期末模拟题答案

听力

Section 2

1.climate

2.widespread

3.constrained

4.predict

5.identified

6.critically

7.track

8.ecological

9.We use life history data, which tells us about how fast a species reproduces（繁殖）

10.they are frequently in conflict with carnivores（食肉动物）for land and food, and they do not

produce many offspring（子女，幼崽）.

11.Our funding is very limited, right? So to be able to have these sorts of guidelines, to be able to

focus in and hone（磨练，训练）our efforts, is really important

Section 3

1. Harvard University is almost universally regarded as our gold standard of higher learning.

/ knowing that no other school could match the old Ivy League（常春藤）institution.

2. A Harvard degree is said to be a sure ticket to a lucrative（获利丰厚的）career.

3. It’s a cheating scandal possibly implicating as many as 125 students in a government class. Dozens of varsity（大学体育校队）athletes have been connected to the cheating episode, involving a take-home test last academic year.

4. the academic community is fearful that Harvard is beginning to mirror the practice at some other schools of cutting corners（走捷径，省力）for prized athletes and admitting some students just because they can throw a football or shoot a basketball.

5. Stressed students are more interested in scoring good grades than with learning. The easy access to information online makes plagiarism and cheating easier than ever. Universities no longer stress ethics. And professors who are immersed in their research often pay less attention to teaching.

四个原因里任意两个

Section 4

Listening and translating

1. Tens of thousands of people have fled the conflict in northern Yemen over the past five months. And, they continue to leave in large numbers. A spokeswoman for the International Committee of

the Red Cross, Dorothea Krimitsas, says freezing temperatures are making the already dire situation of people fleeing their homes even worse.

国际红十字会的女发言人说寒冷的气温/天气使得已经很严重/可怕的人们逃离家园的情况更加糟糕。

2. Oxford and Cambridge are the oldest and most famous universities in Britain, and there has always been a great rivalry between the two institutions. But the most public competition between the two is the annual Boat Race.

这两所大学/机构之间一直存在竞争。但是两者之间最公开的竞争还是一年一次的划船比赛。

3. It's 60 feet long, made of lightweight, fuel-efficient material and can carry eight people out of this world and back. The first commercial spaceship was unveiled by Sir Richard Branson, who hopes to start passenger trips within two years. The price tag: 130,000 pounds.

Richard Branson爵士向公众透露了第一艘商业宇宙飞船的情况，他希望两年后飞船开始载客旅行。价格是十三万英镑。

4. Japan Airline's bankruptcy filing is one of Japan's largest corporate failures in decades. The former state-owned carrier once symbolized the strength of the country's postwar economic boom. But its financial fortunes declined in the last decade with the fallout（余波）from the September 11th attacks, a surge in fuel prices, and the worldwide economic slowdown.

但是它的财务好运气在过去十年里因为911袭击、燃料价格上涨和全球经济放缓的负面影响衰落了。

5. President Obama visited the Northeastern state of New Hampshire on Tuesday, to promote a plan he hopes will help ease the nation's ten percent unemployment rate. Mr. Obama says money repaid by large banks that received government help should be lent to small businesses, where he says most of America's job creation takes place.

奥巴马说偿还给接受过政府帮助的大银行的钱应该借给小企业，他说是这些小企业创造了美国大多数的就业机会。

阅读

Blank Filling

1. B. The low graduation rates of minority students

解析：根据第一段的内容，我们可以猜测作者关心的问题与minority students有关，再根据这句话，

Bowdion has not done quite as well when it comes to actually graduating minorities. While 9 out of 10 black students routinely get their diplomas within six years, only 7 out of 10 black students made it to graduation day in several recent classes. 可知正确答案是B。

2. D. its increased enrollment of minority students

解析：根据问题中的关键词Bill Mills可以快速定位至第一段第一句

Bill Mills, the president of Bowdoin Colledge, was justifiably proud ofBowdoin’s efforts to recruit minority students.

所以D项是正确答案。

3. B. The rising generation will be less well educated than the previous one.

解析：根据问题中的risk,可以快速定位至第三段的第二句：

For the first time in American history, there is the risk that the rising generation will be less well educated than the previous one. 由此推出B为正确答案。

4. C. Fifiteen percent

解析：

根据问题中的African-American students，California community colleges可以定位至第四段最后一句：

only 15% of African Americans did so as well. 所以C为正确选项。

5.B. they recruit the best students

解析：根据问题中的Harvard, Yale, and Princeton，可以快速定位至文章第五段，

The most selective private schools-Harvard, Yale, and Princeton show almost no gap between black and white gradation rates. But that may have more to do with their ability to select the best students. 由此推出B为正确选项。

6. A. Universities are to blame.

解析：根据问题中的Amy Wilkins，可以快速定位至第六段这句话：

The school keeps the money, but the kid leaves with loads of debt and no degree and no ability to get a better job. College are not holding up their end,” says Amy Wilkins of the Education Trust. 可推出，学习才是负责任的一方。

7.B. They cannot afford the high tuition.

解析：

根据问题中的a year or two and must drop out可以定位至第七段最后一句话：

Poorer students are not always the best-informed consumers. Often they wind up deeply in debt or simply unable to pay after a year or two and must drop out. 从而得出B为正确选项。

8. that they are less qualified问题：To tackle the problem of graduation gap, the University of Wisconsin-Madison helps minority students get over the stereotype that ____.

解析：根据关键词Wisconsin-Madison快速定位至文章倒数第三段，其中这句与问题内容最相近：

At the university of Wisconsin Madison, the gap has been roughly halved over the last three years. The university had poured resources into peer counseling to help students from inner-city schools adjust to the rigor(严格要求) and faster pace of a university classroom-and also to help minority students overcome the stereotype that they are less qualified. get over与overcome是同义词，因此不难得出正确答案。

9.some preparatory courses问题：For years, private colleges such as Princeton and MIT have provided minority students with ___during the summer before freshman year.

解析：根据问题快速定位至倒数第二段，其中这句与问题内容最相近：

For years private colleges such as Princeton and MIT have has success bringing minoritiesonto campus in the summer before freshman year to give them some preparatory courses.

10. be closed问题：Washington and Lee University is cited as an example to show that the gap of graduation

ratesd between whites and minorities can _____.

解析：根据关键词Washington and Lee University 快速定位至原文最后一段，首句With efforts and money, the graduation gap can be closed. 与问题内容相近。

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62.

A) advisors

B) specialists

C) critics

D) employers

63.

A) which

B) but

C) unless

D) since

64.

A) divide

B) devote

C) deliver

D) donate

65.

A) harmonious

B) competitive

C) resourceful

D) prosperous

66.

A) artistic

B) technical

C) academic

D) interactive

67.

A) dominantly

B) earnestly

C) necessarily

D) gracefully

68.

A) outside

B) along

C) over

D) through

69.

A) generous

B) considerate

C) enlightening

D) demanding

70.

A) origin

B) initial

C) popularity

D) potential

71.

A) relevant

B) responsive

C) reluctant

D) respective

72.

A) out

B) off

C) away

D) up

73.

A) casual

B) elective

C) domestic

D) voluntary

74.

A) or

B) thus

C) so

D) and

75.

A) Occasional

B) Exceptional

C) Informative

D) Relative

76.

A) perform

B) convey

C) circulate

D) formulate

77.

A) roughly

B) randomly

C) formally

D) fortunately

78.

A) For instance

B) In essence

C) In contrast

D) Of course

79.

A) demonstrated

B) determined

C) operated

D) involved

80.

A) device

B) section

C) scheme

D) distraction

81.

A) attendants

B) agents

C) members

D) peers