1、 an appointment. an agreement. for a position. are the two speakers talking? a shop. a bank. a cinema. long did Eric stay abroad in all? days. days. days. will be off work next week? make his holiday. attend a wedding. travel on business.第二节(共15小题; 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,并标在
2、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。 is Jane unhappy? fell in love with her. met problems with math. made up stories about her. is the probable relationship between the speakers? and student. and daughter. and employee.听第7段材料,回答第8至10题。 does the conversati
3、on most probably take place? Monday. Wednesday. Saturday. makes the newly-opened restaurant popular? position. foods. show. will the music be over? 8. 9. 10.听第8段材料,回答第11至13题。 did the woman get to know about third-hand smoke? young smokers. a newspaper article. some smoking parents. does the man say
4、that he should keep away from babies?s just become a father. wears dirty clothes. is a smoker.s the womans suggestion for smoking parents? smoking. outdoors. clothes. 听第9段材料,回答第14至16题。 does the woman say about the science book?s of little value. s in bad condition. s an old edition. much will the wo
5、man pay the man?A.$30. B.$23. C.$21. is the woman unwilling to buy more textbooks? are changeable. s in financial trouble. prefers new books.听第10段材料,回答第17至20题。 does the speaker mainly talk about? success in acting. work experience. regret for ignorance. did the speaker feel on his arrival at Los Ang
6、eles?. . . did he think of his career as an actor?. . . did he decide to do in the end? goodbye to movies. to movie management. happy with small roles.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。并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。ARoad tripMotorhome delivery offers great family just $1 a
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12、ans land. only what you need.s the purpose of the text? teach the importance of running away from work. introduce new destinations for nature lovers. show the advantages of online service. help people have fun at less expense.BOne time a young man,who hoped to study law,wrote to Lincoln for advice,a
13、nd Lincoln replied,If you are determined to make a lawyer of yourself,the thing is more than half done bear in mind that your own determination to succeed is more important than any other one thing.Lincoln had gone through it had never,in his entire life,had more than a total of one years books?Linc
14、oln once said he had walked to borrow every book within fifty miles of his fire was usually kept going all night in the small house and he read by the light of it.He walked twenty or thirty miles to hear a speaker and,returning home,he practiced his talks everywherein the fields,in the woods,before
15、the joined several societies and practiced speaking on the topics of the day.A lack of confidence always troubled the presence of women he was shy and when he was in love with Mary Todd,he used to sit there,nervous and silent,unable to find words,listening while she did the that was the man who,by p
16、ractice and home study,made himself into the speaker who debated with the famous speaker Douglas!That was the man who,in Gettysburg address,rose to the heights of eloquence(雄辩)that have seldom been achieved in all the human history.Small wonder that,speaking of his own great barriers and painful str
17、uggle,he wrote,If you are determined to make a lawyer of yourself,the thing is more than half done already. does the underlined word it (in Paragraph 2) refer to? a fortune. a living. for advice. a lawyer. is the key point of the fourth paragraph?s courage. s position. s progress. s eloquence. is th
18、e most vital spirit reflected in Lincolns story above? in oneself. on practicing hard. difficulties. to ones determination.CDavid Rees runs a truly distinctive charges customers $15 to sharpen their pencils to perfections, using a variety of tools.I know what youre thinkingis this a joke?The 39-year
19、-old gets asked that question a clarify everything, he even created a special section on his website telling everyone hes actually providing a real service。You can supply your own pencil or you can have Rees sharpen one of his own favorite 2B that,he mails it to you in a display tube with the shavin
20、gs in a separate bag,and an authentic certificate which just happens to mention the pencil is so sharp as to be a dangerous object.To achieve the desired result,the master sharpener uses all kinds of tools,including general sandpapers,pocket knives and even a special $450 sharpening machine.It depen
21、ds on what the customer wants to use his/her pencil for,he says.That determines the most appropriate pencil-sharpening customers buy pencils as inspirational symbols while others buy them because of their special memories of classic 2B pencils.$15 to have a pencil sharpened is a bit expensive though
22、,right?Youre not the only one who feels that way,.and Davids unique business has really angered lots of people,who talk of inequality in America,saying it is so insane for the wealthy to pay $15 to sharpen a others will say,This is just our urge to put an end to the welfare state because new ideas a
23、rise along with the business.David admits his trade is sort of there are those who actually value his service,as proven by the over 500 orders he has gotten. could David make money by sharpening pencils? invented new tools for the job. promoted his skill on his website. saved lots of time for other
24、people. provided quality service to his customers. his words,we can infer that David Bees . all kinds of pencil users personalized services ideas behind the pencils write with pencilsinsane (in Paragraph 5) mean?. . . . seems to be the authors attitude to David Bees trade?s a fancy service. has a go
25、od reputation.s awfully expensive. wastes time and money.DGerman artist HA Schult is an unusual artist who uses trash(废旧物)to make sculptures.We are living in the time of garbage,says Schult.I created a thousand sculptures of are a mirror of ourselves.Here,Schult was talking about his 1,000 trash scu
26、lptures in the form of first exhibited them in 1996 in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.They are social sculptures,he explains.They are not only sculptures for the are sculptures to spread the idea that we live in a time of garbage.So far,Schults social sculptures have been on show
27、 in Paris,in Moscows Red Square,on the Great Wall of China,and in the desert next to the Giza Pyramids near Cairo.HA Schults work is his work has had a big influence on the art world,Schult remains modest about his creations:Artists have to learn every are not that counts is the time in which we are
28、 living.Trash art has been around for it seems that only the popular artists are regarded as true artists when working with cant common people be considered artists when they use the same things and change them into some form of personal art?Maybe its because we all have our own preset ideas of what
29、 art is and isnt,or who artists are or should be.You can be an artist like Schult if you at used metal might be done with them?Imagine them in any number of new uses,or imagine them simply as an art about boxes or clothing?Boxes can usually serve as new storage containers and houses for clothing?Ima
30、gine taking old clothes and turning them into hats or hanging organizers. do we know about Schults sculptures? served as garbage containers. reflected environmental issues. were first shown in Paris,France. were to raise economic awareness. Schults artistic works also get the message across that an artist must_. socially responsible as modest as possible garbage recyclable
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