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第一套试题Section A1Tens of thousands of 18-year-olds will graduate this year and be handed meaningless diplomas. 今年将有好几万的十八岁青年毕业，他们都将被授予毫无意义的文凭。2 They will also discover they have been cheated by our educational system.他们还将发现他们被我们的教育体系欺骗了。5 I regained my composure and managed to say that I thought she was right. 我恢复镇定，艰难地表示我认为她是对的。Section B3尽管有这些困难，他们还是决定把接受教育放在首位。In spite of these difficulties, they have decided to make education a priority.5这是一个在过去有效，在今天也会有效的政策。This is a policy that worked in the past and can work today.Section CPassing students who have not mastered the work cheats them and the employers who expect graduates to have basic skills. We excuse this dishonest behavior by saying kids cant learn if they come from terrible environments. No one seems to stop to think that-no matter what environments they come from-most kids dont put school first on their list unless they perceive something is at stake. Theyd rather be sailing. 让没有掌握本领的学生通过考核，既欺骗了他们， 也欺骗了期望毕业生拥有基本技能的雇主。我们为这种不诚实的行为辩解说，如果孩子们来自糟糕的环境，他们就不会学习。似乎没有人停下来想想看，无论孩子们来自何种环境，他们当中大多数若不是发现情况到了危急关头，才不会把功课当做头等大事呢，他们宁可混日子。Section D各个年龄的人都能克服他们的问题，可他们需要一个这样做的理由。年轻人往往不够成熟，不会像我的成人学生那样重视教育。但是对于失败的恐惧，无论这种恐惧是由经济方面的还是学术方面的，都能对年轻人起到激励作用。 People of all ages can rise above their problems, but they need to have a reason to do so. Young people generally dont have the maturity to value education in the same way my adult students value it. But fear of failure, whether economic or academic, can motivate both.第二套试题Section A1 ,Well-being ,not just wealth, should mark the progress of our societies.(unite5,1)答案：人们的身心健康与快乐，并非财富，才是我们社会进步的标志。2. Any time when you have something that is difficult to say,e-mail can make it easier.(unite4,11)答案：每当你有什么难以开口的事要说，写个电子邮件会使之变得简单的多。4,Ask people how they are, and they will answer in terms of their family life ,community life and work life, rather than just what they are paid .(unite5,4)答案：若问人们近况如何，他们会谈及到家庭、工作以及所处社区的情况，而不是回答自己挣多少工资。Section B2. 人们花在因特网上的时间越长，与真人交往的时间就越短。（unite4-textB-2）答案The more hours people use the Internet, the less time they spend with real human beings.4. 在进步教育的影响下，让学生了解历史事实、数学、地理似乎都不如感觉重要。答案:Under the influence of Progressive EducationFeeling is now more important than getting him in touch with the facts of history ,mathematics or geography.5. 利用大脑反应并将它们与行为关联起来的能力在过去四年中取得了令人惊叹的巨大进步，并且产生了令人难以置信的海量信息。(unit3-textB-8)答案：The capacity to use brain responses and relate them to behavior has accelerated at a breathtaking pace over the past over four years and yielded an incredible amount of information.第三套试题Section A2. Meanwhile, my two sisters and I, who lived in three different cities, were united once again in a hospital waiting room. 与此同时，我和两个妹妹原本都生活在三个不同的城市，这时却在医院的等候室里再次相聚了。 Unit 2 第9段3. In the 1980s, scientists established the revolutionary concept that nicotine is extremely addictive. 在20世纪80年代，科学家们建立了一种革命性的观念，即尼古丁具有极强的致瘾性。 Section B1. 年轻人往往不够成熟， 不会像我的成人学生们那样重视教育。Young people generally dont have the maturity to value education in the same way my adult students value it.4. 如果你没被电子邮件淹没，你一定是出了问题-这就是20世纪90年代末我们衡量自身有限价值的方式。This is how we measure our wired worth in the late 1900sif you are not overwhelmed by e-mail. You must be doing something wrong. Unit 4 第1段5. 今天，为了重新回到社会繁荣富强的轨道上我们需要如同当时一样彻底改变思想，即积极地响应对幸福的追求。Today we need to be just as revolutionary to put us back on track to social prosperity: to respond to that yearning for happiness. Unit 5 第6段Section CInstead, the politics of well-being is a politics that needs to be founded on sharing responsibility. Of course, government must take its own responsibilities. But that needs to be part of a wider cultural change: a cultural change that will occurs as a consequence of legislation, leadership and social change. 然而，以人们身心健康为中心的政冶需要各方人士各尽其责方能实现。当然，政府也需承担应尽的职责。这需要更广泛的文化变革：在立法、领导方式以及社会等各方面变革之后，才能引起这场大变革。 Unit 5 第8段第四套试题Section A1、E-mail, ultimately , is a fragile thing, easy to forge, easy to corrupt, easy to destroy.说到底，电子邮件是个脆弱的东西，易于撰写，易于讹传，易于销毁。2. Flunking as a regular policy has just as much merit today as it did two generations ago. 让学生不及格，作为一种常规手段，其优点在今天依然和两代之前一样多。4、Passing students who have not mastered the work cheats them and the employers who expect graduates to have basic skills. 让没有掌握本领的学生通过考核，既欺骗了学生自己也欺骗了期望毕业生拥有基本技能的雇主。Section B1、奇怪的是，这一切无人计划，无人预测。 Oddly enough, no one planned it, and no one predicted it.2、在20世纪30年代这一时期，许多美国人变成了烟民,，而抽烟对健康最为显著的危害尚未显现出来。The 1930s were a period when many Americans began smoking and the most significant health effects had not yet developed.5、一旦你找寻到了内心真实的呼唤，你会持续不断地去进一步了解它。When you find your true calling, you will have a continuous desire to learn more about it.Section CE-mail. Cant live with it, cant live without it. Con artists and real artists, advertisers and freedom fighters, lovers and sworn enemies-theyve all flocked to e-mail as they would to any new medium of expression. E-mail is convenient, save time, brings us closer to one another, help us manage our ever-more-complex lives. E-mail is convenient, save time, brings us closer to one another, help us manage our ever-more-complex lives. Books are written, campaigns conducted, crimes committed-all via e-mail.电子邮件啊，我们不能靠他生活但离开它也不行，增加艺术家，广告商，为只有而战的英勇卫士，恋人，不共戴天的敌人-他们纷纷涌向电子邮件，一如他们涌向任何一种新的表达工具。电子邮件方便，省时，拉近人们相互间的距离，帮助我们处理日益纷乱的生活。第五套试题Section A1. Our youngest, a worldclass charmer, did little to develop his intellectual talents but always got by. Until Mrs. Stifter. (Para.5，U1)我的小儿子是一个世界级的万人迷，学习不怎么努力却总能通过考试，直到史蒂夫特太太出现后，这种情况就改变了。3. Many advertising campaigns from the 1930s through the 1950s extolled the healthy virtues of cigarettes. (Para. 7, U3)从20世纪30年代到50年代，许多广告运动都颂扬香烟的健康品质。5. It is hard to escape the fact that in developed societies, despite progress, innovation and prosperity, there is something not quite right. (Para 1, U5)人们很难摆脱这样一种事实：在发达的社会，尽管社会进步，改革日新月异，物质富足，却总觉得有些事情不大对劲。Section B1. 这些学生智力水平至少也算中等，但最终都退学了，他们总结说自己太笨，学不下去了。(Para. 7, U1)Of average intelligence or better, they eventually quit school, concluding they were too dumb to finish.3. 他还描述了这些公司在半个多世纪以来，一直合谋炮制假消息，同时混淆科学证据，散布这种论调。(Para.14, U3)He also describes the concerted disinformation campaigns- these companies waged for more than half a century-simultaneously obfuscating scientific evidence and spreading the belief. 5. 归根结底，全社会的幸福需要每个人都尽一份力。(Para.11, U5)Ultimately, societys happiness requires us all to play our part.Section CMany students I see at night could give expert testimony on unemployment, chemical dependency, abusive relationships. In spite of these difficulties, they have decided to make education a priority. They are motivated by the desire for a better job or the need to hang on to the one theyve got. They have a healthy fear of failure. (Para. 9, U1)我在晚上所教的许多学生都能在失业、毒品依赖和滥交问题上给出专家证词。尽管有这些困难，他们还是决定把接受教育放在首位。渴望找到一份更好的工作，或者是需要保住他们现有的工作，促使他们这么做。他们对失败有着健康的恐惧。Section D（互译都要会）如果我们承认遍及全球的因特网是本世纪后半叶最重要的技术创新之一的话，我们就必须赋予电子邮件人们通过网络相互联系的真实体现一席荣耀之地。人们互动的方式正在发生改变，而电子邮件既是改变的催化剂，又是改变的工具。(Para. 5, U4) If we accept that the creation of the globe-spanning Internet is one of the most important technological innovations of the last half of this century. Then we must give e-mail-the living embodiment of human connection across the Net-pride of place. The way we interact with each other is changing; e-mail is both the catalyst and the instrument of that change.第六套试题Section A1. Ask people how they are, and they will answer in terms of their family life, community life and work life, rather than just what they are paid. 若问人们近况如何，他们会谈到家庭、工作以及所处社区的情况，而不是回答自己挣多少工资2. I know one example doesnt make a case, but at night I see a parade of students who are angry and resentful for having been passed along until they could no longer even pretend to keep up. 我知道一个例子不能说明问题，但我在夜校中看见了一群愤怒、怨恨的学生，他们愤恨的原因是学校让他们一路混，直到他们甚至都无法再假装跟得上3. As a result, the scientific studies of the era often failed to find clear evidence of serious pathology and had the perverse effect of exonerating the cigarette. 因此，这一时期的科学研究无法从严肃的病理学上找到清晰的证据，竞起到了为香烟开脱的反效果。4. There is little point in denying the obvious dark side to the lack of self-constraints encouraged by e-mail. 避讳电子邮件引发的自律缺失的负面效应，这一做法几乎毫无意义。Section B1. 我邀请的客人大部分在最后期限之后才回信，让我很是烦恼。I was annoyed that most of my guests were responding after the deadline.3电子邮件以及所有在线交流，实际上是一种全新的东西。E-mail and all online communication is in fact something truly different.5一旦你找寻到了内心真实的呼唤，你会持续不断地去进一步了解它。When you find your true calling, you will have a continuous desire to learn more about it.Section CTens of thousands of 18-year-olds will graduate this year and be handed meaningless diplomas. These diplomas wont look any different from those awarded their luckier classmates. Their validity will be questioned only when their employers discover that these graduates are semiliterate. 数以万计的年轻人将于今年毕业，交毫无意的文凭。这些文凭与被授予他们更幸运的同学的没有任何区别。只有当他们的雇佣者发现这些毕业生是半文盲时，他们的正确性将会受到质疑。（第一单元 第一段P20）第七套试题Section A4. No one seems to stop to think that no matter what environments they come frommost kids dont put school first on their list unless they perceive something is at stake.似乎没有人停下来想想看，无论孩子们来自何种环境，他们当中大多数若不是发现情况到了危急关头，才不会把功课当做头等大事呢，他们宁可混日子。Section B1.在20世纪30年代这一时期，许多美国人变成了烟民,，而抽烟对健康最为显著的危害尚未显现出来。 The 1930s were a period when many Americans began smoking and the most significant health effects had not yet developed.（第三单元 第九段）Section CE-mail. Cant live with it, cant live without it. Con artists and real artists, advertisers and freedom fighters, lovers and sworn enemies-theyve all flocked to e-mail as they would to any new medium of expression. E-mail is convenient, save time, brings us closer to one another, help us manage our ever-more complex lives.电子邮件啊，我们不能靠他生活但离开它也不行，增加艺术家，广告商，为只有而战的英勇卫士，恋人，不共戴天的敌人-他们纷纷涌向电子邮件，一如他们涌向任何一种新的表达工具。电子邮件方便，省时，拉近人们相互间的距离，帮助我们处理日益纷乱的生活，Section D（互译都要会） 以人们身心健康为中心的政冶需要各方人士各尽其责方能实现，而非仅仅通过立法。当然，政府也需承担应尽的职责。这需要更广泛的丈化变革：在立法、领导方式以及社会等各方面变革之后，才能引起这场大变革。Instead, the politics of well-being is a politics that needs to be founded on sharing responsibility. of course, government must take its own responsibilities. But that needs to be part of a wider cultural change: a cultural change that will occurs as a consequence of legislation, leadership and social change.第八套试题Section A1. Each executive raised his right hand and solemnly swore to tell the whole truth about his business.Answer：每位总裁举起右手，郑重宣誓要对从事的业务实话实说。2. Perhaps each individual contribution is small, but the scale of the internet multiplies all efforts dramatically.Ans