Section I Reading Comprehension (30 points, 25 minutes)
Section II Vocabulary and Grammar (40 points, 25 minutes)
Section III Translation (10 points, 10 minutes)
Section IV Writing (20 points, 30 minutes)
The total score for this examination is 100. The time allowed for this examination is
90 minutes.
Section I: Reading Comprehension [30
points]
Instructions:
3
This section will take approximately 25 minutes.
There are TWO sections in this part.
Part 1: Questions 1-5 are based on this part. (15 points)
Read the following passage and choose the best answer from A, B, C and D.
Manhattan Island is the oldest and most important of the five boroughs that make up New York
City. It is 21.7 kilometers long and 3.8 kilometers wide at its widest point. It contains New
York’s tallest buildings as well as some of the largest schools and colleges, and the most famous
financial and theater districts in the United States. It has skyscrapers and Central Park, the old
and the new, the best and the worst. It is like no other big city. It is unique.
To understand Manhattan, we must know something of its early history: its early days of Dutch
colonists and English settlers; the waves of the nineteenth-century European immigrants who
arrived at its shores; the African-Americans who moved north after the Civil War; recent
immigrants from China and other parts of Asia; and young people who go to New York from all
over America. It is a mix of ethnic groups and cultures, successes and failures, hopes and fears.
The United States is a nation of immigrants and no other city displays this fact as well as New
York City. From Chinatown and Little Italy to Harlem, New York is a place where communities
take pride in retaining their ethnicity. Most immigrants went to America with very little money.
America gave them hope and a new beginning. Millions of immigrants have prospered in
America.
