1、每段对话仅读一遍。1. What time is it now? A. 5:00. B. 4:45. C. 5:15.2. Why does the man refuse the woman? A. He doesnt have a car. B. Hell be using his car. C. She is a bad driver.3. When will the woman go for a holiday? A. After she gets a new job. B. When her training is over. C. She herself even doesnt kn
2、ow.4. What are the speakers mainly talking about? A. Preparing for a test. B. Eating during an exam. C. Getting a medical exam.5. What is the relationship between the two speakers? A. Teacher and student. B. Husband and wife. C. Mother and son.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,从题中所给的A、
3、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. What are the speakers going to do this weekend? A. Go to the beach. B. Go for a mountain climbing. C. Go for a bicycle-ride.7. What do we know about Paul and Mary? A. They might be the speakers fri
4、ends. B. Theyve decided to join the speakers. C. They did some riding yesterday.听第7段材料,回答第8至9题。8. What does the man think about fast food? A. KFC isnt included. B. Not worth trying. C. Unhealthy but tasty.9. Where will they probably go in the end? A. KFC. B. The sushi shop. C. They havent decided ye
5、t.听第8段材料,回答第10至12题。10. What is probably the woman speaker? A. A college student. B. A hotel waitress. C. A housewife.11. What kind of job would the woman most like to do? A. Babysitting her neighbors kids. B. Typing letters in the office. C. Working for a road-building company.12. What is good with
6、the job at the Friendship Hotel? A. The pay is good. B. Many tips are offered. C. It is in the open air.听第9段材料,回答第13至16题。13. Where does the conversation take place? A. At home. B. At school. C. At a store.14. How did the man get the mud? A. He went to the Dead Sea.B. He dug it up from the backyard.C
7、. He bought it online.15. What is the main color of the mud in the backyard?A. Brown B. Grey. C. Black.16. Why does the girl agree to use the mud?A. She has some skin problems.B. She wants her skin to feel younger.C. She is starting to get wrinkles.听第10段材料,回答第17至20题。17. What can we learn from the ne
8、ws? A. No villager was killed. B. 15 houses were badly damaged. C. Over 200 people became homeless. 18. How many people were badly injured in the storm? A. Seven. B. Nine. C. Ten.19. What do we know about the farmer? A. His house was destroyed. B. His wife was missing. C. A child of his was killed.2
9、0. What did the woman do when she saw her house shaking?A. She tried to take something out.B. She rushed out with her children.C. She told her husband not to leave. 第二部分 阅读理解(满分30分)第一节(共10小题;每小题2分,满分20分)阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。ALittle Women is the best-known work of author Louis
10、a May Alcott. Published after the end of the Civil War, the book is about the lives of the author and her sisters. Although it was her most successful work, it was not her first.Alcott began writing at the age of 20, when she published her poem “Sunlight”. Throughout her early career, she wrote many
11、 poems and short stories for magazines. At the age of 22, she began to write fairy tales, romantic thrillers, and other novels, mostly to earn money. At a time when few opportunities were open to women, Alcott supported womens right to work. With her small income, she had long provided for her famil
12、y.When the Civil War broke out, Alcott, at the age of 30, joined the war effort to fight against slavery. She had originally wished to serve as a soldier. However, women were not allowed in battle at that time. As a result, she became a Civil War nurse. Alcotts work as a nurse served as a milestone
13、(里程碑) in her writing career.In December of 1862, she left New England to work in the Union Hotel Hospital in Washington, DC. There were few supplies, and doctors performed operations without painkillers. The conditions for patients and doctors were terrible. Within a few weeks, Alcott herself became
14、 so ill that she nearly died. She returned home and recovered slowly over a period of months.As soon as her health improved, Alcott started a new project. The letters she had sent home became the basis of a newspaper series about her experience as a Civil War nurse. She wrote about her tasks, the wo
15、unded soldiers she looked after, and the difficulties they faced. The series, Hospital Sketches, was a success, which received praise from readers and critics (批评) at the same time. Although her best-known work was yet to come, the success of Hospital Sketches marked the achievement of her dream to
16、become a popular author.21. In her early 20s, Alcott wrote mostly to _.A. make money to support her family B. fight against slaveryC. remember her experiences in the war D. set up a milestone in her career 22. Why was Alcotts experience as a nurse important to her writing? A. Because she saved many
17、wounded soldiers. B. Because she almost lost her life in the hospital. C. Because she won the right to fight against slavery. D. Because she got many materials for her later book.23. What can we know about Alcott from the last two paragraphs? A. Her hospital was well equipped. B. She didnt return to
18、 the hospital after recovery. C. She wrote letters for a newspaper. D. No one thought badly of her Hospital Sketches.BWhen Joanne Morton and Lydia Shaw came across the Boston Public Market, which features only New England businesspersons, they knew they had to stop in. The women, visiting from south
19、eastern Connecticut, always try to buy local. “We always try to support our local farmers and businessmen,” says Ms. Shaw. “Were not into big companies,” adds Ms. Morton.They arent alone. A great number of Americans continue to be attracted by “local” food and to buy it, according to recent surveys
20、from the International Food Information Council Foundation, the Pew Research Center, and British polling firm Ipsos. But what does it mean to shop local? For some, local is still a matter of geography. For others, it is about supporting their local economy (经济). And for still others, it is about kno
21、wing where their food comes from and how it is made, even if it is coffee shipped from a Costa Rican company. In 2008, Congress passed a bill that gave money to support local food. According to the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act, a product that can be considered local has to travel less than 400
22、 miles.But Lydia Zepeda, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has found the largest agreement about what is local is any product that comes from within an hours drive. “But is that with or without traffic?” She asks. “What if it crosses state lines?” adds John Hayes, a food science pr
23、ofessor at Pennsylvania State University. “A customer might like to buy local to help an old town,” he says. “Or maybe its just because local food tastes better.” It is for Kaitlin Bohon. “I taste a difference,” she says at the Boston Public Market. For Ms. Bohon, buying local is both about supporti
24、ng New England business and knowing who grew and handled her food.24. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 mean? A. We never go into big companies. B. Were not interested in big companies. C. Big companies dont support local farmers. D. Big companies are not good shopping places.25. Acco
25、rding to the passage, buying local _ in America. A. is becoming more and more popular B. is a way to support big companies C. means people will spend much less D. allows people to know about their food26. What can be inferred about Kaitlin Bohon according to the text? A. She is from New England. B.
26、She knows every cook in her town. C. She likes to taste different foods. D. She works at the Boston Public Market.27. The purpose of the passage is _. A. to introduce how popular buying local is B. to attract more people to buying local C. to explain why people like buying local D. to discuss the me
27、aning of buying localCBees may soon need to add protein shakes to their diet. Pollen (花粉) normally provides their protein (蛋白质). But rising levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air have reduced the protein in pollen. Thats what a new study finds.Scientists compared recently collected flowers from C
28、anada goldenrod. Then they compared pollen in them to pollen in goldenrod reserved at a museum in Washington, DC. They found todaysplants have less protein.Protein levels in pollen from the older flowers were 18 percent. Todays goldenrod pollen has only about 12 percent protein.Thats aboutone-third
29、less than 172 years ago.Over that same period, CO2 levels have gone up by more than one-third. Back more than 170 years ago, they were about 280 parts per million in air. Today they are about 398 ppm.To test whether CO2changes had played a role in the falling protein levels, the researchers did some
30、 tests. They grew goldenrod for two years at CO2levels of up to 500 ppm. More CO2in the air led to lower levels of protein in the flowers pollen. Joan Edwards, one of the researchers, says that this drop in pollen protein could affect a bees diet and health. It would be like eating junk food, tastin
31、g good but offering less nutrition (营养).Honeybees need to eat lots of protein. They use it to feed their young. They also need it to keep their immune systems healthy, says Cdric Alaux, a bee biologist at the French agricultural research agency.Bee populations have been decreasing worldwide in recent years. A drop in their f
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