| Directions: 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. |
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( )1. A. By car |
| ( )2. A. At home B. On a bus C. In a car D. On the phone |
| ( )3. A. He broke her MP3 player B. The man looks terrible C. The man is always careless D. They are in the same class |
| ( )4. A. 100 dollars B. 80 dollars C. 60 dollars D. 20 dollars |
| ( )5. A. He has no idea B. It is boring C. It is interesting D. He is not interested in it |
| ( )6. A. 5:50 B. 5:40 C. 6:10 D. 6:00 |
| ( )7. A. At home B. In a shop C. In a garden D. At the office |
| ( )8. A. It is too old to live in B. It is near an airport C. It is far from where Bill works D. It is in the city center |
| ( )9. A. Golf B. Tennis C. Basketball D. Swimming |
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( )10. A. The paper is good, especially the last two paragraphs |
| Questions 1 through 3 are based on the following introduction. |
| ( )1. A. At the gate of the hospital B. At the gate of the school C. In the hospital D. In the school |
| ( )2. A. By bike B. On foot C. By bus D. Take a taxi |
| ( )3. A. After taking the tests B. After eating food C. After getting the results D. After the examination |
| Questions 1 through 3 are based on the following passage |
| ( )1. A. In 1923 B. In 1941 C. In 1943 D. In 1950 |
| ( )2. A. A.B. degree B. A.M. degree C. Ph. D. degree D. S.M. degree |
| ( )3. A. In Germany B. In New York. C. In South Carolina D. In London |
| Complete the form Write ONE WORD for each answer | |
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A Job Interview | |
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Jack Wilson |
He graduated from a 1 college and majored in English and he has been working as anEnglish teacher for 2 years in a high school |
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Answers to the interviewer’s questions |
Find out why parents 3 and then give an effective solution |
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The best way to ensure classroom discipline is to make sure your classes are 4 | |
| If you don’t communicate your ideas ______ others, how can they understand you? |
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| —Would you lend me some money, please? —Sorry, I’ve got ______ myself You know, the iPad cost me a fortune. |
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| A. nothing B. no one C. none D. neither |
| I can’t decide what to do next now I need ______ more time to think it over |
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| A. much B. quite C. just D. fairly |
| —Thanks for lending me the electronic dictionary. ______ it be put here? —Yes, you may put it here just as well. |
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| A. Dare B. Does C. Will D. Shall |
| Unhealthy food can do harm to your hair; ____. |
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| A. and can the stress in life B. and the stress in life can C. so can the stress in life D. so the stress in life can |
| The manager didn’t turn up ______ Peter agreed to sign the contract. |
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| A. unless B. until C. while D. once |
| He said yes _____ he was asked if he could possibly serve as a teacher in the remote area for two years. |
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| A. for a moment B. the moment when C. in a moment D. the moment |
| He _______ any money in the lottery yet, but he expects to. |
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| A. didn't win B. hadn't won C. hasn't won D. isn't winning |
| Many of the audience ______ asleep when they ______ the lecture. |
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| A. fell; were hearing B. were falling; heard C. had fallen; heard D. fell; had heard |
| —When is Jack going to finish writing that program? —I don't know ______ day in and day out. |
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| A. He has been working B. He has worked C. He had been working D. He was working |
| —Time flied before we knew it! It is already 12 o'clock. —Oh, really? I _______ it at all. |
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| A. haven't realized B. didn't realize C. hadn't realized D. don't realize |
| By the time he graduated from university, he ______ more than two novels. |
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| A. has written B. had been writing C. will have written D. had written |
| I ______ my son ______ a doctor, but he wasn't good enough at chemistry. |
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| A. had hoped; would become B. had hoped; to be C. hoped; would become D. hoped; to be |
| One's character is always defined(阐明) by the way ______ the rules are carried out in one's behavior. |
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| A. by which B. in which C. for which D. of which |
| The days are fast coming ______ watching films by using the web is a routine. |
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| A. that B. and C. when D. if |
| Do you believe the reason ______ he gave for being absent? |
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| A. when B. why C. which D. for which |
| The Big Nose Club now has 330 members, each of ______ has a nose at least 60mm long or 40mm wide. |
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| A. whom B. who C. which D. them |
| The client expected the case to be done by June, ______ I think is impossible. |
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| A. it B. as C. which D. when |
| Things, ______is often the case, will turn out to be against one's wishes. |
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| A. what B. as C. it D. that |
| —Is this gallery ______ you once worked? —Yes I worked here for three years. |
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| A. the one that B. the one where C. one that D. one where |
| Only high officials get ______ to such information. |
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| A. admission B. right C. access D. use |
| Can you imagine yourself ______ alone in a stadium which can _____ more than ten thousand people? |
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| A. stand; sit B. standing; sit C. stand; seat D. standing; seat |
| Not all the _______ at the meeting agreed to carry out the plan in the ______. |
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| A. present people; present situation B. people present; present situation C. present people; situation present D. people present; situation present |
| A plan took ______ after the discussion _____ for two hours. |
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| A. shape; lasted B. shape; was lasted C. form; lasted D. form; was lasted |
| John is ______ one of the best shop assistants who ______ in this department store. |
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| A. thought of; work B. thought; works C. considered; work D. considered as; works |
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| A man is making good ___1___ of his baldness by selling advertising space to companies. Matt Stafford, who suffers from baldness, is ___2___ companies the chance to have their logos (某公司或机构的标志) on the ___3___ side of his head The 26-year-old is selling the strange advertising space on the Internet, and he has already sold his first advertising space for 215 pounds. His advertisement ___4___, "You are buying advertising space on the left side of a 26-year-old London man's head". He also promises never to wear a hat The man said, "I found a bald area on the side of my head one day and went to see a doctor It ___5___ out to be a ___6___ disease It made me think about how I could ___7___ something negative into something positive. The cash raised through the sale will ___8___ to an organization that provides wigs(假发) for teenagers suffering from hair ___9___ because of cancer treatment. |
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| Tim Becker and his neighbors are doing something to make their neighborhood a trouble-free area. When Tim Becker gets in his car to go shopping, he doesn't ___1___ drive to a store and back home. He always looks ___2___ up and down the streets of his neighborhood. He looks for anything ___3___ such as strange cars, loud noises, ___4___ windows, or people gathering on street corners. Tim ___5___ to a neighborhood watch group in Stoneville, Indiana, USA. The neighborhood watch group ___6___ on the third Wednesday of every month. That's ___7___ Tim gets together with about ten of his neighbors to discuss community ___8___ .Members of the neighborhood watch group want to help the police ___9___ their homes, streets, and families safe. Tina Stedman, president of ___10___ neighborhood watch group, agrees with Tim. "People seem to think that crime happens to other people but not to them. Well, it's never happened to me," she said, "but I don't think anyone has the ___11___ to steal from other people or to make them feel ___12___ sitting in their own homes." Alex, a member of the group, said that all the neighbors ___13___ out for one another, "We watch each other's homes. We keep watch ___14___ the neighborhood at night and on weekends. Usually a group of four or five of us goes out together. If something doesn't look right, then we call the police. For example, if we notice a group of teenagers who seem to be looking for___15___, or someone destroying property, we report to the police." Alex feels the neighborhood watch groups help a lot in keeping crime down. Her husband Jim agrees, "Police are good people, but they can't do everything."
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| Our children and grandchildren may not have a chance to visit many of the most famous places around the world. War, weather, age, traffic and pollution damage these famous places. Looking after these places often costs more than one country can afford. In the early 1970s, world governments decided that if they joined together, they would be able to preserve our history. If every country paid some money, they said, it would be possible to look after important historic places. Also, if they discovered that a monument needed urgent help, they would have money for repairs. For these reasons, countries around the world united to form the World Heritage Organization in 1972. Today, the organization helps to maintain and restore the most important places from our history. However, one of the biggest problems for historic places is vandalism. People sometimes enter the sites and destroy or damage the buildings. At some sites, such as Stonehenge(巨石阵) in England, governments have built high fences to protect the site from vandals. There are many different ideas about how to solve the problem of vandalism. Stone experts say that if guards patrolled the sites, vandals would not be able to get in. Some experts say that if they fixed more television cameras, they would not need so many guards. Other experts say that the best solution is education. If people learned to respect history, they would not destroy or damage it. They would also want to spend money looking after old places. For this reason, the World Heritage Organization helps to spread information about the value of historic sites. |
| 1. According to this passage, ____ is NOT mentioned in Paragraph 1 for the reasons why the famous places are damaged? |
| A. people's awareness B. pollution C. war and climate D. traffic |
| 2. Which of the following shows us the action of vandalism? |
| A. Governments build high fences to protect the site from vandals B. Guards patrolled the sites and they fixed more television cameras C. People enter the sites and cause damage to the buildings D. They collect as much money as they can to preserve the buildings |
| 3. What's the best way to solve the biggest problem of preserving our history? |
| A. Every country spends more money looking after these places B. To form the World Heritage Organization C. Too many guards are needed to prevent vandals getting in D. To make people know more about the value of historic sites |
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| NOT all memories are sweet. Some people spend all their lives trying to forget bad experiences. Violence and traffic accidents can leave people with terrible physical and emotional scars. Often they relive these experiences in nightmares. Now American researchers think they are close to developing a pill, which will help people forget bad memories. The pill is designed to be taken immediately after a frightening experience. They hope it might reduce, or possibly erase(抹去), the effect of painful memories. In November, experts tested a drug on people in the US and France. The drug stops the body releasing chemicals that fix memories in the brain. So far the research has suggested that only the emotional effects of memories may be reduced, not that the memories are erased. The research has caused a great deal of argument. Some think it is a bad idea, while others support it. Supporters say it could lead to pills that prevent or treat soldiers' troubling memories after war. They say that there are many people who suffer from terrible memories. "Some memories can ruin people's lives. They come back to you when you don't want to have them in a daydream or nightmare. They usually come with very painful emotions," said Roger Pitman, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. "This could relieve a lot of that suffering." But those who are against the research say that changing memories is very dangerous because memories give us our identity(特质).They also help us all avoid the mistakes of the past. "All of us can think of bad events in our lives that were horrible at the time but make us who we are, I'm not sure we want to wipe those memories out," said Rebecca Dresser, a medical ethicist. |
| 1. The passage is mainly about _____________. |
| A. a new medical invention B. a new research on the pill C. a way of erasing painful memories D. an argument about the research on the pill |
| 2. The drug tested on people can ______________. |
| A. cause the brain to fix memories B. stop people remembering bad experiences C. prevent body producing certain chemicals D. erase the emotional effects of memories |
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3. We can infer from the passage that ____________. |
| A. people doubt the effects of the pills B. the pill will stop people's bad experiences C. taking the pill will do harm to people's health D. the pill has probably been produced in America |
| 4. Which of the following does Rebecca Dresser agree with? |
| A. Some memories can ruin people's lives B. People want to get rid of bad memories C. Experiencing bad events makes us different from others D. The pill will reduce people's sufferings from bad memories |
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| The opinion of many engineers is that the architects that designed the New York World Trade Center Twin Towers did a good job in designing the buildings. The buildings were safe from the hazards envisioned (预想到的) at the time. Indeed, they were designed to withstand the force of aircraft that might crash into them. They were not however, designed to withstand the effects of the very high temperatures produced by the ignition (点燃) of aviation fuel carried by the aircraft. Steel lightly covered with concrete is the main structural part of the towers and steel loses a lot of structural strength when heated to 1100 degrees Centigrade and beyond, as it was. To protect the steel the towers beams were coated with a few centimeters of concrete. That insulation (隔离) was to provide structural state of being complete for at least 1 hour of fire. The towers met that test. The south tower lasted 62minutes. The north, 103 minutes. Tragedy followed when not all could escape before the collapse. Most experts agree that the Twin Towers were very well designed. Many also agree that the people planning the attacks were very knowledgeable and aimed the aircraft at a height that would produce the most damage. The aircraft crash and the resulting fuel fed fires were aimed at about the 90th floor. That was just high enough to insure that the upper floors would weaken with the heat and crack down, dropping into the remaining part of the building. The mass of the falling top floors created such a falling load that some experts estimate it exceeded by 5 to 10 times normal bearing loads. The effect was like a giant hammer, each floor contributing more weight to be born by the next floor down. Were the Trade Towers well designed? Engineers say yes. But, the public holds to the belief that architects will never again design a tall building without considering the effects of terrorist attacks of all potential kinds. That not only includes the ability of the structure to withstand attack but the means to allow the buildings occupants to escape in time to survive. |
| 1. Many engineers believe that the Twin Tower was well-designed after September 11 because _________________. |
| A. it could withstand aircraft crashing into it at the moment B. it could withstand any natural hazards such as earthquake or fire C. it had an attracting and beautiful appearance until they were destroyed D. they had the miserable honor of being selected as the target of terrorist attack |
| 2. According to the article, those who designed the tower could have done better if _______. |
| A. the tower lasted longer after being attacked B. the tower held stable until all of the people in there managed to escape C. the tower can be immune to such attacks D. they considered more about the effects of the very high temperatures and made duel(决定性的) changes in the structure |
| 3. The part of the building below 90th floor _____________. |
| A. remained where they were B. cracked down because of the burning C. was hammered down by the falling upper part D. was safe after the attack |
| 4. The author believed that the Twin Towers ____________. |
| A. were not well- designed B. were well-designed C. were good examples for engineers of our time D. were out of consideration when we talk about engineering later |
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| 1. _______ Medical scientists are already putting computer chips directly into the brain to help people with Parkinson's disease, but in what other ways might computer technology be able to help us? Ray Kurzweil is the author of the successful book The Age of Intelligent Machines and is one of the world's best computer research scientists. He is researching the possibilities. 2. _______ Kurzweil gets computers to recognize voices. An example of this is Ramona, the virtual hostess of Kurzweil's homepage, who is programmed to understand what you say. Visitors to the site can have their own conversations with her, and Ramona also dances and sings. 3._______ Kurzweil uses this technology to help people with physical disabilities. One of his ideas is a "seeing machine". This will be "like a friend that could describe what is going on in the visible world", he explains. Blind people will use a visual sensor which will probably be built into a pair of sunglasses. This sensor will describe to the people everything it sees. 4._______ Another idea, which is likely to help deaf people, is the "listening machine". This invention will recognize millions of words and understand any speaker. This listening machine will also be able to translate into other languages, so even people without hearing problems are likely to be interested in using it. 5._______ But it is not just about helping people with disabilities. Looking further into the future, Kurzweil sees a time when we will be able to download our entire consciousness onto a computer. This technology probably won't be ready for at least 50 years, but when it arrives, it means our minds will be able to live forever. |
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| 1.健康的身体是过幸福生活的关键.(key) 2.一位高级雇员杨先生提醒了Simon肢体语言的重要性.(remind) 3.她不再喝牛奶了,结果蛋白质和铁质的缺乏使她的头发失去了光泽.(rob) 4.长城是中国的骄傲,它每天早上6:30到晚上7:00向公众开放.(非限制性定语从句) 5.当你与人交流时,务必要保持眼神交流,否则就不会留下好印象.(Be sure to; or) |