研究生基础英语期末考试样卷

研究生基础英语期末考试样卷

Graduate English Examination

(基础综合英语期末考试时间为2小时30分钟)

Part I Listening Comprehension (35 points)

Section A: Gap-filling

Directions:Please fill in the gaps with the exact words you hear. Write down your answers on the Answer Sheet. The report will be broadcast TWICE.

American Mosaic has been broadcasting a series of reports for foreign students who want to attend college in the United States. This is the _____1_____ program in this series.

We hope these reports helped students think about their _____2_____ and provided ways to reach them.

We explained the kinds of colleges and universities in the United States, how to get information about them and how to ____3______ for admission. We discussed admissions tests and how to prepare for them. We reported about the high cost of attending an American university and told about possible places to seek __________4 __________. We talked about the legal documents that are needed before a student can travel to the United States to attend college. We also discussed the ____5______ of using the computer to take classes at an American college without leaving home.

In other programs, we told about some American colleges that are not so well known. Landmark College, for example, teaches students with __________6 __________. Johnson and Wales University offers __________7 __________. We also provided information about _____8_____ colleges and the Masters of Business Administration degree.

We would like to thank everyone who wrote to us asking questions that were used in this series. They helped us explain subjects we had not considered. For example, we explained about the need for student __________9 __________. We discussed dormitory life. And we told the difference between an American college and a university.

All these reports can be found on the computer by going to the Special English web site. The address is _____10_______. We hope you will continue to listen to American Mosaic for reports about American life and other information about American colleges. In about two years, we will broadcast this series again to provide new information. By then, another group of students will be looking for information about attending college in the United States.

Section B

Directions: In this section you will hear a passage twice. Then you should give brief answers to the questions printed on the examination paper. Be sure to write

your answers on the Answer sheet.

11. Where did most people live fifty years ago and how many people live in cities

now?

12. Why do many experts worry about the process of urbanization?

13. What report did the environmental research group release last week?

14. What are unplanned settlements?

15. According to Molly O’Meara Sheehan, what should policymakers do?

16. Why did Freetown, Sierra Leone establish farming within