专四阅读样题

TEM4 SANOKE TEST(部分)

TIME LIMT: 130MIN PART I DICTATION [10 MIN]

Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be done at normal speed, listen and try to understand the meaning. For the second and third readings, the passage will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with intervals of 15 seconds. The last reading will be done at normal speed again and during this time you should check your work. You will then be given 1 minute to check through your work once more.

Please write the whole passage on ANSWER SHEET ONE.

PART II LISTENING COMPREHENSION [20 MIN]

SECTION A TALK

In this section you will hear a talk. You will hear the talk ONCE ONLY. While listening, you may look at ANSWER SHEET ONE and write, NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each gap. Make sure the word(s) you fill in is (are) both grammatically and semantically acceptable. You may use the blank sheet for note-taking.

You have THIRTY seconds to preview the gap-filling task.

Now listen to the talk. When it is over, you will be given TWO minutes to complete your work.

SECTION B CONVERSATIONS

In this section you will hear two conversations. At the end of each conversation, five questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken ONCE ONLY. After each question there will be a ten-second pause. During the pause, you should read the four choices of A), B), C) and D), and mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO.

You have thirty seconds to preview the questions.

Now, listen to the conversations.

Conversation One.

1. A. The return trip is too expensive.

B.There is no technology to get people back

C.People don’t want to return.

D.The return trip is too risky.

2. A. Intelligence.

B.Health.

C.Skills.

D.Calmness.

3. A. The kind of people suitable for the trip.

B.Interests and hobbies of the speakers.

C.Recruitment of people for the trip.

D.Preparation for the trip to Mars.

……

Conversation Two

6.A. Going to the high street.

B.Visiting every shops.

C.Buying things like electrical goods.

D.Visiting shops and buying online.

7.A. 3%

B.33%

C.42%

D.24%

8.A. They want to know more about pricing.

B.They can return the product later.

C.They want to see the real thing first.

D.They can bargain for a lower shop price.

PART III LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE [10 MIN]

There are twenty sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four words, phrases or statements marked A, B, C and D. Choose one word, phrase or statement that best the sentence.

Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO.

11.When you have finished with that book, don’t forget to put it back on the shelf,_____?

A.don’t you

B. do you

C. will you

D. won’t you

12.Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?

A.Only one out of six were present at the meeting.

B.Ten dollars was stolen from the cash register.

C.Either my sister or my brother is coming.

D.Five miles seem like a long walk to me.

13.It is not so much the language ______ the cultural background that makes the film difficult to understand.

A.but

B. nor

C. like

D. as

14.There is no doubt ____ the committee has made the right decision on the housing project.

A.why

B. that

C. whether. D when

15.If you explained the situation to your lawyer, he ____ able to advise you much better than I can.

A.will be

B. was

C. would be

D. were

16.Which of the following is a stative verb(静态动词)？

A.Drink

B. Close

C. Rain

D. Belong

17.Which of the following italicized parts indicates a subject-verb relation?

A.The man has a large family to support.

B.She had no wish to quarrel with her brother

C.He was the last guest to leave

D.Mary needs a friend to talk to.

18.Which of the following is INCORRECT?

A.Another two girls.

B.Few words.

C.This work

D. A bit of flowers.

19.When one has good health, ____ should feel fortunate.

A.you

B. she

C. he

D. we

20.There ____ nothing more for discussion, the meeting came to an end half an hour earlier.

A.to be

B. to have been

C. be

D. being

21.Bottles from this region sell ____ at about $50 a case.

A.entirely

B. totally

C.wholesale

D. together

22.The product contains no ____ colours, flavors, or preservatives.

A.fake

B.artificial

C. false

D.wrong

23.____ and business leaders were delighted at the decision to hold the national motor fair in the city.

A.Civil

B. Civilized

C. Civilian

D. Civic

24.The city council is planning a huge road-building program to ease congestion. The underlined part means ____.

A.calm

B. relieve

C. comfort.

D. still

25.His unfortunate appearance was offset by an attractive personality. The underlined part means all the following EXCEPT ____.

A.improved

B. made up for

C. balanced

D. compensated for

26.The doctor said that the gash in his cheek required ten stitches. The underlined part means ____.

A.lump

B. depression

C. swelling

D. cut

27.During the economic crisis they had to cut back production and ____ workers.

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B. lay into

C. lay down

D. lay aside.

28.To mark its one hundredth anniversary, the university held a series of activities including conferences, film shows, etc. The underlined part means ____.

A.signify

B. celebrate

C. symbolize

D. suggest

29.His fertile mind keeps turning out new ideas. The underlined part means ____.

A.abundant

B. unbelievable

C. productive

D. generative

30.These issues were discussed at length during the meeting. The underlined part means ____.

A.eventually

B. subsequently

C. lastly

D. fully

PART IV CLOZE

Decide which of the works given in the box below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks. The wards can be used ONCE ONLY. Mark the letter for each word on ANSER SHEET TWO.

A.as

B. aimless

C. bother

D.fast

E.flights

F.helpless

https://www.wendangku.net/doc/345713732.html,bor-saving H.levels I money-saving J. pause K.quite

L.stand by M.standstill N.traffic

O.trapped

Electricity is such a part of our everyday lives and so much taken for granted nowadays that we rarely think twice when we switch on the light or turn on the TV set. At night, roads are brightly lit, enabling people and (31)____ to move freely. Neon lighting used in advertising has become part of the character of every modern city. In the home, many (32) ____ devices are powered by electricity. Even when we turn off the bedside lamp and are (33) ____ asleep, electricity is working for us, driving our refrigerators, heating our water, or keeping our rooms air-conditioned. Every day, trains, buses and subways take us to and from work. We rarely (34) ____ to consider why or how they run - until something goes wrong. In the summer of 1959, something did go wrong with the power- plant that provided New York with electricity. For a great many hours, life came almost to a (35)____. Trans refused to move and the people in them sat in the dark, powerless to do anything; lifts stopped working, so that even if you were lucky enough not to be (36) ____ between two floors, you had the unpleasant task of finding your way down (37) ____ of stairs. Famous streets like Broadway and Fifth Avenue in an instant became as gloomy and uninviting (38) ____ the most remote back streets. People were afraid to leave their houses, for although the police had been ordered to (39) ____ in case of emergency, they were just as confused and (40) ____ as anybody else.

PART V READING COMPREHENSION [35 MIN] SECTIONG A MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS

In this section there are several passages followed by ten multiple-choice questions. For each question, there are four suggested answer marked A, B, C,and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO.

PASSAGE ONE

Inundated by more information than we can possible hold in our heads, we’re increasingly handing off the job of remembering to search engines and smart phones. Google is even reportedly working on eyeglasses that could one day recognize faces and supply details about whoever you’re looking at. But new research shows that outsourcing our memory - and expecting that information will be continually and instantaneously available- is changing our cognitive habits.

Research conducted by Betsy Sparrow, an assistant professor of psychology at Columbia University, has identified three new realities about how we process information in the Internet age. Fist, her experiments showed that when we don’t know at the answer to a question, we now think about where we can find the nearest Web connection instead of the subject of the question itself. Second revelation is that when we expect to be able to find information agin later on, we don’t remember it as well as when we think it might become unavailable. And then there is the researchers’final observation: the expectation that we’ll be able to locate information down the line leads us to form a memory not of the fact itself but of where we’ll be able to find it.

But this handoff comes with a downside. Skills like critical thinking and analysis must develop in the context of facts: we need something to think and reason about, after all. And these facts can’t be Googled as we go; they need to be stored in the original hard drive, our long-term memory. Especially in the case of children, “factual knowledge must precede skill,” says Daniel Willingham, a professor of psychology, at the University of Virginia - meaning that the days of drilling the multiplication table and memorizing the names of the Presidents aren’t over quite yet. Adults, too, need to recruit a supply of stored knowledge in order to situate and evaluate new information they encounter. You can’t Google context.

Last, there’s the possibility, increasingly terrifying to contemplate, that our machines will fail us. As Sparrow puts it, “The experience of losing our Internet connection becomes more and more like losing a friend.” If you’re going to keep your memory on your smart phone, better make sure it’s fully charged.

41.Google’s eyeglasses are supposed to ____.

A.improve our memory

B.function like memory

C.help us see faces better

D.work like smart phones

42.Which of the following statements about Sparrow’s research is CORRECT?

A.We remember people and things as much as before.

B.We remember more internet connections than before.

C.We pay equal attention to location and content of information.

D.We tend to remember location rather than the core of facts.

43.What is the implied message of the author?

A.Web connections aid our memory.

B.People differ in what to remember.

C.People keep memory on smart phones.

D.People need to exercise their memory.

PASSAGE TWO

I was a second-year medical student at the university, and was on my second day of rounds at a nearby hospital. My university’s philosophy was to get students seeing patients early in their education. In idea, but it overlooked one detail; second-year students know next to nothing about medicine.

Assigned to my team that day was an attending - a senior faculty member who was there mostly to make patients feel they were’t in the hands of amateurs. Many attending were researchers who didn’t have much recent hospital experience. Mine was actually an arthritis specialist. Also along was a resident (the real boss, with staggering mastery of medicine, at least to a rookie like myself). In addition, there were two interns(住院实习医生). These guys were just as green as I was, but in a scarier way: they had recently graduated from the medical school, so they were technically MDs.

I began they day at 6:30am. In intern and I did a quick check of our eight patients; later, we were to present our findings to the resident and then to the attending. I had three patients and the intern had the other five - piece of cake.

But when I arrived in the room of 710year-old Mr. Adams, he was sitting up in bed, sweating heavily and panting (喘气). He’d just had a ship operation and looked terrible. I listened to his lungs with my stethoscope, but they sounded clear. Next I checked the log of his vital signs and saw that his repression and heart rate had been climbing, but his temperature was steady. It d idn’t seem like heart failure, nor did it appear to be pneumonia. So I asked Mr. Adams what he thought was going on.

“It’s really hot in here, Doc,” he replied.

So I attributed his condition to the stuffy room and told him the rest of the team would return in a few hours. He smiled and feebly waved goodbye.

At 8:40 am, during our team meeting, “Code Blue Room 307!” blared from the loudspeaker.

I froze.

That was Mr.Adams’s room.

When we arrived, he was motionless.

The autopsy(尸体解剖) later found Mr.Adams had suffered a massive pulmonary embolism(肺

部栓塞). A blood clot had formed in his leg, worked its way to his lungs, and cut his breathing capacity in half. His symptoms had been textbook:heavy perspiration and shortness of breath despite clear lungs. The only thing was: I hadn’t read that chapter in the text book yet. And I was too scared, insecure, and proud to ask a real doctor for help.

This mistake has haunted me for nearly 30 years, but what’s particularly frustrating is that the same medical education system persists. Who knows how many people have died or suffered harm at the hands of students as naive as I , and how many more will ?

44.We learn that the author’s team members had ____.

A.much practical experience

B.adequate knowledge

C.long been working there

D.some professional deficiency

45.“His symptoms had been textbook” means that his symptoms were ____.

A.part to the textbook

B.no longer in the textbook

C.recently included in the textbook

D.explained in the textbook

46.At the end of the passage, the author expresses ____ about the medical education system.

A.optimism

B.hesitation

C.concern

D.support

PASSAGE THREE

The war on smoking, now five decades old and counting, i s one of the nation’s greatest public health success stories - but not for everyone.

As a whole, the country has made amazing progress. In 1964, four in ten adults in the US smoked; today fewer than two in ten do. But some states - Kentucky, South Dakota and Alabama, to name just a few - seem to have missed the message that smoking is deadly.

Their failure is the greatest disappointment in an effort to save lives that was started on Jan. 11, 1964, by the first Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health. Its finding that smoking is a cause of lung cancer and other diseases was major news then. The hazards of smoking were just starting emerge.

The report led to cigarette warning labels, a ban on TV ads and eventually an anti-smoking movement that shifted the nation’s attitude on smoking. Then, smokers were cool. Today, many are outcasts, rejected by restaurants, bars, public buildings and even their own workplaces. Millions of lives have been saved.

The formula for success is no longer guesswork: Adopt tough warning labels, air public service ads, fund smoking cessation programs and impose smoke-free laws. But the surest way to prevent smoking, particularly among price-sensitive teens, is to raise taxes. If you can stop them from smoking, you’ve won the war. Few people start smoking after turning 19.

The real-life evidence of taxing power is powerful. The 10 states with the lowest adult smoking rates slap an average tax of $2.42 on every pace - three times the average tax in the states withe the highest smoking rates.

New York has the highest cigarette tax in the country, at $4.35 per pack, and just 12 percent of teens smoke - far below the national average of 18 percent. Compare that with Kentucky, where taxes are low (60 cents), smoking restrictions are weak and the teen smoking rate is double New York’s. Other low-tax states have similarly dismal records.

Enemies of high tobacco taxes cling to the tried argument that they fall disproportionately on the poor. True, but so do the deadly effects of smoking - far worse than a tax. The effect of the taxes

is amplified further when the revenue is used to fund initiatives that help smokers quit or persuade teens not to start.

Anti-smoking forces have plenty to celebrate this week, having helped avoid 8 million premature deaths in the past 50 years. But as long as 3,0000 adolescents and teens take their first puff each day, the war is not won.

47.According to the context, “Their failure” refers to ____.

A.those adults who continue to smoke

B.those states that missed the message

C.findings of the report

D.hazards of smoking

48.What is the passage mainly about?

A.How to stage anti-smoking campaigns.

B.The effects of the report on smoking and health.

C.Tax as the surest path to cut smoking.

D.The efforts to cut down on teenage smoking.

PASSAGE FOUR

Attachment Parenting is not Indulgent Parenting. Attachment parents do not “spoil“their children. Spoiling is done when a child is give everything that they want regardless of shat they need and regardless of what is practical. Indulgent parents give toys for tantrums(发脾气), ice cream for breakfast. Attachment parents don’t give their children everything that they want, they give their children everything that they need. Attachment parents believe that love and comfort are free and necessary. Not sweets or toys.

Attachment Parenting is not “afraid of tears” parting. Our kids cry. The difference is that we understand that tantrums and tears come from emotions and not manipulation. And our children understand this too. They cry and have tantrums sometimes, of course. But they do this because their emotions are so overwhelming that they need to get it out. They do not expect to be “rewarded”for their strong negative emotions; they simply expect that we will listen. We pick up our babies when they cry, and we respond to the tears of our older children because we believe firmly that comfort is free, love is free, and that when a child has need for comfort and love, it is our job to provide those things. We are not afraid of tears. We don’t avoid them. We hold our children through them and teach them that when they are hurt or frustrated we are here to comfort them and help them work through their emotions.

Attachment Parenting is not Clingy Parenting. I do not cling to my children. In fact, I’m pretty Free-range. As soon as they can move they usually move away from me and let me set up a chase as they crawl, run skip and hop ho their merry way to explore the world. Sure I carry them and hug them and chase them and kiss them and rock them and sleep with them. But this is not me following them everywhere and pulling them back to me. This is me being a home base. The “attachment”comes from their being allowed to attach to us, not from us attaching to them like parental leeches.

Attachment Parenting is not Selfish Parenting. It is also not selfless parenting. We are not doing it for us, and we are not doing it to torment ourselves.

Attachment parenting is not Helicopter Parenting. Don’t hover. I supervise. I follow, I teach, I demonstrate, I explain. I don’t slap curious hands away. I show how to do thing safely. I let my child do the things that my child wishes to do, first with help and then with supervision and finally with trust. I don’t insist that my 23 month old hold my hand when we walk on the sidewalk because I know that I can recall him with my voice because he trusts me to allow his to explore and he trusts me to explain when something is dangerous and to help him satisfy his curiosities safely.

Most of the negative things that I hear about “attachment parents’ are completely off-base and describe something that is entirely unlike Attachment Parenting. Attachment Parenting is child-centric and focuses on the needs of the child. Children need structure, rules, and boundaries. Attachment Parents simply believe that the child and the parent are allies, not adversaries. And that children are taught, not trained.

49.According to the author, what should parents do when their kids cry?

A.Providing comfort and love.

B.Trying to stop kids crying.

C.Holding them till they stop

D.Rewarding kids with toys.

50.What does “free-range” mean according to the passage?

A.Food of providing a home base.

B.Ready to play games with my kids.

C.Curious to watch what games they play.

D.Willing to give kids freedom of movement.

SECTION B SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS

In this section there are five short answer question based on the passages in Section A. Answer the questions with NO more than TEN words in the space provided on ANSWER SHEET TWO.

PASSAGE ONE

51.According to the passage, what does “cognitive habits” refers to?

PASSAGE TWO

52.Why was the author doing rounds in a hospital?

PASSAGE THREE

53.What does “counting“ mean in the context?

54.What does the author think of raising tax on cigarettes?

PASSAGE FOUR

55.What does the passage mainly discuss?

PART VI WRITING [45 MIN] Should we revive traditional Chinese characters or continue using simplified characters?This has been an intensely discussed question for years. The following are the suppo rters’and

opponents’ opinions. Read carefully the opinions from both sides and writer your response in about 200 words, in which you should first summarize briefly the opinions from both sides and give your view on the issue.

Mark will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.

Write your response on ANSWER SHEET THREE.

—THE END—

TEM4 SAMPLE SCRIPT (部分)

PART I DICTATION

Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be done at normal speed, listen and try to understand the meaning. For the second and third readings, the passage will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with intervals of 15 seconds. The last reading will be done at normal speed again and during this time you should check your work. You will then be given 1 minute to check through your work once more. Please write the whole passage on Answer Sheet One.

Now, listen to the passage.

Male and Female Roles in Marriage

In the traditional marriage, the man worked to earn money for the family. The woman stayed at home to care for the children and her husband. In recent years, many couples continue to have a traditional relationship of this kind. Some people are happy with it, but others think differently.

There are two major differences in male and female roles now. One is that both men and women have many more choices. They may choose to marry or stay single. They may choose to work or to stay at home.

The second and third reading . You should begin writing now.

The last reading.

Now, you have two minutes to check through your work. (a two-minute interval)

That is the end of Part I Dictation.

PART II LISTENING COMPREHENSION [20 MIN] SECTION A TALK

In this section you will hear a talk. You will hear the talk ONCE ONLY. While listening, you may look at ANSWER SHEET ONE and write, NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each gap. Make sure the word(s) you fill in is (are) both grammatically and semantically acceptable. You may use the blank sheet for note-taking.

You have Thirty seconds to preview the gap-filling task.

(a thirty-second internal)

Now listen to the talk. When it is over, you will be given TWO minutes to complete your work.

Speech during Freshmen’s Week

I would first of all like to welcome you all to the college. I know you have all worked hard in order to get here and I hope you will find all your effort has been worthwhile and that we will be able to help you achieve your ambitions as far as possible. Please make use of our facilities to the full and if you are in any doubt of what we have to offer, please do not hesitate to ask. I would like to make clear to you your part of the contract, which you must fulfill if you wish us to fulfill ours. Learning, as I’m sure you realize is a two way process and without a significant investment from you, all our efforts will come to nothing.

Now, about class attendance. You are required to attend 80% of classes. If you do not do so, we will not be able to give you a certificate of attendance should you require one for any particular purpose. In other words, we will not regard you as having followed the course at all. The compulsory courses are those classes you take in your assigned groups. In a minute, Mr. Lucas will tell you which group you are in. The extra, individual work available in the laboratory or the computer room is, of course, optional. In addition to classwork, you are supposed to put in 3-4 hours a day of private study.

This year we have changed our methods of assessment, in an effort to get away from the formal examination and move towards a system which better reflects work done throughout the year. You are required to had in 5 pieces of written work as part of your final assessment - these you may choose from your class assignments. At the end of the course there will a formal examination consisting of 3 three hour papers. You do not have to take the last of these - you can submit a 10,000 word extended essay instead. You should discuss the title of this with your tutor. You can obtain more details about the examination from you tutor. On a more practical note, we do not want to have too many rules and regulations, but for the sake of public safety and comfort there must be some. It is expressly forbidden to smoke in the classrooms as this poses a fire hazard. We also ask that you do not take food and drink into the classrooms.

About your dorm. You are not permitted to put up overnight guests in your rooms. Similarly, we can’t allow you to entertain more than 5 guests during the day in you rooms, as this causes a disturbance. If you wish to hold larger parties, please reserve the common room for that purpose. We hope that you will find these rules reasonable and enjoy your stay with us. I will now hand you back to Miss Johnson, who will assign you to your groups.

Now, you have TWO minutes to complete your work.

(a two-minute interval)

THIS IS THE END OF SECTION A TALK

SECTION B CONVERSATIONS

In this section you will hear two conversations. At the end of each conversation, five questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken ONCE ONLY. After each question there will be a ten-second pause. During the pause, you should read the four choices of A), B), C) and D), and mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO.

You have thirty seconds to preview the questions.

Now, listen to the conversations.

Conversation One.

Callum: Hello Jennifer.

Jennifer: Hello Callum.

Callum: Do you like to travel?

Jennifer: Oh yes, I love going to new and interesting places.

Callum: What do you think of the idea of a one-way trip to Mars?

Jennifer:You do mean the planet Mars?

Callum: Well, this is what is being planned at the moment by a company in the Netherlands.They are planning to send people to mars and the people who go would never be able to come bake to Earth.

Jennifer:Sounds like quite a trip !

Callum: What is interesting about it is that this would be a one-way trip.

Jennifer: Why is this a one-way trip?

Callum: It’s about technology. Although we do have the knowledge and technology to get people to Mars, we can’t get them back.

Jennifer:That’s a big commitment, isn’t it? But I imagine some people will jump at the opportunity.

But what kind of person are they going to recruit for this “trip of a lifetime”?

Callum: They want smart people, which means clever, intelligent people. These people need to be healthy both physically and mentally. They also need people with very specific skills. Jennifer:I would think so.

Callum: And there is smoothing more important.

Jennifer:What’s that?

Callum: Character. You need to have the right important.

Jennifer:What other characteristics are they looking for?

Callum: They want people who can still work well when things are bad. People who are calm in a

crisis. So from what you’ve heard, does it sound like the job for you?

Jennifer:Absolutely not, I don’t mind traveling but I think it’s a bit far for me. And what about you? Callum: No, it’s not for me, I have to say, I’m not made of the right stuff.

…

This is the end of Conversation One. Questions 1 to 5 are based on Conversation One.

Question 1

Why is the trip to Mars a one-way trip?

(pause: 10 seconds)

Question 2

According to the man, what is most important for those recruits?

(pause: 10 seconds)

Question 3

What is the last part of the conversation about?

(pause: 10 seconds)

Question 4

……

(pause: 10 seconds)

Question 5

……

(pause: 10 seconds)

Conversation Two

Rob: Hello Linda.

Linda: Hello Rob.

Rob: Happy New Year to you, Linda. The festive season is over - so, did all that holiday shopping break the bank?

Linda: You mean, did I spend too much money? Well, yes I did.

Rob: Yeah, you see technology is changing the way we shop and it could spell disaster - or be very bad for - the high street.

Linda: The high street, you mean those everyday shops that we normally see in our town centres? Things like shoe shops, news agents, supermarkets.

Rob: Yes, the high street is competing with the internet. I but things like CDs, electrical goods and food online.

Linda: Ah, but have you ever “showroomed” before, Rob？

Rob: Yes, I showroomed and then bought a camera at a knock-down price online. I know I’m not alone in doing this though. Research found 24% of people “showroomed” while Christmas shopping last year.

Linda: And a market research company also found one third of consumers around the world said they used this type of shopping.

Rob: Now, although people do it to try and save money, there are other reasons for this, too. Linda: What are they?

Rob: Three reasons for people to showroom: They are short on time, short on money, and they want reassurance.

Linda: Yes, reassurance - so they want to know that the product really looks like and they want to be confident they are buying the right thing.

Rob: I think that’s true, I like to inspect what I am buying. If you go to a shop and look at the real thing, you get a much better idea of what it’s like - but I also want a bargain.

Linda: We could say we use the internet to shop around.

Rob: That’s good phrase, meaning to look around for the best deal.

……

This is the end Conversation Two. Questions 6 to 10 are based on Conversation Two. Question 6

What is showrooming?

(pause: 10 seconds)

Question 7

What is the percentage of people who showroomed during Christmas shopping? (pause: 10 seconds)

Question 8

Why did people showroom?

(pause: 10 seconds)

Question 9

……

(pause: 10 seconds)

Question 10

……

(pause: 10 seconds)

THIS IS THE END OF PART II LISTENING COMPREHENSION.

TEM4 SAMPLE KEY

PART II. LISTENING COMPREHENSION

SECTION A TALK

1.80%

2. compulsory courses

3. optional/in labs/ computer rooms

4.3-4

5. class assignments/work

6. exam

7.smoking/eating/drinking 8. Dorm regulations/rules

9.No overnight guests/visitors 10. the common room

SECTION B CONVERSATIONS

1. B

2. D

3. A ……

6. D.

7. D

8. C……

PART III. GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY 11-15 CDDBC

16-20 DCDCD

21-25 CBDBA

26-30 DABCD

PART V. READING COMPREHENSION Section A

41-45 BDDDD

46-50 CBCAD

Section B

PASSAGE ONE

51.It refers to how we deal with information, PASSAGE TWO

52.It was part of his medical training PASSAGE THREE

53.It means “continuing”.

54.It is an effective measure/a good measure PASSAGE FOUR

55.Different types of parenting.

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