C) Use the stairs.
25. A) Healthy food. C) How to reduce weight.
Section B
D) Avoid fast food. B) Effective medicine. D) How to do exercise.
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 2 with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard. 26. A) They rarely ruin trees. B) They drink only every 3.4 days. C) They search for food in large groups. D) They protect food sources for their young.
27. A) Examples and conclusions. C) Stories and explanation.
28. A) Overheating the earth can be stopped. B) Not all animal species are so adaptable. C) The planets will become hotter and hotter. D) Not all animals are as smart as desert elephants.
Passage Two
Questions 29 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard. 29. A) She was not very polite. C) She was often misunderstood.
30. A) She was good at pretending.
31. A) It confuses her.
32. A) It has a very bad reputation in America.
B) It embarrasses her.
D) It helps her tolerate rude people.
C) It helps her understand the world.
B) She was rude to the stockbroker.
D) She was unwilling to phone for her mother.
C) She was ready to help her mother.
B) She was not clearly heard.
D) She was unable to speak good English.
B) Evidence and argument. D) Facts and descriptions.
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B) It may bring inconvenience in America. C) It is vivid and direct to non-native speakers. D) It is clear and natural to non-native speakers.
Passage Three
Questions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard. 33. A) 90.
34. A) England’s Footballer of the Year. B) A soccer coach in West Germany. C) A medalist for his sportsmanship.
D) A member of the Order of the British Empire.
35. A) Editing Sunday Sport. B) Working for Capital Radio.
C) Managing professional soccer teams. D) Developing a sports marketing company. 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 numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
We generally view the family as being one of our most stable institutions; yet, our family system has (36) _________ a number of changes in the past. Two hundred years ago, marriages were often arranged by parents, with economic (37) _________ being the most important factor of who married whom. Two hundred years ago, divorce was (38) _________; now, more than one out of three marriages are in (39) _________. Two hundred years ago, women did not work out of the home, and children were an economic (40) _________; now nearly 50 percent of married women work outside the home, and children are a (41) _________ responsibility.
In our (42) _________ society, the family is now changing even more rapidly than it did in the past. In (43) _________ the future of the American family, some authorities foresee the family as racing toward extinction. They say that (44) __________________________________________________________________________, and this will be its only function. Family optimists, on the other hand, predict the family’s entering a Golden Age — an era where (45) __________________________________________________________________________________. Most sociologists, however, do not agree with either the pessimists or the optimists; instead, (46) __________________________________________________________________________________,
many
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which will probably be thrown away, but some likely to be found satisfying and functional and gradually becoming
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B) 108. C) 180. D) 668.
“typical”.
Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 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 47 to 56 are based on the following passage.
When you have to meet someone from a different culture, be prepared. If you understand cultural differences, you’ll be a better communicator — even before you open your mouth!
In many Western cultures, men stand up before they are 47 to someone important. Standing up shows politeness and 48 . After that, someone will usually offer to shake hands. But in the East, 49 introductions often begin and end with bowing rather than shaking hands.
Now, let’s look at the simple introduction of shaking hands. Americans like a 50 handshake. But the French 51 a light, short handshake. If you shake a Frenchman’s hand the American way, he may think you’re uncultured.
People in Eastern European countries and some Latino cultures prefer shorter handshakes, too. Hugging after shaking hands is also a common introduction. Don’t be scared or 52 if you meet someone in Brazil and he gives you a hug. If you 53 this gesture, your friendship may not start well!
The 54 customs for eye contact vary between cultures, too. Westerners appreciate regular eye contact during conversations. Refusing to look a Westerner in the eye may be understood as lack of trust, or maybe 55 . But in some African countries, too much eye contact can offend or sometimes have romantic meanings. Some people in Middle Eastern countries may appear to have their eyes half-closed while talking to you. Although it might seem like they’re tired or bored, such behavior is normal and should not be taken 56 .
A) proper B) respect I) light J) impression K) introduced L) illustrate M) offended N) typical O) preferable C) boredom D) naturally E) prefer F) firm G) misinterpret H) personally Section B
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Directions: There are 2 passages 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 Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
How useful are the views of public school students about their teachers?
Quite useful, according to preliminary results released on Friday from a research project that is intended to find new ways of distinguishing good teachers from bad.
Teachers whose students described them as skillful at maintaining classroom order, at focusing their instruction and at helping their charges learn from their mistakes are often the same teachers whose students learn the most in the course of a year, as measured by gains on standardized test scores, according to a progress report on the research.
Financed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the two-year project involves scores of social scientists and some 3,000 teachers and their students in districts such as New York and Pittsburgh.
Statisticians began the effort last year by ranking all the teachers using a statistical method known as value-added modeling, which calculates how much each teacher has helped students learn based on changes in test scores from year to year.
Thousands of students have filled out confidential questionnaires (秘密调查问卷) about the learning environment that their teachers create. After comparing the students’ ratings with teachers’ value-added scores, researchers have concluded that there is quite a bit of agreement.
Classrooms where a majority of students said they agreed with the statement, “Our class stays busy and doesn’t waste time,” tended to be led by teachers with high value-added scores, the report said.
The same was true for teachers whose students agreed with the statement, “In this class, we learn to correct our mistakes.”
Few of the nation’s 15,000 public school districts systematically question students about their classroom experiences, in contrast to American colleges, many of which collect annual student evaluations to improve instruction, Dr. Ferguson said.
Until recently, teacher evaluations were little more than a formality (形式) in most school systems, with the vast majority of instructors getting top ratings, often based on a principal’s superficial impressions.
But now some 20 states are overhauling their evaluation systems, and many policymakers have been asking the Gates Foundation for suggestions on what measures of teacher effectiveness to use, said Vicki L. Phillips, a director of education at the foundation.
One notable early finding, Ms. Phillips said, is that teachers who incessantly (不停地) drill their students to prepare for standardized tests tend to have lower value-added learning gains than those who simply work their way methodically through the key concepts of literacy and mathematics.
57. What is said about teachers rated as good at keeping their classes in order?
A) Their students gain more in test scores. B) Their classes stay busy and don’t waste time.
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C) Their students learn fastest during a semester. D) They help students learn to correct their mistakes.
58. What information of the research is revealed in the passage?
A) Its final results. C) Its leading author.
59. What do we learn about colleges in the US from the passage?
A) They never question students about the learning environment. B) Their students tend to enjoy their classroom experiences more. C) Their evaluation systems no longer have much real importance. D) They effectively utilized students’ views about their teachers.
60. It can be inferred from the context that “overhauling” (Line 1, Para. 11) has the closest meaning to ________.
A) cleaning thoroughly C) changing to improve
61. What deserves to be noticed in preliminary results of the study?
A) Teachers explaining literary ideas are most popular at school. B) Teaching to the test makes students do worse on the tests. C) It’s helpful to spend much of the class time practicing for tests. D) Literacy and mathematics are often overlooked in high schools. Passage Two
Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.
A very important world problem is the increasing number of people who actually inhabit this planet. The limited amount of land and land resources will soon be unable to support the huge population if it continues to grow at its present rate.
So why is this huge increase in population taking place? It is really due to the spread of the knowledge and practice of what is becoming known as “Death Control”. You have no doubt heard of the term “Birth Control”. “Death Control” is something rather different. It recognizes the work of the doctors and scientists who now keep alive people who, not very long ago, would have died of a variety of then incurable diseases. Through a wide variety of technological innovations that include farming methods and the control of deadly diseases, we have found ways to reduce the rate at which we die. However, this success is the very cause of the greatest threat to mankind.
If we examine the amount of land available for this ever-increasing population, we begin to see the problem. If everyone on the planet had an equal share of land, we would each have about 50,000 square metres. This figure seems to be quite encouraging until we examine the amount of usable land we actually have. More than three-fifths of the world’s land cannot produce food.
Obviously, with so little land to support us, we should be taking great care not to reduce it further. But we are not! Instead, we are consuming its “capital” — its nonrenewable fossil fuels and other mineral deposits that took millions of
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B) The money invested in it.
D) Its sponsor and participants.
B) catching up with D) stopping using