It was _______that the school &scriminated against Asian students.

Fiber-optic cables can carry hundreds of telephone conversations ______.

{{B}}PART I DICTATIONDirections: Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be done at normal speed, listen and try to understand the meaning. For the second and third readings, the passage will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with intervals of 15 seconds. The last reading will be done at normal speed again and during this time you should check your work.{{/B}}

How to Do Basic First Aid1. Method 1: Performing the three CsCheck the【T1】【T1】______Call for【T2】help immediately【T2】______Care for the person with physical treatment and【T3】【T3】______2. Method 2: Caring for an unconscious personRouse them by tickling bare hands and feet or by【T4】【T4】______Check for signs of【T5】and then a pulse【T5】______If the person remains【T6】, prepare for CPR【T6】______3. Method 3: Treating common problems in first aid scenariosManaging bleeding: use【T7】on a wound【T7】______Treating a broken bonedon't move the broken bone【T8】with ice-packs【T8】______tie up the broken bone4. Method 4: Treating rarer cases in first aid scenariosIt's very important to know the【T9】【T9】______Rush patients to the hospital or【T10】soon【T10】______

Which of the following statements is INCORRECT?

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It is customary to ______ one's resignation one month before one's last day.

(l)Science is committed to the universal. A sign of this is that the more successful a science becomes, the broader the agreement about its basic concepts. There is not a separate Chinese or American or Soviet thermodynamics, for example; there is simply thermodynamics. For several decades of the twentieth century there was a Western and a Soviet genetics, the latter associated with Lysenko's theory that environmental stress can produce genetic mutations. Today Lysenko's theory is discredited, and there is now only one genetics. (2)As the corollary of science, technology also exhibits the universalizing tendency. This is why the spread of technology makes the world look ever more homogeneous. Architectural styles, dress styles, musical styles—even eating styles—tend increasingly to be world styles. The world looks more homogeneous because it is more homogeneous. Children who grow up in this world therefore experience it as a sameness rather than a diversity, and because their identities are shaped by this sameness, their sense of differences among cultures and individuals diminishes. As buildings become more alike, the people who inhabit the buildings become more alike. The result is described precisely in a phrase that is already familiar: the disappearance of history. (3)The automobile illustrates the point with great clarity. A technological innovation like streamlining or all-welded body construction may be rejected initially, but if it is important to the efficiency or economics of automobiles, it will reappear in different ways until it is not only accepted but universally regarded as an asset. Today's automobile is no longer unique to a given company or even to a given national culture, its basic features are found, with variations, in automobiles in general, no matter who makes them. (4)As in architecture, so in automating. In a given cost range, the same technology tends to produce the same solutions. The visual evidence for this is as obvious for cars as for buildings. Today, if you choose models in the same price range, you will be hard put at 500 paces to tell one make from another. In other words, the specifically American traits that lingered in American automobiles in the 1960s—traits that linked American cars to American history—are disappearing. Even the Volkswagen Beetle has disappeared and has taken with it the visible evidence of the history of streamlining that extends from D'Arcy Thompson to Carl Breer to Ferdinand Porsche. (5)If man creates machines, machines in turn shape their creators. As the automobile is universalized, it universalizes those who use it. Like the World Car he drives, modem man is becoming universal. No longer quite an individual, no longer quite the product of a unique geography and culture, he moves from one climate-controlled shopping mall to another, one airport to the next, from one Holiday Inn to its successor three hundred miles down the road; but somehow his location never changes. He is cosmopolitan. The price he pays is that he no longer has a home in the traditional sense of the word. The benefit is that he begins to suspect home on the traditional sense is another name for limitations, and that home in the modern sense is everywhere and always surrounded by neighbors.

{{B}}PART II LISTENING COMPREHENSION{{/B}}

{{B}}SECTION A TALKIn this section you will hear a talk. You will hear the talk ONCE ONLY. While listening, you may look at ANSWER SHEET ONE and write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each gap. Make sure the word (s) you fill in is (are) both grammatically and semantically acceptable. You may use the blank sheet for note-taking.You have THIRTY seconds to preview the gap-filling task.{{/B}}

If you are a successful language learner, you ______ independently, actively, and purposefully.

{{B}}SECTION B CONVERSATIONSIn this section you will hear two conversations. At the end of each conversation , five questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken ONCE ONLY. After each question there will be a ten-second pause. During the pause, you should read the four choices of [A], [B], [C] and [D], and mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO.You have thirty seconds to preview the questions.{{/B}}

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A. mentally B. stand C. assist D. complex E. shelterF. strolling G. coordination H. survival I. As J. supervisionK. comprehensive L. cope M. wandering N. dwelling O. increasing The homeless make up a growing percentage of America's population. Indeed homelessness has reached such proportions that local governments can't possibly【C1】______. To help homeless people toward independence, the federal government must support job training programs, raise the minimum wage, and fund more low-cost housing. Not everyone agrees on the number of Americans who are homeless. Estimates range anywhere from 600,000 to 3 million. Although the figure may vary, analysts do agree on another matter: that the number of the homeless ' is【C2】______. One of the federal government's studies predicts that the number of the homeless will reach nearly 19 million by the end of this decade. Finding ways to【C3】______this growing homeless population has become increasingly difficult. Even when homeless individuals manage to find a【C4】______that will give them three meals a day and a place to sleep at night, a good number still spend the bulk of each day【C5】______the street. Part of the problem is that many homeless adults are addicted to alcohol or drugs. And a significant number of the homeless have serious mental disorders. Many others while not addicted or【C6】______ill, simply lack the everyday【C7】______skills needed to turn their lives around. Boston Globe reporter Chris Reidy notes that the situation will improve only when there are【C8】______programs that address the many needs of the homeless.【C9】______Edward Zlotkowski, director of community service at Bentley College in Massachusetts, puts it, "There has to be【C10】______of programs. What's needed is a package deal."

PASSAGE FOUR

After working for the company for years, he______the position of manager.

My friend has been seeing a woman off and on but I do not think that their relationship is very serious. The underlined part means ______.

His ability to absorb information was astonishing, but his concentration______ was short.

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Which of the following is INCORRECT?