2015.02

本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分。共150分。考试时间120分钟。

第Ⅰ卷　

第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）

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A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置上。听完每段对话后，你有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. When does the play start?

A. At 6:30. B. At 8:00. C. At 6: 00.

2. What have they decided to do?

A. Visit. B. Play. C. Fly.

3. Who didn't finish the work?

A. Lily. B. Tom. C. Jack.

4. What is Betty's opinion?

A. Women are better cooks than men.

B. Women are better teachers than men.

C. Women are better workers than men.

5. Why aren't the watches like these made now?

A. Because they are so cheap.

B. Because they are too expensive.

C. Because people don't like them.

第二节（共15小题; 每小题1.5分，共22.5分）

听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几道小题，从每题所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有5秒钟的时间阅读每小题。听完后，每小题将给出5秒钟的做答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。

6. What kind of movie is going to be on?

A. The love movie.

B. The kungfu movie.

C. The detective movie.

7. How does Grace like the kungfu movie?

A. She thinks it's great.

B. She doesn't like it at all.

C. She enjoys it very much and plans to see it again.

听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

8. What's the relationship between the speakers?

A. Brother and sister. B. Mother and son. C. Classmates.

9. What are they going to do?

A. They are going to have an exam.

B. They are going to travel.

C. They are going to buy a watch.

10. What does the woman think of the man?

A. He is very serious. B. He is too careless. C. He is very lazy.

听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。

11. Why does the man buy a farm?

A. He is tired of living in the factory.

B. He wants to live with a farmer.

C. He wants to earn much money.

12. Why does the woman sell her farm?

A. Because the ground is unfit to grow wheat.

B. Because she has no modern farm equipment.

C. Because farming is very hard work.

13. Which of the following statements is not true?

A. The woman has her own farm.

B. The woman sold her farm at a high price.

C. The man paid $200 for the woman's farm.

听第9段材料，回答第14至17题。

14. Where was the doctor going in his car?

A. The doctor was going to a garage.

B. The doctor was going to a patient's home.

C. The doctor was going to his own home.

15. Which of the following was the cause of the accident?

A. The doctor was careless.

B. A big tree fell on his car.

C. The road was covered with ice.

16. Why did the doctor go to the nearest house?

A. Because he knew one of his patients lived there.

B. He had received a call to go there.

C. He wanted to use the telephone.

17. Why did the woman patient telephone the doctor?

A. She needed medical treatment.

B. To ask how soon the doctor could come.

C. She believed somebody else needed a doctor.

听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18. What's in the young man's hands?

A. There are two bags in his hands.

B. There are two books in his hands.

C. There are two boxes in his hands.

19. How does the driver feel when he hears the passenger is going to the hotel?

A. Disappointed. B. Glad. C. Regretful.

20. How much will the young man give the driver?

A. 30 dollars. B. 15 dollars. C. 13 dollars.

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)

阅读下面的短文，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

Louisa May Alcott was born in Pennsylvania in 1832. She was the second of four daughters. Her father was an educator and social reformer. The Alcotts did not have much money. Louisa worked to help support her family. She tried teaching, sewing, and taking care of children. She did not like any of these jobs.

Louisa liked writing and thought of herself as a writer. At the age of sixteen, she wrote her first book. It was called Flower Fables. She decided to sell what she wrote. She wrote many kinds of poems, stories, and plays. Her stories were exciting, but unrealistic. She sold them to newspapers and magazines for small amounts of money.

In 1868, an American publisher asked the struggling young writer, Louisa May Alcott, to write a book for girls. At first, she was not sure she wanted to do it. She said she never liked girls. And she never knew many, except her sisters.

Louisa decided to write the book anyway. She thought her family’s activities and experiences might be interesting to others. She told about her experiences growing up in the northeastern United States during the middle of the nineteenth century. Her book proved to be more than interesting. Little Women became one of the most popular children’s books in American literature. It has been published in more than fifty languages.

21. How many daughters did the Alcotts have?

A. Two. B. Three. C. Four. D. Five.

22. Which of the following jobs did Louisa like?

A. Teaching. B. Sewing. C. Writing. D. Caring for children.

23. Why did Louisa decide to write a book for girls?

A. She knew many girls and she liked girls very much.

B. She wanted to make money from the book.

C. She wrote many kinds of interesting stories.

D. She thought her family’s story might be interesting to others.

24. Which statement about Little Women is not true?

A. It proved to be very popular and interesting.

B. It was the first book Louisa May Alcott wrote.

C. It became one of the most popular children’s books in American literature.

D. It has been published in more than fifty languages.

　　B

Not many couples stay married for 50 years. Even fewer do so for 75 years. It’s almost impossible for a couple to be married for 85 years. But that’s exactly what Henry and Maggie Thurston did.

Henry was born on a farm in Iowa in 1857. At the age of 18 he went to Chicago to attend university. There he met Maggie, who had come from Cleveland to study art. She was one year younger.

This was a true case of love at first sight. They got married in 1876, less than six months after they met. In 1877 their first son, Jack, was born. By 1885 they had five children, including their third son, Lou, who became a well-known writer. From 1900 to 1915 Henry and Maggie became grandparents thirty-one times.

On February 17th, 1961, they celebrated their 85th wedding anniversary. The day they had chosen for their wedding had become Valentine’s Day. Over one hundred newsmen came to report on the event. The couple was seen on national TV. Most amazing of all, though, was the fact that over 1,500 relatives were also present. The youngest was a three-week-old baby girl. Henry and Maggie were old. He was 104 and she was 103.

25. What did Maggie study at university?

A. Maths. B. Physics. C. Art. D. Chemistry.

26. Which of the following is true about Lou Thurston?

A. He was a student of art.

B. He was a newsman.

C. He was a farmer.

D. He was a writer.

27. When did Henry and Maggie celebrate their 85th wedding anniversary?

A. In 1916. B. In 1961. C. In 1915. D. In 1985.

C

When you turn on the radio, you hear an advertisement. When you watch television, you hear and see an advertisement. If you turn the pages of a newspaper or magazine, again you find an advertisement. If you walk down the street, you see one advertisement board after another. All day, every day, people who want to sell you something competent to catch your attention. As a result, advertisements are almost everywhere. In the West, advertisements are the fuel that makes mass media(大众媒介) work. The government does not give money to mass media such as TV stations, newspapers, magazines and radio stations. They are all owned privately. So where does the money come from? From advertisements. Without advertisements, there would not be these private businesses.

Have you ever asked yourself what advertising is? Through the years, people have given different answers to the question. For some time it was felt that advertising was a means of “keeping your name before the public”. And some people thought that advertising was “ truth well told”. Now more and more people describe it in this way: Advertising is the paid, nonpersonal, and usually persuasive description of goods, services and ideas through various media.

All advertisements try to make people believe that the product, idea, or service advertised can do well to them. Advertisements exist everywhere in our lives.

28. What is the passage mainly about?

A. The importance of advertisement

B. The society’s great need of advertisement

C. The beginning of advertisement

D. The prosperity of advertisement

29. What’s the financial source of the privately owned mass media?

A. The local governments. B. Their owners’ families.

C. Advertisements. D. The audience.

30. According to the passage, what is one of the features of advertisements?

A. Advertising is personal opinions that people don’t believe them.

B. Advertisements try to make people believe their products are true.

C. Advertisements are unreliable and people don’t buy things on line.

D. Advertisements are misleading that people all buy things on shops.

Which of the following is true?

Without advertisements, the mass media in the West could not work.

In America, the government spend a lot of money on the mass media.

About what advertising is, people have no answers to it.

D. People now don’t believe the advertisements.

D

For this little boy, it was the coldest winter. In the winter, his father had an accident and lost a leg. The family lost their only source of income (收入). From then on, his father became a defferent person. When the boy behaved badly, the father flied into a rage (大发雷霆).

One night, the boy wandered alone in the street. He passed a lovely small shop, which was so charming that he couldn’t turn his eyes away from it. He stared at some fine packages of coffee quietly. An idea came into his mind. He knew his father loved coffee and he also knew stealing was not good, but all he could think of was his father’s smile. He soon put a package of coffee into his jacket and ran back home. He