2004级博士生英语考试试卷

English Test for Doctoral Candidates

(Jan. 16, 2005)

Part I Listening Comprehension (20%)

Section A

Directions:In this section, you will hear 5 short conversations. After each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and question will be read only once. Listen carefully and choose the best answer to each question. Then mark your answer on your Answer Sheet A.

1. A. To be back Tuesday morning.

B. To come and see him Wednesday.

C. To call him on Thursday.

D. To make an appointment for Thursday.

2. A. Every day.

B. Every day except Thursday.

C. Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

D. Monday, Tuesday and Friday.

3. A. On a train.

B. On a boat.

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C. On a plane.

D. On a bus.

4. A. It was sold out.

B. It was too expensive.

C. She didn’t like it.

D. It was uninteresting.

5. A. Go for a long walk with her friend.

B. Rest and take care of herself.

C. Stay at home and do her exercises.

D. Catch up with her reading.

Section B

Directions:In this section, you will hear 2 short passages. The passage will be read only once. At the end of the passage, you will hear 5 questions about what was said. Listen carefully and choose the best answer to each question.

Passage 1

6. A. Almost half their money.

B. Almost all their money.

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C. Almost one-third of their money.

D. Most of their money.

7. A. Right after the food is ready.

B. Right after the father makes the cross over the bread with a knife.

C. Right after the mother distributes each member a piece of brad.

D. Right after the father gives everyone a piece of bread.

8. A. The famous French food.

B. The French family meal.

C. The French family reunion.

D. The French gable manners.

Passage 2

9. A. Means for winter traveling.

B. Methods of fishing.

C. How to hunt large animals.

D. Political ways.

10. A. Iron tools.

B. Building canoes.

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C. Blazing trails.

D. Planting crops.

Section C Spot Dictation

Directions:In this part, you are going to hear a longer passage. The passage is printed below with some words and expressions missing. As you listen, fill in each of the blanks with the words and expressions you have heard.

Our sleep time over the past century has been reduced by almost 20 percent.

Generally, adults need to sleep one hour for every two hours awake, which means that most need about eight hours of sleep a night. Of course, some people need more and some less. Children and teenagers need an average of about ten hours.

The brain keeps an exact (11) ______________ of how much sleep it is owed. My colleagues and I coined the term sleep debt because accumulated lost sleep is like a monetary debt: it must be paid back. If you get an hour less than a full night’s sleep, you carry an hour of sleep debt into the next day—and your (12) ______________ to fall asleep during the daytime becomes stronger.

During the five-day workweek, if you get six hours of sleep each night instead of the eight you needed, you would build up a sleep debt of ten hours (five days times two hours). Because sleep debt accumulates in an additive (13) ______________, by day five your brain would tend toward sleep as strongly as if you’d stayed up all night. From this perspective, sleeping until noon on Saturday is not getting enough to pay back the ten lost hours as well as meet your nightly (14) ______________ of eight; you would have to sleep until about 5 p.m. to balance the sleep ledger. But for most people it is difficult to sleep that long because of the alerting mechanism of our (15) ______________

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