、第一节：单项选择
1. ——How’s your tour around the North Lake? Is it beautiful?
——It _______ be. But it is now heavily polluted
A. will
B. would
C. should
D. must
2. The computer system suddenly ______ while he was searching for information on the Internet
A. broke down
B. broke out
C. broke up
D. broke in
3. _______ with so much trouble ,we failed to complete the task on time
A. Faced
B .Face
C. Facing
D . To face
4. After he retired form office , Rogers_______ painting for a while ,but soon lost interest.
A. took up
B. saved up
C. kept up
D. drew up
5. A society was set up to ____ the endangered animal and plant life from dying out in this area.
A. reserve
B. preserve
C. observe
D. deserve
6. Companies must consider how they ________ data so that their employees can find it fast.
A. classify
B. recognize
C. store
D. accumulate
7. ——What do you think of our present life?
——There is no _________ that our life is much better than before.
A. matter
B .doubt
C problem
D wonder
8. It is not easy for a tortoise to _____ a rabbit in the running competition.
A. regard
B. undergo
C. revise
D. overtake
9. In most places, it is legal ________ to pour dangerous chemicals into lakes and rivers.
A. offence
B. defence
C. fence
D. preference
10. The recent development in the global economy ________ a serious challenge to the market in small countries.
A. poses
B. posts
C. passes
D. pushes
11. The copying of music under copyright without permission is ________ stealing from the musicians, who ________ to be paid for their hard work’
A. as if ;
preserve
B. just as;
preserve
C. just like;
deserve
D. almost ;
deserve
12. We can __________ the results with some ________ due to this new technology.
A . pretest ; fluency
B. prevent ; possibilities
C. protect ; risk
D. predict; accuracy
13. It’s important to make new laws and_____ international standards for these laws similar ______those concerning international airspace.
A. invent ; with
B. set; like
C. create; to
D. make; in
14. It is _____company policy to use computers in the office to access websites with offensive
Content , which are_____.
A. according to ;
suitable
B. against;
unsuitable
C. for ;
acceptable
D. against;
unacceptable
15. The driver who claimed that had failed to ______ his brakes in time was taken _____ court.
A. apply ;
to
B. break ;
in
C. press;
on
D. produce ;
for
16.
with a difficult situation, Arnold decided to ask his boss for advice.
A. To face
B. Having faced
C. Faced
D. Facing
17. In the evening the car broke down suddenly and the heavy rain
the helplessness
of the girl driver on the country road.
A. resulted from
B. made up
C. turned out
D. added to
18. ——I suppose all the students went to the museum this afternoon.
——I’m afraid not. They
went to the net bar instead.
A. almost
B. nearly
C. mostly
D. most
19. My interests include football, bowling and surfing the web _______ studying my favorite subjects.
A. instead of
B. as well as
C. less than
D. rather than
20. I hate _______ when young people speak to the elderly in a rude way.
A. this
B. that
C. it
D. one
第二节：完形填空
A Shelter for the Homeless
Last summer I was a volunteer (志愿者) at a shelter for the homeless, a place for homeless people to sleep at night. I wasn’t working that summer and was
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only two classes in summer school, so I had some
2
time.
Three nights a week, I
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in the kitchen of the shelter along with four other volunteers. We planned and
4
for 45 people hot meals
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vegetables, chicken, fish and fruit. The homeless people
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this good food because many of them usually didn’t eat well.
I
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this volunteer work, making
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with the four volunteers in the kitchen. One was a very nice elderly housewife, one a movie actor, another a young teacher, and the other a college student,
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me.
I talked to a lot of the homeless people at the shelter. Their life stories
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me with sympathy (同情). Some of them had
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with alcohol (酒) or drugs while others only had bad
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. One woman worked for almost 30 years for a small company, and
13
she lost her job. She looked for a
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job, but couldn’t find one, for she was too
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. She could do nothing but sell her furniture — sofas, chairs, and tables
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she could pay for her food. The woman
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on job hunting, but she
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couldn’t find one. She had no money for her
19
and had to sleep in her car. Then she had to sell her car. Alone,
20
, and homeless, she finally came to the shelter.
1. A. studying
B. planning
C. holding
D. taking
2. A. full
B. free
C. extra
D. long
3. A. helped
B. waited
C. appeared
D. washed
4. A. ordered
B. bought
C. cooked
D. finished
5. A. with
B. from
C. by
D. in
6. A. demanded
B. needed
C. collected
D. requested
7. A. wanted
B. had
C. owned
D. enjoyed
8. A. decisions
B. wishes
C. friends
D. changes
9. A. as
B. like
C. except
D. besides
10. A. struck
B. filled
C. seized
D. provided
11. A. habits
B. worries
C. difficulties
D. problems
12. A. luck
B. pain
C. experience
D. loss
13. A. so
B. again
C. then
D. thus
14. A. good
B. fresh
C. skilled
D. new
15. A. old
B. poor
C. sick
D. dull
16. A. if
B. because
C. so that
D. in case
17. A. went
B. moved
C. came
D. worked
18. A. also
B. still
C. almost
D. even
19. A. block
B. cottage
C. building
D. flat
20. A. afraid
B. shy
C. shocked
D. mad
第三节：阅读理解
A
I’m usually fairly doubtful about any research that concludes that people are either happier or unhappier or more or less certain of themselves than they were 50 years ago. While any of these statements might be true, they are practically impossible to prove scientifically. Still, I was shocked by a report which concluded that today’s children are significantly more anxious than children in the 1950s In fact, the analysis showed, normal children aged 9 to 17 show a higher level of anxiety today than children who were treated for mental illness 50 years ago.
Why are America’s kids so stressed? The report provides two main causes: increasing physical separation – brought on by high divorce rates and less involvement in community among other thins – and a growing opinion that the world is a more dangerous place.
Given that “ we can’t turn the clock back”, adults can still do plenty to help the next generation.
At the top of the list is nurturing （培养） a better appreciation of the limits of individualism. No child is an island. Strengthening social ties helps build communities and protect individuals against stress.
To help kids build stronger connections with others, you can turn off TVs and computers. Your family will thank you later. They will have more time for face-to-face relationships, and they will get more sleep.
Limit the amount of virtual violence your children are exposed to. It’s not just video games and movies; children see a lot of murder and crime on the local news.
Keep your expectations for your children reasonable. Many highly successful people never attend Harvard or Yale.
Make exercise part of your daily work. It will help you deal with your own anxieties and provide a good model for your kids. Sometimes anxiety is unavoidable. But it doesn’t have to ruin your life.
The author thinks that the conclusions of any research about people’s state of mind are ____.
A. correct
B. unbelievable
C. false
D. questionable
2. What does the author mean by saying “we can’t turn the clock back” in the third paragraph?
A. It’s impossible to slow down the pace of change.
B. The social reality children are facing cannot be changed.
C. Lessons learned from the past should not be forgotten.
D. It’s impossible to forget the past.
3. The most important thing parents should do to help their children is ________.
A. to provide them with a safer environment
B. to lower their expectations for them
C. to get them more involved socially
D. to set a good model for them to follow
4. Which of the following is the main idea of the passage?
A. Why America’s kids feel stressed today.
B. Problems of American society.
C. Remove children’s anxiety with more parents’ care.
D. Children suffer more anxiety than adults.
B
To make an estimate means to guess the number of things in a group or guess a measurement of some kind, it sometimes means to make a calculation about the future which is based not on exact data but on past experience. This kind of estimate has some basis, but it generally has to be changed and corrected later.
When you estimate a number, a temperature, or a weight, you do not count things one by one or use a measuring tool. You look at a group of things without counting them and try to get a rough idea of their number, or you try to weigh something in your hand instead of on a balance. You feel hot and say “My temperature must be 38 degrees” or you look at a room and say that you estimate its area as 10 × 8 feet.
But in many situations in ordinary life we do not have time to measure things and must depend on estimates. Drivers do not have time to measure the distance between their own car and a car which is coming near. They must guess it. The guess or estimate will be based on their past experience. Experienced cooks do not trouble to measure the amount of salt they put into the soup or sugar they mix with flour.
Suppose a man comes into the house and says “There are two inches of snow on the road”. His statement is only an estimate, but we believe it because we think that it is roughly correct. We put our boots on before we go into the snow.
For practical purposes in some situations it is safe to make estimates of quantity, but in other situations it is obviously dangerous. If it is your job to weigh drugs or make airplanes, do not depend on guessing but use an accurate instrument.
5. The writer suggests that in our daily life the estimate of a value or an amount is_______.
A. corrected by further data
B. checked by instruments
C. taken as true unless further data show otherwise
D. made by a measuring
6. Why don’t people always use measuring instruments in everyday life according to the passage?
A. People generally do not carry them along.
B. It is more convenient to guess than to measure.
C. They are not always ready when you need them.
D. A general idea of things is enough.
7. When the man says “There are two inches of snow on the road”, he means________.
A. it’s snowing heavily
B. there is only a little snow on the road
C. his estimate is quite exact
D. he has measured the level of the snow
C
For almost two months Dominic York, a 23-year-old hairdresser, wandered about hospitals all night, wearing a white coat and pretending he was a doctor. Yesterday he proudly claimed in court that despite his complete lack of medical experience or qualifications, he had saved several people’s lives. He had even been allowed to assist a surgeon during an emergency operation on a patient who was about to die on something she had swallowed.
“I watched one of those TV dramas about a hospital and suddenly I felt like playing one of the roles myself. So I put on a white jacket and a stethoscope (听诊器) and walked around one of the biggest hospital in London. At first I just watched. Once you learn how doctors talk to patients, nurses and other doctors, it’s easy to take people in,” he said.
One of the patients he treated was Laura Kennan. She had been knocked down by a car and fainted. When she came to in hospital, York was standing over her.
“He looked very professional. He told me his name was Doctor Simon. Then he gave me some sort of injection,” she said. And then he suddenly cleared off when a nurse asked who he was. She didn’t think there was anything wrong. “I would never have realized he was a fake if a policewoman hadn’t showed me his photograph a week later. When the policewoman told me who he really was, I could hardly believe my ears.”
Judge Raymond Adams told York that he was. “ shocked and horrified” that he got away with his deceiving for so long. And then sentenced him to eighteen months in a special prison for criminal with mental disorders.
“I can only hope that this will not lead to further problems. After all, you will have considerable opportunity to study the behaviour of the psychiatrists (精神科医生) who will look after you while you are there. If you try to persuade people that you yourself are a psychiatrist after you are set free, I shall make sure that you are given a much longer sentence.” Judge Adams warned York.
8. York learned how to behave like a doctor by ________.
A. watching other doctors work
B. talking to doctors and nurses
C. getting some training and experience
D. observing doctors while he was a patient
9. Why was Laura Kennan in hospital?
A. She had swallowed something and almost died.
B. She had to have and emergency operation.
C. She had been injured in a road accident.
D. She had lost consciousness while driving.
10. The judge’s remark implied that York would be more severely punished if he _______.
A. pretended to be a psychiatrist
B. tried to get away from prison
C. was proud of what he had done
D. studied the behaviour of the psychiatrist
第四节：任务型阅读
Speaking in public is most people's least favorite thing. The reason is that we are all afraid of making fools of ourselves. The more important the speech is, the more frightened we become. In fact, public speaking is not a "gift" like musical talent. Anybody who can talk can speak in public. Here are some of the lessons I have learned:
Try to make your idea clear and brief. If you can't express what you intend to get across in a sentence or two, and then your speech is not focused well enough. If you don't have a clear idea of what you want to say, your audience will make no sense. After all, what you can impress your audience in your speech is one or two of your main ideas. One or two. Not ten or twenty.
No matter how long or short your speech is, you've got to organize it well-how you are going to open, what major points you want to make and how you're going to close. A strong close is critical: the last thing you say is what your audience will most likely remember. When I do a radio or TV piece, I often write the last sentence first. When you know where you' re headed, you can choose any route to get there.
Finally, you'd better limit the time of your speech as properly as you can to hold the audience's curiosity. Take a vaudeville act (杂耍) for example. The standard length of one is usually 12 minutes. Just imagine how you are feeling if you have been watching all the performers singing and dancing their hearts out for more than the standard time.
Title: How to make a
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speech
Techniques Reasons Requirements
Keep it brief
and clear You
should
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your speech
well enough.
Prepare one or two of your main ideas.
The audience will not catch you well if your idea is
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Get your
speech well
_4
Knowing where you are going, you can make a better
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of the route to get there. Know very well about the
6 , body
and ending of the speech
Keep your
speech time
_7
Your speech should not be too long so as to make your audience
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Limit the time of your speech in a
9
way.
If you don't,
the audience will be _10
.
第五节：翻译句子
1.谎言可解释为说一些欺骗人的话。(define---as )
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2.据估计吸烟可能使人的寿命平均缩短大约十二年。(it is estimated that--)
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3.如果你想让你的老师信任你，你必须做一个值得信赖的人。(trustworthy)
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4.科技的发展使人们到太空去旅行成为可能。(make it possible )
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5.这儿的警察对限速行驶执行得很严格。( enforce )
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第六节：书面表达
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