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1、Part(30 Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay. You start your essay brief description of Part(30 Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay. You start your essay brief description of cture and then yourviewsontheimportanceoflearningbasic

2、skills.Youshouldwriteleast 120 words but no AnswerSheetn注意：此部分試題請在1 PartSection Listening(30his section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a During the pause, you

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8、unditmoreA)TheyareallthemansTheyarepaidbytheTheyallenjoyB)TheyworkfivedaysSectionhissection,youwillhear3shortpassages.ofeachyou will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the answer from the four marked A), B), C)

9、 and D). Then mark correspondingletteronAnswerSheet1single line the 注意：此部分試題請在1 PassageQuestions16to18arebasedonthepassageyouhavejustA)TheysharedmutualfriendsinB)TheyhaderestsinTheysharedmanyextracurricularTheyhadknowneachothersinceAtalocalAtJoesC)Ating D)AtthesportsA)Durablefriendshipscanbeverydiff

10、iculttoB)Onehastoberespectfulofeopleinorderto winC)lswillbreakdown ifpeople getto knoweach D)Itishardforpeoplefromdifferentbackgroundse PassageQuestions19to21arebasedonthepassageyouhavejust19. A)The artof brushCharacteristicsofThe uniqueness of B)Somefeaturesof20. A)TocalmthemselvesB)ToenhanceC)Tosh

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13、sverygood atpublicHerescuedastudentfromabigHegivesinformativetalkstoyoungHesavedthe lifeofhis brotherchoking onKidsshouldlearn notto beafraid ofInformativespeechescansaveC)esscanD)Firefightersplayanimportant roleinSectionhis section, you will sage three times. When the passage read for time, you sho

14、uld listen carefully for its general When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the bl s with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have 注意：此部分試題請在1 Almost every child, on day he sets foot i

15、n a school building, is more , less afraid of what he doesnt know, better at finding and more confident, resourceful 的), persistent and n he will ever againinhisschoolingor,unlessheisveryunusualandverylucky,fortherestofhis life. Already, by paying close attention to and the world and people aroundhi

16、m, and without any school-type formal instruction, he has done a task far difficult,complicatedand nanythinghewillbeaskednschool,nany of his teachers has done for years. He has solved the oflanguage.Hehasdiscovereditbabiesdonteventlanguageexistsandhehasfoundoutit works and learned to use it . He has

17、 done ithim, and without any school-type formal instruction, he has done a task far difficult,complicatedand nanythinghewillbeaskednschool,nany of his teachers has done for years. He has solved the oflanguage.Hehasdiscovereditbabiesdonteventlanguageexistsandhehasfoundoutit works and learned to use i

18、t . He has done it by exploring, by by his own of the grammar of language, by and seeingwhether it works, by gradually changing it and it until it does work. Andwhile he has been many of the “ 35are more complicatedng this, he has been learning other things as well, t the schools think only they can

19、 teach him, and many n the ones they do try to teach him.tPart Section (40 his section, there sage with ten bl fromalistofchois. You are required to given in a word bordforeachfollowing the passage. Read the passage through carefully before your . Each he is identified by a letter. markthecorrespond

20、ingletterforeachitemonAnswerSheet2a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the bn Questions36to45arebasedonthefollowingOne in six. ve it or ts the number of Americans who struggle ger. To make tomorrow a etter, Feeding America, the nations ger-anization, has chosen September ger Acti

21、on As part of its 30 Ways in 30 Days program, its asking across the country tohelp the n 200 food s and 61,000 agencies in its network eindividualsandswiththe fueltheyneed to Its the kind of ts done every day at St. scopal Church San Antonio. People who at its front door on theand third Thursdays re

22、ntlooking od theyre there for something to eat. St. Andrews t the city and several of the 41towns.runs a food pantry (食品室) Janet Drane is its manager.he wake of the , the number s in need of food began to grow. It is t 49 million Americans are unsure of where they findtheirnextmeal.Whatsmostsurprisi

23、ngt 36% of them live in whereeast one adult is working. “It used to be t one job was all you needed,” says St. Andrews Drane. “The people we see now have three or four part-time jobs and theyre still right on the edge 45 .”注意：此部分試題請在2 Sectionhis section, you are going to sage with ten attached to it

24、. Each ement contains information given in one of paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information derived. You may choose a paragraph n once. Each is marked letter. Answer Sectionhis section, you are going to sage with ten attached to it. Each ement contains information given in one of

25、 paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information derived. You may choose a paragraph n once. Each is marked letter. Answer the questions by marking corresponding letter on Answer Sheet UniversitiesBranchAs never heir long history, universities e instruments national competition as well

26、 as instruments of peace. They are the place of scientific t move economies forward, and the primary means educating the talent required to obtain and ain competitive advantage. the same time, the opening of national borders to the flow of goods, ,information and lly people has made universities erf

27、ul force egration,derstandingandgeopolitical ve driven the world economy, In response to the same e more self-consciously global: seeking students from around world who represent the entire range of cultures and values, sending their students abroad to prepare them lobal careers, offering courses of

28、 taddress the challenges of erconnected world and collaborative (合作的researchprogramstociencefor thebenefit ofall Of the higher education none is more n the across borders. Over the past three decades the number of students leaving home each year to study abroad has grown at an annual rate of 3.9 per

29、cent, from 800,000 in 1975 to 2.5 million in 2004. Most travel from one developed nation another, but the flow from to developed countries is growing The reverse flow, from developed to countries, is on the Today foreign students earn 30 percent of the doctoral degrees United es and 38 percent of he

30、 United Kingdom. And the crossing borders for undergraduate study is growing as well, to 8 percent of the undergraduatesatAmericas best institutions and10 percentof he he United es, 20 percent of the newly hired professors science and engineering are foreign-born, and in China many newly hired I) J)

31、K)L)M)N)O)membersatthetopiversitiesreceivedtheirgraduateeducationUniversities are also encouraging students to spend some of their yearsinanothercountry.InEurope,n 140,000 students Erasmus programeach year, taking courses for credit in one of2,200 institutionsacrossthecontinent.he United es, institu

32、tions are tudents in ernships (實習) abroad to prepare them careers. Yale and Harvard have led the way,membersatthetopiversitiesreceivedtheirgraduateeducationUniversities are also encouraging students to spend some of their yearsinanothercountry.InEurope,n 140,000 students Erasmus programeach year, ta

33、king courses for credit in one of2,200 institutionsacrossthecontinent.he United es, institutions are tudents in ernships (實習) abroad to prepare them careers. Yale and Harvard have led the way, offering every ernational study ernship opportunityand providing the ltomakeGlobalization is also the way r

34、esearch is done. One new trend sourcing portions of a research program to another country. Yale professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Tian Xu directs a research focused on etics of human disease at Shanghais Fudan University, collaboration with faculty colleagues from both schoo

35、ls. The Shanghai center has 95 employees and graduate students working in a 4,300-square-meter facility.Yaletdoctors and graduate students visit regularly and eminars with scientists from both uses. The benefits both countries; Xus Yale lab is more nks to the costs of conducting research in China, a

36、nd graduate andfacultygeton-the-jobtrainingfromaworld-classscientistandhisU.S.As a result of its strength in science, the United es has consistently led he lization of major new technologies, from the computer and egrated circuit of the 1960s to ernet infrastructure(礎設施nuniversity-based science and

37、industrial application is often indirect but highly visible: Silicon Valley entionally created by Stanford and Route 128 ton has long housed companies spun rom MIT Harvard.Aroundtheernments have encouraged copying of this ,perhaps most sfully in Cambridge, England, and scores other leading software

38、and biotechnology companies have set up shop around the Forallit cs, the United es remains deeply hesitant about sustaining ninvestment in science and national economic strength, but support for research funding has been unsteady. The budget of the National Institutes of doubled betn 1998 and 2003,

39、bu then. Support for the physical s risen more n inflation and engineering barely kept pace inflation t same period. The attempt to make up lost ground but the nation would be better served by steady, predictable increases in science funding at the rate of long-term GDP growth, which is on the order

40、 of inflation plus 3 percent per year.Americannshavegreatdifficultyt admitting more students can y promote the erest by understanding. Adjusted for inflation, public funding ernational and foreign-language study is well below the levels of 40 years he of September 11, he visa s caused a dramatic num

41、ber of foreign students seeking to U.S. universities, and corresponding surge in enrollments in Australia, Singapore and the U.K. ObjectionsfromAmericanuniversityandbusinessleadersledtoimprovementsin the pro s andunderstanding. Adjusted for inflation, public funding ernational and foreign-language s

42、tudy is well below the levels of 40 years he of September 11, he visa s caused a dramatic number of foreign students seeking to U.S. universities, and corresponding surge in enrollments in Australia, Singapore and the U.K. ObjectionsfromAmericanuniversityandbusinessleadersledtoimprovementsin the pro

43、 s and a reversal of the decline, but the United S es is still seen manying ernationalt universities contribute to the nations well-Most Americans through their scientific research, but many t foreign students American competitiveness by taking their knowledge and skills back home. fail to ting fore

44、ign students to the United es has , the very best of them he es anditive immigrants throughout historystrengthen the nation; and second, studentswhohe United e ambassadors for many of its cherished (珍視) values when they return home. east they understand better. In America as elsewhere, few instrumen

45、ts of foreign policy are as inpromotingpeaceandstabilityiversity注意：此部分試題請在2 American universities prepare their undergraduates lobal careers by themernationalstudySince the mid-1970s, the enrollment of overseas students has increased at an annual rate of 3.9 percent.The enrollment ernational student

46、s will have itive impact on nthreatenitsThe way research is carried out in universities has changed as a result of Of the newly hired professors in science and engineeringhe United S twenty percent come from foreign countries.The number of foreign students applying to U.S. universities decreased aft

47、erSeptember11duetohe visa TheU.S.federalfundingforresearchhasbeenunsteadyforAround the courage the of linking university-scienceandindustrialPresent-dayuniversitieseerfulforce55. When foreign students leave America, they will bring American values back to their home countries.SectionDirections: Ther

48、e are 2 his section. Each passage is followed by questions or unfinished ements. For each of them there are marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide 55. When foreign students leave America, they will bring American values back to their home countries.SectionDirections: There are 2 his section. Ea

49、ch passage is followed by questions or unfinished ements. For each of them there are marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 wiline through the centre.PassageQuestions56to60arebasedonthefollowingGlobal warming is causing n 300,000 d

50、eaths and about $125 billion economic losses each year, according to a report by the Global Humanitarian Forum, anization led by KofiAnnan, the former United Nations secretary general.The report, to be released yzed data and existing studies of disaster, population and economic trends. It t human-in

51、fluenced change was raising the global death rates from illnesses including malnutrition (營養(yǎng)不良) and heat-related health problems.But even before its release, the report drew criticism from some experts climateandrisk,whoquestioneditsmethodsand Along with the deaths, the report saidlives of 325 milli

52、on t in poor countries, were being seriously affected by climate change. It t the number would douby 2030.ielke Jr., a political the University of Colorado, Boulder, studies disaster trends, said the Forums report was “a methodological embarrassment” because there was no way to distinguish deaths or

53、 economic losses related to human-driven global warming amid the much larger losses resulting the growth in populations and economic development in vulnerable (regions. Dr. Pielke t “climate change is an important problem requiring tention.” But the report, he said, “will harm the cause for action o

54、n climatechangeanddisastersbecauseitissodeeplyflawed(有瑕疵的However, Soren Andreasen, a l Dalberg Global Partners who supervised the writing of the report, defended it, t it was tthe numbers were roughestimates. He saidthe report was aimedat world who will meet in Copenhagen in December to negotiate a

55、new ernational In a press release describing the report, Mr. Annan stressed the need for the negotiations to focus on increasing the flow of money from rich to poor regions to help reduce their vulnerability to climate hazards while still curbing the emis s the heat-gases. n 90% of the human and eco

56、nomic losses climatechange are occurring inpoorcountries,accordingtothe注意：此部分試題請在2 WhatisthefindingoftheGlobalHumanitarianRatesofdeathfromillnesseshaverisenduetoglobalGlobaltemperaturesaffecttherateofeconomicMalnutritionhascausedserioushealthproblemsinpoorEconomictrends have to dowith populationandn

57、atural57.WhatisthefindingoftheGlobalHumanitarianRatesofdeathfromillnesseshaverisenduetoglobalGlobaltemperaturesaffecttherateofeconomicMalnutritionhascausedserioushealthproblemsinpoorEconomictrends have to dowith populationandnatural57.WhatdowelearnabouttheForumsreportfromtheA)ItcausedabigstirinB)Itw

58、aswarmlyreceivedbyC)ItarousedalothescientificD)Itwaschallengedbysomeclimateandrisk58.WhatdoesDr.PielkesayabouttheForumsA)ItsisticslookB)ItdeservesourItisermsofisely 59.WhatisSorenAndreasensviewoftheA)sare basedon carefully collected B)ItisvulnerabletocriticismiftheisticsarecloselyC)Itwillgiverisetoh

59、eatedsat the Copenhagen D)ItsroughestimatesaremeanttodrawtheattentionofworldWhatdoes KofiAnnansay shouldbe the focusof the CopenhagenHowhumanandeconomiclossesfromclimatechangecanbeHowrichcountries canbetterhelp poorregionsreduceclimateC)Howsofheat-gasescanbereducedonaglobalPassageQuestions61to65areb

60、asedonthefollowingIts an annual argument. Do we or do we not go on holiday? My partner says because the boiler could go, or the ll off, and we have no savings to save us. say you only live once and we work hard and whats the if you cant go holiday.ThejoyofameansnoargumentnextyearwejustwontSince mone