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Section A Dialogue Completion

1. A: David said he bought a new BMW for

￡

5,000!

B:____________ Sounds pretty cheap to me!

A: Well, that's what he said.

A. Are you sure

B. Come to think of it.

C. Do you think so

D. Is he crazy

2. A: We just came back from Phoenix. And we had the best vacation in years.

B: ______________ I'm glad to hear it.

A. Oh, my goodness!

B. How was it

C. Oh, there you go again.

D. Good for you.

3. A: I just can't stand this class any more!

B: ______________ It's required, and you have to sit in it in order to graduate.

A. Well, why not just drop out of it

B. Why, you can say that again!

C. Well, you might as well get used to it.

D. Why, I couldn't agree more!

4. A: I don't know about you, but I thought that film was terrific.

B: ___________ The action was great, and so was the music.

A. Just the same.

B. I'm with you there.

C. More or less.

D. I sure do.

5. A: Dan gave me a free ride home, but I paid for the gas.

B: You know what they say, ______________

A. there's no free lunch.

B. don't bite off more than you can chew.

C. one good mm deserves another.

D. it's who you know that counts.

Section B Dialogue Comprehension

6. Woman: I'd rather not talk about it. Just don't ask.

Man: Come on. I think you need to let off some steam.

Question: What does the man advise the woman to do

A. To talk to him about the problem.

B. To keep the secret.

C. To reduce the workload.

D. To have a good rest.

7. Woman: Julie's dress looks funny. That style went out last year.

Man: Oh, come on, as long as it looks good on her.

Question: What does the man try to emphasize

A. Julie's dress is not outdated.

B. Julie's dress does not suit her.

C. Julie should follow the fashion.

D. Julie looks free in that dress.

8. Man: What kind of snacks do you prefer

Woman: Oh, I've got a sweet tooth, you know.

Question: What does the woman probably like

A. Sandwich.

B. Hot dogs.

C. Ice cream.

D. Potato chips.

9.

Woman:

I'm

tired

of

driving

all

the

way

to

work

and

back

every

day.

If

only

carscould

drive

themselves!

Man: Well, some car manufacturers are working on them. I guess you'll soon buy one if you can afford

it.

Question: What does the man imply

A. The woman will be able to buy an intelligent car.

B. Cars that drive themselves may be very expensive.

C. He is working with a car producer on intelligent cars.

D. Driving to work is really a headache.

10. Man: Annie, how does it not even cross your mind that you might want a futur with someone

Woman: It's simple. I don't mind being married to my career.

Question: What's Annie's attitude towards her future

A. She will stay with someone unmarried.

B. She will live a simple life.

C. She will quit her job to get married.

D. She will fully focus on her job.

Part II Vocabulary (20 minutes, 10 points, 0.5 for each)

Section A

news reports completely overlooked the more profound political implications of the events.

A. neglected

B. foresaw

C. explored

D. assessed

12. Teachers and nurses who deal with children are obliged to report cases of suspected child abuse to

authorities.

A. reminded

B. expected

C. compelled

D. requested

13. Your grade will be based in large part on the originality of your ideas.

A. creativity

B. popularity

C. feasibility

D. flexibility

14. We suspect there is a quite deliberate attempt to sabotage the elections and undermine the electoral

commission.

A. conscious

B. desperate

C. clumsy

D. intentional

15. So strange were the circumstances of my story that I can scarcely believe myself to have been a

party to them.

A. just

B. hardly

C. almost

D. definitely

16. Smoke particles and other air pollutants are often trapped in the atmosphere, thus forming dirty fog.

A. constrained

B. caught

C. concealed

D. concentrated

17. Employees in chemical factories are entitled to receive extra pay for doing hazardous work.

A. poisonous B. difficult

C. dangerous

D. harmful

18.

Curt

Carlson,

the

wealthiest

man

in

Minnesota,

owned

a

hotel

and

travel

company

with

sales

reaching in the neighborhood of

＄

9 billion.

A. precisely B. merely

C. substantially

D. approximately

19. The tendency of the human body to reject foreign matter is the main obstacle

to successful organ

transplantation.

A. factor

B. constituent

C. barrier

D. break

20. Whenever

you need Tom, he is always there

whether it be an ear or a helping hand, so you can

always lean on him.

A. count on

B. benefit from

C. stand for

D. stick to

Section B

A. takes

B. appears

C. makes

D. goes

22. The world economic recession put an ____________ end to the steel market upturn that began in

2002.

A. irregular

B. illegal

C. abrupt

D. absurd

23. I'm _____ about how you discovered my website, and am very glad if you enjoy it.

A. mysterious

B. furious

C. serious D. curious

24. The Labor Party's electoral strategy, based on an _________ with other smaller parties, has proved

successful.

A. acquaintance

B. integration

C. alliance

D. intimacy

25. The new aircraft will be __________ to a test of temperatures of 65

℃

and 120

℃

.

A. suspended

B. suppressed

C. summoned

D. subjected

26. The money I got from teaching on the side was a useful ______ to my ordinary income.

A. profit

B. supplement

C. subsidy

D. replacement

27.

Chinese

people

are

now

enjoying

better

dental

health,

as

shown

by

the

declining____

of

tooth

decay.

A. treatment

B. incidence

C. consequence

D. misfortune

28. Many countries have conservation programs to prevent certain ____offish from becoming extinct.

A. species

B. sources

C. numbers

D. members

29.

Susan

never

took

any

cookery

courses?

she

learned

cooking

by

________useful

tips

from

TV

cookery programs.

A. picking up

B. bringing up

C. putting up

D. pulling up

30. The President __________ his deputy to act for him while he was abroad.

A. promoted

B. substituted

C. authorized

D. displaced

Part

Ⅲ

Reading Comprehension (45minutes, 30point)

Directions: There are 5 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by 5 questions

or unfinished

statements. For each of them there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best one and mark

the

corresponding

letter

with

a

single

bar

across

the

square

brackets

on

your

machine- scoring

NSWER SHEET.

Passage One

Until last spring, Nia Parker and the other kids in her neighborhood commuted to school on Bus 59.

But as fuel prices rose, the school district needed to find a way to cut its transportation costs. So the

school's

busing

company

redrew

its

route

map,

eliminating

Nia's

bus

altogether.

Now

Nia

and

her

neighbors travel the haft mile to school via a

“walking school bus”

a group of kids, supervised by an

adult or two, who make the walk together.

Like the rest of us, school districts are feeling pinched by rising fuel costs

—

and finding new ways to

adapt. The price of diesel fuel has gone up 34 percent in the past two years. For the typical American

school

district,

bus

bills

total

5

percent

of

the

budget.

As

administrators

look

to

trim,

busing

is

an

inviting

target,

since

it

doesn't

affect

classroom

instruction

(or

test

scores).

More

than

one

third

of

American school administrators have elim/nated bus stops or routes in order to stay within budget.

Many parents are delighted to see their kids walking to school, partly because many did so themselves:

according to a 1969 survey, nearly half of school kids walked or biked to school, compared with only

16 percent in 2001. Modem parents have been unwilling to let kids walk to school for fear of traffic,

crime or simple bullying, but with organized adult supervision, those concerns have diminished.

Schools and busing companies are finding other ways to save. In rural areas where busing is a must,

some schools have even chosen four day school weeks. Busing companies instruct drivers to eliminate

extra stops from routes and to mm off the engine while idling. They are also using computer software

to determine the most fuelefficient routes, which aren't always the shortest ones.

There

could

be

downsides,

however,

to

the

busing

cutbacks.

If

every

formerly

bused

student

begins

walking

to

school,

it's

an

environmental

winbut

if

too

many

of

their

parents

decide

to

drive

them

instead, the overall carbon footprint can grow. Replacing buses with many more parent driven cars can

also increase safety risks: A 2002 report concluded students are 13 times safer on a school bus than in a

passenger car, since buses have fewer accidents and withstand them better due to their size. And some

students complain about the long morning hikes, particularly when the route contains a really big hill.

31. The

“walking school bus”

_________.

A. does not consume fuel

B. aims to keep children fit

C. seldom causes traffic jams

D. is popular with school kids

32. In America the responsibility for busing kids to school lies with _______.

A. individual schools

B. school districts

C. teachers

D. parents

33. As regards walking to school, modern parents seem much concerned with the_____.

A. time spent on the way

B. changes in the route

C. kids' physical strength

D. safety of their children

34. To save money, some schools choose to _____________.

A. take the shortest routes

B. shorten the school week

C. give drivers better training

D. use fuelefficient buses

35. Busing cutbacks may eventually lead to ___________.

A. fiercer competition among bus companies

B. more students taking public transportation

C. an increase in carbon dioxide emissions

D. a decrease in the safety of school buses

36. Which of the following best describes the author's attitude towards busing cutbacks

A. Favorable.

B. Critical.

ive.

D. Indifferent.

Passage Two

People are living longer than eve Two r, but for some reason, women are living longer than

men. A

baby boy born in the United States in 2003 can expect to live to be about 73, a baby girl, about 79. This

is indeed a wide gap, and no one really knows why it exists. The greater longevity (

长寿

) of women,

however,

has

been

known

for

centuries.

It

was,

for

example,

described

in

the

seventeenth

century.

However, the difference was smaller thenthe gap is growing.

A

number

of

reasons

have

been

proposed

to

account

for

the

differences.

The

gap

is

greatest

in

industrialized societies, so it has been suggested that

women are less susceptible to work strains that

may raise the risk of heart disease and alcoholism. Sociologists also tell us that women are encouraged

to be less adventurous than men (and this may be why they are more careful drivers, involved in fewer

accidents).

Even smoking has been implicated in the age discrepancy. It was once suggested that working women

are more likely to smoke and as more women entered the work force, the age gap would begin to close,

because smoking

is related

to earlier deaths. Now, however,

we

see

more

women

smoking and

they

still tend to live longer although their lung cancer rate is climbing sharply.

One puzzling aspect of the problem is that women do not appear to be as healthy as men. That is, they

report far more illnesses. But when a man reports an illness, it is more likely to be serious.

Some researchers have suggested that men may die earlier because their health is more strongly related

to their emotions. For example, men tend to die sooner after losing a spouse than women do. Men even

seem to be

more

weakened by

loss of a job.(Both of these are linked

with a

marked decrease in the

effectiveness

of

the

immune

system.)

Among

men,

death

follows

retirement

with

an

alarming

promptness.

Perhaps we are searching for the answers too close to the surface of the problem. Perhaps the answers

lie deeper in our biological heritage. After all, the phenomenon is not isolated to humans. Females have

the

edge

among

virtually

all

mammalian

(

哺乳动物

)

species,

in

that

they

generally

live

longer.

Furthermore,

in

many

of

these

species

the

differences

begin

at

the

moment

of

conception?

there

are

more malev miscarriages (

流产

). In humans, after birth, more baby boys than baby girls die.

37. What can we learn from the first two paragraphs

A. Men's lifespan remains almost unchanged.

B. Researchers have found the causes of the age gap.

C. The more advanced a society, the greater the age gap.

D. The age gap was noticed only recently.

38. As is suggested in Paragraph 2, the two factors relevant to women's longer lifespan are _____.

A. diseases and road accidents

B. industrialization and work strains

C. their immunity to heart disease and refusal of alcohol

D. their endurance of work strains and reluctance for adventure

39. According to Paragraph 3, which of the following statements is true

A. The great number of male smokers contributes to the age gap.

B. The growing number of smoking women will narrow the age gap.

C. Female workers are more likely to smoke than male workers.

D. Smoking does not seem to affect women's longevity.

40. Which of the following phenomena makes researchers puzzled

A. Men's health is more closely related to their emotions.

B. Though more liable to illnesses, women still live longer.

C. Men show worse symptoms than women when they fall ill.

D. Quite a number of men die soon after their retirement.

41. The word “edge”in Paragraph 6 means“___________”.

A. margin

B. side

C. advantage

D. quality

42. What is the main idea of the passage

A. The greater longevity of women remains a mystery.

B. That women are healthier than men well explains their longevity.

C. People are living longer as a result of industrialization.

D. Women are less emotionally affected by difficulties in life.

Passage Three

Many are aware of the tremendous waste of energy in our environment, but fail to take advantage of

straightforward opportunities to conserve that energy. For example, everyone knows that lights should

be switched off when no one is in an office. Similarly, when employees are not using a meeting room,

there is no need to regulate temperature.

Fortunately,

one

need

not

rely

on

human

intervention

to

conserve

energy.

With

the

help

of

smart

sensing and network technology, energy conservation processes such as turning off lights and adjusting

temperature

can

be

readily

automated.

Ultimately,

this

technology

will

enable

consumers

and

plant

managers to better identify wasteful energy use and institute procedures that leadto smarter and more

efficient homes, buildings and industrial plants.

Until now, wires and cables for power and connectivity have limited the widespread adoption of sensor

(

传感器

)

networks

by

making

them

difficult

and

expensive

to

install

and

maintain.

Batterypowered

wireless networks can simplify installation and reduce cost. But their high power consumption and the

corresponding need for regular battery replacement has made wireless networks difficult and costly to

maintain.

Nobody

wants

to

replace

hundreds

or

thousands

of

window

sensor

batteries

in

a

large

building on a regular basis.

The promise of wireless sensor networks can only be fully realized when the wiring for both the data

communication

and

the

power

supply

is

eliminated.

Doing

so

requires

a

tree

batteryfree

wireless

solution,

one

that

can

utilize

energy

harvested

directly

from

the

environment.

To

facilitate

the

widespread

deployment

of

wireless

sensor

networks,

GreenPeak

has

developed

an

ultralowpower

communication

technology

that

can

utilize

environmental

energy

sources

such

as

light,

motion

and

vibration. This technology, employing onboard power management circuits and

computer

software

to

monitor

energy

harvesters

and

make

the

best use

of

harvested

energy,

enables

sensors to operate reliably in a batteryfree environment.

Wireless

sensor

networks

deployed

in

our

offices

and

homes

will

have

an

enormous

impact

on

our

daily

lives,

helping

to

build

a

smarter

world

in

which

energy

is

recycled

and

fully

utilized.

These

wireless platforms, equipped with advanced sensing capability, will enable us to better control our lives,

homes and environment, creating a truly connected

world that enables people worldwide to live in a

more comfortable, safer, and cleaner environment.

43. By

“human intervention”(Paragraph 2), the author refers to ________.

A. the reduction of great energy waste in the environment

B. the grasping of straightforward opportunities available

C. acts like turning off lights when no one is in the room

D. the adoption of smart sensing and network technology

44. Batteries are not an ideal energy source for sensor networks because they__________.

A. have to be replaced from time to time

B. contain metals that pollute the environment

C. require automatic recharging

D. are difficult and costly to maintain

45. Battery- free wireless sensor networks are made possible by the fact that______.

A. there is energy in the environment to be utilized

B. the cost of using them has been drastically reduced

C. modem data communication consumes little energy

D. their maintenance has been greatly simplified

46. According to the passage, Green Peak ___________.

A. is the first company to install wireless sensor networks

B. promotes the application of wireless sensor networks

C. supplies batteries operating on harvested energy

D. benefits handsomely from communication technology

47. The focus of Paragraph 4 is on the ____________.

A. replacement of batteries in harvesters

B. monitoring of energy harvested from the environment

C. elimination of batteries in sensor networks

D. impact of sensor networks on power supply

48. Wireless sensor networks promise to ___________.

A. bring businesses high profits

B. further develop the sensing technology

C. turn motion into a major source of energy

D. improve the daily lives of people worldwide

Passage Four

If you haven't heard or seen anything about Road Rage in the last few months, you've probably been

avoiding

the

media.

There

have

been

countless

stories

about

this

new

and

scary

phenomenon,

considered a type of aggressive driving. You have most likely encountered aggressive driving and/or

Road Rage recently if you drive at all.

While

drunk

driving

remains

a

critical

problem,

the

facts

about

aggressive

driving

are

surely

as

disturbing. For instance, according to the National Highway Transportation Safety Association, 41,907

people died on the highway last year. Of those fatalities, the agency estimates that about twothirds were

caused at least in part by aggressive driving behavior.

Why is this phenomenon occurrifig more than ever now, and why is it something that seemed almost

nonexistent a few short years ago Experts have several theories, and all are probably partially correct.

One suggestion is sheer overcrowding. In the last decade, the number of cars on the roads has increased

by more than 11 percent, and the number of miles driven has increased by 35 percent. However, the

number of new road miles has only increased by 1 percent. That means more cars in the same amount

of space? and the problem is magnified in urban areas. Also, people have less time and more things to