鬻新题型 TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2015) -GRADE EIGHT-扫 码 ，下载音频TIME LIMIT: 150 MIN PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION 25 MIN SECTION A MINI-LECTURE In this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the mini-lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening to the mini-lecture, please complete the gap-filling task on 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 mini-lecture. When it is over, you will be given THREE minutes to check your work. SECTION B INTERVIEW In this section you will hear ONE interview. The interview will be divided into TWO parts. At the end of each part, five questions will be asked about what was said. Both the interview 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 Part One of the interview. Questions 1 to 5 are based on Part One of the interview. 1. A. . Doing what they have promised to schools. B. Creating opportunities for leading universities. C. Considering removing barriers for state school pupils. D. Reducing opportunities for state school pupils. 2. A. Universities are not working hard to accept state school pupils. B. The number of state pupils applying to Oxford fails to increase. C. The government has lowered state pupils expectations. D. Leading universities are rejecting state school pupils. 3. A. State schools discourage applying to Oxford.、B. State system in secondary education needs improvement. C. Oxford has a preference for private school students. D. Private school pupils work harder than state school pupils. 4. A. Encouraging state pupils to go to Oxbridge. B. Encouraging Oxbridge to recruit more students. C. Raising expectations in the state system. D. Getting more young people into universities. 5. A. The number of state school pupils going to elite universities. B. The governments deficient policy on college enrolment. C. The numbers of state school children enrolled in Oxbridge. D. State school pupils expectations of going to leading universities. Now, listen to Part Two of the interview. Questions 6 to 10 are based on Part Two of the interview. 6. A. It means more funding from education authorities. B. It means getting all the money and deciding how to spend it. C. It means greater power to run themselves. D. It means more opportunities and choices. 7. A. Local education authorities and the central government. B. Local education authorities and secondary schools together. C. Local education authorities only. D. The central government only. 专八2015 - 1 8. A. To initiate new topics. C. To introduce new policies. B. To support the interviewee. D. To explain some statistics. 9. A. Because therere difficulties in applying for admission. B. Because they face financial barriers to higher education. C. Because they are misled by the government. D. Because they face opposition from the government. 10. A All of the money goes to schools. B. All of the money goesto local education authorities. C. Some of the money goes to schools. D. Some of the money goes to colleges and universities. PART II READING COMPREHENSION SECTION A MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS 45 MIN In this section there are four passages followed by fourteen multiple choice questions. For each multiple choice question, there are four suggested answers 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 (l)In 2011, many shoppers opted to avoid the frenetic crowds and do their holiday shopping from the comfort of their computer. Sales at online retailers gained by morer than 15%, making it the biggest season ever. But people are also returning those purchases at record rates, up 8% from last ye釭(2) What went wrong? Is the lingering shadow of the global financial crisis making it harder to accept extravagant indulgences? Or do people shop more impulsively-and therefore make bad decisionswhen online? Both arguments are plausible. However, there is a third factor: a question of touch. We can love the look but, in an online environment, we cannot feel the quality of a texture, the shape of the fit, the fall of a fold or the weight of an earring. And physically interacting with an object makes you more committed to your purchase. (3) When my most recent book Brandwashed was released, I teamed up with a local bookstore to conduct an experiment about the differences between the online and offline shopping. I carefully instructed a group of volunteers to promote my book in two different ways. The first was a fairly hands-off approach. Whenever a customer would inquire about my book, the vol。