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1、Part I Writing(30 minutes)For this part,you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the saying“Learning is a daily experience and lifetime mission.”You can cite examples to illustrate the importance of lifelong learning.You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.Pa

2、rt II Listening Comprehension(30 minutes)Section A Directions:In this section,you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations.At the end of each conversation,one or more questions will be asked about what was said.Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once.After ea

3、ch question there will be a pause.During the pause,you must read the four choices marked A),B),C)and D),and decide which is the best answer.Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.1.A)They admire the courage of space explorers.B)They enjoyed the mov

4、ie on space exploration.C)They were going to watch a wonderful movie.D)They like doing scientific exploration very much.2.A)At a gift shop.B)At a graduation ceremony.C)In the office of a travel agency.D)In a school library.3.A)He used to work in the art gallery.B)He does not have a good memory.C)He

5、declined a job offer form the art gallery.D)He is not interested in any part-time jobs.4.A)Susan has been invited to give a lecture tomorrow.B)He will go to the birthday party after the lecture.C)The woman should have informed him earlier.D)He will be unable to attend the birthday party.5.A)Reward t

6、hose having made good progress.B)Set a deadline for the staff to meet.C)Assign more workers to the project.D)Encourage the staff to work in small groups.6.A)The way to the visitor s parking.B)The rate for parking in Lot C.C)How far away the parking lot is.D)Where she can leave her car.7.A)He regrets

7、 missing the classes.B)He plans to take the fitness classes.C)He is looking forward to a better life.D)He has benefited form exercise.8.A)How to work efficiency.B)How to select secretaries.C)The responsibilities of secretaries.D)The secretaries in the man s company.Conversation One Questions 9 to 11

8、 are based on the conversation you have just heard.9.A)It is more difficult to learn than English.B)It is used by more people than English.C)It will be as commonly used as English.D)It will eventually become a world language.10.A)It has words words from many languages,B)Its popularity with the commo

9、n people.C)The influence of the British Empire.D)The effect of the Industrial Revolution.11.A)It includes a lot of words form other languages.B)It has a growing number of newly coined words,C)It can be easily picked up by overseas travelers.D)It is the largest among all languages in the world.Conver

10、sation 2 Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12.A)To return some goods.B)To apply for a job.C)To place an order.D)To make a complaint.13.A)He has become somewhat impatient with the woman.B)He is not familiar with the exact details of goods.C)He has not worked in the

11、sales department for long.D)He works on a part-time basis for the company.14.A)It is not his responsibility.B)It will be free for large orders.C)It costs 15 more for express delivery.D)It depends on a number of factors.15.A)Report the information to her superior.B)Pay a visit to the saleswoman in ch

12、arge.C)Ring back when she comes to a decision.D)Make inquiries with some other companies.Section B Directions:In this section,you will hear 3 short passages.At the end of each passage,you will hear some questions.Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once.After you hear a question,y

13、ou must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A),B),C)and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet I with a single line through the centre.Passage One Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.16.A)No one knows exactly where they were B)No one knows f

14、or sure when thy came into being.C)No one knows for what purpose they were D)No one knows what they will 17.A)Carry ropes across rivers.B)Measure the speed of wind.C)Pass on secret messages.D)Give warnings of danger.18.A)To protect houses against lightning.B)To test the effects of the lightning rod.

15、C)To find out the strength of silk for kites.D)To prove the lightning is electricity.Passage Two Questions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.19.A)She enjoys teaching languages.B)She can speak several languages.C)She was trained to be an interpreter.D)She was born with a talent fo

16、r languages.20.A)They acquire an immunity to culture shock.B)They would like to live abroad permanently.C)They want to learn as many foreign languages as possible.D)They have an intense interest in cross-cultural interactions.21.A)She became an expert in horse racing.B)She got a chance to visit seve

17、ral European countries.C)She was able to translate for a German sports judge.D)She learned to appreciate classical music.22.A)Taste the beef and give her comment.B)Take part in a cooking competition.C)Teach vocabulary for food in D)Give cooking lessons on Passage Three Questions 23 to 25 are based o

18、n the passage you have just heard.23.A)He had only a third-grade education.B)He once threatened to kill his teacher.C)He grew up in a poor D)He often helped his 24.A)Careless.B)Stupid.C)Brave.D)Active.25.A)Write two book reports a week.B)Keep a diary.C)Help with housework.D)Watch education Section C

19、 Directions:In this section,you will hear a passage three times.When the passage is read for the first time,you should listen carefully 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 just heard.Finally,when the p

20、assage is read for the third time,you should check what you have written.When you look up at the night sky,what do you see There are other bodies out there besides the moon and stars.One of the most of this is a comet.Comets were formed around the same the earth was formed.They are made up of ice an

21、d other frozen liquids and gasses.these dirty snow balls begin to orbit the sun just as the planets do.As a comet gets closer to the sun,some gasses in it begin to unfreeze.They combine with dust particles from the comet to form a huge cloud.As the comet gets even nearer to the sun and solar wind bl

22、ows the cloud behind the comet thus forming its tail.The tail and generally fuzzy atmosphere around the comet are that can help this phenomenon in the night sky.In any given year，about dozen known comets come close to the sun in their orbits.The average person can t see them all of course.Usually th

23、ere is only one or two a year bright enough to be seen with the _eye.Comet Hale-Bopp discovered in 1995 was an unusually bright comet.Its orbit bought it _to the earth within 122 million miles of it.But Hale-Bopp came a long way on its earthly visit.It won t be back for another 4 thousand years or s

24、o.Part Reading Comprehension(40 minutes)Section A Directions:In this section,there is a passage with ten blanks.You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage.Read the passage through carefully before making your choices.Each choi

25、ce in the bank is identified by a letter.Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.For many Americans,2013 ended with an

26、unusually bitter cold spell.November and December 36 early snow and bone-chilling temperatures in much of the country,part of a year when,for the first time in two 37,record-cold days will likely turn out to have outnumbered record-warm ones.But the U.S.was the exception;November was the warmest eve

27、r 38,and current data indicates that 2013 is likely to have been the fourth hottest year on record.Enjoy the snow now,because 39 are good that 2014 will be even hotter,perhaps the hottest year since records have been kept.That s because,scientists are predicting,2014 will be an EI Niuo year.EI niuo,

28、Spanish for“the child”,40 when surface ocean waters in the southern Pacific become abnormally warm.So large is the Pacific,covering 30%of the planets surface,that the 41 energy generated by its warming is enough to touch off a series of weather changes around the world.EI Ninos are 42 with abnormall

29、y dry conditions in Southeast Asia and Australia.They can lead to extreme rain in parts of North and South America,even as southern Africa 43 dry weather.Marine life may be affected too;EI Ninos can 44 the rising of the cold,nutrient-rich(营养丰富的)water that supports large fish 45,and the unusually war

30、m ocean temperatures can destroy coral(珊瑚).注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2 上作答。Section B Directions:In this section,you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it.Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs.Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived.You ma

31、y choose a paragraph more than once.Each paragraph is marked with a letter.Answer the question by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.The Perfect Essay A)Looking back on too many years of education,I can identify one truly impossible teacher.She cared about me,and my intellectual life

32、,even when I didnt.Her expectations were high impossibly so.She was an English teacher.She was also my mother.B)When good students turn in an essay,they dream of their instructor returning it to them in exactly the same condition,save for a single word added in the margin of the final page.“Flawless

33、.”This dream came true for me one afternoon in the ninth grade.Of course,I had heard that genius could show itself at an early age,so I was only slightly taken aback that I had achieved perfection at the tender age of 14.Obviously,I did what and professional writer would do;I hurried off to spread t

34、he good news.I didn t get very far.The first person I told was my mother.C)My mother,who is just shy of five feet tall,is normally incredibly soft-spoken,but on the rare occasion when she got angry,she was terrifying.I am not sure if she was more upset by my hubris(得意忘形)or by the fact that my Englis

35、h teacher had let my ego get so out of hand.In and event.My mother and her red pen showed me how deeply flawed a flaw less essay could be.At the time,I am sure she thought she was teaching me about mechanics,transitions(过渡),structure,style and voice.But what I learned,and what stuck with me through

36、my time teaching writing at Harvard,was a deeper lesson about the nature of creative criticism.D)First off,it hurts.Genuine criticism,the type that leaves a lasting mark on you as a writer,also leaves an existential imprint(印记)on you as a person.I have heard people say that a writer should never tak

37、e criticism personally.I say that we should never listen to these people.E)Criticism,at its best,is deeply personal,and gets to the heart of why we write the way we do.The intimate nature of genuine criticism implies something about who is able to give it,namely,someone who knows you well enough to

38、show you how your mental life is getting in the way of good writing.Conveniently,they are also the people who care enough to see you through this painful realization.For me it took the form of my first,and I hope only,encounter with writer s block I was not able to produce anything for three years.F

39、)Franz Kafka once said;“Writing is utter solitude(独处),the descent into the cold abyss(深渊)of oneself.”My mother s criticism had shown me that Kafka is right about the cold abyss,and when you make the introspective(内省的)descent that writing requires you are not always pleased by what you find.But,in th

40、e years that followed,her sustained tutoring suggested that Kafka might be wrong about the solitude,I was lucky enough to find a critic and teacher who was willing to make the journey of writing with me.“It is a thing of no great difficulty.”according to Plutarch,“to raise objections against another

41、 man s speech.it is a very easy matter,but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.”I am sure I wrote essays in the later years of high school without my mother s guidance,but I can t recall them.What I remember,however,is how she took up the“extremely troublesome”work of on

42、going criticism.G)There are two ways to interpret Plutarch when he suggests that a critic should be able to produce“a better in its place.”In a straightforward sense,he could mean that a critic must be more talented than the artist she critiques(评论).My mother was well covered on this count.But perha

43、ps Plutarch is suggesting something slightly different,something a bit closer to Marcus Cicero s claim that one should“criticize by creation,not by finding fault.”Genuine criticism creates a precious opening for an author to become better on his own terms a process that is often extremely painful,bu

44、t also almost always meaningful.H)My mother said she would help me with my writing,but first I had to help myself.For each assignment,I was to write the best essay I could.Real criticism is not meant to find obvious mistakes,so if she found any the type I could have found on my own I had to start fr

45、om scratch.From scratch.Once the essay was“flawless,”she would take an evening to walk me through my errors.That was when true criticism,the type that changed me as a person,began.I)She criticized me when I included little-known references and professional jargon(行话).She had no patience for brillian

46、t but irrelevant figures of speech.“Writers can t bluff(虚张声势)their way through ignorance.”That was news to me I would need to find another way to structure my daily existence.J)She trimmed back my flowery language,drew lines through my exclamation marks and argued for the value of restraint in expre

47、ssion.“John,”she almost whispered.I leaned in to hear her:“I can t hear you when you shout at me.”So I stopped shouting and bluffing,and slowly my writing improved.K)Somewhere along the way I set aside my hopes of writing that flawless essay.But perhaps I missed something important in my mother s le

48、ssons about creativity and perfection.Perhaps the point of writhing the flawless essay was not to give up,but to never willingly finish.Whitman repeatedly reworked“song of Myself”between 1855 and 1891.Repeatedly.We do our absolute best with a piece of writing,and come as close as we can to the ideal

49、.And,for the time being,we settle.In critique,however,we are forced to depart,to give up the perfection we thought we had achieved for the chance of being even a little bit better.This is the lesson I took from my mother:If perfection were possible,it would not be motivating.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2 上作答。46.Th

50、e author was advised against the improper use of figures of speech.47.The author s mother taught him a valuable lesson by pointing out lots of flaws in his seemingly perfect essay.48.A writer should polish his writing repeatedly so as to get closer to perfection.49.Writers may experience periods of