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1、选择话题，谈谈你的看法。Section I Listening Comprehension,Part A You will hear a recording of a conversation between Mary and John about the Hilton Hotel and the Hotel Rossiya. Listen to it and fill out the table with the information youve heard for questions 1-5. Some of the information has been completed for

2、you. Write not more than 3 words in each numbered box. You will hear the recording twice. You now have 25 seconds to read the table below. Information about the Hilton Hotel and the Hotel Rossiya The Hilton HotelThe Hotel Rossiya Number of Bedrooms13,200Number of Employees23,000Number of Restaurants

3、12 3Number of Elevators4Country of LocationU.S.5Tapescript: M: Hi, Mary. Hows everything?W: Fine. You know, John, Im planning to go to Las Vegas for a holiday and would like to stay in a large hotel. Anything to recommend?M: Er? the Hilton Hotel there is quite a large one. It has ? er ? 3,174 bedroo

4、ms. It also has 12 restaurants and about 125,000 square feet of convention space. Therere a 10-acre recreation deck and a stage show dining hall. Over 3,600 people now work for it.W: Oh, great! Is it the largest hotel in the U.S.? Yes, it is. But it may not be the largest in the world. Er ? as far a

5、s I know, the Hotel Rossiya in Moscow is larger than Hilton. It is a 12-story building that has 3,200 rooms. It can provide accommodation for 6,000 guests. It takes nearly 8 years and a half to spend one night in each room. Besides, theres a 21-story Presidential tower in the central courtyard. It h

6、as 15 restaurants and 93 elevators. And it employs about 3,000 people. The ballroom is known as the worlds largest. Russians are not allowed to live in that hotel. And foreigners are charged 16 times more than the very low rate charged Russian officials.W: Its unbelievable ?fade outNow you will hear

7、 the recording again. （The recording is repeated.）That is the end of Part A. Part B You will hear a radio weather forecast. Answer questions 6-10 while listening. Use not more than 5 words for each answer. You will hear the recording twice. You now have 40 seconds to read the questions. When will sh

8、owers reach south-west England and the southern coast of Wales? 6 What will the minimum temperature be in the south during the night?7 On what day of the week do you think this weather forecast was given?8 What will be the general feeling about the weekend in the Netherlands?9 What part of England w

9、ill be cloudy and dry over the weekend?10Tapescript W: Hello. Its been another warm and fine day for most of us. Temperatures in south-east England reached twenty-six degrees Centigrade by mid-afternoon, and Brighton had fifteen hours of lovely sunshine. But already the weather is beginning to chang

10、e, Im afraid, and during the night showers will slowly move in from the Atlantic to reach south-west England and the southern coast of Wales by early morning.The rest of the country will have a very mild, dry night with minimum temperatures no lower than fifteen degrees in the south, a little cooler

11、 ? eleven degrees or so ? in the north. Any remaining showers in northwest Scotland will pass quickly, to leave a mild, dry night there too.And now, the outlook for Friday and the weekend. Well, southern Europe will once again get the best of the weekend weather, and if your holiday starts this week

12、end, then southern Spain is the place to go, with temperatures of thirty-four degrees along the Mediterranean coast. At the eastern end of the Med, too, you can expect uninterrupted sunshine and temperatures of up to thirty-two degrees Centigrade in Greece and south-east Italy, but further north the

13、 weathers not so settled. Much of France, Belgium and the Netherlands will be cloudy with occasional rain and maximum temperatures will be around twenty-two degrees ? very disappointing for this time of the year.Scotland and Northern Ireland will have heavy rain for much of the weekend and temperatu

14、res will drop to a cool seventeen degrees. Across most of England the weather will be cloudy but mainly dry with sunny periods. And when the sun does come out temperatures could rise to a maximum of twenty-three degrees.That is the end of Part B.Part CYou will hear three dialogues or monologues. Bef

15、ore listening to each one, you will have time to read the questions related to it. While listening, answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. After listening, you will have time to check your answer. You will hear each piece once only.Questions 11-13 are based on the following talk introducing

16、Emily Dickinson, a well-known American poet. You now have 30 seconds to read questions 11-13.11. How long did Emily Dickinson live in the house where she was born?A almost all her lifeB less than half her lifeC until 1830D before 187212. Which of the following is true of Emily Dickinson?A She was no

17、t a productive poet.B She saw many of her poems published.C She was not a sociable person.D She had contact only with a few poets.13. When was Emily Dickinson widely recognized?A after Henry James referred highly to herB after seven of her poems were publishedC after her poems became known to others

18、D after she was dead for many years Emily Dickinson is one of the greatest American poets. She was born in a typical New England village in Massachusetts on December 10, 1830. She was the second child of the family. She died in the same house fifty-six years later. During her life time she never lef

19、t her native land. She left her home state only once. She left her village very few times. And after 1872 she rarely left her house and yard. In the last years of her life she retreated to a smaller and smaller circle of family and friends. In those later years she dressed in white, avoided stranger

20、s, and communicated chiefly through notes and poems even with intimates. The doctor who attended her illness was allowed to examine her in another room, seeing her walk by an opened door. She was thought of as a strange figure in her home village. When she died on May 15, 1886, she was unknown to th

21、e rest of the world. Only seven of her poems had appeared in print.But to think Emily Dickinson only as a strange figure is a serious mistake. She lived simply and deliberately. She faced the essential facts of life. According to Henry James, a famous American novelist, she was one of those on whom

22、nothing was lost. Only by thus living could Dickinson manage both to fulfill her obligations as a daughter, a sister, and a housekeeper and to write on the average one poem a day.She read only a few books but knew them deeply. Her poems are simple but remarkably rich. Not until 1950s was she recogni

23、zed as one of the greatest American poets.Section II Use of EnglishRead the following text. Choose the best word for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET （1）.During the 1980s, unemployment and underemployment in some countries was as high as 90 per cent. Some countries did not 1

24、 enough food; basic needs in housing and clothing were not（2） . Many of these countries looked to the industrial processes of the developed nations （3） solutions.（4） , problems cannot always be solved by copying the industrialized nations. Industry in the developed nations is highly automated and ve

25、ry（5） . It provides fewer jobs than labor-intensive industrial processes, and highly （6） workers are needed to（7）and repair the equipment. These workers must be trained, （8） many nations do not have the necessary training institutions. Thus, the （9） of importing industry becomes higher. Students mus

26、t be sent abroad to （10） vocational and professional training. （11） , just to begin training, the students must （12） learn English, French, German, or Japanese. The students then spend many years abroad, and （13） do not return home.All nations agree that science and technology （14） be shared. The po

27、int is: countries （15） the industrial processes of the developed nations need to look carefully （16） the costs, because many of these costs are （17） . Students from these nations should （18） the problems of the industrialized countries closely. （19） care, they will take home not the problems of scie

28、nce and technology, （20） the benefits.1. Agenerate Braise Cproduce Dmanufacture2. Aanswered Bmet Ccalculated Dremembered3. Afor Bwithout Cas Dabout4. AMoreover BTherefore CAnyway DHowever5. Aexpensive Bmechanical Cflourishing Dcomplicated6. Agifted Bskilled Ctrained Dversatile7. Akeep Bmaintain Cret

29、ain D protect8. Asince Bso Cand Dyet9. Acharge Bprice Ccost Dvalue10. Aaccept Bgain Creceive Dabsorb11. AFrequently BIncidentally CDeliberately DEventually12. Asoon Bquickly Cimmediately Dfirst13. Asome Bothers Cseveral Dfew14. Amight Bshould Cwould Dwill15. Aadopting Bconducting Creceiving Dadjusti

30、ng16. Ato Bat Con Dabout17. Aopaque Bsecret Csealed Dhidden18. Atackle Blearn Cstudy Dmanipulate19. AIn BThrough CWith DUnder20. Aexcept Bnor Cor DbutSection III Reading ComprehensionPart ARead the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.Text 1It was 3:45 in the morning when the vote was finally taken. After six months of arguing and a final 16 hours of hot parliamentary debates, Au