第一部分 听力（共20小题，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. Where does the conversation probably take place?

A. In the woman’s house. B. In a hotel. C. In a restaurant.

2. How much extra money does the man need to pay?

A. $7.50. B. $1.50. . C. $0.5.

3. What’s the man doing?

A. Weighing a sweater B. Sending a package. C. Buying a gift.

4. What will the boy do first?

A. Meet Ben. B. Do shopping C. Go to the library.

5. Why does the man talk with the woman?

A. To know what to do to a textbook. B. To tell her about a printing problem.

C. To ask her to review a textbook..

第二节 (共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)

6. How did the man travel around the world?

A. By car. B. By motorbike. C. By train.

7. Why didn’t the man choose cycling?

A. It was boring. B. It was not adventurous.

C. It was unpractical sometimes.

听第七段材料，回答8-9小题。

8. Why is the woman worried?

A. She has to run ten kilometers. B. She has no previous experience.

C. She is afraid of her legs.

9. What will the woman do on Saturday?

A. Relax her body, B. Practise on the track. C. Make preparations in a gym.

听第八段材料，回答10-12题。

10. Why does the man give up the tickets in the lower balcony?

A. The tickets have been sold out.

B. He prefers the seats in the centre.

C. There are no four seats together.

11. How will the man get the tickets?

A. He will collect them himself. B. The woman will mail them to him.

C. He will ask his friends to pick them up.

12. When will the man get to the theatre on Thursday night?

A. By 6:00. B. By 7:00. C. By 8:00.

听第九段材料，回答13-16小题。

13. Where does the man come from?

A. India. B. Thailand. C. Britain.

14. What does the man often do?

A. He visits friends. B. He goes swimming. C. He does gardening.

15. Where does the man often go?

A. To the cinema. B. To the theatre. C. To the bar.

16. How does the man usually spend his holiday?

A. By staying at home. B. By visiting relatives. C. By traveling around.

听第十段材料，回答17-20小题。

17. What made the woman decide to go to Africa?

A. Her curiosity about the real world. B. The equipment of her work.

C. Her desire to be a volunteer.

18. What was the woman expected to do in Africa?

A. Train farmers. B. Teach students. C. Nurse patients.

19. What did the woman like doing after she came back from Africa?

A. Staying in a flat. B. Living in peace. C. Shopping in the market.

20. What is the conversation mainly about?

A. A job interview B. A working experience. C. A volunteer organization.

第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）

（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30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。

A

Oscar the cat seems to have an unnatural ability for predicting when nursing home patients are going to die, by curling up (蜷伏) next to them during their final hours. His accuracy, observed in 25 cases, has led the staff to call family members once he has chosen someone. It usually means the patient has less than four hours to live. “Many family members take some comfort from it. They appreciate the companionship that the cat provides for their dying loved one,” said Dosa, a doctor and assistant professor of medicine at Brown University.

The 2-year-old cat was adopted as a kitten and grew up in a third-floor dementia (痴呆) unit at the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, where the facility treats people with Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease and other illnesses. After about six months, the staff noticed Oscar would make his own rounds, just like the doctors and nurses. He’d smell and observe patients, then sit beside people who would end up dying in a few hours. Dosa said Oscar seems to take his work seriously.

“Oscar is better at predicting death than the people who work here,” said Dr. Joan Teno of Brown University, who treats patients at the nursing home and is an expert on care for the terminally ill. She was convinced of Oscar’s talent when he made his 13th correct call. While observing one patient, Teno said she noticed the woman wasn’t eating, was breathing with difficulty?and that her legs had a bluish color, signs that often mean death is near. Oscar wouldn’t stay inside the room, though, so Teno thought?his streak was broken.?Instead, it turned out the doctor’s prediction was roughly 10 hours too early. Sure enough, during the patient’s final two hours, nurses told Teno that Oscar joined the woman at her bedside.

Doctors say most of the people who get a visit from the sweet-faced, gray-and-white cat are so ill that they probably don’t know he’s there, so patients aren’t aware he’s a predictor of death. Most families are grateful for the advance warning.

No one’s certain if Oscar’s behavior is scientifically significant or points to a cause. Teno wonders if the cat senses mysterious scents or reads something from the behavior of the nurses who raised him.

21. What makes Oscar the cat so special?

A. He observes the cases of dying patients. B. He curls up next to the patients.

C. He calls family members to the hospital.? D. He senses when patients are to die.

22. The underlined words?“his streak was broken”?probably mean ______.

A. his bones were severely injured ???????????? B. his magic power stopped working

C. his devotion to work got changed???????????? D. his friendship with patients ended

23. The best title for this passage is “______”.

A. Cats Can Be Used for Looking After Patients ?????

B. Oscar, the Sweet-Faced, Gray-and-White Cat

C. As Death Comes Calling, So Does Oscar the Cat

D. Oscar the Cat, the Best Helper of the Hospital

Because these soap operas last for decades, the cast is ever changing. The shows rarely focus on one or two main characters. Like the real world, people come and go all the time, However, there are exceptions. Coronation Street’s William Roach, 76, has played the role of Ken Barlow since the very first episode of the show in 1960, and he is still a regular.

The choice of which soap opera you follow is often cultural: People from the north of British tend to watch Coronation Street as it is set in Manchester. People from the south generally prefer East-enders, which is set in the east of London. The show is generally considered grittier and is aimed at a younger audience.

24. What is the main different between American dramas and British soap operas?

A. American dramas are longer.

B. British soap operas are longer.

C. American dramas deals with dangerous things.

D. British soap operas deal with real people.

25. Why do British people like to watch such operas?

A. They can find their own life from the operas.

B. They can enjoy the operas in their free time.

C. They can watch the operas for many years.

D. They care about the fate of the characters in the operas.

26. The underlined world “episodes” in the 2nd paragraph probably means ______.

A. plays B. pages C. issues D. parts

27. One characteristic of British operas is that ______.

A. the characters play the same role for a long time.

B. the characters in the play often change

C. people don’t know what will happen next

D. there is only one or two characters in them

C

Baby girls make their way directly for dolls as soon as they can crawl, while boys will head for the toy cars, a study has shown. The findings, the first to show differences in very young babies, suggest there is a biological basis to their preferences.

Psychologists Dr. Brenda Todd from City University London carried out an experiment involving 90 infants aged nine months to 36 months. The babies were allowed to choose from seven toys. Some were typically boys’ toys: a car, a digger, a ball and a blue teddy. The rest were girls’ toys: a pink teddy, a doll and a cooking set. They were placed a meter away from the toys, and could pick whichever toy they liked. Their choice and the amount of time they spent playing with each toy were recorded.

Of the youngest children (nine to 14 months), girls spent significantly longer playing with the doll than boys, and boys spent much more time with the car and ball than the girls did. Among the two-and three-year-olds, girls spent 50 percent of the time playing with the doll while only two boys briefly touched it. The boys spent almost 90 percent of their time playing with cars, which the girls barely touched. There was no link between the parents’ view on which toys were more suitable for boys or girls, and the children’s choice.

Dr. Brenda Todd said: “Children of this age are already exposed to much socialization. Boys may be given ‘toys that go’ while girls get toys they can care for, which may help shape their preference. But these findings agree with the former idea that children show natural interests in particular kinds of toys. There could be a biological basis for their choices. Males through evolution have been adapted to prefer moving objects, probably through hunting instincts (本能), while girls prefer warmer colors such as pink, the color of a newborn baby.”

28. Baby boys and girls have different toy preferences probably because .

A. baby boys are much more active

B. baby girls like bright colors more

C. there is a natural difference between them

D. their parents treat them differently

29. What can we infer from Paragraph 3?

A. Nine-month-old baby boys don’t play with dolls at all.

B. Two-year-old baby girls sometimes play with cars and balls.

C. Parents should teach their babies to share each other’s toys.

D. The older the babies are, the more obvious their preference is.

30. Both baby boys and baby girls like to play with ______ according to the study.

A. a teddy B. a car C. a doll D. a ball

31. We may read this article in a section of a newspaper.

A. health B. science C. culture D. entertainment

D

An important scientific report announced “irrefutable (不能反驳的) proof” that climate change is happening and it’s all our fault. How long has it been before people are against the global warming idea? But here’s a funny th