has also increased the amount of food available to us, by means of modern farming machinery and animal-breeding techniques, and has extended our life span via medical technology”，尤其应注意画线部分。不难理解通过医疗技术的进步可以延长寿命。故选项A 为正解答案。
64. 答案C。细节题。本题考察对于第一段的理解。采用排除法可以确定答案为C。
65. 答案C。细节题。本题出第二段。A选项过于绝对，文章仅仅谈到技术进步可延长寿 命，这并不意味着我们不怕疾病和死亡；B选项显然错误，与原文恰恰相反；选项D 也与原文不符，因为作者只说会找到替代能源，并未说须改变生活方式；只有C选项与文章一致，是正确的。
66. 答案A。主旨归纳题。本题须了解全文。结合62题不难判断答案为A。 Part V. Cloze 67-86 BCDBA DBDCC
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解析：
67. 答案B. demonstrated。选项中能与theory搭配的只有B. demonstrated“展示”合适。
68. 答案C. seems to be。主句选择一般时态。
69. 答案D. at making。be good at doing 是固定搭配，指“擅长?”。
70. 答案B. world。这里指的是世界市场，而A. universal“宇宙、通用的”、C. globe“全球”都不恰当。
71. 答案A. make。Make a deal是固定搭配，指“做交易”。
72. 答案D. declared。根据前文可以判断这里是“宣称、宣布”较其他三个选项更好。
73. 答案B. like。would like to 是固定搭配，表示“愿意做?”。 74. 答案D. deal“交易”。与前文呼应。
75. 答案C. some。Thought“思考”为不可数名词，在结合意思，可以排除其他选项。
76. 答案C. agreed。A. permitted“许可、允许”，B. surrendered“投降、屈服”，C. agreed“同意”，D. promised“许诺”。根据语境可以确定C. agreed“同意”最贴切。
77. 答案D. per piece。固定用法。
78. 答案C. such a big。其余选项用法错误，注意所修饰的名词是order“订购”。 79. 答案C. only。根据上下文的意思，不难确定这里应当是“仅仅、只有”。 80. 答案C. were。虚拟语气的固定表达。 81. 答案A. at。固定用法，表示“原因、方向”。
82. 答案B. should。注意从句前面的动词是insisted，要求使用虚拟语气。 83. 答案A. certainly。可以结合意义判断。 84. 答案B. stubbornly “固执地、倔强地”。 85. 答案C. it。在这里充当形式主语。
86. 答案B. the same。表示“同样的”须用the same或identical。 Part VI. Translation
87. It’s reported that (women tend to live longer than men).
88. (When it comes to mathematics/ As far as mathematics is concerned), I’m completely at sea.
89. The shop assistant was dismissed as she (was accused of cheating customers/was charged with cheating customers).
90. Jane doesn’t want to work right away because she thinks that (if she got a job/if she were to get a job) she probably wouldn’t be able to see her friends very
often.
91. There are few electronic applications (more likely to raise fears) regarding future employment opportunities than robots. Part III. Listening Comprehension Scripts: Section A:
11. M: Do you mind if I open the door?
W: Of course not. You may do anything but watch TV. Q: What does the woman mean?
12. W: I haven’t seen Billy lately. How is he?
M: Not well. It’s said he had a car accident last week and needs several months to recover.
Q: What happened to Billy?
13. W: Hello, Mr. Green, you look tired. Did you have a difficult journey? M: Well, I just got back. The flight from London was delayed four hours because of heavy fog. I didn’t go to bed until two o’clock this morning. Q: Which of the following statements is not true?
14. M: Would you like to go to the cinema with us this evening?
W: Yes, I’d love to, but I have to see my uncle off. Q: Why can’t the woman go to the cinema?
15. M: I wonder if I can get to the station in time. The train is supposed to leave at 9:50.
W: Take it easy. We still have more than an hour, so we should be able to get there 30minutes before the train leaves. Q: What time are they supposed to arrive?
16. W: Do you want to buy a new computer or borrow one from your friend? M: Buy a computer? It will cost me AN ARM and a leg, I’d better choose the latter. Q: What will the man do? 17. M: I wish I had seen the film.
W: Well, if I had known that, I would have bought two tickets. Q: What do we know from the conversation? 18. W: What will you do tomorrow?
M: I’ll read an article and do the laundry before I go shopping. Q: What will the man do first tomorrow?
Now you will hear two long conversations. Conversation one W:
My Political Science class has been teaching me about the history of
women in America. M: Sounds interesting. Learn any new recipes?
W:
It’s not that funny actually. Did you realize that up until the 1850’s, women
in America didn’t even have a legal right to own property? M: I had no idea. Are you sure your professor has the facts straight?
W:
Certainly. Women were given citizenship around the nineteenth century,
but it wasn’t until the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 that women had full voting rights. M:
Wow, I’m sorry. I wouldn’t have made that joke about learning recipes if I
had realized it was such a recent issue. W:
It’s not a recent issue. It’s actually a current issue. Years ago women had
the status of slaves. Now women are still paid lower than their male counterparts
for doing the same amount of work. In that sense, women have a long way to go. M:
Well, I notice that there are more women than men on this university
campus. Education is probably the best way to cross that final hurdle for women’s rights W:
I wouldn’t argue with you there.
Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 19. Where does the woman learn about the history of women in America? 20. Why does the man say sorry for the joke?
21. In the woman’s mind’s eye, what is the condition of women today? 22.
What is the possible relationship between the two speakers?
Conversation two M: Hi, Jenny! How do you like the university?
W:
Hello, Zhang Lin! I like it very much. It has a very large and beautiful
campus. There are many trees and flowers on campus. M: Have you started your classes yet?
W: I have been to four lectures: chemistry, history, English and mathematics. M: Well, how were they?
W: They were very large. I’m not used to 300 students in class.
M:
My lectures have been large too. Sometimes there are more than 300
students in my class. W: Have you been to your English class yet?
M:
Yes. It was quite small. There were only about 20 students in it. The
instructor is from the United States. I like the course very much. W: My classes are so far apart. The campus is so big.
M:
It certainly is. My morning classes are in different buildings. I have to run
between them. Otherwise, I’ll be late. W:
I guess we’ll get used to it.
Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 23. What is the possible relationship between two speakers? 24. What do they think of their lectures? 25.
Why does the man run between buildings?
Section B Passage One
Dentists always ask questions when it is impossible for you to answer. My dentist had just pulled out one of my teeth and had told me to rest for a while. I tried to say some- thing, but my mouth was full of cotton-wool. He knew I collected birds’ eggs and asked me whether my collection was growing. He then asked me how my brother was and whether I liked my new job in London. In answer to these questions I either nodded or made strange noises. Meanwhile, my tongue was busy searching out the hole where the tooth had been. I suddenly felt very worried, but could not say anything. When the dentist at last removed the cotton-wool from my mouth, I was able to tell him that he had pulled out the wrong tooth.
Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard. 26. Why can’t the writer answer the dentist’s questions? 27. What did the writer do in order to answer the questions? 28. What did the writer tell the dentist at last? Passage Two
Almost every family buys at least one copy of a newspaper every day. Some
people subscribe to as many as two or three different newspapers. But why do people read newspapers?
Five hundred years ago, news of importanthappenings—battles lost and won, kings or rulers overthrown or killed—took months and even years to travel from
one country to another. The news passed by word of mouth and was never accurate. Today we can read in our newspapers of important events that occur in faraway countries on the same day they happen.
Apart from supplying news from all over the world, newspapers give us a lot of oth- er useful information. There are weather reports, radio, television and film guides, book reviews, stories, and, of course, advertisements. There are all sorts of advertisements. The bigger ones are put in by large companies to bring attention to their products. They pay the newspapers thousands of dollars for their advertising space, but it is worth the money, for news of their products goes into almost every home in the country. For those who produce newspapers, advertisements are also important. Money earned from advertisements makes it possible for them to sell their newspapers at a low price and still make a profit. Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard. 29. How did news spread five hundred years ago?
30. Which of the following is true about the money spent on advertisements? 31. What can we learn about large companies? Passage Three
When a teacher or lecturer recommends a student to read a book, it is usually for a particular purpose. In many cases, the teacher doesn’t suggest that the whole book should be read. In fact, he may just refer to a few pages which have a direct bearing on the matter being discussed.
Unfortunately, when many students pick up a book to read they tend to have no particular purpose in mind other than simply to “read the book”. Often they open the book and start reading, page by page, line by line, word by word; in other words, slowly and in great detail. The result is that students frequently don’t have an overall view of what they are reading; also, they tend to forget fairly soon what they’ve been reading.
Students can make their reading much more effective by adopting a strategy aimed at helping them to understand and to remember what they read. Firstly, they should decide precisely why they’re reading the book: perhaps it’s to find some information that’ll answer a question; perhaps it’s to understand a difficult idea or argument, and so on. Then the students should decide exactly what they are going to read; it’s seldom necessary to read the whole book. A good starting point is the contents page, the chapter headings, and even the index at the back of the book. They are very useful in helping to pinpoint the exact pages that need to be read carefully for particular pieces of information.
Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard. 32. According to the passage, what doesn’t the teacher suggest? 33. What is the writer’s attitude towards reading slowly and in detail? 34. What is the result of reading word by word? 35. What is the passage mainly about? Section C: Compound Dictation
Sailors, fishermen in 36 particular, have always been extremely superstitious. This is hardly surprising when one considers the 37 changeable nature of the sea where, even today with sophisticated weather-forecasting 38 techniques, a
sudden storm can blow up quite 39 unexpectedly. In the days before radio and engines, where there could be no long-distance 40 communication with another ship or land, and when sails were the only means of movement, it was only natural for the sailor to take every 41 precaution to avoid offending the gods who controlled the sea.
One way of pleasing thesegod was to make an 42 annual offering. This custom 43 survives in the ceremony of blessing the sea, which can still be seen once a year in some fishing ports. Next to pleasing the sea-gods, the most important thing for the sailor was to 44 know that his boat was free from evil influences. The time to make sure of this was at the launching ceremony. It is clear that the well-known custom of launching a ship by breaking a bottle of champagne(香槟) against the side goes back a very long way. The purpose of it is to 45 keep away evil spirits rather than to ask for the sea-god’s protection.
Starting on a new voyage or fishing trip was 46 a dangerous business at the best of times. Once the fishermen had set out on his ship, he dared not, on any account, look back.