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A) Do some volunteer work.
B) Get a well-paid part-time job. C) Work flexible hours.
D) Go back to her previous post. 35.
A) Few baby-sitters can be considered trustworthy. B) It will add to the family's financial burden. C) A baby-sitter is no replacement for a mother. D) The children won't get along with a baby-sitter. 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.
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。 Almost every child, on the first day he sets foot in a school building, is smarter, more (36)
______, less afraid of what he doesn't know, better at finding and (37) ______ things out, more
confident, resourceful (机敏的), persistent and (38) ______ than he will ever be again in his
schooling – or, unless he is very (39) ______ and very lucky, for the rest of his life. Already,
by paying close attention to and (40) ______ with the world and people around him, and without any
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school-type (41) ______ instruction, he has done a task far more difficult, complicated and (42)
______ than anything he will be asked to do in school, or than any of his teachers has done for
years. He has solved the (43) ______ of language. He has discovered it – babies don't even know
that language exists – and (44)
________________________________________________. He has done it by exploring, by experimenting, by developing his own model of the grammar of language, (45)
________________________________________________ until it does work. And while he has been doing
this, he has been learning other things as well, (46)
________________________________________________, and many that are more complicated than the ones
they do try to teach him.
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 we think of green buildings, we tend to think of new ones – the kind of high-tech, solar
-paneled masterpieces that make the covers of architecture magazines. But the U.S. has more than
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100 million existing homes, and it would be __47__ wasteful to tear them all down and __48__ them
with greener versions. An enormous amount of energy and resources went into the construction of
those houses. And it would take an average of 65 years for the __49__ carbon emissions from a new
energy-efficient home to make up for the resources lost by destroying an old one. So in the
broadest __50__, the greenest home is the one that has already been built. But at the same time,
nearly half of U. S. carbon emissions come from heating, cooling and __51__ our homes, offices and
other buildings. \can't deal with climate change without dealing with existing buildings,\
Richard Moe, the president of the National Trust.
With some __52__, the oldest homes tend to be the least energy-efficient. Houses built before
1939 use about 50% more energy per square foot than those built after 2000, mainly due to the tiny
cracks and gaps that __53__ over time and let in more outside air. Fortunately, there are a __54__ number of relatively simple changes that can green older homes,
from __55__ ones like Lincoln's Cottage to your own postwar home. And efficiency upgrades (升级)
can save more than just the earth; they can help __56__ property owners from rising power costs.
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。 A) accommodations B) clumsy C) doubtful D) exceptions E) expand F) historic G) incredibly
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H) powering I) protect J) reduced K) replace L) sense M) shifted N) supplying O) vast Section B
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.
You never see him, but they're with you every time you fly. They record where you are going,how
fast you're traveling and whether everything on your airplane is functioning normally. Their
ability to withstand almost any disaster makes them seem like something out of a comic book.They're
known as the black box.
When planes fall from the sky, as a Yemeni airliner did on its way to Comoros Islands in the
India ocean June 30, 2009, the black box is the best bet for identifying what went wrong. So when a
French submarine (潜水艇) detected the device's homing signal five days later, the discovery marked
a huge step toward determining the cause of a tragedy in which 152 passengers were killed. In 1958, Australian scientist David Warren developed a flight-memory recorder that would track
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basic information like altitude and direction. That was the first mode for a black box, which
became a requirement on all U.S. commercial flights by 1960. Early models often failed to withstand
crashes, however, so in 1965 the device was completely redesigned and moved to the rear of the
plane – the area least subject to impact – from its original position in the landing wells (起落
架舱). The same year, the Federal Aviation Authority required that the boxes, which were never
actually black, be painted orange or yellow to aid visibility. Modern airplanes have two black boxes: a voice recorder, which tracks pilots' conversations,and
a flight-data recorder, which monitors fuel levels, engine noises and other operating functions
that help investigators reconstruct the aircraft's final moments. Placed in an insulated (隔绝的)
case and surrounded by a quarter-inch-thick panels of stainless steel, the boxes can withstand
massive force and temperatures up to 2,000℉. When submerged, they're also able to emit signals
from depths of 20,000 ft. Experts believe the boxes from Air France Flight 447, which crashed near
Brazil on June 1,2009, are in water nearly that deep, but statistics say they're still likely to
turn up. In the approximately 20 deep-sea crashes over the past 30 years, only one plane's black
boxes were never recovered.
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
57. What does the author say about the black box? A) It ensures the normal functioning of an airplane. B) The idea for its design comes from a comic book. C) Its ability to ward off disasters is incredible.