1. What does the woman want to do?

A. Find a place. B. Buy a map. C. Get an address.

2. What will the man do for the woman?

A. Repair her car. B. Give her a ride. C. Pick up her aunt.

3. Who might Mr. Peterson be?

A. A new professor. B. A department head. C. A company director.

4. What does the man think of the book?

A. Quite difficult.. B. Very interesting. C. Too simple.

5. What are the speakers talking about?

A. Weather. B. Clothes. C. News.

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. Why is Harry unwilling to join the woman?

A. He has a pain in his knee.. B. He wants to watch TV. C. He is too lazy.

7. What will the woman probably do next?

A. Stay at home. B. Take Harry to hospital. C. Do some exercise.

听第7段材料，回答第8 、9题。

8. When will the man be home from work?

A. At 5:45. B. At 6:15. C. At 6:50.

9. Where will the speakers go ?'

A. The Green House Cinema. B. The New State Cinema . C. The UME Cinema.

听第 8段材料,回答第 10至 12题。

10. How will the speaker go to New York?

A. By air. B. By taxi. C. By bus.

11. Why are the speakers making the trip?

A. For business. B. For shopping. C. For holiday.

12. What is the probable relationship between the speakers?

A. Driver and passenger B. Husband and wife. C. Fellow workers.

听第 9段材料,回答第 13至 16题。

13. Where does this conversation probably take place?

A. In a restaurant. B. In an office. C. In a classroom.

14. What does John do now?

A. He’s a trainer. B. He’s a tour guide. C. He’s a college student.

15. How much can a new person earn for the first year?

A. $10,500. B. $ 12,000. C. $ 15,000.

16. How many people will the woman hire?

A. Four. B. Three. C. Two.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. How long has the speaker lived in a big city?

A. One year. B. Ten years. C. Eighteen years.

18. What is the speaker’s opinion on public transport?

A. It’s comfortable. B. It’s time-saving. C. It’s cheap.

19. What is good about living in a small town?

A. It’s safer. B. It’s healthier. C. It’s more convenient.

20. What kind of life does the speaker seem to like most?

A. Busy. B. Colorful C. Quiet.

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

并在题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Nowadays women appear to have a positive image of themselves as safer drivers than men.

In a survey done for insurer MetLife, 51% of women said they drive more safely. The evidence is on their side: Men are 3.4 times more likely than women to get a ticket for careless driving and 3.1 times as likely to be punished for drunk driving. “Women are on average less aggressive and more law abiding (守法的) drivers, which leads to fewer accidents,” the report says. However, not all male drivers share the same opinion. Of the men surveyed by MetLife, 39% claimed male drivers were safer. The findings did back them upon one point: automotive knowledge. The report showed that more men are familiar with current safety equipment such as electronic stability control，which helps prevent rollover accidents.

Auto safety unavoidably matters to Money. Insurance companies focus on what classes of drivers have the lowest dollar amounts of claims, and for now, that mainly includes women. In general, women pay about 9% less for auto insurance than men. A study by the website Insweb also showed that auto insurance rates are lower for women in most states. Among individual states, women get the greatest, advantage in Wyoming (where they pay 20% less), South Dakota and Washington, D.C, where their insurance costs are 16% lower.

“More than 11,900 male drivers died in US traffic accidents in 2009，compared with just under 4,900 women drivers” according to the study. “Based on miles traveled, men died at a rate of 2.5 deaths per 100 million miles traveled, vs.1.7 deaths for women.”

21. According to the study，female drivers ________.

A. are more aggressive while driving

B. are more interested in auto knowledge

C. are more likely to stick to driving laws

D. are more familiar with safety equipment

22. Insurance companies focus on female driver clients probably because they________.

A. cause more accidents on the road

B. pay more money to the insurance companies

C. take the most part of the insurance clients

D. have the lowest amount of money on insurance claims

23. We can infer from the passage that________.

A. men are 3.1 times more likely to get tickets than women

B. all women in the USA pay the same for their auto insurance

C. more female drivers die every year than male drivers

D. women are generally safer drivers than the opposite gender

24. The writer mainly develops paragraphs by________.

A. giving examples 　　　 B. making comparisons

C. drawing a conclusion 　　 D. presenting an argument

B

On countless mornings over the past year, I stood with my son, James, in our driveway, watching our neighbor hurry off to kindergarten. My wife and I wanted to give James the best education, but that meant we’d have to change our jobs and spend less time with our kid. I asked myself, “Would this trade-off be worth it?” When I look at the research on child development, I think it might not. Where our kids go to school might matter less than most American parents think.

Social scientists have long tried to determine why some children grow up to be successful. In a 2001 study, Greg Duncan, a professor of education at the University of California, measured the influence that the people in a child’s life have on how well the child does in school. Duncan and his team found almost no relationship between how students did on the test and whom they sat beside in class, whom they hung out with after school and who lived in their block. The only meaningful link they found was between siblings（兄弟姐妹）and twins in particular.

For a long time, scholars thought that a family’s income heavily affected how well kids did in life. But that might not be the case. When Susan Mayer at the University of Chicago looked at the relationship between family income and lifetime achievement, she ran a series of experiments to measure it, finding such outcomes weren’t caused by income. She argued that the things that make a difference are relatively inexpensive: the number of books a kid has or how often his family goes to museums.

Lareau, another scholar began one of the most in-depth observations of American parenting. He concluded that success is much more related to the amount of time parents spend with their children. He said “Many parents I interviewed are anxious about their children’s futures．But they have exaggerated（夸大）the sense of the risks involved if they don't give their children the best of everything..”

So at last, we decided to leave things as it were. More time with our kid is the best we can provide.

25. The first paragraph is intended to __________.

A. introduce the topic of the passage

B. confirm the result of a research

C. stress the importance of good education

D. support a research on child development

26. From the passage we know that most American parents _________.

A. spend a lot of time with their children

B. like to buy a variety of books for their children

C. think children's achievement largely depends on schools

D. believe their income cannot afford children's education

27.Who believes children's brothers and sisters may influence their academic performance?

A．Lareau． B．Greg Duncan． C．Susan Mayer． D．James．

28. Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?

A. Parents' time matters to children's future．

B. School education determines children's future．

C. Family income counts to children's achievements．

D. Less education means more risks for children's success．

C

What will power your house in the future？Nuclear, wind or solar power？According to scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US, it might be leaves — but artificial (人造的) ones.

Natural leaves are able to change sunlight and water into energy. It is known as photosynthesis (光合作用). Now researchers have found a way to imitate this seemingly simple process.

The artificial leaf developed by Daniel Nocera and his colleagues at MIT can be seen as a special silicon chip with catalysts (催化剂). Similar to natural leaves, it can split water into hydrogen and oxygen when put into a bucket of water. The hydrogen and oxygen gases are then stored in a fuel cell，which uses those two materials to produce electricity，located either on top of a house or beside the house.

Though the leaf is only about the shape of a poker card, scientists claimed that it is promising to be an inexpensive source of electricity in developing countries. “One can imagine villages in India and Africa not long from now purchasing an affordable basic power system based on this technology,” said Nocera at a conference of the American Chemical Society.

The artificial leaf is not a new idea. The first artificial leaf was invented in 1997 but was too expensive and unstable for practical use. The new leaf, by contrast, is made of cheap materials, easy to use and highly stable. In laboratory studies, Nocera showed that an artificial leaf prototype (原型) could operate continuously for at least 45 hours without a drop in activity.

The wonderful improvements come from Nocera’s recent discovery of several powerful, new and inexpensive catalysts. These catalysts make the energy transformation inside the leaf more efficient with water and sunlight. Right now, the new leaf is about 10 times more efficient at carrying out photosynthesis than a natural one. Besides, the device can run in what