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1、2018201812123 3PartPart I IWritingWriting(30minutes)(30minutes)Directions:Directions:For this part,you are allowed 30 minutes to write ashort essay on thethe challengeschallenges ofof startingstarting a a careercareer afteraftergraduation.graduation.You should write at least120 words but no more tha

2、n 180 words._PartPart II IIListeningListening ComprehensionComprehension(25(25 minutes)minutes)2018201812122 22 2PartPartReadingReading ComprehensionComprehension(4040 minutesminutes)SectionSectionA ADirections:Directions:In this section,there is a passage with ten blanks.You are required to select

3、one word for each blank from a listof choices given in a word bank following the passage.Read the passage through carefully before making yourchoices.Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter.Please mark the corresponding letter for each item onAnswerAnswer SheetSheet 2 2with a single line t

4、hrough the centre.You may not use any ofthe words in the bank more than once.QuestionsQuestions 2626 toto 3535 areare basedbased onon thethe followingfollowingpassage.passage.A few months ago,I was down with a terrible cold which ended in a persistent bad cough.No matter how manydifferent 26 I tried

5、,I still couldnt get rid of the cough.Not only did it 27 my teaching but also my life as a whole.Then one day after class,a student came up to me and 28 traditional Chinese medicine.From her description,Chinesemedicine sounded as if it had magic power that worked wonders.I was 29 because I knew so l

6、ittle about it and havenever it before.Eventually,my cough got so much 30 that Icouldnt sleep at night,so I decided to give it a try.TheChinese doctor took my pulse and asked to see my tongue,both of which were new 31 to me because they are bothnon-existent in Western medicine.Then the doctor gave m

7、e a scraping（刮）treatment known as“Gua Sha”.I was a little32 at first because he used a smooth edged tool to scrape the skin on my neck and shoulders.A few minutes later,the 33strokes started to produce a relieving effect and my body and mind began to 34 deeper into relaxation.Ididnt feel anyimprovem

8、ent in my condition in the first couple of days,but after a few more regular visits to the doctor,my cough startedto 35 .Then,within a matter of weeks,it was completely gone!A)deepenI)remediesB)experiencesJ)scaredC)hesitantD)inconvenienceK)sensitiveE)lessenL)sinkM)temporaryF)licensesG)pressuredN)tre

9、mbleH)recommendedO)worseSectionSection B BDirections:Directions:In this section,you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it.Each statement containsinformation given in one of the paragraphs.Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived.You may choose aparagraph

10、more than once.Each paragraph is marked with a letter.Answer the questions by marking the correspondingletter onAnswerAnswer SheetSheet 2 2.HowHow a a Poor,Poor,AbandonedAbandoned ParisianParisianBoyBoy BecameBecame a a TopTop ChefChefA)When you drop a piece of food on the floor,is it really OK to e

11、at if you pick it up within five seconds?An urbanfood myth contends that if food spends just a few seconds on the floor,dirt and germswont have much of a chance tocontaminate it.Research in my lab has focused on how food becomes contaminated,andweve done some work on thisparticular piece ofwisdom.B)

12、While the“five-secondrule”might not seem like the most pressing issue for food scientists to get to the bottom of,its still worth investigating food myths like this one because they shape our beliefs about when food is safe to eat.C)So is five seconds on the floor the critical threshold（门槛）that sepa

13、rates a piece of eatable food from a case of foodpoisoning?Its a bit more complicated than that.It depends on just how many bacteria can make it from floor to food in afew seconds and just how dirty the floor is.D)Wondering if food is still OK to eat after its dropped on the floor is a pretty common

14、 experience.Andits probablynot a new one either.A well-known,but inaccurate,story about Julia Child may have contributed to this food myth.Someviewers of her cooking show,The French Chef,insist they saw Child drop lamb on the floor and pick it up,with the advicethat if they were alone in the kitchen

15、,their guests would never know.E)In fact it was a potato pancake,and it fell on the stovetop,not on the floor.Child put it back in the pan,saying,“Butyou can always pick it up and ifyoure alone in the kitchen,whos going to see it?”But the misremembered story persists.Its harder to pin down the origi

16、ns of the oft-quoted five-second rule,but a 2003 study reported that 70%ofwomen and56%of men surveyed were familiar with the five-second rule and that women were more likely than men to eat food thathad dropped on the floor.F)So what does science tell us about what a few moments on the floor means f

17、or the safety of your food?The earliestresearch report on the five-second rule is attributed to Jillian Clarke,a high school student participating in a research projectat the University of Illinois.Clarke and her colleagues introduced bacteria to floor tiles（瓷砖）and then placed cookies onthe tiles fo

18、r varying times.They reported bacteria were transferred from the tiles to the cookies within five seconds,butdidnt report the specific amount of bacteria that made it from the tiles to the food.G)But how many bacteria actually transfer in five seconds?In 2007,my lab at Clemson University published a

19、 studyin the Journal ofApplied Microbiology.We wanted to know ifthe length oftime food is in contact with a contaminatedsurface affected the rate oftransfer of bacteria to the food.To find out,we introduced bacteria to squares of tile,carpet orwood.Five minutes after that,we placed either bacon or b

20、read on the surface for 5,30 or 60 seconds,and then measured thenumber of bacteria transferred to the food.We repeated this exact procedure after the bacteria had been on the surface for2,4,8 and 24 hours.H)We found that the number of bacteria transferred to either kind of fooddidnt depend much on h

21、ow long the foodwas in contact with the contaminated surfacewhether for a few seconds or for a whole minute.The overall number ofbacteria on the surface mattered more,and this decreased over time after the initial introduction.It looks likewhats at issueis less how long your food stays on the floor

22、and much more how contaminated with bacteria that patch of floor happens tobe.I)We also found that the kind of surface made a difference as well.Carpets,for instance,seem to be slightly betterplaces to drop your food than wood or tile.When a carpet was contaminated,less than 1%ofthe bacteria were tr

23、ansferred.But when the food was in contact with tile or wood,45-70%of bacteria were.J)Last year,a study from Aston University in the UK used nearly identical parameters（参数）to our study and foundsimilar results.They also reported that 87%ofpeople asked either would eat or had eaten food fallen on the

24、 floor.K)Should you eat food fallen on the floor then?From a food safety standpoint,if you have millions or more bacteriaon a surface,0.1%is still enough to make you sick.Also,certain types of bacteria are extremely harmful,and it takes only asmall number to make you sick.For example,10 bacteria or

25、less of an especially deadly strain of bacteria can cause severeillness and death in people with compromised immune systems.But the chance of these bacteria being on most surfaces isvery low.L）And its not just dropping food on the floor that can lead to bacterial contamination.Bacteria are carried b

26、y various“media”,which can include raw food,moist surfaces where bacteria have been left,our hands or skin and from coughing orsneezing（打喷嚏）.Hands,foods and utensils（器皿）can carry individual bacteria living in communities contained withina protective film.These microscopic layers of deposits containi

27、ng bacteria are known as biofilms and they are found onmost surfaces and objects.Biofilm communities can harbor bacteria longer and are very difficult to clean.Becteria in thesecommunities also have an enhanced resistance to sanitizers（清洁剂）and antibiotics compared to bacteria living on theirown.M）So

28、 the next time you consider eating fallen food,the odds are in your favor that you can eat it without getting sick.But in the rare chance that there is a micro-organism that there is a micro-organism that can make you sick on the exact spotwhere the food dropped,you can be fairly sure that the bug i

29、s on the food you are about to put in your mouth.N）Research or common sense tells us that the best thing to do is keep your hands,utensils and other surfaces clean.36.A research project found bacteria made their way to the food on the floor in five seconds.37.Whether food is contaminated depends muc

30、h on the number of bacteria that get onto it.38.Food contamination may result from various factors other than food dropping on the floor.39.Males are less likely than females to eat food that may have been contaminated.40.The authors research centers around how food gets contaminated.41.Keeping ever

31、ything clean is the best way to stay healthy.42.Chances are you will not fall sick because of eating food picked up from the floor.43.For a long time people have had the experience of deciding whether or not to eat food picked up from the floor.44.Some strains of bacteria are so harmful that a tiny

32、few can have deadly consequences.45.Researchers found how many bacteria got onto the food did not have much to do with how long the food stayed ona contaminated floor.SectionSection C CDirections:Directions:There are 2 passages in this section.Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished

33、 statements.Foreachof them there are four choices marked A),B),C)and D).You should decide on the best choice and mark thecorresponding letter onAnswerAnswer SheetSheet 2 2with a single line through the centre.PassagePassage OneOneQuestionsQuestions 4646 andand 5050 areare basedbased onon thethe foll

34、owingfollowingpassage.passage.The latest in cat research reveals that the lovely animal seems to have a basic grasp on both the laws of physics and theins and outs of cause and effect.According to a newly published study,cats seem to be able to predict the location of hiding prey（猎物）using boththeir

35、ears and an inborn（天生的）understanding of how the physical world works.In a recent experiment,Japanese researchers taped 30 domestic cats reacting to a container that a team member shook.Some containers rattled（发出响声）；others did not.When the container was tipped over,sometimes an object fell out andsom

36、etimes it didnt.It turns out that the cats were remarkably smart about what would happen when a container was tipped over.When anobject did not drop out of the bottom of a rattling container,they looked at it for a longer time than they did when thecontainer behaved as expected.“Cats use a causal-lo

37、gical understanding of noise or sounds to predict the appearance of invisible objects,”leadresearcher Saho Takagi says in a press release.The researchers conclude thatcats hunting style may have developed basedon their common-sense abilities to infer where prey is,using their hearing.Scientists have

38、 explored this idea with other endearing creatures:babies.Like cats,babies appear to engage inwhatscalled“preferentiallooking”looking longer at things that are interesting or unusual than things they perceive as normal.When babies expectations are violated in experiments like the ones performed with

39、 the cats,they react much like theiranimal friends.Psychologists have shown that babies apparently expect their world to comply with the laws of physics andcause and effect as early as two months of age.Does the study mean that cats will soon grasp the ins and outs of cause and effect?Maybe.Okay,so

40、cats may not bethe next physics faculty members atAmericas most important research universities.But by demonstrating their commonsense,theyve shown that the divide between cats and humans may not be that great after all.46.What do we learn from a newly published study about cats?A)They can be traine

41、d to understand the physical world.B)They know what kind of prey might be easier to hunt.C)They have a natural ability to locate animals they hunt.D)They are capable of telling which way their prey flees.47.What may account for thecats response to the noise from the containers?A)Their inborn sensiti

42、vity to noise.B)Their unusual sense of direction.C)Their special ability to perceive.D)Their mastery of cause and effect.48.What is characteristic of the way cats hunt,according to the Japanese researchers?A)They depend on their instincts.B)They rely mainly on their hearing.49.In what way do babies

43、behave like cats?A)They focus on what appears odd.B)They view the world as normal.C)They wait some time before attack.D)They use both their ears and eyes.C)They do what they prefer to do.D)They are curious about everything.50.What can we conclude about cats from the passage?A)They have higher intell

44、igence than many other animals.B)They interact withe the physical world much like humans.C)They display extraordinarily high intelligence in hunting.D)They can aid physics professors in their research work.PassagePassageTwoTwoQuestionsQuestions 5151 toto 5555 areare basedbased onon thethe followingf

45、ollowingpassage.passage.Imagine you enter a car with no steering wheel,no brake or accelerator padals（踏板）.Under a voice-activatedcommand,you say an address.“The fastest route will take us 15.3 minutes.Should I takeit?”You say“yes”and you are onyour way.The car responds and starts moving all by itsel

46、f.All you have to do is sit back and relax.How weird would it be if,one day in the future,everyone had such a car?No crazy driving,no insults,no cutting in;traffic laws would be respected and driving much safer.On the other hand,imagine the cost savings for local policeenforcement and town budgets w

47、ithout all those speeding and parking tickets.A new technology has the potential to change modern society in radical ways.Theres no question that self-drivingvehicles could be an enormous benefit.The potential for safer cars means accident statistics would drop:some 94%of roadaccidents in the U.S.in

48、volve human error.Older drivers and visually-or physically-impaired people would gain a new levelof freedom.Maintaining safe speeds and being electric,self-driving cars would drastically reduce pollution levels anddependency on non-renewable fuels.Roads would be quieter,people safer.But we must also

49、 consider the impact of the new technology on those who now depend on driving for their livelihoods.According to the U.S.Department of Labor,in May 2015 there were 505,560 registered school bus drivers.The AmericanTrucking Association lists approximately 3.5 million professional truck drivers in the

50、 U.S.The companies developing self-driving vehicles should be partnering with state and federal authorities to offerretraining for this massive workforce,many of whom will be displaced by the new technology.This is similar to whatshappening in the coal and oil industries,a situation that fuels much