201312六级考试大学英语六级真题+答案+听力原文01

2013年12月大学英语六级考试真题(第1套）

Part I Writing(30 minutes)

(请于正式开考后半小时内完成该部分，之后将迸行听力考试）

Directions:For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay on happiness by referrin

g to the saying “Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the ability to deal with them.Y

ou can cite examples to illustrate your point and then explain how you can develop your ability

to deal with problems and be happy. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 20

0 words.

Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)

Section A

Directions:In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the

end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the c

onversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pau

se. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide whi

ch is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line

through the center.

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1.A) The rock band needs more hours of practice.

B)The rock band is going to play here for a month.

C)Their hard work has resulted in a big success.

D)He appreciates the woman‘s help with the band.

2.A) Go on a diving tour in Europe.

B) Add 300 dollars to his budget.

C)Travel overseas on his own.

D)Join a package tour to Mexico.

3.A) In case some problem should occur.

B) Something unexpected has happened.

C)To avoid more work later on.

D)To make better Preparations.

4.A) The woman asked for a free pass to try out the facilities.

B)The man is going to renew his membership in a fitness center.

C)The woman can give the man a discount if he joins the club now.

D)The man can try out the facilities before he becomes a member.

5A) He is not afraid of challenge.

B)He is not fit to study science.

C)He is worried about the test.

D)He is going to drop the physics course

6.A) Pay for part of the picnic food.

B) Invite Gary‘s family to dinner.

C)Buy something special for Gary.

D)Take some food to the picnic.

7 .A) Bus drivers‘ working conditions C)Public transportation.

B) A labor dispute at a bus company. D) A corporate takeover.

8.A) The bank statement C) The payment for an order.

B) Their sales overseas. D) The check just deposited.

Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

9.A) A hotel receptionist. C ) A shop assistant.

B) A private secretary. D) A sales manager.

10. A) Voice. C) Appearance.

B) Intelligence . D)Manners.

11. A) Arrange one more interview

B)Offer the job to David Wallace.

C) Report the matter to their boss.

D) Hire Barbara Jones on a trial basis.

Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

12.A) He invented the refrigerator. C)He got a degree in Mathematics.

B) He patented his first invention.D)He was admitted to university.

13.A) He distinguished himself in low temperature physics.

B)He fell in love with Natasha Willoughby.

C)He became a professor of Mathematics.

D)He started to work on refrigeration.

14A) Finding the true nature of subatomic particles.

B)Their work on very high frequency radio waves.

C)Laying the foundations of modem mathematics.

D)Their discovery of the laws of cause and effect.

15.A) To teach at a university.C) To spend his remaining years.

B)To patent his inventions.D) To have a three-week holiday.

Section B

Directions: I n this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will h ear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will he spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). The n mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the center.

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Passage One

Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.

16A) They have fallen prey to wolves.

B)They have become a tourist attraction.

C)They have caused lots of damage to crops.

D)They have become a headache to the community.

17. A) To celebrate their victory.C) To scare the wolves.

B)To cheer up the hunters.D) To alert the deer.

18A) They would help to spread a fatal disease.

B)They would pose a threat to the children.

C)They would endanger domestic animals.

D)They would eventually kill off the deer.

Passage Two

Questions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.

19. A)She is an interpreter.C) She domestic servant.

B)She is a tourist guide.D) She is from the royal family

20A) It was used by the family to hold dinner parties.

B)It is situated at the foot of a beautiful mountain.

C)It was frequently visited by heads of state.

D)It is furnished like one in a royal palace.

21.A) It is elaborately decorated.

B)It has survived some 2,000 years.

C)It is very big, with only six slim legs.

D)It is shaped like an ancient Spanish boat.

22A) They are uncomfortable to sit in for long.

B)They do not match the oval table at all.

C)They have lost some of their legs.

D)They are interesting to look at.

Passage Three

Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.

23)A) It in an uncommon infectious disease.

B)It destroys the patient‘s ability to think.

C)It is a disease very difficult to diagnose.

D)It is the biggest crippler of young adults.

24A) Search for the best cure.

C)Write a book about her life.

B)Hurry up and live life. D)Exercise more and work harde

r.

25A) Aggressive. B)Adventurous. C) Sophisticated. D) Seff-centered

Section C

Directions:In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read fort t he first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the s econd time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard.whe n the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.

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It‘s difficult to estimate the number of youngsters involved in home schooling, where children

are not sent to school and receive their formal education from one or both parents. (26) _________ and court decisions have made it legally possible in most states for parents to educate their children at home, and each year more people take advantage of that opportunity. Some states require parents or a home tutor to meet teacher certification sta ndards, and many require parents to complete legal forms to verify that their children are recei ving (27) _______________________________________ in state-approved curricula.

Supports of home education claim that it‘s less expensive and far more

(28) ________ than mass public education. Moreover, they cite several advantages: alleviation of school overcrowding, strengthened family relationships, lower (29)

______ r ates, the fact that students are allowed to learn at their own rate, increased

(30) ________ , higher standardized test scores, and reduced (31) _____________ problems.

Critics of the home schooling movement (32) ____________ that it creates as many problems as it solves. They acknowledge that, in a few cases, home schooling offers education al opportunities superior to those found in most public schools, but few parents can provide suc h educational advantages. Some parents who withdraw their

children from the schools (33) ___________ homeschooling have an inadequate educational background and insufficient formal training to provide a satisfactory

education for their children. Typically, parents have fewer techno logical resources

(34) ________ t han do schools. However, the relatively inexpensive computer

technology that is readily available today is causing some to challenge the notion that

home schooling is in any way (35) ___________ more highly structured classroom education.

Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)

Section A

Directions:In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one w ord for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by

a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single li

ne through the center. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.

Some performance evaluations require supervisors to take action. Employees who receive a very favorable evaluation may deserve some type of recognition or even a promotion. If supervis ors do not acknowledge such outstanding performance, employees may either lose their36 and red uce their effort or search for a new job at a firm that will37 them for high performance. Superviso rs should acknowledge high performance so that the employee will continue to perform well in th e future.

Employees who receive unfavorable evaluations must also be given attention. Supervisors must 38 the reasons for poor performance. Some reasons, such as a family illness, may have a te mporary adverse 39 on performance and can be corrected. Other reasons, such as a bad attitude, may not be temporary. When supervisors give employees an unfavorable evaluation, they must de cide whether to take any 40 actions. If the employees were unaware of their own deficiencies, the unfavorable evaluation can pinpoint(指出）the deficiencies that employees must correct. In this case, the supervisor may simply need to monitor the employees 41 and ensure that the deficiencie s are corrected.

If the employees were already aware of their deficiencies before the evaluation period, ho wever, they may be unable or unwilling to correct them. This situation is more serious, and the supervisor may need to take action. The action should be 42 wi th the firm‘s guidelines and ma

y include reassigning the employees to new jobs, 43 them temporarily, or firing them. A super visor‘s action toward a poorly performing worker can 44 the attitudes of other employees. If no

45 is imposed on an employee for poor performance, other employees may react by reducing t heir productivity as well.

H) circulation M) simplifying

F) closely N) suspending

G) consistent O) vulnerable

H) enthusiasm

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Section B

A) additional I) identify

B) affect J) impact

C) aptly K) penalty

D) assimilate L) reward

Directions:In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements

attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a

paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the

questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.

The College Essay: Why Those 500 Words Drive Us Crazy

A)Meg is a lawyer-mom in suburban Washington, D.C., where lawyer-moms are thick on the grou nd. Her son Doug is one of several hundred thousand high-school seniors who had a painful fall. T he deadline for applying to his favorite college was Nov. 1,and by early October he had yet to fill o ut the application. More to the point, he had yet to settle on a subject for the personal essay accomp anying the application. According to college folklore, a well-turned essay has the power to seduce (诱惑）an admissions committee. ―He wanted to do one thing at a time,‖

Meg says, explaining her son‘s delay. ―But really, my son is a huge procrastinator (拖延者).T he essay is the hardest thing to do, so he‘s put it off the longest.‖ Friends and other veterans of the process have warned Meg that the back and forth between editing parent and writing stude nt can be traumatic (痛苦的).

B)Back in the good old days—say, two years ago, when the last of my children suffered the ordeal (折磨)一a high-school student applying to college could procrastinate all the way to New Year‘s Day of their senior year, assuming they could withstand the parental pestering (烦扰).But things ch ange fast in the nail- biting world of college admissions.The recent trend toward early decision and early action among selective colleges and universities has pushed the traditional deadline of Janua ry up to Nov. 1 or early December for many students.

C)If the time for heel-dragging has been shortened, the true source of the anxiety and panic remain

s what it has always been. And it‘s not the application itself. A college application is a relatively st raightforward questionnaire asking for the basics: name, address, family history employment histor y. It would all be innocent enough—20 minutes of busy work—except it comes attached to a perso nal essay.

D)―There are good reasons it causes such anxiety,‖ says Lisa Sohmer, director of college counselin

g at the Garden School in Jackson Heights, N.Y. ―It‘s not just the actual writing. By now everythin

g else is already set. Your course load is set, your grades are set, your test scores are set. But the es say is something you can still control, and it‘s open-ended. So the temptation is to write and rewrit

e and rewrite.‖ Or stall and stall and stall.

E)The application essay, along with its mythical importance, is a recent invention. In the 1930s,wh en only one in 10 Americans had a degree from a four-year college, an admissions committee was content to ask for a sample of applicants‘ school papers to assess their writing ability. By the 1950s,

most schools required a brief personal statement of why the student had chosen to apply to one sch ool over another.

F)Today nearly 70 percent of graduating seniors go off to college, including two-year

and four-year institutions. Even apart from the increased competition, the kids enter a process that has been utterly transformed from the one baby boomers knew. Nearly all application materials are submitted online, and the Common Application provides a one-size-fits form accepted by more tha n 400 schools, including the nation‘s most selective.

G)Those schools usually require essays of their own, but the longest essay, 500 words maximum, is gen erally attached to the Common Application. Students choose one of six questions. Applicants are asked to describe an ethical dilemma they‘ve faced and its impact on them, or discuss a public issue of special concern to them, or tell of a fictional character or creative work that has profoundly influenced them. Another question invites them to write about the importance (to them, again) of diversity―a word that has assumed magic power in American higher education. The most popular option: write on a topic of your choice.

H)―Boys in particular look at the other questions and say, ?Oh, that‘s too much work，‖，says John Bo shoven, a counselor in the Ann A rbor, Mich., public schools. ―They think if they do a topic of their choi ce, ―I‘ll just go get that history paper I did last year on the Roman Empire and turn it into a first-person application essay!‘ And they end up producing something utterly ridiculous‖

I)Talking to admissions professionals like Boshoven, you realize that the list of

―don‘t‖ in essay writing is much longer than the ―dos‖―No book reports, no history papers, no char acter studies,‖says Sohmer.

J) ―It drives you crazy, how easily kids slip into cliche‘s乃知(老生常谈),‖says Boshoven.

―They don‘t realize how typical their experiences arc. ?I scored the winning goal in soccer against our arch-rival.‘?My grandfather served in World War II, and I hope to be just like him someday.‘ T hat may mean a lot t o that particular kid. But in the world of the application essay, it‘s nothing. Yo u‘ll lose the reader in the first paragraph.‖

K) ―The greatest strength you bring to this essay,‖ says the College Board‘s how-to book, ―is 17 years or so of familiarity with the topic: YOU. The form and style are very familiar, and best of all, you are the world-class expert on the subject of YOU ... It has been the subject of your close scrutiny ev ery morning since you were tall enough to see into the bathroom mirror.‖ Theke y word in the Com mon Application prompts is ―you.‖

L) The college admission essay contains the grandest American themes―status

anxiety, parental piety (孝顺),intellectual standards—and so it is only a matter of

time before it becomes infected by the country‘s culture of excessive concern with self-esteem. Eve n if the question i s ostensibly (表面上）about something outside the self (describe a fictional char acter or solve a problem of geopolitics), the essay invariably returns to the favorite topic: what is it s impact on YOU?

M)―For all the anxiety the essay causes,‖ says Bill McClintick of Mercersburg

Academy in Pennsylvania, ―it‘s a very small piece of the puzzle. I was in college admissions for

10 years. I saw kids and parents beat themselves up over this. And at the vast majority of places,

it is simply not a big variable in the college‘s decision-making process‖

N) Many admissions officers say they spend less than a couple of minutes on each application, inclu ding the essay. According to a recent survey of admissions officers, only one in four private coll eges say the essay is of ―considerable importance‖ in judging an application. Among public coll eges and universities, the number drops to roughly one in 10. By contrast, 86 percent place ―con siderable importance‖ on an applicant‘s grades, 70 percent on ―strength of curriculum.‖

O) Still, at the most selective schools, where thousands of candidates may submit identically high gr ades and test scores, a marginal item like the essay may serve as a tie-breaker between two equal ly qualified candidates. The thought is certainly enough to keep the pot boiling under parents lik

e Meg, the lawyer-mom, as she tries to help her son choose an essay topic. For a moment the oth

er day, she thought she might have hit on a good one. ―His father‘s from France,‖ she says. ―I sa id maybe you could write about that, as something that makes you different. You know: half Fre

nch, half American. I said, ?You could write about your identity issues.‘ He said, ?I do n‘t have a ny identity issues!‘ And he‘s right. He‘s a well- adjusted, normal kid. But that doesn‘t make for

a good essay, does it?‖

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46.Today many universities require their applicants to write an essay of up to five

hundred words.

47.One recent change in college admissions is that selective colleges and universities have moved th

e traditional deadline to earlier dates.

48.Applicants and their parents are said to believe that the personal essay can sway the admissions c ommittee.

49.Applicants are usually better off if they can write an essay that distinguishes them from the rest.

50.Not only is the competition getting more intense, the application process today is also totally diff erent from what baby boomers knew.

51.In writing about their own experiences many applicants slip into cliches, thus failing to engage th

e reader.

52.According to a recent survey, most public colleges and universities consider an applicant‘s grade s highly important.

53.Although the application essay causes lots of anxiety, it does not play so important a role in the c ollege‘s decision-making process.

54.The question you are supposed to write about may seem outside the self, but the theme of the ess ay should center around its impact on you.

55.In the old days, applicants only had to submit a sample of their school papers to show their wri ting ability.

Section C

Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or u nfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked

A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Ans wer Sheet 2 with a single line through the center.

Passage One

Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.

Among the government‘s most interes ting reports is one that estimates what parents spend on th eir children. Not surprisingly, the costs are steep. For a middle- class, husband-and-wife family (aver age pretax income in 2009: $76,250), spending per child is about $12,000 a year. With inflation the f amily‘s spending on a child will total $286,050 by age 17.

The dry statistics ought to inform the ongoing deficit debate, because a budget is not just a catal og of programs and taxes. It reflects a society‘s priorities and values.

Our society does not— despite rhetoric(说辞）to the contrary—put much value on

raising children. Present budget policies tax parents heavily to support the elderly. Meanwhile, tax

breaks for children are modest. If deficit reduction aggravates these biases, more Americans may choose not to have children or to have fewer children. Down that path lies economic decline.

Societies that cannot replace their populations discourage investment and

innovation. They have stagnant (萧条的）or shrinking markets for goods and services.

With older populations, theyresist change. To stabilize its population—discounting immigration—wo men must have an average of two children. That‘s a fertility rate of 2.0.Many countries with strugglin g economies are well below that.

Though having a child is a deepl y personal decision, it‘s shaped by culture, religion, econom ics, and government policy. ―No one has a good answer‖ as to why fertility varies among countrie s, says sociologist Andrew Cherlin of The Johns Hopkins University. Eroding religious belief in E urope may partly explain lowered birthrates. In Japan young women may be rebelling against thei

r mothers‘ isolated lives of child rearing. General optimism and pessimism count. Hopefulness fue led America‘s baby boom. After the Soviet Union‘s collapse, says Cherlin, ―anxiety for the future‖

depressed birthrates in Russiaand Eastern Europe.

In poor societies, people have children to improve their economic well-being by increasing the number of family workers and providing supports for parents in their old age. In wealthy societies, th e logic often reverses. Government now supports the elderly, diminishing the need for children. By s ome studies, the safety nets for retirees have reduced fertility rates by 0.5 children in the United State s and almost 1.0 in Western Europe, reports economist Robert Stein in the journal National Affairs. Similarly, some couples don‘t have children because they don‘t want to sacrifice their own lifestyles t o the lime and expense of a family.

Young Americans already face a bleak labor market that cannot instill (注入）confidence about having children. Piling on higher taxes won‘t help, ―If higher taxes make it more expensive to raise ch ildren,‖ says Nicholas Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute, ―people will think twice about h a ving another child.‖ That seems like common sense, despite the multiple influences on becoming par ents.

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56.What do we learn from the government report?

A)Inflation increases families‘ expenses.

B)Raising children is getting expensive.

C)Budget reduction in around the corner.

D)Average family expenditure is increasing.

57.What is said to be the consequence of a shrinking population?

A)Weakened national strength.

B)Increased immigration.

C) Economic downturn.

D) Social instability.

58)Wha t accounted for America‘s baby boom?

A)Optimism for the future.

B)Improved living conditions.

C)Religious beliefs.

D)Economic prosperity.

59.Why do people in wealthy countries prefer to have fewer children?

A)They want to further improve their economic well-being.

B)They cannot afford the time and expenses of rearing children.

C)They are concerned about the future of the coming generation.

D)They don‘t rely on their children to support them in old age.

60.What is the author‘s purpose in writing the passage?

A)To instill confidence in the young about raising children.

B)To advise couples to think twice before having children.

C)To encourage the young to take care of the elderly.

D)To appeal for tax reduction for raising children.

Passage Two

Questions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage.

Space exploration has always been the province of dreamers: The human

imagination readily soars where human ingenuity (创造力）struggles to follow. A

Voyage to the Moon,often cited as the first science fiction story, was written by Cyrano de Bergerac i n 1649. Cyrano was dead and buried for a good three centuries before the first manned rockets started to fly.

In 1961, when President Kennedy declared that America would send a man to the moon by the de cade‘s end, those words, too, had a dreamlike quality. They

resonated(共鸣）with optimism and ambition in much the same way as the most famous dream speec h of all, delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. two years later. By the end of the decade, both visions ha d yielded concrete results and transformed American society. And yet in many ways the two dreams e nded up at odds with each

other. The fight for racial and economic equality is intensely pragmatic (讲求实用的)

and immediate in its impact. The urge to explore space is just the opposite. It is figuratively and literall y otherworldly in its aims.

When the dust settled, the space dreamers lost out. There was no grand follow-up to the Apollo mi ssions. The technologically compromised space shuttle program has just come to an end, with no succe ssor. The perpetual argument is that funds are tight, that we have more pressing problems here on Eart h. Amid the current concerns about the federal deficit, reaching toward the stars seems a dispensable lu xury—as if saving one-thousandth of a single year‘s budget would solve our problems.

But human ingenuity struggles on. NASA is developing a series of robotic probes that will get the most bang from a buck. They will serve as modem Magellans, mapping out the solar system for whate ver explorers follow, whether man or machine. On the flip side, companies like Virgin Galactic are plo tting a bottom-up assault on the space dream by making it a reality to the public. Private spaceflight co uld lie within reach of rich civilians in a few years. Another decade or two and it could go mainstream.

The space dreamers end up benefiting all of us—not just because of the way they expand human k nowledge, or because of the spin-off technologies they produce, but because the two types of dreams f eed off each other. Both Martin Luther King and John Kennedy appealed to the idea that humans can tr anscend what were once considered inherent limitations. Today we face seeming challenges in energy, the environment, health care. Tomorrow we will transcend these as well, and the dreamers will deserve a lot of the credit. The more evidence we collect that our species is capable of greatness, the more we will actually achieve it.

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61.The author mentions Cyrano de Bergerac in order to show that _________________ .

A)imagination is the mother of invention

B)ingenuity is essential for science fiction writers

C)it takes patience for humans to realize their dreams

D)dreamers have always been interested in science fiction

62.How did the general public view Kennedy‘s space exploration plan?

A)It symbolized the American spirit.

B)It was as urgent as racial equality.

C)It sounded very much like a dream.

D)It made an ancient dream come true.

63.What does the author say about America‘s aim to explore space?

A)It may not bring about immediate economic gains.

B)It cannot be realized without technological innovation.

C)It will not help the realization of racial and economic equality.

D)It cannot be achieved without a good knowledge of the other worlds.

64.What is the author‘s attitude toward space programs?

A) Critical. C) Unbiased.

B) Reserved. D) Supportive.

65.What does the author think of the problems facing human beings?

A)They pose a serious challenge to future human existence.

B)They can be solved sooner or later with human ingenuity.

C)Their solutions need joint efforts of the public and private sectors.

D)They can only be solved by people with optimism and ambition.

Part IV Translation(30 minutes)

Directions:For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into E nglish. You should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2.

中国园林(the Chinese garden)是经讨三千多年演变而成的独具一格的园林景观(landscape)。它既包括为皇室成员享乐而建造的大型花园，也包括学者、商人和卸任的政府官员为摆脱嘈杂的外部世界而建造的私家花园。这些花园构成了一种意在表达人与自然之间应有的和稭关系的微缩景观。典型的中国园林四周有闱墙.园内有池塘、假山( rock work)、树木、花草以及各种各样由婉蜒的小路和走廊连接的建筑。漫步在花园中，人们可以看到一系列精心设计的景观犹如山水画鲞(scroll)-般展现在面前。

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2013年12月大学英语六级考试真题

答案与详解(第l套)

Part I Writing

范文点评

Part II Listening Comprehension

Section A

1. W: What a wonderful performance! Your rock band has never sounded better.

M: Many thanks. I guess all those hours of practice in the past month are finally paying off.

Q: What does the man mean? C)。

2. M: I can't decide what to do for my summer vacation. I either want to go on a bike tour of Europe or go diving in Mexico.

W: Well, we're offering an all-inclusive two-week trip to Mexico for only 300 dollars.

Q: What does the woman suggest the man do for his vacation? D)。

3. W: How long do you think this project might take?

M: I'd say about three months, but it could take longer if something unexpected happened. Maybe we'd better allow an extra month, so we won't have to worry about being late.

Q: Why does the man say extra time should be allowed! for the project? A)。

4. M: I'm thinking about becoming a member here, and I'd like some information.

W: Sure. A three-month membership costs 150 dollars, and that includes use of the wait room, sauna and pool.I'll give you a free pass so that you can try out the facilities before you decide.

Q: What do we learn from the conversation? D) 。

5. W: I'm sorry to hear that you failed the physics course, Ted.

M: Let's face it. I',m just not cut out to be a scientist.

Q: What does the man mean? B) 。

6. M: Gary insisted on buying the food for the picnic.

W: That's pretty generous of him.But shouldn't we at least offer to share the expenses? He has a big family to support.

Q: What does the woman suggest they do? A) 。

7. W: Did you see the headlines in the paper this morning?

M: Yeah. Apparently the bus company will be laying off its employees ff they can't reach an agreement on wages by midnight.

Q: What did the man read about? B) 。

8. W: Have we received payment for the overseas order we delivered last month?

M: Yes. The check came in yesterday afternoon. I'll be depositing it when I go to the bank today.

Q: What is the woman concerned about? C)。

Conversation One

W: OK, that's it. Now we have to make a decision. We might as well do that now, don't you think?

M: Sure, let's see. First we saw Frank Brisenski. What did you think of him?

W: Well, he's certainly a very polite young man.M: And very relaxed, too.

W: (10-1)But his appearance...

M: Urn... (10-2) He wasn't well dressed. He wasn't even wearing a tie.

W: But he did have a nice voice. He'd sound good on the telephone.

M: True. And I thought he seemed very intelligent. He answered Dona's questions very well.

W: That's true, (10-3)but dressing well is important. Well, let's think about the others. Now what about Barbara Jones? She had a nice voice, too. She'd sound good on the telephone, and she was well dressed, too.

M: Um...She did look very neat, very nicely dressed, but...

W: But so shy. (9-1) She wouldn't be very good at talking to people at the front desk.

M: Um...OK. Now who was the next? Ah...Yes, David Wallace. I thought he was very good, had a lot of potential. What do you think?

W: Um...He seemed like a very bright guy. He dressed very nicely, too. And he had a really nice appearance.

M: He seemed relaxed to me, the type of person people feel comfortable with right away.

W: He was polite, but also very friendly and relaxed as you say. ( 9-2 ) I think he'll be good with the guests at the front desk.

M: He had a very pleasant voice, too.

W: That's right. OK, good ! (9-3) ( 11-1 ) I guess we have our receptionist then, don't you?

M: Yes, I think so. (11-2) We'll just offer the job to...

9. What are the speakers looking for? A)。

10. What is Frank Brisenski's weakness? C)。

11. What do the speakers decide to do? B)。

Conversation Two

W: Hello.

M: Hello. Is that the reference library?

W: Yes, can I help you?

M: I hope so. I rang earlier and asked for some information about Dennis HuRon, the scientist. You asked me to ring back.

W: Oh, yes. I have found something.

M: Good. I've got a pencil and paper. Perhaps you could read out what it says.

W: Certainly. Hutton Dennis, born: Darlington,1836, died: New York.1920.

M: Yes, got that.

W: Inventor and physicist, the son of a farm worker. (12) He was admitted to the University of London at the age of 15.

M: Yes.

W: He graduated at 17 with the first class degree in physics and mathematics. All right?

M: Yes, all right.

W: He made his first notable achievement at the age of 18. It was a method of refrigeration which rose from his work in low temperature physics. (13) He became professor of mathematics at the University of Manchester at24, where he remained for twelve years. During that time, he married one of his students, Natasha Willoughby.

M: Yes, go on.

W: Later working together in London, they laid the foundations of modern physics by showing that normal laws of cause and effect do not apply at the level of subatomic particles. ( 14 ) For this he and his wife received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1910, and did so again in 1912 for their work on Very high frequency radio waves. In his lifetime, Hutton patented 244 inventions. Do you want any more?

M: Yes. When did he go to America?

W: Let me see. (15) In 1920 he went to teach in New York and died there suddenly after only three weeks. Still he was a good age.

M: Yes I suppose so. Well, thanks.

12. What do we learn about Dennis Hut-ton when he was 15? D)。

13. What did Dennis Hutton do at the age of 24? C)。

14. For what were Dennis Hutton and his wife awarded the Nobel Prize a second time? B)。

15. Why did Dennis Hutton go to New York? A) 。

Section B

Passage One

(16) In America, white-tailed deer are more numerous than ever before, so abundant in fact that they've become a suburban nuisance and a health hazard. Why can't the herd be thinned the old-fashioned way? The small community of North Haven on Long Island is home to some six hundred to seven hundred deer. The department of Environmental Conservation estimates the optimum population at 60. The town has been browsed bare of vegetation except where gardens and shrubs are protected by high fences.

Drivers routinely collide with deer and there are so many dead bodies left by the side of the road that the town has made it a deal with a local pet cemetery to collect and dispose of the bodies. Some people in the town have become ill from deer transmitted diseases. On the occasions when hunting has been tried, local animal fights people have worked to secure court orders against the hunts. And when that is failed, (17) they stop the hunters, banging on pots and pans to alert the deer. Town meetings called to discuss the

problem inevitably dissolved into confrontations.

The activists believe simply that the deer are not the problem. Some communities have even discussed the possibility of bringing wolves back into the ecological mix. That means wolves in the suburbs of New York. It is almost too wonderful not to try it. (18) The wolves would kill deer of course. They would also terrorize and kill dogs and cats, which is not what the suburban dwellers have in mind.

16. What do we learn about white-tailed deer in North Haven? D)。

17. Why do local animal rights people bang on pots and pans? D)。

18. What would happen if wolves were brought back into the ecological mix? C)。

Passage Two

(19-1 ) And now, if you'll walk this way, ladies and gentlemen, (20) the next room we're going to see is the room in which the family used to hold their formal dinner parties and even occasionally entertain heads of state and royalty .However, they managed to keep this room friendly and intimate. And I think you'll agree. It has a very informal atmosphere, quite unlike some grand houses you visit. The curtains were never drawn, even at night, so guests got a view of the lake and fountains outside which were lit up at night--a very attractive sight.

As you can see, ladies and gentlemen, the guests were seated very informally around this oval table, which would add to the relaxed atmosphere. The table dates from the 18th century and is made from Spanish oak. (21)It's rather remarkable for the fact that although it's extremely big, it's__supported_by just six rather slim legs.However, it seems to have survived like that for 200 years. So it's probably going to last a bit longer. The chairs which go with the table are not a complete set. There were originally six of them. They are interesting for the fact that they are very plain and undecorated for the time, with only one plain central panel at the back and no armrests.(22) myself fred them rather uncomfortable to sit in for very long, but people were used to more discomfort in the past. (19-2) And now, ladies and gentlemen, if you'd like to follow me into the great hall...

19. What do we learn about the speaker? B) 。

20. What does the speaker say about the room they are visiting? A) 。

21. What is said about the oval table in the room? C) 。

22. What does the speaker say about the chairs? A) 。

Passage Three

Jmet James was 22 years old when she was diagnosed with MS—a disease that attacks the body s nerves. She had just graduated from college and got a job at an advertising agency when she began to sense that something strange was going on inside her body. (24) When James realized how severe her illness was, she knew she had better hurry up and live life. (23) MS is the biggest crippler of young adults. And although she didn't have many symptoms, she knew it was just a matter of time. First on her agehda was to pursue her dream of hosting a pop music program. She worked at a radio station for a year, always aware that her body was degenerating. Then her best friend moved away. And one night James began screaming, "I got to go! I got to go!" Two weeks later, she arrived at Alaska, thousands of miles from her friends, her family and her past. "Everything fell into a place", she recalls. A 23-year-old girl with an incurable disease can fly to Alaska and everything can work out. The MS attacks came and went. And most of the time they hardly slowed her down. (25) James hiked, fished, learnt to sail and experimented with hot air ballooning. "I lived for adventure", she says. "Nobody ever had a better time or did more exotic strange things than I did in an 80-year period." Inevitably however, the day came when she was so weakened that she had to return to Pittsburgh, her home town. There she began relieving her adventures by writing a book about them. Her book was published in 1993.

23. What does the speaker say about MS? D)。

24. What did Janet James decide to do after her disease was diagnosed? B)。

25. What sort of person can we infer Janet James is? B) 。

Section C

26. Legislation 27. instruction 28. efficient 29. dropout 30. motivation31. discipline 32. contend 33. in favor of 34. at their disposal 35. inferior to

Par III Reading Comprehension

Section A

选项归类

36．H)enthusiasm。该空格位于动词lose和形容词性物主代词their之后，因此应该填入名词，充当lose的宾语。根据文意可知，如果管理者没有认可员工的杰出表现，员工很可能丧失工作热情，而且下文提到的―不再像以前那样努力‖也正是丧失工作热情的具体表现。由此可以确定答案为H)enthusiasm―热情，热心‖。备选项里还有circulation―流通‖，im pact―影响‖和penalty―惩罚‖三个名词，但均不能和前面的动词lose搭配，也不符合上下文语义，故均排除。

37．L)reward。该空格前面有情态动词will，后面接有代词them，因此应该填入动词原形。根据

句意可知，如果管理者没有认可员工的杰出表现，员工很可能丧失工作热情，或者跳槽到其他公司，其目的当然是希望出色的表现能够获得相应的回恨。此处填入reward符合句意和形式上的要求，因此确定答案为L)reward―奖励，奖赏‖。备选项里的动词原形还有affect―影响‖，assimilate―同化‖，identify―识别‖，但是均不符合上下文语义，所以排除。

38．I)identify。空格前面有情态动词must，后面接有名词短语the reasons作宾语，因此应填人动词原形。下文具体介绍了员工们表现不佳的各种原因，根据逻辑关系，本句中要表达的意思应该为：管理者必须确定员工表现不佳的原因。由此确定空格处应该填入I)identify―确定，识别‖。备选项里还有affect―影响‖，assimilate―同化‖两个动词原形，其后接the reasons不符合上下文语义，故均排除。

39．J)impact。空格前面有形容词adverse修饰，充当动词have的宾语，而且后面接有介词on引导的短语，因此应该填入名词J根据上下文可知，本句谈论员工表现不佳的原因，家庭成员生病之类的原因会对员工的表现产生短暂的负面影响。impact符合句意要求，而且能够构成固定短语have an impact on，由此确定答案为J)。备选项里还有两个名词circulation―流通‖和penalty―惩罚‖，这两个词都不能被adverse修饰，也不能和介词Oil搭配，因此均排除。

40．A)additional。该空格前面有动词take，后面有名词actions，所以判断空格处应填入形容词。根据下文可知，下文介绍了管理糟采取的后续措施，因此推测本句的句意为：管理者必须决定是否需要采取进一步的措施。A)additional―额外的‖符合句意，故为答案。备选项里还有consistent―一致的‖和vulnerable―易受攻击的‖两个形容词，但均与上下文语义不符，故可以排除。

41．F)closely。空格所在的句子结构完整，因此判断空格处应填入副词，修饰动词monitor。根据上下文，负面评价能够指出员亡们必须纠正的不足之处，这样的话，管理者可能只需要严密监督这些员工，以便确保他们能够纠正其不足之处。cl osely―严密地‖，monitor closely意为―严密监督‖，符合句意，故确定closely为答案。备选项里还有另一个副词aptly―适宜地，适当地‖，与上下文语义不符，故可以排除。

42．G)consistent。该空格前面为系动词be，后面接有with引导的介词短语，因此判断应填入形容词。分析句子结构可知．填入的影容词可以和后面的介词with搭配。备选形容词中只有consistent 可以和with搭配，而且be consistent with―与……保持一致‖符合句意，即采取的措施应该与公司的方针保持一致，所以确定答案为G)consistent―一致的，相符的‖。备选项里还有另一个形容词vulnerable―易受攻击的，易受伤害的‖，但其后常接介词to，不符合搭配要求，故排除。43．N)suspending。分析句子结构可知，空格处与前面的reassigning以及后面的firing是并列关系，共同充当动词include的宾语，因此空格处应该填人动名词。根据上文，对于那些不能或者不愿意纠正自身不足的员工，需要采取进一步的措施，包括重新分配工作，甚至解聘。N)suspending 有―停职‖的意思，与其他两项措施语义一致，故为答案。备选项里还有一个动名词simplifying―简化‖，与上下文语义不符，故排除。

44．B)affect。该空格前面有情态动词call，后面有名词短语the attitudes充当宾语，因此判断空格处应填入动词原形。空格下一句指出，如果表现不佳的员工没有受到相应的惩罚，对其他员工的影响可能是降低他们的工作效率。由此可见，管理者对表现不佳的员工采取的措施会影响其他员工的态度。B)affect―影响‖填入空格处符合句意，故为答案。备选项里还有一个动词原形assimilate―吸收，同化‖，不能接宾语the attitudes，因此排除。

45．K)penalty。该空格前面有no，充当句子主语，而且是后面动词impose的逻辑宾语，因此判断应填人名词。根据句意，如果表现不佳的员工没有受到相应的惩罚，其他的员工可能会受到影响，降低他们的工作效率。Penalty的意思为―惩罚，处罚‖，能够和impose搭配构成固定短语impose penalty on ―对……进行惩罚‖，符合句意要求，所以答案为K）。备选项里的名词还有circulation―流通，传播，循环‖，但不能和句中的impose搭配，也不符合上下文语义，故可以。

Section B

试题详解

46．Today many universities require their applicants to write an essay of up to five hundred words．

译文：现在，很多高校都要求申请人撰写一篇多达500字的论文。

定位：参由题千关键词essay和up to five hundred words定位到原文划线处。

G)。详解G)段第一句提到，那些学校通常要求申请人提供原刨论文，但是最长的论文不超过500字，一般和通用申请表一起提交。本题题干将原文简化为―很多高校都要求申请人撰写一篇多达500字的论文‖，是对原文的同义转述，故答案为G)。

47．One recent change in college admissions is that selective colleges and universities have moved the traditional deadline to earlier dates．

译文：最近．大学录取过程出现了一个变化，具有竞争力的高校将传统的申请截止日期提前了一些。

定位：由题干关键词selective colleges and universities，traditional deadline定位到原文划线处。

B)。详解：B)段倒数第二句提到，大学录取方面的事情瞬息万变。接着在最后一句中具体指出最近发生的变化：入学申请的截止日期由传统的l月份提前到ll月1日或者12月初。题干中的―申

请截止日期提前了一些‖是对原文中的具体日期进行概括性说明。其中的moved…t o…是对原文中的pushed…up to…的同义转述，故确定本题的答案为B)。

48．Applicants and their parents are said to believe that the personal essay can sway the admissions committee．

译文：据说，申请人和他们的父母认为，个人论文能够对录取委员会的录取决定产生很大影响。定位：由题干关键词sway，admissions committee定位到原文划线处。

A)。详解：A)段以梅格母子为例介绍了学生和家长们对个人论文的看法，措辞优美的论文足以对录取委员会产生诱惑，即影响其做出的录取决定。题干中的sway意为―影响，使动摇‖，与原文中的seduce意思相近，题干中的Can是对原文中的has the power的同义转述，故答案为A)。49．Applicants are usually better off if they call write all essay that distinguishes them from the rest．译文：如果申请人撰写的论文比其他人更优秀，那么就会在录取中占优势。

定位：由题于关键词better off，"distinguishes定位到原文划线处。

O)。详解：O)段第一句提到，在一些最具竞争力的高校里，候选人所提交的成绩和测验分数同样都很高。对于两位具有相同资质的候选人来说，论文之类的边缘项目可能会起到决定成败的作用。题干是对原文的概述，题干中的are better off是对原文中的serve as a tie—breaker的同义转述．故答案为O)。

50．Not only is the competition getting more intense，the application process today is also totally different from what baby boomers knew．译文：现在不仅竞争越来越严峻，申请程序也与婴儿潮时期出生盼一代人所了解的大相径庭。

定位：由题干关键词competition，application process．what baby boomers knew定位到原文划线处。

F)。详解：F)段第二句提到，即使不考虑竞争加剧的因素，现在的孩子们需要经历的过程与婴儿潮时期出生的那代人所经历的过程完全不同。这说明现在的入学申请竞争不断加剧，而且申请程序也与以前完全不同。题干正是对这一内容的同义转述。题干中的the competition getting more intense是对原文中的the increased competition的同义转述，题干中的totally different from和原文中的has been utterly transformed from意思相同，故确定本题答案为F)。

51．In writing about their own experiences many applicants slip into clich6s，thus failing to engage the reader．

译文：在写到个人经历时，许多申请人会陷入老生常谈的泥沼中，导致无法吸引读者。

定位：由题干关键词slip into cliches，failing to engage the reader定位到原文划线处。

J)。详解：J)段第一句提到博斯文对孩子们写作的评价，孩子们写作的内容往往是一些老生常谈的问题，会让你感到抓狂。最后一句提到，对于这样的论文，人们读完第一段就不愿意继续读下去了。题于将原文中具有因果关系的两件事情明确地表述了出来。题于中的slip into cliches和原文表述完全一致，题干中的failing to engage the reader是对原文中的lose the reader in the first paragraph的周义转述，故确定答案为J)。

52．According to a recent survey，most public colleges and universities consider an applicant‘s grades highly important．

译文：最近的一份调查显示，大部分高等学校认为申请人的成绩非常重要。

定位：由题千关键词According to a recent survey，an applicant's grades，highly important定位到原文划线处。

N)。详解：N)段介绍了最近开展的一项关于招生负责人的调查结果。该段最后一句提到，86％的学校认为申请人的成绩―非常重要‖。题干中的According to a recent survey与原文表述完全一致，题干中的most一词是对86 percent的总结。题干中的consider…important与原文中的

place―considerable importance‖on意思相同，因此确定答案为N)。

53．Although the application essay causes lots of anxiety，it does not play so important a role in the college‘s decision-making process．

译文：尽管入学申请论文导致(学生和家长)焦虑万分，但是其在大学决定性的录取过程中并没有起到那么重要的作用。

定位：由题干关键词causes lots of anxiety，in the college's decision-making process定位到原文划线处。

M)。详解：M)段第一句中提到了入学申请论文会导致很多焦虑，最后一句中提到，在绝大多数地方，论文在大学决定性的录取过程中并不是一个多么重要的因素。题干则是借助连词although 把原文中开头和结尾两个具有让步关系的句子连接起来。题干中的causes lots of anxiety和原文中的all the anxiety the essay causes意思相同，题干中的does not play so important a rote和原文中的simply not a big variable是同义转述，题干中的in the college‘s decision-making process和原文中的表述完全一致，因此确定答案为M)。

54．The question you aye supposed to write about may seem outside the self，but the theme of the essay should center around its impact on you．

译文：尽管你所要写作的问题看起来有些像自我之外的东西，但是论文的主题应该围绕它对你产生的影响而展开。

定位：由题干关键词outside the self，its impact on you定位到原文划线处。

L)。详解：L)段最后一句提到，即使从表面上看，问题是关于自我之外的东西．论文仍然会回归到那个最受人喜爱的话题：它对―你自己‖有什么影响?题干中的表述是对原文的同义转述。题干中的outside the self与原文中的表述完全一致，题干中的should center around是对原文中的invariably returns to the favorite topic的同义转述，题干中的 its impact on you是对原文中的what is its impact on YOU的简化，由此确定答案为L)。

55． a sample of their school papers to show their writing ability．

译文：在过去，申请人只需提交一份学校试卷的样本来展示他们的写作能力即可。

定位：由题干关键词a sample of their school papers，writing ability定位到原文划线处。

E)。详解：E)段中提到20世纪30年代如何评估申请人的写作能力：录取委员会要求申请人提供在校期间的试卷样本，这样就可以评估他们的写作能力。题干中的In the old days是对原文中的In the1930s的模糊化处理，题干中的applicants only had to submit和原文中的all admissions committee was content to ask for是同义转述，题干中的a sample of their school papers和writing ability 与原文中的表述完全一致，因此确定E)为本题的答案。

Section C

Passage One

全文翻译

试题详解

56．B)。定位：由题干中的government report定位到文章首段第一、二句。

详解：事实细节题。文章首句提到，在政府的众多报告中，最有趣的一份是估算父母在子女身上所花费用的报告；第二句接着指出具体内容，相关费用急剧增加，这一点不足为奇。由此可见，政府报告的内容主要是抚养子女的费用急剧增加。本题的解题关键在于理解steep这个词。steep 最常用的意思为―陡峭的‖，此处引申为―急剧的‖，故确定答案为B)。

点晴：文章第一段明确指出，要谈论的话题是关于父母抚养子女费用不断增加的政府报告，而不是关于A)―通货膨胀增加了家庭的费用‖、C)―减少预算即将实施‖和D)―普通家庭的支出持续增加‖，因此均排除。

57．C)。定位：由题干中的the consequence of a shrinking population定位到文章第二段最后两句。详解：事实细节题。文章第二段倒数第二句提到，可能会有更多的美国人选择不要孩子或者少要孩子，即题干中的shrinking population；最后一句指出其后果是经济衰退(economic decline)，句中的Down that path lies的字面意思为―沿着那条道路会有……‖，这里引申为―结果‖，即题于中的consequence。C)Economic downturn和原文中的economic decline意思相同，所以确定C)为答案。点晴：A)―国家力量衰弱‖和D)―社会不稳定‖原文中未提及，可以排除；B)―外来移民增加‘‘在第三段第四句中提到，但不是在谈人口减少带来的后果，而是如何稳定人口数量，因此排除。58．A)定位：由题干中的America‘s baby boom定位到文章第四段第六句。详解：事实细节题。文章第四段第五句指出，普遍的乐观情绪和悲观情绪影响很大。第六句中以美国为例指出了乐观情绪的积极作用，满怀希望燃起了美国生育高峰的熊熊烈火。由此可见，导致美国生育高峰的原因是hopefulness，也就是第五句中提到的optimism。由此确定A)为答案。

点晴：虽然文章第四段第一句的确提到，生育子女受到文化、宗教、经济和政府政策的巨大影响，但是第六句举出美国出现生育高峰的例子，以及下一句中俄罗斯和东欧的生育率降低的例子，都是为了证明第五句中提到的―普遍的乐观情绪和悲观情绪影响很大‖。因此，排除B)―生活条件

提高‖、C)―宗教信仰‖以及D)―经济繁荣‖。

59．D)定位：由题干中的wealthy countries定位到文章第五段第二至四句。

详解：推理判断题。文章第五段第二句提到，在富裕社会里，越一逻辑与贫穷社会恰恰相反；第三句中进一步说明，由于政府现在大力支持老年人，客观上减少了对子女的需求，所以人们倾向于少生孩子。第四句中通过一些研究的结果进一步说明人们倾向于少生孩子的原因在于为退休人员织就的安全网。综合以上内容可知，富裕社会的人不愿意生孩子，原因在于政府为老年人提供的福利条件较好，不需要子女为他们养老，所以确定D)为答案。

点晴：第五段第一句提到，贫穷社会里的人们愿意多生孩子，是因为这样可以增加家庭里的劳动力数量，从而有助于改善家庭的经济状况，但是本题谈论的是在富裕社会里，因此可以排除A)―他们想要进一步提高经济状况‖；第五段最后一句提到，许多夫妇不愿意生育子女，因为他们不愿意牺牲自己的生活方式，投入大量的时间和金钱去照顾一个家庭，但这不能说明他们没有时间和资金养育子女，因此可以排除B)―他们没有时间和资金养育子女‖；C)―他们关注下一代的未来‖原文中未提及，可以排除。

60．D)定位：由题干中的purpose in writing the passage可知，本题考查文章主旨。对于主旨题，要特别注意首尾段以及每段的首句。

详解：主旨大意题。作者在第二段指出，我们的社会并不太重视子女的抚养，为了赡养老人，当前的预算政策导致父母们的纳税负担过重，与此同时，针对儿童的税收减免却少得多。如果赤字削减进一步加剧这种偏差，将导致生育率降低，最终导致经济衰退。最后一段借用尼古拉斯·艾伯斯塔德的话总结全文，也道出了作者写这篇文章的目的。该段第二句中指出，更高的税收将导致抚养子女的费用更高，对于再生育一个子女的问题，人们可能会三思而后行。由此可知，作者呼吁降低抚养税费，提高生育率，故答案为D)。

点晴：作者在最后一段首句提到了美国年轻人的现状：面对一个萧条的劳动力市场，导致他们没有信心去生儿育女，但原文并未提及作者的目的是给年轻人抚养子女注入信心，故排除A)―增强年轻人抚养子女的信心‖；最后一般中引用尼古拉斯·艾伯斯塔德的话，更高的税收将导致抚养子女的费用更高，对于再生育一个子女的问题，人们可能会三思而后行，可见，税收太高，不利于提升生育率，而文中指出，生育率降低，最终会导致经济衰退，可见，作者是提倡人们多生育子女的，B)―建议人们在生育孩子的问题上三思而后行‖与原文意思相反，故排除；C)―鼓励年轻人去照顾老人‖不是本文的主题，当然也不是作者写作本文的目的，故排除。

Passage Two

全文翻译

试题详解

61．A)。定位：由题干中的Cyrm30 de Bergerac定位到文章第一段。

详解：推理判断题。文章开篇指出，人类的想象力很容易就扶摇直上进入太空，而人类的创造力也苦苦地紧迫不舍，接着以Cyrano de Bergerac科幻小说中的想象多年以后最终成为现实为例进行证明，从而说明，先有想象力的存在，然后真正的创造才有可能成为现实，即A)中论述的―想象是创造之母‖，由此确定A)为答案。

点晴：作者在第一段中举出Cyrano de Bergerac的例子，是为了证明第一句中提到的观点，丰富的想象力是进行创造的基础，而不是为r证明B)―足智多谋对于科幻小说作家来说是非常重要的‖、C)―人类实现梦想不能操之过急‖和D)―梦想家们一直都对科幻小说非常感兴趣‖，因此可以排除这三个选项。

62．C)。定位：由题干中的Kennedy，space exploration plan定位到文章第二段第一句。

详解：事实细节题。定位句提到，l961年肯尼迪总统宣布美国将在60年代末以前把人类送到月球上。民众对这一计划的反应是：那些话语同样也像是做梦一般．由此确定C)为答案。

点晴：文章中没有提到美国精神，因此可以排除A)―它象征着美国精神‖；第二段最后三句提到，为种族和经济平等的斗争讲求实用，其能够产生立竿见影的效果，而探索太空的欲望却恰恰相反，其目标更具有象征意义，由此可见，民众认为太空探索计划只是具有象征意义，并不像寻求种族平等那样紧迫，因此排除B)―它和种族平等一样紧迫‖；D)―它使一个古代梦想成为现实‖，虽然这是事实，但并不是民众当时的反应，所以也可以排除。

63。A)。定位：由题干中的America's aim to explore space定位到文章第二段最后三句。

详解：观点态度题。文章第二段倒数第三句提到，为种族平等和经济平等的斗争非常讲求实用，其能够产生立竿见影的效果，例数第二句，p接着指出，探索太空的欲望却恰恰相反，说明作者认为探索太空并不实用，不能产生立竿见影的效果，最后一句补充说明其看法，(太空探索的)目标更具象征意义，给人一种超凡脱俗的感觉。由此可见，作者认为，美国的太空探索可能不会在短期内产生多少经济效益，所以确定A)为答案。

点晴：本文谈论的主题是是否应该开展太空探索，而不是如何开展太空探索活动，B)―没有技术革新，它将无法实现‖和D)―不充分了解其他世界，它是无法实现的‖是在探讨如何才能实现太空探索计划，所以可以排除；第五段第一句提到，太空梦想家们的努力终将造福我们所有人，因为两种类型的梦想可以相互扶持，由此可见．开展太空探索对于实现种族平等和经济平等也会起到促进作用，所以可以排除C)―它不会对实现种族平等和经济平等起到帮助作用‖。

64．D)。定位：由题干中的attitude toward space programs定位到文章第四段第一句、第五段第一句和第五段第三、四句。

详解：观点态度题。解答本题需要从整体上把握全文结构。作者采取了欲扬先抑的写作手法，前三段指出目前的资金紧张导致太空探索陷入后继无人的尴尬境地，第四段开头使用but一词，笔锋一转，指出人类的创造依然在艰难中前行，第垃段第一句接着指出，太空梦想家们的努力终将造福我们所有人，第三、四句进一步突出主题，将来我们会超越现在面临的各种挑战，梦想家们也必然会获得相应的赞誉。从整体上来看，作者是支持梦想家们的，也即支持美国的太空探索项目，由此确定答案为D)。

点晴：由前面的分析可以看出，作者支持美国的太空探索项目，同时可以排除A)―批评的‖、B)―含蓄的，缄默的‖和C)―公正的‖。

65．B)。定位：由题干中的the problems facing human beings定位到文章第五段最后三句。

详解：观点态度题。文章第五段第三句提到，我们现在正面临着能源、环境、医疗保健方面的各种所谓的挑战，第四句中作者表明了自己的态度，将来我们同样也会超越这些挑战，梦想家们也必然会获得相应的赞誉，第五句中进～步强调我们要认识到人类的伟大，并且人类将会变得越来越伟大。由此可见，对于人们现在面临的各种问题，作者认为是可以超越的，换句话说，这些问题迟早是能够得到解决的。由此确定B)为答案。

点晴：第五段第四句中作者明确指出，将来我们同样也会超越这些挑战，既然挑战能够被超越，就不会危及到人类将来的生存，因此可以排除A)―它们给未来人类的生存带来严峻的挑战‖；C)―解决这些问题需要公众和个人的共同努力‖，文中没有提及相关信息，可以排除；第二段提到，(肯尼迪总统的)话语就像马丁-路德·金发表的最为著名的梦想演说一样，给人们带来了乐观精神和雄心壮志，但是文中最后没有提到乐观精神和雄心壮志能够解决人类现在所面临的挑战，因此可以排除D)―只有具有乐观精神和雄心壮志的人才能解决这些问题‖。

Part IV Translation

参考译文

The Chinese garden has become a landscape of unique style after an evolution for more than 3,000 years. It includes not only the large gardens built as entertainment venues for royal family, but also the private gardens built as secluded retreats for scholars, merchants and retired government officials. These gardens have constituted aminiature designed to express the harmonious relationship between man and nature. A typical Chinese garden is surrounded by walls, and in the garden there are ponds, rock work, trees, flowers and all kinds of buildings linked by winding trails and corridors. Wandering in the gardens, people may feel that a series of well-designed scenery come into sight just like a landscape scroll.

难点注释

1．第一句中，―三千多年演变‖可以译成all evolvementformorethan3，000 years，不能译成morethe3，000years of evolution；―独具一·格的‖可以用单个形容词unique来表达，也可以用短语of unique style 来表迭。

2．第二句中，―既……也……‖可以套用固定结构not only…but als o…来表达；―为皇室成员享乐而建造的‖转译成更为地道的表达方式built as entertainment venues for…；同样，―为摆脱嘈杂的外部世界而建造的‖也进行了类似的处理，译为bu ilt as secluded retreats for…。

3．第三句中，长定语―一种意在表达人与自然之间应有的和谐关系‖可以译成后置定语，使用定语从句来表达，为了使行文简洁，可以简化成过去分i司结构，即designed to express…。

4．第四句中，―四周有围墙‖用被动句式译出，更符合英语的表达习惯，故译作is surrounded by walls；―园内有……‖应该使用there be句型译出，考虑到表语部分较长，可以将状语部分in the garden提前至句首；长定语―由蜿蜒的小路和走廊连接的‖可以用定语从句译出，为了使行文简洁，

可以简化成过去分词结构，即linked by winding trails and corridors。

5．第五句中，―漫步在花园中‖译成前置状语，但是需要使用现在分词结构；人们看到的内容可以用that引导的宾语从句来表达；―展现‖一词可以用短语spread out表达，富有韵味。

参考答案第二版（第一版很准确，这版就是备用）

作文范文：

The Way to Happiness

1. When it comes to the topic of happiness, everybody has his own interpretation. But an inspiri

ng idea goes that happiness is not the absence of problems, but the ability to deal with them, whi

ch reveals the nature of happiness. Happiness will be achieved only when we show great courag

e to confront problems and develop the capacity to solve them.

2. There is no denying that we will encounter many problems in our life, but that doesn't mean

we are deprived of h happiness. Many people have set great examples for us to follow: Nelson Mandela was sentenced to 27 years in prison, but he was optimistic and finally became successf

ul in fighting against racial segregation. Steve Jobs was abandoned by his biological parents and dropped out of university but still managed to change the world. In our lives, no one is definitel

y immune to problems, but we may achieve happiness through striving.

听力：

1-25 CDADB ABCAC BDCBA DDCBA CADBB

26. Legislation

27. instruction

28. efficient

29. dropout

30. motivation

31. discipline

32. contend

33. in favor of

34. at their disposal

35. inferior to

阅读：

36-45 HLIJA FGNBK

46-55 GBAOF JNMLE

56-65 BCADD ACADB

翻译：

The Chinese garden has become a landscape of unique style after an evolution for more than 300

0 years. It includes not only the large gardens built as entertainment venues for the royal family,

but also the private gardens built as secluded retreats for scholars, merchants and retired govern

ment officials. These gardens have constituted a miniature designed to express the harmonious r elationship between man and nature. A typical Chinese garden is surrounded by walls, and in the

garden there are ponds, rock work, trees, flowers and all kinds of buildings linked by winding tr

ails and corridors. Wandering in the gardens, people may feel that a series of well-designed scen

ery spreads out before us like a landscape scroll .

听力原文听力短对话

1.W: What a wonderful performance! Your rock band has never sounded better.

M: Many thanks. I guess all those hours of practice in the past month are finally paying off.

Q：What does the man mean?

2.M: I can't decide what to do for my summer vacation. I either want to go on a bike tour of Europ

e or go diving in Mexico.

W: Well, we're offering an all-inclusive two-week trip to Mexico for only 300 dollars.

Q：What does the woman suggest the man do for his vacation?

3. W: How long do you think this project might take?

M: I'd say about three months, but it could take longer if something unexpected happened.Maybe w e'd better allow an extra month, so we won‘t have to worry about being late.

Q: Why does the man say extra time should be allowed for the project?

4. M: I'm thinking about becoming a member here, and I'd like some

information.

W: Sure. A three-month membership costs 150dollars, and that includes use of the wait-room, saun a and pool. I'll give you a free path so that you can try out the facilities before you decide.

Q: What do we learn from the conversation?

5.W: I'm sorry to hear that you failed the Physics course, Ted.

M: Let's face it. I'm just not cut out to be a scientist.

Q: What does the man mean?

6.M: Gary insisted on buying the food for the picnic.

W: That's pretty generous of him. But shouldn't we at least offer to share the expenses?He has a bi g family to support.

Q: What does the woman suggest they do?

7.

W: Did you see the headlines in the paper this morning?

M: Year. Apparently the bus company will belaying off its employees if they can't reach an agreem ent on wages by midnight.

Q: What did the man read about?

8.W: Have we received payment for the overseas order we delivered last month?

M: Yes. The cheque came in yesterday afternoon. I'll be depositing it when I go the bank today.

Q:What is the woman concerned about?

听力长对话原文1

Conversation One

W: OK, that's it. Now we have to make a decision. We might as well do that now, don't you think?

M: Sure, let's see. First we saw Frank Brisenski. What did you think of him?

W: Well, he's certainly a very polite young man.

M: And very relaxed, too.

W: But his appearance…

M: En… He wasn't well dressed. He wasn't even wearing a tie.

W: But he did have a nice voice. He sounded good on the telephone.

M: True. And I thought he seemed very intelligent. He answered Dona's questions very well.

W: That's true, but dressing well is important. Well, let's think about the others. Now what about B arbara Jones?She had a nice voice, too. She sounded good on the telephone, and she was well dressed, to o.

M: En… She did look very neat, very nicely dressed, but…

W: But so shy. She wouldn't be very good at talking to people at the front desk.

M: En…OK. Now who was the next? Ar…Yes,David Wallace. I thought he was very good,had a l ot of potential. What do you think?

W: En… He seemed like a very bright guy. He dressed very nicely, too. And he had a really nice a ppearance.

M: He seemed relaxed to me, the type of person people feel comfortable with right away.

W: He was polite, but also very friendly and relaxed as you say. I think he'll be good with the guest s at the front desk.

M: He had a very pleasant voice, too.

W: That's right. OK, good! I guess we have our receptionist then, don't you?

M: Yes, I think so. We'll just offer the job to…

Q9: What are the speakers looking for?

Q10: What is Frank Brisenski's weakness?

Q11: What do the speakers decide to do?

听力长对话原文2

Conversation Two

W: Hello.

M: Hello. Is that the reference library?

W: Yes, can I help you?

M: I hope so. I ran earlier and asked for some information about Dennis Hutton, the scientist. Yo u asked me to ring back.

W: Oh, yes. I have found something.

M: Good. I've got a pencil and paper.Perhaps you could read out what it says.

W: Certainly. Hutton Dennis, born Darlington, 1836, died New York, 1920.

M: Yes, got that.

W: Inventor and physicist, the son of a farm worker. He was admitted to the University of Londo n at the age of 15.

M: Yes.

W: He graduated at 17 with the first class degree in physics and mathematics. All right?

M: Yes, all right.

W: He made his first notable achievement at the age of 18. It was a method of refrigeration which r olls from his work in low temperature physics. He became professor of mathematics at the University o f Manchester at 24, where he remained for twelve years. During that time, he married one of his student s, Natasha Willoughby

M: Yes, go on.

W: Later working together in London, they laid the foundations of modern physics by showing tha t normal laws of cause and effect do not apply at the level of subatomic particles.For this he and his wif e received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1910, and did so again in 1912fortheir work on very high frequ ency radio waves. In his lifetime, Hutton patented244inventions. Do you want any more?

M: Yes, when did he go to America?

W: Let me see. In 1920 he went to teach in New York and died there suddenly after only three wee ks. Still he was a good age.

M: Yes, I suppose so. Well, thanks.

Question 12: What do we learn about Dennis Hutton when he was 15?

Question 13: What did Dennis Hutton do at the age of 24?

Question 14: For what were Dennis Hutton and his wife awarded the Nobel Prize a second time?

Question15: Why did Dennis Hutton go to New York?

听力短文原文

Passage One

In America, white tailed deer are more numerous than ever before, so abundant in fact that they've become a suburban nuisance and a health hazard.

Why can't the herd be thinned the old-fashioned way? The small community of North Haven on Lo ng Island is home to some six hundred to seven hundred deer. The department of Environmental Conser vation estimates the optimum population at 60. The town has been browsed bare of vegetation except w here gardens and shrubs are protected by high fences.

Drivers routinely collide with deer and there are so many dead bodies left by the side of the road th at the town has made it a deal with a local pet cemetery to collect and dispose of the bodies.Some peopl e in the town have become ill from deer transmitted diseases. On the occasions when hunting has been tr ied, local animal rights people have worked to secure court orders against the hunts. And when that is fai led, they stop the hunters, banging on pots and pans to alert the deer. Town meetings calle d to discuss th e problem inevitably dissolved into confrontations.

The activists believe simply that the deer are not the problem. Some communities have even discus sed the possibility of bringing wolves back into the ecological mix. That means wolves in the suburbs o f New York. It is almost too wonderful not to try it. The wolves would killdeer of course. They would al so terrorize and kill dogs and cats which is not what the suburban dwellers have in mind.

Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard

Q16. What do we learn about white-tailed deer in North Haven?

Q17. Why do local animal rights people bang on pots and pans?

Q18.What would happen if wolves were brought back into the ecological mix?

Passage Two

And now, if you'll walk this way, ladies and gentlemen, the next room we're going to see is the roo m in which the family used to hold their formal dinner parties and even occasionally entertain heads of s tate and royalty. However, they managed to keep this room friendly and intimate. And I think you'll agre e. It has a very informal atmosphere, quite unlike some grand houses you visit. The curtains were neve r drawn, even at night, so guests got a view of the lake and fountains outside which were lit up at nigh t – a very attractive sight. As you can see, ladies and gentlemen, the guests were seated very informall

y around this oval table, which would add to the relaxed atmosphere. The table dates from the 18th cent ury and is made from Spanish oak. It's rather remarkable for the fact that although it's extremely big, it's supported by just six rather slim legs. However, it seems to have survived like that for 200years. So it' s probably going to last a bit longer.The chairs which go with the table are not a complete set. There wer e originally six of them. They are interesting for the fact that they are very plain and undecorated for th e time, with only one plain central panel at the back and no armrests. I myself find them rather uncomfor table to sit in for very long, but people were used to more discomfort in the past. And now, ladies and ge ntlemen, if you'd like to follow me in to the great hall…

Questions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard

Q19. What do we learn about the speaker?

Q20. What does the speaker say about the room they are visiting?

Q21. What is said about the oval table in the room?

Q22.What does the speaker say about the chairs?

Passage Three

Janet James was 22 years old when she was diagnosed with MS—a disease that attacks the body's n erves. She has just graduated from college and got a job at an advertising agency when she began to sens e that something strange was going on inside her body. When James realized how severe her illness wa s, she knew she had better hurry up and live life. MS is the biggest crippler of young adults. And althoug h she didn't have many symptoms,she knew it was just a matter of time. First on her agenda was to purs ue her dream of hosting a pop music program me. She worked at a radio station for a year, always awar e that her body was degenerating. Then her best friend moved away. And one night James began scream ing, "I got to go! I got to go!" Two weeks later, she arrived at Alaska, thousands of miles from her friend s,her family and her past. "Everything fell into a place", she recalls. A 23-year-old girl with An incurable disease can fly to Alaska and everything can work out. The MS attacks came and wen t.And most of the time they hardly slowed her down. James hiked, fished, learnt to sail and experimente d with hot air ballooning. "I lived for adventure", she says. "Nobody ever had a better time or did more e xotic strange things than I did in an 80-year period." Inevitably however, the day came when she was s o weakened that she had to return to Pittsburgh, her home town. There she began relieving her adventure s by writing a book about them. Her book was published in 1993.

Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.

Q23. What does the speaker say about MS?

Q24. What did Janet James decide to do after her disease was diagnosed?

Q25. What's sort of person can we infer Janet James is? the ecological mix?

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It‘s difficult to estimate the number of youngsters involved in home schooling where children are n ot sent to school and receive their formal education from one or both parents. Legislation and court decis ions have made it legally possible in most states for parents to educate their children at home and each y ear more people take advantage of that opportunity.

Some states require parents or a home tutor to meet teacher certification standards, and many requir e parents to complete legal forms to verify that their children are receiving instruction in state approve d curriculum.

Supporters of home education claim that it is less expensive and far more efficient than mass publi c education. Moreover they site several advantages: alleviation of school overcrowding, strengthen famil y relationships, lower dropout rates, the facts that students are allowed to learn at their own rate, increas ed motivation, higher standardized tests cores, and reduced discipline problems.

Critics of the home schooling movement content that it creates as many problems as it solves. The y acknowledge that, in a few cases, home schooling offers educational opportunities superior to those fo und in most public schools, but few parents can provide such educational advantages. Some parents wh o with draw their children from the schools in favor of home schooling have an in adequate educationa l background and insufficient formal training to provide a satisfactory education for their children. Typic ally, parents have fewer technological resources at their disposal than do schools. However, the relativel y in expensive computer technology that is readily available today is causing some to challenge the notio n that home schooling is in any way inferior to more highly structured classroom education.

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