Model Test Eight

Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic The Moonlight Clan. You should write at least 120 words, and base your composition on the outline ( given in Chinese) below:1.花光每月薪水的人被称作“月光族”；2.有人称是一种时尚的消费观念，也有人反对；3.你的看法。

Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)Section ADirections:In this section,you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations.At the end of each conversation,one or more questions will be asked about what was said.Both the conversati on and the questions will be spoken only once.After each question there will be a 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 Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.1. A. The woman did not feel any danger growing up in the Bronx.B. The man thinks it was quite safe living in the Bronx district.C. The woman started working at an early age to support her family.D. The man does not think it is safe to send an 8-year-old girl to buy things.2. A.7:00B.8:00C.8:30D.7:303. A. He would not go because he did not feel well.B. He would go though he was sick.C. He would not go because he did not like Suan.D. He would go because that exercise might do him good.4. A. Near the stairs.B. On the platform.C. At the ticket office.D. At the information desk.5. A. A teacher.B. A textbook.C. An assignment.D. A movie.6. A. She had never been in Professor Smith’s classes.B. She found Professor Smith’s lectures awaking.C. Professor Smith’s lectures were very boring.D. Professor Smith’s allowed coffee in classes.7. A. The man enjoys traveling by car.B. The man lives far from the subway.C. The man is good at driving.D. The man used to own a car.8. A. He met his boss in Beijing.B. He arrived at the station on time.C. He missed the meeting with his boss.D. He called his boss.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have heard.9. A. Books a room.B. Reserves a room.C. Looks for his pen.D. Teels the receptionist he has reserved a room.10. A. To fill in a form.B. To lend her a pen.C. To look around for a pen.D. To reserve a room.11. A. On Thursday.B. Probably on Thursday.C. Three days later.D. Not given.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12. A. Bob wins the lottery.B. Bob gets a pay raise.C. Bob makes a significant accomplishments.D. Bob goes directly to his boss and asks for having a raise.13. A. By working hard.B. By talking with Boss.C. By winning a lottery.D. By making achievements.14. A. You should figure out how valuable.B. You should ask your family and friends about their pay at the same position.C. You should surf on the internet to find someone working in a similar position.D. You should calculate some reasons to support our argument.15. A. Positive.B. Negative.C. Indifferent.D. Excited.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of eachpassage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a qu estion, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then ma rk the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.16. A. Soda and candy.B. Coffee and hot chocolate.C. Tickets and newspaper.D. Postcards and envelops.17. A. They save time and money.B. They sell better quality merchandise.C. They are time-saving and convenient.D. They are impersonal.18. A. Customers cannot buy things in vending machines with paper money.B. Customers can buy things in vending machines at any time.C. In New York city, more and more people use vending machines to buy hot meals.D. In New York, vending machines are dying out.Passage TwoQuestions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.19. A. Synthetic fuel.B. Solar energy.C. Alcohol.D. Electricity.20. A. Air traffic conditions.B. Traffic jams on highways.C. Road conditions.D. New traffic rules.21. A. Go through a health check.B. Carry little luggage.C. Arrive early for boarding.D. Undergo security checks.Passage ThreeQuestions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.22. A. Climbing is his business.B. He was curious about Mount Everest.C. Climbing gave him a feeling of success.D. He wanted to get close to nature.23. A. He was a painter.B. He was engineer.C. He was an inventor.D. He was a doctor.24. A. To help underground road building.B. To help people breathe under water.C. To help doctors in their surgery.D. To help the control of traffic on the streets.25. A. 600000.B. 60000.C. 6000000.D. 400000.Section CDirections: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the fir st timeyou should listen carefully for its general idea.When the passage is read for the second time ,you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally,when the p assage is read for the third time，you should check what you have written.Normally a student must attend a certain number of courses in order to (26)_____,and each course which he attends gives him a credit which he may count towards a degree, In many American universities the total work for a degree(27)_____,thirty-six courses each lasting for one semester. Normally a student would (28)_____to take four years attending two semesters each year. It is (29)_____to spread the period of work for the degree over a longer period. For every course that he follows a student to show to prospective employers.All this(31)_____a constant pressure and strain of work, but in spite of this some students still find time for great activity in student affarrs. Elections to positions in student organizations arouse much(32)_____.The effective word of maintaining discipline is usually performed by students who advise the academic authorities. Any student who is thought to(33)______For example, by cheating has to appear before a student court. With the enormous numbers of students, the operation of the system does(34)_____a certain amount of activity. A student who has held one of these positions of authority is much respected and it will(35)_____to him later in his career.Part III Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: 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 making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please make the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words of in the bank more than once.Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.Undoubtedly the globe is getting hotter and hotter. The unavoidable questions are: How much responsibility shall we take for warming, and are we__36___to stop the destruction by limiting our insatiable___37___for natural fuels?It seems that global warming is too ___38___to be worried about, or too unpredictable. Thecomputer ___39___cannot define what the weather is like next week. In cold winter day it might be considered that a little warming would be a fair thing. And doubtlessly: Alarming about ___40___alteration may sound like an environmentalist frightening strategy, aiming to urge humans to walk and keep the world cleaner.However, based on the data collected by scientists, had news is brought to our living media.From California to the snowy peaks of China, the air is heating up right now, and the globe is being fast warmed, the __41___has increased by 1 ℉ compared with the past century. In addition, some parts like remote places have been in a much hotter state. The result are not satisfactory, ice being __42___, rivers running dry, and coasts being__43__, threatening villages and cottages.The __44__are gradually occurring without any obvious phenomenon. But they shouldn’t slip our mind, because they can pose as a great potential __45___to the whole world.Section BDirections: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.Making Reading, Writing and Recession Work TogetherA)With books tucked neatly on the shelves and a comfortable purple-dragon rug in a back-cornernook, the library at San Diego’s Willard B. Hage Elementary School is the perfect place for children to fall in love with reading. Since the start of the school year, however, the library has been off-limits to students, who get to go there only when (already overworked) teachers can escort them and handle the record-keeping. “With all of the cutbacks we’ve had in the last few years, the district can’t pay for someone to help check out books,” third-grade teacher at the school. “As a result, the children suffer.”B)As the national economy continues to nose-dive, a growing number of public schools havefound themselves facing similar situations—and making more and more painful cutbacks. Advanced Placement programs, extra help for English learners, art, music and summer school could be on the chopping block in many places. Ditto(同上) for efforts to reduce class size.C. The huge federal stimulus package should offer some relief to desperate districts; the Houseand Senate are haggling over versions that include at least＄80 billion for education programs, a significant bump up from the Education Department’s ＄59 billion discretionary(自由载量的) budget for fiscal 2008. But there’s a catch: a big chunk of the stimulus money that is designed to prevent nassive teacher layoffs will be awarded only to states that spend at least as much on education as they did in 2006 — a tall order given that a minimum of 42 states are facing significant budget gaps. At least 20 states have already cut their K-12 budgets.Moreover, even with the federal stimulus money, school districts will still get the bulk of their funding from state and local coffers, which haven’t been this low in decades. As Randall Moody, manager of federal advocacy for the National Education Association, says, “When you have 40 states with serious budget issues and that’s where school get the bulk of their money, naturally there’s going to be a problem.”D) Budget disasters are perhaps most acute in California. The state, the most populous in theU.S. , spends about ＄48 billion a year on K-12 education, or nearly half its general fund, which receives revenue from a variety of sources, including income and sales taxes. This year, however, the double hits of endless layoffs and an imploding (剧减的)real estate market has ruined the fund, with legislators projecting a ＄42 billion deficit by the middle of next year. To help bridge this gap, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed shorting schools ＄2.1 billion during the rest of this academic year and ＄3.1 billion the next. He wants to save an additional ＄1.1 billion by reducing the number of school days, from 180 to 175. Though the extra time off might cheer students, California school superintendent Jack O’Connell strenuously opposes the move. Best sound bite: “ To close the achievement gap and prepare all students for success in the competitive global economy, we should be offering more time in class, not less.”E) Despite Congress’s holding emergency weekend sessions to push through a stimulus plan,educators in many states lament the fact that schools won’t see a penny of the extra money until at least July. According to O’Connell, some of California’s poorest districts are running out of cash for subsidized meal programs. The Hayward district is planning layoffs that would increase class size in primary grades from 20 students to 32. In Lake Elsinore , schools have turned off the lights in many rooms — and placed duct tape over the switches —to save money on electricity bills.F) Terry Grier, superintendent of the San Diego Unified School District, says his district needs acash influx(流入) now. “there are schools in our district that don’t even have nurses on certain days,” says Grier, whose district includes Hage Elementary School and its shuttered stacks. “ If a kid skins his elbow, a teacher has to take time out of her lesson to dust him off, clean him up and put on a Band-Aid.G) California isn’t the only state grappling with steep K-12 budget cuts. In Florida, officials inovercrowded school districts are bracing themselves for likely staff cuts. Connecticut’s board of education adopted a budge resolution in December that includes an overall 10％reduction — a move that some fear means that pink slips for teachers areinevitable. “The biggest line items in most school budgets are staff and benefits,” says Bob Brewer, an education consultant in East Hartford, Conn.“ No district can absorb those kinds of hits without trimming some of those bigticket items.”H) Even oil-and gas-rich states are in a panic. In Alaska, for instance, sinking oil prices have somestate legislators scrambling to lock in education budgets for the next few years as the state prepares to dip into its savings to cover a shortfall of approximately ＄1.65 billion this year and up to ＄3 billion next year. In Montana, which earned big bucks last year from its natural resources, education is funded primarily through property taxes, and many fear that the closing of mines and aluminum plants could triggera mass exodus and redistribute the tax base. “It doesn’t look good.” saysEric Feaver, who heads the MEA-MFT, a union of teachers and state employees.“ People around here are starting to ask themselves what will happen if people leave.”I) Where will those families go? And whose school districts can afford to absorb their children? InCalifornia, school afficials are expecting to receive upwards of ＄8 billion over two years from the federal stimulus. While this money would enable districts to address some of their most pressing needs, John Mockler, an education-funding specialist in Sacramento, says, “It’s not a panacea(万灵药).”In the long term, Mockler says, states need to some up with new funding sources to support classroom instruction and let teachers do what they were hired to do – teach.J) In the meantime, some school-district administrators have come up with creative solutions. Superintendent Jerry Vaughn of the Floydada Independent School District in Texas – which has 900 or so students – says he is working toward a partnership with a local wind-power company that would pay for a laptop for every kid in grades 6 through 12. At the fast-growing Forsyth County School District in Cumming, Ga. , Bailey Mitchell, chief technology and information officer, recently opted to use free open-source software instead of purchasing expensive software licenses from vendors like Microsoft. Mitchell says the decision will save ＄1.1 million over three years. “We sat back and recognized the money we needed simply wasn’t going to materialize out of thin air,” he says.K) Back in San Diego, at Hage Elementary, teachers desperate for help in the school library are recruiting parent volunteers to staff the facility a few days each week. Juli Finney, president of the school’s Parent-Teacher Association, admits that while this solution isn’t ideal, it is precisely the kind of effort she and other parents must make to ensure that state budget cuts don’t deny their children the chance to experience the thousands of books that are now quite literally behind closed doors. “ Technically, the PTA is supposed to put icing on the cake and not provide the cake itself,”she says. But when times are tough, some cake is better than no cake at all.46. Because there isn’t enough budget to pay librarians, the students of Willard B. HageElementary School can’t go to the library whenever they want to.47. According to California school superintendent Jack O’ Connell, to bridge the achievement gap,class time should he extended.48. According to Bob Brewer, budget for school staff and benefits accounts for the majority ofschool budgets.49. At San Diego’s Hage Elementary, parents of the students are coming voluntarily to help staffthe facility in the school library sometimes.50. Sinking oil prices have led state legislators of Alaska to make adjustment on education budgetsfor the next few years.51. According to Mockler, states should seek for new funding sources to make sure schoolsoperating normally in the long term.52. The number of school staffs in the San Diego Unified School Districthas declined. This ispartly due to lacking money in California.53. A big part of the federal stimulus money will go to states that spend on education no less thanthey did in 2006.54. Because of the economic downturn, more and more public schools are confronted by budgetproblems.55. California’s toughest districts don’t have the cash to pay for subsidized meal programs.Section CDirections: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. you should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.Police fired tear gas and arrested more than 5000 passively resisting protesters Friday in an attempt to break up the largest antinuclear demonstration ever staged in the United States. More than 135000 demonstrators confronted police on the construction site of a 1000-megawatt nuclear power plan scheduled to provide power to most of southern New Hampshire. Organizers of the huge demonstration said, the protest was continuing despite the police actions. More demonstrators were arriving to keep up the pressure on state authorities to cancel the project. The demonstrators had charged that the project was unsafe in the densely populated area, would create thermal pollution in the bay, and had no acceptable means for disposing of its radioactive wasters. The demonstrators would go on until the jails and he courts were so overloaded that the state judicial system would collapse.Governor Stanforth Thumper insisted that there would be no reconsideration of the power project and no delay in its construction set for completion in three years. “This project will begin on time and the people of this state will begin to receive its denefits on schedule. Those who break the law in misguided attempts to sabotage the project will be dealt with according to the law,”he said. And police called in reinforcements from all over the state to handle the disturbances.The protests began before dawn Friday when several thousand demonstrators broke through police lines around the cordoned-off construction site. They carried placards that read “ No Nukes is Good Nukes”, “ Sun power, Not Nuclear Power” and “ Stop Private Profits from Public Peril”. They defied police order to move from the area. Tear gas canisters fired by police failed todislodge the protesters who had come prepared with their own gas masks or facecloths. Finally gas-masked and helmeted police charged into the crowd to drag off the demonstrators one by one. The protesters did not resist police, but refused to walk away under their own power. Those arrested would be charged with unlawful assembly, trespassing, and disturbing the peace.56. The demonstration on Friday is against ________.A. the 1000 megawatt nuclear power stationB. the nuclear pollution and radiationC. the government’s ignorance of public safety in the densely populated areaD. the project of nuclear power construction57. What’s the author’s attitude towards the demonstration?A. ObjectiveB. PessimisticC. ApprovalD. Critical58. The protesters will continue their activities in order to ________.A. force the government to release the arrested protestersB. force the government to withdraw its nuclear power planC. overload the prison and destroy the state judicial systemD. arouse government’s attention to explore green energy59. It may be inferred from the passage that _________.A. New Hampshire lacks electricity powerB. the demonstration will escalate into bloody violenceC. the protesters will fail because of lacking enough gasmasksD. Stanforth Thumper is stubborn to the nuclear power project60. Which of the following statement is Not true according to the passage?A. Many American people are highly concerned about environmental protectionB. The government will delay its nuclear power project in the endC. The protesters are good at dealing with the policeD. The project will bring great profits to the state according to the governor.Passage TwoQuestions 61 to 65 are based on the following passageThe goal of social welfare is to fulfill the financial, health, and recreational requirements of all individuals in a society. Social welfare seeks to enhance the social functioning of all age groups, both rich and poor. When other institutions in our society, such as the market economy and the family, fail at times to meet the basic needs of individuals or groups of people, then social services are needed and demanded.In more primitive societies, people’s basic needs have been fulfilled in more direct andinformal ways. Even in this country, less than 150 years ago, most Americans lived on farms or in small towns with extended families and relatives close by. If financial or other needs arose, relatives, the church, and neighbors were there to “ Lend a helping hand”. Problems were visible and personal; everyone knew everyone else in the community. When a need arose, it was taken for granted that those with resources would do whatever they could to alleviate the difficulty. If, for example, the need was financial, personal acquaintance with the storekeeper or banker usually was sufficient to obtain needed goods or money.Clearly, we are now living in a different area. Our technology, economic base, social patterns, and living styles have changed dramatically. Our commercial, industrial, political, educational, and religious institutions are considerably larger and more impersonal. We tend to live in large urban communities, away from families or relatives, frequently without even establishing acquaintances with neighbors. We have become much more mobile, often having few roots and limited knowledge of the community in which we live. Vocationally, we also have specialized and become more interdependent on others, and as a result we have diminishing control over large aspects of our lives. Our rapidly changing society is a breeding ground for exacerbating former social ills and creating new problems, such as the expanding number of homeless people, higher crime rates, recurring energy crises, terrorism, and the destruction of our environment. Obviously, the old rural-frontier methods of meeting social welfare needs are no longer viable. It is the business of social welfare:To find homes for parentless children and make life more meaningful for the aged.To counsel individuals and groups having a wide variety of personal and social difficulties.To meet the special needs of natives, migrant works, and other minority groups.61. Which can be concluded from the first paragraph?A. The rich can enjoy more welfare than the poor.B. Other social institutions fail to work, so does the social welfare system.C. We only need social welfare at times, so it is not as important as other institutions.D. Social welfare is used to fulfill individuals’ demands and requirements.62. How did people fulfill their needs in the primitive society?A. By seeking help of the surrounding people.B. The government has arranged everything for them.C. By purchase.D. By institutions in the community that they grouped.63. Which of the following does not belong to the differences between our era and the primitivesocieties?A. The social institutions have become larger and impersonal.B. Our technology, lifestyles and social patterns have changed a lot.C. People tend to keep less contact with their relatives or neighbors.D. It’s shameful for people to ask for help.64. What does the word “ exacerbating” mean?( Line 8, Para. 3 )A. loosening.B. worsening.C. demolishing.D. solving.65. What is the proper title for this passage?A. The significance of social welfare.B. The development of welfare system.C. The goal of social welfare.D. The differences between primitive and current society.PartⅣ TranslationDirections: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English. You should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2.人口老龄化已经成为一个全球性的现象。