1 Part Listening Comprehension 25 minutes Section A Directions: In this section you will hear 10 short conversations. At the end of each conversation a question will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the question will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause you must read the four choices marked A B C and D and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre. Example: You will hear: You will read: A
2 hours. B
3 hours. C
4 hours. D
5 hours. From the conversation we know that the two were talking about some work they will start at 9
o’clock in the morning and have to finish at 2 in the afternoon. Therefore D “5 hours” is the correct answer. You should choose〔D〕on the Answer Sheet and mark it with a single line through the centre. Sample Answer 〔A〕〔B〕〔C〕〔D〕1. A The man thinks traveling by air is quite safe. B The woman never travels by plane. C Both speakers feel nervous when flying. D The speakers feel sad about the ser
ious loss of life. 2. A At the information desk. B In an office. C In a restaurant. D At a railway station. 3. A Write the letter. B Paint the shelf. C Fix the shelf. D Look for the pen. 4. A It gives a 30 discount to all customers. B It is run by Mrs. Winter’s husband. C It hires Mrs. Winter as an adviser.
D It encourages husbands to shop on their own. 5. A Long exposure to the sun. B Lack of sleep. C Too tight a hat. D Long working hours. 6. A His English is still poor after ten years in America. B He doesn’t mind speaking English with an accent. C He doesn’t like the way Americans speak. D He speaks English as if he were a native speaker. 7. A An auto mechanic. B An electrician. C A carpenter. D A telephone repairman. 8. A They both enjoyed watching the game. B The man thought the results were beyond their expectations. C They both felt good about the results of the game. D People were surprised at their winning the game. 9. A Manager and employee. BSalesman and customer. C Guide and tourist. DProfessor and student. 2 10. A Tom has arranged a surprise party for Lucy. B Tom will keep the surprise party a secret. C Tom and Lucy have no secrets from each other. D Tom didn’t make any promise to Lucy. Section B Directions: In this section you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A B C and D. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Passage One Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard. 12. A 50 C Most Londoners took Ex D Most Londoners complained about the trouble caused by Exercise Flood Call. Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard. 14. A It limited their supply of food. B It made their eggsh C It destroyed many of their nests. C They explored new wa 16. A Pollution of the environment. C Over-killing by hunters. D Destruction of their natural homes. Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard. 3 D Whether it will affect their own l 19. A Storms and floods. C Less space for their growth. D Rapid increase of the animal population. D They will face extinction without artificial reproduction. Part Reading Comprehension 35 minutes Directions: There are four passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A B C and D. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre. Passage One Birds that are literally half-asleep—with one brain hemisphere alert and the other sleeping—control which side of the brain remains awake according to a new study of
sleeping Earlier studies have documented half-brain sleep in a wide range of birds. The brain hemispheres take turns sinking into the sleep stage characterized by slow brain waves. The eye controlled by the sleeping hemisphere keeps shut while the wakeful hemisphere’s eyes stays open an
d alert. Birds also can sleep with both hemispheres resting at once Decades of studies of bird flocks led researchers to predict extra alertness in the more vulnerable end-of-the-row sleepers. Sure enough the end birds tended to watch carefully on the side away from their companions. Ducks in the inner spots showed no Also birds dozing 打盹at the end of the line resorted to single-hemisphere sleep rather than total relaxation more often than inner ducks did. Rotating 16 birds through the positions in a four-duck row the researchers found outer birds half-asleep during some 32 percent of dozing time “We believe this is the first evidence for an animal behaviorally controlling sleep and wakefulness simultaneously in different region The results provide the best evidence for a long-standing supposition that single-hemisphere sleep evolved as creatures scanned for enemies. The preference for opening an eye on the lookout side could be widespread he predicts. He’s seen it in a pair of birds dozing side-by-side in the zoo and in a single pet bird sleeping by a mirror. The mirror-side eye closed as if the reflection were a Useful as half-sleeping might be it’s only been found in birds and such water mammals 哺乳动物as dolphins whales and seals. Perhaps keeping one side of the brain awake allows a sleeping 4 Studies of birds may offer unique insights into sleep.
J erome M. Siegel of the UCLA says he wonders if birds’ half-brain sleep “is just the tip
of the iceberg 冰山.” He speculates that more 21. A new study on birds’ sleep has revealed that __ A h
alf- B half- C birds can control their half- 22. According to t D they have to constantly keep an eye on their co 23. The example of a bird sleeping in front of a mirror indicates that _____. C even an imagined companion gives the bird a sen C be sensitive to the ever- 25. By “just the tip of the iceberg” Line 2 Para. 8 Si egel suggests that ______. A half- B the mystery of half- D half-brain sleep is a phenomenon that could exist among other species ______. Passage Two Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage. A nine-year-old schoolgirl single-handedly cooks up a science-fair experiment that ends up debunking 揭穿…的真相  a widely practiced medical treatment. Emily Rosa’s target was a practice known as therapeutic 的touch TT for short whose advocates manipulate patients “energy field” to make them feel better and ev en say some to cure them of various ills. Yet Emily’s test shows that these energy fields can’t be detected even by trained TT practitioners 行医者. Obviously mindful of the publicity value of the situation Journal editor George Lundberg appeared Emily’s moth er Linda Rosa a registered nurse has been campaigning against TT for nearly a decade. Linda first thought about TT in the late ’80s when she learned it was on the approved list for continuing nursing education in Colorado. Its 100000 trained practitioners 48000 in the U.S. don’t even touch their patients. Instead they waved their hands a few inches from the patient’s body 5 pushing energy fields around until they’re in “balance.” TT advocates say these manipulations can help heal wounds relieve pain and red uce fever. The claims are taken seriously enough that TT therapists are frequently hired b
y leading hospitals at up to 70 an hour to smooth patients’ energy Yet Rosa could not find any evidence that it works. To provide such proof TT therapists would have to sit down for independent testing—something they haven’t been eager to do even though James Randi has offered more than 1 million to anyone who can demonstrate the existence of a human energy field. He’s had one taker so far. She failed. A skeptic might conclude that TT
practitioners are afraid to lay their beliefs on the line.But who could turn down an innocent fourth-grader Says Emily: “I think they didn’t take me very seriously because I’m a kid.” The experiment was straightforward: 21 TT therapists st uck their hands palms up through a screen. Emily held her own hand over one of theirs—left or right—and the practitioners had to say which hand it was. When the results were recorded they’d done no better than they would have by B Many patients were cured by therapeut B they B to find out how TT A It involved nothing more th 30. What can we learn from the passage
A Some widely accepted beliefs can D The principle of TT is too profound to understand. Passage Three What might driving on an automated highway be like The answer depends on what kind of 6 system is ultimately adopted. Two distinct types are on the drawing board. The first is a special-purpose lane system in which certain lanes are reserved for automated vehicles. The second is a mixe
d traffic system fully automated vehicles would share the road with partially automated or manually driven cars. A special-purpose lane system would require more extensive physical modifications to existing highways but it promises the greatest gains in freeway 高速公路capacity. Under either scheme the driver would specify the desired destination furnishing this information to a computer in the car at the beginning of the trip or perhaps just before reaching the automated highway. If a mixed traffic system was in place automated driving could begin whenever the driver was on suitably equipped roads. If special-purpose lanes were available the car could enter them and join existing traffic in two different ways. One method would use a special onramp 入口引道. As the driver approached the point of entry for the highway devices installed on the roadside would electronically check the vehicle to determine its destination and to ascertain that it had the proper automation equipment in good working order. Assuming it passed such tests the driver would then be guided through a gate and toward an automated lane. In this case the transition from manual to automated control would take place on the entrance ramp. An alternative technique could employ conventional lanes which would be shared by automated and regular vehicle would then shift under computer control onto a lane reserved for automated traffic. The limitation of these lanes to automated traffic would presumably be well respected because all trespassers 非法进入者Either approach to joining a lane of automated traffic would harmonize the movement of newly entering vehicles with those already traveling. Automatic cont
rol here should allow for smooth merging without the usual uncertainties and potential for accidents. And once a vehicle had settled into automated travel the driver would be free to release the wheel open the morning paper or just 31. We learn from the first paragraph that two system 32. A special-purpose lane system is probably advantageous in that ____. A it would require only 33. Which of the following is true about driving on an automated highway A Vehicles traveling on it are assigned different lanes according to their destination. C The driver should inform his car computer of his destination D The driver should share the automated lane with those of regular vehicles.
34. We know from the passage that a car can enter a special- B by way of a 7 A should harmonize with newly entering cars B doesn’t have to rely o C should watch out for potential accidents D doesn’t have to h old on to the steering wheel Passage Four Taking charge of yourself involves putting to rest some very prevalent myths. As the top of the list is the notion that intelligence is measured by your ability to solve complex problems to read write and compute at certain levels and to resolve abstract equations quickly. This vision of intelligence asserts formal education and bookish excellence as the true
measures of self-fulfillment. It encourages a kind of intellectual prejudice that has brought with it some discouraging results. We have come to believe that someone who has more educational merit badges who is very good at some form of school discipline is “intelligent”. Yet mental hospitals are filled with pa
tients who have all of the properly lettered certificates. A truer indicator of intelligence is an effective happy life lived each day and each present momen If you are happy if you live each moment for everything it’s worth then you are an intelligent person. Problem solving is a useful help to your happiness but if you know that given your inability to resolve a particular concern you can still choose happiness for yourself or at a minimum refuse to choose unhappiness then you are intelligent. You are intelligent because you have the ultimate weapon against the big N.B.D.—“Intelligent” people do not have N.B.D.’s because they are in charge of themselves. They know how to choose happiness over depression because they know how to deal with the problems of their You can begin to think of yourself as truly intelligent on the basis of how you choose to feel in the face of trying circumstances. The life struggles are pretty much the same for each of us. Everyone who is involved with other human beings in any social context has similar difficulties. Disagreements conflicts and compromises are a part of what it means to be human. Similarly money growing old sickness deaths natural disasters and accidents are all events which present problems to virtually all human beings. But some people are able to make it to avoid immobilizing depression and unhappiness despite such occurrences while others collapse or have an N.B.D. Those who recognize problems as a human condition and don’t measure happiness by an absence of 36. According to the author the conventional notion of intelligence measured in terms of one’s D will contribute to one’s self- A may result in one’s inability to
solve complex real- C may make 8 B depression and unhappiness are unavoidable in l A Those who don’t emphasize bookish excellence in their pursuit o f D Those who are able to secure happiness though having to struggle against trying Part Vocabulary 15 minutes Directions: There are 20 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A BCand D. Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corres 41. Starting with the ____ that there is life on the planet Mars the scientist went on to develop his A premise B pretext C foundation D prese 43. Their diplomatic principles completely laid bare their ____ for world conquest. 45. The Christmas t A elements B components 47. Cultural ____ indicates that human beings hand their languages down from one generation to 48. We must look beyond ____ and A respective B respectable C 50. If nothing is done to protect the environment millions of species that are alive today will have become ____ . 9 51. The
____ of the scientific attitude is that the human mind can succeed in understanding the A perpetual 54. Having had her as a professor and adviser I can tell you that she is an ____ force who pushes her 55. Some researchers feel that certain people have nervous systems particularly ____ to hot dry winds. They are what we call weather- 56. Hurricanes are killer winds and their ____ power lies in the physical damage they can 58. In spite of 59. Body paint or face paint is used mostly by men in pre-literate societies in order to attract good health or to Par.
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