第Ⅰ卷（选择题，共100分）

第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）

第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）

听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10称钟的时间来回答有关小题如阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。

1. Where is the cat?

A. On the wall B. In a garage. C. In a tree.

2. How much does the woman weigh now?

A. 147 pounds. B.153 pounds. C. 160 pounds.

3. Where does the conversation take place?

A. At home. B. At a tailor’s. C. At a store

4. What does the woman think of the ads?

A. Funny. B. Meaningless. C. Ineffective.

5. Why does the woman need help?

A. She doesn’t know what gift to choose.

B. She can’t decide whether to buy a present.

C. She doesn’t have enough money to buy a camera.

第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）

听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项

中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。

听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。

6. What are the speakers mainly discussing?

A. When the conference will begin.

B. When the report will be finished.

C. When the woman will go to Rome.

7. What will the woman do this weekend?

A. Attend a meeting. B. See Sarah. C. Work on a report.

听第7段材料，回答第8 、9题。

8. What is the man’s favorite hobby?

A. Painting. B. Cycling. C. Surfing the Net.

9. Why does the woman make the phone call to the man?

A. To show him a book.

B. To ask his brother to call Lyn.

C. To invite his brother to see a collection.

听第 8段材料,回答第 10至 12题。

10. What do we know about the theft?

A. Nobody helped the man.

B. The man seized the boy.

C. It happened in a shop.

11. Why did the old lady hit the man?

A. He didn’t catch the thief.

B. She thought he was a thief.

C. He didn’t give her bag to her.

12. How did the old lady feel in the end?

A. Apologetic B. Angry. C. Frightened.

听第 9段材料,回答第 13至 16题。

13. Where will the boy go first this evening?

A. To a club. B. To a cinema. C. To a restaurant.

14. What will the girl do?

A. Wait for a call at home. B. Skip her homework. C. Join the boy later.

15. When will the boy probably leave the cinema?

A. At about 5:30. B. At about 7:00. C. At about 7:15.

16. What can we learn from the conversation?

A. The speakers will meet in a restaurant.

B. The girl will go to watch a movie.

C. It is the boy’s birthday today.

听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。

17. What is the main purpose of the man’s words?

A. To report on work.

B. To get more support.

C. To get rights for the state.

18. According to the man, on what should the government spend more money?

A. Army. B. personnel. C. Education.

19. What does the man think can help with the city’s safety?

A. Making more laws.

B. Banning on the sale of guns in stores.

C. Increasing training for police officers.

20. On what does the man intend to increase the taxes?

A. Gas. B. Wine C. Cigarettes.

第二部分阅读理解 （共两节，满分40分）

第一节 （共15小题;每小题2分，满分30分）

阅读下列短文 ，从每题所给的四个选项 （A 、B 、C 和 D ）中 ，选出最佳选项 ，并在题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Brrriiinnng．The alarm clock announces the start of another busy weekday in the morning．You jump out of bed, rush into the shower, into your clothes and out the door with hardly a moment to think．A stressful journey to work gets your blood pressure climbing．Once at the office, you glance through the newspaper with depressing stories or reports of disasters．In that sort of mood, who can get down to work, particularly some creative, original problem-solving work? The way most of us spend our mornings is exactly opposite to the conditions that promote flexible, open-minded thinking．Imaginative ideas are most likely to come to us when we’re unfocused．If you are one of those energetic morning people, your most inventive time comes in the early evening when you are relaxed．Sleepy people’s lack of focus leads to an increase in creative problem solving．By not giving yourself time to tune into your wandering mind, you’re missing out on the surprising solutions it may offer．

21.According to the author, we are ore creative when we are________?

A. focused． B. relaxed C. awake． D. busy．

22. What does the author imply about newspapers?

A. They are normally full of bad news． B. They are solution providers．C. They are a source of inspiration． D. They are more educational than websites．

23. By“tune into your wandering mind”in Para．2, the author means “_______”．

A. wander into the wild B. listen to a beautiful tuneC. stop concentrating on anything D. switch to the traffic channel

24.The author writes the last paragraph in order to _______．

A. establish a routine for the future B. summarize past experiencesC. advocate diverse ways of life D. offer practical suggestions

B

Researchers found that people become happier and experience less worry after they reach the age of fifty. In fact, they say by the age of eighty-five, people are happier with their life than they were when they were eighteen years old.

Arthur Stone in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at?Stony?Brook University?in?New York?led the study. His team found that levels of stress were highest among adults between the ages of twenty-two and twenty-five. The findings showed that stress levels dropped sharply after people reached their fifties. Happiness was highest among the youngest adults and those in their early seventies. The people least likely to report feeling negative emotions were those in their seventies and eighties.

The findings appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers say they do not know why happiness increases as people get older. One theory is that, as people grow older, they grow more thankful for what they have and have better control of their emotions. They also spend less time thinking about bad experiences.

The researchers considered possible influences like having young children, being unemployed or being single. But they found that influences like these did not affect the levels of happiness and well-being related to age.

The study also showed that men and women have similar emotional patterns as they grow older. However, women at all ages reported more sadness, stress and worry than men.

25. What is the best title of the passage?

A. The older a person is, the more stressed he feels.

B. The more lighthearted a person is, the happier he is.

C. The older a person is the more clever he grows.

D. The older a person is, the happier he grows.

26. We can learn from the research that _________.

A. only when people get older, will they feel happier

B. older people usually have no worries in their life

C. stress levels among the youngest are the highest of all

D. older people are more likely to be thankful in life

27. According to the researchers, what is probably the reason why people grow happier when they get older?

A. When people get older, they can’t remember bad experiences.

B. When people get older, they have no young children to care about.

C. When people get older, they learn to adjust their feelings.

D. When people get older, they don’t care about their feelings.

28. What would the writer probably deal with in next paragraph?

A. Advice to the young people on how to keep happy.

B. Advice to the old people on how to live longer.

C. Why women at all ages are more sad, stressed and worried.

D. Why people will grow happier with their ages.

C

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You view websites in 30 seconds through the “Surf Ads” page. Once the 30 seconds is up, you’ll either get a green tick(对号) sign or a red “x”. The green tick sign means you’ve earned $0.01and the “x” means you have not earned money for the visit. You’ll get red “x”s when you have more than one website from the “Surf Ads” page open. When this happens, you get no credit.

Earnings example

You click 10 ads per day =$0.10

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Your daily earnings =$2.10

Your weekly earnings =$14.70

Your monthly earnings =$63.00

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29. What is the author’s purpose of writing this passage?

?? A. To tell an interesting story.??????? B. To introduce a surprising way to earn money.

?? C. To solve a puzzling problem.???????D. To present an exciting research.

30. You can earn money by ________.

?? A. chatting online?????????????????? B. advertising some products

?? C. clicking on advertisements????????? D. choosing green ticks or “x”s

31. The underlined word “accumulated” can be replaced by “________”.

?? A. wasted. B. spent. C. lost. D. gathered.

D

When international aid is given, steps must be taken to ensure (确保)that the aid reaches the people for whom it is intended. The way to achieve this may not be simple. It is very difficult for a nation to give help directly to people in another nation. The United Nations Organiztion(UNO) could undertake to direct the distribution of aid. Here however rises the problem of costs. Also tied with this is time. Perhaps the UNO could set up a body of devoted men and women is every country who can speedily distribute aid to victims of floods and earthquakes.? More than the help that one nation can give to another during a disaster, it would be more effective to give other forms of help during normal times. A common proverb says, “Give me a fish and I eat for day, teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime.” If we follow this wise saying, it would be right to teach people from less developed nations to take care of themselves. For example, a country could share its technology with another. This could be in simple areas like agriculture or in more complex areas like