SECTION 1: LISTENING TEST (30 minutes)

Part A: Spot Dictation

Directions: In this part of the test, you will hear a passage and read the same passage with blanks in it. Fill in each of the blanks with the ward or words you have heard on the tape. Write your answer in the corresponding space in you ANSWER BOOKLET. Remember you will hear the passage only once.

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I met Cameron at his home in the village of Newtonmore, in the Scottish Highlands. He's ______________________________（1）, so when we went out of his comfortable home, up onto the open hillside above the village. I could easily tell how much he loves ______________________________（2）. As he looked round, enjoying the scenery and talking, his face lit up. But when I asked him about memorials to the dead in the countryside ______________________________（3）. He talked about all the stuff he's seen, left by people who've been on the mountains before him. ______________________________（4）, he tells me. But also, more and more monuments, marble plaques, laminated photographs. ______________________________（5） in plastic. Children toys cemented onto boulders. He hates them all, he says. He's never destroyed a memorial himself, but he knows other people who have and he ______________________________ （6）.

On the other side of the argument are Mo and Morag-two women whose friend, Ailsa, died last year of breast cancer. Mo told me Ailsa was ______________________________（7）. It's difficult to believe that she's gone. And she talked about the plan for a sponsored walk up Britain's highest mountain, Ben Nevis. The aim is ______________________________（8） a cancer charity, to help Ailsa's friends say good-bye, and to build a small cairn of piled-up rocks in her memory-complete with ______________________________（9）. Morag explained that they picked Ben Nevis because, on a grey day of mist and low cloud, the summit ______________________________（10）. It was as though the decision had been made for them. And, she added, the top of the mountain is the closest ______________________________（11）.

Ben Nevis towers over Fort William, a small town in the west of the Scottish Highlands. It promotes itself as ______________________________（12） the UK-not least because the mountain is on the doorstep. Admittedly, at one thousand three hundred and forty-three meters the Ben ______________________________（13） on a world scale. But it does feature some extraordinary wild and rugged scenery, which draws tens of thousands of people every year. They come ______________________________（14）, and in all sorts of ways. Some walk up a wide, easy path to the top because it's something to do on Sunday morning when it  

feels like everything else in Fort William is shut. ______________________________（15） the much more challenging Alpine-esque cliffs and ridges on the mountain's north face. And some-like Mo and Morag-come to ___________________ ___________（16）, a family member, or a friend who's died.

The mountaineers and walkers say all these memorials are crass, intrusive, and worse than leaving litter in a wild, unspoiled place. ______________________________（17） that mountains are special, spiritual places-but say that they should be free to leave monuments to the dead in the wilderness, if that's what _____________ _________________（18）.

It's complicated. A sensitive and difficult subject. And it's been dealt with in a variety of different ways. Some land-owners ______________________________（19） on hill and lake-sides. Others remove anything and everything they find even digging up snow-drops and other wild flowers that have been planted in places ______________________________（20）.

Now the Mountaineering Council of Scotland is calling for a debate about what should-and shouldn't-be allowed.

Part B: Listening Comprehension

Directions: In this part of the test there will be some short talks and conversation. After each one, you will be asked some questions. The talks, conversations and questions will be spoken only once. Now listen carefully and choose the right answer to each question you have heard and write the letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET.

Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following conversation.

Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following conversation.

1.       （A） Winter Vacation.          
          （B） Carols by Candlelight.
          （C） New Year's Eve Celebration.    
          （D） Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race.

2.       （A） Single rooms and double rooms.
          （B） A double room and an all-ensuited room.
          （C） All-female dorms and all-male dorms.  
          （D） A double room and some dormitories.

3.       （A） It's too far away from the downtown area of Sydney.
          （B） The woman changed her mind and decided to live in dorms instead.
          （C） Hostels in the downtown area are almost the same at that time.
          （D） The woman didn't want to book rooms in separated hostels.

4.       （A） $40.        （B） $50.      （C） $70.        （D） $90.

5.       （A） A guest kitchen.                  
          （B） A lobby with TV. 
          （C） Balcony and bathroom.       
          （D） Telephone and fax facilities.

Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following news.

6.      （A） Israelis hope to hold direct peace negotiations with Syrians.
         （B） Israel wants Syria to be peaceful to the neighbors otherwise there could be wars.
         （C） Syrians are responsible for miscalculations that lead to a security deterioration.
         （D） The Israeli government is delivering military information to Damascus on various diplomatic channels.

7.      （A） The US plan of deploying a missile defense shield in Central Europe.
         （B） The development in Africa.
         （C） Tran's nuclear program and the security situation in the Middle East.
         （D） The Doha Round of the World Trade Organization.

8.      （A） 9.            （B） 5.         （C） 4.            （D） 8.

9.      （A） Because they are trying to discuss whether the peninsula should be a a nuclear-free region.
         （B）    Because they have never held high-level reconciliation talks in more than half a year since the DPRK nuclear test.
         （C） Because they want to pave the way for a resumption of aid to Pyongyang.
         （D） Because they are expected to hold even higher level talks after the current brief meeting.

10.     （A） Engender the hatred.           
          （B） Change sociopolitical posture.
          （C） Clarify the misunderstanding.      
          （D） Lift aid blockade.

Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following interview.

11.     （A） Somewhere between Laguna, Pueblo and Mexico. 
          （B） New Mexico, Alaska and Arizona.
          （C） Laguna Pueblo Reservation. 
          （D） Tucson.

12.     （A） A Laguna Woman.       
          （B） Rogner & Bernhard.
          （C） Bettina Munch.            
          （D） Leslie Marmon Silko.

13.     （A） Because she is a successful cross-cultural novelist.
          （B） Because she has never been to Germany before.
          （C） Because this is the place she wrote the novel Almanac.
          （D） Because she is interested in the current change in Leipzig.

14.     （A） Hesitant.        
          （B） Suspicious.
          （C） Misled.          
          （D） Specious.

15.     （A） No one controls information or dictates but this oral tradition is constantly self-correcting.
          （B） It is a culture in which every person is equally valued.
          （C） It is a culture in which all the individuals have made contribution.
          （D） It is a culture depending on a collective memory of the whole community.

Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following talk.

16.     （A） They protect the vast wilderness regions of Australia as a whole.
          （B） They are members of the country's most unusual military units.
          （C） Many of them are indigenous people who are somewhat disadvantaged in Australia.
          （D） They have taken advantage of their honour and respect to find new directions for the nation.

17.     （A） Because he was underprivileged in the community.
          （B） Because he liked the feeling of being in the bush.
          （C） Because he wanted to learn navigation and leadership skills.
          （D） Because he would like to follow his peers and find a job in the army.

18.     （A） Catch salesperson selling guns.   
          （B） Look out for poachers.
          （C） Fight against potential terrorists.  
          （D） Patrol the territory.

19.     （A） 15 years ago.        
          （B） 1981.
          （C） The Second World War.             
          （D） Not mentioned.

20.      （A） Norforce's area of protection encompasses more than 40 Aboriginal customs.
           （B）    They have the tradition of going walkabout where soldiers have the right to simply disappear without explanation.
           （C） Many of its soldiers speak English as their third or even fourth tongue.
           （D）   The regiment's white officers have to be sensitive to all the possible cultural differences among their soldiers.