Test Evaluation Samples
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Sample#1
(From the 1993 JCEE)
Not
many dogs become movie stars. However,
thousands of highly trained dogs in the world today are working in a very
honorable profession: they are Seeing-Eye dogs guiding the blind.
The first Seeing-Eye dog was a German shepherd named Buddy.
In Switzerland, Buddyˇ¦s owner, Ms. Dorothy Eustis, was originally
training dogs of the German shepherd breed for police work and saving people
from dangers. Then in 1927, she wrote an article for the Saturday
Evening Post about dogs being trained in Germany to help blinded war
veterans. Morris Frank, a young
blind American, heard about the article and wrote to Mrs. Eustis to ask if there
was such a dog to help him. That
letter led Frank to spend five weeks in Switzerland learning to be guided by
Buddy. Buddy was with Frank when he
returned to the United States. Newspaper
reporters were waiting for them in New York.
They couldnˇ¦t believe that a dog could safely guide a blind man through
a modern city. Buddy surprised them
by leading her master confidently across the streets through the heavy traffic.
(A)
Buddy
was a male German shepherd.
(B)
Buddy
was not frightened by the heavy traffic of New York.
(C)
Buddy
was trained by Mrs. Eustis.
(D)
Buddy
came from Switzerland.
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Sample#2
(From
the 1987 JCEE)
ˇ§Move your
head a bit to the left, would you?ˇ¨
Carrie
did as she was told. She was quite
an experienced artistˇ¦s model by now and knew exactly what Pamela wanted.
ˇ§Why didnˇ¦t
you dance with Richard at the party?ˇ¨ said Carrie.
ˇ§You know the poor boy likes you.ˇ¨
ˇ§Keep still a
minute.ˇ¨
Pamelaˇ¦s
concentration was total. She
hadnˇ¦t really heard Carrie. The
phone rang downstairs. Pamela
didnˇ¦t hear it.
ˇ§Can you
answer it?ˇ¨ shouted Carrie.
ˇ§No,ˇ¨ came
a voice from downstairs.
That was Julia,
Pamelaˇ¦s younger sister. She was
cutting out a dress pattern. The
phone was always for Pamela anyway.
ˇ§Oh, no!ˇ¨
said Pamela under her breath, glaring at the empty tube.
Carrie started to speak, but Pamela was already moving to the door.
(A)
ˇ§Move your head a bit to the left, would you?ˇ¨ Carrie did as she
was told.
(B)
She was quite an experienced artistˇ¦s model by now and knew exactly
what Pamela wanted.
(C)
ˇ§Why didnˇ¦t you dance with Richard at the party?ˇ¨ said Carrie.
ˇ§You know that poor boy likes you.ˇ¨
(D)
ˇ§Oh, no!ˇ¨ said Pamela under her breath, glaring at the empty
tube.
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Sample#3
(From the 1989 JCEE)
With
tears streaming down her face, Miss Sophie Harris pleaded with the post office
worker to help her retrieve two love letters which she had mistakenly sent to
the wrong addresses.
Calling
it ˇ§a matter of life and death,ˇ¨ Miss Harris said she had mixed up letters
to her boyfriends and realized the mistake only after posting them.
The
post office succeeded in retrieving the letters after notifying postal
authorities in Taichung and Kaosiung, where the letters had been sent.
(A)
of vital importance to her.
(B)
very significant to her.
(C)
disastrous to her.
(D)
of little value to her.
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Sample#4
(From the 1992 JCEE)
In some
cultures, the act of touching another person is considered very intimate and is
therefore reserved for people who know each other very well.
In the United States, for example, young children are taught that it is
rude to stand too close to people. By
the time they are adults, Americans have learned to feel most comfortable when
standing at about armˇ¦s length away from people to whom they are talking.
And many Americans do not touch each other with great frequency while
talking (this is particularly true of men).
In contrast, other cultures have more relaxed rules regarding touching.
For example, it is usual for friendsˇXboth men and womenˇXto embrace
each other when they meet. When they talk, they generally stand closer than Americans
do, and they touch each other more often. They
are as much at ease doing this as Americans are with more space between them.
(A)in
close relationship in American culture.
(B)
rude in all different cultures.
(C)common
friends in American culture.
(D)very
unfriendly in other cultures.
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Sample#5
(From the 1992 JCEE)
Our
lives are regulated by many cycles, some external, like day, night, and seasons,
and some internals, like the bodily signals that tell us when to sleep, eat, be
active, and so forth. When we
travel long distances east or west, we are rapidly transported into a different
time zone. The external signs have
changed and we discover, for example, that the sun is rising when we expect to
be asleep. The body becomes
confused at the time change and responds by attempting to reset the internal
clock to correspond with the new time zone.
The result is ˇ§jet lag,ˇ¨ a condition characterized by a metal and
physical exhaustion and confusion. Jet
lag is a term used to describe what happens when the bodyˇ¦s internal clock is
no longer matched with the external environment.
(A)
the timing of the outside world.
(B)
the timing of our bodies.
(C)
the outside timing as well as the inner timing.
(D)
our moods in the different seasons of the year.
(A)
a normal functioning of the body.
(B)
a symptom of bodily adaptation.
(C)
a contagious disease.
(D)
a mental disorder.
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