all English literature," F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote of this page of the manuscript (手稿，草稿). The writing, the friendships, and the family relationships continued.

2 Hemingway's lean (清晰的，简洁的), disciplined style made the writing and the living seem simple. He focused on one point and wrote very clearly about that point. But if we put all the stories together, all the pieces, a very complex picture emerges. Neither the living nor the writing was easy. "There's no rule on how it is to write," Hemingway wrote his editor Charles Poore in 1953. "Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly. Sometimes it is like drilling rock and then

blasting (爆破) it out with charges (炸药)." Because A Farewell to Arms was being serialized in Scribner's Magazine, Hemingway had six months to struggle with the ending. He left forty-four pages of alternate (不同的) endings, a record even for the meticulous （细致的，挑剔的）Hemingway, who would write out or retype a page until he was satisfied with it. Fitzgerald sent Hemingway ten handwritten pages of comments on the draft of the novel, and Hemingway's response was "Kiss my ass."

3 Pauline and Hemingway's second son, Gregory, was born in November 1931. The intimate side of Hemingway as son, husband, father, and successful big brother is revealed in his letters to his family. He was very much involved in their lives and concerned about their welfare, often more than they wished. He gave financial support and unsolicited （主动提供的）advice. He was sometimes heavy-handed, especially with his sisters and his sons, but he always cared.

4 As with his friends, he formed strong feelings for or against the people his family were involved with. He would have four wives and divorce three times, but he felt he was right when he strongly objected to the man his sister Carol wished to marry. When she went ahead with the marriage, Hemingway broke with her for the rest of his life. (The marriage lasted.)

5 In 1933 Pauline's wealthy Uncle Gus gave them a safari （旅行，狩猎旅行）to Africa. Hemingway was "totally captivated （征服）by the prospect and made endless preparations." The safari lasted only ten weeks but had a great impact on Hemingway. "Everything he saw seemed to have made an indelible （深刻的，不可磨灭的）impression on him," and he used his experiences as the basis for his nonfictional account of big game hunting, Green Hills of Africa, and some of his finest stories including "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber."

6 "I want to run as a writer; not as a man who had been to the wars; nor a bar room fighter; nor

a shooter; nor a horseplayer; nor a drinker. I would like to be a straight writer and be judged as such," Hemingway wrote in 1950. Perhaps. But he enjoyed the celebrity, encouraged it, and recorded it. The experience, interests, and celebrity were the raw material for the writing, but more than that he internalized （内化）it all, and the celebrity, the actor, the active participant, and the writer were fused （融合）into one being without boundaries. He rewrote himself, reimagined himself, refabricated （再加工，再整合）himself for himself and for others, emphasizing all those other things that he did "run as" and did as enthusiastically as he did his writing.

7 A lifelong sportsman, he saw his first bullfight in Madrid in 1923. According to the two friends he was with, Bob McAlmon and Bill Bird, "he was overwhelmed （被震撼）by the bullfight experience, so much so that for a time he could talk of nothing else." He began an exhaustive （详细的）study of bullfighting. He saved everything he could about bullfighting--newspapers, ticket stubs （票根）, embroidered （镶边的）postcards picturing matadors （斗牛士）, programs, posters （海报）. His 1932 treatise （论文）on bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon, is still the most comprehensive study of the sport in the English language. Such an intensive study was typical of Hemingway. He had a "natural, sometimes almost competitive tendency to find out everything he could about any subject that interested him." He greatly admired professionals in whatever arena.

8 The Spanish Civil War broke out in July 1936. Hemingway supported the Loyalist side and followed the war with great interest. In 1937 he went to Spain to cover the war as a correspondent （记者）for the North American Newspaper Alliance ("Hemingway Sees Dead Strewing （散步，散播）Battlefield," "A New Kind of War," "The Chauffeurs （司机）of Madrid," "A Brush with Death," "Hemingway Finds Madrid Calmly Fighting Own War"). He translated this experience into seven more short stories, the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, and the play The Fifth Column.

9 In Sloppy Joe's in December 1936, Hemingway met a lovely young novelist and journalist from St. Loui s—Martha Gellhorn (called Marty). As the friendship developed, Martha spent so much time at the Hemingway house that, as she wrote Pauline, "she nearly became a fixture （机器装置）there, 'like a kudu （非洲大羚羊）head.'" By the end of March, Martha had made it to Spain, too, and she and Hemingway both covered the war. The affair continued until their marriage November 5, 1940, the day after Pauline's divorce from Hemingway became final.

10 After their marriage, with assignments for Martha from Collier's and for Hemingway from PM, Martha and Hemingway traveled to China to cover the war there. This time, Martha was the prime mover （发动者）. "On this super horror journey," Martha recounted （叙述）in her 1978 travel memoir （回忆录）, Travels with Myself and Another, "I wheedled （哄骗）an Unwilling Companion, hereinafter referred to as U.C., into going where he had no wish to go. . . . That was scandalous （罪恶的）selfishness on my part, never repeated." U.C. did not have a good time. "U.C. could not bear party chatter （喋喋不休）, or discussions of politics or the arts, but never tired of true life stories, the more unlikely the better. He was able to sit with a bunch of men for most of a day or most of a night, or most of both day and night though perhaps with different men, wherever he happened to have started sitting, all of them fortified (加强的) by a continuous supply of drink, the while he roared with laughter at reminiscences (回忆) and anecdotes. It was a valid system for him. Aside from being his form of amusement, he learned about a place and people through the eyes and experiences of those who lived there."

For questions 56-60, choose

A) (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage;

B) (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage;

C) (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage.

56. One of the sons of Ernest Hemingway was born in June 1928 in Kansas City.

57. Lt Frederick Henry is one of the close friends of Ernest Hemingway and a famous

literature critic.

58. In 1923, Ernest Hemingway saw bullfighting for the first time in a city of Spain.

59. In 1932, Ernest Hemingway signed treaties of bullfighting.

60. Ernest Hemingway went to Spain in the year of the breakout of the Spanish Civil War.

For questions 61-65, choose the one that best completes the sentence or answers the question.

61. The following are the themes described in the novel “A Farewell to Arms” EXCEPT ____.

A)Courage

B)Friendships

C)family relationship

D)the beauty of literature

62. Hemingway’s writing enjoys the characteristics of ____.

A)Simple

B)Complex

C)Both simple and complex

D)Neither simple and complex

63. According to paragraph 2, Hemingway's response of "Kiss my ass " to ten handwritten

pages of comments on the draft of the novel by Fitzgerald indicate that ____.

A)Ernest Hemingway agree with Fitzgerald’s comments but could not accept them

B)Ernest Hemingway agree with Fitzgerald’s comments and would accept them in the end

C)Ernest Hemingway completely disagree with Fitzgerald’s comments

D)Ernest Hemingway disagree with most of Fitzgerald’s comments and might accept part of

comments

64. According to the passage, which of the following is the correct chronological order of

Hemingway’s work?

I. For Whom the Bell Tolls

II. Green Hills of Africa

III. Death in the Afternoon

IV. A Farewell to Arms

A) IV, I, II, III

B) IV, II, III, I

C) IV, II, I, III

D) IV, III, I, II.

65. According to paragraph 4, Ernest got the chance to travel in Africa in 1933 because ____.

A) Hemingway was "totally captivated by the prospect and made endless preparations."

B) a relative of his wife provided them financial support

C) he wanted to record his experiences as the basis for his nonfictional account of big game

hunting, Green Hills of Africa

D) Pauline’s wealthy uncle lived in Africa

Section 2: Headings (15 points)

Directions:There are 10 paragraphs (paragraph1-10) in the following passage. Choose the most appropriate headings (main ideas) for these 10 paragraphs from the list of

headings below (heading A)-N)). You should put your answers on Answer Sheet

Two.

Caution：There are more headings than paragraphs, so you will not use all of the

headings in the list.

1 IN MOST parts of the world, climate change is a worrying subject. Not so in California. At a recent gathering of green luminaries(n. 发光体,权威者,著名的知识份子) —in a film star's house, naturally, for that is how seriousness is often established in Los Angeles—the dominant note was self-satisfaction at what the state has already achieved. And perhaps nobody is more smug than Arnold Schwarzenegger. Unlike Al Gore, a presidential candidate turned prophet (n. 预言者, 先知, 提倡者) of environmental doom, California's governor sounds cheerful when talking about climate change. As well he might: it has made his political career.

2 Although California has long been an environmentally-conscious state, until recently greens were concerned above all with smog and redwood trees. “Coast of Dreams”, Kevin Starr's authoritative history of contemporary California, published in 2004, does not mention climate change. In that year, though, the newly-elected Mr Schwarzenegger made his first tentative call for western states to seek alternatives to fossil fuels. Gradually he noticed that his efforts to tackle climate change met with less resistance, and more acclaim, than just about all his other policies. These days it can seem as though he works on nothing else.

3 Mr Schwarzenegger's transformation from screen warrior to eco-warrior was completed last year when he signed a bill imposing legally-enforceable limits on greenhouse-gas emissions—a first for America. The bill, which is just 13 pages long, obliges California to cut its emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. That alone is ambitious, considering that the state's population is expected to increase by 42% in the period. But Mr Schwarzenegger has set up two other targets. He wants the state to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions to 2000 levels by 2010, and to slash them to 80% below 1990 levels by 2050.

4 Thanks mostly to its lack of coal and heavy industry, California is a relatively clean state. If it were a country it would be the world's eighth-biggest economy, but only its 16th-biggest polluter. Its big problem is transport—meaning, mostly, cars and trucks, which account for more than 40% of its greenhouse-gas emissions (see chart) compared with 32% in America as a whole. The state wants to ratchet (n. 棘轮(棘齿) vt 安装棘轮于(松脱)) down emissions limits on new vehicles, beginning in 2009. Mr Schwarzenegger has also ordered that, by 2020, vehicle fuel must produce 10% less carbon: in the production as well as the burning, so a simple switch to corn-based ethanol is probably out.

5 Californians of the future will also be expected to use cleaner electricity. The state subsidises solar power, with the intention of creating a million power-generating roofs within ten years. It has, in effect, banned electricity companies from signing long-term contracts with coal-fired power stations, and plans to buy from cleaner sources. In 2002 Gray Davis, then the Democratic governor, signed a bill that committed the state to obtaining a fifth of its power from renewable sources, not including nuclear or large hydro-electric power stations, by 2017. Last year, in a typically cocky (a. 骄傲的, 自大的, 太过自信的) gesture, the deadline was brought forward to 2010.

6 All of which is a welcome change from business as usual. California has not just inspired other states; it has created a vanguard (n. 前锋, 先锋, 先驱) that ought to be able to prod (n. 刺针,刺棒,签子v. 戳,刺,刺激) the federal government into stronger national standards than it would otherwise consider. But California is finding it easier to export its policies than to put them into practice at home.

7 The state's first hurdle (n. 障碍[计算机] 障碍), which requires it to generate a fifth of its electricity from renewable sources in three years' time, now seems impossibly high. Last year it managed just 11%. Although the energy companies are eagerly signing up wind and sun farmers, there is simply not enough supply out there—at least, at the price the companies want to pay. Meanwhile, the plan to install solar roofs on houses has been stymied (n. 困难境地vt 使...处于

困难境地) by the high cost of photovoltaic (a. 光电池的(光致电压的,光生伏打的)) panels, red tape and a requirement, temporarily suspended, that customers buy additional power at rates that vary according to demand. That would have increased some households' energy bills.

8 Despite making some optimistic assumptions about future contracts, the public utilities commission has concluded that the state will miss its target for renewables. And the aim of cutting emissions from electricity production to 1990 levels by the end of the next decade may be just as unrealistic.

9 It is a bad sign that California's electricity suppliers are struggling, because electricity is something over which the state wields considerable control. It has less power over carmakers, who are fighting to prevent California imposing emissions standards on them. If they succeed, even temporarily, California's goals will become unreachable. Thanks partly to the lack of rain and snow in California, vehicles stay on the road for a long time. It takes 16 years for half the cars made in a given year to be retired from service.

10 In one way, California's self-confidence is fully justified. It has done more than any other state—let alone the federal government—to fix America's attention on climate change. It has also made it seem as though the problem can be solved. This is why failure would be such bad news. At the moment California is a beacon (n. 烟火, 灯塔) to other states. If it fails, it will become an excuse for inaction.

66) _____; 67) _____; 68) _____; 69) _____; 70) _____;

71) _____; 72) _____; 73) _____; 74) _____; 75) _____.

Part III Writing (30 minutes; 15 points)

Directions：Every generation of people is different from the previous one. What is one important way in which your generation is different from your parents’ generation? How will this difference affect your life attitudes? Give specific details and reasons to support your viewpoint. You should write around 150 words in Answer Sheet Two.

Keys

1-5 BDCAC 6-10 BADCD 11-15 CCBDA 16-20CCCAA

21-25 DABAC 26-30 ABCDB

31. shut 32. expected 33. conservation 34. urged 35.issue 36. threats

37. The first Earth Hour was held in two thousand seven in Sydney, Australia

38. Organizers say more than one hundred countries and territories have promised their official support this year

39. program 40. Image 41. Intelligence 42. Professional 43. National 44. structured 45. But from the beginning there were protests from parents and others about the exclusion of boys

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人，副主任委员若干人，专业委员会委员和咨询委员会委员各若干人。全国大学英语四、六级考试委员会在学术上、组织上对大学英语考试负责。部分考务工作由"教育部考试中心"负责。 考试委员会设办公室作为常设办事机构（办公地址设在上海交通大学校内）[编辑本段] 大学英语等级考试的作用和影响 1．大学英语四、六级考试已引起全国各高等院校及有关教育领导部门对大学英语教学的重视，调动了师生的积极性。效度研究的大量统计数据和实验材料证明大学英语四、六级考试不但信度高，而且效度高，符合大规模标准化考试的质量要求，能够按教学大纲的要求反映我国大学生的英语水平，因此有力地推动了大学英语教学大纲的贯彻实 六级考试大纲 施，促进了我国大学英语教学水平的提高。 2．大学英语考试每年为我国大学生的英语水平提供客观的描述。由于大学英语四、六级考试广泛采用现代教育统计方法，分数经过等值处理，因此保持历年考试的分数意义不变。 3．由于大学英语四、六级考试采用正态分制，使每次考试后所公布的成绩含有大量信息，成为各级教育行政部门进行决策的动态依据，也为各校根据本校实际情况采取措施提高教学质量提供了反馈信息。 4．大学英语四、六级考试从命题、审题、考务组织、统计分析到成绩发布已形成一套完整的制度，是一项组织得较好的、严格按照标准化考试质量要求进行的大规模考试。 5．大学英语考试已经得到社会的承认，目前已经成为各级人事部门录用大学毕业生的标准之一，产生了一定的社会效益。 [编辑本段] 大学英语等级考试(CET4、6)的措施 大学英语四、六级考试经历了一个不断完善的过程。为提高考试的效度和信度，近年来采取了一系列的改革措施。例如：

大学英语口语考试参考范例

Do you think “we all have a responsibility to be safe”? There is no denying that safety plays an important part in our daily life. Recently our school has carried out a program aiming at increasing our safety awareness. I consider this as indeed a good practice, which will remind us that safety should always come first in our daily life, whether when we stay at school or outside it. For example, when we are doing sports, we should attach great importance to safety and avoid being hurt. Besides, we should follow the traffic rules when we are going to school or when we are on our way back home. I firmly believe that we should develop a good sense of safety and do everything safely. What measures have been taken to prevent driving infractions like drunk driving and speeding in China? Driving infractions cases have been increasing and have caused numerous deaths. A more severe punishment should be given to those who drive after they have drunk, especially to those who are drunk and have caused serious injuries or deaths while driving.In order to crack downdriving infractions, the government should introduce a more severe law. Besides, more measures should be taken to cultivate the drivers’ awareness of traffic laws and respect others’ lives as well as their own when they are driving on the road, which I think should be the key to decrease drunken driving cases. Can you tell us how to escape a fire, esp. when you are in a high-rise building? As we know, no one knows for sure when a fire will happen, so it is extremely necessary to make preparations before a fire starts. To beginwith, checking the fire escape in advance and make sure that you can find it when lights have failed.What’s more, taking care not to be overcome by smoke, which containing monoxide gas, can kill you quickly. At last, cover your mouth with a wet towel or a wet cloth, and avoid getting into the smoke. In short, if you make preparations before and take precautions during the fire, chances are that you will survive in case of a fire if it really breaks out some day. What are the things you have to defend yourself so that you can have a peaceful and wonderful life?