Part I Listening Comprehension (25 minutes, 30 points)
Section A: In this section, you will hear 6 short conversations. A t
the end of each conversation, a question will be asked
about what was said. Both the conversation and the
question will be read only once. A fter each question,
there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read
the three choices marked A , B and C, and decide which
is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter
on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the
centre. (6 points)
1. A. To help the woman record a play.
B. To fix the CD player for the woman.
C. To see what蒺s wrong with the record player.
2. A. 5:00 p.m. B. 5:30 p.m. C. 3:00 p.m.
3. A. Pierre is their new teacher.
B. They like Marie better than Pierre.
C. They think the class is very boring.
4. A. A party. B. A piece of music.
C. A funeral.
5. A. 2%. B. 11%. C. 9%.
6. A. In a restaurant. B. In a drugstore.
C. In a booking office.
Section B: In this section, you will hear one long conversation. The
conversation will be read only once. A t the end of the
conversation, there will be a one-minute pause. During
the pause, you must read the four questions, each with
three choices marked A, B and C, and decide which is
the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on
the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
(4 points)
7. Where did the disaster take place?
A. In Tennessee. B. In Essex.
C. In Sussex.
8. How often does the disaster happen in the area mentioned in the
conversation?
A. 15 times a year. B. 35 times a year.
C. 25 times a year.
9. Was anybody killed in the disaster?
A. No, no one. B. Yes, a few.
C. Yes, about 15 people.
10.What was dumped in a supermarket car park?
A. A few people. B. Some roofs.
C. A cow.
Section C: In this section, you will hear 10 short news items. After
each item, there will be a pause. During the pause, you
must read the question and the three choices marked A ,
B and C, and decide which is the best answer. Then
mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with
a single line through the centre. (10 points)
11. What is planned to be built on the World Trade Center site?
A. A tower B. A statue. C. A bridge.
12. How much will the IMF loan to Argentina?
A. $10 billion. B. $13 billion. C. $90 billion.
13. How many people can the boat carry?
A. One. B. Ten. C. Thirty.
14. What is the key problem for European exporters?
A. The euro has risen in value.
B. The US dollar has risen in value.
C. German economy has slided into recession.
15. Why did the Iraqi new dinar rise in value?
A. Because the Iraqi economy has gradually risen after the war.
B. Because Iraqi people trust the new dinar more.
C. Both A and B.
16. Where is the Refugee Agency蒺s headquarters?
A. In America. B. In Africa. C. In Europe.
17. Which statement is NOT TRUE acording to the news?
A. The explosion was near the Lima Embassy in the US.
B. 30 people were injured in the explosion.
C. The explosion was caused by a bomb.
18. What conclusion can we draw from this report?
A. Euthanasia is widely accepted in Britain.
B. It蒺s the first case of euthanasia in Britain.
C. Doctors can stop a patient蒺s life according to the patient蒺s
will.
19. How many finance ministers have attended the meeting accor-
ding to the news?
A. 7. B. 8. C. 9.
20. Who haven蒺t been found among the arrested according to Iran蒺s
Foreign Minister?
A. Al Qaeda members. B. Arabs. C. North
Africans.
Section D: In this section, you will hear one passage. You蒺re
required to make some necessary notes when you listen
to it. A fter you hear the passage, you should complete
the form below using the exact words you hear from the
recording, each blank not exceeding three words.
Remember to write the answers on the Answer Sheet.
(10 points)
SOLAR POWER FOR EVERYONE
Advances in technology mean that a cheap, (21)
of electricity may soon be available worldwide.
Solar-powered satellites will change (22) . The
energy will be beamed to earth by microwaves, to be collected
by a (23) .
Advantages of solar-powered satellites:
荫Take only (24) to orbit earth.
荫(25) very efficiently.
荫Less scattering and (26) .
Advances in technology now mean that solar panels will
be only 200 metres long and also very (27) , which
will make launching them into space (28) .
Scientists believe that if the (29) at the correct
frequencies, people and (30) will both be safe.
Part II Vocabulary and Structure (10 minutes, 15 points)
There are 15 incomplete sentences in this part. For each blank there
are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that best
completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the
Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
31. The last thing I remember was feeling very dizzy. The next
thing I knew, I in hospital and a doctor was standing
by my bed.
A. came around B. got around
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32. will certain lawyers over one an-
other in an attempt to land the best jobs, but they will
often use under hand means in a bid to win their cases.
A. No wonder; scrap B. Not only; scramble
C. Under some circumstances; combat
D. Only occasionally; swindle
33. Alcoholism, drug abuse and violence are all
unfortunate side-effects of city life, the high
crime rate guarantees suspicion, social isolation and
loneliness for many.
A. domesticated; therefore B. domiciliary; as
C. household; furthermore D. domestic; whilst
34. It seemed almost bizarre to me, then, against
the erection of seven wind turbines to generate clean,
renewable energy.
A. whether anyone will be B. should someone be
C. that anyone should be
D. in case there is someone
35. Ministers have pointed to the fact that the billions lost
in undeclared revenue drains government
resources, whilst untaxed labor undercuts wages in
other jobs.
A. subordinately B. artificially
C. pervasively D. substantially
36. Quite apart from the amount of money spent each year
on doctors蒺 prescriptions and private medical ,
huge sums are now spent on health foods and remedies
of various kinds, from vitamin pills to mineral water,
health clubs and keep-fit books and videos.
A. attention; together with
B. curing; without considering
C. treatment; not to mention
D. therapy; taking into account
37. It may simply be that recording companies have dis-
covered that there is an insatiable desire for“sounds”,
and that classical music is beginning to sound exciting
to a generation on rock but now
into affluent middle-age.
A. fostered; establishing B. raised; settling
C. nurtured; lowering D. grown; relaxing
38. we decided to take it easy tonight and
managed to have a small pizza party and hang out
on the roof of the dorms just chatting away.
A. Being thoroughly worn out
B. Thoroughly wearing out
C. Having thoroughly worn out
D. To be thoroughly wearing out
39. The Temple Bar Trust was in the 1970蒺s
with the intention of returning the gate home. The
aim of the Trust is the of the nation蒺s
architectural heritage.
A. set out; reservation B. set up; preservation
C. set off; conservation D. set back; recreation
40. Mrs. Stevens her daughter have a cat. She
was quite that pets were smelly, dirty and
likely to carry all sorts of diseases.
A. insisted on letting; persuaded
B. denied to let; absolute
C. demanded on letting; knowledgeable
D. refused to let; convinced
41. are the businessmen by the constantly
changing numbers that they often cannot determine
whether they are making a profit or not.
A. Too overexcited B. Such outgrown
C. So overwhelmed D. That outsold
42. It is their opinion that early detection is of critical
importance in arresting the progression of the disease
and that the blindness of glaucoma is preventable with
medical .
A. interaction B. interference
C. intervention D. interruption
43. Boarding schools are terrifically good at close friend-
ships and I still have a lot of the friends who I was at
school 10 years ago.
A. since B. about C. till D. with
44. Rana: Right, Miles, I蒺m leaving now.
Miles: I蒺ll come with you and show you out. Our
new office building is a bit complicated.
Rana:
Miles: Well, actually you can蒺t. They lock the street
door at 6 p.m. so I蒺ll have to come and let you
out.
A. It蒺s very kind of you to say that, but I蒺ll be OK.
B. Oh, it蒺s OK, I can see myself out.
C. Really? I蒺ll show you the way out.
D. Thanks a lot, but still I don蒺t see the need for you
to do so.
45. A: Changchun Railway Station, please. I have to be
there by 11:30. Can you get me there?
B: I can蒺t promise, 援 (After a while) Oh, you
are just in time. 15 yuan, please.
A: Thanks a lot. . You can keep the change.
A. but I蒺ll do my best; Here蒺s 20 yuan
B. it蒺s still early; Here蒺s the money
C. for the streets are full of traffic; See you later
D. we蒺ve got enough time; See you later
Part III IQ Test (5 minutes, 5 points)
There are 5 IQ Test questions in this part. For each
question there are 4 choices marked A , B, C and D. Mark
your answer on the Answer Sheet with a single line
through the centre.
46. You are given a series of numbers. Your task is to
see how they form a relationship with each other. You
then have to choose the number that would go next in the
series.
25 11 23 47 ?
A. 70 B. 57 C. 58 D. 95
47. You are given a series of lines. Your task is to see
how they go together, then work out which will be the
next figure in the series. You have to choose one from the
four possible answers provided.
Which comes next?
A. B. C.
D.
48.
This is to this as this is to .
A. B. C. D.
49. If someone could take a sheet of paper 0.1 mm
thick, tear it in half, put the pieces on top of each other,
tear these in half, then repeat the process until the paper
had been torn 25 times, what would be the final height of
the pile of paper?
A. As thick as a book. B. As tall as a man.
C. As high as a mountain. D. As high as a house.
50. Only one of the sets of six letter below can be
rearranged into a six-letter word in the English language.
Can you find that set?
A. LORIDM B. ETNMIU
C. TUBLID D. MIRCEL
Part IV Reading Comprehension (25 minutes, 40
points)
Section A: There is one passage in this section with 7
questions. For each question, there are four
choices marked A , B, C and D. You should
decide on the best choice. Then mark the cor原
responding letter on the Answer Sheet with a
single line through the centre. (7 points)
Questions 51-57 are based on the following passage.
Antonio Damasio makes himself up as he goes along.
Every waking moment, he is engaged in the study of his
identity. Beyond the core self - the man who absent -
mindedly picks up the orange juice or steps around the
furniture - is an autobiographical fiction; he is an actor in
a drama he writes for himself. At least, that蒺s how the
distinguished professor at the University of Iowa College
of Medicine sees it.
The centrepiece of Damasio蒺s exploration is the brain.
It is part of the machinery of life management. It keeps the
heart beating and fight-or-flight machinery prepared for
danger. It tells you when you are hungry. But it can also
stun you with questions like,“What was there before time
began?”Damasio is one of a world -wide brainstorm of
neurologists exploring the great question of consciousness,
the inexplicable mystery of why humans know who they
are, where they came from and what they would really
like for supper. And the key, for him, is that all human
identity is a kind of fiction. We are all engaged in the
process of self - creation.
Damasio was born in Portugal in 1944. From his
earliest years, he was fascinated by how things worked, by
engines made by Meccano. He went from there to the
mechanisms of the mind, dithered about being a writer or
philosopher, and then read about brain research and
decided this was exactly what he wanted to do. “I went
into medical school and straight into the thing that
interested me most.”
Well into his career as a neurologst - he has a chair
at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, as well as a
department in Iowa - he began to get interested in cases
of frontal lobe damage. There were several cases of people
who, before suffering damage of this kind, were considered
honest, trustworthy and dependable, but afterwards became
vulgar, irresponsible and capricious. These cases were
classic pieces of evidence that personality and identity were
creations of the brain, and that the brain was a machine
into which spanners could be thrown. Damasio, however,
was more interested in the lesson to be drawn from the
way patients with this condition will take decisions.
“What people with frontal lobe damage have is an
inability to decide correctly; they do it in a setting where
the emotions are gone. You maintain your overt
intelligence. You speak normally, you are very smart, you
have lots of memory - but you make the most foolish
decisions in relation to yourself, your family and your
work. The big distinction is that you no longer have an
ability to emote and feel normally, especially in relation to
social emotions. You don蒺t feel guilt - you don蒺t feel
pride for that matter - and so your ability to reason
properly has been lost. And that is what put me on to the
idea that emotion is really the only explanation for this
kind of problem. All my work starts from here.”
Damasio feels that what makes human beings unique
is that they feel emotions. And they don蒺t just experience
risk, danger and pain, they know they experience these
things. That is the first step on the journey to conscious原
ness and, ultimately, to the higher consciousness that -
helped by a prodigious memory and fed by a fantastic ca原
pacity for language - leads to art and philosophy and the
creation of conscience. Damasio thinks that conscience is
one of humankind蒺s great creations.
People ask him, “Aren蒺t you afraid of solving the
problem of consciousness? Aren蒺t you afraid of taking away
the mystery?”He thinks not. In his opinion, consciousness
itself is not a problem. The real problem is knowing that
we have a mind. There is a difference between having a
movie in the brain and knowing that this movie is different
from someone else蒺s. That is a problem neuroscientists
might be able to solve.
Questions:
51. In the first paragraph, the writer says that neurologist
Antonio Damasio thinks of himself as .
A. a man who has lost his identity
B. a human being with several different identities
C. a person searching for a path in life
D. an author who is creating his own identity
52. Damasio believes that all humans are living in .
A. a world of unreality
B. fear that they are mortal
C. a state of semi-consciousness
D. the knowledge that their existence is meaningless
53. Damasio became aware of what pattern his life would
take when he .
A. began playing with engines as a child
B. enrolled in medical school
C. saw something which aroused his interest
D. tried unsuccesfully to become a writer
54. In paragraph 4, the writer says that after some time,
Damasio began to realise that patients with frontal lobe
brain damage .
A. relied on others to look after them
B. were unable to pinpoint the cause of the damage
C. underwent a complete change of personality
55. Damasio himself says that one of the most noticeable
symptoms of frontal lobe damage is .
A. an increased awareness of pain or guilt
B. a tendency to become over-emotional
C. a failure to make decisions quickly
D. an inability to judge situations correctly
56. What does the writer say about consciousness in the
penultimate paragraph?
A. It increases our ability to experience risk, pain and
danger.
B. It is something that has to be acquired.
C. It can improve our power of speech.
D. It cannot be created by humans.
57. What does Damasio say about neuroscientists in the last
paragraph?
A. They don蒺t like being asked awkward questions.
B. They may one day be able to understand con-
sciousness better.
C. They have worked out how we create pictures in
our brain.
D. They know the problems consciousness creates in
the mind.
Section B: In this section, there is one passage followed
by 7 statements. Go over the passage quickly
and answer the questions on the Answer
Sheet. For questions 58 - 64, mark
Y (for Yes) if the statement agrees with the
information given in the passage;
N (for No) if the statement contradicts the
information given in the passage;
NG (for Not Given) if the information is not given in
the passage.
Questions 58-64 are based on the following passage.
It is almost impossible to write of the Arts in Australia
without mentioning the building that first put the country
firmly on the world cultural map - the Sydney Opera
House. Completed in 1973 after 14 years of much heated
discussion and at a cost of almost 谊60 million, it is not
only the most well -known Australian building in the
world but perhaps the most famous design of any modern
building anywhere.
Its distinctive and highly original shape has been
likened to everything from the sails of a sailing ship to
broken eggshells, but few would argue with the claim that
the Opera House is a major contribution to world archi原
tecture. Set amidst the graceful splendour of Sydney Har原
bour, presiding like a queen over the bustle and brashness
of a modern city striving to forge a financial reputation in
a tough commercial world, it is a reminder to all Aust原
tralians of their deep and abiding love of all things cultural.
The Opera House was designed not by an Australian
but by a celebrated Danish architect, Jorn Utzon, whose
design won an international competition in the late 1950s.
However, it was not, in fact, completed to his original
specifications. Plans for much of the intended interior de原
sign of the building have only recently been discovered.
Sadly, the State Government of the day interfered with
Utzon蒺s plans because of concerns about the escalating cost,
though this was hardly surprising - the building was origi原
nally expected to cost only 谊5.5 million. Utzon left the
country before completing the project and in a fit of anger
vowed never to return. The project was eventually paid
for by a State-run lottery.
The size of the interior of the building was scaled
down appreciable by a team of architects whose job it was
to finish construction within a restricted budget. Rehearsal
rooms and other facilities for the various theatres within
the complex were either made considerably smaller or cut
out altogether, and some artists have complained bitterly
about them ever since. But despite the controversy that
surrounded its birth, the Opera House has risen above the
petty squabbling and is now rightfully hailed as a modern
architectural masterpiece. The Queen officially opened the
building in 1975 and since then, within its curved and
twisted walls, audiences of all nationalities have been quick
to acclaim the many world-class performances of stars from
the Australian opera, ballet and theatre.
Statements:
58. The building is possibly the most famous of its type in
the