| In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, 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. |
| 1. A. At home. B. On the form. C. In a restaurant. D. In a supermarket. |
| 2. A. $6. B. $4.5 C. $5. D. $4. |
| 3. A. A worker at McDonald's. B. A student. C. A tutor. D. A customer in a market. |
| 4. A. She didn't receive the E-mail. B. She is too busy to check the E-mail. C. Her computer broke down. D. She has replied to his E-mail. |
| 5. A. It's certain that they will come to the lecture. B. They won't come if they don't call first. C. She is worried about it. D. There are plenty of seats for all the people. |
| 6. A. A math teacher and his colleague. B. A teacher and his student. C. A student and his classmate. D. A librarian and a student. |
| 7. A. A movie. B. A lecture. C. A play. D. A speech. |
| 8. A. The man should not dream of being a superstar. B. The man didn't practice hard enough. C. The man should find a new partner. D. The man should not give up. |
| 9. A. His injury kept him at home. B. He didn't consider it necessary. C. He was too weak to see the doctor. D. He failed to make an appointment. |
| 10. A. He wants to get a new position. B. He is asking the woman for help. C. He has left the woman a good application. D. He enjoys letter writing. |
| Questions 1 through 3 are based on the following passage. |
| 1. A. A notice was put in a window seat. B. Some of the seats were not occupied. C. There was a seat that he had hoped to have. D. The plan was not very crowded. |
| 2. A. Mr. Jackson was the last passenger to get on board the plane. B. Mr. Jackson was surprised to see the notice in the seat. C. The window seats were all occupied when Mr. Jackson got on board the plane. D. The plane Mr. Jackson took was heavily loaded with luggage. |
| 3. A. The notice was put on the seat by the soldier. B. The soldier was waiting for his girl friend. C. The girl was the last passenger who got on the plane. D. The seat by the window was kept for the last passenger. |
| Questions 1 through 3 are based on the following passage. |
| 1. A. Sell your old things. B. Do some shopping online. C. Create your own announcement board. D. Get useful information about 450 cities. |
| 2. A. Companies often put job information in local shops. B. The Internet is the most popular tool for job hunters in the USA. C. Susan W. Miller's company is helping people choose careers. D. California Career Services mainly serves university students. |
| 3. A. Three. B. Four. C. Five. D. Six. |
| Blanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation. Complete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer.
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| Blanks 1 through 4 are based on the following conversation. Complete the form. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.
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| After a series of unsuccessful attempts, he has finally passed the test ______entering his dream company. |
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| A. in B. of C. for D. to |
| The customer didn't choose ______ of the ties and went away without looking at a third one. |
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| A. neither B. any C. all D. either |
| One of the few things you ______say about English people with certainty is that they talk a lot about the weather. |
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| A. need B. must C. can D. should |
| In the center of the lake are two islands, one of which is ______, if not larger than, the other. |
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| A. twice as large B. as twice large C. twice as large as D. as twice large as |
| The company promised to pay some money for the customers purchasing their shoddy(伪劣的) goods and ______ an apology in public. |
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| A. making B. make C. to make D. made |
| It even leaves the scientists in wonder _____ they should call the newly-born creature, which looks half-human and half-animal. |
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| A. that B. why C. what D. how |
| Something as simple as______ thoughts openly can make a powerful difference to one's health. |
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| A. to share B. sharing C. share D. shared |
| No conclusion ______about whether to tear down the old buildings for a theme park until several discussions have been made. |
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| A. will be reached B. is reached C. is being reached D. had been reached |
| "Ungelivable" is so new an English word coined on the Internet ______ is forbidden to appear in official media or documents at present. |
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| A. that B. which C. it D. as |
| ______after the race that he didn't know what to say before so many reporters. |
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| A. So excited the champion was B. So excited was the champion C. So excited the champion felt D. So excited felt the champion |
| The Internet gives people the chance to have the information ______to them quickly and cheaply. |
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| A. deliver B. delivering C. delivered D. to deliver |
| The speech the minister made on TV ______ the education reform made both teachers and students excited. |
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| A. being concerned B. to concern C. concerned D. concerning |
| Many experts stick to the view ______teacher development is the key to the education quality. |
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| A. which B. what C. that D. where |
| ______seems to be no possibility that the student majoring in liberal-arts can win the first prize in the100-meter race. |
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| A. What B. There C. That D. Whether |
| ______ not to drive after drinking, some drivers are still trying their luck, which is really dangerous． |
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| A. Being reminded B. To remind C. Having reminded D. Reminded |
| Man must keep in mind that it will be years ______ the earth recovers from the damage he makes to it. |
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| A. when B. before C. since D. until |
| Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need. | |
Money is the root of all evil- and new study claims there may be some truth behind the saying. Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, US, 1 on February 27 that rich people are more likely to do 2 things, such as lie or cheat, than poorer people. The scientists did a series of eight experiments. They 3 their findings online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). They carried out the first two experiments from the sidewalk near Berkeley. They noted that drivers of newer and more expensive cars were more likely to cut off other cars and pedestrians at crosswalks. Nearly 45 percent of people driving expensive cars 4 a pedestrian compared with only 30 percent of people driving more 5 cars. In another experiment, a group of college students was asked if they would do unethical(不道 德的) things in various everyday situations and 6 included taking printer paper from work and not telling a salesperson when he or she gave back more 7 . Students from higher-class families were more likely to act dishonestly. According to the scientists, rich people often think money can get them out of trouble. This makes them less afraid to take risks. It also means they care less about other people's feelings. Finally, it 8 makes them greedier . "Higher wealth status seems to make you want even more, and that increased want leads you to bend the rules or break the rules to serve your self-interest," said Paul Piff, lead scientist of the study. Piff pointed out that the findings don't mean that all rich people are untrustworthy or all poor peoplehonest. He said the experiments were to show how people living in different social situations express their 9 and values in different ways. |
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| Is language, like food, a basic human need without which a child at a critical period of life can be 1 and damaged? Judging from an experiment in the thirteenth century, it may be. Hoping to discover what language a child would speak if a baby heard no mother 2 , the experimenter told the nurses to keep silent. All the 3 died before the first year. But clearly there was more than lack of language here. What was missing was good mothering. Without good mothering, in the first year of life 4 , the capacity to survive is seriously affected. Today no such severe lack exists as that ordered by the experimenter. 5 , some children are still backward in speaking. Most often the reason for this is that the mother is 6 to the signals of the infant, whose brain is programmed to learn language rapidly. If these sensitive periods are neglected, the ideal time for 7 skills passes and they might never be learned so easily again. A bird learns to sing and to fly rapidly at right time, but the process is slow and hard once the 8 stage has passed. Experts suggest that speech stages are reached in a fixed sequence and at a 9 age, but there are cases where speech has started 10 in a child who eventually turns out to be of high IQ. At twelve weeks a baby smiles and makes vowel-like sounds; at twelve months he can speak simple words and understand simple 11 ; at eighteen months he has a vocabulary of three to fifty words. At three he knows about 1,000 words which he can put into sentences, and at four his language differs from that of his parents in style 12 grammar. Recent evidence suggests that an infant is born with the 13 to speak. What is special about man's brain, compared with that of the monkey, is the complex system which enables a child to 14 the sight and feel of, say, a toy-bear with the sound pattern "toy - bear". And even more 15 is the young brain's ability to pick out an order in language from the mixture of sound around him, to analyse, to combine and recombine the parts of a language in new ways. | ||||
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| Acting is such an over-crowded profession that the only advice that should be given to a young person thinking of going on the stage is "Don't!". But it is useless to try to discourage someone who feels that he must act, though the chances of his becoming famous are slim. The normal way to begin is to go to a drama school. Usually only students who show promise and talent are accepted, and the course lasts two years. Then the young actor or actress takes up work with a repertory company, usually as an assistant stage manager. This means doing everything that there is to do in the theatre: painting scenery, looking after the furniture, taking care of the costumes, and even acting in very small parts. It is very hard work indeed. The hours are long and the salary is tiny. But young actors with the stage in their blood are happy, waiting for the chances of working with a better company, or perhaps in films or television. Of course, some people have unusual chances which lead to fame and success without this long and dull training. Connie Pratt, for example, was just an ordinary girl working in a bicycle factory. A film producer happened to catch sight of her one morning waiting at a bus stop, as he drove past in his big car. He told the driver to stop, and he got out to speak to the girl. He asked her if she would like to go to the film studio to do a test, and at first she thought he was joking. Then she got angry and said she would call the police. It took the producer twenty minutes to tell Connie that he was serious. Then an appointment was made for her to go to the studio the next day. The test was successful. They gave her some necessary lessons and within a few weeks she was playing the leading part opposite one of the most famous actors of the day. Of Course, she was given a more dramatic name, which is now world-famous. But chances like this happen once in a blue moon! |
| 1. According to the passage, the main reason why young people should be discouraged from becoming actors is ______. |
| A. actors are very unusual people B. the course at the drama school lasts two years C. acting is really a hard job D. there are already too many actors |
| 2. According to the context, the sentence "But young actors with the stage in their blood are happy" at the end of the first paragraph means ______. |
| A. they don't care if their job is hard B. they like the stage naturally C. they are born happy D. they are easily satisfied |
| 3. Connie Pratt soon became a famous actress after ______. |
| A. learning some lessons about the art of speaking B. playing her part in the "Blue Colored Moon" C. successfully matching the most famous actors D. acting a leading part with a most famous actor at that time |
| 4. The phrase "once in a blue moon" in last line means ______. |
| A. all at once B. once for a long time C. once in a while D. once and for all |
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| 1. Which of the following does NOT provide training? | ||||
| A. The ABC 2011 Challenge. B. Advance. C. The Volunteer Centre Westminster. D. The Kingston Advocacy. | ||||
| 2. We learn from the ads that Advance wants volunteers who ______. | ||||
| A. are over 18 years old B. have relevant experience C. can come to help every week D. need only one day of training | ||||
| 3. What kind of person might apply to Kingston Advocacy? | ||||
| A. One who hoped to be paid. B. One interested in doing interviews. C. One curious about police life. D. One who can work late into the night. |
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The gift of being able to describe a face accurately is a rare one, as every experienced police |
| 1. It is stated in the passage that ______. |
| A. it is unusual for a person to be able to identify a face satisfactorily B. the ability to recognize faces unhesitatingly is an unusual gift C. quite a few people can visualize faces they have seen D. few people can give exact details of the appearance of a face |
| 2. What the author feels strange about is that _______. |
| A. people have the tremendous ability to recognize more than 1,000 faces B. people don't think much of the problem of how and why we acquire the ability to recognize and remember faces C. people don't realize how essential and valuable it is for them to have the ability to recognize faces D. people have been arguing much over the way people recognize and remember faces |
| 3. What is the first suggested explanation of the origin of the ability? |
| A. It is one of the characteristics peculiar to human beings. B. It is acquired soon after birth. C. It is something we can do from the very moment we are born. D. It is learned from our environment and experiences. |
| 4. This passage seems to emphasize that ______. |
| A. the ability to recognize individuals is dependent on other senses as well as sight B. sight is indispensable (必需的) to recognizing individuals C. the ability to recognize faces is a special inborn ability of the brain D. the importance of the ability of recognizing faces is fully appreciated by people. |
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| Read the following text and choose the most suitable heading from A-F for eachparagraph. There is one extra heading which you do not need.
1. ________________________ A world record is every athlete's dream, but the hard-won records of a few years ago are mostly just today's qualifying times. Roger Bannister's famous four-minute mile of 1956 has been beaten by nearly 15 seconds, while almost an hour and twenty minutes has been taken off the women's marathon since. 1953. 'Faster, higher, stronger', is the Olympic motto, and today's competitors continue to push back the boundaries of what the body can achieve. But one wonders if this can continue. 2. ________________________ The last forty years have seen many important technological advances. For example, since the introduction of strong flexible, fiberglass poles, over a meter has been added to the pole vault record. There have also been important developments in the design of the running shoe. And while a shoe won't actually make someone run faster, modern shoes do mean many more miles of comfortable, injury-free training. 3. ________________________ Pushing back the limits now depends more on science, technology and medicine than anything else. Athletic technique, training programmes and diets are all being studied to find ways of taking a few more seconds off or adding a few more centimetres to that elusive world record. It seems that natural ability and hard work are no longer enough. 4. ________________________ The research to find more efficient ways of moving goes on. Analysis of an athlete's style is particularly useful for events like jumping and throwing. Studies show that long jumpers need to concentrate not on the speed of approach, as once thought, but on the angle their bodies make with the ground as they take off. However, the rules governing each sport limit advances achieved by new styles. For instance only one-footed takeoffs are allowed in the high jump. 5. ________________________ In the future, it should be possible to develop a more individual approach to training programmes. Athletes will keep detailed diaries and collect data to help predict the point when training becomes overtraining, the cause of many injuries. If athletes feed all their information into a database, it may then be possible to predict patterns and to advise them individually when they should cut. |
| 阅读理解。 Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words. |
| Culture shock is so named because of the effect it has on people when they enter a new culture. Experts have been interested in these effects and have agreed on five basic stages of culture shock. These stages are general and should only be used as a reference. Not every individual will go through each stage, and one stage may last longer than another for different individuals. The hardest thing for most travelers to deal with is the emotional "roller coaster" they seem to be riding. One moment they feel very positive toward the new culture, and the next moment very negative. It seems common that international visitors and immigrants vacillate(犹豫不定)between loving and hating a new country. Feelings of separation and alienation can be intensified if they do not have a sense of fitting in or belonging. Fatigue is another problem people face when entering a new culture. There can be a sense of greater need for sleep. This is due not only to physical tiredness, but also to mental fatigue. This mental fatigue comes from straining to comprehend the language, and coping with new situation. The impact of culture shock can vary from person to person. There can be significant differences because some people may be better prepared to enter a new culture. Four factors which play into these are personality, language ability, length of stay, and the emotional support received. It is logical to think that when people are deprived of heir familiar surroundings they will feel disoriented. One solution some have found is to bring a few small reminders of home. Pictures, wall hangings, favorite utensils, and keepsake are all good candidates to make things feel more familiar. Another helpful activity is to establish little routines that become familiar over time. Even better is fitting things that were part of the regular routine back in the home country into the routine established in the new culture. This will make people feel more at home. (Note: Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN TEN WORDS.) 1. According to the 1st paragraph, what have experts been interested in? 2. What are the two problems people face when entering a new culture? 3. Coping with new situations may result in__________. 4. The author thinks the more effective way to solve "cultural shock" is__________. |
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| 1. 你能帮我开一下电脑吗? (mind) 2. 伦敦奥运会的闭幕式将于今年的八月十二日举行。 (take place) 3. 有了先进的科技,世界各国的警方可以更快更方便地抓获罪犯。(available) 4. 虽然工作繁忙,每天我们都应该匀出一点时间锻炼身体,放松心情.。(relax) 5. 一项新披露的调查表明网络最吸引人之处在于它能让网民及时了解世界大事。(inform) |
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| Write an English composition in 120-150 words. The composition must be based on the information given below. 请根据下面的图片，写一篇短文，内容包括： 1. 描述漫画内容； 2. 结合自己或身边的事例阐述图中的寓意； 3. 简要发表自己的观点。  |