第一部分：听力（30分）

：听下面5段对话。每段对话后有1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。

What’s the weather like in London?

It’s always fine

It rains occasionally.

It’s seldom sunny

Where is the conversation taking place?

In a department store.

On the second floor.

At a man’s store.

When did the movie begin?

At 7:50 B. At 8:05 C. At 8:10

Why is the woman lonely?

The house is too big

She is all alone.

Her children have left home.

How many days will the man be traveling ?

About 20 days B. About 15 days C. About 6 days

第二节：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小题。

Why will the girl not be able to come to school for a couple of weeks?

Because she will be operated on.

Because there’s something wrong with her chest.

Because she is suffering from the trouble with her liver.

What’s the possible relationship between the two speakers？

Father and daughter B. Brother and sister C. Classmates

听第7段材料，回答第8-10小题。

How much money does the man want to borrow from the woman?

A. Fifteen dollars B. Fifty dollars C. Five dollars

What can we learn about the man from the dialogue?

A. He is in meed of money to buy some clothes

B. His boss has fired him.

C. His father is a farmer.

What’s the result of the dialogue?

A. The woman lent him some money.

B. The man found a job.

C. The man returned home.

听第8段材料，回答第11-13小题。

Where does the conversation most likely take place?

A. In a hospital. B. In a hotel C. In a restaurant.

How much is a single room with a view of the sea?

A. Twenty dollars B. Ten dollars. C. Fifty dollars.

How much should the man pay for his booked rooms?

A. 140 dollars B. 100 dollars C. 120 dollars

听第9段材料，回答第14-16小题。

What does the man do?

A. He is a farmer B. He is a doctor. C. He is a cowboy

Which of the following about Fred is not true according to the dialogue?

A. He’s thinking of buying some more fields this year.

B. He takes pride in owning the largest farm in Kent.

C. He works very hard.

What did Mrs. Young do last time she was at Fred’s?

A. She milked a cow.

B. She ploughed（犁地） the field

C. She helped get in corn.

听第10段材料，回答第17-20小题。

Where was the danced held?

A. At a hotel B. In a hall. C. In a square.

18 .Which of the following is true about the man?

A. He is a man of about thirty years

B. He likes dancing with beautiful girls.

C. He thinks highly of his dance.

Why did the girl know he was a good dancer?

A. She had ever danced with him.

B. She had seen him dance before.

C. She heard about it from her friends.

What would make the man disappointed with the girl?

That the girl couldn’t dance well.

That the girl got married.

That the girl’s mother was standing beside the girl.

第二部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40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。

第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

A

The amount of carbon taken in by growing plants increased from 1982 to 1999 as temperatures rose and the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increased. But a new study in Friday's edition of the journal Science found a drought-related decline in such plant growth from 2000 to 2009, even though temperatures continued to climb.

As drought caused by warming reduces the land's ability to take in carbon, the result could be more carbon dioxide left in the atmosphere, and thus more warming, Zhao Maosheng from the University of Montana explained in a telephone interview.

“This is a pretty serious warning that warmer temperatures are not going to endlessly improve plant growth，”co-author Steven Running, also from the University of Montana, said in a statement.“We see this as a bit of a surprise, and potentially significant on a policy level because previous interpretations（理解、说明） suggested global warming might actually help plant growth around the world，”he said.

Instead, he and Zhao found a small but measurable decline of about 1%, compared to a 6% increase in the past decade.

Their study, based on the data collected by NASA satellites, found that north areas continued to increase plant growth, thanks to warmer temperatures and a longer growing season.

Someone commented，“This past decade's net decline in earthly productivity suggests that a complex relationship between temperature, rainfall, cloudiness, and carbon dioxide，probably in combination with other factors such as nutrients（营养物） and land management, will determine future patterns and trends in productivity（生产率或生产效率）.”

21．From the first paragraph, we can learn ________ in the recent decade or so.

A．the emission（排放） of carbon hasn't been reduced

B．drought has been causing loss of soil and water

C．carbon dioxide levels have been rising

D．the rise of temperature doesn't promote the plant growth

22．Zhao Maosheng really worried that ________.

A．more and more land will be abandoned

B．the climate becomes warmer and warmer

C．the emission of carbon dioxide increases

D．drought further reduces the number of the plants

23．We can infer from the passage that ________.

A．global warming will determine the future productivity

B．various factors play a key role jointly（联合地、共同地） on future productivity

C．earthly productivity actually increased in the past decade

D．temperature rise has had no effect on future productivity patterns

B

As the new term starts, freshmen around the world are asking the same question: how can I make the best of four years at college? The New York Times received suggestions recently from PhD students and seniors at some of the top US universities. Here's their advice.

“Many young people today are raised in a protective cocoon (茧)”， wrote Tim Novikoff, a PhD student at Comell.“College is a time to explore the world beyond and a chance to learn new things about yourself. Take classes in different subjects. Try lots of different clubs and activities.”

Remember also to take some time away from campus, suggested Willie Lin, a student at WashingtonUniversity.“If_you_spend_all_of_your_time_in_school,_then_it_becomes_too_easy_to_let_critici-sm_from_an_unkind_professor_or_a_conflict_with_a_roommate_take_up_large_pro-portions.（比例、成分）”

Try to find work assisting a researcher or a professor — this is the advice from Aman Singh Gill, a PhD student at Stony Brook University. And he also said，“With a window into the world of research, you will find yourself thinking more critically, accepting fewer states at face value and perhaps developing a brave sense of what you can accomplish.”

Many young people cannot imagine even a single day without devices such as computers and cellphones. But try to keep yourself off them, cautioned Christine Smallwood, a PhD student at Columbia University.

Start by scheduling a few Internet-free hours each day，with your phone turned off. It's the only way you'll be able to read anything serious.“This will also have the benefit of making you harder to reach, and thus more mysterious and fascinating to new friends and acquaintances (熟人)，” she suggested.

24．The underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 means we should ________.

A．spend more time at school

B．take some time out of school

C．listen to criticism more

D．not argue with roommates

25．Who thinks it is important to consider something critically?

A．Tim Novikoff.　　　　　 B．Aman Singh Gill.

C．Christine Smallwood. D．Willie Lin.

26．As for modern information devices, the last two paragraphs mean to tell us ________.

A．not to use them B．to turn them off

C．to keep ourselves off them forever D．to make a schedule to use them

27．This passage is mainly about ________.

A．tips from some students for college life

B．ways to read something serious regularly

C．days without cellphones and computers

D．chances to go to university you really like

C

In this world there is a creature，other than man，that can kill a whale. This creature is a killer

whale，and it also eats seals and penguins.

There is not just one killer whale but a whole pod of killer whales. A pod is a group of closely

related whales. A pod is formed when a female killer whale gives birth to a baby，which means that the oldest female is the leader because all the other members are her children and her children's children. A pod is made up of 4 to 40 killer whales. Killer whales stay in a pod to protect the young and to help with hunting. These pods usually develop their own languages.

What a killer whale looks like Killer whales are always black and white. You can tell the female and male whales apart very easily. A male has a bigger dorsal fin(背鳍)than a female killer whale. A dorsal fin is the fin that is at the top of the killer whale. An adult male whale can grow up to 23 feet and weigh up to 4,000—5,000 kilograms. A female can grow to 21 feet and weigh up to 2,500—3,000 kilograms. A killer whale has 20 or more cone-shaped(锥形的)teeth. These teeth help hold and kill their food.

Languages Clicks and whistles are the language of all killer whales. One pod's dialect can be different from the other pod's dialect. This form of speech is very important because it is the way killer whales communicate. Say that you and a friend sat across the room from each other. You would not be able to get his attention without using your voice. You see，the clicks and whistles are almost the same as the words in human speech. Both are used for communicating.

Hunting Without good hunting skills，the pod would not survive. Killer whales sometimes hunt by themselves to get their own food. The newborn babies are taught everything they need to know about hunting as a member of the pod.

Killer whales eat salmon，squid，birds，penguins，sea turtles，seals，and porpoises. What they eat depends on what is in their area and what is available. Killer whales can break thin Antarctic ice. In this way，killer whales get their food，which can be penguins or seals.

28．Which of the following is TRUE about killer whales?

A．Killer whales like to live in a