英语专业高级休闲英语试题[001]

英语专业高级休闲英语试题PAPER ONE LISTENING TESTApproximately 30 minutes (+10 minutes transfer time)Instruction to the examineesThere are three parts to the test. Each part will be played twice.There will be a pause before each part to let you read through the questions and a pause at the end of each part for you to check your answers.You can write your answer on the question paper as you listen.You will have 10 minutes at the end of the listening test to transfer your answers to the answer sheet.Paper 1. Listening TestPart 1 Ordering Flowers: questions 1-10.You are going to hear a phone call between a florist and a man ordering flowers for his wife.Fill in the florist’s order form with necessary information. When you have finished, write theYou are going to hear a talk about the results of a survey on how Americans spend their free time. As you listen, fill in the missing information in the table below. You will hear the text twice.You are going to listen to a talk show. Listen and answer the following questions according to what you learn through listening. You should give short answers to the Question.21. How much did the salesman say was the electric saw?22. Why did Mr Luke send Crazy only $ 30 for the saw?23. How long could he keep the saw on trial?24．What was the state of the saw when he got it ?25. How much was the same saw in a local store?26. Why wouldn’t Crazy Crazy return his deposit?27. What did the Managing Director threaten him with?28. What did the Sales Manager promise to do?29. What was the Ma naging Director’s tone when he called the radio program?30. What did Mr Luke receive in the end?Paper 2 Reading and WritingReading TestPart 1 Questions 31-35Information for Tourists to SingaporeGetting the Vias. Travellers can come individually or with a tour group. The travel agencies which organize the tour will go through all the necessary formalities for the group members, while individual travelers should find out if they need port of entry, but nationals of some corntries have to apply for a visa before they travel to Singapore. You should check with the embassy of the Republic of Singapore nearest to you whether or not you need a visa to enter Singapore. You should apply for it well ahead of time if you do need one.Physical Check-up . Tourists should go to their doctors before leaving for Singapore and get some vaccinations or medication according to their doctor’s advice. Singapore has many well-equipped hospitals, but the medical expenses can become costly for non-residents. In Singapore, it is easy to find doctors who speak English , Chinese, Malay or Tamil. Doctors who speak other languages are more difficult to find. If you do not speak any of the four official languages of the country, you may have the problem of a language barrier when you go to a Singapore hospital for treatment.Money Matters. All hard currencies, for example, US dollars, German marks, French francs, Japanese yen and sterling pounds, are accepted in Singapore. Tourists can use c ash, traveller’s checks and credit cards according to their own needs. Foreign currencies and traveller’s checks can be changed into Singapore dollars at the exchange desks of the hotels, the major banks, and authorized money changers. Don’t change money w ith any unauthorized money vendors, it is illegal and not safe. The major credit cards, such as Visa, Master Card, American Express, Million, JCB and Diner’s Club, are accepted in most of the big hotels and department stores. There are over 1,000 ATMs in Singapore, conveniently located in all commercial and residential areas.Hotel Reservation. There are over 800 hotels and hostels in Singapore, ranging from budget lodging to the majestic and the most exquisite styles of five-star hotels. However, most of thehotels are mid-range ones with standard services. They are usually equipped with air-range ones with standard services. They are usually equipped with air-conditioners, single or double beds, and private bathrooms. Hotel guests can get IDD, DDD, fax, laundry and wake-up services in all hotels. In hotels above the three-star level, there are also business ceters, beauty sloins, health centers and bars. Buffet breakfasts with both Western and Southeast Asian food are served. Hot and cold drinks are provided in many hotels ,and the tap water in drinkable. The prices of the hotels vary according to their categories and the season. Tourists should reserve their hotels before coming to Singapore if they want to be assured of their first choice. Reservations can be made through a travel agency, an overseas branch of the hotel, or by fax, If you arrive whthout a reservation, you can telephone the hotel upon arriving at the airport . One of the advantages of reservation is that most of the big hotels will send a coach to meet the tourists at the airport.Questions: 31-35. Find out if the following statements are true or false according to the text. Mark T on your answer sheet if it is true, F if it is false. Write your answers your answer sheet.31. If you need a visa to enter Singapore, you should apply early.32. Although many hospitals in Singapore are well-equipped, the doctors there cannot treat patients who do not speak English.33. A foreign tourist can change money in hotels, as well as in bands.34. It is illegal to change money with authorized money changers.35．Foreign tourists have to make trservations before they come if they want to stay in a fivestar hotelPart 2. Questions 36-40Death GigglesNot many books about old age and the fear of death tend to boost my mood my mood, but Gene Cohen’s the creative Age has me singing in the shower and chuckling even at Internet jokes. Being a white headed wrinkly, as Australians call us old folks , I now feel the laughs bulling up the way they have for most my 76 years, Why? Well Cohen brightened my life-by putting me back in touch with my fear of death.Millions of us are living 30 years longer than we did a hundred years ago, and the data suggest that just in my lifetime we’ve been given a 14-year honus in productive activity. Our species is experimenting with lifespan. Here we are playing in overtime, with more health and energy than any cohort our age ever had. But our bodies wear down and cramp up, aggravating reminders that the whistle will soon blow to end the game. We tense up with anxiety and nocturnal panic, wake from nightmares at 2:29 a.m ,roused by fear-moved bowels, fall into depression, lose concentration and turn edgy each time memory hides a name or a fact just when we have to have it.So we have to turn tombstone terrors into creative energy, urges Cohen. We start to get liberated, if ever, only by a “dramatic, though often overlooked, change in the way we think about death.” Shifting from the abstract to the concrete, death changes “from something that happens to something that will happen .” Only when we look death in the eye-whatever words work for you –and come to terms with our mortality do we discover a creative new freedom, Cohen reports. As the founding director of the National Institute of Mental Health’s Institute for Ageing, he’s looked into enough cases to dig out the subtle stuff buried under death denials. That’s why the why thebook pays off solidly on the promise of its subtitle:Awakening Human Potential in the Second Half of Life.The data suggests that we elders have easier access to our unconscious, productive dreams, than most busy grown-ups. In Denial of Death , the classic by Ernst Becker, the author argued that most art, and indeed civilization, comes from our struggle to transcend our mortal limits. What I know is I’d lost my old humour partner, death, but with Cohen’s help we’re hanging out together again and we know that a workable idea or a good joke is more important than extended tofu.Questions 36-40. Complete the following statements by choosing the best the answers a, b, c, and write the letter on your answer sheet.36. The author of this text discusses.a. energyb. freedomc. a bookd. a film37. The author of text is .a. a young manb. an old manC. an old woman d. a grown-up38. The name of the author of the text is .a. not statedb. Ernest Beckerc. Gene Cohend. Denial of Death39. The subtitle of The Creative Age is .a. Denial of Deathb. Death Gigglesc. Awakening Human Potential in the Second Half of Lifed. From something that happens to something that will happen40. The director of the National Institute of Mental Health’s Institute for Ageing is .a. its founderb. the author of the above textc. the director of a filmd. the director of the National Institute of Mental Health.Part 3 Questions 41-50.Romance of Three Kingdoms1.The Ming Dynasty classic Romance of the Three Kingdoms, by Luo Guanzhong, has long intrigued readers, both Chinese and foreign, with is depiction of political conspiracies its character portraits of politicians, statesmen and military strategists2.Now a mammoth, 84-part TV series, the play is a faithful adaptation of the original novel, and has become almost as popular overseas as it is at home. It is a panorama of a particular chaotic period in Chinese history, when imperial rule was weak and local monarchs longed for power. The rivals were finally reduced to three main contenders, the rulers of the states of Wei,Shu, and Wu, known in Chinese history as the Three Kingdoms. They fought for over half a century until China was finally reunited under the Jin Dynasty. The story of the play also spans about half a century, starting with local rivalries, moving no to the confrontation of the Three Kingdoms and ending with the final rnification of the country.3.The Three Kingdoms period is one the the most written and talked-about eras in China’s 5,000 years of history. For six decades battles raged back and forth, diplomacy was honed to a fine art, and political alliances were forged and broken in rapid succession. The monarchs of the threekingdoms have gained a reputation throughout history for being smart rulers, and each in turn was served by outstanding underlings, both military and civilian. It was an era in which a battle of wits was even more important than a military battle, a time when talent collided with talent and military genius with military genius-in short, a fantastic source of literary creation for generations to come.4.The novel itself is an epic with an enormous number of protagonists to come. If there is one, is Zhuge Liang, adviser to Liu Bei, ruler of the State of Shu. Because of his talents as a statesman and military strategist, Zhuge Liang has come to be seen by later generations of Chinese as the archetype of wisdom. Liu Bei is regarded as the representative of Confucianism. Both the novel and the TV play stress his benevolence, leniency, understanding of the people, and the fact that he knew how to get the best out of everyone.5.Amother leading character, Cao Cao ,is a far more complex personality.Having forced the young emperor of the Han Dynasty into subservience through his military might, Cao Cao becomers the power behind the throne. Like Zhuge Liang, he is an extraordinary politician and military strategist, but in addition he is also a poet of great depth. At the same time, however, he is cunning and brutal, egoistical and paranoid-at least in the nover. The TV presentation, sticking a little closer to known historical facts, portrays both his good and bad sides, bringing to the screen a very real and human character. Perhaps this is why he is the most popular with TV audiences.Questions 41-45. Find the three main characters of nover/play mentioned in the above text. Make notes on each one.41. Name:Position:Military adviser to the ruler of the State of ShuWords used to describe his personality/activities:42. Name: Liu BeiPosition:Words used to describe his personality/activities::Position:Word used to describe his personality/activities:44.Which of these three characters is liked most by TV audiences?45.Why is he liked most by TV audiences?Questions 46-50. Look at the italicized words in the text and find out theircorrec meaning through the context, then choose the option closest in meaning from the lists below by writing a,b, or, c, on your answer sheet.46. depictiona)deceptionb)despitec)written description47.spana)lastb)crossc)length of time48. eraa)period of historyb)short period of tiomec)important part of life49.benevolencea)kindnessb)beautyc)a tolerant person50.mighta)powerb)swordc)a modal verbWriting TestWrite a short essay of about 150 words on the Advantages and Disadvantages of Travelling. There should be two main paragraphs, one giving your ideas about the advantages and one on what you see as the disadvantages of traveling.。