Part I Writing (30 minutes)
作文一：大学快要毕业了，需要找工作，写一封求职信说明申请工作的原因和自己能胜任
的理由。
作文二：For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay about the impact of
information explosion by referring to the saying "a wealth of information creates a poverty of
attention". You can cite examples to illustrate your point and then explain what you can do to avoid
being distracted by irrelevant information? You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200
words.
作文三：For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay on happiness by referring to
the saying” Happiness is not the absence of probems”, but the ability to deal with them.” You can
cite examples to illustrate your point and then explain how you can develop your ability to deal
with problem and be happy. you should write at least 150words but no more than 200words.
Part Ⅱ Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)
Section A
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 choice marked A), B),C) and D),and decide which is the
best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the
centre.
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1. A) Labor problems. C) An error in the order.
B) Weather conditions. D) Misplacing of goods.
2. A) What the woman says makes a lot of sense.
B) The rich are opposed to social welfare.
C) He is sympathetic with poor people.
D) He agrees with Mr.Johnso’s views.
3. A) He will be practicing soccer. C) He will be attending a meeting.
B) He has work to finish in time. D) He has a tough problem to solve.
4. A) Mary should get rid of her pet as soon as possible.
B) Mary will not be able to keep a dog in the building.
C) Mary is not happy with the ban on pet animals.
D) Mary might as well send her dog to her relative.
5. A) The twins’ voices are quite different.
B) Lisa and Gale are not very much alike.
C) He does not believe they are twin sisters.
D) The woman seems a bit hard of hearing.
6. A) The serious economic crisis in Britain.
B) A package deal to be signed in November.
C) A message from their business accociates.
D) Their ability to deal with financial problems.
7. A) It is impossible to remove the stain completely.
B) The man will be charged extra for the service.
C) The man has to go to the main cleaning facility.
D) Cleaning the pants will take longer than usual.
8. A) European markets. C) Luxury goods.
B) A protest rally. D) Imported products.
Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
9. A) He made a business trip. C) He talked to her on the phone.
B) He had a quarrel with Marsha. D) He resolved a budget problem.
10 . A) She may have to be fired for poor performance.
B) She has developed some serious mental problem.
C) She is in charge of the firm’s budget planning.
D) She supervises a number of important projects.
11. A) She failed to arrive at the airport on time.
B) David promised to go on the trip in her place.
C) Something unexpected happened at her home.
D) She was not feeling herself on that day.
12. A) He frequently gets things mixed up.
B) He is always finding fault with Marsha.
C) He has been trying hard to cover for Marsha.
D) He often fails to follow through on his projects.
Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
13. A) They are better sheltered from all the outside temptations.
B) They are usually more motivated to compete with their peers.
C) They have more opportunities to develop their leadership skills.
D) They take an active part in more extracurricular activities.
14. A) It’s chief positions are held by women.
B) It’s teaching staff consists of women only.
C) It’s students aim at managerial posts.
D) It’s students are role models of women.
15. A) It is under adequate control.
B) It is traditional but colourful.
C) They are more or less isolated from the outside world.
D) They have ample opportunities to meet the opposite sex.
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you
will hear some 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 Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.
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Passage One
Questions 16 to 19 are based on the passage you have just heard
16. A. By invading the personal space of listeners
B. BY making gestures at straiegic points
C. BY speaking in a deep, loud voice
D. BY speaking with the local accent
17. A. To promote sportsmanship among business owners
B. To encourage people to support local sports groups
C. To raise money for a forthcoming local sports event
D. To show his family’s contribution to the community
18. A. They are known to be the style of the sports world
B. They would certainly appeal to his audience
C. They represent the latest fashion in the business circles
D. They are believed to communicate power and influence
19. A. To cover up his own nervousness
B. To create a warm personal atmosphere
C. To enhance the effect of background music
D. To allow the audience to better enjoy his slides
Passage Two
Questions 20 to 22 are based on passage you have just heard.
20. A. She was the first educated slave of john wheatley’s
B. She was the greatest female poet in colonial Americe
C. She was born about the time the war of independence
D. She was the first African-American slave to publish a book
21. A. Revise it a number of times
B. Obtain consent from her owner
C. Go through a scholarly examination
D. Turn to the colonial governor for help
22. A. Literary works calling for the abolition of slavery
B. Religious scripts popular among slaves in America
C. A rich stock of manuscripts left by historical figures
D. Lots of lost works written by African-American women
Passage 3
23. A)it is a trait of generous character
B) it is a reflection of self-esteem
C) it is an indicator of high intelligence
D) it is a sign of happiness and confidence
24. A) it was self-defeating
B) it was aggressive
C) it was the essence of comedy
D) it was something admirable
25. A) it is a double-edged sword
B) it is a feature of a given culture
C) it is a unique gift of human beings
D) it is a result of both nature and nurture
Section C
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 have just heard.
Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
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It is important that we be mindful of the earth, the planet out of which we are born and by
which we are nourished, guided, healed-the planet, however, which we have(26)_____to a
considerable degree in these past two centuries of (27)_____exploitation, this exploitation has
reached such(28)_________that presently it appears that some hundreds of thousands of
sepecies will be(29)______before the end of the century.
In our times, human shrewdness has mastered the deep(30)________of the earth at a level
far beyond the capatities of earlier peoples,we can break the mountains apart, we can drain the
rivers and flood the valleys, we can turn the most luxuriant forests into throwaway paper
products, we can(31)_________the great grass cover of the western plains and
pour(32)______chemicals into the soil until the soil is dead and blows away in the wind, We cn
pollute the air whith acids, the river with sewage( 污水 ),the seas with oil. We can
inventcomputers(33)______processing ten million calculations per second. And why? Toin
crease the volume and thd wasteheap, our managerial skills are measured by the
competence(34)____inaccelerating this process.If in these activities the physical features of the
planet are damaged, if the environment is made inhospitable for(35)_______living species, then
so be it ,We are ,supposedly, creating a technoligical wondreworld.
Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)
Section A
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.
Quite often, educators tell families of children who are learning English as a second language to
speak only English, and not their native language, at home. Although these educators may have good
(36) __________intentions, their advice to families is misguided, and it (37) __________ stems from
misunderstandings about the process of language acquisition. Educators may fear that children
hearing two languages will become (38) __________permanently confused and thus their language
development will be (39) __________ delayed; this concern is not documented in the literature.
Children are capable of learning more than one language, whether (40) __________simultaneously
or sequentially(依次地). In fact, most children outside of the United States are expected to become
bilingual or even, in many cases, multilingual. Globally, knowing more than one language is viewed
as an (41) __________asset and even a necessity in many areas。
It is also of concern that the misguided advice that students should speak only English is
given primarily to poor families with limited educational opportunities, not to wealthier families who
have many educational advantages. Since children from poor families often are (42)
__________identified asat-risk for academic failure, teachers believe that advising families to speak
English only is appropriate. Teachers consider learning two languages to be too(43)
__________overwhelming for children from poor families, believing that the children are already
burdened by their home situations。
If families do not know English or have limited English skills themselves, how can they
communicate in English? Advising non-English-speaking families to speak only English is
(44)__________equivalent to telling them not to communicate with or interact with their children.
Moreover, the (45) __________underlying message is that the family's native language is not
important or valued。
A) Asset I) permanently
B) Delayed j) prevalent
C) Deviates k) simultaneously
D) Equivalent L) stems
E) Identified M) successively
F) Intentions N) underlying
G) Object O) visualizing
H) over whelming
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. Idetify 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.
The Uses of Difficulty
The brain likes a challenge-and putting a few obstacles in its way may well boost its creativity.
A) jack white, the former front man of the white stripe and an influential figure among fellow
musicians, likes to make things difficult for himself. He uses cheap guitars that won't stay in shape or
in tune. When performing, he positions his instruments in a way that is deliberately inconvenient, so
that swiching from guitar to organ mid-song involves a way that is deliberately inconvenient, so that
switching from guitar to organ mid-song involves a mad dash across the stage. Why? Because he's
on the run from what he describes as a disease that preys on every artist:" ease of use". When making
music gets too easy, says white, it becomes harder to make it sing.
B) It's an odd thought. Why would anyone make their work more difficult than it already is?
Yet we know that difficulty can pay unexpected dividends. In 1966,soon after the Beatles had
finished work on" Rubber Soul", Paul McCartney looked into the possibility of going to America to
record their next album. The equipment in American studios was more advaced than anything in
Britain, which had led the Beatles' great rivals, the Rolling Stones, to make their latest album,
"Aftermath", in LosAngles .McCartney found that EMI's (百代唱片)contractual clauses made it
prohibitively expensive to follow suit, and the Beatles had to make do with the primitive technology
of Abbey Road.
C) Lucky for us .Over the next two years they made their most groundbreaking work. tuming the
recording studio into a magical instrument of its own. Precisely because they were working with
old-fashi onedmachines, George Martin of its own. Precisely because they were woring with
old-fashioed machines, George Martin and his team of engineers were forced to apply every ouce of
their creativity to solve the problems posed to them by Lennon and McCartney. Songs like"Tomrrow
Never Knows","Strawberry Fields Forever ",and" A Day in the Life" featured revolutionary sound
effectss that dazzled and mystified Martin's American counterparts.
D) sometimes it's only when a difficulty is removed that we realise what it was doing for us. For
More than two decades, starting in the 1960s,the poet Ted Hughes sat on the judging panel of an
annual poetry competition for British school children. During the 1980s he noticed an increasing
number of long poems among the submissions, with some running to 70or 80pages.
These poems were verbally inventive and fluent, but also" strangely boring", After making
inquiries Hughes discovered that they were being composed on computer, then just finding their way
into British homes.
E) You might have thought any tool which enables a writer to get words on to the page would
be an advantage .But there may be a cost to such facility. In an interview with the Paris Review
Hughes speculated that when a person puts pen to paper, "you meet the terrible resistance of what
happened your first year at it, when you couldn't write at all". As the brain attempts to force the
unsteady hand to do its bidding, the tension between the two results in a more compressed,
psychologically denser expression. Remove that resistance and you are more likely to produce
a70-page ramble(不着边际的长篇大论).
F) Our brains respond better to difficulty than we imagine, In schools, teachers and pupils alike
often assume that if aconcept has been easy to learn, then the lesson has been successful. But
numerous studies have now found that when classroom material is made harder to absorb, pupils
retain more of it over the long term, and understand it on a deeper level.
G) As a poet, Ted Hughes had an acutesensitivity to the way in which constraints on
self-expression. like the disciplines of metre rhyme(韵律)，spurcreative theought.What applies to
poets and musicians also applies to our dailylives,We tend to equate(等同)happiness with freedom,
but as the psyhotherapist and writer Adam Phillips hasobserved, without obstacles to our desires it's
harder to know we want,or wherewe're heading. He tells the story of a patient, a first-time mother
who complained that her young son war always clinging to her, wrapping himself around her legs
wherever she went. she never had a momentto herself, she said, because her son was" always in the
way". when phillips asked herwhere she would go if he wasn't in the way, she replied cheerfully. "Oh,
I wouldn't know where I was!"
H) Take another common obstacle:lack ofmoney.People often assume that more money will
make them happier.But economistswho study the relationship between money and happiness have
consistently foundthat,above a certain income,the two do not reliably correlate,Despite the easewith
which the rich can acquire almost anything they desire,they are just aslikely to be unhappy as the
middle classes.In this regard a least,F.ScottFitzgerald was wrong.
I) Indeed, ease of acquisition is the problem,The novelist Edward St Aubyn has a narrator
remark of the very rich that,"not having to consider affordability,their desires rambled on
likeunstoppable bores,relentless(持续不断的) andwhicsical(反覆无常的)at the same time" When
Boston College,aprivate research university,wanted a better feel for its potential donors,itasked the
psychologist Robert Kenny to inverstigate the mindset of the super-rich.Hesurveyed 165
households,most of which had a net worth of$25m or more.he foundthat many of his subjects were
confused by the infinitepotions their money presented them with. They found it hard to know what
towant, creating a kind of existential bafflement. One of them put it like this:“You know, Bob ,you
can just buy so much stuff, and when you get tothe point where you can just buy so much stuff, now
what are you going to do?”
J) The internet makes informationbillionaires out of all of us, and the architects of our online
experiences arecatching on to the need to make things creatively difficult. Twitter’s hugesuccess is
rooted in the simple but profound insight that in a medium withinfinite space for self-expression, the
most interesting thing we can do is restrictourselves to 140 characters. The music service This Is My
Jam helps peoplenavigate the tens of millions of tracks now available instantly via Spotify andiTunes.
Users pick their favourite song of the week to share with others . Theyonly get to choose one. The
service was only launched this year but by the endof September 650,000 jams had been chosen, Its
co-founder Matt Ogle explainsits raison detre(存在的理由)like this:”In anage of endless choice, we
were missing a way to say:’ This. This is the one youshould listen to’”
K) Today’s world offers more opportunitythan ever to follow the advice of the Walker Brothers
and make it easy onourselves. Compared with a hundred years ago, our lives are less tightly boundby
social norms and physical constraints. Technology has cut out much of life’sdonkeywork, and we
have more freedoms than ever. We can wear what we like andcommunicate with hundreds of friends
at once at the click of a mouse. Obstaclesare everywhere disappearing. Few of us wish to turn the
clock back, but perhapswe need to remind ourselves how useful the right obstacles can be.
Sometimes,the best route to fulfillment is the path of more resistance.
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46.The rigorous requirements placed on thewriting of poetry stimulate the poet’s creativity.
47.With creativity , even old-fashionedinstruments may produce spectacular sound effects.
48.It is a false assumption that lessonsshould be made easier to learn.
49. It is a false assumption that lessonsshould be made easier to learn.
50.Obst
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