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Part I Writing.(30 minutes)
1、 Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay. You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then express your views on the traffic jam. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1.
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The Traffic Jam
听力选择题
2、听音频：
根据材料，回答2-26问题。
Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices markedA.,B., C. andD., and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.
team has to travel far for every game.
new coach has been very effective.
new coach knows the team very well.
team shouldn't recruit any more players.
3、
concert was very well attended.
crowd didn't understand the music.
only good seats were near the right aisle.
many people went on such a cloudy night.
4、
doesn't understand it either.
can't see the writing on the board.
thinks the room is too dark.
didn't really notice the mark.
5、
gave a lecture to the psychology class.
advised the man to see a psychologist.
persuaded the man not to take the course.
convinced the man to apply to graduate school.
6、
is not very good.
will be held the following week.
woman probably won't attend it.
e will be two seminars instead of four.
7、
doesn't understand how Judy got her job,
's surprised Judy is working in management.
thinks Judy should not have taken a computer course,
wonders how Judy does so many things.
8、
out of the car.
the parking fine.
his coat off.
a right turn,
9、
's hard to know what to believe about it.
doesn't believe it's hard for everybody.
's even harder than people say.
's not as hard as he'd thought.
10、根据材料，回答10-34问题。
Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
d limits were the same in all areas.
had told him what his speed was.
e were signs along the road.
had just received his driving license.
11、A. He was on his way to work.
speedometer wasn't working.
lived on Fleet Street.
didn't realize he was speeding.
12、A. She took away the man's license.
gave the man a warning.
gave the man a speeding ticket.
asked the man to become more familiar with the area.
13、根据材料，回答13-37问题。
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
A.A popular television program.
B.A breakthrough in technology.
C.A recent purchase.
D.A new electronics store.
14、A. Because the old one didn't work well.
use the new TV set was on sale.
use he had moved into a bigger house.
use he wanted to surprise the woman.
15、A. She would prefer a more expensive model.
's confused by the remote controls.
' s eager to use it.
thinks it unwise to buy it.
16、A. Research what television is best for him.
for a cheaper price on the television.
a different store.
satisfied with what he has.
17、根据材料，回答17-41问题。
Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.
buys many clothes.
buys a lot of chocolate.
eats a lot of things.
sleeps a great deal.
18、A. Problems with the teachers.
lems with family members or friends.
lems with classmates' making fun of her.
lems with a part-time job.
19、A. Substituting water with diet coke.
ing to someone over the phone.
ing a video game,
king extra tea.
20、根据材料，回答20-44问题。
Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.
ican Indians and com.
planting techniques of corn.
joy of harvest.
ous ways to prepare corn.
21、
was first boiled and then dried.
was braided in bundles and steamed.
was dried and then ground into flour.
was roasted and wrapped in husks.
22、
braided them with animal hair for clothing.
bundled them together for fuel.
used them to insulate their homes.
made various items with them.
23、根据材料，回答23-47问题。
Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.
strength of its shipbuilding industry.
physical features of the river itself.
abundance of fruit, vegetables, and livestock.
similarity of its climate to that in Europe.
24、
e are no rapids or waterfalls.
e is a constant, strong wind.
gation is rather difficult.
uent storms cause problems for riverboats.
25、
waves pose a threat to commercial navigation.
river current never flows faster than ten miles per hour.
river reverses its flow several times a day.
tides can create sudden and unexpected rapids.
26、
allow several sails to be rigged.
catch winds coming from over the hills.
add to the beauty of the basic design.
allow the sails to be raised more quickly.
听力填空题
27、根据材料，回答27-36问题。
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 hove just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
Fast food, for the first time ever, now (26)__________ more than half of all the meals eaten outside of the home in the United Kingdom.
The recession, and the subsequent squeeze on (27) __________ income, has encouraged millions of families to (28) __________ spending on luxuries, especially on meals in restaurants. This has encouraged many to (29) __________ to cheaper meals, especially burgers and fried chicken.
According to NPD, the market research company which (30) __________ consumer spending, 5.54 billion visits were made to a fast food chain in the year 2011, out of the 11 billion meals eaten in (31) __________out of the home--be it at a work canteen, restaurant, pub or sandwich shop.
This means that 50.4, percent of all meals eaten out of the home are now at a (32) __________ quick service restaurant, up from 47.3 percent just two years ago. The term "quick service restaurant" is used by the industry to describe any (33) __________where the consumer queues to buy take-away food so this does include coffee shops.
Guy Fielding at NPD said: "It's a lot about trading down. Because fast food has become so cheap, it has driven families in particular away from (34) __________aurants and pubs to the fast food chains."
"Families want to know what they are getting. And with the likes of McDonald's or KFC they know it is a(35) __________ experience and good value."
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32、31.__________
33、32.__________
34、33.__________
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36、35.__________
Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks.
37、根据材料，回答37-46问题。
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 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.
Women with low literacy suffer disproportionately more than men, encountering more 36in finding a well-paying job and being twice as likely to end up in the group of lowest wage earners, a study released on Wednesday said.
Analysis by the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) found women at all levels of37tend to earn less than men, but it's at the lowest literacy levels that the wage gap between genders is most striking.
Women with low literacy are twice as38 as men at the same skill level to be among the lowest earners,bringing in $300 a week or less, the report said.
"Because women start off so low in terms of wages, having higher literacy and more skills really 39 a big difference," said Kevin Miller, a40research associate at IWPR and co-author of the study.
Women need to go41 in their training and education level to earn the same as men, Miller said.
The42 was based on 2009 National Assessment of Adult Literacy surveys, the most recent data 43,and focused on reading skills, not writing and numeric literacy. That data was 44 from a nationally representative sample of 19,714 people aged 16 and older, living in households or prisons.
Data showed about one-third of American adults have low literacy levels, and more than 36 percent of men and 33 percent of women fall into that45, the institute said.
A. pattern
B . senior
C. longer
iculties
gory
F. collected
G. positions
H. available
I . conducted
J. independent
K. literacy
L. analysis
ly
N. further
O. makes
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40、39.__________
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44、43.__________
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46、45.__________
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.
47、根据材料，回答47-56问题。
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.
How Your Language Affects Your Wealth and Health
A. Does the language we speak determine how healthy and rich we will be? New research by Keith Chen of Yale Business School suggests so. The structure of languages affects our judgments and decisions about the future and this might have dramatic long-term consequences.
B. There has been a lot of research into how we deal with the future. For example, the famous marshmallow ( 棉 花糖)studies of Walter Mischel and colleagues showed that being able to resist temptation is predictive of future success. Four-year-old kids were given a marshmallow and were told that if they do not eat that marshmallow and wait for the experimenter to come back, they will get two marshmallows instead of one. Follow-up studies showed that the kids who were able to wait for the bigger future reward became more successful young adults.
C. Resisting our impulses for immediate pleasure is often the only way to attain the outcomes that are important to us. We want to keep a slim figure but we also want that last slice of pizza. We want a comfortable retirement, but we also want to drive that dazzling car, go on that dream vacation, or get those gorgeous shoes.
Some people are better at delaying gratification ( 满足 ) than others. Those people have a better chance of accumulating wealth and keeping a healthy life style. They are less likely to be impulse buyers or smokers, or to engage in unsafe sex.
D. Chen's recent findings suggest that an unlikely factor, language, strongly affects our future-oriented behavior. Some languages strongly distinguish the present and the future. Other languages only weakly distinguish the present and the future. Chen's recent research suggests that people who speak languages that weakly distinguish the present and the future are better prepared for the future. They accumulate more wealth and they are better able to maintain their health. The way these people conceptualize the future is similar to the way they conceptualize the present. As a result, the future does not feel very distant and it is easier for them to act in accordance with their future interestS.
E. Different languages have different ways of talking about the future. Some languages, such as English, Korean, and Russian, require their speakers to refer to the future explicitly ( 明确地). Every time English-speakers tall about the future, they have to use future markers such as "will" or "going to." In other languages, such as Mandarin, Japanese, and German, future markers are not obligatory (强制性的'). The future is often talked about similar to the way present is talked about and the meaning is understood from the context. A Mandarin speaker who is going to go to a seminar might say "Wo qu ting jiangzuo," which translates to "I go listen seminar." Languages such as English constantly remind their speakers that future events are distant. For speakers of languages such as Mandarin future feels closer. As a consequence, resisting immediate impulses and investing for the future is easier for Mandarin speakers.
t analyzed individual-level data from 76 developed and developing countries. This data includes people's economic decisions, such as whether they saved any money last year, the languages they speak at home, demographics (人口统计资料 ), and cultural factors such as "saving is an important cultural value for me."
He also analyzed individual-level data on people's retirement assets, smoking and exercising habits, and general health in older age. Lastly, he analyzed national-level data that inchides national savings rates, country GDP and GDP growth rates, country demographics, and proportions of people speaking different languages.
G. People's savings rates are affected by various factors such as their income, education level, age, religious connection, their countries' legal systems, and their cultural values. After those factors were accounted for, the effect of language on people's savings rates turned out to be big. Speaking a language that has obligatory future markers, such as English, makes people 30 percent less likely to save money for the future. This effect is as large as the effect of unemployment. Being unemployed decreases the likelihood of saving by about 30 percent as well.
H) Similar analyses showed that speaking a language that does not have obligatory future markers, such as Mandarin, makes people accumulate more retirement assets, smoke less, exercise more, and generally be healthier in older age. Countries' national savings rates are also affected by language. Having a larger proportion of people speaking languages that does not have obligatory future markers makes national savings rates higher.
a more practical level, researchers have been looking for ways to help people act in accordance with their long-term interests. Recent, findings suggest that making the future feel closer to the present might improve future-oriented behavior. For instance, researchers recently presented people with renderings of their future selves made using age-progression algorithms (算法) that forecast how physical appearances would change over time. One group of participants saw a digital representation of their current selves in a virtual mirror, and the other group saw an age-morphed version of their future selves. Those participants who saw the age- morphed version of their future selves allocated more money toward a hypothetical savings account. The intervention brought people's future to the present and as a result they saved more for the future.
's research shows that language structures our future-related thoughts. Language has been used before to alter time perception with surprising effects. Ellen Langer and colleagues famously improved older people's physical health by simple interventions including asking them to talk about the events of twenty years ago as if it they were happening now. Talking about the past as if it were the present changed people's mindsets and their mindsets affected their physical states. Chen's research points at the possibility that the way we talk about the future can shape our mindsets. Language can move the future back and forth in our mental space and this might have dramatic influences on our judgments and decisions.
Usually, preventing ourselves from enjoying immediate pleasure impulsively is the only way to achieve the outcomes that are important to us.
48、The structure of languages influences us when we are making a judgment or decision about the future.
49、Speaking a language that has obligatory future markers and being unemployed nearly share the same percentage of decreasing the likelihood of saving.
50、According to the well-known marshmallow studies, people who can resist temptation tend to be successful in the future.
51、People who speak languages like English are more likely to feel that the future events are distant.
52、National savings rates of countries are influenced by language as well.
53、In Chen's recent research, people who speak languages in which the present and the future are weakly distinguished are more prepared for the future.
54、Recent findings show that it is possible to improve future-oriented behavior through making the future feel closer to the present.
55、Through simple interventions, Ellen Langer and colleagues made the physical health of the older people changed for the better.
56、Chen made an analysis of individual-level statistics from 76 developed and developing nations.
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.
57、根据材料，回答57-66问题。
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 markedA.,B., C. andD.. 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 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.
An industrial society, especially one as centralized and concentrated as that of Britain, is heavily dependent on certain essential services: for instance, electricity supply, water, rail and road transport, the harbors. The area of dependency has widened to include removing rubbish, hospital and ambulance services, and, as the economy develops, central computer and information services as well. If any of these services ceases to operate, the whole economic system is in danger.
It is this economic interdependency of the economic system which makes the power of trade unions (工会)such an important issue. Single trade unions have the ability to cut off many countries' economic blood supply.
This can happen more easily in Britain than in some other countries, in part because the labor force is highly organized. About 55 percent of British workers belong to unions, compared to under a quarter in the United States.
For historical reasons, Britain's unions have tended to develop along trade (行业) and occupational lines, rather than on an industry-by-industry basis, which makes a wages policy, democracy in industry and the improvement of procedures for fixing wage levels difficult to achieve.
There are considerable strains and tensions in the trade union movement, some of them arising from their outdated and inefficient structure. Some unions have lost many members because of their industrial changes.
Others are involved in arguments about who should represent workers in new trades. Unions for skilled trades are separate from general unions, which means that different levels of wages for certain jobs are often a source of bad feelings between unions. In traditional trades which are being pushed out of existence by advancing technologies,unions can fight for their members' disappointing jobs to the point where the jobs of other union members are threatened or destroyed. The printing of newspapers both in the United States and in Britain has frequently been halted by the efforts of printers to hold on to their traditional highly-paid jobs.
Trade unions have problems of internal communication just as managers in companies do, problems which multiply in very large unions or in those which bring workers in very different industries together into a single general union. Some trade union officials have to be re-elected regularly; others are elected, or even appointed, for life. Trade union officials have to work with a system of "shop stewards" (工厂工人代表) in many unions, "shop stewards" being workers elected by other workers as their representatives at factory or work level.
Why is the trade union power crucial in Britain?
use the economy is very interdependent.
use the unions have been established a long time.
use there are more unions in Britain than elsewhere.
use there are many essential services offered by the unions.
58、Because of their out-of-date organization, some unions find it difficult to __________.
ain for high enough wages
new members to join
n new technologies
ge as industries change
59、Disagreements arise between unions because some of them__________.
to win over members of other unions
re agreements
ect their own members at the expense of others
over other unions' jobs
60、Why does the author compare the trade unions with managers in companies?
are both influential in company affairs.
both face problems of internal communication.
both work with a system of "shop stewards".
both work efficiently.
61、The title which best expresses the idea of the text would be __________.
ish Trade Unions and Their Drawbacks
B.A Centralized and Concentrated Society
Power of Trade Unions in Britain
Structure of British Trade Unions
62、根据材料，回答62-71问题。
Questions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage.
One of the most interesting paradoxes in America today is that Harvard University, the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States, is now engaged in a serious debate about what a university should be, and whether it is measuring up (符合标准).
Like the Roman Catholic Church and other ancient institutions, it is asking--still in private rather than in public--whether its past assumptions about faculty, authority, admissions, courses of study, are really relevant to the problems of our society.
Should Harvard--or any other university--be an intellectual sanctuary, apart from the political and social revolution of the age, or should it be a laboratory for experimentation with these political and social revolutions; or even an engine of the revolution? This is what is being discussed privately in the big clapboard ( 楔形板) houses of faculty members around the Harvard Yard.
The issue was defined by Walter Lippmann, a distinguished Harvard graduate, many years ago.
"If the universities are to do their work," he said, "they must be independent and they must be disinterested... They are places to which men can turn for unbiased judgments. Obviously, the moment the universities fall under political control, or under the control of private interests, or the moment they themselves take a hand in politics and the leadership of government, their value as independent and disinterested sources of judgment is impaired..."
This is part of the argument that is going on at Harvard today. Another part is the argument of the militant and even many moderated students: that a university is the keeper of our ideals and morals, and should not be "disinterested" but activist in bringing the Nation's ideals and actions together.
Harvard's men of today seem more troubled and less sure about personal, political and academic purpose than they did at the beginning. They are not even clear about how they should debate and resolve their problems, but they are struggling with them privately, and how they come out is bound to influence American university and
political life in the 21st century.
A "paradox"(Line 1, Paragraph 1 ) is__________.
unusual situation
B.a parenthetical expression
C.a difficult puzzle
D.a self-contradiction
63、The word "sanctuary", in paragraph 3 refers to __________.
A.a holy place dedicated to a certain god
B.a temple or nnnnery of the middle age
C.a certain place you can hide in and avoid mishaps
academy for intelligent people
64、The issues in the debate on Harvard's goals are whether the universities should remain independent of our society and its problems, and whether they should __________.
t off militarism
t greater influence upon the young generation
an active part in solving the society's ills
nsider the structure of institutes and departments
65、In regard to their goals and purposes in life, the author believes that Harward men are becoming __________.
sure about them
sure about them
hopeful of reaching a satisfactory answer
interested in them
66、In the author's judgment, the ferment going on at Harvard__________.
influence the future of America
soon be over, because times are bound to change
of interest mostly to Harvard men and their friends
a sad symbol of our general bewilderment
Part IV Translation.(30minutes)
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.
67、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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