TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2018)

GRADE FOUR

 

PART I  DICTATION

Emotional Reaction to Music

No matter who you are, where you live, / or what your cultural background is, / people get some pleasure from listening to their favorite music. / However, some people are simply not capable of enjoying music. / This is not because they can’t experience pleasure at all. / They don’t have trouble hearing music properly, either. / Instead, they’re just indifferent to music. / Researchers have conducted studies to find out / why some people have no emotional reaction to music. / However, despite their efforts, the mystery remains.

 

PART II  LISTENING COMPREHENSION

 

SECTION A  TALK

1. seven

2. sounds

3. cognitive

4. a sound changes

5. six-month-old

6. discriminate the

7. their first birthday

8. totally equivalent

9. incredible difference

10. taking statistics

 

SECTION B CONVERSATIONS

1-5 CBADB

6-10 ACBDA

 

PART III  LANGUAGE USAGE

11-15 CDBCA

16-20 DACBA

21-25 CBCDB

26-30 DADCD

 

PART IV  CLOZE

31-35 MBFIC

36-40 NEDOL

 

PART V  READING COMPREHENSION

 

SECTION A MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

41-45 DBCAD

46-50 CBCBA

 

SECTION B  SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS

51. Individual freedom.

52. Some awards aren’t rewards for real achievements.

53. Some awards for sports fail to achieve positive social effects.

54. Her mood changed from distress to excitement and joy.

55. The real cause was her extreme disappointment.

 

PART VI  WRITING

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