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一、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）When I was in my early twenties, I moved away from my home state of Wisconsin to attend graduate school. I chose to go to the University Of Arizona in Tucson and 1 there. Upon landing in early June, I was shocked by the lack of 2 and the burning desert heat. After less than two days in that 3 I called my parent to question whether I had made the 4 choice and to announce that I was 5 considering coming home.My father, in a calm and 6 voice, indicated that I always had a 7 . I could always come home and be welcome there. But in fact, we both 8 I wouldnt come home at the time. Needless to say, I chose to 9 .Many years have passed. My fathers words remain with me. Knowing that I can always 10 , Ive been able to 11 several challenging situations unemployment, divorce and even the 12 of my only son. I have also used these words in many cases where others need to know that someone cares and that they do have a choice.Whether 13 is earthly, spiritual, or some sense of calm, knowing that we can come home will be just enough to help us on our way. It 14 me, in a way, of the prodigal son（回头的浪子）who found 15 and love upon returning home. While we dont have to be like him and hit bottom in life, it is good to know that we can wander and experience pains and sufferings in life but we still have a home where love, support and comfort exist.1.AflewBdroveCwalkedDcycled2.AblueByellowCbrownDgreen3.AfamilyBrefugeCenvironmentDdesert4.AnewBrightClastDdifficult5.AnaturallyBfortunatelyCobviouslyDseriously6.AgentleBweakCsupportiveDpleasant7.AchoiceBdreamCfriendDrequest8.ApretendedBexpectedCknewDforgot9.AgraduateBregretCreturnDcontinue10Awander outsideBhang aroundCcome homeDmove away11Aface up toBget away withCmake sure ofDlook out for12AreturnBgrowthCarrivalDloss13AhealthBmarriageCchurchDhome14AinformsBremindsCwarnsDrids15AcomfortBinterestCfoodDmoney第二节 语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）It was 7 a.m. in Kyoto, and the taxi company had just called a second time to say they couldn t find my house. Once again I spelt out directions even a blind person could follow. Only two hours remained until my flight left and 16 was an hour-and-a-half trip to the airport.Outside, heavy rains 17 (pour) down. My house was so far north in the city that buses pass only three times a day.The telephone rang again. “Terribly sorry,” began the man at the taxi company. Then I realized that the taxi company, 18 (flood) with calls, could only offer in-city runs. 19 (stand) in the wind-driven rain, I looked up and down the road. No taxi. Finally a white car appeared and pulled to a stop. A young man threw open the door, wavingfor me to get in. Shaking 20 cold and anger, I climbed in.In the most polite Japanese, the man said he was called Mike, with 21 I had spoken three times that morning. He had left his office and raced here in his personal car. He apologized again, 22 did not explain 23 a taxi would not pick me up.A few hours later, 24 the storm-delayed 727 took off, I opened the newspaper. On the second page my eyes caught 25 headline of a short article: “Taxi Strike Begins This Morning in Kyoto.”二、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）AOne of our favourite patients had been in and out of our small, rural hospital several times, and all of us had all grown quite attached to her and her husband. In spite of terminal cancer and resulting pain, she never failed to give us a smile or a hug.I admired their expression of love. Daily, he brought her fresh fiowers and a smile, then sat by her bed as they held hands and talked quitely. When the pain was too much and she cried or became confused, he hugged her gently in his arms and whispered until she rested. Every night, before he left for home, he closed the door so they could spend time alone together. Then wed find her sleeping peacefully with a smile on her lips.On the night, the day nurses just now informed us she had steadily taken a turn for the worse and wouldnt make it through the night.When I entered her room, she was aroused and smiled weakly, but her breathing was labored. Her husband sat beside her, smiling, too, and said, “My love is finally going to get her reward.”Tears came to my eyes, so I asked if they needed anything and left quickly. At about midnight she passed away with her husband still holding her hand. I consoled him, and with tears running down his cheeks he said, “May I please be alone with her for a smile?” I hugged him and closed the door behind me.I stood outside the room, blotting my tears and missing my friend and her smile. Suddenly from the room came the most beautiful male voice I have ever heard singing. It was almost haunting (萦绕，弥漫) the way it floated through the halls. All of the other nurses stepped out into the hallways to listen as he sang “Beautiful Brown Eyes” at the top of his lungs.When the tune faded, the door opened and he called to me. He looked me in the eyes then hugged me, saying, “I sang that song to her every night from the first day we met. Normally I closed the door and keep my voice down so as not to disturb the other patients. But I had to make sure she heard me tonight as she was on her way to heaven. She had to known that she will always be my forever love. Please apologize to anyone I bothered. I just dont know how I will make it without her, but I will continue to sing to her every night. Do you think she will hear me ?” I nodded,unable to stop my tears. 26. The husband usually expressed his love for his wife by all excpet .A. bringing her flowersB. giving her gentle hugsC. singing songs loudlyD. holding her hands27. The underlined word “consoled” in Paragraph 5 means “ ”.A. made someone feel betterB. had someone go to bedC. blamed someoneD. ignored someone28. The husband sang a song at the top of his lung becasue .A. he had a beautiful voiceB. he didnt want his wife to miss the songC. he had promised his wife to sing the songD. he wanted to impress other with his song29. According to the passage, the author is probably .A. a doctorB. a nurseC. a patientD. a worker30. The best title of the passage will probably be .A. Song of LoveB. Power of Love C. The Last LoveD. Husbands LoveBThe Pacific island nation of Nauru used to be a beautiful place. Now it is an ecological disaster area. Naurus heartbreaking story could have one good consequence other countries might learn from its mistakes. For thousands of years, Polynesian people lived the remote island of Nauru, far from western civilization. The first European to arrive was John Fearn in 1798. He was the British captain of the Hunter, a whaling ship. He called the island Pleasant Island. However, because it was very remote, Nauru had little communication with Europeans at first. The whaling ships and other traders began to visit, bringing guns and alcohol. These elements destroyed the social balance of the twelve family groups on the island. A ten-year civil war started, which reduced the population from 1,400 to 900. Naurus real troubles began in 1899 when a British mining company discovered phosphate (磷酸盐) on the island. In fact, it found that the island of Nauru was nearly all phosphate, which a very important fertilizer for farming. The company began mining the phosphate. A phosphate mine is not a hole in the ground; it is a strip mine. When a company strip-mines, it removes the top layer of soil. Then it takes away the material it wants. Strip mining totally destroys the land. Gradually, the lovely island of Nauru started to look like the moon. In 1968, Nauru became one of the richest countries in the world. Every year the government received millions and millions of dollars for its phosphate. Unfortunately, the leaders invested the money unwisely and lost millions of dollars. In addition, they used millions more dollars for personal expenses. Soon people realized that they had a terrible problem their phosphate was running out. Ninety percent of their island was destroyed and they had nothing. By 2000, Nauru was financially ruined. Experts say that it would take approximately 433,600,000 and more than 20 years to repair the island.This will probably never happen.31. What might be the authors purpose in writing the text?A. To seek help for Naurus problems.B. To give a warning to other countriesC. To show the importance of moneyD. To tell a heartbreaking story of a war.32. What was Nauru like before the Europeans came?A. Rich and powerfulB. Modern and openC. Peaceful and attractiveD. Greedy and aggressive33. The ecological disaster in Nauru resulted from .A.soil pollutionB. phosphate overminingC.farming activityD.whale hunting34. Which of the following was a cause of Naurus financial problem?A. Its leaders misused the moneyB. It spent too much repairing the islandC. Its phosphate mining cost much moneyD. It lost millions of dollars in the civil war.35. What can we learn about Nauru from the last paragraph?A. The ecological damage is difficult to repair.B. The leaders will take the experts words seriously.C. The island was abandoned by the NauruansD. The phosphate mines were destroyedCA new review based on a research shows that acute stress affects the way the brain considers the advantages and disadvantages, causing it to focus on pleasure and ignore the possible negative (负面的) consequences of a decision.The research suggests that stress may change the way people make choices in predictable ways.“Stress affects how people learn,” says Professor Mara Mather. “People learn better about positive than negative outcomes under stress.”For example, two recent studies looked at how people learned to connect images (影像) with either rewards or punishments. In one experiment, some of the participants were first stressed by having to give a speech and do difficult math problems in front of an audience; in the other, some were stressed by having to keep their hands in ice water. In both cases, the stressed participants remembered the rewarded material more accurately and the punished material less accurately than those who hadnt gone through the stress.This phenomenon is likely not surprising to anyone who has tried to resist eating cookies or smoking a cigarette while under stress at those moments, only the pleasure associated with such activities comes to mind. But the findings further suggest that stress may bring about a double effect. Not only are rewarding experiences remembered better, but negative consequences are also easily recalled.The research also found that stress appears to affect decision-making differently in men and women. While both men and women tend to focus on rewards and less on consequences under stress, their responses to risk turn out to be different.Men who had been stressed by the cold-water task tended to take more risks in the experiment while women responded in the opposite way. In stressful situations in which risk-taking can pay off big, men may tend to do better, when caution weighs more, however, women will win.This tendency to slow down and become more cautious when decisions are risky might also help explain why women are less likely to become addicted than men: they may more often avoid making the risky choices that eventually harden into addiction.36. We can learn from the passage that people under pressure tend to .A. keep rewards better in their memoryB. recall consequences more effortlesslyC. make risky decisions more frequentlyD. learn a subject more effectively37. According to the research, stress affects people most probably in their .A. ways of making choicesB. preference for pleasureC. tolerance of punishmentsD. responses to suggestions38. The research has proved that in a stressful situation, .A. women find it easier to fall into certain habitsB. men have a greater tendency to slow downC. women focus more on outcomesD. men are more likely to take risks39. In the experiment mentioned in Paragraph 4, the participants were required to put their hands in ice water in order to .A. keeping their hands clean and coolB. feel how cold the water wasC. stay under required stressD. test whether they were wrong40. Which of the following is likely to be the title of this passage?A. Decision-making under StressB. Keeping Positive under StressC. Difference Between Men and WomenD. Stress Is Harmful to Our BrainDWhat makes a person a scientist? Does he have ways or tools of learning that are different from those of others? The answer is no. It is not the tools a scientist uses but how he uses these tools that makes him a scientist. You will probably agree that knowing how to use a tool is important to a carpenter. You will probably agree, too, that knowing how to investigate, how to discover information, is important to everyone. The scientist, however, goes one step further, he must be sure that he has a reasonable answer to his questions and that his answer can be confirmed by other persons. He also works to fit the answers he gets to many questions into a large set of ideas about how the world works.The scientists knowledge must be exact. There is no room for half right or right just half the time. He must be as nearly right as the conditions permit. What works under one set of conditions at one time must work under the same conditions at other times. If the conditions are different, any changes the scientist observes in a demonstration must be explained by the changes in the conditions. This is one reason that investigations are important in science. Albert Einstein, who developed the theory of relativity, arrived at this theory through mathematics. The accuracy of his mathematics was later tested through investigations, Einsteins ideas were shown to be correct. A scientist uses many tools for measurements. Then the measurements are used to make mathematical calculations that may test his investigations.41. What makes a scientist according to the passage ? A. The tools he usesB. His ways of learningC. The way he uses toolsD. His working conditions42.By saying the underlined part in 1st paragraph, the author wanted to show .A. the importance of informationB. the importance of thinkingC. the difference between scientists and ordinary peopleD. the difference between carpenters and people with other jobs43. A sound scientific theory should be one that .A. needs no change even under different conditions B. works under the set of conditions at different timesC. leaves no room for improvementD. can be used for many purposes 44. What is the main idea of the passage? .A. Scientists are different from ordinary peopleB. The theory of relativity is scientificC. Exactness is the core of science D. Exactness and ways of using tools make a scientist45. According to the passage, the author thinks that Albert Einsteins .A. are based on scientific ways of researchingB. are difficult to be proved to be correctC. should be tested in different investigationsD. will be developed by methmatical calculations第二节 信息匹配（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）A. This course will give you the confidence to express yourself and explore the many different sounds that a guitar creates. This course is for those that have already completed the Guitar Basics class or have prior knowledge and experience of playing a guitar and want to expand and learn more and grow in confidence of your own ability.Class DateFeeTERM 3 5th August8 weeksTERM 4 13th October$135.00B. Want to learn and have the desire to paly the keyboard? Well, come and join the class and learn to have fun playing music. This class is designed for those with little or no knowledge. By the end of the course you will be able to play chords, simple melodies and some songs.Class DateFeeTERM 3 5th August8 weeksTERM 4 13th October$135.00C. Every one sings. This class offers a range of techniques and styles of songs to choose from as a group from Choir / Glee and / or individual solo with a song of you choice. This is the place to learn some great tips that will teach you how to sing in you own voice.Class DateFeeTERM 3 5th August7 weeksTERM 4 13th October$210.00D. Always had a desire to play the Guitar? Guitar for Beginners is for the person who has little or no knowledge of the guitar. At the end of the course you will be able to tune your guitar, play chords, melodies and song.Class DateFeeTERM 3 5th August8 weeksTERM 4 13th October$135.00E. Boxing for Fitness combines basic boxing moves with a range of fitness exercises to give you an amazing all over body workout. Boxing tones your muscles and can be a great stress reliver! No experience is required and all levels of fitness will find a challenge here.Class DateFeeTERM 3 5th August7 weeksTERM 4 13th October$80.00F. Ashtanga Yoga is an ancient science designe