第一卷（共70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 conversation and the question 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. Go home B. Attend a party C. See a friend D. Leave her office

2. A. Driver and policeman B. Dentist and patient

C. Waiter and customer D. Father and daughter

3. A. At a railway station B. At an airport

C. At a hotel D. At a police station

4. A. He has worked in Samsung for too long. B. He wants to work in a larger company.

C. He thinks the new job is more challenging. D. He likes to do many different jobs.

5. A. She broke the man’s pencil-box. B. She said sorry to the man.

C. She stole the man’s pencils. D. she blocked the man’s way.

6. A. Near a library B. Near a bus stop

C. Near a school D. Near a market

7. A. He enjoyed the party very much. B. He wanted to organize next party.

C. The party was held by hid friends. D. He didn’t like some of the guests.

8. A. She worked late. B. She had a chest pain.

C. She was quite weak. D. She had a cold.

9. A. A salesman B. A waiter C. A guide D. A lawyer

10. A. A room with a shower B. A room with a big bed

C. A room with two windows D. A room facing the south

Section B (6%)

Directions: In Section B, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passages. The passages 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. His experience B. Hid good personality

C. His musical ability D. His management skills

12. A. His mother B. His father C. His uncle D. His aunt

13. A. 35 B. 40 C. 45 D. 50

Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.

14. A. Relaxed B. Busy C. Healthy D. Tense

15. A. 2,300 yuan B. 3,000 yuan C. 3,200 yuan D. 3,300 yuan

16. A. There are very few tea houses there. B. They are only open to certain people.

C. They offer a whole range of products. D. Most people go there to talk business.

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 through 20 are based on the following conversation.

Betty’s Good News



The reasons why Betty is so happy

Her brother got married on _________17_________.

She has moved into her brother’s ________18______ with the balcony she likes very much.



Betty’s suggestion on what to do next

Stopping ________19_______ and going to get what they need.



Where to go next

A ________20________.



Complete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer.

II. Grammar and Vocabulary

Section A (12%)

Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage 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.

Nine people including five children were killed and more than 30 injured in a fire in an apartment block in Ludwigshaven in southwest Germany. _____21_____ fire broke out on Sunday afternoon on the ground floor of the century-old building and rapidly spread, sending flames through the roof. The wooden staircase burned out, _____22______ (trap) all those inside and forcing many to jump out of the windows _____23_____ (escape) the flames, local fire chief Peter Friedrich told reporters.

“The staircase was nothing ____24____ a pile of ashes. People were escaping ____25___ the windows even before we arrived at the scene. Adults jumped out of the windows and threw children out to save their lives,” Friedrich said. “Eight people died in the flames, while the ninth passed away in hospital. 60 people were rescued from the building and 35 were rushed to hospital. Three people were in a serious condition but their lives were not in danger. _____26_____ was a child who had suffered smoke inhalation（吸入）and the other two adults who _______27_____ (injure) when they leapt from the ____28_____ (burn) building.”

Friedrich said among those _____29_____ (rescue) were two children _____30_____ were found cowering （蜷缩）behind a couch in a flame-filled room. Television news showed images of one of _____31______ in blackened clothes being taken out of the apartment building. The mayor of Ludwigshaven, Eva Lohse, said the fire was ______32____ (bad) the city had seen since World War II. “The terrible images of the child being brought out of the flames will remain with us for a long time. We are deeply shocked.” Lohse said.

Section B (10%)

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. unbelievably B. description C. colleagues D. promote

E. customers F. information G. invite H. employees

I. impressive J. vividly K. common





To advertise effectively today, you must abandon the old-school idea of “reaching the masses”. All advertising is local and personal. The key to effective advertising today is to focus on the individual.

Some are the ____33___ ways every advertiser could work out. You can print a specific offer of your goods or service on door-hangers and place them on doorknobs in your area. Door-hangers on doorknobs will produce results in direct ?_____34____?about the strength of your offer. If you need to reach the drivers, flyer (宣传单) under windshield (挡风玻璃) wipers may have better effect than door-hangers. Imagine, how _____35_____?if you hire someone to be a walking ad or launch a T-shirt advertising, ?that is, you can print your products on T-shirts of your _____36____. In the early 1970s “Hamp Baker says Drive with Care” was spray-painted on cars, which was a public service ad. Ever since, spray-painted sign has become more and more popular.

More grand ways are as follows: virtual showroom. Build a website to serve?as a virtual showroom. Use it when people call to ask details?about your company, your products or your services. Also you can even use an old slide projector to put on a nighttime show. They’re ____37______?effective, and in the long run, cheap. Nothing is quite as powerful as a public performance?that seizes the public’s attention. You can ____38_____ a band to give a performance. Moreover, you can hire famous models to show it _____39_____.

Nothing screams “expert” quite as loudly as a book written about a subject. You simply can’t imagine?the power of your name on the cover of a book. You might only sell a few copies online, but the copies you give away in your town will make you a fortune. You won’t make money on the book. You’ll make it because of the book.

Of course, word-of-mouth is the best way to ____40_____ your business. Friends and past customers recommend your products to their family, friends and _____41_____. Word-of-mouth works because the _____42_____?is based on previous positive experiences.

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.

British men are abandoning their stiff（僵硬的）upper lips but still do not express their feeling openly like Americans, a research shows. When it comes to strong emotion, the once _____43_____ British are now happy to cry quite openly.

"Thirty percent of all British males have cried in the last month. That is a very high figure," said Peter Marsh, director of the Social Issues Research Center. "Only two percent said they could not remember when then they last cried," the head of the research group said. Long gone is the "No _____44____ ----- We're British" time when emotion was considered a _____45_____ form. "Among 2,000 people, very few people in their forties or fifties had seen their _____46_____ cry. Now it is twice as many," he told reporters. "Seventy-seven percent of men considered crying in public increasingly ______47____." Almost half the British men opened the floodgates over a bad movie, book or TV program. Self-pity got 17 percent crying. Nine percent cried at weddings.

Form the days of Empire, the British have always considered themselves models of reserve（矜持）, _____48______ "excitable foreigners" who show no _____49_____.

Marsh argued the ______50______ was still there: "We have probably not caught up with the Americans or the Italians when it comes to the actual display of emotions"

"But we are clearly ______51_______. What we take as typical British reserve has been significantly disappeared."

Women's battle for equal rights has certainly had an effect --- both in the workplace and at home. "Men in their twenties or thirties are interacting with women on equal terms much more so than a generation ago. They have to relate to the opposite sex .Women become more man -like and men become more female. That transfers into the ____52____ too," Marsh said.

43. A. helpless B. cool C. serious D. speechless

44. A. Tears B. Smoking C. Excitement D. Doubt

45. A. common B. preferred C. bad D. crazy

46. A. neighbour B. partner C. mother D. father

47. A. unwise B. unavoidable C. available D. acceptable

48. A. laughing at B. interested in C. looking jealously at D. taki