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MODEL TEST THREE
PART I DICTATION
Listentothefollowing passage.Altogether thepassagewill beread toyou four times.
Duringthefirst reading，which will bedoneat normalspeed, listen and trytounderstand
themeaning. Forthesecond and thirdreadings, thepassage, except thefirst sentence,
willberead sentence bysentence, or phrasebyphrase，withintervals offifteen seconds.
Thelastreading willbe doneatnormalspeed againand during thistimeyou should check
your work.Youwillthen begiven ONE minuteto check throughyour work
oncemore.
WriteonANSWERSHEET ONE.Thefirst sentenceof thepassage isalready provided.
Now,listento thepassage.
Excelling inYour Career
Everyone wants to excel inhis career.
PART II LISTENING COMPREHENSION [ 20 MIN]
SECTION A TALK
Inthis sectionyou willhear atalk.You will hearthetalk ONCE ONLY.Whilelistening,you
maylook atthetask onANSWER SHEET ONE andwriteNOMORE THANTHREEWORDSfor
each gap.
SECTION B CONVERSATIONS
Conversation One
1.A.Toborrowsome recent published journals. B.Toconsult about joiningthe reading club.
C.Toupgrade her clubmembership. D.Toreturn books sheborrowed before.
2.A. $16. B.$20. C. $60. D. $120.
1/133.A. Recitationcontests. B. Open courses ofwriting.
C. Lectures about children's literature. D.Appreciation ofclassical works.
4.A. Calltheorganizers oftheactivities. B. Cometo theclub in person.
C.Visit thewebsiteof theclub. D.Get a brochure ofthe club.
5.A. Justoppositetheclub. B. In theparking lotof theclub.
C. OutsidetheMunicipal Museum. D. In theunderground parking lot of amall.
Conversation Two
6.A. It has reached thegoal of90%powered byrenewable sources.
B. It has a goal of70% powered byrenewable sources by2030.
C. It has a goal offully powered byrenewable sources by2020.
D. It has planned tospent another 10years toabandon fossilfuels.
7.A. Oilrefineries. B.Steam turbines. C.Solarpanels. D.Windturbines.
8.A.They capture energy from deep seaoil. B.They are much biggerthanwind turbines.
C.They capture energy from tidalcurrents. D.They are much lighterthan wind turbines.
9.A. Safe. B. Clean. C. Productive. D.Predictable.
10.A. 15%inEurope. B.20% in Europe. C.25%in Europe. D.75%inEurope.
PART Ⅲ LANGUAGE USAGE [10 MIN]
11.The sentence that expresses OFFER is .
A. Does shehave your number?
B. Howcan he get peopletobelieve in him?
C. I'll get something toeat.What willyou have?
D. MayIbring my chair nextto yours?
12.Thequalities ofmyhometown, onmeas aboy,hadaprofound effect onthephilosophy
that directed my career.
A. having impressed B. impressed C.impressing D. tobe impressed
13.Which ofthefollowing italicized parts isused as an object?
A.Todothiswould be tocut the footto fit theshoe.
B. Hemade it aruleto speak English inclass.
C. It made usvery angry to hear himtalklikethat.
D.This will bea good opportunity toexchange experience.
2/1314.Which ofthefollowing italicizedparts indicates a subject predicaterelation (主谓关系)?
A. Thesecretary's departuredisorganized thewhole company.
B. Brian spent a large part ofhis career in Hollywood.
C. Themiddle-aged woman's childrenhave noone to play with.
D. Hetends towards Tom's opiniononthis matter.
15.Which ofthefollowing italicized parts does NOTindicatereason?
A. Something fell in, forI heardasplash.
B. Much asI lovesports,Iprefer to stay at homeonSunday.
C. Hesaw her,as theywereboth gettingonthe bus.
D. NowthatI'mhere,I'd betterstay.
16.According to thelaw which he laterproduced, everything in theuniverseattracts everything else
towards .
A. it B. everything C.itself D.each
17.In phrases likegenerallyspeaking ,judging from, or taking of,the -ing participleis used as
a .
A. comment B. result C. condition D. reason
18.Thecommander said tohis troops that under nocircumstances tostep across theborder.
A. theenemy should beallowed B. should theenemy beallowed
C. should allowtheenemy D. theenemy should allow
19.GeorgeWashington .
A. always will and always has been anAmerican hero
B. always has and always willanAmerican hero
C. always has and always willbe anAmerican hero
D. always has been and always will beanAmerican hero
20.Tobe frank, I'd sooneryou a good review yesterday for thecoming test.
A. hadn't done B. didn't do C. couldn't have done D. wouldn't do
21.Restaurants can buyfish inbulk at afish market.Theunderlined part means .
A. largequantities B. basket C.advance D. addition
22.My father willblowhis top whenhe sees what happened to thecar.Theunderlined part
means .
A. give an explanation B. come offduty
C. become conscious D. flyinto agreat rage
3/1323.Tomy surprise, thehousewhich lookedrather shabby outsidewas luxuriouslyand
furnished inside.
A. complicatedly B. comparatively C.completely D. competitively
24.There was snoweverywhere，sothat theshape ofthings was difficult to .
A. identify B. authorize C. justify D. rationalize
25.Hesaid it would not beall that difficulttoreach apeaceful conclusion to the .
A. paradox B.dilemma C. prejudice D. conflict
26.It willbe casting pearls before because hedoes not knowhow toappreciate favors.
A. cow B. swine C.dog D. sheep
27.In these circumstances, itis the managers who come best.
A. off B. on C.round D. down
28.There is an unquestionablelink between job losses and
services.
A. descending B. declining C. deteriorating D.depressing
29.Each ofthearea managers enjoys considerable in therunning ofhis own area.
A. autonomy B. dignity C.monopoly D. stability
30.Thestudents hoped that their choice ofplay would be withtheir parents.
A. popular B. fascinated C. favorable D.recognized
PART IV CLOZE [10 MIN]
A. affection B. aware C.befriend D.blindly E. directly
F.drives G. dumb H. dwell I. enormous J.murder
K. observe L. produce M. sense N. slide O. various
When the job market worsens, many students figure they can't indulge (沉溺于) in an English or
a history major. They have to study something that will lead (31) to a job. So it is almost
inevitable that over the next few years, as labor markets struggle, the humanities will continue their
long(32) .The labs are moreglamorous ( 迷人的)than thelibraries.
However, let me stand up for the history, English and art classes ，even in the face of today s
economic realities. Studying the humanities improves your ability to read and write. You will have
(33) power ifyou are theperson in theoffice who can write aclear and concise memo.
Studying the humanities will give you a familiarity with the language of emotion. In an
4/13information economy, many people have the ability to (34) a technical innovation: a new
MP3player.Very
few people have the ability to create a great brand: the iPod. Branding involves the location and
arousal (激起) of (35) ，and you can't do it unless you are conversant (精通的) in the
language ofromance.
Finally,and mostimportantly,studying thehumanities helps you (36)______“The Big Shaggy".
Over thepast century orso, people havebuilt (37) systems to help them understand human
behavior: economics, political science, game theory and evolutionary psychology. But none
completely explain behavior because deep down people have passions and (38) that don't
lend themselves to systemic modeling. They have yearnings and fears that (39) in an inner
beast you could call“The Big Shaggy". If you're (40) about“The Big Shaggy", you'll
probably get eaten byit.
PART V READING COMPREHENSION [35 MIN]
SECTIONAMULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
PASSAGE ONE
(1) I had known for a long time that the people around me used a method of communication
different from mine; and even before I knew that a deaf child could be taught to speak, I was
conscious of dissatisfaction with the means of communication I already possessed. One who is
entirely dependent upon the manual alphabet has always a sense of restraint, of narrowness. My
thoughts would often rise and beat up like birds against the wind, and 1 persisted in using my lips and
voice. Friends tried to discourage this tendency,fearing lest it would lead to disappointment. But I
persisted, and an accident soon occurred which resulted in the breaking down of this great barrier—I
heard thestory ofRagnhild Kaata.
(2) In 1890 Mrs. Lamson, who had been one of Laura Bridgman's teachers ，and who had just
returned from a visit to Norway and Sweden, came to see me，and told me of Ragnhild Kaata, a deaf
and blind girl in Norway who had actually been taught to speak. Mrs. Lamson had scarcely finished
telling me about this girl's success before I was on fire with eagerness. I resolved that I, too, would
learn to speak. I would not rest satisfied until my teacher took me, for advice and assistance, to Miss
Sarah Fuller, principal of the Horace Mann School. This lovely, sweet-natured lady offered to teach
meherself, andwe began thetwenty-sixth ofMarch, 1890.
(3)Miss Fuller's method was this: shepassed my hand lightlyover her face, and let mefeel the
5/13position of her tongue and lips when she made a sound. I was eager to imitate every motion and in an
hour had learned six elements of speech: M, P,A, s, T, I. Miss Fuller gave me eleven lessons in all., I
shall never forget the surprise and delight I felt when I uttered my first connected sentence, “It is
warm.”True, they were broken and stammering syllables; but they were human speech. My soul,
conscious of new strength, came out of bondage, and was reaching through those broken symbols of
speech to all knowledge and allfaith.
(4) No deaf child who has earnestly tried to speak the words which he has never heard- -to come
out of the prison of silence, where no tone of love, no song of bird, no strain of music ever pierces the
stillness--can forget the thrill of surprise, the joy of discovery which came over him when he uttered
his first word.Only such a one can appreciate the eagerness with which I talked to my toys, tostones，
trees ，birds and dumb animals, or the delight I felt when at my call Mildred ran to me or my dogs
obeyed my commands. It is an unspeakable boon to me to be able to speak in winged words that need
no interpretation. As I talked, happy thoughts fluttered up out of my words that might perhaps have
struggled in vain to escape my fingers.
(5)But itmust not besupposed that I could really talk in thisshort time. I hadlearned onlythe
elements of speech. Miss Fuller and Miss Sullivan could understand me, but most people would not
have understood one word in a hundred. Nor is it true that, after I had learned these elements, I did the
rest of the work myself. But for Miss Sullivan's genius ，untiring perseverance and devotion, I could
not have progressed IS far as I have toward natural speech. In the first place, I laboured night and day
before I could be understood even by my most intimate friends; in the second place, I needed Miss
Sullivan's assistance constantly in my efforts to articulate each sound clearly and to combine all
soundsin a thousand ways. Even nowshecalls myattention every day tomispronounced words.
(6)All teachers of thedeaf knowwhat this means, and onlythey canat all appreciate thepeculiar
difficulties with which I had to contend. In reading my teacher's lips I was wholly dependent on my
fingers:I had to use the sense of touch in catching the vibrations of the throat, the movements of the
mouth and the expression of the face; and often this sense was at fault. In such cases I was forced to
repeat the words or sentences，sometimes for hours, until I felt the proper ring in my own voice. My
work was practice,practice, practice. Discouragement and weariness cast me down frequently ; but the
next moment the thought that I should soon be at home and show my loved ones what I had
accomplished, spurred meon,and Ieagerly looked forward to theirpleasure in my achievement.
41.What canwe knowabout the girl named RagnhildKaata from thepassage?
A. Shestudiedwith Laura Bridgman. B. Shewas astudent ofMrs. Lamson.
6/13C. Her success encouraged theauthor. D. Shewas educated inHorace Mann School.
42.At thefirst utterance ofa word, theauthor experienced all thefollowing feelings EXCEPT
A. atouch ofastonishment B. slight tension
C. great pleasure D. a senseoffreedom
43.What does thelast paragraph mainlyfocus on?
A. Howtheauthor overcameall thedifficulties.
B. Howtheteachers aided and supported theauthor.
C.What could helpthedeaf and blindlearn to talk.
D.What theauthor dreamt todoafter learning.
PASSAGGE TWO
(1) The Canterbury Tales, written be Geoffrey Chaucer in the late 14th Century, tells the story of
a group of medieval pilgrims travelling from London to Canterbury. Six hundred years later, the Star
Wars movies were filmed on the same thoroughfare. This road is Watling Street- and there is no road
intheEnglish-speakingworld moresteeped instories.
(2)Wenowthink ofWatling Street as theA2 and theA5 motorways, which run diagonally across
Britain fromAnglesey in north-westWales toDover in south-east England. But theroad has existed
throughout all of British history. It is one of the few permanent fixtures of this island and one of the
first lines on the map. It has been a Neolithic pathway, a Roman road, one of the four medieval royal
highways,turnpike in the age ofcoach travel and the traffic-choked“Aroad" of today.It is a palimpsest,
always being rewritten.
(3) Watling Street's origins are lost in the mists of prehistory, but it seems to already have been
ancient when the Romans straightened and paved the stretch between Dover to Wroxeter. Even at the
beginning, the road was entwined with stories: it was said that the route had been built by King
Belinus, a mythical figure related to the pagan sun god Belenus. Today ，the road also runs alongside
Elstree Studios，on the outskirts of London，where thousands of movies and television series have
been shotover thelast 100years.
(4) For many years it was believed that William Shakespeare wrote a play called The Widow of
Watling Street; it was included in early collections of his work. It is now thought that the real author
of that play was Thomas Middleton. But Shakespeare can still be connected to the road. Before the
Romans bridged the Thames, the original route of Watling Street forded the river where Westminster
7/13Palace now stands. The route would have run close to where Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in
Southwark later stood.
(5)In 1922theFrench philosopherand Jesuit priest PierreTeilhard deChardin coined theterm
“noosphere"，which refers to the realm of immaterial things. The noosphere is the place where you'll
find all our stories ，as well as our laws, culture and philosophy.The word arises from the biosphere,
the realm of all living things. The biosphere, in tum, emerges from the geosphere, which is the solid
physical world. De Chardin recognised that the world of myths, legends and stories are ultimately
rooted in specific parts of the material world. They emerge from place just as much as they emerge
from imagination.
(6)In the21st Century,thenoosphere has been referred to as“ideaspace", aterm coined bythe
English comics writer Alan Moore and his mentor Steve Moore. Alan and Steve Moore both spent
their lives living close to Watling Street, and the road appears in the work of both.As they see it, each
of us has our own private estate in ideaspace, where our private thoughts and dreams can be found.
But other parts of ideaspace are shared and public, and it is in these communal areas that widely
known characters, stories and legends reside.
(7) For the Moores, a walk across a landscape was as much a walk through the fiction, histories
and associations of the area as it was a walk across the physical, material world. Seen through their
eyes, a road as old as Waling Street- which is still used by hundreds of thousands of people every day-
is essentially amachine designed to accumulatestory uponstory.
(8)Not long after the M6Tollroad opened in2003,a family driving along itsaw what they first .
thought were animals. Drawing nearer, they came to believe that they were looking at the ghosts of
about 20 Roman soldiers. When the M6 Toll opened, the building supplies company Tarmac Group
announced that its surface was made out of asphalt, tarmac and“two and a half million pulped Mills &
Boon novels", Those Roman ghosts were not just wading through the physical accumulation of
centuries, but the immaterial accumulation as well: the road is literally built out of stories. Populist,
throwaway stories ，admittedly- -but then, romance isalways thebest genre to build roads from.
44.It can beconcluded from Paras. 1~2thatWatlingStreet
A. was first written into astory byChaucer in the14th Century
B. becamethe shootingbackground ofStarWars movies
C. is oneofthemost important trafficarteries inBritain
D. has been repeatedly rebuilt in theBritish history
45.Whoregarded theancient road bothas akind ofphysical existence and immaterial accumulation?
8/13A.William Shakespeare. B.Thomas Middleton.
C. PierreTeilhard de Chardin. D.Alan and Steve Moore.
46.What does theauthorthink ofthosestories connected with theroad?
A.They need tobe carefully chosen. B.They can befurther studied.
C.They should bewell cherished. D.They are all tobe abandoned.
PASSAGE THREE
(1) American culture nurtures many myths about the moral value of hard work. The phrase“by
the bootstraps,”still widely used to describe those Americans who have found success through a
combination of dogged work and stubborn will, rose from a mis-remembering of The Surprising
Adventures of Baron Munchausen: In it, the eponymous aristocrat pulls himself from a swamp- not by
his bootstraps, but by his hair. And Horatio Alger's stories, as well, while often remembered
collectively as the prototypical tale of American rags to American riches, romanticized not just the
social and economic power ofhard work, but also the powerof old-fashioned good luck.
(2) The myths live on , though, for the same reason myths often will: They ratify a deeply held
value inAmerican culture. They allow us denizens of the current moment to hold onto one of the most
beloved ideas that has animated Americans' conception of themselves- -ourselves- -as a culture, over
the decades and centuries: that we live in a meritocracy (精英体制). That our widely imitated and yet
idiosyncratic (另类的) take on democracy has been built, and continues to rest, on a system that
ensures that talent and hard work will berewarded.
(3) Current events, however- -and Americans' ability to share their experiences with each other,
via new technological platforms- -have helped to reveal the notion of meritocracy to be what it always
was: yet another myth. During a discussion at theAspen Ideas Festival, NPR's Michele Norris talked
with Darren Walker，the president of the Ford Foundation, and Jeff Raikes，the co founder of the
Raikes Foundation. The trio, in their discussion, emphasized the tensions between how we talk about
theAmerican dream and howpeople liveit.
(4)“AsAmericans, wewant tobelieve that you can get onthat mobility escalator (自动扶梯) and
rideit as far as you want,"Walkersaid,“but that noone rides itfaster than anyone else."Wewant to
believe that talent will triumph, and that hard work will be the tool of that success. Which is to say:
Wewant tobelievethat opportunity is evenly distributed.
(5) But, of course, that great escalator is far faster for some than it is for others. It is harder for
9/13some to get to in the first place than it is for others. And it's been that way from the beginning: This
country, as Walker put it,“was constructed on a racialized hierarchy. ”It's a hierarchy that remains
today- one that is evident, in ways both obvious and latent, across American culture ，across the
American education system,across theAmerican housingsystem，across theAmerican economy.
(6)Andyet our stories, and ourmyths, tend to belie(证明....是虚假的)that reality.Thelogic of
meritocracy, as a concept-“a system in which the talented are chosen and moved ahead on the basis of
their achievement," per Merriam-Webster, but also, per Dictionary. com， “ an elite group of people
whose progress is based on ability and talent rather than on class privilege or wealth" - -endorses a
world in which economic success carries a moral valence, and in which, as a consequence, the lack of
suchsuccess impliesa kind ofmoral failing.
(7) It's a tension playing out, at the moment, with the negotiations taking place in Congress，
about the future of the American health-care system. Many of those debates，my colleague Vann
Newkirk pointed out,have adopted the pernicious logic of the prosperity truth- -the idea that success,
and wealth, and indeed health itself, are signs of God's favor. But it's a tension, too, that has long
inflected conversations about social assistance programs- -a tension that has, in general, long defined
howAmericans thinkabout what they owetoeach other,as people and as fellow citizens.
(8)“Meritocracy" takes as its core assumption, essentially, an equality that does not exist in
America.It is romantic rather than realistic.“Tosuccessful people ，”Walker said, “to interrogate their
success requires that they acknowledge the injustice that is baked into our systems. And that's really,
really hard to do,because we're patriots. We believe in our country. We believe that there is something
that makes it possibleforpeople likeme, andJeff, and Norris to bewhere we are today.”
(9) That something is the American dream. That something is“an elite group of people whose
progress ; based on ability and talent" as a myth and a cultural ideal.As concepts, they claim to speak
to the best of who we are; in practice, however, they can serve as a justification of the worst. They can
allow us to be complacent about the world rather than interrogate it. After all, as Norris summed
things up: InAmerica,“we are theland ofthebrave andthehome ofamnesia.”
47. Why does the author mention The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen and Horatio
Alger'sstories?
A.Toexplore themeaning of thephrase“bythebootstraps".
B.Toargue against themisunderstanding about a myth.
C.Toshowconnections between myths and moral values.
D.Toreveal thecultural origin ofAmerican meritocracy.
10/1348.Which ofthefollowing statements mayMr.Walkeragree with?
A. Moral values are deeply influenced byoldmyths.
B.TheAmerican society isfundamentally hierarchical.
C. Economic success is linked with amoral valence.
D. Mostsuccessful peoplebenefit from meritocracy.
49.According to thecontext,“thatreality”in Para. 6refers to thefact that
A. thereis noideal equality inAmerica
B. opportunities are evenly distributed
C. theescalator may behard toget in
D. meritocracy is baked intoAmerican culture
50.It can beinferred from thepassage that theauthorregards thenotionof meritocracy as
A. afaked myth
B. abackbone ofthesociety
C. aspiritual shelter
D. asoundsystem
SECTION B SHORTANSWER QUESTIONS
PASSAGE ONE
51.What does "thistendency" inPara.1 refer to?
52.What contributed totheauthors final mastering ofthespeaking ability?
PASSAGE TWO
53. What is the meaning of the sentence“...there is no road in the English-speaking world more
steeped instories”inPara. 1?
54.What might bethe titleofthis passage?
PASSAGE THREE
55.What does theauthormean bysaying thenotion ofmeritocracy is“yet another myth" (Para.3)?
11/13PART VI WRITING [45 MIN]
Read carefully the following excerpt, and then write your response in NO LESS THAN 200 words,
inwhich you should:
summarizethemain message of theexcerpt, andthen
comment onwhether graduates should workforabig or small company.
Youcan support yourself with informationfromtheexcerpt.
Marks will be awarded for content relevance，content sufficiency，organization and language
quality.Failuretofollow theaboveinstructions mayresultin alossofmarks.
ShouldIWork foraBig orSmall Company?
Bigger companies can open lots of new doors for you; you may find it easier to specialize in one
role or skillset, and then move up within the company. In general，these opportunities derive from the
fact that larger companies tend to have a firmly established structure for everyday operations. Asolid
set of traditions provides stability, so you'll know where you stand right from the get-go. This means
that your job function will likely be quite clearly defined. Such clarity can be beneficial, as it will
allowyou to specializeandhoneyour skills,making you an expertin a particular area.
Even ifyou're trading infor asmallercompany,you will stillencounter plenty of exciting
opportunities. Before you accept the position, you should keep in mind that smaller businesses often
have room for a more unified workplace culture. However, it's important to make sure you connect
with the people and the established culture while you're still in the process of exploring the job. In
small companies ，workplace culture weighs heavily on job satisfaction. Once you've taken the
plunge ，prepare to face assignments beyond your specific job description.With fewer people around
to pick up slack,you'll likely be responsible for a wider variety of tasks than you were at a bigger
company. A more flexible job description also means that you can take charge and be more
entrepreneurial overall. You may be able to integrate your personal passions into your day to day
work, or customizeyour path byexpanding your responsibilities intonew areas of thebusiness.
Write your response on ANSWER SHEET THREE.
12/13ANSWER SHEET 1 ( TEM4)
PART Ⅱ LISTENINGCOMPREHENSION SECTIONATALK
SleepDeprivation
Negative effects of seep deprivation
oncognitive performance
----cause (1) (1)
----interfere with ouraction
----affect our(2) (2)
●onthe brain
----disrupt (3) in thebrain (3)
----leave keyareas ofthebrain activeall thetime
----activate genes that interfere with (4) (4)
Manifestationofpoorsleep oncognitiveperformance
●You can't focus well.
----Anight of poorsleep makes us havetrouble( 5) ontasks. (5)
----Nights ofpoorsleep makethings worse.
----chronic sleep (6) (6)
----continually compromised attention
----Sleep deprivation makes focus harder to achieve.
----affect our performance and (7) (7)
●Yourreaction timeslows down.
----effectiveness ofattention
----focusing onbig，thought-intensive tasks
----focusing onand figuring out something(8) right now (8)
----Sleep deprivation affects neural cells' ability.
----fail to absorb visual information
----unable to translate thevisual datainto (9) (9)
●You have troublemaking and storing memories.
----important to middle-aged people
----connected to cognitive(10) orcognitive problems (10)
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