第I卷

注意事项：

1.答第I卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。

2.选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。不能答在本试卷上，否则无效。

第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）

做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。

第一节(共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分)

听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中给出的A, B, C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。

1. What does the man like about the play?

A. The story. B. The ending. C. The actor.

2. Which place are the speakers trying to find?

A. hotel. B. bank. C. restaurant.

3. At what time will the two speakers meet?

A. 5:20. B. 5:10. C. 4:40.

4. What will the man do?

A. Change the plan. B. Wait for a phone call. C. Sort things out.

5. What does the woman want to do?

A. See a film with the man.

B. Offer the man some help.

C. Listen to some great music.

第二节(共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分)

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. Where is Ben?

A. In the kitchen. B. At school. C. In the park.

7. What will the children do in the afternoon?

A. Help set the table. B. Have a party. C. Do their homework.

听第7段材料, 回答第8、9题。

8. What are the two speakers talking about?

A. A family holiday. B. A business trip. C. A travel plan.

9. Where did Rachel go?

A. Spain. B. Italy. C. China.

听第8段材料, 回答第10至12题。

10. How did the woman get to know about third-hand smoke?

A. From young smokers.

B. From a newspaper article.

C. From some smoking parents.

11. Why does the man say that he should keep away from babies?

A. He has just become a father. B. He wears dirty clothes. C. He is a smoker.

12. What does the woman suggest smoking parents should do?

A. Stop smoking altogether.

B. Smoke only outside their houses.

C. Reduce dangerous matter in cigarettes.

听第9段材料, 回答第l 3至16题。

13. Where does Michelle Ray come from?

A. A middle-sized city. B. A small town. C. A big city.

14. Which place would Michelle Ray take her visitors to for shopping?

A. The Zen Garden. B. The Highlands. C. The Red River Area.

15. What does Michelle Ray do for complete quiet?

A. Go camping. B. Study in a library. C. Read at home.

16. What are the speakers talking about in general?

A. Late-night shopping. B. Asian food. C. Louisville.

听第10段材料, 回答第17至20题。

17. Why do some people say they never have dreams according to Dr Garfield?

A. They forget about their dreams.

B. They don’t want to tell the truth.

C. They have no bad experiences.

18. Why did Davis stop having dreams?

A. He got a serious heart attack.

B. He was too sad about his brother’s death.

C. He was frightened by a terrible dream.

19. What is Dr Garfield’s opinion about dreaming?

A. It is very useful.

B. It makes things worse.

C. It prevents the mind from working.

20. Why do some people turn off their dreams completely?

A. To sleep better.

B. To recover from illnesses.

C. To stay away from their problems.

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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

A captain of a boat lost his way in the middle of a storm. While trying to control the ship and avoid sinking, he started feeling annoyed. The water became bigger; the noise of the water hitting the boat, like a feather carried by the wind, almost led him to hopelessness. But he did not give up and tried harder every time the waves hit the boat. In his desperate attempts to stay strong and keep the boat steady, he was unable to hear one of his crew officers yelling at him.

“Captain, Captain!” kept yelling the officer. He held on to one of the deck’s bars in order not to fall off the boat, “Captain, Captain!” insisted the officer.

This time, while the officer was trying to approach him, a huge wave almost made the boat turn over and he fell and rolled on the deck till he luckily found another bar to hold on to. After several attempts, the officer finally was able to reach his fighting and tired captain, who had started to yell out his frustration and thoughts to the angry waves.

“If I am a good and hard-working man, why does this happen to me? And why can’t I get out of this one? I have been sailing the open ocean for years to fish the best catch and get support for my family!! Why, why, why?!!!”

At that moment, his crew officer was able to catch the captain’s shoulder and make him turn so that the captain could hear him.

“Captain, Captain!” yelled again the officer.

The captain looked at him angrily because the officer distracted him from his difficult task.

“What do you need, officer? Don’t you see I am trying to control the ship and find our way back?” complained the captain.

His officer kept holding on to the captain and pointed at the opposite direction, towards the stern (船尾)。

“Captain!” he replied. “The lighthouse is right over there, on the other side. We are going in the wrong direction!!”

The best title of the text would be “__________”.

A. The Boat B. The Captain C. The Lighthouse D. What was wrong?

22. Why was the captain angry with his crew officer?

A. He didn’t want to be disturbed. B. He was trying to keep the balance.

C. The crew officer shouted too loudly. D. The crew officer made the boat shake.

23. According to the officer, what was the problem with the boat?

A. It was like a feather carried by the wind.

B. It was not going in the right direction.

C. There were not enough sailors at that time.

D. There was something wrong with the engine.

24. What is the purpose of Paragraph 1?

A. To describe the background of the story.

B. To describe the terrible weather the captain met.

C. To describe the challenges the captain was meeting with.

D. To describe how the captain struggled to help his crew.

B

 AGNES stands for “Age Gain Now Empathy(换位体验) System” and was designed by researchers at MIT's AgeLab to let you know what it feels like—physically—to be 75 years old.“The business of old age demands new tools,” said Joseph Coughlin, director of the AgeLab. “While observations and surveys can help you understand what the older consumer needs and wants，young marketers never get that ‘Ah ha!’ moment of having difficulty opening a jar, or getting in and out of a car. That’s what AGNES provides.” Coughlin and his team carefully adjusted the suit to make the wearer just as uncomfortable as an old person who has spent a lifetime eating poorly and not doing much exercise. Special shoes provide a feeling of imbalance，while braces on the knees and elbows limit joint mobility.(关节灵活性） Gloves give the feeling of decreased strength and mobility in the hands and wrists，and earplugs make it difficult to hear high-pitched sounds and soft tones. A helmet with straps(带)attached to it presses the spine(脊柱)，and more straps attached to the shoes decrease hamstring(腿筋) flexibility, and shortens the wearer's step. AGNES has been used most recently by a group of students working on a design of?an updated walker. By wearing the suit they could see for themselves what design and materials would make the most sense for a physically limited older person. Coughlin said the suit has also been used by clothing companies, car companies and retail goods companies to help them understand the limitations of an older consumer. “AGNES is not the fortune of everybody,” he said. “She is a badly behaved lady who didn't eat and exercise very well. A secondary benefit we’ve found with AGNES is that it has become a powerful tool to get younger people to invest in their long-term health.”

25. AGNES has been developed to???????.

A. make the users more comfortable

B. let us understand old people better

C. help old people move more quickly

D. produce new tools for the old-age business

26. “An updated walker”(underlined)most likely refers to????.

A. someone who travels a lot

B. a physically limited old person

C. some equipment that helps old people walk

D. a company whose service involves old people

27. Which may be a fact resulting from the “secondary benefit” of AGNES?

A. Young people respect old people.

B. Old-age business improves their service

C. Old people eat and exercise well.

D. Young people eat and exercise well.

C

If you see a group of people dancing and singing on the street or in the railway station, you don’t need to feel surprised. They are a flash mob (快闪族). Don’t be confused by their name. Actually, a flash mob, organized with the help of the Internet or other digital communications networks, is a group of people who come together suddenly in a public place, do something unusual for a period of time, such as exchanging books, coming together to look at the sky, waving their hands and shouting something at the top of their lungs for 30 seconds, and then quickly disappear before the police can arrive. Using mobile phones, the flash mob can change its location if the first one has been replaced for any reason.

Bill Wasik, senior editor of Harper’s Magazine, organized the first flash mob in Manhattan in May, 2003 and the first successful flash mob came together on June 3, 2003—after the first attempt was foiled at Macy’s department store. Following this, about 200 people flooded the hall of the Hyatt hotel, applauding in one voice for fifteen seconds, and next participants pretending to be tourists on a bus trip invaded a shoe shop in Soho. A later mob saw hundreds of people in Central Park making bird noises.?Wasik claimed that he created flash mobs as a social experiment designed to make fun of hipsters(赶时髦的人), and highlight the cultural atmosphere of wanting to be an insider or part of “the next big thing”.

Though flash mobs were firstly regarded as pointless, the concept has already developed for the benefit of political and social events. Flash mobbing takes advantage of the efficiency of communicating informati