1、 In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answ
2、ers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.1. A. At the airport. B. At the hotel. C. At the restaurant. D. At the railway station.2. A. On TV. B. On the Internet. C. From the newspaper. D. From a friend.3. A. Husband and wife. B. Policeman and driver. C
3、. Passenger and bus conductor. D. Boss and secretary.4. A. At 1:00 pm. B. At 1:30 pm. C. At 2:00 pm. D. At 2:30 pm. 5. A. She found it very interesting. B. She found it very boring. C. She found it enjoyable during the first 30 minutes. D. She found it enjoyable after the first 30 minutes.6. A. Make
4、 a recovery plan. B. Find a full-time job. C. Drop out of school. D. Resign from her present job.7. A. Shopping with his son. B. Promoting a new product. C. Buying a gift for a kid. D. Bargaining with a salesgirl.8. A. He is always late for work. B. He is having some financial problems.C. He is not
5、careful enough with his work.D. He loses his temper easily.9. A. It is too hot in the room. B. She wants to avoid meeting people. C. She wants to smoke a cigarette outside. D. She doesnt like the smell of smoke inside.10. A. Everyone in the company likes Mr. Dale. B. Mr. Dale has become director of
6、the department. C. Mr. Dale gets on very well with his colleague. D. Mr. Dale is the focus of peoples attention.Section B In section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation. After each passage or conversation, you will be asked several questions. The passages and conversation
7、 will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers in your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have ever heard.Questions 11 through13 are based on the following passage. 11. A. Art history clas
8、s is taught in the lecture hall. B. Mentally disabled children are taught outside the classroom. C. Professors teach through real world experiences. D. Students appreciate classroom learning.12. A. To praise the professor. B. To support his point of view. C. To praise his friend. D. To advise us to
9、study psychology.13. A. Learning through firsthand experience is important. B. Students learn a lot from textbooks. C. Students develop their creativity through textbooks. D. Students get firsthand information from textbooks.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage. 14. A. Consumer
10、s find TV advertisements too dull. B. Consumers travel more now than ever before.C. Out-of-home ads are more beautifully made. D. Out-of-home ads are easier to understand.15. A. Quick to update. B. Pleasant to look at.C. Easy to remember. D. Convenient to obtain.16. A. Comparison of different kinds
11、of advertising. B. New forms of effective advertising. C. The disadvantages of traditional advertising. D. Effective ways to do effective advertisements.Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.17. A. Her story of completing a task. B. Her experience of being lost. C. Her trip
12、 abroad. D. Her success in career.18. A. Met his friends. B. Attended a lecture. C. Gave a performance. D. Had a trip.19. A. By following a man. B. By looking at a map. C. By asking an old woman. D. By asking the policeman for help.20. A. He cannot stand the noise in the bar. B. He has a poor memory
13、. C. He doesnt speak German. D. He doesnt like to wear T-shirts.II. Grammar and VocabularySection A Read the following passage. Fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word. For the other blanks, fill in
14、each blank with one proper word. Make sure that your answers are grammatically correct. Rail-life adventures of two generationsWhen I was 17, I decided to go InterRailing with my friend Bella for a week in summer. Both of us had chosen to study German at university and we decided that train travel i
15、n Germany would be the ideal way (21) _ (practice) the language. (22) _ _ _ I told my mum, she began to give me tips (23) _ (base) on her own InterRail experience in the 1970s. I would, she insisted, need (24) _ extra-thick sleeping bag “for when you sleep outside”.I would need to pack oatmeal, rais
16、ins and nuts and dried soup. She even suggested a camping stove.As she told tales of sleeping on train floors, on platforms, and even once in a barn, I began to get a little worried. (25) _ had I let myself in for?In fact, my InterRail experience was quite different. Bella and I googled youth hostel
17、s. They were pretty basicsix people to a room, stale cereal for breakfast, no curtainsbut fine. We never slept on a train once. My InterRail trip was certainly not as economical as my mothers. My ticket (26) _ (cost) 187(1,954 yuan), and I spent 30 a day on cheap food and extra ticket supplements.Bu
18、t I met some (27) _ (amaze) people on the trains, and practiced my German with everyone (28) _ businessmen to artists.In my mothers eyes I (29) _ not have had a “real” InterRail experiencebut I still had an adventure. I learned about other countries, other people and about myself.Bella and I argued
19、over lost luggage, complained about each other - and ended up even (30) _ (good) friends than we had before. Section B Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need. A. brake B. victims C. issued D. confi
20、rmed E. pace F. typicallyG. multiple H. critically I. slippery J. canceled K. visibility NINE people died and 43 were injured in two rear-end crashes on Shanghais S32 Expressway that occurred during heavy fog yesterday morning.Two were 31 dead at the scene in one of the accidents, and five were foun
21、d dead in the other. Two more people died in hospital, police said.Police first received a report at 5:54 am that 32 vehicles had crashed on the S32, near a ramp of S2. The S32 links Shanghai with Zhejinag Provinces Jiaxing and Huzhou.Two people were killed after getting out of their vehicle to see
22、what was causing congestion ahead. They were hit by an out of control tanker, police said.When police arrived at that scene, they found a further five people had been killed when a construction vehicle was crushed by two large vehicles from both front and back. The crash was about three kilometers a
23、way from the accident that killed the two people on the expressway. The injured were sent to local hospitals.Some drivers reported that the road was very 33 and braking had led to vehicles losing control.“The fog was very heavy,” an unidentified driver told Shanghai Television Station. “When I saw t
24、he accident ahead, I wanted to slow down and 34 . But once I hit the brake, the vehicle went out of control.”Zhoupu Hospital treated 12 people. “One of the 35 died on the road to the hospital,” Ding Fuhao, a doctor with the hospital, told the television station. “Three were 36 injured.”The citys met
25、eorological authority 37 an orange alert on heavy fog at 6:06 am, meaning 38 would be lower than 200 meters in some areas.The dense fog hit coastal areas in particular, including Chongming Island, Pudong New Area, Baoshan and Fengxian districts. The alert was 39 at 9:44am. This was Shanghais first o
26、range alert of heavy fog since the arrival of autumn.Several expressways in the city were closed or subject to speed limits yesterday morning.Pudong International Airport was also affected by the bad weather. The airports traffic was about 60 percent less than normal in the morning but picked up the
27、 40 after the orange alert was canceled, the citys television station said.III. Reading Comprehension For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.A new idea called business at the
28、speed of thought is quite popular in business world. It makes quick marketing progress, but it also presents a 41 way to run a company. Herere the main 42 : The businesses today that will succeed are those able to jump around in high spirits. Chances must be seized immediately and decisions made qui
29、ckly. Everyone needs more immediate answers, and the window of expected 43 to any questions has dropped from weeks to days even to hours.The problem with this way of thinking is that too often such quickness comes at the expense of 44 understanding the details of a situation. Sure, the networked soc
30、iety allows us to gather information within a short time, but does it really 45 up our ability to make better decisions? How do you balance the 46 for speed with sharp and correct thinking? Thats the 47 on the minds of a lot of people these days, including Future Shock author, Alvin Toffler, who studies the idea in our cover story. Its also a 48 of a new study by Kepner Tregoe. It reports that 77 percent of managers believe that during the past three years the number of decisions they made each wor
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