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Part I Writing (30 minutes)
Directions: For this part,you are
allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay based
on the picture below. You should start
your essay with a brief description of picture
a
nd then discuss whether technology is
indispensable in education. You should give
so
undargument to support your views and
write at least 150 words but no more than
200
words.
“I’m
going to need tech support”
Part II
Listening Section
A
Directions
：
In
this section
，
you will hear 8
short conversations and 2 long
conversations. At the end of each
conversation, one or more questions will be
asked about what was said. Both the
conversation and the questions 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 Answer Sheet I with a
single line through the centre.
1. A) The
man
’
s tennis racket is good
enough.
B) The
man should get a pair of new shoes.
C) She can wait for the man
for a little while.
D) Physical exercise helps her stay in
shape.
【答案】
B
2.
A) The woman will skip Dr.
Smith
’
s lecture to help the
man.
B) Kathy
is very pleased to attend the lecture by Dr.
Smith.
C) The
woman is good at doing lab demonstrations.
D) The man will
do all he can to assist the woman.
【答案】
A
3.
A) The woman
asked the man to accompany her to the party.
B) Steve became
rich soon after graduation from college.
C) Steve
invited his classmates to visit his big cottage.
D) The speakers
and Steve used to be classmates.
【答案】
D
4.
A) In a bus.
B) In a clinic.
C) In a boat.
D) In a plane.
【答案】
C
5. A) 10:10.
B) 9:50.
C) 9:40.
D) 9:10.
【答案】
B
6. A) She does not like
John at all.
B)
John has got many admirers.
C) She does not think John
is handsome.
D)
John has just got a
bachelor
’
s degree.
【答案】
A
7. A) He has been bumping
along for hours.
B) He has got a sharp pain in the neck.
C) He is
involved in a serious accident.
D) He is trapped in a
terrible traffic jam.
【答案】
D
8. A)She is good at
repairing things.
B)She is a professional mechanic.
C)She should
improve her physical condition.
D)She cannot go without
washing machine.
【答案】
A
Question 9 to 11 are based
on the conversation you have just heard.
9. A)Some
witnesses failed to appear in court.
B)The case caused debate
among the public.
C)The accused was found guilty of
stealing.
D)The
accused refused to plead guilty in court.
【答案】
C
10. A)He was out of his
mind.
B)He was
unemployed.
C)His wife deserted him.
D)His children were sick.
【答案】
B
11. A) He had been in jail
before.
B) He
was unworthy of sympathy.
C) He was unlikely to get employed.
D) He had
committed the same sort of crime.
【答案】
A
Questions 12 to
15 are based on the conversation you have just
heard.
12. A)
Irresponsible.
B) Unsatisfactory.
C) Aggressive.
D) conservative.
【答案】
B
13. A) Internal
communication.
B) Distribution of brochures.
C) Public
relations.
D)
Product design.
【答案】
C
14. A) Placing
advertisement in the trade press.
B) Drawing sketches for
advertisements.
C) Advertising in the national press.
D) Making
television commercials.
【答案】
D
15. A) She has the
motivation to do the job.
C) She is not so easy to get along
with.
B) She
knows the tricks of advertising.
D) She is not suitable for
the position.
【答案】
D
Passage
One
Questions 16 to 19 are based on the
conversation you have just heard.
16. A)The cozy
communal life.
B)The cultural diversity.
C)Innovative academic
programs.
D)Imperative school buildings. A
【答案】
A
17. A)It is very beneficial
to their academic progress.
B)It helps them soak up the
surrounding culture.
C)It is as important as their learning
experience.
D)It ensures their physical and mental
heal.
【答案】
C
18. A)It offers the most
challenging academic programs.
B)It has the
world
’
s best-known military
academics.
C)It
provides numerous options for students.
D)It draws
faculty from all around the world.
【答案】
C
19. A)They try
to give students opportunities for experiment.
B)They are
responsible merely to their Ministry of education.
C)They strive
to develop every student
’
s
academic potential.
D)They ensure that all students get
roughly equal attention.
【答案】
B
Passage Two
Questions 20 to 22 are
based on the passage you have just heard.
20. A) It will
arrive at Boulogne at half past two.
B) It crosses the English
Channel twice a day.
C) It is now about half way to the
French coast.
D) It is leaving Folkestone in about
five minutes.
【答案】
D
21. A) Opposite the
ship
’
s office.
B) Next to the duty-free
shop.
C) At the
rear of B deck.
D) In the front of A deck.
【答案】
D
22. A) It is
for the sole use of passengers travelling with
cars.
B) It is
much more spacious than the lounge on C deck.
C) It is for
the use of passengers travelling with children.
D) It is for
senior passengers and people with VIP cards.
【答案】
A
Passage Three
Questions 23 to 25 are
based on the passage you have just heard.
23. A) It was
named a after its location.
B) It was named after its
discoverer.
C)
It was named after a cave art expert.
D) It was named after one
of its painters.
【答案】
B
24. A) Animal painting was
part of the spiritual life of the time.
B) Deer were
worshiped by the ancient Cro-Magnon people.
C) Cro-Magnon
people painted animals they hunted and ate.
D) They were
believed to keep evils away from cave dwellers.
【答案】
C
25. A) They know little
about why the paintings were created.
B) They have difficulty
telling when the paintings were done.
C) They are unable to draw
such interesting and fine paintings.
D) They have misinterpreted
the meaning of the cave paintings.
【答案】
A
Part II
Listening 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 Answer Sheet I
with a single line through the centre.
If you are attending a
local college, especially one without residence
halls, you
’
ll
probably live at home and commute to classes. This
arrangement
has a lot of(26)_____.
It
’
s cheaper. It provides a
comfortable and familiar
setting, and
it means you
’
ll get the kind
of home cooking you
’
re used
to
instead of the
monotony(
单调
)that(27)_____
even the best institutional food.
However, commuting students
need to(28)_____ to become involved in the life
of their college and to take special
steps to meet their fellow students. Often,
this means a certain amount of
initiative on your part in(29)_____ and talking
to people in your classes whom you
think you might like.
One problem that commuting students
sometimes face is their
parents
’
unwillingness to recognize that
they
’
re adults. The(30)_____
from high school
to college is a big
one, and if you live at home you need to develop
the same
kind of independence
you
’
d have if you were
living away. Home rules that might
have
been(31)_____ when you were in high school
don
’
t apply. If your parents
are(32)_____ to renegotiate, you can
speed the process along by letting your
behavior show that you have the
responsibility that goes with maturity. Parents
are more willing to(33)_____ their
children as adults when they behave like
adults. If, however
，
< br>there
’
s so much friction
at home that it(34)_____ your
academic
work, you might want to consider sharing an
apartment with one or more
friends.
Sometimes this is a happy solution when
family(35)_____ make everyone
miserable.
26._____
【答案】
advantages
27._____
【答案】
characterizes
28._____
【答案】
go out of their way
29._____
【答案】
seeking out
30._____
【答案】
transition
31._____
【答案】
appropriate
32._____
【答案】
reluctant
33._____
【答案】
acknowledge
34._____
【答案】
interferes
35._____
【答案】
tensions
Part
III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)
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.
Questions 36 to 45 are based on the
following passage.
Children are natural-born scientists.
They have 36 minds, and they
aren
’
t afraid to admit they
don
’
t know something. Most
of them, 37 lose this as
they get
older. They become self-conscious and
don
’
t want to appear stupid.
Instead of finding things out for
themselves they make 38 that often turn
out to be wrong
So it
’
s not a
case of getting kids interested in science. You
just have to
avoid killing the 39
for learning that they were born with.
It
’
s no
coincidence that kids start deserting
science once it becomes formalized.
Children naturally have a blurred
approach to 40 knowledge. They see
learning about science or biology or
cooking as all part of the same act-
it
’
s
all
learning. It
’
s only because
of the practicalities of education that you
have to start breaking down the
curriculum into specialist subjects. You need
to have specialist teachers who 41
what they know. Thus once they enter
school, children begin to define
subjects and erect boundaries that
needn
’
t
otherwise
exist.
Dividing
subjects into science, maths, English ,etc. is
something we do
for 42 . In the end
it
’
s all learning, but many
children
today 43 themselves from a
scientific education. They think science is for
scientists, not for them.
Of course we need to
specialize 44 . Each of us has only so much time
on
Earth, so we
can
’
t study everything. At 5
years old, our field of knowledge
and
45 is broad, covering anything from learning to
walk to learning to
count. Gradually it
narrows down so that by the time we are 45, it
might be one
tiny little corner within
science.
注意：此部分
试题请在答题卡
2
上作答。
A)accidentally
B)acquiring
C)assumptions
D)convenience
E)eventually
F)exclude
G)exertion
H)exploration
I)formulas
J)ignite
K)impart
L)inquiring
M)passion
N)provoking
O)unfortunately
【答案】
36. L 37. O
38. C 39. M 40. B 41. K 42. D 43. F 44.
E 45.
H
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 is
marked with a letter.
Answer the questions by marking the corresponding
letter on Answer Sheet 2.
Meaning Is Healthier Than Happiness
[A]For at least
the last decade, the happiness craze has been
building. In the last three months
alone, over 1,000 books on happiness were released
on Amazon, including Happy Money,
Happy
-People-Pills For All, and, for
those just starting out, Happiness for Beginners.
[B]One of the
consistent claims of books like these is that
happiness is associated with all sor
ts
of good life outcomes, including - most
promisingly - good health. Many studies have noted
the
connection between a happy mind and
a healthy body - the happier you are, the better
health outco
mes we seem to have. In a
meta-analysis (overview) of 150 studies on this
topic, researchers put it
like this:
“Inductions of
well-being lead to
healthy functioning, and inductions of ill-being
lead to
compromised health.”
[C]But a new
study, just published in the Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences
(PNAS)
challenges the rosy picture. Happiness may not be
as good for the body as researchers
tho
ught. It might even be bad.
[D]Of course,
it’s important to first define happiness. A few
months ago, I wrote a piece calle
d
“There’s More to Life Than Being Happy” about a
psychology study that dug into what
happine
ss really means to people. It
specifically explored the difference between a
meaningful life and a h
appy life.
[E]It seems
strange that there would be a difference at all.
But the researchers, who looked at
a
large sample of people over a month-long period,
found that happiness is associated with selfish
“taking” behavior and that having a
sense of meaning in life is associated with
selfless “giving” be
havior.
[F]
sh life, in
which things go well, needs and desire are easily
satisfied, and difficult or taxing
entangl
ements are
avoided,
elping others in need.” While
being happy is about feeling go
od,
meaning is derived from contribu
ting to
others or to society in a bigger way. As Roy
Baumeister, one of the researchers, told me,
artly what we do as human beings is to
take care of others and contribute to others. This
makes life
meaningful but it
d
oes not necessarily make us
happy.”
[G]The new PNAS study also sheds light
on the difference between meaning and happiness,
but on the biological level. Barbara
Fredrickson, a psychological researcher who
specializes in pos
itive emotions at the
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and
Steve Cole, a genetics and psy
chiatric
researcher at UCLA, examined the self-reported
levels of happiness and meaning in 80
res
earch subjects.
[H]Happiness was defined,
as in the earlier study, by feeling good. The
researchers measured
happiness by asking subjects questions
like “How often did you feel happy?” “How often
did you
feel interested in
life?” and “How often did you feel satisfied?” The
more strongly people endorse
d these
measures of “hedonic
well
-
being,” or
pleasure, the higher they scored on happiness.
[I]Meaning was
defined as an orientation to something bigger than
the self. They measured m
eaning by
asking questions like “How often did you feel that
your life has a sense of direction or
meaning to it?”,
“How often did you feel that you had
something to contribute to society?”, and
“How often did you feel that you
belonged to a community social group?” The more
people endor
sed these measures of
“eudaimonic well
-
being”
- or, simply put, virtue - the more
meaning they fe
lt in life.
[J]After noting the sense
of meaning and happiness that each subject had,
Fredrickson and Co
le, with their
research colleagues, looked at the ways certain
genes expressed themselves in each o
f
the participants. Like neuroscientists who use
fMRI scanning to determine how regions in the
bra
in respond to different stimuli,
Cole and Fredrickson are interested in how the
body, at the genetic
level, responds to
feelings of happiness and meaning.
[K]Cole’s past work has
linked various
kinds of chronic
adversity to a particular gene
express
ion pattern. When people feel
lonely, are grieving the loss of a loved one, or
are struggling to mak
e ends meet, their
bodies go into threat mode. This triggers the
activation of a stress-related gene
p
attern that has two features: an
increase in the activity of prion flammatory genes
and a decrease in
the activity of genes
involved in anti-viral responses.
[L]Cole and Fredrickson
found that people who are happy but have little to
no sense of meani
ng in their lives -
proverbially, simply here for the party - have the
same gene expression patterns
as people
who are responding to and enduring chronic
adversity. That is, the bodies of these
happy
people are preparing them for
bacterial threats by activating the pro-
inflammatory response. Chro
nic
inflammation is, of course, associated with major
illnesses like heart disease and various
cance
rs.
[M]“Empty positive emotions”
- like the kind people experience
during manic episodes or art
ificially
induced euphoria from alcohol and drugs -
”are about as good for you for as
adversity,” sa
ys Fredrickson.
[N]It’s
important to understand that for many people, a
sense of meaning and happiness in lif
e
overlap; many people score jointly high (or
jointly low) on the happiness and meaning measures
in the study. But for many others,
there is a dissonance - they feel that they are
low on happiness a
nd high on meaning or
that their lives are very high in happiness, but
low in meaning. This last gro
up, which
has the gene expression pattern associated with
adversity, formed a whopping 75 percen
t
of study participants. Only one quarter of the
study participants had what the researchers call
“eu
daimonic predominance”
-
that is, their sense of meaning outpaced their
feelings of happiness.
[O]This is too bad given the more
beneficial gene expression pattern associated with
meaning
fulness. People whose levels of
happiness and meaning line up, and people who have
a strong sens
e of meaning but are not
necessarily happy, showed a deactivation of the
adversity stress response.
Their bodies
were not preparing them for the bacterial
infections that we get when we are alone
or
in trouble, but for the viral
infections we get when surrounded by a lot of
other people.
[P]Fredrickson’s p
ast
research, described in her two books, Positivity
and Love 2.0, has map
ped the benefits
of positive emotions in individuals. She has found
that positive emotions broaden
a
person’s perspective and buffers people against
adversity. So it was surprising t
o her
that hedoni
stic well-being, which is
associated with positive emotions and pleasure,
did so badly in this study
compared
with eudaimonic well-being.
[Q]“It’s not the amount of
hedonic happiness that’s a problem,” Fredrickson
tells me, “It’s th
at it
’s
not matched by eudaimonic
well
-
being. It’s great when
both are in step. But if you have mor
e
hedonic well-
being than would be
expected, that’s when this [gene] pattern that’s
akin to adversi
ty emerged.”
[R]The terms
hedonism and eudemonism bring to mind the great
philosophical debate, which
has shaped
Western civilization for over 2,000 years, about
the nature of the good life. Does
happ
iness lie in feeling good, as
hedonists think, or in doing and being good, as
Aristotle and his intelle
ctual
descendants, the virtue ethicists, think? From the
evidence of this study, it seems that feeling
good is not enough. People need meaning
to thrive. In the words of Carl Jung, “The least
of things
with a meaning is worth more
in life than the greatest of things
wit
hout it.” Jung’s wisdom
certain
ly seems to apply to our bodies,
if not also to our hearts and our minds.
46. The
author’s recent article examined how a meaningful
life is different from a happy life.
【答案】
D
47. It should be noted that
many people feel their life is both happy and
meaningful.
【答案】
N
48. According to one
survey, there is a close relationship between
hedonic well-being measur
es and high
scores on happy.
【答案】
H
49. According to one of the
authors of a new study, what makes life meaningful
may not mak
e people happy.
【答案】
F
50. Experiments
were carried out to determine our body’s genetic
expression of feelings of h
appiness and
meaning.
【答案】
J
51. A new study claims
happiness may not contribute to health.
【答案】
C
52. According to
researchers, taking makes for happiness while
giving adds meaning to life.
【答案】
E
53. Evidence
from research shows that it takes meaning for
people to thrive.
【答案】
R
54. With regard to gene
expression patterns, happy people with little or
no sense of meaning i
n life are found
to be similar to those suffering from chronic
adversity.
【答案】
L
55. Most books on happiness
today assert that happiness is beneficial to
health.
【答案】
B
Section
C
?Directions: There are 2 passages in
this section. 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 Answer Sheet 2
with a single line through the centre.
Passage 1
Nothing
succeeds in business books like the study of
success. The current
business-book boom
was launched in 1982 by Tom Peters and Robert
Waterman with
“
In Search of
Excellence
”
. It has been
kept going ever since by a succession
of gurus and would-be gurus who promise
to distil the essence of excellence
into three (or five or seven) simple
rules.
“
The Three
Rules
”
is a self-conscious
contribution to this type; it even
includes a bibliography of
“
success
studies
”
. Messrs Raynor and
Mumtaz Ahmed
work for a consultancy,
Deloitte, that is determined to turn itself into
more
of a thought-leader and less a
corporate repairman. They employ all the tricks
of the success genre. They insist that
their conclusions are
“
measurable and
actionable
”
-guide
to behavior rather than analysis for its own sake.
Success
authors usually serve up vivid
stories about how exceptional business-people
stamped their personalities on a
company or rescued it from a life-threatening
crisis. Messrs Raynor and Ahmed are
happier chewing the numbers: they provide
detailed appendices on
“
calculating the elements of
advantage
”
and
“
detailed
analysis
”
.
The authors
spent five years studying the behaviour of their
344
“
exceptional
companies
”
, only to come up
at first with nothing. Every
hunch(
直觉
) led to
a blind alley and every hypothesis to a dead end.
It was
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