Part I Listening Comprehension
Section A
Directions: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. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center .
1.【听音】 M: Hi, Mary. Did you go to East Lake yesterday?
W: We would have gone there if the weather had been fine.
Q: Did the woman go to East Lake yesterday?
【试题】A) Yes, she did. B) No, she didn’t. C) She might have gone. D) She might not have gone.
2.【听音】 W: Can I help you, sir?
M: Yes. I'd like to open a savings account.
Q: Where did the conversation most probably take place?
【试题】 A) In a bookstore. B) In a bank. C) In a restaurant. D) In an office.
3. 【听音】 W: I was looking for John everywhere yesterday evening.
M: He must have been in the library.
Q: What did the man mean?
【试题】A) John didn't go to the library yesterday evening.
B) John was in the library yesterday evening.
C) John is often in the library.
D) John never goes to the library.
4.【听音】 M: Are you going to visit your aunt this week?
W: No. I've put off visiting my aunt until my son finishes his exam.
Q: What does the woman mean?
【试题】 A) She has postponed her visit to her aunt.
B) She intends to visit her aunt with her son.
C) After his son finishes his exam, he will visit his aunt,
D)As soon as her son finishes his exam, they will go together.
5.【听音】 M: Do you know where Lucy lives?
W: I have no idea where she lives.
Q: What does the woman mean?
【试题】A) She is not clear about Lucy's address.
B) She doesn't know Lucy's address.
C) She forgot Lucy's address.
D) She knows Lucy's address.
6.【听音】M: Jack likes playing basketball.
W: I used to like it, too.
Q: What does the woman mean?
【试题】A) She likes playing basketball too.
B) She doesn't like playing basketball now.
C) She didn't like playing basketball.
D) She knows Jack likes playing basketball.
7. 【听音】 M: I wish you had told me earlier that you are going away this summer vacation.
W: Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you knew my plan.
Q: What can we learn from the conversation?
【试题】 A) The man doesn't know the woman's plan.
B) The man would like to know the woman's plan earlier.
C) The man agrees with what the woman is going to do.
D)The man had to make a plan for the woman.
8. 【听音】 W: Hurry up. It's five past ten.
M: Don't worry. We still have 25 minutes before the game begins.
Q: When does the game begin?
【试题】A) At 10:05 B) At10:00
C) At 10:30 D) At 5:10
9. 【听音】W: Couldn't you run faster?
M: Sorry. This is the fastest I've ever run.
Q: What does the woman mean?
【试题】 A) The man can run fast.
B) The man should run faster.
C) The man runs faster this time.
D)The man is good at running.
10.【听音】 M: What did you do last night?
W: I should have stayed at home writing my paper. But I went to a movie instead.
Q: What can we learn from the conversation?
【试题】 A) The woman stayed at home last night.
B) The woman wrote her paper last night.
C) The woman saw a film last night.
D) The woman didn’t do anything last night.
Section B
Directions:In this section, you will hear 3 short passages.At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and 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). Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
Passage One
My first encounter with rattle snakes was a fortunate experience. The big rattler was old and had led too easy a life. There was not much fight left in him, He had probably lived there for years, with a fat prairie dog for breakfast whenever he felt like it. He had a sheltered home, even an owl- feather bed, perhaps, and he had forgotten that the world doesn't owe rattlers a living. So in reality, it was a mock adventure. The game was fixed for me by chance, as it probably was formany a dragon-slayer. I had been adequately armed. The snake was too content to move very fast, and I had Antonia beside me, to appreciate and admire me.
That snake hung on our corral fence for several days. Some of the neighbors come to see it and agreed that it was the biggest rattler ever killed in those parts. This was enough for Antonia. She liked me better from that time on, and she never took a superior tone with me again. I had killed a big snake----I was now a big fellow.
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11.What can you infer from the passage?
12. Which of the following best describes the narrator ?
13.Which of the following is suggested in the passage?
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. 【试题】A) The rattler was most probably famous for its size and ferocity.
B) The rattler was most probably discovered in a rarely frequentedarea.
C) The rattler was imagined by the boy.
D)The rattler was tamed by neighborhood children.
12. 【试题】A) He appears to be responsive to admiration. B) He is indifferent to success.
C) He is unusually heroic. D) He is highly opinionated.
I3.【试题】 A) The boy was very brave because he caught a rattlesnake.
B) The boy had a hard fight with the rattler.
C) The rattler was ferocious.
D)The narrator lived on a farm.
Passage Two
Visitors from space may have landed on our planet dozens, even hundreds of times during the long, empty ages while Man was still a dream of the distant future. Indeed, they could have landed on 90 percent of the earth as recently as two or three hundred years ago, and we would never have heard of it. If one searches through old newspapers and local records, one can find many reports of strange incidents that could be interpreted as visits from outer space. A stimulating writer, Charles Fort, has made a collection of U. F.O. (Unidentified FlyingObject ) sightings in his book Lo ! One is tempted to believe them more than any modern reports, for the simple reason that they happened long before anyone had ever thought of space travel. Yet at the same time, one cannot take them too seriously, for before scientific education was widespread, even sightings of meteors, comets, auroras, and so on, gave rise to the most incredible stories, as they still do today.
Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14.What does the author imply?
15.What does the author think of the space age?
16.Which of the following is true?
Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14.【试题】 A) All observations of U. F. O. 's are unreliable.
B) Visitors from space could not live on Earth.
C) Many books have been written about U.F.O. 's.
D)Older civilizations may exist on other planets.
15. 【试题】 A) It has weakened the authenticity of reported sightings.
B) It has increased the number of U. F.O. sightings.
C) It has allowed more scientific study of U. F. O. 's.
D)It has solved the age-old mystery of U, F. O. 's.
16. 【试题】A) Visitors from space have landed on our planet.
B) U.F.O. sightings are not new.
C) Charles Foot has once seen a U. F. O.
D) People can't find reports about U. F. O. ’s in old newspapers.
Passage Three
In the past two years, millions of Americans have suddenly embraced the bicycle as if it were a startling new invention. Annual bike sales doubled between 1960 and 1970, and there are nearly 70 million bikes in the United States today. That’s more than two for every three automobiles.
Of course, the bike has been around for more than 150 years, and this isn’t America’s first bicycle boom. A wave of bike enthusiasm swept the land in the late 1800s and bicycle production hit two million units in 1879. Then with the coining of the auto, bicycling declined, and for decades remained popular only with children and a few adult faddists.
Now, national preoccupation with air pollution and physical fitness has brought the bike back to the forefront—particularly with adults. More than eight million bikes were sold in the United States last year and a third of them went to adults. The year before, only 15 percent of new bike sales were for adults.
Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
17. What can be concluded if people continue to concern themselves with air pollution and physical fitness?
18. What can you draw from the passage?
19.How long have the American used the bike?
20. Which of the following is true?
Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
17. 【试题】 A) Stricter air standards will be enforced.
B) Fewer automobiles will be sold.
C) Americans will enjoy better health.
D) Bicycle sales will continue to rise.
18. 【试题】 A) The bicycle is enjoying a strong revival,
B) The bicycle is creating traffic problems.
C) The bicycle is popular only with children.
D) The bicycle is replacing the family car.
19.【试题】A) 180 years B) 190 years
C) More than 150 D) More than 115
20. 【试题】A) Americans are quick to follow the example of others.
B) Americans are interested in comfort and luxury.
C) Americans are concerned with the quality of their lives.
D) Americans are childish in the way they relax and exercise.
Part IIReading Comprehension
I hear many parents complaining that their teenage children are rebelling. I wish it were so. At your age you ought to be growing away from your parents. You should be learning to stand on your own two feet. But take a good look at the present rebellion. It seems that teenagers are all taking the same way of showing that they disagree with their parents. Instead of striking out boldly on their own, most of them are clutching at one another's hands for reassurance.
They claim they want to dress as they please. But they all wear the same clothes. They set off in new directions in music. But somehow they all end up huddled round listening to the same record. Their reason for thinking or acting in thus-and-such a way is that the crowd is doing it. They have come out of their cocoon （蚕茧）--- into a larger cocoon.
It has become harder and harder for a teenager to stand up against the popularity wave and to go his or her own way. Industry has firmly carved out a teenage market. These days every teenager can learn from the advertisements what a teenager should have and be. And many of today's parents have come to award high marks for the popularity of their children. All this adds up to a great barrier for the teenager who wants to find his or her own path.
But the barrier is worth climbing over. The path is worth following. You may want to listen to classical music instead of going to a party. You may want to collect rocks when everyone else is collecting records. You may have some thoughts that you don't care to share at once with your classmates. Well, go to it. Find yourself. Be yourself. Popularity will come -- with the people who respect you for who you are. That's the only kind of popularity that really counts.
21.【试题】The author's purpose in writing this passage is to tell _____.
A) readers how to be popular with people around
B) teenagers how to learn to decide things for themselves
C) parents how to control and guide their children
D) people how to understand and respect each other
22.【试题】 According to the author, many teenagers think they are brave enough to act on their own, but, in fact, most of them______
A) have much difficulty understanding each other
B) lack confidence
C) dare not cope with problems single-handed
D) are very much afraid of getting lost
23.【试题】 Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A) There is no popularity that really counts.
B) What many parents are doing is in fact hindering their children from finding their own paths.
C) It is not necessarily bad for a teenager to disagree with his or her classmates.
D) Most teenagers claim that they want to do what they like to, but they are actually doing the same.
24.【试题】 The author thinks of advertisements as _____.
A) convincing
B) influential
C) instructive
D) authoritative
25.【试题】During the teenage years, one should learn to _____.
A) differ from others in as many ways as possible
B) get into the right season and become popular
C) find one's real life
D) rebel against parents and the popularity wave
When they marry, husbands and wives have well-developed health histories and well-established congenital and developmental propensities（嗜好）toward good and ill health. Substantial research suggests that, given the existing health propensity and health condition of an individual at a particular time, his or her probability of better or worse future health is affected by a variety of socially mediated factors that are subject to influence or manipulation by his or her spouse.
Spouses can promote each other’s health by ameliorating （改善）psychological stress. A substantial literature develops strong evidence that psychological stress causes illness, increases mortality risk, and serves as an important mechanism that links socioeconomic characteristics to health and mortality. Stress-reducing mechanisms include removal of sources of stress, and management of stress by talking about it to a trusted other person, psychiatric treatment, physical exercise, recreation and other means. A spouse can provide or encourage all of these stress-reducing behaviors.
Spouses also can promote each other’s health by providing each other with supportive social contact, and they can facilitate or inhibit each other’s social contact with supportive others. Evidence suggests that health is greatly advanced by supportive social contacts, including positive interaction with relatives, friends, coworkers and acquaintances. Recent experimental data shows that persons with more diverse social networks are more resistant to experimentally introduced upper respiratory viruses than persons with less diverse social networks.
Spouses can also promote each other’s health by providing each other with money income, and they can help each other manage money income effectively. Money does not buy health directly, but it can be used to purchase goods and services that make good health more likely. These goods and services include nutritious food, a hygienic and safe environment, medical care, and amenities that reduce psychological stress. Unless estranged or unusually wealthy, husbands and wives almost always share their financial resources and purchases and consume many of these health-promoting goods and services jointly. In short, there are many ways in which spouses can influence each other’s probability of good health.
26.【试题】What is the passage mainly about?
A) How can spouses promote each other’s health.
B) The spouse’s probability of future health
C) Effects of spouse’s employment and hours of work on each other’s health.
D) Spouses influence each other in various ways.
27.【试题】According to the author, what is the most effective way for the husband to reduce psychological stress?
A) To talk to other person.
B) To go to see psychiatrist.
C) To enjoy.
D)To talk with his wife.
28.【试题】Which one is the suitable summary of paragraph 1?
A) Spouse’s influence is of vital importance to each other’s health.
B) Spouse’s influence has nothing to do with health.
C) Healthy spouses will remain health after their marriage.
D)There are a variety of socially mediated factors.
29.【试题】How can money make good health?
A) Money can buy health directly.
B) Spouses can manage money income effectively.
C) Money can provide spouses with goods and services, which is likely to make good health.
D) Husbands and wives share everything.
30.【试题】Which of the following is likely to make spouses in ill health?
A) Positive interaction with relatives.
B) Appropriate physical exercise.
C) Few social networks.
D) Nutritious food.
Even as Americans have been gaining weight, they have cut their average fat intake from 36 to 34 percent of their total diets in the past 15 years. And indeed, cutting fat to control or lose weight makes sense. Fat has nine calories per gram. Protein and carbohydrates（碳水化合物）have just four. Moreover, the body uses fewer calories to metabolize fat than it does to metabolize other foods. Compared with protein and carbohydrates – which break down into amino acids and simple sugars, respectively, and can be used to strengthen and energize the body -- dietary fat is more easily converted to body fat. Therefore, it’s more likely to stay on buttocks, thighs and bellies. But cutting fat from your diet doesn’t necessarily mean your body won’t store fat. For example, between nonfat and regular cookies, there’s trivial difference in calories because manufacturers make up for the loss of fat by adding sugar. Low-fat crackers, soups and dressings can also be just as high in calories as richer versions. No matter where the calories come from, overeating will still cause weight gain. The calories from fat just do it a little quicker. A Wisconsin computer programmer who decided with a diet coach to eat only 40 grams of fat a day learned the lesson firsthand. He wasn’t losing weight. Then he showed his food diary to his coach and revealed he’d been eating half a pound of jelly beans a day. “They don’t have any fat,” he explains. But they had enough sugar to keep him from shedding an ounce.