Section Ⅰ Vocabulary Directions:Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D. More than forty thousand readers told us what they looked for in close friendships, what they expected 1 friends, what they were willing to give in 2 , and how satisfied they were 3 the quality of their friendships. The 4 give little comfort to social critics. Friendship 5 to be a unique form of 6 bonding. Unlike marriage or the ties that 7 parents and children, it is not defined or regulated by 8 . Unlike other social roles that we are expected to 9 —as citizens, employees, members of professional societies and 10 organizations—it has its own principle, which is to promote 11 of warmth, trust, love, and affection 12 two people. The survey on friendship appeared in the March 13 of Psychology Today. The findings 14 that issues of trust and betrayal are 15 to friendship. They also suggest that our readers do not 16 for friends only among those who are 17 . like them, but find many 18 differ in race, religion, and ethnic background. Arguably the most important 19 that emerges from the data, 20 , is not something that we found—but what we did not.
1.
A.to
B.for
C.of
D.on
A B C D
C
根据句意“他们期望朋友的什么”，只有介词of符合句意。
2.
A.return
B.reply
C.addition
D.turn
A B C D
A
in return是一惯用短语，意为“作为(报答)”，符合上下文的意义——“作为回报他们愿意给什么”。而其他三个选项与in构成的词组都不符合文章意思，in addition另外，in reply回答，in turn轮流。
Part A Directions:Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D.
Text 1
It's hard to say for sure what the next big thing will be, but these items made the list of 10 emerging technology trends that will change the world, according to the January issue of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Magazine Technology Review. "We were looking for things that were just emerging now and over the next five years would begin to have a major impact", David Rotman, the magazine's deputy editor, said Thursday. Some of the items have been on the verge of widespread use for quite some time, such as biometrics and speech recognition. Others chosen by the MIT magazine editors are topics that most people have never heard of, such as microphotonics and microfluidics. The magazine focused on developments in three areas: information technology, nanotechnology and biotechnology. One significant area in biotechnology, the magazine highlights, is work on brain-machine interfaces that could someday allow people to control artificial devices that replace lost functions. Today, research is more limited, with scientists able to take signals from individual neurons in an animal's brain and send them to a robot that can turn the signals into motion. But the potential is huge, according to Duke University neurobiologist Miguel Nicolelis. "Imagine if someone could do for the brain what the pacemaker did for the heart." Nicolelis told the MIT journal. In the purely digital realm, the magazine suggests that the field of robotics could be poised to move beyond the restricted market of Performing simple, highly repetitive tasks. "Robot builders make a convincing case that in 2001, robots are where personal computers were in 1980", writes Technology Review senior editor David Talbot, "poised to break into the marketplace as common corporate tools and routine consumer products performing life's tedious chores." Until now the problem has been that robots have been costly and difficult to design. One approach that the magazine highlights is the work of Brandeis University researcher Jordan Pollack, who builds robots that can build other robots.
1. The proper title of this passage can be______.
A.Things that May Change the World
B.The Ten Emerging Technological Trends that May Change the Future World
C.What Great Changes Will Happen in the Near Future World
D.A Brief Prediction for the Technological Research Trends
4. Which of the following is to help reduce the cost of designing robots?
A.Make robots with brain machine interfaces.
B.Make robots capable of making other robots.
C.Make robots working in a 1980's computer case.
D.Make robots do only repetitive tedious jobs.
A B C D
B
本题是一道填全题。要求考生理解原文并学会使用变换性说法。答案选项[B]的含义是：(本文提出的有可能降低机器人设计成本的新想法是)使机器人能够设计其它机器人。即原文最后的结尾句所说：one approach that the magazine highlights is the work of Brande is University researcher Jordan Pollack, who builds robots that can build other robots(布朗德斯大学研究家约旦·波莱克的研究成果揭示出了一种新途径，那就是他正在研制能制造其他机器人的机器人。)
5. The verb "highlight" in Line 2, Paragraph 8 is used to mean______.
The health-care economy is replete with unusual and even unique economic relationships. One of the least understood involves the peculiar roles of producer or "provider" and purchaser or "consumer" in the typical doctor-patient relationship, in most sectors of the economy, it is the seller who attempts to attract a potential buyer with various inducements of price, quality, and utility, and it is the buyer who makes the decision. Where circumstances permit the buyer no choice because there is effectively only one seller and the product is relatively essential, government usually asserts monopoly and places the industry under price and other regulations. Neither of these conditions prevails in most of the health-care industry. In the health-care industry, the doctor-patient relationship is the mirror image of the ordinary relationship between producer and consumer. Once an individual has chosen to see a physician and even then there may be no real choice-it is the physician who usually makes all significant purchasing decisions: whether the patient should return "next Wednesday", whether X-rays are needed, whether drugs should be prescribed, etc. It is a rare and sophisticated patient who will challenge such professional decisions or raise in advance questions about price, especially when the ailment is regarded as serious. This is particularly significant in relation to hospital care. he physician must certify the need for hospitalization, determine what procedures will be performed, and announce when the patient may be discharged. The patient may be consulted about some of these decisions, but in the main it is the doctor's judgments that are final. Little wonder then that in the systems of the hospital it is the physician who is the real "consumer". As a consequence, the medical staff represents the" power center" in hospital policy and decision-making, not the administration. Although usually there are in this situation four identifiable participants—the physician, the hospital, the patient, and the payer (generally an insurance carrier or government)—the physician makes the essential decisions for all of them. The hospital becomes an extension of the physician; the payer generally meets most of the real bills generated by the physician/hospital; and for the most part the patient plays a passive role. In routine or minor illnesses, or just plain worries, the patient's options are, of course, much greater with respect to use and price. In illnesses that are of some significance, however, such choices tend to evaporate, and it is for these illnesses that the bulk of the health-care dollar is spent. We estimate that about 75-80 percent of health-care expenditures are determined by physicians, not patients. For this reason, economy measures directed at patients or the general public are relatively ineffective.
6. It can be inferred that doctors are able to determine hospital policies because______.
A.it is doctors who generate income for the hospital
B.most of a patient's bills are paid by his health insurance
C.hospital administrators lack the expertise to question medical
D.a doctor is ultimately responsible for a patient's health
In general, our society is becoming one of giant enterprises directed by a bureaucratic management in which man becomes a small, well-oiled cog in the machinery. The oiling is done with higher wages, well-ventilated factories and piped music, and by psychologists and "human-relations" experts; yet all this oiling does not alter the fact that man has become powerless, that he does not wholeheartedly participate in his work and that he is bored with it. In fact, the blue and the white-collar workers have become economic puppets who dance to the tune of automated machines and bureaucratic management. The worker and employee are anxious, not only because they might find themselves out of a job; they are anxious also because they are unable to acquire any real satisfaction or interest in life. They live and die without ever having confronted the fundamental realities of human existence as emotionally and intellectually independent and productive human beings. Those higher up on the social ladder are no less anxious. Their lives are no less empty than those of their subordinates. They are even more insecure in some respects. They are in a highly competitive race. To be promoted or to fall behind is not a matter of salary but even more a matter of self-respect. When they apply for their first job, they are tested for intelligence as well as for the right mixture of submissiveness and independence. From that moment on they are tested again and again—by the psychologists, for whom testing is a big business, and by their superiors, who judge their behavior, sociability, capacity to get along, etc. This constant need to prove that one is as good as or better than one's fellow-competitor creates constant anxiety and stress, the very causes of unhappiness and illness. Am I suggesting that we should return to the preindustrial mode of production or to nineteenth century "free enterprise" capitalism? Certainly not. Problems are never solved by returning to a stage which one has already outgrown. I suggest transforming our social system for a bureaucratically managed industrialism in which maximal production and consumption are ends in themselves into a humanist industrialism in which man and full development of his potentialities—those of love and of reason—are the aims of all social arrangements. Production and consumption should serve only as means to this end, and should be prevented from ruling man.
11. By "a well-oiled cog in the machinery" the author intends to render the idea that man is______.
A.a necessary part of the society though each individual's function is negligible
B.working in complete harmony with the rest of the society
C.an unimportant part in comparison with the rest of the society, though functioning smoothly
D.a humble component of the society, especially when working smoothly
A B C D
C
细节推理题。本题问作者用“机器中润滑良好的小齿轮”想表达什么观点。此处作者把现代社会中的人比作“a well-oiled cog in the machinery”(机器中润滑良好的齿轮)，暗指人在社会中所发挥的作用如同大机器中的小齿轮一样，虽然发挥功能，但其作用是微不足道的。这与[C]意思吻合，故为正确答案。[A]项“尽管每个人的作用微不足道，人仍然是社会不可分割的一部分”与原文不符；[B]项“人与社会的其余部分完全和睦相处”文章中未提到；[D]项“人是社会中一地位卑贱的零件，特别是工作顺利的时候”与内容不符。
12. The real cause of the anxiety of the workers and employees is that______.
A.they are likely to lose their jobs
B.they have no genuine satisfaction or interest in life
C.they are faced with the fundamental realities of human existence
D.they are deprived of their individuality and independence
A B C D
D
细节题。本题问工人和职员忧虑的真正原因是什么。关键词是anxiety of workers…。文章第二段指出了工人和雇员忧虑的原因：一是可能失业(out of a job)，与[A]符合；二是对生活不能得到真正的满足和兴趣，与[B]符合。第三也是最深刻的原因，他们一生都没有感受到这样一个事实：自己在情感和智力上都是一个独立的、有创造力的人，与[D]“被剥夺了个性和独立性”一致；他们一生没有去面对人类生存中的根本现实，与[C]相反；[A]、[B]项只是部分原因，而[D]项也可能是造成A，B项的原因，因此表达了这一问题的真正原因，故[D]项为正确答案。
13. From the passage we can infer that real happiness of life belongs to those______.
A.who are at the bottom of the society
B.who are higher up in their social status
C.who prove better than their fellow-competitors
D.who could keep far away from this competitive world
I had an experience some years ago which taught me something about the ways in which people make a bad situation worse by blaming themselves. One January, I had to officiate at two funerals on successive days for two elderly women in my community. Both had died out "full of years," as the Bible would say; both yielded to the normal wearing out of the body after a long and full life. Their homes happened to be near each other, so I paid condolence calls on the two families on the same afternoon. At the first home, the son of the deceased woman said to me. "If only I had sent my mother to Florida and gotten her out of this cold and snow, she would be alive today: It's my fault that she died." At the second home, the son of the other deceased woman said," If only I hadn't insisted on my mother's going to Florida, she would be alive today. That long airplane ride, the abrupt change of climate, was more than she could take. It's my fault that she's dead." When things don't turn out as we would like them to, it is very tempting to assume that had we done things differently, the story would have had a happier ending. Priests know that any time there is a death, the survivors will feel guilty. Because the course of action they took turned out badly, they believe that the opposite course-keeping Mother at home, postponing the operation- would have turned out better. After all, how could it have turned out any worse? There seem to be two elements involved in our readiness to feel guilt. The first is our pressing need to believe that the world makes sense, that there is a cause for every effect and a reason for everything that happens. That leads us to find patterns and connections both where they really exist and where they exist only in our minds. The second element is the notion that we are the cause of what happens, especially the bad things that happen. It seems to be a short step from believing that every event has a cause to believing that every disaster is our fault. The roots of this feeling may lie in our childhood. Psychologists speak of the infantile myth of omnipotence. A baby comes to think that the world exists to meet his needs, and that he makes everything happen in it. He wakes up in the morning and summons the rest of the world to its tasks. He cries, and someone comes to attend to him. When he is hungry, people feed him, and when he is wet, people change him. Very often, we do not completely outgrow that infantile notion that our wishes cause things to happen.
16. What is said about the two deceased elderly women?
A.They lived out a natural life.
B.They died of exhaustion after the long plane ride.
C.They weren't accustomed to the change in weather.
D.They died due to lack of care by family members.
A B C D
A
细节题。本题问有关这两个死者的说法哪个是正确的。根据第一段第三句“Both had died out 'full of years' as the Bible would say; both yielded to the normal wearing out of the body after a long and full life.”可知，这两位死者都是正常的死亡，所以答案为[A]。[B]她们因为长途旅行劳累过度而死亡；[C]她们不适应气候的变化；[D]她们凶为缺少家庭成员的关心而死亡。
17. The author had to conduct the two women's funerals probably because______.
A.he wanted to console the two families
B.he was an official from the community
C.he had great sympathy for the deceased
D.he was priest of the local church
A B C D
D
推理题。本题问作者必须去参加这两个葬礼有可能是因为什么。从原文中看到，作者多次提到《圣经》中的词句，如“as the Bible would say”由此可以推断，作者是一个牧师，所以答案应该是[D]。[A]他想安慰这两家人；[B]他是社区里的官员；[C]他对死者非常同情。
18. People feel guilty for the deaths of their loved ones because______.
A.they couldn't find a better way to express their grief
B.they believe that they were responsible
C.they had neglected the natural course of events
D.they didn't know things often turn out in the opposite direction
19. In the context of the passage, "…the world makes sense"(Line 2, Para4), probably means that "______".
A.Everything in the world is predetermined
B.They world can be interpreted in different ways
C.there's an explanation for everything in the world
D.we have to be sensible in order to understand the world
A B C D
C
词汇题。本题问从上下文来看，the world makes sense的意思应该是什么。根据文章，我们可以看出“the world makes sense”指的是下面所说的，即“there is a cause for every effect and a reason for everything that happens”。四个选项中，只有[C]项符合这句话的意思，所以答案为[C]。[A]世界上所有的事情都是注定要发生的；[B]世界可以从不同的角度来认识；[D]我们必须有敏锐的观察力才能认识这个世界。
20. People have been made to believe since infancy that______.
A.everybody is at their command
B.life and death is an unsolved mystery
C.every story should have a happy ending
D.their wishes are the cause of everything that happens
A B C D
D
细节题。本题问人们自童年起就相信什么。根据文章最后一句话“Very often，we do not completely outgrow that infantile notion that our wishes cause things to happen”可知，选项[D]“所有的事情都是因为他们的愿望而发生的”为正确答案。[A]他们可以命令所有人；[B]生与死是个未解的难题；[C]所有的故事都应该有个完美的结局。
Part B Directions:Read the following text and answer questions by deciding each of the statements after the text is True or False. Choose T if the statement is true or F if the statement is not true. If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and, when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, "I will be bigger than you. You can not defeat me." Then repeat to yourself the most comforting of all words. "This too shall pass." To forgive oneself in the face of a devastating experience is perhaps the most difficult of life's challenges. Most of us find it much easier to forgive others. In many instances we can't control what happens to us, but we can control our reactions to what happens to us. We can stay down for the count and be carried out of the ring or we can pull ourselves back to our feet. If we are victimized by others, we must refuse to give them the power to break our spirit, make us physically ill, perhaps even shorten our lives. Most doctors will tell you that worry, anxiety, tension and anger can make you sicker than a virus. The expression "nervous breakdown" suggested that nerves have broken down, but organically the nerves are healthy. The problem is purely emotional. A doctor on the staff of the Mayo Clinic has said the majority of patients in hospital beds today are there because of illnesses that were psycho-generated. This means the sickness was triggered by an unresolved problem. I believe in blind faith. I have known people who have suffered deep personal tragedies, and this faith has helped them. But I also believe in the efficacy of positive action to overcome grief. Time is a healer, but those who help time using it wisely and well make a more rapid adjustment. Grief, in part, is self-pity turned inside out. The widow who cries, "He was everything to me. How can I go on without him?" is crying for herself, not for him. The mourner who refuses to let go of his grief eventually isolated himself from his friends. The world may stop for a few hours, or perhaps a few days, to hold a hand or to wipe away a tear, but friends and relatives have problems of their own. Life goes on—and those who refuse to go on with it are left alone to wallow in their misery. The best prescription for a broken heart is activity. I don't mean plunging into a social whirl or running off on trips. Too many people who try to escape by doing just that succeed only in taking their troubles with them. The most useful kind of activity involves doing something to help others. I have told thousands of depressed people, "Enough of this breast-beating. No matter how bad things are with you, there is someone who is worse off—and you can help him." Most touching to me is the heroism, the courage and faith of the average people in the world. Often readers who write about a problem will add something about their personal lives. I am moved by the magnificent people who write such lines as "My husband lost his sight shortly after we married, but we manage beautifully." or, "I've had two operations for cancer, but I know I'll be able to attend my son's graduation in June and I'm so thankful for that." Decide whether the statements are True or False according to the passage.
1. It is advisable for us all to face up to the trouble in life because it will disappear sooner or later.
对 错
B
本题关键词为“advisable”、“trouble in life”、“disappear sooner or later”。通过阅读第一段得知面对麻烦人们应该勇敢对待，想办法去战胜它，它并不会自己消失，该题讲pass和disappear混淆，所以该观点错误。
2. It is a general belief among most doctors that a virus is not dangerous compared with one's emotional problems.
对 错
A
本题关键词为“doctors”、“virus is not dangerous”“emotional problems”。通过阅读第三段Most doctors will tell you that worry, anxiety, tension and anger can make you sicker than a virus.和第四段A doctor on the staff of the Mayo Clinic has said the majority of patients in hospital beds today are there because of illnesses that were psycho-generated. This means the sickness was triggered by an unresolved problem.可以得知该题观点正确。
3. Those who don't know how to use time properly may easily get sick and can hardly overcome their sickness.
对 错
B
本题关键词为“how to use time properly”、“easily get sick”、“hardly overcome”。通过阅读第五段Time is a healer, but those who help time using it wisely and well make a more rapid adjustment.得知该题与文章相反，所以该题错误。
4. It is no use for those broken-hearted making a quick recovery just by escaping from the world.
对 错
A
本题关键词为“broken-hearted”和“escaping from the world”，通过阅读第七段，得知该题观点正确。
5. "No pains, no gains" is one of the author's attitudes toward life.
对 错
A
本题关键词为“No pains, no gains”，通过阅读全文得知该题与全文主旨和作者的观点一致，所以该题观点正确。
Section Ⅲ Translation Directions:Translate the following text from English into Chinese.
1. Inflation has several consequences all of which are bad. First, because the real value of money tends to decline, lenders of money, such as banks, are less willing to lend or are willing to do so only at higher interest rates. This makes borrowing more expensive, and thus may cause prices to rise even further, owing to the increased cost of borrowing. Second, there are many groups of people whose incomes are fixed or whose incomes tend to rise slowly and infrequently. In a period of inflation the living standards of these people fall and, as a result, they suffer hardship. Old age pensioners are examples of one of these groups. Third, when people see the value of money being eroded, they are less willing to save. Accordingly, there is less money available for investment in the new equipment which is frequently necessary if productivity is to increase. It may be more difficult, therefore, to absorb increased production costs. Consequently, prices continue to rise.
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A Letter of Recommendation
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Directions: In this section, you are required to write a composition entitled "Innovatory Spirit" You should write more than 150 words neatly. Outlines: (1)Significance of innovatory spirit (2)Your understanding about it (3)How to cultivate it
[参考范文]
Innovatory Spirit
With the rapid development of science and technology, the competition we are being faced with is becoming increasingly fierce. This requires us to possess innovatory spirit which is not only the lifeline of businesses' subsistence, because only constant innovation can an enterprise surpass his rivals in such an competitive market, but also the foundation of a country's development. If a country doesn't innovate in science and technology, system and management, she must undoubtedly lag far behind other developed countries immediately. As far as I am concerned, innovatory spirit is something that we cannot develop without, especially in hi-tech and information age, because it can both improve and change our life. Of the many values that consist of our civilized society, such as honesty, kindness and so on, innovatory spirit may be the most important of all. Without it, there will be no progress, no colorful life and ultimately no modern society. Then, how should we cultivate the innovatory spirit? Here are a few suggestions, which may be of some help. For one thing, the government should set up a mechanism of innovation and encourage people to invent and create daringly. For another, the fund of risk investment should be provided by some organizations. Only in these ways will people carry forward the innovatory spirit in every field where they are working and studying.
[解析] 本题属于积极有利型考题，考生可根据提纲要求参考以下写作套路进行写作。 Paragraph 1 引出话题，描述话题的重要性； Along with the rapid development of science and technology market-oriented economy, electric industry, higher education…an increasing number of people come to realize that______is something that we cannot do without, especially in such an intensely competitive society. Paragraph 2 分析其重要性的原因或具体表现(事物本身的价值属性+社会意义)； There can be no doubt that The importance of+主题+can be most clearly seen in the following aspects. To begin with, …. In addition, …. And finally, …it is extremely difficult for us to imagine what our modern life would be like without 主题. Paragraph 3 如何发扬光大。 As the issue is becoming more and more important, It's clear that we can promote it in the following ways. For one thing, …. For another, …Only in these ways can we popularize it as effectively as possible.
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