第一部分：听力（共两节，每小题1.5分，满分30分）

第一节 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个选项中，并标在相应的答题卡上。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。

Where are the 2 speakers most probably?

A. At the meeting B. At a party C. At a concert

2. When may the woman leave the hospital?

A. Monday B. Thursday C. Saturday

3. What do the 2 speakers disagree about?

A. When to meet Sally B. Where to meet Sally C. how to meet Sally

4. Which month is it probably right now?

A. July B. June C. May

5. What does the woman want to buy?

A. Grey pants B. Brown pants C. Blue pants

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ABC三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在相应的答题卡上。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，每小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或对白读两遍。

请听第6段材料，回答第6、7题

6. Why does the woman want to leave her present job?

A. She finds the job boring.

B. She finds the job tiring.

C. She wants to do something different.

7. Which country does the woman like best?

A. Australia B Canada C. Italy

请听第7段材料。回答第8、9题

8. What doea the woman want to do at the first?

A. Exchange the glove B. return the glove C. Try on the gloves

9. How much will the woman pay to get the gloves she likes?

A. ﹩29.95 B. ﹩35.25 C.﹩5.30

请听第8段材料，回答第10-12小题

10. What are the two speakers discussing?

A. The French language B. An upcoming vacation C. The weather in Europe

11. In which season are the two speakers visiting France?

A. Spring B. Summer C. Winter

12. What will the two speakers do before going to France?

A. Take a French Lesson B. Get a map in France C. Buy a French Dictionary

请听第9段材料，回答第13至16题

13. How does the woman go to school?

A. Take the school bus. B. In his mom’s car. C. On foot.

14. Which subject is difficult for the woman?

A. Biology B. Physics C. German.

15. How many foreign languages does the man study at school?

A. One B. Two C. Three

16. What do we know about the man?

A. He doesn’t like living in the countryside.

B. He lives not far from his school.

C. He is Mr. Johnson’s favorite.

第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，每题2分，满分40分）

第一节 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A

Jody Williams was born in Vermont in 1950. Like many teenagers of her generation, she became devoted to the idea of peace while being against the war in Vietnam when young.

In late 1991, Bobby Muller, president of the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, called Williams to see if she was interested in working together to ban (禁止) landmines worldwide. She was glad to make use of the opportunity to persuade non-governmental organizations to support this worthwhile idea. Millions of landmines remain buried in the ground in countries around the world long after the wars in which they were used have ended.

In October 1992, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) was formally set up. The ICBL called for an end to the use, production, and trade of landmines. As the campaign’s leader, Williams wrote and spoke widely on the landmine problem and the need for a total ban.

Together with Shawn Roberts, she wrote a book that described the hidden costs of landmine use, such as the long term effects of landmines. The landmines mean that people cannot travel or work safely. Land goes unused, causing unemployment and poverty (贫穷). There is also the huge cost of treating landmine victims (受害者).

Their efforts were rewarded in 1996, when a meeting hosted by the Canadian government agreed to write out an international treaty (条约) banning landmines. In December 1997, the treaty was signed, with the support of 122 countries. In five years, Jody Williams and the ICBL have achieved their goal of introducing a landmine ban. The Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee awarded Williams and the ICBL the Nobel Peace Prize in the same year.

To date, more than 156 countries have signed the landmine ban treaty.

21. Which of the following is NOT true according to the text?

A. Jody Williams served during the war in Vietnam.

B. Bobby Muller put forward the idea of banning landmines.

C. Jody Williams received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997.

D. 122 countries signed the landmine ban treaty in 1997.

22. Jody Williams’ book is about _____.

A. how to reduce the bad effects of landmines

B. what the possible bad effects of landmines are

C. how much it costs to remove the hidden landmines

D. what the government can do to remove the hidden landmines

23. An international treaty banning landmines was made in _____.

A. 1991 B. 1992 C. 1996 D. 1997

B

Earlier this year I traveled to Turkana in Kenya. I was there to take pictures of the “broken food system”.

As a special visitor, I was greeted with songs and dances. The locals used to sing and dance all the time but now Turkana is silent and has been for some years. No one is singing or dancing any more because they have no food, nothing to celebrate. Many of them are surviving on one handful of corn a day and water, which they can get just every two days.

I met Tede Lokapelo, a local farmer who described the experience of a six-year drought (干旱). Tede used to have 200 goats, but now he has only seven left. He told me that this drought has taught him a hard lesson: It is too difficult to keep animals. He lives on animals. His traditional way of life has been completely destroyed now. Without the food aid (援助) they got, Tede is certain that they would starve because there are no other sources to feed themselves left.

Sadly, the same can be heard in almost any developing country around the world. Almost one billion people go to bed hungry each night. The food system is broken. In Turkana, not enough rain has fallen since 2005. They measure rainfall not in days or weeks but in minutes. More and more people are being forced to rely on food aid, but people like Tede don’t want food aid. They want to work and create their own economy. It’s our responsibility to fix the system so that they can support themselves.

Drought is impossible to avoid but famine (饥荒) is manmade, and unless enough money is provided to develop a basic infrastructure (基础设施) for people in the area, thousands more lives are sure to be lost.

24. Why do people in Turkana no longer sing or dance any more?

A. Because they have no time. B. Because they are tired of them.

C. Because they are always hungry. D. Because they have other interesting things to do.

25. Which of the following is NOT true about Tede Lokapelo?

A. He raised 200 goats in the past.

B. He has never received any food aid.

C. His traditional way of life has been changed.

D. He found it hard to raise animals after the drought.

26. According to the text, _____.

A. about one billion people can’t get enough food each day

B. it has never rained since 2005 in Turkana

C. more and more people are willing to rely on food aid

D. what people in Turkana really want is the food aid

27. What’s the author’s purpose in writing the text?

A. To show drought is serious in the world.

B. To tell readers the serious situation of food shortage.

C. To ask more people to give food aid to people in Kenya.

D. To make it clear how to help people suffering from drought.

C

If you’ve never bought organic food, you might be wondering what’s so special about it. Is it really better for you? How does that work? This text will give you a short introduction to the subject.

Organic food is produced without the use of artificial fertilizers or pesticides (insect and bug killers) and many people buy it because they think it’s better for their health. Whether that’s true or not is still debated, but there are lots of other reasons for organic food. Intensive agriculture (集约型农业) gives us cheap and plentiful food, but it’s also one of the biggest sources of environmental pollution. According to a report by the World Resources Institute, half of all the chemical fertilizers ever produced have been used since 1984. Fertilizers — and the much more deadly pesticides（pest killers）and herbicides (weed killers) used with them — finally find their way into rivers and seas. Sometimes they break down harmlessly, but they’re likely to build up in creatures that eat them (including humans). Organic food, grown without artificial chemicals, is one way to help reduce the problem.

Many people find it confusing that organic products are more expensive. After all, you’re doing away with expensive chemicals ... so shouldn’t they be cheaper? Organic farming is typically a more labor-intensive (劳动力密集的)way of farming and that’s why it costs more. As a responsible (有责任的) consumer, it’s up to you to decide where to put your money. Are you happy to buy products that may have been grown in a harmful way? Are you willing to pay more to buy organic products that may help to protect the environment?

28. Which of the following does the author agree on?

A. Organic food is better for people’s health.

B. Organic food is better for the environment.

C. Organic food tastes better than traditional food.

D. Organic food can be produced in great amounts.

29. Why people turn to organic food?

A. Organic food is cheap and has a high output.

B. Organic food use less chemical fertilizers than other food.

C. The use of chemical fertilizers has caused damage to human and environment.

D. Customers want to pay more for food.

30. The underlined words “doing away with” in the last paragraph can best be replaced by “______”.

A. making use of B. getting rid of

C. keeping away from D. taking advantage of

31. What’s the author’s attitude towards organic food?

A. Doubtful. B. Uncertain. C. Worried. D. Supportive.

D

We do not know when man first began to use salt, but we do know that it has been used in many different ways throughout history. Historical evidence shows, for example, that people who lived over 3,000 years ago ate salted fish. Thousands of years ago in Egypt, salt was used to preserve (保存) the dead.

Stealing salt was considered a major crime (罪行) during some periods of history. In the eighteenth century, for example, if a person was caught stealing salt, he could be put in prison and his ears could be cut off