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1、A. Buy a new dress. B. Exchange the dress. C. Get the dress tailored.2. What are the speakerstalking about?A. Abirthday celebration. B. Afancy restaurant. C. Aholiday plan.3. What did the woman do for Mary lastnight?A. She fixed Marys car.B. She gave Mary a phone call.C. She let Mary sleep in her ho

2、use.4. Where do the speakersplan to go?A. The theater. B. Their moms office. C. Their grandmas house.5. Whowill beginthe lecture now?A. Prof. Brookings. B. Dr. Mildens. C. Dr. White.第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作

3、答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。6. What did the woman do at the Media Camp?A. She learned poster design.B. She studied filmmaking.C. She wrote for a magazine.7. Whydid the woman spend her holiday there?A. To visit her brother.B. To try something different.C. To workin the movie industry.听第7段材料，回答第8至10

4、题。8. What does Julias friends band need?A. A singer. B. A pianist. C. A guitar player.9. How many members are there in the mans band?A. Two. B. Three. C. Four.10. What does the man offer to do for the woman?A. Meet her in the garage.B. Introduce her to his band.C. Provide a place for her practice.听第

5、8段材料，回答第11至13题。11. What does the womando?A. Adoctor. B. Ateacher. C. Alawyer.12. What is the most probable relationship between the speakers?A. Old classmates. B. Mother and son. C. Sister and brother.13. What will theman probably do next month?A. Study in a school. B. Give up the boring task. C. Wo

6、rk with the woman.听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。14. What are the speakers mainly discussing?A. The mans favorite food. B. Popular food in Belgium. C. Belgian eating habits.15. How long didthe mans Christmas dinner takelast year?A. About 6 hours. B. About 5 hours. C. About 3 hours.16. What may people there do aft

7、era big dinner?A. They eat as muchas usual.B. They take exercise to keep fit.C. They eat less in the following days.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. What prizes were given last week?A. Sports bags. B. IWatches. C. Pens.18. When was the show broadcast for the first time?A. Aweek ago. B. Amonth ago. C. Ayear ago

8、.19. What does the speaker say about the footballer?A. He can speak French. B. He has a famous wife. C. He owns a club.20. How will the listeners tell their answers?A. By makinga call. B. By writing a letter. C. By sending a postcard.第二部分 阅读（共两节，满分50分）第一节 阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项

9、（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。ANovember isnt the only time when people come together to raise money for good causes. Here are three othermajorcharity events from around the world.Race for Life, UKWhat started off as a race of 680 women in a London park in 1994 to raise money for acancer charity has

10、now turned into a massive nationwide event, with thousands of women up and down the UK taking part every year.Known for dressing head to toe in pink, participants raise money for breast cancer research by being sponsored to take part inmarathons, which areorganizedall year round. Since it began, mor

11、e than 8 million women have taken part, raising over 547 million for Cancer Research UK.40-Hour Famine （饥饿）, AustraliaNormally taking place in midAugust, this program encourages young Australians to give something up for 40 hours in order to raise awareness of less fortunate youths around the world.

12、Participants raise money which is donated to good causes worldwide, by giving something upfor the weekend, including the use of technology （TVs, computers, smartphones and so on）, or even food. Since it began in 1975, World Vision Australia, the events organizer, hasraised over 200 million.AIDS /Lif

13、eCycle, USEach year, thousands of people ride the 545mile route from San Francisco to Los Angeles in order to raise money and awarenessfor HIV （AIDSrelated causes）. Cyclists make the trip over seven days, stopping each night at designated camps to shower, eat and relax. The mainly male riders are kn

14、own for their colorful riding sportswear, with somedressing as nuns （修女）, cowboys or even in bikinis. The event has raised around 100 million since it began in 2001.21. Which activity aims to help less fortunate youths?A. Race for Life, UK B. AIDS /LifeCycle, USC. 40Hour Famine, Australia D. Worldwi

15、de Marathons22. What do the cyclists mainly do intheAIDS/Life Cycle trip?A. Advertise for a brand sports suit. B. Cycle in the daytime and rest at night.C. Talk with local cowboys in camps. D. Research into the causes ofAIDS.23. What do the three events have in common?A.All the participants give som

16、ething away to the poor.B. They have all drawn peoples attention to cancer and AIDS.C. All the participantsdonate what they have to charity.D. They are all held to raise money for people in need.B83yearold Antonio Vicente has spent the last four decades of his life fighting against the trend. As Bra

17、zilian landowners cut down rain forests to make room for profitable plantations （种植园） and cattle grounds , he struggled to bring the jungles of his childhood back to life.“When I was a child, the peasants cut down the trees to make grasslands and charcoal, and the waterdried up and did not come back

18、,” he told the reporters. “I thought: Water is valuable, no one makes water and the population will not stop growing. What isgoing to happen? We are going to run out of water.”With only some donkeys and a small team of hired workers, Antonio Vicente set about bringing back the forest to his land.Wha

19、t started out as a weekend hobby soon became a permanentway of life, and Antonio recalls often spending whole days and nights inhis young jungle, surrounded by rats and foxes, and eating banana sandwiches for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Over the last 40 years, he has planted an estimated 50,000 tre

20、es onhis 31hectareland, which now make up a small but unique area of rainforest, and a haven for wildlife.As the forest grew, the water returned, and Antonio says that there are now over20 water sources on his land that were no longer there when he bought it. Then the animals started making a hometh

21、ere. Today, the forest is alive with the sounds of birds and insects livingthere, andmore species are settling in every year.“There are toucans （巨嘴鸟）, various birds, squirrels, lizards, and even the boars are returning,” 83yearold Vicente says. “If you ask me who myfamily are, I would say all this r

22、ight here, each one of these that I planted froma seed.”24. What do we know aboutAntonio Vicente?A. He is a Brazilian landowner.B. He worked on his land alone.C. He brought some jungles back to life. D. He had no family except some animals.25. What do we learn about the Brazilian peasants?A. They wa

23、sted much water on farming.B. They focused on shortterm profits.C. They cared much about the environment.D. They relied heavily on rain forests for a living.26. What does the underlined word “haven” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?A. Trap. B. Disaster. C. Shelter. D. Balance.27. In the last paragraph,

24、Antonio mainly expresses his _ .A. thanks for his family B. affection for his forestC. deep love for rare birds D. prideas a successful farmerCIf you have some free time to socialize, do you prefer to spend it with your best friend or partner, or with a larger group ofpeople?A new study investigated

25、 what groupsize people actually look for and encounter in everyday life. The scientists askedmore than 4.000 people from the U. S.and the Netherlands to report the sizeof their social groups for a wide variety of activities. For eight different activities （going to a bar, chatting at work, chatting

26、off work, having dinner, going on aholiday, going to a movie theatre, working on a project, playing sports）, people reported a group size of two more often than they reported larger group sizes. Interestingly, for about halfof these activities, women reported a group sizeof two significantly more of

27、ten than men did, suggestingthat women prefer a social group size of two even more than men do.The researchers alsoused a research technique called realtime experience samplingin the second part of the study. 274 volunteers wereasked seven times a day to report thelast social situation they had expe

28、rienced. Theresults were clear. Two was the most common group size with 52.6 percent. Thus, this part ofthe study also suggested that two is the most common group size in social interactions.So why do people prefer spending their time with one other person compared to spending their time with larger

29、 groups? Researchers explained that in general, socialinteractions with just one other person allow formore controlof the situation, especiallywhen it comes to reciprocity （互助）. When we interact with just one other person, ones choices directly affect the other person and only that person. Thus, it

30、is easy to distinguish whether there is mutual cooperation （for example, both peopletake turns paying for dinner） or whether someone actsselfishly （for example, one person never pays the bill）. In larger groups, the situation gets much more complicated.28. What is the new study mainly about?A. What

31、social group size people prefer.B. Whom peoplelike to spend time with.C. Which activities people choose to kill time.D. How people makefriends in social activities.29. Why did researchers ask the volunteers repeatedly in a day?A. To prove the result of the former study.B. To make their activities last longer.C. To know the variety of their activities.D. To coll