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1、Part 1 WritingDirections: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short passage entitled “My Passion and My Dream ”in three or four paragraphs. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words and base your writing on the outline given below. Write your essay on Answer She

2、et 1.1. A passion is usually defined as a very strong feeling about somebody or something.2. What passion has been fostered in you since childhood?3. How hard will you try to make your dream come true?Part 2 Listening ComprehensionSection A1. A) At 4:15 B) At 4:00C) At 4:45D) At 5:002. A) He'll

3、try hard to attend the conference.B) He has to go somewhere else.C) He doesn't like commitments.D) He has forgotten the conference call.3. A) He is working in a hospital.B) He is doing business with his brother now.C) He is going to graduate from college in July.D) He is going to do business wit

4、h his brother.4. A) Rest a few hours.B) Go to the concert immediately.C) Send an e-mail.D) Go to get some tickets for the concert.5. A) At the hotelB) At the railway stationC) At the airportD) At the cinema6. A) Lisa is having a hard time in school.B) Lisa is expecting a babyC) Lisa is often very ti

5、red.D) Lisa is very busy this term7. A) $ 6.8B) $ 7.20C) $ 6.30D) $ 3.158. A) It ran into another car.B) It fell into a river.C) It was badly damaged.D) It left the road and landed in a field.Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard.9. A) Because she failed her last exam.B

6、) In order to complete her homework.C) In order to prepare for her exams.D) Because she has fallen behind in her work.10. A) To her room.B) To the dinning hall.C) To the swimming pool.D) To the gymnasium.11. A) Eating dinner.B) Swimming.C) Studying for an exam.D) Taking a nap.12. A) The man and the

7、woman will have lunch together.B) The man will have an exam.C) The man will be in a swim meet at noon.D) The man and the woman will study together. Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversations you have heard.13. A) She is a receptionist.B) She is a painter.C) She is a color consultant.D) She is

8、 a psychologist.14. A) Colorful clothes make you feel more energetic.B) Wearing a bright color can make you look more energetic and capable.C) Bright colors tend to bring out your personality.D) Different colors help you express different shades of your message.15. A) Choose the right colors for you

9、r personality.B) Make a special effort to learn the language of color.C) Wear bright colors to make you look energetic and capable.D) It might be helpful to know something about how colors affect people around. Section B Passage One16. A) He wanted to buy a hearing aid.B) He wanted to have a hearing

10、 aid repaired.C) He wanted to get a en and a piece of paper.D) He wanted to solve his own problem.17. A) He explained it in words.B) He made some gestures.C) He wrote it on a piece of paper.D) He drew a picture about it.18. A) He was deaf, but not dumb.B) He was dumb, but not deaf.C) He was deaf and

11、 dumb.D) He couldn't speak because he had just had a throat operation. Passage Two19. A) About fifty years before the first modern Olympics.B) Fifty years ago.C) When the Crawl was developed.D) After the breast stroke was developed.20. A) They lear ned the En glish way of swimmi ng.B) They beat

12、an English team easily in a competition.C) They in troduced breast stroke to En gla nd.D) They failed in the competiti on.21. A) An Australian family.B) An American family.C) An English family who moved to Australia.D) An Australia n family who moved to En gla nd.Passage Three22. A) $ 1000B) $ 10000

13、C) $ 15000D) All their life savi ngs.23. A) Two gamblersB) A n ewly-married couple.C) Close frie nds.D) Tourists on vacatio n.24. A) He was very gen erous by n ature.B) He was draw n by the pretty young woma n.C) He was touched by her made-up story.D) He was amused by this unu sual happe ning.25. A)

14、 Immediately after her gave back the mon ey.B) As soon as he saw the young man at the roulette table.C) On reading the Thank-you” note.D) Whe n he heard the young ma'resp on se.Sectio n CMost of us are burdened by the past and anxious about the future, making it difficult to enjoy the prese nt.

15、People skilled at enjoying the prese nt are ofte n 26 as livi ng in the mome nt ”.There are two ways of being in the mome nt, says Jay Koch, a social worker and counselor. One is to 27 out all thoughts and concentrate on an 28 task, like, say, hitting a golf ball. Another is to 29_oneself from one &

16、#39;thoughts- especially negative thoughts- in order to achieve a state of 30_. The key to more fully experiencing the moment you're in is the ability to relax, which isn 'necessarily easy in our complex, 31 lifestyles .”Koch says sett ing aside 10 minu tes a day to spe nd alone, in sile nt,

17、 is the first step. “Then just sit and breath, and each time you 32, focus your attention on your exhali ng breath, As you become aware of n egative feeli ngs or thoughts, just picture them 33.Observe your thoughts, but don't allow them to stay with you. When you feel yourself focusing on a spec

18、ial thought or feeling, return your attention to your breathi ng.”Koch says studies have shown that this kind of breathing exercise lowers blood pressure and_34.This, in turn, helps create the state of mind that allows you to more fully experie nee the mome n,t ” he says. If you can 'relax becau

19、se youre 35, you won 'be able to enjoy the prese nt.Part ThreeRead ing Comprehe nsionSectio n AGestures 36 signals and these signals must come across clearly if we are to understand their messages.They cannot afford to be 37； they must be sharp and difficult to con fuse with other sig nals. To d

20、o this they have to develop a fypical form” that shows comparatively little 38. And they must be performed with a typical 39 : show ing much the same speed, stre ngth and scope on each occasi on that they are brought into action.It is rather like the ringing of a telephone bell. The signal goes on s

21、ounding at fixed 40 at a fixed volume and with a fixed sound, no matter how urge nt the call. No on e con fuses a telepho ne bell with a front door or an alarm clock. Its fixed in ten sity make it unm istakable.The process is at work in huma n gestures. When an angry man shakes his fist, the cha nge

22、s are that the speed, force and scope of each shake, as the fist jerks back and forth in mid-air are much the same on each occasion that he employs this gesture. And there is a reasonable_41 that his speed, force and scope will be similar to those of any other fist-shaker. If you were to perform a f

23、ist-shaking gesture in which you slowed dow n the moveme nt,_42 the force, and in creased the dista nee traveled by the clen ched fist, it is doubtful if your signal would be understood. An oniooker might imagine you were exercising your arm, nut it is doubtful if he would read the message as a thre

24、at 43.Most of our gestures have grow n in to typical _44 of this kind. We all wave in much the same way. This is not a conscious process. We simply 45 in to the cultural norm.A) displayI) prese ntati onB) tuneJ) in te nsityC) tran smitK) likelihoodD) tran spare ntL) dem on strati onE) depthM) decrea

25、sedF) in tervalsN) pausesG)vagueO) variati onH) toneSectio n BThe Electrifyi ng Edis onThomas Edis on helped create the America n way of inno vati on- but today the U.S is in dan ger of los ing its pre-em inence in scie nee and tech no logy.By Bryan WalshA) Inven tors like Edis on helped build Ameri

26、ca' un parallel scie ntific and tech no logical dominan ce, a dominance that made the 2( cen tury the America n century. Of the more than 530 Noble laureates （获得者 ） in physics, chemistry or medicine since 1901, more than 200 have been Americans. The ideas that were developed in the country's

27、 leading universities and corporate research and development centers became the products that would underwrite economic titans （巨人） like Ford, IBM, Boeing, Intel and Google. And the federal government played an important role through its own research laboratories and investment in education. Even wh

28、en America's scientific pre-eminence （ 卓越 地位 ） was threatened by the Soviet Union 'Ssputnik launch in 1957, the U.S. only came back stronger. The federal response to Sputnik was an overwhelming investment in science and engineering education. That had spillover benefits across the boards.B）M

29、uch of the world we live in today is a legacy of Edison and of his devotion to science and innovation. He not only invented the first commercial electric light bulb but also established the first investor-owned electric utility, in 1882, on Pearl Street in New York City. His phonograph, invented in

30、1877, launched a global recorded-music industry that is worth nearly $ 150 billion today. But more than a simple series of inventions, Edison most lasting contribution might be in the system of industrial invention he helped pioneer. Edison s'true genius lay in his ability to bring mass brainpow

31、er to the process of invention and then to market the resulting devise with the deep-pools of capital just forming in late 19th century America.C）But today, more than 160 years after Edison's birth, America is losing scientific edge. A landmark report released in May by the national science Boar

32、d lays out the numbers: while U.S. investment on R&D as a share of total GDP has remained relatively contrast since the mid-1980s at 2.7%, the federal share of R&D has been consistently declining - even as Asian nations like Japan and South Korea have rapidly increased that ratio. China'

33、s investment in R&D grew more than 20% a year between 1996 and 2007, compared with less than 6% annual growth in the U.S. At the same time, American students seem to be losing interest in science. Only about one-third of U.S. bachelo'rs degrees are in science or engineering now, compared wit

34、h 63% in Japan and 53% in China. Though the U.S, was once among the top countries in terms of the ratio of science and engineering degrees its college-age population, it now ranks near the bottom among the 23 nations that collect that data. And while the U.S. awarded 22500 doctorates in science and

35、engineering in 2007, more than half of those went to foreign nationals.D）Was a supportive environment important to Edison? Absolutely. He was a singular figure but not a lone genius. His immense gifts were nurtured by the society in which he flourished, one that reveled in the romance of scientific

36、discovery.E）It 's true that Edison didn 't have much formal schooling. But Edison's mother Nancy, a former teacher, took serious charge of his education at home, where in time he put together a chemistry lab. Edison was also a relentless autodidact, wading through not only the classics i

37、n his father's library but also scientific treaties and the science journals that were just taking off in the U.S Even as a working teenager earning dimes as a railway newsboy on the line between Port Huron and Detroit, Edison was willing to spend the $2 needed to join the Detroit public library

38、 - though that was nearly two day's pay.F) At age 16 he took a job as an itinerant telegraph operator for Western Union, traveling among the cities of the Midwest on the country's metastasizing railroad lines. By his early 20s he was creating his first invention: improved forms of telegraph

39、equipment. In time he moved to Boston, where he found himself in a scientific hotbed that would anticipate the geek heaven of Silicon Valley in the 1970s. Amateur telegraphers would trade technological tweaks, competing for new patents, and Edison had the chance to take in public lecture at the new

40、Boston Tech, which would later become the globally influential Massachusetts Institute of Technology.G) It was one of Edison's brightest ideas that when he moved seriously into his career as an inventor, in the 1870s, he created his own, smaller-scale version of an inventor community in Menlo Pa

41、rk, N.J. The laboratory and workshop he established there in 1876 - his “invention factory ”- put him at the center of a critical mass of assistants with backgrounds in multiple areas of science, engineering and skilled labor. It was essentially America's first industrial R&D facility and th

42、e forerunner of every business world creative cockpit, from the Ford engineering center to the Microsoft campus and Google's Googleplex. At Menlo Park, Edison once boasted, he and his team could develop “a minor invention every 10 days and a big thing every six months or so.”That's a rate ev

43、en Steve Jobs would kill for.H) It's ironic that nowhere is America's position in science and technology more threatened in the industry that Edison essentially invented: energy. Clean power st th could be to the 21st century that aeronautics and the computer were to the 20th, but the U.S. i

44、s already falling behind. China, South Korea and Japan are set to invest more than $500 billion combine in clean technology over the next five years, while the U.S. is likely to invest less than $200 billion - and that's assuming clean-energy legislation makes it into law. At this ratewe'll

45、be buying most of our wind generators and photovoltaic panels from China”, former NSF head Arden L. Bement said at a congressional hearing recentlyT. hat'swhat keeps me awake sometimes at nigh”t.I) He's not the only one. In mid-June, a group of corporate titans, including Microsoft co-founde

46、r Bill Gates and GE CEO Jeffery Immelt, descendedon Washington to call for U.S. spending on energy research to be tripled. They noted that the government today spends less than $5 billion a year on energy research and development not counting temporary stimulus projects - compared with more than $80

47、 billion on military R&D. At a time when energy is more important than ever and while oil from a blown well bleeds into the Gulf of Mexico - the U.S. no longer seems willing to create the environment that can engender the innovation we were once known for.J) Some erosion of the U.S.'s scient

48、ific dominance is inevitable in a globalized world and might not even be a bad thing. Tomorrow 's innovators could arise in Shanghai or Seoul or Bangalore. And Edison would counsel against panic - as he put it once, “Whatever setbacks America has encouraged, it has always emerged as a stronger a

49、nd more prosperous natio”n.But the U.S. will inevitably decline unless we invest in the education and research necessary to maintain the American edge. The nest generation of Edison could be waiting. But unless we move quickly, they won't have the tools they need to thrive.46. The author laments

50、 that the share of government investment in R&D (research and development) has been declining for the past three decades.47. Edison didn't get much formal schooling, but he loved science and was thirty for knowledge.48. Edison distinguished himself by his ability to bring brainpower to the p

51、rocess of invention and then to market the resulting devices with an abundance of capital.49. The U.S. government invests far less in energy research and development than in military R&D.50. The laboratory and workshop Edison established in Menlo Park, N.J. in 1876 was essentially America's

52、first industrial R&D facility and the pioneer of every business world creative cockpit.51. The establishment of the U.S. pre-eminence in science and technology in the 2t0h century, to a large extent, is attributed to the efforts by the leading universities, corporate R&D centers, and the nat

53、ional research laboratories in America, as well as the U.S. government investments in education.52. In his early 20s, Edison improved forms of telegraph equipment, which were the first inventions he created.53. There is a worry that the U.S. is losing its scientific and technological preeminence in

54、energy industry, as America tends to make less investment in clean-energy technology.54. It seems that American students are losing interest in science; only about 33% of U.S. bachelor's degrees are in science or engineering.55. Sufficient investment must be made in education and research is fut

55、ure gernations of Edison are expected to arise.Section C Passage OnePeople can be addicted to different things - e.g., alcohol, drugs, certain foods, or, even television. People who have such an addiction are compulsive: i.e., they have a very powerful psychological need that they feel they must sat

56、isfy. According to psychologists, many people are compulsive spenders. They feel they must spend money. This compulsion, like most others, is irrational - impossible to explain reasonably. For compulsive spenderswho buy on credits, charge accounts are even more exciting than money. On other words, c

57、ompulsive spenders feel that with credit they can do anything. Their pleasure in spending enormous amounts is actually greater than the pleasure that they get from the things they buy.There is even a special psychology of bargain hunting. To save money, of course, most people look for sales, low pri

58、ces, and discounts. Compulsive bargain hunters, however, often buy things that they don't nees just because they are cheap. They want tot believe that they are helping their budgets, but they are really playing an exciting game. When they can buy something for less than other people, they feel t

59、hey are winning. Most people, experts claim, have two reasons for their behavior: a good reason for the things they do and the real reason.It is not only scientists, of cause, who understand the psychology of spending habits, but also businesspeople. Stores, companies and advertisers use psychology to increase business: They consider people s'needs for love, power, or influence, their basic values, their