（考试时间：120分钟；分值：150分）

第I卷 （满分90分）

I. 听力(共两节，满分20分)

第一节（共5小题；每小题1分，满分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. What do we learn from the conversation?

A. The man hates to lend his tools to other people.

B. The man hasn’t finished working on the bookshelf.

C. The man lost those tools.

2. What are the two speakers talking about?

A. A park. B. A trip. C. A cinema.

3. What does the man mean?A. He would like to make an appointment for the woman.

B. He thinks it worthwhile to try Santerbale’s.

C. He knows a less expensive place for a haircut.

4. What do we learn from this conversation?

A The man wants to go to Los Angeles

B The man wants to go to San Francisco.

C There are no flights to Los Angeles for the rest of the day.

5. What is the woman’s opinion of the research paper?

A. It’s fine as it is.

B. Only a few changes should be made in it.

C. Major revisions are needed in it.

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，每个小题将给出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至8题。

6. Why is Ken calling?

A. To ask about the address for the meeting.

B. To ask about the time for the meeting.

C. To remind Andy of the meeting.

7. Where is Andy?

A. In his office. B. In the supermarket. C. In the downtown.

8. What is Ken’s phone number?

A. 439-808-7754. B. 493-908-7754. C. 439-908-7754.

听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。

9. Which of the following is the man’s favorite food?

A. Carrots. B. Chocolate cakes. C. Fruits.

10. What are the two speakers probably doing now?

A. Having a meal. B. Shopping. C. Preparing food.

11. What does the woman say about carrots?

A. It is rich in fibers.

B. It can reduce weight.

C. It contains much vitamin C.

听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。

12. Where is the conversation taking place?

A. In the man’s house.

B. In the woman’s house.

C. In their friend’s house.

13. What color is the meat container?

A. Blue. B. Yellow. C. Red.

14. What is the side dish mentioned by the man?

A. Eggplant with soy sauce.

B. Pork with pineapple.

C. Tomatoes with sugar.

听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。

15. Who is learning Chinese probably?

A. Rose. B. Jane. C. Jack.

16. How many children does the woman have?

A. Three. B. Four. C. Five.

17. What will the woman do tomorrow?

A. Go to the cinema. B. Go to the McDonald’s. C. Go to school.

听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18. What happened to the speaker?

A. He transferred to another post in another city.

B. His colleagues started to get along well with him.

C. His hard work got paid off.

19. What contributions did the speaker make for the company?

A. He helped increase the sales.

B. He helped build a branch company.

C. He helped make new products.

20. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. The speaker’s pay rose to $15, 000 per year.

B. The speaker’s department sales increased a lot last year.

C. The speaker refused the rise.

II. 阅读理解 （每题2分，满分40分）

A

F. Scott Fitzgerald, born on September 24, 1896, an American novelist, was once a student of St. Paul Academy, the Newman School and attended Princeton University for a short while. In 1917 he joined the army and was posted in Alabama, where he met his future wife Zelda Sayre. Then he had to make some money to impress her.

His life with her was full of great happiness, as he wrote in his diary: “My own happiness in the past often got such joy that I could share it even with the person dearest to me but had to walk it away in quiet streets and take down parts of it in my diary.”

This Side of Paradise, his first novel, was published in 1920. Encouraged by its success, Fitzgerald began to devote more time to his writing. Then he continued with the novel The Beautiful And Damned (1922), a collection of short stories Thales of the Jazz Age (1922), and a play The Vegetable (1923). But his greatest success was the novel The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, which quickly brought him praise from the literary world. Yet it failed to give him the needed financial security. Then, in 1926, he published another collection of short stories All the Sad Young Men.

However, Fitzgerald’s problems with his wife Zelda had an effect on his writing. During the 1920s he tried to reorder his life, but failed. By 1930, his wife had her first breakdown and went to a Swiss clinic. During this period he completed novels Tender Is the Night in 1934 and The Love of The Last Tycoon in 1940. While his wife was in hospital in the United States, he got totally addicted to(沉迷于) alcohol. Sheila Graham, his dear friend, helped him fight his alcoholism.

21. How many novels written by Fitzgerald are mentioned in the passage?? A. 5????? B. 6??????? C. 7??????? D. 822. Which of the following is the correct order to describe Fitzgerald’s life according to the passage? a. He became addicted to drinking. b. He studied at St. Paul Academy.? c. He published his first novel This Side of Paradise. d. The Great Gatsby won high praise. e. He failed to reorder his life. f. He joined the army and met Zelda.A. f-c-e-a-b-d???? B.?b-f-c-d-e-a? C. f-d-e-c-b-a?? D. b-e-a-f-c-d??

23. We can infer from the passage that Fitzgerald?______.?

A. had made some money when he met Zelda in Alabama.

B. was well educated and well rich before he served in the army.

C. helped his friend get rid of drinking while his wife was in hospital

D. would have completed more works if his wife hadn’t broken down

24. The passage is probably followed by a concluding paragraph about______.

A. Zelda's personal life

B. Zelda's illness and treatment

C. Fitzgerald's contributions to the literary world

D. Fitzgerald's friendship with Graham

B

It's not quite a rat. Nor is it a squirrel, or a mouse. It's definitely a rodent (啮齿目动物), and it's also a brand-new family of mammals(哺乳动物).

The locals of the Southeast Asian country of Laos call the creature a kha-nyou (ga-nyou). The kha-nyou have long body hair, short legs, and a hairy tail less thick than a squirrel's. They're vegetarians living in the rocky hills of Laos, and they come out at night, but for more information, you'll have to ask the Lao people.

"It was for sale on a table next to some vegetables. I knew immediately it was something I had never seen before," said Robert Timmins, a researcher for the Wildlife Conservation Society. Timmins was working in Laos to stop people from selling endangered animals when he spotted the species. Criminals who trade illegal wildlife can make a lot of money, but they also push the animals closer to disappearing from the planet.

The kha-nyou live in karsts, or rough rock. Mark Robinson, a scientist with the World Wildlife Foundation, set out with Lao villagers to find a few more of the rodents for study. They climbed onto a karst, trapped with rice, and caught several.

"To find something so unusual in this day and age is just extraordinary," said Timmins. "For all we know, this could be the last remaining animal family left to be discovered."

It's a big deal to discover an entirely new family of animals. Humans, for instance, belong to the same family as great apes, chimpanzees, and gorillas. So even though kha-nyous look like rats, they're really very different. The last time scientists discovered a new family of mammals may have been in the 1970s, when they found new bats in Thailand.

Timmins seems to have the gift for finding new animals in Laos—he discovered a new species of rabbit there in 1999.

Scientists call the kha-nyou Laonastes aenigmamus, which means "mysterious mouse that lives among the stones." But if that's too hard, Timmins and Robinson suggest you call them "rock rats."

25. Which of the following is not the name for this new creature?

A. Karsts. B. Kha-nyou. C. rock rats. D. Laonastes aenigmamus.

26. Which of the following CANNOT describe the new species of rodent?

A. They live among the rocky hills of Laos.

B. They live on meat of other animals.

C. They look like rats but are of different kind.

D. They are of the latest discovery of a new species.

27. How did Mark Robinson and his team find the rodent for study ?

A. by chance

B. by trading with criminals who trade illegal wildlife

C. by using rice as bait(诱饵) .

D. by talking with the people selling endangered animals

28. It implies in the passage that ______.

A. finding a new animal family in Southeast Asia is easy

B. finding a new animal family in modern time is extremely difficult

C. in Southeast Asia new species of animals are often discovered

D. animals that look like the same are of the same family

C

In a living statue, just as the name implies（暗示，说明）, somebody transforms（=change）himself or herself into a statue. Last year, I came across an article in a magazine describing living statues in the streets of some Australian cities. The article was vividly written, except that there was not even a single picture; one could only imagine what a scene it would have been! All the harder, then, to believe that I ran into the “wonder” in Barcelona this year. The performers – the living statues – were street artists at Las Ramblas.

Las Ramblas is the most famous street in Barcelona. Especially in summer, thousands of tourists go to the seaside by passing through this street, making it a center of shops and bazaars. Not only can you find tourists there, but also thieves, cheats, cops…among whom the living statue artists are the most special group.

They were covered with greasepaint（化妆油）in different colors, wearing season – disproportional （不和季节的）clothes, standing on a pedestal（底座）for several hours without making even a single move. Are they real or fake, the guests were wondering…and then suddenly the statues came to life, just for a few seconds to shift positions. But the movement of the statues seemed like someone just had breathed life into them. They really do look like statues, and that’s how they got their name.

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