
题型有:1. Listening Comprehension 2. Use of English 3. Reading Comprehension 4. Writing
Section I Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)Directions: This section is designed to test your ability to understand spoken English. You will hear a selection of recorded materials and you must answer the questions that accompany them. There are THREE parts in this section, Part A, Part B and Part C. Remember, while you are doing the test, you should first put down your answers in your test booklet. At the end of the listening comprehension section, you will have 5 minutes to transfe
PART ADirections: For Questions 1-5, you will hear a conversation. While you listen, fill out the table with the information you have heard. Some of the information has been given to you in the table. Write only 1 word in each numbered box. You will hear the recording twice. You now have 25 seconds to read the table below.
听力原文:W: Welcome to Friday Cinema. Would you like to purchase a movie ticket?M: Umm... I want to know when The Ring is Showing?W: There are 5 shows today. One at noon, and then 2 p. m., 5 p. m. , 8 p.m. and 11 p. m. On the weekend, besides these 5 shows, there is another show at midnight.M: I’m sorry. Could you tell me the show times for today again?W: There are 5 shows today, one at noon, and then 2 p. m., 5 p. m., 8 p.m. and 11 p. m.M: OK. I want 6 tickets for the 11 p. m. show tonight. Are there still 6 tickets available that are seated together?W: Sorry. There are only three tickets left. How about the 8 p. m. show? There are still 10 tickets left for that one.M: But I have a friend who doesn’t get off work till 8 p. m., so he won’t make the beginning of the movie.W: Well, I think it should be OK if he misses the fast ten minutes.M: He works about an hour’s drive from this movie theater, so he will never be able to make it in time.W: Would you like to see another movie then?M: No, we all want to see this one. Is there any way that we could buy tickets now for tomorrow?W: Yes, you can order tickets now for tomorrow.
1.
正确答案:5
2.
正确答案:11
3.
正确答案:together.
4.
正确答案:8
5.
正确答案:car.
PART BDirections: For Questions 6-10, you will hear a passage. Use not more than 3 words for each answer. You will hear the recording twice. You now have 25 seconds to read the sentences and the questions below.
听力原文:W: Good morning. Can I help you?M: Yes, please. I would want to have some information about the courses at Swan School.W: Is that a summer course you’re interested in?M: Yes, please.W: Yes, fine. Well, we have short intensive full-time courses during the summer.M: I would want to know the length of one course.W: Yes. Each course lasts for three weeks.M: How many hours per week, please?W: Well, it’s about twenty-three hours a week. Usually four and a half days each week.M: You must have a lot of students in the class, haven’t you?W: We have a lot of students in the school but in the classes only about between twelve and fourteen students.M: Twelve and fourteen. Could you please give me the dates of the first and the second course?W: Yes, certainly. The first course begins on July 3 and lasts until July 20 and the second course is from July 24 until August 10.M: What about the lees per course?W: Yes, each course costs $ 150, and a $ 5 registration fee.M: And deposit, please?W: Yes, for each course we need a deposit of $ 20 and the registration fee.M: Oh thank you. Do we have to find our own accommodation?W: No, we can do that for you. We have a lady who arranges the accommodation for you with Oxford families.M: How much does that cost?W: Well, you can choose to have bed and breakfast only, which is $ 20 a week, or bed, breakfast and dinner which is about $ 27 a week.M: $ 27. Thank you very much.W: You’re welcome.
6. How long will one course take?
正确答案:Three weeks.
7. How much time should be spent on the course every week?
正确答案:About 23 hours.
8. How many students are there in a class?
正确答案:12 to 14.
9. When will the first course start?
正确答案:July 3.
10. How much is the registration fee?
正确答案:$5.00
PART CDirections: You will hear three dialogues or monologues. Before listening to each one, you will have 5 seconds to read each of the questions which accompany it. While listening, answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. After listening, you will have 10 seconds to check your answer to each question. You will hear each piece ONLY ONCE.
听力原文: A few months ago, millions of people in London heard alarms all over the town. Emergency services, the Fire Department, the Police, hospitals, and ambulances stood by, ready to go into action. In railway and underground stations, people read notices and maps, which told them where to go and what to do in the emergency. This was Exercise Flood Call, to prepare people for a flood emergency. London wasn’t flooded yet, but it is possible that it would be. In 1232 and in 1223, Lon- don was badly flooded. In 1928, people living in Westminster, the heart of London, drowned in floods. And in 1953, one hundred people, living on the eastern edge of the London suburbs were killed again in the floods. At last, Greater London Council took action to prevent this disaster from happening again. Though a flood wall was built in the 1980s, Londoners still must be prepared for the possible disaster. If it happens, 50 underground stations will be underwater. Electricity, gas and phone services will be out of action. Roads will be drowned. It will be impossible to cross any of the bridges between north and south London. Imagine: London will look like the famous Italian city, Venice. But this Exercise Flood Call didn’t cause panic among Londoners. Most people knew it was just a warning. One lady said, “It’s a flood warning, isn’t it? The water doesn’t look high to me.”
11. What happened in London a few months ago?
A.The heart of London was flooded.
B.An emergency exercise was conducted.
C.100 people in the suburbs were drowned.
D.One of the bridges between North and South London collapsed.
正确答案:B
解析:出题点在文章开头部分。伦敦居民在做防洪演习”This was Exercise Flood Call,to prepare people for a flood emergency.”。答案选B。
12. What measure was taken against floods in London in the 1980s?
A.A flood wall was built.
B.Rescue teams were formed.
C.An Mann system was set up.
D.50 underground stations were made waterproof.
正确答案:A
解析:出题点在文章中间表强调的部分。尽管80年代,伦敦修筑了一道防洪墙,伦敦人仍然必须要为可能发生的灾难做准备“Though a flood wall was built in the 1980s,Londoners still must be prepared for the possible disaster.”。答案选A。
13. What can we learn from the lady’s comment?
A.Most Londoners took Exercise Flood Call calmly.
B.Most Londoners were frightened
C.Most Londoners became rather confused.
D.Most Londoners complained about the trouble caused by Exercise Flood Call.
正确答案:A
解析:出题点在文章末尾举例的部分。多数人知道这不过是预警而已”Most people knew it was just a warning.One lady said...”。答案选A。
听力原文: America’s national symbol, the bald eagle, almost went extinct twenty years ago, but it has made a comeback. In fact, the U. S. Fishing and Wild Life Service are considering the possibility oftaking it off the Endangered Species List. Once, more than fifty hundred pairs of bald eagles nested across the country, but by 1920 that number had fallen below four hundred. The chief killer was the widely used DDT. Fish soaked up DDT, died, and were washed up on shores where bald eagles feasted on them. DDT prevented eagle egg shells from thickening. The shells became so thin that they shattered before the babies hatched. Fortunately in 1.932, a law was paused to ban DDT which saved the bald eagle from total wipeout. And since then wildlife biologists have reintroduced bald eagles from Canada to America. The result was that last year U. S. bird watchers counted eleven thou- sand six hundred and ten bald eagles in the country. If it were dropped from the Endangered Species List, the bald eagle would still be a threatened species. That means the bird would continue to get the same protection. No hunting allowed, and no disturbing of nests. But bald eagles still face tough times. The destruction of their natural homes could be the next DDT causing eagle numbers to drop quickly.
14. What was the main harmful effect of the pest’s killer DDT on bald eagles?
A.It limited their supply of food.
B.It destroyed many of their nests killed
C.It many baby bald eagles.
D.It made their eggshells too fragile.
正确答案:D
解析:出题点在文章中间表原因的部分。DDT 会阻碍秃头鹰卵外壳增厚,由于外壳太薄,卵在幼鸟孵出之前就破碎了“The shells became so thin that they shattered before the babies hatched.”。答案选D。
15. What measure did the wild life biologists take to increase the number of bald eagles?
A.They brought in bald eagles from Canada.
B.They explored new ways to hatch baby bald eagles.
C.They developed new types of feed for baby bald eagles.
D.They found ways to speed up the reproduction of bald eagles.
正确答案:A
解析:出题点在文章中间表原因的地方。野生动物学家又从加拿大把秃头鹰引入美国“And since then wildlife biologists have reintroduced bald eagles from Canada to America. The result was that...”。答案选A。
16. According to the speaker, what is the possible danger facing bald eagle?
A.Pollution of the environment.
B.Over-killing by hunters.
C.Destruction of their natural homes.
D.A new generation of pest killers.
正确答案:C
解析:出题点在文章末句。解释秃头鹰的生存状况仍不容乐观的原因,它们赖以生存的自然环境遭到破坏“The destruction of their natural homes could be the next DDT causing eagle numbers to drop quickly.”答案选C。
听力原文: After the early period of settlements, the first sharp in increase in immigration took place in the 1830’s and 1840’s. This brought to America flocks of people from northern Europe who lost employment in the Industrial Revolution, and then a great number of Irish people who fled from famine. German political refugees arrived shortly after. Many immigrants from northern and western Europe settled on farms in the middle-west. The Irish became Construction laborers on roads, bridges, and railroads. In the 1880’s, a tremendous flood of immigrants began coming in, this time largely from southern and eastern Europe. To most Americans, these newcomers seemed far stranger than the early settlers. Their languages, customs, and ways of life were very different from those of Americans. The newcomers moved into the poorest neighborhood of the large cities. They tended to stay together and cling to their old ways. As they were accustomed to poverty, they were willing to work for very low wages. This made other workers, especially those in labor unions, afraid that the immigrants with the lower wage level would take away jobs from them. Indeed, organized labor became one of the key opponents of continued immigration. This opposition finally led to the posting of immigration law in the 1920’s, which restricted further immigration. In 1965, these unfair laws were replaced by a new immigration act, which granted equal opportunities to foreigners, regardless of their place of origin. Asians, like Koreans and Vietnamese, soon began to arrive. Many of these newcomers have worked very hard to establish themselves in their new land.
17. Why did northern European people come to settle down in the United States?
A.They had lost their jobs as a result of the Industrial Revolution.
B.They had been suffering from political and religious oppression.
C.They wanted to flee from the widespread famine in Northern Europe.
D.They wanted to make a fortune there by starting their own businesses.
正确答案:A
解析:出题点在文章开头表原因的部分。早期北欧人移民美国定居的原因是工业带来的失业“This brought to America flocks of people...who lost employment in the Indus- trial Revolution”。答案选A。
18. What did the labor unions worry about ?
A.They might lose control of their members because of the increase in immigration.
B.Their members might find it difficult to get along with the newcomers.
C.The working condition of their members might deteriorate.
D.Their members might lose their jobs to the newcomers.
正确答案:D
解析:出题点在文章中间表强调的部分。Especially,“特别是”。工会里的工人担心由于移民的涌入造成失业“This made other workers,especially those in labor unions,afraid... would take jobs away from them”。答案选D。
19. What was the purpose of the immigration law passed in the 1920’s?
A.To impose restrictions on further immigration.
B.To improve the working conditions of immigrants.
C.To set a minimum wage level for new immigrants.
D.To put requirements on languages for newcomers.
正确答案:A
解析:出题点在文章中间表强调的部分。最终1920年的移民法案外来移民”This opposition finally led to the posting of immigration law in the 1920’s,which restricted further immigration.”。答案选A。
20. What do we know from the passage about Asian immigrants?
A.They were looked down upon by European immigrants.
B.They had a hard time seeking equal job opportunities.
C.They worked very hard to earn a decent living.
D.They strongly opposed continued immigration.
正确答案:C
解析:出题点在文章末句举例的部分。亚洲移民努力工作在新自立“Asians, like Koreans and Vietnamese,soon began to arrive.Many of these newcomers have worked very hard to establish themselves in their new land”。答案选C。
Section II Use of English (15 minutes)Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1.
In the past, the Park Service focused on making the big scenic parks more 【21】______ and comfortable for tourists. Roads were paved to allow “windshield visitors” to experience the grandeur of nature without leaving their cars, and a 【22】______ number of hotels and grocery stores were permitted to open 【23】______ the park boundaries. Now this trend is changing. Plans have been made to 【24】______ the parks to their natural condition as much as possible. The objective of such a move would be to secure the preservation of the parks for future generations, 【25】______ allowing present-day visitors to experience pure wilderness, 【26】______ from any obvious signs of civilization -- an opportunity which is quickly disappearing in the twentieth century. 【27】______ plans call only 【28】______ a reduction in the number of cars 【29】______ into the parks each day, but 【30】______ , tourists may have to leave their cars at the gates and then either visit the park on foot 【31】______ use park 【32】______ 【33】______ , stores and hotels may no longer be allowed within park boundaries and even the number of campgrounds may be restricted. Denali National Park in Alaska serves as an excellent 【34】______ for this new type of park, one which has been changed only slightly from its 【35】______ state. There is only one road, unpaved in 【36】______ , which cross 【37】______ Denali. As car traffic is strictly limited, many visitors experience the magnificent 【38】______ and wildlife from a park bus. There are no hotels or stores and only seven campgrounds within Denali’s 3,000 square miles. This 【39】______ isolation offers backpackers, canoeists, and other sport enthusiasts a 【40】______ physical and psychological challenge.
21. 【21】
A.possible
B.accessible
C.approachable
D.reachable
正确答案:B
解析:accessible“易接近的”,通常指物;approachable“易亲近的”,指人。本句意为公园从前总是致力于让游客更容易更舒服地接近公园的无限风光。
22. 【22】
A.large
B.amazing
C.minimum
D.limited
正确答案:D
解析:从文中可知公园的面积毕竟是有限的,因此在公园内部旅馆和蔬菜水果店也毕竟是有限的。
23. 【23】
A.within
B.inside
C.on
D.at
正确答案:A
解析:within park boundaries“在公园范围内”,下文第二段倒数第二行出现了。
24. 【24】
A.recover
B.turn
C.rebuild
D.restore
正确答案:D
解析:restore...to...“使恢复原状”。本句意为人们制定了计划,以使公园尽可能地恢复到他们的自然状态。rebuild也有“重建、恢复”之意,但不与to连用;recover“恢复”,但与from搭配。
25. 【25】
A.thus
B.and
C.while
D.but
正确答案:C
解析:while用以表示对比或相反的情况。本句意为“该行动的目的是为我们子孙后代保留住公园,而同时也让当今的游人能体会到纯粹的、摆脱人类文明束缚的大自然。”
26. 【26】
A.released
B.devoid
C.free
D.resulted
正确答案:C
解析:free from“排脱不相适宜的人或事物”;devoid of“缺少”; released“释放出”;resulted from“发生,是…的后果”。
27. 【27】
A.Detailed
B.Initial
C.Overall
D.Long-term
正确答案:B
解析:initial“最初的”。本句意为最初计划仅仅是减少每天进入公园的汽车数量。detailed“细节的”;overall“全部的”;long-term“长期的”。
28. 【28】
A.at
B.on
C.for
D.about
正确答案:C
解析:call for“要求”;call for a reduction“要求减少…”;call on“拜访”。
29. 【29】
A.allowed
B.parked
C.moved
D.headed
正确答案:A
解析:allowed“允许进入的”。本句意为每天允许进入公园的汽车。
30. 【30】
A.then
B.finally
C.consequently
D.eventually
正确答案:D
解析:eventually“最终”。本句意为最终游人将不得不把车停在门口走到公园或是乘坐公园里的车。从文章可知,计划最开始是逐步减少每天进入公园的汽车数量,最终游人的车不得进入。
31. 【31】
A.or
B.and
C.but
D.may
正确答案:A
解析:or“或者”,表选择。
32. 【32】
A.transportation
B.traffic
C.facilities
D.lot
正确答案:A
解析:transportation“交通工具”;traffic“交通”;facility“装置”; lot“有特定用途的一块空地”。本句意为乘坐公园的交通工具。
33. 【33】
A.Exceptionally
B.Additionally
C.Increasingly
D.Extraordinarily
正确答案:B
解析:additionally“另外地”。本句意为另外,公园以内不再允许有商店和旅馆存在,甚至露营的场地也受限了。exceptionally“非常地,特殊地”;increasingly“增长地”;extraordinarily“极度地”。
34. 【34】
A.prototype
B.example
C.model
D.pattern
正确答案:C
解析:model“典范”;prototype“机器等工业产品的原型”;example“例子”;pattern“模式”。
35. 【35】
A.original
B.natural
C.primitive
D.rude
正确答案:B
解析:natural state“自然状态”。original“原先的”;primitive“原始的”;rude“粗糙地”。从句意上看应是“自然的”。
36. 【36】
A.segments
B.portions
C.divisions
D.sections
正确答案:D
解析:section“地段、一段”;segment“部分,一部分”,a segment of orange“一片桔子”;portion“整体中的一大部分”,the front portion of a train“列车前部”;division“部门”,export division“出口部”。只有section有“路段,地段”之意。
37. 【37】
A.in
B.into
C.off
D.through
正确答案:D
解析:cross through“穿过”,固定搭配。
38. 【38】
A.scenery
B.scene
C.sight
D.spectacle
正确答案:A
解析:scenery“风景”,为不可数名词。scene系可数名词,用以指所看到的远近各处的景象。亦包括人和动物,表场景、景像。 sight“视力,看”;spectacle“壮观的场面”。本句指优美的自然风景。
39. 【39】
A.comparative
B.relative
C.strict
D.geographical
正确答案:B
解析:本句意为这种相对隔离给那些爱好徒步旅行的、划独木舟的和其他体育运动的人提供了身体上和心理上的挑战。relative“相对的”;comparative“比较地”;strict”严格的”;geographical“地理上的”,只有relative符合题意。
40. 【40】
A.strange
B.specific
C.special
D.distinct
正确答案:C
解析:special“特别的”;specific“详尽的,确切的”;distinct“截然不同的”,从句意来看应是特殊的。
Section III Reading Comprehension (60 minutes)
Part BDirections: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D . Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.
On the past few days, two nations with large numbers of AIDS-infected people have announced plans to distribute a triple cocktail of life-prolonging antiretroviral drugs free to all who need it. China has been treating 5,000 patients and plans to expand the program to cover everyone in the country. South Africa’s cabinet approved a plan that includes drugs for all who need them. China spent years denying it had an AIDS problem. Until recently, South Africa’s top officials minimized the epidemic, questioned whether H. I. V. was the cause of AIDS and labeled antiretroviral drugs “poisons”. Both countries have now taken a courageous and essential step. But only one is likely to succeed. Indeed, China’s program is already failing. One in five Chinese who have received antiretroviral drugs has already stopped taking them, which can lead to the creation of drug-resistant strains of the virus. China has only about 100 doctors nationwide with experience in treating AIDS. Health workers are simply handing patient’s bottles of pills. Most patients receive no counseling on how to take them or deal with their side effects, and little follow-up monitoring. China is also still determined to crack down on high-risk groups such as prostitutes and drug users, which drives the epidemic underground. Even recently, provincial police were beating AIDS patients protesting for treatment. Treating AIDS requires a network of health care workers and a political climate that does not stigmatize and discriminate against those who come forward. South Africa’s government, by contrast, understands that handing out pills is only part of the solution. The program, which will cost about $ 680 million a year by 2007, will spend only a third of its budget on buying drugs. Much of the money will go instead to establishing clinics and training thousands of doctors, nurses, counselors and other workers to staff them. The government plans to have a well-run clinic in every district by the end of the year, and in every municipality by the end of 2008. South Africa has an influential national network of campaigners for AIDS treatment whose pres- sure and advice were crucial to devising the plan, and who will be crucial to its success. It also had help from the foundation led by former President Bill Clinton, which negotiated better prices for AIDS medicine. China’s government, by contrast, made its decisions in secret and has yet to permit such widespread citizen activism on AIDS. But China has one huge advantage over South Africa: while one in nine South Africans has the AIDS virus, China’s epidemic is far smaller. Now that China has decided to treat AIDS, it has a chance to learn from other nations before the deluge.
41. The author write this passage mainly to______.
A.bring up some facts about AIDS preventing and curing in the world.
B.urge Chinese government to do something about AIDS.
C.compare two countries in the AIDS-related work.
D.say something about the development in the AIDS preventing method.
正确答案:C
解析:本题是一个主旨题。要求考生在纵观全文的基础上,对作者的写作目的作出推断。
42. The word “stigmatize” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to______.
A.criticize.
B.abort.
C.depreciate.
D.disregard.
正确答案:C
解析:本题是一个词义理解题,给出一个超纲词汇,要求考生联系上下文给出其在文中的意思。回到原文“Treating AIDS requires a network of health care workers and a political climate that does not stigmatize and discriminate against those who come forward.”。注意到这里并列谓语的存在,是解答本题的突破口。
43. It can be inferred from the passage that China fall behind South Africa because ______.
A.there are not enough medical experts in AIDS.
B.the government’s attitude toward AIDS problem is still to be changed.
C.of the lack of experience.
D.china have not enough money.
正确答案:B
解析:本题是一个推断题,要求考生在理解全文的基础上,抽象出作者的主要观点。
44. The author says that South Africa is doing better than China because______.
A.it has more medical experts in AIDS than China.
B.its government shows more enthusiasm.
C.it devotes more money to this cause.
D.it’s population of patients is decreasing.
正确答案:B
解析:本题是一个推断题,要求考生对文中论断的理由作出解释。正确的答案是建立在对文中内容的提炼上的。
45. The author’s attitude towards the future of China’s AIDS problem might be described as one of______.
A.worried.
B.indifferent.
C.optimistic.
D.frustrated.
正确答案:C
解析:本题是一个观点态度题,要求考生对作者的态度作出推断。解答这种类型的推断题需要仔细体会全文的感情基调。
The Cold War may be over in Europe, but it is very much still with us in Asia. The North- South division on the Korean Peninsula is still possibly the world’s most dangerous political standoff. Not far behind is the tension between China and Taiwan. A civil war between the two was frozen just short of completion more than a half century ago because of U. S. political interests and military might. Taiwan’s authoritarian and repressive regime was for decades a mirror image of that of the main- land, but over the last 20 years both have taken enormous steps, with Taiwan leading the charge, to- ward opening up their markets, economies and the societies. Taiwan is a highly successful tiger economy, accounting for more than 10 percent of the world’s production of information-technology components. With both China and Taiwan members of the World Trade Organization, the European Commission rightly opened a European Trade and Economic office almost 12 months ago in Taipei. There is no doubt that the European Union should continue to develop industrial and economic links with Tai- wan and that the EU should also welcome the emerging multiparty democracy and respect for human rights on the island. But this should not blind Europe to the wider economic and political picture in Asia. China will and should be one of the engines of the world economy in this century. In 2003 the Chinese economy, with its 1.3 billion people, grew at nearly 10 percent, and this is believed to be a conservative estimate. By contrast, the European Central Bank last June predicted the eurozone’s growth at 1.1 to 2.1 percent for 2004. China’s manufacturing sector grew by 17 percent last year when most of the European manufacturing sector seemed to be in decline. It is in all of our interests that this growth continues and that a solid EU-China partnership is developed. This prospect will be endangered only if China is provoked into an arms race with its neighbors. One way of ratcheting up the tension would be to call into doubt the one China principle that the EU has supported for so long. Those supporting Taiwan’s independence threaten to do exactly that. Yes, the EU should ensure Taiwan is not forced into any shotgun marriage with China, but equally, we should not encourage a destabilization of the status quo. The 23 million Taiwanese should be looking toward an accommodation with China, rather than using interests within the United States and EU to promote an agenda that would threaten us all.
46. This passage may be______.
A.a report on the annual meeting of the UN.
B.a research report by a socialist for the government.
C.an arguing paper on a publication .
D.a pamphlet delivered to the public.
正确答案:C
解析:本题是一个主旨题。要求考生在纵观全文的基础上,对文章的性质作出判断。
47. The word “shotgun marriage with China” in paragraph 5 could be explained as ______.
A.come to an union after bitter wars.
B.a kind of union betraying the willing of both countries.
C.a kind of union forced by others.
D.a kind of union forced by one of the two countries.
正确答案:D
解析:本题是一个词义理解题,给出一个含有比喻含义的词组,要求考生联系上下文给出其在文中的意思。回到原文“the EU should ensure Taiwan is not forced into any shot- gun marriage with China,but equally we should not encourage a destabilization of the status quo.”。原句后面的转折是解答本题的关键。转折部分强调了不应该破坏稳定,所以前面的意思也应该和保持稳定有关。
48. Compared to America, the author believe that which of the following factor contribute most the EU’s expectation that China has a peaceful relationship with Taiwan?
A.Political reasons.
B.Economical reasons.
C.Friendship with both China and Taiwan.
D.The world’s peace.
正确答案:B
解析:本题是一个推断题,要求考生在理解全文的基础上,抽象出作者的最主要观点。
49. The author suggested that Taiwanese should ______.
A.develop a good relationship with China.
B.take advantage of America and EU to threat China.
C.keep the stability of the situation.
D.remain silent whatever happened.
正确答案:C
解析:本题是一个主题观点题,要求考生对作者提出的主张进行理解消化。
50. According to the passage, which of the following is true?
A.America could have do something to end the cold war.
B.Taiwan would have developed slower if it were not for the change of the government.
C.China is developing faster than Taiwan now.
D.EU is in more close relation with China today.
正确答案:B
解析:本题是一个细节题,考查考生对文中提到细节的记忆和理解。本题的考点并不是集中在文中的同一处。
When the world was a simpler place, the rich were fat, the poor were thin, and right-thinking people worried about how to feed the hungry. Now, in much of the world, the rich are thin, the poor are fat, and right-thinking people are worrying about obesity. Evolution is mostly to blame. It has designed mankind to cope with deprivation, not plenty. People are perfectly tuned to store energy in good years to see them through lean ones. But when bad times never come, they are stuck with that energy, stored around their expanding bellies. Thanks to rising agricultural productivity, lean years are rarer all over the globe. Modernday Malthusians, who used to draw graphs proving that the world was shortly going to run out of food, have gone rather quiet lately. According to the UN, the number of people short of food fell from 920m in 1980 to 799m 20 years later, even though the world’s population increased by 1.6 billion over the period. This is mostly a cause for celebration. Mankind has won what was, for most of his time on this planet, his biggest battle: to ensure that he and his offspring had enough to eat. But every silver lining has a cloud, and the consequence of prosperity is a new plague that brings with it ahost of interesting policy dilemmas. As a scourge of the modern world, obesity has an image problem. It is easier to associate with Father Christmas than with the four horses of the apocalypse. But it has a good claim to lumber along beside them, for it is the world’s biggest public-health issue today—the main cause of heart disease, which kills more people these days than AIDS, malaria, war; the principal risk factor in diabetes; heavily implicated in cancer and other diseases. Since the World Health Organisation labelled obesity an “epidemic” in 2000, reports on its fearful consequences have come thick and fast. Will public-health warnings, combined with media pressure, persuade people to get thinner, just as they finally put them off tobacco? Possibly. In the rich world, sales of healthier foods are booming (see survey) and new figures suggest that over the past year Americans got very slightly thinner for the first time in recorded history. But even if Americans are losing a few ounces, it will be many years before the country solves the health problems caused by half a century’s dining to excess. And, everywhere else in the world, people are still piling on the pounds. That’s why there is now a consensus among doctors that governments should do something to stop them.
51. The author write this passage mainly to ______.
A.bring up some warnings.
B.tell the reader some new facts.
C.discuss a solution to a problem.
D.persuade the reader to keep fit.
正确答案:B
解析:本题是—个主旨题。要求考生在纵观全文的基础上,对作者的写作目的作出推断。
52. It can be inferred from the passage that” Malthusians” in paragraph 3 may be someone who______.
A.worries about all the things whatever big or small.
B.comes with warning that food will not feed all the people on the earth.
C.likes to teach the public to eat less food.
D.a economist who show deep concern for the people without food.
正确答案:B
解析:本题是一个词义理解题,给出一个引用的人名,要求考生联系上下文推断出其在文中的意思。解答这类问题要求考生能够准确把握该人名在文中出现的含义。
53. According to the passage, which of the following contribute most to the growth of the weight of the people on the earth?
A.No serious wars occurred.
B.Lack of consideration for the diseases associate with growing fat.
C.Growth of the food supply.
D.Lack of medical treatment for the problem of growing fat.
正确答案:C
解析:本题是一个细节题,要求对选项中陈述的事实进行判断。本题相应细节的定位零散分布在整篇文章中。
54. The author mentioned Father Christmas and the four horses of the apocalypse in order to______.
A.compare Father Christmas with the four horses of the apocalypse.
B.stress how fat people now on the earth.
C.prepare the appearance of “horse” in the next sentence.
D.make the passage road interesting.
正确答案:B
解析:本题是一个推断题,要求考生理解文章中作者用语的目的。
55. The author’s attitude towards the problem of growing fat can be best described as______.
A.worried.
B.indifferent.
C.objective.
D.pessimistic.
正确答案:C
解析:本题是一个观点态度题,要求考生对作者的态度作出推断。解答这种类型的推断题需要仔细体会全文的感情基调。
In The Sorrows of Empire, Chalmers Johnson advances the disturbing claim that the United States’ Cold War-era military power and far-flung base system have, in the last decade, been consolidated in a new form of global imperial rule. The United States, according to Johnson, has become “a military juggernaut intent on world domination.” Driven by a triumphalist ideology, an exaggerated sense of threats, and a self-serving military- industrial complex, this juggernaut is tightening its grip on much of the world. The Pentagon has re- placed the State Department as the primary shaper of foreign policy. Military commanders in regional headquarters are modern-day proconsuls, warrior-diplomats who direct the United States’ imperial reach. Johnson fears that this military empire will corrode democracy, bankrupt the nation, spark opposition, and ultimately end in a Soviet-style collapse. In this rendering, the American military empire is a novel form of domination. Johnson de- scribes it as an “international protection racket: mutual defense treaties, military advisory groups, and military forces stationed in foreign countries to” defend” against often poorly defined, overblown, or nonexistent threats.” These arrangements create “satellites”—ostensibly independent countries whose foreign relations revolve around the imperial state. Johnson’s previous polemic, Blowbaek, asserted that post-1945 U.S. spheres of influence in East Asia and Latin America were as coercive and exploitative as their Soviet counterparts. The Sorrows of Empire continues this dubious line. Echoing 1960s revisionism, Johnson asserts that the United States’ Cold War security system of alliances and bases was built on manufactured threats and driven by expansionary impulses. The United States was not acting in its own defense; it was exploiting opportunities to build an empire. The Soviet Union and the United States, according to this argument, were more alike than different: both militarized their societies and foreign policies and expanded outward, establishing imperial rule through “hub and spoke” systems of client states and political dependencies. Unfortunately, Johnson offers no coherent theory of why the United States seeks empire. At one point, he suggests that the American military empire is founded on “a vast complex of interests, commitments, and projects.” The empire of bases has become institutionalized in the military establishment and has taken on a life of its own. There is no discussion, however, of the forces within U. S. politics that resist or reject empire. As a result, Johnson finds imperialism everywhere and in everything the United States does, in its embrace of open markets and global economic integration as much as in its pursuit of narrow economic gains.
56. According to the passage, which of the following is the most important character shared by both satellite and “satellite” countries?
A.Revolving around a center body.
B.have no orbit of their own.
C.dependent.
D.smaller than others.
正确答案:C
解析:本题是一个细节题,要求考生在理解原文的基础上,对文章中的一个说法进行解释。
57. The word “dubious” in paragraph 4 means ______.
A.uncertain.
B.unreasonable.
C.important.
D.unique.
正确答案:A
解析:本题是一个词义理解题,给出一个超纲词汇,要求考生联系上下文给出该词的意思。回到原文:“Johnson’s previous polemic,Blowback,asserted that post-1945 U.S. spheres of influence in East Asia and Latin America were as coercive and exploitative as their Soviet counterparts.The Sorrows of Empire continues this dubious line.”显然这里的“this dubious line”是指前面提到的关于美国和苏联一样具有强迫性和剥削性的说法。在解本题的过程中关键涉及到关于作者态度的判断。
58. It can be inferred from the passage that the Soviet collapse because of______.
A.the overexpansion of military into polities.
B.the rebellion of the civil.
C.the inability of the government.
D.the disappearance of democracy.
正确答案:D
解析:本题是一个细节题,要求对选项中陈述的事实进行判断。考生需要回到第二段仔细阅读再加以提炼总结。
59. The author points out that Chalmers’s theory needs to be improved in which of the following aspects?
A.the motive of some behavior of America.
B.the underlying intention of America’s support of globalization.
C.the reason why America seeks to its transcendent position.
D.the fact the America is not purely imperial.
正确答案:C
解析:本题是一个细节题,但是要求考生在阅读完细节的基础上还要进行推断。
60. The author’s opinion about the remark of Chalmers Johnson in The Sorrows of Empire might be best summarize as one of______.
A.surprising but somewhat reasonable.
B.reasonable but still needs to be improved.
C.too absolute.
D.too pessimistic.
正确答案:A
解析:本题是一个观点态度题,要求考生对作者的态度作出推断。解答这种类型的推断题需要仔细体会全文用词的基调。
Part DDirections: Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2.
Do animals have rights? This is how the question is usually put. It sounds like a useful, ground -clearing way to start. 61) Actually, it isn’t, because it assumes that there is an agreed account of human rights, which is something the world does not have. On one view of Tights, to be sure, it necessarily follows that animals have none. 62) Some philosophers argue that rights exist only within a social contract, as part of an exchange of duties and entitlements. Therefore animals cannot have rights. The idea of punishing a tiger that kills somebody is absurd; for exactly the same reason, so is the idea that tigers have rights. However, this is only one account, and by no means an uncontested one. It denies rights not only to animals but also to some people for instance, to infants, the mentally incapable and future generations. In addition, it is unclear what force a contract can have for people who never consented to it: how do you reply to somebody who says I don’t like this contract? The point is this: without agreement on the fights of people, arguing about the rights of animals is fruitless. 63) It leads the discussion to extremes at the outset: it invites you to think that animals should be treated either with the consideration humans extend to other humans or with no consideration at all. This is a false choice. Better to start with another, more fundamental, question: is the way we treat animals a moral issue at all? Many deny it. ) Arguing from the view that humans are different from animals in every relevant respect, extremists of this kind think that animals lay outside the area of moral choice. Any regard for the suffering of animals is seen as a mistake a sentimental displacement of feeling that should properly be directed to other humans. This view, which holds that torturing a monkey is morally equivalent to chopping wood, may seem bravely logical. In fact it is simply shallow: the confused center is right to reject it. The most elementary form of moral reasoning the ethical equivalent of learning to crawl is to weigh others’ interests against one’s own. This in turn requires sympathy and imagination: without which there is no capacity for moral thought. To see an animal in pain is enough, for most, to engage sympathy. 65) When that happen, it is not a mistake: it is mankind’s instinct for moral reasoning in action, an instinct that should be encouraged rather than laughed at .
61.
正确答案:事实并非如此,因为这种问法是以人们对人的权利有共同的认识为基础的,而这种共同认识并不存在。
62.
正确答案:有些哲学家论证说,权利只存在社会契约中,是责任与利益相交换的一部分。
63.
正确答案:这种说法从一开始就将讨论引向两个极端,它使人们认为应这样对待动物:要么像对人类自身一样关切体谅,要么完全冷漠无情。
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正确答案:这类人持极端看法,认为人与动物在各相关方面都不相同,对待动物无须考虑道德问题。
65.
正确答案:这种反应并没有错,这是人类用道德观念进行推理的本能在起作用,这种本能应得到鼓励而不应遭到嘲笑。
Section IV Writing (35 minutes)
66. For this part, you are allowed 35 minutes to write an open letter on behalf of the Students’ Union, asking people to give help to a student who is seriously ill. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below: (1)表示已经收到父母的来信; (2)问候父母并提醒其注意健康; (3)简单介绍你的近况。
正确答案:Dear mother and father: Delighted to receive your letter saying that you plan to have a travel in the coming holiday. Your letter brings me great pleasure. Concerning the weather, I’d like to strongly recommend that you take some warm clothes while starting your trip. Since you have decided to go to Xi’an, there are many places of interest worth visiting. As a result, I am sure you will feel tired if you don’t have a good rest. So after you spend a tired day, as most travelers, an abundance of sleeping is necessary, thus I suggest you decide on the specific activities as your day passes. Finally, in order to enjoy your holiday, you’d better take care of yourselves. What’s more, remember to take some medicine in ease. As for me, at this time of the year I am not very busy, so please don’t worry about me. I am eagerly looking forward to seeing you soon. Best wishes for you.
