【分析】BFT考试全国出国培训备选人员外语水平考试模拟2

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BFT考试(全国出国培训备选人员外语水平考试)模拟2
Listening
Part 1
Questions 1-8
·You will hear two telephone conversations.
·Write down one word or number in the numbered spaces on the forms below.CONVERSATION 1 Time for the man to arrive at the hotel: (1) .
Price of the room: $ (2) .
Number of the unit: No. (3) .
On the (4) floor.
CONVERSATION 2
For: (5) Blake.
From: (6) Anderson.
Tomorrow's (7) is cancelled.
Helen's telephone number: (8) .
Part 2
Questions 9-13
·You will hear a teaching instructor's words.
·For questions 9-13, choose.from the list A-F the main ideas of the teaching instructor's words each time.
·Use the letters only once. There is one extra letter which you do not need to use. Speaker 1: ______
10. Speaker 2: ______
11. Speaker 3: ______
12. Speaker 4: ______
13. Speaker 5: ______
A. final exam
B. teaching problems in reading
C. paying attention to one's teaching style
D. canceling some classes
E. stuff meeting
F. students' attendance
Part 3
Questions 14-23·Look at the ten statements for this part.
·You will hear a passage about "Who First Started to Smoke?" ; you will listen to it twice,
·Decide if you think each statement is right(R), wrong(W) or not mentioned(NM).
14、People in Europe started smoking long ago.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not Mentioned
15、Tobacco is a native American plant, and it was Christopher Columbus who told European people
about it.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not Mentioned
16、The American Indians used long tubes to bake tobacco before they smoked it.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not Mentioned
17、Aware of the commercial value of tobacco, the American lndians traded it for other goods.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not Mentioned
18、Jean Nicot's great interest in plants was due to his father's influence.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not Mentioned
19、When a man had a bad pain in his body, Nicot would give the person some tobacco leaves to eat, and then the pain would be gone.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not Mentioned
20、The word nicotine comes from the Frenchman Nicot's name.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not Mentioned
21、Nicot wrote a book on all his discoveries about tobacco.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not Mentioned
22、In Sir Walter Raleigh's days, not many people knew about smoking.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not Mentioned
23、Sir Walter Raleigh's death was due to smoking.
A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not Mentioned
Part 4
Questions 24-30·Look at the questions for this part.
·You will hear a passage about "American Weighs In ". You will listen to it twice.
·For questions 24-30, indicate which of the alternatives A, B, or C is the most appropriate response.
·Mark one letter A, B, or C on the Answer Sheet.
24、American foods are ______.
A. insufficient and expensive
B. many and various
C. neither delicious nor healthful
25、What is the percentage of adults aged 20 to 74 who were obese in the 1960s?
A. 33 percent
B. 24 percent
C. 35 percent
26、How many US adults aged 20 and older were overweight in 1988-94?
A. 65 million
B. 16 million
C. 20 million
27、Compared to the late 1970s, the percent of children aged 12 to 17 who were overweight in 1994 ______.
A. decreased
B. remained unchanged
C. increased
28、What kind of market is sure to benefit from overweight people?
A. The market for health care
B. The market for food
C. The market for weight-loss diets
29、What is believed to be able to prevent and mitigate numerous chronic ailments?
A. High blood pressure
B. A reasonable body weight
C. Smoking
30、Koop once launched an assault on ______.
A. chronic ailments
B. obesity
C. smoking
ReadingPart 1
·Read thefollowingpassage, eight sentences have been removed from the article.
·Choose from the sentences A-H the one whichfits each gap.
·For each gap (1-8) mark one letter (A-H) on the Answer Sheet.
·Do not mark any letter twice.
The single, decisive factor that made it possible for mankind to settle in permanent communities was agriculture. (1) Once people could control the production of food and be assured of a reliable annual supple of it, their lives changed completely.
Fanning was a revolutionary discovery. (2) With more food available, more people could be fed. Populations therefore increased. The growing number of people available for more kinds of work led to the development of more complex social structures. (3)
Farming the world over has always relied upon a dependable water supply. For the earliest societies this meant rivers and streams or regular rainfall. (4) Later communities were able to develop by taking advantage of the rainy seasons.
All of the ancient civilizations probably developed in much the same way, in spite of regional and climatic differences. (5) Heavier pottery replaced animal-skin gourds as containers for food and liquids. Cloth could be woven from wool and flax. Permanent structures made of wood, brick, and stone could be erected.
The science of mathematics was an early outgrowth of agriculture. People studied the movements of the moon, the sun, and planets to calculate seasons. (6) With a calendar it was possible to calculate the arrival of each growing season. Measurement of land areas was necessary if property was to be a factor in farming and housekeeping. (7) All of the major ancient civilizations in Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley, and China emerged in the 4th millennium BC. Historians still debate over which one emerged first. It may well have been the Middle East, in an area called the Fertile Crescent. This region stretches from the Nile River in Egypt northward along the coast of
former Palestine, then eastward into Asia to include Mesopotamia. (8) This kind of larming depended on the reproduction of seed, normally from grain crops.
A. It not only made settlements possible and ultimately the building of cities but it also made available a reliable food supply.
B. Later came measures of value as commodity and money exchange became common.
C. In this area people settled along the riverbanks and practiced field agriculture.
D. After farming was developed in the Middle East in about 6500 BC, people living in tribes or family units did not have to be on the move continually searching for food or herding their animals.
E. As villages grew, the accumulation of more numerous and substantial goods became possible.
F. With a food surplus, a community could support a variety of workers who were not farmers.
G. The first great civilizations grow up along rivers.
H. In doing so they created the first calendars.
Part 2
Questions 9-18
·Read the following passage and answer questions 9-18.
1. When Christopher Columbus landed on America's shores, he encountered copper-shinned people whom he promptly called "Indians". Current estimates indicate that there were over a million Indians inhabiting North American then. There are approximately 800,000 Indians today, of whom about 250, 000 live on reservations.
2. The early settlers had an amicable relationship with Indians, who shared their knowledge about hunting, fishing, and farming with their uninvited guests. The stereotyped stealthy, wicked Indian of western movies are created by different faithless white man; the Indian was born friendly.
3. Disgust developed between the Indians and the settlers, whose encroachment on Indian lands provoked an era of turbulence. As early as 1745, Indian tribes joined together to drive the French off their land. The French and Indian war did not end until 1763. The Indian had succeeded in destroying most of the settlements. The British, superficially submissive to the Indiana, promised that further migrations west would not extend beyond a specified boundary.
4. Vacated from their lands or, worse still, frankly giving their property to the whites for few baubles, Indians were ruthlessly pushed west. The battle in 1876 at Little Horn river in Montana, in which setting Bull and the Sioux tribes massacred General Custer's cavalry, caused the whites intensify their campaign against the Redman. The battle at Wound Knee, South Dakota, in 1890 put an end to the last vestige of hope for amity between Indians and whites.
5. Although the Bureau of lndian affairs has operated since 1842, presumably for the purpose of guarding Indians "interests", Indian on reservations lead notoriously deprived lives. In recent times Indians have taken a militant stand and appealed to the courts and the American people to improve their substandard living conditions.
Questions 9-13
·For questions 9-13, choose the best title for each paragraph from below.
·For each numberedparagraph (1-5), mark one letter (A-G) on the Answer Sheet.
·Do not mark any letter twice.
9. Paragraph 1: ______ A. Indians, once the master of America, now live in their
reservation.
10. Paragraph 2: ______ B. Indians were pushed away.
11. Paragraph 3: ______ C. The wars between Indian and the settlers.
12. Paragraph 4: ______ D. Indians arestill fighting for the improvement of their lives.
13. Paragraph 5: ______ E. The relationship between Indians and the early settlers.
F. Indians were ferocious savages.
G. Indian's struggle for their own possessions. Questions 14-18
·Using the information in the text, complete each sentence 14-18 with a word or phrase from the list below.
·For each sentence (14-18), mark one letter (A-G) on the Answer Sheet.
·Do not mark any letter twice.
14. The early settlers in American ______.
15. The passage suggests that the war between French and Indians lasted ______.
16. The kind of life Indians lead in their reservation is ______.
17. The two measures that Indians had taken to improve their lives are ______.
18. From the passage, we can infer that the author ______.
A. sympathizes the American Indians
B. eighteen years
C. found the Indians very helpful
D. taking a militant stand and appealing to the courts
E. notoriously deprived
F. ask the Indians to leave their lands
G. force the Indians to leave
Part 3
Questions 19-25
·Read the following passage and answer questions 19-25.
·For questions 19-25, choose the correct answer A, B, C and D.
·Mark your answers on the Answer Sheet.
While still in its early stages, welfare reform has already been judged a great success in many states, at least UN is getting people off welfare, lt's estimated that more than two million have left the roles since 1994.
In the past four years, welfare in rolls in Athens country has been cut in half. But 70 percent of the people who left in the past two years took jobs that paid less than $6 an hour. The result: The Athens country poverty rate still remains at more than 30 percent—twice the national average.
For advocates for the poor, that's an indication that much more needs to be done.
"More people are getting jobs, but it's not making their lives any better," says Kathy Lairn, a policy analyst at the center in budget and policy priorities in Washington.
Canter analysis of US census data nationwide found that between 1995 and 1996, a great percentage of single, fame-headed household were earning money on their own, but that average income for these households actually went down.
But for many, the fact that poor people are able to support themselves almost as well without government aid as they did with it is in itself a huge victory.
"Welfare was a poison. It was a toxin that was poisoning the family," says Rector, a welfare reform is changing the moral climate in low-income communities. It's beginning to rebuild the work ethic, which is much more important.
Mr. Rector and others argued that once "the habit of dependency is cracked," then the country can make other policy changes aimed at improving living standards.
19、It can be seen from the passage that the author ______.
A. is over-enthusiastic about the success of welfare reform
B. insists that welfare reform is doing little good for the poor
C. believes the reform has reduced the government's burden
D. considers welfare reform to be fundamentally successful
20、Why aren't people enjoying better lives when they have jobs?
A. Because their wages are low.
B. Because many families are divorced.
C. Because the cost of living is rising.
D. Because government aid is now rare.
21、What is worth noting form the example of Athens country is that ______.
A. 60 percent of the population no longer relies on welfare
B. 70 percent of the people there have been employed for two years
C. the living standards of most people are going down
D. great efforts should be madeto improve people's living standards
22、From the passage we know that welfare reform aims at ______.
A. providing more jobs
B. saving welfare funds
C. rebuilding the work ethic
D. cutting government expenses
23、According to the passage, before the welfare reform was carried out, ______.
A. the poor used to rely on government aid
B. the poverty rate was lower
C. the average worker was paid higher wages
D. average living standards were higher
24、From the passage we can infer that before 1994 ______.
A. most of the people depended on government
B. most of the people took jobs
C. we don't know as the passage didn't say
D. most of the people live a richer life
25、About the welfare reform the author's attitude is ______.
A. indifferent
B. positive
C. objective
D. critical
Part 4
Questions 26-45
·Read the following passage and decide which answer bestfits each space.
·For questions 26-45, mark one letter A, B, C or D on the Answer Sheet.
The "standard of living" of any country means the (26) person's share of the goods and services which the country produces. A country's standard of living, therefore depends (27) and foremost on its capacity to produce wealth. "Wealth" in this (28) is not money, for we do not live on money (29) on things that money can buy: "goods" such as food and clothing, and "services" such as (30) and "entertainment".
A country's capacity to produce wealth depends upon many factors, most of which have an effect
(31) one another. Wealth depends (32) a great extent upon a country's natural resources. Some regions of the world are well supplied with coal and minerals, and have a (33) soil and a favorable climate; other regions (34) none of them.
Next to natural resources (35) the ability to turn them to use. China is perhaps as well off as the USA in natural resources, but suffered for many years from (36) and external wars, and for this and other reasons was incapable (37) her resources. Sound and (38) political conditions, and freedom from foreign invasion, enable a country to develop its natural resources peacefully and steadily, and to produce more wealth than another country (39) well served by nature but less well ordered.
A country's standard of living does not only depend upon the wealth that is produced and (40) within its own borders, but also upon what is indirectly produced through international trade. For example, Britain's wealth in foodstuffs and other agricultural products would be much (41) if she had to depend only on those grown at home. Trade makes it possible for her surplus manufactured goods to be traded abroad for the agricultural products that would (42) be lacking. A country's wealth is, therefore, much (43) by its manufacturing capacity, (44) that other countries can be found ready to (45) its manufactures.
26、A. common B. average C. usual D. normal
27、A. first B. important C. main D. primary
28、A. way B. feeling C. sense D. occasion
29、A. except B. but C. neither D. besides
30、A. vehicles B. buses C. transport D. films
31、A. in B. about C. at D. on
32、A. upon B. in C. on D. to
33、A. festal B. fervent C. fertile D. fetid
34、A. pose B. possess C. posse D. posset
35、A. coming B. comes C. come D. have come
36、A. military B. overseas C. civil D. international
37、A. to develop B. of developing C. for developing D. about developing
38、A. robust B. sturdy C. strong D. stable
39、A. less B. little C. equally D. few
40、A. consumed B. assumed C. presumed D. resumed
41、A. little B. less C. much D. more
42、A. likely B. otherwise C. likewise D. alike
43、A. impressed B. effected C. influenced D. infected
44、A. supposed B. given C. provided D. depended
45、A. receive B. accept C. sell D. produce
Writing46、Part 1
☆ You are to work with a U.S. company by a year. You have finally obtained your visa from the US Embassy in Beijing, and are ready to leave for Minneapolis, USA, where the company is headquartered. Read the following memo with information jotted down from your air-ticket: ☆ From Beijing to Minneapolis.
☆ The American Northwest Airline.
☆ NW745, Monday, November 27, 2002, Beijing time.
☆ Arrive at 1:30 p.m. Nov. 28, American time.
·Write a letter-like email message (60-70 words) to Mr. Michael Jackson (E-mail address is ), Corporate Secretary of the company, asking for your pickup at the airport.
47、Part 2
·You are to make a speech at an international conference held next Friday at the Jinmao, Pudong, Shanghai. The conference chairman has just written to you requesting that you send a copy of your speech five work days ahead of the meeting. Write a cover letter to Ms. Jenny Evans, Secretary General of the sponsoring organization, in which you shall, in your own words, make it clear."
☆ A copy of your speech is enclosed.
☆ You need 150 printouts, and you'll pay when collecting them.
☆ You want to be addressed by the title and position you have in the writer's section of this letter, and you hate to be called a "reform master".
☆ You're available in your office till the end of one day before the speech day.
☆ You will arrive on time for the conference.
·Write a letter of 100-120 words to Ms. Jenny Evans
Oral Test48、Part 1: Self-introduction
·The interlocutor will ask you and your partner questions about yourselves. You may be asked about things like "your hometown ", "your interests ", "your career plans ", etc.
Part 2: Presentation
·The interlocutor gives you two photographs and asks you to talk about them for about one minute. The examiner then asks your partner a question about your photographs and your partner responds briefly. Then the interlocutor gives your partner two photographs. Your partner talks about these pictures for about one minute. This time the interlocutor asks you a question about your partner's photographs and you respond briefly.
Part 3: Collaboration
·The interlocutor gives you and your partner a list of topics. Both of you need to choose one to discuss together. The interlocutor may join in the conversation and ask you questions, but you and your partner are expected to develop the conversation.
Topic 1: Music in Modem Life
Topic 2: Importance of Money
Topic 3: An Extended Family or a Nuclear Family
Topic 4: Taboos in China
Topic 5: Differences between Life in a Big City and in the Country
答案:
Listening
Part 1
1、evening
[听力原文] 1-4
W: Good evening.
M: Hello. Do you have any vacant rooms at your hotel?
W: I believe there may be one. Did you make a reservation in advance?
M: No, we didn't.
W: Well, we just received word that one reservation has been cancelled, so you arrived at a good time. M: I suppose so. By the way, how much is the room?
W: It's $30 with TV and an extra bedroom. We have a pool in back.
M: That's good. We need extra room for our two beds.
W: If it is OK, let's step into our office to register.
M: Do you want the payment in advance ?
W: That's our policy. I'm sure you understand.
M: Of course. What's the number of the unit ?
W: No.61, on the second floor, over on the right. Here's the key.
M: Thank you. I'll park the car over there first. Then I'll come right over to register.
W: Certainly, sir.2、30 3、61 4、second
5、Linda
[听力原文] 5-8
R: Good morning. Jianguo Hotel. Can I help you?
M: Good morning. Could you put me through to Linda Blake, please?
R: Who's calling, please?
M: Helen Anderson.
R: Hold the line, please. I'm sorry, the number's engaged. Would you like to hold?
M: No, could I leave a message?
R: Yes, of course.
M: Could you tell her that tomorrow's meeting is cancelled?
R: Meeting is cancelled. OK.
M: And could you ask her to give me a ring?
R: Certainly. Does she have your number?
M: It's 5326673.
R: Fine. I'll make sure that she gets your message. 6、Helen 7、meeting 8、5326673 Part 2
9、D
[听力原文]
Please remind your students that regular classes have been cancelled because of the mid-term exams. You can however meet with them on Friday; by that time the exams will be over. Afternoon classes were also cancelled because we're giving the Listening Exam during that part of the day.
10、F
[听力原文]
We would like to remind instructors that student attendance constitutes 10% of the final grade. Please keep informing your students also about this. Stress the fact that since they're language learners, it's important for them to come to class as frequently as possible. Otherwise we cannot be held responsible for any negative results of our teaching on them. Please take attendance every morning and don't hesitate to mark them absent in case they're still not in class by the time you've finished calling out their names. This way you don't waste time with the attendance ritual every morning.
11、
[听力原文]
I'd like to just remind you that you are welcome to drop bymy office and have a look at the final exams that have been prepared. The exams will be given the week of Jan. 5-9 as earlier planned. We will inform the listening instructors next week whether their exams will be given in their individual classrooms or in other rooms.
12、B
[听力原文]
Apparently some of the reading teachers are not sufficiently explaining vocabulary and grammar matters to their students, and only read out the answers found in the answer keys of their textbooks. Students are obviously unhappy about this situation. My recommendation is that you attempt to make clear to the students how you are conducting your class, and what exactly it is that you're doing. Perhaps it would be helpful if you were to also frequently answer/discuss/explain the answers of the exercises you're specifically dealing with, and not just simply read the answer key to them.
13、C
[听力原文]
I would like you to take these complaints seriously. Some of them are obviously severe than others, but they all merit our attendance. Please attempt to modify or change your teaching styles and habits if you feel the complaints concern you. Do not hesitate to drop by my office in case you would like to have any further information about the above mentioned student statements of discontent.
Part 3
14、B
[听力原文] 15-23
Who First Started to Smoke?
Long ago, no one in Europe smoked. The tobacco plant was unknown there. It grew in America and Christopher Columbus found it there. Later he returned to Europe and told people about tobacco. He said that the American Indians often smoked it.
One way of smoking was like this. The American Indians threw some tobacco leaves on a fire. Then they put long tubes in their mouths. The other ends of the tubes were over the fire, so they were able to draw the smoke into their mouths.
About the year 1560 a Frenchman, Jean Nicot, was living in Lisbon, Portugal. He was very interested in all American plants. Some of them were very different from the plants of Europe. He used the leaves of the tobacco plant to cure pain. When a man had a bad pain in a leg or an arm, Nicot put tobacco leaves on the painful place and tried to cure the pain in that way. We now say that tobacco contains nicotine. The word nicotine comes from this man's name.
Sir Walter Raleigh was a famous man in the days of Queen Elizabeth theFirst. He traveled widely and learnt to smoke. Then he returned to England, but he didn't stop smoking. He used to smoke two pipes every day secretly in his room. When anyone came in, he quickly hid his pipe. A man came in and found clouds of smoke in his room. More smoke was coming from Raleigh's mouth, so the man got some water and threw it over Raleigh. He believed that Raleigh was burning, He ran out of the house and told everybody about it. After this, smoking was not a secret. Raleigh had a sad life and died in 1618. He died bravely and quietly. He smoked a pipe just before his death.15、A 16、B 17、C 18、C 19、B 20、A 21、C 22、A 23、C
Part 4
24、B
[听力原文] 24－30
America Weighs In
Americans enjoy the most abundant and varied diet in the world. Food is cheap, plentiful, and tasty. All those readily available nutrients should make us a strong, healthy people. But for an increasing share of adults, life in the land of plenty is making them plenty fat. The percent of adults aged 20 to 74 who are obese based on their body mass index increased from 24 percent in the 1960s to 33 percent in 1988-9t. By 1994, the share of all adults aged 20 and older who are overweight climbed further, to 35 percent. Applying that rate to the adult population yields a total of 65 million adults aged 20 or older who were overweight in 1988-94. We don't get to blame the aging population, either. Overweight has become more prevalent among all age groups, not just the elderly.
Children and adolescents are following the example of their elders. The share of children aged 6 to
11 who are overweight increased from 11 percent in the late 1970s to 14 percent in 1994. For children aged 12 to 17, the share doubled to 12 percent in 1994.
Overweight people create markets for large-sized clothing and weight-loss products and services. But Americans seem to be losing interest in weight-loss diets. One market that is certain to benefit from this trend is health care. The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) says that overweight and obese adults are at increased risk for numerous acute and chronic conditions, ranging from high blood pressure to diabetes to arthritis．
Most doctors believe that a wide range of chronic ai lments can be prevented or mitigated by maintaining easonable body weight．Former Surgeon General C．Everett Koop recently said that if he had stayed in office longer,“1 would have launched the same assault On obesity that I did on smoking．”25、B 26、A 27、C 28、A 29、B 30、C
Reading
1、
[解析] 文章第1句提出，使人类定居下来的决定性因素是农业。

句D介绍了农业的产生时间以及它对人们生活的影响，为读者提供了有关农业的更多信息，因此D为正确选项。

2、
[解析] 第2段首句提到了耕种是一次革命性的发现。

句A“它不仅使定居成为可能，最终形成城市，并且可以提供稳定的食物来源。

”很显然“它”指的是农业，这句话讲述了农业的重大作用，是对第1句中革命性的解释说明——为何耕种被称为革命性的发现，因此A为正确选项。

3、
[解析] 文章接着提到，随着食物供应的增多，人口也开始增长，不断增长的人口进行更多种类的工作，这就使得社会结构更复杂。

句F提到，由于有盈余的食物，一个社会团体就可以供养不进行农业劳动的各种工人。

出现不进行农业劳动的工人是社会结构复杂的具体体现，因此选F。

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5、
[解析] 第4段开头提出，“工区和气候存在一些差异，所有的古代文明或许都以相同的方式发展”。

后句又提到，“陶器代替了动物皮所制作的瓢，来盛装食物和液体，羊毛制成衣服，用木料、砖头造房子，这些都是人类古代文明的发展模式”，句E“随着村子在扩大，积累了大量的物品”这也是古代文明的共同发展模式之一，随着物品的增多，人们才需要制作容器去储藏液体，这与第3句紧密相连，所以选E。

6、
[解析] 第5段开头提到了数学是在农业的基础上发展起来的，人们研究月亮、太阳以及行星的运动来计算季节。

计算季节是与年历紧密相连的，因此“他们就这样创造了第1部年历”为正确选项，“in doing so”指前面人们研究月亮、太阳及行星运动的行为。

7、
[解析] 为了分割财产，需要有丈量土地面积的办法，在耕种和储存时，需要有计算种子和谷物的方法。

这都是农业对数学发展的促进作用。

句B“随着商品和钱币交换的普及，出现了价值尺度”也是其中的一个方面，与前两个方面是平行的关系，其作用是相同的，都指明了农业对数学发展的作用。

8、
[解析] 文章最后一段的后半部分提到一个被称为“Fertile Crescent”的地方及其所覆盖的区域。

句C中的“this area”就是指这一地区，与前句的“this region”相照应。

9、[解析] 本段讲印第安人曾经是美洲的主人，现在却在他们的保留地上，因此答案为A。

10、[解析] 本段讲印第安人与。