第I卷(共75分)

I. Listening Comprehension

Section A (10%)

Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.

1. A. Allen is still in bed. B. Allen fell ill last week.

C. The woman is Allen’s sister. D. The man is Allen’s brother.

2. A. He is a writer. B. He is a student.

C. He is a worker. D. He is a tour guide.

3. A. The woman doesn’t know the man.

B. The woman and the man are friends.

C. The man is very familiar with the women.

D. The man often talks with women.

4. A. The woman bought too many shirts.

B. The woman bought all the shirts in the store.

C. He wanted to see what the woman bought.

D. He didn’t like the style of the shirts.

5. A. In Chicago. B. In Boston. C. In Washington. D. In Manchester.

6. A. He is very shy. B. He is open-minded.

C. He is brave. D. He is modest.

7. A. No news is good news. B. The man’s family has forgotten him.

C. The woman works in the post office. D. The man expects to hear from his family.

8. A. He wants to play tennis outdoors. B. He feels tired and sick.

C. He doesn’t want to play tennis. D. He wants to play basketball instead.

9. A. Kim should study up late for the exam.

B. Kim should be well rested for the exam.

C. Kim will get some fresh air in the morning.

D. Kim will be the top student in the exam.

10. A. The woman will rent the house.

B. The woman likes the house very much.

C. The woman is not satisfied with the house.

D. The woman will buy the house.

Section B(6%)

Directions: In Section B, you will hear one short passage, and you will be asked three questions on the passages. The passage will be read twice but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.

Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.

11. A. The second Monday of every month.

B. The Monday when the sky is blue.

C. The day when people have to stop weekend to work.

D. The day that most of the people feel blue.

12. A. Jobs make people get money and social identity.

B. Jobs can only offer people a lot of money.

C. Jobs make people be busy every day.

D. Jobs let people know many other new friends.

13. A. How American workers are doing today.

B. The current economic situation.

C. What people say about the government.

D. The history of work in U.S.

Section C (4%)

Directions: In Section C, you will hear a longer conversation. The conversation will be read twice. After you hear the conversation, you are required to fill in the numbered blanks with the information you have heard. Write your answers on your answer sheet.

Blanks 17 to 20 are based on the following conversation.

Relieve Pressure



How is John

He looks pale and __14__.



The reason caused stress

The manager assigned two __15__ to him.



Present situation

The deadlines are __16__.



Solution

Need someone to __17__to.





Complete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer.

II. Grammar and Vocabulary

Section A (15%)

Directions: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

A

What’s the frightening situation you can think of? For many people, it’s being shut somewhere they (18)____ not get out of.

That’s exactly (19)____happened to an American tourist who said, “it feels good to be free” after he was locked inside a London bookstore for two hours.

David Willis had been using the Internet inside the Waterstones store in Trafalgar Square, London, UK （20）____ he found that he had been shut inside, according to Sky News.

He tried （21）____(get) out but failed, and it was only after posting messages on Twitter, a social network, that he （22）____( release).

After he had spoken to the police but still not been released, he posted: “Hi Waterstones, I（23）____(lock) inside of your Trafalgar Square bookstore for two hours now. Please let me out.”

It got the attention of thousands of Internet users. The police arrived at（24）____ store, and they finally let him out just after 11 pm on Thursday.

After he was released, he posted another,（25） ____(simple) message: “I’m free.”

B

Google has begun testing the electric car in Mountain View, California. The car does not have all the normal car controls. Instead, it has a smartphone app that calls it and tells （26）_____the destination, and a STOP button between the two seats in case the passengers need to override the computer.

The company’s co-founder, Sergey Brin, says that they want to change the world for people (27)_____ do not find it easy to travel around. The cars have been built specially by a company in Detroit. Google will now test the cars, (28)______ are not yet for sale.

There need to be detailed scans of the roads before the cars can drive on them, (29)______ they cannot collect and process enough information in real time.

Chris Urmson, director of the driverless car project at Google, said: “The cars will be very basic. But they will take you (30)______ you want to go at the push of a button. And, that’s an important step towards (31)______(improve) road safety and helping millions of people travel around more easily.”

So far, the driverless cars have driven 700,000 miles without an accident caused by the computer. The company says that thousands of people die each year on the roads and that about 80% of crashes are caused (32)______ human mistakes.

Section B (9%)

Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. decided B. especially C. abroad D. problem E. finding

F. struggling G. unemployment H. idea I. leave J. experience





Governments in Europe dream of finding a magic solution to rising unemployment. But, in the

poorest parts of the EU, __33__ continues to rise.

Now, in Sardinia, Italy, a mayor thinks he has found an answer to his town’s unemployment

__34__. Valter Piscedda, the mayor of Elmas, a small town near Sardinia’s capital, Cagliari,

wants to pay residents to __35__. The town will pay for ten unemployed local people to take English lessons, get on a cheap flight and look for jobs in other parts of Europe.

“This __36__ comes from common sense and experience,” he told the Guardian. “In the past year and a half – __37__ in the past few months – I have seen young people, almost every day, who have lost hope that they will find work. Some ask for help in __38__ work here. Others have tried everything and, now, they want to go and gain work experience __39__; life experience, too.”

So he __40__ to help people who want to gain experience abroad.

Sardinia, and also much of southern and central Italy, is __41__ with high unemployment.

Unemployment was at 17.7% in the second quarter of 2014, according to Italy’s National Institute of Statistics. More than 54% of people under 25 are out of work.

III. Reading Comprehension

Section A (10%)

Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.

There are about 50,000 mystery shopping trips every month in the UK. Mystery shoppers pretend to be a customer in a store but they are really__42__ information on the store and how good or bad its service is. The __43__ for mystery shoppers is growing because online shopping is becoming more popular.

“Retailers (零售店) are becoming increasingly __44__ that shoppers who visit a physical store want a service and an experience they can’t get __45__,” says Simon Boydell, spokesman for Marketforce, which has more than 300,000 mystery shoppers. “Our customers want to know how well their __46__ are delivering on that experience.”

“We assign different store locations to each shopper and take turns so that they never __47__ to the same shop within three months,” says Jill Spencer of mystery shopping company ABa. “Each day, they spend up to eight hours __48__ five to ten stores, plus another hour or two writing detailed __49__ on every part of their visit.” For that, the mystery shoppers can earn up to ￡155 a day. Their expenses are also paid. Mystery shoppers who film their visits with a __50__ camera can earn even more – around ￡300 a day.

Mystery shoppers are usually repaid any money they spend in the stores and may also be allowed to __51__ the products they buy. “I’m always given a specific task, such as buying something from a specific department or a new product range, but I can often buy whatever I want – and keep it.” says mystery shopper Laura.

42. A. collecting B. checking C. deleting D. downloading

43. A. foundation B. satisfaction C. decision D. demand

44. A. popular B. aware C. detective D. imaginative

45. A. home B. office C. online D. paid

46. A. stores B. customers C. headquarters D. access

A. round off B. pass on C. get over D. go back

A. staring B. simplifying C. visiting D. predicting

A. bills B. reports C. articles D. diaries

A. hidden B. amused C. renewed D. displayed

A. release B. benefit C. keep D. expand

Section B (15%)

Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the on