SECTION 3: LISTENING TEST (30 minutes)

Directions:  Translate the following passage into Chinese and write your version in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.

     The most important fact in Washington’s failure on Thursday to be re-elected for the first time since 1947 to the U.N. Human Rights Commission is that it was America’s friends, not its enemies, that engineered the defeat. After all, China and Cuba and other targets of U.S. –led criticism in the committee were always going to vote and lobby against Washington; the shock came in the fact that the European and other Western nations that traditionally ensured U.S. reelection turned their backs on Washington.

     Many traditional U.S. supporters clearly withdrew their votes to signal displeasure over U.S. unilateralism. They have been increasingly chagrined by Washington’s tendency to ignore the international consensus on issues ranging form the use of land mines to the Kyoto climate change treaty. They are also critical of what they see as Washington’s tendency to publicise the issue of human rights, using annual resolutions at the committee to denounce China or Cuba when that conforms to U.S. foreign policy objectives but for the same reason voting alone in defence of Israel when t6hat country is in the dock over its conduct.

SECTION 4: LISTENING TEST (30 minutes)

Part A: Note-taking and Gap-filling http://tr.hjenglish.com/
Directions: In this part of the test you will hear a short talk. You will hear the talk ONLY ONCE. While listening to the talk, you may take notes on the important points so that you can have enough information to complete a gap-filling task on a separate ANSWER BOOKLET. You are required to write ONE word or figure only in each blank. You will not get your Answer Booklet until after your have listened to the talk.

     Studying in a foreign country is certainly a new _____________(1), but it also has some _____________(2) for you. You will have difficulty. _____________(3) to a new culture. There will be at least four essential stages of culture shock adjustment.
 
     This first stage is “the _____________4) ”, when you will feel _____________(5) about the new place. You will find everything and everybody so _____________(6).
 
     The second stage is the “_____________(7) stage”. You feel _____________(8) and distressed about everything that seemed to be so wonderful at first. At this stage you develop various _____________(9) mechanisms to protect you against the _____________(10) of culture shock. But these defence mechanisms can _____________(11) you because they prevent you from making necessary _____________(12) to the new culture.

     The third stage of culture shock adjustment is called “_____________(13)”. At this stage you recover from the _____________(14) of the first two stages. The whole situation starts to become more _____________(15). You learn to _____________(16) the elements of the new culture.

     The last sage is called “adjustment”. Now you feel _____________(17) with the new culture and you have adjusted to it.

     If you live in a foreign country, you cannot _____________(18) culture shock. When you have completely adjusted to a new culture, you can fully _____________(19) it. You learn how to _____________(20) with other people.

Part B: Listening and Translation
I. Sentence Translation http://tr.hjenglish.com/
Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear 5 English sentences. You will hear the sentences ONLY ONE. After you have heard each sentence, translate in into Chinese and write your version in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.

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 Ⅱ. Passage Translation http://tr.hjenglish.com/
Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear 2 passages. Your will hear the passages ONLY ONCE. After you have heard each passage, translate it into Chinese and write your version in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. You may take notes while you are listening.

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