英语分级考试样卷

华中科技大学大学英语分级考试样题

HUST Placement Test (Sample)

试卷一

Part I. Listening Comprehension

Section A Short Conversations

Directions: In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the question 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 the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

1. A. $24 B. $1

2.

C. $6.

D. $18.

2. A. At 6:15. B. At 6:45.

C. At 7:15.

D. At 7:45.

3.A. Pass up the food. B. Take a bite of the cake.

C. Make a wish.

D. Cook a great cake.

4. A. Because her clock stopped working.

B. Because her arms couldn't move.

C. Because her aunt failed to come again.

D. Because her sleep was disturbed by the fire alarm.

5. A. He doesn't know where the library is.

B. He would like to borrow books from the woman.

C. The woman doesn't need a map to find the library.

D. He also wants to know where the library is.

6. A. Fine but cold. B. Sunny and hot.

C. Rainy and cold.

D. Rainy and hot.

7.A. The man should watch the program too.

B. The man should leave the television on.

C. The program will be over soon.

D. She'll watch television later.

8. A. Turn off the electricity. B. Pack their clothes.

C. Call a taxi.

D. Lock the suitcase.

9. A. She took a bus. B. She walked.

C. She drove herself.

D. She was given a ride.

10. A. The doctor can see him for a short time.

B. He can bring in another chair.

C. There will be a short wait.

D. His appointment is for another time.

Section B Passage

Directions: In this section, you will hear a short passage. At the end of the passage, you will hear 5 questions. Both the passage and questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the

best answer from the four choices marked A. B, C and D. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

Questions 11 through 15 are based on the following passage.

11. A. Because they prefer fresh flowers.

B. Because they think all false things are ugly.

C. Because false things are useless.

D. Because they do not like to do “True” or “False” exercises.

12. A. Because he didn't think all false things were ugly.

B. Because he believed his grandfather had lied.

C. Because he thought his grandfather could find no answer.

D. Because he wanted to show he was cleverer than his

grandpa.

13. A. He thought his grandson could give an example.

B. He thought his grandson was very clever.

C. He thought what he had said was a certain truth.

D. He thought his grandson wouldn't agree with him.

14. A. He looked ugly.

B. He looked younger and lively.

C. He looked empty and flat.

D. He looked clever.

15. A. False things are more beautiful than real things.

B. Not all false things are ugly.

C. The grandson was cleverer than his grandpa.

D. The professor was quite ugly.

请翻到试卷二继续作听力理解题第三和第四部分，并将答案写在试卷二上。

Part II Reading Comprehension

Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. 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 the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

Passage 1

It is important for us to know something about drugs. A drug is a chemical substance. It can bring about a physical, emotional, or mental change in people. Alcohol and tobacco are drugs. The caffeine found in coffee, tea, cocoa, and some soft drinks is a drug.

Drug abuse(滥用) is the use of a drug, legal or illegal, that hurts a person or someone close to him. A drug user is the person who takes the drug. There are many kinds of drug users. Experimental users are those who may try drugs once or twice. They want to see what the effects will be. Recreational users take drugs to get high. They use drugs with friends

or at parties to get into the mood or things. Regular users take drugs all the time. But they are often able to keep up with the normal routine of work, school, housework, and so on. Dependent users can?t relate to anything but drugs. Their whole life centers around drugs. They feel extreme mental or physical pain when without drugs.

All drugs can be harmful. The effect of any drug depends on a lot of things. How a drug acts depends on how much or how often it is taken. It also depends on the way it is taken. Some drugs are smoked. Others are swallowed or injected. Drugs act differently on different people. The place and the people around you affect the way a drug works.

Sometimes people take more than one drug. Multiple drug use is not only common, but also harmful. A deadly example is the use of alcohol and sleeping pills at the same time. Together these drugs can stop normal breathing and lead to death.

In fact, only a few kinds of drugs can cause physical dependence. Tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana（大麻）are three common drugs. They are the first ones most people use and become dependent on.

16. Which of the following is not considered as a drug according to the passage?

A. caffeine

B. tea

C. alcohol

D. tobacco

17. Which of the following are the most serious drug users?

A. experimental drug users

B. recreational drug users

C. regular drug users

D. dependent drug users

18. The deadly example is mentioned in paragraph 4 to show that _______.

A. multiple drug use is very harmful

B. the use of alcohol can stop normal breathing

C.the use of sleeping pills can lead to death

D. drug use is very common

19. This passage mainly talks about ______.

A. harmfulness of drug abuse

B. types of drug users

C. facts about drugs

D. effects of drug use

20. The word “high” in line 6, paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to “_____”.

A.tall

B. sensitive

C. excited

D. dependent

Passage 2

People everywhere today see and hear advertisements constantly: in signs, in newspapers or magazines, on television, on the radio, even on

the internet! No matter where you are, you are probably going to see or hear advertisements, or commercials. Some people say that advertising has a bad influence, or effect. Says writer Noreen Janus:

Advertisers use mainly a few themes again and again: happiness, youth, success, status, luxury, fashion, and beauty. They hide class differences and problems in the workplace. Many ads suggest that you can solve all human problems by buying things…. They suggest that modern things are good and traditional things are bad…. As one ad professional said, “ Once the TV set goes to work, the family is like a kid in a candy store. They watch 450 commercials a week. They see all the beautiful things. And they want everything that they see.”

However, not everyone thinks that advertising is a bad thing. Some people say advertising sometimes gives us useful information about different products--- for example, the advantages of buying one product instead of another. Also, shopping sometimes makes us feel good. When people see a famous person on TV talking about a certain kind of shoes or jacket, they like how they feel when they buy the same shoes or jacket. According to Writer Judith Williamson:

The meaning in most people?s lives comes from what they use than from what they produce in their jobs. Clothes, furniture, all the things that we buy involve decisions and the use of our own choice…. Shopping is a social event….

21. This passage mainly discusses _____.

A. the advantages of advertisements

B. the disadvantages of advertisements

C. the happiness in watching advertisements

D. both positive and negative aspects of advertisements

22. From paragraph 2, we can infer that ______.

people buy everything they see on TV

modern things are better than traditional ones

ads often mislead people

ads show people the way to solve problems

23. Those who have a positive attitude towards advertising claim that ______.

advertising sometimes enables shoppers to make the right decision when shopping

advertising makes ordinary people feel as important as famous people

advertising enables shoppers to see famous people

advertising brings shoppers good mood

24. The attitude of the writer towards advertising is ______.

negative B. positive

C. neutral

D. indifferent

25. The word “commercials” in line 3, paragraph one is closest in

meaning to “______”.

themes B. advertisements

C. businesses

D. merchants

Passage 3

With a camera fitted into a pair of sunglasses connected to a computer, a 62-year-old blind man, Jerry White, has learned to recognize objects well enough to navigate the New York City subway system independently.

It?s been a long time in coming. Jerry?s road to partial sight began in 1978, when doctors in New York?s Dobelle Institute implanted 68 electrodes(电极) on the surface of a region o f Jerry?s brain called the visual cortex--where signals from the eyes are processed. By electrically stimulating the area, doctors hoped that they could restore some of Jerry?s vision. But when Jerry tried to focus on objects, he saw only flickers of light appearing like “stars,” called phosphenes. Normally, the rain does not interpret the phosphene patterns as identifiable objects.

That?s where the computer comes in. Jerry?s first electronics package was the size of a small refrigerator. Today, Jerry?s sun glasses are outfitted with a tiny view camera that captures images that are processed by a portable computer. The computer weighs 10 pounds and is no bigger than a dictionary.

When Jerry scans an object, he sees a pattern of phosphenes.

Computer algorithms(算法系统) enlarge the edges of the pattern so that it appears as an outline. The computer then signals a second microcomputer that controls stimulation electronics to send information about the object?s location to Jerry?s brain.

Other scientists are studying implants in the retina, the light-sensing tissue at the back of the eye. A major benefit of the Dobelle system is that it can help the estimated 1.1million Americans whose blindness has many causes, not just damage to the retina.

The system does have its limitations, however. It only covers an area about 2 inches wide by 8 inches tall viewed at arm?s length, giving Jerry tunnel vision. To overcome this problem, the commercial version of the system, which will be marketed abroad by the end of this year, will feature 512 electrodes.

26. The word “phosphenes” in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to ____.

A. sparks

B. patterns

C. signals

D. objects

27. The phrase “tunnel vision” in the last paragraph means _______.

A. the image of a tunnel

B. a narrow range of view

C. looking through a tunnel

D. a limitation of the system

28. It can be safely concluded that______.

A. with a camera fitted into a pair of sunglasses connected to a computer , Jerry can travel alone in New York.

B. the device will be commercially successful

C. the Dobelle system can help all blind people.

D. computers can help the brain interpret the phosphene patterns

29. It is implied in this passage that _____.

A. eye signals are processed in a special region of the brain

B. in 1978, doct ors restored some of Jerry?s vision

C. only one computer is needed for the device

D. the computer used today for the device can capture images

30. This passage is most probably taken from_____.

A. a doctor?s prescription

B. a science magazine

C. a daily newspaper

D. an advertisement

Passage 4

Children learn orthography -- the rules of spelling -- through teaching, and also by themselves through reading. The relative influence of these two kinds of learning is an important issue in the study of reading, but it is hard to determine because children have both types of experience with most rules. Here we show that children can learn a sophisticated

orthographic rule for themselves, without the help of teaching.

In two experiments, we asked eight-and-nine-year-old children (102 children in the first experiment and 90 in the second. to write …pseudo-verbs? (the made-up verbs) which either had the same or different stems in the present and past tense. If children knew the stem-based rule, they should put …-ed? endin gs on the past tense of pseudo-verbs that have the same stem as in the present tense more often than on those that do not.

The experiments show that many eight-and-nine-year-old children use a morphemically based, but entirely untaught, orthographic rule. The discovery has important implications for theories of spelling. The dominant theoretical approach to the study of spelling has been the dual-route model, which claims that people spell words either by converting sounds into letters, or through a lexical route in which spellings of known words are retrieved whole from memory. The idea of whole-word retrieval has been criticized on the basis that the lexical route involves analysis of words into morphemes(词素). Our data support this morphemic view, and indicate that morphemic structure has a radical effect on the way that children spell known and unknown words.

31. The author believes that _____.

A. children learn the rules of spelling mainly through teaching

B. it is difficult to decide whether children learn orthography mainly

through teaching or through reading

C. with the help of teaching , children will learn orthography better

D. children can learn the rule for verb endings in a short time

32. The word “sophisticated” (paragraph 1) is closest in meani ng to _____.

A. complicated

B. simple

C. false

D. true

33. From this passage, it can be inferred that school children ________.

A. have no difficulty in learning the rules of spelling

B. can only spell simple words correctly

C. have the ability to spell unknown words

D. cannot convert sounds into letters

34. The writer of this passage conducted two experiments in order to ________.

A. prove that children can learn difficult orthographic rule themselves

B. prove that children can write English through teaching

C. show the importance of spelling for children

D. show the importance of teaching children to read

35. The significance of the discovery lies in that____.

A. many eight- and nine-year old children use a morphemically

based rule

B. it proves that people spell words by converting sounds into letters

C. it proves that people spell words through a lexical route

D. it provides evidence against the idea of whole-word retrieval

Part III Vocabulary and Structure

Directions: There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.

b36. This is a very popular film, and it would be wise to __b____ seats well in advance.

A. occupy

B. book

C. engage

D. obtain

d37. The old lady got into the __d____ of getting up early every morning.

A. tradition

B. manner

C. favor

D. habit

a38. I?m __a____ to get the tickets for the show tonight, because there are hardly any left.

A. anxious

B. afraid

C. excited

D. curious

b39. University teachers don?t go out very often as their work

__b____ all their time.

A. takes off

B. takes up

C. takes over

D. takes away

a40. Her name was on the _a____ of my tongue, but I just couldn?t remember it.

A. tip

B. edge

C. top

D. front

d41. In spite of the fact that his ______ experiments had failed, Prof. Smith persisted in his research.

A. curious

B. casual

C. inevitable

D. initial

c42. There seems to be a highly ______ type of flu going around.

A. influential

B. frequent

C. infectious

D. beneficial

d43. Kindness is one of the most important ______ a man should have.

A. quantities

B. areas

C. efforts

D. qualities

b44. I ______ to tell you that there is nothing we can do to help you.

A. remember

B. regret

C. refuse

D. pretend

b45. Wouldn?t it be better for you to complete this course than

______ a new one?

A. taking

B. take

C. to take

D. be taken

b46. _________ that the trade between the two countries reached its highest point.

A. During the 1970?s

B. It was in the 1970?s

C. That it was in the 1970?s

D. It was the 1970?s

d47. That radio is pretty loud. Can?t you turn it ______ a little?

A. off

B. on

C. up

D. down

c48. Careful surveys have shown that as many as 50 percent of patients do not take drugs ______ directed.

A. like

B. so

C. for

D. as

a49.The owners of the company granted the demands that the workers _______ on them.

A. had made

B. are making

C. be making

D. had been made

50. The manager lost his ____________ just because his secretary was ten minutes late.

A. mood

B. temper

C. mind

D. passion

The local hospital is reported ______ ten years ago when Dr. White became its first president.

A. to have been set up

B. to be set up

C. being set up

D. having been set up

52. To kill time before the train left, we went to a movie, after______ we returned to the hotel.

A. that

B. this

C. it

D. which

53. Once a decision is made, it must be firmly _________.

A. carried out

B. worked out

C. turned out

D. picked out

54. She ______ the wet clothes on the grass to dry them in the sun.

A. opened

B. settled

C. spread

D. lay

55. He is a nice man; if you need anything, you can ______ on him to help.

A. trust

B. rely

C. expect

D. move

56. They were lost at sea, ______ wind and weather.

A. at the cost of

B. at the mercy of

C. in the face of

D. at the moment of

57. In the teaching of mathematics, the way of instruction is

generally traditional, with teachers presenting formal lectures and students ______notes.

A. take

B. to take

C. are taking

D. taking

58. Could I just ______ some members of the audience to get their view?

A. bring in

B. bring on

C. bring down

D. bring up

59. At about the age of twelve, girls start feeling acutely _______ about changing their clothes in front of other people.

A. confused

B. delighted

C. embarrassed

D. satisfied

60. The casual clothes you are wearing are _______ for such a formal occasion.

A. irregular

B. unnecessary

C. extraordinary

D. unsuitable

61. Despite the problems, the wedding ______ very well.

A. came up

B. came off

C. came down

D. came about

62. There is no ______ in applying for that job as you are not qualified.

A. chance

B. possibility

C. point

D. result

63. I would have come back earlier, but I ______ that you were here waiting for me.

A. hadn?t known

B. haven?t known

C. didn?t know

D. would know

64. It?s always difficult living in a new country, ______ if you don?t speak the language.

A. extremely

B.basically

C. naturally

D. especially

65. The students have been told that under no circumstances ______to play the computer games in the dormitory.

A. are they allowed

B. they are allowed

C. have they been allowed

D. they have been allowed

66. ______ I saw him, I knew he was the man the police were looking for.

A. Shortly

B. The instant

C. No sooner

D. The time

67. My suggestion is that the concert ______ for the time being.

A. be canceled

B. is

C. will be

D. must be

68. ______ with the size of the whole earth, the highest mountain does not seem high at all.

A. When comparing

B. having been compared

C. When compared

D. To compare

69. Amy failed in the English examination. You ______ her more help.

A. must have given

B. should give

C. needn?t have given

D. should have given

70. Becky worked late into the night, ______ a speech for the next day.

A. to prepare

B. preparing

C. prepared

D. was preparing

71. A teacher who continually draws attention to rewards or who hands out high grades for ordinary achievement ______ with uninspired students.

A. ends up

B. turns up

C. puts up

D. takes up

72. The news ______ our class had won the football game gave us much pleasure.

A. which

B. what

C. that

D. when

73. I think the frequent complaint of one generation about the one immediately ______ it is inevitable.

A. to follow

B. following