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. What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A. A library B. A writer C. A book

2. Where is George now?

A. In Germany B. In Canada C. In Italy.

3. How are the prices in the restaurant?

A. Reasonable B. High C. Low

4. What did the woman do last night?

A. She attended a lecture.

B. She went to the hospital.

C. She made a speech going on education.

5. Where is the woman probably going on Sunday?

A. To an art exhibition B. To a museum C. To a wedding

第二节（共15小题：每小题1.5分，共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，从每题所给的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、7题。

6. What does the woman plan to do?

A. Go to college. B. Work as a designer. C. Take up hairdressing.

7. What do we know about the woman?

A. She always follows her parents’ advice.

B. She likes to meet people.

C. She isn’t keen on working.

听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

8. What are the speakers looking for?

A. A fire station. B. A place to eat. C. A college.

9. Where did the fire probably break out?

A. At a classroom B. At a library C. At a cafeteria

10. What are the speakers doing next?

A. Going to town B. Staying home. C. Going to a bakery.

听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。

13. What does the man offer to do?

A. Leave work early if he can.

B. Take Ruth’s place as a tour guide.

C. Help out when he has time.

听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。

14. What does the woman say about the Statue of Liberty?

A. Beautiful. B. Exciting. C. Dirty.

15. What does the woman think of the hotel?

A. Not bad. B. Not good. C. Too noisy.

16. Where does the woman come from?

A. Canada. B. The UK. C. The US.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. Where was Frost born?

A. In New England B. In Boston. C. In San Francisco

18. When did Frost become friendly with Edward Thomas?

A. Between 1924 and 1943. B. Between 1912 and 1915. C. Between 1943 and 1963.

19. Which was published in 1914?

A. Steeple Bush B. A Boy’s Will. C. North of Boston.

20. What does the speaker ask the listeners to do next?

A. Read a poem. B. Study a novel. C. Write a letter.

第二部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

The writer Margaret Mitchell is best known for writing Gone with the Wind, first published in 1936. Her book and the movie based on it, tell a story of love and survival during the American Civil War. Visitors to the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta, Georgia, can go where she lived when she started composing the story and learn more about her life.

Our first stop at the Margaret Mitchell House is an exhibit area telling about the writer’s life. She was born in Atlanta in 1900. She started writing stories when she was a child. She started working as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal newspaper in 1922. One photograph of Ms. Mitchell, called Peggy, shows her talking to a group of young college boys. She was only about one and a half meters tall. The young men tower over her, but she seems very happy and sure of herself. The tour guide explains: “Now in this picture Peggy is interviewing some boys from Georgia Tech, asking them such questions as ‘Would you really marry a woman who works?’ And today it’d be ‘Would you marry one who doesn’t?’ ”

The Margaret Mitchell House is a building that once contained several apartments. Now we enter the first floor apartment where Ms. Mitchell lived with her husband, John Marsh. They made fun of the small apartment by calling it “The Dump”.

Around 1926, Margaret Mitchell had stopped working as a reporter and was at home healing after an injury. Her husband brought her books to read from the library. She read so many books that he bought her a typewriter and said it was time for her to write her own book. Our guide says Gone with the Wind became a huge success. Margaret Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize for the book. In 1939 the film version was released. It won ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

21. The book Gone with the Wind was _________.

A. first published on a newspaper

B. awarded ten Academy Awards

C. written in “The Dump”

D. adapted from a movie

22. The underlined phrase “tower over” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to_________.

A. be very pleased with

B. show great respect for

C. be much taller than

D. show little interest in

23. Why did Ms. Mitchell stop working as a reporter according to the passage?

A. Because she was rich enough.

B. Because she was injured then.

C. Because her husband didn’t like it.

D. Because she wanted to write books.

24. Which is the best title for the passage?

A. Gone with the Wind: A Huge Success.

B. Margaret Mitchell: A Great Female Writer.

C. An Introduction of the Margaret Mitchell House.

D. A Trip to Know Margaret Mitchell.

B

The tension between a hope for a more relaxed lifestyle and the knowledge that the benchmark for success has been raised in recent years weighs heavily on the minds of the townspeople. Some parents like to recall a different kind of childhood, one without so many scheduled afterschool activities. However, these same parents feel obliged to make sure their children are prepared to survive in today’s high-pressure work environment. They are afraid that any gap in their children’s physical or intellectual development might mean they won’t be admitted to the “right” universities and won’t succeed in a more and more competitive world.

Nevertheless, it seems that Family Night worked, at least to a point. Cars moved easily around Ridgewood’s normally busy downtown streets, and stores and restaurants saw a drop in business. Some families ate supper together for the first time in months.

Initially, there was great hope of taking back their lives. But sadly, few families believe that one night will change their lives. Many are sure that they will fall back into the habit of over-scheduling their children to be overachieving adults.

25.???The writer describes Ridgewood as a town where ________.

A. residents take little notice of education???

B. children are stressful and over expected

C. parents are concerned about children’s safety

D. children lead a life of relaxed, ordinary rhythms

26.???According to the passage, which of the following is?NOT?true about the Family Night?

???????A. Schools assigned no homework.??????B. Fewer people ate in the restaurants.

???????C. The streets were less crowded.?????????D. People enjoyed meeting each other.

27.???According to the passage, the parents in Ridgewood ________.

A. have conflicting desires about what experiences to offer their children

B. are happy with the lifestyle they have chosen for themselves and the children

C. believe that it is their duty to make a change for the stressful life style

D. are worried about their children’s lacking of big ambition

28.???We may get the conclusion from the passage that ________.

???????A. the concept of Family Night will become a regular part of life in Ridgewood

???????B. Ridgewood people believe the Family Night will change their way of living

???????C. Family Night is not as popular as people have originally thought

???????D. schools are worried about students being given too much free time

C

A newly-published study has shown that loneliness can spread from one person to another, like a disease. Researchers used information from the Framingham Study, which began in 1948. The Framingham Study gathers information about physical and mental health, personal behavior and diet. At first, the study involved about 5,000 people in the American state of Massachusetts. Now, more than 12,000 individuals are taking part.

Information from the Framingham Study showed earlier that happiness can spread from person to person. So can behaviors like littering and the ability to stop smoking.

University of Chicago psychologist John Cacioppo led the recent study. He and other researchers attempted to show how often people felt lonely. They found that the feeling of loneliness spread through social groups.

Having a social connection with a lonely person increased the chances that another individual would feel lonely. In fact, a friend of a lonely person was 52% more likely to develop feelings of loneliness. A friend of that person was 25% more likely. The researchers say this shows that a person could indirectly be affected by someone’s loneliness.

The effect was strongest among friends. Neighbors were the second most affected group. The effect was weaker on husbands and wives, and brothers and sisters. The researchers also found that loneliness spread more easily among women than men.

The New York Times newspaper reports that, on average, people experience feelings of loneliness about 48 days a year. It also found that every additional friend can decrease loneliness by about five percent, or two and a half fewer lonely days.

Loneliness has been linked to health problems like depression and sleeping difficulties. The researchers believe that knowing the causes of loneliness could help in reducing it.

The study suggests that people can take steps to stop the spread of loneliness. They can do this by helping individuals they know who may be experiencing loneliness. The result can be helpful to the whole social group.

29. What is TRUE about the Framingham Study?

A. It was only conducted in 1948.

B. It involves more than 12,000 participants.

C. It was led by John Cacioppo.

D. It showed that any behavior could spread.

30. Which statement about the spread of loneliness is true?

A. The spreading effect was the second strongest among friends.

B. No spreading effect was found on husbands and wives.

C. Women are more likely to be affected than men.

D. Brothers are more easily affected than neighbors.

31. What is the main idea of the passage?

A. Actions should be taken to help lonely people.

B. People feel lonely for many reasons.

C. Ways