Placement Test (2003)I.Listening Comprehension听力理解分两部分，共20题，每题1分，共20分。

第一部分：本部分为十组对话，每组对话后有一个问题。

对话读两遍。

问题读一遍，每听完一个问题后，从答题纸上A、B、C、D的四个选择中选出最合适的答案，并涂黑。

Part A1. A. The homework was very difficult.B. He was given only 30 minutes to do his homework．C. The woman spent the night in the chemistry lab.D. The woman spent so much time on her homework.2. A. 17：00 B. 8：00 C. 8：30 D. 7：303. A. She prefers the stadium. B. She agrees with the man.C. The light isn’t bright enough.D. She thinks the man is wrong.4. A. ￡7 B. ￡9 C. ￡11 D. ￡155. A. By car. B．On foot. C．By bus. D．By bike.6. A. He wanted to complain to the manager. B. He needed hot water.C. The hot water tap didn’t work．D. There was no heat in the room.7. A. She should use her money wisely.B. She should buy the brown suit.C. She should do extra work to make more money.D. She should spend less money on clothes.8. A. She is the best student in her class.B. She often makes careless mistakes.C. She wasn't happy about her result in the exam.D. She didn’t do as well as the man in the exam.9. A. He wrote it last term. B. He’ll finish it in a few minutes.C. He never does work early.D. He isn’t going to write it.10. A. Join her friend. B. Stay inside.C. Look for a job.D. Hand in her paper.第二部分：本部分为短文听力测试，共三篇，每篇读两遍。

听完后，请回答三或四个问题，从答题纸上A、B、C、D的四个选项中选出最合适的答案，并涂黑。

Part B11．A. Because they are specially trained. B. Because they guide the blind.C. Because they are very clever.D. Because they have good eyesight. 12．A. Several years. B. Several months.C. Seven years.D. One year and several months. 13．A. He helped his owner get on the bus.B. He pushed his way through the crowded bus.C. He got a seat for his owner and himself.D. He bought the bus fare for his owner.14．A. Green. B. Blue. C. Yellow. D. Red. 15．A. Orange. B. Green. C. Pink D. Yellow. 16．A. Bright colors make people cheerful.B. A colorless world is dull.C. Colors can affect people’s moods.D．Light colors are better than dark colors.17．A. Because it is very interesting.B. Because it may help to remember the names of months.C. Because it has much to do with culture.D. Because it is required in the English language study.18．A. He has two faces.B. He could create something out of nothing.C. He leads people to look forward to February.D. He turns the endings into beginnings.19．A. It was a Roman god.B. It was a celebration of spring sowing.C. It brought a long holiday after winter months.D. It was the time for spring cleaning.20．A. 20. B. 30. C. 25. D. 5.II. Reading Comprehension 阅读理解本部分共四篇文章，20个问题，每题2分，共40分。

(A)The sentry (哨兵) was watching a large bird flying overhead when he heard the distant loud noise of plane, and then silence. For the past week, he had been told to take note of everything that happened on the hill within his sight and to report anything unusual. The hill led to an experimental factory, where new and secret weapons were tested. There was a threat of war and the factory would be very useful to the enemy. So all the roads leading to it were watched day in and day out.He changed his positions; he felt that he had been hiding there since the beginning of time but only a couple of hours of this day’s duty had passed. Suddenly he saw some small things falling from the sky like snow, only it was not snow. He put out his hand and caught bits that were falling near him. They were bits of metal to put the instruments out of order, so that it would be impossible to detect the landing of enemy planes. Next he heard a long, low, continuous noise from the east and saw things falling down from the sky which looked like umbrellas opening but he knew they were parachutes (降落伞) with men hanging from them. He wanted to go at once to give the alarm but he had to be sure that the parachutists were not his own men out on an exercise. The men were on the grounds now. One of them pointed in the direction of the secret factory and they all began marching towards it. He had no more doubts and set off at once down the hill. He crawled slowly, sometimes on his stomach, sometimes on his side along a path down to the river. Once there he decided he had much cover and started to run. But he had erred, for bullets (子弹) were soon whistling past him, so he counted up to a hundred and then began crawling again. He moved with great effort as silently as he could to his camp at the foot of the hill.根据上面文章内容，从每题下面四个选择中选出一个最合适的答案，并在答题纸上把选的编号字母涂黑。

21. The sentry was instructed ____B____.A. to stand there to guard the entrance to the factoryB. to be watchful of what was happening around himC. to stand on the top of the hill to see if there was something unusualD. to see if there were any enemy planes landing nearby22. The factory was very useful to the enemy because ___B_____.A. the factory produced weapons which were new and secretB. new and secret weapons were tested in the factoryC. this factory was a military supplies factoryD. the weapons produced in this factory constituted a threat to the enemy23．Before releasing the parachutes, the enemy planes dropped some bits of metal ___C_____.A. to produce man-made snowflakes so that the parachutists could land without being seenB. to detect if there were any soldiers waiting in a hidden placeC. to make the instruments unable to detect the landing of enemy planesD. to explore if there were any mines planted underground24．The sentry didn’t immediately go and give the alarm____D____.A. because he was surrounded by snowflakes and could not see clearlyB. because he had been hiding there for two hours and his legs were not able to moveC. lest he should be seen and shot at by the enemyD. in case the parachutists he had seen were his own men out on an exercise25．The sentence “He had erred”means that he had been wrong in thinking tha t __B____.A. he had chosen the right routeB. He was safe from the enemyC. these men were his own menD. he could reach the camp at the foot of the hill(B)The Columbia Space Shuttle mission was a major scientific undertaking, with dozens of investigations involving everything from tumor (肿瘤) growth to global climate change --- work that could not be carried out on Earth.Though many valuable data and specimens (范例，标本) were lost in the shuttle disaster, a remarkable amount was downloaded to ground computers during the mission.It is unclear why solid particles --- rather than gases --- are produced in the high temperatures of burning fuel. The process is nearly impossible to study on the ground. Tests were done during the shuttle mission. The good news is that about half the data was downloaded before the shuttle came apart over Texas.Columbia’s science mission involved other health-related experiments. One studied how new muscle tissue is created. It was a total loss, however, as it would have relied on measurements after the mission.One series of tests considered how watery soil behaves in an earthquake. The temporary destabilization (不稳定性) of this kind of soil was responsible for a significant amount of the damage in a large 1989 earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area.Researcher Sture of University of Colorado said about 90 percent of this data was returned. He said the results would help save lives as engineers develop better methods for building stronger bridge and building foundations.根据上面文章内容，从每题下面四个选项中选出一个最合适的答案，并在答题纸上把选的编号字母涂黑。