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1、1 QUESTION BOOKLET TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS（2016）-GRADE EIGHT-TIME LIMIT：150 MIN PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION 25 MIN SECTION A MINI-LECTURE In this section you will hear a minilecture。You will hear the mini-lecture ONCE ONLY.While listening to the mini-lecture,please complete the gapfilling task on
2、 ANSWER SHEET ONE and write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each gap.Make sure the word（s)you fill in is(are)both grammatically and semantically acceptable。You may use the blank sheet for note-taking。You have THIRTY seconds to preview the gap-filling task。Now listen to the mini-lecture.When it is over,
3、you will be given THREE minutes to check your work。SECTION B INTERVIEW In this section you will hear ONE interview。The interview will be divided into TWO parts。At the end of each part，five questions will be asked about what was said.Both the interview and the questions will be spoken ONCE ONLY。After
4、 each question there will be a ten-second pause。During the pause,you should read the four choices of A，B,C and D,and mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO。You have THIRTY seconds to preview the questions。Now,listen to the Part One of the interview.Questions 1 to 5 are based on Pa
5、rt One of the interview.1.A。Maggies university life.B。Her moms life at Harvard。C。Maggies view on studying with Mom.D。Maggies opinion on her moms major。2 2.A.They take exams in the same weeks。B.They have similar lecture notes.C.They apply for the same internship。D。They follow the same fashion.3.A.Hav
6、ing roommates.B.Practicing court trails。C.Studying together。D.Taking notes by hand.4.A。Protection。B.Imagination.C.Excitement。D.Encouragement。5.A.Thinking of ways to comfort Mom。B.Occasional interference from Mom。C.Ultimately calls when Maggie is busy.D。Frequent check on Maggies grades。Now,listen to
7、the Part Two of the interview.Questions 6 to 10 are based on Part Two of the interview。6.A.Because parents need to be ready for new jobs。B.Because parents love to return to college。C.Because kids require their parents to do so。D。Because kids find it hard to adapt to college life。7.A.Real estate agen
8、t.B。Financier.C。Lawyer.D。Teacher。8.A。Delighted。B.Excited.C.Bored。D.Frustrated。3 9.A。How to make a cake.B。How to make omelets。C.To accept what is taught。D。To plan a future career.10.A.Unsuccessful.B.Gradual.C.Frustrating.D.Passionate.PART II READING COMPREHENSION 45 MIN SECTION A MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUES
9、TIONS In this section there are three passages followed by fourteen multiple choice questions。For each multiple choice question,there are four suggested answers marked A,B,C and D。Choose the one that you think is the best answer and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO.PASSAGE ONE (1）There was musi
10、c from my neighbors house through the summer nights.In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach whi
11、le his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound，drawing aquaplanes（滑水板)over cataracts of foam。On weekends Mr.Gatsbys RollsRoyce became an omnibus，bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight，while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to m
12、eet all trains.And on Mondays eight servants,including an extra gardener，toiled all day with scrubbing-brushes and hammer and garden-shears,repairing the ravages of the night before。(2）Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York every Monday these same oranges
13、 and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves.There was a machine in the kitchen which could extract the juice of two hundred oranges in half an hour,if a little button was pressed two hundred times by a butlers thumb.（3）At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with s
14、everal hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsbys enormous garden.On buffet tables，garnished with glistening hors-doeuvre(冷盘），spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold.In the 4 main hal
15、l a bar with a real brass rail was set up,and stocked with gins and liquors and with cordials(加香甜酒）so long forgotten that most of his female guests were too young to know one from another.（4）By seven oclock the orchestra has arrived no thin five-piece affair but a whole pitful of oboes and trombones
16、 and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos and low and high drums.The last swimmers have come in from the beach now and are dressing upstairs;the cars from New York are parked five deep in the drive,and already the halls and salons and verandas are gaudy with primary colors and hair shorn in
17、 strange new ways，and shawls beyond the dreams of Castile。The bar is in full swing,and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside until the air is alive with chatter and laughter and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot and enthusiastic meetings between women who nev
18、er knew each others names.(5)The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun and now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music and the opera of voices pitches a key higher.Laughter is easier,minute by minute，spilled with prodigality，tipped out at a cheerful word。(6)The groups ch
19、ange more swiftly，swell with new arrivals，dissolve and form in the same breath already there are wanderers,confident girls who weave here and there among the stouter and more stable，become for a sharp，joyous moment the center of a group and then excited with triumph glide on through the seachange of
20、 faces and voices and color under the constantly changing light.(7）Suddenly one of these gypsies in trembling opal，seizes a cocktail out of the air,dumps it down for courage and moving her hands like Frisco dances out alone on the canvas platform。A momentary hush；the orchestra leader varies his rhyt
21、hm obligingly for her and there is a burst of chatter as the erroneous news goes around that she is Gilda Grays understudy from the Folies。The party has begun.（8)I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsbys house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited.People were not invite
22、d they went there。They got into automobiles which bore them out to Long Island and somehow they ended up at Gatsbys door.Once there they were introduced by somebody who knew Gatsby，and after that they conducted themselves according to the rules of behavior associated with amusement parks.Sometimes t
23、hey came and went without having met Gatsby at all,came for the party with a simplicity of heart that was its own ticket of admission.(9)I had been actually invited。A chauffeur in a uniform crossed my lawn early that Saturday morning with a surprisingly formal note from his employer the honor would
24、be entirely Gatsbys，it said,if I would attend his“little party”that night.He had seen me several times and had intended to call on me long before but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it signed Jay Gatsby in a majestic hand.5（10)Dressed up in white flannels I went over to his law
25、n a little after seven and wandered around rather ill-atease among swirls and eddies of people I didnt know though here and there was a face I had noticed on the commuting train.I was immediately struck by the number of young Englishmen dotted about；all well dressed，all looking a little hungry and a
26、ll talking in low earnest voices to solid and prosperous Americans.I was sure that they were selling something:bonds or insurance or automobiles.They were，at least，agonizingly aware of the easy money in the vicinity and convinced that it was theirs for a few words in the right key.(11）As soon as I a
27、rrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently any knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table the only place in the garden where a single man coul
28、d linger without looking purposeless and alone.11.It can be inferred form Para。1 that Mr。Gatsby _ through the summer。A.entertained guests from everywhere every weekend B.invited his guests to ride in his Rolls-Royce at weekends C.liked to show off by letting guests ride in his vehicles D.indulged hi
29、mself in parties with people from everywhere 12.In Para.4，the word“permeate”probably means _。A.perish B.push C.penetrate D.perpetrate 13.It can be inferred form Para。8 that _.A.guests need to know Gatsby in order to attend his parties B.people somehow ended up in Gatsbys house as guests C.Gatsby usu
30、ally held garden parties for invited guests D.guests behaved themselves in a rather formal manner 14.According to Para。10,the author felt _ at Gatsbys party.A.dizzy B.dreadful C.furious D.awkward 6 15.What can be concluded from Para.11 about Gatsby?A.He was not expected to be present at the parties。
31、B.He was busy receiving and entertaining guests.C.He was usually out of the house at the weekend.D.He was unwilling to meet some of the guests。PASSAGE TWO （1)The Term“CYBERSPACE was coined by William Gibson，a sciencefiction writer.He first used it in a short story in 1982,and expanded on it a couple
32、 of years later in a novel，“Neuromancer”，whose main character，Henry Dorsett Case,is a troubled computer hacker and drug addict。In the book Mr Gibson describes cyberspace as“a consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators”and“a graphic representation of data abstracte
33、d from the banks of every computer in the human system.”(2）His literary creation turned out to be remarkably prescient（有先见之明的）.Cyberspace has become shorthand for the computing devices,networks,fibreoptic cables,wireless links and other infrastructure that bring the internet to billions of people ar
34、ound the world.The myriad connections forged by these technologies have brought tremendous benefits to everyone who uses the web to tap into humanitys collective store of knowledge every day。(3）But there is a darker side to this extraordinary invention。Data breaches are becoming ever bigger and more
35、 common.Last year over 800m records were lost，mainly through such attacks。Among the most prominent recent victims has been Target，whose chief executive,Gregg Steinhafel,stood down from his job in May，a few months after the giant American retailer revealed that online intruders had stolen millions of
36、 digital records about its customers,including credit and debit-card details.Other well-known firms such as Adobe,a tech company，and eBay，an online marketplace,have also been hit。（4)The potential damage，though,extends well beyond such commercial incursions。Wider concerns have been raised by the reve
37、lations about the mass surveillance carried out by Western intelligence agencies made by Edward Snowden，a contractor to Americas National Security Agency(NSA），as well as by the growing numbers of cyberwarriors being recruited by countries that see cyberspace as a new domain of warfare。Americas presi
38、dent,Barack Obama，said in a White House press release earlier this year that cyber-threats“pose one of the gravest national-security dangers”the country is facing.（5）Securing cyberspace is hard because the architecture of the internet was designed to promote connectivity，not security.Its founders fo
39、cused on getting it to work and did not worry much about threats because the network was affiliated with Americas military.As hackers turned up,layers of security，from antivirus programs to firewalls,were added to try to keep them at bay.Gartner，a research firm,reckons that last year organizations a
40、round the globe spent$67 billion on information security。7(6)On the whole，these defenses have worked reasonably well.For all the talk about the risk of a“cyber 9/11”,the internet has proved remarkably resilient。Hundreds of millions of people turn on their computers every day and bank online,shop at
41、virtual stores,swap gossip and photos with their friends on social networks and send all kinds of sensitive data over the web without ill effect。Companies and governments are shifting ever more services online.(7）But the task is becoming harder。Cybersecurity,which involves protecting both data and p
42、eople,is facing multiple threats，notably cybercrime and online industrial espionage,both of which are growing rapidly。A recent estimate by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies(CSIS），puts the annual global cost of digital crime and intellectual-property theft at$445 billion a sum roughl
43、y equivalent to the GDP of a smallish rich European country such as Austria。(8）To add to the worries，there is also the risk of cybersabotage。Terrorists or agents of hostile powers could mount attacks on companies and systems that control vital parts of an economy,including power stations，electrical
44、grids and communications networks。Such attacks are hard to pull off，but not impossible。One precedent is the destruction in 2010 of centrifuges（离心机)at a nuclear facility in Iran by a computer program known as Stuxnet.(9)But such events are rare。The biggest day-today threats faced by companies and gov
45、ernment agencies come from crooks and spooks hoping to steal financial data and trade secrets。For example，smarter,better-organized hackers are making life tougher for the cyberdefenders,but the report will argue that even so a number of things can be done to keep everyone safer than they are now.(10
46、)One is to ensure that organizations get the basics of cyber security right.All too often breaches are caused by simple blunders,such as failing to separate systems containing sensitive data from those that do not need access to them。Companies also need to get better at anticipating where attacks ma
47、y be coming from and at adapting their defences swiftly in response to new threats。Technology can help,as can industry initiatives that allow firms to share intelligence about risks with each other.(11）There is also a need to provide incentives to improve cyber-security，be they carrots or sticks.One
48、 idea is to encourage internet-service providers,or the companies that manage internet connections,to shoulder more responsibility for identifying and helping to clean up computers infected with malicious software.Another is to find ways to ensure that software developers produce code with fewer fla
49、ws in it so that hackers have fewer security holes to exploit.(12）An additional reason for getting tech companies to give a higher priority to security is that cyberspace is about to undergo another massive change.Over the next few years billions of new devices，from cars to household appliances and
50、medical equipment,will be fitted with tiny computers that connect them to the web and make them more useful。Dubbed“the internet of things”,this is already making it possible，for example,to control home appliances using smartphone apps and to monitor medical devices remotely.8（13)But unless these sys