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第I卷(共100分)

第一部分：听力(共两节，满分30分)

第一节(共5小题;每小题1.5分，满分7.5分)

听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。

1. What does the woman order?

A. Fish.     B. Beef.        C. Chicken.

2. What does the man want to do?

A. See a film.    B. Enjoy a play.     C. Read a novel.

3. Where is the woman going next?

A. To a museum.     B. To a restaurant.      C. To her house.

4. When should the man arrive at university?

A. By 9:30.     B. By 8:50.     C. By 8:40.

5. What does the woman imply?

A. The man isn’t telling the truth.

B. The man had no reason to be sick.

C. The man didn’t need to attend the meeting.

第二节(共15小题;每小题1.5分，满分22.5分)

听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选 项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟;听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第六段材料，回答第6至7题。

6. What are the speakers going to do on Saturday together?

A. Play football    B. Watch a game    C. Attend a party

7. How will the man go on Saturday?

A. He will walk.    B. He will get a ride.   C. He will drive a car.

听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。

8. What does the woman dislike about her job?

A. The boss     B. The workmates    C. The working field

9. According to the woman, why was she hired?

A. She had a lot of experience.

B. The job interviewer liked her.

C. Many employees quit every year.

听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。

10. Where did Mrs. King originally plan to go?

A. To Miami.    B. To Chicago.    C. To Los Angeles.

11. Why will Mrs. King go to Los Angeles?

A. To do an interview.

B. To have a sales meeting.

C. To attend the opening of an office.

12. What could the woman most probably be?

A. An airline clerk.   B. A secretary.     C. A travel agent.

听第9段材料，回答13至16题。

13. When does the conversation take place?

A. In the morning.   B. In the afternoon.    C. In the evening.

14. What do we know about the man?

A. He will go to school today.

B. He can’t finish his homework today.

C. He can’t hand in his project today.

15. What relation is Mr. Bell to the man?

A. His neighbor    B. His teacher     C. His classmate

16. What does the man ask the woman to do?

A. Help him hand in his project.

B. Call his teacher to ask for leave.

C. Drive him to the hospital right now.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. What is the talk about?

A. Advice on the choice among courses.

B. Differences between the courses.

C. Required and elective courses.

18. Why does history open at all levels?

A. Students have different levels of history knowledge.

B. Different courses are usually taught by different teachers.

C. There are many cultures and time periods in history.

19. What is included in the elective courses?

A. History. B. Science.     C. English.

20. What will the speaker do for the students?

A. Give them advice on course schedule.

B. Help them sign up for a course.

C. Find them room in a course.

第二部分：阅读理解(共两节，满分40 分)[

第一节 (共15小题;每小题2分，满分30分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Even before my father left us, my mother had to go back to work to support our family. Once I came out of the kitchen, complaining, “Mum, I can’t peel potatoes. I have only one hand.”

Mum never looked up from sewing. “You get yourself into that kitchen and peel those potatoes,” she told me. “And don’t ever use that as an excuse for anything again!”

In the second grade, our teacher lined up my class on the playground and had each of us race across the monkey bars, swinging from one high steel rod to the next. When it was my turn, I shook my head. Some kids behind me laughed, and I went home crying.

That night I told Mum about it. She hugged me, and I saw her “we’ll see about that” look. The next afternoon, she took me back to school. At the deserted playground, mum looked carefully at the bars.

“Now, pull up with your right arm,” she advised. She stood by as I struggled to lift myself with my right hand until I could hook the bar with my other elbow. Day after day we practiced, and she praised me for every rung I reached.

I’ll never forget the next time, crossing the rungs; I looked down at the kids who were standing with their mouths open.

One night, after a dance at my new junior high, I lay in bed sobbing. I could hear Mum came into my room. “Mum,” I said, weeping, “none of the boys would dance with me.”

For a long time, I didn’t hear anything. Then she said, “Oh, honey, someday you’ll be beating those boys off with a bat.” Her voice was faint and cracking. I peeked out from my covers to see tears running down her cheeks. Then I knew how much she suffered on my behalf. She had never let me see her tears.

21. Which of the following expressions can be used most suitably to describe Mum’s attitude when she made the child peel potatoes?

A. Cautious           B. Serious         C. Strict       D. Considerate

22. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 imply?

A. Mum believed every aim could be achieved if you stuck to it.

B. The race across monkey bars was not difficult enough for a child to give up.

C. Mum was determined to prove she herself was better than the teacher.

D. What the child had said brought Mum great attraction and curiosity.[

23. When the child looked down at the kids, they were standing with their mouths open because ________.

A. they felt sorry for what they had done before

B. they were afraid the author might fall off and get hurt

C. they wanted to see what the author would do on the bars

D. they were astonished to find the author’s progress

24. The most probable conclusion we can draw after reading the passage is ________.

A. the last incident was sad enough to make Mum weep

B. the child’s experience reminded Mum of that of her own

C. Mum could solve any problem except the one in the last paragraph

D. Mum suffered more in the process of the child’s growth actually

B

Two recent studies have found that punishment is not the best way to influence behavior.

One showed that adults are much more cooperative if they work in a system based on rewards. Researchers at Harvard University in the United States and the Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden did the study.

They had about two hundred college students play a version of the game known as the Prisoner’s Dilemma. The game is based on the tension between the interests of an individual and a group. The students played in groups of four. Each player could win points for the group, so they would all gain equally. But each player could also reward or punish each of the other three players. Harvard researcher David Rand says the most successful behavior proved to be cooperation. The groups that rewarded the most earned about twice as much in the game as the groups that rewarded the least. And the more a group punished itself, the lower its earnings. The study appeared last month in the journal Science.

The other study involved children. It was presented last month in California at a conference on violence and abuse. Researchers used intelligence tests given to two groups. More than eight hundred children were aged two to four the first time they were tested. More than seven hundred children were aged five to nine. The two groups were retested four years later, and the study compared the results with the first test. Both groups contained children whose parents used physical punishment and children whose parents did not.

The study says the IQs of the younger children who were not spanked were five points higher than those who were. In the older group, the difference was almost three points. The more they are spanked, the slower their mental development.

25. Which of the following is TRUE according to the second study?

A. Children’s IQs have much to do with physical punishment.

B. The study is about violence and cooperation of children.

C. The children tested were divided into groups of four.

D. Children’s mental development only relies on their IQs.

26. What does the underlined word “spanked” refer to?

A. punished             B. blamed               C. tested        D. praised

27. What might be the best title for the text?

A. The Best Way to Correct Misbehavior

B. Punishment Is the Best Way of Education

C. Cooperation Is the Most Successful Behavior

D. Punishment or Reward: Which Works Better on Behavior?

C

The sharing economy has grown in recent years to include everything from apartment sharing to car sharing to community tool sharing. Since 2009, a new form of sharing economy has been emerging in neighborhoods throughout the US and around the world—— Little Free Library. The libraries are boxes placed in neighborhoods from which residents can withdraw (取出) and deposit (存入) books. Little Free Libraries come in all shapes and sizes. Some libraries also have themes, focusing on books for children, adults, or tour guides.

In 2009, Tod Bol built the first Little Free Library as a gift to his mother, who was a devoted reader. When he saw the people of his community gathering around it, exchanging conversation as well as books, he knew he wanted to take his simple idea further. “I think Little Free Libraries open the door to conversations we want to have with each other,” Bol said.

Since then, his idea has become a movement, spreading from state to state and country to country. According to Little FreeLibrary.org, there are now 18,000 of the little structures around the world, located in each of the 50 US states and 70 countries in Europe, Africa and Asia.

The Internet has helped to spread Little Free Libraries. But an Atlantic article says the little structures serve as a cure for a world of e-reader downloads. The little wooden boxes are refreshingly physical and human. For many people, the sense of discovery is Little Free Libraries’ main appeal. “A girl walking home from school might pick up a graphic novel that gets her excited about reading; a man on his way to the bus stop might find a volume of poetry that changes his outlook on life,” says the Atlantic article. “Every book is a potential source of inspiration”.

28. How do Little Free Libraries get their books?

A. The communities bought them.               B. Tod Bol donated them.

C. US government provided them.            D. Citizens shared them.

29. Why did Tod Bol want to build more Little Free Libraries?

A. They can offer neighbors more chances to talk. B. He was inspired by the sharing economy.

C. He wanted to promote his idea worldwide.     D. They are a gift to please his mother.

30. What does the author of the Atlantic article believe?

A. Little Free Libraries are more popular than e-reader downloads.

B. E-reader downloads are undoubtedly beneficial.

C. Little Free Libraries are physical and human.

D. The Internet has helped to spread Little Free Libraries.

31. Little Free Libraries attract readers most in that ________.

A. they are in various shapes and sizes         B. they are located all over the world

C. they connect strangers together         D. they may give readers a sense of discovery