第Ⅰ卷 (选择题）

第一部分 听力(共两节, 满分30分)

第一节(共5 小题；每小题1.5 分，满分7.5 分)

听下面5 段对话，每段对话后一个小题，从题中给出的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 秒钟的时间来回答相关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。

1. What does the man mean?

A. He has just five pounds.

B. He will make a phone call.

C. He hasn’t got any change now.

2. When does the conversation happen?

A. Before the summer vacation.

B. During the summer vacation

C. After the summer vacation

3. How long has Adam lived alone?

A. 30 years B. 22 years C. 15 years

4. What is the woman doing now?

A. Repairing a machine.

B. Trying to sell some CDs

C. Learning to use a computer

5. What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A. A market. B. A restaurant. C. Some boats.

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。

听第6 段材料，回答第6 至7 题。

6. How does the woman usually go to meetings?

A. By car. B. By taxi. C. By bus.

7. What makes the woman take the train?

A. The buses might be late.

B. The highway is under repair.

C. It is expensive to park in the city.

听第7 段材料，回答第8 至9 题。

8. Where is Women’s Wear?

A. Beside the Children’s Wear. B. Next to Suitcases and Bags. C. Across from the lift.

9. What is the woman doing?

A. Dealing with the man’s complaints.

B. Selling the man some goods.

C. Showing the man the way.

听第8 段材料，回答第10 至12 题。

10. What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A. The man’s work experience.

B. The best places to travel to.

C. Some cities in Asia.

11. What is the relationship between the speakers ?

A. Co-workers. B. Guide and tourist. C. Teacher and student.

12. What did the man often do in Seoul?

A. He visited some ancient temples.

B. He went to a all-night market.

C. He tasted delicious food.

听第9 段材料，回答第13 至16 题。

13. What does the man say about his working experience?

A. He used to be a teacher of Spanish.

B. He worked for a company for several years.

C. He once worked part-time at night.

14. Why does the man want to leave his present job?

A. To get a full-time job with more responsibility.

B. To work in a company close to home.

C. To find a job with a good salary.

15. What is the man interested in ?

A. Traveling. B. Doing sports. C. Foreign languages.

16. What is the man concerned about in the end?

A. When he is supposed to start work.

B. What responsibilities he will have .

C. Whether he will be offered a position.

听第10 段材料，回答第17 至20 题。

17. When did Hellen Perry go on stage?

A. In 1847. B. In 1859. C. In 1869.

18. What did Hellen Perry find difficult throughout her acting life ?

A. To control her voice.

B. To learn the dialog lines.

C. To perform the small role.

19. What does the speaker think of Hellen Perry’s throat operation?

A. worthwhile. B. Risky. C. Meaningless.

20. What showed Hellen Perry’s talents in writing?

A. Her several famous plays.

B. Her letters to a writer.

C. Her writing degrees

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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

A frail (虚弱的) old man lived with his son, daughter-in-law, and his four-year-old grandson. His eyes were blurry, his hands trembled, and his step faltered.

The family ate together nightly at the dinner table. But the elderly grandfather's shaky hands and failing sight made eating rather difficult. Peas rolled off his spoon onto the floor. When he grasped his glass of milk, it often spilled clumsily on the tablecloth.

With this happening almost every night, the son and daughter-in-law became irritated with the mess.

“We must do something,” said the son.

“I’ve had enough of his milk spilling, noisy eating and food on the floor,” the daughter-in-law agreed.

So the couple set a small table in the corner.

There, grandfather ate alone while the rest of the family enjoyed their dinner at the dinner table. Since grandfather had broken a dish or two, his food was served in a wooden bowl. Sometimes when the family glanced in grandfather's direction, he had a tear in his eye as he ate alone. Still, the only words the couple had for him were still sharp when he dropped a fork or spilled food. The four-year-old son watched it all in silence.

One evening, before supper, the father noticed his son playing with wood scraps on the floor. He asked the child sweetly, “What are you making?” Just as sweetly, the boy replied, “Oh, I am making a little bowl for you and mama to eat your food from when I grow up.” The four-year-old son smiled and went back to work.

These words so struck the parents that they were speechless. Then tears streamed down their cheeks. Though no words were spoken, both knew what must be done.

21. What does the underlined word “irritated” in Paragraph 3 most probably mean?

A. sad B. angry C. merciful D. frightened

22. From what the boy did and said, we can infer that _________.

A. the boy was not satisfied with his parents.

B. the boy wanted to punish his parents in this way.

C. grow-ups’ words and behaviors influences next generation.

D. kids have great respect for the old.

23. If the story continues, what will happen next?

A. The couple still cared when a fork was dropped or milk was spilled.

B. That evening the couple taught the son a good lesson because of his bad behavior.

C. Father drove grandfather out of their home.

D. That evening, the husband took grandfather's hand and gently led him back to the family table.

B

Few things can get normally calm people angry like finding a parking ticket attached to the windshield of their cars，especially when they seem undeserved．But most people don’t want to invest the time and energy to beat them．

Now a new iPhone app，Fixed，will take on the task of beating a ticket：suggesting reasons it might be wrong，gathering supporting evidence and submitting proper paperwork to get drivers out of them. If the driver beats the ticket，they pay Fixed 25％of what it would have cost．

“When you mention parking tickets to people，most people think they’ve received an unfair one，”said David Hegarty，the designer of Fixed，who came up with the idea after getting six parking tickets in one day．

When someone gets a ticket，they snap a photo of it on their iPhone and enter the code．The app will tell them what percentage of those types of tickets are usually overturned and then show a list of possible reasons it could be found wrong such as a traffic sign covered by a leafy tree or a broken parking meter．If the motorists think they have a case，the app will remind them to get any additional photographic evidence with their phone and then digitally sign a letter．

Fixed’s business model isn’t completely new．There are companies that handle such cases for large companies such as FedEx and UPS．The difference is that Fixed is making the service available to individuals，thus helping in any area where the fee amount is small enough not to protest in person，but still big enough to make someone angry．“That’s our sweet spot，”David said．

24. The underlined word “submit”，in Paragraph 2 probably means“ ”.

A. put down B. make up C. give up D. hand in

25．The inspiration of Fixed came from

A. similar software from Apple App store

B. marketing analysis provided by iPhone

C. David Hegarty’s personal experience

D. successful cases of some drivers

26．What does the 4th Paragraph mainly tell us about?

A. Why evidence is important in paying a ticket．

B. What people can do to avoid parking tickets．

C. Why a smart phone App attracts users．

D. How the iPhone App Fixed works．

27．According to the last paragraph，Fixed is unique because

A. it is free for smartphone users

B. it targets individuals as its customers

C. it was developed by FedEx and UPS

D. it can easily beat most of parking tickets

C

You just think you know what will make you happy. Researchers in the new science of happiness know better. They have evidence that married people on average end up being no happier than they were before the wedding. Winning the lottery (彩票) will probably reduce your pleasure in ordinary events that used to make you happy. And being in good health isn’t as much of a factor as the right genes when it comes to satisfaction.

Soligman and Diener studied 222 Illinois college students to find out what the happiest 10% had in common. It turned out they were extroverts (性格外向者), had more friendships and romantic relationships, but didn’t exercise more and didn’t feel they had more good events in their lives than those who weren’t as happy.

Some of the results come as a surprise. A classic study of lottery winners and people who were badly injuried, for instance, found that neither event changed their lives as much as observers thought they would.

Gilbert is looking into how accurately people predict what will make them happy, which turns out, not accurately at all. What we think will bring us pleasure——a new car, the home team winning the NCAA championship, a move to California——usually doesn’t bring us as much as we expected, and the positive impact doesn’t last as long. The good news is that we also overestimate the impact of terrible events, Even with data from research pouring in, scientists still don’t have an easy answer to what we all want to know: How do I get long-term life satisfaction? The answers they do have are often the same ones that philosophers and priests have been giving us for centuries. It’s just nice to have them backed up with hard data.

28. What does the passage mainly discuss?

A. A story on happiness. B. The level of happiness.

C. The secrets of happiness. D. The prediction of happi