第一部分 听力

做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。

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 is the man buying?

A．A bike．

B．A stamp．

C．A book．

2．What is the man?

A．A bus driver．

B．A dancer．

C．A teacher．

3．What do you know about the book?

A．It’s about love．

B．It talks about history．

C．It’s about the earth．

4．When did the man begin to feel ill?

A．A few days ago．

B．Yesterday．

C．Today．

5．What was the weather like last week?

A．Sunny．

B．Cloudy．

C．Rainy．

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7题。

6．What’s the most popular game in England according to the conversation?

A．Basketball．

B．Football．

C．Baseball．

7．How much does an English boy know about this game?

A．A great deal．

B．Some．

C．Little．

听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

8．Where did the two speaker meet?

A．At an international conference．

B．At a wedding．

C．On a train．

9．What does the woman do?

A．She is a reporter for News Weekly．

B．She is a journalist for News Monthly．

C．She is a boss of a big company．

10．Why does the man suggest the woman go to California?

A．Because it’s easier to find a job there．

B．Because the weather is warmer there．

C．Because people there are more friendly．

听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。

11．What gives the woman a shock?

A．Jam’s marriage．

B．Jam’s invention．

C．Jam’s message．

12．What is Jam’s wife?

A．She is a nurse．

B．She is a shop assistant．

C．She is a singer and dancer．

13．Where is Jam’s wife spending their honeymoon?

A．At a theatre on Broadway．

B．In the mountain with Jam．

C．In a small town．

听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。

14．How did the man feel when he was lost?

A．Excited．

B．Frightened．

C．Happy．

15．What did he see at that very moment?

A．A house．

B．A light．

C．A dog．

16．What were the young students doing when the man saw them?

A．They were cooking．

B．They were sitting around a fire．

C．They were reading．

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17．How old is the speaker now?

A．Seventeen．

B．Twenty-one．

C．Nineteen．

18．What did he do to make money when he was 6?

A．He delivered newspapers to his neighbors．

B．He cleaned cars for his neighbors．

C．He cut grass for his neighbors．

19．What kind of company is he running?

A．A company doing international trade．

B．A computer company．

C．A company that makes music records．

20．How much benefit will be brought in next year?

A．$50,000．

B．$55,000．

C．$60,000．

第二部分 阅读理解

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

A refrigerator of the future that tells you what to cook with your leftovers and automatically re-orders fresh food is being designed in the UK．The self-cleaning "refrigerator of the future" will automatically place supermarket home delivery orders when required and move food near its use by date to the front of the shelves．

Researchers hope the fridge could clean itself, cut down on wasted food and offer up recipes , which could be tailored to different countries, cuisines and seasons．With the British spending 36 million hours on extra-hour work every year, leaving little time for housework, the refrigerator could help save time during busy modern-day lives．These new developments are on the way thanks to combined efforts between scientists at the University of Central Lancashire and online supermarket Ocado．

The planned new qualities include the ability for refrigerators to scan their shelves to see what is in store and use this information to both plan meals and automatically place a supermarket food order．

The smart fridge will use "nano-articulated（纳米）technology" shelf surfaces, smooth to the touch．The shelf surfaces will have millions of independently controlled micro-tiles（小瓷格） which will move products which soon need to be eaten to the front of the refrigerator．Ultrasound-scanning technology built into the door will allow the refrigerator to "look through" the food on a plate before and after mealtime, meaning it can assess what type and amount of food is wasted．

Dr Simon Somerville, an expert from the University of Central Lancashire, said．"Cookbooks are lists of food items．For this purpose the most available information that the refrigerator will have is a set of arrangements that allow a set number of ingredients to produce a large number of quite different dishes．The key concept in the successful accomplishment of this process is accurate list tracking（跟踪）．"

21．The underlined phrase "be tailored to" in Paragraph 2 is similar to "______"．

A．be adapted to B．be similar to

C．be attached to D．be unique to

22．According to the last paragraph, we can conclude that ______．

A．the refrigerator can cook different dishes

B．Dr Simon Somerville is strongly against the refrigerator

C．the success of the process lies in the accurate list tracking

D．a well-designed cookbook is included in the refrigerator

23．The passage is probably from a _____

A．book review B．science report

C．newspaper ad D．fiction story

B

A cancer-stricken British teenager said Thursday she had been moved by messages of support from around the world after writing an online “Bucket List” of things she wanted to do before dying．

Alice Pyne, l5, created an Internet blog in which she described her fight against a cancer of the white blood cells．“I’ve been fighting cancer for almost four years and now I know that the cancer is gaining on me and it doesn’t look like I’m going to win this one,” she wrote ．

For her list，at the site www．alicepyne．blogspot．com, she has included making everyone sign up to be a bone marrow donor(骨髓捐赠者）, swimming with sharks, meeting a boy band Take That and getting a purple iPad computer．

Messages of support and offers of help quickly flooded her webpage and it became one of the most talked about subjects on Twitter．

“Oh．dear and I thought that I was just doing a little blog for a few friends!” she wrote after her site attracted huge attention．“Thank you so much for all your lovely messages to me．”

Pyne，who lives with her family in the northwest English town of Ulverston, revealed(透露）the management of Take That had arranged for her to see the band after reading her blog．A group of local lawmakers have also joined forces with the Anthony blood cancer charity to encourage people to join its stem cell register．

24．What happened after Alice Pyne wrote her “Bucket List”?

A．People around the world sent messages to support her．

B．People sent gifts to her from all over the world．

C．A lot of people offered to donate bone marrow to her．

D．The media called on people to help her．

25．It can be inferred from the second paragraph that Alice Pyne ．

A．is unaware of her own conditions

B．is very sad to know that she will die

C．is calm to know that death is approaching

D．is still quite confident in fighting against cancer

26．Which of the following is NOT on Alice Pyne’s “Bucket List”?

A．To ask people to donate bone marrow． B．To get a cool computer．

C．To swim with shark． D．To meet a boy．

27．Take That will arrange to ．

A．meet Pyne in person B．help Pyne in any possible way

C．donate money to Pyne D．invite Pyne to join the band

C

“Confidence” is probably one of the most noticeable traits(品质）in the Americans．They show confidence in the way they talk, the way they smile, the way they dress and the way they walk．Living and competing with all these confident American students, I find it extremely important to be confident as an international student and instructor．As a student, being confident means you should never hesitate to raise your hand whenever a question or a point comes to your mind．Don’t mind if it sounds simple or silly．Otherwise you will never get a chance to speak in class at all．What’s worse, the professors may think you are not prepared for the discussion or you do not have your own opinion on the issue-this is the last comment any graduate would like to receive．

Being confident for me as a foreign instructor means calmly asking the student to repeat what he or she has said if I did not get it．Pretending to understand what you actually did not may just bring yourself embarrassment or even disgrace．But the time I most need to be confident is when my students come to my office and bargain about the grades I have given for their Speeches．(The course I’m teaching here is Public Speaking）．Modesty is a trait highly valued in China, but it won’t be of much help here if you want to survive and succeed in a good American graduate program．

28．To compete with American students it’s very important to ．

A．be quit confident

B．be polite and friendly

C．have more discussions with them

D．understand what they think about

29．A professor will have the worst opinion of a student who ．

A．gives a silly or simple answer

B．tries to seize any chance to speak in class

C．shows no interest in the course

D．is considered to have no opinion of his own

30．The author is most likely to feel embarrassed if ．

A．he asks a student to repeat what he has said

B．the students bargain with him

C．he pretends to know what he doesn’t

D．he has to give a speech

31．We learn from the second paragraph that ．

A．we should also remain modest in America

B．modesty doesn’t help you much in America

C．the American also like modest people

D．modesty can help you through an American graduate program

D

The world is filled with smart, talented and gifted people．We meet them every day．A few days ago, my car was not running well．I pulled it into a garage, and the young mechanic had it fixed in just a few minutes．He knew what was wrong by simply listening to the engine．I was amazed．The sad truth is that great talent is not enough．

I am constantly shocked at how little talented people earn．I heard the other day that less than 5 percent of Americans earn more than $100,000 a year．A business consultant who specializes in the medical trade was telling me how many doctors and dentists struggle financially．It was this business c