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Part I Listening Comprehension
(25minutes, 20points)
Section A (1Point each)
1.
A. He doesn't like
classic music.
B. He feels sorry
to decline the offer
C. He is eager to go to the concert.
D. He hasn't got a ticket
yet.
C. At the supermarket.
D. At the office.
B. Tony has hearing
problems.
2.
A.
At the garage. B. At the restaurant.
3.
A. Tony doesn't always
listen.
C. It's unusual that Tony missed the
interview D. Tony often forgets
himself.
C. The weather is
moderately hot.
D. The
weather is usually changeable.
4.
A. The weather is
generally cooler and drier.
B
. The weather is generally
warmer and wetter.
5.
A. A doctor.
B. An
operator,
C. A nurse.
D. A
dentist.
B. He thought the
meeting was for a different day.
6.
A. $$ B. $$
C. $$
D.
$$
7.
A. He had
something wrong with his watch.
C. His oral presentation was not well-
prepared.
D
. He was not
paying attention to the time.
B. He thinks the class will meet as
scheduled.
C. The woman
should pose a more serious question.
D. Professor Smith often cancels
classes for the long weekend.
B. It was not the woman's
coat.
D. The woman is not
angry with the man.
C. The
woman just had her coat cleaned.
8.
A. He didn't attend Professor Smith's
class last time.
9.
A. The woman does not drink beer.
Section B ( 1 point each)
10. A. 850,000 children, around two
percent, are currently learning at home
B. School system provides teachers
for homeschooling.
C. All
the states in the U.S. permit
homeschooling.
D.
Homeschooled children are never expected to go to
college.
11. A. Because
their children do not like attending
schools.
B. Because they
love their children too much to send them away
from home
C. Because
homeschooling provides more time for the family to
be together.
D. Because
they are able to help their kids to learn more
social skills.
12. A. A
variety of honeybee. B. A
geographic magazine.
C. A
National Home School Honor Society D. A
national top competition.
13. A. Importance of biodiversity.
B. Protection of wild species.
C. Farm pollution.
D. Agricultural methods.
14.
A. Rice, maize, potato and wheat. B.
Corn, bean, rice and wheat.
C. Potato, maize, bean and rice. D.
Rice, corn, wheat and sweet potato
15. A. They can harm wetlands, rivers
and other environments needed to support
life
B. They can destroy
crops, native species and property.
C. They spread in areas they are not
native to with natural controls.
D. They hardly survive different
conditions.
Section C ( 1
point each)
Lecture Topic:
Getting a good night’s sleep
16. There are several ___________ drugs
available to help people sleep.
If you don’t want
to use drugs, there are some things you
can do on your own to help get a good night’s
sleep:
17. 1)____
_______________________________________
18. 2)_________________________________
__________
19. 3)___________
________________________________
20. 4)_________________________________
__________
PART II
VOCABULARY (10 minutes, 10 points )
Section A point each )
21. Nothing can be more absurd than to
say that human beings are doomed.
A. compelling B. rational
C. ridiculous D. ambiguous
22. The Chinese government continues to
uphold the principle of peaceful co-
existence.
A. support
B. restrict C. raise D.
modify
23. Patients are
expected to comply with doctors' instructions for
quick recovery.
A.
improve on B. abide by C. draw upon
D. reflect on
24. Scientists
have achieved findings substantial enough to
remove our fear of GM foods.
A. abundant B. controversial
C. conducive D. convincing
25. Those students who have made
adequate preparations for the test will be better
off.
A. more wealthy
B. less successful C. dismissed earlier D.
favorably positioned
26.
If
you
hold
on
to
a
winning
attitude,
you'll
make
a
greater
effort
and
also
create
positive
momentum.
A.
influence B. strength C. outlook
D. consequence
27. Academic
integrity is deemed essential to those devoted to
scientific researches.
A.
believed B. discarded C. advocated
D. confirmed
28. Customers
in these markets of antiques are good at slashing
prices.
A. assessing
B. cutting C. elevating D.
altering
29.
The
public
attached
great
importance
to
the
news
that
prices
of
housing
would
be
brought
under
control.
A.
joined B. ascribed C. fastened
D. diverted
30.
Thousands
of
people
left
their
rural
homes
and
flocked
into
the
cities
to
live
beside
the
new
factories.
A.
dashed B. filed C. strolled
D. swarmed
Section B point
each)
dull life, the full-
time mom decided to find a part-time
job.
A. Tied up with
B. Fed up with C. Wrapped up in D. Piled
up with
32. In the letter,
my friend said that he would love to have me as a
guest in his _____ home.
A. humble B. obscure C. inferior
D. lower
33. Tom is sick of
city life, so he buys some land in Alaska, as far
from ________ as possible.
A. humidity B. humanity C. harmony
D. honesty
34. As an
important _______ for our emotions and ideas,
music can play a huge role in our life.
A. vessel B. vest
C. venture D. vehicle
35. The day is past when the country
can afford to give high school diploma to all who
___six years of
instruction.
A. set about B. run for
C. sit through D. make for
36. The wages of manual laborers stay
painfully low, meaning digitalization could drive
an even deeper
______between the rich
and poor.
A. boundary
B. difference C. wedge D.
variation
37. A farmer must
learn the kinds of crops best ____ the soils on
his farm.
A. accustomed
to B. committed to C. applied to D. suited
to
38. The sun is so large
that if it were ______, it would hold a million
earths.
A. elegant
B. immense C. hollow D.
clumsy
39. This patient's
life could be saved only by a major operation.
That would _____ her to a high risk.
A. expose B. lead C.
contribute D. send
40.
It takes a year for the earth to make each
________, or revolution, around the
sun.
A. tour B.
travel C. visit D.
trip
PART III CLOZE TEST (10
minutes, 10 points, 1 point each)
Harvard University's under-graduate
education is being reformed so that it includes
some time spent
outside
the
US
and
more
science
courses,
the
US
Cable
News
Network
(CNN)
has
reported.
For
the
first
time
in 30
years, Harvard is 41 its under-graduate
curriculum. William Kirby, dean of the faculty of
arts and
sciences, said this
42
what
many
people
had
said
that
Harvard's curriculum
did not
provide
enough
choice
and encourage
premature specialization.
needs
to
43
its
education
for
a
world
where
global
connections,
cross
disciplinary
research,
and science in
general are ever more important,
Particularly 44 is the idea that
students need to spend time overseas, either in a
traditional
study-abroad program or
over a summer, perhaps doing an internship or
research.
Students
can
either
find
the
program
themselves
or
45
some
exchange
programs
offered
by
the
university.
46
studying
Chinese
history
without
leaving
the
university,
students
interested
in
the
subject
should
be spending a
semester at a university in China.
It was also recommended that
Harvard 47 its required
effort created
in 1978 to broaden education by requiring students
to choose from a list of courses in
several areas of study. Classes often
focused on a highly 48 topic and emphasized
Under a new plan, the
curriculum would be replaced with a set of 49
emphasizing
knowledge
over
methodology
and
50
wider
territory.
A
life
sciences
course,
for
example,
might
combine molecular and
evolutionary biology and psychology, rather than
focusing on one of those, said
Benedict
Gross, Harvard College dean.
41. A. inspecting
43. A. update
44. A. trust-worthy
46. A. In spite of
47. A. perish
49. A. optical
50. A. sparing
PART IV READING
COMPREHENSION (45 minutes, 30 points, 1 point
each)
Passage One
A report published recently brings bad
news about air pollution. It suggests that it
could be as
damaging to our health as
exposure to the radiation from the 1986 Ukraine
nuclear power disaster. The
report was
published by the UK Royal Commission on
Environmental Pollution. But what can city people
do
to reduce exposure to air
pollution.' Quite a lot, it turns out.
Avoid walking in busy streets. Choose
side streets and parks instead. Pollution levels
can fall a
considerable amount just by
moving a few meters away from the main pollution
source--exhaust
fumes(
烟
气
).
Also
don't
walk
behind
smokers.
Walk
on
the
windward
side
of
the
street
where
exposure
to
pollutants
B. reviewing
C
. searching
B. uphold
C
. upset
B. note-worthy
C
. praise-worthy
B. As if
C
. Let alone
B. destroy
C
. abolish
B. optional
C
. opposite
B. spiraling
C
. spanning
D. underlying
D.
in response to
D.
upward
D. reward-
worthy
D. turn
over
D. Rather
than
D. denounce
D. specific
D.
optimistic
D.
sparkling
42. A. in
accordance with
B. in
line with
C
. in
charge of
45. A. turn out
B. turn in
C
. turn
to
48. A. appropriate
B. imaginative
C
. special
can be 50 percent less than on the
downwind side.
Sitting
on
the
driver's
side
of
a
bus
can
increase
your
exposure
by
10
percent,
compared
with
sitting
on
the
side
nearest
the
pavement.
Sitting
upstairs
on
a
double-decker
can
reduce
exposure.
It
is
difficult
to say whether traveling on an
underground train is better or worse than taking
the bus. Air pollution
on underground
trains tends to be, less toxic than that at street
level, because underground pollution
is
mostly made up of tiny iron particles thrown up by
wheels hitting the rails. But diesel and petrol
fumes have a mixture of
pollutants.
When you are
crossing a road, stand well back from the curb
while you wait for the light to change.
Every meter really does count when you
are close to traffic. As the traffic begins to
move, fumes can
be reduced in just a
few seconds. So holding your breath for just a
moment can make a difference, even
though it might sound silly.
There
are
large
sudden
pollution
increases
during
rush
hours.
Pollution
levels
fall
during
nighttime.
The time of year
also makes a big difference. Pollution levels tend
to be at their lowest during spring
and
autumn when winds are freshest. Extreme cold or
hot weather has a trapping effect and tends to
cause
a build-up of
pollutants.
51. What is the
passage mainly about
A.
How to fight air pollution in big
cities.
B. How to avoid
air pollution in big cities.
C. How to breathe fresh air in big
cities.
D. How serious
air pollution is in big cities.
52. According to the report, air
pollution in big cities __________.
A. can be more serious than Chernobyl
nuclear disaster
B. cannot
be compared with the disaster in
Chernobyl
C. can release as
damaging radiation as the Chernobyl
disaster
D. can be more
serious than we used to think
53. When you walk in a busy street, you
should walk on the side ___________.
A. where the wind is
coming
B. where the wind
is going
C. where the
wind is weaker
D. where
the wind is stronger
54. If
you take a bus in a big city in China, you should
sit _________.
A. on the
left side in the bus
B.
on the right side in the bus
C. in the middle of the
bus
D. at the back of the
bus
55. It is implied in the
passage that ________.
A.
people should not take street level
transportation
B. tiny iron
particles will not cause health
problems
C. air pollution on
an underground train is less poisonous
D. traveling on an underground train is
better than taking the bus
56. While waiting to cross a busy
street, you should ___________.
A. wait a few seconds until the
fumes reduce
B. stay away
from the traffic as far as possible
C. hold your breath until you get to
the other side of the street
D. count down for the light to
change
Passage
Two
Global
warming
poses
a
threat
to
the
earth,
but
humans
can
probably
ease
the
climate
threats
brought
on by rising levels of carbon dioxide
in the atmosphere, global climate specialist
Richard Alley told
an
audience
at
the
University
of
Vermont.
Alley
said
his
research
in
Greenland
suggested
that
subtle
changes
in
atmospheric patterns leave parts of the globe
susceptible to abrupt and dramatic climate shifts
that
can last decades or
centuries.
Almost all
scientists agree that increasing levels of carbon
dioxide in the atmosphere created as
humans
burn
fossil
fuel
is
warming
the
planet.
How
to
respond
to
the
warming
is
a
matter
of
intense
political,
scientific and
economic debate worldwide.
Alley said he was upbeat about global warming
because enough clever people existed in the world
to
find other reliable energy sources
besides fossil fuels. He said people can get rich
finding marketable
alternatives
to
fossil
fuel.
it
be
useful
if
the
United
States
were
to
have
a
piece
of
the
action.
Wouldn't
it
be
useful
if
some
bright
students
from
University
of
Vermont
were
to
have
a
piece
of
the
action,
Alley
said.
Alley said that
Europe and parts of eastern North America could in
a matter of a few years revert
to a
cold, windy region, like the weather in Siberia.
Such shifts have occurred frequently over the
millennia, Alley's research shows. A
gradual change in atmospheric temperature, such as
global warming,
could push the climate
to a threshold where such a shift suddenly occurs,
he said.
Alley
told
his
audience
of
about
200
people
in
a
University
of
Vermont
lecture
hall
Wednesday
evening
that he couldn't
predict if, when or where sudden shifts toward
cold, heat, drought or water could occur
under global warming, but it is
something everyone should consider.
with each other. But
it's part of that because we're not going to get
along with each other if we're not
getting along with the
planet,
57. According to
Ally the climate threats to the earth brought by
global warming _________.
A. can be eased B. can be ended
C. will become worse
D. will last for decades
58.
Ally's research shows that dramatic climate
changes may be caused by ___________.
A. abrupt changes in atmospheric
patterns
B. subtle
changes in atmospheric patterns
C. humans' burning of fossil
fuel
D. increasing
levels of carbon dioxide
59.
The word
A.
pessimistic B. optimistic C. worried
D. insensible
60. What does
Ally suggest people do in order to reduce global
warming
A. To find
other energy sources besides fossil
fuels.
B. To start a
political, scientific and economic
debate.
C. To take
action to burn no fossil fuels.
D. To call on people worldwide to
protect our earth.
61. Alley
predicts that global
warming
could turn Europe and parts of eastern
North
America into
______.
A. a region
like Siberia
B. a
warmer and warmer place
C. a tropical region