听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一道小题，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。

例：How much is the shirt?

A. ￡19.15. B. ￡9.18. C. ￡9.15. 答案是C。

1. How will the woman get in touch with Ann?

A. By telephone. B. By mail. C. By e-mail.

2. What does the man ask the woman to do?

A. Get him a newspaper.

B. Bring him something to eat.

C. Give him a cup of coffee.

3. Where does the conversation probably take place?

A. In a restaurant. B. In the man’s home. C. In a supermarket.

4. What are the speakers discussing?

A. A book. B. A building. C. A man.

5. What does the woman mean?

A. Jimmy’s words are often unreliable.

B. Jimmy is rich enough to buy a big house.

C. Jimmy is not serious in making decisions.

第二节（共15小题：每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）

请听下面5段对话。每段对话后有几个小题，从题中所给出的A、B、C三个选项种选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话前，你将有时间阅读各个小题。每小题5秒钟,听完后各小题给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答6、7题。

6. What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A. A party. B. An apartment. C. A holiday plan.

7. What does the woman want to do on weekends?

A. Bathe in the sun. B. Iron her clothes. C. Walk in the park.

听第7段材料，回答第8、9题。

8. Where is the exhibition centre?

A. In front of a bookstore. B. Across from a zoo. C. Behind a drugstore.

9. How will the woman go to the exhibition centre?

A. By bike. B. By bus. C. On foot.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. What is the man?

A. A host. B. An editor. C. A programmer.

11. What do people buy most online?

A. Food and drink. B. Health and beauty products. C. Books and CDs.

12. What do we know about some people who shop online?

A. They bargain hard before buying.

B. They are usually online for some time before buying.

C. They usually start by buying something cheap.

a听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。

13. What is the most probable relationship between the speakers?

A. Classmates. B. Colleagues. C. Neighbours.

14. What is the woman’s problem?

A. She can’t print her sales report.

B. She can’t operate the computer.

C. She can’t switch the printer on.

15. What does the man recommend the woman to do?

A. Keep her computer on.

B. Check the settings every few minutes.

C. Save her document at any time.

16. What will the woman probably have to do next?

A. Have her computer repaired.

B. Hand in the document.

C. Rewrite the report.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. Where is the speaker probably?

A. In a classroom. B. In a laboratory. C. In a library.

18. What is the speaker explaining?

A. A study plan. B. A term schedule. C. A weekly timetable.

19. What will the students practise on Wednesday?

A. Reading and writing. B. Listening and speaking. C. Grammar and vocabulary.

20. When can the students study in the library on weekday afternoons?

A. From 3:30 to 6:00. B. From 3:00 to 6:30. C. From 3:00 to 6:00.

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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Taylor Swift has been named Billboard’s Woman of the Year 2014, making her the first artist to receive the award twice.

The award goes to the female artist who “has shaped and inspired the music industry with her success, leadership and innovation” over the last year. Previous winners include Pink, Beyonce and Katy Perry.

Swift will receive the prize at the Billboard Women in Music Award Ceremony on 12 December in New York.

“As one of the most influential artists of her generation, Taylor Swift has seen incredible success on the Billboard charts,” said Janice Min, co-president and chief creative officer of Guggenheim Media’s Entertainment Group, which includes Billboard.

“Over the course of her career, she’s charted 60 entries on the Billboard Hot 100 - the most of any female artist since her debut in 2006. We are tremendously excited to be honouring her as the 2014 Billboard Woman of the Year for the second time.”

Taylor Swift is a seven-time Grammy winner and the best-selling digital music artist of all time. Earlier this week it was announced she would be?performing on The X Factor?results show this weekend.

On Thursday she appeared in the?performed in the Radio 1 Live Lounge, where she sang her current hit Shake It Off and covered Vance Joy’s Riptide.

Swift has just featured on the cover of British Vogue and explained what it was like to do high profile interviews.

“I don’t really have anything to hide at this point,” she told Fearne Cotton. “It’s sort of understood that anything I do is going to be discussed and dissected and debated and I’m used to that dynamic now.” She added: “I’m very proud of the way my life is. I’m 24, I’m single, feeling very independent. A lot of fun things have happened in my life.”

21. What can be inferred from the first two paragraphs? _____.

A. Taylor Swift is the first artist to receive the award twice.

B. Taylor Swift is one of the four winners.

C. Taylor Swift has shaped and inspired the music industry with her success, leadership and innovation

D. The award goes to the female artists.

22. The Award Ceremony will be held on _____.

A. on 12 November in New York B. on 12 December in Washington

C. on 12 November in Washington D. on 12 December in New York

23. According to Janice Min, _____.

A. Taylor Swift is a seven-time Grammy winner and the best-selling digital music artist of all time

B. Taylor Swift appeared in the?performed in the Radio 1 Live Lounge

C. Taylor Swift is worthwhile to be given the award a second time

D. Taylor Swift would be?performing on The X Factor?results show this weekend.

24. From the last paragraph, we can see Taylor Swift was _____.

A. sad B. unhappy C. delighted D. indifferent

B

David Nabarro,?the UN special envoy (特使), told the reporter?the number of Ebola cases was currently increasing rapidly, but greater community awareness would help contain the virus.

People were becoming aware that isolating those infected was the best way to prevent transmission, he added. So far, there have been?more than 8,300?confirmed and suspected cases of Ebola, and at least 4,033 deaths. Most deaths - 4,024 - have occurred in the west African countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Cases have also been reported in Nigeria, Senegal, Spain and the US.

Mr Nabarro said that the number of new cases was “quite frightening”, as the spread of the disease was currently accelerating. At the beginning, many west African communities did not understand that the outbreak was an infectious disease, he said.

“I think we’ve got much better community involvement which leads me to believe that getting it under control within the next three months is a reasonable target,” he continued.

“By under control I mean... the numbers of new cases each week diminishes compared with the previous week to the point where there is no new transmission.”

The Ebola virus is spread by direct contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person or animal.

Meanwhile, New York’s JFK airport began screening passengers from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea for the Ebola virus on Saturday, in an attempt to stop the outbreak. Passengers from those countries will have their temperatures taken and have to answer a series of questions.

Checks at O’Hare in Chicago, Newark, Washington’s Dulles and Atlanta’s airport will begin in the coming days. The screening system is being introduced after the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the US died in Texas on Wednesday.

25. The number of the countries which have been reported on death cases of Ebola so far

mainly is_____.

A. 3. B. 4. C. 7. D. 8.

26. According to the UN special envoy, how long will it take to bring Ebola under control? _____.

A. a few days from now. B. six weeks.

C. about three months. D. the coming week.

27. What does the underlined word “diminishes” mean in the fifth paragraph? _____.

A. increases B. decreases C. varies D. disappears

28. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage? _____.

A. Ebola is spread by direct contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person or animal.

B. Most death cases of Ebola have occurred in the west African countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

C. Checks at airports in Chicago, Washington, and Atlanta will begin in the coming days.

D. The screening system is being introduced by the first person to be diagnosed.

C

We know more about the surface of the planet Mars than we know about what is at the bottom of Earth’s oceans.

Until recently, scientists had mapped only about 20 percent of the sea floor. But our knowledge of the deep seas is changing because of information from satellites. Scientists have produced a new map that provides a detailed picture of the oceans. The map is expected to help oceanographers, industry and governments.

The new map is twice as detailed as the map made 20 years ago. David Sandwell is a geophysics professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California. He and other scientists worked on the mapping project. He says they turned to space to look deeper into the ocean. He spoke to VOA on SKYPE.

“The way we’re doing that is to use a satellite altimeter (高度计), a radar to map the topography (地貌) of the ocean surface. Now that seems sort of strange that you’d map the topography of the ocean surface when you really want to get at the sea floor. But, the ocean surface topography has these bumps and dips due to gravitational effects that mimic what’s on the sea floor.”

The scientists collected and studied information from two satellites. Some of the data came from the European Space Agency’s Cryo-2 satellite. It was placed in Earth’s orbit to watch sea ice. The other satellite is the American space agency’s Jason-1. It is studying the surface of the oceans. Scientists combined the satellite data with images gathered by sonar ( 声呐：利用声波探测水下物体的装置或系统) equipment on ships. Sonar works by sending sound waves through the water. When