電視大學(xué)—學(xué)年度第一學(xué)期“本科”英語專業(yè) 高級時事英語試題 期末考試試卷代號1015

1、試卷代號 1015中央廣播電視大學(xué)20012002學(xué)年度第一學(xué)期“開放本科”期末考試英語專業(yè)高級時事英語試題2012年1月 注 意 事 項  一、將你的準(zhǔn)考證號、學(xué)生證號、姓名及分校(工作站)名稱填寫在答題紙的規(guī)定欄內(nèi)?？荚嚱Y(jié)束后，把試卷和答題紙放在桌上。試卷和答題紙均不得帶出考場。監(jiān)考人收完考卷和答題紙后才可離開考場。 二、仔細(xì)讀懂題目的說明，并按題目要求和答題示例答題。答案一定要寫在答題紙的指定位置上，寫在試卷上的答案無效。三、用藍(lán)、黑圓珠筆或鋼筆答題，使用鉛筆答題無效。   English in Current AffairsThis i

2、s the written examination which is part of the end-of-course assessment. The total marks for this examination are 100 points. The examination consists of two papers: Paper 1. Listening Test, and Paper 2. Reading and Writing. Time allowed for completing this examination is 2 hours (120 mins). In

3、structions: Answer all questions. You will have ten minutes at the end of the listening test to transfer your answers to the answer sheet. All answers must be transferred to the answer sheet. Paper 1: LISTENING TEST 30 points Information for the candidatesThere are two parts to the test. E

4、ach part will be played twice.There will be a pause before each part to let you read through the questions and another pause at the end of each part for you to check your answers.You may write your answers in the question paper as you listen. You will have to minutes at the end of the listening

5、 test to transfer your answers to the answer sheet. Part 1. Questions 1-6. Interview with Professor Michaelson.You are going to listen to an interview with Professor Michael Michaelson. You will hear the recording twice. Choose the best answer according to what you learn through listening. Before th

6、e first listening you have half a minute to study the questions.1. The main topic of the interview is . A. education in China B. pollution in England C. pollution in China2. As seen by the interviewer, the major problem of pollution in China concerns . A. air, land and water pollution B. people disp

7、osing of rubbish indiscriminately C. too much waste cardboard and too many empty bottles3. In his country, when Michael Michaelson sees people dropping litter he A. reports them to the police B. quietly disposes of the litter himself C. confronts the person4. Michael Michaelson was shocked in China

8、because . A. in England people never drop litter B. in China people drop litter everywhere C. he cannot run after people in China5. Michael Michaelson the idea of using bikes to collect waste cardboard. A. can't understand B. criticizes C. likes6. In China people use bicycles . A. to carry waste

9、 cardboard B. to collect empty bottles for money C. both A and B Part 2. Questions 7-13. You are going to listen to a talk about The Fourth Word.Task 1. Questions 7-13. A list of topics is given below. Find the ones that the speaker mentioned and write the letters representing them in the space

10、 provided on the Answer Sheet.A. The Fourth WorldB. AustraliaC. AfricaD. cultural marginalisationE. newspaper reports of social problemsF. BushmenG. landrights strugglesH. the PitjanjaraI. the MauritaniansJ. popular cultureK. the common experiences of ' fourth world' peoplesL. the long term

11、consequences of colonization Task 2. Questions 14-20. Listen again to the talk and mark the following statements as True (T) or False (F) according to the text.(14) The fourth world is a term used to interpret forms of inequality in rich countries.(15) The concept is used to interpret the probl

12、ems of indigenous people(16) Indigenous people means people who colonised others.(17) Fourth world people experience cultural, political and economic poverty.(18) Fourth world people have to fight to maintain their cultural identity.(19) When Australia was colonised only one cultural group was dispo

13、ssessed.(20) Australian aboriginal people are the only population of fourth world people.Paper 2: READING AND WRITINGInformation for candidates There are four parts to the reading test. There is one writing task. You should write ALL your answers on the Answer Sheet as you do the tasks. READING

14、 TEST 50 pointsPart 1. Read the following passage and answer Questions 21-30.Passage 1Changes in Australian Education Haralambos and his colleagues (1996) have summarised the major changes in Australian education over the past two hundred years. The major issues driving their analysis are the questi

15、ons: -of the effects that education has had on society; and -why some social groups tend to enjoy more educational success than others. They are not the only social scientists concerned with these issues. However their book contains a recent and comprehensive summary of Australian educational resear

16、ch. Here are some of the major points they make. There are five basic components to the Australian education system:() primary school ( age 5-12 years of age)() compulsory secondary school (12-15 years of age) (or 12-16 years in the State of Tasmania)() post-compulsory secondary school (15-17)() tec

17、hnical and further education (17 years and older)() higher education or university ( 17 years and older)Before the second world war nearly haft of Australian children did not attend secondary school. In the second half of the twentieth century education expanded and changed form dramatically. Betwee

18、n 1956 and 1966 the number of universities grew from nine to 14, then rose to 19 in 1975. In addition, there has been a significant growth in non university post secondary education. In the 1990s the percentage of women with post secondary school qualifications was 37%. The percentage of men was 47

19、per cent.Haralambos and his colleagues summarise the evidence about the impact of education on the creation of a more equal society. They say ' both material and cultural factors affect the length of stay in education. ' Family wealth still exerts a powerful influence on access to university

20、 education. However the expansion of education has meant an expansion of educational opportunities for people from social groups earlier denied a higher education.Bob Connell, a major writer on Australian education, has argued that the evidence of socially unequal outcomes continues to mount. It is

21、one of the most firmly established facts about Western style educational Systems in all parts of the world.Mark the following statements as T (true) or F (false) according to the information in the text.21. Haralambos worked alone on his summary of Australian education.22. He and his colleagues were

22、 interested in studying social inequality.23. Most Australian students must stay at school until they are 15 years of age.24. There is a common compulsory school leaving age across all of Australia.25. There are two major forms of education for 17 year olds to choose.26. Post secondary education is

23、compulsory in Australia.27. Only a small number of children attended secondary school before 1939.28. Major changes in education occurred in the latter half of the 20th century.29. By the 1990s, a higher percentage of women than men had post secondary qualifications.30. The expansion of education ha

24、s meant that there is now no social inequality in access to higher education in Australia. Part 2. Read Passage 2 and answer Questions 31-40.Passage 2My ComputerTen years ago I occasionally used a typewriter for important documents such as my curriculum vitae and job application letters. I coul

25、dn't really type so I tapped away at the keyboard with my two index fingers and made lots of mistakes. One simple letter would often require at least a dozen attempts before I managed to produce the final, neat document. When a course that I was doing demanded typed assignments I begged friends

26、with good typing skills to help me. In other words, to type them for me and when my final project had to be typed up, I actually paid a professional typist to do it ! I was a pen and paper person. I had never been interested in machines and artificial intelligence and sincerely believed I could live

27、 happily without advanced technology in my personal life!The situation has changed, of course. It's been a gradual change but these days I hardly know myself! I even have a computer and a printer. I have never learned to use all ten fingers on the keyboard but I can work quite quickly and produc

28、e documents which have an impressive layout and which use different sizes and styles of typeface (or font). I know how to underline, how to write words in bold or italic script, how to give parts of a text a border, how to insert illustrations and so on! I feel a great sense of achievement when I fi

29、nish a document, print it out and see the finished product. Such documents seem professional I suspect, however, that impressive layout may camouflage inferior content ! I hope this is not true in my case.Five years ago, I had no idea what friends were talking about when they mentioned “E-mail (even

30、 if they used the full term, electronic mail), the internet and modem but my computer now has a modem, and through this device, it is connected to the international network known as the Internet. As a result, I can now send and receive E-mail messages to and from friends and organisations around the

31、 world whose computers are also connected to the Internet. There is no time delay. It's possible to read messages in Beijing as they are being written in London or Hong Kong. This is indeed progress !Choose the best answer from the choices given ( Write the letter representing your choice in the

32、 space provided on the Answer Sheet):(31) In the article the writer compares changes over a period of . A. a decade B. a century C. five years(32) The writer's typed essays were often produced by . A. himself. B. friends and paid professionals. C. both A and B.(33) How many different kinds of el

33、ectronic possessions does the writer list? A. Moro than five. B. Three. C. Two.(34) The writer feels a sense of achievement because . A. he produces an impressive looking document B. his document cleverly camouflages inferior content C. he can work quickly(35) The author is an . A. accomplished ten

34、finger typist B. illustrator C. accomplished internet user(36) The author started to use the Internet . A. ten years ago B. exactly five years ago C. probably within the past five years(37) The author sends e-mail messages . A. to all his friends B. to organisations around the world C. both A and B.

35、(38) Five years ago, the author's friends . A. were all connected to the Internet B. knew more about the Internet than he did C. worked in organisations all around the world(39) It is now possible .A. to send immediate answers to correspondents on the Internet B. to assess the feelings of friend

36、s on the Internet C. to become a ten finger typist by using the Internet(40) It is . A. inferable that the author approves of the Internet B. likely that the author is no longer employed C. unlikely that the author is a man Part 3. Read Passage 3 and answer Questions 41-50.Passage 3Income Equal

37、ityAdapted from Work by Yang Chunya and Kate ThorneA system to regulate income inequality should be mapped out in time to prevent income gaps from broadening. The lopsided individual income pattern in China has tended to worsen since the country initiated economic reform and the open-door policy 17

38、years ago.Although official statistics have not yet been made available to indicate how large income gaps have become, the people in the street have tested enough of this inequality in their daily life. While a couple of restaurant owners in Shanghai have revealed that their monthly income has reach

39、ed 100, 000 yuan ( $11,900) ,630,000 residents in Hnnan Province are struggling for a bare subsistence wage of 132 yuan ( $16) a month, according to the weekly magazine Outlook.Gone are the days when people who had 10,000 yuan ( $1,190) were dubbed upstarts. Nowadays, a person who has 100,000 yuan (

40、 $11,900) is barely considered rich. At the same time, around 10 million people across the country are living such a scanty life that they can't afford enough vegetables and fruit.Although the disparity is inevitable when the country is in the stage of transition from the planned economy to a ma

41、rket-oriented economy, it does not mean that such unequal distribution of wealth is acceptable or fair. If the income gap keeps widening and finally develops to a polarisation, it will lead to deep resentment among the poor. A growing fear in the public is that chronic disaffection will trigger soci

42、al disruption.Research cited by Keith Windschuttle in his Australian book on unemployment shows that low income people usually suffer higher levels of sickness and mortality and have few opportunities to enable their children to progress. The Left Realist school in the UK have shown that people livi

43、ng in communities suffering poverty and unemployment are at higher risks of becoming victims of crime. On the other hand, the rich who rise to fortune through illegal profiteering will frustrate fair competition in the market pace. Moreover, their self-indulgent life style has a negative effect on s

44、ocial values. To narrow the income gap, the most common practice exercised in western countries is to levy strictly regulated personal income tax.Unfortunately, this practice does not function well in China due to the fledgling financial and banking systems of the country, even though it has been pu

45、rsued for about ten years, the weekly said. Questions 41-50. Fill in all the empty cells with either one-word or short-phrase (no more than three words) answers in the following Table: Examples of Rich PeopleExamples of Poor PeopleMonthly income in RMB100,000 yuan132 yuanMonthly income in

46、dollars$ (41)$16Unaffordable foodsNot stated (42)Polarisation could lead toNot stated (43)Health conditionsLower levels of (44) and (45)Higher rates of these conditions.Children's opportunitiesNot stated (46)Levies paid within the western regulated taxation system (47)Not statedLife styles (48)s

47、cantyEffect on social values (49)Not statedLeft Realist view of risk of crime victimisationNot stated (50) Part 4. Read passage 4 and answer Questions 51-60.Passage 4Analysing the MediaPeople in today's global society know about their own lives, they also know something about what is happen

48、ing in their local community and they have news about the wider world, the world they never experience directly, the world in which they never meet the people in the news face-to-face.We can learn about the culture, politics, economics, social problems, and achievements of people in distant countrie

49、s and foreign societies. Mainly the knowledge we have of this wider world is communicated, almost always, through the media, and the details we receive are instant and multitudinous.It is in the news broadcasts of radio, television and the press, that the majority of people learn about the wider wor

50、ld. Today, people live in a global world: the occurrences in far-off countries affect us all. We cannot be isolated from the events of foreign societies because those events can impinge on our own lives. So it is important to ask How well do the media do in their job of providing us with news of the

51、 wider world?. Not too well is the conclusion of some media analysts. Galtung and Ruge ( 1981 ), studied the way that Western news agencies mediate world events. To summarise their work: we only get to hear, read of, or view, news events if they fulfill at least two or three of the following criteri

52、a:(i) if the people concerned have elite status(ii) if the country concerned has an elite status(iii) if the news is negative(iv) if the news has immediacy Journalists define a top story as one that fulfills all four criteria. The sudden death of a glamorous member of a royal family in a rich countr

53、y would have the very top billing. This kind of top story' occurs infrequently. We are much more likely to receive stories fulfilling only three of the criteria. A slightly less appealing story but still ' a good news story' might be about rich people from rich countries being charitable

54、 to poor people. A story about poor women in Uganda or Laos running a successful long term community project would not fulfill any of the criteria. It would not be a good news story. Peasants in developing countries feature in the Western media only if they suffer large scale sudden disasters, like

55、floods, earthquakes, famine or war. Large scale death of poor people is a good news storySo Western viewers develop a very imbalanced picture of the world at large. An image of the world develops in which only rich people in First World countries are good, competent and charitable. Poor people in no

56、n-Western countries come to be seen, only and inevitably, as the incompetent and passive recipients of all the disasters the world can bring them, and, if they are lucky, the charity of the rich people in the rich nations of the world.Give short answers to the following questions (Write your answers on the Answer Sheet).(51 ) What are the three areas of social life we hear news about according to the author?(52) What is different about the wider world ?(53) How, mainly, do we learn about overseas countries?(54) Why is it i