1、2. What does the man want to do?A. Look for a pet store.B. Buy something for dogs.C. Let the woman take care of his dogs.3. What are the speakers doing?A. Taking pictures. B. Doing exercise. C. Playing a video.4. What day is it today?A. Sunday. B. Saturday. C. Friday.5. Why does the woman want a lat
2、er appointment?A. Her flight was delayed.B. She needs to pick up someone.C. She has to take her mother to the hospital.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 posted on the wall of the cafeter
3、ia?A. The food prices. B. Some pictures.C. The introduction to the cafeteria.7. What will the man probably have?A. Chicken. B. Fish. C. Noodles.听第7段材料,回答第8、9题。8. According to the woman, what was the party like this year?A. It was very relaxed.B. It was too wild and crazy.C. It ended up a failure.9.
4、What can we learn about the man?A. He has a secretary named Maggie.B. He had never been to an office party before.C. He wore a black suit to the party.听第8段材料,回答第10至12题。10. What is bothering the man and his wife?A. The noise.B. The size of their room.C. The service of the elevator.11. What will the m
5、an do?A. Check out today.B. Wait in the hotel.C. Call the police.12. What did the woman promise to do?A. Repair the elevator.B. Cut down the price. C. Give the man a suite tomorrow.听第9段材料,回答第13至16题。13. Why was the man so late?A. He was stuck in traffic.B. The bank opened late.C. He forgot about the
6、time in the bank.14. Where is Henry from?A. America. B. Germany. C. France. 15. What did Henry give the man?A. A guidebook. B. Some money. C. A map of the bus system.16. What is true of the speakers?A. They both work in a bank.B. They are traveling in Europe.C. They just came back from a holiday.听第1
7、0段材料,回答第17至20题。17. When is the opening day?A. July 4. B. July 7. C. September 4.18. What do we find out about the Americas Cup?A. It is a boat race.B. It has been held in San Francisco before.C. The city spent one year preparing for it.19. Which team won the race last year?A. Italy. B. New Zealand.
8、C. America.20. How many teams will be competing in the Challenger Series?A. Five. B. Four. C. Three.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。AManagers and office busybodies might be keen on a clean desk, but it seems that in terms of productivity, they could have i
9、t all wrong. “A messy desk can actually lead people towards clearer thinking,” say researchers from Germany. The researchers found in a series of linked studies-using a messy desk and a messy shop front-that people actually thought more clearly when all around was chaos, as they sought to simplify t
10、he tasks at hand. That is, visual and mental clutter (杂乱) forces human beings to focus and think more clearly. For instance, famous thinkers and writers such as Albert Einstein and Roald Dahl have been notorious (臭名昭著的)for their untidy desks. “Messy desks may not be as detrimental as they appear to
11、be, as the problem-solving approaches they seem to promote work efficiency or enhance employees creativity in problem solving,” say the authors.“Business and government managers often promote clean desk policies to avoid disorganized offices and messy desks, for the purpose of boosting work efficien
12、cy and productivity,” writes a researcher, Jia Liu of the University of Groningen. “This practice is based on the conventional wisdom that a disorganized and messy environment can clutter ones mind and complicate ones judgments.”“However, not all evidence supports this conventional link between a me
13、ssy environment and a messy mind”. The scientists tested peoples response in various messy environments, including a messy shop front, a disorganized desk, and even a work environment where a language task reminded people of messiness.The authors found in the series of six studies that people tended
14、 towards simplicity in their thinking.“They classified products in a simpler manner, were willing to pay more for a T-shirt that has a simple-looking picture, and sought less variety in their choices”, said the researchers.21. Why did the author take Albert Einstein and Ronald Dahl for example? A. T
15、o tell readers untidy desks can make you as famous as them. B. To convince readers that untidiness is not all that bad. C. To inform readers of one way to successuntidy desks. D. To attract readers and show the authors wide range of knowledge.22. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passa
16、ge? A. A messy environment will certainly lead to a messy mind. B. A clean environment will do great harm to work efficiency. C. People tend to clear up the mess before thinking clearly. D. All people are not in favor of “clean desk” in the office.23. The underlined word “detrimental” probably mean_
17、. A. disadvantageous B. common C. beneficial D. accessible24. What is the main idea of this passage? A. The messier the desks are, the more efficient the employees are. B. Messy desks in the office can have a positive effect on employees. C. We should make our office messy to improve our work effici
18、ency. D. Clean desks can promote the employees productivity and creativity. BWhile it is expected that students come to university with the ability to take a good set of notes, this is not always the case. High school may not have demanded it, so good listening and note-taking skills may need to be
19、developed. TRYBeing a positive, active listener. HOW?Sit down front and do not read or talk. Pay particular attention during the second 20 minutes (when you tend to lose it) and to the last minutes when a summary might be given or conclusions drawn.Being a positive, active learner.Come to class with
20、 an interest in the material and with questions to be answered. You can develop these by thinking about and anticipating the lecture and by pre-reading the text (the latter is especially helpful if you find yourself having difficulty keeping up with the material).Getting accurate notes, with special
21、 attention to the main ideas. WHY?There may be an overhead projector; if so, get that material down. In addition, look for points of emphasis-from the profs verbal language, body language, or careful reading of his notes. If you still feel youre missing the main points, try showing your notes to a c
22、lassmate or the prof.Leaving lots of space between ideas.Because you want lots of room to continue to add notes in your own words; this will help you learn the material on a deeper level by integrating it with what you already know. Also, the extra space will make it easier for you to find material
23、when you are studying.Going over new notes-10 minutes for each class-within 24 hoursBecause you lose 5080% of the material if you dont.Setting your notes up so you can study effectively from them.Leave wide left margins (页边空白): here you will write questions from which to study your notes. Leave the
24、back of the page blank, so you can fold the page, cover the notes, and answer the questions when studying.25. During a listening lesson _.A. the students might lose interest after 20 minutesB. most students might be absent-mindedC. students prefer to talk to each otherD. students dont have to pay at
25、tention to the last part of the lesson26. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?A. Pre-reading what you read might help you understand the material better.B. Taking notes in class can help you master the main idea better.C. The writer of the passage is not quite satisfied with
26、high school education.D. One should learn to go over ones lessons within 24 hours.27. The article is probably written for _. A. high school students B. grown-ups C. university students D. teachers of English COlaf Stapledon wrote a book called First and Last Men, in which he looked millions of years
27、 ahead. He told of different men and of strange civilizations, broken up by long “dark ages” in between. In his view, what is called the present time is no more than a moment in human history and we are just the First Men. In 2,000 million years from now there will be the Eighteenth or Last Men.Howe
28、ver, most of our ideas about the future are really very short-sighted. Perhaps we can see some possibilities for the next fifty years. But the next hundred? The next thousand? The next million? Thats much more difficult.When men and women lived by hunting 50,000 years ago, how could they even begin
29、to picture modern life? Yet to men of 50,000 years from now, we may seem as primitive in our ideas as the Stone-Age hunters do to us. Perhaps they will spend their days gollocking to make new spundels, or struggling with their ballalators through the cribe. These words, which I have just made up, ha
30、ve to stand for things and ideas that we simply cant think of.So why bother even to try imagining life far in the future? Here are two reasons. First, unless we remember how short our own lives are compared with the whole human history, we are likely to think our own interests are much more important than they really are. If we make the earth a poor place to live because we are careless or greedy or quarrelsome, our grandchildren will not bother to think of excuses for us.Second, by trying to escape from present interests and imagine life fa
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