第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30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下一个小题。每段对话仅读一遍。

1.What does the woman suggest?

[A] Buying more apples.

[B]Buying some pears.

[C]Eating up the apples.

2.What will the woman do tonight?

[A]Stay at home.

[B]Fix something.

[C]Buy an evening dress.

3.What does Mark take after Bobby?

[A]Respecting teachers.

[B]Having classes on time.

[C]Making trouble at school.

4.How will the man get to the woman’s company?

[A]By car. [B]By bus. [C]Buy taxi.

5.What are the speakers talking about?

[A]An English teacher.

[B]How to learn English.

[C]An English class.

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至7题。

6.Where did Sharon try to get a job two years ago?

[A]In Hollywood. [B] In a school. [C]In Universal Studios.

7.What is Sharon now?

[A]An actress [B]A tour guide. [C]A singer.

听第7段材料，回答第8至9题

8.Why does the boy keep starving?

[A]The dinner isn’t ready.

[B]His father doesn’t come back.

[C]He should wait for his grandparents.

9.Wht did the woman cook especially?

[A]Chicken [B] Fish. [C]Steak

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10.Who does George want to speak to?

[A]Lisa. [B] Jean. [C] Mary.

11.What is George’s telephone number?

[A]68251733. [B] 68521733. [C]69449695.

12.What relation is Lisa to George?

[A]A stranger [B]A friend [C]A classmate.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17.Who is the speaker?

[A]A host. [B]A teacher. [C]A boss

18.What is Erick crazy about?

[A]P laying football.

[B]Playing basketball.

[C] Playing baseball.

19. 19.What does Eric say when his father talks with him?

[A]He would like to be a player.

[B]He will study hard in the future.

[C]He won’t break school rules any more.

20.Why does the speaker make the call?

[A]To share Eric’s progress.

[B]To search for help.

[C]To make complaint?

第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）

第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

阅读下面的短文，从每题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A

Next time you hear a funny joke you’d better not laugh too hard. According to a paper published by the British Medical Journal, laughter isn’t always the best?medicine. Sometimes it can even be harmful. Professor Robin Ferner from the University of Birmingham, one of the authors of the study, found that bad things could happen to people who laughed too much. He says: “We found people with heartbeat problems which had stopped their heart, we found people who had fainted(昏倒), and we found people who’d?dislocated their?jaws?or burst their lungs.”

It seems that laughing can be?no laughing matter. But?it’s not all?doom and gloom. Professor Ferner says there are benefits to laughing when you want to?lose weight, for example. Yes, that’s right: laugh and be slimmer! Professor Ferner explains that: “You use energy when you laugh, you move your?diaphragm(横膈膜), you expand your lungs, and both those things can be helpful.”

According to the research, laughing for a quarter of an hour can burn up to 40 calories, and if you laughed all day you’d use up about 2,000 calories, which is what most people consume in a day. But don’t do that or you might end up with a?painful?jaw.?Ouch! Or you might find people looking at you in a?funny?way.

But I don’t want to finish this article leaving you feeling?desperate. Laughter comes naturally for most of us. Babies begin to laugh at around 3-6 months. So give in to your?sense of humour?and keep smiling. Life is short anyway.

21.Laughing too much may cause the following harmful results EXCEPT_________.

A．heart stop B．diaphragm movement

C．lung burst D．jaw dislocation

22.The underlined phrase “doom and gloom” in Paragraph 2 probably means_______.

A．hopeless B．funny

C．painful D．nervous

23.How many calories can you use if you laugh for half a day?

A．About 40. B．About 1,000.

C．About 2,000. D．About 2,040.

24.What is the author’s attitude towards laughing in the last paragraph?

A．Uninterested. B．Disapproving.

C．Worried. D．Favorable.

B

On Nov. 18, 1995, Itzhak Perlman, the violinist, came on stage to give a concert at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City．

If you have ever been to a Perlman concert，you know that getting on stage is no small achievement for him．He was stricken with polio (小儿麻痹症) as a child，and so he has braces (支架) on both legs and walks with the aid of two crutches (双拐)．

He walks painfully, yet majestically, until he reaches his chair．Then he sits down，slowly, puts his crutches on the floor, undoes the clasps on his legs，tucks one foot back and extends the other foot forward．Then he bends down and picks up the violin, puts it under his chin，nods to the conductor and proceeds to play．

But this time，something went wrong．Just as he finished the first few bars (小节)，one of the strings on his violin broke. You could hear it snap (嘣断) --- it went off like gunfire across the room. There was no mistaking what that meant. There was no mistaking what he had to do．

We figured that he would have to get up, put on the clasps again, pick up the crutches and limp his way off stage——to either find another violin or else find another string for this one. But he didn’t. Instead, he waited a moment, closed his eyes and then signaled the conductor to begin again.

The orchestra began, and he played from where he had left off. And he played with such passion and such power and such purity as they had never heard before．

When he finished, there was an awesome silence in the room. And then people rose and cheered．He smiled，wiped the sweat from this brow, raised his bow to quit us，and then he said in a quiet tone．“You know, sometimes it is the artist’s task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.’’

25.By saying “getting on stage is no small achievement for him”, the author really means????.

A．it’s very difficult for Itzhak Perlman to play the violin with three strings

B．it’s not easy for Itzhak Perlman to get on the stage because he is disabled

C．it’s not easy for ltzhak Perlman to face such a large audience

D．it’s really great achievements for ltzhak Perlman to play the violin with three strings

26.Itzhak Perlman???????when one of the strings of the violin broke．

A．gave up playing

B．didn’t know what to do

C．went on playing the same piece of music

D．went on playing a different piece of music

27.Itzhak Perlman can be best described as a man who is???．

A．clever B．strong willed

C．humorous D．quite skilled

C

Plans to expand wind energy into the most scenic parts of Germany are meeting increasing opposition across the country.Anti-wind campaigners are angry that areas including the forests made famous by the tales of the Brothers Grimm are among the targets for new turbines (涡轮机). For the first time they have formed a national opposition group to thwart the expansion. They say the expansion will damage forests and tourism across the country.

Germany has started a massive expansion of renewable energy since the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011 in Japan. The government decided to reduce atomic plants and instead increase the opportunities for green power. As a result, solar farms, biogas plants and wind parks are booming. In 2013, 22% of Germany’s electricity was generated by renewable energy. Wind has played a major part in this change, making up half of the renewable energy in 2013, and the public has been generally supportive. To date, a majority of the 23,000 wind turbines in the country have been built in the flat northern and eastern parts of the country. But now the focus of expansion is on the areas of dark forest in the central and southern areas of Germany.

One such region is the Rheinhardswald in the northern part of the state of Hesse. This is the home of the magical tales of Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel and others, made famous in the books of the Brothers Grimm. This scenic place is a magnet, attracting hundreds and thousands of tourists from all over the world. But now there are also plans to build up to 200 turbines in this scenic place!

Ann-Kathrin Blankenberg is a PhD student and an opponent of the plans. “It is not because this is the area of Sleeping Beauty,” she says, “I want the green movement, I want green technology, I don’t want nuclear power--- but they should be made in the right way and not by destroying the forests.”

The campaigners argue that putting wind turbines in this area makes no sense. The wind speeds are low and the area is home to some extremely rare birds including the endangered black stork. Campaigners say building turbines here would be disastrous for the birds.

28.The underlined word “thwart” can be replaced by_____.

A．support B．prevent

C．increased D．promote

29.Which of the following does NOT belong to green power? _____.

A．Solar energy B．Wind energy

C．Bio-energy D．Atomic energy

30.What percentage of Germany’s electricity was generated by wind in 2013? _____.

A．11% B．22%

C．50% D．60%

31.What is the main idea of the passage? _____.

A．Wind parks are increasing rapidly all over Germany.

B．The Rheinhardswald is famous for the tales of Sleeping Beauty.

C．Expanding wind energy into the land of Sleeping Beauty causes controversy.

D．Building wind turbines in the land of Sleeping Beauty area makes no sense.

D

I teach geography at UNLV three times per week. Last Monday, at the beginning of class, I cheerfully asked my students how their weekend had been. One young man said that his weekend had not been so good. He had his wisdom teeth removed. The young man then asked me why I always seemed to be so cheerful. “I choose to be cheerful.” I said. Then I told them a story.

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