TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2017) GRADE EIGHT PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION SECTION A MINI-LECTURE TIME LIMIT: 150 MIN 25 MIN In this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the mini-lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening to the mini-lecture, please complete the gap-filling task on 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. Now listen to the mini-lecture. When it is over, you will be given TH邸Eminutes to check your work. SECTION B INTERVIEW In this section you will hear TWO interviews. At the end of each interview, five questions will be asked about what was said. Both the interviews 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 SHEETTWO. You have THIRTY seconds to preview the choices. Now, listen to the first interview. Questions I to 5 are based on the first interview. 1. A. Comprehensive. B. Disheartening. 2. A. 200. B. 70. 3. A. Lack of international funding. B. Inadequate training of medical personnel. C. Ineffectiveness of treatment efforts. C. Encouraging. C. 10. D. Insufficient operational efforts on the ground. 4. A. They can start education programs for local people. B. They can open up more treatment units. C. They can provide proper treatment to patients. D. They can become professional. D. Optimistic. D. 500. 5. A. Provision of medical facilities. C. Ebola outpacing operational efforts. B. Assessment from international agencies. D. Effective treatment of Ebola. Now, listen to the second interview. Questions 6 to 10 are based on the second interview. 6. A. Interpreting the changes from different sources. B. Analyzing changes from the Internet for customers. C. Using media information to inspire new ideas.D. Creating things from changes in behavior, media, etc.7.A. Knowing previous success stories.C. Being sensitive to business data.8.A. Having people take a risk.C. Using messages to do things.9.A. Looking for opportunities.C. Establishing the focal point.10. A. A media agency.C. A venture capital firm.PART II READING COMPREHENSION SECTION A MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS B. Being brave and willing to take a risk. D. Being aware of what is interesting. B. Aiming at a consumer level.D. Focusing on data-based ideas.B. Considering a starting point.D. Examining the future carefully.B. An Internet company.D. A behavioral study center.45 MIN In this section there are three passages followed by fourteen multiple choice questions. For each multiple choice question, there are four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that you think is the best answer and mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET TWO. PASSAGE ONE (1) Its 7 pm on a balmy Saturday night in June, and I have just ordered my first beer in I Cervejaria,a restaurant in Zambujeira do Mar, one of the prettiest villages on Portugals south-west coast. The place is empty, but this doesnt surprise me at all. I have spent two weeks in this area, driving along empty roads, playing with my son on empty beaches, and staying in B&Bs where we are the only guests. (2) No doubt the restaurant, run by two brothers for the past 28 years, is buzzing in July and August,when Portuguese holidaymakers descend on the Alentejo coast. But for the other 10 months of the year, the trickle of diners who come to feast on fantastically fresh seafood reflects the general pace of life in the Alentejo: sleepy, bordering on comatose. (3) One of the poorest, least-developed, least-populated regions in western Europe, the Alentejo hasbeen dubbed both the Provence and the Tuscany of Portugal. Neither is accurate. Its scenery is not as pretty and, apart from in the capital Evora, its food isnt as sophisticated. The charms of this land of wheat fields, cork oak forests, wildflower meadows and tiny white-washed villages, are more subtle than in France or Italys poster regions. ( 4) To travel here is to step back in time 40 or 50 years. Life rolls along at a treacly pace; theres anunnerving stillness to the landscape. But that stillness ends abruptly at the Atlantic Ocean, where there isdrama in spade. Protected by the South West Alentejo and Costa Vicentina national park, the 100 km of coastline from Porto Covo in the Alentejo to Burgau in the Algarve is the most stunning in Europe. And yet few people seem to know about it. Walkers come to admire the views from the Fishermans Way, surfers to ride the best waves in Europe, but day after day we had spectacular beaches to ourselves. (5) The lack of awareness is partly a matter of accessibility (these beaches are a good two hoursdrive from either Faro or Lisbon airports) and partly to do with a lack of beach side accommodation. There are some gor