Independent Recruitment English Exam (July 2016-C) Time: 90 minutesStudent’s Name: School’s Name:Section I：Use of Language 语言运用(Total Marks 25%)Direction: For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. You should decide on the best choice for each question in the answer sheet.1. It is no longer a problem _______ the poor children in this district can go to school.A. thatB. whetherC. soD. because2. A survey was carried out on the death rate of those who were infected by SARS, ________weresurprising.A. as resultsB. which resultsC. the results of itD. the results of which3. The organization broke no rules, but ______had it acted responsibly.A. neitherB. soC. eitherD. both4. Many workers were organized to clear away ______remained of the World Trade Center.A. thoseB. thatC. whatD. where5. My train arrive in New York at eight o'clock tonight. The plane I would like to take from there______by then.A. would leaveB. will have leftC. has leftD. had left6. The professor could hardly find sufficient grounds _____his arguments in favor of the new theory.A. to be based onB. to base onC. which to base onD. on which to base7. — Will you go to the party?— Of course I will if______.A. having invitedB. invitedC. I was invitedD. I will be invited8. — There were already five people in the car but they managed to take me as well.— It______ a comfortable journey.A. can’t beB. shouldn’t beC. mustn’t have beenD. couldn’t have been9. — We could have walked to the station; it was so near.— Yes. A taxi_____ at all necessary.A. wasn’tB. hadn’t beenC. wouldn’t beD. won’t be10. —A man answered the phone. I suppose it was her husband.—It_____ her husband. He has been dead for ages.A. mustn’t beB. mustn’t have beenC. couldn’t beD. couldn’t have been11. It _____ quite a few years _____ the accused was declared innocent and set free.A. was; sinceB. is; thatC. will be; whenD. was; before12. The speaker said he could talk on _____ interested the audience.A. any topicB. which topicC. whichever topicD. the topic he thought it13. Under no circumstance _____ to tell lies to parents.A. children are allowedB. are children allowedC. children will allowD. will children allow14. Modern science and technology has _____ communication between people far apart.A.made convenientB. made it convenientC. made it convenient forD. made it convenient to15. I heard that you really had a wonderful time at John's birthday party, _____?A. didn't IB. didn't youC. hadn't youD. will you16. The great use of school education is not so much to teach you things _____ to teach you the art oflearning.A. asB. thatC. thanD. but17. No matter how frequently _____ the works of Beethoven always attract a large number of people.A. performingB. performedC. to be performedD. being performed18._____ their real economic situations, they got some relief fund from the government.A. ConsideringB. ConsideredC. Having been consideredD. Being considered19. Tina _____ have known the truth, or she would have told us.A. mustn'tB. shouldn'tC. can'tD. needn't20._____ of water makes Death Valley a desert, but it is by no means devoid.A. LackingB. Being lackC. Because of lackD. Lack21. —Your performance was very good.—I could have done better if I _____ more timeA. have hadB. hadC. had hadD. will have had22. — What did you hear yesterday?— I seemed _____ someone knock at the door.A. hearB. to have heardC. to hearD. having heard23. — Shall I open the window?— Yes, please. I wish _____ it.A. you would openB. your openingC. you will to openD. you will open24. — Shall I turn on the television?— No. I’d rather not _____ television tonight.A. watchingB. to watchC. watchD. for watching25. — Tom must be very wealthy.— Yes, he _____ more in one day than I do in a week.A. has been earnedB. had earnedC. earnsD. has earningsSection II. Reading Comprehension阅读理解(Total Marks 40%)Directions: Read the following passages carefully and choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.Passage 1The frightening rise in crimes of violence throughout the country has caused more and more people to arm themselves. They buy guns to protect their homes and carry with them for personal safety when travelling. Unfortunately, instead of safety, what the new handgun owner too often gets is personal tragedy. As I found in my reading, a handgun does not protect the American home very well. The home handgun is more likely to kill or injure family members and friends than anyone who breaks in, and is especially harmful to young adults and children.Because 90 percent of break—ins take place when no one is home, the handgun is bought for defense is very often stolen. According to some statistics, each year about 100,000 handguns are stolen from ordinary citizens. These guns then enter the criminal underworld and are used in more crimes. Thus, the citizens who lost guns is helping to arm the criminal class.As a New York City police officer recently pointed out to a homeowner who asked if he should buy a handgun to protect his home, too often it is the homeowner himself who ends up getting shot and killed, because he often warns the ro bber by saying something like “Stop!” or “what do you think you are doing?” Possibly, the thief turns and fires.In street crime, the use of a hand gun for defense is very risky, with the defender often losing the gun and having it used against him. The handgun owner seldom even gets the chance to use his or her gun because the moment of surprise is always with the attacker. In fact, trying to use a handgun to keep someone off makes the risk of death quite a bit higher.For the ordinary citizen, using a handgun is seldom helpful for defense on the street. And, in the home, the only way to get real defense from a personal handgun would be to have it always at the ready, perhaps in hand loaded and ready to fire every time there is knock on the door. That is notexactly the American way or my idea of a civilized society.26. Why do people want to arm themselves according to the passage?A. Because they want to use the guns to protect their personal goods.B. Because killing animals with guns is their favorite sport.C. Because the number of crimes of violence is still small.D. Because people intent to attack others with guns in crimes.27. More often than not, what the handgun brings the owner is ___________.A. safetyB. tragedyC. luckD. happiness28. It can be understood from the passage that ____________________.A. home handguns do more good than harm to ordinary people.B. home handguns do more harm than good to ordinary peopleC. stolen handguns are usually thrown away instead of being usedD. handguns are no longer needed in a civilized society29. If a citizen use a handgun to protect himself in street crime, he will probably__________.A. be safe and soundB. kill the attackerC. risk his lifeD. surprise the attacker30. The passage is mainly about __________.A. how criminals get handguns from the citizensB. why is the home gun is not essential for home defenseC. how the criminals use the handgun against ordinary citizensD. why America is not a civilized societyPassage 2Roger Sperry and Robert Ornstein of the California Institute of Technology won a Nobel Prize in 1972.They discovered that the human brain has two sides, and each side has different work to do. The left side of the brain controls language and number; it analyses and reasons. The right side controls our imagination; it controls our understanding of music and our sense of rhythm. It is the right side of our brain which daydreams.Great artists and great scientists are similar: they both use the two sides of their brain. It is well-known that Albert Einstein, as a great scientist, also enjoyed art, playing the violin and sailing.Einstein said his scientific discoveries grew from his imagination rather than from analysis, reason and language. He said that written and spoken words were not important in his thinking. He got ideas by using his imagination. He then used the left side of brain to use analysis, number and reason and then he used language to explain it.Usual education in schools encourages us to use the left side of our brains. Language, number, analysis and reason are given more important in our schools than imagination and daydreaming. However, we are encouraged to hop when we have two perfectly good l egs! Then why don’t we give more value to visual thinking?In fact, all of us need both sides of our brain. We need to use our imaginations to think of solutions to problems and to enjoy feeling and creative experiences. And we need to be logical and to be able to analyze and organize in order to live on this world.It is true that some people find it easier to use one side of the brain rather than the other but all of us can use both sides and all of us benefit by using all the powers we have. Nietzsche, the well-known philosopher, said that we add to our knowledge by making conscious the unconscious.31. According to the passage, a great composer composes music by using of his brain.A. the right sideB. the left sideC. both sidesD. neither side32. Albert Einstein’s example is used to support the idea that .A. all scientific discoveries are based on imaginationB. people should do nothing but daydreamC. using two sides of the brain is importantD. scientists are good at imagining what may happen33. It is implied in the passage that regular education .A. should be praised because it suggests using both sides of the brain.B. finds it very important to have daydreamsC. claims that analysis and reason are of no valueD. fails to develop the right side of the brain34. What did Nietzsche say about adding to the knowledge we have?A. Learning happens when we are not conscious.B. Learning happens when we make unconscious decisions.C. Learning happens when we become aware of things inside us.D. Learning happens when we think about thins logically.35. The author’s attitude toward using two sides of the brain is .A. positiveB. negativeC. not logicalD. criticalPassage 3"Culture consists of all shared products of a human society" (Robertson, 1981). This means not only such material things as cities, tools, and schools, but also non-material things, such as ideas, customs, family patterns, and languages. Put simply, culture refers to the entire way of life of a society, "the ways of a people".Language is a part of culture and plays a very important role in it. Some social scientists consider it the keystone of culture. Without language, maintaining culture would not be possible. On the other hand, language is influenced and shaped by culture. It reflects culture in the broadest sense, is the symbolic representation of a people, and it comprises a society's historical and cultural backgrounds. Language also displays a people's approach to life and their ways of living and thinking.We should not go further into the relationship between language and culture. What needs to be stressed here is that the two interact, and that understanding of one requires understanding of the other.Social scientists tell us that cultures differ from one another and that each culture is unique. As cultures are diverse, languages are also diverse. It is only natural then that with difference in cultures and differences in languages, difficulties often arise in communicating between people of different cultures. Understanding is not always easy.Learning a foreign language well means more than merely mastering the pronunciation, grammar, words, and idioms. It also means learning to see the world as native speakers of that language see it, learning the ways in which their language reflects the ideas, customs, and behaviors of their society. It means learning to understand their "language of the mind". Learning a language, in fact, is inseparable from learning culture.36.According to Robertson, what is NOT part of non-material culture?A. Legal systems.B. Language.C. Religion.D. Tools.37.The second paragraph is about _____.A. the way language is used by social scientistsB. the relationship between language and cultureC. the influence culture has on languageD. the influence language has on culture38.If you want to learn a foreign language well, you must _____.A. grasp the pronunciation, grammar, words, and idiomsB. master the language as well as its cultureC. know the way the native speakers of that language thinkD. learn the country's culture first39.The relationship between language and culture is that _________.A. language dominates cultureB. culture dominates languageC. they are connected with each otherD. language consists of culture40."Language of the mind" means _____.A. the unspoken things that people thinkB. the method for studying a languageC. the manner in which people thinkD. the common culture shared by all people regardless of languagePassage 4Danny hung his Boston University diploma below his cab license. After 17 years of education in the finest schools in America, he couldn't do very simple repairs or even locate the carburetor (化油器) in his car.Danny is an educated man. He is a master of writing papers, taking tests, talking, and filling out forms. He can analyze Freud from a Marxian viewpoint and he can analyze Marx from a Freudian viewpoint.In short, Danny is an unskilled worker, and he has a sociology degree to prove it. He is of very little use to American industry.This is nothing new. Colleges have been turning out unskilled workers for decades. Until five years ago, most of these unskilled workers took their degrees in sociology, philosophy, political science, or history and marched right into the American middle class. Some found work in business and government, but many, if not most, went into education, which is the only thing they knew anything about. Once there, they taught another generation the skills necessary to take tests and write papers.But the cycle broke down. Teachers are too common these days, college applications are down, plumbers are making $12 an hour, and liberal-arts graduates are faced with a choice: a graduate school or the taxicab.Danny chose the taxicab because driving was about the only marketable skill he possessed. Dannyrefers to his job as "Real World 101". He has been beaten and shot at. But he has also acquired some practical skills: he can get his tickets fixed; he knows how to cheat the company out of a few extra dollars a week; and he found his carburetor and he can fix it.41.What did Danny study at college?A. Politics.B. Psychology.C. Sociology.D. Philosophy.42.The reason why Danny chose to be a taxicab driver after he graduated from college is that ________.A. he wanted to get more experience in societyB. he didn't know how to repair a taxicab, so he wanted to learn the skillC. taxi drivers can earn more money than middle class workersD. he had no other skills but driving to support himself43.Which of the following statements is true?A. Most college graduates went on to graduate schools in the past.B. Skilled workers make more money than college graduates.C. Several years ago a college degree ensured a place in the American middle class.D. A college education is useless in America nowadays.44.What does the word "ticket" in the last paragraph mean?A. Label attached to something, giving details of its price, size, etc.B. A list of the candidates.C. Official notice of an offense against traffic regulations.D. A piece of paper that gives the holder a certain of right.45.What does the passage imply?A. College education is out of date nowadays in America.B. It's hard for new graduates from college who majored in arts to find a well-paid job in the U.S. A.C. The American education system isn't practical at all.D. One learns more from society than from college education.Section III. Cloze 填词(Total Marks 10%)Directions: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.If you have decided to study abroad, you might be looking for effective ways to prepare your language skills before you depart. Some student attend ESL (English as a Second Language) classes 46 other practice with a conversational partner. However, for those in situations 47 these two options are not available, studying ESL online might be the next alternative.During 48 past decade, many websites have appeared on the Internet, 49 (provide) ESL activities to help people practice the major language skills like grammar, reading, and vocabulary. Perhaps the 50 (great) interests for students are websites that focus on listening and speaking skills. Since high-speed connections 51 (appear), things have changed greatly. 52 you want to find a site that is suitable for you, you should look among those that combine good contents with a user-friendly interface and style.53 (final), no matter which site you end up visiting, you should set some goals 54 your study. 55 might include the number of vocabulary you want to learn, specific grammar structures you want to review, and even how many minutes you want to read aloud from a newspaper in English.Section IV. Error Correction改错; 共有10处错误(Total Marks 10%)Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this 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. Example:Television is rapidly becoming the literatures of our periods. 1. time/times/period Many of the arguments having used for the study of literature 2. havingas a school subject are valid for ∧ study of television. 3. the___参见答题纸Section V. Essay Writing 短文写作(Total Marks 15%)Directions: Please write a well-organized original essay in no less than 150 words on the topic given below. The essay must include three points which you develop. Proofread your essay and correct any mistakes you find.Topic: “People are travelling more often than before”Write an essay in which you agree or disagree with this statement. Give clear reasons and examples that support your opinion.。