PartⅡListening Comprehension(25minutes) Section A
Directions：In this section,you will hear three news reports.At the end of each news report,you will hear two or three questions.Both the news report and the questions will be spoken only once.After you hear a question,you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A),B),C)and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet1with a single line through the centre.
Questions1and2are based on the news report you have just heard.
1.A)Many facilities were destroyed by a wandering cow.
B)A wandering cow knocked down one of its fences.
C)Some tourists were injured by a wandering cow.
D)A wandering cow was captured by the police.
2.A)It was shot to death by a police officer.
B)It found its way back to the park’s zoo.
C)It became a great attraction for tourists.
D)It was sent to the animal control department.
Questions3and4are based on the news report you have just heard.
3.A)It is the largest of its kind.
B)It is going to be expanded.
C)It is displaying more fossil specimens.
D)It is starting an online exhibition.
4.A)A collection of bird fossils from Australia.
B)Photographs of certain rare fossil exhibits.
C)Some ancient wall paintings from Australia.
D)Pictures by winners of a wildlife photo contest.
Questions5to7are based on the news report you have just heard.
5.A)Pick up trash.
B)Amuse visitors.
C)Deliver messages.
D)Play with children.6.A)They are especially intelligent.
B)They are children’s favorite.
C)They are quite easy to tame.
D)They are clean and pretty.
7.A)Children may be harmed by the rooks.
B)Children may be tempted to drop litter.
C)Children may contract bird diseases.
D)Children may overfeed the rooks.
Section B
Directions：In this section,you will hear two long conversations.At the end of each conversation,you will hear four questions.Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once.After you hear a question,you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A),B),C)and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet1with a single line through the centre.
Questions8to11are based on the news report you have just heard.
8.A)It will be produced at Harvard University.
B)It will be hosted by famous professors.
C)It will cover different areas of science.
D)It will focus on recent scientific discoveries.
9.A)It will be more futuristic.B)It will be more systematic.
C)It will be more entertaining.D)It will be easier to understand.
10.A)People interested in science.B)Youngsters eager to explore.
C)Children in their early teens.D)Students majoring in science.
11.A)Offer professional advice.B)Provide financial support.
C)Help promote it on the Internet.D)Make episodes for its first season. Questions12to15are based on the news report you have just heard.
12.A)Unsure.B)Helpless.
C)Concerned.D)Dissatisfied.
13.A)He is too concerned with being perfect.
B)He loses heart when faced with setbacks.
C)He is too ambitious in achieving goals.
D)He takes on projects beyond his ability.
14.A)Embarrassed.B)Unconcerned.
C)Miserable.D)Resentful.15.A)Try to be optimistic whatever happens.
B)Compare his present with his past only.
C)Always learn from others’achievements.
D)Treat others the way he would be treated.
Section C
Directions：In this section,you will hear three passages.At the end of each passage, you will hear three or four questions.Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once.After you hear a question,you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A),B),C)and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet1with a single line through the centre.
Questions16to18are based on the passage you have just heard.
16.A)They have a stronger sense of social responsibility.
B)They are more likely to succeed in the humanities.
C)They are more likely to become engineers.
D)They have greater potential to be leaders.
17.A)Praise girls who like to speak up frequently.
B)Encourage girls to solve problems on their own.
C)Insist that boys and girls work together more.
D)Respond more positively to boy’s comments.
18.A)Offer personalized teaching materials.
B)Provide a variety of optional courses.
C)Place great emphasis on test scores.
D)Pay extra attention to top students.
Questions19to21are based on the passage you have just heard.
19.A)It often rains cats and dogs.
B)It seldom rains in summer time.
C)It does not rain as much as people think.
D)It is one of the most rainy cities in the US.
20.A)They drive most of the time.
B)The rain is usually very light.
C)They have got used to the rain.
D)The rain comes mostly at night.
21.A)It has a lot of places for entertainment.
B)It has never seen thunder and lightning.
C)It has fewer cloudy days than any other coastal city.
D)It has mild weather both in summer and in winter.
[D]Days after the deadly2017wildfires in Santa Rosa,California,a drone(无人机)caught footage(连续镜头)of a USPS worker,Trevor Smith,driving through burned homes in that familiar white van,collecting mail in an affected area.The video is striking:The operation is familiar,but the scene looks like the end of the world.
According to Rae Aim Haight,the program manager for the national-preparedness office at USPS,Smith was fulfilling a request made by some of the home owners to pick up any mail that was left untouched.For Smith,this was just another day on the job.“I followed my route like I normally do,”Smith told a reporter.“As I came across a box that was up but with no house,I checked,and there was mail—outgoing mail—in it.And so we picked those up and carried on.”
[E]USPS has sophisticated emergency plans for natural disasters.Across the country, 285emergencymanagement teams are devoted to crisis control.These teams are trained annually using a framework known as the three Ps:people,property,product. After mail service stops due to weather,the agency’s top priority is ensuring that employees are safe.Then it evaluates the health of infrastructure,such as the roads that mail carriers drive on.Finally,it decides when and how to re-open operations.If the destruction is extreme,mail addressed to the area will get sent elsewhere.In response to Hurricane Katrina in2005,USPS redirected incoming New Orleans mail to existing mail facilities in Houston.Mail that was already processed in New Orleans facilities was moved to an upper floor so it would be protected from water damage. [F]As soon as it’s safe enough to be outside,couriers(邮递员)start distributing accumulated mail on the still-accessible routes.USPS urges those without standing addresses to file change-of-address forms with their new location.After Hurricane Katrina hit in2005,mail facilities were set up in dozens of locations across the country in the two weeks that USPS was unable to provide street delivery.
[G]Every day,USPS processes,on average,493.4million pieces of mail—anything from postcards to Social Security checks to medicine.Spokespeople from both USPS and UPS told me all mail is important.But some mail can be extremely sensitive and timely.According to data released in January2017,56percent of bills are paid online, which means that just under half of payments still rely on delivery services to be completed.
[H]It can be hard to identify which parcels are carrying crucial items such as Social Security checks,but USPS and UPS try their best to prioritize sensitive material.They will coordinate with the Social Security Administration to make sure that Social Security checks reach the right people in a timely fashion.After Hurricane Florence and Hurricane Michael last fall,USPS worked with state and local election boards to make sure that absentee ballots were available and received on time.
[I]Mail companies are logistics(物流)companies,which puts them in a special position to help when disaster strikes.In a2011USPS case study,the agency
emphasized its massive infrastructure as a“unique federal asset”to be called upon in a disaster or terrorist attack.“I think we’re unique as a federal agency,”USPS official Mike Swigart told me,“because we’re in literally every community in this country... We’re obligated to deliver to that point on a daily basis.”
[J]Private courier companies,which have more dollars to spend,use their expertise in logistics to help revitalize damaged areas after a disaster.For more than a decade, FedEx has supported the American Red Cross in its effort to get emergency supplies to areas affected by disasters,both domestically and internationally.In2012,the company distributed more than1,200MedPacks to Medical Reserve Corps groups in California.They also donated space for3.1million pounds of charitable shipping globally.Last October,the company pledged$1million in cash and transportation support for Hurricanes Florence and Michael.UPS’s charitable arm,the UPS Foundation,uses the company’s logistics to help disaster-struck areas rebuild.“We realize that as a company with people,trucks,warehouses,we needed to play a larger role,”said Eduardo Martinez,the president of the UPS Foundation.The company employs its trucks and planes to deliver food,medicine,and water.The day before I spoke to Martinez in November,he had been touring the damage from Hurricane Michael in Florida with the American Red Cross.“We have an obligation to make sure our communities are thriving,”he said.
[K]Rebuilding can take a long time,and even then,impressions of the disaster may still remain.Returning to a normal life can be difficult,but some small routines—mail delivery being one of the—may help residents remember that their communities are still their communities.“When they see that carrier back out on the street,”Swigart said,“that’s the first sign to them that life is starting to return to normal.”
36.The United States Postal Service has a system to ensure its employees’safety.
37.One official says USPS is unique in that it has more direct reach to communities compared with other federal agencies.
38.Natural disasters can have a long-lasting impact on community life.
39.Mail delivery service is still responsible for the completion of almost half of payments.
40.The sight of a mailman on the street is a reassuring sign of life becoming normal again.
41.After Hurricane Katrina interrupted routine delivery,temporary mail service points were set up.42.Postal service in some regions in the U.S.was suspended due to extreme cold weather.
43.Private postal companies also support disaster relief efforts by distributing urgent supplies.
44.A dedicated USPS employee was on the job carrying out duties in spite of extreme conditions.
45.Postal services work hard to identify items that require priority treatment. Section C
Directions：There are2passages 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 Sheet2with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions46to50are based on the following passage.
Professor Ashok Goel of Georgia Tech developed an artificially intelligent teaching assistant to help handle the enormous number of student questions in the online class,Knowledge-Based Artificial Intelligence.This online course is a core requirement of Georgia Tech’s online Master of Science in Computer Science program.Professor Goel already had eight teaching assistants,but that wasn’t enough to deal with the overwhelming number of daily questions from students.
Many students drop out of online courses because of the lack of teaching support. When students feel isolated or confused and reach out with questions that go unanswered,their motivation to continue begins to fade.Professor Goel decided to do something to remedy this situation and his solution was to create a virtual assistant named Jill Watson,which is based on the IBM Watson platform.
Goel and his team developed several versions of Jill Watson before releasing her to the online forums.At first,the virtual assistant wasn’t too great.But Goel and his team sourced the online discussion forum to find all40,000questions that had ever been asked since the class was launched.Then they began to feed Jill with the questions and answers.After some adjustments,and sufficient time,Jill was able to answer the students,questions correctly97%of the time.The virtual assistant became so advanced and realistic that the students didn’t know she was a computer.The students,who were studying artificial intelligence,were interacting with the virtual assistant and couldn’t tell it apart from a real human being.Goel didn’t inform them about Jill’s true identity until April26.The students were actually very positive about the experience.
The goal of Professor Goel’s virtual assistant next year is to take over answering 40%of all the questions posed by students on the online forum.The name Jill Watsonwill,of course,change to something else next semester.Professor Goel has a much rosier outlook on the future of artificial intelligence than,say,Elon Musk,Stephen Hawking,Bill Gates or Steve Wozniak.
46.What do we learn about Knowledge-Based Artificial Intelligence?
A)It is a robot that can answer students’questions.
B)It is a course designed for students to learn online.
C)It is a high-tech device that revolutionizes teaching.
D)It is a computer program that aids student learning.
47.What problem did Professor Goel meet with?
A)His students were unsatisfied with the assistants.
B)His course was too difficult for the students.
C)Students’questions were too many to handle.
D)Too many students dropped out of his course.
48.What do we learn about Jill Watson?
A)She turned out to be a great success.
B)She got along pretty well with students.
C)She was unwelcome to students at first.
D)She was released online as an experiment.
49.How did the students feel about Jill Watson?
A)They thought she was a bit too artificial.
B)They found her not as capable as expected.
C)They could not but admire her knowledge.
D)They could not tell her from a real person.
50.What does Professor Goel plan to do next with Jill Watson?
A)Launch different versions of her online.
B)Feed her with new questions and answers.
C)Assign her to answer more of students'questions.
D)Encourage students to interact with her more freely.
Passage Two
Questions51to55are based on the following passage.
Thinking small,being engaging,and having a sense of humor don’t hurt.Those are a few of the traits of successful science crowdfunding efforts that emerge from a recent study that examined nearly400campaigns.But having a large network and some promotional skills may be more crucial.
Crowdfunding,raising money for a project through online appeals,has taken off in recent years for everything from making movies to producing water-saving gadgets. Scientists have tried to tap Internet donors,too,with mixed success.Some raisedmore than twice their goals,but others have fallen short of reaching even modest targets.
To determine what separates science crowdfunding triumphs from failures,a team led by science communications scholar Mike Schafer of the University of Zurich examined the content of the webpages for371recent campaigns.
Four traits stood out for those that achieved their goals,the researchers report in Public Understanding of Science.For one,they use a crowdfunding platform that specializes in raising money for science,and not just any kind of project.Although sites like Kickstarter take all comers,platforms such as Experiment.com and Petridish.org only present scientific projects.For another,they present the project with a funny video because good visuals and a sense of humor improved success. Most of them engage with potential donors,since projects that answered questions from interested donors fared better.And they target a small amount of money.The projects included in the study raised$4000on average,with30%receiving less than $1000.The more money a project sought,the lower the chance it reached its goal,the researchers found.
Other factors may also significantly influence a project’s success,most notably, the size of a scientist’s personal and professional networks,and how much a researcher promotes a project on their own.Those two factors are by far more critical than the content on the page.Crowdfunding can be part of researchers’efforts to reach the public,and people give because“they feel a connection to the person who is doing the fundraising—not necessarily to the science.
51.What do we learn about the scientists trying to raise money online for their projects?
A)They did not raise much due to modest targets.
B)They made use of mixed fundraising strategies.
C)Not all of them achieved their anticipated goals.
D)Most of them put movies online for the purpose.
52.What is the purpose of Mike Schafer’s research of recent crowdfunding campaigns?
A)To create attractive content for science websites.
B)To identify reasons for their different outcomes.
C)To help scientists to launch innovative projects.
D)To separate science projects from general ones.
53.What trait contributes to the success of a crowdfunding campaign?
A)The potential benefit to future generations.
B)Its interaction with prospective donors.
C)Its originality in addressing financial issues.
D)The value of the proposed project.
54.What did the researchers think of the financial targets of crowdfunding projects?A)They should be small to be successful.
B)They should be based on actual needs.
C)They should be assessed with great care.
D)They should be ambitious to gain notice.
55.What motivates people to donate in a crowdfunding campaign?
A)The ease of access to the content of the webpage.
B)Their desire to contribute to the cause of science.
C)The significance and influence of the project itself.
D)Their feeling of connection to the scientists themselves.
PartⅣTranslation(30minutes) Directions：For this part,you are allowed30minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English.You should write your answer on Answer Sheet2.
中国家庭十分重视孩子的教育。许多父母认为应该努力工作，确保孩子受到良好教育。他们不仅非常情愿为孩子的教育投资,而且花很多时间督促他们学习。多数家长希望孩子能上名牌大学。由于改革开放,越来越多的家长能送孩子到国外学习或参与国际交流项目，以拓宽其视野。通过这些努力,他们期望孩子健康成长,为国家的发展和繁荣作出贡献。
答案解析速查表
PartⅠWriting
范文：
Dear Bob,
This is Li Ming.I am writing this letter with my full heart for the purpose of recommending Beijing to you.
The reasons are as follows.At the very beginning,Beijing is the capital of China. Additionally,with an internationally-minded population come opportunities to teach English.Because Beijing is a centre for global business,it also means it is one of the easiest places to secure a position as an English teacher.Finally,I hope that you could take my suggestions into serious consideration.
I am sure you will love it as much as I do.I believe living and teaching in Beijing will be a happy and meaningful experience for you.
Yours,
Li Ming
PartⅡListening Comprehension
Section A
1.D
2.D
3.B
4.C
5.A
6.A
7.B
Section B
8.C9.C10.A11.B12.D13.A14.C15.B
Section C
16.C17.D18.A19.C20.B21.D22.D23.A24.B25.C
Part III Reading Comprehension
Section A
26.B27.M28.I29.C30.K31.L32.O33.G34.E35.J Section B
36.E37.I38.C39.G40.K41.F42.B43.J44.D45.H Section C
46.B47.C48.A49.D50.C51.C52.B53.B54.A55.D
PartⅣTranslation
参考译文：
Chinese families attach great importance to their children’s education.Many parents believe that they should work hard to ensure that their children have access to a good education.Not only are they willing to invest in their children’s education,but they also spend a lot of time pushing them to learn.Most parents want their children to go to famous universities.Thanks to the reform and opening up,more and more parents can send their children to study abroad or take part in international exchange
programs to broaden their horizons.Through these efforts,they expect their children to grow up healthily and contribute to the development and prosperity of the country.
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