TAI LIEU LUYEN THI TOEFL 05/ 1999
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Modern life is causing many traditions and beliefs to become less important Choose one
tradition or belief and explain why you think it should be continued and maintained Use Specific reasons and examples to support your answer
Notes
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1 (A) The woman-doesn’t drive often (B) Traffic is better than it used to be (C) Taking public transportation saves time (D) The subway is crowded
2 (A) Wear a heavy sweater to the game (B) Exchange the tickets
(C) Take care of his cold (D) Watch the game at home
3 (A) He dropped out of Professor Johnson’s class
(B) He'll probably take another class with Professor Johnson
(C) Professor Johnson’s lectures were boring
(D) Students weren’t allowed to bring drinks
into Professor Johnson’s class 4 (A) She hasn’t received any mail yet
(B) She doesn’t know where the post office is (C) She thinks the post office is nearby (D) A new post office has just opened
5 (A) Someone else told him Fred had called
(B) The man looked for Fred at they gym
(C) It wasn’t really Fred who calied
{D) Fred probably borrowed someone else’s sleeping bag
6 (A) She hasn’t gone hiking in three years (B) She plans to visit her relatives
(C) Her sister’s children love to hike in the
mountains —
(D) Her sister may move back to Colorado someday
7 (A) He’s planning to move to a new house (B) He hopes to change jobs
(C) He likes to keep his house clean
(D) He’s too busy to clean the house 8 (A) Her coat is similar to the man’s
(B) She needs to buy a new coat (C) Her sweater is not warm enough (D) The man should have worn a sweater
9 (A) Ask the people in the lounge to be quiet
(B) Try to find another place to study {C) Move the party to the dining room 10 11 12 13 14
(D) Turn on another light
(A) Pick up the package at the post office (B) Deliver the package in person
(C) Ask to have the package delivered to his home
(@) Find out the hours the post office is open (A) The committee is discussing it
(B) It received a low grade (C) It hasn’t been graded
(D) The woman hasn’t submitted it
(A) He’ll see the doctor if he’s not better soon (B) He has had worse colds in the past (C) He'll feel better once he sees the doctor (D) His cold will go away by itself
{A) Get his shower fixed
(B) Find out when the gym is open (C) Take a shower at the gym
(D) Ask to be moved to another building (A) Make sure the registration office didn’t make a mistake (B) Decide whether to drop the course next week, (C) Find out if a place opens up in the course later (D) Take the course next year 15 16 17 132
(A) He doesn’t think the room is too cold
(B) He’s already wearing a sweater (C) He can't address the problem right now
(D) He’ll turn up the heat as soon as class is
over
(A) Make a copy of the key for the woman
() Give the woman her key at her class
(C) Put the key in the woman’s mailbox (D) Unlock the woman’s door
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(D) He’s going on the trip, too (A) She likes the design of the car
(B) Someone famous is riding in the car
(C) She collects pictures of cars (D) The car is in front of something
interesting
(A) The bus is usually late when it snows (B) She’s not sure where her schedule is (C) She can’t give the man a ride to work (D) The times on her bus schedule may no
longer be correct
(A) She has trouble concentrating
(B) She’II return the book if she doesn’t like it
(C) She is a fast reader
(D) She’ !I iend the man the book when she’s finished
(A) Pay the extra postage
(B) Send the package third-class (C) Wait a few days to mail the package (D) Deliver the package himself (A) He’s not very hungry
(B) He really wants to eat at the restaurant (C) The restaurant is too expensive
(D) He knows a better place to go for a meal (A) Speak to his professor about the condition
of the lecture hall
(B) Organize a team of students to clean the lecture hall
(C) Find out who has been making the mess
(D) Wait to see if the problem goes away
(A) She’d like to go although she has little experience
(B) She doesn't enjoy camping
(C) She’d rather go swimming than hiking (D) She needs to buy a canoe before the trip (A) She couldn’t get a ticket for the exhibit (B) She doesn’t like crowded events
(C) She knows a lot of people who went to the exhibit
(D) She doesn’t like modem art
26 (A) Arrive at the presentation after breakfast
(B) Talk to the dean before the presentation (C) Call the woman early in the morning (D) Eat breakfast at the presentation 27 (A) Ruth earned the award
(B) Ruth helped plan the award ceremony (C) Ruth should work more for the
community
(D) Ruth served as chairperson of the committee
28 (A) She cannot go with the man to Smithville (B) There is a new art supply store downtown (C) The store’s location has changed
(D) The store went out of business 29 (A) She hopes the man can remember her phone number (B) She’s willing to help the man solve the puzzle (C) She hopes the man will call her when he’s finished
(D) She’s going out of town soon
30 (A) It is difficult getting an appointment with her
(B) She is a good doctor
(C) She used to be his doctor
(D) She is fairly old
31 (A) She attended one of their meetings (B) Her roommate is a member (C) She saw them protesting
(D) She read about them in the newspaper 32 (A) Secure more student parking spaces
(B) Preserve an open space on campus (C) Get more funding for their group (D) Schedule a meeting with college
administrators 33 (A) Go to class
(B) Go on a picnic (C) Attend a meeting (@) Attend the rally
34 (A) Help the man plan a student rally (B) Use the student parking lot
(C) Make a donation to support the group (D) Sign a petition
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(B) In the campus dining hall (C) In the university bookstore (D) Ina classroom (A) Studying (B) Preparing snacks (C) Playing cards (D) Learning how to play bridge 36
37 (A) Watch her partner
(B) Play her cards in cooperation with her
partner
(C) Quit the game
(D) Teach the man how to play bridge 38 (A) Miss her card game
(B) Stay up too late
(C) Take too heavy a work load next semester
(D) Neglect her studies to play bridge 39 (A) He already knows how to play
(B) He doesn’t like to play games
(C) He doesn’t have a partner
(D) He doesn’t have enough free time 40 (A) To emphasize the hazards of wooden
buildings
(B) To explain why certain building techniques started in Chicago
(C) To warn against building skyscrapers close
together
(D) To explain how Chicago’s early skyscrapers were destroyed 4] (A) It was constructed without bricks
(B) It was the tallest early skyscraper (C) It contained offices where victims of the
fire could get help
(D) It had an internal metal skeleton
42 (A) It was the first skyscraper with walls of glass (B) It did not have enough support for its height 46 47 48 49
(C) It was not built by an architect from Chicago
(D) It was the tallest skyscraper built in the 1800s 43 (A) The mass production of communications devices (B) The early history of a major communication medium 434
(C) The life of a famous inventor
(D) The impact of radio broadcasting on the music industry
(A) Few people owned the necessary equipment
(B) The music selection was not very popular (C) Few ships came into New York harbor (D) The radio signal was too weak to reach a
mass audience
(A) Military communications officers (B) People who treated radio technology as a
hobby
(C) People who lived in big cities (D) People with an interest in music
(A) They would get smaller in size (B) Their signals would travel further
(C) They would become less popular than
television
(D) They would be common household items
(A) Differences between the planets in the solar system
(B) Methods of determining the composition
of Earth and the Moor
(C) Why Earth has an iron core (D) The origin of the Moon
(A) The Moon has no water
(B) The Moon contains almost no iron
(C) The Moon is the largest moon in the solar
system
(D) The Moon does not have a molten core (A) Earth’s moon used to orbit Mars (B) Mars was captured by the gravitational
field of the Sun
(C) A planet the size of Mars collided with Earth
(D) Mars is larger than Earth
(A) The Moon formed from pieces of Earth’s crust
(B) The Moon was struck by another planet (C) The Moon’s composition resembles that of
Mars
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Classical logic is characterized by a concern for the structure and elements of argument that thought, language, and reality are interrelated (A) based on the belief
(B) on the belief based (C) belief based on the
(D) the based belief on
Adult fleas only blood and are external
parasites of mammals and birds
(A) eat
(B) having eaten (C) that eat {D) to eat
- Heat energy may be absorbed or released when- -while work is done on or by the system (A) changes in the internal energy of a system (B) by changing the internal energy of a system (C) the internal energy of a system that changes (D) the internal energy of a system changes Methods of measuring mass, time, and distance
are of human culture (A) among the oldest skills
(B) they are among the oldest skills
(C) what among the oldest skills
(D) the skills that among the oldest -7-they sometimes swim alone, dolphins
usually congregate in large groups, often numbering in the hundreds
(A) Why
(B) Although
(C) Even
(D) Nevertheless
„ —plays an important part in commercial art,
illustrating advertisements, textbooks, vochures, and articles in magazines and periodicals (A) Drawing and ~ (B) Because drawing (C) Drawing, which (D) Drawing *
7 Godfinches build compact nests, which thay
line with soft vegetable down (A) shaped like a cup
(B) cup-shaped
(C) cup shapes (D) shape of a cup
8 Louisa May Alcott published her first book,
Flower Fables -of fairy tales, in 1854 (A) which a collection
(B) a collection was
(C) a collection
(D) in which a collection
9 understanding of weather and its variability, it has been difficult to prove that weather can be controiled (A) Since incomplete (B) Because of incomplete (C) Incomplete (D) Why is incomplete
10 Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal program included designed to provide relief and counteract the effects of the economic depression that had begun in 1929 (A) measures were temporary (B) in temporary measures (C) temporary and measures (D) temporary measures
11, Current health guidelines recommend that people restrict their consumption— (A) foods of high in fat
(B) of foods in fat high (C) of foods high in fat
(D) in foods high of fat
12 Walt Whitman originated a distinctive form of free verse that sets his work apart from of all other poets
(A) what
(B) that
(C) how
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economic change by investigating the (A) grain crops ripen fluctuations in the relationship between (B) grain crops are ripe workers’ wages and their buying Power (C) the ripening of grain crops (A) Economists gauging (D) to ripen grain crops (B) Economists gauge how
(C) Economists gauge 15 Tools, a workshop, and some storage space (D) Whenever economists gauge 'Were-—fOor early experiments in aviation
(A) required all that
Although the many hours of summer sunshine (B) all that was required in Canada’s Klondike region produce good (C) all the requirements that Vegetable crops, the long winters rarely (D) such that all the requirements permit A major railroad junction in Illinois, Decatur has became an important commercial hub for the A region’s farm products and livestock Cc D People use muscles to make various movements, such as walk, jumping, or throwing A B Cc Emily Dickinson unmistakenly fixed her own highly individually and revolutionary personality in her A B Cc
elliptical and Provocative poems
The human skeleton % is made ups of 206 bones of difference sizes and shapes A C D One of the carliest surke i in United States history occurred.in 1740 when bakers refused to work until B C their wages were increased D Count Basie’s distinctive piano style and band arrangements of the late 1930’s earned his an important A B place in jazz history D
The wide range of elevations in the southem Appalachian Mountains allows for the great diverse of A B plant life found there
Four huge shield volcanocs have been observed on Mars, as well as a great number of smaller ones like found those on the Earth ˆ 5 ° The 1897 diggover of gold in the Klondike hastened the commercial development of Washington
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or to protect themselves against enemies
Compared with another breeds, quarter horses can start more quickly, turn more sharply, and run tư A B C over short courses D Stars emit radio waves, which they may be detected and studied using radio telescopes A B Cc D A glider is a type of aircraft resembling an airplane but often having not means of propulsion at all A B Cc D A patrilineal extended family consists of core group of males, their wives, and their unmarried A B CD daughters Herons inhabit marshy areas or the shores along fresh or salt water, which they find fishes, frogs, A B crustaceans, and other aquatic animals to eat D A computer program that communicates with the user solely by choices providing from interlinked A B Cc menus is said to be menu-driven D - In the 1930’s few major orchestras in the United States hired woman, so many chose to perform in A B c amateur musical groups as an alternative Complex spacecraft are characterized by a various of supporting systems, including communications, : A B guidance and navigation, altitude control, and, in some cases, life-support systems Cc D When a piano keyboard is substituted for buttons on right side of an accordion, the instrument is A B C
known as a piano accordion D
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Questions 1-9
The term “Hudson River school” was applied to the foremost representatives of nineteenth-century North American landscape painting Apparently unknown during the golden days of the American landscape movement, which began around 1850 and
Line lasted until the late 1860°s, the Hudson River school seems to have emerged in the
5) 1870’s as a direct result of the struggle between the old and the new generations of artists, each to assert its own style as the representative American art The older painters, most of whom were born before 1835, practiced in a mode often self-taught and monopolized by landscape subject matter and were securely established in and fostered by the reigning American art organization, the National Academy of Design $0) The younger painters returning home from training in Europe worked more with figural
subject matter and in a bold and impressionistic technique; their prospects for
patronage in their own country were uncertain, and they sought to attract it by attaining academic recognition in New York One of the results of the conflict between the two factions was that what in previous years had been referred to as the “American,” 15) “Native,” or, occasionally, “New York” school—the most representative school of
American art in any genre—had by 1890 become firmly established in the minds of critics and public alike as the Hudson River school
The sobriquet was first applied around 1879 While it was not intended as flattering, it was hardly inappropriate the Academicians at whom it was aimed had worked and
3) segialized in New York, the Hudson's port.city, and had painted the river and its shores
with varying frequency Most important, perhaps, was that they had all maintained with a certain fidelity a manner of technique and composition consistent with those of America’s first popular landscape artist, Thomas Cole, who built a career painting the Catskill Mountain scenery bordering the Hudson River A possible implication in the 25) term applied to the group of landscapists was that many of them had, like Cole, lived
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on or near the banks of the Hudson Further, the river had long served as the principal Toute to other sketching grounds favored by the Academicians, particularly the Adirondacks and the mountains of Vermont and New Hampshire
What does the passage mainly discuss? 3 The word “struggle” in line 5 is closest in (A) The National Academy of Design meaning to
(B) Paintings that featured the Hudson River (A) connection (C) North American landscape paintings (B) distance (D) The training of American artists in (C) communication
European academies (D) competition
Befyya 1870, what was considered the most 4 The word “monopolized” in line 8 is closest in
Tepsayentative kind of American painting? meaning to {A} ERqaral painting (A) alarmed
$Ð; laedscape painting (B) dominated gj tegiressionistic painting (C) repelled
Ð) i&#orical painting (D) pursued
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the painters bor before 1835? (C) cities (A) It mediated conflicts between artists (D) images
(B) It supervised the incorporation of new
artistic techniques 8, The word “flattering” in line 18 is ebeauatin
(C) It determined which subjects were meaning to appropriate (A) expressive
(D) It supported their growth and development (B) serious (C) complimentary 6 The word “it” in line 12 refers to (D) flashy
(A) matter
(B) technique 9 Where did the younger generatioa (C) patronage receive its artistic training? (D) country (A) In Europe
(B) In the Adirondacks 7 The word “factions” in line 14 is closest in {C) In Vermont
meaning to (D) In New Hampshire Questions 10-22
Television has transformed politics in the United States by changing the way in which information is disseminated, by altering political campaigns, and by changing citizens’ patterns of response to politics By giving citizens independent access to the Line candidates, television diminished the role of the political party in the selection of the 5) 10) 15) 20) 25)
major party candidates By centering politics on the person of the candidate, television accelerated the citizen’s focus on character rather than issues
Television has altered the forms of political communication as well The messages on which most of us rely are briefer than they once were The stump speech, a political speech given by traveling politicians and lasting | 1/2 to 2 hours, which characterized
nineteenth-century political discourse, has given way to the 30-second advertisement
and the 10 second “sound bite” in broadcast news Increasingly the audience for speeches is not that standing in front of the politician but rather the viewing audience who will hear and see a snippet of the speech on the news
In these abbreviated forms, much of what constituted the traditional political discourse of earlier ages has been lost In 15 or 30 seconds, a speaker cannot establish the historical context that shaped the issue in question, cannot detail the probable causes of the problem, and cannot examine alternative proposals to argue that one is preferable to others In snippets, politicians assert but do not argue
Because television is an intimate medium, speaking through it required a changed political style that was more conversational, personal, and visual than that of the old- style stump speech Reliance on television means that increasingly our political world contains memorable pictures rather than memorable words Schools teach us to analyze words and print However, in a word in which politics is increasingly visual, informed citizenship requires a new set of skills
Recognizing the power of television’s pictures, politicians craft televisual, staged events, called pseudo-events, designed to attract media coverage Much of the political
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activity we see on television news has been crafted by politicians, their speechwriters, and their public relations advisers for televised consumption Sound bites in news and answers to questions in debates increasingly sound like advertisements
What is the main point of the passage?
(A) Citizens in the United States are now more
informed about political issues because of television coverage
(B) Citizens in the United States prefer to see politicians on television instead of in person
(C) Politics in the United States has become substantially more controversial since the introduction of television
(D) Politics in the United States has been significantly changed by television The word “disseminated” in line 2 is closest in Meaning to (A) analyzed (B) discussed (C) spread (D) stored
It can be inferred that before the introduction of television, political parties
(A) had more influence over the selection of political candidates
(B) spent more money to promote their political candidates
(C) attracted more members (D) received more money
The word “accelerated” in line 6 is closest in Meaning to (A) allowed (B) increased (C) required (D) started The author mentions the “stump speech” in line 8 as an example of (A) an event created by politicians to attract media attention (B) an interactive discussion between two politicians (C) a kind of political presentation typical of 140 15 16 17, 18 19
the nineteenth century
(D) a style of speech common to televised political events The phrase “given way to” in line 10 is closest in meaning to (A) added interest to (B) modified (C) imitated {(D) been replaced by The word “that” in line 12 refers to (A) audience (B) broadcast news (C) politician (D) advertisement
According to the passage, as compared with televised speeches, traditional political discourse was more successful at (A) allowing news coverage of political candidates (B) placing political issues within a historical context (C) making politics seem more intimate to citizens
(D) providing detailed information about a candidate’s private behavior
The author states that “politicians asset but do not argue” (line 18) in order to suggest that politicians (A) make claims without providing reasons for the claims (B) take stronger positions on issues than in the past
(C) enjoy explaining the issues to broadcasters (D) dislike having to explain their own
positions on issues to citizens
The word “Reliance” in line 21 is closest in meaning to
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(C) dependence (B) obtain more television coverage for
(D) information themselves
(C) spend more time talking to citizens in 20 The purpose of paragraph 4 is to suggest that person
(A) politicians will need to learn to become (D) engage in debates with their opponents more personal when meeting citizens
(B) politicians who are considered very 22 Which of the following statements is attractive are favored by citizens over supported by the passage?
politicians who are less attractive (A) Political presentations today are more like
(C) citizens tend to favor a politician who advertisements than in the past
analyzes the issues over one who does not (B) Politicians today tend to be more familiar (D) citizens will need to learn how to evaluate with the views of citizens than in the pas‡,
visual political images in order to become (C) Citizens today are less informed about a better informed politician’s character than in the past
(D) Political speeches today focus more on 21 According to paragraph 5, staged political details about issues than in the past
events are created so that politicians can
Questions 23-33
The spectacular auroral light displays that appear in Earth’s atmosphere around the north and south magnetic poles were once mysterious phenomena Now, scientists have data from satellites and ground-based observations from which we know that the Line auroral brilliance is an immense electrical discharge similar to that occurring in a 5) neon sign
To understand the cause of auroras, first picture the Earth enclosed by its magnetosphere, a huge region created by the Earth’s magnetic field Outside the magnetosphere, blasting toward the Earth is the solar wind, a swiftly moving plasma of ionized gases with its own magnetic field Charged particles in this solar wind speed 10) earthward along the solar wind’s magnetic lines of force with a spiraling motion The
Earth’s magnetosphere is a barrier to the solar wind, and forces the charged particles of the solar wind to flow around the magnetosphere itself But in the polar regions, the magnetic lines of force of the Earth and of the solar wind bunch together Here many of the solar wind’s charged particles break through the magnetosphere and enter Earth’s 15) magnetic field They then spiral back and forth between the Earth’s magnetic poles
very rapidly In the polar regions, electrons from the solar wind ionize and excite the atoms and molecules of the upper atmosphere, causing them to emit auroral radiations of visible light
The colors of an aurora depend on the atoms emitting them The dominant greenish 20) white light comes from low energy excitation of oxygen atoms During huge magnetic
storms oxygen atoms also undergo high energy excitation and emit a crimson light Excited nitrogen atoms contribute bands of color varying from blue to violet
Viewed from outer space, auroras can be seen as dimly glowing belts wrapped around each of the Earth’s magnetic poles Each aurora hangs like a curtain of light 25) stretching over the polar regions and into the higher latitudes When the solar flares that result in magnetic storms and auroral activity are very intense, auroral displays may extend as far as the southern regions of the United States
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Studies of auroras have given physicists new information about the behavior of plasmas, which has helped to explain the nature of outer space and is being applied in attempts to harness energy from the fusion of atoms
What does the passage mainly discuss? (A) The methods used to observe auroras from
outer space
(B) The formation and appearance of auroras around the Earth’s poles
(C) The factors that cause the variety of colors in auroras (D) The periodic variation in the display of auroras The word “phenomena” in line 2 is closest in meaning to (A) ideas (B) stars (C) events (@) colors The word “picture” in line 6 is closest in meaning to (A) frame (B) imagine {C) describe (D) explain
The passage describes the magnetosphere as a barrier (line 11) because
(A) its position makes it difficult to be observed from Earth
(B) it prevents particles from the solar wind from easily entering Earth’s atmosphere
(C) it increases the speed of particles from the
solar wind
(D) it is strongest in the polar regions The word “them” in line 17 refers to (A) polar regions
(B) electrons
(C) atoms and molecules
(D) auroral radiations
According to the passage, which color appears most frequently in an auroral display? (A) Greenish-white (B) Crimson 142 29 30 31 32 33 (C) Blue (D) Violet The word “emit” in line 21 is closest in meaning to (A) change from (B) connect with (C) add to (D) give off The word “glowing” in line 23 is closest in meaning to (A) shining (B) moving (C) charging (D) hanging
Auroras may be seen in the southern regions of the United States when ` (A) magnetic storms do not affect Earth
(B) solar flares are very intense
(C) the speed of the solar wind is reduced (D) the excitation of atoms is low
The passage supports which of the following statements about scientists’ understanding of auroras?
(A) Before advances in technology, including satellites, scientists knew little about auroras
(B) New knowledge about the fusion of atoms
allowed scientists to learn more about auroras
(C) Scientists cannot explain the causes of the different colors in auroras
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Matching the influx of foreign immigrants into the larger cities of the United States during the late nineteenth century was a domestic migration, from town and farm to city, within the United States The country had been overwhelmingly rural at the Line beginning of the century, with less than 5 percent of Americans living in large towns 5) or cities The proportion of urban population began to grow remarkably after 1840,
increasing from 11 percent that year to 28 percent by 1880 and to 46 percent by 1900 A country with only 6 cities boasting a population of more than 8,000 in 1800 had become one with 545 such cities in 1900 Of these, 26 had a population of more than 100,000 including 3 that held more than a million people Much of the migration 10) producing an urban society came from smaller towns within the United States, but the
combination of new immigrants and old American “settlers” on America’s “urban frontier” in the late nineteenth century proved extraordinary
The growth of cities and the process of industrialization fed on each other The agricultural revolution stimulated many in the countryside to seek a new life in the city 15) and made it possible for fewer farmers to feed the large concentrations of people
needed to provide a workforce for growing numbers of factories Cities also provided ready and convenient markets for the products of industry, and huge contracts in transportation and construction—as well as the expanded market in consumer goods—allowed continued growth of the urban sector of the overall economy of the 20) United States
Technological developments further stimulated the process of urbanization One example is the Bessemer converter (an industrial process for manufacturing steel), which provided steel girders for the construction of skyscrapers The refining of crude oil into kerosene, and later the development of electric lighting as well as of the 25) telephone, brought additional comforts to urban areas that were unavailable to rural
Americans and helped attract many of them from the farms into the cities In every era the lure of the city included a major psychological element for country people; the bustle and social interaction of urban life seemed particularly intriguing to those raised in rural isolation
34 What aspect of the United States in the 36 The paragraph preceding the passage most nineteenth century does the passage mainly probably discusses
discuss? (A) foreign immigration (A) Technological developments (B) rural life
(B) The impact of foreign immigrants on cities (C) the agricultural revolution
(C) Standards of living (D) famous cities of the twentieth century (D) The relationship between industrialization
and urbanization 37 What proportion of the population of the United States was urban in 1900?
35 The word “influx” in line | is closest in (A) Five percent
meaning to (B) Eleven percent (A) working ˆ (C) Twenty-eight percent (B) processing (D) Forty-six percent (C) arrival
(D) attraction
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in meaning to (C) They were developed by the same (A) expensive individual
(B) exceptional 7 (D) They were products of the Bessemer
(C) supreme converter
(D) necessary
42 The word “them” in line 26 refers to 39 The phrase “each other” in line 13 refers to (A) urban areas
(A) foreign immigrants and domestic migrants (B) rural Americans (B) farms and small towns (C) farms
(C) growth of cities and industrialization (D) cities (D) industry and transportation
43 The word “era” in line 26 is closest in 40 The word “stimulated” in line 14 is closest in meaning to
meaning to (A) period of time (A) forced (B) location
(B) prepared (C) action
(C) limited (D) unique situation
() motivated
44, The word “intriguing” in line 28 is closest in 41 Why does the author mention “electric meaning to
lighting” and “the telephone” in lines 24-25? (A) profitable (A) They contributed to the agricultural (B) attractive
revolution (C) comfortable
(B) They are examples of the conveniences of (@) challenging
Questions 45-50
The nervous system of vertebrates is characterized by a hollow, dorsal nerve cord that ends in the head region as an enlargement, the brain Even in its most primitive form this cord and its attached nerves are the result of evolutionary specialization, Line and their further evolution from lower to higher vertebrate classes is a process that 5) is far from fully understood Nevertheless, the basic arrangements are similar in all vertebrates, and the study of lower animals gives insight into the form and structure
of the nervous system of higher animals Moreover, for any species, the study of the embryological development of the nervous system is indispensable for an understanding of adult morphology
30) In any vertebrate two chief parts of the nervous system may be distinguished These are the central nervous system (the nerve cord mentioned above), consisting of the brain and spinal cord, and the peripheral nervous system, consisting of the cranial, spinal, and peripheral nerves, together with their motor and sensory endings The term
“autonomic nervous system” refers to the parts of the central and peripheral systems
$5) that supply and regulate the activity of cardiac muscle, smooth muscle, and many
glands
The nervous system is composed of many millions of nerve and glial cells, together with biood vessels and a small amount of connective tissue The nerve cells, or
“neurons,” are characterized by many processes and are specialized in that they exhibit 29) to a great degree the phenomena of irritability and conductivity The glial cells of the
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central nervous system are supporting cells collectively termed “neuroglia.” They are characterized by short processes that have special relationships to neurons, blood vessels, and connective tissue The comparable cells in the peripheral nervous system are termed “neurilemmal” cells
What does the passage mainly discuss?
(A) The parts of a neuron
(B) The structure of animals’ nerves (C) The nervous system of vertebrates (D) The development of the brain
According to the passage, the nerve cord of vertebrates is (A) large (B) hollow (C) primitive (D) embryological
The author implies that a careful investigation of a biological structure in an embryo may lead to which of the following?
(A) Improved research of the same structure in other species
(B) A better understanding of the fully developed structure
(C) Discovering ways in which poor development can be corrected (D) A method by which scientists can
document the various steges of ©
development
48 The two main parts of the central nervoug
system are the brain and the
(A) sensory endings (B) cranial nerve
(C) spinal cord
(D) peripheral nerves
49 All of the following are described as being
controlled by the autonomic nervous system EXCEPT (A) connective tissue (B) cardiac muscle (C) glandular activity (D) smooth muscle
50 In what lines does the author identify certain
characteristics of nerve cells?
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Part A:
1 W: I need to go across town, but the traffic is so heavy this time of day
M: When you take the subway, you don’t have to deal with traffic I never drive any
more
Q: What does the man imply?
2 W: I’ve got two tickets to today’s game Do you want to come along? M: it’ll be on television, besides it’s really too cold for me,
Q: What will the man probably do?
3 W: You had met Prof Johnson before, right? How would you describe his lectures? M: Well, let me put in this way I could never stay awake in one of his classes
without first drinking at least two cups of coffee Q: What does the man imply?
4 M: Excuse me, could you tell me how to get to the post office? W: Your guess is as good as mine I’m new around here Q: What does the woman mean?
5 W: | forgot to tell you that Fred called last night to borrow your sleeping bag
M: Oh, I saw him at the gym this moming and he didn’t say anything So, he NỆ bone achat somebody else
Q: What does the man imply?
6 M: You must be looking forward to your trip back to Colorado It should be fine to hike up into those mountains again
W: Well, there might not be time for that The thing is I haven’t seen my sister and her kids for three years
Q: What does the woman imply?
7 M: Tom’s house is a mess Doesn’t he ever clean it?
W: I guess he just has too much else on his mind with that new job of his Q: What does the woman imply about Tom?
8 M: Hey, that’s a great sweater you're wearing It looks really warm W: Yeah, but I wish I had brought a coat like you did It’s really cold today Q: What does the woman imply?
9 M: Hi, George, I can’t get to sleep with the light so near my bed Can’t you study someplace else?
M: Sorry, there is a party going on down in the lounge | suppose I could check the dining room though
Q: What will George probably do?
10 M: wish I didn’t have to make a special trip to the post office to get my package W: Well, if you call them in the moming they’ll give your package to your mail
carrier to bring out to you
Q: What does the woman suggest the man do?- 11 W: Professor, have you graded my term paper yet?
M: To tell you the truth, I’ve been tied up in committee meetings all week Q: What can be inferred about the paper?
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Q: What does the man mean?
13 M: Do you have hot water in your dorm? Because we haven’t had any for three days and J hate cold showers
14 W: Oh, sounds miserable Since the gym’s usually open, why don’t you just go over there to fix the problem
Q: What does the woman suggest the man do?
15 W: I just found out at registration that the creative writing class is full Now I have to wait any whole year to get in
M: Why don’t you check back after the first week? Somebody might drop it Q: What does the man suggest the woman do?
16 W: Prof Nelson, could you please turn up the temperature in here? I’m having trouble concentrating
17 M: Yeah, | understand But I don’t control the thermostat Tell you what, I’1I talk to
maintenance about it after class In the mean time I suggest you put on a sweater if you’ve brought one
Q: What does the man imply?
18 .W: Hi, Jerry, it’s Beth from the apartment next door I’m at school right now and I realized I forgot my keys at home Could you ask the building manager to put the extra set in my mail box?
M: I don’t think that’s secure enough I can just drop by your class later Q: What will the man probably do?
19 W: I'm going to Chicago on business and somebody said you were the right person to talk to about what I can do there for fun
M: You bet I am I hope you’ve got at least a month Q: What does the man imply?
20 M: Come on, Sue, I know you have a new camera, but you just took a picture of a
car W: No, no, look behind the car Q: What does the woman mean?
21 M: Could I look at your bus schedule? F don’t want to drive to work tomorrow if it’s snowing
W: You'd be better off calling the terminal It’s been a long time since I’ve used my schedule and I’m sure it’s out of date
Q: What does the woman mean?
22 W: That’s a pretty thick book Are you sure Fram will want to plough through that? M: Are you kidding? She'll be through it in two days
Q: What does the man imply about Fram?
23 M: If] send this package third class, how long will it take to arrive?
W: About two weeks But, hmm, many people don’t realize that first-class is only a dollar fifty more and it will get there in just a few days
Q: What does the woman suggest the man do?
24 W: Surely you don’t to eat at that expensive restaurant
M: Not much J don’t They have the best food in town Q: What does the man mean?
2 M: Like usual the lecture hall is a complete mess this afternoon Newspapers, soda
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people can be so thoughtless
W: Well, your professor should have the authority to get something done about it
Q: What does the woman imply the man should do?
26 M: How about going ona camping trip next week with us? We’re planning on
hiking and canoeing in the state park
W: That sounds great But I’d better warn you, I’ve never been in a canoe and I’m not much the swimmer either
Q: What does the woman mean?
27 M: [heard that the turn-out for the opening of the new sculpture exhibit was kind of disappointing
W: I guess a lot of other people feel the way I do about modern art Q: What does the woman mean?
28 W: We'd better make sure we get to the presentation early tomorrow morning The dean said there will be bagels and pastries and fruit But I have a feeling that they’re going to go quickly
M: I guess I°lI bring my appetite Q: What will the man probably do?
29 W: Isn't it great about Ruth’s committee service award? M: She deserved it
Q: What does the man mean?
30 M: I’m driving downtown this afternoon I have to stop by Deluxe, the art supply store, to get some paints for my art class
W: Deluxe? They moved to Smithville
Q: What does the woman mean?
31 M: You were right about the puzzle you lent me last week It really is a challenge | want to try to get it myself though So I’m going to work on ita little longer W: Well, if you get really stuck, remember I’m only a phone call away
Q: What does the woman mean?
32 W: I’m new in town and I need to find a doctor Do you know anything about Joyce Brown?
M: I’ve been going to her for years I don’t see how you can do better Q: What does the man say about Dr Brown?
Part B:
Questions 31-34, listen to a conversation in a college dormitory
W: Hmm, Hi
M: Hi I’m going door to door tonight to tell people about the student action coalition
Do you have a few minutes?
W: Sure You know I think I read something in the newspaper last week
M: Yeah There was an article about this in the last issue See, we're trying to protect and conserve some of the open spaces on campus
W: That’s right You are the group that’s opposing the extension of the parking lot next
to Swing Hall, right?
M: That’s us We just feel that it's important to save some of the natural beauty of the
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Over-by Swing Some of those trees are hundreds of years old
: It is the pretty spot My friends and I have had picnics over there by the creek : Then you understand how we feel We’re organizing a rally on Thursday afternoon
to get the administration to reconsider the parking lot plan : Well, I have a class on Thursday afternoon
: But, maybe you could sign this petition? We’re going to submit it to the administration to demonstrate how the students fee] about this
> Sure, let me get a pen and I'll sign it
: Thave a pen right here And let me leave you this pamphlet about the student action coalition
May be you could come to some of our meetings We get together once a month
: Yeah I'd like to know more about your group Let me know when the next meeting is and 1’ll try to be there
How did the woman first learn about the student action coalition? What is the student action coalition trying to do?
What will the woman probably do on Thursday afternoon?
What does the woman agree to do?
Questions 35-39, listen to a conversation between two friends W: M: < M: 35 36 37 38 < = SX<x<š<£
: This food is terrible I can’t even finish my dinner
I know You think with all the money we pay for room and board, the university could hire a better food service Where are you headed next?
: I’m going over to the student recreation center to play some bridge : You are spending your time on a card game? : Not just any card game It’s one of the most Strategic there is, : So I’ve heard Don’t you play with a partner?
Yeah Four people play, two against the other two : So you try to play in cooperation with your partner
: Actually, the cards of one of the four players are turned face up That player is
called the dummy
: I wouldn’t want to be called that When you are the dummy what do you do while
the cards are being played?
: Anything you want, Sit there and study, shuffle another deck, get snacks for everyone | like to stand behind my partner and watch
: You know, I’ve heard that bridge is habit forming You should be careful not to play so much that you don’t get your studying done
: Don’t worry about me I only play Thursdays after dinner And sometimes when they need a fourth player If you like, 1 could teach you
Thanks But I have a pretty heavy workload this semester, I already spend my evenings doing things I don’t really know how to do yet
Where does the conversation take place?
How does the woman plan to spend her evening?
What will the woman probably do if she is the dummy? What does the man warm the woman not to do?
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Part C
Questions 40-42, listen to part of a talk in an architecture class
Today, we're going to take a look at the development of the skyscraper We'll start wih some buildings in Chicago One of the circumstances that let Chicago to become home to some of the buildings now considered the prototypes for later skyscrapers was this: in 1871, there was a great fire that destroyed much of the city It was that tragic fire that cleared the way for a new kind of city that used the new building techniques and new materials developed during the 1800’s One of these new structures was the Home Insurance Building, completed in 1885 It was ten stories high Now granted, that’s no higher than some of the early skyscrapers in New York City What makes Chicago’s Home Insurance Building important is that it had true skyscraper construction with an internal metal skeleton that carried the weight of the brick exterior This metal-support system, along with the early development of the elevator, were the two innovations that made the later very tall industrial buildings possible Chicago’s Reliance Building was another important building in the development of the skyscraper It showed the architects’ understanding of the possibilities of metal-frame construction By eliminating walls and opening up the Sides as a glass box It was the first expression of the skyscraper as a glass-shelf framed in a metal grid 40 Why does the professor mention the fire of 18712
41 What was important about the Home Insurance Building?
42 What point does the professor make about the Reliance Building?
Questions 43-46, listen to a lecture given in a mass communications class
It was an Italian inventor who created the first wireless device for sending out radio signals in 1895 But not until the American inventor Lee De Forest built the first amplifying vacuum tube in 1906 did we get the first radio as we know it And the first actual radio broadcast was made on Christmas Eve of 1906 That’s when someone working from an experimental station in Brand Rock, Massachusetts, arranged the program of two short musical selections of poem and brief holiday greeting The broadcast was heard by wireless operators on ships with a radio through several hundred miles The following year, De Forest began regular radio broadcasts in New York These programs were similar to much of what we hear on the radio today in that De Forest played only music But because there was still no home radio receivers, De Forest’s audience consisted of only wireless operators on ships in New York harbor There is no doubt that radio broadcasting was quite a novelty in those days But it took a while to catch on commercially Why? Hmm, for the simple fact that only a few people, in fact, only those who tinkered with wireless telegraphs as a hobby owned receivers It wasn’t until the 1920’s that someone envisioned mass appeal for radio This was radio pioneer, David Sammoff who predicted that one day there would be a radio receiver in every home
43 What is the talk mainly about?
44, Why were early radio broadcasts heard by such a small audience? 45 According to the talk, who owned receivers in the early days of radio? 46 According to the talk, what did David Sarnoff predict about radios? Questions 47-50, listen to part of a talk in an astronomy class ~
The origin of earth’s moon, the largest moon in the solar system, is still something of a mystery There are some theories about its origin, however Now, keep in mind that a theory of the moon’s origir
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it has an iron core But the moon contains practically no iron The second fact is that, other than the difference in iron content, the moon and earth are composed of essentially the same minerals, a similarity not shared with any other planet or moon in our solar system One of the earliest theories of the moon’s origin, | call it the Capture Theory, proposes that the moon was somehow captured by earth’s gravitational force This theory is improbable, however, because it assumes that the moon and earth formed in different parts of the solar system If this were true, you would expect the moon’s composition to be much different from earth’s composition, just as all the other planets in the solar system are so different from earth A second theory of the moon’s origin is more promising It is sometimes referred to as the Mars Theory because according to this theory, when earth was still molten, it was struck by a planet about the size of Mars The impact caused the cores of the two planets to melt together and chunks of earth’s crust to be thrown out into space These chunks came together to form the moon Now remember, earth’s crust is low in iron because the iron is in earth’s core but high in various other minerals This then accounts for why there is little iron but lots of other minerals on the moon
47, What is the talk mainly about?
48 According to the professor, what characteristic of earth's moon should a theory of its origin be able to explain?