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Part I                Writing                （30 minutes）

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay. You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then express your views on the importance of protecting the environment. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1.

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1作答。

Part II        Listening Comprehension            (30 minutes)

Section A

Directions:  In  this  section,  you  will  hear  8  short  conversations  and  2  long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once.  After each question there will be  a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡 1 上作答。

1. A) The man has left a good impression on her family.

B) The man’s jeans and T-shirts are stylish.

C) The man should buy himself a new suit.

D) The man can dress casually for the occasion.

2. A) Its price.                            C) Its location.

B) Its comfort.                          D) Its facilities.  

3. A) It is a routine offer.                   C) It is new on the menu.

B) It is quite healthy.                    D) It is a good bargain.

4. A) Read the notice on the window.        C) Go and ask the staff.

B) Board the bus to Cleveland.           D) Get a new bus schedule.

5. A) He is ashamed of his present condition.

B) He is careless about his appearance.

C) He changes jobs frequently.

D) He shaves every other day.

6. A) The woman had been fined many times before.

B) The woman knows how to deal with the police.

C) The woman had violated traffic regulations.

D) The woman is good at finding excuses.

7. A) She got hurt in an accident yesterday.

B) She has to go to see a doctor.

C) She is black and blue all over.

D) She stayed away from work for a few days.

8. A) She will ask David to talk less.

B) She will meet the man halfway.

C) She is sorry the man will not come.

D) She has to invite David to the party.

Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

9. A) Beautiful scenery in the countryside.

B) A sport he participates in.

C) Dangers of cross-country skiing.

D) Pain and pleasure in sports.

10.  A) He can’t find good examples to illustrate his point.

B) He can’t find a peaceful place to do the assignment.

C) He can’t decide whether to include the effort part of skiing.

D) He doesn’t know how to describe the beautiful country scenery.

11.  A) New ideas come up as you write.

B) Much time is spent on collecting data.

C) A lot of effort is made in vain.

D) The writer’s point of view often changes.

Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

12.  A) Having her bicycle repaired.          C) Lecturing on business management.

B) Hosting an evening TV program.      D) Conducting a market survey.

13.  A) He repaired bicycles.                  C) He worked as a salesman.

B) He coached in a racing club.            D) He served as a consultant.

14.  A) He wanted to be his own boss.

B) He didn’t want to be in too much debt.

C) He didn’t want to start from scratch.

D) He found it more profitable.

15.  A) They are all the man’s friends.       C) They are paid by the hour.

B) They work five days a week.          D) They all enjoy gambling.

Section B

Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡 1 上作答。

Passage One

Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.

16.  A) They shared mutual friends in school.

B) They had many interests in common.

C) They shared many extracurricular activities.

D) They had known each other since childhood.

17.  A) At a local club.                C) At the boarding school.

B) At Joe’s house.                D) At the sports center.

18.  A) Durable friendships can be very difficult to maintain.  

B) One has to be respectful of other people in order to win respect.

C) Social divisions will break down if people get to know each other.

D) It is hard for people from different backgrounds to become friends.

Passage Two

Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.

19.  A) The art of Japanese brush painting.     C) Characteristics of Japanese artists.

B) Some features of Japanese culture.     D) The uniqueness of Japanese art.

20.  A) To calm themselves down.              C) To show their impatience.

B) To enhance concentration.              D) To signal lack of interest.

21.  A) How speakers can misunderstand the audience.

B) How speakers can win approval from the audience.

C) How listeners in different cultures show respect.

D) How different Western and Eastern art forms are.

Passage Three

Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.

22.  A) They mistake the firefighters for monsters.

B) They do not realize the danger they are in.

C) They cannot hear the firefighters for the noise.

D) They cannot see the firefighters because of the smoke.

23.  A) He teaches Spanish in a San Francisco community.

B) He often teaches children what to do during a fire.

C) He travels all over America to help put out fires.

D) He provides oxygen masks to children free of charge.

24.  A) He is very good at public speaking.

B) He rescued a student from a big fire.

C) He gives informative talks to young children.

D) He saved the life of his brother choking on food.

25.  A) Kids should learn not to be afraid of monsters.

B) Informative speeches can save lives.

C) Carelessness can result in tragedies.

D) Firefighters play an important role in America.

Section C

Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡 1 上作答。

Almost every child, on the first day he sets foot in a school building, is smarter, more   26 ,  less  afraid of what he doesn’t know, better at finding  and 27  , more confident,  resourceful(机敏的),  persistent  and  28 than  he  will ever be again in his schooling – or, unless he is very unusual and very lucky, for the rest of his life. Already, by paying close attention to and 29 the world and people around him, and without any school-type  formal instruction, he has done a task far  more difficult, complicated and   30  than anything he will be asked to do in school, or than any of his teachers has done for years. He has solved the  31  of language. He has discovered it – babies don’t even know that language exists – and he has found out how it works and learned to use it   32  . He has done it by exploring, by experimenting, by  developing  his  own  model of the grammar of language, by  33 and  seeing whether it works, by gradually  changing  it  and  34   it  until  it  does  work.  And while  he  has  been  doing  this,  he has been learning other things as well,  including many of the “   35   ” that the schools think only they can teach him, and many that are more complicated than the ones they do try to teach him.

Part  III        Reading  Comprehension       (40  minutes)

Section A

Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks.  You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices.  Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.

New research  36  that good conversational flow has a powerful  37   on people’s feelings of self-esteem and belonging, and that even brief — just four seconds long — silences during a conversation are enough to. For the study,  researchers  38   two experiments in which they studied participants’ responses to awkward silences. In the first, 102 college students read one of two stories. The first version described someone making an insensitive    39        — “I think obese people should pay for two seats on the bus” — which was followed by an obvious silence. In the alternate story, conversation flowed easily after the remark. The students were asked to   40    themselves as being the person who made the faux pas（失礼，失态）. Not surprisingly, they reported feeling more   41   , rejected and less self-assured in the scenario with the awkward silence than in the alternate version.

The second experiment    42    60 undergrads watching videos of   43      alternate scenarios.. Although the videos contained no other cues about the silence and viewers weren’t even consciously aware of the pause, students who viewed the version that contained the break in conversation again reported greater feelings of rejection and lower self-esteem.

The researchers suggest that sensitivity toward signs of rejection and    44     arose during our evolutionary history — one in which being excluded from a group could literally mean the difference between life and death. These days, luckily, the consequences of social rejection

are  45    far less dire — even if it doesn’t feel that way at the time.

Section B

Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by  marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.

How to Get Your Sleep

[A]Sleep is one of the most satisfying occupations in our lives: it's relaxing, you don't have to move, comfortable, no requirements at all – and yet, at times, we find it challenging to actually go to bed. Here is a short guide with ten tips, with some of the most common sleeping problems and solutions. If you are tormented by an overactive brain, and an uncooperative body, then read on!

[B] 1.Go to bed. Try and have a specific time you go to bed, which will get you into a healthy sleep rhythm. This will help change your biological clock, otherwise you'll suffer from jet lag the rest of your life. Try and find a reasonable time to go to bed (perhaps between 10-11 pm) and get up again at the same time everyday – even in the weekends!

[C] 2. Avoid sense-stimulating activities. Around one hour before you go to bed, try and resist watching television, or surfing on the internet. The light from the screen affects your brain, stimulating you with images and information. Your brain needs to relax and slowly prepare for a good night’s sleep - and lots of weird dreams. Also, do not check your smartphone once you've achieved getting into bed – No, not even for a few minutes. Again the light effects your brain's nerve-system, and it starts to think it’s daytime. Studies show how much this really can disrupt your sleep.

[D] 3. Keep a notebook by your bed. If you, like the rest of the universe, lie in bed feeling tense and overwhelmed by thoughts – keep a pen and paper next to you. This way, you can quickly write all your worries and to-do's down, and free your mind till the morning. We tend to remember everything that needs to get done at the late hours of night – but can you actually get anything done at two in the morning? No. So write it down – in quick and small notes, not an essay.

[E] 4. Eat well, sleep well. First of all, do not eat right before you go to bed – unless you're starving, which will of course, keep you awake. Your poor stomach needs time to digest the food. This process is keeping your body busy, which keeps you alert and awake. Food interferes with your energy and sleep patterns. If you are tempted to have an evening snack, try and dodge heavy meals, caffeine and sugar.

[F] 5. Darken things, shut up the noise. Attempt to find all sources of light in your bedroom and cover them up. You might have to go to the extreme and use blackout curtains, and use cloth to cover standby lights from your computer and TV. You become aware of light; making them fixed points to stare at in the night, or the blinking standby light coming from your Macbook Pro, irritates you. Now, try and find the sources of noise in your bedroom. Is there a computer humming? Or a clock ticking? If you can't turn off the source of noise, then try earplugs. If you don't like falling asleep with earplugs, always have them near your bed – in case you're woken up by your neighbours’ booming bass. It can be hard to fall back to sleep, once we've been awoken, and earplugs may help in such situations. The US institution, the National Sleep Foundation has some great ideas for creating a more friendly sleeping environment.

[G] 6. Your bed is for sleeping in. Keep your bed as a bed, and not as a sofa. It should only be used for sleep and sex. Not bad eh? If you bring your work to bed with you, you can also bring stress and the to-do's. It will also be harder for you to actually stop working or watching TV, as you are already in bed and may as well continue. Again, give yourself a break.

[H] 7. Exercise that body! It is said that exercise and exercising in the right way, greatly benefits our sleep. Why, it benefits other major areas of our lives: health, heart pressure, relief of stress and even improves moods. Hmm... but why should we run about in this tedious way, how could this possibly help us to fall asleep? Well, apart from the obvious, tiring us out, regular exercise increases our body temperature for a few hours – for then to decrease to lower temperature than if you hadn't exercised, which makes the body and mind relax. While we sleep, our body temperature falls, and is at its lowest point around dawn. To maximize the benefits of sleep and exercise, try and take a run five or six hours before bedtime. This means that when your body temperature starts to decrease, then its time for bed – and you're more relaxed. Remember, try not to exercise too near bedtime, as your body will not have time to cool down before sleep.

[I]  8. Meditation is quite useful. Meditation can help clear your mind! Is this news? No. But have you ever tried it?Meditation does not only belong to Buddhist monks in Tibet, or people in midlife crises – it can actually help everyone. Even kids.Meditation is a practice, to clear your mind from all thoughts and emotions, and to sense your body and surroundings as they are. You usually have to place yourself in a comfortable position, such as lying down, and feel your body from toes to head. Also, breathing exercises help create awareness of your body. Meditation music is available, to get you in the meditation mood, and can be found on Youtube.

[J]  9. Exams, late night reading and not sleeping. Try and get off the sofa, remove yourself from the computer and go for a walk. You could even do the dishes, call a mate or wash some clothes. Doing this is slightly stimulating, and gives you a change of scenario. It also clears you head, and helps you to concentrate when you return to your work, and maybe avoiding bringing the work to bed with you. Also, try to stop working an hour before you go to sleep, to relax and clear your mind – even though it can be tempting to keep working: remember how important the Zzzz's are!

[K] 10. Limit afternoon napping. Napping is OK, but try and limit it to a ten minute power nap, and before 2 or 3 pm. People experience that severe napping routines keep them up at night – and then the circle continues.

[L] All of these tips are just a helpful way of seeing your sleeping habits, and they of course vary from night to night, and person to person.

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡 2 上作答。

46. Doing some slightly stimulating stuff provides you a change of scene.

47. If you can’t stop noise, then wear earplugs.

48. Writing your worries and to-do’s on a notebook is another good way to go to bed.

49. Sleep is one of the most comfortable activities in our lives, while it is getting difficult to acquire it.

50. Light from your cell phone makes brain’s nerve-system think it’s daytime.

51. Try to sleep less in the afternoon because over napping keep people who experience up at night.

52. A certain and reasonable time can improve people’s sleep quality.

53. Sports relax our body and mind, so take a run 5 or 6 hours before bedtime.

54. Digesting food keeps you alert and awake and food obstructs with your sleep rhythm.

55. Place yourself in a satisfying position to meditate.