| Directions: In this part, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversations, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard. | |||
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| Questions 1 through 3 are based on the following passage. |
| 1. A. Disappointed B. Satisfied C. Angry D. Worried 2. A. He checked out and left the hotel B. All his things were stolen C. His luggage was removed by mistake D. He was robbed of his suitcase. 3. A. He was asked to leave the hotel B. The receptionist was rude to him C. All his things were in disorder. D. He was sent to a dirty room |
| Questions 1 through 3 are based on the following news. |
| 1. A. To inform parents and schools B. To pick out good students C. To compare teachers D. To expose poor schools. 2. A. They have no trust in doctors B. They cannot afford the medical fee. C. They fear things like injections D. They doubt the medical treatment 3. A. Teacher's difficult life. B. Harm of divorce to families. C. Ways to become loveable kids D. Kid's attention-seeking behaviour |
| Blanks 1 through 4 are based on the following conversation. | |
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| The accident is reported to have occurred _____ the first Sunday in February. |
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| A. at B. on C. in D. to |
| I had to buy _____ these books because I didn't know which one was the best. |
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| A. both B. none C. neither D. all |
| According to a recent U.S. survey, children spend up to 25 hours a week _____ TV. |
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A. to watch B. to watching C. watching D. watch |
| Children under 12 years of age in that country _____ be under adult supervision when in a public library. |
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| A. must B. may C. can D. need |
| The first use of atomic weapons was in 1945, and their power _____ increased enormously ever since. |
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| A. is B. was C. has been D. had been |
| The number of deaths from heart disease will be reduced greatly if people _____ to eat more fruit and vegetables. |
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A. persuade B. will persuade C. be persuaded D. are persuaded |
| Bill's aim is to inform the viewers that cigarette advertising on TV is illegal, ______? |
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| A. isn't it B. is it C. isn't be D. is he |
| He speaks English well indeed, but of course not _____ a native speaker. |
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| A. as fluent as B. more fluent than C. so fluently as D. much fluently than |
| The flu is believed _____ by viruses that like to reproduce in the cells inside the human nose and throat. |
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| A. causing B. being caused C. to be caused D. be have caused |
| The flowers _____ sweet in the botanic garden attract the visitors to the beauty of nature. |
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| A. to smell B. smelling C. smelt D. to be smelt |
| The disc, digitally _____ in the studio, sounded fantastic at the party that night. |
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| A. recorded B. recording C. to be recorded D. having recorded |
| American women usually identify their best friend as someone _____ they can talk frequently. |
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A. who B. as C. about which D. with whom |
| After Yang Li wei succeeded in circling the earth, _____ our astronauts desire to do is walking in space. |
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| A. where B. what C. that D. how |
| Jasmine was holidaying with her family in a wildlife park _____ she was bitten on the leg by a lion. |
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| A. when B. while C. since D. once |
| Parents should take seriously their children's requests for sunglasses _____ eye protection is necessary in sunny weather. |
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| A. because B. though C. unless D. if |
| A story goes _____ Elizabeth I of England liked nothing more than being surrounded by clever and qualified noblemen at court. |
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| A. when B. where C. what D. that |
| _____ snacks and drinks, but they also brought cards for entertainment when they had a picnic in the forest. |
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| A. Not only they brought B. Not only did they bring C. Not only brought they D. Not only they did bring |
| Having been attacked by terrorists, _____. |
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| A. doctors came to their rescue B. the tall building collapsed C. an emergency measure was taken D. warnings were given to tourists |
| Why! I have nothing to confess. _____ you want me to say? |
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| A. What is it that B. What it is that C. How is it that D. How it is that |
| — English has a large vocabulary, hasn't it? — Yes, _____ more words and expressions and you will find it easier to read and communicate. |
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| A. Know B. Knowing C. To know D. Known |
| The environmentalists and wild goats' _____ on the vast grasslands was a good indication of the better environment. |
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| A. escape B. absence C. attendance D. appearance |
| Hospital staff burst into cheers after doctors completed a 20-hours operation to have _____ one-year-old twins at the head. |
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| A. isolated B. separated C. divided D. removed |
| After the trainer was sure that the whale could look after itself, he _____ it into the sea. |
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| A. transported B. unloaded C. released D. handled |
| In _____ Chinese culture, marriage decisions were often made by parents for their children. |
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| A. traditional B. historic C. remote D. initial |
| Some people like drinking coffee, for it has _____ effects. |
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| A. promoting B. stimulating C. enhancing D. encouraging |
| The teacher wrote an example on the blackboard to _____ the point. |
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| A. illustrate B. suggest C. express D. recognize |
| Most people on this island are recreational fishers, and _____, fishing forms an actual part of their leisure time. |
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| A. accidentally B. purposefully C. obviously D. formally |
| In dealing with public relations, we should make every effort to prevent the _____ in personality. |
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| A. contact B. contrast C. connection D. conflict |
| Chinese arts have won the _____ of a lot of people outside China. |
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| A. enjoyment B. appreciation C. entertainment D. reputation |
| To keep healthy, Professor Johnson _____ cycling as a regular form of exercise after he retired. |
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| A. took up B. caught on C. carried out D. made for |
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| Adults are often surprised by how well they remember something they learned as children but have never practised in the meantime. A man who has not had an opportunity to go swimming for years can 1 swim as well as ever when he gets back in the water. He can get on a bicycle after several decades and still 2 away. A mother who has not 3 the words for years can teach her daughter the poem that begins "Twinkle, twinkle, little star" or recite the story of Cinderella or Snow White. One explanation is the law of overlearning, which can be stated as follows: 4 we have learned something, additional learning increases the 5 of time we will remember it. In childhood, we usually continue to practise such skills as swimming, bicycle riding long after we have learned them. We continue to listen to and 6 ourselves of poems such as "Twinkle, twinkle, little star" and childhood tales such as Cinderella or Snow White. We not only learn but 7 . The law of overlearning explains why cramming (突击学习) for an examination, 8 it may result in a passing grade, is not a 9 way to learn a school course. By cramming, a student may learn the subject well enough to get by on the examination, but he is likely soon to forget almost everything he learned. A little overlearning; 10 , is usually a good investment toward the future. | ||||
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| The birthrate in Europe has been in a steady decrease since the 1960s. European countries, realizing crisis is at hand, are providing great encouragement for parents to create more babies in the 21st century. Affairs Ministry concluded last year that, 1 cash encouragement, some women just don't want to be 2 holding the baby. "What we know is that it's good for the 3 if men and women share the burden of having children," says Soren Kindlund, family policy adviser at the Swedish ministry. 4 Swedish parents can take their paid leave as they wish, men use a mere 12% of it; 60% of fathers do not take even a(n) 5 day off work. Experts fear that the tendency for women to use most of the parental leave could make employers 6 go give young women the permanent jobs they need to qualify for paid maternity leave (产假). In January. Sweden decided to allow new fathers two months' paid leave, with a warning: use it or 7 it. Kindlund admits that men are under 8 to stay at work, even though parental pay comes out of the public purse. "It's not popular among bosses and perhaps with other men in the workplace," he says. "But it's good for the father and for the child if they can 9 a relationship." In Norway, a(n) 10 policy has worked wonders. 70% of dads in Norway now take parental leave, and the birthrate of 1.85 children per woman is one of the highest in Europe. | ||||
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| Reading comprehension. |
| For almost two months Dominic York, a 23-year-old hairdresser, wandered about hospitals all night, wearing a white coat and pretending he was a doctor. Yesterday he proudly claimed in court that despite his complete lack of medical experience or qualifications, he had saved several people's lives. He had even been allowed to assist a surgeon during an emergency operation on a patient who was about to die on something she had swallowed. "I watched one of those TV dramas about a hospital and suddenly I felt like playing one of the roles myself. So I put on a white jacket and a stethoscope (听诊器) and walked around one of the biggest hospital in London. At first I just watched. Once you learn how doctors talk to patients, nurses and others doctors, it's easy to take people in," he said. One of the patients he treated was Laura Kennan. She had been knocked down by a car and fainted. When she came to in hospital, York was standing over her. "He looked very professional. He told me his name was Doctor Simon. Then he gave me some sort of injection," she said. And then he suddenly cleared off when a nurse asked who he was. She didn't think there was anything wrong. "I would never have realized he was a fake if a policewoman hadn't showed me his photograph a week later. When the policewoman told me who he really was, I could hardly believe my cars." Judge Raymond Adams told York that he was "shocked and horrified" that he got away with his deceiving for so long, and then sentenced him to eighteen months in a special prison for criminal with mental disorders. "I can only hope that this will not lead to further problems. After all, you will have considerable opportunity to study the behaviour of the psychiatrists (精神科医生) who will look after you while you are there. If you try to persuade people that you yourself are a psychiatrist after you are set free, I shall make sure that you are given a much longer sentence." Judge Adams warned York. |
| 1. York was proud of the fact that _____. |
| A. a surgeon let him watch an operation B. he could perform some duties of a doctor C. he had cheated doctors for so long D. people thought he could become a real doctor |
| 2. York learned how to behave like a doctor by _____. |
| A. watching other doctors work B. talking to doctors and nurses C. getting some training and experience D. observing doctors while he was a patient |
| 3. Why was Laura Kennan in hospital? |
| A. She had swallowed something and almost died. B. She had to have and emergency operation. C. She had been injured in a road accident. D. She had lost consciousness while driving. |
| 4. The judge's remark implied that York would be more severely punished if he _____. |
| A. pretended to be a psychiatrist B. tried to get away from prison C. was proud of what he had done D. studied the behaviour of the psychiatrist |
| Reading comprehension. | ||||||
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| 1. In advertisement 2, the Traveler enables us to learn _____. | ||||||
| A. the road conditions from London to Oxford B. all the garages along the chosen route C. the time and speed of the journey in Britain D. the directions from London to Paris. | ||||||
| 2. In advertisement 3, the Quizmaster _____. | ||||||
| A. contains nothing but 5400 questions B. can only answer challenging questions C. can be purchased in many shops D. can be used by people of all | ||||||
| 3. All these advertisements are aimed at those _____. | ||||||
| A. who like to order goods at home B. who are going to travel abroad C. who do market researches D. who are interested in intelligence tests |
| Reading comprehension. |
| We are all interested in equality, but while some people try to protect the school and examination system in the name of equality, other, still in the name of equality, want only to destroy it. Any society which is interested in equality of opportunity and standards of achievement must regularly test its pupils. The standards may be changed-no examination is perfect-but to have to tests or examinations would mean the end of equality and of standards. There are groups of people who oppose this view and who do not believe either in examinations or in any controls in schools or on teachers. This would mean that everything would depend on luck since every pupil would depend on the efficiency, the values and the purpose of each teacher. Without examinations, employers will look for employees from the highly respected schools and from families known to them-a form of favouritism will replace equality. At the moment, the bright child from an ill-respected school can show certificates to prove he or she is suitable for a job, while the lack of certificate indicates the unsuitability of a dull child attending a well-respected school. This defence of excellence and opportunity would disappear if examinations were taken away, and the bright child from a poor family would be a prisoner of his or her school's reputation, unable to compete for employment with the child from the favoured school. The opponents of the examination system suggest that examinations are an evil force because they show differences between pupils. According to these people, there must be no special, different, academic class. They have even suggested that there should be no form of difference in sport or any other area: all jobs or posts should be filled by unsystematic selection. The selection would be made by people who themselves are probably selected by some computer. |
| 1. The word "favouritism" in paragraph 3 is used to describe the phenomenon that _____. |
| A. bright children also need certificates go get satisfying jobs B. children from well-respected schools tend to have good jobs C. poor children with certificates are favoured in job markets D. children attending ordinary schools achieve great success |
| 2. What would happen if examinations were taken away according to the author? |
| A. Schools for bright children would lose their reputation. B. There would be more opportunities and excellence. C. Children from poor families would be able to change their schools. D. Children's job opportunity would be affected by their school reputation. |
| 3. The opponents of the examination system will agree that _____. |
| A. jobs should not be assigned by systematic selection B. computers should be selected to take over many jobs C. special classed are necessary to keep the school standards D. schools with academic subjects should be done away with |
| 4. The passage mainly focuses on _____. |
| A. schools and certificates B. examination and equality C. opportunity and employment D. standards and reputation |
| Reading comprehension. |
| Holiday Inns and McDonald's, both saw unmatched growth in the 1960s. Their growth opened another direct business operation-franchising (特许经营). These operations have the same general pattern. The franchisor, the parent company, first establishes a successful retail (零售) business. At it expands, it sees a profit potential in offering others the right to open similar business under its name. The parent company's methods and means of identification with consumers are included in this right. The parent company supplies skill, and may build and rent stores to franchisees. For these advantages the franchisee pays the franchisor a considerable fee. However, some of the advantages and disadvantages are different. By extending a "proven" marketing method, a parent can profit in several ways. First, the franchisee's purchase price gives the parent an immediate return on the plan. Then the sale of supplies to the franchisee provides a continuing source of profits. As new businesses are added and the company's reputation spreads, the value of the franchise increases and sales of franchises become easier. The snowballing effect can be dramatic. Such growth, too, brings into play the economies of scale (规模经济). Regional or national advertising that might be financially impossible for a franchisor with 20 franchises could be profitable for one with 40. The parent, then, finds immediate gains from the opportunity to expand markets on the basis of reputation alone, without having to put up capital or take the risk of owning retail stores. Added to this advantage is a less obvious but material one. Skilled, responsible retail managers are rare. People who invest their capital in franchises, through, probably come closer to the ideal than do paid managers. In fact, the franchisee is an independent store operator working for the franchisor, but without an independent's freedom to drop supplies at will. Of course the factory's costs of selling supplies are less. But also certainly the franchisee buying goods that have had broad consumer acceptance will not casually change supplies, even when the contract permits. If the hamburger is not what the customer expected, they may not return. Having paid for the goodwill, the franchisee won't thoughtlessly destroy it. Franchising may give you the idea that as a franchisor, you need only relax in the rocking chair. Franchising, however, has problems to be solved. |
| 1. Franchising refers to a business operation in which a successful parent company _____. |
| A. sells name-brand goods to a private investor B. rents proven ideas and techniques for investment C. sells the right, the guidance to a business under its name D. takes no advertising responsibility for individual investors |
| 2. The advantages of franchising to the parent company are all the following EXCEPT _____. |
| A. an immediate investment return B. the ownership of additional retail stores C. the profit from the sale of supplies D. the possibility of profitable advertising |
| 3. The passage mainly tells the reader _____. |
| A. the advantages and disadvantages of franchising B. the benefits of franchising to the franchisor C. the unmatched economic growth in the 1960's D. some regional and national business operation |
| 4. What will the author probably discuss after the last paragraph? |
| A. More advantages of franchising. B. Risks of investment besides franchising. C. The standard of consumer acceptance. D. Negative aspects related to franchising |
| Translation. Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets. |
| 1. 小组讨论有助于更好地理解课文。 (help) ____________________________________________________________________________ 2. 上周因为生病我缺了一些课，但是我会努力赶上大家的。(miss) ____________________________________________________________________________ 3. 这个游戏的规则太复杂，三言两语解释不清。(too….to) ____________________________________________________________________________ 4. 你该说刚才的所作所为向在场的人道歉。(apologize) ____________________________________________________________________________ 5. 我发现很难与那些一贯固执己见的人合作。(…it…) ____________________________________________________________________________ |
| Guided Writing. |
| Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese. 老师要求你负责班级墙报 (wall newspaper) 工作并征求你的意见。在日记中表述你的决定并谈谈 想法。 ____________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ |
