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第一节： Role Play

情景介绍

角色：你是记者

任务：(1)采访Dr Brown有关外语学习的问题。

(2)根据谈话内容回答问题。

根据三个问题(已翻译)，认真听取相关信息，以便完成下面的五个问题。

1、你能再多说点吗?

Could you please speak a little more?

2、你说的学习风格是什么意思?

What do you mean by "learning styles"?

3、你是如何学习外语的?

How did you learn a foreign language?

根据对话以及三个问题提供的答案，完成五个问题的回答，每个空填一个单词。(每小题1分，满分5分)

1、It is about how to learn a ___________ language.

2、 _____________ years.

3、To learn a foreign language by taking small_____________.

4、Factors like character, ___________ and past experiences.

5、He often recites aloud the ___________.

第二节：Retelling the story

请根据录音文段，填上恰当的词。(每空1 分，满分10 分)

梗概： Tom 下班后被锁楼里，办公室电话不通，最后设法找到门卫出去了。

关键词：locked in 被锁 phone 电话 doorkeeper门卫

reception room 接待室 go home 回家

Last summer ___6___,Tom ___7___ a part-time job in a big company. One Friday evening, when he finished his work and went out of his office, it's already___8___ o'clock. The doors all locked, and he was locked in the building. He could not find anyone for____9____, so he went back to his office to phone the doorkeeper,but the phone didn't ____10____. He ____11____ another one, and that phone didn't work either. Then he ____12____ that the phones in the office had been locked for the ____13____. Suddenly he ____14____ that in the reception room there was a phone that was always on. So he ____15____ to the reception room. He went into the room through the window, and phoned the doorkeeper. Half an hour later, the doorkeeper came, and Tom went home.

第二部分：语言知识及应用(共两节，满分45分)

第一节：完形填空(共15小题;每小题2分，满分30分)

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从16—30 各题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

Who won the World Cup 1994 football game? What happened at the United Nations?How did the critics like the new play?Just when an event takes place, newspapers are on the streets to ___16____ the details.Wherever anything happens in the world,reporters are on the spot to ___17____ the news.

Newspapers have one basic____18___, to get the news as quickly as possible from its source, from those who make it to those who want to ___19__ it. Radio, telegraph, television, and other inventions brought competition for newspapers. So did the development of magazines and other means of communication. However, this competition merely spurred(刺激，鞭策) the newspapers on. They quickly made use of the newer and faster means of communication to improve the ___20___ and thus the efficiency of their own operations. Today more newspapers are ___21___ and read than ever before. Competition also led newspapers to branch out to many other fields. Besides keeping readers ___22___ of the latest news, today's newspapers ___23___ and influence readers about politics and other important and serious matters. Newspapers influence readers' economic choices through advertising. Most newspapers depend on advertising for their ___24___. Newspapers are sold at a price that ___25___ even a small fraction(小部分) of the cost of the production. The main ___26__ of income for most newspapers is commercial advertising. The ____27____ in selling advertising depends on a newspaper's value to advertisers. This is ____28____ in terms of(在…方面) circulation(发行量). How many people read the newspaper? Generally speaking,circulation depends ___29___ on the work of the circulation department and on the services or entertainment ___30___ in a newspaper's pages. But for the most part, circulation depends on a newspaper's value to readers as a source of information about the community, city, country, state, nation, and world and even outer space.

16. A. take B. give C. put D. learn

17. A. gather B .spread C. carry D .bring

18. A .reason B. cause C. problem D. purpose

19. A. make B. publish C. know D. write

20. A.value B. ratio C. rate D. speed

21. A. improved B .passed C .printed D. completed

22. A. accused B. warned C. reminded D. informed

23. A. entertain B. encourage C .educate D. edit

24. A. forms B. existence C. contents D. intention

25. A. tries B. manages C .fails D .succeeds

26. A. source B. origin C. course D. wealth

27. A .way B. means C .chance D .success

28. A. estimated B. proposed C. measured D .stated

29. A. somewhat B .little C. much D. all

30. A. had B. offered C. sold D. bought[

第二节：语法填空(共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分)

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为31-40的相应位置上。

What will power your house in the future? Nuclear, wind, or solar power?According to scientists at the Masssachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT)in the US, it might be leaves----but artificial ones.

Natural leaves are able to change sunlight and water ____31___ energy.It ____32____(know)as photosynthesis (光合作用). Now researcher have found___33___ way to imitate this seemingly simple process.

Similar to natural leaves, the artificial leaf ____34____ (develop) by Daniel Nocera and his colleagues can split water into hydrogen and oxygen when ____35___(place) into a bucket of water. The hydrogen and oxygen gases are then stored in a fuel cell(电池)，____36___ uses those two materials to produce electricity,located either on top of a house or beside the house.

____37____ the leaf is only about the shape of a small card, scientists claimed that ____38___ is promising to be an inexpensive source of electricity in developing countries.

With the goal of “____39___(make) each home its own power station”and “giving energy to the poor”, scientists believe that the new ____40____(apply) could be widely used in developing countries, especially in India and rural China.

第三部分：阅读(共两节，满分50分)

第一节：阅读理解(共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项。

A

One thing most people know about Einstein is that he was a poor student in school, and may have had difficulty in reading. It turns out that this is nowhere near true. By the age of 13 he was reading advanced physics texts, and by the age of 15 he had read Darwin’s On the Origin of Species.

This widespread belief about his school grades may come from two areas: confusion about his school’s grading system, and his “failure”in his college exams. The school that Einstein attended when he was 16 changed its grading system at one point. The school at first graded on a scale of 1 to 6. 1 being the highest grade possible. And 6 being the lowest. After the change, 6 became the highest mark and 1 the lowest. Thus, if you look at Einstein’s school records at that time you can see that he received 1’s in math and physics. It wasn’t a case of his failure – he was in fact at the top of his class in math and physics.

It is true that Einstein failed his entrance exam to the Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich. He was taking the exam to enter the school two years early. He didn’t get excellent scores in the test. He had not particularly studied for the test, and may, in fact, have had mixed feelings about whether or not he wanted to pass it. His father wanted him to work on a technical field, but Einstein was more interested in theory. Also, the test was given in French, a language which he was not especially good at. Einstein at last went to the school after finishing his studies at the Aargau Cantonal School.

In a word, Einstein was a good student in school and not the poor one as many people imagined.

41.From the passage we know that Einstein__________.

A. was also good at studying languages and art

B. had difficulty in reading when he was young

C. was looked down upon by others as a boy

D. did well in his studies when he was young

42. Before the grading system was changed____________.

A. 1 was the highest grade B. 6 was the highest grade

C.Einstein got many 6’s D. Einstein got many1’s

43. One of the reasons people think Einstein didn’t do well in his studies is that Einstein________.

A. couldn’t read the texts he learned

B. received 1’s in math and physics

C. couldn’t speak his native language well

D. received 6’s in all the subjects

44.Why did Einstein not make good preparations for his entrance exam according to Paragraph3?

A. His father stopped him doing so.

B. He didn’t like that kind of college.

C. He may have hesitated to pass it.

D. He didn’t study what he disliked.

45.What would be the best title for this passage?

A. Some facts about young Einstein.

B. Einstein was what he was considered.

C. Was Einstein really a poor student?

D. Einstein was very clever all his life.

B

I began working in journalism when I was eight. It was my mother’s idea. She wanted me to “make something” of myself, and decided I had better start young if I was to have any chance of keeping up with the competition.

With my load of magazines I headed toward Belleville Avenue. The crowds were there. There were two gas stations on the corner of Belleville and Union. For several hours I made myself highly visible, making sure everyone could see me and the heavy black letters on the bag that said THE SATURDAY EVENING POST. When it was suppertime, I walked back home.

“ How many did you sell, my boy?” my mother asked.

“ None.”

“ Where did you go?”

“ The corner of Belleville and Union Avenues.”

“ What did you do?”

“ Stood on the corner waiting for somebody to buy a Saturday Evening Post.”

“ You just stood there?”

“ Didn’t sell a single one.”

“ My God, Russell!”

Uncle Allen put in, “ Well, I’ve decided to take the Post.” I handed him a copy and he paid me a nickel(五分镍币). It was the first nickel I earned.

Afterwards my mother taught me how to be a salesman. I would have to ring doorbells, address adults with self-confidence, and persuade them by saying that no one, no matter how poor, could afford to be without the Saturday Evening Post in the home.

One day, I told my mother I’d changed my mind. I didn’t want to make a success in the magazine business.

“ If you think you can change your mind like this,” she replied, “ you’ll become a good-for-nothing.” She insisted that.As soon as school was over, I should start ringing doorbells, selling magazines. Whenever I said no, she would scold me.

My mother and I had fought this battle almost as long as I could remember. My mother, dissatisfied with my father’s plain workman’s life, determined that I would not grow up like him and his people. But never did she expect that, forty years later, such a successful journalist as me would go back to her husband’s people for true life and love.

46. Why did the boy start his job young?

A. He wanted to be famous in the future.

B. The job was quite easy for him.

C. His mother had high hopes for him.

D. The competition for the job was fierce.

47. From the dialogue between the boy and his mother, we learn that the mother was _______.

A. excited B. interested C. ashamed D. disappointed

48.What did the mother do when the boy wanted to give up?

A. She forced him to continue. B. She punished him.

C. She gave him some money. D. She changed her plan.

49. What does the underlined phrase “this battle”(last paragraph) refer to?

A. The war between the boy’s parents.

B. The arguing between the boy and his mother.

C. The quarrel between the boy and his customers.

D. The fight between the boy and his father.

50. What is the text mainly about?

A. The early life of a journalist.

B. The early success of a journalist.

C. The happy childhood of the writer.

D. The important role of the writer in his family.