The United States will introduce a new exam system for students who seek to study in the USA and other English-speaking countries, Xinhua News Agency reported from New York.

       The exam, which means a great change from the current English level test, was introduced by Theresa Jen, associate director of the International Service of the USA College Board, America's leading educational organization.

       "The Advanced Placement International English Language (APIEL) will be offered for the first time all over the world on May 10, 2012," said Jen.

       However, the APIEL is a strange title to most Chinese students, and it is unlikely to soon gain the similarity of other already existing exams, such as the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language), the GRE (Graduate Record Examination), or the IELTS (International English Language Testing System).

       "I have never heard of such a test and I would prefer the IELTS if I need another exam," said Xu Jingyan, a graduating student from Beijing University, who wants to study in England and has already taken the TOEFL.

       Most of Xu's classmates have never heard of the APIEL."The APIEL is made for international students who wish to get university studies in English-speaking countries, including the United States, Britain, Canada and Australia." Jen said.

       "The APIEL will be used," said Jen, "because the TOEFL can no longer perfectly show the students' abilities of using English." Xinhua reported that a large number of foreign students who had high scores in TOEFL exam turned out to be very ordinary educational performers after being admitted.

       "Compared with the TOEFL, the APIEL measures a student's ability to read, write, speak and understand 'English through testing his or her skills in listening comprehension, speaking with fluency, and writing in an organized way." Jen said.

The underlined word "current" in the second paragraph means____.

       A.high        B.present     C.low         D.formal

We can learn from the passage that____.

       A.the TOEFL is more popular with the Chinese than the IELTS

       B.it will take quite a period of time for people to accept the APIEL

       C.Chinese students will prefer the IELTS rather than the APIEL even in the future

       D.a student will have to take the APIEL if he/ she wants to study in English-speaking countries from 2012

The APIEL is designed for students who want to study in English-speaking countries, such as____.

       A.the United States and Canada       B.Canada and Ireland

       C.Australia and India                D.Britain and France

According to the passage, the United States will introduce a new exam because____.

       A.it will bring the US government quite a lot of money

       B.more and more students want to get further education in the USA

       C.the existing exam systems can no longer perfectly show the students' abilities

       D.the Chinese pay special attention to English studies with China's entry into the WTO

Which of the following would be the best title for this passage?

       A.A New Exam Designed for Students   

     B.The Four Skills in Learning English

       C.The Key to English-speaking Countries           

       D.TOEFL, IELTS and GRE to Be out of Date

Have you ever had the strange feeling that you were being watched? You turned around and ,sure enough, someone was looking right at you!

Parapsychologists(灵学家)say that humans have a natural ability to sense when someone is looking at them. To research whether such a “sixth sense”really exists, Robert Baker, a psychologist(心理学家)at the University of Kentucky, performed two experiments.

In the first one, Baker sat behind unknowing people in public places and stared at the backs of their heads for 5 to 15 minutes. The subjects(受试者)were eating, drinking, readingstudying, watching TV, or working at a computer. Baker made sure that the people could not tell that he was sitting behind them during those periods. Later, when he questioned the subjects, almost  all of them said they had no sense that someone was staring at them.

For the second experiment, Baker told the subjects that they would be stared at from time to time from behind a two way mirror in a laboratory setting. The people had to write down when they felt they were being stared at and when they weren’t. Baker found that the subjects were no better at telling when they were stared at and when they weren’t .Baker found that the subjects were no better at telling when they were started at than if they had just guessed.

Baker concludes that people do not have the ability to sense when they’re being stared at.If people doubt the outcome of his two experiments, said Baker, “I suggest they repeat the experiments and see for themselves.”

68. The purpose of the two experiments is to        .

A. explain when eople can have a sixth sense

B. show how people act while being watched in the lab

C. study whether humans can sense when they are stared at

D. prove why humans have a sixth sense

69.In the first experiment, the subjects       .

A. were not told that they would be stared at

B. lost their sense when they were stared at

C. were not sure when they would be stared at

D. were uncomfortable when they were stared at

70.The underlined word “outcome” in the last paragraph most probably means      .

A. valu                      B. result                  C. performance           D. connection

71. What can be learned from the passage?

A. People are born with a sixth sense.

B. The experiments support parapsychologists’idea.

C. The subjects do not have a sixth sense in the experiments.

D. People have a sixth sence in public places.

Local police will begin pulling over drivers and cyclists tomorrow so they can fill out a survey to help the city better understand and improve its traffic situation.

The survey, which will run from tomorrow until the end of the year, is the biggest of its kind in the city's history. It will be used to gather information about traffic patterns to help future urban planning, particularly for the World Expo in 2010.

“The survey is to determine the city's daily and weekly traffic situations,” Zhang Yan, a senior engineer at the Shanghai Urban Planning and Design Research Institute, said yesterday. This is the third time the city has conducted a large-scale traffic survey. The other two surveys were conducted in 1986 and 1995.

Officials will send questionnaires to pedestrians and drivers, record traffic jams in major areas, and analyze the information from electronic traffic signs.

The Road Administrative Office will also survey traffic outside the Outer Ring Road, paying particular attention to vehicles entering or exiting the city.

“With more vehicles from neighboring provinces, we have to find it out how many, when and for what purposes those vehicles are coming to the city,” said Dong Hui, a spokeswoman for the Road Administrative Office.

Officials from her office will stop about half of the vehicles passing by 53 major venues (场所) tomorrow and ask drivers to fill out questionnaires about where they are coming from, where they are headed and whether their trip is for private or business purposes.

1. Who is likely to be stopped by the police for the questions?

A. A student returning home from school.

B. A dustman cleaning a parking lot.    

C. A customer shopping in a market.

D. A garage worker repairing a car.

2. Shanghai has decided to start such a survey because it wants to ________.

A. reduce traffic accidents

B. satisfy the future need

C. make the road users happy

D. make more money

3. Where are the 53 major venues mentioned in the last paragraph?

A. Outside the Outer Ring Road.         

B. We're not told about it in the passage.

C. Inside the Outer Ring Road.

D. Both outside and inside the Outer Ring Road.

4. It seems that Shanghai's large traffic survey is ________.

A. mainly about vehicles going in and out           

B. done by just collecting public opinions

C. done at the request of the World Expo

D. held quite regularly

5. We are NOT told about the ________ of the survey in the passage.

A. contents                     B. time

C. steps                          D. purpose 

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