1、C. The cost is very high.2. How much sleep does the man need at least every night?A. 7 hours. B. 8 hours. C. 9 hours.3. What did Steve say yesterday?A. He liked the apartment.B. He wanted to sign a contract.C. He would call the man soon.4. What do the speakers actually want to get?A. Jobs. B. Smart
2、phones. C. Smart robots.5. Why does the woman apologize to the man?A. She cant have a discussion with him right now.B. She has to put off their appointment.C. She wont have lunch with him today.第二节(共15小题;每小题1分,满分15分)听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题,从每题所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项,并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前,你将有时间阅读各个小题,每小题
3、5秒钟;听完后,各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。听第6段材料,回答第6至7题。6. When is Professor Smith coming to the school?A. On Oct.11. B. On Oct.13. C. On Oct.30.7. What does the man ask the woman to do next week?A. To give a speech at the school library.B. To review the paper about public communication.C. To interview Pro
4、fessor Smith and write an article.听第7段材料,回答第8至9题。8. What does the man want to be washed by hand?A. His silk shirt. B. His sweaters. C. His trousers.9. When is the earliest that the man can get his clothes back?A. This evening. B. Tomorrow morning. C. Tomorrow afternoon.听第8段材料,回答第10至12题。10. What is t
5、he Cornell Notes system known for helping students do?A. Sorting notes. B. Taking notes quickly. C. Organizing notes.11. Which of the following should be avoided according to the woman?A. Main ideas of the text or speech.B. Long ideas and sentences.C. Questions related to review.12. Why wont the man
6、 try the Cornell Notes method until next semester?A. He must prepare for his final exams now.B. He cant understand the topic so quickly.C. He will have to write a summary in a day.听第9段材料,回答第13至16题。13. What does the man think is the best known service or product Google offers?A. Search engine. B. Var
7、ious software. C. Online advertising technologies.14. How long did Google take to start selling their shares?A. One year. B. Five years. C. Six years.15. What is the main thing that makes the man want to work for Google?A. Googles service in communications hardware.B. Googles business throughout the
8、 world.C. Googles treatment of its employees.16. What has the man already done?A. He has had an interview.B. He has sent his resume to Google.C. He has visited the company and met someone.听第10段材料,回答第17至20题。17. How does Anna treat Jack according to the talk?A. Bathing him and paying his health bills
9、and taxes.B. Buying his clothes and paying his phone bills and taxes.C. Buying his food and paying his health bills and taxes.18. What is life like for people in Sweden?A. Busy. B. Orderly. C. Easy.19. What is the money paid in dog taxes used for?A. Buying insurance for dog owners.B. Paying for dama
10、ge done by dogs.20. Providing medical care for dogs. What can we learn from the talk?A. People in Sweden pay a lot of taxes.B. Owning dogs means asking for trouble.C. Many car accidents are caused by dogs.第二部分 阅读理解第一节: 阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A,B,C和D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。(共15小题;每小题2分,满分30分) ABrownie and S
11、potty were neighbor dogs who met every day to play together. Like pairs of dogs you can find in any neighborhood, these two loved each other and played together so often that they had worn a path through the grass of the field between their houses. One evening, Brownies family noticed that Brownie h
12、adnt returned home. They went looking for him with no success. Brownie didnt show up the next day, and, although they made their efforts to find him, by the next week he was still missing. Curiously, Spotty showed up at Brownies house alone, barking and jumping. Busy with their own lives, they paid
13、no attention to the nervous little neighbor dog.Finally, one morning Spotty refused to take “no” for an answer. Ted, Brownies owner, was continuously disturbed by the angry, determined little dog. Spotty followed Ted about, barking all the time, then rushing toward a nearby empty lot and back, as if
14、 to say, “Follow me! Its urgent!”Eventually, Ted followed Spotty across the empty lot as Spotty stopped to race back and barked encouragingly. The little dog led the man to a deserted spot a half mile from the house. There Ted found his beloved Brownie alive, one of his legs crushed in a steel trap
15、( 圈套 ). Frightened, Ted now wished he had taken Spottys earlier appeals seriously.Then Ted noticed something. Spotty had done something else besides leading Brownies human owner to his trapped friend. In a circle around the injured dog, Ted found some food remains of every meal. Brownie had been fed
16、 that week! Spotty had been visiting Brownie regularly, in the hope of keeping his friend alive. Spotty had actually stayed with Brownie to protect him from hunger and other dangers, and keep his spirits up.Brownies leg was carefully treated by a veterinarian (兽医)and he soon recovered. For many year
17、s thereafter the two families watched the faithful friends chasing each other down that well-worn path between their houses.21. At the very beginning, Ted paid little attention to Spotty because _.A. he was not free at the momentB. he was sure Brownie would be OKC. he didnt like Spotty at allD. his
18、missing dog made him sad22. When Ted was brought to Brownie, he _.A. managed to free his dog at onceB. was worried about Spottys health.C. regretted not following Spotty earlierD. was angry with the trap-maker23. Not only did Spotty help Ted find Brownie but also _.A. he went to see his friend and p
19、layed with him secretly.B. he sent message to some other persons in his community to save his friend.C. he managed to lead a veterinarian to treat his friend.D. he sent food to his friend, accompanied him and inspired him to cheer up.24. We can infer from the passage that _.A. humans and animals dep
20、end on each other for comfortB. Its not right to hunt for animals in any neighborhoodC. Ted has to take better care of his beloved dog later onD. Brownie would have died without Spottys timely help25. What can we learn from the story? Barking dogs seldom bite. A friend in need is a friend indeed. Lo
21、ve me, love my dog. Every dog has its day.BHappiness is in your genes, it seems, according to a research that shows the more people in a country who have a particular gene, the happier the nation will be. The FAAH gene, the DNA in question, makes a protein that affects feelings of pleasure and pain.
22、 People with a particular version of it tend to be cheerier souls. The researchers believe that the finding can help explain why some of the worlds poorest nations are also the happiest. The team from Bulgaria looked at whether there was a connection between the level of the FAAH gene in a populatio
23、n and the number of people who said they were very happy in the global study of life satisfaction. Sweden, one of the happiest countries in Europe and in the world, has lots of happy DNA. Some 26. 3 percent of Swedes have the happiness gene, compared to 23 percent of the British, 21 percent of the F
24、rench and 20 percent of Germans. The happiness gene is even rarer in southern Europe, where it is found in 18 percent of Greeks and just 12 percent of Italians. In contrast, the people in Iraq and Jordan are among the least likely to rate themselves as very happy and also have the lowest levels of t
25、he gene. But the gene and optimism dont always go hand in hand. For instance, Russians score very low on happiness, despite having the right DNA, the Journal of Happiness Studies reports. Climatic differences are also found to be closely associated with national differences in happiness. Study co-au
26、thor Michael Minkov said, We can notice the high occurrence of the gene in equatorial(赤道的) and tropical environments in South America and Africa, and the lower occurrence of it around the Mediterranean Sea than in Northern Europe. Genetics is not the only determining factor (因素) of happiness, A spok
27、esman for the journals publisher said, The economic and political difficulties continuously experienced by Eastern European nations contribute to the very low happiness scores of Russians. Nations not blessed with the right DNA arent necessarily miserable, happiness can still rise and fall for other
28、 reasons. 26. The underlined word it in Paragraph l refers to _.A. happiness B. life satisfactionC. the protein in question D. the FAAH gene27. Which country has the highest percentage of the happiness genes?A. Greece. B. Germany. C. Britain. D. Iraq.28. What can we infer from the text?A. Climate ha
29、s much to do with happiness.B. The poorest countries are actually the happiest.C. Genetics matters most to determine happiness.D. Russians are not happy since they lack happy DNA.29. The best title for the text is_.A. Researches on Genetic ScienceB. Factors to Affect HappinessC. Reasons for National
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