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Part I

Writing

Directions:

For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a letterto

express your thanks to

one of your school teachers upon entering college

. You should write at least

120

words but no

more than

180

words.

Part

Ⅱ

Listening Comprehension

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25 minutes

minutes

Section A

Directions:

In this section, you will hear three news reports. At the end of each news report, you will

hear two or three questions. Both the news report 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

Answer Sheet 1

with a single line through the centre.

Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.

1. A)How college students can improve their sleep habits.

B)Why sufficient sleep is important for college students.

C)Why college students are more likely to have stress problems.

D)How college students can handle their psychological problems.

2. A)It is not easy to improve one

’

s sleep habits.

B)It is not good for students to play video games.

C)Students who are better prepared generally get higher scores in examinations.

D)Making last-minute preparations for tests may be less effective than sleeping.

Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.

3. A)Whether more airports should be built around London.

B)Whether adequate investment is being made to improve airport facilities.

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C)Whether the British Airports Authority should sell off some of its assets.

D)Whether the Spanish company could offer better service.

4. A)Inefficient management.

B)Poor ownership structure.

C)Lack of innovation and competition.

D)Lack of runway and terminal capacity.

Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard.

5. A)Report the nicotine content of their cigarettes.

B)Set a limit to the production of their cigarettes.

C)Take steps to reduce nicotine in their products.

D)Study the effects of nicotine on young smokers.

6. A)The biggest increase in nicotine content tended to be in brands young smokers like.

B)Big tobacco companies were frank with their customers about the hazards of smoking.

C)Brands which contain higher nicotine content were found to be much more popular.

D)Tobacco companies refused to discuss the detailed nicotine content of their products.

7. A)They promised to reduce the nicotine content in cigarettes.

B)They have not fully realized the harmful effect of nicotine.

C)They were not prepared to comment on the cigarette study.

D)They will pay more attention to the quality of their products.

Section B

Directions:

In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation,

you will hear four questions. Both the conversation 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

Answer Sheet 1

with a single line through the centre.

Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

8. A)Indonesia.

B)Holland.

C)Sweden.

D)England.

9.A)Getting a coach who can offer real help.

B)Talking with her boyfriend in Dutch.

C)Learning a language where it is not spoken .

D)Acquiring the necessary ability to socialize .

10. A)Listening language programs on the radio.

B)Trying to speak it as much as one can.

C)Making friends with native speakers.

D)Practicing reading aloud as often as possible.

11.A)It creates an environment for socializing.

B)It offers various courses with credit points.

C)It trains young people

’

s leadership abilities.

D)It provides opportunities for language practice.

Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

12. A)The impact of engine design on rode safety. B)The role policemen play in traffic safety.

C)A sense of freedom driving gives.

D)Rules and regulations for driving.

13. A)Make cars with automatic control.

B)Make cars that have better brakes.

C)Make cars that are less powerful.

D)Make cars with higher standards.

14. A)They tend to drive responsibly.

B)They like to go at high speed.

C)They keep within speed limits.

D)They follow traffic rules closely.

15.A)It is a bad idea.

B)It is not useful.

C)It is as effective as speed bumps .

D)It should be combined with education.

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Section C

Directions:

In this section, you will hear three passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear

three or four 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

Answer Sheet 1

with a single line through the centre.

Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.

16.A)The card got damaged .

B)The card was found invalid.

C)The card reader failed to do the scanning.

D)The card reader broke down unexpectedly.

17. A)By converting the credit card with a layer of plastic.

B)By calling the credit card company for confirmation.

C)By seeking help from the card reader maker Verifone.

D)By typing the credit card number into the cash register.

18.A)Affect the sales of high-tech appliances.

B)Change the life style of many Americans.

C)Give birth to many new technological inventions.

D)Produce many low-tech fixes for high-tech failures.

Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.

19. A)They are set by the dean of the graduate school.

B)They are determined by the advising board.

C)They leave much room for improvement.

D)They vary among different departments.

20. A)By consulting the examining committee .

B)By reading the Bulletin of Information.

C)By contacting the departmental office.

D)By visiting the university

’

s website.

21. A)They specify the number of credits students must earn.

B)They are harder to meet than those for undergraduates.

C)They have to be approved by the examining committee.

D)They are the same among various divisions of the university.

Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.

22. A)Students majoring in nutrition.

B)Students in health classes.

C)Ph.D. candidates in dieting.

D)Middle and high school teachers.

23. A)Its overestimate of the effect of dieting.

B)Its mistaken conception of nutrition.

C)Its changing criteria for beauty.

D)Its overemphasis on thinness.

24. A)To illustrate her point that beauty is but skin deep.

B)To demonstrate the magic effect of dieting on women.

C)To explain how computer images can be misleading.

D)To prove that technology has impacted our culture.

25. A)To persuade girls to stop dieting.

B)To promote her own concept of beauty.

C)To establish an emotional connection with students.

D)To help students rid themselves of bad living habits.

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PartIII

Reading Comprehension

Section A

Directions:

In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word

for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage

through carefully

before making

your choices. Each

choice

in

the

bank

is

identified

by

a

letter.

Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on

Answer Sheet 2

with a single line through

the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

Contrary

to

popular

belief,

older

people

generally

do

not

want

to

live

with

their

children.

Moreover, most adult children 26 every bit as much care and support to their aging parents as was

the case in the “good old days”, and most older people do not feel

27.

About 80% of people 65years and older have living children, and about 90%

of themhave

28contact with their children. Ab

out 75% of elderly parents who don’t go to

nursing homes live

within 30 minutes of at least one of their children.

However,

29

having contact with children does not guarantee happiness in old age. In

fact,

some

research

has

found

that

people

who

are

most

involved

with

their

families

have

the

lowest spirits. This research may be

30

,however, as ill health often makes older people more

31 and thereby increases contact with family members. So it is more likely that poor health, not

just family involvement,

32

spirits.

Increasingly, researchers have begun to look at the quality of relationships, rather than at the

frequency of contact, between the elderly and their children. If parents and children share interests

and values and agree on childrearing practices and religious

33

, they are likely to enjoy each

other’s

company.

Disagreements

on

such

matters

can

34

cause

problems.

If

parents

are

agreed by their daughter’s divorce, dislike her new husband, and disapprove of how she is raising

their grandchildren,

35

are that they are not going to enjoy her visits.

A) abandoned

E)commitment

I)frequent

M)provide

B)advanced

F)dampens

J)fulfillment

N)understandably

C)biased

G)dependent

K)grant

O)unrealistically

D)chances

H)distant

L)merely

Section B

Directions:

In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each

statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which

the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph ismarked

with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on

Answer Sheet 2

.

Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization?

[A] For many

years

I have studied global agricultural, population, environmental and economic

trends and their interactions. The combined effects of those trends and the political tensions

they generate point to the breakdown of governments and societies. Yet I, too, have resisted

the idea that food shortages could bring down not only individual governments but also our

global civilization.

[B] I can no longer ignore that risk. Our continuing failure to deal with the environmental declines

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that are undermining the world food economy forces me to conclude that such a collapse is

possible.

[C] As demand for food rises faster than supplies are growing, the resulting food-price inflation

puts severe stress on the governments of many countries. Unable to buy grain or grow their

own, hungry people take to the streets. Indeed, even before the steep climb in grain prices in

2008, the number of failing states was expanding. If the food situation continues to worsen,

entire nations will break down at an ever increasing rate. In the 20th century the main threat to

international security was superpower conflict; today it is failing states.

[D] States fail when national governments can no longer provide personal security, food security

and

basic

social

services

such

as

education

and

health

care.

When

governments

lose

their

control on power, law and order begin to disintegrate. After a point, countries can become so

dangerous that food relief workers are no longer safe and their programs are halted. Failing

states are of international concern because they are a source of terrorists, drugs, weapons and

refug ees

(

难民

)

, threatening political stability everywhere.

[E]The

surge

in

world

grain

prices

in

2007

and

2008

—

and

the

threat

they

pose

to

food

security

——

has a different, more troubling quality than the increases of the past. During the

second

half

of

the

20th

century,

grain

prices

rose

dramatically

several

times.

In

1972,

for

instance, the Soviets,

recognizing their poor harvest early, quietly cornered the world wheat

market. As a result, wheat prices elsewhere more than doubled, pulling rice and corn prices

up with them. But this and other price shocks were event- driven

——

drought in the Soviet

Union,

crop-shrinking

heat

in

the

U.S.

Corn

Belt.

And

the

rises

were

short-lived:

prices

typically returned to normal with the next harvest.

[F]In contrast, the recent surge in world grain prices is trend-driven, making it unlikely to reverse

without

a

reversal

in

the

trends

themselves.

On

the

demand

side,

those

trends

include

the

ongoing addition of more than 70 million people a year, a growing number of people wanting

to move up the food chain to consume highly grain-intensive meat products, and the massive

diversion

(

转向

)of U.S. grain to the production of bio-fuel.

[G]As incomes rise among low-income consumers, the potential for further grain consumption is

huge. But that potential pales beside the never-ending demand for crop-based fuels. A fourth of

this year’s U.S. grain harvest will go to fuel cars.

[H]What about supply? The three environmental trends

——

the shortage of fresh water, the loss of

topsoil and the rising temperatures

——

are making it increasingly hard to expand the w

orld’s

grain supply fast enough to keep up with demand. Of all those trends, however, the spread of

water

shortages

poses

the

most

immediate

threat.

The

biggest

challenge

here

is

irrigation,

which consumes 70% the world’s fresh water. Millions of irrigatio

n wells in many countries

are now pumping water out of underground sources faster than rainfall can refill them. The

result

is

falling

water

tables

(

地下水位

)

in

countries

with

half

the

world’s

people,

including

the three big grain producers

——

China, India and the U.S.

[I]As water tables have fallen and irrigation wells have gone dry, China’s wheat crop, the world’s

largest, has declined by 8% since it peaked at 123 million tons in 1997. But water shortages

are even more worrying in India. Millions of irrigation wells have significantly lowered water

tables in almost every state.

[J]As the world’s food security falls to pieces, individual countries acting in their own self

-interest

are

actually

worsening

the

troubles

of

many.

The

trend

began

in

2007,

when

leading