I. Listening Comprehension Section A —10分
Directions: In Section A. you will hear fen short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard. 1. A. Challenges. Experiences. 2. A. Interesting. Amazing.
3. A. Watching TV and videos. B. Replacing videos with TV. C. Parents’ involvement. D. Having baby sitters. 4. A. A policeman. teller. 5. A. 7:40.
B. 7:15.
C. 7:20.
D. 7:45.
B. An accountant.
C. A salesman.
D. A bank
B. Boring.
C. Difficult.
D.
B. Hobbies.
C. Jobs.
D.
6. A. He will get someone to do it. B. She should do it herself. C. They don’t have to do it. D. He will clean the desk right away. 7. A. By bus. car.
8. A. He is not a good mechanic. B. He doesn’t keep his word.
C. He spends his spare time doing repairs. D. He is always ready to offer help to others.
B. By subway.
C. By taxi.
D.
By
9. A. She has been having a sad day. B. She needs to take a day off. C. She wants to play basketball, too. D. She has been annoyed by the noise.
10. A. The man isn’t sure about the rehearsal. B. It’s better for the woman to wear a costume. C. The woman would regret it if she wore a costume. D. It wouldn’t make any difference if the woman did it. Section B—15 分
Directions: In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation, and you will be asked several questions on each of the passages and the conversation. The passages and the conversation will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear q question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.
Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage. 11. A. He qualified as a teacher. B. He became a student.
C. He became a government researcher. D. He conducted a research on Zimbabwe.
12. A. Children’s minds are not used to the full. B. It is a great drain on children’s time and energy. C. It highlights the flexibility of children’s minds. D. It prevents children from seeking answers by themselves. 13. A. To teach people to understand the world B. To instruct people how to raise good questions. C. To encourage people to study as they get older. D. To inform people of problems in foreign countries. Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage. 14. A. To serve as a time killer. B. To cultivate people’s reading kills
C. To promote the sales of some books.
D. To encourage people to take public transportation
15. A. The stories are the short edition of some website articles. B. Users can choose the length and type of the stories. C. The stories are obtained by simply pressing a button. D. Users don’t need to pay for the short stories. 16. A. From the boring travel experience. B. From the love for short stories. C. From the positive feedback D. From the snack vending machine.
Qusions17 through 20 are based on the following conversation. 17. A. 5.
B. 7.
C. 8.
D. 10.
18. A. Because his friends don’t get off work till 5 p.m.
B. Because there will be more friends to go to the cinema on Friday. C. Because the film will be more popular than the Wednesday’s. D. Because there are not enough tickets left for the 9 p.m. showing. 19. A. Paying a deposit. B. E-ordering in advance. C. Paying right away.
D. Collecting tickets one day ahead. 20. A. The film. viewers.
II. Grammar and vocabulary Section A—10分
Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage B. The date
C. The seating.
D.
The
coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank. Pumas are large, cat-like animals which are found in America. When reports came into the London Zoo that a wild puma 21(spot) forty miles south of London, they were
not taken seriously. However, as the evidence began to accumulate, experts decided to investigate.
The hunt 22 the puma began in a small village where a woman 23 (pick) blackberries saw “a large cat” only five yards away from her. It immediately ran away when she saw it, and experts confirmed that a puma will not attack a human being 24 it is cornered. The search proved difficult, for the puma was often observed at one place in the morning and at 25 place twenty miles away in the evening. 26 it went, it left behind it a trail of dead deer and small animals like rabbits. Several people complained of cat-like noises at night and a businessman on a 27(fish) trip saw the puma up a tree.
The experts were now fully convinced that the animal was a puma, 28 where had it come from? As no pumas had been reported missing from any zoo in the country, this one 29 have been in the possession of a private collector and somehow managed to escape. The hunt went on for several weeks, but the puma was not caught. It is disturbing 30 (think) a dangerous wild animal is still at large in the quiet countryside. Section B—10分
Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need. A. network ingredient E. uneasy I. determine
F. additional J. requirement
G. culturally K. critical
H. block
B. specify
C. traditionally
D.
A multicultural person is someone who is deeply convinced that all cultures are equally good, enjoys learning the rich variety of cultures in the world, and most likely has been exposed to more than one culture in his or her lifetime.
You cannot motivate anyone, especially someone of another culture, until that person has accepted you. A multilingual salesperson can explain the advantages of a product in other languages, but a multicultural salesperson can motivate foreigners to buy it. That’s a(an) 31difference.
No one likes foreigners who are arrogant(自大的) about their own culture. The trouble is most people are arrogantly monocultural without being aware of it and even
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