Part I Listening Comprehension(20 minutes)

Section A

1. C) Dr. Holden is the best person for the chairmanship.

2. D) They’ll keep in touch during the summer vacation

3. C) Peaches are not at their best now.

4. B) They work on the assignment together.

5. D) She admires Jean’s straightforwardness

6. A) He liked writing when he was a child

7. B) He does not study hard enough

8. D) It will be very difficult for them to find John

9. B) Its rapid growth is beneficial to the world

10. C) Most students can’t afford to live in the new apartments

Section B

Passage One

11. A) The need for greater cultural diversity in the school curriculum

12. A) He believed the speaker was a foreigner

13. D) The US population doesn’t consist of white European descendants only

Passage Two

14. C) By making laws

15. B) It should be raised quickly by hand

16. C) It should be carried high up in the air

17. A) There are precise regulations and customs to be followed

Passage Three

18. B) Truancy

19. D) Students with good attendance records

20. D) Rewarding schools that have decreased the destruction

Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)

Passage one

21. C) People can fully enjoy individual freedom.

22. D) the more diligent one is, the bigger his returns

23. B) became wealthy after starting life very poor

24. A) Americans wish to succeed in every aspect of life

25. D) What Americans strive after often contradicts their beliefs.