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Part I Writing.Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled The Civil Servant Test Craze. Your essay should start with a brief description of the picture. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.1、Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled The Civil Servant Test Craze. Your essay should start with a brief description of the picture. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.一、听力选择题1、听录音，回答1-36题：AShe thinks the exercise is easy.BShe cant solve the exercise either.CShe can help the man with the exercise.DShe hasnt tried to solve the exercise yet.2、ABuy a newspaper.BTake a trip in the summer.CPut an ad in a newspaper.DGo to the interviewers office.3、AThe man must be a very slow driver.BShe did a lot of walking in Florida.CThe man should have spent less time in FloridaDShe got to Florida long before the man did.4、ALook for the umbrella in the theater.BAsk the ticket seller about the umbrella.CBuy another ticket for the show.DGo back to her chair to get the umbrella.5、ABoth of the activities arent very good.BHe has no interest in doing exercise.CThey should choose a different activity.DIt doesnt matter which activity to choose.6、AWash fewer clothes at a time.BUse a different washing machine.CTry to repair the washing machine first,DWash his clothes by hand.7、AShe is going to drop the class too.BShe doesnt know how to swim.CIt took her a long time to learn to swim.DShe teaches swimming,8、AHell give the woman a few prescriptions right away.BHell be away from the office for one or two days.CThe woman doesnt need anything for her cough.DThe woman should continue taking the medicine.9、Conversation One听材料，回答下列问题：AHer apartment is too far from the campus.BHer apartment needs a lot of repair work.CShes having trouble with the owner of the apartmentDHer roommate wont share expenses.10、ABecause the girls didnt pay their rent on time.BBecause she couldnt find anyone to repair the dishwasher.CBecause she had to buy a new dishwasher.DBecause paula had some repairs done without her permission.11、ABecause he has some knowledge of the law,BBecause he once had the same problem.CBecause he is a friend of the owner.DBecause he can bring a lawsuit against the owner.12、Conversation Two听材料，回答下列各题：AThere arent enough cabinetsBThere is too much noise.COffice supplies are taking up space.DSome teaching assistants dont have desks.13、ATo chat with him socially.BTo get help with the course.CTo hand in their assignments.DTo practise giving interviews,14、ATheyd have to get permission.BJack wouldnt like it,CShe thinks it might work.DOther assistants should be consulted15、AGive Jack a different office,BComplain to the department head.CMove the supplies to the storage room.DTry to get a room to use for meetings.16、Passage One听材料，回答下列各题：ABecause of its shape.BBecause of its skin.CBecause of its size.DBecause of its behavior.17、AHow sea animals manage to exist,BHow large sea animals can be.CHow frightening the squid is,DHow little is known about the sea.18、AWhy it is difficult to use aerial photographs in research.BWhy oceanic research is so limited.CHow oceanic research has helped land research,DHow fossil remains are obtained from deep sea.19、Passage Two听材料，回答下列各题：ANew varieties of corn have been developed.BThe crops need less fertilizer.CFarmers can now monitor crop growth.DCrop yields are much greater.20、AIts being drained from Nebraska to Texas.BIts being pumped out.CIts becoming contaminated with oil.DIts becoming much warmer.21、AIt can be seen from an airplane.BIts most likely polluted.CIts usually a bright green color.DThe supply of it may be exhausted soon.22、Passage Three听材料，回答下列各题：ATo review what students know about volcanic activity.BTo demonstrate the use of a new measurement device.CTo explain the answer to an examination question.DTo provide background for the next reading assignment.23、AThey occur at regular intervals.BThey can withstand great heat.CThey travel through the Earths interior.DThey can record the Earths internal temperature.24、AWhen the Earth was formed.BThe composition of the Earths interior.CWhy molten rock is hot.DHow often a volcano is likely to erupt.25、AHow deep they are.BWhere earthquakes form.CHow hot they are.DWhat purpose they serve.2、 听力26、听材料，回答下列各题：Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.Teenagers will be told to stand up for their elders on public transport-or risk losing their right to free travel.London Mayor Boris Johnson will 26 plans today to make youngsters sign a 27 pledge to promise to behave in a 28 manner when travelling in the capital.The three-point pledge states that they will give up their seats to the elderly, 29 and disabled; refrain from using 30 or threatening language; and be courteous and polite to fellow passengers and staff.Those who refuse, or are caught behaving in a rude manner, will have their free travel passes 31The plan-a key part of Mr. Johnsons re-election bid-will initially affect the 400,000 11-to-15-year-olds in London who qualify for free travel cards, but Conservative sources believe the idea could be used across the country.A Conservative insider said, The initiative 32 the push to create a Big Society. It is about changing culture and 33 around behavior to improve the atmosphere on buses and trains for everyone. Speaking before todays launch, Mr. Johnson said he 34 tackle the anti-social behavior of a minority of youngsters on public transport.when I was a boy, I was taught to stand up for those less able to, he said. Youngsters enjoy the privilege of free travel, which is paid for by Londoners, but they have to understand that with that privilege comes responsibility. Anyone who abuses this privilege will have it taken away, and will have to earn that right back.Teenagers who are found 35 violating the new behavior code will lose their travel passes. They will have to carry out unpaid community work to have them restored.第(26)题_27、第(27)题_28、第(28)题_29、第(29)题_30、第(30)题_31、第(31)题_32、第(32)题_33、第(33)题_34、第(34)题_35、第(35)题_36、回答36-46题：Women with low literacy suffer disproportionately more than men, encountering more 36 in finding a well-paying job and being twice as likely to end up in the group of lowest wage earners, a study released on Wednesday said.Analysis by the Institute for Womens Policy Research (IWPR found women at all levels of 37 tend to earn less than men, but its at the lowest literacy levels that the wage gap between genders is most striking.Women with low literacy are twice as 38 as men at the same skill level to be among the lowest earners, bringing in $300 a week or less, the report said.Because women start off so low in terms of wages, having higher literacy and more skills really 39 a big difference, said Kevin Miller, a 40 research associate at IWPR and co-author of the study.Women need to go 41 in their training and education level to earn the same as men, Miller said.The 42 was based on 2009 National Assessment of Adult Literacy surveys, the most recent data 43 , and focused on reading skills, not writing and numeric literacy. That data was 44 from a nationally representative sample of 19,714 people aged 16 and older, living in households or prisons.Data showed about one-third of American adults have low literacy levels, and more than 36 percent of men and 33 percent of women fall into that 45 , the institute said.A pattern I conductedB senior J independentC longer K literacyD difficulties L analysisE category M likelyF collected N furtherG positions O makesH available第(36)题_37、第(37)题_38、第(38)题_39、第(39)题_40、第(40)题_41、第(41)题_42、第(42)题_43、第(43)题_44、第(44)题_45、第(45)题_Section BDirections: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived.You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.46、回答46-56题：A) The legislation concerning financial reform focuses on helping regulators detect and defuse (减少.的危险性) the next crisis. But it doesnt address many of the underlying conditions that can cause problems.B) The legislation gives regulators the power to oversee shadow banks and take failing firms apart, convenes a council of superregulators to watch the megafirms that pose a risk to the full financialsystem, and much else.C) But the bill does more to help regulators detect the next financial crisis than to actually stop it from happening.In that way, its like the difference between improving public health and improving medicine: The bill focuses on helping the doctors who figure out when youre sick and how to get you better rather than on the conditions (sewer systems and air quality and hygiene standards and so on) that contribute to whether you get sick in the first place.D) That is to say, many of the weaknesses and imbalances that led to the financial crisis will survive our regulatory response, and its important to keep that in mind. So here are five we still have to watch out for:1. The Global Glut (供过于求) of SavingsE) One of the leading indicators of a financial crisis is when you have a sustained surge in money flowing into the country which makes borrowing cheaper and easier, says Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff. Our crisis was no different: Between 1987 and 1999, our current account deficit-the measure of how much money is coming in versus going out-fluctuated between 1 and 2 percent of gross domestic product. By 2006, it had hit 6 percent.F) The sharp rise was driven by emerging economies with lots of growth and few investment opportunities-think China-funneling their money to developed economies with less growth and lots of investment opportunities. But weve gotten out of the crisis without fixing it. China is still growing fast, exporting faster, and sending the money over to US.2. Household Debt-and Why We Need ItG) The fact that money is available to borrow doesnt explain why Americans borrowed so much of it. Household debt as a percentage of GDP went from a bit less than 60 percent at the beginning of the 1990s to a bit less than 100 percent in 2006. This is where I come to income inequality, says Raghuram Rajan, an economist at the University of Chicago. A large part of the population saw relatively stagnant incomes over the 1980s and 1990s. Credit was so welcome because it kept people who were falling behind reasonably happy. You were keeping up, even if your income wasnt.H) Incomes, of course, are even more stagnant now that unemployment is at 9 percent. And that pain isnt being shared equally: inequality has actually risen since before the recession, as joblessness is proving sticky among the poor, but recovery has been swift for the rich. Household borrowing is still more than 90 percent of GDP, and the conditions that drove it up there are, if anything, worse.3. The Shadow Banking MarketI) The financial crisis started out similarly severe, but it wasnt, at first, a crisis of consumers. It was a crisis of banks. It never became a crisis of consumers because consumer deposits are insured. But large investors-pension funds, banks, corporations, and others-arent insured. But when they hear that their collateral ( 附属担保品 ) is dropping in value, they demand their money back. And when everyone does that at once, its like an old-fashioned bank run: The banks cant pay everyone off at once, so they unload all their assets to get capital, the assets become worthless because everyone is trying to unload them, and the banks collapse.J) This is an inherent problem of privately created money, says Gary Gorton, an economist at Princeton University. It is vulnerable to these kinds of runs. This year, were bringing this shadow banking system under the control of regulators and giving them all sorts of information on it and power over it, but were not doing anything like deposit insurance, where we simply make the deposits safe so runs become an anachronism.4. Rich BanksK) In the 1980s, the financial sectors share of total corporate profits ranged from about 10 to 20 percent. By 2004, it was about 35 percent. Simon Johnson, an economist at MIT, recalls a conversation he had with a fund manager. The guy said to me, Simon, its so little money! You can sway senators for $10 million!?Johnson laughs ruefully (后悔地). These guys big investors dont even think in millions. They think in billions.L) What you get for that money is favors. The last financial crisis fades from memory and the public begins to focus on other things. Then the finance guys begin nudging (游说). They hold some fundraisers for politicians, make some friends, explain how the regulations theyre under are onerous and unfair. And slowly, surely, those regulations come undone. This financial crisis will stick in our minds for a while, but not forever. And after briefly dropping to less than 15 percent of corporate profits, the financial sector has rebounded to more than 30 percent. Theyll have plenty of money with which to help their friends forget this whole nasty affair.5. Lax ( 不严格的) RegulatorsM ) The most troubling prospect is the chance that this bill, if wed passed it in 2000, wouldnt even have prevented this financial crisis. Thats not to undersell it: It wouldve given regulators more information with which to predict the crisis. But they had enough information, and they ignored it. They get caught up in boom times just like everyone else. A bubble, almost by definition, affects the regulators with the power to pop it.N) In 2005, with housing prices running far, far ahead of the historical trend, Bemanke said a housing bubble was a pretty unlikely possibility. In 2007, he said Fed officials do not expect significant spillovers from the subprime market to the rest of the economy. Alan Greenspan, looking back at the financial crisis, admitted in April that regulators have had a woeful record of chronic failure. History tells us they cannot identify the timing of a crisis, or anticipate exactly where it will be located or how large the losses and spillovers will be.In the 1980s and 1990s people experienced no substantial increase in terms of income, which brought about the popularity of credit.47、Financial crisis is a crisis of banks in that shadow banking may cause banks to fail.48、The finance guys make friends with politicians in the hope of making some burdensome and unfair regulations cancelled.49、The legislation concerning financial reform offers regulators the power of supervising shadow banks and disintegrating companies on the verge of bankruptcy.50、In terms of the effect of unemployment, it is more deeply felt by the poor than by the rich.51、Even if there was enough information to predict there would be financial crisis, the regulators still chose to ignore it.52、Emerging economies with insufficient investment opportunities have invested much money in developed countries.53、Regulators with power tended to fail again and again concerning forecasting a financial crisis.54、A fund manager or large investor is considered absurdly rich by an economist from MIT.55、Large investors deposits can be made safer if shadow banking system is under the control of regulators.Section CDirections: 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.56、回答56-61题：Opinion polls are now beginning to show a reluctant consensus that, whoever is to blame and whatever happens from now on, high unemployment is probably here to stay. This means we shall have to find ways of sharing the available employment more widely. But we need to go further. We must ask some fundamental questions about the furore of work. Should we continue to treat employment as the norm? Should we not rather encourage many other ways for self-respecting people to work? Should we not create conditions in which many of us can work for ourselves, rather than for an