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1、 A. Five yuan. B. Ten yuan. C. Fifteen yuan.4. What will the two speakers probably do next? A. Go to Marys home. B. Go back home at once. C. Go and buy an umbrella.5. Whats the most probable relationship between the two speakers? A. Mother and babysitter. B. Teacher and student. C. Husband and wife.

2、第二节（共15小题，每题1.5分，满分22.5分）请听下面5段对话或独白，选出最佳选项。请听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。6. How will the man go to the train station? A. By subway. B. By taxi. C. By bus.7. What will the woman do? A. Catch a train. B. Visit her cousin. C. Go shopping.请听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。8. Where did the man probably work before? A. In a hospital. B

3、. In a language school. C. In a French company.9. How long will the man work at his new job? A. For about one year. B. For about two years. C. For about three years.请听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。10. How many persons planned to spend the weekend with the man? A. Two. B. Three. C. Four.11. Why cant the woman go t

4、o Disneyland this weekend? A. She has to prepare for a test. B. She plans to see some old friends. C. She wants to get some rest at home.12. With whom will the man probably spend the weekend? A. Tom. B. Mike. C. Sam.请听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。13. Why didnt the woman answer the phone? A. She didnt take her ph

5、one with her. B. She didnt hear the phone ringing. C. There was something wrong with her phone.14. What day is it today? A. Wednesday. B. Thursday. C. Friday.15. What has the man prepared for Anns birthday? A. A new CD. B. A special gift. C. A surprising party.16. What will Anns pen friend do? A. Co

6、me to see Ann. B. Go to France tomorrow. C. Buy Ann a plane ticket.请听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。17. In which city did the speaker first meet Jenny? A. New York City. B. Los Angeles. C. Chicago.18. How long did Jenny stay in the speakers city? A. For one year. B. For six years. C. For ten years.19. How did the

7、 speaker and Jenny keep in touch at first? A. By writing letters. B. By chatting online. C. By making phone calls.20. What happened to the speaker last month? A. She came across Jenny. B. She lost touch with Jenny. C. She got in touch with Jenny online.第二部分:阅读理解（共两节,满分40分）第一节 （共15小题; 每小题2分, 满分30分） 阅

8、读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑. AIn 1939, two brothers, Mac and Dick McDonald, started a drive-in restaurant in San Bernardino, California. They carefully chose a busy corner for their location. They had run their own businesses for years, first a theater, then a barbecue restaurant, and then

9、another drive-in. But in their new operation, they offered a new, shortened menu: French fries, hamburgers, and sodas. To this small selection they added one new concept: quick service, no waiters or waitresses, and no tips. Their hamburgers sold for fifteen cents. Cheese was another four cents. The

10、ir French fries and hamburgers had a remarkable uniformity （一致性）, for the brothers had developed a strict routine for the preparation of their food, and they insisted on their cooks sticking to their routine. Their new drive-in became incredibly popular, particularly for lunch. People drove up by th

11、e hundreds during the busy noontime. The self-service restaurant was so popular that the brothers had allowed ten copies of their restaurant to be opened. They were content with this modest success until they met Ray Kroc. Kroc was a salesman who met the McDonald brothers in 1954, when he was sellin

12、g milk shake-mixing machines. He quickly saw the unique appeal of the brothers fast-food restaurants and bought the right to franchise（特许经营）other copies of their restaurants. The agreement included the right to copy the menu, the equipment, even their red and white buildings with the golden arches.T

13、oday McDonalds is really a household name. Its names for its sandwiches have come to mean hamburger in thedecades since the day Ray Kroc watched people rush up to order fifteen-cent hamburgers. In 1976, McDonalds had over $ 1 billion in total sales. Its first twenty-two years is one of the most incr

14、edible success stories in modern American business history.21. This passage mainly talks about _. A. the development of fast food services B. how McDonalds became a billion-dollar business C. how to build up a successful restaurant D. Ray Krocs business talent22. Mac and Dick managed all of the foll

15、owing businesses except _. A. a drive-in B. a cinema C. a theater D. a barbecue restaurant23. We may infer from this passage that _. A. Mac and Dick McDonald never became wealthy for they sold their idea to Kroc B. The location was the only reason for the great popularity of the McDonalds drive-in C

16、. Forty years ago there were numerous fast-food restaurants D. Ray Kroc was a good businessman24. What can we learn from the passage about Mac and Dick McDonaldA. They were always satisfied with their modest success.B. They sold cheese for 19 cents in their restaurant.C. They allowed Ray Kroc only t

17、o copy their menu.D. They stuck to the routine for their food.BEverywhere I look outside my home I see people busy on their high-tech devices, while driving, walking, shopping, even sitting in toilets.When connected electronically, they are away from physical reality.People have been influenced to b

18、ecome technology addicted.One survey reported that “addicted” was the word most commonly used by people to describe their relationship to iPad and similar devices.One study found that people had a harder time resisting theallureof social media than they did for sleep, cigarettes and alcohol. The mai

19、n goal of technology companies is to get people to spend more money and time on their products, not to actually improve our quality of life.They have successfully created a cultural disease.Consumers willingly give up their freedom, money and time to catch up on the latest information, to keep pace

20、with their peers or to appear modern.I see people trapped in a pathological（病态的）relationship with time-sucking technology, where they serve technology more than technology serves them.I call this technology servitude.I am referring to a loss of personal freedom and independence because of uncontroll

21、ed consumption of many kinds of devices that eat up time and money. What is a healthy use of technology devices?That is the vital question.Who is really in charge of my life?That is what people need to ask themselves if we are to have any chance of breaking up false beliefs about their use of techno

22、logy.When we can live happily without using so much technology for a day or a week, then we can regain control and personal freedom, become the master of technology and discover what there is to enjoy in life free of technology.Mae West is famous for proclaiming the wisdom that “too much of a good t

23、hing is wonderful.”But its time to discover that it does not work for technology.Richard Fernandez, an executive coach at Google acknowledged that “we can be swept away by our technologies.”To break the grand digital connection people must consider how life long ago could be fantastic without todays

24、 overused technology.25. The underlined word “allure” in Paragraph 2 probably means_.A. advantage B. attraction C. adaption D. attempt26.From the passage, technology companies aim to _.A. attract people to buy their products B. provide the latest informationC. improve peoples quality of life D. deal

25、 with cultural diseases27. It can be inferred from this passage that people _.A. consider too much technology wonderful B. have realized the harm of high-tech devicesC. can regain freedom without high-tech devices D. may enjoy life better without overused technology28. Whats the authors attitude tow

26、ards the overusing of high-tech devices?A. Neutral. B.Doubtful C. Disapproving. D. Sympathetic. CWhen I told my father that I was moving to Des Moines, Iowa, he told me about the only time he had been there. It was in the 1930s, when he was an editor in the literary magazine of Southern Methodist Un

27、iversity（SMU）in Dallas, Texas. He also worked as a professor at SMU, and there was a girl student in his class who suffered from a serious back disease. She couldnt afford the operation because her family was poor. Her mother ran a boardinghouse in Galveston, a seaside town near Houston, Texas. She

28、was cleaning out the attic（阁楼）one day when she came across an old dusty manuscript（手稿）. On its top page were the words, “By O. Henry”. It was a nice story, and she sent it to her daughter at SMU, who showed it to my father. My father had never read the story before, but it sounded like O. Henry, and

29、 he knew that O. Henry had once lived in Houston. So it was possible that the famous author had gone to the beach and stayed in the Gainestown boardinghouse, and had written the story there and left the manuscript behind by accident. My father visited an O. Henry expert at Columbia University in New

30、 York, who authenticated the story as O. Henrys. My father then set out to sell it. Eventfully, he found himself in Des Moines, meeting with Gardner Cowles, a top editor at the Des Moines Register. Cowles loves the story and bought it on the spot. My father took the money to the girl. It was just enough for her to have the operation she so desperately needed. My father never told me what the O. Henry story was about. But i doubt that it could have been better than his own story.29. Who found the O. Henrys manuscript?A. The girls mother. B. The authors father. C. The girl. D.