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. Why is the woman exhausted?

A. She has been working in the office. B. She has been entertaining a lot of guests.

C. She has been preparing for a party.

2. When did the train leave?

A. At 11:05 B. At 11:15 C. At 11:25

3. Whose dictionary is missing?

A. John’s B. Linda’s C. Susan’s

4. Where does the conversation probably take place?

A. At a restaurant B. At an airport C. In a hotel

5. What did Jill buy for Sue’s birthday?

A. A video B. A CD C. A book

第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）

听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。

6. What is the probable relationship between the two speakers?

A. Reporter and interviewee B. Former classmates C. Husband and wife

7. What is the man?

A. A designer B. A painter C. A photographer

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. What does the man want to do?

A. Rent an apartment. B. Sell his apartment C. Decorate his room

9. How much does the apartment with two bedrooms cost per month?

A. $250 B. $285 C. $215

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. What is the woman?

A. She is a junior student B. She is a professor C. She is a teaching assistant.

11. What is the professor’s first response to the woman’s request?

A. He does not intend to run the course.

B. He does not think the course will interest her.

C. He thinks the course will be too difficult.

12. What does the woman say to persuade the professor?

A. That she is really well prepared. B. That she is just a junior.

C. That she found Berman’s course boring.

听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. What do the speakers want to do at first?

A. Vote for their favorite superstar B. Watch a TV show

C. Compete in a singing contest

14. Who was among the bottom three competitors last week?

A. Kelly B. Rubin C. Gavin

15. How did the accident happen?

A. There was a power cut. B. The TV show was put off

C. The TV was struck by lightning

16. What are the speakers going to do next?

A. Repair the TV immediately B. Call the cable company

C. Go to Justin’s house.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. What does the passage mainly tell us?

A. The difficulties in applying for a credit card. B. Different types of credit cards.

C. Things to notice when choosing a credit card.

18. Why is it easy to apply for a credit card?

A. Credit card offers are everywhere. B. Credit card advertisements often look good.

C. There are different cards to choose from

19. Which kind of cards should you apply for if you are new to credit cards?

A. Cards with low interest rates. B. Cards with low annual fees.

C. Cards with a low credit limit

20. How many questions has the speaker suggested people consider applying for a credit card?

A. 3 B. 4 C. 5

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中，选出最佳选项。

A

The Great Barn Adventure

One morning when I was 11, I explored the town’s abandoned round grain barn(谷仓), I found a chained sliding door that was wide enough for me to pass through.

Inside, there was a heavy smell of dead mice in the dark. After my eyes adjusted, I noticed a shaft(竖井) that rose all the way to the top of the barn. On one side was a one-man elevator with a long rope and roller.

I stepped onto the platform and gave the rope a drag and the elevator began sliding up the shaft, but stopped halfway. After a brief panic attack, I noticed holes in the wall at regular intervals(间隔), forming a ladder. For reasons known only to an 11-year-old, I decided it would be better to go up than down. So, with shaking hands, I began climbing the wall.

After what seemed like forever, I reached the top of the shaft. I stood up, dusted myself off and found…absolutely nothing of interest. It was just an empty room with a ladder leading up to the roof. I climbed all the way up here for this? Then I noticed a fire extinguisher(灭火器), which I’d always wanted to shoot off. So this was the chance of a lifetime. I tried it, and much to my surprise, the thing worked! It shot out a thick cloud of powder that instantly filled the room. I couldn’t breathe. I was going to choke to death, and they’d probably never even find my body.

Luckily, I remembered the ladder to the roof. I climbed up, popped the straw roof and saw a bright blue sky.

I suddenly realized the dust and powder pouring out of the top could draw attention. So when the dust had settled, I climbed down and slipped out of the chained door. I’m not sure if I was more excited about being alive or about not being caught, but I ran all the way back home.

B

If you plan on visiting to Fiji, you are probably looking for some fun things to do. Below are four unusual places.

The Poseidon Resort

The Poseidon resort is an underwater resort that gives visitors a beautiful view of sea life. This resort covers 255 acres. It’s covered and surrounded by a lagoon (咸水湖) that covers 5,000 acres and is about 90 feet under water, giving you a beautiful view of sea life right before your eyes. This resort even has a hotel for those who would prefer to have the unusual experience of sleeping and waking up to the beautiful scenery all around them.

The Sabeto Mud Pool

If you’re looking for something unusual to do, you can’t pass up the mud pool at Sabeto. It is located in a mountain range with a huge group of Geothermal (地热的) pools full of nice, warm mud. Getting down and into the mud in the pool is believed to have benefits for healthy skin. This is unusual, but adults and especially kids will love it.

Fire Walking

Fire walking in Fiji is believed to have originated on the island of Beau. Fire walking is when you walk on white-hot stones barefoot. To do this, you have to be mentally prepared for it. Trust me; there is a lot of preparation and strict rules that travelers follow in order to do this safely.

The Fiji Museum

The Fiji museum is unusual due to all the amazing artifacts you’ll see dating back 3,000-4,000 years. This museum has a certain attraction that makes it funny—a shoe. It’s been said that a man named Thomas Baker was eaten by the locals several centuries ago and the only thing left was his shoe. This unusual museum is a great idea if you bring the whole family to Fiji.

25. Visitors who have the unusual experience of sleeping at the Poseidon resort can _________.

A. enjoy the excellent service in the hotel B. open windows to see sea life swimming

C. see sea life around them in the room D. only watch videos about sea life

26. Why do adults like to get down into the mud pool?

A. To float on the warm mud B. To make them strong

C. To play with the warm mud D. To keep their skin healthy

27. Which of the following things needs more courage and stricter rules?

A. Trying fire walking B. Visiting the Poseidon resort

C. Getting into the Sabeto Mud Pool D. Visiting the Fiji museum

C

Bad news travels fast—when you watch the evening news or read the morning papers, it seems that things that get the most coverage are all tragedies like wars, earthquakes, floods, fires and murders.

This is the classic rule for mass media. “They want your eyeballs and don’t care how you’re feeling,” Jonah Berger, a psychologist at University of Pennsylvania, Us told The New York Times.

But with social media getting increasingly popular, information is now being spread in different ways, and researchers are discovering new rules—good news can actually spread faster and farther than disasters and other sad stories.

Berger and his colleague Katherine Milkman looked at thousands of articles on The New York Times’ website and analyzed the “most e-mailed” list for six months.

One of his findings was that articles in the science section were much more likely to make the list. Those stories aroused feelings of awe(敬畏) and made the readers want to share this positive emotion with others.

Besides science stories, readers were also found to be likely to share articles that were exciting or funny. “The more positive an article was, the more likely it was to be shared,” Berger wrote in his new book. “For example, stories about newcomers falling in love with New York City,” he writes, “tended to be shared more than the death of a popular zookeeper.”

But does all this good news actually make the audience feel better? Not necessarily.

According to a study by researchers at Harvard University, people tend to say more positive things about themselves when they’re talking to a bigger audience, rather than just one person, which helps explain all the perfect vacations that keep showing up on microblogs. This, researchers found, makes people think that life is unfair and that they’re less happy than their friends.

But no worries. There’s a quick and easy way to relieve the depression you get from viewing other people’s seemingly perfect lives—turn on the television and watch the news. There is always someone doing worse than you are.

28. Bad news covers most papers because .

A. the public care for reading tragedies

B. mass media want to attract the public’s attention

C. the public intend to express sympathy for victims

D. mass media appeal to the public to help victims

29. Which of the following might be e-mailed most according to Berger?

A. The perfect vacation of your friend B. The death of a popular zookeeper

C. The story of a determined inventor D. The flood hitting a small town

30. We can infer from the passage that .

A. bad news always makes people sad

B. people prefer to share bad news with a bigger audience

C. people can relieve the depression by readi