Sample Test Paper
I. Vocabulary and Grammar (30%, 1 point each)
Directions: There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence. Then blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a pencil.
1. As an Englishman who?d lived for a long time in France, he felt a certain conflict of ______ when the two countries played soccer. A. allegations
B. allegiances
C. allegories
D. alliteration
2. A collection for the flood-stricken Tanwanese has been taken up rapidly from ______ . A. all social strata
B. all social stratum D. all stratas in society
C. all stratums in society …… 30. ……
II. Proofreading and Error Correction (10%, 1 point each)
Directions: In the following passage there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word, or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided. If you change a word cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word put an insertion mark (∧) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a word, cross it out and put a slash (/) in the blank.
In some part of the world, the weather is quite changeable. This fact plays an important role in People?s life. Since earliest times, men observed the sky, the wind, as well as a variety of other weather signs, so as to make weather prediction. Now there are many offices in many places where study weather conditions very
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1. ________ 2. ________
3. ________
carefully. They can use scientific equipments to help them make their forecasts. They have special balloons, ships and airplanes to help them increases their precision, and they make full use of radar, man-made satellites and computers to collect essential information.
Nowadays accurate weather forecasts are helping million of people everywhere to save lives and their property. When a pilot takes up from an airport, he can know what kind of weather to expect when he reaches to his destination. When a storm is moving in a certain direction, the people in that area can know it on advance and prepare for it. Maybe some day it would be possible to change the path of a storm.
4. ________
5. ________
6. ________
7. ________ 8. ________ 9. ________ 10. _______
III. Paraphrase (20%, 2 point each)
1. …the absence of worldly goods indicates a want of industrious habits and moral fibre.
2. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery. ….. 10. ……
IV. Translation (20%, 2 point each)
1. A white lie is better than a black lie.
2. The job of arousing manhood within a people that have been taught for so many centuries that they are nobody is not easy. …… 10. ……
V. Short Essay (20%)
Directions: Please answer the following essay question in about 100 words.
Martin Luther King says in his speech that “A nation that will keep people in slavery
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for 244 years will ?thingify? them.” Why is it 244 years? What?s your interpretation of thingify them? ……
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