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1、1. When does the conversation take place? A. At the beginning of a term. B. At the end of a term. C. During a vacation. 2. Why cant the man drive the woman tomorrow? A. His car is being fixed. B. He has a doctors appointment. C. He will be working in a shop.3. What will the woman do? A. Charge her c

2、ell phone. B. Visit her mother. C. Make a call. 4. Who will throw a party for the woman next Sunday? A. The woman herself. B. The man. C. Nancy. 5. What does the woman mean? A. Her mother is a housewife. B. Only 10% of American mothers work. C. Most American mothers work. 第二节 听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小

3、题，从题中所给的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5秒钟；听完后，各个小题将给出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、7题。6. What are the speakers mainly talking about? A. A festival. B. A birthday party. C. A class reunion. 7. What does the woman decide to do? A. Stay with her family. B. Go to a party with th

4、e man. C. Go on vacation. 听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。8. How does the man feel? A. Confident. B. Nervous. C. Excited. 9. What does the man want to do next? A. Continue talking with the woman. B. Go to the bathroom. C. Drink some water. 听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. Why does the girl want to have a car? A. To travel with

5、her friends. B. To show off. C. To be independent.11. Where does the girl study? A. In a middle school. B. In a high school. C. In a university.12. Why doesnt the man buy his daughter a car now? A. He thinks his daughter is too young to drive. B. He wants his daughter to earn a car. C. He cant affor

6、d another car.听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. With whom does the woman travel? A. She is alone. B. Her family. C. Her business partner.14. What do the speakers have in common? A. They both live in New York. B. They are both traveling on business. C. They have both stayed in the hotel before.15. What is the man

7、s favorite part of the hotel? A. The service. B. The breakfast. C. The facilities.16. What does the woman imply about the hotel? A. The prices are reasonable. B. It doesnt seem like a nice hotel from the outside. C. The service didnt use to be anything special.听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. What is The Bookw

8、orm? A. A literary festival. B. A caf. C. A bookstore.18. Who is Peter Hessler? A. A photographer. B. A public speaker. C. A writer.19. What was the speaker excited about? A. Seeing someone give a speech. B. Hearing a famous band play music. C. Finding his favorite magazine.20. What was the speakers

9、 mistake? A. Mistaking the place. B. Mistaking the year. C. Mistaking the day.第二部分 阅读理解（共满分40分）第一节 （共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分） 阅读下列列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中, 选出最佳选项。并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑A Isaac Newton was born on Christmas Day 1642, in the rural English county of Lincolnshire. Isaacs early years were spent in the car

10、e of his grandmother. At age 12, he was sent away to school in the town of Grantham. Living in the house of an apothecary （药剂师） called Clark, young Isaac showed a keen interest in the mans chemistry books and laboratory. He also built devices to amuse Clarks stepdaughter. Newton was said to be attra

11、cted to the girl, but she later married someone else, while he remained single all his life. Newton entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1661. After graduating in 1665, Newton planned to study for a masters degree, but the university was closed due to an outbreak of the plague （瘟疫）. He returned to

12、 his home village for 18 months, during which time he did most of the thinking that led to his later work on gravitation and optics. Newton returned to Cambridge in 1667, completed his studies, and at the age of 27, became a Professor of Mathematics there. He was given this position on the recommend

13、ation of his predecessor, and held it for 27 years. Newtons experiments in optics led to improvements in the effectiveness of telescopes. He sent his results to the Royal Society, Englands best-known scientific organization. The Societys positive reaction encouraged him to send in a paper introducin

14、g his experiments on light. Some of the Societys members opposed Newtons revolutionary theories, because of which he became discouraged and almost quit scientific work altogether. The great astronomer Edmund Halley eventually persuaded Newton to put together the results of his work on the laws of mo

15、tion. The outcome was the famous Principia Mathematica, Published in 1687, in which Newton presented solutions to most of the problems of motion that had puzzled earlier scientists. This was the high point of his professional life, though he continuously revised and improved the work until his death

16、 in 1727. 21. Which of the following is true of Isaac Newton? A. He lived with his grandmother. B. He married Clarks step daughter. C. He remained unmarried. D. He stayed with Clark.22. Where did Newton do most of the thinking leading to his work on gravitation and optics? A. In Clarks lab. B. In Tr

17、inity college. C. In Cambridge D. In his home village.23. How did Newton feel in face of the opposition in the last paragraph? A. Confident. B. Indifferent. C. Positive. D. Frustrated.24. What is the purpose of the text? A. To show Newtons great achievements. B. To introduce Newtons life and work. C

18、. To tell readers Newtons school years. D. To persuade readers to learn from Newton. B Every year, the fascinating tourist destinations below are attracting travelers from home and abroad to St. Louis, which was founded in 1764 by French traders, today is the fifteenth largest urban area in the Unit

19、ed States. American Kennel Club Museum of the Dog Dog lovers who visit St. Louis wont want to miss this 14, 000-square-foot museum. Inside are over 500 paintings, prints, watercolors and a variety of other dog art objects. The Museum is open all year round, Tuesday through Saturday 10 am to 4 pm, an

20、d Sunday 1 pm to 5 pm. Admission is $5 for adults, $2. 50 for seniors and $1 for children up to 14 （14 included）. Anheuser Busch Brewery The Anheuser Busch Brewery tour is not just for beer lovers. The tour includes the historic Brew House. Then the tour continues to the modern Bevo Packaging Plant.

21、 The best will be the Budweiser Clydesdale stables. The tours are always free. Gateway Arch Designed by Eero Saarinen and Hannskarl Bandel, it took over two years and 900 tons of stainless steel to build. It is the tallest of the countrys National Monuments. The Arch is part of the Jefferson Nationa

22、l Expansion Memorial. About one million people per year come to the top of the Arch, where there is an observation platform providing a great view of the city. The St. Louis Zoo First version of the St. Louis Zoo opened in 1904 at the St. Louis Worlds Fair, but now it has grown into one of the chief

23、 zoos in the world. The passenger train takes visitors around the Zoo, which contains over 9, 000 animals of over 800 species. The Zoo is open every day but Christmas and New Year, with summer hours of 8 am to 7 pm, and hours the rest of the year of 9 am to 5 pm. Admission to the Zoo is free. 25. Yo

24、ur parents plan to take you and your 14-year-old elder sister to visit American Kennel Club Museum of the Dog, how much should you pay for admissions? A. $ 12.5. B. $ 15. C. $ 12. D. $ 13.5.26. If you wan to catch a great view of St. Louis, where should you go? A. American Kennel Club Museum of the

25、Dog. B. Gateway Arch. C. Anheuser Busch Brewery. D. The St. Louis Zoo. 27. If you plan to visit the St. Louis Zoo, you can go there _. A. at 9:30 am on New Years Day B. at 8:30 am in summer C. at 5:00 pm on Christmas Day D. at 5:30 pm in winter C Last year I ruined my summer vacation by bringing alo

26、ng a modern convenience that was too convenient for my own good: the cell phone. Instead of looking at nature, I checked my e-mail. Instead of paddling a small boat, I followed my Twitter feed （推特简讯）. Instead of reading great novels, I stuck to reading four newspapers each morning. I was behaving as

27、 if I were still in the office. My body was on vacation, but my head wasnt. So this year I made up my mind to try something different: withdrawal （退出） from the Internet. I knew it wouldnt be easy, since Im bad at self-control. But I was determined. I started by giving the iPad to my wife. The cellph

28、one signal at our house was worse than in the past, making my attempts at cheating an experience in frustration （沮丧）. I was trapped, forced to go through with my plan. Largely cut off from e-mail, Twitter and my favorite newspaper websites, I had few ways to connect to the world except for the radio

29、and how much radio can one listen to, really? I had to do what I had planned to do all along: read books. This experience has had a happy ending. With determination and the strong support of my wife, I won in my vacation struggle against the Internet, realizing finally that it was I, not the cell ph

30、one, that was the problem. I knew I had won when we passed a Starbucks and my wife asked if I wanted to stop to use the Wi-Fi. “I dont need it, ” I said. However, as we return to post-vacation life, a harder test begins: Can I continue when Im back at work? There are times when the need to know whats being said right now is great. I ha