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69. What conclusion can be drawn about the definitions of both “defriend” and “unfriend” in the Urban Dictionary? 70. What is Oxford?s attitude toward its decision with the continuing debate on-and offline? Section D
Amanda was unhappy with the amount of money she was making at her job, so she went after a position with a competitor and negotiated a higher salary. When she told her current employer about the higher salary offer, he countered with a considerable increase in her current salary to keep her on board. Hoping this is what would happen all along, Amanda accepted the new salary and stayed with her employer.
One year later, the company made a round of layoffs because of changing market conditions and Amanda was one of the first to go. Not because she was a bad employee, but because she was overpaid compared to her contribution.
In today?s society, workers associate earning a high salary as one of the most important aspects of their jobs. They assume making a lot of money equals happiness, satisfaction, less stress and job security. Unfortunately, this is not always the case; Amanda?s story is just one of many examples of how having a higher paycheck can backfire.
“Our sense of value and self-worth is often tied to how much money we make,” says Michael Zwell, human capital expert and author of Six-Figure Salary Negotiation. In fact, research shows otherwise. Studies have shown most people feel happier in a five-figure job where they are earning more than the majority of other people in the “There is an illusion that we live with and believe that a bigger paycheck makes us happier and more valuable.”
company than they do in a six-figure job where they are making significantly less than others, says Stan Smith, founder and CEO of Smith Economics Group Ltd., which is discussed in Zwell?s book. Ultimately, he says, people can?t rely on short-lived salaries, promotions and raises to keep them happy but rather the contributions they make in the long run. says.
“Compensation is based on an exchange of value for value. Depending on your life circumstances, you may want to contribute less and put in more time on another key If you?ve always thought a bigger salary was your dream, take a look at how making more money can actually work against you. You might start to appreciate what you When the economy is weak and companies need to cut back on costs, one of the first places they look is the highest-salaried employees, as exemplified in Amanda?s story. area of your life,” he says. currently earn.
This is not to say that just because you earn more than others you?re a target for layoffs. Nevertheless, if you?re earning more than you should for your market or contributions, chances are that your job could be under scrutiny.
Let?s say you earn $85,000 annually and you received a raise that brought you up to $90,000. Sounds exciting at first—until you do the arithmetic and realise your new One of the negatives to earning a high salary is that your marginal tax rate is higher than other people?s. While you might be earning more than a co-worker, he or she might check is only a couple of hundred dollars more than your old one.
be taking home a similar─or higher─amount per check because they aren?t taxed as much. Questions 71 to 73, mark:
Y (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage; N (for NO) if the statement contradicts with the information given in the passage; NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage.
71. Amanda left the company because her former employer refused to give her a raise. 72. It is not always true that having a higher paycheck means less stress and job security.
73. According to Zwell, a smaller salary can bring more benefits to women than men in a weak economy. Questions 74 and 75: Answer each of them briefly.
74. According to the passage, what is an employee?s salary based on?
75. Why does a worker with a higher salary take home almost the same amount of money as a worker with a lower Part V Translation (20 marks) Section A
Translate the underlined sentences of the following passage into Chinese.
Almost every action in our daily lives—being at home with the lights on, watching TV or driving a car─involves energy use, and most energy use produces carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
(76) Governments and environmental organizations are now measuring the carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases our activities produce. This is called a “carbon footprint”. A carbon calculator helps individuals measure their carbon footprint. (77) To find thousands of groups that measure your footprint, just type “carbon footprint” into your A“Personal Emissions Calculator” can be found on the US Environmental Protection Agency?s website. When you answer questions about your house, transportation “(78) A well-designed calculator will give individuals specific tools and tips that they can use to begin to reduce their carbon footprint immediately,” Mandes added. Scott Sklar has been working to reduce his carbon footprint for nearly 40 years. (79) He has transformed his 1920s house outside Washington, DC into an environmentally “A carbon footprint is essentially the sum total of an individual?s energy use,”explains Katie Mandes of the PEW Center on Global Climate Change. favourite search engine.
routines and lifestyle, the calculator itemizes and adds up your energy use.
salary?
In some situations, having a smaller paycheck than you?d like can actually be a bonus. If you are in a job where there?s a steep learning curve, for example, getting a smaller paycheck will buy you time to develop the skills and experience to earn more in the long run, Zwell says. Additionally, less money can buy you more flexibility on the job, Zwell
friendly home, using many kinds of solar panels. Around the house, Sklar has planted fruit trees and berry bushes, and he collects runoff water in barrels to water his garden. In the basement, he keeps batteries that store electricity from the solar panels. Over the past three years, Sklar has been testing hydrogen fuel cells. “(80) This electricity is made without heat or noise and the only emission is pure water. The water actually waters this little tree here in the corner,” Sklar said. Section B
Translate the following sentences into English, using the words or structures in the brackets. 81. 毫无疑问，她是我最钦佩的老师之一。 (定语从句)
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______________________________________________________________________ 82. 无论你何时讲英语, 至少要让人听得懂。 (whenever)
______________________________________________________________________ 83. 她一点也不知道她的父母是多么地爱她。(倒装句)
______________________________________________________________________ 84. 作为一名学生，尽快适应新环境很重要。(adjust)
______________________________________________________________________ 85. 如果你是这位发言人，你会想到记者会上会问这样的问题吗？(虚拟语气，imagine) ______________________________________________________________________ Part VI IQ Test (5 marks)
There are five IQ Test questions in this part. 86. What number should replace the question mark?
17 13 6 10
87. The number that should come next in the series 25, 24, 22, 19, 15 is ________.
88. The following is a diagram of three English letters in series. Please write the next one on the answer sheet.
8 7 12 6 5 5 6 4 5 4 3 ?
89. A boy is 4 years old and his sister is three times as old as he is. When the boy is 12 years old, how old will his sister 90. Three messages in a strange language were received. Scientists studied the messages and found that “Decor Suldon Part VII Writing (30 marks) Task I
You received a letter from John Brown on March 15. Pretend you are Li Hua and write a reply of no fewer than 80 words to him:
? ? ? Task II
Read the following and write an article of no fewer than 120 words explaining your views.
Part II Vocabulary and Structure
31—35 CDADC 36—40 ADBBD 41—45 ABBCA
46. friendly 47. researchers 48. effectiveness 49. inexpensive 50. carbon 51. harmful 52. thick 53. additional 54. expenses / costs 55. change Section A
56. teaching approach / methodology 57. best subjects 58. motivation 59. teachers, workloads 60. (education) equality Section B
61. D 62. cancer 63. walking speed 64. motor performance 65. confirms / supports Section C
66. C 67. Defriend 68. Unfriend 69. They are nearly identical. 70. Unchanged. / It remains unchanged. / It won?t Section D
71. N 72. Y 73. NG 74. His contributions. / His market and contributions. 75. Because his marginal tax rate is higher. Section A
76. 现在各级政府和环境组织正在测量我们(人类)活动产生的二氧化碳和温室气体。
change its decision.
Part III Cloze
Asking them to meet you in Wuhan on April 10.
Suggesting that you want to discuss details about cooperation.
Asking for the time and number of his flight so you can arrange for a colleague to meet him at Tianhe Airport.
be?
Dlock” means “Danger Terror Suicide” and “Edwan
Mynor Decor” means “Danger Airport Bomb” and “Suldon Gimilzor Gondor” means “Poison Gas Suicide”. What does “Dlock” mean?
“I often hear people talk about the importance of cooperation in achieving career success, but at the same time they also emphasize the value of competition. I am really at a
loss about their relationship. What?s your opinion?”
Part IV Reading Comprehension
Part V Translation
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77. 只需要在你喜欢用的搜索引擎中键入“碳足迹”，你就会找到数千个能够测量你的碳足迹的机构。
78. 一个设计优秀的测量器会提供个人专用工具和建议，受测者能够使用这些工具和建议立刻开始减少他们的碳足迹。 79. 他通过使用许多不同种类的太阳能板，把华盛顿特区外一栋20世纪20年代的房子改造成了环境友好型的家。 80. 通过氢发电不会产生热和噪音，唯一的排放物是纯水；事实上这水用来浇灌角落的这颗小树。 Section B
81. There is no doubt / No doubt (that) she is one of the teachers I admire most. 82. Whenever you speak English, you should at least make yourself understood. 83. Little does she know how much her parents love her.
84. As a student, it is very important for you to adjust yourself to a new environment as soon as possible.
85. If you were the spokesperson, could you have imagined such a question would be asked at the press conference? 86. 4。后面两个数相乘，等于前面两个数之和；如第三行：6+12=3 x 6。
87. 10。隔位相减可以发现 25 - 22 = 3； 24 - 19 = 5；22 - 15 = 7；每个数比前一位多2，所以19 - 10 =9，故下一个数为10。
Part VI IQ Test
88. 。此处是字母C, D, E, F背靠背。
Bomb”， “Suldon Gimilzor Gondor” =
89. 20。男孩4岁时，姐姐的年龄3 × 4=12；男孩12岁时，姐姐的年龄12+8 (12 - 4)= 20。
90. terror。从“Decor Suldon Dlock” = “Danger Terror Suicide”， “Edwan Mynor Decor” = “Danger Airport
Dlock = terror.
“Poison Gas Suicide”可以发现Decor = danger；Suldon = suicide； Part VII Writing Task I March 20, 2010 Dear Mr Brown,
Thank you very much for your letter of March 15. We formally invite you to our headquarters in Wuhan on April 10 so that we can discuss details of further cooperation between our companies. If you accept our invitation, please inform me of the time and the number of your flight, and I will arrange for Miss Liu, our PR manager, to meet you at Tianhe Airport. I do hope you will accept our invitation and I wish you a pleasant journey.
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
Task II
It is a fact that recent developments in modern transportation and communication have enabled people all over the world to contact each other more easily and frequently. As a result, a harmonious environment and a tolerant attitude towards differences have become more important than ever before for people who wish to be successful. In this sense, cooperation means compromise, which is essential to success in competition.
However, competition also plays a vital role in personal accomplishment and social progress, because social advancement is based on competition, which is based on the I believe that both cooperation and competition are essential to the creation of a better world. Without cooperation, our lives would be as aggressive and brutal as those of principle of “the survival of the fittest”. In this sense, competition exists everywhere and all individuals have to compete for survival to avoid being eliminated by the competition. animals in the jungle. Without competition, our lives would be as primitive and boring as those in an African desert. Therefore, we all need to be both cooperative and competitive to survive better in this fast changing world.
（Level C -3）
Part II Vocabulary and Structure (15 marks)
There are 15 incomplete sentences in this part. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that best completes the sentence. 31. Chinese children are taught that it is ________ to interrupt. That is why we seldom interrupt a teacher in class even
A. rude A. submitted
B. coarse
C. rough
D. crude
sight.
been thinking about during the pause before
32. The second research report was ________ by May 2009, but it is six months later and the report is still nowhere in
B. to have submitted C. to submit
D. to have been submitted
33. In the experiment, the students studied were interrupted five times during the listening test ________ what they had answering a question.
A. reporting A. original
B. to report B. peculiar B. provided that
C. reported C. imaginative C. seeing that
D. being reported
D. persistent
34. Children ask questions all the time and that?s why they are called ________ questioners. 35. I will display it on the screen ________ you can see it better.
A. so that A. out of work A. go on
D. in case that
D. out of practice D. go over
36. I used to play table tennis quite well, but I am ________ now.
B. out of reach B. go off
C. out of stock C. go out
37. Don?t worry, just stay calm! The bomb won?t ________ until it is touched.
38. He ________ another career but, at the time, he just wanted to earn more money to support his sister in university.
A. might have chosen A. negotiation
B. might choose
B. mission
C. had to choose
C. situation
D. must have chosen
D. contribution
39. China has also sent troops to the area on a UN peace-keeping ________.
when we have a question.
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40. The board of trustees agreed to the plan ________, but there were several details they didn?t like.
A. in principle
B. in practice
C. in essence
D. in theory
41. In most universities in China, freshmen are given an English test on entering the school to help teachers
________ them to a class at their level. A. locate
B. assign
C. deliver
D. place
42. To reach a settlement, we made a ________ to them by agreeing to train 10 technicians for them.
A. concession A. have had
B. consideration
C. commission
D. confirmation
43. Not ________ enough hands, we had great difficulty in completing the project in time.
B. had
C. to have
D. having
44. Sue: You did an excellent job yesterday, Jim! I really enjoyed your presentation. Jim: ________
Sue: Oh, yes, it was fabulous. The English programme is really a great way to practice English.
A. Do you really think so? C. Really? What about yours?
B. Oh, thank you. You are so kind. D. Not at all. My pleasure.
45. Jim: What kind of music do you like? Anne: Well, I like different kinds. Jim: ________
Anne: Well, I especially like punk rock.
A. I beg your pardon?
B. Are you serious?
C. Any in particular? D. Why do you think so?
Part III Cloze (10 marks)
Read the passage and fill in each blank with one word. Choose the word in one of the following three ways: according to the context, by using the correct form of the given word, or by using the given letters of the word.
A simple water pump is helping to (46) ________ the lives of poor families in several Asian and African countries. The treadle pump is based on a (47) de________ developed in the 1970s by Norwegian engineer Gunnar Barnes, and it can be made locally. A group based in the United States, International Development Enterprises (IDE), has (48) cr________ programmes using the pump in different countries.
Part IV Reading Comprehension (40 marks)
Read the following passages carefully and respond to the questions given. Section A
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(54)________ is needed for crops. It could be two hours a day, or seven hours a day. Small children sometimes stand with their parents on the treadles, and everyone in the Melinda Gates Foundation awarded IDE 27 million dollars, which is to be used to expand small (50) ________ (irrigate) projects to other states in India. acting as levers—the treadles—and uses natural walking (52) ________ (move).
family can take turns (55) ________ (operate) the pump.
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