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1、听力题1.A) The agenda for the board of directors meeting B) The details of the meeting to be held next week. C) The reason for the mans absence from the meetingD) The time for the mans visit to the womans company.2.A) At a travel agency. B) At a department store.C) In a library. D) In a post office. 3.
2、A) He cannot hear the womans call. B) He cannot get through to New York.C) He cannot recall the phone number. D) He cannot find a public phone nearby.4.A) Watch a movie with the woman. B) Revise his thesis in the office. C) Do some shopping with Jane.D) Discuss his thesis with Prof. Hudson. 5.A) He
3、just cannot work properly without a watch. B) He has no idea where he can buy a gold watch. C) He still does not know where he left his watch. D) He is not sure what went wrong with his watch. 6.A) He forgot all about what he said. B) He slipped and hurt his head. C) He was sorry for being off sick
4、last week.D) He thought the womans car had been sold. 7.A) She should try to catch an earlier bus. B) She is absent from his class too often. C) She is always making excuses for being late.D) She should come up with a better excuse. 8.A) He is going to help the woman out. B) He has to move out of th
5、e building soon. C) He is on his way to. see a real estate agent. D) He will stay with the womans brother. 第二部分 长对话2篇（ 还会考评此题型）Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 9. A)From the wanted column. B)From some of her friends. C)From a telephone directory. D)From a televisi
6、on commercial. 10.A) She received full-time education abroad. B) She graduated from an open university. C) She finished her secondary school. D) She studied in a vocational college. 11. A) She is a shorthand-typist. B) She works as a tour guide. C) She is a policewoman. D) She teaches an evening cla
7、ss. Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 12.A) It provides him with career opportunities. B) It helps enlarge his customer network.C) It has been off and on for ten years. D) It was interrupted for four years. 13.A) Individualized service. B) Traditional setting. C)
8、Home-made beer. D) Social games. 14.A) The quality of beer. B) The atmosphere. C) The owners attitude. D) The right location. 15.A)It is a rather tough job. B)It is a profitable business. C)It helps old people kill time.D)It makes retirees feel useful.第三部分 听力篇章三篇（ 还会继续考评）Passage One Questions 16 to
9、18 are based on the passage you have just heard. 16. A) It is becoming increasingly popular. B) It helps the user to escape reality. C) It gives rise to serious social instability. D) It hurts a person and those around them. 17.A) They use drugs just for fun. B) They take drugs to get high. C) They
10、use drugs as medicine.D) They keep drug use a secret. 18.A) It is quite common in entertainment circles. B) It is the cause of various social problems. C) It is hard to get rid of.D) It is fatal to the user.Passage Two Questions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard. 19.A) Taking up
11、exercises after recovery. B) Producing tasty healthy frozen food.C) Finding new ways to cure heart disease. D) Going on a diet upon leaving the hospital. 20.A) It was carefuUy tested with consumers. B) It was promoted by health organizations. C) It was disapproved by many diet experts. D) It was hig
12、hly expected by the general public. 21. A) Competitive price. . B) Low expectations. C) Vigorous promotionD) Unique ingredients. 22.A) It was suggested by the firms vice-president. B) It matches the foods dark green packaging.C) It has a positive implication for consumers.D) It tricks the elders int
13、o impulse purchasing.Passage Three Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard. 23.A) It is practiced in most of the states. B) It will be abolished sooner or later. C) It has drawn a lot of criticism from overseas. D) It has to be approved by the Supreme Court. 24.A) Whether the
14、 practice should be allowed to continue in future. B) Whether there should be a minimum age lintit for execution.C) What type of criminals should receive it.D) What effect it might have on youngsters.25.A) The court sentenced hinl to life in prison for killing two friends. B) The governor changed hi
15、s death sentence to life in prison. C) He was the first minor to be executed in South Carolina. D) He was sentenced to death for a crime he committed as a minor. 第四部分 听写（ 不再考此题型，同学们仍然可以做一下，测下自己听力效果） Some people borrow money and forget to pay it back. Large loans are seldom the issue; they are usuall
16、y treated as business _26_，with the terms spelled out on paper. But many women suffer _27_ over problems like Carols My friend Ginny is always _28_ cash， she says. I hate to recall how oftenIveloaned her a dollar or two for a drink or a movie. Each loan is so smallId feel really cheap making a big d
17、eal out of it; still， I do _29_ the fact that she never pays me back. Carol admits to being too _30_ or something to demand repayment， but she has resolved to stop lending money to Ginny. The last time she asked for five dollars to pay for her dry cleaning， I just told her I couldnt _31_ it. another
18、 woman suggests a bolder _32_When somebody refuses to repay a loan， I _33_ by requesting one myself， she says.I left home without my wallet，Ill say.Can you lend me enough to cover lunch? Then， when the money is safely in hand， I am struck by a sudden _34_ Why， this is exactly the amount I loaned you
19、 last week! How _35_! Now you wont have to repay me! She says it works like a charm. 答案：1-8 DCBDCACB9-15 BCACDCA16-25 DBCBABCABD26-35transactionsin silenceshort ofresentembarrassedspareresponseturn the tablesrealizationconvenient阅读了解Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage. For many Ame
20、ricans , ended with an unusually bitter cold spell.Late November and December 36 early snow and bone-chilling temperatures in much of the cotmtry,part of a year when，for the first time in two 37 ,record-cold days will likely turn out to have out numbered record-walm ones. But the U.S was the excepti
21、on: November was the warmest ever 38 ,and current data indicates that is likely to have been the fourth hottest year on record. Enjoy the snow now，because 39 are good that will be even hotter，perhaps the hottest year since records have been kept.Thats because，scientists are predicting， will be an EI
22、 Nmo year. EI Nmo，Spanish forthe 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 Nmos ar
23、e 42 with abnormally dry conditions in Southeast Asia and Australia. They can lead to extreme rain in parts of North and SouthAmerica， even as southern Africa 43 dry weather. Marine life may be affected too: EI Nmos can 44 the rising of the cold，nutrient-rich(营养丰富) water that supports large fish 45，
24、and the unusually warm ocean temperatures can destroy coral(珊湖). A) additional B) associated C) bore D) chances E) cornrnunicated F) decadesG) experiences H) globallyI) logicallyJ) occurs K) populations L) realize M) reduce N) sawO) specific 2.长篇阅读（匹配意思相近选项）How to Eat Well A) Why do so many American
25、s eat tons of processed food，the stuff that is correctly called junk (垃圾) and should really carry warning labels? B)Its not because fresh ingredients are hard to come by. Supermarkets offer more variety than ever， and there are over four times as many famers， markets in the U.S. as there were 20 yea
26、rs ago. Nor is it for lack of available information.There are plenty of recipes (食谱)， how-to videos and cooking classes available to anyone who has a computer， smartphone or television.If anything， the information is overwhelming. C) And yet we arent cooking.If you eat three meals a day and behave l
27、ike most Americans，you probably get at least a third of your daily calories (卡路里) outside the home. Nearly two-thirds of us grab fast food once a week， and we get almost 25 of our daily calories from snacks. So were eating out or taking in， and we dont sit down-or we do， but we hurry. .D) Shouldnt p
28、reparing-and consunling-food be a source of comfort， pride， health， well-being，relaxation， sociability? Something that connects us to other humans?Why would we want to outsource (外包) this basic task， especially when outsourcing it is so harmful? E) When I talk about cooking，Im not talking about crea
29、ting elaborate dinner parties or three-day science projects.Im talking about simple， easy， everyday meals. My mission is to encourage green hands and those lacking time or money to feed themselves.That means we need modest， realistic xpectations， and we need to teach people to cook food thats good e
30、nough to share with family and friends.F Perhaps a return to real cooking neednt be far off. A recent Harris poll revealed that 79% of Americans say they enjoy cooking and 30% love it;14% admit to not enjoying kitchen work andjust 7 wont go near the stove at all. But this doesnt necessarily translat
31、e to real cooking， and the result of this survey shouldnt surprise anyone: 52 of those 65 or older cook at home five or more times per week; only a third of young people do. G Back in the 1950s most of us grew up in households where Mom cooked virtually every night. The intention to put a home-cooke
32、d meal on the table was pretty much universal. Most people couldnt afford to do otherwise. H Although frozen dinners were invented in the 40s， their popularity didnt boom until televisions became popular a decade or so later. Since then， packaged， pre-prepared meals have been whats for dinner. The m
33、icrowave and fast-food chains were位le biggest calysts (催化剂)， but the big food companies-which want to sell anything except the raw ingredients that go into cooking-made the home cook an endangered species I Still， I find it strange that only a third of young people report preparing meals at home reg
34、ularly Isnt this the same crowd that rails against processed junk and champions craft cooking?And isnt this the generation who say theyre concerned about their health and the well-being of the planet?If these are truly the values of many young people， then their behavior doesnt match their beliefs.
35、J There have been half-hearted but well-publicized efforts by some food companies to reduce calories in their processed foods， but the Standard American Diet is still the polar opposite of the healthy，mostly plant-based diet that just about every expert says we should be eating.Cosidering that the g
36、overnments standards are not nearly ambitious enough， the picture is clear: by not cooking at home， were not eating the right things， and the consequences are hard to overstate. K To help quant(量化) the costs of a poor diet， I recently tried to estimate this impact in terms of a most famous food， the
37、 burger (汉堡包). I concluded that the profit burgers is more than offset (抵消) by the damage they cause in health problems and environmental harm. L Cooking real food is the best defense-not to mention that any meal youre likely to eat at home contains about 200 fewer calories than one you would eat in
38、 a restaurant. M To those Americans for whom money is a concern， my advice is Simple: Buy what you can afford， and cook it yoursellf.The common prescription isprimarily shop the grocery store， since thats where fresh produce， meat and seafood，and dairy are.And to save money and still eat well you do
39、nt need local， organic ingredients; all you need is real food.Im not saying local food isnt better; it is. But there is plenty of decent food in the grocery stores. N The other sections you should get to know are frozen foods and the canned goods.Frozen produce is still produce; canned tomatoes are
40、still tomatoes. Just make sure youre getting real food Without tons of added salt or sugar.Ask yourself. Would Grandma consider this food? Does it look like something that might occur in nature?Its pretty much common sense: you want to buy food,not unidentifiable foodlike objects. O You dont have to
41、 hit the grocery store daily， nor do you need an abundance of skill. Since fewer than half ofAmericans say they cook at an intermediate level and only 20% describe their cooking skills as advanced， the crisis is one of confidence.And the only remedy for that is practice. Theres nothing mysterious ab
42、out cooking the evening meal. You just have to do a little thinking ahead and redefine what quaifies as dinner.Like any skill,cooking gets easier as you do it more; every time you cook， you advance your level of skills. Someday you wont even need recipes. My advice is that you not pay attention to t
43、he number of steps and ingredients，because they can be deceiving. P Time， I realize， is the biggest obstacle to cooking for most people. You must acijust your priorities to find time to cook. For instance， you can move a TV to the kitchen and watch your favorite shows while youre standing at the sin
44、k. No one is asking you to give up activities you like， but if youre watching food shows on TV， try cooking instead46.Cooking benefits people in many ways and enables them to connect with one another. 47.Abundant information about cooking is available either online or on TV. 48.Young people do less
45、cooking at home than the elderly these days. 49.Cooking skills can be improved with practice. 50.In the mid-20th century， most families ate dinner at home instead of eating out.51.Even those short of time or money should be encouraged to cook for themselves and their family. 52.Eating food not cooke
46、d by ourselves can cause serious consequences. 53.To eat well and still save money， people should buy fresh food and cook it themselves. 54.We get a fairly large portion of calories from fast food and snacks 55.The popularity of TV led to the popularity of frozen food. 3.仔细阅读Section C Passage One Qu
47、estions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage. The wallet is heading for extinction. As a day-to-day essential， it will die off with the generation who read print newspapers.The kind of shopping-where you hand over notes and COlmt out change in return-now happens only in the most minor of our retail encounters， like buying a bar of chocolate or a pint of milk from a comer shop. At the shops where you spend any real money， that money is increasingly abstracted.And this is more and more true， the higher