第一部分 听力30分

第一节 共5小题，每小题1.5分。每段对话读一遍

1.What does the man want to do?

A.Take photos. B.Buy a camera. C.Help the woman.

2.What are the speakers talking about>

A.A noisy night B.Their life in town C.A place of living.

3．Where is the man now?

A．On his way. B．In a restaurant. C．At home

4．What will Celia do?

A．Find a player. B．Watch a game. C．Play basketball.

5．What day is it when the conversation takes place?

A．Saturday. B．Sunday. C．Monday.

第二节 共15小题，每小题1.5分。每段对话读两遍

听第6段材料，回答6、7题。

6．What is Sara going to do?

A．Buy John a gift. B．Give John a surpise C．Invite John to France.

7．What does the man think of Sara’s plan?

A．Funny. B．Exciting. C．Strange.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8．Why does Diana say sorry to peter?

A．She has to give up her travel pan. B．She wants to visit another city.

C．She needs to put off her test.

9.What does Diana want Peter to do?

Help her with her study. BTake a book to her friend.

C.Teach a geography lesson.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10.Why does the man call the woman?

A.To tell her about her new job. B.To ask about her job program.

C.To plan a meeting with her.

11.Who needs a new flat?

A.Alex. B.Andrea. C.Miranda.

12.Where is the woman now?

A.In Baltimore. B.In New York. C.In Avon.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13.What does Jan consider most important when he judges a restaurant?

A.Where the restaurant is. B.Whether the prices are low.

C.How well the food is prepared.

14.When did Jan begin to write for a magazine?

A.After he came back to Sweden. B.Before he went to the United States.

C.As soon as he got his first job in 1982.

15.What may Jan do to find a good restaurant?

A.Talk to people in the street. B.Speak to taxi drivers. C.Ask hotel clerks.

16.What do we know about Jan?

A.He cooks for a restaurant. B.He travels a lot ofr his work.

C.He prefers American food.

听 第10段材料，回答第17至20题

17. What dowe know about the piaza Leen?

A.it’s new builing B.it’s a small town C.it’s public place

18. When do partents and children like going to the Piaza Leen?

A.satyrday nights B.Sunday afternoons C.Fridays and Saturdays.

19. Which street is known for its food shops and markets?

A.Via dei Mar Street B.Femando Street. C.Hemandes Street

20. Why does the speaker like Horation Street best ?

A.It has an old stone surface. B. it is named after a writer

C.It is a famous university.

二、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）

A

Ever since he got into the Hong Kong film industry in 1994 with He’s a Woman, She’s a Man, Hong Kong director, Peter Chan has been one of the industry’s most powerful voices. Later in 1996, another milestone Comrades: Almost a Love Story came into being. Chan’s latest film, American Dreams in China is a carefully-calculated film with an eye toward opening the mainland cinema market.

American Dreams in China is a film purely for Chinese audiences, but how it plays there remains to be seen. It sends the right messages, but whether that’s enough to make it a hit is everyone’s guess. Mainland audiences aren’t quite that easy to “speak” to.

The film began during the period of economic reforms in China in the 1980s. The bookish farm boy Cheng Dongqing (Huang Xiaoming), the ambitious and confident boy Meng Xiaojun (Deng Chao) and the poetic Wang Yang(Tong Dawei), were three friends at university in Beijing and preparing for American visa interviews. Wang was the first to be granted the visa but he gave it up for his western girlfriend, and Cheng was repeatedly denied. Only Meng actually got a study visa. As he was leaving, he told his friends that he wouldn’t come back.

Several years later, Cheng and Wang built a successful school, New Dream, from the ashes of Cheng’s misfortune(his girlfriend got a visa too, and Cheng lost his university teaching job) and Wang’s ability to connect with students often through Hollywood movies. In America, Meng suff ered a lot. Disappointed, he went home and joined his friends at New Dream. Later, the three friends’ relationship became worsened, but finally was improved under the weight of their common goals.

B

No matter how long your life is, you will, at best, be able to read only a few books of all that have been written, and the few you do read should include the best. It is to be expected that the selections will change with the times. Yet there is a surprising uniformity (一致) in the lists which represent the best choices of any period.

What are the signs by which we may recognize a great book? The four I will mention may not be all there are, but they are the ones I’ve found most useful in explaining my choices over the years.

Great books are probably the most widely read. They are not best sellers for a year or two. They are enduring best sellers. GONE WITH THE WIND has had relatively few readers compared to the plays of Shakespeare or DONQUIXOTE. It would be reasonable to estimate that Homer Iliad has been read by at least 25,000,000 people in the last 3000 years.

Great books are popular, not pedantic(卖弄学问的). They are not written by specialists about specialties for specialists. Whether they are philosophy or science, or history or poetry, they treat of human, not academic problems. They are written for men, not professors. To read a textbook for advanced students, you have to read an elementary textbook first. But the great books can be con sidered elementary in the sense that they treat the elements of any subject matter. They are not related to one another as a series of textbooks, graded in difficulty or in the technicality of the problems with which they deal.

Great books are always contemporary, the most readable and instructive.

Great books deal with the persistently unsolved problems of human life. There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Great minds acknowledge mysteries honestly. Wisdom is fortified (加强), not destroyed, by understanding its limitations.

25. Which is NOT the standard in the following when evaluating a great book?

A. Although not a best seller for a year or two, it must be the most widely read.

B. A great book can be read without any effort. C. Great books are never out of date.

D. Great books will not disappoint you if you try to read them well.

26. According to the author, GONE WITH THE WIND is ______.

A. a best seller B. disgusted by readers who like Shakespeare

C. read more often than Don Quixote D. a great book

27. After reading the passage, we can infer that ______.

A. different periods have different lists of best books because there are many books for people to choose from

B. if you don’t read an elementary textbook, you may have difficulty in understanding an advanced one

C. Homer Iliad must be a best seller when it came out

D. great books often deal with unsolved problems of human life for the writers have confidence in settling them

28. The best title for this passage is ______.

A. Great Books in Your Life B. Great Books in Your Specialty

C. How to Find a Great Book? D. What Is a Great Book?

C

“I THIRST”

Each day water-related diseases kill 3,900 of the world’s children.

Across the world, 1.1 billion people have no access to clean drinking water. More than 2.6 billion people lack basic sanitation (卫生设备).

The combination proves deadly. Each year, diseases related to inadequate water and sanitation kill between 2 and 5 million people and cause an estimated 80 percent of all sicknesses in the developing world. Safe drinking water is a precondition for health and the fight against child death rate, inequality between men and women, and poverty.

Consider these facts:

* The average distance that women in Africa and Asia walk to collect water is 6 kilometres.

* Only 58 percent of children in sub-Sharan Africa are drinking safe water, and only 37 percent of children in South Asia have access to even a basic toilet.

* Each year in India alone, 73 million working days are lost to water-borne diseases.

Here are three ways you can help:

1) Write Congress

Current U.S. foreign aid for drinking water and sanitation budgets only one dollar per year per American citizen. Few members of Congress have ever received a letter from voters about clean drinking water abroad.

2) Sponsor a project with a faith-based organization

Many U.S. religious groups already sponsor water and sanitation projects, working with partner organizations can make safe water a reality for thousands of people.

3) Support nonprofit water organizations

Numerous U.S. based nonprofits work skillfully abroad in community led projects related to drinking water and sanitation. Like the sample of non-profits noted as follows, some organizations are large, others small-scale, some operate world-wide, others are devoted to certain areas in Africa, Asia, Latin America. Support them generously.

D

I live in Hollywood. You may think people in such an attractive, fun-filled place are happier than others. If so, you have some mistaken ideas about the nature of happiness.

Many intelligent people still equate happiness with fun. The truth is that fun and happiness have little or nothing in common. Fun is what we experience during an act. Happiness is what we experience after an act. It is a deeper, more long-lasting emotion. Going to an amusement park or ball game, watching a movie or television, are fun activities that help us relax, temporarily forget our problems and maybe even laugh. But they do not bring happiness, because their positive effects end when the fun ends.

I have often thought that if Hollywood stars have a role to play, it is to teach us that happiness has nothing to do with fun. These rich, beautiful individuals have constant access to exciting parties, fancy cars, expensive homes, everything that spells “happiness”. But in memoir(回忆录) after memoir, celebrities reveal the unhappiness hidden beneath all their fun: depression, alcoholism, dru