1、1. What will the girl probably do? A. Do her homework, B. Go to ride a boat. C. Enjoy the beautiful day.2. What is the weather like now? A. Rainy. B. Sunny. C. Cloudy.3. What doesnt Mary like? A. Meat. B. Fish. C. Vegetables.4. When do the students have to arrive at school? A. At 7:40. B. At 7:50. C
2、. At 8:00.5. What will the man probably do? A. Quit the job. B. Forget about those figures and facts. C. Try to catch up with his work.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. Who did Nancy have dinner
3、with? A. A blind man. B. An old man. C. An officer7. How did Nancy feel when all the lights went out? A. Nervous. B. Annoyed. C. Surprised.听第7段材料,回答第8至10题。8. Who is the man? A. A student. B. A teacher. C. A postman.9. How long hasnt the man gotten a letter from his mother? A. Nearly a month. B. Near
4、ly two weeks. C. Nearly a week.10. What will the man do next? A. Go to the bookstore. B. Go to the post office. C. Get online.听第8段材料,回答第11至13题。11. How long is the speakers holiday? A. Eight days. B. Seven days. C. Five days.12. Why does the woman want to travel by train? A. Its comfortable and cheap
5、. B. Its cheap and convenient. C. They can enjoy the scenery on their way.13. What will the speakers do next? A. Book air tickets and rooms. B. Call a travel agency to make a reservation. C. Book train tickets and rooms.听第9段材料,回答第14至16题。14. Why does the girl keep a weather diary? A. Its useful for h
6、er studies. B. Shes going to have it published. C. She has great interest in the changing weather.15. What was the weather like on the morning of April 28th? A. Sunny. B. Cloudy. C. Rainy.16. What does the girl want to be when she finishes school? A. A journalist. B. A weather reporter. C. A writer.
7、听第10段材料,回答第17至20题。17. Where did the accident happen? A. At the corner of Green Street and Fifth Avenue. B. At the intersection of Green Avenue and Fifth Street. C. On Fifth Highway.18. What was the woman doing while driving? A. Making a call. B. Drinking cola. C. Eating a sandwich.19. Who was drivin
8、g very fast? A. The speaker. B. The woman. C. The man.20. What do we know about the result of the accident? A. Both the man and the woman were badly injured. B. Neither of them apologized to each other. C. The truck crashed into the car.2.阅读理解(分两部分,共40分)【一】阅读下面的文章,从每题后面的四个选项中选出正确的一项。每题2分,共30分。ASome
9、secrets are hidden from health, wrote John Updike in his poem Fever.I have experienced the truth of Updikes observation. My excellent health kept me from seeing some thingsthings that became secrets of sort.One relates to my son Chris. When I lost my health in March, I discovered something I had mis
10、sed about him.Christopher has been a scholar and athlete through high school. He has behaved responsibly, engaged in community service. He has had an impressive peer group of serious students.While I saw these things, I had missed before what I experienced while in hospital. Early on, Christopher of
11、fered the clearest and most forceful words about my need to be positive and to fight acute leukemia(急性白血病). He never left the room after a visit without making me promise that I would be mentally tough and positive.During the first week, he showed his own mental toughness, researching leukemia and l
12、earning what the chances were. He even stopped my doctor outside the room, introduced himself and asked directly what he thought of my chances. He processed the answer without overreaction.Christopher did admonish(劝告) me against my choice of words the first week at home. I had moved back into my roo
13、m from weighing myself, discovering a thin figure I did not know. I announced to him and my wife, “dead man walking”. I thought it was a way to lighten the obvious. He saw it as negativity and was strongly against such thinking and talking.When I resisted taking medicine sometimes, Christopher forme
14、d a “good-cop-bad-cop” team with his mother. Betsy gently and patiently encouraged. He directly and forcefully insisted. He always made the logical arguments for why I needed to take some awful pills.My health had hidden something from me; my ill-health helped me to see it.21. What did Christopher d
15、o when the author was in hospital?A. He told the author not to say anything wrong.B. He offered some suggestions to the doctor.C. He always encouraged the author to be confident.D. He tried to get help from community service.22. What does “good-cop-bad-cop” in the text refer to?A. A trick to force t
16、he author to obey.B. A measure to keep the author happy.C. A friendly way to make the author see what was good for him.D. A joint effort to persuade the author both kindly and forcefully.23. What may be the best title for the text?A. Lessons from Ill-health B. Unexpected LoveC. Secrets Hidden from H
17、ealth D. Discovery Made in HospitalB Food picked up just a few seconds after being dropped is less likely to contain bacteria than if it is left for longer periods of time,according to the findings of research carried out at Aston Universitys School of Life and Health Sciences.The findings suggest t
18、here may be some scientific basis of the 5-second rule the belief about it being fine to eat food that has only had contact with the floor for five seconds or less.Although people have long followed the 5-second rule,until now it was unclear whether it actually helped.The study,undertaken by final y
19、ear Biology students and led by Anthony Hilton,Professor of Microbiology at Aston University,monitored the transfer of the common bacteria from a variety of indoor floor types as carpet, cement floor to toast,pasta,biscuit and a sticky sweet when contact was made from 3 to 30 seconds.The results sho
20、wed that: time is a significant factor in the transfer of bacteria from a floor surface to a piece of food,and the type of flooring the food has been dropped on has an effect,with bacteria least likely to transfer from carpeted surfaces and most likely to transfer from cement flooring surfaces to mo
21、ist foods making contact for more than 5 seconds. Professor Hilton said,Consuming food dropped on the floor still carries an infection risk as it very much depends on which bacteria are present on the floor at the time.The Aston team also carried out a survey of the number of people who employ the f
22、ive-second rule.The survey showed that: 87% of the people surveyed said they would eat food dropped on the floor,or already have done so.55% of those that would,or have eaten food dropped on the floor are women.81% of the women who would eat food from the floor would follow the 5-second rule.Profess
23、or Hilton added,Our study showed that a surprisingly large majority of people are happy to consume dropped food,with women the most likely to do so.But they are also more likely to follow the 5-second rule,which our research has shown to be much than an old wives tale.24. According to the passage,wh
24、ich of the following is true?A. A toast dropped on the carpet is easier to be polluted than that dropped on the cement floor.B. A sticky chocolate dropped on the carpet is easier to be polluted than that dropped on the cement floor.C. The food dropped on the carpet shares the same potential of being
25、 polluted with the food dropped on the cement floor.D. The food dropped on the cement floor is not as safe as food dropped on the carpet within 30 seconds.25. What is the passage probably developed?A. Contrast B. Example C. Time D. Space26. How did Professor Hilton feel after analyzing how many peop
26、le chose to eat dropped food?A. Puzzled B. Upset C. Satisfied D. Astonished27 .What is the main idea of this passage?A. The food which is dropped on the floor can be eaten safely.B. A research on the safety of food dropped on the floor is undertaken.C. The bacteria have no negative effect on the saf
27、ety of food.D. People surveyed in the research are willing to accept the idea.C Men are spending more and more time in the kitchen encouraged by celebrity (名人) chefs like Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver, according to a report from Oxford University.The effect of the celebrity role models, who have gi
28、ven cooking a more manly picture, has combined with a more general drive towards sexual equality and men now spend more than twice the amount of time preparing meals than they did in 1961.According to the research by Prof. Jonatahn Gershuny, who runs the Centre for Time Research at Oxford, men now s
29、pend more than half an hour a day cooking, up from just 12 minutes a day in 1961.Prof. Gershuny said, “The man in the kitchen is part of a much wider social trend. There has been 40 years of sexual equality, but there is another 40 years probably to come.”Women, who a generation ago spent nearly two
30、 hours a day cooking, now spend just one hour and seven minutesa great fall, but they still spend far more time in the kitchen than men.Some experts have named these men in aprons as “Gastrosexuals (men using cooking skills to impress friends)”, who have been inspired to pick up a kitchen knife by t
31、he success of Ramsay, Oliver as well as other male celebrity chefs such as Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Marco Pierre White and Keith Floyd.“I was married in 1974. When my father came to visit me a few weeks later, I was wearing an apron when I opened the door. He laughed,” said Prof. Gershuny. “That would never happen now.”Two-thirds of ad
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