第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）
做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。
第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。 例：How much is the shirt? A. ￡ 19.15. 答案是C。
1. Where are the speakers going? A. To the hospital.
B. To their hometown.
C. To Jean’s place.
B. ￡ 9. 18.
C. ￡ 9. 15.
2. What is the woman asking the man for? A. His keycard. number.
3. What is the original price of the camera? A. $300.
B. $280.
C. $230.
B. His bill.
C.
His
room
4. What does the woman want to work as? A. A doctor.
B. A teacher.
C. A bank clerk.
5. What does the woman mean? A. They needn’t hurry. attend the party.
第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题,每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。 听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。
B. They can’t slow down.
C. They shouldn’t
6. What are the speakers talking about? A. The evening sky.
B. The school project.
7. What pictures did the boy take last week? A. The moon.
B. The stars.
听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。
8. What did the woman like doing before she was ten? A. Snowboarding.
B. Climbing mountains.
games.
9. What does the woman’s father think of sailing? A. Exciting.
B. Expensive.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. What is the probable relationship between the speakers? A. Housemates.
B. Classmates.
11. When will the party begin? A. Al about 6: 00 p. in.
B. Al about 8: 00 p. m.
p. m.
12. What does the man advise the woman to bring? A. Some juice.
B. Some beer.
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。 13. Where does the woman want to travel? A. On a river.
B. In a mountain.
14. When can the woman be hack? A. Before 12:15 p. m.
B. After 3: 00 p. m
15. How will the woman come back? A. By boat.
B. By bus.
16. What does the man suggest the woman do? A. Buy tickets online.
B. Take enough water.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。 17. What is the speaker doing? A. Introducing a theater.
B. Making an invitation.
C. The weather.
C. The clouds.
C. Playing computer
C. Dangerous.
C. Colleagues.
C. At about 10: 00
C. An iPod.
C. In a park.
C. Around 2: 00 p. in.
C. On foot.
C. Come early.
C. Advertising for
a play.
18. What does the speaker want to do? A. See a play.
B. Attend a party.
C. Watch a film.
19. Why does the man offer to pay for Jamie? A. To apologize to her. her birthday.
20. Where will the speaker meet Jamie? A. In a restaurant.
B. In a bar.
C. In a theater.
B. To show their friendship.
C. To celebrate
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分） 第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
The history of the Louvre Museum, which today contains one of the most important art collections in the world, dates back to the Middle Ages. Built in 1190 as a fortress（堡垒）protect Paris from the Vikings, it was transformed into a palace by Francesco I. Since then, for four centuries, French kings and emperors have expanded it. The glass pyramid of I. M. Pei was added to the courtyard of honor in 1989. All galleries can be reached from here. The glass pyramid
The projects for the monetization and expansion of the Louvre date back to 1981. They included the construction of a main entrance to the museum. The American architect of Chinese origin－I. M. Pei－was in charge of the project. Pei designed a pyramid that had to become an entrance to the museum. Its glass walls allow visitors to admire the surrounding historic buildings and to light up the entrance hall. The Louvre collection
The Louvre treasures can date back to the collection of Francesco I (1515－1547), who bought many Italian paintings. During the rule of Louis XIV ( 1643－1715) this amounted to only 200 artworks, but it also increased as a result of donations and purchases. It was opened for the first time to the public in 1793. Since then the Louvre collection has been continuously enriched. The fallen guide
The main entrance is under the glass pyramid. The artworks are exposed on four floors: the display rooms of the artworks are organized according to the countries they are from. There are eight sections in all. The European painters’ collection is very large, with 40 percent of French works, while the collection of sculptures is less complete. 21. What does the first paragraph say about the Louvre Museum? A. It was first intended as a royal palace. B. It has a history of less than ten centuries. C. It has the largest art collection worldwide. D. It experienced nonstop expansion in the past.
22 Which of the following in a function of the glass wills of the pyramid? A. Acting as a good viewpoint.
B. Making visitors move faster. D. Preventing heat by reflecting
C. Making the entrance hall less bright. sunlight.
23. The arrangement of the display rooms is based on the artworks’ . A. historic values
B
An 11-year-old girl from Belthangady, India, recently made news headlines for having around 60 dead ants pulled from her eyes. As for how the insects got there, some doctors thought they entered her body through the ears.
Last week, the girl, known only as Ashwini, started complaining of severe pain in her eyes. She told her parents that she felt there was something stuck in her eyes, and when they checked, they did find a small ant in one of her eyes. They didn’t pay much importance to it, as they assumed the insect had gotten there by accident, but it wasn’t long before the girl again started reporting pain in her eyes. They discovered more dead ants, and this time, they took her to hospital.
A local doctor told Ashwini’s parents that the insects must have first entered her body through the ears and then somehow made their way to her eyes. He gave her some eye-drops to help with the irritation（刺激）, but the girl still has 5 to 6 ants pulled from her eyes daily. A week ago, the Daily Mail reported that Ashwini’s eyes produced around 60 dead ants in a period of 10
B. cultural meanings D. levels of perfection
C. countries of origin
days.
As doctors in Belthangady were left scratching their heads about how the ants reached Ashwini’s eyes or what they could do to stop the unusual phenomenon, she was taken to an eye hospital in Moodabidri, where her family hope to get some answers.
IB Times reports that Ashwini’s parents feared she had been affected by some evil spirit, so they also took her to an astrologer（占星家） who told them that the ants in the eyes were caused by something called Naga Dosha. But who knows? 24. Why did Ashwini recently make news headlines? A. Because of her love for insects.
B. Because of her extraordinary skills. D. Because of her abilities to control
C. Because of her strange experience. ants.
25. How did Ashwini’s parents react when finding an ant in her eye? A. They didn’t take it seriously.
B. They tried their best to comfort her. D. They didn’t think it was just an
C They sent her to hospital immediately. accident.
26. The underlined part in paragraph 4 most probably means “ ”. A. feeling angry about C being optimistic about
B. showing disagreement about D. feeling puzzled about
27. What can be inferred about Ashwini from the text? A. Her eyes no longer produce dead ants. eyes.
C. The dead ants cause no harm to her eyes. the truth.
C
When Noah Ready-Campbell was a young adult, he worked for his father’s construction company. Back then, he dreamed of a day when robots might take over the dirty, repetitive（重复的）parts of his job, such as earth moving. Years later, Ready-Campbell left his job as an engineer with Google to make that dream come true.
Ready-Campbell formed a company called Built Robotics, which develops technology to produce self-driving heavy equipment. Ready-Campbell says the company’s goal is to make
D. Only the astrologer has found out
B. Eye-drops are of little help to her