Part I Oral Communication(10points)
Section A
Directions:In this section there are two incomplete dialogues and each dialogue has three blanks and three choices A.B and C.taken from the dialogue.Fill in each of the blanks with one of the choices to complete the dialogue and mark your answer on
Alice:
Alice:
Alice:
Alice:line. Kevin:insights.
Alice:
Kevin：3
Alice:No,he’s flying to San Francisco and won’t be able to make it.
Kevin:Oh well,maybe he’ll phone in.
Dialogue Two
A.I’ll drop by there on my way to class today.
B.I thought you liked the apartment.
C.I’ve decided to look for a new place.Roger:Hello.
Ann:Hello Roger?This is Ann,
Roger:Oh hi,Ann.How have you been?How’s your new apartment working out? Ann:Well,that’s what I’m calling about.You see,4
Roger:Oh,what’s the problem with your place now?5
Ann:Oh,I do,but it’s a little far from campus,and the commute is just killing me.Do you think you situation
near the
Roger:Well,I seems to have a few
Ann:Hey,
Roger:No
Section B
Directions:four blanks
in each of the
mark your
B.
C.we were all talking about some TV shows.
D.It’s a real honor to have you here.
Maddow:Joining us now for the interview is Hillary Clinton,former secretary of state,former senator,former first lady.Secretary Clinton,7Thank you
for being here.
Clinton:It’s great to be here with you.8Maddow:What does a person do after11hours of testimony?You’re the only human being I know of on Earth that has done1l straight hours.What did you do
after that?
Clinton:Well,I had my whole team come over to my house and we sat around eating Indian food and drinking wine and beer.9It was great
Maddow:And was it like,“Let’s just talk about TV,let’s not talk about what just happened?”
Clinton:10them because they and getting
me
Part II
Directions:In or phrase
C and D
that on the
11.The be removed
instantly
A.remain dry
12.She was anymore.
A.catch to
13.The supporters of either party have rationalized their own opinion in terms of argument.
A.with regard to
B.in contrast to
C.in addition to
D.as opposed to
14.How is it possible that such widespread deception has come to take place right under our noses?
A.delay
B.damage
C.fraud
D.shock15.It is not yet clear whether the deletion of data at the troubled bank was accidental or deliberate.
A.obvious
B.intentional
C.surprising
D.foolish
16.When required to eat vegetables,many children only do so reluctantly.
A.automatically
B.anxiously
C.obediently
D.unwillingly
17.Recently,the Internet has given rise to a new type of marketplace.
A.created
B.conceived
C.increased
D.improved
18.Another dismissed difficulties.
A.taken
19.Credit them.
A.image
20.For the elaborated it with many
A.
Part III
Section A
questions or
B.C and D.
Sheet.
Passage
Under the right circumstances,choosing to spend time alone can be a huge psychological blessing.In the1980s,the Italian journalist and author Tiziano Terzani, after many years of reporting across Asia,holed himself up in a cabin in Ibaraki Prefecture,Japan.“For a month I had no one to talk to except my dog Baoli,”he wrote in his book A Fortune Teller Told Me.Terzani passed the time with books, observing nature,“listening to the winds in the trees,watching butterflies,enjoyingsilence.”For the first time in a long while he felt free from the unending anxieties of daily life:“At last I had time to have time.”
Terzani’s embrace of isolation was relatively unusual:Humans have long considered solitude an inconvenience,something to avoid,a punishment,a realm of loners.Science has often associated it with negative outcomes.Freud,who linked solitude with anxiety,noted that,“in children the first fears relating to situations are those of darkness and solitude.”John Cacioppo,a modern social neuro-scientist who has extensively studied loneliness—what he calls“chronic perceived isolation”—contends that,beyond damaging our thinking powers,isolation can even harm our physical health.But increasingly scientists are approaching solitude as something that,when pursued by choice,can prove a therapy.
This is especially true in times of personal disorder,when the instinct is often for people to reach outside of themselves for support.“When people are experiencing crisis it’s not always just about you:It's about how you are in society,”explains Jack Fong,a sociologist at California State Polytechnic University who has studied solitude.
In other words,when people remove themselves from the social context of their lives,they are better able to see how they’re shaped by that context.Thomas Merton,a monk and writer who spent years alone,held a similar notion."We cannot see things in perspective until we cease to hug them to our breast,”he writes in Thoughts in Solitude.“People can go for a walk or listen to music and feel that they are deeply in touch with themselves.”
21.Tiziano Terzani spent a month alone to
A.embrace isolation
B.study butterflies
C.write a book
D.look after his dog
22.The word“solitude”(Para.2)is closest in meaning to“”
A.growing anxious
B.feeling empty
C.being helpless
D.staying alone
23.The opinions of Freud and Cacioppo are cited to show that.A.children tend to fear darkness and solitude
B.solitude pursued by choice can be a therapy
C.chronic isolation can harm interpersonal relations
D.solitude has long been linked with negative outcomes
24.According to Jack Fong,the sense of personal crisis may be influenced by.
A.an isolated lifestyle
B.mental disorder
C.low
25.The main
A.
B.
C.
D.
Passage
Science a long time, considered
As among one months of separation.pick colored buttons for a slightly later(and those friends die.
Pigs respond meaningfully to human symbols.When a research team led by Candace Croney at Penn State University carried wooden blocks marked with X and O symbols around pigs,only the O carriers offered food to the animals.The pigs soon ignored the X carriers in favor of the O’s.Then the team switched from real-life objects to T-shirts printed with X or O symbols.Still,the pigs ventured only toward
the O shirted people:they had transferred their knowledge to a two-dimensional format,a not-inconsiderable feat of reasoning.
Fairly soon,I came to see that along with our closest living relatives,cetaceans (鲸目动物)too are masters of cultural learning,and elephants express profound joy and mourning with their social companions.Long-term studies in the wild on these mammals helped to fuel a perspective shift in our society:the public no longer so easily accepts monkeys made to undergo painful procedures in laboratories,elephants forced
Over the inner lives of science of “food other words, will the
these animals. But of these animals
26.their ability of
A.
C.
27.The pigs can do is
A.extraordinary
B.weird
C.unique
D.understandable
28.What is Paragraph4mainly about?
A.The similarities between mammals and humans.
B.The necessity of long-term studies on mammals.
C.A change of public attitude to the treatment of mammals.
D.A new discovery of how mammals think and feel.29.What is the author’s view on eating“food animals”?
A.He regrets eating them before.
B.He considers eating them justifiable.
C.He is not concerned about the issue.
D.He calls for a change in what we eat.
30.What is the best title for the passage?
A.In Praise of Food Animals
B.Food Animals in Science Reports
C.The Inner Lives of Food Animals
D.Food Animals:Past,Present and Future
Passage Three
Almost eight decades ago,the American educator Abraham Flexner published an article entitled The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge.In it,he argued that the most powerful intellectual and technological breakthroughs usually emerged from research that initially appeared“useless”,without much relevance to real life.
As a result,it was vital,Flexner said,that these“useless”efforts should be supported,even if they did not produce an immediate payback,because otherwise the next wave of innovation simply would not occur.“Curiosity,which may or may not produce something useful,is probably the outstanding characteristic of modern thinking,”he declared.
In1929,Flexner persuaded a wealthy American family,the Bambergers,to use some of their donations to fund the Institute for Advanced Study(IAS)at Princeton to support exactly this kind of“undirected”research.
And it paid off:brilliant Jewish scientists fleeing from Nazi Germany,such as Albert Einstein,gathered at the IAS to explore undirected ideas.And while some of these,such as Einstein’s own work developing his earlier theory of relativity,did not initially seem valuable,many eventually produced powerful applications(though after many decades).“Without Einstein’s theory,our GPS tracking devices would be inaccurate by about seven miles,”writes Robbert Dijkgraaf,the current director of the IAS,in the foreword to a newly released reprint of Flexner’s article.Concepts such as quantum mechanics（量子力学）or superconductivity also seemed fairly useless at first—but yielded huge dividends at a later date.
The reason why the IAS is re-releasing Flexner’s article now is that scientists such as Dijkgraaf fear this core principle is increasingly under threat.The Trump administration has released a projected budget that threatens to reduce funding for the arts,science and educational groups.Many Republicans believe that research is better financed by business or philanthropists（慈善家）than by government.But one striking fact about the past century is how much American innovation originated in federal projects;Silicon Valley would never have boomed were it not for the fact that state funding enabled the development of the World Wide Web,for example.
31.what may be the best title for the passage?
A.The Value of Creative Ideas
B.The Importance of Basic Research
C.Innovation in Silicon Valley
D.In Praise of“Useless”Endeavors
32.According to Abraham Flexner,what is an important feature of
modern thinking?
A.Curiosity
B.Application.
C.Devotion.
D.Passion.
33.The“undirected”research(Para.3)refers to research.
A.not funded by government agencies
B.without any practical purpose in mind
C.with indefinite experimental methods
D.supported by non-profit organizations
34.Examples of initially“useless”research include all of the
following EXCEPT.A.quantum mechanics
B.theory of relativity
C.superconductivity
D.GPS tracking devices
35.Flexner’s article was reprinted because.
A.businesses in Silicon Valley wish to put pressure on the government
B.Democrats believe that government Funding should go to small businesses
C.Republicans argue that scientific research should be financed by businesses
D some scientists worry that government will cut its funding for basic research
Passage Four
In1902,Georges Méliès made and released a movie called A Trip to the Moon.In this movie,the spaceship was a small capsule,shaped like a bullet,that was loaded into a giant cannon and aimed at the moon.
This movie was based on a book that came out many years earlier by an author named Jules Verne.One of the fans of the book was a Russian man,Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.The book made him think.Could one really shoot people out of a cannon and have them get safely to the moon?He decided one couldn't,but it got him thinking of other ways one could get people to the moon.He spent his life considering this problem and came up with many solutions.
Some of Tsiolkovsky's solutions gave scientists in America and Russia ideas when they began to think about space travel.They also thought about airplanes they and other people had made,and even big bombs that could fly themselves very long distances.
Many scientists spent years working together to solve the problem.They drew and discussed different designs until they agreed on the ones that were the best.Then,they built small models of those designs,and tested and tested them until they felt ready to build even bigger models.They made full-scale rockets,which they launched withoutany people inside,to test for safety.Often the rockets weren’t safe,and they exploded right there on the launch pad,or shot off in crazy directions like a balloon that you blow up and release without tying it first.After many,many tests,they started to send small animals into space.Only after a long time did they ever put a person inside a rocket and shoot him into space.
Even after they began sending people into space,scientists were still trying to improve the shape of the rockets.The design changed many times,and eventually ended up looking was
used for many
for spaceships,
36.In the.
A.in a
37.The movie
A.
C.Georges
38.Before the all of the following
A.bombs
39.What is
A.It
B.
C.Scientists from Russia and America had close cooperation.
D.The design of the rocket was inspired by the movie A Trip to the Moon.
40.The word“shoot”(Para.4)is closest in meaning to“”.
A.send with great force
B.break into many pieces
C.fix a problem
D.attack with a weaponSection B
Directions:In this section,you are required to read one quoted blog and the comments on it.The blog and comments are followed by questions or unfinished statements,each with four suggested answers A,B,C and D.Choose the best answer and mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.
In2003,I was told by a restaurant owner on a Thai island that local fishermen used to wrap their lunch in banana leaves,which they would then casually toss overboard when done.That was OK,because the leaves decayed and the fish ate them all.But in the past decade,he said,plastic wrap had rapidly replaced banana leaves,so the beach was edged with a crust of plastic.
This is a worldwide problem—we can’t point the finger at Thai fishermen.The UK alone produces more than170m tons of waste every year,much of it food packaging. Now we live in an absurd age where a packet of cookies can have seven layers of wrapping.While it has revolutionised the way we store and consume food,there is now so much of it that landfills(垃圾填埋场)can’t cope.Some of it is poisonous,and some of it never degrades.It can take450years for some types of plastic bottle to break down. Indeed,as Rachelle Strauss of the UK’s Zero Waste Week says,we never actually throw anything“away”—it’s really just put somewhere else.
It’s easy to despair at the scale of handling the plastic wrap,but it isn’t beyond humanity to solve it—look at how the world took action on CFCs(含氯氟烃):there are signs that the hole in the ozone layer is now closing.Food packaging ought to be a doddle.
Comment1:
While as an individual I can do my best to avoid excessive packaging,it is really only government regulation that can force corporations to change their practices. Comment2:
I never understand why supermarket chains insist on covering products such as bananas and cucumbers in plastic wrap.Why?They have their own packaging—the skin or peel!
Comment3:
I love packaging—if it’s well designed of course.It helps us be more hygienic and practical.The solution to these packaging necessities is clearly to encourage the use of bio-degradable
Comment4:
Before,Guess it’s hard to
41.What is the Thailand?
A.The
B.
C.It is
D.The
42.“A packet
A.packaging
B.
C.
D.
43.The word“doddle”(Para.3)probably means“something”.
A.no longer useful
B.extremely difficult
C.beyond imagination
D.easily accomplished
44.Which of the comments is positive about packaging?
A.Comment l.
B.Comment2.
C.Comment3.
D.Comment4.
45.Which of the following comments point out ways to solve over-packaging?A.Comments1and2.
B.Comments1and3.
C.Comments2and4.
D.Comments3and4,
Part IV Cloze(10points)
Directions:In this part,there is a passage with ten blanks.For each blank there are four choices marked A.B.C.and D.Choose the best answer for each blank and mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.
How many answer.It depends on
More growing. Every15the earth may4810
To feed World food_50_, the population world will not be
To grow and pesticides（food. These things in fertilizers and by scientists have
When55from hills and forests for new farmland,and in doing so they expose the soil.Then rain and floods may strip the topsoil from fields.This process is called erosion.Each year erosion steals billions of tons of topsoil from farmers.
46A.without B.by C.against D.for
47.A.ceases B.keeps C.stops D.stays
48.A.maintain B.retain C.hold D.produce49.A.exhausted B.declined C.arisen D.risen
50.A.however B.somehow C.anyway D.furthermore
51.A.country B.nation C.population D.community
A.range
B.amount
C.number
D.level
53.A.hence B.when C.but D.and
54.A.conclusion B.restriction C.goal D.limit
55.A.growing B.surviving C.remaining D.existing
Part V Text
Directions:In
Above each the choices provided in to fill in the blanks of the
Text One
Phrases:
A.you
B.send57
C.our noses and our brain are very58connected
D.59us remember things
For years,scientists have been studying the special powers Of smells.It seems that60.When you smell something,the odor goes up your nose to the smelling zones.From here,sense cells61telling it what you smelled.More than our other four senses,our sense of smell changes our mood and62. If you were told to think about popcorn,you’d probably recall its smell.And then you might remember the movie63.Our sense of smell also makes us aware of danger—like the smell of smoke.
Text Two
Phrases:
C.
TED year. With everyone to see.
TED usually experts that are
such as
Goodall, having given talks.There are many talks on environmentalism,for example,and on international development,aid work,and69.While the talks cover a wide variety of topics,all speakers have a strict time limit—each presentation must last no longer than18minutes.Text Three
A.to use
B.finding
C.the way
Phrases:
A.
B.
C.imagination
things,
it condition the and
very74—but who use too and think about material.
Part
Directions:Translate the following passage into Chinese.Write your answer on the Answer Shee t.
When it comes to personal finance,we are all looking for ways to save more money. Our household budgets are filled with both big and small expenses that we imagine can be cut out to save us loads of cash or,at the very least,spent better elsewhere.One of the things you have surely considered is using public transportation rather than your own vehicle.It would be easy to assume that public transportation is cheaper,because busfare is far less expensive than gas,but those are not the only costs to consider.Take a step back to your high school economics class and try to remember the lesson about opportunity costs.These,as you might recall if you were awake for that class,are the things you give up when you choose one option over other options.Although they are not measured in dollars and cents,they still have to be considered whenever you make a financial decision.
Part VII Writing(15points)
Directions:Write a composition in no less than150words on the topic:What makes happy couples happy?You could write according to the hints given below.Write your composition on the Answer Sheet.
Happy couples know what is essential to maintain a happy relationship.For instance,daily habits are extremely helpful in making their relationship work.
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Part VI Translation(10points)
Directions:Translate the following passage into Chinese.Write your answer on the Answer Shee t.
When it comes to personal finance,we are all looking for ways to save more money. Our household budgets are filled with both big and small expenses that we imagine can be cut out to save us loads of cash or,at the very least,spent better elsewhere.One of the things you have surely considered is using public transportation rather than your own vehicle.It would be easy to assume that public transportation is cheaper,because bus fare is far less expensive than gas,but those are not the only costs to consider.Take a step back to your high school economics class and try to remember the lesson about opportunity costs.These,as you might recall if you were awake for that class,are the things you give up when you choose one option over other options.Although they are not measured in dollars and cents,they still have to be considered whenever you make a financial decision.
说到个人理财，我们总是想方设法去节省更多的钱。我们的家庭预算充满了我们想象中可以节省的大大小小的开支，或者至少他们能在别处花费得更好。你肯定考虑过的一件事是使用公共交通工具而不是你自己的交通工具。人们很容易认为公共交通更便宜，因为公交车的票价远低于汽油，但这并不是唯一需要考虑的成本。回到你的高中经济学课堂，试着记起机会成本的教训。如果你那堂课是清醒着的话，你可能会想起，这些正是当你做出一个选择时你所放弃的东西。尽管他们并不是用美元来衡量的，但是，他们是在你做财务决定时仍然不得不考虑的事情。
Part VII Writing(15points)
Directions:Write a composition in no less than150words on the topic:What makes happy couples happy?You could write according to the hints given below.Write your composition on the Answer Sheet.
Happy couples know what is essential to maintain a happy relationship.For instance,daily habits are extremely helpful in making their relationship work.
参考范文：
what makes happy couples happy？
Nowadays more and more people are paying attention to what makes happy couples happy.This has aroused widespread discussion among the general public. From my perspective,happy family has far-reaching significance to our society and life and there are many ways to make the couples happy.
As a matter of fact,ways that make happy couples happy can be illustrated below. The first one that comes to my mind readily is that those happy couples cultivate common interests.One of the strengths that solid couples have is the trait of sharing hobbies or common interests,as well as joint projects.This is a good way to keep their love longer and longer.What's more,they focus more on what their partner does right than what they do wrong.If you concentrate on finding positive qualities and virtues,I assure you that you will find those as well.Besides,they trust and forgive each other.Forgiveness is the great tool of healing and repair.It provides tremendous relief and it prevents relationships from deteriorating.If we add trust to forgiveness, we drive away the resentment that may follow from unresolved issues or conversations.
There is no easy solution to the problem of keeping happy family relationship.It is time to raise people’s awareness of it.I strongly believe that it benefits not only the couples themselves,but also their relatives and even the society.In this way can we hope to make our more stable and harmonious.下载本文
