C. A day after the police launched investigation. D. A month after he transferred the money. TIP：选C。从“Mr. Puri reportedly had himself in on Thursday, a day after police said he was wanted for questioning”可得出答案。
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Police in India have arrested a CITI Bank employee accused of cheating clients out of millions of dollars. Shivraj Puri, 32, who is expected to appear in court later, told an Indian newspaper he was innocent. The alleged fraud was discovered earlier this month in a branch of the global bank in Gurgaon, a wealthy suburb of Delhi. The bank has said investors were promised quick high returns from a bogus financial scheme. It is alleged that Mr. Puri transferred the money into accounts controlled by three relatives. Mr. Puri reportedly handed himself in on Thursday, a day after police said he was wanted for questioning. The alleged fraud came to light earlier this month when a client mentioned the scheme to a senior bank manager.
Question 29 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 5 seconds to answer the question. Now, listen to the news.
29. What is this news item mainly about?
A. How to open Hotmail accounts. B. How to retrieve missing e-mails.
C. New e-mail service by Microsoft. D. Problems and complaints about e-mails. TIP：选D。整条新闻都在谈Hotmail用户对账户邮件出现问题的抱怨。
SCRIPT:
Some Hotmail users are reporting that their e-mails are missing from their accounts. A number of people with Hotmail accounts have posted complaints on Microsoft forums, complaining that their e-mails have been deleted. Users around the world said e-mails were missing from their in-box and other folders within their Hotmail accounts. A spokeswoman from Microsoft said that the issue of missing e-mails was not a wide-spread problem. “By Sunday evening the issue was fully resolved,” she said. The company apologized for any inconvenience.
Question 30 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 5 seconds to answer the question. Now, listen to the news.
30. Compared with 2009, which of the following figures remained about the same in 2010?
A. Number of tickets sold. B. Box office revenues. C. Attendance rate. D. Number of cinemas.
TIP：选B。从“Yet, box office revenues remained the same at $10.6 billion due to increased ticket prices”可得出答案。
SCRIPT:
The number of North Americans who went to the cinema in 2010 was around 5% down on the 2009 total, figures show. Box office analysts forecast 1.35 billion tickets will be sold by the end of the year, down on 1.42 billion sold in 2009. It is the biggest year-on-year drop since 2005, making 2010 the second-lowest attended year of the decade. Yet, box office revenues remained about the same at $10.6 billion due to increased ticket prices. Animated movie Toy Story 3 was the highest-grossing film of the year at the US box office, earning nearly $415 million. The Pixar sequel, like the second highest-grossing title Alice in Wonderland, was one of several hit movies released in 3D. It is thought attendance figures in the US and Canada will rise next year, when sequels to hit comedy The Hangover and Pirates of the Caribbean are released.
PART III CLOZE
Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks. Mark the best choice for each blank on Answer Sheet Two.
The earthquake of 26th December 2004 resulted in one of the worst natural disasters in living memory. It was a (31) _____ underwater quake and occurred in the Indian Ocean. It (32) ____ coastlines, communities and brought death to many people. Why do earthquakes happen?
The surface of the earth has not always looked as it does today; it is moving (33) ____ (although very slowly) and has done so for billions of years. This is one (34) ____ of earthquakes, when one section of the earth (tectonic plate) (35) ____ another. Scientists can predict where but not (36) ____ this might happen and the area between plates is called a fault line. On one fault line in Kobe, Japan in 1923 over 200,000 people were killed. (37) ____, earthquakes do not always happen on fault lines, (38) ____ is why they are so dangerous and (39) ____. Where do volcanoes happen?
Volcanoes happen where the earth?s (40) ____ is thin: lava, dust and gases (41) ____ from beneath the earth. They can rise into a huge cone shape like a mountain and erupt, (42) ____ they can be so violent (43) ____ they just explode directly from the earth with no warning. There are 1511 (44) “____” volcanoes in the world. This means that they may (45) ____ be dangerous. In 1985 the Colombian volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupted. The lava melted a glacier and sent tons of mud (46) ____ the town below. Twenty thousand people died. Natural disasters like volcanic eruptions are often unpredictable. We regularly do not know when they (47) ____ happen, or (48)
____ where they will happen. In the future, scientists may be able to watch and predict (49) ____ before they happen. This could (50) ____ many lives.
31. A. massive B. significant C. great D. grand 参考答案： A
TIP：选A。massive意为“巨大的”、“严重的”，符合语境。 32. A. changed B. converted C. destroyed D. transformed 参考答案： C
TIP：选C。这里提及的是一次大地震，给人们带来的影响是毁灭性的，因此用destroy比较合适。
33. A. frequently B. continuously C. regularly D. periodically 参考答案： B
TIP：选B。根据常识，地球表面一直以来都在“持续”运动，因此选项D符合常识。
34. A. source B. reason C. movement D. cause 参考答案： D
TIP：选D。地球表面的持续运动是导致地震的原因，用cause最为贴切。 35. A. collides with B. confronts with C. meets with D. faces with 参考答案： A
TIP：选A。地震是地壳的不同板块“碰撞”所造成的，因此选A，其他三个动词不符合句子意思。
36. A. how B. why C. when D. what 参考答案： C
TIP：选C。科学家已经能分析地震的原因和预测其发生的地点，只有时间无法确认。
37. A. Generally B. However C. Similarly D. Anyway 参考答案： B
TIP：选B。此处与前一句形成转折，说明地震不一定都发生在断裂带，因此地震很危险且难以预测。
38. A. that B. it C. this D. which 参考答案： D
TIP：选D。这里用which引导一个非限定性分句。
39. A. unpredictable B. unaccountable C. inevitable D. irresistible 参考答案： A
TIP：选A。地震的不可预测大大增加它的危险性。下文中也提到了这个词。 40. A. surface B. appearance C. crust D. cover 参考答案： C
TIP：选C。Earth?s crust是地壳的意思。
41. A. flowed out B. burst out C. leaked out D. trickled out 参考答案： B
TIP：选B。此处句子的意思应为“岩浆、灰尘和气体从地底下喷发出来”。 42. A. or B. and C. nor D. but 参考答案： A
TIP：选A。用or表示火山喷发的不同状态和表现。
43. A. like B. for C. as D. that 参考答案： D
TIP：选D。此处与句中的so构成“so ... that ...”句型。 44. A. living B. active C. alive D. live 参考答案： B
TIP：选B。Active volcano是活火山的意思。 45. A. relatively B. hardly C. still D. gradually 参考答案： C
TIP：选C。“活火山”意味着这些火山仍然有喷发的危险。 46. A. down B. on C. across D. beyond 参考答案： A
TIP：选A。此句的意思为“火山喷发的岩浆使冰川融化，将数吨泥土冲到山下的城镇”。
47. A. are to B. should C. must D. might 参考答案： D
TIP：选D。此处用might表明自然灾害有可能发生，只是人们并不知道什么时候会发生。
48. A. else B. even C. though D. whether 参考答案： B
TIP：选B。根据上下文，句子意为“我们通常不知道什么时候，甚至什么地方会地震”，只能选even。
49. A. accidents B. incidents C. occasions D. events 参考答案： D
TIP：选D。此句子是展望未来，“科学家们或许能够在事件发生之前观察和预测到”，events此处可泛指所有自然灾害活动。 50. A. rescue B. save C. preserve D. shelter 参考答案： B
TIP：选B。如果科学家们能预测自然灾害，“那就能拯救生命”。 PART IV GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY
There are thirty sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four words, phrases or statements marked A, B, C and D. Choose one word, phrase or statement that best completes the sentence.
Mark your answers on Answer Sheet Two.
51. Which of the following sentences is INCORRECT? A. Twenty miles seems like a long walk to him. B. No one except his supporters agree with him. C. Neither Julia nor I was going to the party. D. Few students in my class are really lazy.
参考答案： B
TIP：选B。此题考查主谓一致。如果主语是数词加表示长度、时间、距离、价值等的名词，常被看成一个整体，所以谓语动词用单数形式；在“neither ... nor ...”结构中，主谓一般采用邻近原则；few加复数名词，谓语动词用复数形式。因此A、C、D选项正确。
52. Which of the following determiners (限定词) can be placed before both singular count nouns and plural count nouns? A. many a B. few C. such D. the next
参考答案： C
TIP：选C。Many a后只接单数名词，few后只接复数名词，the next后只接单数名词，只有such后可接单数及复数名词。
53. Which of the following reflexive pronouns (反身代词) is used as an appositive (同位语)?
A. He promised himself rapid progress. B. The manager herself will interview Mary. C. I have nothing to say for myself. D. They quarreled themselves red in the face. 参考答案： B
TIP：选B。选项A和D中反身代词作动词宾语，选项B中反身代词作主语的同位语，选项C中反身代词作介词宾语。
54. My boss ordered that the legal documents ____ to him before lunch. A. be sent B. were sent C. were to be sent D. must be sent 参考答案： A TIP：选A。Order后接宾语从句时，从句谓语动词用should+do的虚拟形式，should可以省略。
55. Which of the following sentences expresses WILLINGNESS? A. By now she will be eating dinner. B. I shall never do that again.
C. My brother will help you with the luggage. D. You shall get a promotion.
参考答案： C
TIP：选C。选项A中will表示推断和料想，选项B中shall表示坚强的信念和决心，选项C中will表示意愿，选项D中shall表示允诺。
56. Which of the following sentences is INCORRECT?
A. How strange feelings they are! B. How dare you speak to me like that! C. What noise they are making! D. What a mess we are in!
参考答案： A
TIP：选A。此题考查感叹句，其中how修饰形容词、副词、谓语动词，what修饰名词，因此A项不正确。