Part I Listening Comprehension ( 11 minutes )
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear ten statements. Numbers 1 to 6 are based on Text A while the rest are based on Text B. Each statement will be read ONLY ONCE. Listen carefully and decide whether each statement is true or false.
1.
A) T
B) F
Script: The pole was set as high as Michael Stone's personal best record.
正确答案： B
2.
A) T
B) F
Script: The pole vault competition is not important in the track and field competition.
正确答案： B
3.
A) T
B) F
Script: Coaches always dreamed of athletes' dedication, determination and discipline. Michael was a good example in this aspect.
正确答案： A
4.
A) T
B) F
Script: When Michael felt nervous even afraid facing the height, his mother's words echoed in his mind and worked.
正确答案： A
5.
A) T
B) F
Script: Michael didn't even think of winning the first place, as he thought that winning second place was not shameful.
正确答案： B
6.
A) T
B) F
Script: Michael's life would be different, only as he won the National Junior Olympics and set a new record and won the media's attention and sponsorship.
正确答案： B
7.
A) T
B) F
Script: The writer was born in a winter of 1904, and was the youngest child in the farming family.
正确答案： B
8.
A) T
B) F
Script: The sudden progressive disease depressed the author and deterred him from wandering about outside.
正确答案： B
9.
A) T
B) F
Script: The writer grew impatient with the old man and little daughter as they charged him a lot of money for changing the tire.
正确答案： B
10.
A) T
B) F
Script: When the old man turned out to be blind, the writer thought that while the old man was blind in sight, he, himself, was blind in mind.
正确答案： A
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
The Scottish Government is firmly (11)_________________ equality for disabled people and is (12)_________________ to create a Scotland that is fair and (13)_________________ to all. Disabled people make up (14)_________________ one fifth of Scotland's population, yet often experience high levels of (15)_________________ compared to non-disabled people.
This part of the Scottish Government website aims to give an (16)_________________ of work being undertaken by the Government to (17)_________________ equality and inclusion for disabled people, and also provides information about how the Government is meeting its (18)_________________ under legislation. Nearly one in five people of working age (1 million, or 19%) in Scotland are disabled. Almost half (45%) of the disabled population of working age in Britain are economically inactive. (19)_________________ vary greatly according to the type of impairment a person has. In Scotland, responsibilities for issues that affect disabled people are split between issues (20)_________________ the UK Government, and areas that the Scottish Government is responsible for.
Script: The Scottish Government is firmly committed to equality for disabled people and is striving to create a Scotland that is fair and inclusive to all. Disabled people make up approximately one fifth of Scotland's population, yet often experience high levels of inequality compared to non-disabled people.
This part of the Scottish Government website aims to give an overview of work being undertaken by the Government to promote equality and inclusion for disabled people, and also provides information about how the Government is meeting its duties under legislation. Nearly one in five people of working age (1 million, or 19%) in Scotland are disabled. Almost half (45%) of the disabled population of working age in Britain are economically inactive. Employment rates vary greatly according to the type of impairment a person has. In Scotland, responsibilities for issues that affect disabled people are split between issues reserved to the UK Government, and areas that the Scottish Government is responsible for.
正确答案： committed to
正确答案： striving
正确答案： inclusive
正确答案： approximately
正确答案： inequality
正确答案： overview
正确答案： promote
正确答案： duties
正确答案： Employment rates
正确答案： reserved to
Part II Reading Comprehension ( 24 minutes )
Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with several 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. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
I know the idea of 21 a heroine is considered 22 today; we working women are too 23 for that. Yet the superwomen I read about are my 24 . When my faith in myself 25 , it is they who urge me on, whispering, "Go 26 it, lady!"
One of these days I plan to phone my former classmate Kate and shout "Well 27 !" into the receiver. I hope she won't be modest about her 28 . Perhaps she will have completed her dissertation and her two books and moved on to some new work that's exciting or dangerous or both. I'd like to hear all about it. After that I'm going to phone the friend who laughed at me for believing all the stories I hear. Then I'll tell her a story: the tale of a woman who bought her own 29 of that bridge in Brooklyn and found that it was a wise 30 after all.
A) heroines B) falters C) stops D) done
E) version F) admiring G) naive H) achievements
I) for J) with K) sophisticated L) investment
M) action N) silly O) worshipping
21. ______________________
正确答案： F
22. ______________________
正确答案： N
23. ______________________
正确答案： K
24. ______________________
正确答案： A
25. ______________________
正确答案： B
26. ______________________
正确答案： I
27. ______________________
正确答案： D
28. ______________________
正确答案： H
29. ______________________
正确答案： E
30. ______________________
正确答案： L
Section B
Directions: There are several 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.
Passage One
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.
Adrian's "Amazing Race" started early when his parents realized that he, as a baby, couldn't hear a thing, not even loud noises. In a special school for the hearing-impaired, he learned sign language and got to mix with other disabled children. However, the sight of all the disabled children communicating with one another upset his mother. She wanted him to lead a normal life. So after speaking to an advisor, she sent him to private classes where he learned to read lips and pronounce words.
Later on, Adrian's parents decided to send him to a regular school. But the headmaster tried to prevent them from doing so; saying regular school couldn't take care of special needs students. His parents were determined to take the risk and push him hard to go through his work everyday because they wanted to prove that, given the opportunity, he could do anything. Adrian made the grade and got accepted. It was a big challenge. The pace was faster so he had to sit at the front of the class and really pay attention to the teacher, which wasn't always easy. But he stuck to it and did a lot of extra work after school.
The efforts made by Adrian and his parents paid off. Adrian graduated with good grades and got into a top high school. He also achieved a lot in life outside school. He developed a love for the outdoors and went to Nepal to climb mountains. He even entered the World Yacht Race 05/06 – being the first hearing-impaired Asian to do so.
But none of these achievements would have been possible without one of the most important lessons from his mother. "If you believe in yourself and work hard, you can achieve great results." She often said.
31.
How did Adrian communicate with other children and teacher in regular school?
A) By speaking.
B) By using sign language.
C) By learning to read lips and pronounce words.
D) By making loud noises.
正确答案： C
32.
Adrian's parents decided to send him to a regular school because ____.
A) they wanted to prove the headmaster wrong
B) they wanted him to lead a normal life
C) he wouldn't mix with other disabled children
D) he wasn't taken good care of in the special school
正确答案： B
33.
The sentence "The efforts made by Adrian and his parents paid off." (in Para.3) means that ____.
A) Adrian and his parents paid a lot to reach the goal
B) the efforts took a lot of money
C) the final achievements proved that their efforts were worthwhile
D) the efforts were useless
正确答案： C
34.
What did Adrian actually do to succeed in his study?
A) He did a lot of outdoor activities.
B) He was pushed hard to study every day.
C) He attended private classes after school.
D) He worked very hard both in and after class.
正确答案： D
35.
Why is Adrian’s life described as an "Amazing Race"?
A) He did very well in his study.
B) He succeeded in entering a regular school.
C) He achieved a lot in spite of his disability.
D) He took part in the World Yacht Race 05/06.
正确答案： C
Passage Two
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.
Police fired tear gas and arrested more than 5,000 passively resisting protestors Friday in an attempt to break up the largest antinuclear demonstration ever staged in the United States. More than 135,000 demonstrators confronted police on the construction site of a 1,000-megawatt nuclear power plant scheduled to provide power to most of southern New Hampshire. Organizers of the huge demonstration said, the protest was continuing despite the police actions. More demonstrators were arriving to keep up the pressure on state authorities to cancel the project. The demonstrator had charged that the project was unsafe in the densely populated area, which would create thermal pollution in the bay, and had no acceptable means for disposing of its radioactive wasters. The demonstrations would go on until the jails and the courts were so overloaded that the state judicial system would collapse.
Governor Stanforth Thumper insisted that there would be no reconsideration of the power project and no delay in its construction set for completion in three years. "This project will begin on time and the people of this state will begin to receive its benefits on schedule. Those who break the law in misguided attempts to sabotage the project will be dealt with according to the law," he said. And police called in reinforcements from all over the state to handle the disturbances.
The protests began before dawn Friday when several thousand demonstrators broke through police lines around the cordoned-off construction site. They carried placards that read "No Nukes is Good Nukes," "Sunpower, Not Nuclear Power," and "Stop Private Profits from Public Peril." They defied police order to move from the area. Tear gas canisters fired by police failed to dislodge the protestors who had come prepared with their own gas masks or facecloths. Finally gas-masked and helmeted police charged into the crowd to drag off the demonstrators one by one. The protestors did not resist police, but refused to walk away under their own power. Those arrested would be charged with unlawful assembly, trespassing, and disturbing the peace.
36.
The demonstrators were protesting for ____.
A) private profits
B) nuclear power station
C) the project of nuclear power construction
D) public peril
正确答案： C
37.
____wore gas-masks.
A) Everybody
B) A part of the protestors
C) Policemen
D) Both B and C
正确答案： D
38.
Which of the following was NOT mentioned as a reason for the demonstration?
A) Disposal of wastes.
B) Public peril.
C) Pollution.
D) Public transportation.
正确答案： D
39.
Why would the state judicial system collapse?
A) Because the state judicial system itself was too fragile.
B) Because the court and jail were too crowded to accommodate those arrested demonstrators.
C) Because the demonstrators wanted to abolish the current state judicial system.
D) Because the state authority wanted to abolish it and set up a new one.
正确答案： B
40.
What is the attitude of Governor Stanforth Thumper toward the power project?
A) Stubborn.
B) Insistent.
C) Insolvable.
D) Remissible.
正确答案： A
Part III Vocabulary and Structure ( 10 minutes )
Directions: There are a number of incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence.
41.
We were ________ by the news that they were getting divorced; they got married just a month ago and were considered such a perfect match.
A) relieved
B) startled
C) dismayed
D) disillusioned
正确答案： B
42.
She was ________ as she reached the top of the hill.
A) sweat
B) sweating
C) sweated
D) been sweated
正确答案： B
43.
________ my hand while we cross this street.
A) Hold on to
B) Hold to
C) Hold on
D) Hold onto
正确答案： A
44.
Anyone who has been overwhelmed by something only sees its ________, paying no attention to its defects.
A) grace
B) grate
C) gracious
D) graceful
正确答案： A
45.
They are rather ________ to purchase Chinese goods.
A) keened
B) long
C) keen
D) longed
正确答案： C
46.
Everyone cries sometimes — it's nothing to be ashamed __________.
A) for
B) about
C) over
D) of
正确答案： D
47.
He always did well at school ________ having to do part-time jobs every now and then.
A) in spite of
B) regardless of
C) on account of
D) in case of
正确答案： A
48.
A ______ from every person, no matter how small, will help the Red Cross reach the goal of $100,000.
A) contract
B) contribution
C) concentration
D) construction
正确答案： B
49.
If she marries a foreigner, will her ______ as a British citizen be affected?
A) reputation
B) credit
C) status
D) admission
正确答案： C
50.
His tastes and habits ______ with those of his wife.
A) agree
B) coincide
C) correspond
D) match
正确答案： B
51.
Smoking should be ______ in all public places like theatres, cinemas and restaurants.
A) banned
B) specified
C) passed
D) preserved
正确答案： A
52.
______ raw materials into useful products is called manufacturing.
A) Transform
B) Transforming
C) Being transformed
D) When transforming
正确答案： B
53.
Another big issue _________ the new republic is the problem of the education of its citizens.
A) confining
B) confirming
C) conforming
D) confronting
正确答案： D
54.
_________ three times in a row, the boxer decided to give up fighting.
A) Having defeated
B) To have defeat
C) Having been defeated
D) To have been defeated
正确答案： C
55.
I'd ______that house for the time being, as house prices are rising sharply at the moment.
A) hold on to
B) hold up
C) hold back
D) hold out
正确答案： A
56.
The weather broadcasting says that there will be bright ______ during the afternoon.
A) interval
B) interview
C) interrelation
D) interaction
正确答案： A
57.
______ is often the case with elder people, my grandma criticized my laziness nonstop everyday.
A) That
B) As
C) Which
D) It
正确答案： B
58.
We all know that it is imagination______ people usually lack______ makes the world colorful.
A) /; which
B) /; that
C) which; which
D) what; that
正确答案： B
59.
We saw many ads of this company in the stadium as the company had ______ the football match.
A) accredited
B) supported
C) sponsored
D) accompanied
正确答案： C
60.
This is the most serious ______ from his political foe, so he must be poised to face it.
A) problem
B) issue
C) danger
D) challenge
正确答案： D
Part IV Translation ( 10 minutes )
Directions: Complete the sentences by translating into English the Chinese given in brackets.
61. Our experience in learning English is that ____________________ (死记硬背无益).
正确答案： rote learning is of little help
62. ____________________ (与她富裕的邻居相比), Chun Chao was by far the poorest, but she never thought of giving up her dream of sending her children to school.
正确答案： In contrast to her affluent neighbors
63. Michael Stone's story proved the importance of ____________________ (坚持自己的梦想).
正确答案： holding on to one's dream
. After working for his father for ten years, he ____________________ (决定开辟自己的天地).
正确答案： decided to strike out on his own
65. I can't boot my computer now. ____________________ (一定出了毛病) with its operating system.
正确答案： There must be something wrong/There must be some errors/problems下载本文
