英语考试历年全真试题

ANALYSIS OF AN ISSUE

　　Time—30 minutes

　　Directions: In this sections you will need to analyze the issue presented below and explain your views on it. The question has no "correct" answer. Instead, you should consider various perspectives as you develop you develop your own position on the issue.

　　Read the statement and the directions that follow it, and then make any notes in your test booklet that will help you plan your response. Begin writing yoiur response on the separate answer document. Make sure that you use the answer document that goes with this writing task.

　　"Business relations are infected through and through with the disease of short-sighted motives. We are so concerned with immediate results and short-term goals that we fail to look beyond them."

　　Assuming that the term "business relations" can refer to the decisions and actions of any organization—for instance, a small family business, a community association, or a large international corporation—for instance, a small family business, a community association, or a large international corporation—explain the extent to which you think that this criticism is valid. In your discussion of the issue, use reasons and/or examples from your own experience, your observation of others or your reading.

ANALYSIS OF AN ARGUMENT

　　Time—30 minutes

　　Directions: In section, you will be asked to write a critique of the argument presented below. Note that you are not being asked to present your own views on the subject. Instead, you may need to consider what questionable assumptions underlie the thinking, what alternative explanations or counterexamples might weaken the conclusion, or what sort of evidence could help strengthen or refute the argument

　　Read the argument and the instructions that follow it, and then make any notes in your test booklet that will help you plan your response. Begin writing your response on the separate answer document. Make sure that you use the answer documeant that goes with this writing task.

　　The following appeared in the deitorial section of a newpaper.

　　"As public concern over drug abuse has increased authorities have become more vigilant in their to prevent illegal drugs from entering the country. Many drug traffickers have consequently switched from marijuana which is bulky, or heroin, which has a market too small to justify the risk of severe punishment, to cocaie Thus cnforcement efforts have ironieally resulted in an observed increase in the illegal use of cocaie."

　　Discuss how well reasoned you find this argument. In your discussion be sure to analyze the line of reasoning and the use of evidence in the argument. You can also discuss what if anything, would make the argument more sound and persuasive or would help you to better evaluate its conclusion.

　　SECTION 2

　　Time-25 minutes

　　16 Questions

　　Directrons : FOR each question in this section . select the best of the answer choices given .

　　1. A report on acid rain concluded . "Most forests in Critics are not being damaged by acid rain "Canada of the report insist the conclusion be changed to . "Most forests in Canada do not show visible symptoms of growth or higher morality."

　　Which of the following if true . provides the best logical justification for the critics insistence that the report s justification for critics insistence that the report s conclusion be changed?

　　(A) Some forests in Canada are being damaged by acid rain .

　　(B) Acid rain could be causing damage for which symptoms have not yet become visible .

　　(C) The report does not compare acid rain damage to Canadian forests with acid rain damage to forests in other countries .

　　(D) All forests in Canada have received acid ram during the past fifteen years .

　　(E) The severity of damage by acid rain differs from forest to forest .

　　2. In the past most airline companies minimized aircraft weight to minimize fuel costs . The safest airline seats were heavy . and airlines equipped their planes with few of these seats .This year the seat that has sold best to airlines has been the safest one----a clear indication that airlines are assigning a higher priority to safe seating than to minimizing fuel costs .

　　Which of the following if true. most seriously weakens the argument above ?

　　(A) I not year s beat selling airline seat was not the safest airline seat on the market

　　(B) No airline company has announced that it would be making safe seating a higher priority this year (C) The price of fuel was higher this year than it had been in most of the ars when the safest airline seats sold poorly .

　　(D) Because of increases in the cost of materials all airline seats were more expensive to manufacture this year than in any previous year.

　　(E) Because of technological innovations, the safest airline seat on the market this year weighet less than most other airline seats on the market.

　　3. A computer equipped with signature-recognition software, which restricts access to a computer to those people whose signatures are on file, identifies a person s signature by annlyzing not only the form of the signature but also such characteristies as pen pressure and signing speed. Even the most adept forgers cannot duplicate all of the characteristies the program analyzes.

　　Which of the following can be logically concluded from the passage above?

　　(A) The time it takes to record and analyze a signature makes the software impractical for everyday use.

　　(B) Computers equipped with the softwate will same be installed in most banks.

　　(C) Nobody can gain access to a computer equipped with the software solely by virtue of skill at forging signatures.

　　(D) Signature-recognition software has taken many years to develop and pericet.

　　(E) In many cases even authorized users are denied legitimate access to computers equipped with the software.

　　4. Diavision manager: I want to replace the Microton computers in my division with Vitech computers.

　　General manager: Why?

　　Division manager: It costs 28 percent less to train new staff on the Vitech.

　　General manager: But that is not a good enough reason. We can simply hire only people who already know how to use the Microton computer.

　　Which of the following if true most sctiously undermines the general manager s lobjection to the replacement of Microton computers with Vitechs?

　　(A) Currently all employees in the company are required to attend workshops on how to use Microton computers in new applications.