英语试卷
2012. 3
本试卷分为第I卷（第1-16页）和第II卷（第17页）两部分。全卷共17页。满分150分。考试时间120分钟。考生注意：
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第I卷 （共105分）
I. Listening Comprehension (30%)
Section A
Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between twospeakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked aboutwhat was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once.After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possibleanswers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to thequestion you have heard.
1. A. At 11:35. B. At 11:45. C. At 12:00. D. 12:45.2. A. By car. B. By train. C. By taxi. D. By bus.
3. A. In a restaurant. B. In a hospital. C. In a hotel. D. On aplane.
4. A. He's unwilling to fetch the laundry.B. He picked up the laundry 3 hours ago.C. He will go before the laundry is closed.
D. He doesn’t know who picked up the laundry.
5. A. Boss and secretary. B. Colleagues. C. Interviewer and interviewee. D. Classmates.6. A. The man is not suitable for the position.B. The job has been given to someone else.C. She received only one application letter.
D. The application arrived a week earlier than expected.7. A. $15. B. $30. C. $50. D. $100.8. A. He has not adjusted to the new culture.B. He has been studying hard at night.C. He finds biology difficult to learn.
D. He is not accustomed to the time in a different zone.9. A. He is the right man to get the job done.B. He is a man with professional skills.C. He is not easy to get along with.D. He is not likely to get the job.
10. A. Go to the office. B. Call the booking office.C. Try online booking. D. See a doctor.Section B
Directions: In Section B, you will hear two short passages, and you will beasked three questions on each of the passages. The passages will be readtwice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question,read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would bethe best answer to the question you have heard.
Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.11. A. At 6:15. B. At 6:45.C. At 7:15. D. At 7:45.
12. A. Students who are often late for school. B. All the students ofDurfee High School.
C. Parents sending notes to the headmaster. D. Parents who are alwayslate for work.
13. A. Call the students at 6:15. B. Give every student an alarmclock.
C. Make study hours longer. D. Post students’ names on theschool website.
Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following news.
14. A. Because dragon babies will have more educational opportunities.B. Because dragon babies are believed to be rich and successful in thefuture.
C. Because couples can only have a dragon baby every twelve years.D. Because dragon is an imaginary creature in the Chinese culture.15. A. May 2nd. B. May 10th. C. May 12th. D. May. 22nd.
16. A. To avoid one child policy. B. To get better service.
C. To gain more job opportunities. D. To gain better childeducation.
Section C Longer Conversations
Directions: In Section C, you will hear two longer conversations. Theconversations will be read twice. After you hear each conversation, you arerequired to fill in the numbered blanks with information you have heard.Write your answers on your answer sheet.
Blanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.Complete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer.
About Highland Hotel
Rooms: Well-furnished.
Prices in the restaurant: _____17_____.Recommended dish: Baked fish.
Special offer: A _____18_____ at the weekends.
Complaint: A problem with the Internet _____19_____.
Tip policy: Money in the special box is shared _____20_____ bythe hotel staff.
Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.
Complete the form. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for eachanswer.
What color was Lucy’s hair in_____21_____.August?
What does Lucy think of blackIt’s _____22_____.hair?
Why is the man against using hairBecause it is likely todye frequently?_____23_____.What’s the advantage of naturalThey don’t _____24_____ andhair dyes?do no harm to hair.II. Grammar and vocabulary (25%)
Section A
Directions: Beneath each of the following sentences there are four choicesmarked A, B, C and D. choose the one answer that best completes thesentence.
25. In New York, high school smoking hit a new low in the latest surveys--13.8%, far _____ the national average.A. over B. beyondC. below D. on
26. Doctors should take special care when treating children because theirbreathing rate is different from _____ of adults.A. one B. those C. some D. that
27. After being a teacher, he found himself _____ his student badly, thesame way he was treated by his former teacher.A. treated B. being treatedC. treating D. treat
28. Best-selling author and race car driver Han Han offered a 20 millionRMB reward to _____ could prove his works were ghostwritten (代笔)。A. no matter who B. whoC. whoever D. whomever
29. _____ for her powerful and pure voice, Houston was the winner of 6Grammys and 22 American music awards.A. Being known B. Knowing
C. Known D. Having been known
30. To prepare for the Olympic Games in summer, London _____ itslargest ever exercise to test the response of emergency services.A. planned B. is planningC. had planned D. plans
31. The man won’t be sent to prison _____ he does volunteer work in thecommunity for at least two years.
A. in case B. even if
C. on condition that D. as far as
32. More teens begin to realize the basic principle _____ there is more to a
person than physical beauty.
A. that B. whether C. in which D. when
33. On the ocean floor _____. However, to bring them to the surfacerequires expensive equipment and trained people.
A. do some sunken ships lie B. some sunken ships do lieC. lie some sunken ships D. some sunken ships lie
34. He gets about 500 yuan a month. How _____ he balance his family'soutgoings with such a small income?A. could B. oughtC. might D. would
35. Medical teams are reported _____ to isolated villages to help peoplefight against the cold snap in Europe.
A. to have been sent B. to be sentC. sent D. having been sent
36. _____ you are in a speech contest or you are giving a talk in class, alittle preparation will make your presentation organized and dynamic.A. Either B. WhileC. Whether D. No matter
37. There is no denying that it was drug use _____ badly damaged WhitneyHouston’s voice and ruined her life.A. which B. thatC. what D. /
38. I heard that some patients who had undergone laser eye surgeryexperienced sudden losses of vision, _____?A. didn’t I B. hadn’t theyC. didn’t they D. isn’t it
39. Jeremy’s fans in China are going crazy about this 23-year-old Harvardgraduate, _____ it’s a breakthrough in American basketball history.A. saying B. saidC. having said D. to say
40. People choose to have a haircut for a refreshing start on the second dayof the second lunar month because it is the day _____ the dragon awakensand raises its head.
A. that B. which C. when D. whose
Section B
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box.Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you
need.
A. mirrored B. adequate C. sticking D. processed E. disorder F. developing G. associated H. environmental I. anxiety J. extraordinary
Eating lots of fruit and vegetables could help protect teenagers frommental health problems, according to an Australian study published in anacademic journal.
The study of 3,000 adolescents aged 11 to 18 found that those who hadpoor diets filled with junk and __41__ foods were more likely to suffermental health problems such as depression and __42__.
The participants filled in questionnaires about their diets andpsychological symptoms in 2005 and again in 2007. The study found thatteenagers who ate healthy diets had fewer mental health problems than thosewith poor diets.
The study also found that improvements in diet quality were __43__ byimprovements in mental health, while worsening diet quality was __44__withpoorer psychological __45__.
Jacka said the finding suggested it could be possible to stop some mentalhealth problems __46__ in adolescents by ensuring they ate healthy diets.\"Having good nutrition-rich foods is really important for adolescentsbecause it's a time when they are growing rapidly and it's essential they have__47__ nutrition,\" Jacka said.
Studies show one in five Australian adolescents has some forms of mentalhealth problems, caused by genes and __48__ factors such as stressful eventsin early childhood.
Jacka said parents could protect children against mental health problemsby eating two serves of fruit and five serves of vegetables a day, as well as__49__ to wholegrain food and lean meats while avoiding junk food.III. Reading Comprehension (50%)
Section A
Directions: For each blank in the following passages there are four words orphrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase thatbest fits the context.
The Human Development Report, published annually since 1990, seeks to__50__ “human development” around the world and calculates a “HumanDevelopment Index” (HDI 人类发展指数) for 169 countries. The HDI is
__51__ on average income, life expectancy, and level of education. __52__,rich countries tend to have higher HDIs than poor countries, but there areinteresting __53__ in human development among countries with similarlevels of economic development, because some have better health andeducation systems than others.
Almost every country in the world has a higher HDI than in 1990, despitethe fact that since the 2008 financial crisis the total number of people livingin extreme __54__ has increased. The report concludes that most people arehealthier, live longer, are more __55__, — and that even in countries withsevere economic problems, people’s health and education have generally__56__. Although sub-Saharan African countries are at the bottom of the pile__57__ human development, some of them have made significant progresssince 1990. The report is __58__, however, of the fact that economicinequality has increased significantly in the last twenty years, both within andbetween countries.
The greatest threat to HDI in the future, according to the report, is climatechange. The way to increase average income in a country is througheconomic growth, which means increased production and __59__. However,if this __60__ to greater emissions (排放) of greenhouse gases, as has alwaysbeen the case in the past, global warming will probably go faster, causingsevere environmental problems in some parts of the world that will __61__the livelihoods of huge numbers of people. The progress of the last twentyyears, __62__, might not be sustainable (可持续的).
The only solution, according to the report, is to break the __63__ betweeneconomic growth and greenhouse gas emissions — which, __64__ to say, iseasier said than done.
50. A. judge B. investigate C. assess D. justify51. A. based B. focused C. keen D. reflected52. A. Unexpectedly B. Unwillingly C. Unfortunately D.Unsurprisingly
53. A. variations B. experiments C. signs D. mixtures54. A. cruelty B. poverty C. emotion D. terror
55. A. talented B. disadvantaged C. determined D. educated56. A. infected B. ignored C. improved D. impressed57. A. to the extent of B. on account of C. for the sake of D. interms of
58. A. critical B. proud C. fond D. independent59. A. administration B. consumption C. application D.concentration
60. A. objects B. sticks C. leads D. turns
61. A. threaten B. maintain C. concern D. guarantee
62. A. therefore B. however C. otherwise D. nevertheless63. A. gap B. record C. law D. link
64. A. fearless B. needless C. careless D. hopelessSection B
Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed byseveral questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are fourchoices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to theinformation given in the passage you have just read.
(A)
Life is different in Anchorage, Alaska, at the beginning of March. Everyyear at this time, the downtown streets become crowded with people. Butthese are not just regular pedestrians. In addition to the people walkingthrough the streets, there are hundreds of dogs. It is time for the Iditarod—thefamous dogsled race of Alaska.
The name of the race comes from the name of an Alaska gold rush town,Iditarod. It means “distant” or “distant place.” It comes from one of thelanguages of native Alaskans.
More than sixty sled teams begin the race in Anchorage. When the teamsreach the outskirts of town, they get a taste of Alaska’s wilderness. For abouttwo weeks, they will fight the unbearable cold, wind, snow, and ice to finishthe race. The temperature on the trail is often well below zero degrees.
The Iditarod trail stretches for about a thousand miles. It has manyrendezvous points. At these meeting places, race teams “check in” to letofficials know how they are doing. Some teams get into trouble along theway. Officials will stop them on the trail and give them the help they need.For example, officials might stop a team’s progress to give first aid or tocollect an injured or tired dog. These dogs are cared for and reunited withtheir owners after the race.
The Iditarod trail is an important part of Alaska’s history. A part of thetrail was used by some heroic dogs and humans in 1925. In Nome, Alaska,many people were catching the deadly disease diphtheria. The whole town
was in quarantine, or isolation, in order to stop this disease. The only way toget medicine to Nome was by dogsled. About twenty “mushers,” or dogsleddrivers, offered to help. They wanted to save the people of Nome from thisterrible trouble.
Today the Iditarod race honors this heroic journey and all of the journeyson the famous trail. As the race organizers say, the Iditarod is “the last greatrace on Earth.”
65. Which of the following is TRUE about the Iditarod race?A. It is held every year in the downtown streets in Anchorage.B. It usually lasts about two weeks in freezing cold weather.C. It is held to honor the gold seekers who once lived in Iditarod.D. Its trail is totally different from the one used by some heroic dogs66. In the race, it’s possible for a seriously injured dog _____.A. to finish the race unnoticed B. to meet its owner againC. to work for a new owner D. to get timely treatment
67. When a town is in quarantine (in paragraph 4), people in the town_____.
A. can get whatever they want easilyB. have to exchange gold for medicineC. are not allowed to go out freely D. will be remembered as heroes
68. The passage is mainly about _____.
A. life in Alaska B. a dogsled race of Alaska
C. a period of Alaska’s history D. heroic dogs and people in Alaska
(B)
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If at any time you need additional information,select HELP from the taskbar, or locate alibrarian who will be happy to assist you.
69. What is the first step in beginning a search in the online database?A. Choose a type of search from the taskbar.B. Type in the search words you wish to use.
C. Type in the author’s name, starting with the last name.D. Choose to be notified by mail, phone, or email.
70. According to the passage, what is the BEST way for a user to find anaudio book?
A. Search by title, then select TRANSFER.
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D. Search by author, then write down the call number.
71. According to the passage, what should a user do after searching for anitem and finding that it is available?
A. Click the HELP button on the taskbar.B. Write down the call number and location.C. Ask a librarian if the item is checked out.D. Enter the user’s 10-digit library card number.
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On 8th March this year, events marking International Women’s Day(IWD) were held in many countries around the world. In most countries theevents have a political tone: they tend to celebrate the advances women havemade towards economic, social and political equality with men, and to pressfor change in those areas of life where there is still progress to be made.
In other countries, meanwhile, 8th March is traditionally more aboutexpressing an appreciation of women: it is a day on which men give presentsto their wives, girlfriends and mothers, and it therefore has some similaritieswith St Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day.
Back in 1911, the first IWD events in Austria, Denmark, Germany andSwitzerland were certainly political. They were protests by women againstforms of gender discrimination that would now be unthinkable in most partsof the world: almost nowhere were women allowed to vote, and Finland wasthe only country with any female members of a national parliament. The
general expectation worldwide, across different continents and cultures, wasthat women would spend their lives largely in the home, devoting themselvesto looking after their husbands and children. The proportion of women whohad paid employment was far lower than today, and when women did go outto work they typically earned very little, meaning they were economicallydependent on men.
A century later, gender inequality in employment – particularly pay
inequality – is still one of the issues IWD tries to draw attention to: it remains common, of course, for women to earn less than men for doing exactly the same job.
Limited educational opportunities (there are many countries in which girlsgenerally stay fewer years in school than boys) and domestic violencetowards women have also been highlighted by events surrounding IWD inrecent years.
And yet, as the IWD website notes, ____________________. As just oneexample, to return to the issue of women elected to office, the change overthe last hundred years has been significant. Since 1911, when the small groupof women in the Finnish parliament (nineteen of them, to be precise) were theonly females in public office worldwide, the governments of more than fiftydifferent countries have been led by women. In 2011, at least one country inevery continent has a female leader, including high-profile examples such asBrazil (Dilma Rousseff), Germany (Angela Merkel) and Australia (JuliaGillard).
72. The underlined word in paragraph 3 “discrimination” probably means_____.
A. equality B. unfairnessC. difference D. imbalance
73. 100 years ago, it was widely considered that women’s main task was to_____.
A. fight for economical independence B. get the right to voteC. fulfill their domestic responsibilities D. gain educationalopportunities
74. Which of the following is the missing sentence in the first line of thelast paragraph?
A. distinctive differences do exist between men and womenB. women expect too much of their political power
C. it’s impossible to realize the true equality between the two gendersD. alongside the ‘negatives’ there are plenty of ‘positives’75. We can conclude from the passage that _____.
A. Much has been achieved in gender equality, but still there is space forimprovement
B. The concept of equal pay for equal work is completely accepted inpractice.
C. One or two female leaders can’t stand for women’s social status on thewhole.
D. The progress in gaining equality in the last century seems to be tooslow.Section C
Directions: Read the following text and choose the most suitable headingfrom A-F for each paragraph. There is one extra heading which you do notneed.
A. The downtrend of malaria deathB. The research finding about malariaC. Combined efforts to combat malariaD. Malaria and its symptomsE. Children killed by malaria
F. The reason for the underestimationof death cases
Malaria is a serious and ancient disease caused by
one-celled Plasmodium parasites, and malaria is spread by the bite of infectedAnopheles mosquitoes. The symptoms of malaria include periodic chills,fever, headache, and sweating. Complications affecting the kidneys, liver,brain, and blood can be fatal. Malaria is a major health problem in the tropics,where it afflicts up to 500 million people every year.
77.
Malaria is killing more people worldwide than
previously thought, but the number of deaths has fallen rapidly as efforts to76.
combat the disease have ramped up, according to a new research from theInstitute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.
78.
More than 1.2 million people died from malaria
worldwide in 2010, nearly twice the number found in the most recentcomprehensive study of the disease. The researchers say that deaths frommalaria have been missed by previous studies because of the assumption thatthe disease mainly kills children under five. They found that more than78,000 children aged 5 to 14, and more than 445,000 people aged 15 andolder died from malaria in 2010, meaning that 42 percent of all malariadeaths were in people aged 5 and older.
79.
The study also found that while the overall number
of malaria deaths is higher than earlier reports, the trend in malaria deaths hasfollowed a similar downward pattern. Starting in 1985, malaria deaths grewevery year before peaking in 2004 at 1.8 million deaths worldwide. Sincethen, the number of deaths has fallen annually and, between 2007 and 2010,the decline in deaths has been more than seven percent each year.
80.
Researchers say the biggest drivers of the decline
in malaria deaths have been the scaleup of insecticide-treated bed nets andartemisinin-combination treatments. This has been accomplished through theadvent of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria & Tuberculosis in 2001and the creation of organizations focused on fighting malaria, such as theWorld Health Organization's Roll Back Malaria, Malaria No More andNothing But Nets. Overall funding for malaria efforts grew from less than250 million U.S. dollars annually in 2001 to more than two billion in 2009,according to the researchers' latest estimates.
Section D
Directions: Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or
complete the statements in the fewest possible words.
Do you know anyone who suffers from equinophobia, pluviophobia orleukophobia? Or, to put it another way, do you know anyone who is veryafraid of horses, rain or the colour white? You probably don’t, and yet theseare recognized medical conditions, though very rare ones.
According to many surveys, more than ten per cent of people in theUnited States have some kind of phobia (the word comes from the Greekphobós, meaning fear). There are, of course, dozens of different kinds,ranging from the obscure to the well known. The names of most of them havebeen created by adding ‘phobia’ to a Greek or Latin root – a process that hasturned into something of a word game, with people inventing names forconditions that perhaps exist only in theory (for example androidophobia, thefear of robots).
True phobias consist of an intense fear that produces a very strong desireto avoid the object of that fear. Without specialist help they are very difficultto control and tend to disrupt the daily life of the sufferer.
Phobias often originate from upsetting experiences earlier in life – forexample an intense fear of dogs (cynophobia) often comes from having beenbitten by one; In some cases, however, experts suggest phobias are to someextent evolutionary, arising not from personal experience but from inheritedmemory lying deep in our brains. Arachnophobia and ophidiophobia (the fearof snakes) are often suggested as examples: for our distant ancestors, wholived closer to nature than we do, fear of poisonous spiders and snakes wouldhave served the useful evolutionary purpose of helping them avoidpotentially fatal bites.
A common technique for treating some phobias is that of ‘progressiveexposure’ in which sufferers are encouraged by a therapist to gradually getcloser to the object of their fear. The idea is that at each step the patientrealizes nothing bad is happening to them, which should lead to their feargradually decreasing. With someone who is terrified of spiders, for example,the therapist might start by showing them a picture of a spider, thenintroducing a real spider in a glass box and slowly moving the box closer tothem, then finally having them hold the spider in the palm of their hand.Therapy of this kind is said to be very effective, although in this case perhapsnot very enjoyable.
(Note: Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORETHAN EIGHT WORDS)
81. When we want to create a name to describe the condition of a person who
has the fear of ice, the name is usually ended with_____________________________.
82. A sufferer of a true phobia usually desires strongly to_________________________________.
83. What are the two possible reasons for different kinds of phobias?
_____________________________________________________________.84. In the last paragraph, the writer gives an example of the treatment ofsomeone who is terrified of spiders to illustrate the meaning of___________________________________.
第II卷 （共45分）
I． Translation （20%）
Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the wordsgiven in the brackets.
1. 我们盼望着收到你的建议。（forward）
2. 他的重大科学发现震惊了世界。(astonish)3. 日益紧张的医患关系有待解决。（remain）
4. 我们应该将有限的生命投入到无限的为人民服务中去的说法过时了吗？(devote)
5. 如果饭店老板们把游客当作将要上钩的鱼而不是受到欢迎的客人，旅游事业就不能得到发展。(hook)II. Guided Writing （25%）
Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to theinstructions given below in Chinese.
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