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1、精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上2014年6月大学及答案(完整版)Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions:For this part, you are allowed30 minutes to write a short essay on the following topic. You should write atleast 120 words but no more than 180 words.Supposea foreign friend of yours is coming to visit your hometown, what is the mos

2、tinteresting place you would like to take him/her to see and why?注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。PartII Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)SectionADirections:In this section, you will hear 8 shortconversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one ormore questions will be asked about wha

3、t was said. Both the conversation and thequestions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause.During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), anddecide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single lin

4、ethrough the centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。1.A) See a doctor about her strained shoulder.B) Usea ladder to help her reach the tea.C)Replace the cupboard with a new one.D)Place the tea on a lower shelf next time.2.A) At Mary Johnsons. C) In an exhibition hall.B) At a painters studio. D) Outside an artgall

5、ery.3.A) The teacher evaluated lacks teaching experience.B) She does not quite agree with what the mansaid.C) The man had better talk with the studentshimself.D) New students usually cannot offer a fairevaluation.4.A) He helped Doris build up the furniture.B) Doris helped him arrange the furniture.C

6、)Doris fixed up some of the bookshelves.D) Hewas good at assembling bookshelves.5. A) He doesnt get on with theothers. C) He has beentaken for a fool.B) He doesnt feel at ease in the firm. D) He has found a better position.6. A) They should finish the work assoon as possible.B) He will continue to w

7、ork in the garden himself.C) He is tired of doing gardening on weekends.D) They can hire a gardener to do the work.7. A) The man has to get rid of the usedfurniture.B) The mans apartment is ready for rent.C) The furniture is covered with lots of dust.D) The furniture the man bought is inexpensive.8.

8、 A) The man will give the mechanic acall.B) The woman is waiting for a call.C) The woman is doing some repairs.D) The man knows the mechanic very well.Questions 9 to 11 are based on theconversation you have just heard.9. A) She had a job interview to attend.B) She was busy finishing her project.C) S

9、he had to attend an important meeting.D) She was in the middle of writing an essay.10. A) Accompany her roommate to theclassroom.B) Hand in her roommates application form.C) Submit her roommates assignment.D)Help her roommate with her report.11. A) Where Dr. Elliss office islocated. C) Directions to

10、the classroom building.B) When Dr. Ellis leaves his office. D)Dr. Elliss schedule for the afternoon.Questions 12 to 15 are based on theconversation you have just heard.12. A) He finds it ratherstressful. C) He can handle it quite well.B) He is thinking of quitting it. D)He has to work extra hours.13

11、. A) The 6:00 one. C)The 7:00 one.B) The 6:30 one. D)The 7:30 one.14. A) It is an awful waste of time.B) He finds it rather unbearable.C) The time on the train is enjoyable.D) It is something difficult to get used to.15. A) Reading newspapers. C)Listening to the daily news.B) Chatting with friends.

12、D)Planning the days work.SectionBDirections:In this section, you will hear 3 shortpassages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both thepassage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question,you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A),

13、 B), C) and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on AnswerSheet 1 with a single line through the centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。Passage OneQuestions 16 to 18 are based on theconversation you have just heard.16. A) Ignore small details whilereading.B) Read at least several chapters at one sitting.C) Devel

14、op a habit of reading critically.D) Get key information by reading just once or twice.17. A) Choose ones own system ofmarking.B) Underline the key words and phrases.C) Make as few marks as possible.D) Highlight details in a red color.18. A) By reading the textbookscarefully again.B) By reviewing onl

15、y the marked parts.C) By focusing on the notes in the margins.D) By comparing notes with their classmates.Passage TwoQuestions 19 to 21 are based on theconversation you have just heard.19. A) The sleep a person needs variesfrom day to day.B) The amount of sleep for each person is similar.C) One can

16、get by with a couple of hours of sleep.D) Everybody needs some sleep for survival.20. A) It is a made-up story. C) It is arare exception.B) It is beyond cure. D)It is due to an accident.21. A) His extraordinary physicalcondition.B)His mothers injury just before his birth.C)The unique surroundings of

17、 his living place.D)The rest he got from sitting in a rocking chair.Passage ThreeQuestions 22 to 25 are based on theconversation you have just heard.22. A) She invested in stocks and shareson Wall Street.B) She learned to write for financial newspapers.C) She developed a strong interest in finance.D

18、) She tenderly looked after her sick mother.23. A) She made a wise investment inreal estate.B) She sold the restaurant with a substantial profit.C) She got 1.5 million dollars from her ex-husband.D) She inherited a big fortune from her father.24. A) She was extremely mean with her money.B) She was d

19、ishonest in business dealings.C) She frequently ill-treated heremployees.D) She abused animals including her pet dog.25. A) She made a big fortune from wiseinvestment.B) She built a hospital with her mothers money.C) She made huge donations to charities.D) She carried on her familys tradition.Sectio

20、nCDirection:In the section, you will hear a passagethree times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listencarefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time,you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have justheard. Finally, when the

21、 passage is read for the third time, you should checkwhat you have written.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。Amongthe kinds of social gestures most significant for second-language teachers arethose which are (26)_ in form but different in meaning in the twocultures. For example, a Colombian who wants someone to (27

22、)_ him oftensignals with a hand movement in which all the fingers of one hand, cupped,point downward as they move rapidly (28)_. Speakers or English have asimilar gesture through the hand may not be cupped and the fingers may be heldmore loosely, but for them the gesture means goodbye or go away, qu

23、ite the (29)_of the Colombian gesture. Again, in Colombian, a speaker of English would haveto know that when he (30)_ height he most choose between differentgestures depending on whether he is (31)_ a human being or an animal. Ifhe keeps the palm of the hand (32)_ the floor, as he would in his owncu

24、lture when making known the height of a child, for example, he will verylikely be greeted by laughter, in Colombia this gesture is (33)_ forthe description of animals. In order to describe human beings he should keepthe palm of his hand (34)_ to the floor. Substitutions of one gesturefor the other o

25、ften create not only humorous but also (35)_ moment. Inboth of the examples above, speakers from two different cultures have the samegesture, physically, but its meaning differs sharply.Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section ADirections:In this section, there is a passage withten blanks.

26、 You are required to select one word for each blank from a list ofchoices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage throughcarefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified bya letter. Please mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single l

27、ine through the centre. You may notuse any of the words in the bank more than once.Questions 36 to 45 are based onthe following passage.Global warming is a trend towardwarmer conditions around the world. Part of the warming is natural; we haveexperienced a 20,000 -year -long warming as the last ice

28、age ended and the ice 36 away.However, we have already reached temperatures that are in 37 withother minimum-ice periods, so continued warming is likely not natural. We are 38 toa predicted worldwide increase in temperatures 39 between 1 and 6over the next 100 years. The warming will be more 40 in s

29、ome areas, less in others, and some placesmay even cool off. Likewise, the 41 of this warming will be very differentdepending on where you arecoastal areas mustworry about rising sea levels, while Siberia and northern Canada may becomemore habitable (宜居的)and 42 for humans than these areas are now.Th

30、e fact remains, however, that it willlikely get warmer, on 43 , everywhere. Scientists are in generalagreement that the warmer conditions we have been experiencing are at least inpart the result of a human-induced global warming trend. Some scientists 44 thatthe changes we are seeing fall within the

31、 range of random (无规律的) variationsomeyears are cold, others warm, and we have just had an unremarkable string ofwarm years 45 but that is becomingan increasingly rare interpretation in the face of continued and increasingwarm conditions.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。A) appealing I) meltedB) average J) persistC)

32、 contributing K) rangingD) dramatic L)recentlyE) frequently M) resolvedF) impact N) sensibleG) line O) shockH) maintainSectionBDirections: In this section, you are going toread a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement containsinformation given in one of the paragraphs Identify th

33、e paragraph from whichthe information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Eachparagraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking thecorresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.The End of the Book?A Amazon, by far the largestbookseller in the country, reported on May 19

34、that it is now selling more booksin its electronic Kindle format than in the old paper-and-ink format. That isremarkable, considering that the Kindle has only been around for four years.E-books now account for 14 percent of all book sales in the country and areincreasing far faster than overall book

35、 sales. E-book sales are up 146 percentover last year, while hardback sales increased 6 percent and paperbacksdecreased 8 percent.BDoes this spell the doom of the physical book? Certainly not immediately, andperhaps not at all. What it does mean is that the book business will go througha transformat

36、ion in the next decade or so more profound than any it has seensince Gutenberg introduced printing from moveable type in the 1450s.CPhysical books will surely become much rarer in the marketplace. Mass marketpaperbacks, which have been declining for years anyway, will probablydisappear, as will hard

37、backs for mysteries, thrillers, “romance fiction,” etc.Such books, which only rarely end up in permanent collections, either privateor public, will probably only be available as e-books within a few years.Hardback and trade paperbacks for “serious” nonfiction and fiction will surelylast longer. Perh

38、aps it will become the mark of an author to reckon with thathe or she is still published in hard copy.DAs for childrens books, who knows? Childrens books are like dog food in thatthe purchasers are not the consumers, so the market (and the marketing) isinherently strange.EFor clues to the books futu

39、re, lets look at some examples of technologicalchange and see what happened to the old technology.FOne technology replaces another only because the new technology is better,cheaper, or both. The greater the difference, the sooner and more thoroughlythe new technology replaces the old. Printing with

40、moveable type on paperdramatically reduced the cost of producing a book compared with theold-fashioned ones handwritten on vellum, which comes from sheepskin. A Bibletobe sure, a long bookrequired vellum made from 300 sheepskins and countlessman-hours of labor. Before printing arrived, a Bible cost

41、more than amiddle-class house. There were perhaps 50,000 books in all of Europe in 1450.By 1500 there were 10 million.GBut while printing quickly caused the hand written book to die out, handwritinglingered on (继续存在) wellinto the 16th century. Very special books are still occasionally produced onvel

42、lum, but they are one-of-a-kind show pieces.HSometimesa new technology doesnt drive the old one out, but only parts of it whileforcing the rest to evolve. The movies were widely predicted to drive livetheater out of the marketplace, but they didnt, because theater turned out tohave qualities movies

43、could not reproduce. Equally, TV was supposed to replacemovies but, again, did not.IMovies did, however, fatally impact some parts of live theater. And while TVdidnt kill movies, it did kill second-rate pictures, shorts, and cartoons.JNor did TV kill radio. Comedy and drama shows (“Jack Benny,” “Amo

44、s and Andy,”“The Shadow”) all migrated to television. But because you cant drive a car andwatch television at the same time, rush hour became radios prime, while music,talk, and news radio greatly enlarged their audiences. Radio is today a verydifferent business than in the late 1940s and a much lar

45、ger one.KSometimes old technology lingers for centuries because of its symbolic power.Mounted cavalry (骑兵) replacedthe chariot (二轮战车) onthe battlefield around 1000 BC. But chariots maintained their place in paradesand triumphs right up until the end of the Roman Empire 1,500 years later. Thesword ha

46、snt had a military function for a hundred years, but is still part ofan officers full-dress uniform, precisely because a sword always symbolized“an officer and a gentleman.”LSometimes new technology is a little cranky(不稳定的)at first. Television repairman was a common occupation in the 1950s, for inst

47、ance.And so the old technology remains as a backup. Steamships captured the NorthAtlantic passenger business from sail in the 1840s because of its much greaterspeed. But steamships didnt lose their sails until the 1880s, because earlymarine engines had a nasty habit of breaking down. Until ships became largeenough (and engines small enough) to mount two engines side by side, theyneeded to keep sails. (The high cost of steam and the lesser need for speedkept the majority of the worlds ocean freight moving by