第一部分　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. When is Mary's birthday?

A. February16th. B. February 18th. C. February 23rd.

2. What will the man take back to the shop?

A. The T- shirt. B. The shorts. C. The sweater.

3. What does the man offer to do?

A. Wash the clothes. B. Dry the dishes. C. Water the plants.

4. Why does the woman call the man?

A. To invite him to dinner together. B. To inform him of the late meeting.

C. To ask him to meet her.

5. What is wrong with the woman?

A. She is too worried about Johnson. B. She can't sleep well at night.

C. She works too hard to have a rest.

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，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。

听下面一段对话，回答第6、7题。

6. What do the speakers agree?

A. They have met before. B. The music is quite enjoyable.

C. Lots of people are present at the party.

7. What will the speakers do next?

A. Leave the party. B. Go rock climbing.

C. Chat about rock climbing.

听下面一段对话，回答第8、9题。

8. What is the main reason the woman likes natural food?

A. She wants to keep healthy. B. She likes to keep looking good.

C. She cares about the future of the earth.

9. What does the man think of eating natural food?

A. It’s necessary. B. It’s a waste of money. C. It’s popular.

听下面一段对话，回答第10至12题。

10. Where does Michelle work?

A. At a restaurant. B. At a hotel. C. At a shop.

11. Why doesn’t Michelle mention the names of the difficult star customers?

A. She doesn’t know them. B. She is afraid of being fired.

C. She doesn’t want to be famous.

12. According to Michelle, what do most of the famous people like when eating?

A. Being left alone. B. Being talked to politely.

C. Being recognized at once.

听下面一段对话，回答第13至16题。

13. Why does the man say Will is unusual?

A. He likes green most. B. He sells his own paintings.

C. He narrows his choice of colors.

14. What helps Will much?

A. His family background. B. His teaching experience.

C. His work for children’s books.

15. What does Will like drawing best?

A. Lovely children. B. People’s faces. C. Famous watches.

16. What can people expect from Will next summer?

A. An exhibition. B. His first painting show.

C. An online video programme.

听下面一段独白，回答第17至第20小题。

17. What relation is Lena to the speaker?

A. Her colleague. B. Her assistant. C. Her teacher.

18. What does Lena spend most of her time doing?

A. Singing in jazz clubs. B. Teaching music. C. Performing at a theater.

19. What do we know about the course?

A. It makes students confident to perform their songs.

B. It usually has more than ten students.

C. It is designed for high-level singers.

20. When does the next course begin?

A. On Thursday. B. On Wednesday. C. On Tuesday.

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

Alibaba started taking the lead in China, simply enough, by connecting big Chinese manufacturers(制造商)with big buyers across the world. Its business-to-business site, Alibaba.com allowed business to buy almost everything. Alibaba’s advantage wasn’t hard to identify: size. Alibaba is just big, even by Chinese standards. Its marketplaces attract 231 million active buyers, 8 million sellers, 11.3 billion orders a year—and Alibaba is just the middleman. It encourages people to use its markets—not charging small sellers a percentage of the sale.

If you want a quick look into the influence of Alibaba on daily Chinese life, take my experience. I moved to Beijing almost a year ago and quickly got tired of visiting small stores across the crowded, polluted city of 20 million people in search of new electronics, bathroom furnishings, and anything else my wife wanted. “You’re looking for what exactly? Why not try it? ” my Chinese teacher asked me one day. With that, my wonderful new relationship with Alibaba began.

Alibaba’s original business-to-business model now is secondary to(对…来说是次要的) consumer buying. Chinese retail（零售）buying makes up 80% of Alibaba’s profit, and leading that group is Taobao, with 800 million items for sale and the most unbelievable selection of things you’ll ever find. TMall.com is Alibaba’s other big site, where you can find brand name goods from Nike and Unilever near the lowest prices.

What I have a hard time explaining to friends and family back in the U.S. is how China has gone beyond traditional shopping—big-box retailers especially —in favor of online purchases on Taobao and a few other sites. In smaller towns than Beijing, where big retailers have not yet traveled, shopping online is shopping, and shopping is Taobao.

I have a list of some of my recent purchases on Taobao for a sense of how extensive(广大) the marketplace is. Almost everything arrived a day or two after ordering with free shipping. I’m not even a big buyer, because I need friends to help me search the Chinese-language site. When I was searching my purchase history on my Chinese teacher’s iPad, which helps me buy goods, I looked through with great difficulty about 10 of her purchases for every one of mine.

21. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A. Alibaba B. a new store C. a business D. a foreign website

22. What can be inferred from the passage?

A. The author’s Chinese teacher is also an online purchase lover.

B. Taobao has no obvious advantage over other similar online sites.

C. Alibaba’s business-to-business service earns more money than retail now.

D. TMall.com provides more profit than Taobao.

23. What is the passage mainly about?

A. Shopping online is TaoBao.

B. Alibaba greatly influences people’s daily purchase in China.

C. The influence of shopping online goes beyond traditional shopping.

D. How the author purchases online in China.

24.What can we learn from the underlined sentence in the passage refer to?

A. Alibaba acts as a bridge between buyers and sellers.

B. Alibaba will continue to develop.

C. Alibaba stands out as the best online site.

D. Alibaba is of middle size among all the online sites.

B

Our children feel stressed out by an educational system that actually uses stress as an educational technique. It's a constant pressure of homework deadlines，essays and exams. And our children are told at a young age that failing a test means that they are failures in life. They'll end up nowhere if they don't pass this or that exam. Our educational system is based on a very Western idea that life is a struggle and you'd better measure up. It's survival of the fittest. While there is some truth to this，not as much as people think.

Our ancestors didn't develop a constant stress environment. Back then，stress came quickly and was over quickly，it wasn't like the stress of modern education. Stress was originally just a short-term biological response to danger；however，the constant stress of modern education rarely stops. It's long term，at least ten years and usually more.

Recent research has shown that the neurological(神经系统的)response to stress is the same response that is found in depression. So，what's the solution? A number have been proposed，including but not limited to the following.

________.Exercise consumes energy that would otherwise build up in the stress response and could cause physical and mental problems.

Teach relaxation exercises. Allowing the mind and body to relax cuts off the stress response and reduces the neurological fatigue(疲惫)，enabling the individual to recover at least somewhat.

Pay attention to thinking. Training the stressed student to pay attention to his or her own mind to a point where he or she is sufficiently aware to shut off the stress response when necessary.

Of course，there's a logical answer to the problem. Just rearrange our teaching methods to encourage，rather than prevent，the natural curiosity and joy in learning that we are all born with. This would remove the stress and probably cut learning time in half.

25．What is the main idea of the passage?

A．Getting rid of the modern education. B．Helping children live a happy life.

C．Dealing with stress in modern education. D．Taking measures to learn at school.

26．How did our ancestors treat education?

A．They believed education could bring the best out.

B．They felt education could bring short-term stress.

C．They thought education was the only way to success.

D．They knew the importance of good education.

27．Which of the following is the best for the blank?

A．Try to save energy as much as possible. B．Quite a few children avoid exercise.

C．Make sure that kids get exercise. D．Set a few limits to your physical activities.

28．If you are a teacher in a high school, ______.

A．you should leave students in a good mood

B．you should ignore the stressed student

C．you should relax yourself as far as possible

D．you should stick to your teaching methods

C

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