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Part I Writing(30 minutes)Directions:
For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay based on the should focus on the harm caused by misleading information arerequired to write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.
Part Ⅱ Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long the endof each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was theconversation and the questions will be spoken only r each question there will bea ng the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), D),and decide which is the best mark the corresponding letter on AnswerSheet I with a single line through the centre.
has completely recovered.
went into shock after an operation.
is still in a critical condition.
is getting much better.
ring a breakfast.
ing a hotel room.
ng a train ticket.
ng a compartment.
borrowers never returned the books to her.
man is the only one who brought her book back.
never expected anyone to return the books to her.
of the books she lent out came back without jackets.
left her work early to get some bargains last Saturday.
attended the supermarket's grand opening ceremony.
drove a full hour before finding a parking space.
failed to get into the supermarket last Saturday.
is bothered by the pain in his neck.
cannot do his report without a computer.
cannot afford to have a coffee break.
feels sorry to have missed the report.
top art students can show their works in the gallery.
gallery space is big enough for the man's paintings.
woman would like to help with the exhibition layout.
man is uncertain how his art works will be received.
woman needs a temporary replacement for her assistant.
man works in the same department as the woman does.
woman will have to stay in hospital for a few days.
man is capable of dealing with difficult people.
was better than the previous one.
distorted the mayor's speech.
exaggerated the city's economic problems.
reflected the opinions of most economists.
Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
inform him of a problem they face.
request him to purchase control desks.
discuss the content of a project report.
ask him to flX the dictating machine.
quote the best price in the market.
manufacture and sell office furniture.
cannot deliver the steel sheets on time.
cannot produce the steel sheets needed.
marking down the trait price.
accepting the penalty clauses.
allowing more time for delivery.
promising better after-sales service.
the customer a ten percent discount.
m compensation from the steel suppliers.
the Buying Department to change suppliers.
el the contract with the customer.
Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
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ain certain natural phenomena.
ict global population growth.
ote national financial health.
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ging attitudes toward nature.
s theory and its applications.
current global economic ion B
Directions : In this section, you will hear 3 short the end of each passage, you will hearsome the passage and the questions will be spoken only r youhear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), D ) mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single linethrough the centre.
Passage One
Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.
lay great emphasis on hard work.
name 150 star engineers each year.
require high academic degrees.
have people with a very high IQ.
years of job training.
emotional intelligence.
inctive academic qualifications.
tion to the advance of science.
interpersonal relationships.
working experience.
isticated equipment.
motivation.
Passage Two
Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.
19.A.A diary.
B.A fairy tale.
C.A history textbook.
D.A biography.
was a sports fan.
loved adventures.
disliked school.
liked hair-raising stories.
urage people to undertake adventures.
icize his colorful and unique life stories.
e people's environmental awareness.
act people to America's national parks.
Passage Three
Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.
first infected victim.
B.A coastal village in Africa.
doctor who lust identified it.
D.A river running through the Congo.
exhibit similar symptoms.
can be treated with the same drug.
have almost the same mortality rate.
have both disappeared for good.
inhaling air polluted with the virus.
contacting contaminated body fluids.
drinking water from the Congo River.
eating food grown in Sudan and Zalre.
strains will evolve from the Ebola virus.
ntists will eventually fred cures for Ebola.
her Ebola epidemic may erupt sooner or later.
infected, one will become immune to ion C
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three the passage is read for theirst time, you should listen carefully for its general the passage is read forthe second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have lly, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what youhave written.
The ideal companion machine would not only look, feel, and sound friendly but would also beprogrammed to behave in an agreeable e 26 that make interaction with other peopleenjoyable would be simulated as closely as possible, and the machine would 27 charming,stimulating, and informal conversational style would make interaction comfortable, andyet the machine would remain slightly 28 and therefore its first encounter it might besomewhat hesitant and unassuming, but as it came to know the user it would progress to a more29 and intimate machine would not be a passive 30 but would add its ownsuggestions, information, and opinions; it would sometimes 31 developing or changing the topicand would have a personality of its own.
The machine would convey presence: We have all seen how a computer's use of personal namesoften 32 people and leads them to treat the machine as if it were almost features areeasily written into the introducing 33 forcefulness and humor, the machine could bepresented as a vivid and unique character.
Friendships are not made in a day, and the computer would be more acceptable as a friend if it34 the gradual changes that occur when one person is getting to know an 35 timeit might also express the kind of affection that stimulates attachment and intimacy.
Part m Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten are required to select one wordfor each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the thepassage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank isidentified by a se mark the corresponding letter for each item on AnswerSheet 2 with a single line through the may not use any of the words in thebank more than once.
Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.
As it is, sleep is so undervalued that getting by on fewer hours has become a badge of , we live in a culture that 36 to the late-nighter, from 24-hour grocery stores to onlineshopping sites that never 's no surprise, then, that more than half of American adults don't getthe 7 to 9 hours of shut-eye every night as 37 by sleep experts.
Whether or not we can catch up on sleep--on the weekend, say--is a hotly 38 topic amongsleep latest evidence suggests that while it isn't 39, it might Liu, theUCLA sleep researcher and professor of medicine, brought 40 sleep-restricted people into the labfor a weekend of sleep during which they logged about 10 hours per night, they showed 41 in theability of insulin (胰島素) to process blood suggests that catch-up sleep may undo some
but not all of the damage that sleep 42 causes, which is encouraging, given how many adults don'tget the hours they need each l, Liu isn't 43 to endorse the habit of sleeping less andmaking up for it later.
Sleeping pills, while helpful for some, are not 44 an effective remedy either."A sleeping pillwill 45 one area of the brain, but there's never going to be a perfect sleeping pill, because youcouldn't really replicate (複製 ) the different chemicals moving in and out of different parts of the brainto go through the different stages of sleep," says y Collop, director of the Emory UniversitySleep Center.
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Section B
Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to statement contains information given in one of the tify the paragraphfrom which the information is may choose a paragraph more than paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking thecorresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.
Climate change may be real, but it's still not easy being green
How do we convince our inner caveman to be greener? We ask some outstanding social scientists.
[A] The road to climate hell is paved with our good ticians may tackle polluters whilescientists do battle with carbon the most pervasive problem is less obvious: ourown get distracted before we can turn down the break our promise notto fly after hearing about a neighbour's trip to mately, we can't be bothered to changeour unately for the planet, social science and behavioural economics may be able todo that for us.
[B] Despite mournful polar beats and charts showing carbon emissions soaring, most people find ithard to believe that global warming will affect them nt polls by the Pew ResearchCentre in Washington, DC, found that 75-80 per cent of participants regarded climate change as animportant respondents ranked it last on a list of priorities.
[C] This inconsistency largely stems from a feeling of powerlessness."When we can't actually removethe source of our fear, we tend to adapt psychologically by adopting a range of defencemechanisms," says Tom Crompton, change strategist for the environmental organisation WorldWide Fund for Nature.
[ D] Part of the fault lies with our inner ution has programmed humans to pay mostattention to issues that will have an immediate impact."We worry most about now because if wedon't survive for the next minute, we're not going to be around in ten years' time," says ProfessorElke Weber of the Centre for Research on Environmental Decisions at Columbia University in the Thames were lapping around Big Ben, Londoners would face up to the problem ofemissions pretty in practice, our brain discounts the risks--and benefits--associatedwith issues that lie some way ahead.
[E] Matthew Rushworth, of the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford,sees this in his lab every day."One of the ways in which all agents seem to make decisions is thatthey assign a lower weighting to outcomes that are going to be further away in the future," hesays."This is a very sensible way for an animal to make decisions in the wild and would have
been very helpful for humans for thousands of years."
[F] Not any the time we wake up to the threat posed by climate change, it could well betoo ff we're not going to make rational decisions about the future, others may have tohelp us to do so.
[G] Few political libraries are without a copy of Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealthand Happiness, by Richard Thaler and Cass argue that governments shouldpersuade us into making better decisions--such as saving more in our pension plans--by changingthe default essor Weber believes that environmental policy can make use of , for example, building codes included green construction guidelines, most developerswould be too lazy to challenge them.
[H] Defaults are certainly part of the social scientists are most concerned about craftingmessages that exploit our group mentality (,~, ~ )."We need to understand what motivatespeople, what it is that allows them to make change," says Professor Neil Adger, of the TyndallCentre for Climate Change Research in Norwich."It is actually about what their peers think ofthem, what their social norms are, what is seen as desirable in society." In other words, ourinner caveman is continually looking over his shoulder to see what the rest of the tribe are up to.[ I ] The passive attitude we have to climate change as individuals can be altered by counting us in--and measuring us against--our peer group."Social norms are primitive and elemental," says rt Cialdini, author of Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion."Birds flock together, fishschool together, cattle herd perceiving norms is enough to cause people to adjusttheir behaviour in the direction of the crowd."
[J] These norms can take us beyond good dini conducted a study in San Diego inwhich coat hangers bearing messages about saving energy were hung on people's ofthe messages mentioned the environment, some financial savings, others social t was the ones that mentioned the actions of neighbours that drove down power use.
[K] Other studies show that simply providing the facility for people to compare their energy use withthe local average is enough to cause them to modify their Conservatives plan toadopt this strategy by making utility companies print the average local electricity and gas usage onpeople's bills.
[L] Social science can also teach politicians how to avoid our collective capacity for ronmental campaigns that tell us how many people drive SUVs unwittingly (不經意的.) imply that this behaviour is widespread and thus dini recommends somecareful framing of the message."Instead of normalising the undesirable behaviour, the messageneeds to marginalise it, for example, by stating that if even one person buys yet another SUV, itreduces our ability to be energy-independent."
[M] Tapping into how we already see ourselves is most successful environmental strategywill marry the green message to our own sense of your average trade unionmember, chances are they will be politically motivated and be used to collective action--muchlike Erica Gregory.A retired member of the Public and Commercial Services Union, she is settingup one of 1,i00 action groups with the support of Climate Solidarity, a two-year environmentalcampaign aimed at trade unionists.
[N] Erica is proof that a great-grandmother can help to lead the revolution if you get the psychologyright--in this case, by matching her enthusiasm for the environment with a fondness for organisinggroups."I think it's a terrific idea," she says of the campaign."The union backing it makesmembers think there must be something in it." She is expecting up to 20 people at the firstmeeting she has called, at her local pub in the Cornish village of Polperro.
[O] Nick Perks, project director for Climate Solidarity, believes this sort of activity is where the futureof environmental action lies. "Using existing civil society structures or networks is a moreeffective way of creating change.., and obviously trade unions are one of the biggest civil societynetworks in the UK," he says. The " Love Food, Hate Waste" campaign entered into acollaboration last year with another such network--the Women's oner Rachel Taylor
joined the campaign with the aim of making new friends.A year on, the meetings have madelasting changes to what she throws away in her kitchen."It's always more of an incentive if you'redoing it with other people," she says."It motivates you more if you know that you've got toprovide feedback to a group."
[P]The power of such simple psychology in fighting climate change is attracting attention across thepolitical the US, the House of Representatives Science Committee has approveda bill allocating $10 million a year to studying energy-related the UK, new studiesare in development and social scientists are regularly spotted in British government the help of psychologists, there is fresh hope that we might go green after all.
people find they are powerless to change a situation, they tend to live with it.
be effective, environmental messages should be carefully framed.
is the government's responsibility to persuade people into making environment-friendly decisions.
ticians are beginning to realise the importance of enlisting psychologists' help in fighting climatechange.
find effective solutions to climate change, it is necessary to understand what motivates people tomake change.
their evolution, humans have learned to pay attention to the most urgent issues instead of long-term concerns.
study shows that our neighbours' actions are influential in changing our behaviour.
ite clear signs of global warming, it is not easy for most people to believe climate change willaffect their own lives.
should take our future into consideration in making decisions concerning climate change beforeit is too late.
ting social networks can be more effective in creating change in people's ion C
Directions: There are 2 passages in this passage is followed by some questions orunfinished each of them there are four choices marked A), B), ) should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on AnswerSheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.
More than a decade ago, cognitive scientists John Bransford and Daniel Schwartz, both then atVanderbilt University, found that what distinguished young adults from children was not the ability toretain facts or apply prior knowledge to a new situation but a quality they called "preparation for futurelearning." The researchers asked fifth graders and college students to create a recovery plan to protectbald eagles from extinction. Shockingly, the two groups came up with plans of similar quality(although the college students had better spelling skills ). From the standpoint of a traditionaleducator, this outcome indicated that schooling had failed to help students think about ecosystems andextinction, major scientific ideas.
The researchers decided to go deeper, asked both groups to generate questionsabout important issues needed to create recovery this task, they found large ege students focused on critical issues of interdependence between eagles and their hab/tats (棲息地)h graders tended to focus on features of individual eagles ( "How big are they?" and "What dothey eat?" ) college students had cultivated the ability to ask questions, the cornerstone of had learned how to learn.
Museums and other institutions of informal learning may be better suited to teach this skill thanelementary and secondary the Exploratorium in San Francisco, we recently studied howlearning to ask good questions can affect the quality of people's scientific found that when
we taught participants to ask "What if?" and "How can?" questions that nobody present would knowthe answer to and that would spark exploration, they engaged in better inquiry at the next exhibit--asking more questions, performing more experiments and making better interpretations of their ifically, their questions became more comprehensive at the new er than merely askingabout something they wanted to try, they tended to include both cause and effect in their ng juicy questions appears to be a transferable skill for deepening collaborative inquiry into thescience content found in exhibits.
This type of learning is not confined to museums or institutional rmal learningenvironments tolerate failure better than aps many teachers have too little time to allowstudents to form and pursue their own questions and too much ground to cover in the eople must acquire this skill society depends on them being able to make criticaldecisions about their own medical treatment, say, or what we must do about global energy needs that, we have a robust informal learning system that gives no grades, takes all comers,and is available even on holidays and weekends.
is traditional educators' interpretation of the research outcome mentioned in the firstparagraph ?
ents are not able to apply prior knowledge to new problems.
ege students are no better than fifth graders in memorizing facts.
ation has not paid enough attention to major environmental issues.
ation has failed to lead students to think about major scientific ideas.
what way are college students different from children?
have learned to think critically.
are concerned about social issues.
are curious about specific features.
have learned to work independently.
is the benefit of asking questions with no ready answers?
arouses students' interest in things around them.
cultivates students' ability to make scientific inquiries.
trains students' ability to design scientific experiments.
helps students realize not every question has an answer.
is said to be the advantage of informal learning?
allows for failures.
is entertaining.
charges no tuition.
meets practical needs.
does the author seem to encourage educators to do at the end of the passage?
n students to think about global issues.
gn more interactive classroom activities.
full use of informal learning resources.
ude collaborative inquiry in the age Two
Questions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage.
"There's an old saying in the space world: amateurs talk about technology, professionals talkabout insurance." In an interview last year with The Economist, George Whitesides, chief executive ofspace-tourism fu'm Virgin Galactic, was placing his company in the latter insurance willbe cold comfort following the failure on October 31st of VSS Enterprise, resulting in the death of onepilot and the severe injury to another.
On top of the tragic loss of life, the accident in California will cast a long shadow over the future ofspace tourism, even before it has properly begun.
The notion of space tourism took hold in 2001 with a $ 20 million flight aboard a Russianspacecraft by Dennis Tito, a millionaire engineer with an adventurous haft a dozen holiday-makers have reached orbit since then, for similarly astronomical price tags. But more recently,companies have begun to plan more affordable "suborbital" flights--briefer ventures just to the edge ofspace's vast in Galactic had, prior to this week's accident, seemed closest to startingregular company has already taken deposits from around 800 would-be space tourists,including Stephen Hawking.
After being dogged by technical delays for years, Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Galactic's founder,had recently suggested that a SpaceShipTwo craft would carry its first paying customers as soon asFebruary 2015. That now seems an impossible timeline. In July, a sister craft of the crashedspaceplane was reported to be about other half will have to walt, as authorities ofAmerica's Federal Aviation Administration ( National Transportation Safety Board work out:what went wrong.
In the meantime, the entire space tourism industry will be on tenterhooks (坐立不安 ) 2004Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act, intended to encourage private space vehicles andservices, prohibits the transportation secretary (and thereby the regulating the design oroperation of private spacecraft, unless they have resulted in a serious or fatal injury to crew means that the FAA could suspend Virgin Galactic's licence to could also insiston checking private manned spacecraft as thoroughly as it does commercial e that may:make suborbital travel safer, it would add significant cost and complexity to an emerging industry thathas until now operated largely as the playground of billionaires and dreamy engineers.
How Virgin Galactic, regulators and the public respond to this most recent tragedy will determinewhether and how soon private space travel can transcend that e is no doubt thatspaceflight entails risks, and to pioneer a new mode of travel is to face those risks, and to reduce the benefit of hard-won experience.
is said about the failure of VSS Enterprise?
may lead to the bankruptcy of Virgin Galactic.
has a strong negative impact on space tourism.
may discourage rich people from space travel.
has aroused public attention to safety issues.
do we learn about the space-tourism firm Virgin Galactic?
has just built a craft for commercial flights.
has sent half a dozen passengers into space.
was about ready to start regular business.
is the first to launch "suborbital" flights.
is the purpose of the 2004 Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act?
ensure space travel safety.
limit the FAA's functions.
legalize private space explorations.
promote the space tourism might the FAA do after the recent accident in California?
se more rigid safety standards.
certifying new space-tourist agencies.
d its 2004 Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act.
end Virgin Galactic's licence to take passengers into space.
does the author think of private space travel?
is worth promoting despite the risks involved.
should not be confined to the rich only.
should be strictly regulated.
is too risky to carry on.
Part IV Translation(30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2.
在幫助國際社會於2030年前消除極端貧困過程中，中國正扮演著越來越重要的角色。
自20世紀70年代未實施改革開放以來，中國已使多達四億人擺脫了貧困。在未來五年中，中國將向其他發展中國家在減少貧困、發展教育、農業現代化、環境保護和醫療保健等方面提供援助。
中國在減少貧困方面取得了顯著進步，並在促進經濟增長方面做出了不懈努力，這將鼓勵其他貧困國家應對自身發展中的挑戰。在尋求具有自身特色的發展道路時，這些國家可以借鑑中國的經驗。
