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part i listening comprehension (20 minutes)
section a
directions: in this section, you will hear 10 short at the end of each
conversation, a question will be asked about what was both the conversation
and the question will be spoken only after each question there will be a
during the pause, you must read the four choices marked a), b), c) and d), and
decide which is the best then mark the corresponding letter on the answer
sheet with a single line through the
example: you will hear:
you will read:
a) 2
b) 3
c) 4
d) 5
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 therefore, d) “5 hours” is the
correct you should choose [d] on the answer sheet and mark it with a single line through
the
sample answer [a] [b] [c] [d]
a) she met with thomas just a few days
b) she can help with the orientation
c) she is not sure she can pass on the
d) she will certainly try to contact
a) set the dinner
b) change the light bulb
c) clean the dining
d) hold the ladder for
a) he’d like a piece of
b) he’d like some coffee
c) he’d rather stay in the warm
d) he’s just had dinner with his
a) he has managed to sell a number of
b) he is contented with his current
c) he might get
d) he has lost his
a) tony’s
b) paul’s
c) paul’s
d) tony’s
a) he was fined for running a red
b) he was caught speeding on a fast
c) he had to run quickly to get the
d) he made a wrong turn at the
a) he has learned a lot from his own
b) he is quite experienced in taming wild
c) he finds reward more effective than
d) he thinks it important to master basic training
a) at a
b) at the dentist’
c) in a
d) in the
a) he doesn’t want jenny to get into
b) he doesn’t agree with the woman’s
c) he thinks jenny’s workload too heavy at
d) he believes most college students are running
a) it was
b) it was just
c) the actors were
d) the plot was funny
section b
directions: in this section, you will hear 3 short at the end of each passage, you will
hear some both the passage and the questions will be spoken only
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
passage one
questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just
a) social
b) medical care
c) applied physics
d) special
a) the timely advice from her friends and
b) the two-year professional training she
c) her determination to fulfill her
d) her parents’ consistent moral
a) to get the funding for the
b) to help the disabled children
c) to train therapists for the children
d) to set up an institution for the
passage two
questions 14 to 17 are based on the passage you have just
a) at a country school in
b) in a mountain valley of
c) at a small american
[page]
d) in a small village in
a) by expanding their minds and
b) by financing their elementary
c) by setting up a small primary
d) by setting them an inspiring
a) she wrote poetry that broke through national
b) she was a talented designer of original school
c) she proved herself to be an active and capable
d) she made outstanding contributions to children’s
a) she won the 1945 nobel prize in
b) she was the first woman to win a nobel
c) she translated her books into many
d) she advised many statesmen on international
passage three
question 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just
a) how animals survive harsh conditions in the
b) how animals alter colors to match their
c) how animals protect themselves against
d) how animals learn to disguise themselves
a) its enormous
b) its plant-like
c) its instantaneous
d) its offensive
a) it helps improve their
b) it allows them to swim
c) it helps them fight their
d) it allows them to avoid twists and
part ii reading comprehension (35 minutes)
directions: there are 4 passages in this each passage is followed by some questions or
unfinished 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
passage one
questions 21 to 25 are based on the following
there are good reasons to be troubled by the violence that spreads throughout the
television and video games are full of gunplay and bloodshed, and one might reasonably
ask what’s wrong with a society that presents videos of domestic violence as most
researchers agree that the causes of real-world violence are a 1993 study by the
national academy of sciences listed “biological, individual, family, peer, school, and community
factors” as all playing their
viewing abnormally large amounts of violent television and video games may well contribute
to violent behavior in certain
the trouble comes when researchers downplay uncertainties in their studies or overstate the
case for causality (因果关系). skeptics were dismayed several years ago when a group of
societies including the
american medical association tried to end the debate by issuing a joint statement: “at this
time, well over 1,000 studies… point overwhelmingly to a causal connection between media
violence and aggressive behavior in some ”
freedom-of-speech advocates accused the societies of catering to politicians, and even
disputed the number of studies (most were review articles and essays, they said). when jonathan
freedman, a social psychologist at the university of toronto, reviewed the literature, he found
only 200 or so studies of television-watching and and when he weeded out “the most
doubtful measures of aggression”, only 28% supported a
the critical point here is the alarmists say they have proved that violent media
cause but the assumptions behind their observations need to be when
labeling games as violent or non-violent, should a hero eating a ghost really be counted as a
violent event? and when experimenters record the time it takes game players to read ‘aggressive’
or ‘non-aggressive’ words from a list, can we be sure what they are actually measuring? the intent
of the new harvard center on media and child health to collect and standardize studies of media
violence in order to compare their methodologies, assumptions and conclusions is an important [page]
step in the right
another appropriate ster would be to tone down the criticism until we know several
researchers write, speak and testify quite a lot on the threat posed by violence in the that is,
of course, their but when doing so, they often come out with statements that the matter
has now been settled, drawing criticism from in response, the alarmists accuse critics
and news reporters of being deceived by the entertainment such clashes help neither
science nor
why is there so much violence shown in movies, tv and video games?
a) there is a lot of violence in the real world
b) something has gone wrong with today’s
c) many people are fond of gunplay and
d) showing violence is thought to be
what is the skeptics (line ) view of media violence?
a) violence on television is a fairly accurate reflection of real-world
b) most studies exaggerate the effect of media violence on the
c) a causal relationship exists between media and real-world
d) the influence of media violence on children has been
the author uses the term “alarmists” (line ) to refer to those who
a) use standardized measurements in the studies of media violence
b) initiated the debate over the influence of violent media on reality
c) assert a direct link between violent media and aggressive behavior
d) use appropriate methodology in examining aggressive behavior
in refuting the alarmists, the author advances his argument by first
a) the source and amount of their data
b) the targets of their observation
c) their system of measurement
d) their definition of violence
what does the author think of the debate concerning the relationship between the media and
violence?
a) more studies should be conducted before conclusions are
b) it should come to an end since the matter has now been
c) the past studies in this field have proved to be
d) he more than agrees with the views held by the
passage two
questions 26 to 30 are based on the following
you’re in trouble if you have to buy your own brand-name prescription over the past
decade, prices leaped by more than double the inflation treatments for chronic conditions can
easily top ＄2,000 a month-no wonder that one in four americans can’s afford to fill their
the solution? a hearty chorus of “o ” north of the border, where price
controls reign, those same brand-name drugs cost 50% to 80%
the canadian option is fast becoming a political wake-up call, “if our neighbors can buy
drugs at reasonable prices, why can’t we?” even to whisper that thought provokes
“un-american!” and-the propagandists’ trump card (王牌)—“wreck our brilliant health-care
” super-size drug prices, they claim, fund the research that sparks the next generation of
wonder no sky-high drug price today, no cure for cancer so shut up and pay
common sense tells you that’s a false the reward for say, a cancer cure is so
huge that no one’s going to hang it nevertheless, if canada-level pricing came to the united
states, the industry’s profit margins would drop and the pace of new-drug development would
here lies the american who is all this splendid medicine for? should our
health-care system continue its drive toward the best of the best, even though rising numbers of
patients can’t afford it? or should we direct our wealth toward letting everyone in on today’s level
of care? measured by saved lives, the latter is almost certainly the better
to defend their profits, the drug companies have warned canadian wholesalers and
pharmacies(药房) not to sell to americans by mail, and are cutting back supplies to those who
meanwhile, the administration is playing the fear officials from the food and drug [page]
administration will argue that canadian drugs might be fake, mishandled, or even a potential
threat to
do bad drugs fly around the internet? sure-and the more we look, the more we’ll find, but i
haven’t heard of any raging epidemics among the hundreds of thousands of people buying
most users of prescription drugs don’s worry about costs a
they’re sheltered by employee insurance, owing just a $20
the financial blows rain, instead, on the uninsured, especially the chronically ill who need
expensive drugs to live, this group will still include middle-income seniors on medicare, who’ll
have to dig deeply into their pockets before getting much from the new drug benefit that starts in
what is said about the consequence of the rocketing drug prices in the
a) a quarter of americans can’t afford their prescription
b) many americans can’t afford to see a doctor when they fall
c) many americans have to go to canada to get medical
d) the inflation rate has been more than doubled over the
it can be inferred that america can follow the canadian model and curb its soaring drug
prices by
a) encouraging people to buy prescription drugs online
b) extending medical insurance to all its citizens
c) importing low-price prescription drugs from canada
d) exercising price control on brand-name drugs
how do propagandists argue for the drug pricing policy?
a) low prices will affect the quality of medicines in
b) high prices are essential to funding research on new
c) low prices will bring about the anger of drug
d) high-price drugs are indispensable in curing chronic
what should be the priority of america’s health-care system according to the author?
a) to resolve the dilemma in the health-care
b) to maintain america’s lead in the drug
c) to allow the vast majority to enjoy its
d) to quicken the pace of new drug
what are american drug companies doing to protect their high profits?
a) labeling drugs bought from canada as being
b) threatening to cut back funding for new drug
c) reducing supplies to uncooperative canadian
d) attributing the raging epidemics to the ineffectiveness of canadian
passage three
questions 31 to 35 are based on the following
age has its privileges in and one of the more prominent of them is the senior
citizen anyone who has reached a certain age-in some cases as low as 55-is
automatically entitled to a dazzling array of price reductions at nearly every level of commercial
eligibility is determined not by one’s need but by the date on one’s birth
practically unheard of a generation ago, the discounts have become a routine part of many
businesses-as common as color televisions in motel rooms and free coffee on
people with gray hair often are given the discounts without even asking for them；yet，
millions of americans above age 60 are healthy and solvent (有支付能力的). businesses that
would never dare offer discounts to college students or anyone under 30 freely offer them to older
the practice is acceptable because of the widespread belief that “elderly” and “needy”
are synonymous (同义的).
perhaps that once was true, but today elderly americans as a group have a lower poverty rate
than the rest of the to be sure, there is economic diversity within the elderly, and many
older americans are poor, but most of them aren’ it is impossible to determine the impact of the
discounts on individual for many firms, they are a stimulus to but in other
cases the discounts are given at the
directly or indirectly, of younger moreover, they are a direct irritant in what
some politicians and scholars see as a coming conflict between the
generational tensions are being fueled by continuing debate over social security benefits，[page]
which mostly involves a transfer of resources from the young to the employment is another
sore point, buoyed (支持) by laws and court decisions, more and more older americans are
declining the retirement dinner in favor of staying on the job-thereby lessening employment and
promotion opportunities for younger
far from a kind of charity they once were, senior citizen discounts have become a formidable
economic privilege to a group with millions of members who don’t need
it no longer makes sense to treat the elderly as a single group whose economic needs deserve
priority over those of senior citizen discounts only enhance the myth that older people
can’t take care of themselves and need special treatment； and they threaten the creation of a new
myth, that the elderly are ungrateful and taking for themselves at the expense of children and other
age senior citizen discounts are the essence of the very thing older americans are fighting
against-discrimination by
we learn from the first paragraph
a) offering senior citizens discounts has become routine commercial practice
b) senior citizen discounts have enabled many old people to live a decent life
c) giving senior citizens discounts has boosted the market for the elderly
d) senior citizens have to show their birth certificates to get a discount
what assumption lies behind the practice of senior citizen discounts?
a) businesses, having made a lot of profits, should do something for society in
b) old people are entitled to special treatment for the contribution they made to
c) the elderly, being financially underprivileged，need humane help from
d) senior citizen discounts can make up for the inadequacy of the social security
according to some politicians and scholars, senior citizen discounts
a) make old people even more dependent on society
b) intensify conflicts between the young and the old
c) have adverse financial impact on business companies
d) bring a marked increase in the companies revenues
how does the author view the social security system?
a) it encourages elderly people to retire in
b) it opens up broad career prospects for young
c) it benefits the old at the expense of the young
d) it should be reinforced by laws and court decisions
which of the following best summarizes the author’s main argument?
a) senior citizens should fight hard against age
b) the elderly are selfish and taking senior discounts for
c) priority should be given to the economic needs of senior
d) senior citizen discounts may well be a type of age
passage four
questions 36 to 40 are based on the following
in 1854 my great-grandfather, morris marable, was sold on an auction block in georgia for
＄ for his white slave master, the sale was just “business as ” but to morris marable
and his heirs, slavery was a crime against our this pattern of human rights violations
against enslaved african-americans continued under racial segregation for nearly another
the fundamental problem of american democracy in the 21st century is the problem of “structural
racism” the deep patterns of socio-economic inequality and accumulated disadvantage that are
coded by race, and constantly justified in public speeches by both racist stereotypes and white
do americans have the capacity and vision to remove these structural barriers that
deny democratic rights and opportunities to millions of their fellow
citizens?
this country has previously witnessed two great struggles to achieve a truly multicultural
the first reconstruction (1865-1877) ended slavery and briefly gave black men voting rights,
but gave no meaningful compensation for two centuries of unpaid the promise of “40 acres
and a mule (骡子)”was for most blacks a dream deferred (尚未实现的).
the second reconstruction (1954-1968), or the modern civil rights movement, ended legal [page]
segregation in public accommodations and gave blacks voting rights . but these successes
paradoxically obscure the tremendous human costs of historically accumulated disadvantage that
remain central to black americans’
the disproportionate wealth that most whites enjoy today was first constructed from
centuries of unpaid black many white institutions, including some leading universities,
insurance companies and banks, profited from this pattern of white privilege and black
inequality continues
demanding reparations (赔偿) is not just about compensation for slavery and it
is, more important, an educational campaign to highlight the contemporary reality of “racial
deficits” of all kinds, the unequal conditions that impact blacks regardless of structural
racism’s barriers include “equity ” the absence of black capital formation that is a direct
consequence of america’s one third of all black households actually have negative net
in 1998 the typical black family’s net wealth was ＄16,400, less than one fifth that of
white
black families are denied home loans at twice the rate of
blacks remain the last hired and first fired during
during the 1990-91 african-americans suffered at coca-cola,
42 percent of employees who lost their jobs were at sears, 54 percent were black, blacks
have significantly shorter life spans, in part due to racism in the health blacks are
statistically less likely than whites to be referred for kidney transplants or early-stage cancer
to the author, the auction of his great-grandfather is a typical example
a) crime against humanity
b) unfair business transaction
c) racial conflicts in georgia
d) racial segregation in america
the barrier to democracy in 21st century america
a) widespread use of racist stereotypes
b) prejudice against minority groups
c) deep-rooted socio-economic inequality
d) denial of legal rights to ordinary blacks
what problem remains unsolved in the two reconstructions?
a) differences between races are deliberately
b) the blacks are not compensated for their unpaid
c) there is no guarantee for blacks to exercise their
d) the interests of blacks are not protected by
it is clear that the wealth enjoyed by most
a) has resulted from business successes over the years
b) has been accompanied by black capital formation
c) has derived from sizable investments in education
d) has been accumulated from generations of slavery
what does the author think of the current situation regarding racial discrimination?
a) racism is not a major obstacle to blacks’
b) inequality of many kinds remains virtually untouched
c) a major step has been taken towards
d) little has been done to ensure blacks’ civil
part iii vocabulary (20 minutes)
direction: there are 30 incomplete sentences in this for each sentence there
are four choices marked a), b), c) and d). choose the one answer that best
completes the then mark the corresponding letter on the answer sheet with
a single line through the
because of the of its ideas, the book was in wide circulation both at home and
a)originality b) subjectivity
c) generality d) ambiguity
with its own parliament and currency and a common ___ for peace, the european
union declared itself—in 11 official languages—open for
a) inspiration b) assimilation
c) intuition d) aspiration
america has now adopted more _________ european-style inspection systems, and the
incidence of food poisoning is [page]
a) discrete b) solemn
c) rigorous d) autonomous
mainstream pro-market economists all agree that competition is an ___ spur to
efficiency and
a) extravagant b) exquisite
c) intermittent d) indispensable
in the late 19th century, jules verne, the master of science fiction, foresaw many of the
technological wonders that are ___
a) transient b) commonplace
c) implicit d) elementary
i was so ___ when i used the automatic checkout lane in the supermarket for the first
a) immersed b) assaulted
c) thrilled d) dedicated
his arm was ___ from the shark’s mouth and reattached, but the boy, who already
died, remained in a delicate
a)retrieved b) retained
c) repelled d) restored
bill gates and walt disney are two people america has ___ to be the greatest
a) appointed b) appeased
c) nicknamed d) dominated
the ___ majority of citizens tend to believe that the death penalty will help decrease
the crime
a) overflowing b) overwhelming
c) prevalent d) premium
we will also see a ___ increase in the number of televisions per household, as small
tv displays are added to clocks, coffee makers and smoke
a) startling b) surpassing
c) suppressing d) stacking
the advance of globalization is challenging some of our most ___ values and ideas,
including our idea of what constitutes “home”.
a) enriched b) enlightened
c) cherished d) chartered
researchers have discovered that ___ with animals in an active way may lower a
person’s blood
a) interacting b) integrating
c) migrating d) merging
the beatles, the most famous british band of the , traveled worldwide for many years,
_________ cultural
a) transporting b) transplanting
c) transferring d) transcending
in his last years, henry suffered from a disease that slowly ___ him of much of his
a) relieved b) jeopardized
c) deprived d) eliminated
weight lifting, or any other sport that builds up your muscles, can make bones become denser
and less ___ to
a) attached b) prone
c) immune d) reconciled
he has ___ to museums hundreds of his paintings as well as his entire personal
collection of modern
a) ascribed b) attributed
c) designated d) donated
erik’s website contains ___ photographs and hundreds of articles and short videos
from his trip around the [page]
a) prosperous b) gorgeous
c) spacious d) simultaneous
optimism is a ___ shown to be associated with good physical health, less depression
and longer
a) trail b) trait
c) trace d) track
the institution has a highly effective program which helps first-year students make a
successful ___ into college
a) transformation b) transmission
c) transition d) transaction
philosophers believe that desire, hatred and envy are “negative emotions” which ___
the mind and lead it into a pursuit of power and
a) distort b) reinforce
c) exert d) scramble
the term “glass ceiling” was first used by the wall street journal to describe the apparent
barriers that prevent women from reaching the top of the corporate
a) seniority b) superiority
c) height d) hierarchy
various efforts have been made over the centuries to predict earthquakes, including observing
lights in the sky and ___ animal
a) abnormal b) exotic
c) absurd d) erroneous
around 80 percent of the ___ characteristics of most white britons have been
passed down from a few thousand ice age
a) intelligible b) random
c) spontaneous d) genetic
picasso gained popularity in the mid-20th century, which was ___ of a new attitude
towards modern
a) informative b) indicative
c) exclusive d) expressive
the country was an island that enjoyed civilized living for a thousand years or more with
little ___ from the outside
a) disturbance b) discrimination
c) irritation d) irregularity
fashion designers are rarely concerned with vital things like warmth, comfort and ________ .
a) stability b) capability
c) durability d) availability
back in the days when people traveled by horse and carriage, karl benz ___ the
world with his extraordinary three-wheeled motor
a) inhibited b) extinguished
c) quenched d) stunned
if we continue to ignore the issue of global warming, we will almost certainly suffer the
_________ effects of climatic changes
a) dubious b) drastic
c) trivial d) toxic
according to the theory of evolution, all living species are the modified ___ of earlier
a) descendants b) dependants
c) defendants d) developments
the panda is an endangered species, which means that it is very likely to become ___ [page]
without adequate
a) intact b) insane
c) extinct d) exempt
part ⅳ error correction (15 minutes)
directions: this part consists of a short in this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes,
one in each numbered you may have to change a word, add a word or delete a
mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks if you
change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding if
you add a word, put an insertion make (^) in the right place and write the missing
world in the if you delete a word, cross it out and put a slash (/) in the
example:
television is rapidly becoming the literatures of our
time/times/period
many of the arguments having used for the study of
_____／______
as a school subject are valid for ∧ study of
_____ the ______
until recently, dyslexia an and other reading problems were
a mystery to most teachers and as a result, too many
kids passed through school without master the printed
some were treated as mentally deficient: many were left
functionally illiterate (文盲的), unable to ever meet their
but in the last several years, there’s been a
revolution in that we’ve learned about reading and dyslexia,
scientists are using a variety of new imaging techniques to
watch the brain at their experiments have shown that
reading disorders are most likely the result of what is, in an effect,
faulty wiring in the brain—not lazy, stupidity or a poor home
there’s also convincing evidence which dyslexia
is largely it is now considered a chronic problem
for some kids, not just a “phase”. scientists have also
discarded another old stereotype that almost all dyslexies are
studies indicate that many girls are affecting as well
and not getting
at same time, educational researchers have come up
with innovative teaching strategies for kids who are having
trouble learning to new screening tests are identifying
children at risk before they get discouraged by year of
frustration and and educators are trying to get the
message to parents that they should be on the alert for the
first signs of potential
it’s an urgent mission, mass literacy is a relative new
social a hundred years ago people didn’t need to be
good readers in order to earn a but in the information
age, no one can get by with knowing how to read well and
understand increasingly complex
part ⅴ writing (30 minutes)
directions: for this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled traveling
you should write at least 150 words based on the chart and outline give
below:
number of people in city x traveling abroad in 1995, 20XX and 20XX
