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General English Qualifying Test for Non-English Major Graduate Students, December 29, 2013PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION (25 minutes, 20 points)Section A (1 point each)Directions: In this section, you will hear nine short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation a question will be asked about what was said. Theconversations and the questions will be read only once. Choose the best answer fromthe four choices given by marking the corresponding letter with a single bar acrossthe square brackets on your machine-scoring Answer Sheet.1.Woman: Let’s go see a movie!Man: I can’t. I barely have enough money for food. I’m broke until my next paycheck.Question: What does the man mean?2.Woman: What web-hosting place do you recommend？Man: Most of them are pretty good. Just make sure they have 247 technical support.Question: What does the man think it’s important for a good web-hosting?3. Woman: Sir, what would you like to order?Man: A beefsteak and some salad.Woman: Any drinks?Man: No, thank you.Question: Where does the conversation probably take place?4. Woman: Johnny, has Tommy returned your CD yet? It’s been a week.Man: Don’t worry about it, he’ll return it sooner or later.Question: What does the man mean?5. Man: Did you see the new 3D movie at the IMAX theatre？Woman: No. Was it any good？Man: It was better than good. It was out of this world.Question: What does the man think of the new 3D movie?6. Woman: Do you like skiing?Man: I really enjoy skiing. It’s one of my favorite sports.Woman: You must go very frequently then.Man: Oh it costs a lot, so I go skiing every now and then……Question: How often does the man go skiing?7. Man: When are you going to moving to your new apartment??Woman: I want to, but I can’t do it all by myself.Man: I can give you a hand if you can wait until this weekend.Question: What does the man mean?8. Woman: Hey, why do you have so many clocks in your bedroom? Do you need all of them?Man: Yeah, I need thunder to wake me up!Question: What does the man mean?9. Woman: You look worried. What’s wrong with you?Man: I am late. But I have to register right now. Can you keep an eye on my bag please? Question: What does the man want the woman to do?Section B (1 point each)Directions:In this section you will hear two mini-talks. At the end of each talk, there will be some questions. Both the talks and the questions will be read to you only once. After eachquestion, there will be a pause. During the pause, you must choose the best answerfrom the four choices given by marking the corresponding letter with a single baracross the square brackets on your machine-scoring Answer Sheet.Mini-talk OneThere is something hard to resist about cherries. The small red fruit is a popular seasonal food around the world.Cherries are thought to be native to western Asia. It is a member of the same family of plants as the rose. It is closely related to the plum. Like cherry trees, plum trees also flower in early spring.There are two major kinds of cherries harvested in the world: sweet and sour. Sour cherries are not eaten fresh because they contain little sugar. Instead, they are processed to make prepared foods like jellies and pies and to make alcoholic drinks. The United States is a major producer of sour cherries. Among the states, Michigan is the top producer.Sweet cherries contain much more sugar than their sour relatives and are usually eaten fresh. Washington state is the biggest American producer, followed by California and Oregon.Fresh cherries do not store well. They must reach market as soon as possible. So they cost more than many other kinds of fresh fruit.Cherry trees are also valued for their springtime blossoms.Cherry blossoms are popular in many parts of Asia and Europe, especially in Japan. But Washington, D.C., has some of the most famous cherry trees in the world. Japan gave the United States 3,500 cherry trees in nineteen twelve as a gift of friendship.Years later Japan gave another gift of three thousand eight hundred trees. In the early nineteen eighties, the United States provided Japan with cuttings to help replace Japanese trees lost in a flood.Question10: What plant family does the cherry belong to ?Question 11: Which state is the biggest sweet cherry producer in the US ?Question 12: How many cherry trees did Japan give the United States in 1912 ?Mini-talk TwoMany older Americans spend their final years in a nursing home or assisted living center. These places provide services that help older adults with activities they can no longer do on their own. However, most people say they would like to remain in their own homes. Now, there are nonprofit groups that help them do that. June Simms has more.Philip Smith is ninety-one years old and lives with his wife in an old house in Seattle, Washington. And he wants to keep it that way.He always says: "As far as I'm concerned, I would not like to leave this place. Living in a group situation is something I couldn't tolerate. I'd kill myself before I had to do that."Mr. Smith says now he and his wife can take good care of themselves in their two-level house. But he and his wife know they will soon need help with simple housework. Such as change a light bulb that hangs at the top of the stairs.In the past, an older American would ask one of their children or a neighborhood teenager to change the light bulb. But here, those young helpers have grown up and gone.Mr. and Mrs. Smith have three children but they all live in other sates. So they are considering joining a "virtual village." This is a local group of volunteers and service providers that help older adult. They might help these adults with anything from transportation to small home repairs and dog walking.The virtual village idea was first developed about ten years ago in Boston, Massachusetts. The idea has spread to an unofficial network of villages around the country. One hundred fifty are currently in development.Question 13: Why does Mr. Smith refuse to live in a nursing home?Question 14: Why can’t Mr. and Mrs. Smith ask their children to help them now?Question 15: According to the talk, what is the idea of a virtual village?Section C (1 point each)Directions: In this section you will hear a short lecture. Listen to the recording and complete the notes about the lecture. You will hear the recording twice. After the recording you areasked to write down your answers on the Answer Sheet. You now have 25 seconds toread the notes below.Today we will discuss the differences between public and private schools in American higher education.A big difference involves money. Public colleges and universities charge for an education just like private schools. But state schools cost less because they get money from the states that started them to educate local citizens. As a result, out-of-state and international students usually pay more than state residents, at least the first year.The state with the most residents, almost forty million, is California. Its systems of two-year and four-year colleges and universities are among the largest in the world.But the example we are going to focus on today is to the north of California, in a much smaller state on the West Coast: Oregon.The University of Oregon, located in Eugene, is one of the campuses in the Oregon University System. The cost for undergraduates this year is six thousand dollars for state residents. Housing isan additional eight thousand. Nonresidents pay the same for housing -- but almost twenty thousand dollars for tuition and fees.Let's see how these numbers compare to a private college in Oregon.Lewis and Clark College in Portland has four thousand students, compared to twenty thousand at the University of Oregon. Housing costs eight hundred dollars more than at the state school. But the big difference is tuition. The published price at Lewis and Clark is almost thirty-four thousand dollars.Yet Lewis and Clark is one of the few American colleges to offer financial aid for international students. Each year it awards financial aid to twenty students from other countries. And it says the average award last year was nineteen thousand dollars. That would make Lewis and Clark cheaper for international students than the University of Oregon.But, of course, prices alone do not say anything about the quality of a school or the value of an education.This is the end of Listening Comprehension.。