第I卷

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. Where does the conversation take place?

A. In a hotel. B. In a department store. C. At a railway station.

2. What’s the relationship between the two speakers?

A. Friends. B. Strangers. C. Classmates.

3. Why didn’t Alice go to bed until late at night?

A. She was doing her housework.

B. She was working hard at her lessons.

C. She was watching TV.

4. What are the two speakers doing?

A. Talking about going to the Xinhua Bookstore.

B. Talking about seeing the woman’s uncle.

C. Talking about what to do after work.

5. What does the man intend to do?

A. To buy a coat.

B. To try on a new coat.

C. To lend money to the woman.

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8题。

6. What are the two speakers talking about?

A. The woman’s school. B. The woman’s family. C. The woman’s plan.

7. Which of the following is true according to the dialogue?

A. She hasn’t decided about her job.

B. She hasn’t thought about her job.

C. She doesn’t want to leave school.

8. What will the woman probably do in the end?

A. She will go to college.

B. She will become a secretary.

C. She will become a hairdresser.

听第7段材料，回答第9至11题。

9. Where are the man and the woman going?

A. To the bus station. B. To the police station. C. To the railway station.

10. What does the woman think they should do?

A. Take a taxi. B. Walk slowly. C. Leave the bags with police.

11. What does the man find out at last?

A. Fifteen minutes is too long.

B. The traffic is moving too slowly.

C. He is not able to carry both bags.

听第8段材料，回答第12至14题。

12. What is NOT true about the man?

A. Water is running out from his leg.

B. He can not breathe well after a walk.

C. He hasn’t been sleeping well because of the pain in his leg.

13. What has caused the trouble?

A. The woman doesn’t know yet.

B. He was burnt by boiling water.

C. He has tired himself out in his work.

14. What’s the woman’s name?

A. Doctor Cook.

B. Doctor Martin.

C. The conversation doesn’t tell us.

听第9段材料，回答第15至17题。

15. What did the man put up on his wall yesterday?

A. The picture he drew on his vacation.

B. The picture he took.

C. His picture taken last year.

16. What doesn’t the man like?

A. The pictures prepared for the camera.

B. The daily life pictures.

C. The pictures taken by others.

17. How many cameras does the man use a lot?

A. Many. B. Twelve. C. Two.

听第10段材料，回答第18至20题。

18. Who was Phil?

A. My friend. B. A traveler. C. A businessman.

19. What did the man want to know?

A. He wanted to know where they were.

B. He wanted to know what was in the sky.

C. He wanted to know why the sky was strange.

20. Why didn’t Phil tell him?

A. Because he had drunk too much.

B. Because he was in a strange town.

C. Because he didn’t see anything in the sky.

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。

A

As she lay there in the hospital bed, I stared at her sunken face. Her mouth hung open and a moan (呻吟) escaped every so often, an old woman well beyond her 71 years. In four months this is what she has become—daily exercising, strong willed, world traveling women has been eaten from the inside out by cancer. Four months! It is a shock that’s difficult for me to wrap my brain around. It makes me want to tell everyone I love them.

I study her face and will her to open her eyes. What will I say if she does? In the 20 years I have known this woman, and I have struggled to understand her, battled her opinions, endured her criticisms, and loved her son beyond measure. I think of all the times I have wanted to make her disappear. All the times I thought about what I would feel when she was gone. Relief, joy, guilt, or nothing?

I think my children saved me from truly hating her. Earlier that day, I watched my 12-year-old son Austin, who she loved fiercely, sitting by her bed and studied her face searching for his beloved “Bubbe” and wondering if she’d ever return. He once caught her awake and looked her right in the eye, saying, “I love you, Bubbe. I hope you get better.” His words pierced my heart for I know she is not getting better.

Would she hear my silent plea (恳求) and open her eyes? She is so stubborn and never cares what others think. My mind wanders through the past twenty years. I realize how fragile she was when we first met only one month after her husband had died suddenly. Remembering a story she told me about her husband bringing her daffodils makes me see her through his eyes. I think of the love and attention she showers on my sons and I see her through their eyes. Her stories of her childhood and her father’s unstable income make me see why she pushes my husband to make more money.

21. According to the passage, the old woman is the author’s ______.

A. mother B. grandmother C. mother-in-law D. stepmother

22. Which of the following is the author’s feeling about the old woman?

A. The author thought she was easy to get along well with.

B. The author would feel joyful and guilty after her death.

C. The author used to hate her because of Austin.

D. The author could see that she showed love for her family.

23. What do we know about the old woman?

A. She had been energetic before she got cancer.

B. She lived alone after her husband’s death.

C. She was closer to Austin than to other people.

D. She always lived in a family with unstable income.

24. This passage is written to ______.

A. wake up the old woman from cancer

B. show sadness and respect for the old woman

C. describe the old woman’s cancer

D. remember the old woman’s kindness

B

Living near the beach may come with an extra perk (利益): better health. A new study analyzed information from more than 48 million people in England and found that the nearer they lived to the coast, the more likely people were to report good health within the past year.

Living near the coast may be associated with better health because the seaside environment reduces stress, the researchers said. They pointed to another British study that found that people who took trips to the coast experienced more feelings of calmness and relaxation than those who visited urban parks or the countryside.

However, it’s too soon to advise people to hit the beach to improve health, Wheeler said. The study only found an association, not a cause-effect link, and it’s possible that other factors could explain the results. For instance, it could be that people who are wealthier, and therefore healthier, are more able to move to desired locations such as the coast, Wheeler said, a phenomenon known as the migrant effect. But the study did find that the association between coastal living and better health was strongest for those living in the poorest areas, which perhaps indicates that wealth cannot explain the results, Wheeler said.

Because the study looked at only England—an island country in which everyone lives within 72 miles of the coast—it’s not clear whether the findings would apply to other populations. Far from England, a health expert not involved in the study said that while the British research certainly doesn’t prove that people’s health and the place they live are linked, it’s possible that proximity to the seas does something for our bodies.

If future studies confirm the results, the next step would be to find out it is what coastal environments that can benefit health. Wheeler said it may then be possible to bring those benefits to people living in other areas, through virtual environments, for instance.

25. We can conclude from the passage that ______.

A. people living near the sea may be healthier

B. people are encouraged to move to the coast

C. people pay increasingly attention to health

D. people are worried about residential environment

26. According to the researchers, living near the sea ______.

A. doesn’t nearly affect the British population

B. can help get over one’s stress

C. can cure some difficult diseases in a way

D. means freeing from sadness or troubles

27. What Ben Wheeler said means ______.

A. the British public health is decreasing

B. concrete evidence favors life near the sea

C. exact reasons are proposed for further research

D. wealthier people are likely to be healthier

28. What does the underlined word “proximity” in the passage mean?

A. being opposite B. being distant C. being similar D. being close

C

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