Section Ⅰ Listening Comprehension Directions: This section is designed to test your ability to understand spoken English. You will hear a selection of recorded materials and you must answer the questions that accompany them. There are three parts in this section, Part A, Part B and Part C. Remember, while you are doing the test, you should first put down your answer in your test booklet. At the end of the listening comprehension section, you will have 5 minutes to transfer all your answers from your test booklet to ANSWER SHEET 1. If you have any questions, you may raise your hand NOW, as you will not be allowed to speak once the test has started. Now look at Part A in your test booklet.
Part A You will hear a dialogue about a lost property. Listen and complete the sentences in questions 1～5 with the information you've heard. Write not more than 5 words in each numbered box. You will hear the recording twice. You now have 25 seconds to read the table below.
When Mr. French retired, he bought a small cottage in
1
The cottage was built in the late
2
He was looking forward to
3
In the summer holidays, his cottage attracted
4
In the end, he sold the cottage and bought a small
[听力原文] 1-5 When Mr. French retired, he bought a small cottage in the seaside village. The cottage was built in the late 16th century, but it was in a very good condition. Mr. French was looking forward to a quiet life. But in the summer holidays he got a shock. Hundreds of tourists came to the seaside village. Mr. French's cottage was the most interesting building in the village and many of the tourists came to see it. From morning till night there were tourists outside the cottage. They looked through the windows and many of them even went into Mr. French's garden. This was too much for Mr. French, he decided to drive the unwelcome visitors away, so he put up a notice in the window. The notice said: "If you want to satisfy your curiosity, come in and look around, price 5 pounds." Mr. French was sure that the visitors would stop coming, but he was wrong. The number of visitors increased, and Mr. French spent every day showing them around his cottage. "I come here to retire, not to work as a guide," he complained. In the end, he sold the cottage and bought a small modern house. It is an uninteresting little place and no one wants to see it, but it is certainly quiet and peaceful.
2.
16th century.
3.
a quiet life.
4.
many tourists.
5.
modem house.
Part B You will hear a conversation about a crime. Answer questions 6-10 while you listen. Use not more than 5 words for each answer. You will hear the recording twice. You now have 25 seconds to read the questions.
1. How many streets addresses does the computer contain about?
350,000
[听力原文] 6-10 In Kansas city, a computer helps firemen. The computer contains information about every one of the 350,000 street addresses in the city. When fireman answers a call, the computer gives them information about the burning building. The computer can give the location of the building, and its size, type and contents. In fact, the computer system has many different ways of helping firefighters with their problems. For example, it can give medical information about the sick people living in a burning building. With this information, the firemen can take special care to find these sick persons and to remove them quickly and safely from the burning building. The speed of the computer is amazing. Within two or three seconds after a call is received, the computer provides necessary information for the firemen. The information is then sent to them by radio from the computer center from the City Hall. The Kansas city computer system also contains a medical record of each of the city's 900 firemen. This kind of information is especially useful when a fire fighter is injured. With this medical information, doctors at the hospital can treat the injured firemen more quickly and easily. Kansas city firemen themselves are thankful for the computer's help. The computer tells them about possible dangers ahead of them and helps them prepare for them. Many times the computer helps to save lives and property. Sometimes the lives are those of firemen themselves.
2. What kind of information can the computer give to the firemen when they answer a call?
Information about the burning building
3. Which word can be used to describe the speed of the computer?
Amazing
4. Why does the computer contain medical records of each fireman?
For the injured fire fighters
5. What can the computer information help to save?
Lives and property
Part C You will hear three dialogues or monologues. Before listening to each one. You will have time to read the questions related to it. While listening, answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. After listening, you will have time to check your answer. You will hear each piece once only.
1. In winter, the Northeast does not have ______ .
A.much snow
B.much rain
C.much humidity
D.much fair weather
A B C D
B
[听力原文]11-13 In a country as large as the People's Republic of China, the climate differs considerably between North and South and seasonal temperatures vary greatly. In general, although rain and high humidity characterize the summer months, the length of the rainy season and the amount of rainfall is much greater in south of the Yangtse River. Winters are dry with little rainfall particularly in the North and North-East where it is also very cold. North-Central: Spring is short, with clear skies and some rain, as well as misty and rather cloudy conditions or occasional cold, dust-laden wind. Summer (May onwards) is hot and fairly wet but Autumn (from mid August) is generally warm and pleasant. Winters are very cold. South-East: Spring and Autumn are generally mild and pleasant with some rain. Summers, however, are very hot and humid With frequent tropical downpours particularly in June and July. In Nanjing, Wuhan and Chongqing temperatures in July and August can be extremely hot and these towns are known as the "three furnaces of China". In the winter months it can be quite cold, with some rain. South: Canton and Guilin have tropical climates-mild winters with hot and humid summers and rain most of the year. The climate there is similar to that of Hong Kong in many ways.
4. When does the conversation most probably take place?
A.On Wednesday.
B.On Thursday.
C.On Friday.
D.On Saturday.
A B C D
C
[听力原文] 11-13 W: What are you reading, Paul? M: Oh, it's a book about naval engineering. W: Why are you reading on a Friday evening? M: Because I've got to write an essay this weekend. W: What are you going to do when you're qualified? M: I don't know. I'd like to get a job abroad, I think. What are you going to do when your year at Weston is over? W: I'm going to spend a few weeks touring Britain, then I'm going back to Canada, I suppose M: What is John going to do? W: I think he's going to open a branch of "Pretty Feet" in London. M: What is he doing in Italy? W: He's seeing some designers there. He's coming back tomorrow. By the way, what are you and Sue doing on Saturday evening? M: I don't know yet. Why? W: Well, I thought we could cook another of our famous suppers and invite John and Sue. M: Oh,no! Not potato salad again! Sorry, Barbara, but I really have to read this book.
5. Where does Barbara come from?
A.America.
B.Italy.
C.Canada.
D.Britain.
A B C D
C
在第四个话轮中女士说：I'm going back to Canada，因此她肯定是加拿大人，选[C]。
6. What is John's plan for the future?
A.To open a shoe shop.
B.To get a job abroad.
C.To tour Britain.
D.To become a naval engineer.
A B C D
A
对话第一句就指出男士名为Paul，因此John不是对话者。第五个话轮中女士的回答中指出，John "is going to open a branch of 'Pretty Feet'…"，由其中的branch(分店)和feet两词可推知他应当是开一家鞋店，故答案为[A]。
7. What must you make sure when you load the cassette?
A.That you open the recorder.
B.That you get the power supply.
C.That you get the right side of the tape facing you.
D.That you switch the recorder on.
A B C D
C
[听力原文]14-16 M: Um, Mary, could you cell me how to use this cassette recorder, please? W: OK. Well, first of all, you have to plug it into the power supply. M: Yeah, I see. W: Once you've done that... you don't need to switch anything on. M: How do you open it? W: Well, you have to press the little button that says eject. M: This one here? W: That's right. That's it. M: Like that? W: Yeah. After you've clone that, then you load the cassette. Make sure that you've got the right side of the tape facing you and not away from you. Then you should close the cassette flap. M: Like that? W: Yeah, that's right. And then you must remember to press the play button to set it to work. M: That one on the right? W: Yes, that's it. M: Like that? W: Right! It won't go clown unless you push hard. M: I know. Those old models are all like that. W: That's just what you must do. M: Yes. But how about this red thing here? W: That's the record switch. Be careful not to press it when you're playing, because if you do you'll wipe off whatever is on the tape. M: Oh, I see. So that's the record and this is the rewind. W: Exactly. If you want to rewind, then you have to press it down. M: And then stop it here. W: That's it. You've got it.
8. What may the red thing do besides recording?
A.Wipe off the sound on the tape.
B.Play the recorder.
C.Set the recorder to work.
D.Stop the recorder.
A B C D
A
9. What button do you press if you want to listen again what has been played?
A.Pause button.
B.Record button.
C.Forward button.
D.Rewind button.
A B C D
D
Section Ⅱ Use of English Read the following text. Choose the best word for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. Hawaii, the newest state in the United States, is a 1 of eight large islands and many small 2 in the Central Pacific Ocean, about 2,200 miles west of San Francisco. Hawaii was probably 3 about 750 A. D. , by 4 from the other Pacific islands. The first Europeans 5 Americans to visit it were the British Captain James Cook and his 6 in 1778. James named his discovery the Sandwich Islands 7 the sponsor of his expedition, the Earl of Sandwich. Twelve years later, the others from Europe and the new United States began to settle in the islands. These "westerners" brought 8 to Hawaii. They brought new diseases, which the Hawaiians had no 9 to; they brought alcohol, which many Hawaiians became 10 to; they brought a new religion which 11 the old values and forced the islanders to 12 their old culture and 13 to a new one. Many Americans settled in Hawaii, and in 1893, they 14 the queen and 15 Hawaii a republic. Sandford Dole, a missionary's son, was made president. In 1898, the United States 16 the islands, and it became a 17 of the United States in 1900. On December 7th, 1941, the Japanese 18 Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. This attack 19 the entrance of the United States to the Second World War. In 1959, the United States Congress 20 Hawaii to statehood, making it the fiftieth state in the United States. For the first time in about 200 years, Hawaiians were able to participate in the electoral process.
1.
A.group
B.bunch
C.gathering
D.sort
A B C D
A
[解析] 表示“一组，一群”的意思。
2.
A.islands
B.kinds
C.ones
D.kinds
A B C D
C
[解析] 替代前面的islands。
3.
A.colonized
B.inhabited
C.settled
D.occupied
A B C D
C
[解析] 此处意为“定居”。
4.
A.people
B.men
C.pirates
D.seafarers
A B C D
D
[解析] 从上下文看指的是“海员，海上的旅行者”。
5.
A.and
B.or
C.as well as
D.then
A B C D
B
[解析] 此处应为“或者”的意思，表示选择关系。
6.
A.band
B.crew
C.crowd
D.staff
A B C D
B
[解析] 指“他的船员”。
7.
A.with
B.as
C.according to
D.after
A B C D
D
[解析] 此处为“依照……而命名”之意。
8.
A.bother
B.distress
C.plague
D.trouble
A B C D
D
[解析] 从下文看指“麻烦”。
9.
A.resistance
B.boycott
C.conflict
D.revolt
A B C D
A
[解析] 此处意为“抵抗”。
10.
A.fascinated
B.addicted
C.enchanted
D.captivated
A B C D
B
[解析] 此处意为“上瘾，嗜酒”。
11.
A.extracted
B.removed
C.uprooted
D.withdrawed
A B C D
C
[解析] 指“彻底消失”。
12.
A.depart
B.discard
C.abandon
D.evacuate
A B C D
C
[解析] 此处为“放弃”之意。
13.
A.agree
B.comply
C.conform
D.submit
A B C D
C
[解析] “conform to something”为固定搭配，意为“遵守，遵从”。
14.
A.defeated
B.destroyed
C.overpowered
D.overthrew
A B C D
D
[解析] 指“推翻”之意。
15.
A.branded
B.made
C.created
D.built
A B C D
B
[解析] “make something something”，意为“使……成为……”。
16.
A.took over
B.took
C.received
D.admitted
A B C D
A
[解析] 此处意为“接管”。
17.
A.area
B.territory
C.district
D.land
A B C D
B
[解析] 指“领地，领土”。
18.
A.attacked
B.assaulted
C.bombed
D.raided
A B C D
C
[解析] 指“轰炸珍珠港”这一事件。
19.
A.brought
B.took
C.lead to
D.brought about
A B C D
D
[解析] 指“带来，招致，引起(……的后果)”。
20.
A.admitted
B.confessed
C.consented
D.received
A B C D
A
[解析] 意为“承认，认为有效”。
Section Ⅲ Reading Comprehension
Part A
Passage 1 The Internet raises major issues and challenges for education, not just in China but all over the world. Yet it simply cannot be ignored in terms of the opportunities and resources that it can offer. We can divide the main issues facing education systems into three groups -- access, quality and responsibility. Let us consider the Internet in relation to each of them. First, access. Through the Internet, practically the whole world can be brought into your classroom. Using e-mail makes it possible to have a class whose members are spread all over the world and who may never meet either the teacher or each other face to face. It can put students in different countries in easy contact. The information resources available are almost limitless. With the Internet, students and teachers can access the wisdom, experience, skills, and even guidance of others in a way that was only possible for a very privileged few. Next, quality. The Internet does pose serious problems of quality for education systems. Obviously, there is a lot of material on the Internet that no one would want children or students to have uncontrolled access to, but there are other problems which are very difficult to solve. The first is how to handle the sheer quantity of information available, and how to make it manageable. Because anyone can put information on the Internet, and there are no limits on quantity, it can be almost impossible to find exactly the information that one wants. Teachers and students cannot afford to waste time on unsuccessful searching. How can we identify the information which will be most useful without overloading ourselves and our students with unnecessary information? How do we select the best information from all that is available? This raises the issue of responsibility. There are few editors or quality controllers on the Internet. The ultimate responsibility for selection and judgment falls to the user, whether teacher or student. Teachers, and still less students, are not experts in every field; what we select may not be what we really want, perhaps is old, even wrong. Any profession must take some collective responsibility in resolving these problems. Conscious and deliberate efforts have to be made to share information between teachers about useful sites and about the best way to use them. Those who have found something useful or of high quality should not keep the information to themselves, but share it as widely as possible. There are many professional discussion groups active on the Internet which aim to do this. Access to them by teachers should be actively encouraged. This will require investment by institutions in giving easy access to the Internet and email to all teachers. Without this investment, educators -- and ultimately students -- will be deprived of a vital resource for the development of education in the future.
1. With which of the following statements would the author be least likely to agree?
A.The Internet provides us with perfect educational information.
B.The Internet provides us with limitless resources.
C.We can obtain the latest information from foreign countries through the Internet.
D.The information on the Internet is no longer available only for a few people.
A B C D
A
[解析] 互联网为我们提供完善的教学信息。错误，从文章可知互联网提供的信息繁芜庞杂，良莠不齐。
2. The author's attitude towards a large quantity of information on the net is
A.satisfied.
B.indifferent.
C.furious.
D.worried.
A B C D
D
[解析] 作者对信息量过于庞杂的态度是：文章第七、八段所表达的担忧。
3. The text implies that
A.professional people should pick out proper information from the Internet for schools.
B.professional people should instruct teachers and students to use the Internet.
C.educators should be active in using computer.
D.educators should have their own email address.
A B C D
A
[解析] 专业人士应从互联网上给学校选择合适的信息。可从文章第十一、十二段推测：Those who have found something useful or of high quality should not keep the information to themselves, but l share it as widely as possible. There are many professional discussion groups active on the internet which aim to do this. Access to them by teachers should be actively encouraged。
4. The word "institutions" (Para. 12) here probably refers to
Passage 2 This year, Harvard turned down more than 200 high-school seniors who had perfect SAT scores. Penn rejected 400 valedictorians salutatorians. And it's not just the Ivy League and other top universities that are besieged by well-qualified seniors. At Washington University in St. Louis, the number of applicants has doubled in the last five years. St. John's University, a commuter college in the New York City borough of Queens, now has so many out-of-town applicants that it is building the first dorm in its 129-year history. Just your luck: you face the stiffest competition in the history college admissions. Your competitors are more numerous than eve about two thirds of all high-school graduates will go on to some form higher education next fall, compared with just over half in the late 1960s. And by most yardsticks, your fellow applicants have the best qualifications ever. The class of 2004 will start freshman year with twice as many college credits-earned from advanced-placement courses and other special high-school work--as their counterparts had a decade before. Their SAT and ACT scores will be the highest in 15 years. "When we receive phone calls from students in April asking why they were not admitted, we sometimes have difficulty finding a reason," says Lee Stetson, dean of admissions at the University of Pennsylvania. But the tough competition isn't just your problem. It's also a huge challenge for the colleges. They are swamped with applicants, many of whom are applying to a dozen or more institutions--partly as a kind of failsafe, and partly because the students can't decide what they want. Admissions offices have to separate the serious prospects from the window shoppers and the multiple hookers. For you, the good news is that there's a place somewhere for just about everyone. The question is, how will you and your ideal college find each other? There are lots of choices out there. When Bob Kinnally, Stanford's director of admissions and financial aid, gets complaints from parents whose kids were rejected, he asks them where their offspring did get in. "They rattle off this amazing list of choices," he says. "I tell them Congratulations, school so-and-so is an excellent match for your child. It's all about a good match."
1. Harvard has turned down more than 200 high-school seniors who had perfect SAT scores this year because ______.
Part B Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2. I enjoy life because I am endlessly interested in people and their growth. 61) My interest leads me to widen my knowledge of people, and this in turn compels me to believe in the common goodness of mankind. I believe that the normal human heart is born good. That is, it's born sensitive and feeling, eager to be approved and to approve, hungry for simple happiness and the chance to live. It neither wishes to be killed, nor to kill. If through circumstances, it is overcome by evil, it never becomes entirely evil. There remain in it elements of good, however recessive, which continue to hold the possibility of restoration. I believe in human beings, but my faith is without sentimentality. 62) I know that in environments of uncertainty, fear, and hunger, the human being is dwarfed and shaped without his being aware of it, just as the plant struggling under a stone does not know its own condition. 63) Only when the stone is removed can it spring up freely into the light. But the power to spring up is inherent, and only death puts an end to it. I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings. Like Confucius of old, I am absorbed in the wonder of earth, and the life upon it, and I cannot think of heaven and the angels. I have enough for this life. If there is no other life, than this one has been enough to make it worth being born, myself a human being. With so profound a faith in the human heart and its power to grow toward the light, I find here reason and cause enough for hope and confidence in the future of mankind. 64) The common sense of people will surely prove to them someday that mutual support and cooperation are only sensible for the security and happiness of all. Such faith keeps me continually ready and purposeful with energy to do what one person can towards shaping the environment in which the human being can grow with freedom. This environment, I believe, is based upon the necessity for security and friendship. I take heart in a promising fact that the world contains food supplies sufficient for the entire earth population. Our knowledge of medical science is already sufficient to improve the health of the whole human race. Our resources and education, if administered on a world scale, can lift the intelligence of the race. 65) All that remains is to discover how to administer upon a world scale, the benefits which some of us already have. In other words, to return to my simile, the stone must be rolled away. This too can be done, as a sufficient number of human beings come to have faith in themselves and in each other. Not all will have such faith at the same moment, but there is a growing number who have the faith. Half a century ago, no one had thought of world food, world health, world education. Many are thinking today of these things. In the midst of possible world war, of wholesale destruction, I find my only question this: are there enough people now who believe? Is there time enough left for the wise to act? It is a contest between ignorance and death, or wisdom and life. My faith in humanity stands firm.
1. Write a composition on the following topic: Some people trust their first impression about a person's character because they believe these judgements are generally correct. Other people do not judge a person's character quickly because they believe first impressions are often wrong. Compare these two attitudes. Which attitude do you agree with? Support your choice with specific examples. You should write 160--200 words on ANSWER SHEET 2.
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