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新题型 TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2024)
- GRADE FOUR -
TIME LIMIT: 130 MIN
PART I DICTATION
[10 MIN]
Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times.
During the first reading, which will be done at normal speed, listen and try to understand the
meaning. For the second and third readings, the passage, except the first sentence, will be read
sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with intervals of 15 seconds. The last reading will be
done at normal speed again and during this time you should check your work. You will then
be given ONE minute to check your work once more.
Write on ANSWER SHEET ONE. The first sentence of the passage is already provided.
Now, listen to the passage.
China's Parcel Delivery Business
China's parcel delivery business has boomed in the past decade.
PART II LISTENING COMPREHENSION [20 MIN]
SECTION A TALK
In this section you will hear a talk. You will hear the talk ONCE ONLY. While listening, you may look at
the task on ANSWER SHEET ONE and write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each gap. Make sure
what you fill in is 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 talk. When it is over, you will be given TWO minutes to check your work.
SECTION B CONVERSATIONS
In this section you will hear two conversations. At the end of each conversation^ five questions will be asked
about what was said. Both the conversations and the questions will be read ONCE ONLY. After each question
there will be a ten-second pause. During the pause, you should read the four choices of A, C and D, and
mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO.
You have THIRTY seconds to preview the choices.
Now, listen to the conversations.
Conversation One
Questions 1 to 5 are based on Conversation One.
1. A. He could not place his order online. B. He could not read the memo.
C. He had problems with his website. D. He ordered a poor software.
2. A. Stay in his office. B. See his customers.
C. Buy a good microphone. D. Go to the technical department.
3. A. A Mac computer. B. A recording software.
C. A Windows computer. D. A speech recognition software.
4. A. Send him the product today. B. Fix the problem for him soon.
C. Give him a discount on his order. D. Give him a free higher quality mic.
5. A. Professional edition for Windows. B. Standard edition for Windows.
C. Professional edition for Mac. D. Standard edition for Mac.
专四2024 -1Conversation Two
Questions 6 to 10 are based on Conversation Two.
6. A. To keep a healthy weight when growing up. B. To enter healthy schools when they grow up.
C. To be physically active in their adulthood. D. To be sensitive to environmental changes.
7. A. Send their children to healthy schools. B. Work with their local communities.
C. Make healthy meals for their children. D. Look for more alternatives of healthy food.
8. A. Lack of healthy foods. B. Ineffectiveness of strategies.
C. Parents' negligence. D. Economic burden.
9. A. Vague. B. Optimistic. C. Negative. D. Indifferent.
10. A. Strategies tackling childhood obesity. B. Reasons for childhood obesity.
C. Norms of healthy schools. D. Parental role in healthy schools.
PART III LANGUAGE USAGE [10 MIN]
There are twenty sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four options marked A, B, C and
D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence or answers the question. Mark your answers on ANSWER
SHEET TWO.
11. Awaiting me is a demanding job that I just don't know fm going to do.
A. where B. why C. what D. how
12. By the end of last month, our cute baby _________in this world for 100 days.
A. would have been B. had been C. could have been D. has been
13. _________wounded soldier was__________ good old friend of his.
A. The... a B. The... the C. A... a D. A... the
14. The children were_________hungry and each of them could have eaten a horse.
A. such B. this C. that D. much
1 5 . your generous assistance, I couldn't have accomplished this daunting task in time.
A. But for B. With C. If only D. Despite
16. She was impressed by the view of mountains behind the apple orchard.
A. green hazy northern B. hazy green northern
C. northern hazy green D. northern green hazy
17. In phrases like biting cold, scorching hot, or dazzling bright, the -ING participle is used a s .
A. an attributive B. a complement C. a quantifier D. an adverbial
18. “There used to be a bus stop around the corner of the street.The italicized part in the sentence
i n d i c a t e s .
A. a customary practice B. an indirect expression
C. a once-existing state D. a hypothesis of the past
19. “We were to have been there now, but the traffic jam was so serious.^^ The italicized part signifies
A. canceling a plan made in the past B. failing to fulfill an original plan
C. announcing the current situation D. indicating an unavoidable incident
20. “Alice has an urgent task, and she must be working late at the office now.^^ The italicized word in the
sentence e x p r e s s e s .
A. certainty B. condition C. command D. permission
21. He tricked the kid trusting him by pretending that he had super power.
A. from B. into C. to D. of
专四2024 -222. Everyone in the company agrees that their boss is a very resourceful and man.
A. self-assured B. self-employed C. self-willed D. self-centered
23. In of the strong earthquake last week, many families are deep in mourning.
A. outcome B. effect C. consequence D. result
24. The factory is looking for better ways t o operations so as to improve productivity.
A. stretch B. strike C. strain D. streamline
25. The unique wall paintings in the old town are once again under the m e d i a .
A. standpoint B. spotlight C. superiority D. symmetry
26. Please excuse me. I must to some urgent business now.
A. attach B. attribute C. attract D. attend
27. Not sophisticated at all, Tim is easy to lose h i s , which may hurt people around him
sometimes.
A. disposition B. personality C. temper D. potential
28. She often let the children play in the yard to keep them out o f .
A. mischief B. disobedience C. misfortune D. disgrace
29. The overall economic for the newly emerging economy is very promising.
A. outbreak B. outlook C. outset D. outrage
30. They normally one of their three arguments when criticizing their opponents.
A. fall behind B. fall out with C. fall back on D. fall into
PART IV CLOZE [10 MIN]
Decide which of the words given in the box below would best complete the passage if inserted in the
corresponding blank. The words can be used ONCE ONLY. Mark the letter for each word on ANSWER SHEET
TWO.
A. dominating B. forward C. gap D. habits E. himself
F. just G. lack H. obesity I. only J. set
K. setbacks L. short M. stretch N. themselves 0. tiny
Tiny is mighty, at least when it comes to change. Over the last twenty years, Fve found that almost
everyone wants to make some kind of change: lose weight, get better sleep, reduce stress. We want to be
more productive and creative. But the alarming levels o f (31), sleeplessness, and stress reported by
the media tell me there is a p a i n f u l (32) between what people want and what they actually do.
The disconnection between want and do has been blamed on a lot of things—but people blame it on
(33) for the most part. When our results fall (34) of our expectations, many of us
believe that something must be wrong with us. I f (35) we were better people, we wouldn't have
failed. Right?
NO. It isn't your fault, and creating positive change isn't as hard as you think. For too many years,
myths, misconceptions, and well-meaning but unscientific advice h a v e (36) you up to fail. If you've
attempted change in the past and haven't seen results, you may have concluded that change is hard or
that you can't succeed because you (37) motivation. Neither is accurate. The problem is with the
approach itself, not with you.
B u i l d i n g (38) and creating positive changes can be easy - if you have the right approach. In
order to design successful habits and change your behaviors, the following three methods should be adopted
in the very beginning. First, stop judging yourself. Second, take your aspirations and break them down
into (39) behaviors. Third, embrace mistakes as discoveries and use them to m o v e (40).
专四2024 -3PART V READING COMPREHENSION [35 MIN]
SECTION A MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
In this section there are three passages followed by ten 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) Downturn's new spending habits show the way to greater satisfaction.
(2) As the months passed, out went stacks of sweaters, shoes, pots and pans, even the television after
a trial separation during which it was relegated to a closet. Eventually, Tammy Strobel and her husband
Logan Smith, both 31, got rid of their cars, too. Her mother called her crazy. Today, three years after the
couple began downsizing, they live in a studio with a nice-sized kitchen. They have money to travel and
to contribute to the education funds of nieces and nephews. Because their debt is paid off, Ms. Strobel
works fewer hours, giving her time to be outdoors and to volunteer. 44The idea that you need to go bigger
to be happy is false,“ she says. “I really believe that the acquisition of material goods doesn't bring about
happiness.M
(3) While Ms. Strobel and her husband overhauled their spending habits before the recession, legions of
other consumers have since had to adapt in ways that could ultimately make them happier.
(4) New studies of consumption and happiness show, for instance, that people are happier when they
spend money on experiences instead of material objects.
(5) While the current round of stinginess may simply be a response to the economic downturn, some
analysts say consumers may also be permanently acyusting their spending based on what they've discovered
about what truly makes them happy or fulfilled.
(6) “This actually is a topic that hasn't been researched very much until recently,“ says Elizabeth
Dunn, a psychology professor, who is at the forefront of research on consumption and happiness. "There's
massive literature on income and happiness. Ifs amazing how little there is on how to spend your money.^^
(7) Studies over the last few decades have shown that money, up to a certain point, makes people
happier because it lets them meet basic needs. The latest round of research is all about emotional
efficiency: how to reap the most happiness for your dollar.
(8) One major finding is that spending money for an experience — concert tickets, language lessons,
dumpling-making classes- produces longer-lasting satisfaction than spending money on plain old stuff. "It's
better to go on a vacation than buy a new couch, is basically the idea,“ says Professor Dunn. Jennifer
Black, president of the retailing research company Jennifer Black & Associates, said: "I think people are
realizing they don't need what they had. They're more interested in creating memories.n
(9) Unlike consumption of material goods, spending on leisure and services typically strengthens social
bonds, which in turn helps amplify happiness, research suggests. Paying for experiences also gives us
longer-lasting happiness, because we can reminisce about them, researchers says. Thafs true for even the
most exasperating of experiences. That trip to Rome during which you waited in endless lines, broke your
camera and argued with your spouse will typically be airbrushed with “rosy recollection^^, says Professor
Dunn. "Trips aren't all perfect, but we remember them as perfect.”
(10) And experiences can't be absorbed at once - it takes more time to adapt to them and engage
with them than it does to put on a new leather jacket or turn on that shiny flat-screen TV. “We buy a new
house, we get accustomed to it,“ says Professor Lyubomirsky, who studies what psychologists call “hedonic
adaptation"，a phenomenon in which people quickly become used to changes, great or terrible, in order to
专四2024 -4maintain a stable level of happiness. 4tWe stop getting pleasure from it,“ she says. And then, of course, we
buy new things. Scholars have discovered that one way consumers combat hedonic adaptation is to buy
many small pleasures instead of one big one. Instead of a new Jaguar, Professor Lyubomirsky advises, buy
a massage once a week, have lots of fresh flowers delivered and make phone calls to friends overseas.
Instead of a two-week long vacation, take a few three-day weekends. t4We do adapt to the little things,“ she
says, “but because there's so many, it will take longer.
(11) Ms. Strobel now writes about her own life choices on the Internet. 4tMy lifestyle now would not
be possible if I still had a huge two-bedroom apartment filled with stuff, two cars, and 30 grand in debt,“
she says. "Give away some of your stuff. See how it feels.^^
41. What is the main reason for the change in people's spending habits?
A. Pressure to pay off debts. B. Interest in traveling.
C. Economic downturn. D. Plan to work from home.
42. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A. A somewhat imperfect trip can leave long-lasting happiness.
B. A new couch can give people long-lasting happiness.
C. Buying material goods helps prolong people's happiness.
D. Spending money on experiences undermines people's happiness.
43. What is the best title for the passage?
A. Efficiency and Satisfaction. B. Spending and Happiness.
C. Traveling and Happiness. D. Experience and Memory.
PASSAGE TWO
(1) The five o'clock dads can only be seen on cable television these days. They eat dinner with their
television families and provide counsel afterward in the den, exemplifying how men behave when they
work eight hours a day.
(2) The five o'clock dad has become an endangered species. A corporate culture that believes presence
is productivity, in which people of ambition are afraid to be seen leaving the office, has lengthened his
workday and shortened his home life. So has an economy that makes it difficult for families to take a
break even at the end of the month. For the man who is paid by the hour, that means never saying no to
overtime. For the man whose loyalty to the organization is measured in time at his desk, it means goodbye
to nine to five.
(3) To lots of small children it means a visiting father. The standard joke in one large corporate office
is that the dads always say their children look like angels when they're sleeping because thafs the only
way they ever see them. A survey taken several years ago showed that roughly 12 percent of the men
surveyed with children under the age of six worked more than sixty hours a week, and an additional 25
percent worked between fifty and sixty hours.
(4) No matter how you divide it up, those are twelve-hour days. When a talk show host adopted a
baby recently, she said one reason she was not troubled by becoming a mother without becoming a wife
was that many of her married female friends were "functionally single”, given the hours their husbands
worked. The evening commuter rush is getting longer. The eight o'clock dad. The nine o'clock dad.
(5) There's a horribly sad irony to this, that is, the quality of fathering is better than it was when the
dads left work at five o'clock and came home to coffee pots and tuna casserole. The five o'clock dad was
remote, a "wait till your father gets home,, kind of dad with a newspaper for a face. The roles he and his
wife had were clear: she did nurture and home, he did discipline and money.
专四2024 -5(6) The role fathers have carved out for themselves today is a vast improvement, a muddling of those
old boundaries. Fathers today do seem to be more emotional with their children, more nurturing, more
open. Many say, “My father never told me he loved me“ and so they tell their own children all the time
that they love them.
(7) There are people who think that this is changing even now. A nonprofit organization advises
corporations on how to balance personal and professional obligations and concerns, and its founder says
she has noticed a change in the past few years. An increasing number of men have expressed their wishes
to spend more time with their kids.
(8) This change can be to the good, not only for women but especially for men, and for kids, too.
The stereotypical five o'clock dad belongs in a picture, with his “Ask your mother,, and his "Don't be a
crybaby.,^ The father who believes hugs and kisses are sex-blind and a dirty diaper requires a change is
infinitely preferable. What a joy it would be if he were around more.
(9) “This is the man's half of having it all,“ said Donald Long, a professor who teaches a course about
men's relationships that drew 135 students this year for thirty-five places, "We're trying to do what women
want of us, what children want of us, but we're not willing to transform the workplace/' In other words,
the hearts and minds of today's fathers are definitely in the right place, if only their bodies could be
there, too.
44. Which of the following reasons best explains the presence of more eight or nine o'clock dads?
A. Preference for overwork. B. Belief in productivity.
C. Company bonus and overtime. D. Corporate culture of overwork.
45. The statement “there's a horribly sad irony” (Para. 5) suggests longer working hours have led to
A. more distant relations B. change of family roles
C. more intimate relations D. more time with children
46. From the last sentence of the passage, what can be inferred about today's fathers?
A. They wish to have more familyt ime. B. They think in the similar way as before.
C. They behave in the same way as before. D. They can spend more time at home.
PASSAGE THREE
(1) When a Southerner took the trouble to pack a trunk and travel twenty miles for a visit, the visit
was seldom of shorter duration than a month, usually much longer. Southerners were as enthusiastic
visitors as they were hosts, and there was nothing unusual in relatives coming to spend the Christmas
holidays and remaining until July. Often when newly married couples went on the usual round of
honeymoon visits, they lingered in some pleasant home until the birth of their second child. Frequently
elderly aunts and uncles came to Sunday dinner and remained until they were buried years later. Visitors
presented no problem, for houses were larger, servants numerous and the feeding of several extra mouths
a minor matter in that land of plenty. All ages and sexes went visiting, honeymooners, young mothers
showing off new babies, convalescents, the bereaved, girls whose parents were anxious to remove them
from the dangers of unwise matches, girls who had reached the danger age without becoming engaged and
who, it was hoped, would make suitable matches under the guidance of relatives in other places. Visitors
added excitement and variety to the slow-moving Southern life and they were always welcome.
(2) So Scarlett had come to Atlanta with no idea as to how long she would remain. If her visit
proved as dull as those in Savannah and Charleston, she would return home in a month. If her stay was
pleasant, she would remain indefinitely. But no sooner had she arrived than Aunt Pitty and Melanie began
专四2024 -6a campaign to induce her to make her home permanently with them. They brought up every possible
argument. They wanted her for her own self because they loved her. They were lonely and often frightened
at night in the big house, and she was so brave she gave them courage. She was so charming that she
cheered them in their sorrow. Now that Charles was dead, her place and her son's place were with his
kindred. Besides, half the house now belonged to her, through Charles' will. Last, the Confederacy needed
every pair of hands for sewing, knitting, bandage rolling and nursing the wounded.
(3) Charles' Uncle Henry Hamilton, who lived in bachelor state at the Atlanta Hotel near the depot,
also talked seriously to her on this subject. Uncle Henry was a short, pot-bellied, irascible old gentleman
with a pink face, a shock of long silver hair and an utter lack of patience with feminine timidities and
vaporings. It was for the latter reason that he was barely on speaking terms with his sister, Miss Pitty.
From childhood, they had been exact opposites in temperament and they had been further estranged by his
objections to the manner in which she had reared Charles “Making a damn sissy out of a soldier's son!^^
Years before, he had so insulted her that now Miss Pitty never spoke of him except in guarded whispers
and with so great reticence that a stranger would have thought the honest old lawyer a murderer, at the
least. The insult had occurred on a day when Pitty wished to draw five hundred dollars from her estate,
of which he was trustee, to invest in a non-existent gold mine. He had refused to permit it and stated
heatedly that she had no more sense than a June bug and furthermore it gave him the fidgets to be around
her longer than five minutes. Since that day, she only saw him formally, once a month, when Uncle Peter
drove her to his office to get the housekeeping money. After these brief visits, Pitty always took to her
bed for the rest of the day with tears and smelling salts. Melanie and Charles, who were on excellent
terms with their uncle, had frequently offered to relieve her of this ordeal, but Pitty always set her babyish
mouth firmly and refused. Henry was her cross and she must bear him. From this, Charles and Melanie
could only infer that she took a profound pleasure in this occasional excitement, the only excitement in
her sheltered life.
(4) Uncle Henry liked Scarlett immediately because, he said, he could see that for all her silly
affectations she had a few grains of sense. He was trustee, not only of Pitty's and Melanie's estates, but
also of that left Scarlett by Charles.
47. Which of the following is INCORRECT according to Para. 1?
A. Visitors tended to stay much longer than planned.
B. Visitors were usually young and married couples.
C. Southerners liked to show hospitality to their guests.
D. Southerners were wealthy enough to receive guests.
48. Aunt Pitty and Melanie wanted Scarlett to stay on for all the following reasons E X C E P T .
A. her liveliness B. her bravery C. her medical skills D. her familial ties
49. Which of the following is NOT the reason for the estrangement between Aunt Pitty and Uncle Henry?
A. Refusal of housekeeping money. B. Disagreement in child-rearing.
C. Difference in temperament. D. Frequently made insults.
50. Which of the following words best describes Uncle Henry?
A. Skeptical. B. Mild-tempered. C. Cold-blooded. D. Outspoken.
SECTION B SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS
In this section there are five short answer questions based on the passages in Section A. Answer the
questions with NO MORE THAN TEN WORDS in the space provided on ANSWER SHEET TWO.
专四2024 -7PASSAGE ONE
51. What does “downsizing” (Para. 2) mean?
52. Cite TWO examples from Para. 10 to show how to maintain a longer stable level of happiness.
PASSAGE TWO
53. What does the statement 4
