考试安排和复习资料.docx

1、考试安排和复习资料试题结构：Part I 阅读（40%）（4篇）Part II 词汇结构（25%）（25小题）Part III完形填空 （20%）（1篇）Part IV写作（15%）试题3选1，参考题目：1.放鞭炮是中国人在春节期间表达喜庆的一种方式，但是近年因放鞭炮而引发的安全及环境问题层出不穷，很多人认为应该禁止放鞭炮，谈谈你对此事的看法，firecrackers(鞭炮) set off/let off(放鞭炮 )。2. Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled

2、 Post-holiday Syndrome Among Students. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below.1. 很多学生在开学伊始都会出现假期综合症2. 出现这一现象的原因3. 我的建议3. Giving Children Cell Phones1. 目前越来越多的家长给孩子配手机，目的是2. 也会带来一些问题3. 你的看法GCSS复习资料Part I Reading ComprehensionQuestions 6 to 10 are based on the following

3、passage: I hear many parents complaining that their teenage children are rebelling. I wish it were so. At your age you ought to be growing away from your parents. You should be learning to stand on your own two feet. But take a good look at the present rebellion. It seems that teenagers are all taki

4、ng the same way of showing that they disagree with their parents. Instead of striking out boldly on their own, most of them are clutching at one anothers hands for reassurance. They claim they want to dress as they please. But they all wear the same clothes. They set off in new directions in music.

5、But somehow they all end up huddled round listening to the same record. Their reason for thinking or acting in thus-and-such a way is that the crowd is doing it. They have come out of their cocoon (茧)- into a larger cocoon. It has become harder and harder for a teenager to stand up against the popul

6、arity wave and to go his or her own way. Industry has firmly carved out a teenage market. These days every teenager can learn from the advertisements what a teenager should have and be. And many of todays parents have come to award high marks for the popularity of the children. All this adds up to a

7、 great barrier for the teenager who wants to find his or her own path. But the barrier is worth climbing over. The path is worth following. You may want to listen to classical music instead of going to a party. You may want to collect rocks when everyone else is collecting records. You may have some

8、 thoughts that you dont care to share at once with your classmates. Well, go to it. Find yourself. Be yourself. Popularity will come - with the people who respect you for who you are. Thats the only kind of popularity that really counts.6.The authors purpose in writing this passage is to tell _. A)

9、readers how to be popular with people around B) parents how to control and guide their children C) young people how to learn to decide things for themselves D) teenagers how to understand and respect each other7.According to the author, most of the teenagers who want to act on their own actually _.

10、A) find it difficult to understand each other B) lack confidence in themselves C) are very afraid of getting lost D) dare not to handle problems all by themselves8.Which of the following is NOT true according to the author?A) Many parents are in fact hindering their children from finding their own p

11、aths.B) Its not necessarily bad for teenagers to disagree with their parents.C) Most teenagers claiming they want to do what they like are in fact doing the same.D) There is no popularity that really counts.9.The author thinks of advertisements as _. A) influential B) convincing C) instructive D) au

12、thoritative10.During the teenage years, one should learn to _. A) differ from others in as many ways as possible B) keep up with the trends and become popular C) find ones own self D) rebel against ones parents and the popularity waveQuestions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage: The state o

13、f Kansas is called the Basket of America because it ranks first in wheat growing and flour milling. In addition, there are hundreds of cattle ranches (牧场) in western Kansas, some of which cover 50,000 acres. The state is larger than most states, but rather sparsely populated. In pioneer days, many s

14、ettlers passed through Kansas seeking rich land and gold farther west. Looking upon Kansas as a useless waste of land, they refused to settle there. However, when Kansas joined the Union in 1861 as a free state opposed to slave labor, the population began to increase. Finally, the railroads helped t

15、o attract settlers by selling them inexpensive land.11.The state of Kansas is known chiefly for its _. A) rich land and gold B) railroads and highways C) cheap slave labor D) wheat and meat12.How can Kansas best be described? A) The population is small, but the state is large. B) It is a large state

16、 with a large population. C) The state is small and it has few people. D) Its sparse population inhabits 50,000 acres.13.What did early pioneers think about Kansas? A) They thought there was gold in western Kansas. B) They found slave labor too expensive. C) They considered the land unproductive. D)

17、 They liked the rich soil.14.How did the railroads attract settlers? A) By giving away gold. B) By constructing flour mills. C) By opposing slave labor. D) By offering cheap land.15.The chief occupation of most people in Kansas is _. A) running railroads B) mining C) farming D) manufacturingQuestion

18、s 16 to 20 are based on the following passage: My guess is that English will retain its currency in the world for the next 50 years or so, but it is difficult to see it retaining beyond then. If the Chinese could establish some reasonable way of writing their language by forming some sort of alphabe

19、ticisation (拼音文字), then given the exponential (幂次方的) population growth among Chinese communities, their language would rapidly gain in importance. And lets not forget Spanish; some predict that there will be a Spanish majority in the United States within twenty years. So it is not impossible to conc

20、eive that one day another language might come to dominate besides English. An equally important trend will be the fragmentation of English. Many countries are now using English so much that they are starting to teach their own particular brand of the language with different forms of sentence constru

21、ction, for example. They no longer want native speakers to teach English, but locals whose version of English contains the same forms as the local use of the language. This is not just true in colonial countries, but its happening as far apart as Germany and the Pacific Rim. Its a strongly democrati

22、c move and I think we will see a lot more local publishing as a result. Yet while forms of English become increasingly localized, the information explosion is also making our use of language more global. A quite new form of language is evolving on the internet. The email is a new form of message: It

23、s not a letter, not a postcard. And it has its own casual style, often without complete sentences. English is especially well adapted to this style, as it can easily be shortened. So I suspect English will continue to be more advanced than other languages on the worldwide web - it will remain the la

24、nguage of science and technology. As a result of increasing web use, I suspect that in a few decades a lot of us in the developed world may cease writing much in the way of long essays. But I simply dont believe computers will physically replace books. Its absurd to suppose that the experience of re

25、ading on a computer monitor is the same as reading a book - think of the weight of the book and the sense of knowing where you are in it. I think we will always want books we can take to bed with us or read to our children.16.Which of the following is NOT true according to the first paragraph? A) En

26、glish will still enjoy its popularity in the near future. B) There is a possibility for Spanish to share the dominant position with English. C) The author believes that Chinese language is bound to gain its importance despite its difficulty in spelling. D) The number of people speaking a language ca

27、n be a contributive factor in remaining its currency.17.the fragmentation of English (in paragraph 2) can be best understood as _. A) the wide use of English in many parts of the world B) the English with local version of the mother tongue C) the English taught by non-native speakers D) the localize

28、d English18.Which is a decisive factor in making English more global according to the author? A) The wide use of computer. B) The adaptability of English. C) The increase of localized English. D) The flooding information.19.All the following can be inferred in the passage EXCEPT _. A) It seems that

29、the days of English as a world language could be numbered B) Diversity is the taste of tomorrows world C) Lovers of good writing can take heart D) Laptops are going to take over from books and newspapers20.What is the best title of the passage? A) The Future of English. B) Tomorrows Language. C) The

30、 History of English. D) The Modification of English.Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage: Instead of a boost to productivity, many firms are discovering that the Internet is having the opposite effect in the workplace. Employees are surfing the web, checking their stocks, tuning in

31、to web-broadcasts, all while being paid to work. A recent study suggests that German companies lose almost $50 billion each year through employees personal workplace web surfing. Its been estimated that as many as 60% of all employees with desktop Internet access go online at least once daily for no

32、n-business activities. On average they spend some 3.2 hours a week of company time online. The German government, always eager for new sources of tax revenue, has announced that it is investigating ways to tax Internet access by employees for personal use, the theory being that free surf time is a taxable employee benefit - like a company car. Imposing such a tax would be difficult, but