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2017
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Part I
minutes)
Writing
(25
(
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Directions:
For this part,
you are allowed 30 minutes to write an
advertisement on your
campus website to
sell a computer you used at college. Your
advertisement may include its
brand,
specifications/features,
condition
and
price,
and
your
contact
should
write at least 120 words but no more than 180
words.
Part II
minutes)
Section A
Listening Comprehension
(30
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 questions will
be
spoken only once. After you hear
questions, 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.
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Questions 1 to 2 are based on the
conversation you have just heard.
1.
A) The man in
the car was absent-minded.
B)
The test
driver made a wrong judgement.
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C)
The self-
driving system was faulty.
D)
The car was
moving at a fast speed.
2.
A)
They have done better than conventional cars.
B)
They have caused several severe
crashes.
C)
They have posed a threat to other
drivers.
D)
They have generally done quite well.
Questions 3 to 4 are based on the
conversation you have just heard.
3.
A) He works at
a national park.
B)
He is a queen
been specialist.
C)
He removed the
beyond from the boot.
D)
He drove the
bees away from his car.
4.
A)
They were looking after the queen
B)
They were
making a lot of noise
C)
They were
looking for a new box to live in
D)
They were
dancing in a unique way
Questions 5 to 7 are based
on the conversation you have just heard.
5.
A)
The discovery of a new species of snake
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B)
The second
trip to a small remote island
C)
The finding of
2 new species of frog
D)
The latest
test on rare animal species
6.
A) A poisonous snake attacked him on
his field trip
B)
He discovered
a rare fog on a deserted
C)
A snake
crawled onto his head in his sleep
D)
He fell from a
tall palm tree by accident
7.
A) From its genes
B)
From its
length
C)
From
its origin
D)
From its colour
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.
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8.
A) The security check takes
time
B)
He has to
check a lot of luggage
C)
His flight is leaving in less than 2
hours
D)
The airport is
a long way from the
h
otel
9.
A)
In cash
B)
By credit card
C)
With a
traveler’s
check
D)
With his smart
phone
10.
A) Give him a
receipt
B)
Confirm his flight
C)
Look after his
luggage
D)
Find a porter for him
11 .
A) Signing up for membership of S Hotel
B)
Staying in the same hotel next time he
comes
C)
Loading her luggage onto the airport
shuttle
D)
Posting a comment on the
hotel’s
webpage
Questions 12 to 15 are
based on the conversation you have just heard.
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12.
A) He is
the only boy in his family
B)
He becomes
tearful in wind
C)
He has stopped
making terrible faces
D)
He is his
teacher's favorite student
13.
A) Tell him to play in her backyard
B)
Do
something funny to amuse him
C)
Give him some
cherry stones to play with
D)
Warn him of
danger by making up a story
14.
A) They could break pp's legs
B)
They could sometimes terrify adults
C)
They could fly against a strong wind
D)
They could knock pp unconscious
15.
A) One would
get a spot on their tongues if they told a lie
deliberately
B)
One would have
to shave their head to remove a bat in their hair
C)
One would go to prison if they put a
stamp on upside down
D)
One would have
curly hair if they ate too much stale bread
Section C
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Directions:
In this
section, you will hear three passages of lectures
or talks followed
by
three
or
four
questions.
The
recordings
will
be
played
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) Everything
seemed to be
c
hanging.
B)
People were
formal and disciplined.
C)
People were excited to go travelling
overseas.
D)
Things from the Victorian era came back
alive.
17.
A)
Watching TV at home.
B) Meeting people.
C) Drinking coffee.
D)
Trying new foods.
18.
A) He was interested in stylish
dresses.
B)
He
was able to take a lot of money.
C)
He was a
student in the 1960s.
D)
He was a man full of imagination.
Questions 19 to 21 are based on the
passage you have just heard.
19.
A) They avoid
looking at them.
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B)
They run away immediately.
C)
They show
anger on their faces.
D)
They make threatening sounds.
20.
A) It turns
to its owner for help.
B)
It turns away to avoid conflict.
C)
It looks away
and gets angry, too.
D)
It focuses its eyes on their mouths.
21.
A) By
observing their facial features carefully.
B)
By focusing on
a particular body movement.
C)
By taking in
their facial expressions as a whole.
D)
By
interpreting different emotions in different ways.
Questions 22 to 25 are based on the
passage you have just heard.
22.
A) They have
to look for food and shelter underground.
B)
They take
little notice of the changes in temperature.
C)
They resort to
different means to survive the bitter cold.
D)
They have
difficulty adapting to the changed environment.
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23.
A) They have their weight reduced to
minimum.
B)
They consume the energy stored before
the long sleep.
C)
They can
maintain their heart beat at the normal rate.
D)
They can keep their body temperature
warm and stable.
24.
A) By staying in hiding places and
eating very little.
B)
By seeking
food and shelter in p
eople’s
houses.
C)
By growing thicker hair to stay warm.
D)
By
storing enough food beforehand.
25.
A) To stay safe.
C) To keep company.
B) To
save energy.
D) To protect the young.
Part
Ⅲ
minutes)
Reading Comprehension
(40
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.
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Questions 26 to 35 are
based on the following passage.
The method for making beer has changed
over time. Hops (
啤酒花
)
，
for example,
which give
many a modem beer its bitter flavor, are a (26)
recent addition
to the
beverage. This was first
mentioned in reference to brewing in the ninth
century. Now,
researchers have found
a (27)
ingredient in residue
(
残留物）
from 5,000-year-old
beer brewing equipment. While digging
two pits at a site in the central plains of China,
scientists discovered fragments from
pots and vessels. The different shapes of the
containers (28)
they were used to brew, filter, and
store beer. They may be
ancient
“beer
-
making tools,” and
the
e
arliest (29
evidence of beer brewing in
China, the researchers reported in the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
To (30)
that theory, the
team examined the yellowish,
dried (31)
inside
the vessels. The
majority of the grains, about 80%, were from
cereal crops like barley
(
大
麦
),and about
10% were bits of roots, (32)
lily,which would have made the beer
sweeter, the scientists say. Barley was
an unexpected find: the crop was domesticated in
Western Eurasia and didn't become a
(33)
food in central China until about
2,000
years ago, according to the
researchers. Based on that timing, they indicate
barley may
have (34)
in the region not as food, but
as (35)
material for beer
brewing.
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A)
Arrived
B)
B) consuming
C)
C) direct
D)
D)
exclusively
E) including
I)
relatively
F) inform
J) remains
G) raw
K)resources
H) reached
L) staple
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M)
suggest
N) surprising
O)
test
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
.
The Blessing and Curse of
the People Who Never Forget
A handful of people can recall almost
every day of their lives in enormous
detail
—
and
after
years
of
research,
neuroscientists (
神经科学专家
)
are
finally
beginning
to
understand how they do
it.
[A]
For most
of us, memory is a mess of blurred and faded
pictures of our lives. As
much as we
would like to cling on to our past, even the
saddest moments can be washed
away with
time.
[B]
Ask
Nima Veiseh what he was doing for any day in the
past 15 years, however,
and he will
give you the details of the weather, what he was
wearing, or even what side of
the train
he was sitting on his journey to work.
“My
memory is like a library
of video tapes,
walk-
throughs of every day
of my life from waking to sleeping,” he
e
xplains.
[C]
Veiseh can
even put a date on when those tapes started
recording: 15 December
2000, when he
met his first girlfriend at his best friend's 16th
birthday party. He had always
had a
good memory, but the thrill of young love seems to
have shifted a gear in his mind:
from
now on, he would start recording his whole life in
detail.
“I
could tell you
everything
about every day after
that.”
[D]
Needless to
say, people like Veiseh are of great interest to
neuroscientists hoping
to understand
the way the brain records our lives. A couple of
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opened a window on these people’s
extraordinary minds. And such research might even
suggest ways for us all to relive our
past with greater clarity.
[E]
“Highly
superior autobiographical
memory”
（
or HSAM for short)
first came to
light in the early 2000s,
with a young woman named Jill Price. Emailing the
neuroscientist
and memory researcher
Jim McGaugh one day, she claimed that she could
recall every day
of her life since the
age of 12. Could he help explain her experiences?
[F]
McGaugh
invited her to his lab, and began to test her: he
would give her a date
and ask her to
tell him about the world events on that day. True
to her word, she was correct
almost
every time.
[G]
It
didn’t
take
long
for
magazines
and
documentary
film
-makers
to
come
to
understand her “total
recall”
，
and
thank to the subsequent media interest, a few
dozen
other subjects (including Veiseh)
have since come forward and contacted the team at
the
University of California, Irvine.
[H]
Interestingly, their memories are
highly self-centred: although they can remember
“autobiographical”
life
events
in
extraordinary
detail,
they
seem
to
be
no
better
than
average at recalling
impersonal information, such as random
(
任意选取的）
lists of words.
Nor are they necessarily better at
remembering a round of drinks, say. And although
their
memories are vast, they are still
likely to suffer from
“false
memories”.Clearly
, there is
no
such
thing
as
a
“perfect”
memory—
their
extraordinary
minds
are
still
using
the
same
flawed
tools that the rest of us rely on. The question
is, how?
[I]
Lawrence Patihis at the University of
Southern Mississippi recently studied around
20
people
with
HSAM
and
found
that
they
scored
particularly
high
on
two
measures:
fantasy
proneness
(
倾向
)and
absorption.
Fantasy
proneness
could
be
considered
a
tendency to imagine and daydream,
whereas absorption is the tendency to allow your
mind
to become fully absorbed in an
activity to pay complete attention to the
sensations (
感受
)
and the experiences.
“I’m
extremely sensitive to
sounds, smells and visual
detail,”
explains
Nicole Donohue, who has taken part in
many of these studies
. “
I
definitely feel things more
strongly
than the average
person.”
[J]
The
absorption helps them to establish strong
foundations for recollection, says
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Patihis, and the fantasy proneness
means that they revisit those memories again and
again
in
the coming weeks
and months. Each time this
initial
memory trace is “replayed”, it
becomes even stronger. In some ways,
you probably go through that process after a big
event like your wedding day,but the
difference is that thanks to their other
psychological
tendencies, the HSAM
subjects are doing it day in, day out, for the
whole of their lives.
[K]
Not everyone with a tendency to
fantasise will develop HSAM, though, so Patihis
suggests that something must have
caused them to think so much about their past.
“Maybe
some
experience
in
their
childhood
meant
that
they
became
obsessed
(
着迷）
with
calendars and what happened to
them,”says
Patihis.
[L]
The people
with HSAM I’ve interviewed would certainly agree
that it can be a
mixed
blessing.
On
the
plus
side,
it
allows
you
to
relive
the
most
transformative
and
enriching experiences. Veiseh, for
instance, travelled a lot in his youth. In his
spare time,he
visited the local art
galleries, and the paintings are now lodged deep
in his autobiographical
memories.
[M]
“Imagine
being able to remember every painting, on every
wall, in every
gallery
space,
between
nearly
40
countri
es
，
”
he
says.
“That’
s a
big education in art
by
itself.
”
With
this
comprehensive
knowledge
of
the
history
of
art,
he
has
since
become
a
professional painter.
[N]
Donohue, now
a history teacher, agrees that it helped during
certain parts of her
education. “I can
definitely remember what I learned
on
certain days at school. I could
imagine
what the teacher was saying or what it looked like
in the
book.”
[O]
Not everyone
with HSAM has experienced these benefits, however.
Viewing the
past in high definition can
make it very difficult to get over pain and
regret.
“It
can be very
hard to forget embarrassing
moments,”
says Donohue.
“You
feel the same
emotions
—
it is
just as raw, just as fresh... You
can’t
turn off that stream
of memories, no matter how hard
you
try.”
Veiseh agrees.
“It
is like having these
open wounds
—
they are just a
part of
you,”
he says.
[P]
This means
they often have to make a special effort to lay
the past to rest. Bill, for
instance,
often gets painful
“flashbacks”
，
in
which unwanted memories intrude into his
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consciousness, but overall he has
chosen to see it as the best way of avoiding
repeating the
same mistakes. “Some
people are absorbed in the past but not open to
new memories, but
that’s
not
the case for me. I look forward to each day and
experiencing something
new.”
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36.
People with
HSAM have the same memory as ordinary people when
it comes
t
o
impersonal information.
37.
Fantasy
proneness will not necessarily cause people to
develop HSAM.
38.
Veiseh began
to remember the details of his everyday
experiences after he met his
first
young love.
39.
Many more people with HSAM started to
contact researchers due to the
mass
media.
40.
People with
HSAM often have to make efforts to avoid focusing
on the
p
ast.
41.
Most people do not have clear memories
of past events.
42.
HSAM can be
both a curse and a blessing.
43.
A
young woman sought explanation from a brain
scientist when she noticed her
unusual
memory.
44.
Some people with HSAM find it very hard
to get rid of unpleasant memories.
45.
A
recent study of people with HSAM reveals that they
are liable to fantasy and
full
absorption in an activity.
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.
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Passage One
Questions 46 to 50 are based on the
following passage.
The
phrase almost completes itself: midlife crisis.
It’s the stage in the middle of the
journey
when
people
feel
youth
vanishing,
their
prospects
narrowing
and
death
approaching.
There’s only
one prob
lem with the cliche
(
套话
).It isn’t
true.
“In
fact, there is almost no
hard evidence for midlife crisis other than a few
small pilot
studies conducted decades
ago,”
Barbara Hagerty writes
in her new book,
Life
Reimagined
.
The vast bulk of
the research shows that there may be a pause, or a
shifting of gears in the
40s or 50s,
but this shift “can be exciting, rather
than
terrifying”.
Barbara
Hagerty
looks
at
some
of
the
features
of
people
who
turn
midlife
into
a
rebirth.
They
break
routines,
because
“autopilot
is
death”.
They
choose
purpose
over
happiness
一
having a clear
sense of purpose even reduces the risk of
Alzheimer’s
disease.
They give priority to relationships, as
careers often recede(
逐渐淡化
).
Life Reimagined
paints a
picture of middle age that is far from gloomy.
Midlife seems
like the second big phase
of decision-making. Your identity has been formed;
you’ve
built
up
your resources; and now you have the chance to
take the big risks precisely because
your foundation is already secure.
Karl Barth described midlife precisely
this way. At middle age, he wrote,
“the
sowing
is
behind;
now
is
the
time
to
reap.
The
run
has
been
taken;
now
is
the
time
to
leap.
Preparation has been made; now is the
time for the venture of the work
i
tself.”
The middle-aged person, Barth
continued, can see death in the distance, but
moves
with a “measured haste” to get
big new things done while there is still
time.
What Barth wrote
decades ago is even truer today. People are
healthy and energetic
longer. We have
presidential candidates running for their first
term in office at age 68, 69
and 74. A
longer lifespan is changing the narrative
structure of life itself. What could have
been considered the beginning of a
descent is now a potential turning
point
—
the turning
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point you are most equipped to take
full advantage of.
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46.
What does the
author think of the phrase “midlife
crisis”
？
A)
It
has led to a lot of debate.
C) It is no
longer fashionable.
B) It is widely
acknowledged.
D) It misrepresents real
life.
47.
How does
Barbara Hagerty view midlife?
A)
It
may be the beginning of a crisis.
B)
It can be a
new phase of one’s
life.
C)
It can be
terrifying for the unprepared.
D)
It may see
old-age diseases approaching.
48.
How is midlife pictured in the book
Life Reimagined
?
A)
It
can be quite rose.
B)
It can be
burdensome.
C)
It undergoes radical transformation.
D)
It
makes for the best part of one’s
life.
49.
According to
Karl Barth, midlife is
t
he
time
.
A)
to relax
B) to mature
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C) to harvest
D) to
reflect
50.
What does the
author say about midlife today?
A)
It
is more meaningful than other stages of
life.
B)
It is likely
to change the narrative of one’s
life,
C)
It
is more important to those with a longer lifespan.
D)
I
t is likely to be a
critical turning point in one’s
l
ife.
Passage Two
Questions 51 to 55 are
based on the following passage.
In spring, chickens start laying again,
bringing a welcome source of protein at
winter’s
end. So
it’s
no surprise that
cultures around the world celebrate spring by
honoring the egg.
Some traditions are
simple, like the red eggs that get baked into
Greek Easter breads.
Others elevate the
egg into a fancy art, like the heavily
jewel-
covered “eggs” that were
favored by the Russians starting in the
19th century.
One ancient form of egg
art comes to us from Ukraine. For centuries,
Ukrainians have
been
drawing
complicated
patterns
on
eggs.
Contemporary
artists
have
followed
this
tradition to create
eggs that speak to the anxieties of our age: Life
is precious, and delicate.
Eggs are,
too.
“There’s something about their
delicate nature that appeals to me,” says
New Yorker
cartoonist Roz
Chast. Several
years ago, she became
interested in eggs and learned the
traditional Ukrainian technique to draw
her very modem characters. “I’ve broken eggs at
every stage of the
process
—from the very beginning to the
very, very end.”
But
there’s an appeal in that
vulnerability. “There’s part of this sickening
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knowing
you’re
walking on the edge with this, that I kind of
like, knowing that it could all
fall
apart at any second.” Chast’s designs, such as a
worried man alone in a tiny rowboat,
reflect that delicateness.
Traditional Ukrainian decorated eggs
also spoke to those fears. The elaborate patterns
were believed to offer protection
against evil.
“There’s an ancient
legend that as long as these eggs are made, evil
will not prevail
in the world,” says
Joan Brander, a Canadian egg
-painter
who has been painting eggs for
over 60
years, having learned the art from her Ukrainian
relatives.
The
tradition,
dating
back
to
300
B.C.,
was
later
incorporated
into
the
Christian
church. The old
symbols, however, still endure. A decorated egg
with a bird on it, given to
a young
married couple, is a wish for children. A
decorated egg thrown into the field would
be a wish for a good harvest.
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51.
Why do people
in many cultures prize the egg?
A)
It
is a welcome sign of the coming of spring.
B)
It
is their major source of protein in winter.
C)
It
can easily be made into a work of art.
D)
It can bring
wealth and honor to them.
52.
What do we learn about the decorated
“eggs” in
Russia?
A)
They are shaped like jewel cases.
B)
They are cherished by the rich.
C)
They are heavily painted in red.
D)
They are favored as a form of art.
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53.
Why have contemporary artists continued
the egg art tradition?
A)
Eggs serve as
an enduring symbol of new life.
B)
Eggs have an
oval shape appealing to artists.
C)
Eggs reflect
the anxieties of people today.
D)
Eggs provide a
unique surface to paint on.
54.
Why does Chast enjoy the process of
decorating eggs?
A)
She never
knows if the egg will break before the design is
completed.
B)
She can add multiple details to the
design to communicate her idea.
C)
She always
derives great pleasure from designing something
new.
D)
She is never
sure what the final design will look like until
the
end.
55.
What do we learn from the passage about
egg-painting?
A)
It originated
in the eastern part of Europe.
B)
It has a
history of over two thousand years.
C)
It is the most
time-honored form of fancy art.
D)
It is
especially favored as a church decoration.
P
art
IV
Translation
(30
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For this part,
you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage
from
Chinese into English. You should
write your answer on
Answer Sheet
2
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珠江是华南一大河系，流经广州市，是中国第三长的河流，仅次于长江和
黄河。珠江三角
洲
(delta)
是中国最发达的地
区之一，面积约
11
，
000
平方公里。
它在面积和人口方面也是世界上最大的城市聚集区。珠江三角洲九个最大城
市共
有
5700
多万人口。上世纪
70
年代末中国改革开放以来，珠江三角洲已成为中国
和世界主要经济区域和制
造中心之一。
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珠江是华南第一大
河系，流经广州市，是中国第三长的河流，仅次于长江和
黄河。
The Pearl River, thelargest
river system of southern China that flows
through Guangzhou, is thethird longest
river in China, only second to the
Yangtze River and the YellowRiver.
珠江三角洲是中国最发达的地区之一，面积约为
11000
平方公里。
The Pearl RiverDelta isone of the most
developed regions in China
with an area
of about 11,000 squarekilometers.
它在面积和人口方面也是世界上最大的城市聚集区。
It is also the
greatesturban areasin both size and population all
over the world.
珠江三角洲九个最大城市共有
5,700
多万人口。上世纪
70
年代末中国
改革开
放以来，珠江三角洲已成为中国和世界主要经济区域和制造中心之一。
The nine largest
cities ofthe Pearl River Delta totally have a
population of more than 57 million.
Sincethe Chinese reform and
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up in the late 1970s, the Pearl River
Delta hasbecome one of the major
economic regions and manufacturing
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第二套
)
Part I
minutes)
Writing
(25
(
请于正式开考后半小时内完成该部分，之后将进行听力考试
)
Directions:
For this part,
you are allowed 30 minutes to write an
advertisement on your
campus website to
sell a bicycle you used at college. Your
advertisement may include its
brand,
features,condition and price, and your contact
information. You should write at
least
120
words but no more than
180
words.
Part II
minutes)
Section A
Listening Comprehension
(30
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
questions will be
spoken only once.
After you hear questions, 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.
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答题卡
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上作答。
Questions 1 to 2 are based on the
conversation you have just heard.
1.
A) The
majority of drivers prefer to drive and park
themselves.
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B)
Human drivers become easily distracted
or tired while driving.
C)
Most drivers
feel uncertain about the safety of self-driving
cars.
D)
Most drivers have test driven cars with
automatic braking features.
2.
A) Their drivers would feel safe after
getting used to the automatic devices.
B)
They would be
unpopular with drivers who only trust their own
skills.
C)
Their
increased comfort levels have boosted their sales.
D)
They are not actually as safe as
automakers advertise.
Questions 3 to 4 are based
on the conversation you have just heard.
3.
A)
Thefts of snowmobile dogs in Alaska.
B)
A series of
injuries to snowmobile drivers.
C)
Attacks on
some Iditarod Race competitors.
D)
A serious
accident in the Alaska sports event.
4.
A) He stayed behind to look after his
injured dogs.
B)
He has won the Alaska Iditarod Race
four times.
C)
He received a minor injury in the
Iditarod Race.
D)
He has quit
the competition in Alaska for good.
Questions 5 to
7 are based on the conversation you have just
heard.
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5.
A) It sank into the sea due to
overloading.
B)
It ran into Nicaragua’s Big
Corn
Island.
C)
It disappeared between two large
islands.
D)
It turned over because of strong winds.
6.
A) 13.
C) 30.
B) 25.
D)32.
7.
A) He has helped with the rescue
effort.
B)
He is being investigated by the police.
C)
He
was drowned with the passengers.
D)
He is among
those people missing.
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)
At a shopping centre.
B) At a community
college.
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C) At an accountancy firm.
9.
C) Sorting application forms.
A) Helping out with data input.
D) At an IT company.
B)
Arranging interviews.
D) Making phone
calls.
10.
A) He enjoys using computers.
B)
He needs the
money badly.
C)
He wants to work in the city centre.
D)
He
has relevant working experience.
11.
A) Purchase
some business suits.
B)
Learn some computer language.
C)
Improve his
programming skills.
D)
Review some
accountancy terms.
Questions 12 to 15 are
based on the conversation you have just heard.
12.
B)
They are poor
at technology skills.
C)
They often
listen to National Public Radio.
D)
They feel
superior in science and technology.
A)
They are keen on high technology.
13.
A) Japanese.
B)
Germans.
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C)
Poles.
D) Americans.
14.
A) Emailing.
C) Science.
B) Texting.
D) Literacy.
15.
A) It is undergoing a drastic reform.
B)
It lays
emphasis on creative thinking.
C)
It has much
room for improvement.
D)
It prioritizes
training of practical skills.
Section C
Directions:
In this section,
you will hear three passages of lectures or talks
followed
by
three
or
four
questions.
The
recordings
will
be
played
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) They have small roots.
C) They taste like apples.
D) They come from Central Africa.
B) They grow white flowers.
17.
A) They turned from white to purple in
color.
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B)
They became
popular on the world market.
C)
They became an
important food for humans.
D)
They began to
look like modern-day carrots.
18.
A) They were
found quite nutritious.
B)
There were serious food shortages.
C)
People
discovered their medicinal value.
D)
Farm machines
helped lower their prices.
Questions 19
to 21 are based on the passage you have just
heard.
19.
A) She
could update her family any time she liked.
B)
She could call
up her family whenever she liked
C)
She could
locate her friends wherever they were.
D)
She could
download as many pictures as she liked.
20.
A) She liked
to inform her friends about her success.
B)
She enjoyed
reading her friends’ status
updates.
C)
She felt quite
popular among them.
D)
She felt she was a teenager again.
21.
A) She could
barely respond to all her 500 Facebook friends.
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B)
She spent
more time updating her friends than her
family.
C)
She could barely balance Facebook
updates and her
w
ork.
D)
She didn’t
seem to be doing as well as her
Facebook
friends.
Questions
22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just
heard.
22.
A)
They have strong muscles.
B)
They live a longer life than horses.
C)
They eat much
less in winter.
D)
They can work longer than donkeys.
23.
A) It was a
pet of a Spanish king.
B)
It was bought by George Washington.
C)
It was brought
over from Spain.
D)
It was donated by a U.S. Ambassador.
24.
A) They met
and exchanged ideas on animal breeding.
B)
They
participated in a mule-driving competition.
C)
They showed
and traded animals in the market.
D)
They fed mules
with the best food they could find.
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25.
A) The wider use of horses.
C) A shrinking animal trade.
B) The arrival of tractors.
D) A growing donkey population.
Part
Ⅲ
minutes)
Reading
Comprehension
(40
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 26 to 35 are based on the
following passage.
America’s Internet is fester than ever
before, but people still complain
about
their
Internet being too slow.
New York’s Attorney
General’s
office (26)
an
investigation in the fall into
whether
or not Verizon, Cablevision and Time Warner are
delivering broadband that’s as
fast as
the providers (27)
it is. Earlier this
month, the office asked for the
public’s
help to measure
their speed results, saying consumers (28)
to get the speeds they
were promised.
“To
o many of us may be
paying for one thing, and getting
another
，
”
the
Attorney General said.
If
the investigation uncovers anything, it
wouldn’t
be the first time a
telecom provider
got
into
(29)
over the
broadband
speeds it
promised and
delivered
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Back in June, the Federal
Communications Commission fined AT& T $$ 100
million over
(30)
that the
carrier secretly reduced wireless speeds after
customers consumed a
certain amount of
(31)
.
Even when
they stay on the right side of the law, Internet
providers arouse
customers’
anger over bandwidth speed and cost.
Just this week, an investigation found that media
and
telecom giant Comcast is
the most (32)
provider.
Over
10
months,
Comcast
received
nearly
12,000
customer complaints, many (33)
to its monthly data cap and overage
(
超过额度
的）
charges.
Some Americans are getting so
(34)
giving up. A recent
with
Internet
providers
they’re
just
study found that the
number of Americans with high-speed Internet at
home today (35)
fell
during the last two years, and 15% of people now
consider themselves to
be
“
cord-
cutters.
”
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A)accusations
E)
complain
I) hated
M) trouble
B) actually
F) data
J) launched
N) usually
C) claim
G) deserved
K) relating
O) worried
D) communicating
H) frustrated
L) times
Section B
Directions:
In this section,
you are going to read a passage with ten
statements
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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
.
From Accountant
to Yogi: Making a Radical Career Change
[A]
At some point, almost all of us will
experience a period of radical professional
change. Some of us will seek it out;
for others it will feel like an unwelcome
intrusion into
otherwise stable
careers. Either way, we have choices about how we
respond to it when it
comes.
[B]
We recently
caught up with yoga entrepreneur Leah Zaccaria,
who put herself
through the fire of
change to completely reinvent herself. In her
search to live a life of
purpose,
Leah
left
her
high-paying
accounting
job,
her
husband,
and
her
home,
hi
the
process,
she built a radically new life and career. Since
then, she has founded two yoga
studios,
met a new life
partner,
and
formed a new community
of people. Even
if
your
personal reinvention
is less drastic, we think there are lessons from
her experience that
apply.
[C]
Where do the
seeds of change come from? the Native American
Indians have a
saying: “Pay attention
to the whispers so you won’t have to hear the
screams.” Often the
best ideas for big
changes come from unexpected places
—
it’s just
a matter of tuning in.
Great
leaders recognize the weak signals or slight signs
that point to big changes to come.
Leah
reflects on a time she listened to the whispers:
“About
the time my daughter
was five
years old. I started having a
sense that ‘this isn’t right.”’ She then realized
that her life no
longer matched her
vision for it.
[D]
Up
until
that
point,
Leah
had
followed
traditional
measures
of
success.
After
graduating with a degree in business
and accounting, she joined a public accounting
firm,
married, bought a house, put lots
of stuff in it, and had a baby. “I did what
everybody
else
thought
looked successful,” she says. Leah easily could
have fallen into a trap of feeling
content; instead, her energy sparked a
period of experimentation and renewal.
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[E]
Feeling
the
need
to
change,
Leah
started
playing
with
future
possibilities
by
exploring her interests and developing
new capabilities. First trying physical exercise
and
dieting, she
lost some
weight and discovered an inner strength. “1 felt
powerful because
1
broke
through my own limitations,” she
recalls.
[F]
However, it was another interest that
led Leah to radically reinvent herself. “I
remember sitting on a bench with my
aunt at a yoga studio,’’ she said, having a moment
of clarity right then and there: Yoga
is saving my life. Yoga is waking me up. I’m not
happy and I want to change and
I’m
done with
this.”
In that moment of
clarity Leah made
an
important
leap,conquering
her
inner
resistance
to
change
and
making
a
firm
commitment
to take bigger steps.
[G]
Creating
the
future
you
want
is
a
lot
easier
if
you
are
ready
to
exploit
the
opportunities
that
come
your
way.
When
Leah
made
the
commitment
to
change,
she
primed herself to new opportunities she
may otherwise have overlooked. She recalls:
[H]
One day a man
I worked with, Ryan, who had his office next to
mine, said,
“Leah,
let’s go
look at this space on Queen Anne.” He knew my love
for yoga and had seen a
space close to
where he lived that he thought might be good to
serve as a yoga studio. As
soon as I
saw the location, I knew this was it. Of course I
was scared, yet I had this strong
sense
of “I have to do this.” Only a few months later
Leah opened her first yoga studio,
but
success was not instant.
[I]
Creating the future takes time. That’s
why leaders continue t
o manage the
present
while building toward the big
changes of the future. When
it’s
time to make the leap,
they
take action and immediately drop
what’s no longer serving their purpose. Initially
Leah
stayed with her accounting job
while starting up the yoga studio to make it all
work.
[J]
Soon after, she knew she had to make a
bold move to fully commit to her new
future. Within two years, Leah shed the
safety of her accounting job and made the switch
complete. Such drastic change is not
easy.
[K]
Steering through change and facing
obstacles brings us face to face with our fears.
Leah reflects on one incident that
triggered her fears, when her investors threatened
to shut
her down:
“
I was probably up against
the most fear
I’ve
ever
had
，
”
she says.
“
I had spent
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two years cultivating this community,
and it had become successful very fast, but within
six months I was facing the prospect of
losing it all.”
[L]
She connected
with her sense of purpose and dug deep,
cultivating a tremendous
sense of
strength.
“I
was feeling so
intentional and strong that I
wasn’t
going to let fear
just
take
over.
I
was
thinking,
‘OK,
guys,
if
you
want
to
try
to
shut
me
down,
shut
me
down.’And
I
knew it was a negotiation scheme, so I was able to
say to myself,
‘This
is not
real.’” By naming her fears and facing
them head
-on, Leah gained confidence.
For most
of us, letting go of the
safety and security of the past gives us great
fear. Calling out our
fears explicitly,
as Leah did,can help us act decisively.
[M]
The cycle of
renewal never ends. Leah’s growth spurred her to
open her second
studio
—
and it wasn’t for the
money.
[N]
I have no
desire to make millions of dollars. It’s not about
that; it’s about
growth
for
me. Honestly, I
didn’t
need
to open a second studio. I was making as much
money as I
was as an accountant. But I
know if you
don’t
grow, you
stand still, and that
doesn’t
work
for
me.
[O]
Consider
the current moment in your own life, your team or
your organization.
Where
are
you
in
the
cycle
of
renewal:
Are
you
actively
preserving
the
present,
or
selectively forgetting the past, or
boldly creating the future? What advice would Leah
give
you
to
move
you
ahead
on
your
journey?
Once
we’re
on
the
path
of
growth,
we
can
continually move through the seasons of
transformation and renewal.
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Readiness to
take advantage of new opportunities will make it
easier to create
o
ne
’s
desired future.
37.
By
conventional standards, Leah was a typical
successful woman before she changed
her
career.
38.
Leah
gained confidence by laying out her fears and
confronting them directly.
39.
In search of
a meaningful life, Leah gave up what she had and
set up her own yoga
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studios.
40
Leah's interest in yoga prompted her to make a
firm decision to reshape her life.
41.
Small signs
may indicate great changes to come and therefore
merit
attention.
42.
Leah’s first
yoga studio was by no means a
n
immediate success.
43.
Some people
regard professional change as an unpleasant
experience that disturbs
their stable
careers.
44.
The
worst fear Leah ever had was the prospect of
losing her yoga business.
45.
As she
explored new interests and developed new
potentials
，
Leah felt
powerful
internally.
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 One
Questions 46 to 50 are based on the
following passage.
The
Urbanization
—
migration
away from the suburbs to the city center
—
will be
the
biggest real estate trend in 2015, according to a
new report.
The report says
America’s
urbanization will
continue to be the most significant issue
affecting
the
industry,
as
cities
across
the
country
imitate
the
walkability
and
transit-
oriented development making cities like
New York and San Francisco so successful.
As smaller cities copy the model of
these
“24
-hour
cities
，
’’
tfiore
affordable versions
of these places
will be created. The report refers to this as the
coming of the
“18
-hour
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city
，
”
，
and uses the term to refer to cities
like Houston, Austin, Charlotte, and Nashville,
which
are
“positioning
themselves
as
highly
competitive,
in
terms
of
livability,
employment
offerings, and recreational and cultural
facilities.”
Another
trend
that
looks
significant
in
2015
is
that
America’s
largest
population
group,
Millennials
(
千禧一代
)
，
will continue
to put off buying a house. Apartments will
retain their appeal for a while for
Millennials, haunted by what happened to home-
owning
parents.
This
trend
will
continue
into
the
2020s,
the
report
projects.
After
that,
survey
respondents disagree over whether this
generation will follow in their
parents
，
footsteps,
moving to the suburbs to raise
families, or will choose to remain in the city
center.
Another
issue
affecting
real
estate
in
the
coming
year
will
be
America’s
failing
infrastructure.
Most
roads,
bridges,
transit,
water
systems,
the
electric
grid,
and
communications networks were installed
50 to 100 years ago, and they are largely taken
for granted until they fail.
The
report’s
writers state that
America’s
failure to invest in infrastructure impacts not
only the health of the real-estate
market, but also our ability to remain globally
competitive.
Apart
from
the
specific
trends
highlighted
above,
which
cause
some
investors
to
worry,
the
report
portrays
an
overall
optimism
borne
by
the
recent
healthy
real-estate
“upcycle”
and
improving
economy.
Seventy
-four
percent
of
the
respondents
surveyed
report
a
“good
to
excellent”
expectation
of
real
-estate
profitability
in
2015.
While
excessive
optimism
can
promote
bad
investment
patterns,
resulting
in
a
real-
estate
“bubble,”
the
report’s
writers
downplay
that
potential
outcome
in
that
it
has
not
yet
occurred.
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46.
According to
the new report, real estate development in 2015
w
ill witness
.
A)
an accelerating speed
B)
a shift to
city centers
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a new focus on small cities
D)
an ever-
increasing
demand
47.
What characterizes
“24
-hour
cities”
like New
York?
A)
People can
live without private cars.
B)
People are
generally more competitive.
C)
People can
enjoy services around the
clock.
D)
People are in
harmony with the environment.
48.
Why are
Millennials reluctant to buy a house?
A)
They can only
afford small apartments.
B)
The house prices are currently too
high.
C)
Their
parents' bad experience still haunts them.
D)
They feel
attached to the suburban environment.
49.
What might
hinder real estate development in the U.S.?
A)
The continuing
economic recession in the country.
B)
The lack of
confidence on the part of investors.
C)
The fierce
global competition.
D)
The worsening infrastructure.
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50.
How do most of the respondents in the
survey feel about the U.S. real-estate
market
in 2015?
A)
Pessimistic.
C)
Cautious.
D) Uncertain.
B) Hopeful.
Passage Two
Questions 51 to 55 are based on the
following passage.
The
brain
is
a
seemingly
endless
library,
whose
shelves
house
our
most
precious
memories
as
well
as
our
lifetime’s
knowledge.
But
is
there
a
point
where
it
reaches
capacity?
The
answer
is
no,
because
brains
are
more
sophisticated
than
that.
Instead
of
just
crowding in, old
information is sometimes pushed out of the brain
for new memories to
form.
Previous behavioural studies have shown
that learning new information can lead to
forgetting. But in a new study,
researchers demonstrated for the first time how
this effect
occurs in the brain.
In daily life, forgetting actually has
clear advantages. Imagine, for instance, that you
lost your bank card. The new card you
receive will come with a new personal
identificatipn
number (PIN). Each time
you remember the new PIN, you gradually forget the
old one.
This process improves access
to relevant information, without old memories
interfering.
And most of us
may sometimes feel the frustration of having old
memories interfere
with new, relevant
memories. Consider trying to remember where you
parked your car in
the same car park
you were at a week earlier. This type of memory
(where you are trying
to remember new,
but similar information) is particularly
vulnerable to interference.
When we
acquire new information, the brain automatically
tries to
incorporate
(
合
并
)it within
existing information by forming associations. And
when we
retrieve
(
检索
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information, both the desired and
associated but irrelevant information is
recalled.,
The majority of
previous research has focused on how we learn and
remember new
information. But current
studies are beginning to place greater emphasis on
the conditions
under which we forget,
as its importance begins to be more appreciated.
A very small number of people are able
to remember almost every detail of their life.
While it may sound like an advantage to
many, people with this rare condition often find
their unusual ability burdensome.
In a sense, forgetting is our brain’s
way of sorting memories, so the most relevant
memories are ready for retrieval.
Normal forgetting may even be a safety mechanism
to
ensure our brain doesn’t become too
full.
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51.
What have
past behavioural studies found about our brain?
A)
Its capacity actually knows no limits.
B)
It
grows sophisticated with practice.
C)
It keeps our
most precious memories until life’s
end.
D)
New information learned pushes old
information out.
52.
What is the benefit of forgetting?
A)
It
frees us from painful memories.
B)
It helps slow
down our aging process.
C)
It facilitates
our access to relevant information.
D)
It prevents
old information from forming associations.
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53.
What is the
emphasis of current studies of memory?
A)
When people
tend to forget.
B)
What
contributes to forgetting.
C)
How new
technology hinders memory capacity.
D)
Why learning
and forgetting arc complementary.
54.
What do people find about their rare
ability to remember every detail of their
life?
A)
It adds to the
burden of their memory.
B)
It makes their
life more complicated.
C)
It contributes
to their success in life.
D)
It constitutes
a rare object of envy.
55.
What does the passage say about
forgetting?
A)
It can enlarge our brain capacity.
B)
It
helps get rid of negative memories.
C)
It is a way of
organising our memories.
D)
It should not
cause any alarm in any way.
P
art IV
Translation
(30
minutes)
Directions:
For this part, you are allowed 30
minutes to translate a passage from
Chinese into English. You should write
your answer on
Answer Sheet
2
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