PART Ⅰ DICTATION1. Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first rending, which will be read at normal speed, listen and try to understand the meaning. For the second and third readings, the passage will be rend sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with intervals of 15 seconds. The last reading will be read at normal speed again and during this time you should check your work. You will then be given 2 minutes to check through your work once more.
Please write the whole passage on ANSWER SHEET ONE.
[听力原文]
The Functions of the Family
The family fulfills a number of roles, / such as providing education and recreational activities. / Yet there are several major functions performed by the family. / First, unlike the young of animals, / human infants need constant care and economic security. / In all cultures, the family assumes ultimate responsibility for the protection of children. / Second, parents monitor a child's behavior / and transmit the values and language of a Culture to the child. / Third, ideally, the family provides members with warm and intimate relationships / and helps them to feel satisfied and secure. / Unlike other institutions, the family is obliged to serve the emotional needs of its members. / Finally, family resources affect children's ability to pursue certain opportunities / such as higher education and specialized study. / It is apparent, then, that the family has been assigned / at least four vital functions within human societies. /
[听音关键] 这篇短文有关家庭的功能,关键词有:fulfills a number of roles;major functions;First...infants...: Second...children's behavior;Third...relationships;Finally...affect children's ability;four vital function.
[听写难点] ①难词,如:recreational娱乐的,security安全,ultimate最终的,responsibility责任,transmit传送,institutions机构,pursue追求,opportunities机会,specialized专业的;②词尾的-ed和-s,如:fulfills(主语family是单数),performed(其后出现by),specialized(修饰study需形容词形式)。
[画龙点睛]本篇文章结构清晰,听音时应把握First...Second...Third...Finally表示层次的词。最后一句话提示家庭一共有4个重要功能。
PART Ⅳ GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY There are thirty sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four words or phrases marked [A], [B], [C] and [D]. Choose one word or phrase that best completes the sentence.
Mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.In fact, she would rather leave for San Francisco ______ in Los Angeles.- A.to stay
- B.than stay
- C.than staying
- D.than have stayed
SECTION A COMPOSITION When people form opinions about someone or something, what affects them most is not substance but style. Is style more important than substance? Write a composition on this issue.
1. You are to write in three parts.
In the first part, state specifically what your opinion is.
In the second part, provide one or two reasons to support your opinion.
In the last part, bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or make a summary.
Marks will be awarded for content, organization, language and appropriateness. Failure to follow the instructions may result in a loss of marks.
Do Ads Affect Human Life Positively?
Every day we see a wide range of ads. Properly speaking, we now live in a sea of ads. Every one must acknowledge that he cannot escape ads if he be social. In my opinion, ads affect our lives both positively and negatively.
On the one hand, ads may be informative and help us find items or locations we have thought of contacting, such as informative commercials given by cancer society, your government, items you need to purchase and good idea that you need. They create the demand for a certain item for their consumers, eg. hair shampoo ads. Demand is a good thing for our economics, keeping the jobs going and unemployment rate down. So in the end everyone benefits.
On the other hand, I find discretion is extremely lacking in advertising showing things which should not be viewed by small children. As well, the pushing of prescription drugs, sure, contact your doctor, but many doctors are not thorough and you may start taking medications you don't really need. Ads give us the wrong impression about certain aspect of reality, eg. good looking guys and hot sexy woman will help sell the product that is on the ad, especially those ads with hot sexy woman.
To conclude, we are bombarded with advertising every day. There are pros and cons. For the businessman, he is the one who benefits the most from advertising, but for us, sometimes seeing ads will make us purchase an item at checkout counters which is a total waste of money and we could easily do without.
SECTION B NOTE-WRITING1. Write on ANSWER SHEET TWO a note of about 50 ~ 60 words based on the following situation:
You want to buy an e-dictionary. Billy, one of your friends, knows a lot about it. Write him a note asking whether he can go to the department store with you and give you some advice.
Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness.
[参考范文]
March 9
Dear Billy,
I need to buy an e-dictionary but I am not sure which type is good. I hope you can give me some advice. I wonder whether you have spare time to go to the department store with me tomorrow afternoon. If so, please come to my dorm at about 3 o'clock and we can go by bus together.
[审题]
根据文章的内容要求,可以看出这是一个比较正式的便条形式,需要具备便条的完整格式:时间、称谓、正文、结束语和签名。在进行正文部分的写作时,首先说明写便条的原因是买电子词典时希望对方给出一些建议。然后要提出请求,希望对方能够陪你一块去百货商店。最后,具体说明约会的时间和地点。便条写作要注意语句的简洁明了,不要用过于复杂的结构和句子。