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Part Writing(30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic To Curb Spending. You should write at least 150 words according to the outline given below in Chinese.1. 现在许多大学生普遍花钱大手大脚，消费水平高2. 有人认为社会整体生活水平提高了，大学生花钱多一些无可厚非3. 你的看法To Curb SpendingPart Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 1-7, choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.Freuds Study on “Human Mind”Most people often dream at night. When they wake in the morning they say to themselves, “What a strange dream I had! I wonder what made me dream that.”Sometimes dreams are frightening. Sometimes, in dreams, wishes come true. At other times we are troubled by strange dreams in which the world seems to have been turned upside-down and nothing makes sense.In dreams we do things which we would never do when were awake. We think and say things we would never think and say. Why are dreams so strange and unfamiliar? Where do dreams come from?No one has produced a more satisfying answer than a man called Sigmund Freud. He said that dreams come from a part of ones mind which one can neither recognize nor control. He named this the “unconscious mind” .Sigmund Freud was born about a hundred years ago. He lived most of his life in Vienna, Austria, but ended his days in London, soon after the beginning of the Second World War.The new worlds Freud explored were inside man himself. For the unconscious mind is like a deep well, full of memories and feelings. These memories and feelings have been stored there from the moment of our birth. Our conscious mind has forgotten them. We do not suspect that they are there until some unhappy or unusual experience causes us to remember, or to dream dreams. Then suddenly we see the same thing and feel the same way we felt when we were little children.This discovery of Freuds is very important if we wish to understand why people act as they do. For the unconscious forces inside us are at least as powerful as the conscious forces we know about. Sometimes we do things without knowing why. If we dont, the reasons may lie deep in our unconscious minds.When Freud was a child he cared about the sufferings of others, so it isnt surprising that he became a doctor when he grew up. He learned all about the way in which the human body works. But he became more and more curious about the human mind. He went to Paris to study with a famous French doctor, Charcot. At that time it seemed that no one knew very much about the mind. If a person went mad, or “out of his mind”, there was not much that could be done about it. People didnt understand at all what was happening to the madman. Had he been possessed by a devil or evil spirit? Was God punishing him for wrong-doing? Often such people were shut away from the ordinary people as if they had done some terrible crime.This is still true today in many places. Doctors prefer to experiment on those parts of a man which they can see and examine. If you cut a mans head open you can see his brain. But you cant see his thoughts or ideas or dreams.In Freuds day few doctors were interested in these subjects. Freud wanted to know how our minds work. He learned a lot from Charcot. He returned to Vienna in 1886 and began work as a doctor in nerve diseases. He got married and began to receive more and more patients at home. Most of the patients who came to see him were women. They were over-excited and anxious, sick in mind rather than in body. Medicine did not help them. Freud was full of sympathy but he could do little to make them better.Then one day a friend, Dr Josef Breuer, came to see him. He told Freud about a girl he was looking after. The girl seemed to get better when she was allowed to talk about herself. She told Dr Breuer everything that came into her mind. And each time she talked to him she remembered more about her life as a little child. Freud was excited when he heard this. He began to try to cure his patients in the same way. He asked about the events of their early childhood. He urged them to talk about their own experiences and relationships. He himself said very little. Often, as he listened, his patients relived moments from their past life. They trembled with anger and fear, hate and love. They acted as though Freud was their father or mother or lover.The doctor did not make any attempt to stop them. He quietly accepted whatever they told him, the good things and the bad. Also one young woman who came to him couldnt drink anything, although she was very thirsty. Something prevented her from drinking.Freud discovered the reason for this. One day, as they were talking, the girl remembered having seen a dog drink from her nurses glass. She hadnt told the nurse, whom she disliked. She had forgotten the whole experience. But suddenly this childhood memory returned to mind. When she had told it all to Dr Freudthe nurse, the dog, the glass of water the girl was able to drink again.Freud called this treatment the talking cure. Later it was called psychoanalysis. When patients talked freely about the things that were troubling them they often felt better.The things that patients told him sometimes gave Freud a shock. He discovered that the feelings of very young children are not so different from those of their parents. A small boy may love his mother so much that he wants to kill his father. At the same time he loves his father and is deeply ashamed of this wish. It is difficult to live with such mixed feelings, so they fade away into the unconscious mind and only return in troubled dreams.It was hard to believe that people could become blind, or lose the power of speech, because of what had happened to them when they were children.Freud was attacked from all sides for what he discovered. But he also found firm friends. Many people believed that he had at last found a way to unlock the secrets of the human mind, and to help people who were very miserable. He had found the answer to many of lifes great questions.He became famous all over the world and taught others to use the talking cure. His influence on modern art, literature and science cannot be measured. People who wrote books and plays, people who painted pictures and people who worked in schools, hospitals and prisons all learned something from the great man who discovered a way into the unconscious mind.Not all of Freuds ideas are accepted today. But others have followed where he led and have helped us to understand ourselves better. Because of him, and them, there is more hope today than there has ever been before for people who were once just called “crazy”.1. So far, Freud is the only one who can _.A) study humans thoughts, ideas and dreamsB) provide us the most satisfying reply to where dreams come fromC) tell us the reason why we will dream at nightD) offer us some help in mental problems2. Freud _.A) spent most of his life in Vienna as well as LondonB) ended his life after World War IIC) spend most of his life in Vienna, AustriaD) passed away in Austria before the World War 3. When Freud was a grown-up, _.A) he was more interested in human mind than the way the human body worksB) he focused his study on the human mind instead of human bodyC) he shifted his attention to the study of psychologyD) he was most interested in the study of how human body works4. In Freuds day, _.A) a number of doctors concentrated on the humans dreamsB) a lot of students admired Freuds study very muchC) no doctor would like to work with Freud togetherD) no doctors were interested in humans ideas, thoughts or dreams5. According to the passage, Dr Josef Breuer _.A) gave Freud some help in Freuds studyB) was one of the workmates of FreudC) was a doctor who specialized in the study of human bodyD) offtered some advice in Freuds study6. According to the passage, psychoanalysis was a process _.A) in which patients would not participateB) in which patients must say something great they encountered beforeC) in which patients could do what they like to doD) in which patients could speak out his bad fortune freely in order to make themselves reassured7. Freud found with a shock that _.A) young children and their parents couldnt stay together for a long timeB) yong children were always obedient to their parentsC) young children were not so different from their parents in feelingsD) young children and his parents differed largely in feelings8. Although much attack pointed to Freud, it was also thought by many people that Freud had a way to uncover the secrets of _and to help miserable people.9. According to the passage, it is hardly to measure Freuds influence on modern art, _ _ _.10. According to the passage, at present Freuds study brings a lot of hope to people once called “_.”Part Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, there is a short passage with 5 questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words on Answer Sheet 2.Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.Many workers who worked in the World Trade Center after the September eleventh attacks became sick. They breathed a mix of dust, smoke and chemicals in the ruins of the Twin Towers and a third building that fell. Some went clays without good protection for their lungs. Five years later, many of the thousands who worked at Ground Zero in the early days after the attacks still have health problems.Doctors at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City have announced the results of the largest study of these workers. The study confirmed high rates of breathing problems in members of the building trades, firefighters, police officers and other workers. Almost seventy percent of the workers in the study had a new or worsened breathing problem. These problems developed during or after their time working in the mountain of wreckage. About sixty percent still had breathing problems at the time of their examination. The researchers say they decided to study the effects on breathing first because other disorders might be slower to appear. Mount Sinai says it tested almost twelve thousand people between two thousand two and two thousand four. Eight out of ten of them agreed to have their results used in the report. The new results added strength to a Mount Sinai study released in two thousand four. That study was based on only about one thousand workers.Some lawmakers have sharply criticized city and state officials for letting workers labor at Ground Zero without satisfactory equipment. Officials have also been criticized for saying the air was relatively safe. State and federal officials have promised more than fifty million dollars to pay for treatment of the workers. Doctor Robin Herbert is one of the directors of the Mount Sinai testing program. She says people are still coming to the hospital for treatment of problems that were caused by the dust at Ground Zero. In her words: My worry is that money will be gone in a year, and what happens then?47. What contributed to problems of the workers in World Trade Center after the attacks?48. Who had the most serious breathing problems according to the latest study?49. The researchers decided to carry on some study on the effects on breathing first because _ might appear in a later period of time.50. _ are sharply criticized by some lawmakers because they let workers labor at Ground Zero with out satisfactory equipment.51. What measures have the officials promised to take to deal with the health problem?Section BDirections: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage.Acting is such an over-crowded profession that the only advice that should be given to a young person thinking of going on the stage is Dont!. But it is useless to try to discourage someone who feels that he must act, though the chances of his becoming famous are slim. The normal way to begin is to go to a drama school. Usually only students who show promise and talent are accepted, and the course lasts two years. Then the young actor or actress takes up work with a repertory company, usually as an assistant stage manager. This means doing everything that there is to do in the theatre: painting scenery, looking after the furniture, taking care of the costumes, and even acting in very small parts. It is very hard work indeed. The hours are long and the salary is tiny. But young actors with the stage in their blood are happy, waiting for the chances of working with a better company, or perhaps in films or television.Of course, some people have unusual chances which lead to fame and success without this long and dull training. Connie Pratt, for example, was just an ordinary girl working in a bicycle factory. A film producer happened to catch sight of her one morning waiting at a bus stop, as he drove past in his big car. He told the driver to stop, and he got out to speak to the girl. He asked her if she would like to go to the film studio to do a test, and at first she thought he was joking. Then she got angry and said she would call the police. It took the producer twenty minutes to tell Connie that he was serious. Then an appointment was made for her to go to the studio the next day. The test was successful. They gave her some necessary lessons and within a few weeks she was playing the leading part opposite one of the most famous actors of the day. Of Course, she was given a more dramatic name, which is now world-famous. But chances like this happen once in a blue moon!52. According to the passage, the main reason why young people should be discouraged from becoming actors is _.A) actors are very unusual peopleB) the course at the drama school lasts two yearsC) acting is really a hard jobD) there are already too many actors53. An assistant stage managers job is difficult because he has to _.A) do all kinds of stage workB) work for long hoursC) wait for a better companyD) act well54. According to the context, the sentence But young actors with the stage in their blood are happy at the end of the first paragraph means _.A) they dont care if their job is hardB) they like the stage naturallyC) they are born happyD) they are easily satisfied55. Conie Pratt soon became a famous actress after _.A) learning some lessons about the art of speakingB) playing her part in the Blue Colored MoonC) successfully matching the most famous actorsD) acting a leading part with a most famous actor at that time56. The phrase once in a blue moon in last line refers to _.A) all at onceB) once for a long timeC) once in a whileD) once and for allPassage TwoQuestions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.The home service industry in Beijing is expected to become more attractive both as a job and as an industry.Sources at the Beijing Peoples Political Consultative Conference said resistance to home service work is melting away from minds of the citys laid-off workers. The Conference suggested the establishment of municipal centers which supervise property management, household mending and installation, and house keeping services. Modern city life is creating a need for industrialization home services. This will create job opportunities for laid-off workers, said Vice director of the Social Judicial Committee of the Conference.Beijing residents have long desired a home service industry. The demand is expected to drive new economic growth. There are few high quality home help services in Beijing and customers are always complaining.In the past, few laid-off workers in Beijing desired to work as home helpers, jobs largely taken by young women from the countryside. At the same time, some city residents have not felt safe trusting rural girls with modern household machines or with their small children. Many people would pay more for reliable house keepers who are more familiar with city life, but they have had no way of getting one, even though the city is home to thousands of laid-off workers.By the end of June this year, there were 30,600 jobless workers in the city. Most of them are women in their 40s, who are not blessed with particular skills and who have had their work ethics shaped by the planned economy. Many of them were at a loss when they first realized they had lost their jobs and a way of life they had got used to for decades.They never imagined being laid-off by state-owned enterprises; they never considered other kinds of employment. For them, the private sector meant taking risks; housekeeping implied lower social status. Gao yunfang, 44, is a pioneer who is breaking the ice. She sells the Beijing Morning Post in the morning, and works at two households in the afternoon. She earns 1,000 yuan per m