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Listening Comprehension (20 minutes) Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the question will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Example: You will hear:You will read:A) At the office.B) In a waiting room.C) At the airport.D) In a restaurant.From the conversation we know that the two were talking about some work they had to finish in the evening. This is most likely to have taken place at the office. Therefore, A) At the office is the best answer. 1. A) The woman has to come next week for a better price. B) All tickets for this week have been sold out. C) Tickets for this week are more expensive. D) The best price is US$360 for a round trip. 2. A) The man is concerned about the worsening environment on earth. B) The woman is looking forward to a better life in the next century. C) The man and the woman differ in their opinion about the environment. D) It is hard to tell what the future will look like. 3. A) The woman likes to eat ice cream. B) The place has changed beyond recognition. C) The man used to run a candy shop. D) The two speakers are going to a bank. 4. A) He is the son of a fisherman. B) He liked fishing when he was a boy. C) He is very fond of his home village. D) He wants to go back home after college. 5. A) To go to a distant place. B) To study career development. C) To do abstract thinking. D) To go to graduate school 6. A) The unusual heat is the result of global warming. B) 38 degrees is quite unusual at this time of the year. C) 38 degrees is unbelievable at this time of the year. D) It will go down if air-conditioners are available. 7. A) She is looking for a job. B) She is selling insurance door-to-door. C) She is filling out an application form. D) She is having an interview. 8. A) He is a professional photographer. B) Hes just started to learn photography. C) He is looking at some beautiful pictures. D) He is learning art from a professional. 9. A) Take care of her parents. B) Encourage reading in the household. C) Plan ahead. D) Write books. 10. A) He is a professor. B) He is a tourist. C) He is a tour manager. D) He is scholar. Section BDirections: In this section you will hear one long dialogue. At the end of the dislogue, you will hear some questions. Both the dialogue and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Questions 11 to 13 are based on the dialogue you have just heard.11. A) She is frustrated because nobody likes her songs. B) She is angry at being laughed at by the producer. C) She is afraid she might lose her job. D) She is worried she cant deal with the job on hand. 12. A) He is a successful painter. B) He appreciates Maryannes songs. C) He is an English teacher. D) He thinks there is always a way out. 13. A) Comfort Maryanne. B) Make a discovery. C) Persuade Maryanne to go to college. D) Urge Maryanne to prepare for the worst. Section CDirections: In this section you will hear two short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Questions 14 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.14. A) A girl with a sweet voice. B) A telephone service. C) A wonderful device. D) A telephone company. 15. A) He hurt his finger. B) He got a call from Information Please. C) He fell terribly ill. D) He fell down the stairway. 16. A) He got a terrible pain. B) He felt frightened being left alone in the house. C) He now had someone to give him sympathy. D) He was in bad need of a friend. 17. A) The boy was very clever. B) The family was very rich. C) The mother was rather careless. D) Every household in the neighborhood had a telephone. Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.18. A) People find it difficult to talk about it. B) People rush to comfort the patient. C) People are scared out of their wits. D) People find it hard to adjust to the disaster. 19. A) She thought he was at a loss for words to express his love. B) She thought he didnt care for her. C) She thought he shouldnt have talked about the trivial matters. D) She thought he shouldnt have left her alone in this time of crisis. 20. A) The husband was a man of few words. B) The husband had never before kissed his wife in public. C) People neednt panic about breast cancer. D) Moral support is essential to the recovery of cancer patients. Reading Comprehension (35 minutes) Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. 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. Passage OneQuestions 21-25 are based on the following passage:In the early 1600s, a group known as the Separatists lived in England. They were people who wanted to worship God, study the Bible and pray, but the English laws did not allow them to worship as they desired. They were hunted down, beaten, and locked up. Eventually, they heard about freedom of religion in Holland, and planned to escape. After much hardship, they were allowed to leave England. Now called Pilgrims, they lived in Holland for 12 years, but left because they couldnt stand the hard life, and couldnt work their own trades. They wanted to find a Kingdom of God for their posterity （后代） to practice religion freely. So they hired the Speedwell and the Mayflower to carry them across the Atlantic to a new land in America. The Speedwell had many leaks and had to turn back. The Mayflower took in their passengers, making a total of over 100. They sailed two months and three days, cramped and hungry. On November 11, 1620, the Mayflower spotted land. They landed in Province town, Massachusetts. For over a month, they sent men to find the perfect place for them to build their colony. When they finally found a place, they called it Plymouth. Right away they started building homes, knowing winter was near. Unfortunately, a violent storm hit when the houses were not yet finished. The Pilgrims were forced to stay on the cramped (狭窄的) Mayflower for their first winter in the new world. When this winter was over, over half of them had died. The Pilgrims eventually made a good friend who helped them. His name was Squanto. He showed them where fish swam, how to hunt deer, and how to plant corn. Squanto was a Native American who was kidnapped (绑架) earlier in his life and taken to England. This is why he was able to communicate with the Pilgrims. With the help of the Native Americans, there was plenty for everyone to eat that first summer, and also plenty to last for the next winter. The Pilgrims had so much to be thankful for. They gave thanks for good friends, new homes, freedom of religion, and plenty of food in a three-day celebration with their Native American friends. Today we continue the celebration of the Pilgrims and the Native Americans, and call it Thanksgiving. 21. The Separatists left England in pursuit of _. A) wealth B) adventure C) an easier life D) religious freedom 22. The Pilgrims spend their first winter _. A) in their newly finished houses B) on the ship that carried them across the Atlantic C) celebrating their newly-won freedom D) making friends with the native people 23. The Pilgrims learnt to adapt to the new environment _. A) with the help of the natives B) by imitating the Native Americans C) by trial and error D) by learning from their earlier experience in Holland 24. How did the Pilgrims get along with the Native Americans? A) They were hostile to each other. B) They kept a distance from each other. C) They were very friendly to each other. D) They learned from each other. 25. What is the central idea of this passage? A) The origin of Thanksgiving. B) Religious Freedom. C) Early English settlements in America. D) Hardships experienced by the Pilgrims. Passage TwoQuestions 26-30 are based on the following passage:Recently, one of my best friends Jennie, with whom I have shared just about everything since the first day of kindergarten, spent the weekend with me. Since I moved to a new town several years ago, we have both always looked forward to the few times a year when we can see each other. Over the weekend, we spent hours and hours, staying up late into the night, talking about the people she was hanging around with. She started telling me stories about her new boy friend, about how he experimented with drugs and was into other self-destructive behavior. I was blown away! She told me how she had been lying to her parents about where she was going and even stealing out to see this guy because they didnt want her around him. No matter how hard I tried to tell her that she deserved better, she didnt believe me. Her self-respect seemed to have disapperared. I tried to convince her that she was ruining her future and heading for big trouble. I felt like I was getting nowhere. I just couldt believe that she really thought it was acceptable to hang with a bunch of losers, especially her boy friend. By the time she left, I was really worried about her and exhausted by the experience. It had been so frustrating that I had come close to telling her several times during the weekend that maybe we had just grown too far apart to continue our friendship, but I didnt. I put the power of friendship to the ultimate test. Wed been friends for far too long. I had to hope that she valued me enough to know that I was trying to save her from hurting herself. I wanted to believe that our friendship could conquer anything. A few days later, she called to say that she had thought long and hard about our conversation, and then she told me that she had broken up with her boy friend. I just listened on the other end of the phone with tears of joy running down my face. It was one of the truly rewarding moments in my life. Never had I been so proud of a friend. 26. What word best sums up Jennies boy friend? A) A drug user. B) A loser. C) A trouble maker. D) A criminal. 27. What was the attitude of Jennies parents towards her relationship with her boy friend? A) They were rather tolerant. B) They were indifferent to it. C) They thought their daughter deserved a better friend. D) They did not allow her to continue it. 28. How did the author react to Jennies relationship with her boy friend? A) She tried her best to dissuade Jennie from continuing it. B) She threatened to break up with Jennie if her advice was ignored. C) She was overcome with pride that Jennie told her about her boy friend. D) She was very angry with Jennie for choosing such a friend. 29. How did the author feel when Jennie told her she had broken up with her boy friend? A) She felt relieved. B) She felt happy and proud. C) She felt frustrated and angry. D) She felt exhausted. 30. What message does the author try to convey in this passage? A) The power of true friendhsip can conquer anything. B) Young people should be careful in choosing their friends. C) Parents should take good care of their children. D) Drugs can destroy innocent young people. Passage ThreeQuestions 31-35 are based on the following passage:As a century of grand retailing comes to a close, the 94-year-old merchant prince of Texas - who turned Neiman Marcus from a small specialty shop into one of the worlds major retail stores - says department stores today must recreate themselves if they are to survive. Marcus is worried that customer service is being ignored. He considers home shopping networks a step above snake oil peddlers (沿街叫卖的小贩). And despite all the advantages he sees in selling over the Internet, he says it is no substitute for a good salesperson. Today, as head of his own Dallas consultancy (咨询) firm, Marcus is moving into the next century advocating (提倡) the same philosophy he held throughout the 20th century: focus on quality and service, and sales will take care of themselves. Ive always believed that quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten, says Marcus, who still makes regular visits to the flagship Neiman Marcus store in downtown Dallas, where he looks over new fashion lines, examines the latest fine imported luggage and greets young salespeople eager to talk with him. The price of a great meal disappears from the memory, but the price of a bad one will be remembered for years. If you force a bad buy on a customer, he will never forgive you. Marcus puts much of the blame on business schools for what he sees as a lack of quality - and vitality - in department stores. He says the schools are turning out graduates who are excellent money managers and cost cutters, but who lack the skills that helped make the great stores like Macys, and his own, into retailing legends. The MBA programs do not teach principles of selling, principles of human understanding, principles of leadership speaking, which, he believes, is the most important thing. I do not want trained salespeople. The word training is the most terrible word. You train dogs and bears to do repetitive action. But with people, you educate them, because no amount of training takes the place of experience that enables them to answer all the questions that customers will ask. 31. What is the problem with department stores today? A) Neglect of customer service. B) Excessive running costs. C) Fierce challenge from the home shopping network. D) Uncompetitive prices. 32. In Marcuss view, good salespeople _. A) will soon be replaced by the Internet B) can compete with peddlers C) ensure the success of a retailing business D) have recreated department stores 33. Which of the following is likely to be long remembered? A) Good service. B) The price of a bad buy. C) The price of a good buy. D) Good quality. 34. What is the problem with MBA programs? A) Failure to teach principles of human understanding. B) Too much emphasis on cost cutting. C) Lack of vitality. D) Neglect of strict training. 35. What is the major difference between training and educating according to Marcus? A) Training is applied to animals while educating is applied to humans. B) Training is a terrible word while educating is a wonderful one. C) Training enables the trainee to imitate while educating enriches his experience. D) Training is aimed at action while educating is aimed at answering questions. Passage FourQuestions 36-40 are based on the following passage:Several commentators and scientists have suggested that it might in some cases be ethically acceptable to clone existing people. One possibility is generating a replacement for a dying relative. All such possibilities, however, raise the concern that the clone would be treated as less than a complete individual, because he or she would likely be subjected to limitations and expectations based on the familys knowledge of the genetic twin. Those expectations might be false, because human personality is only partly determined by genes. The clone of an extrovert (性格外向的人) could have a quite different way of behavior. Clones of athletes, movie stars, entrepreneurs or scientists might well choose different careers because of chance events in early life. Some people have also put forward the notion that couples in which one member is infertile might choose to make a copy of one or the other partner. But society ought to be concerned that a couple might not treat naturally a child who is a copy of just one of them. Because other methods are available for the treatment of all known types of infertility, conventional therapeutic avenues seem more appropriate. None of the suggested uses of cloning for making copies of existing people is ethically acceptable to my way of thinking, because they are not in the interests of the resulting child. It should go without saying that I am strongly opposed to allowing cloned human embryos to develop so that they can be tissue donors. It nonetheless seems clear that cloning from cultured cells will offer important medical opportunities. Predictions about new technologies are often wrong: societal attitudes change; unexpected developments occur. Time will tell. But biomedical researchers looking into the potential of cloning now have plenty to do. 36. What is the authors concern about cloning an existing person? A) The clone created will have one defect or another. B) The clone created will be mistreated. C) The clone created is unlikely to fulfill your expectations. D) The clone created is ethically unacceptable. 37. It can be inferred from the text that a clone will_. A) choose the same career as the person it is created from B) behave in the same way as the person it is created from C) share the same characteristics with the person it is created from D) be partially similar in personality to the person it is created from 38. According to the passage, ones personality is determined by _. A