试卷二 Test Paper Two Part I Listening Comprehension Section C Spot Dictation Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. Listen carefully during the first reading. Then listen to the passage again. When it is being read the second time, you should fill in the six blanks numbered from S1) to S6) with the exact words or phrases you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written. 记分栏 When John and Victoria arrived in New York for a one-year stay, they did not bring many things with them. They had planned either to live in an S1)________ with furniture or to buy used furniture. But they soon learned about a new S2)_ _______ that more and more people are using. The renting of home furniture has become one of America’s fastest growing businesses. Many kinds of people rent their home furniture S3)________ buying it. International businessmen, government officials, airline workers, young married couples, these are the people whose job or business may force them to move S4)________ from one city or country to another. They’ll save the trouble and S5)________ of moving their furniture each time. They simply rent new furniture when they reach their new home. Young people with little money do not want to buy cheap furniture that they will soon grow to S6)________. They prefer to wait until they have enough money to buy furniture they really like. Meanwhile they find they can rent better quality furniture that they couldn’t afford to buy. 翻译纸 TRANSLATION SHEET Part IV: Translation from English into Chinese (10%) (15 minutes) Directions: In this part, there are four items which you should translate into Chinese, each I tem consisting of one sentence. These sentences are all taken from the reading passages you have just read in Part III of the Test Paper. You are allowed 15 minutes to do the translation. You can refer back to the passages so as to identify their meaning in the context. Write your translation on the Translation Sheet in Test Paper Two. 1. Because noise is unavoidable in a complex, industrial society, we are constantly responding in the same ways that we would respond to danger. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2.To be a qualified citizen, one must learn some basic skills: the ability to read notices, newspapers, timetables, letters, price-lists; to keep simple records and accounts, to sort out the significance of the information gathered—and to fill in forms. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3 These professionals also provide developing countries with the necessary technical help to carry out the programs. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4 Last year a national commission led by Dement identified an ”American sleep debt” which one member said was as important as the national debt. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 作文纸 COMPOSITION SHEET Part V: Writing (15%) (30 minutes) Directions: For this part you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition of no less than 100 words, whose title is Positive and Negative Aspects of Sports. Remember your composition must be written according to the following outline. Write your composition on the Composition Sheet. Outline: 1.体育运动的好处 2.体育运动可能带来的副作用 Words for reference: sports, positive, physical, contact, negative, harmful Positive and Negative Aspects of Sports ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————