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I. Listening Comprehension (15 points) Section A Directions: There are five statements in this section. Each statement will be spoken only' once. When you hear a statement, read the four choices given and choose the one which is closest in meaning to the statement you have heard by marking the corresponding letter A, B, C, or D on the ANSVER SHEET with a single line through the center. FWq+'GkSV
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A. He is in a drug store. )iNMjg
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D. He is at his doctor's office. ?T3zA2
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C. You looked so deep in thought that I didn't want to bother you. (#k>cA(}
D. You told me never to interrupt you. (dd+wx't
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B. Sally took long time to do her work.
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D. Sally usually gets to work in much less time. ;IZ*o<_
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A. If you audit a course, you don't have to take the tests.
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A. The speaker's salary is $250. 3*)<Y}Tc
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D. The speaker's salary is $ 275. Section B Directions: In this section, you will hear five short conversations. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the question will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center. K.) ionb
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A. Someone who is in charge of hunting. 7LEB,bU
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D. Someone who is in charge of looking for talents for a company. !8g419Yg
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Section C Directions: In this section, you will hear an interview. Look at the five statements for this part on your test paper and decide if you think each statement is true or false while you are listening to the interview. If you think the answer is true, mark A, if you think the answer is false, mark B on the e\NS\VER SHEET with a single line through the center. &9Y ^/W
1. Xiang zhen has lived in the United States since she was ten years old. @h&:xA56
2. In Korea, the American gesture for "come" is used :o call dogs. $-D}y:
3. When talking to an older person or someone with a higher social position. Koreans traditionally look at the person's feet. GLO%>&
4. Between males and females, direct eye contact is a sign of attraction, ,(u-q]8
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II. Reading Comprehension (30 points) Directions: Read the following passages carefully end then select the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C, and D by marking the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. HVJqDF
1 Since the first brain scanner was constructed several years ago, computed tomography or computed medical imagery, has become fairly widely used. Its rapid acceptance is due to the fact that it has overcome several of the drawbacks of conventional X-ray technology. To begin with, conventional two-dimensional X-ray pictures cannot show all of the information contained in a three-dimensional object. Things at different depths aresuper imposed, causing confusion to the viewer. Computed tomography can give three-dimensional information. The computer is able to reconstruct pictures of the body's interior by measuring the varying intensities of X-ray beams passing through sections of the body from hundreds of different angles. Such pictures are based on series of thin "'slices". ZUyS+60
In addition, conventional X-ray generally differentiates only between bone and air, as in the chest and lungs. They cannot distinguish soft tissues or variations in tissues. The liver and pancreas are not discernible at all, and certain other organs max only be rendered visible through the use of radio paque dye. Since computed tomography is much more sensitive, the soft tissues of the kidneys or the liver can be seen and clearly differentiated. This technique can also accurately measure different degrees of X-ray absorption, facilitating the study of the nature of" tissue. lR
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A third problem with conventional X-ray methods is their inability Io measure quantitatively the separate densities of the individual substances through which the X-ray has passed. Only the mean absorption of all the tissues is recorded. This is not a problem with computed tomography. It can accurately locate a tumor and subsequently monitor the progress of radiation treatment, so that in addition to its diagnostic capabilities, it can play a significant role in therapy. 6"Ze%:AZZ
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19. what is the author's attitude toward this new technique? *rgF[
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Because early man viewed illness as divine punishment and healing as purification, medicine and religion were inextricably, linked for centuries. This notion is apparent in the origin of our word "pharmacy," which comes from the Greek pharmakon, meaning "purification through purging." NEUr w/
By 3500 B.C., the Sumerians in the Tigris-Euphrates valley had developed virtually all of our modern methods of administering drugs. They used gargles inhalations, pills, lotions, ointments, and plasters. The first drug catalog, or pharmacopoeia, was written at that time by an unknown Sumerian physician. Preserved in cuneiform script on a single clay' tablet are the names of dozens of drugs to treat ailments that still afflict us today. hx*4xF
The Egyptians added to the ancient medicine chest. The Ebers Papyrus. a scroll dating from 1900B.C. and named after the German Egyptologist George Ebers. reveals the trial-and-error know-how acquired by early Egyptian physicians. To relieve indigestion, a chew of peppermint leaves and carbonates (known today. As antacids) was prescribed, and to numb the pain of tooth extraction, Egyptian doctors temporarily stupefied a patient with ethyl alcohol. C hQ] d
The scroll also provides a rare glimpse into the hierarchy of ancient drug preparation. The "'chief of the preparers of drugs" was the equivalent of a head pharmacist, who supervised the "'collectors of drugs." field workers, who gathered essential minerals and herbs. The "'preparers" aides" (technicians) p+pu_T;~
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By the seventh century B.C.. the Greeks had adopted a sophisticated mind-body view of medicine. They- believed that a physician must pursue the diagnosis and treatment of the physical causes of disease within a scientific framework, as well as cure the supernatural components involved. Thus, the early, Greek physician emphasized something of a holistic approach to health, even if the suspected "mental" causes of disease were not recognized as stress and depression but interpreted as curses from displeased deities. Kx?.g#>U;
The modern era of pharmacology began in the sixteenth century, ushered in by' the first major discoveries in chemistry. The understanding of how chemicals interact to produce certain effects within the body would eventually remove much of the guesswork and magic from medicine. }= wor~
Drugs had been launched on a scientific course, but centuries "would pass before superstition was displaced by' scientific fact. One major reason was that physicians. unaware of the existence of disease-causing pathogens ..such as bacteria and viruses, continued to dream up imaginary causative evils .And' though new chemical compounds emerged, their effectiveness in treating disease was still based largely on trial and error. '`YZJ
Many standard, common drugs in the medicine chest developed in this trial-and-error environment. Such is the complexity of disease and human biochemistry that even today, despite enormous strides in medical science, many of the latest sophisticate additions to our medicine chest shelves were accidental finds. ;[79Ewd#$
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A. Human biochemistry is such a complex science that important discoveries are uncommon. [=BMvP5
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D. Chance events have led to the discovery of many modem drugs. Passage 3 =-_hq'il
When imaginative men turn their eyes towards space and wonder whether life exists in any' part of it, they may cheer themselves by remembering that life need not resemble closely the life that exists on Earth. Mars looks like tile only planet where life like ours could exist, and even this is doubtful. But there may be miler kinds of life based on other kinds of chemistry and they may multiply on Venus us or Jupiter. At leas we cannot prove at present that they do not. j#2EQ
Even more interesting is the possibility that life on their planets may be in a more advanced stage of ev0Iution. Present-day man is in a peculiar and probably temporary stage. His individual units retain a strong sense of personality. They are, in fact, still capable under favorable circumstances of leading individual lives. But man's societies are already sufficiently.' developed to have enormously more power and effectiveness than the individuals have. |:&O!36
It is no1 likely that this transitional situation wit! continue very tong or the evolutionary time scale. Fifty thousand ,years from now man's societies may have become so close-knit that the individuals retain no sense of separate personality. Then little distinction will remain between the organic parts of the multiple organism and the inorganic parts (machines) that have been constructed by it. A million years further on man and his machines may' have merged as closely as the muscles of the human body and the nerve cells that set them in motion. >d=pl}-kOQ
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The explorers~ of space should be prepared for some such situation. If they. Arrive on a foreign planet that has reached an advanced stage (and this is by' no means impossible), they' may find it being inhabited by a single large organism composed of many closely cooperating units. yNEU/>]>2
The units may be "'secondary,'" machines created millions of years ago by a previous form of life and given the will and ability' to survive and reproduce. They may be built entirely of metals and other durable materials, if this is the case, they may be much more tolerant of their environment multiplying under conditions that would destroy immediately any organism made of carbon compound and dependent on the familiar carbon cycle. +}M3O]?4
Such creatures might be relics of a past age, many millions of years ago, when their planet was favorable to the origin of life or they might be immigrants from a favored planet 26 What does the word "cheer" (Para. 1, Line 2) imply? a;^lOU|L{
A. Imaginative men are sure of success in finding life on other planets. <G|i5/|7
B. Imaginative men are delighted to find life on other planets. T)OR HJ&,
C. Imaginative men are happy to find a different kind of life existing on other planets. tK .1
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Education is one of the key, words of our time. A man without an education, many of us believe, is at: unfortunate victim of unfortunate circumstances deprived of one of the greatest twentieth-century opportunities. Convinced of the importance of education, modern states ‘invest', in institutions of learning to get back "interest" in the form of a large group of enlightened young men and women who are potential leaders. Education. with its cycles of instruction so care fully worked out, punctuated by text-books--those purchasable wells of wisdom--what would civilization be like without its benefits? 4Ex&A