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Practice Test Two

Section A

News Report 1

E-commerce giant Alibaba broke records with sales of 14.3 billion dollars on China's Single's Day. It is the largest online shopping day in the world. Online sales from last year increased 60 percent, according to Alibaba. Most people shopped on mobile devices, said the firm. China Singles' Day takes place November 11, or 11.11 each year. Alibaba promoted it as a shopping day in 2009. There are steep discounts and other promotions designed to attract online customers. Singles' Day quickly became a retail sensation.Singles' Day quickly became a retail sensation. Kitty Fok is China manager for market research from IDC. She told the BBC that online shopping had become a comfortable channel for most consumers. The company is focusing on international e-commerce for future Singles' Days, reported Reuters.

"Within the next five years, we expect China will become the world's largest e-commerce market for imported products," President Michael Evans told reporters on Wednesday.

Alibaba Chief Executive Daniel Zhang said in a statement that Singles' Day would mean that "the whole world will witness the power of Chinese consumption."

Q1. What is NOT true about the sales on China Single's day?

Q2. What is the strategy of Alibaba for the Single's Day event in coming years?

News Report 2

The first large group of Chinese immigrants came to the United States in the middle 1800s. At that time, some Chinese moved to the American west to build a railroad across the country. Many others worked in mines or on farms. Chinese immigrants helped the U.S. economy. However, most Americans saw the Chinese as competitors.

William Wei teaches history at the University of Colorado in Boulder. He says Chinese immigrants were not treated well. They had to live together in poor neighborhoods, or do hard work in laundries and restaurants that did not pay very much.

Mr. Wei says the American public did not believe Chinese immigrants could ever be part of their society.

In fact, in 1882 the US Congress approved and the president signed the Chinese Exclusion Act. The law barred Chinese people from moving to the United States and becoming citizens. It was the first and only US law to ban a specific ethnic group.

The US government cancelled the ban during the 1940s after China became an American ally in World War II. Yet the government limited the number of Chinese migrants to just 105 per year.

Finally, in 1965, the government ended the system restricting Chinese immigration.

Q3. Which is not a typical work for early Chinese immigrants in the 1800s?

Q4. When did the US government totally cancel the ban of Chinese immigration?

News Report 3

Leaders in Paris negotiating a climate change agreement missed their deadline Friday. Representatives from 195 countries have spent two weeks in Paris trying to reach agreement at the United Nations climate talks, known as COP21. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius extended the deadline until Saturday when the deadline could not be met.

The biggest sticking points are financial aid and the long-term goal. First, how much financial aid will the rich nations give the poorer nations to help them cut gas emissions? Second, what will the final long-term goal say in the agreement?

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The latest draft of the agreement calls for “the widest possible cooperation by all countries” to cut emission of greenhouse gases. Scientists say those gases are warming the planet and changing the climate to an extreme.

A major point of disagreement has been who will pay for reducing these emissions. Representatives of 134 developing countries objected to conditions suggested by richer industrialized nations.

Richer countries have produced most of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. Those gases are blamed for rising temperatures on the planet. Poorer nations want developed ones to pay for measures that arrest pollution. Scientists warn that rising temperatures will make Earth more difficult for human life. They say there will be rising sea levels, damaging storms and severe droughts.

Some island nations at the conference said they will disappear underwater when higher global temperatures raise sea levels.

Q5. Why was the deadline of the conference postponed to Saturday?

Q6. What is the major disagreement about?

Q7. Which of the following is NOT caused by greenhouse gases?

Section B

Conversation 1

W: Hi! Welcome to Rental Property Management. What can I do for you?

M: Hi. I'm interested in renting a two-bedroom apartment.

W: Okay. If you have a seat, one of our rental agents will be with you in a moment.

M: Thank you.

W: Hi, my name is Ann Smith.

M: Hi, I'm Bill Harrington.

W: Hi, Mr. Harrington. I would like to ask you a few questions before I show you what we have available. So that we will be able to match your needs better. First, what price range were you interested in?

M: Somewhere between 400 dollars and 450 dollars a month.

W: Okay. Did you have a specific location in mind?

M: Well, I would like to live somewhere near the university. Or at least on a bus line.

W: And when would you like to move in?

M: On the first of the month.

W: Okay. Are there any other amenities which you would like to have? For example, a dishwasher, a balcony, a swimming pool or central air conditioning?

M: I would definitely like to have a dishwasher, and with summers like these, central air! A balcony is not that important. Oh, yes, and two bathrooms would be nice.

W: Okay. Here are photos of the apartments we have available which fit your preferences.

M: Thank you. This one on Broadway Avenue looks nice. I would like to see that one. And the one on Main Street.

W: Sure. Let me get the keys and we will go look at them. If you choose to rent one of them, we will need a damage deposit of 250 dollars. You will be responsible for all the utilities. You can sign a lease today, if you like.

M: Great! Thank you.

Q8. Where did this conversation take place?

Q9. What is Bill's price range?

Q10. Where would Bill prefer to live?

Q11. When would Bill like to move in?

Conversation 2

M: Susan, do you know when Professor Jones, Biology Final is?

W: Next Tuesday.?

M: Next Tuesday! That’s less than a week away, and I’ve got things planned for this weekend. When am I going to be able to study for it? Why is he having it so soon? There are still three weeks left in the semester.?

W: Haven’t you been studying all along?

M: I have kept up with my lecture notes, but I haven’t reviewed at all.

W: Then it’s your own fault. The date of the final is clearly marked on the course outline.?

M: I suppose you’re right, but doesn’t it seem awfully early to be having for a final?

W: A little, but it it should actually help us out.? After we have finished with it, we can concentrate on our other finals.?

M: Are you ready for it？

W: I think I am. I'm going to review more of course. Maybe we should study together sometime this weekend.

M: I can't tomorrow. I am going out with some guys to that new nightspot downtown.

W: How about the following night？

M: No, I can't Saturday either. My sister and her husband are coming to town and I want to show them around.

W: Sunday, then？

M: Well, I'll probably sleep all morning and in the afternoon I want to go to the football game. Also that night I have to write and type up a paper for another class.

W: Michael, that leaves Monday, the night before the test.

M: Actually, I've got plans for Monday night too. How about Tuesday？

W: Michael, the test is on Tuesday.

Q12. What day of the week is it?

Q13. What is Michael planning to do on Sunday afternoon?

Q14. And how many days will the test be?

Q15. Why does the woman think it is good that the test will be early?

Section C

Passage 1

Not long ago I was invited out to dinner by a girl called Sally. I only met Sally twice, and she was very, very beautiful. I was flattered. "She likes me," I thought. But I was in for a disappointment.

"I'm so sorry we asked you at such short notice," she said when I arrived, "but we suddenly realised there were going to be thirteen people at the table, so we just had to find somebody else."

A superstition. Thirteen. The unlucky number. Recently I came upon a little group of worried people, gathering round a man lying on the pavement beside a busy London road. They were waiting for an ambulance, because the man had been knocked down by a passing taxi. Apparently he had stepped off the pavement and into the street, to avoid walking under a ladder.

They say this superstition goes back to the days when the criminals were hanged on the gallows were built on a platform. To get up on to the platform he had to climb a ladder. To pass under the shadow of that ladder was very unluckyI have an African friend. One day he said to me: "If ever an African says to you that he is not superstitious, that man is a liar." Perhaps that is true of all of us.

Q16. Why did Sally apologize when the speaker arrived?

Q17. Why did the man step off the pavement and get injured in an accident?

Q18. Where do people consider it unlucky to see a black cat?

Passage 2

In the days when an ice cream sundae cost much less, a 10-year-old boy entered a hotel coffee shop and sat at a table.

A waitress put a glass of water in front of him. “How much is an ice cream sundae?” “Fifty cents”, replied the waitress. The little boy pulled his hand out of his pocket and studied a number of coins in it. “How much is a dish of plain ice cream?” he inquired. Some people were? now waiting for a table and the waitress was a bit impatient. "35 cents, " she said quickly to the boy. The little boy again counted the coins. "I'll have the plain ice cream," he said. The waitress brought the ice cream, put the bill on the table and walked away. The boy finished the ice cream, paid the cashier and departed. When the waitress cameback, she began wiping down the table and then was surprised at what she saw.

There, placed neatly beside the empty dish, were two nickels and five cents–her tip.

Q19. Why didn't the little boy buy an ice cream sundae?

Q20. How much did the boy put on the table?

Q21. Which of the following adjectives is the most suitable to describe the waitress' feeling at the end of the story?

Passage 3

Nearly all British people in full-time jobs have at least four weeks holiday a year, often in two or three separate periods . The normal working week is 35 to 40 hours, Monday to Friday. People who have to work in shifts with unsocial hours are paid extra for the inconvenience.??

There are only eight official public holidays a year, only one of them in the six months before Christmas. None of them celebrates anything to do with state or nation, though the first Monday in May was made a “bank holiday” by a recent Labor government as the British holiday in honor of working people.?

The most obvious―and traditional―British holiday destination is the coast. No place in the country is more than three hours’ journey from some part of it.?

The coast is full of variety with good cliffs and rocks between beaches, but the uncertain weather and cold sea are serious disadvantages. Also two weeks in a hotel room with balcony and private bathroom can now cost less in Spain or Greece with flights included than the same in a British hotel. Most of the hotels in the numerous seaside resort towns were built in the railway age between 50 and 100 years ago and seemed not to be used as much by people going to conferences as by those on holiday. Going to a conference can be a sort of holiday, even in working time and with expenses paid.

Q22. How long is the annual holiday for nearly all British full-time employees?

Q23. How many official public holidays are there in one year in Britain?

Q24. How can British people enjoy their holidays besides going to the seaside in Britain?

Q25. Which of the following is NOT a disadvantage for holiday makers at a British seaside resort?

接上文， Practice Test 1 和 Practice Test 2