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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秒钟的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. How much  should the man’s rent be?

A. $500.    B. $150.     C. $125.

2. What will the woman probably think of the man?

A. He used to be an excellent athlete.  B. He is a real sportsman.

C. He is a sports fan.

3. What has the man been doing?

A. Filling out a form..             B. Having an interview

C. Asking for information.

4. What do we know about the woman?

A. She is too busy to go.         B. She’s willing to go swimming.

C. She doesn’t want to wait long.

5. What does the woman mean?

A. It’s terrible to go abroad alone.

B. It doesn’t matter if the man is not good at English.

C. The man should improve his English.

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6段材料，回答第6、7题。

6. What is the woman going to be?

A. A cook.        B. A teacher.           C. A doctor.

7. How long will the woman work every day?

A. 8 hours.          B. 5 hours.          C. 4 hours.

听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。

8. What are the speakers talking about?

A. An exam.      B. An interview.        C. A writing contest.

9. How are they feeling at the moment?

A. Pretty happy.     B. Very sad.         C. A little confused.

10. Which part did they both find difficult?

A. The oral self-introduction.  B. The essay.    C. The imitation writing.

听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。

11. Wha t w ill Diana do this afternoon?

A. Go to class. .   B. Attend a lecture    C. Write an essay.

12. What do we know about Dr. Rich?

A. He teaches English culture.   B. He’s been absent three times.      C. He’s very strict.

13. What does Mike say about the business communication course?

A. There is not much course work to do.

B. He has already handed in three essays.

C.  He has a 3000-word term paper to write.

听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。

14. What are the speakers talking about?

A. How much money they spend on meals.

B. The changes of the food service in the school.

C. The changes of food in the dining hall.

15. What does the man think of the changes?

A. He doesn’t like them.

B. Students will benefit from the changes.

C. He can’t understand them as they are too complicated.

16. What plan did Tom choose to buy?

A. A seven-meal plan.  B. A ten-meal plan.   C. A fourteen-meal plan.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. Where do people believe the left hand is unclean?

A. In Malaysia.     B. In Pakistan.     C. In Indonesia.

18. When might elderly Westerners be offended?

A. When others try to help them without their agreement.

B. When others teach them new things.

C. When others ask them too many questions.

19. Why don’t Italians give handkerchiefs as gifts?

A. Handkerchiefs mean saying goodbye.

B. Handkerchiefs are used in funerals.

C. Handkerchiefs are connected with unhappy feelings.

20. Whom might the talk be addressed to?

A. People who are going abroad.[

B. Guests from all over the world.

C. Those who will work for an international conference.

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)

A

Cleverness is a gift while kindness is a choice.Gifts are easy—they’re given after all.Choice can be hard.

I got the idea to start Amazon 16 years ago.I came across the fact that the Internet usage was growing at 2300 percent per year.I’d never seen or heard of anything that grew that fast，and the idea of building all online bookstore with millions of titles was very exciting to me. I had just turned 30 years old，and I’d been married for a year.I told my wife MacKenzie that I wanted to quit my job and go to do this crazy thing that probably wouldn’t work since most start-ups don’t and I wasn’t sure what to expect.MacKenzie told me I  should go for it.As a young boy，I’d been a garage inventor.I’d always wanted to be all inventor，and she wanted me to follow my passion.

I was working at a financial firm in New York City with a bunch of very smart people and I had a brilliant boss that I much admired.I went to my boss and told him I wanted to start a company selling  books on the Internet.He took me on a long walk in Central Park，listened carefully to me，and finally said，“That sounds like a really good idea，but it would be an even better idea for someone who didn’t already have a good job.”That 1ogic made some sense to me，and he convinced me to think about it for 48 hours before making a final decision.Seen in that light,it really was a difficult choice，but finally，I decided I had to give it a shot.I didn’t think I’d regret trying and failing.And I suspected I would always be haunted by a decision to not try at all.

After much consid eration ，I took the less safe path to follow my passion ，and I’m proud of that choice.For all of us，in the end，we are our choice.

21.What inspired the author with the idea of building an online bookstore?

A.His dream of being an inventor.           B.The support of  his wife.

C.The greatly increasing usage of the Internet.   D.Millions of exciting titles,

22.Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined sentence?

A.He would be very excited if he tried  it out.

B.The idea of not trying would keep coming to his mind and disturb him.

C.He would be a lways having a doubt if he didn’t try.

D.The decision to not try the online bookstore would terrify him.

23. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A.Cleverness and Kindness      B.The Starting of Amazon

C.Following My Passion       D.We Are What We Choose

B

Six volunteers are about to find out what it would be like to live on Mars without ever leaving the Earth. Three men and three women will spend eight months living in a special place on the side of a volcano in Hawaii. They are part of an experiment that is designed to mimic(模仿)life on Mars. Their mission began on October 15, 2014.

NASA says it could send astronauts to Mars as early as the 2030s. The mission would take more than two years, so NASA needs to know how people would react to living in a small group, isolated from the rest of the  world, for such a long time. Some people may become depressed or bored living under those conditions. By studying people living in similar conditions here on Earth, NASA hopes to learn how to choose the most suitable people for a space mission, and how to help them get along.

They will live in a two-story building. The ground floor is about 86 square meters, roughly the size of a small two-bedroom apartment. It includes shared areas like kitchen, dining room, bathroom, laboratory and an exercise room. The upstairs is less than half the size of the downstairs. It contains another bathroom and six small bedrooms. The building is located in an abandoned quarry(采石场)about 2,400 meters up the side of Mauna Loa, the second biggest volcano in the world. It is constantly monitored for signs of volcanic activity. NASA chose the location because the appearance looks very similar to Mars.

To make it more like being on Mars in the future, they are only able to communicate by email during the experiment. Meanwhile, there will be a 20-minute delay between the time when a message is sent and that when it is received. When they go outside, they will have to suit up in full spacesuits, just as if they were on Mars.

The commander is Martha Lenio, a 34-year-old Canadian. During the mission, she will run experiments on growing food. The other members have backgrounds in physics and so on. None of them are astronauts.

24.When will the six volunteers end their mission about mimicking life on Mars?

A. On June 15, 2015. B. On October 15, 2015.

C. On October 15, 2030. D. On June 15, 2032.

25.What’s the main purpose of the experiment?

A. To monitor signs of volcanic activity.

B. To prepare for a space mission to Mars.

C. To train the six people to become astronauts.

D. To study the difference between men and women.

26.Mauna Loa was chosen as the experimental site because _________.

A. it is located near a rocket base

B. other people can hardly find the location

C .its landscape is so much like that of Mars

D .it is a safe place to conduct the experiment

27.What can be inferred from the passage?

A. Martha is a famous expert on agriculture.

B. The six volunteers will be sent to Mars in 2030.

C. All the experimental activities are done in doors.

D. It takes about 40 minutes to get a reply to an email.