College English Model Test One
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-College English Model Test One

試卷一

Part I Listening Comprehension(20 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
Example: You will hear:
 You will read:
A) 2 hours. B) 3 hours.
C) 4 hours. D) 5 hours.
From the conversation we know that the two are talking about some work they will start at 9 o�餭lock in the morning and have to finish at 2 in the afternoon. Therefore, D) “5 hours” is the correct answer. You should choose［D］ on the Answer Sheet and mark it with a single line through the center.

1. A) Husband and wife.             B) Doctor and nurse.
   C) Sales clerk and customer.     D) Airline agent and customer.
2. A) He is a secretary.      B) He’s a novelist.
   C) He’s a newspaper man.  D) He’s a worker.
3. A) On a mountain path.     B) In a supermarket.
   C) On a road.              D) In a railway station.
4. A) Someone fixed it.       B) Louis sold it.
   C) Louis repaired it.      D) It’s been thrown out.
5. A) Monday morning.         B) Monday afternoon.
   C) Wednesday morning.      D) Friday afternoon.
6. A) Customer and clerk.     B) Professor and student.
   C) Boss and employee.      D) Lawyer and client.
7. A) Reduce the volume of her TV.  B) Make the TV louder.
   C) Send her to hospital.         D) Pay no attention.
8. A) She has bad study habits.     B) She sleeps too much.
   C) She wakes up late.            D) She’s an excellent student.
9. A) 4 hours.                B) 6 hours.          C) 12 hours.         D) 18 hours.
10. A) How primitive people used flags.
    B) What the ancient means of communication was.
    C) Why the torch towers were built.
    D) How the Great Wall came into being.

Section B Spot Dictation
注意：聽力理解的B節(Section B)為聽寫填空(Spot Dictation)，題目在試卷二上，現在請取出試卷二。

Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Directions: There are 4 reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.

Passage One
Questions 11 to 15 based on the following passage.
    Many private institutions of higher education around the country are in danger. Not all will be saved, and perhaps not all deserved to be saved. There are low-quality schools just as there are low-quality business. We have no obligation to save them simply because they exist.
    But many thriving institutions that deserve to continue are threatened. They are doing a fine job educationally, but they are caught in a financially squeeze, with no way to reduce rising costs or increasing revenues significantly. Raising tuition doesn’t bring in more revenues, for each time tuition goes up, the enrollment goes down, or the amount that must be given away in student aid goes up. Schools are businesses, whether public or private, not usually because of mismanagement but because of the nature of the enterprise. They lose money on every customer, and they can go bankrupt either from too few students or too many students. Even a very good college is a very bad business.
    It is such colleges, thriving but threatened, I worry about. Low enrollment is not their chief problem. Even with full enrollment, they may go under. Efforts to save them, and preferably to keep them private, are a national necessity. There is no basis for arguing that private schools are inherently better than public schools. Examples to the contrary abound. Anyone can name state universities and colleges that rank as the finest in the nation and the world. It is now inevitable that public institutions will be dominant, and therefore diversity is a national necessity. Diversity in the way we support schools tends to give us a healthy diversity in the forms of education. In an imperfect society such as ours, uniformity of education throughout the nation could be dangerous. In an imperfect society diversity is a positive good. Ardent supporters of public higher education know the importance of sustaining private higher education.
11. The author thinks that schools are bad business because of              .
  A) improper management                B) the low quality
  C) the unstable number of students    D) their inherent nature
12. The phrase “go under” in the third paragraph most probably means        .
  A) enrollments decline                B) get into difficulties
  C) have lower revenues                D) survive
13. We may safely conclude that the author made an appeal to the public in order to support          .
  A) uniformity of education            B) private schools
  C) diversity of education             D) public institutions
14. All of the following are not mentioned in the passage EXCEPT            .
  A) all private schools deserved to be saved
  B) some private schools should be turned into public ones for existence
  C) there are some cases to show that public schools are better than private schools
  D) private schools should be dominant.
15. Which of the following ways could possibly save private schools?
  A) Government offers financial support. B) Full enrollment.
  C) National awareness and support.      D) Merging with public schools.

Passage Two
Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage.
    A close analogy to a study design is the rough sketch made by an artist before he commits his vision to canvas(畫布). The broad outlines are drawn, the proper perspective achieved, and the total impact of the picture-to-be can be partially appreciated in advance. So it is with the design of research: it specifies in advance the kinds of statements that can be made on the basis of its findings and fixes the perspectives against which these findings are to be evaluated.
    One major purpose of this study was to demonstrate whether or not the newer social research techniques could help in broadening and deepening knowledge concerning juvenile delinquency. Construction of the design was guided by this goal of exploring new methods in the analysis of juvenile delinquency. However, research technique developed in one content area can not be mechanically transferred to another. A new application of them requires substantial changes and it is these innovative modifications which this study offers as its contribution.
    Juvenile delinquency has been the subject of many previous studies using a variety of research techniques. This study makes an additional contribution by using a design specially planned to permit a comparison of several approaches.
    The drawing up of the study design profited greatly from an extensive survey of previous researches on crime, undertaken during the earliest stage of the project. It was found that most studies could be classified as belonging to one or more of three broadly conceived types: social background study, family background study and personal motivation study.
    Each type has its characteristic design and mode of interpretation and each has produced information of considerable importance. Yet not attempt was made in any of the studies to integrate one or more of these three design types. It became apparent that one of the major contributions a pilot study could make to both method and substantive findings would be to bring all three study types together in one design for the purpose of correlating their findings and evaluating their relative importance in producing data of use to the practitioner.
16. In the first paragraph, the author draws an analogy between             .
  A) doing research and drawing a picture
  B) research finding and picture’s perspective
  C) designing a research and making a quick drawing
  D) a researcher and a painter
17. The passage is mainly concerned with           .
  A) application of analogy in studying juvenile delinquency
  B) a research design concerning juvenile delinquency
  C) significance of juvenile delinquency
  D) an extensive survey of researches in juvenile delinquency
18. The word “project ”(Line 2, Para. 4) refers to         .
  A) a comprehensive study of juvenile delinquency
  B) a full exploration of research designs
  C) an extensive research on crime
  D) a further investigation into new research techniques
19. The major contribution of this study is to            .
  A) develop a new research technique easily transferred from one area to another
  B) make a comprehensive analysis of juvenile delinquency
  C) demonstrate the successful application of new research techniques in a new area
  D) modify creatively the previous research finding of juvenile delinquency
20. According to the author, three design types of previous researches are            .
  A) interrelated to one another  B) supplementary to one another
  C) to be modified considerably  D) to be integrated into one design