清华大学英语水平考试试题汇总.doc

综合练习（历次水平II试题精选）
Part One Listening Comprehension
Section I
Directions: In this section you will hear two students, Frank and Theresa, discussing a survey they have to write as an assignment. Listen to the conversation and complete the notes below which what you hear.

Notes about Frank’s survey:
Topic: ________________________________
Typical examples of violent programs: ______________________________________________
People’s suggestions: ____________________________________________________________
People’s reactions to violence on news broadcast: ______________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
A possible problem with this survey: ________________________________________________
The advantage of the survey: _______________________________________________________

Section Two
Directions: In this section you will listen to some news program. Below are the summaries of the news items. Listen to the recording and fill in the missing words to complete the new summaries.

1. An orangutan stopped the traffic outside _________ . It took a keep from the zoo ________ minutes to get downtown because of the traffic. The animal showed no interest in ________ but responded when the keeper ________ to it. It held the keeper’s _______ as they got into the car.
2. A new method for teaching singing has been developed. Most singers are unaware of how they ______________________. By wearing a ______________ over your head while you sing, you can hear your voice the way _____________ hear you. This can help you _________ your singing.
3. This year there are _______ contestants in the Sunset Beaches and castle ________--aged from 8 to ____ . The two favorites are Greg Wallace (who has won three times before), with his _______ castle, and newcomer David Bradley, with his Star Wars __________.

Section Three
In this section, you hear four telephone messages. What is each message about? When you hear each message, you should write in English the main information. Some callers’ names are: Alberto, Janine Ellis, and Jim Saunders. You will hear the recording only once.

Telephone message 1: _________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________.

Telephone message 2: _________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________.

Telephone message 3: _________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________

Telephone message 4:
__________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________.

Part Two Translation
Directions: Read the following passage carefully and translate it into Chinese. Write your translation clearly in the spaces provided below.

What’s in a name?
For thousands of years, humanity has classified the living thins of this world in much the same fashion; by their appearance. If it looks like a duck, walks and quacks like a duck, then it is a duck. But tackling millions of species in this way has proven to be a recipe for confusion. As scientists have found to their cost, what looks like a duck may in fact be a goose.
More recently, genetic techniques have been applied, particularly for distinguishing the more difficult-to-identity species such as viruses and bacteria by comparing pieces of DNA. Might this approach be more generally applicable? Paul Hebert and his colleagues in Canada think it might be. Just as barcodes and the “universal product code” numbering scheme uniquely identify different items at a supermarket checkout, they suggest that some stretches of DNA could perform a similar function in living things. In a paper just published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, they discuss how long such a genetic barcode needs to be, and where it might be found.
A universal product code found on the high street consists of a string of 11 digits, each of which is one of ten numerals, providing 100 billion unique combinations. Genetic material, however, uses a quaternary, rather than a denary, coding system. In theory, it would only be necessary to sample 15 of those letters to create one billion unique codes.
In practice, however, the characteristics of DNA mean that 15 letters are not enough. Unlike the arbitrary numbers of a universal product code, the letters of DNA are not random, because they code for something that a biological meaning.

Part Three Writing

Directions: Boshi Electronic (China) Co., Ltd. is planning to recruit an assistant to the general manager. Read the job description and qualification and write to this company to recommend yourself as a candidate. Your letter of application should not be less than 300 words.

Job description:
Assit daily administration work
Collect and manage information
Responsible for the correspondence and documents
Make business travel plan
Involved in meeting arrangement
Make reports accurately
Qualification
Master degree
Good skill in communication
Good computer skills
Good skills in both written and spoken English
Teamwork orientation

Some topics for Speaking Test
Opening Questions
1. Do you like music? What kind of music do you listen to these days? Why do you like this particular music?
2. Do you like sports? What kind of games do you often play? Why do you like that game?
3. Suppose you have won $100,000 ina lottery. What would you do with this money?
4. Why do you choose Tsinghua to do your graduate program? What are the most important factors in choosing a school?
5. What kind of job do you plan to take upon graduation? Why?
6. How much time do you spend learning about the news everyday? How do you learn about the news, by watching TV or reading newspaper？Talk about one piece of the latest new that impressed you a great deal.
7. In the development of human society, many kinds of inventions have greatly benefited our lives. Could you give us some examples? What do you think are the top important inventions in the past 50 years?
8. In everyone’s life, he may experience many good and bad events. Please tell me some past events which made you feel good or bad.
9. Do you use e-mail or the Internet? What do you use them for?

II. Role plays or debate
1. As the job-hunting season is approaching, many graduates have to decide whether to remain in Beijing and seek a job here (though it is not very easy to hunt a good job) or go to small cities to have an easy life.
Student A: It’s not advisable choice for us to work in Beijing, for the life in Beijing won’t be easy.
Student B: I will try every effort to remain here to have a further develop and enjoy the exciting life here.

2. As the industry develops more rapidly in these years, people in China become much more concerning about the environmental protection.
Student A：I appeal to the government to postpone or stop some of the current projects, and punish the ones who are polluting our city. Industrialization brings us nothing but the stink of money and a dirty sky. We should not develop our industry intensely. The industrialization should be slowed down at once, or we’ll get punished
Student B: We shouldn’t reduce our production under any circumstance. I don’t mean to be unconventional. But I do prefer industrial development to environmental protection. More exactly, industrialization can be the motivation and also the supporter of environment protection, which may be the contrary to normal consideration.

3. Deputies from the National People's Congress, as well as members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, proposed changes to the holidays at this year's congress. They called for shortened Labor Day and National Day holidays, and the addition of the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Tomb Sweeping Day.
Student A：I’m strongly agree to the change of the holidays, the golden week has lots of disadvantages.
Student B：I don’t think the golden week holiday should be abrogated, because people have been used to it. People need it.

4. Our country has stepped into the aging society (people who are 65 or older have taken up 14%).Who will take care of the very old and disable old? Where could they spend the last few years in their life?
Student A：The nursing home is the only way to solve the problem.
Student B：I can’t agree. Those who live in the nursing home are not as happy as those who live with their family.

5. Have you ever experienced a natural disaster? Work with your partner and discuss the disaster(s) that you experienced or heard of.
6. Student A：All the Chinese should join in the "Rejecting the Japanese Goods" side, because the Japanese have done too many things hurting our feelings.
Student B："Rejecting the Japanese Goods" is not necessary. The Japanese goods, such as the Japanese notebook PCs, the Japanese cars and so on, are better and cheaper than ours.

7. Student A：English language is tool—we learn it for we’re going to use it. So the four skills of English are very important. We attend the English Class for improving our English Skills.
Student B：We attend the English class because the charm of a foreign culture often attracts us strongly. That is the very foundation stone of the interest of learning a foreign language. Furthermore, only by mastering the foreign language can one attain the charm of a culture.

8. Class discussion has become a common activity in our classroom nowadays. Many teachers use this activity to involve students in the class learning.
Student A:  It's a waste of time to listen to other students who are as ignorant as us to talk nonsense; we prefer to listen to teachers.
Student B：Class discussion can get students more involved in class learning and can give us a chance to share what we know about the subjects. 

9. Nowadays internet has penetrated into every aspect of out daily life. A lot of people have ever tried to buy something from the internet.
Student A: Shopping on internet is very convenient.
Student B: I love the traditional shopping method.

10. Student A: I worry about the future of human beings. We are facing so many problems in the development.
Student B: I do believe that our children will have a better life.
A: Computer games are the best way to kill time and can people can learn a lot from playing it.
B: Computer games do more harm than good to young people.

11. A and B are two classmates who have never met after they graduated from the university 5 years ago. Now they meet at the classmates’ reunion party? What would you say? Role play the two old classmates.

12. Did you have to adhere to a dress code or wear a uniform when you went school? How did you feel about it then? How do you feel about it now? Work in pairs to discuss the topic.
13. Role Play: Where are you from? You and your partner may come from different regions inChina. Compare the lifestyles in each of your hometown by discussion what is hot (popular) and what is not in the city or town.

14. Role Play: Tell each other a past event which made you feel good or bad (e.g. A embarrassed situation, un unforgettable school event, a happy reunion, or meeting a famous person).

15. What qualities do heroes in movies and TV shows in your country have? Who are some of your own personal heroes? Why do you admire and respect these people? Tell each other you heroes you respect.

16. Nowadays, more and more parents choose to educate primary school children at home instead of sending them to school to get public education. How do you think about it?
A: strongly agree to it.     B: strongly against it.

17. Should the University Campus be open to tourist?
A: strongly agree to it.     B: strongly against it.

18.Talk about the marriage of the college students.
A: strongly agree to it.     B: strongly against it.

19.How do you think the Clone technology?
A: It’s a breakthrough of the biological engineer.
B: Human cloning would cause a lot of problems.

写作题型与篇章结构
写作从命题语言形式上可以分为三类：
1. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? People are never satisfied with what they have. They always want something more or something different. Use specific reasons and examples to explain your position.
该题型的篇章结构：
第一段：引言（表明观点：支持/反对）
第二段：支持/反对理由一
第三段：支持/反对理由二
（第四段：支持/反对理由三）
第五段：结论（归纳或重申观点）

2. Some schools encourage their students to take part in team sports, such as football, baseball, and basketball. Other schools place greater emphasis on such individual sports as tennis, running, and swimming. Which type of sports program would you recommend for teenagers? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
该题型的篇章结构：
（1）第一段：引言（用自己的语言解释命题，肯定两种观点的合理性）
第二段：第一种观点的合理性
第三段：第二种观点的合理性
第四段：结论（自己的观点及两至三条理由或倾向于折中的观点）
（2）第一段：引言（略提及自己反对的观点的合理性，转折后，明确表明自己支持的观点）
第二段：自己支持的观点论据一
第三段：自己支持的观点论据二
（第四段：自己支持的观点论据三）
第五段：结论（重申自己的观点）

3. Inventions such as eyeglasses and the sewing machine have had an important effect on your lives. Choose another invention that you think is important. Give specific reasons for your choice.
该题型的篇章结构：
第一段：引言（明确话题）
第二段：讨论话题第一方面
第三段：讨论话题第二方面
（第四段：讨论话题第三方面）
第五段：结论（总结前面提到的几个方面）

范文1：
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Television has helped improve standards of education. Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.
I disagree that television has helped improved standards of education for a number of reasons. The first and probably the most important reason is the programming. Around the world it is movies, sit-com, soap operas, pop music and talk shows which dominate TV screens. There may be nothing wrong with these, and they are certainly popular with audiences, but the content of these programs has not helped to make people better educated.
Typical television programs have also had a bad effect on viewers? Attention span, that is, on how long they can concentrate. Most TV programs do not require much concentration and young viewers, especially, get used to this. Education, on the other hand, does require concentration and young people find this increasingly difficult.
Another characteristic of television is that it encourages a passive attitude in viewers instead of an active one. Most popular TV programs encourage an uncritical response, but education requires you to think about what is presented to you, to react to it and in some way to make use of it. In addition, passive TV-watching has often taken the place of more active pursuits such as reading, music, playing board games and conversation, all of which are more educational than a typical evening of TV.
Finally, it seems to be true that television makes it difficult for viewers, especially young ones, to distinguish properly between fact and fic