第一卷（共三部分， 共计 115分）

注意事项：

1. 答题前，考生在答题卡上务必用直径0. 5毫米黑色墨水签字笔将自己的姓名、准考证号填写清楚。

2.. 每小题选出答案后，用2B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，在试题卷上作答无效。

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。录音结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将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。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。

1. Where?is?the?woman?from?

A. Japan. B. England. C. Australia.

2. How?many?children?does?the?woman?have?

A. Two. B. Three. C. Five.

3. What?does?the?woman?suggest?

A. Going?to?town. B. Seeing?a?movie. C. Having?a?meal.

4. What?is?the?woman?going?to?do?

A. Stay?for?tea. B. Buy?some?fruits. C. Go?back?home.

5. What?is?the?conversation?mainly?about?

A. The?woman’s study. B. The?woman’s friend.

C. The?woman’s trouble.

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。

听下面一段对话，回答第6至第7两个小题。

6. In?which?season?does?the?conversation?take?place?

A. The?spring. B. The?summer. C. The?autumn.

7. What?is?the?man?going?to?do?next？

A. Go?for?a?walk. B. Take?pictures. C. Eat?food.

8. What?is?the?relationship?between?the?two?speakers?

A. Couple. B. Friends. C. Classmates.

请听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。

9. What?is?the?purpose?of?this?talk?

A. To?talk?about?the?exam. B. To?introduce?a?professor.

C. To?explain?the?arrangement.

10. When?is?the?talk?probably?given?

A. At?the?beginning?of?the?term. B. In?the?middle?of?the?term.

C. By?the?end?of?the?term.

11. What?will?Professor?Brown?do?next?Thursday?

A. Organize?the?exam. B. Attend?a?meeting. C. Answer?questions.

请听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。

12. Where?is?the?man?going?

A. To?a?police?station. B. To?a?repair?shop. C. To?a?book?store.

13. What?is?most?probably?a?“town?guide “in?the?conservatism?

A. A?book. B. A?person. C. A?shop.

14. What?is?the?conversation?mainly?about?

A. Buying?some?books. B. Repairing?a?watch. C. Finding?a?place.

请听第9段材料，回答15至17题。

第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）

第一节 阅读理解（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A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。A

For centuries ,the only form of written correspondence（通信）was the letter .Letters were ,and are ,sent by some form of postal service ,the history of which goes back a long way. Indeed ,the Egyptians began sending letters from about 2000 BC, as did the Chinese a thousand years later.

Of course ,modern postal services now are much more developed and faster ,depending as they do on cars and planes for transportation .Yet they are still too slow for some people to send urgent documents（紧急文件）and letters.

The invention of the fax（传真）machine increased the speed of delivering documents even more .When you send a fax ,you are sending a copy of a piece of correspondence to someone by telephone service .It was not until the early 1980s that such a service was developed enough for businesses to be able to fax documents to each other.

The fax service is still very much in use when copies of documents require to be sent ,but ,as a way of fast correspondence, it has been largely taken the place of by email. Email is used to describe messages sent from one computer user to another.

There are advantages and disadvantages with emails. If you send someone an email, then he will receive it extremely quickly. Normal postal services are rather slow as far as speed of delivery is concerned.

However ,if you write something by email ,which you might later regret ,and send it immediately ,there is no chance for second thoughts. At least ,if you are posting a letter you have to address and seal（封）the envelope and take it to the post box.There is plenty of time to change your mind. The message is :think before you email!

21．We can learn from the text that .

A．email is less popular than the fax service

B．the postal service has over the years become faster

C．the postal service has over the years become slower

D．the fax service has a history as long as the postal service does

22．In the last paragraph ,the writer mentions “think before you email” to show that .

A．you may regret if you don’t seal your envelope

B．you may regret before you send something by email

C．you’d better not send your email in a hurry

D．you need plenty of time to send an email

23．The text mainly deals with .

A．the progress in correspondence

B．the advantage of fax machines

C．the advantage of emails

D．the invention of fax machines

B

Old Computers Make for Unhappy Workers－Survey

LONDON(Reuters)－Dealing with the dissatisfaction of ageing and unreliable office computers leads to workers’ unhappiness and more sick-leave, a survey (调查)showed on Wednesday.

A survey carried out by care4free. net of over 2,700 European office workers from the UK, France and Germany found that workplace dissatisfaction increased greatly with the age of computer equipment.

“We do know that job satisfaction is falling in Britain and in most advanced nations,” said Stephen White, a researcher from the Work Foundation. “The actual reasons for this are the subject of very heated discussion. It’s certainly one interesting theory that technology may be the cause of this in some way,” White added.

A quarter of those using outdated computers in Britain said they were “quite” or “very dissatisfied” with their everyday job compared to 16 percent of those who had enjoyed an advantage from up-to-date technology.

The survey also said that among workers dealing with outdated equipment, there was a 35 percent greater probability they would take six or more days of sick-leave per year compared with the average worker. In France, where more workers use older computers, the probability jumped to 55 percent.

Results also showed that women in the three countries were more likely to be using outdated equipment. In the UK, where more workers have up-to-date computers than in the other countries surveyed, the number of women using old equipment doubled that of men.

White pointed out that there were two sides to this problem, saying that continually having to deal with new technology and new equipment can also be a source of worry. “Old and faulty equipment is a major cause of office dissatisfaction, there’s no question about it. But you also have to say that the frequent change of equipment is also, or could be, a main cause of dissatisfaction.”

24．The underlined word “this”(paragraph 3) refers to .

A．workplace dissatisfaction B．computer use in most jobs

C．the ageing of office computers D．the survey by care4free.net

25．How many office workers using old computers in Britain expressed their dissatisfaction?

A．16% B．25%

C．35% D．55%

26．According to White, why were the women surveyed more likely to use old computers?

A．Most office workers use old computers.

B．They do some of their work with computers.

C．Dealing with new equipment can cause anxiety.

D．They are easier to be satisfied with new technology.

27．What is the subject of this news story?

A．Poor working conditions in offices. B．Research work of the Work Foundation.

C．Influence of technology in the workplace. D．different attitudes to old computers.

C

I had an experience some years ago, which taught me something about the ways in which people make a bad situation worse by blaming themselves. One January, I had to hold two funerals on successive days for two elderly women in my community. Both had died “full of years”, as the Bible would say. Their homes happened to be near each other, so I paid condolence(吊唁) calls on the two families on the same afternoon.

At the first home, the son of the deceased(已故的) woman said to me, “If only I sent my mother to Florida and gotten her out of this cold and snow, she would be alive today. It’s my fault that she died.” At the second home, the son of the other deceased woman said, “If only I hadn’t insisted on my mother’s going to Florida, she would be alive today. That long airplane ride, the sudden change of climate, was more than she could take. It’s my fault that she’s dead.”

You see that any time there is a death, the survivors will feel guilty. Because the course of action they took turned out bad, they believe that the opposite course ---keeping Mother at home, putting off the operation--- would have turned out better. After all, how could it have turned out any worse?

There seem to be two elements involved in our willingness to feel guilty. The first is our pressing need to believe that the world makes sense, that there is a cause for every effect and a reason for everything that happens. That leads us to find patterns and connections both where they really exist and where they exist only in our minds.

The second element is the view that we are the cause of what happens, especially the bad things that happen. It seems to be a short step from believing that every event has a cause to believing that every disaster is our fault. The roots of this feeling may lie in our childhood.

A baby comes to think that the world exists to meet his needs, and that he makes everything happen in it. He wakes up in the morning and summons(召唤) the rest of the world to his tasks. He cries, and someone comes to attend to him. When he is hungry, people feed him, and when he is wet, people change him. Very often, we do not completely outgrow that childish view that our wishes cause things to happen.

28. What is said about the two deceased elderly women?

A. They weren’t used to the cold and the snow.

B. They died of exhaustion after the long plane ride.

C. They lived out a natural life.

D. They died due to lack of care by family members.

29. People feel guilty for the death of their loved ones because ____.

A. they couldn't find a better way to express their sorrow.

B. they believed that they were responsible

C. they had neglected the natural course of events

D. they didn't know things often turn in the opposite direction

30. Which of the following is True according to the writer?

A. People should feel guilty when everything turned out wrong.

B. People’s childhood view makes them believe that their wishes